The Nikki Glaser Podcast - #335 Not Horseworthy w/ Julie Glaser

Episode Date: April 26, 2023

If the opportunity presented itself, Nikki would design the perfect dressing room. Julie, Nikki's mom, is back on the pod. Everyone is surprised to learn the stories of her multiple concussions. We learn the Glaser family motto: "who's to blame?" as Julie talks about the nightmare travel she endured on the way to Family Feud. Brian believes that life is a farce. Nikki and Julie visited Harris Wittels' grave and Nikki left him something that she got back at the Taylor Swift concert. Watching her videos back, Nikki is mortified to hear what she was screaming towards Taylor on stage from the front row. ------ 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 Nikki's Tour Dates: nikkiglaser.com/tour Anya's Patreon: patreon.com/anyamarina Brian Frange: brianfrange.com More Nikki: IG More Anya: IG More Brian: IG More producer Noa: IGSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hello, welcome to the show, it's the Nikki Glaser Podcast Here I am in St. Louis, Missouri Joining me as always is Noah in Arizona Brian Frangie, new sidekick He's in Los Angeles Anya Marina is in New York City And right here in studio with me is my mother, Julie Glaser Hello Angie, new sidekick. He's in Los Angeles. Anya Marina is in New York City. And right here in studio with me is my mother, Julie Glazer.

Hello. What's up? Yeah. Oh, God. Just a round of applause. Oh, God. Look at you in your little new shirt that you got at Zara. Wait, no.

Where did you get that shirt? Where did we get it? Forever 21. Yeah, Forever 21. We did some heavy shopping this weekend heavy shopping we went to forever 21

and Zara and Starbucks and Starbucks yeah that's all you need did you have any buyer's remorse do you guys get that ever not at forever 21

because you're paying seven dollars for something that cost seven lives to make I did oh yeah because she was like

I just want to get the hell out of there. And so as soon as she found a shirt, I just go, give it to me. Let me just get it. Because I know if she's buying it herself, she'll kind of go, well, do I need this? And then I maybe get this.

And what is that sound? Is someone hammering? Do you hear that? Is someone trying to knock on your door? No, somebody's knocking. Yeah, I think it's next door. No, I think the old lady moved out next door. It's your fertility.

Yes. Something's knocking. Maggie! Open up. Are you sure you don't want to freeze the holidays? You've got a couple of weeks left. Oh, I have till 11 tonight. What?

I'm just kidding. It's my new joke. I thought maybe you had some deadline with a doctor. I mean, you do have a deadline with a doctor. I know, but aren't you freezing him with some? No, I'm not freezing him. Oh, I weren't. No, no, no.

You were offered. Oh, yeah. A bestie's dad was like, I'll do it for half price. But then I was going to do it locally. And it's not about the price. It's not. I can afford it. Listen, I spent $13,000 on Taylor Swift tickets.

God, do you tell people that? I'm being open about it now you're telling people at first i was like i spent a lot of money it was like as much as a child's tuition for half a semester or whatever and now i'm just saying why not full transparency and it sounds like a brag maybe it's a humble brag hashtag harris whittles but it is it's just just, it is, it is what it is. And you know what? People, I don't, I don't care if people know, it's not me bragging. It's funny that I spent $13,000.

And if you know Taylor Swift, that's her lucky number. So. That's worked out. When I saw the price, I go, I gotta do it now. Gotta do it.

If it would have been 26,000, I would have been like, that's 13 times two. I gotta do that. You would have done that. That's the same logic you used as Zara. Yeah, absolutely. But I learned from you at Zara.

You were like, are you going to try this on? No, I'm getting in line. Yeah, my mom does not try on things in the place anymore. We just get them and you return them later. That is the way to do it. And listen, this has always been the way I work. I hate dressing rooms. I don't know why.

If I ran a retail shop, I would have, first of all, I would have a security guard at the front door. We would have loss prevention in place because I know that people shoplift. I would have Taylor McGraw working loss prevention because she would know who was doing it, and she would steal the things to make up for all the theft she was stealing from the stealers yeah she'd go i i'll take care of that for you so i would and i would have dressing rooms that have good lighting and skinny mirrors okay there's a mirror you can buy and we all know that mirror it's the mirror that

you always look at in your own apartment it's the skinniest mirror in your apartment that you can put up and you look way better than you would outside of it but no places do this i don't know a single retail outfitter place that has better lighting than i will have at home and i don't want to cry at the mall i cry a lot and i get really emotional when i try on things that are too tight or my skin looks too pale or you turn around and you see that little side angle of your cellulite on your thighs that you did not know it was there and then you then you're depressed the rest of the day and then you yeah it's just it and you don't buy anything so what I do and then you don't buy anything I'm not buying this so you know what these stores do I think they purposely have really bad lighting in there because it makes me go I don't want to try it on and I buy a bunch of stuff and then I forget to return it

or I lapse the 30 days, right? No, I think they have just a lot of people, fake people in line at the tryout. So you go, I can't stand in that line. I'm just going to have to buy it. No, I don't think they'd have... Actors on the line? That'd be great to hire like six or seven people

to make a line mom. Yeah, extra, you know, with big piles of clothes in their hands. Yeah. Mom's just kidding has gotten sad. It's getting sadder? Yeah, just kidding. It's so borne out. But she, yeah, so she just goes,

I'm just getting them. And I was so proud of her. And so she just got them. Then she tried them on at home. They worked. We wore it. She wore it to Taylor Swift that night. But we had uh quite an adventure we yeah we went to the we were staying right by mall in houston this weekend we filmed family feud this this week oh god when's that

coming out when's that coming out i think on uh the summer uh oh it's too long i can't wait that long for that it's pretty quick turnaround. The summer's almost here. Get that body in shape to watch Family Feud. Oh, I am. Stand for the beach. Have you ever seen the turkey clip from Family Feud that was on? No. It was from British Family Feud. Oh, my God.

It's the funniest one. It's Final Family Feud at the end. And I don't want to ruin it for the people, but basically he asks all these questions like, what would you bring to a picnic? And the first one's like, oh, turkey. That makes sense. And the second question was like, name a bird. And then he's like, turkey? And then that makes sense. And then the third one is like, what's a place you would go for vacation?

And he's like, Turkey. And all five of his answers were Turkey. No way. And they actually fit? He said, well, no. And then he got zeros on four out of five of them. And he's laughing the whole time. He's like, I can't believe I'm going to say this again,

but is it Turkey? Oh, man. You got gotta go watch it you gotta go watch it so it's an international show there was another clip that i sent to my family that was like let's do this because it's the the here's the thing about game shows you can get really competitive if there's real money on the line like yeah take it seriously but if you to be on TV, make it watchable. Like, be funny. Be interesting. Like, especially if it's a, you know, if you're already in the weeds, like, be funny. Always, I think, err on the side of being entertaining as opposed to, like, saying the right thing.

Because also, Family Feud, you don't fucking know what these people are going to say. You don't know what this survey, where this was done. Oh my God, yeah. Because some of these answers, let me tell you, don't make any goddamn sense. And so, you know,

let's say there's a choice between saying sex or trampoline, like as the answer. I'm going to say sex because they're just equally likely to be things and sex is gonna get a Steve Harvey to make a funny face and to walk around the podium and like take a lap because he can't believe I mentioned his eyes yeah roll his eyes activity where you're going up and down exactly wow I know we're you there I should be a writer so yeah you just try to be funny and um and that's

what we were and we can't give any spoilers in terms of gameplay we can say that we were on it we played a pop star uh bb rexa and her family oh we're our opponents you know who that is that was the tongue clue when you were trying to get us to guess who it was it was supposed to be gene simmons oh he dropped out the last second yeah well my parents got had the worst day of travel imaginable and so the whole we were supposed to film on early friday it got pushed to later because i mean listen to this travel day do you want me to take them through and listening to people's travel stuff is not enjoyable and it is like the worst thing to listen to on a podcast this i will say that in the past two years of me

traveling every weekend for work you all of these things have not happened to me in two years that happened to you on one flight yeah you are lucky it is just luck i mean that's what it comes down to and the way you guys handled it was so admirable because you were just like, there's nothing we could do. Because I hear dad going in my head. I'm like, dad's like, we should have left on Wednesday. We should have done this. But he didn't say any of that. No, it was basically his fault because.

Well, here we go. I thought you were going to be the bigger person here. Well, I mean, I'll just tell you. Someone's got to be to blame. This is my family. Who's to blame? No, no, no. It's dad's fault. Well, I mean, I'll just tell you. Someone's got to be to blame. This is my family. Who's to blame? No, no, no. Why is it dad's fault?

Well, we could have left the next day. First of all, it started out. Our flight got canceled like at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and we were supposed to be on a flight at 7. So they canceled that flight. They scrambled to find another flight. They said, yeah, we'll put you on Southwest, and you'll go through Austin, Texas.

OK, but that leaves at 6 o'clock. Well, Matt and Lauren, busy kids, they're flying. Yeah, we can make it. So we all get up there, get there. It's delayed, delayed, delayed. And then it got super delayed. And they have a connection in Austin. We had to catch this connection. So that connection we already know is not going to, we're not going to meet it. So we're going to end up staying in Austin and we're like, well, we could take that flight at 6 a.m. tomorrow morning and have a direct flight on business class

and just get there. Yeah, why wouldn't you do that? Your father said no. I said we could get stuck. We could get stuck. This explains everything. Cause I could not believe that my dad wasn't bitching so much, but it's because it was his fault.

I didn't blame him. I just said, of course you didn't. You coulda, coulda. This is because I go, why is dad being so chill about this? It's because he knows the only one to point a finger at is himself because the alternative is the thing he shut down. He's being sheepish.

We could have made this decision early on and say, we have the option of going 6 a.m. I wish you would have brought me into this because I would have said, let's do the 6 a.m. flight. We would have made the time. Real quickly, we ended up going to Austin, but they couldn't

land in Austin because they didn't have enough gas. No, thunderstorms. So they had to circle, and then they ran out of gas, so they went to Dallas. And we had to go get more gas and sit on there. It's 11 o'clock at night when they land in Dallas, okay? So then they're in Dallas. They're on the tarmac for like an hour or so.

Then they get refueled. Then they go to Austin, and then there's no gate attendants there. So they're on the tarmac for two hours in Austin. They finally get refueled. Then they go to Austin and then there's no gate attendance there. So they're on the tarmac for two hours in Austin. They finally get off the plane. They get to their hotel room at three in the morning. Dad said four, so I made it three because I know for sure Dad added an hour or two. So Dad

said four, so I knew it was either two or three. So three, let's say. You checked in your hotel. Then you had a flight the next morning. We had six o'clock, 6.30 or something? No, it was like an eight o'clock flight, but you had to wake up at 6.30. We had to wake up at 6. We had 6 o'clock, 6.30 or something? No, it was like an 8 o'clock flight, but you had to wake up at 6.30. We had to wake up at 6. So we had like four hours of sleep.

And then that was delayed for two hours. What the hell? And then they landed right when their call time was. And then the traffic was so bad from LAX to the studio in Glendale, if you are familiar with LA, it was an hour and a half in the car ride. So they were an hour and a half late to set with a show that had already been pushed back. So it was just like a,

it was such a cluster. They even moved the show. They moved the show back five hours. I was so proud of dad for not being like, we should have done this. Like not having that. And now I know why. But I know why now it all makes sense.

This is the thing. People don't change. There's circumstances that lead people to act differently. And I'm the same way. Like, I, listen to me right now.

I'm like, it's dad's fault. Like, I, I have to, someone has to be to blame. Well, I was chilled.

And guess what? That flight the next day, you should probably check the status of it because it was probably canceled too. You know what I'm saying? Like,

if you would have chosen that flight, it would have been canceled. Like, it's just, this is all just rolling the dice. And dad was probably being smarter and being like let's get in tonight you know he just wanted to get going yeah we're at we're going to the airport we're ready to go so what is it with dads why are dads get so angry about directions and traveling my dad would flip

out about that too it's always dad. It's always dads. It's just men. Let's call it what it is. Well, I'm a man. I'm a man. And I don't agree. I feel like a man too. And I would be like, dad, it's not like we've missed an exit.

And it's like, we'll just take the next day. And for like the next hour, he'd be like, I can't believe we missed that exit. We could have been in Boston by now. I can't handle when you just miss an exit and you just go it's okay it's just adding two minutes ways is self-correcting it's now it's just added three minutes to the journey it's okay but it's like i could have gone like it's like what you are you just lost seven minutes of your life whatever that little thing you just did we now are you just injured yourself you're so good about being chill when it comes to like things yeah yeah yeah i mean you've learned that you're really good you'll go

there's nothing we can do about it just go with it it's like okay i need to tell you you're really good medicine every once in a while you really are good about oh. Oh, thanks. Yeah, I just, oh, shit. Like, this is my family's motto. Shit. Oh, God. Like, just missing out on things. God damn it, Nikki. Why didn't you do that? You could have gone da-da-da-da.

You could have. Like, all of the missed opportunities of, like, why wouldn't you have said that thing? Like, there was one moment in family feud where my mom like blanked like we were all so scared to fuck up because we put so much pressure on ourselves we didn't have any sleep yeah we had exhaust yeah but even if you did have sleep it's okay like it's not like you didn't want to not know that answer i always say to dad do you think mom wants to be in pain right now? Or whatever he's

complaining about or like, why didn't you think of that? You just drew a blank up there? Do you think mom went up there and chose to draw a blank like she wanted to? That's where, and this is not just dad. Spoiler. We all do it. Or like where you... Oh God.

Oh my God. We know that you were the final family food collection. I was the failure of the whole show. No, you were not. Oh, yeah, right. Mom was the funniest. Can I just say, I saw photos of you guys, and you guys looked so incredible, like hot. And I know looks don't matter, but Jesus, Lord.

Mickey got us all dressed in style. Yeah, I saw the styling photos. It was so sweet of her. Unbelievable. Cash register sounds inserted. Yeah saw the styling photos. It was so sweet of her. Unbelievable. Cash register sounds inserted. Yeah, it was definitely. I was like, no. Venmo.

Venmo. Yeah, I paid a stylist to treat it because everyone was stressing about what to wear. And I said, let's just hire a stylist so you all, I want this to be easy. It was really. St. Louis based or LA based? Yeah, St. Louis based. LA based? St. Louis based.

Megan Perry, shout out. It was really sweet. I mean, I was like, it took so much pressure off. My sister was like, mom's going to try to go to DSW tonight because these shoes are $400 that she pulled and I can't have you buy me $400 shoes.

And I was like, sweet. So mom is urgently searching online for a DSW tonight, the night before the show. And she's going to go all drive out to Baldwin to pick up these shoes that are not even as good as the ones you want. I'm like, let me buy you $400 shoes. I just spent $13,000 on Taylor Swift tickets. I think I can handle this.

And she was like, Nikki, I swear to God, I will wear these the rest of my life. I was like, I don't need that guarantee. You will be buried in them if it's up to me. She told me one second. said oh my god those shoes and she said they were 400 and something dollars and I said oh I didn't hear something I just heard four well then let me talk to her

anyway I said well I said that seems like a lot and she's like no I will wear I will wear these for the rest of my life I said, that seems like a lot. And she's like, no, I will wear. I said, she said, I will wear these for the rest of my life. I said, OK, well, then Nikki wants to buy them. How many shoes, like how many pairs of shoes would she buy for like a wedding at like Payless or DSW that were like $80? That's four pairs of shoes to equal that one pair of shoes that is so nice that will go with everything.

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a color that I don't normally see. Yeah, we got orange. Yeah. And EJ was, like, all black, choices too like lauren's dress was like for a color that i don't normally yeah yeah yeah was like all black and like foxy and dapper yes yeah i did see my dad during the fitting um change out of like he was wearing box he wears like boxer briefs and they're like dark colored so they're not like i'm not seeing it and i've seen my dad my dad like wears speedos like it's not and i'm just in there talking to them like on my phone doesn't has he ever worn a speedo i think he owned one once once maybe once in her mind yeah yeah he's wearing it every day in my in my head with my dad too yeah just one time and then it's like always well that's never leaving me yeah and so um dad's

always wearing speedos in my head and so then uh i was in their dressing room and dad like was changing out of his pants and i just looked up and i saw my body um i saw my aged body i know exactly what i'm gonna look like when i'm 68 laser body you have your aunt lynn's i just gotta keep my skin tight because that's the only thing otherwise great physique like things are going to look good. I said you got lucky. Dad gets wiry. I'm looking forward to getting this very old thin.

Dad goes, I went down a pant size and he's not even trying to. I love old people that just lose a lot of weight. I just want to get real spindly. What does he eat? My dad is really skinny. I'm like, man, how did you stay so fit? And then like all he eats all day is like one piece of spinach and a bean. And that's why he weighs.

My dad does not watch his weight. No. My dad has never once looked at the calories on something. My dad has not ever once looked at the fat. Her dad is just like J-Lo. Exactly. The way that Ben Affleck describes J-Lo is like, she just eats whatever she wants. That is my dad.

Yeah. And it actually is the way to live your life. If everyone ate like dad, like he eats when he's hungry, he doesn't eat when he's not hungry. He doesn't emotionally eat. He never, I've never heard my dad go like,

oh, I'm so full. I can't. Or like, oh, I feel sick. Never once. Dad,

just no, just dad. Have you ever heard him? Dad say like, I'm so full. I'm, I gotta undo my pants pants like we are? Well, never.

I eat every meal with him, so I've heard it before, but not like a regular thing. He's never like, get that away from me. He's never said, get it away from me. I know exactly how much he eats. I mean, I know exactly a serving. But he doesn't overeat, but he's not ever, he's never stopping himself from wanting what he wants. He's never once dieted.

Never. Ever. And he always looks thin. And he doesn't really work out that much. Yes, he does. Mom, I know what dad does to work out, and it's like 10 minutes. He goes to the gym every day.

I've seen him at the gym. I used to go to the gym with him. He works, he like, he doesn't do any cardio. No, no. He will lift weights, but. He like, he doesn't do any cardio. He will, he will lift weights, but that's like, he doesn't overdo it.

He's not like a guy that's bulking up. I started lifting weights recently because I want to have a libido again. And I was told that I have low T and you can take like testosterone supplements. But I was like, can I eat like what, what foods have testosterone in them? They're like none. And I'm like,

well then how am I supposed to get testosterone? I thought it was like a vitamin. And she was like, the one thing you can lift weights. And I was like, oh, really? There's nothing I can take? So I've been lifting weights recently

to get my T back up. And I got to say, it comes back up. I feel so much more vibrant and alive and sexual and like just a functioning, you know, human being in society when I have a little bit of when I'm just like pushing a little bit and it doesn't take much. I do like a five minute workout. It's nothing. It's just a thing I found on Instagram of this girl being like, do this for 10 times, then this, then this. I'll share it on the story, the arm workout I do.

But that's all I do. And then I work on a treadmill. I walk on an incline for a half hour. But that's all you gotta, that's all I feel like I have to do now. But yeah, the idea that I was like, you know, just never, I don't like feeling like I'd have no sex drive or no, and I don't mean to talk about sex. That's not where we're going with this. I don't like feeling like I have no sex drive.

I don't mean to talk about sex. That's not where we're going with this. I don't care. There's a deodorant you can put on. I know you don't care about sex. You can put on a deodorant that gives you tea. Really? Yeah, there's a deodorant, but it stinks.

Oh, yeah. Maybe it smells like tea. What if it smells like pheromones? That's what it smells like. I don't know. It depends on who you are. If you like that smell, it's the musk. Some people have a stench that for some,

it'd be like the most attractive smelling thing. And for others, it's a repulsive, disgusting... It's so true. Yeah. Do you know that if on birth control, you can become unattracted to your man scent because it changes everything? Oh, like the woman takes the birth control? If you man scent because it changes everything. Oh,

like the, or if you get off, if you fall in love with a guy, Oh no. On a birth control and you're really attracted to this guy. If you get off that birth control, it can change your perception of smells and pheromones. And it can make girls have been become disgusted with their husbands or

boyfriend's sense or vice versa. They go on a birth control and all of a sudden they're like, oh God, he stinks. Because it changes your hormones and your attraction. We're all just sacks of meat and you could just- And chemicals. And little changes to your brain could change your entire personality. One lobotomy away from being a completely different person. Our lives are a farce. Oh, you bump your head and you can all of a sudden want to fuck children or something. Yes. I'm not kidding you.

People. We are not in control. Well, I'm just thinking of the worst thing. But like, I always talk about this on the podcast. Pedophiles don't want to be pedophiles. It's just an anomaly in their brain. So maybe if a pedophile bumped his head, he won't want to fuck with you. I would be slamming my head against everything

if I wanted to fuck kids. Is this the plot of an episode of Gilligan's Island? I think like one of them, he hits his head on a coconut and then all of a sudden... I have friends who...

I'm a pedophile. ...hit their heads and had huge changes in their personality. I mean, let's talk about like TMI, CTE, like these are all things that mom has had seven

concussions that she can remember. Five. Probably seven. Can you name them all like the kids in your family? Nancy, Jimmy, Michael, Julie, Tom, or Peggy? Nancy, Jimmy, Michael, Julie, Tom, or Peggy? Chucky, Bobby, Sally, Mom, and Dad?

Patty. Patty. Nancy, Jimmy, Michael, Julie, Tom, or Peggy? Nancy, Jimmy, Michael, Julie, Tom or Peggy, Chucky, Bobby, Sally, Mom and Dad Patty Nancy, Jimmy, Michael, Julie, Tom or Peggy Nancy, Jimmy, Michael, Julie, Tom or Peggy, Chucky, Sally Patty, Mom and Dad Yes Are you saying Tom or Peggy? Tom or

Those were the answers for the family feud final And turkey Turkey Tom or Okay, what concussions? Let's go through them oh my god okay uh my first one was uh i hit i fell off a horse with oh that's a good one uh cindy depew's uh farm and then my no my first one was a tire swing but my brother tommer hung up and it was above the cement driveway and he's he said uh do you want to try it first? And I said, you're darn right.

And so I fell and hit my head that time. Can I just also say my mom was the seventh of 10 kids in a Catholic family and her nickname as a child was? Pig woman. They were so mean to her. Maybe that's why it fell off the tires. She had dirty knees and she would just go make friends with old people in the neighborhood because no kids really liked her.

Is that true? Why a woman? You were a child. Yeah, she was pig woman. She was a little chubby. Even though she was a little girl, she was a woman? It was so sad. I was a little chunker.

I was a little chunker. I doubt it. My sister, two years older than me, was a waif. She always was so thin and she would go, you're fat. I'm like, I am not. Anyway, she was skinny.

Yeah, I was fat. Peggy? Yeah. Met her. Still thin. Okay, so that's two. Then I was riding on Joni Neal's shoulders in the school playground on the cement. And we were having races and she tripped and I hit my head. Oh, poor mom.

Pig woman. Pig woman fell off of Joni's shoulders. And then I was on a date once and we were riding horses through this grape vines. Oh my God, were you on The Bachelor? Yeah. Was it your one-on-one with Peter? Terry. Or one-on-one.

Was the band Train playing when you got to the promenade? No, the funniest story was that it was out in the country and I started dating this guy and he had a winery. His family owned a winery. And he's like, I I wasn't horse worthy. You know. Yeah, you felt like I don't belong in this kind of family. I really, I fell off a horse when I was, you know, 10.

You're a big woman, not a horse woman. I was a big woman. Yeah, you're a big woman. So he's going up and down these, and he's galloping. And I'm like, hold on. You know, and he went, my horse went around. So twice on a horse? Twice on a horse.

So I fell off of that horse. Oh my God. And I, you my horse went around. So twice on a horse? Twice on a horse. I fell off of that horse. Oh my God. And I, you know, so then. Once you fell off the horse, is that when trains started playing? Yeah. Something happened. But the funniest part of this story was,

so I'm like, he goes, it's okay. My neighbor's a nurse. And I'm like, okay, okay. You know, cause I was seeing stars. And yeah, I'm like, and we're walking. He goes, oh, there is my nurse neighbor. And I'm like, okay, okay. You know, cause I was seeing stars and I'm like, and we're walking. He goes, oh, there is my nurse neighbor. And I'm like, we're walking over and I'm like, Tom, Tom. And it was my old boyfriend who was a nurse.

He moved out to the country and he lived next door to Terry's. So your boyfriend is a nurse? Cause you're going to think it's a woman. You think it's a woman. And I'm like, he's like, my boyfriend is a nurse because you're gonna think you think it's a woman you think it's a woman I'm like he's like my neighbor's a nurse

I'm like oh perfect I said I'm really definitely have something going on and I'm looking we're walking towards he goes

there's my nurse neighbor and I'm like Tom Foley and he's like Julie Burke what I was like

it was like am I dreaming this or what? Because we were in the country. Anyway, that's a part of the story. And then one time, here's the other last one. It's just awful. We're playing softball with a big group. It was like kegs of beer and stuff.

It was a Sunday afternoon. And I was dating this one guy who I came with him. And so his friends, it's his friends too. So I hit the ball out to the field that whoever catches it in the outfield, oh, the two people, the third base and second base, run to catch it together, and they bang into each other. But in the meantime, those two knock each other out.

And then whoever was in left field picks up the ball and throws it and hits me in the side of the head. Jesus Christ. That was like the Three Stooges. This is like a Three Stooges movie. Literally knocked out. Oh, my God. Knocked out.

I'm flat out. I'm knocked out. Oh my God. Knocked out. I'm flat out. I'm knocked out. So I end up waking up with this lecture guy over me going, you need a ride? And I said, what? Tom? No, Tom?

Tom? This was a guy who I saw him looking at me. Ew. And he was kept staring at me. And he just waited? He was waiting around. We were him looking at me. Ew. And he was kept staring at me. And he just waited? He was waiting around. We were the only two people left there. Oh my God, they left you there?

Left my date. Wait, this was an organized- Your date left you? Because his two best friends ran into each other and they had to go to the hospital. Oh my God. And they just left you on the ground unconscious? No one even noticed me laying on the ground knocked out.

Because they were all being tended to. They had to go take Doug and somebody else to the hospital. Oh, my God. That's the thing. I woke up and I'm looking around. Did you call this guy later? I went to his house. I said, I never want to see you ever again.

I'm coming to see you to tell you I never want to see you again. It was before cell phones. I was so mad at him. I was like, you left me. He goes, what happened to you? I'm like, oh, you are in such trouble. I was afraid this guy was going to kill me.

This guy was like a lecher kind of guy. I look around, there's no one left. This whole group of people. Thank God you weren't just hit a little bit harder because he probably would have like loaded your body into the car

and had his way so Jim yeah fuck Jim fuck Jim I went over there I said did he try to win you back

oh he was he was crying he was like he said I said what you left me I was still dizzy

yeah I had to drive home. You were still dizzy from the first horse fall. Yeah. This is your fifth concussion. There is no coming back from that. That was five. No coming back.

That guy never, ever. You can't leave your date unconscious in a field and expect to get back together. Can you believe it? What if you cry, Brian? So you're remorse.orse no it didn't work oh my god okay so that's insane i'm glad i have all those stories yeah so now we know what to tell the doctor when you get your six i'll go i can walk through all five there's probably more yeah that's well i'm glad i've never been around for any of them i would hate to see you knocked

out oh can you make i've seen you knocked out. Oh, can you make sure I've seen you knocked out? I got, this was knocked out. It was a little glug, glug, glug. I've seen you give yourself a concussion. Thanks,

Nick. I've seen you go, Tom, is that you? I left you passed out in a couple of fields, but, she's fallen off the horse a few times. Cause you couldn't drive me home.

Um, no, that's, yeah, she's fallen off the wagon. Not times cause you couldn't drive me home no that's yeah she's fallen off the wagon not a horse a horse was driving oh I thought it was a horse my favorite quote of that whole story is I wasn't horse worthy

thank you that's like sponge worthy I felt that way before when I'm dating a guy that like even Chris his family is like very Kirk. Well, if you, if you know St.

Louis, they're just like, he went to private school and they, they, they've been to country clubs and I've only been to country clubs. Like when like our friends get us in for like, Oh, there's a brunch happening.

And like, we get to like go once and we have to like go out. We have to go to pay less to get like nice shoes for it. I feel like that's what country clubs. I like, I like the voice that you had for your friend getting you into the country club. Yeah, I got you. There's a brunch that they're letting in the riffraff.

There's a little bit of like, I don't deserve this. I'm not good. Even Lauren with those shoes. I don't deserve these kind of shoes. Or even with you. Anytime I try to get you something super nice, I don't, I don't deserve these kinds of shoes or even with you. Anytime I try to get you something super nice. I don't take it now.

Now you take it. You took those tickets. I'll tell you. And I told this on the podcast when I went over after Taylor Swift broke up with Joe, I had a deep hole inside my soul that said, you need to go see her. You need to go be with Taylor.

And so I looked up tickets on my weekend off, which was this piece past weekend. I got tickets to a ticket to the saturday show and i go i want to i can't let that little sunday show hang and i gotta go to that too and i went over for easter a couple weeks ago and i was like mom i really want to go to the sunday show and i just i was like there's but there's only i can't buy just one ticket front row i gotta buy two and i was like would you go and you were like yeah i'll go and i go they're this much money and you go it's a lot but i i do it and i was like i couldn't believe because my mom usually is like you are not paying no that for that that is disgusting no you told me a lot less you you said well then a couple of thousand and then there's

fucking jacked it up it was stub hub then after you bought them you're like i'm not gonna tell you what these were and lauren look at this and i'm like how much how much and you're like well they take two thousand each for fees yeah i mean they the the fees were six thousand dollars i think five or six thousand dollars for just stub hub I'm not joking. Because the tickets themselves, I think were 4,500 or I think there were 52 each. So maybe it was like $3,000 in fees.

We live in a monopoly ticket master and live nation merge. And that was a crime against America. I don't understand it, but I do know that I got screwed because the first night I go, I sit down in my seat and the guy next to me is also alone. I go, you're alone too. And, and he was like like you actually have my ticket and i was like oh really and i was like wait a second do you i like all of a sudden was like did i actually sit in the

wrong seat and he's like no i sold that ticket and i'm like you need to buy me a fucking drink then i was like not that i drink but i was like you need you owe me buy me a shirt or something and um and he goes no i i don't know how much you paid but i only made a thousand off of that ticket i was like well i paid 4 500 for the ticket so someone resold the ticket they bought from you and then i the next night i'm like man maybe i could resell the tickets i bought for mom and me for for 20 000 like who knows like i wasn't gonna make 20 off of them but you know um but hell. I wouldn't have done that because I had already bought it.

We're doing it. The first night I went was incredible. I was third row. It was so much fun. It was so much better to be on the floor. No offense to anyone sitting up. I'm going to sit up in the seats again for another version of the tour.

I want to sit everywhere. I want to be all over the theater because the screens are so insane and phenomenal and all her close-ups on the screens you don't miss anything if anything, you're sitting in the front row and you're looking at the screen too so it's like, you're not and she's so all over the place that even if you are

on the floor, this is to anyone who got tickets and isn't on the floor and you're like, well I i'm not gonna have the experience you are not even close to her for for 90 of the show because the stage has all these different areas so she's constantly moving around and all these different parts so she's maybe in front of you for a couple seconds here and there when she walks by or she'll like sing a like maybe a verse if that around where you are and then you scream and the whole time you're just getting out your phone so you're looking at your phone and i'm trying to hold the phone but also look at her with like just clear view to like actually have it there's this i'm someone who obviously rolls my eyes at anyone who's just filming the entire concert

but as someone who's like that i have to say don't judge people who do it because you don't know what it's like to have it right in front of you. And you want to capture it. You want to you want to be able to watch it again and again and again. There is some compulsion in me that I wanted to capture a picture of it. I just wanted to save it. It wasn't about like, I can't get off my phone. I'm such a millennial or Gen Z or whatever. I'm addicted to my phone and everything has to be experienced to the phone.

It was like, you just don't want that moment you want to capture it i mean that's what i totally understand that and being able to re-watch it but like sometimes i'll go to like the hollywood bowl and we'll be like so far away from the stage you can't even see people's faces and there'll be people filming the entire show fucking insane to me well you can still see it on the big screen. So it's kind of like... Well, if you're zooming in on the screen

and you're trying to capture like a picture and whatever, I get that. But if you're filming, like you were filming some stuff that was such shitty footage that I just put your phone down and I go,

the exposure is too high. Like you didn't know how to work your phone so I just put my hand down over your phone and I go, I go just experience it because this is not a video.

I wasn't filming for me. Trust me. Well, I was also filming so I don't know who you were filming for. I put my hand over hers because I go, just experience it because I go, I'll send you better footage that I find on Instagram of this song. This isn't good.

I could care less about it. Mom did get some good stuff. I was definitely like struggling with finding the right balance of just being in the moment and just like trying to just look at her with my own eyes and know, oh my God, there's 20 feet from me and this person who I love so much and like

we're breathing. I could give her COVID right now if I wanted to. We're that close. Like this is just the closest I, not the closest I've been to her because I've, you know, hugged her and taken a picture with her, but very closest I've been to her since I felt hugged her and taken a picture with her, but very closest I've been to her since I felt this way. And it was just incredible and she sounded so good. And at the show on

my show that I went to alone on Saturday, she got injured. It's this big story. During one of her quick changes, it was between, I think, I think it was Reputation in 1989 or something. She got a gash on her palm.

She came out and told the story of it in a caption, which was a very revealing caption for Taylor Swift. She's usually very cryptic and just is like, had a great time in Arlington and you guys inspire me. But this was like, for those worried, I fell during a quick change. It was my fault entirely and everything's fine i'm totally okay and she even said like i'm okay okay but she had it all bandaged up and she had a band-aid that was flapping around and i i was just like what is that part of her costume i

haven't seen yet huge gash it looked like a triangle like right here on her palm that was like that was like ow chopped i looked like someone took like a cookie cutter yes i was thinking the same thing. It looked like it would have almost gotten a tendon, but I think it was more like just the skin, hopefully. Anyway, you couldn't tell. And she wasn't like trying to hide that hand. She was waving.

She was just like her normal self. I think her adrenaline probably kicked in. But that show was just fucking incredible. Can you describe the atmosphere? Because when I was watching the videos, I was like, this feels like a historic event. What was it like in the audience, especially when the countdown started happening?

The countdown is the most exciting. I don't know if you guys know about dopamine release and all the studies about it, but when you have a really exciting thing that's coming up, like an orgasm or Christmas or or your birthday or like they're about to the winning touchdown the your dopamine rises until it happens and then it starts to fall even while it's happening the thing that you're loving your orgasm that you're having your dopamine starts to fall so dopamine rises up until it starts happening that's the happiest you're gonna get scientifically in

your brain um it's not actually the event that makes you happy it's the anticipation of it so that fucking countdown is so smart it starts all of a sudden it's a minute until and it goes you don't own me you know and that song starts playing it's like and everyone's like and then the countdown is happening and then it's like 10 9 8 and then the lights go down and it's like a probably a minute or maybe a two minute intro of like these guys come out with these fan type things and then they put them over the center of the square then they lift them up and she's like it's been a long time coming but it's you and me and then it's just pandemonium i mean she's like there and it's just, yeah, it's, it really is.

Are people reacting like the Beatles and Elvis, like screaming and losing their minds? Yes. Not crying, screaming. Like I was comparing it to maybe like Elvis and Beatlemania and it's not like that. It's not people fainting. It's, I saw a couple girls crying. I definitely like had a couple tears fall down. Not in that moment, but different moments during the show

when she would sing a certain song or whatever. It wasn't Beatlemania. It was like, that's our friend that we're so proud of. Oh, my God. The love. Yes, the love. It is like a love fest. Yes.

I'm like, every person in this stadium is in love. I would turn around and look at these girls, and they're like, every person in this stadium is in love. My mom, because I go- I would turn around and look at these girls, and they're like, from every age. I was like, oh my God, they're in love with her like Nikki's in love with her. Because I go, Mom, I think I could be bisexual for Taylor Swift. And she goes, yeah, no shit. Everyone in that goddamn stadium. I said, I am too.

She was like, every woman in that stadium would be in a relationship with Taylor Swift. If a romantic relationship. They're in love with her. She is so cute. She is so talented. She is so adorable. So I've run into my friend Kim Gamble at the show on Saturday when I'm there alone.

I get there a little bit early because I was so scared about getting there on time. So I got there too early. I didn't want to go to my seat. So I'm just kind of like looking around. I got recognized once on each show by fans, which was nice. That's all I needed. And but Kim was like, Nikki. And I looked over and it was Kim Gamble who was who introduced me to Chris Convey. She was my showrunner for Nikki and Sarah Live, my first TV show.

And she was the first person I met Taylor Swift with her. We went backstage when I was when she was the first person i i met taylor swift with her we went backstage when i was uh when she was doing the red tour so it was so funny to run into her and her eight-year-old daughter who i you know she was pregnant with when i went to her wedding and um and so it was like so funny to see this little girl that's now like a swifty and and she's like mom we need to go to our seats and we're trying to catch up i'm like when did i become like a mom like one of the mom's friends that's like annoying and old? Like I made it like where the daughter's just like, oh, nice to meet you.

And like kind of annoyed by me. I was like, oh my God, I've arrived. And so I was like, I'm such a Jill or like a Kate. Like I'm trying to think of like your friends and I'm just like, oh my God, I'm like Cindy. That's who I am now. So but then I remember Kim texted me after the show like oh my god that was insane i mean all my friends that have gone to her show say it's one of the top 10 nights of their life i will not amazing i will say

that it's not because for me my top nights of my i mean it's a great night of my life but i truly have my relationship it's a great night but like going to taylor swift sing-alongs to those of you who can't afford tickets to go to her show sing-alongs give me just as much joy these sing-along nights and that's no slight on taylor it's just a more intimate space it's with and when you're doing sing-alongs you're like singing to each other and this is more like we're all just looking at her and it's just a more intimate space it's with and when you're doing sing-alongs you're like singing to each other and this is more like we're all just looking at her and it's more interactive to me at least at the sing-alongs and not that i've had more fun at those it's just it is a comparative experience so that's a heartening i would think if you can't make it to go see taylor if you're in

what about cheaper what about the moments of like her solo acoustic stuff? Those are the unique moments. What was a surprise during each show? Did she surprise you with any songs? Yeah, well, there was the first night she she plays a song Marjorie about her grandmother. And so she sings that song and it's like so beautiful. It's about oh, my God, if you are dealing with any kind of loss in your life or you want to remember someone and like think about them put on the song Marjorie and it like will let you think about the person that you miss and like actually make you feel like they're in the

room with you it's just this beautiful song where her grandma was actually a singer an opera singer and she's the one in the family who she was like you ever get told Taylor saying this she was like there's always someone in your family that everyone says like you ever get told taylor saying this she was like there's always someone in your family that everyone says like you remind them of them she was like that's my grandma for me everyone's always saying like that's you're like grandma like you look like her you're like her and she lost her grandma she was 13 but she has a song and the lyrics are like um if i didn't know better i think you were talking to me now and then it goes on and then she's like if I didn't know better I think you were listening to me now and then there's at the final

chorus she goes if I didn't know better I think you were singing to me now and then they have her grandmother's vocals that they found somehow and she was an opera singer and it has her grandma's vocals and the same key you know they probably had to

auto tune it but the same pitch as the rest of the song in it. And it echoes through the stadium. And it's like and you get chills because I knew it was her grandma's voice. And it's just so beautiful. And it is like you could feel her grandma in that room. You can feel the person that you're thinking about in that room when it's all about like and she's like, and I know better, but you're not around. But it's like, if I didn't know better, I think you were still around. But I know better, but you're still, you're all around.

And it's just like about how they like stay with us. So it was beautiful. So after that song, she goes to her piano and she's, it's a little interlude where she talks to the crowd about the album Evermore that we're in the era of. And she's like, we're in Evermore era. And that song Marjorie was really important to me to just sing because my grandmother is from Houston and my mom grew up here. And she was like, and if I keep talking about it, I'm going to start crying.

So, okay, change of subject. And then she plays the song Champagne Problems, which she starts out and she says, this was the song that I always wanted to play when the pandemic was happening and i was writing this album and i was thinking i might never get to perform live for audiences ever again like that was something that people were actually talking about like we maybe have this is the end of live entertainment and she was like and this was i didn't let myself think about that i was writing without thinking because i love performing so much and i was just like there's no way that that's going to be true. And I'm not even going to think about performing live. But this song, I was thinking if I never get a chance to sing this with a crowd and with

my friends and my fans, then this is the secret one that I wanted. I knew that if we got back to it, this is what I'd want to sing. And she goes into Champagne Problems. And Champagne Problems, if you're Swifty, you know that song is about getting proposed to by a guy who's just nice and who you should be with and who his family loves you and you love him but there's just something not right and you leave him uh you leave him stranded you you drop his hand while dancing uh his heart was glass you dropped it champagne problems and the family says what a shame she's fucked in her head

they said but you'll find the real and you're like wishing him like i hope you find something so it's kind of the song that everyone's going like this if she was to feel anything about joe right now or letting that go this is where those emotions would come out and she tears up during the song and everyone reads a lot of into it so that was really fun to sing with her especially when she's like what a shame she's fucked in the head and her face gets all like devilly and she's like fucked in the head it's like really fun but um the best moment of the whole thing was we go sit second first row um and when we get there we're kind of like this is fucked because if you've been to front row before sometimes it's

too close to the stage the stage is like six feet tall right so if you're my mom and you're five five five five five you can't see over the stage yeah if she's on the lip of the stage you have the best seat in the house but anywhere else on the stage she could not my mom could not see taylor at all at all thankfully there's screens but my mom can't even see the the top of the screen my mom can only see half the top of the screen and these are the most expensive tickets these are the most expensive tickets and she couldn't see and then i was okay what about the security guard okay oh yeah i saw that picture can you believe that that? That's crazy. He's right in front of us

and he's six feet tall. Yeah. And he's staring at you. He's looking at you. Yeah. Yes. And he's a foot in front of you. Imagine someone staring at you,

a foot in front of you. And the stage is behind him. You can't even stay. So now he's blocking the view of whatever stage you might have. Even if you're not trying to watch,

even if you're not trying to watch a concert concert just having someone look at you for two hours is i liked it i like it because i realized the first night that i kind of when i a part of me such a narcissist probably this is what it's i'm deducing is that i don't like going to concerts because i don't feel like i can i want to perform and i feel like at sing-alongs like there's concerts because I don't feel like I want to perform. And I feel like at sing-alongs, there's a performative part of it where maybe someone could be watching me. Or when you're at a concert,

no one's watching you. And not that I need that. I can obviously turn it over and go. People behind you are. I don't think about that. I need them. I need to know. But the security guards have to watch you.

And they are so... I mean, there are these black guys that are probably not into Taylor Swift, not big Taylor Swift. think about that i need them i like need to know but the security guards have to watch you and they are so i mean there are these black guys that like are probably not into taylor swift not big taylor they're all black people that are working security at and it's like you can tell that maybe not that she's not someone that black they were though that's true they they every single person was a black person that probably is not into this type of music and is probably like these dumb white bitches like i in my mind that's what i'm thinking because we are and i was like i'm gonna give them a show to talk about later of like i saw this 38 year old woman crying and losing her mind and like performing it so it like

it it gave me a purpose during the show to like entertain not even to like be like i didn't want them to be like wow she's so good at the lyrics. I just wanted to make them laugh at like how enthusiastic I was. Give them a story. Give them a story. Yeah, give them a story.

So, okay, we have to go to break, but I want to tell you about the greatest thing that happened the entire show. And, and then we'll stop talking about

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And I got hundreds of messages that were like, I'm one of those 14. So it's more than you think. I'm not alien into someone who likes... I'm not a Swifty yet, but I like knowing her stories and the stuff behind her music and stuff. So I like it. Aw, thanks, Noah. It's cool to hear what she talks about in between songs. That's always my favorite part of shows. And she's so good at those inter-song stories.

She's so cute. She would just go like and it's it's this running thing that after Champagne Problems because of the first tour she did or the first couple shows

she did it was so loud after that performance she was just sitting there kind of looking out like and she takes out her earpiece to kind of go guys

and so it's kind of every city tries to at that moment show their love the most it's giving me chills thinking about it but she and every city tries to, at that moment, show their love the most. It's giving me chills thinking about it, but she, and I've been to three shows. It was only that third show where she actually took out her earpiece and

goes, guys, this is so loud. And it's kind of like, Oh my God. And like freaking out. And it was, it was sweet.

Cause you could tell she like lets it in and she doesn't, she's, she maybe plays a little faux humble, but I don't think it's, I don't think she's playing. I think she really is humble and is like, really guys? Like she even does the cute thing of like, hi, I'm Taylor. Like, and we're like, yeah, we know, you know, but I think she's actually still that girl that's like, I don't deserve this. She's keeping it humble, I think.

I think she has. She knows how to do that. She's insecure deep down and has probably has a little bit of low self-esteem deep down and that's what makes us love her is that she doesn't,

she hasn't gotten this inflated ego. She has a ton of confidence, clearly, because she should. She's so talented and it's earned, but I don't think

she came out of the gate with this confidence. Is she avoiding any songs about Joe? No. She goes right into all of them, man. Like like she does the song called the one she actually swapped out there used to be a song invisible string that she did and she swapped it out for the one invisible string was about you know how they were destined to be together forever and then she changed it to the one i think i've talked about this before and the one is about like you know you've moved on after a relationship but you still think you see in places and you're kind

of like imagining he's hooking up with some girl from the internet. And it's like, Oh, is she interested? Like, it's kind of just, so she's changed that song.

And that was right before her breakup that she changed the set list. So everyone's like, Oh, that's why she changed it. Who knows? It could have just been like, it's more of a bop than the other one. So,

um, but there's, and there's little things that she does where people are like, there's this one lyric and delicate where she's like, do the girls, do the girls back home touch you like I do? And then at one point she kind of goes, she just like shakes her head like, no. And everyone's like, she's talking to Joe. It's like, no, she just put a little emphasis behind it.

Like stop reading into everything. Do you think she'd ever do like London Boy or whatever that song is called? Yeah, she would do, she'll do london boy again she'll do all of it because she she she still does songs about guys that she used to love when she was with joe or that she's still heartbroken about like she'll do harry style she still does lover and lover is all about joe i mean she did say that these are songs that i wrote at one point that meant something she She said, yeah, she does Harry Styles. The song Style is about him. But the best part of the whole thing was that,

so we're sitting in the front seat, front row, and we're kind of like, I'm kind of getting pissed because I'm like, you know what? I'm trying to be zen about it. And like, this was meant to happen. I won't do this again. Next time I'll always get third row because it's just a little bit more space so you can have to see the stage more um and i learned my lesson is it's like in the movie

theater you wouldn't get a front row seat in a movie theater exactly brian that's such a great fucking point like why does every that's why i was mad afterwards i'm like why does everyone act like front row is the best well no, no. Well, there's a reason. Why? Well, you experienced. Oh, the reason's coming. That's a tease. Yeah. So we're kind of like

not that happy. Listen, there's parts before the reason happens that we're like, okay, these seats are justified because how close are we to her when she's walking by? She's eight feet from us.

Eight feet. And that is when we were, I was really measuring it going, by she's she's eight feet from us eight feet and that is when we were i was really measuring it going okay that's like eight feet my mom got out her ruler i got at the tape measure and i said taylor hold that yeah shining sound effect life sound effect and um so she so she was so close to us and and there and mean and when she walks around to because the stage i mean it's it's gigantic so when she comes over to your area people just start fucking losing their mind when we sense that she's coming over and everyone gets out their phone and it's just like and i found myself based on the recordings i made which i did not know at

the time what i was saying what i I was doing, but I've watched back the footage. First of all, I want to apologize to anyone I was sitting next to, especially my mom. With earplugs in, I don't know how loud I'm singing because it just sounds muted in my head. Let me just say, everyone's singing as loud as they can. Everyone is singing. So it is completely permissible. Except me, who doesn't know the words. My mom didn't know the words my mom didn't know the words but like everyone else is singing i sang way too loud i regret it i'm sorry to taylor if she heard it it's not okay i don't think so it was too loud i can hear it on the recordings and i'm like i i it really caused me a crisis but i will say what i did realize i can't what I did realize, I can't, what I did realize was, I will say that my voice teacher would be very upset

with how I was singing. Because I was not singing in my head voice, I was singing all throat, all just like emotional guttural, like my vocal cords are redamaged. Everyone in that place was doing that. But there's a way to sing. This is like Gregorian chanting almost. Yeah, and there was like some

There was some element of it when I listened back that was like, Nikki, do you want Taylor to hear you and to be like, wow, you're good. Come on up and sing. It's like Daisy Jones and the sticks. You want to be the Daisy Jones. Daisy Jones! I was so

grossed out. I am being, this is me being so vulnerable right now. There was that in my head when I'm singing, there was no part of me that was like, I hope Taylor hears me upon hearing my own voice. I'm like, bitch, you wanted her to pick you out of the crowd and like find you and, and ask you to join her band and do a duo and be like,

like Taylor and Tegan and Sarah, like Nikki and Taylor. Most girls just come to listen, but I can tell you really like to scream. But I just said that you really. You came to butcher my lyrics. So I so I regret that. But what I will say is that when she would be in between songs or whatever, and she would be close, what I kept saying was, we love you. We love you.

You're the best. You're the best. Do you think in a million years, I would not think I would be screaming, you're the best. There's so many other things I want to best like what there's so many other things I want to tell her there's so many other ways to encourage her

but I'm just like you're the best you're the best Taylor I didn't even I didn't even realize that I didn't I heard this voice

I go who is yelling you're the best I don't think it was you I swear I honestly I swear to God it was me but then I

I don't remember hearing you do that you're the number one singer dude that is what I said to my favorite was me. I don't remember hearing you do that. You're the number one singer. That is what I said to my favorite director when I met him. I met Noah Baumbach, who I love, at a restaurant. And I go to him, your films mean so much to me and my sister. We're sitting right next to you. We're leaving now.

But I just had to tell you, you're so wonderful. Thank you. And he goes, oh, that means so much. And then instead of walking away like a normal person, I go, you're the best. And then he goes, thank you. And then instead of walking away like a normal person, I go, you're the best. And then he goes, thank you. And then I go,

number one. Like a foreign exchange student. And then he gave like the peace sign. The double peace sign. I just walked away and for hours just kept going, USA. Number one.

Oh God, funky. Yeah. It's like the moment with Dave Matthews when I said play something funky. No, I kept saying, but then I realized that final thought I realized that is what I would want someone to say to me you're the best if you're on stage as a comedian and people are yelling that you're like a comedian I just like if anyone's gonna give me any message I want it to be that

I'm the best yeah like. Like that's a message. And I truly believe that about her. There's just no one better. And that I am loved. We love you. And so those are, that's, if you're boiling down how I feel about her, those are the things that came out of my body involuntarily. So let's get to the moment.

So during the Taylor Swift shows, there are two songs that she plays every single set or every single show out of her i think there's 46 songs total and two of those songs are secret songs is what the swifties call them that means that she plays um two songs that we don't know what she's gonna play and it's obviously a song that she isn't playing in the other 45 songs that she's playing or whatever, 44. And she originally gave these rules of like she's going to play a different song for each of those two songs every single night of the tour. So let's say she's doing 35 dates. That's 70 extra songs that she's going to have to learn.

And not only learn the lyrics to and how to sing them, which is and you're like, well, doesn't she know how to sing her own songs? No, she creates these new versions of these songs because she does it acoustic. So one, she does on guitar completely with herself and one, she does on piano. And she's probably a better guitarist than she is pianist, but she works really hard on these songs. And she even says like,

I've been practicing this all week long. So like she puts a lot of effort into the performance of these songs and like the arrangement and everything so it's it's so much fucking work for her to do shout out to taylor thank you for doing these and um she picks songs and so then but she's given caveats if she fucks something up she gets to do it again at another show if she wants to oh so if she makes a mistake which she's only made one mistake once and she said she made a mistake on another one,

but only because she said she picked the wrong key to sing it in, even though she did it flawlessly. She was like, I get to redo that one because it was in the wrong key. And then she made another caveat that was like, I actually love the new Midnight's album song so much that I get to do those twice if I want to too.

She was like, this is an ever changing system. So let me just say the shows that I've been to, the first two shows, she did both secret songs were songs I had never heard before. Like not never heard before I'd heard, but they just didn't like grip me. A Place in This World is off her first album. The other song she did,

I forget what it was on the um on saturday night but uh the first the first show i went to she did um i forget the first song she did but then she did the lucky one which was also it was really cool because i i didn't wasn't really familiar with that song but then i don't know there's sometimes you hear a song in concert and you're like holy fuck like you hear it for the first time and it was like a moment of i get this song on a whole other level that the album version can't even hold a torch to because she you know it's an old song but she's bringing breathing new life into it so i fell in love now the lucky one's one of my favorite songs i heard it for the first time a couple weeks ago or really

heard it for the first time so by the way i don't know where she's going to do these songs there's no she's been switching it up. Like sometimes they'll put the microphone, they put the microphone just somewhere after she finishes the 1989 tour. And then that's where she does. She's planted doing her acoustic song. And then they put the piano a little bit on the other side of the stage, wherever they plant it. I have no idea where this is going to be. I mean, I saw the show a couple of weeks ago and I go, I think it's going to be in the set, like the mid stage. So I thought we're not going to be i mean i saw the show a couple weeks ago and i go i think it's going to be in the set like the mid-stage so i thought we're not going to be very close to it i go on saturday night and i'm like oh my god she's doing the acoustic song like right i think where mom and

i are going to be sitting that's going to be cool and um and and not the piano one the the guitar one piano front row for piano there's still piano between you yeah you know like it's acoustic guitar you are like fucking with it so i thought we were going to be sitting on the piano side of the stage actually we get to our seats and we're kind of we're on the guitar side and i'm like i think we might be in the best seat for the secret song guitar version of it and by the way of any song you want to be front row for of her whole 47 song 45 song set list it's gonna be the acoustic one a because it's acoustic and it's just her alone and you can hear it so perfectly and hear her and it's not muddled with by dancers or anything but b she doesn't move because she has

to be on this microphone and she's stationary the rest of the song she's running all over the place there's not one song that you would want to be. And we are, I'm not joking you, they put up the microphone and I lose my fucking mind because it couldn't have been more in front of me. I mean, it is not to the side of foot. It is not to the left. It is right in front of me, as close as you can be, the number one best seat in the house for the acoustic song. And you go to your seat, you're the the number one best seat in the house for the acoustic song and you go to

your seat you're the best and i am like oh my god and so we we she starts she walked over to it she is right there i mean you saw my instagram stories she is yeah eight feet in front of me couldn't be closer to her that was the tv screen yes and then i realized that's why i kept saying it's not the tv that is her and i took a selfie i turned around because i go that's not a screen that's literally her i'm in the same shot as her her physical body she's right in front of us she plays a song i do know called begin again that i love and so that was so good because usually she plays some obscure song that I don't know.

And this one was, it was just like a private concert. Couldn't have been closer. It was the best. It was worth, it was worth that money so much. Like it was, it gives me chills just thinking about now.

It was incredible. It was worth everything. Yeah. Wasn't that a special moment when she was right there? It was. And you could see every little good, like her guitar work was incredible you could see every little good like her guitar

work was incredible every dimple there was no pore on her face but if there were pores you could see pores on her face she doesn't have pores but she was just stunning and just so and she was just like it was just like so intimate she just so intimate that's how it felt like she's just the way she smiles she's just, you're right there. We did not make eye contact at any point. Everyone's like, I think she made eye contact with you. She did not look at me. I'm happy for it.

I didn't want to distract her. I would have been too much. It just I probably would have gotten the lyrics wrong and she would have read my mouth and like it gotten fucked up. Like it just would have been bad. So I'm glad she didn't look at me. But the other thing that happened that was wild on this thing, and I want to I know that we've got a rush.

But so my mom and I went to a cemetery on Saturday because my friend Harris Whittles, who I shouted out before, who created Humblebrag, he died eight years ago. And he was a comedy writer on Parks and Rec. And he was a comedian, a friend of mine. And he died tragically from heroin. I really recommend listening to an episode, his episode of You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes, his second appearance, because he talks about his heroin addiction. And it's just, it's funny, but it's also sad.

And you know how it ends, because he died tragically not too long after he recorded that. But so I've always, whenever I'm in Houston, I knew he's buried there. He's from there. I always wanted to go visit his grave, but every time I've gone, it's been flooded or I've been in town for just like not enough time

and it's out in the kind of the suburbs or in this weird area that, you know, nothing's by. So I asked my mom was like, hey, can we go to this grave? And my mom was like totally down. I love graveyards. Yeah.

Yeah. They're fun. They're beautiful. They're beautiful. And peaceful. And there's crows. You love crows. Ravens. Crows. Yeah. Just everything everything i love yeah death yeah and so we we find and my mom's very worried she's like how

are we gonna find this gravestone i'm like uh findagrave.com and that's the real site and if i gives you the exact coordinates the location the section the plot number so we find it and um and it's like no one else is in the cemetery it's like dead quiet and i'm like i want to leave something i forgot to bring like flowers or something so i was like i want to leave something and i'm looking through my bag and i'm just like oh he played guitar and i have a guitar pick i was like i'll leave a guitar pick just as something so i put a guitar pick on the grave and then we go and we walk around the rest of the cemetery and we're just like telling stories about him and then we're talking about death and

then we played um marjorie yeah we played the song marjorie because it's about death and then we played the song um the best day which is just about like taylor and her mom like taylor talking about a song about her mom and we just like had this like great moment of just like mother daughter like just bonding time it was so nice and yeah then we went home and um just relaxed in bed and like got ready for the show and then we go to the show and we're there and um and it's you know it's in the the show just starts and she's like three songs into she starts with the lover album and she's like three songs in and my mom and i are singing lover the song like lover when i go where you go and then all of a sudden out of nowhere i mean we're front row this guy comes up to where we are taps me on the arm and holds out a guitar pick this

lover guitar pick and is like here and like swings it in my face and i'm like what and i just take it and then he got he leaves security guard and i have no idea yeah like he he wasn't like one of the ones in yellow shirts that were guarding he looked like he was like maybe a manager yeah like one of like like on her crew backstage part of the event yeah like probably so i don't know what it was but they i got a lover guitar pick which is an official it has the weight of one that she uses probably like I feel like it's a nice guitar pick and everyone around me is looking at me

like who are you and I'm like I don't know and he disappeared he doesn't give me any he's like take this and she's on stage. It's not like she threw that out or something. Like she throws out her guitar picks after she plays.

So it's not like one that was thrown out and then like he found it. Like it, I don't understand where it came from. If anyone out there can tell me what the fuck that was, I really want to know. But then I realized it's a sign. I gave a guitar pick to Harris's grave earlier and I got one back later that night I felt like it was like I'm not someone

who believes no it's some weird sign I honestly but for for me to get it was like Harris being like I saw you there today

here's a gift got it got it and here's one for you too like that's what it felt like to me was like he was in there

that night or there was some like there was some cosmic energy of like, thanks, buddy. Thanks for your gift today. Here's a gift for you. Like because there was no reason behind it. It wasn't like anyone knew Nikki Glaser was there and she plays guitar. And there wasn't I wasn't singing the song more than other people. There wasn't like we're going to give this to the most enthusiastic.

There was no good security guard in front of us. I had asked him to move. So there's no one to perform for anymore. They're mad at you back there. If anything, they were like, who does she think she is? I literally go, we paid good money for these seats and you are blocking our view. This doesn't make sense. And I wasn't being rude about it.

I was like, I just don't understand why you need to be so close to us. Like, what is going to happen? And they were nice, though. They were like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And he backed off. But he was still in the way because he was bobbing his head around. Yeah, because then Shake It Off came on

and he couldn't help but bob along to it. I mean, that's a toe-tapper. And so it is funny to see the security guards like being cool. And then all of a sudden they're like, blank space, baby. And I'll write your name. And you start to see them like,

ding, ding, ding. And they kind of bounce back and forth and like start all moving and so it was just the best and I really I can't wait to go again I'm going to go in Nashville next weekend

and yeah I'm filming a show there on yeah or not next weekend the weekend after I'm filming a show there on Thursday and I'm going to see her on Sunday

so I might have to get tickets for Friday and Saturday. I don't know. I might do it again. And now at this point, I have the show memorized. So I know what each song goes into it. And I have all the interludes memorized. I know which row to be in. And I know the dance.

Yeah, I know which third row. And I know some of the dances. And it's like, because they're not that hard, but they're so fun. So I don't know. I think I might. might I'm gonna keep going and auditioning for her and some she's gonna go you get on up here you get on one of these bicycles you drive around every city yeah so uh that was the guitar pick was it was like you got like five shows under your belt you get a guitar yeah oh yeah it was that's so true oh my god yeah that's a that's the tiered uh system that they get next time i'll get a um a capo and then i'll get a strap and then i get a guitar yeah that's a hundred shows though a hundred for a guitar though that's a lot oh my god i can do it it was it really was like it's

just where i belong it felt so right it's so fun and everyone's dressed up i mean the costumes oh my god have you ever seen anything like it mom nothing no it's like um i called it swift cella it's everyone it's like coachella but it's everyone's just like girly um jewels and just everyone's cute i mean it's just the involvement of everyone the funny some people are doing really funny costumes so every night she loads into the arena because she can't go underground there's no underground to get in so she loads in they have a mop cart they built this like cart that she hides inside and then at the top they have like fake tops of mop so it looks

like they're going all the way through it but they're just the tops and someone filmed her getting out of it so we know she's in there oh my god so lately at concerts people have been dressing as the mop car because they're just like any reference to her cool it's so funny so um it's it's just like it was so fun and uh thank you for letting me talk about it the entire episode, you guys. What a cool mother-daughter weekend. We will be here tomorrow. Yeah. It was so fun. And then last night, I was like,

I missed you last night. We got back here and I was like, oh, I want to like- I know, I missed you too. That's so nice. I was like, oh, what are we going to- I know. No, I called you.

I'm like, or texted you, come over and watch Succession. I know, watch Succession. Instead, I watched the Boston Marathon bombing documentary. are we gonna i know no i called you i'm like you want to text you come over i know watch succession i instead i watched the boston marathon bombing documentary your dad said uh why does she like shows like that i'm like i i'll definitely watch oh yeah i i told anya today there weren't enough body parts i didn't see enough limbs or gruesome footage i want more not that i want that to happen to anyone it was horrible but of course if we're if we're going to go there, let's go there. Let's see the real.

I want to see what her leg looked like when it was all twisted off and shit like that. Wow. I mean, it's a great documentary. It's that graphic, huh? You're going to love it. Yeah. No, it's not that graphic. I mean, it's like what happened is so graphic.

But it's really well done. And it doesn't waste your time. It doesn't talk to you like you're a fucking idiot. It's really good. Okay. It's not a bomb. Well, it was. But the show itself, not a bomb.

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