The Nikki Glaser Podcast - #336 Case Closed.

Episode Date: April 28, 2023

Nikki has a photoshoot coming that where she will be under “duress”. Brian and Anya had a similar moment with a busker in Penn Station. Nikki got a gift bag full of Snoop Dogg swag from the set of a game show. Brian recalls the first time he got high and Nikki explains when she knows to put down the joint.  They get into a conversation about stepping outside of a comfort zone. Nikki loves the thrill of walking on a treadmill with her eyes closed. Brian has an old man and the shoe story to tell. Nikki has an airport rule that she is breaking and Anya is on board. Nikki closes the case on Grace’s AirPods after receiving some karma. They give their final thoughts on highlights from John Mulany’s new special Baby J.  ——— 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: IG  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Ooh, ooh, ooh. The Nikki Glaser Podcast. Here's Nikki. Hello, here I am. Welcome to the show. It's the Nikki Glaser Podcast. How you feeling out there? Feeling pretty good here in St. Louis. My mom isn't here today.

That was fun yesterday. Hope you enjoyed that podcast of just all Taylor Swift recap. I had to do it. Listen, I'm constantly holding back from saying way more stuff about Taylor Swift, so let me indulge one episode. Not that anyone complained about it.

Things are good here today. Getting ready to go tomorrow to Tucson. Show to Tucson. Show in Tucson. Thursday night. Noah will be there. She lives there. Right, Noah? Yep. I'm going to be there available to you all day. You just tell me.

You just tell me when. I have to do a photo shoot, unfortunately. If the guy that's doing it is listening, just know that it's not ideal. But I'm doing it. Is this something you're doing under duress? Of course. Literally.

Is this something you're doing undressed? Yeah. Is this your dream to be in a photo shoot? I am doing it undressed. He pitched an idea where I'm naked holding a paper and the paper says, Nikki loses her virginity. And I'm going, ooh. And I go, not doing that. Oh my God. at undressed he pitched an idea where i'm naked holding a paper and the paper says nikki loses her virginity and i'm going oh and i go not doing that oh my goodness he was like my wife came up

with it and i was like that's really sweet and i understand the impetus for coming up with that idea and the other one was like nikki sleeps with 182 men or it was something like and then i'm supposed to be like. Shocked. So we're still doing the newspaper idea. But we need a better headline of what I'm shocked at. Nikki Glaser gets pigeonholed repeatedly. Yes.

He was just like. You're going to love this. And I was like. That's so sweet. I hate it. I absolutely hate it. It's everything I don't want to. Nikki reads Columbine book. I wanted it to I absolutely hate it. It's everything I don't want to. Nikki reads Columbine book. Yeah, I mean, I wanted it to say Trump dead.

But I thought it could turn into a Kathy Griffin thing. Yeah, I'm supposed to be going like, oh, like, oh, I'm over a great in Marilyn Monroe. Like surprise. Like it's supposed to be like a shocking headline. Dewey defeats Truman. Wait, isn't that the, isn't that the one that everyone,

I don't know. That's the mistake one. Yeah. Yeah. Um, so we'll see, but I'm doing that photo shoot cause he has a book. I mean,

literally if you want private time with me, just find a way to ask me, just make a book, uh, that you're doing interviews with comedians for a book and you get a private time with me because anyone who writes a book i mean i'm doing this week i'm doing i did an interview yesterday for two and a half hours for a girl who's writing a book about kind of eating disorders said yes to that she flew here from new york she's a journalist who

flew here so that was very nice she flew in and out in one day. So I mean, yes. And then this guy is doing a book of, you know, photographs. And he had like a good list of people he's photographed before. I don't know in what way it could have been from a distance. He could have been stalking them, but he said he did. So I go, okay, I'll join the ranks of people like Ali Wong and I don't know someone else. I think I saw Ali Wong's name and I go, sure, I like beef. And then in Tucson or in Vegas, I'm doing an interview

with a reputable director about Joan Rivers. So I got to study Joan Rivers. And then they asked me today, do you want to talk about Ellen? And I was like, sure, I love Ellen. And they were like, you did a piece on her in the MTV Awards, and we want you to comment. I'm like, then I'm not doing it, because I know the piece.

I was just, it was like an in memoriam we did, you know, like when I hosted those shows. And it was like all the things that had died, and it was like Ellen's reputation. And it was like, that was the year she came out as like, people were saying she was mean. So I go, I'm not commenting on it. You can use use that clip but i will not be in the documentary with that clip because i like money i like getting to work in this business and despite what people may or may

not say about ellen she's very beloved and i would definitely go to a party if i was invited to her house and i would be friends with her even though everything that precedes her because I feel like she's nice to her friends and I want to be a friend. You can't burn bridges. You got to take it when you can. How about that for a comment?

I mean, it's decent. It keeps the conversation going. You lobbed it back. I lobbed it back to you hey nikki what do you think about this i just don't have i'm not gonna comment on ellen so what am i gonna do yeah you if you're not commenting on ellen i'm not gonna be like you know what she's a dumpy hoe or whatever i'm not gonna take the hard take here and you have things you need you don't you have nothing to lose but you have you need to gain things and

we want you to be able to gain i have the loss of potential and that is invaluable because you have unlimited potential they tell you i don't believe it but they you said they say you have unlimited potential really they say that they say that you're like let's stop telling kids they can do anything i mean i know i've said tell your kids you can do anything if you have hard work. Within limits. I mean, sorry. Some people ain't gonna, like, don't discourage kids if they like something. Like, let them do anything they like,

even if they're bad, right? Well, for fun, yeah. I mean, people told me I could potentially play basketball and I was only five. I wound up being 5'11 and a half. Not tall enough. Not tall enough to play basketball. You really present as a guy who's taller. I wound up being 5'11 and a half. Not tall enough. Not tall enough to play basketball. You really present as a guy who's taller. I would have guessed 6'2".

Really? Yes. I don't think I've met Brian in person. I didn't realize you were that tall. Well, in my mind he is, but he's 5'11 and a half. 5'11 and a half. I never hit six. Taller than me.

You know, I'm above average height I don't know what the average height of the male is I think it's 5'8 actually I think it is if we count Vietnamese men I think they bring down the average I think in Asia they bring it down in the US

the average male height in 2017 is 5'9". Okay, so I'm above average, but that's not enough to be a basketball player. The scientists are even lying about the results. They're like, let's bump this number up. This is just so discouraging. Okay, so 5'9". I practiced basketball all my childhood, and I got good at shooting hoops and uh no one told me that you

have no chance at all of even getting a scholarship in college with this i don't care how many camps you go to right okay so what would you have preferred do you wish that you wouldn't have wasted all that time and you would have put it towards something that you could do like um i would have played piano i would have they have said, sit your ass down at the piano and play it as much as you play basketball. But let's go back to you being, you loved basketball. You didn't love piano at the time.

It would have, you would have been bitching about your parents making you play piano. And I'm guessing you wouldn't have gotten in any camps for that either or become a, you know, you probably had as much potential with piano as you did basketball in the real scheme of things, or maybe not. If I have a child, any camps for that either or become a you know you probably had as much potential with piano as

you did basketball when in the real scheme of things or maybe not if i have a child which i probably won't i will lock them in a room and i will i will have them sit at a piano and learn spanish until they come out proficient just you have to play your songs yeah if they don't come out singing a spanish song on the piano i not going to let them out of the room. It is. I mean, bilingual. You've got to go bilingual. I'm getting my kid, you know, Duolingo or whatever it is.

That's the first app going on their iPad. Yeah. Yeah, they're getting a Haitian nanny. Yes, yes. They're going to learn Creole. They're going to learn some very rare French dialect of Creole that only five people speak. I want my kid Yeah, you gotta have a bilingual

kid. There's nothing cooler than a bilingual person. Do you know that Anya knows Russian? And that Noah knows, what is it? Hebrew? Yeah, Hebrew. I know Hebrew and I understand Romanian. But Anya has a song in Romanian. Anya has a song in Romanian. Anya has

a song in Portuguese. So did you have to learn Portuguese for that? Did you? Oh, I love that song. The Waters of March. Yeah, The Waters of March. That's a great song. I love that song. I heard that song for the first

time in penn station a man was playing it on a guitar and i thought it was so beautiful i walked up to him and i said what's the name of that song and he said i don't know what he said i don't know i don't know you were probably so proud of yourself for being like interested and this guy finally gets to say what his song is and you're like, I'm doing this man a favor and he's just bothered by you. Give me money. I don't want to tell you what this is. I gave him a dollar.

I did after that. He was so upset with me. Why does that song sound like it's being sung quietly through a door? Why does everyone... Because the version we all know... Was it written in a a concentration camp like why does it have to be quiet like why what what is that i think it's i guess it's just

there's another word in portuguese saudade which is a really cool word i think it means like happy sad or like melancholy but um that's sort of the, maybe the culture, the Portuguese culture or Brazilian culture. You just reminded me, I had the weirdest deja vu just now that I don't even know is real. This is how I'm confused about my mind. As Brian was telling that story, I remembered meeting a guitar player, maybe not at Penn Station, but maybe at Penn Station.

And he was, and I was like can you accompany me tonight on a show in New York City before I lived in New York and he played that song with me and I swear to God

I have his number still somewhere and I'm like did that happen or am I just inventing some weird memory but I think it happened like 15 years ago

to play and he goes I don't know I don't know what the name of this. I think he was Portuguese. Did you feel really cool going up to a busker and being like, hey, join me tonight. I'm going to give this guy an opportunity.

He's homeless and he's like, actually, I live in Greenpoint and I do quite well. He wasn't homeless, but I remember he killed it and we stayed in touch. That's so weird. I don't know if I am Brian. But that's not deja vu. Wait, deja vu is not when you remember something that happened before. Can I

just pipe in with that? Deja vu is when you witness something and you're like, I've seen this before in some weird way. And apparently it's like your brain just slowing down too much or speeding up and so you're re-witnessing the thing you are living right now.

It's like your brain skips a beat or something. Oh, I didn't know that. Deja vu is not what you just said, right? It's not remembering something. But you were just saying... I had an unlocked memory which I'm not sure even happened. I gave Deja vu to a kid last weekend.

Oh, God. I thought they were vaccinated it's back baby and um so i gave um yeah it was the omicron version of deja vu and you don't lose your sense of um smell but and taste but you do a brain fog. Yeah, you get brain fog and then a memory comes up again. I was at $100,000 Pyramid and filming that.

In the room, in our green room, we had this gift bag and it had the weirdest shit in it. It had do-rags in it from Snoop Dogg. Snoop Dogg's brand of do-rags. Snoop Dogg has no affiliation with the show. Then it had dog toys.ags in it from snoop doggs snoop doggs brand of do rags snoop dogg has no affiliation with the show then it had dog toys snoop dogg dog toys one is like a giant joint that's like a i have it right here oh that's funny i like the idea of giving a dog a giant

joint and having him chew on it i'm i'm vamping while nikki wants to get the joints it was just laying on the floor out there now it's probably like put away somewhere that makes sense. But anyway, so it was like this giant joint and all these like, then candles and then like Michael Strahan's like beauty products that he has like beard, you know, softeners. I don't know what he has, but I just, no offense, I left it there because I don't need any. I get men's products a lot.

And I have no men who like actually take care of their hair and need like gels in it so um but anyway I was walking back to my set up or back to my room after hair and makeup and one of the PAs was leading me and he was like can I get you anything and I was like do you have like a um a dog toy like that's Snoop Dogg themed like do you have like a giant stuffed joint and he was like what and I was like just like a squeaker toy that's like a joint or like do you have any like cool like you know neon do rags i just and he was so confused and then but i and then i immediately was like oh they're in the gift bag like i immediately like said the joke in case he didn't know and by the way way

knight was the other guy on the show newman you know from uh seinfeld and he laughed because he was across the hallway and definitely had that same gift bag. He goes, what is with the do-rags? Why is Snoop Dogg's merchandise in this bag? And the guy kept having a look of confusion even after I told him it's like

that was a joke. And then he and I kind of look back at him and he goes, I just had the weirdest deja vu. I go, you've had in the, there goes I just had the weirdest deja vu I go you've had in the there's an unlocked thing in your brain where I asked you about like it was so funny but he just couldn't stop looking at me kind of like he was like lost in it he was like I just can't get over this has happened before and I was just like all right man like shut my door It was cool to like give someone deja vu

because it means, it just felt like, it's like when you're in someone's dream, you know? You're like, oh, sweet. Oh, I can't talk about the end of beef because it'll be a spoiler, but there's a thing that happens there that happened to me when I was on mushrooms, the one and only time I've done mushrooms,

which is like time tripping and being unaware of where you and someone else begins and it was so cool and i've never seen it illustrated in a way that made me go that's exactly what has happened to me before when i was like out of my mind on mushrooms when i was yeah it's hard to capture that cinematically that like a drug experience although i do feel like in The Worst Person in the World, that movie, when she does mushrooms and like the weird shit that happens,

I feel like, I don't know. The only time I've done mushrooms, the walls did start to move and things started to like, clocks started to look like Dolly, you know, like just melting things. And it was just starting and then I got kicked out of the apartment

and I was tripping in and out on the streets of new york and i had to like kind of cognitively fight the mushrooms which i believe you can do like you you might if you take so much you just might be forced into a trip but if you are like on the precipice of tripping and you're not in the right space you can kind of like supersede it and go, I'm not doing it and like fight it. Because I've tripped before with a friend of mine who while she was, we were both took enough to like trip. And she was like, my tongue is like, I don't know. It's like, I feel my tongue more than normal.

And she was kind of, she wasn't freaking out about it, but she kept talking about it. And I was like, I can't let go. Like, I'm too worried that she's going to think she's going into some kind of anaphylactic shock. And I'm going to have to step in and be mom. And so I was like, sorry, Tripp. You can cry at the sunset, but we're not letting you go any further. I cried at a sunset listening to a song.

And then I was like, you got to. And then she was like, I got to go home and feed my dogs. I'm like, you're leaving me? And so then it's not fun to Tripp alone, I don't think. But maybe got to. And then she was like, I got to go home and feed my dogs. I'm like, you're leaving me. And so then I, it's not fun to trip alone, I don't think. But maybe it is. You need a spotter. I've never done shrooms, but I did it with, I've smoked a lot of weed. And I remember the first time I ever smoked.

Remember that? The first time I ever smoked. Tell us about your weed experience. So I'm a pretty cool guy. I smoke marijuana. What's it like, dude? Yeah. So when you smoke, you get like uh you

like uh get really tired and you start thinking about your uncle i'm just kidding i'm just kidding you do you do start thinking about like there's little moments of death creeping in oh god well the first the first time i ever smoked i hated it and i wanted to not be high anymore and i was with my i was at i was at my friend's house in high school and I just kept saying, how can I get rid of this? How can I? I was like, what if I jump in the pool? I kept saying, what if I jump in the pool? And my friends were like, you're just going to be wet and high if you jump in the pool.

And I did jump in the pool and it didn't fix anything. And it was a freak out. The first time I ever smoked, total freak out. And then i was wet in the pool bring on people's psychiatric like i dr amen a-m-e-n amen maybe he goes by he's justin bieber's doctor but he's a brain doctor he's fucking fascinating and has great stuff to share but he says that um you know teenagers that smoke weed have a higher incidence of like psychotic outbreaks and it's like can bring on psychotic breaks i mean weed have a higher incidence of psychotic outbreaks and it can bring on psychotic breaks.

I have a friend who became bipolar because of weed. Watch out out there. What happens when you do weed now? I don't. I haven't smoked in a long time. The last time I smoked was the first Thanksgiving that I was actually in LA.

I was in LA. I just moved here to work on Not Safe. The way it worked was the show was ramping up the week after Thanksgiving. Right. So it's one last weekend to get high.

Before you got to get to work. I had to move to LA, so I got here the week before Thanksgiving. I couldn't go home just for Thanksgiving I needed to be so I was alone in LA on Thanksgiving what about your rat friend I didn't have any friends

I didn't have a rat friend at this time was your wrist or your ankle healed at this point oh yeah I was healed I was completely healed so I Jason Sines good comedian he fell through a window he fell through a window uh yeah and he got me it's he's like he's like he got very very injured is he still in a wheelchair he's paralyzed he's in a wheelchair yeah oh he fell through a skylight

oh i couldn't find me i I remember that. It's actually a terrible story. Partially inspiring. You donated a box of band-aids. He fell through a skylight with a girl he was dating and they both fell together and they both got

grievously injured and now they're married. They're married? Oh my God. They're married. It was like a second date. That is the worst meet cute ever

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who later fell through a window grievously. And we wish him, we're not making fun of that. It's just the story that happened. Okay, tell us what happened with the weed. Well, Jason got me weed. I was like, I need weed. He was like the only guy I knew in town. And he was so nice.

He got me weed. And then my whole plan was, just so I wouldn't be sad and alone on thanksgiving was i was going to get a bunch of snacks and food smoke a lot of weed and then watch the born series the born movies all in a row wait but you hadn't done weed since or had you experimented before with it since the pool jumping experience did you know what you were in for to smoke oh no no i had i had smoked a ton of weed i smoked weed all almost every day in high school i worked at that deli remember that deli i worked

yes where the guy hit you in the butt with a broom yeah he shoved the brew in my butt and i'd smoke a joint and get and look at his porn stash that was my childhood yeah don't cut your hair don't care take care don't cut your hair take care brush hair. Singed in my brain forever. Yeah. Sorry. Okay. So you're familiar with it. So I smoked weed all the time. And why did you do that?

Did it not give you, sorry, backtracking a little bit. Did it not give you that effect later on where you were like, I hate this? You started to like it? The very first time I had a freak out. And then the second and third time I got used to it. And then I started really enjoying it. And then I smoked weed every day. yeah smoked weed every day and I got stupid I did the thing that all the parents told me was gonna happen happen I got stupid and I could tell because I was taking the PSATs and then eventually the SATs and I wasn't smoking

weed when I took the PSAT and I got a high score and the second time I took the PSAT I was smoking weed and I got a lower score. Like you were smoking weed in your life or like you were high for the test? In my life. I was smoking every day and the residual effect was carrying over and my

SAT score just kept going down and down even though I kept taking it. You're supposed to get better the more you take it. It's the opposite of your tolerance levels. Yes. Then I remember I was driving to the deli one day and I was at a red light and the light turned green and I didn't realize it turned green. Yes. Yes.

I just sat there until it went back to red and people were honking. Totally. And then I was like like i have got to stop smoking so much weed yeah that's what happens to me whenever i start again and i start doing it regularly there always reaches a point where i've told the story before but i think i was the last time i like quit for a really long time i was it was you know i wasn't like it was just i was smoking a lot actually it was just like what i needed to get through the, it was just, I was smoking a lot actually. It was just like what I needed to get through the day. It was just like at the time,

what the crutch I needed to get through. Because weed for me gives me a burst of energy at first. Like I do it, I crave it before I go for a run, before I go on stage. I think it's the creeping anxiety of feeling like I'm not going to have the energy to do this thing. It's like, instead of coffee, caffeine doesn coffee, caffeine has the same effect a weed does, but to a lesser degree. Weed just instantly. Coffee, you got to wait like an hour or whatever, and then it keeps you up all night.

Weed eventually puts you to sleep. You get through it, and then you get sleepy probably an hour after. This is for me. But you do start to realize it does make you dumber if i were a parent talking about being a parent and and if i were to be a parent i would keep my kids brains that are developing the fuck away from weed they can smoke as much as they want when they become adults and they're past 25 and their brains are fully formed yes it will make them stupid after that but at least their brain isn't not formed, right? Like it's, I think it's very detrimental for teens to smoke weed. Once in a while, fine.

Like I'm going to turn a blind eye and be like, if you kids do it here so I can watch it and have some. But yeah, I remember one time watching the batch. I was filming the bachelorette with my phone and I was trying to make a joke on my Instagram story. And they used to be 15 seconds. Member stories were 15 were 15 seconds and i said if you can't think of something funny in 15 seconds no more weed for you because this is it's a it's a timing issue it's a quickness issue like yeah like you said lights will turn green and then you will go wait after there's like

when you're on weed there's a three second delay if you're like constantly putting your brain through that every single day you're going on stage you can't wait 15 seconds to come up with something funny no and so that and i'm already a very quick person or fast person so i can take a little bit of that and it like is i kind of it's fine and you can't notice it but and sometimes weed let me just, does the opposite for me. It makes me really, it makes me think, it hits me in this perfect way that I've timed it right with the caffeine.

It reminds me of actually John Mulaney talking about balancing his Adderall and his Xanax. I was just thinking of that. In this interview he did on Theo's podcast, where he's like, he has a perfect amount of like, I have this much Adderall and this much Xanax and it gets me to the perfect version of myself, which used to be just myself before I was doing drugs. But now I have to do this perfect combination.

And yeah, so sometimes it's like magical and it unlocks this great part of my personality and everything's like firing. But it definitely that was the moment and I clocked down to 15 seconds, had nothing. And I go, I got to stop. And then I stopped for months. And then I, you know, if I can start again, because, you know, I want to feel something. down to 15 seconds had nothing and i go i gotta stop and then i stopped for months and then i you know if i can start again because you know i want to feel something i want to like or i want to feel nothing whichever it is i you know it's it just seems like why why wouldn't i and then you start to think of like what is i'm never gonna feel a little bit kooky ever again. Like the only thing that's going to make me kooky is like,

if I have a, like Anya sometimes gets kooky from sugar because she's so sober. She'll have like a cookie and be like, woo and like jumping, like doing like, doing twirls and like triple sow cows. And like, and I'm just like, how innocent is that? Like we're like Anya, like a sugar is so, it can make her. And tea. And tea. But is that caffeine?'re like anya like a sugar is so it can make her and tea but is that caffeine

yes dude okay so it's not jealous of your guys's marijuana journey because my only setting on weed is just super hypochondria depressed and then like major overeater you gotta smoke through that like i ate an entire just got smoked through bro you do like cake ones yeah like a 10 inch cake and then it was just like what's gonna happen you guys i was in the corner of a party just like yeah it's not good what's gonna happen in my life except that when it is i mean i really do feel like weed has helped me medicinally not want to fucking kill myself before it's really like jolted me stuff like that it's great yeah honestly like i'll i'll tell you weed has definitely harmed my life in ways and like probably bad for my brain like it decreases blood flow it's

bad for your brain but sometimes it it instantly zaps me out of literal like you know suicidal depression so i don't know really what to make of that if anyone has any science behind that to It instantly zaps me out of literal suicidal depression. So I don't know really what to make of that. If anyone has any science behind that to support me or make me feel better about it, please send it my way. But okay, Brian, board identity, all the snacks. It can help you with pain too. Psychological pain, honestly. Yes.

There was a hilarious study, though, that came out last year that tested whether or not you get more creative when you smoke weed. And it's no. It's no. It's a big no. People just think that they're more creative. They're like, I have this great idea. And it's like, you're just high and you think that idea is good. And then you wake up and you look at your paper the next morning and you're like, dogs up with shoes.

Right. Well, can I just say this? I agree with that. I there are sometimes I write a brilliant joke on weed, but it's like probably the exception to it. But I will say that at least it gets me writing. It gets me excited about ideas. And that can turn into something because sometimes when I'm I'd rather be excited about dumb ideas and just have that feeling of like, I like creating. I like writing things down

i like jotting things down and have it be trash because that can carry over so i do think it makes you the quality is worse but it's sometimes i just need to i mean anya we were even talking yesterday about you just wrote a song and it was hard for you at first because you were like i hate this and you were like i realize i have to write four drafts oh I just have to be ready to write a bad song yeah four times and then the fifth time it'll be good or somewhere around there like how true is that like I give up so often on first try and especially with songwriting I'm like if this doesn't if this sounds fucking cheesy and lame and like oh she's trying to write a song I will abandon it right away I am not i because i've never gotten to the other side so i have no idea what it's like to write a good song but there's that's so true for the creative process of you have to be you to be comfortable with being uncomfortable

like you got to know that being uncomfortable equals you're on to something good yeah ann lamont said that she said write a shitty first draft and just that freed me up like oh okay the first draft is supposed to be shitty it's the perfectionism that will kill you truly successful people embrace failure and they see it as part of the process and that it's integral to part like you cannot succeed unless you have like a few failures before that so they welcome the failure and for me like a failure is a shitty first draft yeah failure is so taylor swift said it at the iheart awards that i went to it was like you don't see it but i fail so often and we're like no we've seen some no like actually we haven't she she seems perfect i mean everything she does there's never there's

never a flaw that i see but i know there's just no way she hasn't. And even you listen to her first album and you go, okay, this was, she was 13 at the time, so I think, and be okay with creating something shit. But it's so uncomfortable because to get any feedback, you have to show someone and you have to show someone your crap. I know that's the hardest part. I'm writing this song with someone and he's talented in an area where I have not that much experience. He makes movie trailers songs so i have felt a little bit like i'm sure you guys have felt this way before when you write like for contract or for some for an ad or something or for a different writer i'm like what do you think of this and he's like not really not that not that but i like that but i don't like that or that or can you change and it's just like you've never had to like

moralize if you're writing for yourself you're just just like, I don't like that. I like that. And it's not as hurtful. Someone else's opinion is so much harder. I find it easier writing for someone else because then it's up to them. It's like, I'm going to write as much shit as I can. And they choose what they're going to go with instead of me being responsible for what the right answer is. And that's a great attitude. Yeah.

It is. Sometimes I lose the passion for it, though. I'm like, what am I writing? responsible for what the right answer is and that's a great attitude yeah if i is sometimes i lose the passion for it though i'm like what am i writing like i don't you know like i want to get i want to write something i'm psyched about but then i do and then the other person's like okay this is about heartbreak and blah blah blah we actually need to write something more open-minded about hope i'm like hope i don't write about hope right and so like, hope? I don't know anything about hope. And so I have to kind of change my tack and be like, how can I make this fun for myself? And then you smoke some weed.

Then I smoke some weed and then everything's good. And then it's fun. But it worked out. Yesterday it all worked out. I smoked a bunch of weed. But the problem, this is back to Thanksgiving. You're going to ask me what happened? Yeah.

Okay, so I smoked a bowl and I packed this bowl tight. I don't know if that's how you say it, but I packed it real tight. So tight. I packed it so tight and then I smoked the whole thing and I did that stupid rookie move where I smoked a bunch and I said, I'm not high yet. And then I smoked some more. That's usually with edibles. You got to wait like 30 seconds. Edibles, I understand. It takes like an hour to kick in. I smoked the bowl. I held it up and I said, if I have 15

seconds, if I'm not high in 15 seconds, I'm smoking again. I bet you did do that. Yeah. Okay, so you, yeah, you didn't smoke too much. I got blitzed out of my mind. I made pancake, I made pumpkin pancakes, and they weren't, I made the pancakes, and they weren't even, the pan wasn't even on, so there was just like gooey batter in a pan. Right. And I ate all these snacks, and I watched the Bourne movies, and these are not complicated films. I could not follow them at all. Who is this

man? It makes you stupid. Why is this guy punching this guy? I don't know what's happening. And then I will say this. You were like what comics describe their girlfriends who watch Bourne Identity movies as doing. Like the classic of like, wait, who is that guy and why is he doing that? Enough. Okay. That's a whole other thing. Those types of questions during movies where it's like, as doing like the classic of like wait who is that guy and why is he doing that yeah yeah enough

okay that's a whole nother thing is those types of questions during movies where it's like the the my least favorite question is when someone asks a question about a movie that the movie just hasn't told us yet right yes just watch it where i'm watching it with that's why i love watching stuff with chris because we keep the remote right between us and i can feel when he's about to be like hold on we got to talk about like he his hand just goes over and i get excited because then we get to pause it and like talk about what just happened what we think is going to happen next we're always on the same page about i'll go it's always with succession i'll go wait what does it mean cash on credit what does it mean cash stocks whatever

the fucking line is that i'm like and why are they trying to get mattson to do that and then he'll explain it to me we theorize yesterday we watched succession and john mulaney's special and we paused so many different times to assess and like analyze and it's so fun but um yeah and he and he puts up with my questions that are like well they haven't told us told us that, Nikki. Like he's very good about not getting frustrated. And I really appreciate that. But yes, you're right. It is annoying. Assessing and analyzing is fun.

And it's so fun. The right show, shit talking is great. Because I get bored. I can't just steadily, I need to switch up my mediums in person, back to the screen, back to my phone, researching something on my phone. Like I want, I'm like tiktok in i need it to like change i can't just stare at a screen for an hour without any kind of like

you know analysis i i like what that's what they do in sports they take a break they cut to those old men that used to play football part of sports yes is the analysis sports is they is they give you a chance to just let it all settle and And then you and your bros can be like, so what do you think? Is he going to throw it? Is he going to run? We need this in movies. We need intermissions. They used to have intermissions in movies.

They have the 15 minutes you can go out. They should now because they're longer than ever. They should. So you haven't done anything about the food is when I wanted to say about the food is when I was eating and watching the Bourne movies I ate all the snacks in the world

I got every snack in Trader Joe's I got the Swedish fish I got the bunch of Swedish fish pretzels filled with Swedish fish and the thing that tasted the best without question was an apple an apple oh my god an apple

it was it was an explosion of juice when i think apples are the greatest food because you're right there is an explosion of juiciness it's not too juicy it's not like running down your hand and your wrist and like making your shirt all sticky it's just a crunchy a succinct uh encapsulated flavor burst but it's it also is hydrating yes that's the 100 without being too juicy it's great did you guys have this phenomenon when you were high that i had where i i know i keep going back to the overeating i could not feel feel satiated. I mean, I really did eat a whole cake and I was like, why am I not getting full? And I was asking everyone at this party,

do you guys have that? I could not feel full. Do you? I think that's more an eating disorder than the Wii. Because I think it makes food taste better. Maybe? It stimulates your appetite that's why if you're if you're if you have cancer or something like that they might say smoke weed to get you to eat it doesn't stimulate mine thank fucking god i mean i would

stay far away from if it did but it doesn't it doesn't curb it doesn't do anything it just is like um yeah i don't i i want to just like pick up a guitar and play music i want to go for a run i want to like work on a project it on it i don't want to sit and watch a movie yes yes i love it oh what i've done before is i go downstairs and i am walking on a treadmill and i hold the sides of the treadmill and i close my eyes at what point in your life have you ever been walking with your eyes closed it's fucking awesome it's really fun but you can do that on a treadmill because you know the pace you know where you're not going and you're not going to hit anything and it's the only time in life that you can ever walk with your eyes closed and you get to be kind of blind for a little bit. And it's really... I want to do that with my car.

Yeah, do it. That's a fantasy. Wait, hold on. Don't, please. I've done that before walking without the treadmill just to see what happens. To see how far you get? Well, I assess like, okay, there's no like potholes

or something I could fall off a cliff, but then I do close my eyes and just start walking and see if I, you know, outside like in, like in Penn Station. One time, our friend, Sarah Lena blindfolded herself when she moved to New York when she was like

17. Cause she was like, I want to know what it's like to be blind. And she blindfolded herself on, I think Houston street, like in the Lower East Side and was walking down and it busy street. And she started on like a bike rack and was just along a fence

like walking blindfolded for over an hour. Picture a blindfolded 15-year-old model. Yes. Oh my God. Walking and she really did it for a really long time. It was like

that is one story about her that I'm just like she is so cool. Who would ever do that? But she wanted to just feel like what it was like, that is one story about her that I'm just like, she is so cool. Who would ever do that? But she wanted to just feel like what it was like to be blind. It was a very empathetic thing to do. So, Brian, I hear you have a story about a man in a shoe, which honestly, when you told us about this, it sounded like a bedtime riddle. But please.

Yeah, the old man in the shoe. Yeah, yeah. Tell us, are we going to learn a lesson in this? Is there going to be some takeaway? There is a lesson. There is a takeaway. Yes. So I was playing, I was shooting hoops, which I, you know, now we know historically I do.

And I had my basketball shoes on and I was done shooting hoops. I was walking back. This is recent? This is just happened a couple of days ago. Wait, when you're going to shoot hoops just by yourself? Yeah. What if you run into some people that are playing a game? Do you go like, hey guys.

I never understand when guys just walk up. What if your skill levels don't match? What if you're white and they're black guys that are really good and you look like an idiot? Do you not care about looking like an idiot? I would just go, I guess I'm not playing basketball today because there's someone better playing. I go to a spot

where that wouldn't happen. There's no one ever there. If there was, I feel like I'd just get injured. Do you ever go into pickup games? Chris will just... Andrew used to just go and just anyone who's playing, like, hey, can I get in? It's like, I wouldn't...

That is something I have no idea how. I would never do that. I could never join people doing something that they're skilled at that I might not be up to snuff. I would never jam with someone. I would go to a jazz club and be like, can I just jam with you guys? I feel like I would just mess everything up and they'd make fun of me after. My dad does that a lot.

He's a trumpet player and we'll go around in Mexico when we're there. and he'll just like be like he'll have his trumpet out and be watching a band and sitting so they can see him and then they like give him the nod like oh right like and then he's like okay cool i'm going and he's nervous it's cute i feel like guys have this in their male culture a lot like sam morrell will do this in new york a lot he always talks about like just going to the basketball place and then I'm like, aren't you nervous? He's like, no,

people just invite you in on the game and you just play. Yeah, I want to know this culture. I don't understand it. This is dude culture. These men don't make friends. Because you guys don't, yeah, you don't have friends

so there's no risk of like I have to stay friends with these guys. Oh, no, not at all. It's one night stands. It's the way gay men like have sex. There's no like strings attached.

They just have sex all the time. They get the nod. Just give them the nod. Men are just like, it's transactional. It's not like there has to be anything after this. So gay men like

are having more sex than anyone because they're both agreeing like this is just a fleeting thing. No emotions involved if we don't need it. I'm not saying all gay men are like this. Please don't think that I'm blanket statementing. But I think for the most part,

yeah, men don't form bonds. It's like in and out. So tell us about your gay basketball experience. So I go to the basketball court and I ask guys, do you want to fuck? No strings attached. And then we fuck

and then I never see him again. And sometimes it's sad. But I think with dudes, you want to fuck no strings attached and then we fuck and then i never see him again and sometimes it's sad but i think with dudes it's like you wouldn't go up to any guys and be like you want to hang out you know you want to be my friend but you will go you want a ball and i think that's the replacement whereas i don't know what women do but i'm assuming that women would be more likely though do you feel confident about your skill because I guess maybe I need to talk to a guy that likes basketball but feels he sucks. The way I feel about guitar and singing,

I love it just as much as anyone who probably plays for a living loves it, but I know I suck, so I would never try to get in on someone else's game. Yeah, if I sucked, i wouldn't do it unless they were my friends and they all understood that i knew i suck like sometimes i'll play i'll sing and play with anya but i'm she knows that i don't think i'm better than her or matt like but i just need everyone to know that i know i'm shit and then but i feel like inherently walking

up to me like can i play can i ball like they might go like oh this guy's probably good and then you saw like do you have to watch them first and kind of go like can i fit in here i feel at least until you know until i can't anymore i feel like right now i could go ball with most people who are just casually playing okay if i if they're like what conference if they're on west fourth street in new York City, there's a basketball court. You walk by the Comedy Cellar all the time. That's that court right there. Those guys are too good.

I mean, you can't play with them. Just watch. That's for entertainment purposes. But for the most part, across the world, and even outside, you can go up to any court, and you can play ball, and you don't have to be that good.

And I feel like i try to trying to ball i would love with my skill set you should try to ball i mean yeah do they ever say no like are they everyone's always looking for actually it's happened before there is a comedian's game um every saturday in la yeah where you uh there's like literally like 60 people go to that game on Saturdays. And sometimes you get... What happens that's sad is sometimes you get like you're the worst

one and you don't get to sit out. And then you're just there and you know you're the worst. So they pick teams and you don't get picked. They do it. Usually it's with you line up and you shoot free throws and the last person to hit a free throw is out. And that's really sad. Yeah.

But anyway, the old man in the shoe. I was walking back from playing basketball and my shoe was untied. How long did you play for? I'm sorry to keep... Well, when I'm shooting around by myself, I play for like 30 to 40 minutes. Wow.

And you're just shooting? Well, I have headphones in. Are you meditative and thinking about things like what is could you compare like is it i it's relaxing it's i do my drill on a skill okay you drill i do my drills uh i'll i'll i'll shoot take a step back shoot and then um and then i'll just pretend like i'm a basketball player and i'll be like oh I'm you know three seconds left and I'll do that that's pretty fun and then sometimes I'll imagine

do you think maybe people are watching you and does that inspire you to be better like if someone walks by do you sometimes like get your act together a little bit and depending on their race you try even harder it's so delusional sometimes someone will be walking by like walk like with their kid in a stroller and i'll be like i better hit this shot to impress this person i do anything

better if i think someone's watching if i imagine that's why i wanted a reality show i was like i will just have a better life because i will always be yeah the security guard at taylor swift watching me dance i realized yes i am I'm having some burst of energy because this person is witnessing it. I need a witness. It doesn't have to be a person. Sometimes it's a squirrel. There'll be a squirrel running around. I better hit this

before the squirrel. That's why practicing sucks because you don't have an audience. I don't like... I have to pretend I have an audience in order to practice efficiently. I wish I could. Oh, I would hate to practice in front of an audience. I love being alone and practicing alone.

Let me perform in front of an audience. I don't want people to see my process. Well, it's not fun for me to do anything that isn't getting me attention. Right. I guess, I guess I'm, that's a narcissist thing. Or maybe like,

it's not, it just doesn't, it's like, what's the point? And I do things by myself constantly, but I just feel, I don't know what it, I'm glad for it because it is what I realized when I was at the Taylor Swift

show of like how I, I, it made me dance harder to see that the security guard might see me and like laugh at what I was at the Taylor Swift show of like how it made me dance harder to see that the security guard might see me and like laugh at what I was doing. I realized my whole life is inspired by all I want to do is perform. That's like it. Life, if even sex

like if I pretend like, I mean, there's someone there usually watching me, but if masturbation, however, don't want anyone to see that. That is the only time where I go, I could sit this one out, God. Like don't want anyone to see that that is the only time where i go i could sit this one out god like don't don't check in here but everything else in my life performing is what is that that's such a selfish and like i just it's a gross thing there's also a lack of there's a lack of shame there because like if you're practicing and you're not good, I would not want

people to see me, but if you don't have that part of you that's like, I don't care if people think I'm bad, then that's... Well, I practice guitar on Instagram Live sometimes, and I am bad on there, and I'm really fucking up, but I'm like, these people are... I'm not forcing them to stay here.

I'm not... They can get... They can go. So if you're watching this get they can go so if you're watching this that's your fault if you're not entertained or if you're like why is she doing this this is so lame what the fuck are you doing watching me that's even more lame what are you at least i'm getting something out of this you're fucking watching so unless people enjoy it just leave so it's if i was just to be like mom mom, dad, watch me practice, which I've done before, or like watch this song I'm working on. I feel terrible because I'm forcing them. They, if they get up and walk away, I see them.

It's embarrassing. That is a forced situation. But you know, when people are just voluntarily tuning in on an Instagram live, I don't mind if they see the process. And I feel like it's, um, it's freeing to, I i think of it as like this is inspiring other people to be bad at things and it's okay that it's okay to be bad i think it makes you better too i do think like whenever i perform a song in front of people and it's like the first time i've ever played it if i look no matter how well i do at that time i always know that's the worst i'll ever play it

i'm definitely going to be better the next time because I had to sell it a little bit and I had to remember it on the spot. So it is a skill set, I think, that you're developing. Yeah, I think it's practicing in front of an audience or like in some way that keeps you accountable is the best way to practice, I would think. Just even imagining that someone's watching you

or that someone's going to watch this back would be a good mindset. But what do I know? I'm not a coach. I'm just filming it. Filming it. You're going to post it somewhere. I mean, how many times do you watch yourself later on? Oh, yeah.

All that stuff. It's the same thing as like you're doing open mics and you do comedy in front of other comedians. And then you do comedy in a real in front of a real audience. And it's like, man, and then you do comedy in front of a real audience and it's like, man, you really need to practice in front of a real audience. Well, that's why I like comedy is because you can't practice without an audience. There's no way to do it in front of a wall.

There's a part of John Mulaney's special where they're shooting him up close. You can tell because it's on a steady cam, which means a man is holding it strapped to his back and he's moving right in front of john's face that part of the show had no audience there and you can tell you can just tell we watched it twice because i'm probably going to do the same thing for my special because it's a it's a great look but comedians if you don't have an audience there and you're pretending there's an audience there something in your

demeanor turns into a little bit actor-y. Like there's just a little switch. No slight on John. That special, by the way, was fucking incredible. I loved every second of it. And this shot is worth it. But it's just the tiniest thing that you can notice. It's in the setup too.

You'll know the shot. It's very close up and it pans around him. And you can tell that there's just not an audience at least i can because maybe i'm used to doing it and if i were to tell my jokes to no audience that's exactly how it would sound to me and with and with a camera right in your face which has never done stand-up like that before yeah so yeah no doubt the general population was not noticing that like that's definitely your skill level and your experience. But also the general population.

Don't you guys sometimes go, wow, that shot is really close. Obviously, there was a cameraman right there. How could they have done that? Yeah, Matt and I paused last night. We were like, why did he do that? That was weird. We loved the special, but both of us were like, hmm, I don't know about why that shot had to happen.

Okay, well, we're going to take a break and we're going to come back and get the rest of the shoe and old man story. Let's talk about John Mulaney's special. Do you have an update on the AirPods? Oh, yeah, and I have an update on the AirPods situation, Grace's AirPods. So we will return right after this.

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All right. My shoe is untied, but I'm so close to my apartment that I'm like, I'm just going to let it be untied. I don't care. You're one of those guys. Yeah. Yeah. And this, this. Are you watching it though? When my shoe shoe is untied i'm terrified of tripping like i andrew used to always have a shoe untied and just walk around i'm like aren't you worried you're gonna just take too short of a step step on the shoelace and then trip like but he would not be he wouldn't care and i um i envied that like kind of lackadaisical approach to the shoelaces

that i assessed the risk i assessed the risk because i was close enough to my apartment flipped them when you i couldn't no i i mean i i knew i was close enough to my apartment that it really wasn't that big of a deal to have the shoe untied for like 35 40 seconds and i it was annoying to bend over and tie it is there and so this old man was walking in the other direction and he saw I saw him see my untied shoelace and I was like, oh God. There's nothing more an old man

likes than telling a young man that his shoes are untied. Because first of all, he's angry at you. Like in his day, no one could walk around with shoes untied like that. No. Degenerate. Yes. So he looks at me. This guy probably smokes pot.

And I have headphones in. He looks at me. And you're out of tune with the world. You're staring at your phone. This guy. This guy is wringing his hands. He just wants to say something to me. Oh, he can't wait.

And he goes, he points down. He goes't wait. He points down. He goes, look, he points down at my shoe and I don't look at first. He waves his hand and points down at the shoe. He goes, take out your earphones. He's acting like he's going to save my life. I just didn't want to tie it. I walk past him.

I ignore him. This guy taps me on the shoulder taps he taps me three times and then i'm not gonna i'm not gonna ignore that you know he's taps me on the shoulder so i turn around i take out my headphone and he goes your shoe is untied and this is when this is the lesson i had a decision to make an old version of me would be like do i acquiesce to this old man and do i tie the shoe even though i don't want to tie it or do i do what i want to do and an old me would have just tied the shoe and then had to have been like oh thank you so much for saving my life and having telling me i didn't realize my shoe was untied.

Instead I go, I don't want to tie it. And I walk away. Oh my God. I think there's a happy medium where you go. My house is right there. I know. Thank you,

sir. I took out a gun and I said, get the fuck away. I don't want to tie it. I said, I don't want to tie it. Free that possum in your backyard, old man. I figured it's the same guy.

I feel so proud of myself because now I don't owe that man shit. Yeah, well, this to me reminds me a lot of when I have a backpack that zips. The sole zipper, the main zipper, let's say, starts halfway up the backpack, right? So it doesn't go all the way down. There's no way that it's all going to come spilling out.

It's a half zip, right? So I often leave it unzipped because all I have in there is stuff that I'm not going to like dump my, like I'm not going to do a cartwheel. So nothing's going to spill out of my backpack as I walk from terminal to terminal. If you are a girl and want people to talk to you,

leave your backpack unzipped. I could not, I cannot get from terminal B to terminal C for your connecting flight without at least five men stopping to tell you and save the day. If I don't care. And sometimes it's a little pocket that's unzipped and people go, by the way, and my noise canceling headphones that I stole from grace, by the way, I still have not worn them.

They're still on my kitchen counter. I have to find a case for them to give them to Taylor. But you can't hear fucking anything with those things. I bet there are at least 100 people out there that think I'm the most rude woman because they either said hi or asked a question or did something very egregious and i just walked right on by them because i can't hear anything with those on nothing like someone could be screaming at you foot from your head and if you don't see them you would not hear it and so ma'am this is not your flight oh like that that one time when that happened that was the worst day of my life so yeah same thing so it's um the but the backpack thing i know that there are listeners right now who are going yes

like and if you're someone who doesn't care about your zippers being zipped tight everyone needs to save the day it's like stop it just let me have an unzipped backpack what do you think is going to happen and also everyone's so worried about everyone stealing everything from them all the time no one wants your shitty things that are in your dumb backpack your box of tissues unless they're airpods well those were left i did not steal them like i'm kidding here's another thing about that i will i i dare you i dare you to try this if you are someone who travels a lot in an airport, and you get to your gate early, drop your bags and go to the fucking bathroom.

Drop your bags and go get a bagel. Drop your bags and go take a walk around. You don't need to stay with your bags at the gate. I just started doing this. They will never ever steal anything from you. Oh my God. Everyone in the airport has a ticket to go somewhere. They're not there to

thieve. What if a terrorist comes and puts a bomb in your bag? That will never happen. Also, it will blow up on the plane that you're in, so it doesn't matter. You're dead. You're not going to be prosecuted. Nothing ever happens. Ever. I don't care about any of the announcements of the woman saying,

do not leave your bags unattended. I have been doing this, and I'm not joking for 10 years every single time and i fly twice a week at least for 10 years i will get to the my gate drop my guitar and my backpack and my purse i don't even give a shit go to the bathroom never once has anything ever been stolen from me i'm begging for it to be stolen because all my zippers are unzipped. I'm like, all you got to do is reach your hand and you don't even have to fumble around with stuff. It will never, ever happen. They will never confiscate your luggage.

They will never, ever. I promise you. There's nothing you could tell me that would ever make me leave my bags alone in the air. It's drilled into my brain. I'm not kidding you. The woman on the announcer, how many times has she said it to me?

I know she does. I've seen the T on the announcer how many times has she said it to me i know i've seen the tsa like go up to a bag after someone left it and confront the guy when he came back it's never happened to me in that bag must have been left for a while it's listen i'm not leaving i'm leaving it and i put it next to someone who's already sitting there and everyone always look i love doing it because people think I'm fucking crazy. And they start worrying for me. And I'm just like, fuck you all for being little worry warts. You're losing energy in your life.

My mom's like this. She thinks everyone wants to steal everything from her all the time. If you get stuff stolen, they're going to find a way to steal it. It's not because you left it there. Anytime I've left a laptop at a Starbucksbucks i've left a phone at a starbucks i've left a air i always get it back because i'm a lucky person and things work out for me but also and maybe the thing is if you if so if a thief happens to come into the same starbucks that you left a laptop you're fucked that's just bad luck but most people don't thieve they return things unlike me with grace's

airpods but let me just say wait anya so you've tried this and now you do it because you see me do it every single time yeah i tried it the other day i'm like why am i lugging this fucking guitar to every time i have to go to the bathroom i was traveling alone usually matt watches my stuff for me but i had a lot of stuff with me this one weekend. I think I was meeting up with you, Nick. You had the merch. Stop asking people to watch your stuff too. Can you please watch my laptop while I go to the bathroom? If you leave something,

I'm not saying that's bad that you asked Matt because you're with him, but people who ask strangers to watch their stuff, just leave it. They know you just left. A terrorist is going to pull that move. They'll use that move. What if a terrorist puts drugs on your laptop while you're in the bathroom?

What is this? When has this ever happened? You've been watching the burn identity too much. And by the way, TSA has never caught anyone. Does everyone know that? That the TSA

that was instated in 2001, post 9-11, has never once caught any terrorist that was going to do something. Not once. The thousands and thousands of TSA agents that have been working for the past 21 years have never caught one person. So it's all a sham.

It's security theater. It's security theater. Exactly. The man with the shoe. You remember the shoe bomber? Yeah, they didn't catch him. They let him through. They let him through.

And a guy on the plane said, you're trying to light your shoe on fire. And the passenger stopped him. Exactly. They've never caught anyone. All they do is catch you with shampoo bottles. And they go, do you want to finish this? And it's like, what does that even mean?

No, keep it. I just bought a $21 bottle. It's just like, it's so annoying. And they always act like you're already in trouble. They make you feel, if you beep going through the thing, they're like, okay, step aside. It's like, I know I'll step aside. You don't have to yell at me about it.

And it's just, they just have, thank God for them because they are trying to keep us safe. They're just doing their jobs and they are doing a job that is thankless. We all like kind of hate them. And so they're constantly dealing with people who are like disgruntled. So I have a lot of love for Tsa agents but you've never done any you've literally

never prevented anything can you imagine having a job where you've never done your job they prevented me from uh having toothpaste on my trip yeah but it's so funny to me that we have this thing that has never once stopped anything for 21 years 21 years pointless but you know well i one would say that the the them being there prevents things like people don't try things even because they're there so to bring you up yeah so that that is something um okay so then oh so what happened with headphones? I stayed at the same hotel, the Lowe's, in Hollywood the other day. And I was in the same lobby where I found Grace's AirPods. And I ordered Uber Eats to my hotel. And I love this hotel.

I love the Lowe's. It's a great organization. It's whatever they're doing to train their employees. Bravo. It's not too over the top. They're just helpful, nice, happier there. Even if you're not a customer, they're just happy. And they have a great spot where they leave the Uber Eats.

Usually every hotel is like, well, you got food delivered? It's like, yeah, this has been around for 10 years. Food delivery, like have a place for it. They're always confused. Well, maybe they brought it up to your room maybe they never know lowe's has a table for them where it's like that's where the food goes and yes people could steal it but do they know i'm sure it's happened a couple times but stop being like we gotta go down right away they might steal our food no one wants to steal your food stop

everyone's so paranoid about things being stolen from them i think this is an american thing because i just don't think stealing pickpockets happen like if you go to europe but that's they're stealing off of your body these aren't people like people aren't just waiting for you to leave your laptop and go to the bathroom to steal your laptop i know i'm gonna get tons of messages being like actually my laptop did get stolen my laptop got stolen someone threw a brick through my car window and stole five thousand dollars worth of stuff look listen to what they did they stole they threw a brick through your window that person was did something crazy there's nothing you could have done so stop trying to have control over it i guess is what i'm saying i could have taken my stuff with me that's the

that's the difference i could have not had it in the car think about all the times you would have to take your stuff with you to everywhere you go because you're so scared of it getting stolen it's such a fucking hassle i would rather pay eleven hundred dollars in a laptop than for the rest of my life lug everything with me and check doors constantly think about how much time everyone wastes in their life of checking oh did i lock that door people are constantly going around to each door and like after they've locked it and like checking it and i'm always like whenever i see that person i go what what a life this person must like they they lock the door then they check the lock then they go and i know some of that's ocd and that is beyond your control and that's a whole

different thing. But I just wish everyone would kind of just calm down a little bit about stuff. But I also just, that's my personality is like, why is everyone so nervous about things all the time? And I am therefore nervous about people being nervous about things. So I'm doing the same thing. I walk my dog three times a day and I don't lock my door anytime I leave to walk him. I don't even take my keys. Yeah.

Well, that's how the night stalker gets in. Yeah, that is. Yeah, that old man's coming back. Yeah, I sometimes don't. I started locking my door because Chris painted some kind of scenario that could happen and I was like,

oh God, that doesn't sound, I don't want to be raped today. So every day I just go, I don't feel like getting raped today so I just give it a little lockeroo but um so anyway I ordered uber eats and I get I'm at the I'm doing some sets and so I ordered it to perfectly arrive like right before I get there and I walk in no food and and it said it had delivered and it sent me a picture of. But then the picture I couldn't pull up. So I'm at the front desk and I'm like, and they're like, it's over there. And I'm like, it's not over there on your perfect little Uber Eats table.

And I was like, thank you for that table, but it's not there. And they are so concerned. They're like, well, they don't bring it up to the room. We don't allow them up to the room because this, and I was like, it's okay. I actually ordered from two places because I wanted like a lot to choose from. So I get a dinner tonight. It's on, it's going to be here in five minutes. So that food arrives. And as I'm sitting there, I'm like a lot to choose from so I get a dinner tonight it's on it's gonna be here in five minutes so that food arrives and as I'm sitting there I'm like fucking grace man like this is karma coming back like I ordered let's be honest it wasn't airpods but it was a lot of food and I was like in the same lobby that I stole grace's headphones it all came back around

karma does happen it does come back around but then i went up to my hotel room and it was sitting in front of my door sorry grace that was so poetic i really did have this moment of like i'm glad that someone stole my food like that makes sense to happen in this scenario i deserve that wait so if grace searches for you now like if you were in la and grace was in la and she's like searching for her headphones would she see they're back in LA and would she be able to find them? Yeah but I would never have them with me because I don't use them they're like they cause me too much and I already have two pairs of AirPods

which is the greatest thing to do for yourself because they're always one in the case that are charging and when yours die they're just ready to go and then you can charge the other it's just the best plan you can never go without AirPods but no I already um final thought grace is not not able to track them because they're dead on my counter right now um the and i'm waiting for to find a case or like get a case and then i'm going to put them in them and give it to taylor because she doesn't have a problem owning things that are

hot but i did put on my instagram story um i posted the clip of me talking about grace's headphones and i said grace if you're out there i will ship them to you where is she what happened to her she has not heard this has she vanished i mean she if she she was on on a toilet and then her airpods just on the ground that is the weirdest thing i have i think grace was actually in possession of two airpods because I think when your AirPods are in and you drop your other AirPods, you're not hearing them hit the ground because your noise is canceled.

So she did not hear that. She's someone that also has two pairs of AirPods because she had some in and didn't hear them hit the ground. You wouldn't hear a piano crash from four stories in front of you when you have your AirPods in with the noise cancellation mode. So she definitely didn't hear them scatter on the floor and where's the case

where was the case i checked for it everywhere they were they were dropped as if they were dropped from a case they were like one was over there one was over here and here's what a little case i have it okay grace was using the stall she had her purse and she didn't care about her zippers being zipped all the way the purse tilted as she was squatting oh my god and the airpods fell out where's the case noah where's the fucking in her blazer pocket i know this because i accidentally dropped an iphone out of a cool oversized blazer into the toilet because I was squatting over the toilet, not sitting on it

and I just heard plunk and there was my phone in the toilet. Oh, oh no. But why would the AirPods be out of the case? Here's what I think happened. She probably had them in

and just took them out just to use the bathroom or something. But then she would know they were out of her ear and then she would hear them hit the ground is what I'm saying.

They were on the ground right in front of the bathroom stall and the bathroom stall shut all the way, like all the way to the ground. Like these are, this is a low, so this is a nice bathroom. Maybe they hit the ground as the bathroom stall door was closing. Oh. At the same time.

But why would they fall? Maybe she was puking and so she was on her knees and so they didn't fall. They just slid out. There's no way to slide because it goes all the way to the ground. No, it goes all the way

to the ground and they were outside the stall. Do you know what I'm saying? The door goes all the way to the ground. Maybe she took the pods out and put them on the ground so that somebody would find them

and feel bad. And have content for their podcast. She did this for us. I do want to say for people who feel bad about Grace though is that this is a pretty nice hotel And have content for their podcast. She did this for us. Well, here's what I think happened. For people who feel bad about Grace, though, is that this is a pretty nice hotel. It's not like you took these off the ground

with a Holiday Inn Express or something. So she's probably fine. And her name's Grace. That's an expensive name. It is. That's a name where your daddy's rich and he got you this air and and i'm guaranteeing you she already had another pair in because you would have heard it so i think she's

a two airpod lady anyway and she deserves to listen returning them to the front desk i'm guaranteeing you the person at the front desk would have just taken them and like and it would she wouldn't have come back for them and And also here's what happened. Sometimes when you drop your AirPods, they spill out of the case and then the case closes. Yes. And then you see the case and you think they're still in there. That is probably what happened. So,

um, case closed on this. Literally. Yeah. Oh my God. Okay. So this weekend I'm going to, um,

Tucson tomorrow. I'm going to do a photo shoot with a newspaper naked um oh my god I just don't and then you're going to be gasping in front of a a tragic event

on a newspaper yeah like the Hindenburg like what could be like something that I'm gasping about that would be hilarious if you did the Hindenburg if you did some ancient news story J-Lo admits plastic surgery

like what's something that I would be shocked by If you did some ancient news story. Admits she eats. J-Lo admits plastic surgery. Oh! J-Lo, like, what's something that I would be shocked by? Taylor Swift, I mean, asks Nikki Glaser to become a backup singer on tour. What about an Ozempic thing? Oh, yeah. Ozempic. i don't know my ozempic like man everyone be on that shit man and now there's other companies making the same thing everyone's gonna be thin now everyone get ready just wait for it and bruised in the abdomen yeah i mean i would take it i who cares about being

bruised in the abdomen if you can be thin right yeah i mean like but people would shoot themselves people would shoot themselves in the head to have a thin body they would literally blow a hole in their head to have thin people would do anything think of what people do to be thin they a little little shot in your stomach that's nothing and you just but i the problem with ozempic is it curbs your appetite don't fat people like to eat like don't you if someone told you you were gonna lose the desire to hug your children wouldn't that kind of bum you out like this thing you like doing wouldn't you be sad that you lose it like that's why i don't like add meds is because they make me lose my appetite and yeah i'll lose some weight but i also will not have any desire to do this thing i once loved to do but what if you have the desire to hug your children so much that it's like

affecting their lives and like you're on top of them they can't eat i mean then you would probably squeeze them too hard oh yeah they start to hard. Oh, yeah. They start to disassociate. They get bruises on their abdomen because you hug them so hard. Yeah. Wouldn't you then want to take a pill to maybe hug a little less? Yes. Yes, I think that. But I just, I don't know.

As someone who used to starve myself to be thin, I have no interest in not liking food. It bums me out. Anything that is like, this will curb your appetite. I'm like, ew, why would I want that? I like liking food. It just would, it bums me out. Anything that is like, this will curb your appetite. I'm like, ew, why would I want that? I like liking food. I don't know.

It just, it doesn't make sense to me. It's like Sebastian Maniscalco's whole thing about like, why he took the vaccine was not for his own health or for your health. It was because he heard like all Italians, you're going to lose your sense of taste and smell. And he's like, oh, I do not want to get this COVID thing like I will get vaccinated

because I'm Italian I love food losing a sense of smell was a huge threat it was like dying whatever I'm not scared of that but losing my sense of smell or having things taste like vomit for the rest of my life some people like things tasted disgusting I was like I don't want that let's talk about John Mulaney's special

real quick did you watch it brian yeah my god we all this thing is probably got he's it did well yesterday i mean it came out yesterday and three out of four did you watch it noah no i haven't had a chance yet well three out of four people here i don't blame you i mean i haven't finished it i'm 10 minutes from the end which is interesting because it was very. It felt like it was over. Deep, big. And I was like, this is heavy, not heavy, like it's hard, but it's like this is real shit. And I could see why Matt and I both he was like, we're an hour and 10 minutes in or something. It was long.

It's an hour and 20. And he was like, I'm tired. Can we go to bed? And I was like, yeah, we'll look forward to it tomorrow. But it was a lot to chew on. I exactly at that moment went to the bathroom. I was like, Chris, I'm tired. Can we go to bed? And I was like, yeah, we'll look forward to it tomorrow. But it was a lot to chew on. I exactly at that moment went to the bathroom and was like, Chris, I'm hungry. I want to go get dinner. And he was just like, there's 10 minutes.

He screamed to me while I was on the toilet. He was like, there's 10 minutes left. And I was like, okay, I can do it. And I was glad that I finished it in one thing because it was- It's long. It's like an hour and 30 minutes. Yeah, no. Yeah, it was an hour 20, I i believe which is very long for a special

but it um it was really well done it looks amazing he um yeah he just tells the story of he starts with his um intervention and then it just walks you through his addiction and his recovery and you know embarrassing things he did along the way when he was an addict and it's um my favorite part was the little song he did at the beginning of like everything changed we like boberna more because he's not problematic and and he's like you know we all went through the same thing like masks down keep them up and then he's like you go through a divorce you lose your reputation and it was just so your reputation is different it's different yeah that was really great oh my

god the thing with the 11 year old boy was genius that was a plant but um that's cool i'm just saying don't ever think things that happen sporadically or like i can't believe that happened because chris saw him i go chris like, I wonder if they miked that kid. And I was like, no, they don't need to because his responses don't mean anything. Like he's going to say what all the places where he says fifth grader and you go, oh my God, he's calling back to this crazy thing. If the kid would have said sixth grade, he would have said sixth grader. Like there's there's not it's not taking away from the genius of the bit, but it was

prewritten. And that interaction happens at all of his shows with a kid that he finds there. So I just want to – I'm sorry to pull back the curtain on anything that seems magical, but that was funny. And it is funny because there is always going to be a young kid at his shows because he's so great and appeals to all ages. But I loved I loved my favorite part was him admitting that he wanted to be recognized in rehab and that it was very important to him and that it was

very embarrassing for him not to be and that he left a paper out that said John Mulaney goes to rehab and he left it out. That kind of vulnerability when famous people admit that they like being famous and they like attention like i was embarrassed yesterday after i said that i was secretly hoping taylor would like put to take me up on stage or be like listen to your voice like that there was a part of me

but then i was like you know what like that's okay i was a little bit and then i saw john and i'm like him admitting that is just as embarrassing that he actually wanted people to recognize him and that when he said you know I'm John M he kind of waited for a pause break like that shit really made me happy that you know this guy that you just I attribute a lot of like he's just funny he just happens to be funny he's not in this for any other thing and he also admits that everything he does is he worries about what other people think about him constantly and chronically or at least he used to i would guess that he still does but um he apparently he said he used to and i like that admission because i think sometimes celebrities come off like i actually don't care what people think about me

and or comedians especially like i don't give a fuck fuck fuck if you don't care what people think about me. Or comedians especially. I don't give a fuck. Fuck if you don't like what I do. I've said this before. Any comedian who pretends to be confident like that. Or not care what people think. Or that they have high self-esteem. Is lying. And is not a trustworthy comedian. And you shouldn't like them. And you shouldn't trust what they have high self-esteem is lying and is not a trustworthy comedian.

And you shouldn't like them and you shouldn't trust what they have to say because they're, they're charlatans and they're acting. That's people, but it's absolutely. I think there are some people that genuinely don't care what other people think about them much. Comedians I think are,

and I'm not trying to be like toot our own horn. Cause this is not a toot toot. This is a a this is a shart in your pants this is embarrassing um that that we desperately want people to like us and i really liked that john mulaney the king of comedians the one that everyone wants to be and he's just he's the coolest guy he's friends with all the coolest people he's the coolest comic and arguably the best comic ever and he admits that he desperately wants everyone to like him and that was very soothing to my soul to see like kind of um someone that i look up to so much who i think is so much better than me admitting the thing that i'm essentially it's the same as me uh brian what was your favorite part um i'm this one line that made me laugh out loud for a long time was when he said people don't know

what to think about him i just i don't know why that line got me i started laughing for like 10 minutes after he said that i liked what he said um ask your uh if you don't know who i am ask your daughter or certain sons yeah non-athletic sons non-athletics are your son if he's not a non-athletic he was like certain sons love me like there's something about the word certain was really funny to me that's why i love joe millennia's those little like throwaway lines that you know quote unquote throwaway that are just these his word usage is just brilliant and um yeah i just learned so much from watching it like chris at one point stopped me and said, are you not enjoying this? Or, like, what's going on with you?

Because I wasn't laughing. And it wasn't because it wasn't funny. I was just observing the choices he made and how he, you know, it'd be the same as if, you know, the way Anya, you don't really, like, listen to music or, like, like new artists and stuff. You're not, like not loving music as much as people who don't play music because you're kind of being more... Studying. What are they doing? You're analyzing it. I'm analyzing more. But I did laugh a lot.

When I would let myself kind of get out of that brain, I had so much fun. I just think it was an important special because it showed this person that had everything, really didn't have it going on that well and was actually really struggling and i like how he's still there's still a part of me that feels like well it just shows how smart he was because he was able to be like a

untalented he was able to be like a fucking horrible addict yeah and really function perfectly and like go on talk shows and i thought his reading the gq interview he did was so funny and i will say that those questions that he the way he reads them is funny but if you were just to read that you wouldn't necessarily think that guy was high do you agree with me brian yeah um when he i mean obviously when he does it in that voice and then if you think about all he asked was what did you do today and then he go when they break it up he's not saying like and then what did you do he's just going oh like and so he's he's just he's just streamlining through all of that yes there wasn't pauses there probably in real life yeah the yeah he just keeps the the guy just and then even the

the the best part for me and i don't even know that he was saying it as a joke but the the reporter goes i'm gonna let you go like never has a reporter been like i'm good on time like usually you're like you you gotta go but the reporter's like well there's a lot here and i don't want to take up any more of your time. And then I won't ruin the last line, but it's fucking great too. It was such a good special. I recommend everyone watching it.

Whoever designed that set and the lighting was absolutely impeccable. I mean, it was a gorgeous theater, but the lighting work was so fucking amazing and mind-blowing and perfectly done. I was completely awestruck by that it was so perfect and i have someone that would definitely disagree with you really no dude i will go on who chris the green the green color everything there were so many different scenes and it was all yes i did like that the lighting changed but man that was a lot of the pausing for me and my guy

my guy works in production and so he was just at first he was like this lighting this he was like Nikki he was blown away and I was almost like easy I know I'll never be as good as John Mulaney's lighting like I was getting kind of offended and then it started to change

and man did I was like not happy but I was like okay i was even like easy we get it the the lighting is letting you down chris but it's very funny i would like to hear you two talk about that because he couldn't have had more of an opposite reaction but i agree it was um and the use of david burn what did you think of that matt was like and i was like this is genius so we had a little disagreement why is it genius to call your famous friend and say will you make a song for me because the song was so cool it was like like it wasn't words okay i loved he's such got such a

great voice i thought i think we just give too much credit to people for having famous friends and going hey this cool famous person will you do a thing for me and we all just go i can't believe it it's like of course david burn is gonna be it just made me wish we could have david burn and do our special thing it just made me feel good to hear it yeah okay i'll i'll i get that i just i think we give too much credit sometimes and i'll give all the credit to I mean he is a genius and and brilliant but sometimes things are cut where you're just like you just found the kissed you like you know like the you found the coolest person to do something and you just ask

them to do it and now you're yeah but maybe we should give credit he was okay okay I don't think so yeah I just thought it was like, we get it. You have famous friends. But also, if I was friends with David Byrne, I would do that in a heartbeat. So, you know, honestly, no judgment. I don't think people do bad work, though. And I thought it was like inventive and strange. Like, I didn't think, oh, this is David Byrne.

The second I heard it, I was like, this sounds like a Talking Heads song. This is such a cool song. What is this? And I'm like, oh, it is David Byrne. You didn't know? It said David Byrne gigantically.antically but then maybe that was what annoyed me a few seconds later it said that but when it started i'm like what is this cool song all right i'm just being a little bitch who's jealous that i don't have famous friends i thought him name checking some of the people at the intervention

was so cool i'm like i love that he's name checking some of these people yeah that was great and the pete davidson story and he's also still angry about the intervention which is palpable i mean he says he literally says that he's still angry about it but it was just it's great and he's one of the best comedians ever and the special just shows that and it just shows a new side to what he does and it's just so self-aware and honest and it's everything that comedy in my mind should be it's like articulate it's well put together it's thought out it is it's not

sloppy which I sometimes get to be sometimes when I'm trying to keep it too real it gets sloppy but there was not a sloppiness to it but it was still real it was everything I aspire to be so closing thoughts is like 10 out of 10 a plus plus plus doesn't get better than John Mulaney right now. And it was my funny above all.

He talked about that stuff while being funny. Yeah. The whole time there, I got like a 32nd moment where there was just set up and no funny. And I was like, yes, like finally he has a little exposition with no funny, but it was,

it was, it was so funny. There's just no, and the way he talks, he is who he is, and it was vulnerable, but not too much in a way that you're like, this is oversharing, and it was just perfect. So I really recommend everyone watch it, not that you're not already going to.

All right, thank you for listening to the show this week. We will be back next week. Don't you even think we won't? And this weekend, I'm going to be in Tucson and Vegas and then Europe. Tons of dates. And I hope to see all the besties there. We'll see you this weekend

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