The Nikki Glaser Podcast - #421 U2 At The Sphere, What Went Wrong?

Episode Date: March 7, 2024

Nikki and Brian went to see U2 at The Sphere and they have a whole lot to say about it.  Subscribe to Big Money Players Diamond on Apple Podcasts to get this episode ad-free, and get exclusive bonus content: https://apple.co/nikkiglaserpodcast  . 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 Brian’s Animations: youtube.com/@BrianFrange More Nikki: IG More Brian: IG More producer Noa: IG  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Yeah. Noah was off getting married, and we will do an in-depth look into that later on. That was so funny after that podcast where I was like, oh my God, you're getting married. That's so amazing. Then sidetracked, ADD, get off on other things, go to break to break come back keep talking about that thing then five minutes ten minutes after we finished the episode i was like what a jackass and i wrote to you being like i am so sorry we never got back to it like it does matter to me clearly uh not and i go please please name it an in-depth look at noah's uh noah's wedding because i want people to be aware that i'm aware that I'm not a good friend.

Some people were like, wait a minute. The title said in-depth look, but it didn't happen. That's people not getting my sense of humor in that moment. But that's okay because that's not always my sense of humor. So it's okay if you didn't get it that one time. And we don't usually do that jokey of titles. So that's why. It was unexpected.

That's totally normal for people to be like, okay, where is it? We will get to that. We have so much to discuss. We have the Super Bowl, which we went to. Brian, I haven't seen... No, we did the podcast together. I've seen you once since the Super Bowl. But we did talk about... I've been to Australia. I've been to LA.

Unreal. I've been in St. Louis. Where else? Sydney. Sydney. I've been all over. I've been all over. Melbourne and Sydney. And we're going to be in Pennsylvania and New York this weekend. That's correct. Thank you for reminding me.

Bensalem and Port Chester, New York. Saturday and Sunday, Brian Frangie, Nikki Glaser, live. So if you were in the Philadelphia area, which these little towns are outside of the big towns of Philly and New York City. So if you live around either of those towns, you gotta come out.

I've got some big names coming to the Port Chester show. I've got my dad and his partner, Vicky. I've got Allie's... His wife? It's his partner. They're not married. Oh, okay. Long-term partner. Domestic partner? Girlfriend? No, not domestic. Come on, make your dad

feel jazzy and young. Yeah, his girlfriend. His slut. His slut. Oh my god, sorry, Vicky. No, she's no slut. And then Allie's sister Elaine is going to be there with her husband and

two friends. And then Nikki, who you know well from my wedding, is Adam Steinman, who did that speech. I love that guy. He was so funny. Adam Steinman. Yeah, I really admired his speech and thought he was so funny. And the whole weekend, everyone was telling me what a nightmare this person was going to be.

He's the single one of your group that never found a wife. All the wives and all the husbands are like, where do you meet Steinman? He's unlovable. He'll always be single. He's a monster. Then I met him and he's like, maybe the coolest one out of all of them. I'm sorry, guys. I think you're just all married and miserable and you need to make Steinman's life just terrible in your eyes.

He's single. He doesn't have kids. What's wrong with him? I'm obviously joking, but it was like, why is this guy a bad? Why is he a monster? Why is he such a degenerate? Like, sorry, Adam, if you're hearing this, but that is what your friend said about you behind your back in a hot tub.

When they get relaxed and hot, that's what they're saying about you. But yeah, he was great. So that'll be great to see him. Yeah. I have no one coming. Well, I might have some friends. We'll see. What else?

Okay. So we, what I really want to tackle, let's just get into it. Yeah. This is it. Okay. When we were in Las Vegas, am I saying that correctly? Vegas. You're saying it. You're not saying it how you normally into it. Yeah, this is it. Okay, when we were in Las Vegas, am I saying that correctly? Vegas. You're saying it.

You're not saying it how you normally say it. I love when you say Vegas. Okay. So sexy. Las Vegas. Las Vegas, even though I think that is the wrong way to say it, but it's probably the right way. Las Vegas.

Two nights before, we did our podcast on a Thursdayursday and then on friday um or maybe no we came in on thursday we did our podcast friday morning and then friday night i was like i think it was on thursday i go wait well let's see what's at the sphere like is is what's going on at that sphere they built like obviously it's super bowl weekend it is the most busy weekend in las vegas so i was like there's no way there's going to be, if there's a show, it's sold out. U2 is there on the next night,

which is Friday night. And tickets are like 150 bucks for decent seats because there's not a bad seat in the house unless you're under a riser, which you got to look at. Have you studied the sphere since we went to the show? Because there was a controversy. The only controversy I can find or complaints about the sphere I can find, Brian,

are about the riser. If you sit under the riser, you can't see above it. You can't see the screen above it because what a shame it would be to miss all that action that's happening above that riser for one twentieth of the show. Yes. Okay, so we go. I get us four tickets to the sphere

red flag right there. $150 to see you two at the Sphere Super Bowl weekend. Are you kidding me? The night before? Why is that a red flag, Brian? Because- That's a really low price.

It should be a red flag, but why isn't it? Because, okay, I'll tell you, we're going to jump back to this and I'll say, why are they $150 if everyone talks about

how great this effing show is all the G-damn time? That's all I hear. That's a good point. Okay, so we go to the show. I am a cursory YouTube, like just a fine YouTube. C plus.

C. C minus, probably. I don't, they're not my favorite band. I have nothing against them. I saw them live at the Apollo with Sirius a couple years ago. It was an amazing show. The song, oh yeah, with your friend. You've got to get yourself together.

Oh yeah, that is a good song. It's one of my favorite songs of all time. Like it's on my top probably 40 songs of all time. So as long as I get that song, which of course I will, probably 40 songs of all time. So as long as I get that song, which of course I will, it's one of the biggest hits ever. Yeah.

I forgot that it was one of their songs. Yeah, because they have a lot of different sounds. They're one of those bands that you're like, that's a U2 song? Really? They change their sound around. So I'm psyched. We're going to the Sphere. We get in an Uber. So, I'm psyched. You know, we're going to the sphere. We get in an Uber. We're on the way over.

I pull up the set list because, yeah, I want to ruin the fun. I want to see when I'm getting my song. I want to see what I'm in for. Yeah. Spoiler alert for your own self. I can't find the song. Maybe it's a different title. I believed it was like, you've got to get yourself together.

Oh, wait. Stuck in a moment. And I'm like, maybe it's something else. It's believed it was like, you've got to get yourself to get stuck in a moment. And I'm like, maybe it's something else. It's nowhere stupid, like to be found. Yes. It's nowhere on the set list. I get remarkably sad.

Like I can't be in the conversation in the Uber anymore. Every come, everything that's happening that isn't talking about the fact that the song is not being played is bothering me like i am beside myself like i was really really sad because i i decided to that night i was gonna have a moment with that song because i i wanted to get stuck in a moment with that song the last time it played it was a it's about his friend committing suicide i have like suicidal thoughts i like i i just feel connected to that song it always gets me like whenever i'm feeling really depressed i put that on and i think about my friend writing a song like that for me it's i have like a lot of weird emotional attachment to

it so i was distraught when it wasn't being played and like it's such a dumb thing to get upset about but i like could not focus and i wanted every i wanted chris and everyone in the car to like i want not even you guys i everyone in the car to like, I want not even you guys. I just wanted Chris to like hold me because I was so upset. And he's just like, it'll still be a good show. Like, no,

who cares, babe. And, um, then we go, I got recognized in the line. Oh yeah. That's anything before the,

yeah, we get dropped off at a weird, but we walk over to the line. I wouldn't even privy to your struggles in the backseat. I don't remember what I was talking about, but I was on a different plane. I was looking at the drone show. I was having a conversation with the driver about

how Las Vegas has changed. Even though I selected silence car. I'm just kidding. No, I didn't. He was a nice guy. But yeah, on the line. Get on the line. I do want to say that I selected when we were in Australia, I selected comfort car. he was a nice guy but yeah on the line get on the line there's a long line i selected site like when we were in australia i selected comfort car and when when i put comfort car it's already put in like i don't want to talk like whatever that's because i checked it years ago because i always if

there's a preference i'll prefer that but it's also prefer cold like i don't care if the car is not cold i don't care if the driver talks to me but if i could choose yeah i kind of i'm always going to want to err on the side of like no talky um so i got in the car and with chris and the the guy goes oh and i see you selected um quiet car all right and i go oh i don't really care that was just a thing i selected like years ago it doesn't it's just a setting that's default i don't care you can talk to us and he goes okay so the ride's gonna to be. And I go, shh. And they're like really abrasively. As soon as he talked again.

And he did not get it. He was like, okay, I'm sorry. I was just like, no. Okay. So we get in line. An in-depth look at Nikki's Uber. Yeah. Yeah. I have so many.

So we get in line. And. The line is so long. It is wrapping around the entire block. It is going down the strip. It is wrapping around the entire block. It is going down the strip. It is going past the Luxor. Not really, but it's so long. And that's because the sphere

is poorly designed. There's one entrance into the sphere. There should be multiple entrances that you can go in and the entire sphere should be on the second floor. Like a stadium. You take it as a gate number it's insane nice is that yeah when you go to a stadium they go oh you're at the wrong gate and then you go to another gate and there's like no one there because

that's where because everyone's spread out they do it right so you're right it's one entrance we're going in the sphere and there is i see a guy in front of us go no that's not her it's not nikki glazer to his wife and then he looks at me like that he did say it like i swear to god he was like mad at her he was that's not nikki glazer and i go you idiot yeah and she was just like uh-huh and i go yes i am and i just kind of said it to him and i'm probably like eight feet away because he can't really hear me i go yes i am and then he kind of looks it to him and I'm probably like 8 feet away because he can't really hear me and I go yes I am and then he kind of looks and is like then she turns around and I go

yes I am and he goes oh I'm so sorry I'm sorry because he doesn't really understand what I'm communicating he's like sorry my wife thought you looked like this comedian we weren't talking about and I go I am her and he goes honey it's really funny that's not you I was like there's this comedian Nikki Glaser and i go i am her and he goes honey it's really funny that's not you i was

like she is there's this comedian nikki glazer i go i am she she is me and he goes he will not but like it's it's the only time i've ever felt like i can't believe someone doesn't believe who i am like i so i immediately reach into my fanny pack and pull out my id and i say yes i am it's a compliment he thinks you're so famous. There's no possible way it's actually you. I'd be at a different entrance. One of the many different entrances into the sphere. The secret entrance. Yeah, you're like a VIP entrance.

Yeah, you would think. And he freaks out. They're Howard fans, so they know me from Stern Show and he was freaking out and he was like, you just made our night. I'm like, no, the sphere is about to make our night. We're about to see the sphere. And he's like, I'm so excited. They were on, he said later he was on Molly and he apologized, but we like became friends because we waited in this long line together. But I just loved his, um, it was so incredulous. You are not

like, he was offended that I was even like trying to pose as her. Yeah. Like as a joke, there was no regret there after you settled that it was you, which I can understand is a fun thing to be able to do. There is no regret that now you have to talk to the stranger for the next probably 15 minutes.

The gift of being someone notable or noticeable is that you get to give the gift of like them getting to talk to what they see as a celebrity which to me when i to me even as me is the greatest gift i can receive is having a normal interaction with someone super famous and like being able to take away a story or like the way i look at them as a super famous someone i admire or like am a fan of so it's like that's the nice thing about being

being recognizable i think and i would feel that other people feel that way is that you get to give that gift all the time of people being like guess who we saw and they go who and they go nikki glaser and they go who is that and then they google it and they go her well that's not really a good picture of her wait a second i'll find one you don't remember her from this no sorry well she's really great we should pull something up oh this is offensive it's flagged um a good picture of her. Wait a second. I'll find one. You don't remember her from this? No, sorry. Well, she's really great. We should pull something up. Oh, this is offensive. It's flagged. That whole scuttlebutt. No, I'd probably go like this. I saw Nikki Glaser. No, you didn't. Yes, I did. There's no way that that was actually Nikki Glaser. And then I'm like, no, I have a picture of her ID. I should have posed with the ID. Yeah. That would have been fun.

But so we get into, so foreshadowing, I tell this guy, meeting me is not the greatest part of your night. What we're about to witness, we're at the fucking sphere. That's right. This is going to be the greatest show

because I don't, what are you, what are your thoughts going into the sphere show? Like, what are you expecting? How high are your expectations? Do they go all the way up to the ceiling I have a friend that went to the

yes they definitely went up to the ceiling and above you and all around I have a friend who went to the sphere in Vegas a few weeks ago but he saw the nature show oh and he said it was absolutely incredible and amazing

so I don't trust anyone anymore though neither do I I have severe trust issues severe trust issues I'm not even joking you I've been on this podcast before talking about movies I've seen that people are like this is the greatest comedy

of our generation and then I go and I have to leave the theater because I'm just so disappointed in America's taste but this I mean I can't of our generation and then I go and I have to leave the theater because I'm just so disappointed in America's taste. But this I mean, I can't you know everyone knows what's coming. Okay, but everyone does not agree

with us. Okay, so we are at the sphere show and not two fans necessarily but hyped for the sphere and I don't give a fuck. We could be seeing a live abortion on that screen. And I would still, like the whole screen could be it. And I would still be mesmerized.

Like, I'm not even joking you. Like they could have showed anything. Yeah. Here's what I expected going in. I just want to lay out my expectations. I didn't really care about them. I knew the sound would be amazing. I just, I wanted it to sound good.

I wanted to see them have a great show. It's not about you two though. This is about the sphere. I wanted to see screens that were incredible. I wanted to see what I wanted was at some point to feel like I was flying through something, not in a way that's going to make you sick, a gentle, just gentle moving through a city over a desert scape just some kind of movement i would have liked more like rain dripping down simple things simple imax sort of

things i was definitely terrified to feel any kind of like oh my god i'm on a roller coaster or sharks biting my face like i didn't want it to be in your face too much, but I wanted constant screen action. Yes. Not like a Universal Studios ride, but like an immersive experience, which is what this here is advertising. Just making me feel like I might have done mushrooms

because I did. Okay? That's what I wanted. But we get there and we're sitting in our seats and then there's a helicopter sound. I think that's the first thing that happened. And the seats vibrate.

Which is pretty cool. It's cool as hell. Underutilized throughout the whole show. The seats vibrate in such a way that I could have achieved orgasm if it would have lasted longer than seven minutes. It was like Sibian style seat shaking.

But it was cool. I thought, so then the helicopter comes and you see it at the very top. Sibian is pretty intense. I mean, I've never been on one, but I would. That thing will destroy you. I feel like the seats were not quite Sibian level. Well, it was like muted sibian it was like sibian with a tupperware container on top or something like that i mean i've seen some sibian videos where they get they're like gotta

go to the doctor to know what you're into i have to um well there's the one on uh howard stern remember when he makes it with his mouth? Oh, my God. He goes like... Into the microphone, and she's sitting on a subwoofer. Wow. It's pretty hot. Yeah, yeah.

So who knows if it really happened. It happened on air for sure, but who knows what she was really doing. Helicopter. Comes down. Seats are shaking. Whoa, that does feel like a helicopter. That looks like a helicopter. This is going to be cool.

I thought it would be so cool if they had them rappel down. It looked like they were rappelling down. Seats are shaking. Whoa, that does feel like a helicopter. That looks like a helicopter. This is going to be cool. I thought it would be so cool if they had them like rappel down. It looked like they were rappelling down like on and then they all they just appear at the bottom. That would have been cool. That's not what happened. The helicopter comes some. What was that? What was the helicopter's purpose?

I don't looking back for I don't fucking know, dude. It just flew away. Nothing made sense on this show. So then the concrete opens. Yes. And let me just tell you that both Chris and I verbalized to each other after the concrete slowly opens. And I was supposed to have Sean O'Brien on this podcast because he was making me laugh

at his defense of it because Sean O'Brien is the biggest U2 fan. I flew him to New York to go to that Apollo show with me like the day before. He's the biggest U2 fan I know. He's talked up the sphere to me so much. He told me what tickets to buy and everything. So he was jazzed. And he's like, this guy is really intense,

talks like this. And he's just like, oh, you gotta go. Oh, they're gonna blow your mind. They're gonna blow it. So he was so excited for me to go. After we're done, can we try calling him? Would it work? That's absolutely what I'm'm gonna do i'm gonna text him right now just to tell him i'm about to call you um in like a little bit thank you one second he really i mean he was cracking

this guy spoke up the he he talked up the sphere u2 show because he went and he saw it in vegas and he thought it was the best show he's ever seen. He was over the moon about it. And based on that recommendation, Nikki was like, well, we've got to go. This is apparently a life-changing event. And according to all of the reviews on the internet, the New York Times, places like that, everyone is equally as effusive about the U2 Sphere show. We got to go to break, but this is the problem. I have not looked at reviews you know the night it it it came out i was glued to my phone much as i am for the era's tour of like what is

this gonna be because the night it first happened no one had seen the sphere no one knew what the sphere could do and it looked awesome there's this part where all these numbers are coming and then the wall feels like it's coming down, right? Yeah, there's that part. You feel like the sphere is like falling on your head. Oh my god. Then there's a scene where there's like a flag burning in the desert and that looks kind of fucking cool. And then that's it.

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and there's like shining light coming through, and then all of a sudden, I forget even what happens because it was so non-monumental. Nonumental, but... Well, there was one cool scene where it was like Elvis and Vegas. No, that didn't happen yet. This is still the intro. I will give them credit

for that. The way you open a show is very important. It should be either the best part of the show or the second best part of the show without question. It has to be either of those two. That is how you plan a set. It should be the best part of the show. question it has to be either of those two that is how you plan a set that's how you it should be the best part of the show and by the way taylor swift eras it's the

best part of the show the for the opening where she appears but i don't even remember how they showed up they like walked out which is fine but there was no what they ambled on the stage we're here now we'll come out it was really just there wasn't a lot of pomp there was minimal circumstance but i turned to chris at the open after the opening after the after they get into the song and i'm like well that was it and i go i'm a little disappointed in what they've done so far and chris as a producer that he is, and he isn't wrong, he says, they're leaving something in the chamber. They've got more for us.

Because they're not going to blow their load too soon. He didn't use those words, but that was exactly what he meant. Right. Zipian hasn't reached its full capacity. It's on level one. So I was like, yeah, you're probably right. Then we go to, I think then at one point they do the number thing, right?

And the ceiling goes down and then the Elvis thing. Well, yeah, it's cool. At first I thought, this is cool. It's missing something. It's missing like a 3D. I think it was lights and smoke or something like that. Like there was a 3D, a 4D element that was missing in the whole production that wasn't making it entirely immersive to me.

But the first 15% of the show, I was like, if this is building to something especially, I am pretty satisfied with the use of the screen. I would make it 7% because we can stay the whole show. So I would make it even smaller. But I also think just the energy of the show starting gave some gave a little boost after elvis they do like a viva las vegas thing and there's like this crazy like elvis vegas vegas scene that's like it looks like a kaleidoscope yeah it looks like a lsd poster uh like a lava lamp-esque. If you stared at it all day, you wouldn't see everything that's

happening in it. There's like dancing ladies and then there's Elvis over here singing and then there's Elvis on a bed. There's a woman dancing over here and it's just like filled with stuff. It's really fun and it slowly moves down and it kind of almost repeats itself. But let me just say, they used the whole screen

all the way to the top, all the way to the bottom yeah and then after that we kind of abandon the screen they just say no more screen we just say you know what we're only going to use the bottom half of the screen and then it becomes like they put they'll they'll have like bubbles and then each youtube member will be in a bubble and it'll be kind of floating listlessly, not even around, like it just stays static, kind of wobbling. It turned into one hour

of Windows 95 screensavers. It's anything. And I told my friend, I was like, I would have preferred to see the DVD logo going back and forth and us cheering when it gets into the corner. Like it was,

it was, it got so, okay, so at one point, I bet Brian $100... Wait, was it $100? $20. I bought him $20 that the next song they would utilize the whole screen because they had to. Because it's been like an hour. It's been like an hour since the screen.

With no screen usage. I'm telling you, the screen goes... If you don't know the sphere, it's an egg. The sphere goes hundreds of feet up into the air. Let's say, I don't even know how tall it is. We probably should have done our research. I would say 150 feet up in the air.

And they're using probably half of it, two-thirds maybe. And to use the whole thing It's 366 feet tall 366 damn it i was so not close and 516 feet wide yeah and they are using a small percentage of that and i understand that screens are expensive to make these videos shooting these things are expensive to make it is i'm not kidding you it wouldn't be hard to have flying toasters, like Windows 95.

Flying toasters all over would have been interesting to watch during a whole song. Because you have a U2 song. You don't really need much more. It's U2 playing. They sound amazing. Do you think it has something to do with the band not wanting people to take their attention off

in band performance? You don't go to the sphere. That's right. You do not. You are a featured performer in the sphere's main act that's right you do not sign up for the sphere unless you use the sphere i am adamant about that and i think every artist should i think there's no artist that is bigger than the sphere every artist should like die to perform at the sphere because it's such a cool room that you can do so much cool

visual stuff with but if you think you're cooler than the sphere and you want to tone it down. Oh, my God. To go like you're playing at an outdoor music festival. And there's just like, there's nothing there. Like, it's just you and the band. No, it's not. It's that's not the place to do it. At one point, they go, we're okay.

I'm not even going to get to the balloon part because I want you to take that one. But one song song they're like and this is towards the end where I am losing my cool and I've already lost $20 because I bet that the next song would have the screen used all the way and it was not it just like showed a bunch of different words like flashing words around wasn't even that after you bet me the

$20 the next the next one was no screen at all and it was we could see the shadows of the lighting structures it was like it was, we could see the shadows of the lighting structures. It was like, it was like this, the on, no,

I wish I would have taken pictures. Cause there's no footage of this online because I don't know what's going on. Someone's protecting us from the truth about that. This is disappointing. And people are protecting themselves because people are going to the show and leaving saying it's good. And I don't understand it. There is like an $800 jacket you can buy of the show,

like at the merch day. Like people are- Wow. Because the thing is, if you invest a lot of money in something, you convince yourself you love it. But I will say if I would have paid over, if I would have paid $600 per ticket,

which I would have paid to go see this, even as the YouTube fan I am, because I thought it was going to be that cool. If I would have paid $600 a ticket, I would have 100% asked for my money back. I would have paid 600 a ticket i would have 100 asked for my money back i would have said this is this was so not worth it i know that i would have been wrong in doing that but i just feel like i was promised something by the general public's like excitement about this and whoever did the press for the sphere the sphere is cool there's no question

because obviously that nature documentary is awesome but is it is it brian because i don't know i have to go i can't find what all okay as soon as we get to i'm all documentary is awesome but is it is it brian because i don't know i have to go i can't find what all okay as soon as we get to i'm all over the place it's like what happened to those people who went to that willy wonka festival yes but instead they all agreed it sucked we were the only we left we're the only ones who left early and as soon as we're going home i typed i googled you to sphere disappointing reddit you know like that's how you find that's where you find it and all it was was people being like i was disappointed it wasn't longer like that's like it was like i was disappointed in my ticket pricing and i'm like can we talk about the

screens and then i've been running into people that have seen it and i go have you seen the u2 sphere and they're like amazing i ran into into the director of F boy Island who I love so much. Michael. Shay. Bass bender. Yeah. Michael Shay, who loves you, Brian. But we did.

We did some stuff for the new show coming out called lovers and liars. Oh, a spinoff of F boy Island where there's three guys looking. It doesn't matter. I don't even know if they've announced it, but it's there's a show coming out in april um they should announce it yes yeah i just found out bill dixon was like you don't know your show is coming out in april i was like no one told me but i did reshoots for that and i saw michael shea and he had seen you too and i go michael let's talk about it and i don't give away that i'm disappointed yet i go you too the sphere and he he goes, amazing.

And I go, wrong. And he's like someone I like really respect and love. And I was like, boo, it was bad. I go, Michael, no. And he's paid some big money because he went back in 2023 when it opened. And I said, Michael, what about the bugs? What about the insects?

The pixelated bugs that stayed on the screen for literally 25 minutes. Okay, Noah, this is what happens. They get lazy. At some point, they're phoning it in hard with the screens. And they decide to do a thing. Imagine you are looking. Imagine you are a light bulb, right? On like a big light.

Like there's a big light and you are inside the light. You're from the point of view of the light bulb. And you're like a blue light bulb, right? On like a big light. Like there's a big light and you are inside the light and you're from the point of view of the light bulb and you're like a blue light bulb, okay? And then there's a plastic cover right above your head and then all of these bugs are just like dying on you, okay? They're not even moving. They're just landing. You know, like when bugs like fall into a light

and they're just kind of like twitching? That is what we are looking at. And were they even clear bugs, were pixelated they were blurry yes and they weren't even moving they were twitching it was like someone's and they were twitching in a rhythm that wasn't even original so it was like they were twitching every two seconds so it was like on repeat it was the cheapest bullshit i've ever seen so then but they kept adding them so more bugs would appear until it filled up the whole screen. And all the screen was bugs except a couple pierces of blue light coming through.

And then that was the end of the show. That was their curtain, not curtain call, but there was the like, goodbye, everyone. Then they go backstage and they left it on during the, you know, in between the encore and the end of the show. And we're just looking at a screen filled with twitching bugs. It is so unimpressive. If someone turned it in as their final art project at a community college in Delaware, they would be-

Oh, no. Sorry, Delaware. I just picked a state that I don't ever remember exists. They would receive an F. It was awful. No one could argue. if you are a defender of the sphere slide into my dms and engage with me in a fight about the bug scene because the bugs were there in the fall i asked michael shea about them the bugs aren't a new addition you have to

if you loved the sphere answer for the bugs because the bugs was such an insulting thing to do to us much was delaware f and don't you dare talk to me don't you dare tell me about what about Nikki what about when they pull back the sphere and they show you the Las Vegas strip oh yeah if you are if as if the sphere isn't there so Noah we're all facing one direction in the sphere right and so they're like we're gonna show you what it would be like if the sphere wasn't here and I'm like I'm dying to live in a world where the sphere isn't here so then they pull back the sphere like they're opening the sphere to show us first of all las vegas during it's kind of like the daytime and it's obviously nighttime when we're at the show so it doesn't even like make you feel like you're really pulling it back

and it's very obviously like animated again they're like the cars are all uniform going like and they're showing you something that you can clearly see from anywhere in l it's not they're not giving you a view that is interesting you saw it on the drive in it's like show us a different city show us anywhere show us space show us the stars show us. Simple, simple ideas just floating through a galaxy, dude. That would have been cool to do space. Just floating through stars with amazing constellations moving in and out. One of those things that show you how small the Earth is in comparison to the rest of the universe. Thank you.

It just keeps zooming out. Yes. Amazing idea. I could come up with so many, but that was so insulting. The bug thing was disgusting disgusting them floating around in bubbles even if they lazily just had bono full screen just bono's huge body even if you wanted to make it about him screen show him full screen i would have gladly taken that that would have looked so cool to have a gigantic bono none of that it I'm so upset because our friend Roland, he

went to see that in 2023. He paid a lot of money. Everyone is, they are all gaslit, dude. They're all gaslit. It's hard. It's hard to go against the grain. The only person that you could find that says anything bad about it is... Pat McAfee.

Yeah. I'll be free anytime after. Oh, he's not free right now. I'm just going gonna read some of sean o'brien's text messages though because this is what was making me laugh so hard i was literally crying texting him about it okay so this is prior to it right he's texting me all the i go where's the best place to sit for you too he goes oh my god this is a steal. October pricing. Insane. He shows me the seat I got is 183 bucks tonight when he went 827 bucks. Oh my. He paid 827 bucks?

Probably. No. But he's the biggest fan. I mean, I don't. That's how much I get it. That also I don't understand. I mean. Oh, I do.

But yes, that's a lot. And they pay to go to Vegas, by the way, and stay there for this. Yes. There's, that's a lot. And they pay to go to Vegas by the way. And stay there. Yes. There's also that element. Yes. Yes. You're so right.

It's at tack on another 1200 at least. Okay. Probably more. He says, so excited for you guys. This will be amazing. I love you both to me and Chris. He sends a picture.

Now he sends the picture that everyone quotes the one with all the numbers, all like the binary code That's the one we've all seen where the ceiling falls It looks really cool It is cool but is it as cool as it could be No it's just numbers It's literally 80s It looks like you're watching the beginning of

Some Total Recall or whatever I don't know some 80s movie Yes the Matrix He said did you end up getting your section 309 for your seats i said 310 row 7 he goes yes can't wait to hear what you think you'll love it i said i know i will how long is it he says they go on at 8 36 and we'll be off around 10 45 i said i love this specificity i says does anything happen okay this is another part i go does anything because it says doors are 7 30 i go does anything happen until 8 36 and he writes back yes dj paul ed drives around in a car and plays 80s and 90s music it's fine

but you're not missing much if you're if you don't want to see it i said are you serious about dj paul ed i thought it was i just was like he left it sit there and he goes as long as you're in your seats by 8 20 all is good i said are you serious about dj polly he said yes i know it sounds like it's bullshit but it's real and i go that doesn't say that he opens what a gig for him he said exactly i we don't know what who d dj polly d is connected to to get this gig but now i understand you too at the sphere if you were just throwing darts at a board of random celebrities and the funniest one you could ever hit would be dj polly d i even said to chris and to brian i go guess who's opening guess pick the most insane person you can think of to open for you too and you won't even get close I said Bill Cosby okay that was pretty good

okay okay this is me in the car riding him alright so this is me quietly in the car Friday February 9th 9.55pm which is 7.55 I am devastated that they don't play Stuck in a Moment I'm legit about to cry

this is while you're like while this building over here you're talking about las vegas architecture yeah he writes i promise you it'll be great he goes i know it's a top five song for me but you'll recognize a bunch of stuff i said i'm fucking sad what a mistake he says he says i promise you it'll be great the screen is the key you'll love it that's important he said the screen is the key yes gas lit yes abuse abuse victim yes i said okay i'll get over my disappointment on abuse he says he says it's tricky they have literally 50 plus hits but they close strong visuals are bananas okay i would have texted me visuals

being bananas would have been great if there was bananas that were literally bananas would have been great yes the visuals were not bananas unless there were bananas on the screen they were bugs what did roland say roland by the way famously falls asleep at every single show i bet for this one he did he has narcolepsy and he falls asleep in every single show. I bet for this one he did. He has narcolepsy. And he falls asleep in the... Roland has hookups where he gets... He's friends with like every famous person known to mankind. He's probably like Bruce Springsteen's child's godson, godfather. Roland falls asleep like in front row at like Kiss concerts.

Like he will... He is... And he's been called out before and like thrown out of shows. He has narcolepsy. It's so funny. He he's adorable what did he say noah okay so he goes um it was not pixelated it's and then he goes it's not the greatest hits show it's the act act on baby album with a few hits it's amazing the screen it's insane and no it's not pixelated he thinks we're coming at him he thinks we're coming at him about the music yes i was upset about suck in a moment some people have complaints about the set list that i found online later on when i've searched every synonym

for disappointment i found other complaints about the show but they're all about the set list yeah i'm talking about the screen rolling rolling rolling's off he's he is commenting on things that other people are saying about the set list which is not my complaint he just i want to i want to come at him for the sean o'brien okay okay i want to come at him for the music because i think i think you two maybe sucks i think it's maybe the most overrated band in history oh what's pat mcafee pat mcafee i well pat it was pat mcafeeee's sidekick who said that. But I think they're maybe the most overrated band in the history of bands. I don't understand it at all.

There's a few songs that I like. But for the most part, they're repetitive. They're uninteresting. And I have never, on purpose, put on a U2 song to listen to. I have. I've put on Stuck in a Moment and moment and maybe stuck in a moment i forgot that that was one of theirs the sweetest thing i used to like that song i don't put that on anymore but i still will play stuck in a moment i won't give up on that song but you have the same opinion as

um the guy from the pat mcafee show yeah and i I love Pat McAfee. So he said this on Thursday. Or no, sorry, on Friday. This was like, they saw the Thursday night show. We saw the Friday night show. They were at Vegas. We watched them do this. Yeah, we didn't realize it was them talking about it. We didn't see this conversation, but this is what we went.

We were live there watching them talk about this, but we really couldn't hear them. He says, listen, I don't want to offend anybody. His last name is Schmidt. I don't know his first name. Listen, I don't want to offend anybody. His last name is Schmidt. I don't know his first name. Listen, I don't want to offend anybody. That's not what we're trying to do. We're not trying to offend people and get people upset when we've got the Super Bowl in two days.

But I got to be honest with you. I thought I was just a U2 fan going into last night's show just because you get swept up in the pomp and circumstance of everything. And I thought it was really cool. But I realized pretty quick, I'm not a U2 guy. In fact, I'd go as far as to say U2 sucks. That's so funny. But then he goes on to say the sphere is incredible oh ty schmidt is his name um he concurred that they both concurred that the orb venue was phenomenal and that the sphere is the

show no it's not that is where i'm feeling a disconnect with people. So I wrote to Sean. I said, this is Saturday, February 10th, 1243 a.m. So we are at dinner afterwards. We are leaving the sphere. We went to the noodle barn. We went to the noodle shop at the wherever we're staying

MGM Grand and I said, dude, I'm not joking you. We are so disappointed. i can't believe how little they use the screens and they didn't do anything cool with them there was literally one moment where it was kind of cool we left early i'm so sorry to report this he goes no with like probably 12 exclamation marks fuck me i'm sorry you're not wrong that this you're not wrong that the screens took a dip in the middle, but I thought, but I thought that the screen game was strong.

The first seven to eight songs and the last eight songs were my favorite part of the screen. Fuck. I'm sorry, buddy. I'm brainwashed by this band. And so, and everything that,

and so everything they do, it turns to gold for me. I take full responsibility as I shot it to the moon. However, I'll check with my YouTube. However, I'll check with my YouTube group. However, I'll check with my YouTube group and make sure nothing was off. I'll go scorched earth. I'll go scorched earth if there were tech problems.

I'm really sorry. His YouTube group, by the way, are just people online in facebook groups who like youtube too he's gonna go check with his youtube group and i said i said i said sean it's crazy i can only remember two good screens he said the last five songs are when the screens go we got the peek in when they went berserk they were not going berserk there is a flag burning in a desert and some doves fly in your face they're not going berserk i said okay well we left after the desert scene i said we left two songs before the end and we all agree there was nothing they could have done to redeem themselves which is true we said there's no i don't care what

they do in those last two moments. We stayed for, we were there for 30 songs and nothing good happened besides. He goes, bummer. And then they think they're going to save us by burning a flag. Are you kidding me? He says, bummer, but I understand. The last four songs, I thought the screen was

magnificent, but they definitely had some dips in the middle. The acoustic part was dumb. No need for any of that. So sorry for my overhyped reaction. i hope you got to enjoy some of the show i said dude they didn't do shit with the screens for like 20 songs i said this was inexcusable just bugs twitching and i sent a picture of the bugs which i will i have to post on our instagram so people can see i'm so glad i took a photo of it he says i'm looking into it now they had a tech issue about a month ago and the show got compromised. No, I'll get to the bottom of this.

He goes, okay, something went wrong. I don't even know. I don't even know or recognize that pick. And I said, this was okay, but not good enough. And it was like a bunch of like, it looks like there's just like a smattering of like pink cum all over the screen. And he goes, what about this? And he sends the numbers. Then he says the Elvis. Then he says, sends the doves at the doves at the end i said okay yes i saw the first two but that third

one i think we left too soon for but in between that second photo and the third photo was legit nothing good he says for like almost two hours he says i get it i just have such a passion for that band that i can't think clearly everything they do i go bonkers for ah shit i'm really sorry nick i wish you had a better time but i'm glad you got to see him next time we're out for lunch next time we're out lunch and dinner on me i oversold it this is on me i said no we loved hating it i said you weren't the one who sold me on it i would have gone anyway he said did chris hate it as well i said yes we we all did and we are all having a blast trashing it we are howling laughing at these texts from you

thinking you owe me lunch and dinner for because of bono's mediocrity he says fuck fuck fuck it's painful but it's got to be done in fact you know fuck it i'm done you two can go to pound sand they fucked my friends so guess what they are fucking out cold play you're back i'm jumping back in the pool we don't we don't have something. We don't need this aggravation. Bono fucked us. And now he's going to pay. Hell yeah. He said,

I hope that's fucking sphere burns to the ground. Fucking horse shit. Knock off ice. It's crap. He said, they fucked you. He said, which fucked me on my recommendation.

There will be a two year ban. No, you do and i mean it if you two is in st louis and third eye blind is also there you two can pass in the wind and i'll go support the blind guys he says love you nikki i'll pick a winner next time big hugs damn it made me laugh so fucking hard his passion for this band and like he had to go check with and he follows up again he's like there weren't technical issues they have resolved them i want to know we got to talk about will you talk about the um balloon oh yeah oh because this let

me just say what i said to sean i'm so sorry i said sean we all agree that you need to answer for the balloon song all right we know you saw. Please tell us how you defend that and how you defend in the and how. Please tell us how you defend that and how you defended it in the moment that night. You cannot forget the balloon moment where he is walking aimlessly around the stage, holding a balloon, asking the audience where his keys are, and then going to a door and knocking and no one's inside. And we will talk about the balloon moment, which Brian has a lot of thoughts on when we come back up for this.

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I mean, yeah, we gotta spread the word. Someone's gotta agree with us. We can't get to that yet. That was a success. That's not interesting. I think the worst part of the show to be honest is Bono because he does a lot of pandering during the show at one point

he starts talking everything he says is like some weird phrase from like a inspirational Instagram post that means nothing to anybody and you can interpret it however you want so like there's one time when he's leading up to a song and he's talking about how you uh no one can take away your freedom he

does like the speech from uh braveheart basically and he says no one could and i can see that there's people in the audience who view that no one could take away your freedom thing from the right side by saying like oh yeah no one's gonna take away our guns and then there's people who view it from the left side who are like oh yeah no one's gonna take away our freedom thing from the right side by saying like, oh yeah, no one's going to take away our guns. And then there's people who view it from the left side who are like, oh yeah, no one's going to take away our right to have abortions. But he never takes a lane. He says stuff like that that means nothing to...

He's not taking a side either way ever. Right. And then at one point he starts complaining about how expensive the hotel rooms are in Vegas. That was fucking wild. During the Super Bowl weekend, as if he has bought a hotel room in the last hundred years. He's making a point about capitalism.

And I think he said, maybe he was even saying, we know how much you spent to be here, giving some kind of nod to that. It might've been that, but he says, even we know the hotel rooms were so expensive something about the to allude to the fact that he is on orbits checking comparing and trying to save

he's trying to relate to the public oh i know how expensive the hotel rooms must have been being super bowl weekend and is that so annoying, but he said that he was even... I like that because you can still be privileged and acknowledge how expensive things are for people who can't afford stuff. He said he was looking for a hotel room for his band. That was my problem.

What was that, Noah? Isn't he also part of the problem because U2 is also there that weekend? No, no one gives a shit about that that weekend. That weekend is all about the Super Bowl. It was definitely, yeah, I've never been somewhere where everything is about one

thing more than like, it felt like Lollapalooza. It was awesome. It reminded me of going to like a music festival. For football though. It was a festival for football. I loved it. But yeah, he was like, I went on Expedia.com and tried to find a hotel and it was $400?

What about his thing about science and art? Everything he said was bullshit. It was so vague. At one point, he started rambling. He was rambling the entire time. At one point, he thanked Steve Jobs out of nowhere.

I missed that. He was just like, I want to thank Malala. I want to thank all of the immigrants. All of the refs. And Steve Jobs. It was very like... It felt like he wasn't the most lucid. No.

And it all came to a head during the balloon thing. It didn't feel like he had a mental condition or he was on anything. It felt like this is what happens when you are a god so cool yeah like when your brain turns to mush no one has been correcting you or telling you that's lame or that makes no sense for probably and you wear sunglasses inside like this is a sunglasses inside mind that's right and it all came to a head during the balloon when he's a good person though like he was talking about AIDS again and stuff. And I think he's done a lot of good work.

Like, I think ultimately, I think he's just, his brain is mushed because he's too famous. That's probably right. But what he says, they're frivolous phrases that mean nothing. Yeah. But they see, dumb people think he's taking a stand and representing them. And that's America now, baby. It's just like, everyone's scared to take a stand.

So you just, the smart people, which he could be smart. He could be just towing that middle line. He could be an evil genius. Yes. Elegantly. But I don't know.

I think he just, I think he thinks he's smarter than he is a little bit. But I really wasn't, couldn't really hear what he was saying most of the time. But that balloon thing where he, so there's a song where he has a balloon there's a they drop down a big rope from the ceiling from the very highest point 300 feet up they drop a rope and we're like what the fuck is this gonna do is he gonna do acrobatics that would be cool katie or uh pink perform on this road like is he gonna spin around i thought of the i thought there's no way that was going to happen.

Chris said something to me about he's going to attach himself to him. I'm like, no, he's an old man. That's not going to happen. But I thought something cool could happen. But instead, a balloon appears on the screen. And not like a real balloon which would have been cool, like a photo graphic looking balloon. It almost looks like there's an actual balloon in the room.

It was a cartoon drawn, obviously really crude drawn balloon. Like a kid drew it. Like a kid drew it, yes. And then this rope is attached to it and then he walks around a little stage that is probably 20 feet by 20 feet and he walks the perimeter of the stage and then on the stage, the real graphics

start to show up and there's a sidewalk that starts to move, like an animated sidewalk that looks like a treadmill almost. And he's walking walking so it looks like he's walking more than he is and that's where they chose to really spend the money on the graphics was a little slice of sidewalk on the stage while we're watching a balloon that someone drew with their left hand in the dark on a chalkboard and an old it's the ugliest thing. And then he's singing about. I don't even know what the song was about. But then he talks in between the verses.

And what was he saying? He's just holding the rope by the way. The rope is useless. It's just I'm holding a rope now. And apparently Brian. They've reworked that song. So many times. Because I went into some YouTube subreddits.

And was like reading about people's interpretive because people think YouTube YouTube fans are fucking insane. Like I know Swifties can be really insane sometimes too and I guess every Stan culture has them but people that think everything they do is some incredible

you know piece of art. And that's why he is the way he is. And so they were really analyzing that and trying to just pull any meeting out of this just dry sponge. And it's so funny because it keeps changing and there's no rhyme or reason.

At first he's looking for the balloon No, it's like he had Alzheimer's. No, like the iteration we saw. I'm talking about earlier ones. People said that it was like his daughter's balloon or it was a little girl came on stage and it was her balloon.

Like, they tried different things with this balloon bullshit. Yeah. And the one we saw, he had lost his keys. Right. He's walking around town holding a balloon, trying to find his home and saying he can't find his keys. And then he walks up to a door that's not his and rings the doorbell and no one answers. And we're supposed to take that as anything other than he's got dementia.

That is exactly what dementia people do. Yeah, because then the image on the screen is like a zoom, like you're looking at a camera on your front porch. A fisheye lens. Fisheye lens, which was cool in the 90s. To have a big image of someone being like, whoa, looking in. It was so bad.

I can't find my keys. I guess this isn't my house. Sean said, they just keep fucking with it. I said, what about the balloon thing? Are you two fans talking about it? First of all, he said, here's the problem. It was on the edge. His wife was in on it.

The edge is the star player right yeah yeah it was so i asked about the balloon thing from him he goes well the good news is i missed it because the band just got over covid so they didn't do it so he did they had just gotten over code so they didn't do the balloon thing he said oh wait that was about something else he goes those motherfuckers i thought they dropped that bit he's so mad to hear it's still in the thing he goes here's the problem it was the edge his wife was in on it bono wanted no part of part of this hopscotch nonsense he was literally doing hopscotch holding this rope where are my keys but he didn't want to offend the edge's wife well fuck man here we go

let's just prance around with this nonsensical balloon and and next bring out a seesaw it was a fucking abhorrent but i gave him a pass to keep the wife happy but to bring it back this is repugnant and i need to rethink this band all together fucking next year the drummer is gonna start jumping rope during a guitar solo i'll tweet at some people he goes i'll tweet at some people and do some damage control so he's gonna ask around he said okay here's what i found out they just keep fucking with it meaning the balloon song the second for the second show a girl was swinging from the rope and fell out oh my god he says the whole thing is fucked i can't believe they brought it back wow i just nothing when he was so apologetic about it being bad i was like

sean i don't think there's any more joy i think hating it has brought me so much more joy than loving it like as i really wish i could have loved it i wanted to have an experience that was why we did it but like coming out of it i just do i do feel so removed from my fellow man though that i can't find one person echoing the same sentiments but thank god us four we're all together because chris and i can kind of get up the same mind sometimes you know i think couples can do that when you watch something and you can just like get into each other's heads about it. But thank God it was four of us who had all the same experience.

You and Allie were mostly talking and then me and Chris. It wasn't until the end of the show after we left that we were all like, what the fuck was that? We weren't feeding each other throughout it except when I bet you $20. No, Allie hated it.

I couldn't wait to leave. I was hoping we would leave early but I didn't want to insult you because you $20. No, Allie hated it. I couldn't wait to leave. I was hoping we would leave early, but I didn't want to insult you because you bought tickets. No, no. I'm all for a leave early. And that was, although I did not leave early for the first time ever

at my 10th Taylor Swift concert, which I attended in Melbourne. Final thought. I went to see Taylor Swift three more times, twice in Melbourne. Once in Sydney. Wow to see Taylor Swift three more times. Twice in Melbourne. Once in Sydney. I thought it was only two.

Yeah, it was going to be two. But then our friends had tickets to one of the Melbourne shows. And then I had tickets to the other one. And we were all going to go together to one of them. And then when I found out they had tickets to a separate... I thought we both had tickets on the same night. So I was like, oh yeah, we'll use whoever tickets are better and sell the others or give them to our friends. But then I found out that they had tickets for the same night so i was like oh yeah we'll use whoever tickets are better and sell the others or give them to our friends but then i found out that they had tickets for a

different night and they were like we'll just go one night and i go i'm sorry like i can't have a chance to go see her i like i have to use i'll buy those like i'm going both nights so i we went both nights i went both nights um so did my friend um back uh um she went with me both nights one night i went with her and her boyfriend and his sister and another night we went with all her friends we had amazing seats it was so good and um and for the 11th and 10th and 11th show of my um eras tour going you know seeing the show i stayed for the whole show i've never stayed until the very end because i'm scared of like mass exoduses oh yeah i just you know like noah we even left and i kind of like karma i like i like leaving and dancing to karma as i leave but i've never been in my seat and like waving at her when she goes away and like when she introduces when she

says thank you to the band and everyone so it was really fun to say to the end and it wasn't bad getting out at all i was scared of nothing but well it's australia i did leave on the 12th show uh early because there was an uber situation we had to attend to but um i left during mastermind if swifties are listening um and that is the time that you you only need to leave during mastermind you're gonna miss karma but like you will save yourself hours if you leave during those but i also understand if you don't want to, um, they were amazing. Uh,

they were just, she was in the best mood. My girl is in love. I have not seen her since she's been like very, very in love. And like people who are in love are just happier, you know, like they're just going to be doing like,

she, she puts on the best, like I would never, it's not remarkably noticeable in any way, but she's just like killing would never it's not remarkably noticeable in any way but she's just like killing it she's so amazing and i also this weekend was doing the sound mixing for this is a segment i was doing the sound mixing for my special and i saw like a reputation poster on the wall and then oh wow like taylor swift's been here right and they're like oh yeah she was here for

eras and i was like you did sound mixing for eras he was like i was like, Taylor Swift's been here, right? And they're like, oh yeah, she was here for Eras. And I was like, you did sound mixing for Eras? He was like, I was like, you did? And my sound mixer, Brian, was like, yeah, I did. And I was like, oh my God, tell me everything.

And of course, he has to sign an NDA so he couldn't tell me anything. But I was just like, where was she sitting? Can I just sit there? And he was like, right there.

And so I moved to that chair and I was like, here. And everyone in the room was kind of like, chill out. But I was like, I couldn't, the chairs move around a lot in there so I couldn't be sure it was like right there and so i moved to that chair and i was like here and everyone in the room was kind of like chill out but i was like i couldn't the chairs move around a lot in there so i couldn't be sure it was the right chair but it was definitely the right like thing i was like leaning on and he just said that she was you know he said whatever is true about her which is like she just knows what she wants and she's so professional and she's just the pro and then i asked him um which he has no right to tell me probably but um i asked him

on um you know on the secret songs the surprise songs which are the ones she does acoustically just with her piano just with her uh guitar there's no backing vocals i said did you add a little song to those like you know for i would expect if it were me for my concert film i would maybe redo the vocals on that if i thought any of the vocals weren't top tip top shape and he goes not a thing fucking straight up her voice little thing that's my girl i fucking knew it she's the best and she does you know some pretty um intensely vocal songs for those two songs it's just so amazing i'm just like so I was so in awe, but it was so cool to be in like the same space as where she was going to be.

And just update for our besties. Do you have a name for your special? Oh, but I don't think I can say it yet. No, no, you don't have to say it. Oh yeah.

Oh, I have, I've landed on a name. Yes. And it was, it came from, I've told you, right? Yeah. Brian, you know it. I it i don't think i don't think i do um i don't know if you remember the name of the song beautiful day

um it should be called stuck in a moment because um no it's uh it's yeah i like the name it's um okay yeah now so now i know the name of the's, yeah, someone else came up with it, though. The name of the song, is that even a, that's a surprise, too, the song itself? Yeah, I wrote a song for the end of it, but. Not a surprise. I don't mean to make it, I'm not going to make it a surprise. So the name of that song. I mean, I think it'll be a surprise to most people.

I'm not like, it's not clear, like even the sound editor, Chris, at one point was like, you know, this is Nicki singing. And he was like, what? Really? Yeah, that's the goal. That's what I want. That was my experience. And I think that's a good goal for people not to even realize it's yours. Yeah.

That's what I want. I want people to like Shazam it and be like, what is this song? And be like, wait, this is Nikki. Like I didn't want it to be like, and then here's Nikki song.

But yes, it is the end of my special. There's a song that I wrote and I'm super excited about it. And it's the name of the special and yeah I'm finally totally done with the special in the can delivered signed sealed delivered yes

yeah that must feel good and that is coming out within some months and you'll all be able to see it and the besties will know it's my song but that's that's okay but I think the normal viewer will just be like what is this song um what else oh um noah got married you're gonna save my wedding for the last three minutes of the show we're really gonna get into we're gonna get into it right now no uh i just want to acknowledge it

but we will get into it um We have a lot actually to get into on the next couple episodes. I was trying to think of what I wanted to share from today. I'm purging my apartment. That's been fun. I'm just getting rid of so many things. Look behind you. I don't see anything. Is that because you're zoomed in?

If you looked in front of me, you would see so much shit. There's my bed bed frame i got a king-size bed that's been fun to sleep on oh you get a new mattress yes i did get a new mattress and i'm happy with it i'm it's like fine what is it it's a strava strava i've never heard of that yeah amya just told me her sister liked it and that she bought one and liked it so i was like okay boom done for me mattress gate is over i have found my mattress finally what is it it is simply a beauty rest a beauty rest black and i realized this when i was at hotels for a while and i was like you know what I think I just need a regular mattress that people use. And hotels are just like

a mattress for everybody. It doesn't matter. You're going to like it enough. There's no special cooling technology or foam stuff. I went through so many mattresses. I went through several Tempur-Pedics. I went through a Helix. I went through a Latex. I feel like men do this.

They overanalyze products before they purchase them and they have to try them all. through a helix i went through latex like i feel like men do this they over they over analyze products before they purchase them and they have to try them all research and they have to like yes there's so much research and there's so much like i'm gonna chris will buy like like for us to go to a grammy party he spent five thousand dollars on clothes just to try them all on at home because he didn't really have a lot of time but he likes, he'll spend a ton of money just like, let's just get everything and see what we like to make sure we have the best thing. And that's how he found me.

What is this? For my wife too. I went on all those dates trying to figure out. You did. Do you do this with other products? Do you research and research and research? Or do you just like wing it sometimes? The reason why the mattress became such an issue was because I would sleep on the bed. It would make me me feel like shit and so then it became a thing i would do a bunch of research but is your whole life you felt you slept like shit what have you always been

in pursuit no why did it just start if you recall the first ever mattress i got in la is when i moved to here i moved here for not safe and i didn't have a mattress for a while. And then I did the production card for, for perfect for your, your end card. And I did Chris's end card. Okay. And he gave me $500. Uh huh.

And with that money, I purchased a, some mattress off Craigslist. And that was my mattress for like six years. And it worked for you. Worked fine. And it was when you gave that one up that you started to have the issues?

I gave that one up and then I got another mattress that was like king coil and it was fine. Other reasons why I got a new mattress. But I got a new mattress and I started to have issues. But I tried to start to figure it out. But the beauty rest black beauty. Yeah, the black beauty.

The beauty rest black, it's amazing. It's just exactly what I want in a mattress. And what's great about it is that many hotels have beauty rest. So if I go to a hotel and I sleep there. You'll sleep peacefully. That's right. There's no adjustment. There's no adjustment period.

Whereas if I had like a Tempur-Pedic or a latex and I was used to that, and then I go to a hotel and I sleep in a regular mattress, it would probably take me two nights. I don't think I'm the sensitive. Noah, are you the sensitive to different mattresses? Would you go somewhere? I'm not as sensitive as Brian, but he does have a point because I have the Tempur-pedic and every hotel mattress that I've been on is inferior to it. It sucks. Yeah.

Yeah, it's just a little harder to enjoy it. Yeah. Okay. The beauty rest is amazing i know that it's like the most standard plain mattress you can but it's also black and so i think that's pretty cool that it's like it really is black it really is black and i love that and it's a poster like a couch they get such stains on them yeah so disgusting oh yeah i have this new pillow case that I have that's black and that thing is probably disgusting looking, but you would not know. I love black clothing.

I love... Yeah. Chris, this weekend, we were shopping somewhere and he was like, there was some white thing that he wanted me to get that was so cute. And I go, no. Babe, it's white. We both know that's not for my spray tan life and my makeup. It just doesn't.

Noah, do you wear, can you wear white things? You wear lots of makeup. Okay, so for our wedding, I'll tell you the quick story. We just wanted to have outfits because we were going to dinner and stuff. We haven't really bought nice clothes because of the pandemic. So I told Avi, I'm like, just get light stuff because we're the bride and groom and it'll just be easier that way. And he was freaking out.

He's like, I'm going to get this stained. I'm spending so much money on this shirt. It's just going to get stained. I'm like, who cares? Get a Tide pen. Yeah,

I have laundry detergent at home. We have bleach. Oh my God, Noah, can you stop blabbing about your wedding? It's getting really tiresome. we were going to talk about the U2 sphere on this episode, and it's like Noah just had to have her moment in the spotlight.

We get it. She grabbed that balloon rope and took it. Once a bride, always a bride. You're not a bride anymore, Noah. Yeah. We will get into Noah's wedding next week on the show, as well as many other things. Thank you for listening. Come see us this weekend in Philadelphia

in Bensalem. Bensalem. And then in Port Chester, New York, which is close to Pelham. What? Close to Pelham, New York. It's upstate. Pelham has an airport, right? That I don't know. I don't know either.

But I hope that I don't fly there on an Air Max 7 or 8. Because I read a report and now I'm scared. Even though I'm not someone who's ever scared of flying, I read something that made me scared of flying. But I'm not going to let it scare me because the odds of that happening are really slim. And if I do die in a plane crash, I'll be okay. It'll be fast.

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