The Nikki Glaser Podcast - #424 What Did Comedians Do Without Podcasts?, Bad Neighbors & Limerence vs Manifestation

Episode Date: March 21, 2024

Nikki ropes Julie into the show for good reason. Imagine if podcasts didn't exist? What would comedians do? Noa and Brian try to explain the new bill that would ban TikTok. Julie thought she was an Enneagram 3 all week when she is really a 1. Nikki tells an anecdote about her dad not finding his favorite dish on a menu. Julie breaks it to Nikki that her dad is about to upset the whole neighborhood. Nikki is on a mission to get her parents in shape and has been shopping around town for a new gym. They talk about the difference between limerence and manifestation. Nikki loves to perform at the Hard Rock, but Brian doesn't because his gambling problem might be affecting his heart health. In the Final Thought, Nikki explains why she is loving life lately. 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: IGSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Here's Nikki. Hello, here I am. Welcome to the show. It's the Nikki Glaser Podcast. Here's Nikki. Hello, here I am. Welcome to the show. It's the Nikki Glaser Podcast. I'm here in St. Louis in studio with my mama. Hi. Hi. Oh my God.

Thanks for having me back again. I love having you on. Oh my God. It's fun to hang. You're so sweet. Podcasts are hangs, you know? It's really fun. Yeah, it's good.

You're good at it. You're chill. You're not trying anymore. I'm not trying because you get what you get. You get what you get. I just don't know what to say about that. That's refreshing to people when you don't put on any kind of artifice. I don't even know how to do that anymore.

Yeah. I've seen you put it on. You can put it on. No, I really don't. I don't get nervous anymore. It's so great. I've knocked it out of you. Thank you.

Because you used to get nervous and go, what am I going to say? You stopped the self-doubt thing of like, no one wants to hear me. And I always just say, well, do we just trust me that I'm not doing this out of charity? No, you've said that. And I'm so grateful because you're like, do not question if I didn't think you were any good. Yeah, I want to make things that are listenable. And if you held me back in any way and made me talk differently,

I wouldn't like it for my listeners. Well, thanks for- But I feel more free. This is great. This is just great. Okay, so mom's here. Things are going great over here. Brian Frangie's here.

Noah's here. What's up, guys? How are you? Podcasts, supporting comedians' mental health since 2016. Without podcasts, there are so many comedian friends who would not know anything about each other or hang out ever. What did comedians do before podcasts? They got drunk at the bar after shows. But other than that, there were no hangs.

Yeah. There were hangs. Well, I've talked to actually some comedians about this. Not during the day. There were hangs after shows. Comedians don't hang out anymore. I guess in New York, they're still doing it. But in LA, there's not really that many hangs happening.

And if there are, they only talk. We don't talk about jokes, which I've never liked really talking about jokes ever since I was like five years into comedy. I've just been like, let's stop doing this. And you give them away, right? No, no, no, that's not, no one's stealing jokes. That's not a thing. You worry about that kind of stuff. I kind of do.

Yeah, my mom hides jewelry because, and forgets where she even hides it. She's like a squirrel. Don't give her secrets. Do you know that squirrels, half the nuts they hide, they don't remember where they put them? Is that right? Yeah, I have found them in my garage.

Yeah, that's it. When you're looking for your jewels. Did I put my jewelry in the garage? Weird. Yeah. But now, they're not talking about jokes anymore. They're not talking about,

they're just talking about algorithms. And I just can't take it. Or views or this guy's getting this. I mean, we've always been complaining about who's getting what and why aren't we getting it. What a curse on humanity. But yes, the views and the algo. Social media. It's just a curse.

We've been cursed. A thing I heard that on TikTok, because I was talking to someone who knows their way around this stuff. Yeah. If you have like a video that you've clipped, that you've made for TikTok, right? And you're like, I'm going to put this on TikTok. It behooves you and the algorithm to then use the TikTok editing software within it. Make your clip a little bit longer.

Because TikTok will know if you used its software to edit and it likes videos that you are using the app to edit as opposed to using something else to edit. So put on a little extra time when you're editing the clip outside of TikTok, take it off within the TikTok app

so that TikTok thinks, oh, they made this in here and then they'll give it more views. And companies do this thing where everyone within a social media company that works for one, you know, will, when they post for a client,

they'll tell all of their employees, Hey, comment on this post. Because if it gets lots, if it gets lots of comments in the first 20 minutes, it will double the amount of views it gets. Fuck TikTok. I can't wait. I hope it gets banned. comments in the first 20 minutes, it will double the amount of views it gets. Fuck TikTok. I can't wait.

I hope it gets banned. Isn't it getting banned? I disagree with Trump on this. I don't know anything about the ban. I don't even know how to get on TikTok. Congress passed a ban to ban TikTok. Congress passed a bill to ban TikTok in America. To ban the company that owns it.

Because of Chinese. Yeah, exactly. They're stealing your information. What about that it's melting people's brains and making young girls kill themselves by the hundreds? No one gives a shit about that. It's all about China.

I think it's that every day. No, it's that too. It's because they trace all of the steps that you take on your phone and they start studying people and then it influences them. What about Instagram? Are they not stealing data?

We can all trust Zuck. He's fine. He's an American. He's an American. He's a white-blooded American male and we can trust him. I thought they were banning TikTok because I'm so naive.

I thought it was because they are concerned about people's mental health. No. No, they're not. No one is. The Chinese are getting your information.

That's when I believed that Ikea was cutting their costs because they cared about the consumer. Congress was upset that Matt Reif blew up so much, and so they said, we have to do something about this. Why is this an issue now? Wasn't this the big issue when it first came out? Everyone was like, the Chinese, and then we were like, it's fine. We don't care. It's too entertaining.

Well, it's legally perilous to say that a company must divest uh the government forcing a company to divest but the argument is that the bite dance which owns tiktok is going to sell all of or give all of americans data to the chinese government upon request because they can't say no because they're a chinese company under the brutal chinese regime and they're going to use that information to spread propaganda and influence elections. Don't they already have all the data they've gotten so far? Like, even if we banned it right now, it just means not more data. It doesn't mean they have to give back the data

they've already collected, right? Don't they have enough? They'd be like, yeah, we're good. We're full. So far, they said that they're not giving up any data to the government. But, you know, that's what they say. But, I mean, like, if we banned it right now

and then the Chinese sold the company, they would still have it. Like, I don't have TikTok, so like, they would still want my information. I know,

but they're not going to get it. You're not going on anytime soon. Like, I feel like everyone who's on TikTok is on it, except young kids will keep being on it.

I'm not on it. Yeah, I'm not on it. Oh, right, the young kids. That's what it is. New customers.

Doesn't everyone know the world is ending in like 20 years anyway? So who cares how it all goes down? Would you not quit saying it? Because I'm not going to quit. I just think it's so insane that anyone thinks things are going to be okay. There's hope. Where? You just have to have that hope.

It's like faith. You just have to have that hope it's like faith you just have to have so blind blind hope with no science behind it except all the science is really just people have always thought that though like for so that's what many years but i go someone's got to be right at some point and also you know like someone will be. We're not going to be around forever. But things are seem really. I mean, I haven't been around when people said it before, but it doesn't seem. Well, we don't have winters anymore, everyone. Yeah, but that's fine.

It's incredibly narcissistic to think that we're the ones that are going to experience the apocalypse. You know, like, why are we so special? Someone's going to be right. It's probably not going to be us. It's probably going to be a few generations from now. We might have like, oh no, it's a little hot in New York in October. We're already there.

It is hot in October. We're going to be uncomfortable, but that's not the apocalypse. All right. All right. I just know that my building did not have hot water last week and I got a little taste of what's to come the whole building? yeah for a couple days

and I was just like what would this be like you mean everyone doesn't have their own water heater in this building? are you being facetious? no I'm being serious that sounds crazy that one big tank is taking I guess so something was going on with it so we didn't have hot water,

which I did not care about. I was very understanding about things happen. How'd you deal with it? I just didn't take a shower. No shower. Yeah, and I just... You didn't do sink shower? I did a little of that,

but I think it was only... You didn't boil water? Maybe it was just one day, because it was... Yeah, I just didn't care. I was just going to be stinky for one day. And I've discovered this new deodorant that makes you truly odorless.

It's natural. It's called Purely Great. Chris discovered it. Wow. Purely Great. It's in a little jar. You can get it on Amazon. Purely Great.

It's charcoal. And it comes with a ladle. And you have to put the ladle in. And you stir it. And then you put it on your armpit. And then you have to rub it in with your fingers. But I'm not joking you. It doesn't stain your clothes.

Odorless. You don't stink for like two days. I don't trust that. Wow. I don't trust the charcoal trend. I don't get why. You trying to ban it? I would think that Biden should ban charcoal.

There's like charcoal soap now. There's charcoal shampoo. Yeah, toothpaste. Why all of a sudden are we like, oh, charcoal's safe for you? It's black. I don't trust that. Is it real charcoal like from the grill or is it something else well it's better than aluminum which has been proven to cause cancer in your armpits like it's yes well we just haven't done the studies we haven't done

this aluminum is natural it's a periodic element well i was talking to someone this weekend about smoking weed and how we used to just smoke it out of pens and pipes. Sugar-free Red Bull cans. And you would just light aluminum on fire and then breathe in. Or a Bic pen. Just light it on fire and then breathe in.

Even during COVID, I was smoking... No, but there's plastic. Do you think anyone should burn plastic and then inhale it deeply? It's just so insane. No, but there's plastic. Do you think anyone should burn plastic and then inhale it? No. Deeply? No. It's just so insane that we did this. Definitively, she says no.

And then over- I mean, no. Over COVID, I was smoking out of this rubber pipe that I got from Amazon because life was going great for me. Oh, yeah. I remember those rubber pipes. You know the green one? That green one. Yeah.

Don't use that if you ever find it in your house. Okay. Because I left it there, but it is- I don't know where it's coming from. in your house okay because i left it there but it is i don't know that's rubber you're burning plastic yeah and you're breathing but i got it because i was like i'm just tired of breaking things oh and i just you could it could tip over and i'm just a clumsy person so things are always shattering but um yeah i just got like but i i've told the story before but i smoked weed with someone out of a sugar-free red bull can on the road okay and yeah i i late eight years later this person is a comedian that i ran i ran into later and i was like oh my god remember when we smoked weed out of a red bull can remember

you showed me that trick i was like that is so crazy we did that we were inhaling aluminum he goes i still do oh i have one with me tonight he goes um and i go oh he goes, I still do. I have one with me tonight. And I go, oh. He goes, actually, I can't not smoke weed without a Red Bull can. It's the only way. And I go, well, you're addicted to aluminum now. He's like, I get headaches if I don't smoke it out of aluminum. He didn't say that. But I'm like, the fact that he's eight years later an adult man.

I thought you were going to say he came down with something very serious. I mean, he probably will eventually. You can't be smoking. You can't be lighting aluminum on fire and breathing in it. That's just insane. I didn't even know about that, to be honest. What do you mean? It's not that you didn't know. You know. You just didn't think. No, I don't know about aluminum. You would

think that lighting aluminum on fire and breathing in that would be good. I just never thought about it, to be honest. But that's what I'm saying. You know that breathing. You would say, would you have kids go hang out by an aluminum burning? No, I would not. Downwind from that? That would be toxic.

Thought about the aluminum part of the whole thing. What about the Illuminati? Julie would be great in a deposition. She is taking these questions. I don't know anything about that. No, never heard of Illuminati. I played the fifth on this. I really never thought about it. I don't think I knew it, but I thought it. I don't know anything about that. No, never heard of aluminum. I played the fifth on this. I really never thought about it.

I don't think I knew it, but I thought it. I never even thought that I thought it. That's why it's humorous is that we were doing this without thinking at all. Still thinking.

And if you think about it even a little bit, it's horrifying. Even lighting glass on fire or a glass pipe. I can taste this already. What? Aluminum in my mouth

just thinking about it. Well, you're a one. What? Remember? An e-gram one? I'm just saying that you're a one. That does nothing to do with anything. Oh, that's right. No, I'm a three. No, I was a three. I am a three. You're a one. I'm a one? Yeah.

I thought I was a three. I was looking at the results. I'm going, I told you, this isn't me. Right. One. You're a one. I thought I was a three. I was looking at the results. I'm going, this is, I told you, this isn't me. Right. One. You're a one. I thought I was a three. Yeah.

For the last two weeks, Julie's been going around acting like a three. I've been acting like a three. Well, I've been mad. I'm like, that's not me. Just like a one. Because you ones want things to be right and correct. It's this and it's this. It's black and white. This is wrong and this is right.

And another thing about ones, don't get mad because you can't, even though I know one's going to get mad at this. You can't admit you're wrong. It's really impossible for you to admit that you have made an error at some point. And when you do, when you are faced with it, where it's like very obvious where you're in a car accident and like let's say you were texting so it's like obvious to you that you did something wrong what am i gonna do i'm gonna try fucking handle it you go into a depression so if you've in your life whenever you've been really sad it's and this is me talking i've read like one one infographic about you. So this is me.

Just I don't know what I'm talking about, really. But I think that ones when they are faced with actually having done something wrong and there's proof behind it and they can't deny it. Yeah. Can't, you know, avoid it. They they really suffer. OK. Because to them, they want to be perfect. OK.

It for me, what's important for threes is- I feel like that's not me either. Well, see, this is you being a one. That's not me. See, even- That can't be true. I'm never wrong. When was the last time you were wrong?

I've been wrong a lot. Okay, let's name one. I might have done something. Even today, I was talking wrong a lot. Okay, let's name one. I might have done something. Even today, I was talking to your dad. We were taking a walk, and he said something, and I was like, because usually we argue the whole way. Our neighbors must think we are- Falling apart.

Falling apart. Yeah. Because we're kind of arguing every step of the way. About what? Just about everything. He just says something and it's bugging me. Well, Dad, the other night.

Poor Dad. We just like to go on this podcast. No, I said he better not listen because he's going to get hurt. No, the other night we went out to dinner and Dad could not find his dish on the menu.

This restaurant, they changed restaurants. Like they changed locations. They got a new menu. And my dad's like, did you guys get new menus? And the guy's like, yes, there's a redesign of the menu, but it's all the same stuff. It's what the man said, but it was in maybe.

No, I think it was true. He just didn't really speak English. And they raised their prices, trust me. Oh, well, we do. No one was questioning that. Whenever we go to dinner, I'm just like, Mom. She goes, well, this, $17.99 for that. And I go, I'm buying.

Don't look at prices. It doesn't matter. Get what you want. Don't. But you can't help yourself. I can't help myself. I got to look at prices. But Dad was like, couldn't find his dish on the menu.

And the waiter came over and we had already been looking for 15 minutes dad can't even be involved in conversation because he is so desperately trying to find this thing he's like i know it had snap peas and i go let's try to like say what you remember did it have rice on the side or was the were there noodles in it because that's like a that's an easy way to distinguish where on the menu it would be when he's like uh it was rice on the side. So then we go to that section. I'm like, pretty much, dad, you can make anything you want here.

Just say the vegetables you want, say the meat you want, say the kind of sauce, and boom, you got it. But he was very angry that he couldn't find it. And then the waiter came over after 15 minutes of him already looking and not finding it. And I'm just like, we got to go. So I ordered, you ordered, and then it gets to dad. And dad's like, well, I'm looking for this thing.

And then we go, well, you're just going to have to come up with something else. And dad goes, hold on, I'm going to find it. He keeps looking for it. And I was just like, we got to go, dad. What number is he? We got to give him the test. Oh, well, I sent you the test the other night because I wanted you to do it. We just haven't gotten to it.

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Oh, dad is an environmentalist. Yeah. And he's very conscious of like, this guy's just leaving his car running. Oh, God. That's a big. If you ever leave your car running and you're just sitting in your car and it's running i just want you to know that somewhere my dad has a pain in his neck because you are doing that he like can sense it he's very he's gonna he's gonna say something to me for sure

and he might give a little grimace to the person in the car he'll say something i feel like most dads are like pro leave the feel like most dads are like pro leave the car running. Most dads are like, you gotta warm it up. You can't just start it and drive. Oh boy, no, no, no, no. Don't you dare try to warm that car up before you get in. No, that is just burning fossil fuels.

And as a kid, one of my earliest memories is dad saying, if you leave a lamp on, just picture a smokestack pouring pollution into the air because you left that lamp on. Otherwise there would be no lamp on just picture a smokestack pouring pollution into the air because you left that lamp on otherwise there would be no smoke coming out of that smokestack because you were too lazy to go over and switch off that thing a bird is now going to fly through the smoke and start coughing and crying and right die and that's your fault but that's like my yeah and that's my fault but that's this is our neighborhood walk because everyone in our neighborhood lives in a McMansion but us.

Because they're all knocked down houses, but ours didn't get knocked down. And they all have perfect lawns. I mean, because they get spray on them. Yeah. And dad can't handle it. Oh, he went. The runoff to the streams. Well, he did go.

He ordered flyers to go on the doors. Wait, what? Wow. Ordered flyers to go on everybody's door. So, I mean- Wait, wait, he's going to go flyer the neighborhood? He was going to do that. They're still sitting in his drawer.

Doesn't, the thing is, he doesn't understand that that just makes people want to put more on Miracle-Gro down. We would be lambasted in the neighborhood. What about the sign dad wants to get? Can we talk? Brian, I don't think you can handle this. Noah, I know you can. I don't think anyone can.

I can't handle this. And I am quite a little like, I want to stir shit up. Right. Passive aggressively. I love a passive aggressive. I'm calling you out bumper sticker that like lights people up when they know they're being called out, but that you're not exactly saying it to them. I'm a little passive aggressive bitch. He wants to put up a sign that says, happy St. Patrick's Day.

I want you to guess what my dad wants to put up a sign about. And we're not going to get political beyond this, but you know where my dad stands politically from this conversation. What do you think my dad wants to put on a sign what is the most uh inflammatory thing you could possibly write on a sign and let me just say that in my neighborhood there was a house of trump voters that put up um in you know four years ago banner across their huge banner that said what did it say it's no more bullshit oh yeah oh yeah that was so the neighborhood is okay with profanity on signs and like an that said, what did it say? It said, no more bullshit. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. That was one, too.

So the neighborhood is okay with profanity on signs and uncomfortable words on signs. So what do you think my dad wants to get if it said Trump is blank? A. Blank, blank. What do you think my dad wants to put up? A sign in his front yard that says Trump is a blank. Raging homosexual.

Well, you got the right word right. You got the first two letters right. Raging lunatic? Rapist. Oh, rapist. Trump is a rapist. He wants to have that in our front yard. And he's adamant about it, you guys. Do you want the house to get burned down? Do you guys want to be a

tear down? No, because you'll be like you'll have a McMansion. Exactly. I know. I'm like, you cannot do that. It's so incendiary. It would be better if he took that sign and put it on other people's lawns. Yeah. I mean, the flyers are. It's not going to prove.

Yeah, they would know who we put that there. I really like it. When dad told me that he wanted to do that, he's not going to, but it made me feel like dad takes after me a little bit like dad's learned something if i would say go ahead he'd be oh thank god he would order it's so insane i can't even believe it he's anti trump right he's i'm not letting him celebrating this he wants people to know he wants everyone to know this is terrific you can you can do what you want um so that's i couldn't even dad i asked for dad's trump thought of the day like i used to a couple weeks ago don't ask anymore and he had he told me that and i couldn't post it on my stories because i was like i don't want to get you will be flagged yeah for some for

something this is this is too scary to me but But dad's insane. We're not doing it. We can't do it. No, you're not going to. You absolutely cannot do that. I care for my home. I care for your safety. I care for those jewels that are hidden that you'll never find even after you burn down. Yeah, I might find them. So

the best thing happened to me this morning ever. and i think everyone can agree that this is the greatest when this happens so yes i i'm trying out new like workouts around my area because now i'm fit and i feel like i can finally like enter into places where there's classes because now i can like not be the worst one in there wow so I signed up for this place near me. I'm not going to say the name of it. I probably will at some point, but I was going, I signed up for an 8 a.m. class, which who made that decision?

Go girl, get up and get going. There's something in me that when I make a plan to go to a workout class later in the week, it's, I'm like, it's because it's most likely I'll go. There's an 80% chance I'll go. So it's i'm like it's because i it's most likely i'll go there's an 80 chance i'll go so it means i've done it there's like an achievement in setting setting the calendar to do it okay so i did that i woke up at seven ate breakfast really bleary-eyed i'm like i don't even have time to get coffee by the time i was ready to go i was like i'm just going down i went down uh it's within walking of my building so i walk in at 7 59 boom ready to go I'm new it's my first time here and she was like oh then you got an email telling you you need to come like 20 minutes

early to learn the equipment and I go oh I'm so sorry I do know that I need to do that why didn't I think of that I'm so sorry and I go and she goes oh well maybe we can I go you should I should probably come back another time right and she was like yeah oh and so i didn't have to work out because even though i would have and you showed up so it's not like you made them go in for you and then you didn't you were a no show yes and so she and she was really kind and was like and i won't charge you for this one because i bought three sessions for 50 bucks oh that I have to do within two weeks period. Whoa. Good deal.

Yeah. You bet you are. She said, well, we won't take that class off here. She was like, you're good. We'll throw it back on. I was like, that is so nice. So I triumphantly didn't have to go to a class that I thought I would have to go to. But what is it?

It's like Pilates, but like hard. Oh, it's a class where, but like hard. Oh. It's a class where it's like, well, let me tell you, I went to another class last night because I am experimenting. I went to my first Orange Theory. Oh. Oh, yeah. Brian, have you been?

No, never to Orange Theory, but- Do you know about it? Yeah. Isn't the theory that he's a rapist? Isn't your dad putting a sign on his lawn? That's my dad's lunch theory. That is really good, Brian. Yeah, that's his theory.

I did not know much about this class. I walk by it all the time because there's one near my apartment. And I see people coming in and out and looking really triumphant. And there's like a camaraderie I sense going on in there. So I, you know, I just was like, I signed up for it and I went last night and I got there early enough to like learn the basics. They were so nice. They, so what you do is you put an armband on and it does your heart rate. And then throughout the class, you're on a screen with a bunch of other people and their their heart rates are up, and their calories, and their percentage of energy that is... You're trying to get in this zone, the orange zone, which is why it's orange theory.

Now there's also a red zone. You always want to be- You don't want to be in the red zone. The red zone is when you're... No, you want to be in it a little bit, but then you want to go back down to the orange. It's too much exertion, red zone? No, red zone is good. It's like when you're doing sprints, but then you want to go back down to the orange. It's too much exertion. Red zone. No, red zone is good.

It's like when you're doing sprints, but you shouldn't stay there. Your heart's racing. And where you're going to burn fat based on their theory is like in the orange zone where you've recovered. You're recovering out of the red zone, but you're not totally like just limp. You know, like you're still giving effort. We all know this like interval training and stuff. So maybe we don't all know this, but sure. Three out of four of us know this.

But it's so fucking confusing. Orange Theory, I went there in time, but it was just, there's too much going on. But I will say that if you are someone who is looking for community, is looking for friends, is looking to have enthusiasm in their life and goal setting and mild competitiveness with like a flirty theater camp vibe.

Orange Theory is for you. If you went to theater camp and you don't do theater anymore, but you miss that dorky camaraderie that you got from doing theater i'm it is so which i loved i love that part of theater you're saying i was a dork like i'm a dork now being a swifty is kind of being a dork like just being obsessed with something and like having the secret language like you're a dork and i mean that lovingly wow but orange theory is for

people trying to seek that out. Like in a lot of group workout or like some kind of like gym stuff. I know it happens in jujitsu and I feel like it probably happens in CrossFit a lot. Yes, it felt like CrossFit to me. I don't know anything about CrossFit but it felt like that's the closest I felt to it of this like group of people

who all kind of knew each other. There was like a challenge yesterday to do the mile run who could do it the fastest and everyone was supportive but like there was a kind of a competition going on between two guys that i could see that i would thought was very interesting um and then background but there was a lot of like go go go and support and like if i was someone who lacked friends and felt like that I spent too much time alone and I didn't have a community, I would 100% be so into Orange Theory. Wait a minute.

Are you on a treadmill trying to? So it's treadmill, it's floor weights, and it's rowing machine. So you just jump from one to the other and they kind of instruct you as you go what to do and you run around. My problem is I, i sorry i have been training with pilates with an instructor who are like some of the best instructors in the world they've trained all over the world to come back to st louis to open the premier pilates gym um and it is um and i forget the name of it now why do i always forget what it's called pilates lab sorry

i know they're listening pilates lab is they don't give me a discount this is not a paid advertisement but pilates lab is like they're they do classical pilates so it is like the way joseph pilates designed it and my body is being studied constantly if i'm doing a rep of anything it's like okay well you need to suck in your abs now your your big toe put your big toe down like can you imagine a workout where people are assessing your pinky toe is not in the place it should be when you're doing an arm workout? This is the level of precision and detail that I'm learning in Pilates. So I go

over to Orange Theory, and they're like, now do a plank push-up, but then you do a plank on one of the ground, and then you take a weight, and you do like this while you're in the plank. And my hips are flying everywhere and my shoulder's popping out of the socket.

I have horrible form. My butt's right up in the air. I'm piking. There's no plank. And no one's going to say, hey, you're bad form. You're just on your own. It's better than nothing. It's certainly better to have bad form and to do the exercise than

to do nothing. But I cannot be held better to have bad form and to do the exercise than to do nothing. But I cannot be held accountable to have good form. And that is why I'm sending my mom to personal training three times a week. I just got her, my dad and her, a gym membership yesterday for a year. Happy birthday. Thank you, Nikki. And dad's- Personal trainer today.

And I'm getting my mom a personal trainer three times a week because I want her to, as you get to be an elderly woman, you need to have muscle or you're going to die. I know. Your bones are deteriorating. Yes. So you need muscle. So my mom's going to go to a trainer, and she keeps saying, can't I just go a couple times,

and they teach me the ropes, and I go, no. Because you won't stick to it. Your form will suck. I will, though. I don't want you wasting money. You'll won't stick to it your form will suck I will though I don't want you wasting money you'll stick to it you'll do the exercises but your form will be bad

unless you have someone watching you I just know it I do need to know how to do this Brian do you agree like how do you you work out on your own

and I know that most people can't afford what I'm talking about and I'm so grateful that I'm able to have someone monitoring my body every second

but what do you have trouble keeping good form when you're doing your stuff? How do you stay up with it? Well, I just want to say, if wasting money is the concern, then think about all the money that'll be wasted

when you need to get one of those chairs installed on your staircase that automatically goes up. Thank you, Brian. Or someone to help you bring the groceries in. Or a toilet next to my bed. I don't know. Totally.

That's going to be a decade of saved money if you just work out. I do know that. And Nikki is so sweet. I always say to her, she goes, it's too much money. And I go,

I would pay, I would give up 90% of my income if it meant you were going to live 10 more years. Is that the sweetest thing? I would. But who wouldn't do that for their mom

to keep their mom around if they like their mom? I don't know. You're good on the podcast. That means something. But I would. I know. It's over the top, sweet.

It's not even.9%. I would definitely, without a doubt, I would definitely give up $500 to keep my mom alive for 10 years. No, I mean, like, I would. If I could still survive comfortably, I would give up all my money to save my parents,

to have my parents around 10 more years. And that is what having them do strength exercises will do. Well, I'm really excited because I need some upper body strength for sure. I'm really. But this doesn't mean you should be lifting anything. I don't want you to get. I still want you to hire people to lift things for you. That's another thing.

I need to do a bit. I can't move heavy furniture. I need to get you a gift certificate to Craigslist for men to just come over and pick up things for you. That could save you a bunch of money. Nikki, I can do it. I'm not paying that guy 50 bucks to come over here and hang this. I can do this. Brian, how do you keep form on when you do your Tom Brady workouts? Well, I worked at a gym when I was in high school and I went to see personal trainers sometimes. So I feel like I can't,

obviously it's not like Pilates, but I feel like I'm pretty good at looking in the mirror and assessing my own form as I go. Yeah, you probably are. Yeah. But it's obviously it's not perfect. And even if you know what your correct form is, it doesn't necessarily mean you're doing it right.

Well, I felt now Instagram serving up all of these reels of girls with amazing asses teaching me how to do the Russian squat or whatever it is to get the best butt because there's like so many different muscles in your butt and to get the ones that lift your butt you have to do these really weird

exercises where you put one foot up and then you I don't even understand it but they all criticize each other about like the form and the form and they go look at this form this is not right now this is the right form and I you don't get involved with those people I could never tell the difference between

these two things not kidding and it's so counterintuitive yeah there are people who don't even agree on what the right form is yeah they can't agree on it there's girls everywhere and I think the right form is. Yeah, they can't agree on it. There's girls everywhere. And I think the right form is filling out a form at a med spa where you get things injected into your ass to make it that big. Or sucked out.

Or sucked out of your stomach and then put it in your butt. Not everyone's doing it, but it just would never occur to me that some of the stuff just, you just have to tense your whole body all the time. My God. That's painful. I've talked about it enough. I'm just, and I have, yeah. No, but I'm so excited.

It's my life right now. I'm so excited about going today. Yeah. But if you want community, join Orange Theory. Okay. I did run a 739 mile, which I was really proud of because I haven't run it forever. It's not bad. Was that more than everyone?

Really good. No, there was. Was that more than everyone? No, there was a guy that ran like a 620 something. A 7 what? 739. Whoa. Yeah. And there was, oh, shout out to the girl who's an instructor there that was like helping me throughout the whole class and telling me what to do because I could not understand what the next step was.

And then I started going rogue and doing my own thing. So they wanted me to go back to the rower, but I was like, the rower doesn't make sense to me. I have bad form. I know I do. I'm never going to get this. So I'm just going to stay on the treadmill and do my own thing.

And then at the end we were all stretching and I just didn't feel like being on the ground. It just looked, felt dirty to me. So I just left early and, um, and they did say, we're going to all get a picture afterwards.

And so I ducked out of that picture. They wanted, there was a part of me that did want to be get a picture afterwards. And so I ducked out of that picture. They wanted. There was a part of me that did want to be in the picture. Oh, yeah. I mean, what good is that picture? It's no good. But it's what it does is it makes people feel like they're a part of something. We just accomplished this thing.

Like when you go into the class, you high five the guy on the way. Do they do it every class? I don't know. It was a special day. They were like, you came on a special day. No, no, no, no, no. Oh, OK. They did. I was it Nikki Glaser in the house? They were like, you came on a special day. No, no, no. No, no, no. Oh, okay.

I saw them take a picture in the class before mine. Oh, okay. No, it wasn't that. Okay. It's like a sticker that you get at the end. Yeah, it's really- Like an achievement sticker. Little star.

It does feel good when you look up and you see all your stats, but I gotta say, I kind of know what calories are and how you burn them and how much you're burning. Right, how much effort. Their numbers are a little wonky. It's kind of like a skinny mirror. Are they on the low end? No, they're trying to make you feel like you do more. You burned 1,200 calories by taking our class.

Yeah, I saw a couple people in the class before me burn like 800 calories and I go, no, were they here for three hours? Oh, wow. Non-stop? I call BS on that. But I do- It's still a good workout.

It was fun. Will I be back? No. Because I don't- I always wondered if you'd go there because it's so cool. Well, I don't think I'll be back because i just felt too sloppy in my in my own workout i did i felt like i'm gonna get injured but i think it would be good for someone it would be good for i just know too much now and that's no disrespect to anyone who's going i think it

actually is a really fun thing to do we got pilates snob coming i know her theory is just a little too laissez-faire for me. It is. Because I just can't be trusted. I have bad posture. I've got really flexible joints. Things are just willy-nilly. I've got no ass. And if you try to make me work my ass,

every other muscle in my body will start working before that ass. Wow. Like, I don't even know what my ass muscle feels like. Like, I don't even know how to clench it. It's so. When you do a squat, you can't feel your butt. I feel,

I feel like the sides of my butt, but that inner up the, up the rear butt part. Like now I can feel it because I've done. Pilates. Yeah. But before I had no fucking clue. And yeah,

it's just like, I'm not really in touch with my feelings and my body. Gotcha. Like that's why i was going to this somatic therapist lady for a while to be like how does that feel in your body and i'd go i don't know what people feel things in their body when they're angry where oh yeah where do you what do you feel when you're like feeling angry do you feel it oh you no one's pointing to her solar plexus that's where i I feel mine too. What? And then I get a rush in my face. Are you kidding? And a rush in your face. So when you get angry,

I think that's where it all goes. Right in here. It heats up. It's like a heater, furnace. Brian? Yeah, and also my head a little bit. I'll get a little foggy in the head and I'll get in the chest tightness.

And yeah, blood pressure's going up. That's what that means. Dude, I am like this girl, Heidi Plebe, who I've been following on YouTube, who I talked about last week. I'm not joking you. If you're interested in self-help and getting better and fixing the things about you that are undercurrents

that are kind of fucking up your life in patterned ways, she is unlocking some shit. Last i listened to this talk get this so when you so okay do you have to subscribe to her no no it's off i mean you probably don't have youtube premium so you're gonna watch some ads but that's fine i have youtube there's ads for you right yeah okay so it's free but you just gotta? Yeah. Okay. So it's free, but you just got to watch ads. Got it. Okay. So there's this thing called limerence. Do you guys know what limerence is?

I've heard that word. I don't remember what it means. Isn't that a catchy little- It's blowing my mind. What? A limerick? It's just going to be funny. Yes.

I saw it. Sorry, I didn't let you finish your joke. Limerence is when it's an obsessive, it's usually romantic, a romantic feeling, but it doesn't have to be. And it's when you have like an obsessive desire to win over or like you're in love.

It feels like being in love. It feels like the beginning of a relationship. Like think Pete Davidson, Ariana Grande, like all obsessed with each other all over each other isn't that just like an unsustainable obsession phase yeah but a lot of times people have it when the other person doesn't reciprocate so it's like before before you eat like you might have a crush on someone it feels like a crush but the difference between a crush and limerence from what she says is the obsessiveness. So if you're someone like me who if you have a crush on someone, you like to close your eyes and think about what it would be like to be with them.

And like you like let your mind you if you are stuck in fantasy about anyone, either romantically or like how a job is going to go or how. Oh, my God, I'm getting to see my parents this weekend. How our weekend is going to go. And it never ends up matching what you imagine it to be. And you kind of get high on this kind of supply of fantasizing. If you relate to this, which I so relate to this so much. One of my favorite things is when I would used to have a crush when I was single and I would see the potential and I would just go on a plane.

My favorite thing would be being on a plane, listening to music that made me think about that crush and then thinking about things that were going to happen in our relationship. You're already married. Yes. Just because you had a good interaction. Yeah. Yes. Married, but I wouldn't even go that far. I would go to when he finally

decides to show up at my door and then what that looks like and then we go to dinner after that and then after that we go and we watch a movie like and just thinking of the warmth that i would feel inside that this person is so perfect for me and we're getting along in all these ways that i've never even gotten along with someone before and it never ever matches up because there's no one like that out there well what it does is it which i did not know i always just thought it's fantasy like i know it's fantasy i know that i'm exaggerating this person's personality to be perfect but what it does is it makes it so you can never really have

a good relationship with that person because when you are with them you will always be disappointed you are always waiting for this other person to show up you cannot be present with them because you're actually you end up she even talks about in a relationship she was in she had so much limerence for this person she had fantasized about what they would be like when she would be around him she would be so disappointed that she would like couldn't wait till it was over and she could go back to her fantasy of him so she couldn't even enjoy being with him because she was like enjoying the fantasy part of it more but she needed to keep seeing him in order to keep the fantasy going so we do this a lot not even just in like uh romantic relationships we even do it with um

what you're supposed to do so you don't have limerence which is just you don't want to lie about yourself yeah you don't want limerence because it sets you up for failure gotcha okay it makes it so you don't actually ever hear that person. And really, love is understanding and understanding is love. So if you don't ever put yourself in a position to understand someone else's point of view or you don't try to accept them for who they are and you're always

envisioning this version of them in your head that is so perfect, you are going to fail them. They will not feel seen. They will withdraw and they will not be attracted to you. You won't get what you you are people have done it to you probably i was thinking oh my god people have done this to me before where i get to know a guy who i can tell has had a lot of fantasies about me in his head and then i feel like oh my god i can't live up to this i start to feel that way then i get insecure but then i always walk away from it being like

man they just want it they they i couldn't i'm not as good as they i'm not good enough i'm not good enough for them because they seem to think i'm something else and then so you're doing that to people if you ever fantasize so i have had to stop these little little trips i take in my head almost on a dime and not even romantically i mean like i've been doing some visual visualization about this big thing i have coming up where i'm like i I imagine myself fucking killing and just and and that's different because I think because I struggle with, OK, what's manifestation and then what's fantasy? Why? Why are those different? Because manifesting is like living as if it already happened.

And it's I think the difference is that manifestation feels awkward and fantasy feels real good. So for me to fantasize about me killing it at this thing feels really awkward to me. But I'm doing it because I know if it's hard to do, it's probably good. If it feels easy and soothing and you get a dopamine hit and you feel this relaxation down your spine, it's probably not good. Wow. it's probably not good wow and so um the thing that she talked about that i couldn't that blew my mind was that if stop thank stop presenting to people so to not to not set up people to disappoint you and to feel disappointing because of what you expect from them never never tell them thank you for something they didn't do only speak from a place of what you can judge.

So mom, if I came to you and I was crying about something going on in my life and you sat and listened, I can't say, I should not say to you, thank you so much for being there for me and really understanding what I'm going through. That is me assuming that you understood it. All I can thank you for is thank you for coming over to my apartment and looking at me when I talked. And listening though. But I don't even know if you were listening. Unless I have actual evidence that you listened. You can't because that is setting me up to assume something about you and live in this limerence of like, my mom and I had this, like, i can say it felt really good that you

were here and that i perceived you as listening to me because that's my truth it's like you could only talk from a place of what you experience but that blew my mind that you can't just like tell people like thank you so much for um for thank you so much for being such a good friend they might not be such a good friend they might just feel obligated to do that because you moved them into their house last week so they're just fulfilling an obligation they might not just be doing this out of being a good friend you have to let them say so you can't this will help your life to um address the world as you observe it and not as or as you are experiencing it in facts that someone in the court of law could be like, okay, yes, all we have proof of is that Julie came over and looked at her and appeared to

be listening. Right. But she just sat there and looked at her and said, uh-huh. Wow. After everything. But it doesn't, we don't know. So you just, you have to live in this world where you're kind of telling yourself the truth all the time about things.

What do you think? I think that it sounds like. Impossible. Yeah. It sounds really difficult. That's what she says. think that it sounds like impossible. Yeah. It sounds really different. That's what she says. It literally is impossible to do. Yeah. Because we are projecting our experience onto other things constantly and we don't even know it. We just want it to be lovely and we want it to be like that she is a good friend. Yes. We just assume it. But what you're doing is you're saying

that she's a good friend and then if she's not, if that's not her experience, she feels like, oh no, now I'm, how many times have you been told,

Julie, you're such a good friend and you think, I don't even like this woman. Of course. That, well, you might like her more

if she said, thank you for showing up, Julie, and didn't say, thank you for being a good friend. Wow, I like that. Do you know what I'm saying? Thanks for showing up. Thanks for showing up today.

The effort to make to get there. Thanks for helping me move this stove. As opposed to, thanks for being such a good friend. Not doing it anymore, though. Thanks for loving me so much. And you go, I don't love you at all, bitch. Like, that drives you away from her. As opposed to, you might become closer to someone who just is calling out the things as they are. And as you experience them, bitch. Like, that drives you away from her, as opposed to you might become closer to someone who just

is calling out the things as they are. And as you experience them, too. Just saying facts. I liked it. It was radical. Interesting. Heidi Plebe. If you want to check out what I'm talking about and actually hear a smart person discuss it, it's her video on limerence. L-I-M-E-R-E-N-C-E.

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Gary is basically Chicago. I mean, it's Chicago-y. Oh, it is. That's where Michael Jackson's from. Oh. Yeah. Go see his boyhood home, you two. Yeah, where so many great things happened for him.

A lot of things good happened there, sure. We know better by now. Just the word boyhood and Michael Jackson don't really go well together. Yeah, poor kid. Yeah, poor kid. Poor thing, what he went through. Aren't you going to Cincinnati?

Yes, Cincinnati on Saturday. And then my mom and dad will also be there. So if you want to see Jules and Ej. Show up. Come see us in Cincinnati at the Hard Rock live. So we've got Gary Indiana Friday night yes Gary Indiana

you know there's a song about Gary Indiana now I do it's from don't tell me what I know I know you don't know that Heidi Plebe Heidi

no Cincinnati's gonna be great yeah it's gonna be so fun and I love staying at these Hard Rock casinos really yeah because like it's everything's Hard Rock everything. And I love staying at these hard rock casinos. Really? Yeah, because everything's hard rock.

Everything's themed. You were there at one. Yeah, was that the one? Was it a lobster dinner? Yeah, you were like, we're getting lobster, surf and turf, baby, which you can't do anymore. I can't do that anymore. Mom's a pescatarian. Oh, I guess you could still get the lobster.

Yeah, I had lobster the other night. Oh, good for you. Yeah, I'm not kidding. How'd you get to, was that on sale at Aldi? That was at Aldi. I was going to say, how the fuck? A frozen whole lobster for 10.99.

I was at the Hard Rock in Florida this weekend. Really? Yeah. I went to the casino and I got fleeced at the blackjack table. I am not happy about Hard Rock so far. what are we doing with the gambling? Where are we at?

Because between you and me and everyone listening, you were doubting if you should be doing this anymore. No, it's bad for my health. And I do sometimes have limerence with gambling where I place a bet and then I just feel like I already won the bet. Yes, that's what you got to do. I already have the $200,

so let me make more bets based on the fact that I already won this bet that I placed and isn't even finished yet. Yeah, exactly. Wow. Sometimes that happens. I'm going to gamble. In sports it works, but no, Blackjack is a loser's game. The goal in Blackjack is to just try to lose as slowly as possible.

Yeah. Good advice. The goal is like, okay, I sat here for two hours and lost all my money instead of losing all my money in 10 minutes. And that's nice. But bad for your health. No, I feel like today I'm getting, I have an enlarged aortic root, which is like a heart condition I was born with. And I feel like today I'm getting my heart scanned. I get my heart scanned every year to see if my root has grown.

And I'm worried because all the gambling, it makes your blood pressure go up. It puts you in this stress level. It makes your heart rate go up. And I've been gambling so much lately that I'm a little worried about my latest scan. Wow. Sending good vibes. Yeah. Well, God, that's what you were saying to me that you were like

i have a heart condition i don't think four hours of being tense about yes this basketball game because i thought there was no downside to gambling on sports because i always win but there is a downside and it's just not financial. It takes away your time, your health, your mental state. It takes away all those things. So every time I said there's no downside to gambling, even though I was being facetious and flip about it, I did believe it. And now I realize I changed my mind.

There is a downside to gambling. It could kill you, ruin your life and your relationships, and waste all your time. Yeah, that's why, final thought, that's why when you check into a Hard Rock hotel, why don't they give you free gambling money? That's something they should think about. I was going to say that's a dumb question,

but I guess that's me putting too much of my feelings onto it. They actually do give away money. If you belong to these clubs yes well that's spade's joke about like he goes to bed it's my favorite joke by the way spade and i are going to be in vegas at the venetian in may um and then also another date throughout the year but you should come out and see that show for sure but he has this great joke about about um his buddy's like man, I go to Vegas all the time. I'm a big roller. You know, they fly me out. Comped.

And he goes, oh, really? That $75 Southwest flight? And they go, yeah, you got to roll with me. I'm a big roller. Then ground transportation to and from the hotel. Oh, that four-minute car ride. And he keeps like poking holes. I'm like, the casinos know what they're doing they're not

just giving they never give away that money back in 10 yeah but um yeah it's um it's it's a problem it's so funny that there are signs of like do you have a problem gambling all over all over casinos yeah it's just it's like the surgeon general's warning on cigarettes it's almost a way to get you to be like warning on cigarettes it's almost a way to get you to be like well if they're putting out all these warnings then i don't but that means i don't probably have it they probably would know if i had a problem and someone would stop me thank god that's not me yeah the signs just make you feel like you don't have a problem okay maybe but like it's just such, they're really worried about you. Yeah.

They really want you to get help if you have a problem gambling. In those signs in the casino? Yeah, like the casino, it's just so stupid that we believe that they give a shit. I think it's a law.

They have to put this. It's just for insurance. Of course. Yeah, absolutely. The sign should just say, like, are you a loser? Are you a loser? You know, are you,

like it's a bully in middle school. Oh, right, are... Like it's a bully in middle school. Like a bully in middle school. And like you're walking around. No one who actually has a gambling problem is going to be like, oh wait, that sign asked me if I had a gambling problem. And I do. No one's going to admit that. They're going to feel like it's an attack

on their... It's like asking an older man, you know, if they need a colonoscopy or something. It's like man you know if they uh need a colonoscopy or something it's like well i don't need a colonoscopy i don't know if that makes sense i don't know if that tracks for me but i'm glad it did for you let's just confuse nikki in this segment yeah you're lucky you don't even care about gambling. I'm lucky I don't? Yeah. I mean, I- It just feels so bad to lose money. Oh, it's a terrible feeling. Yeah.

It's like a hangover. Like I quit drinking not because the drinking part, but because of the hangover. Gotcha. Yeah. I quit. I was recalling the other day to my friend about, because she like loves candy and has a problem sometimes with eating too much of it. And she was going buck wild after Valentine's Day

because she bought a bunch of candy hearts. The marked down ones? Yeah, you know it. The ones that say, I love you. Smeared. Yeah. She went buck wild on some. And I was like, girl, I've been there.

I know candy hearts are a thing that some people don't really go hard on. But man, they are my favorite. That chalkiness when they're a little stale too i like them i love them and so but i don't do them anymore because i went so hard one year i got a whole bag like you know like a big bag that you would like a bulk bag and i ate them all and i got a hangover from them and i hadn't drank for years and years. So it was the first time I had felt that like a searing headache the next day. Sick, but like couldn't look up straight because my head hurts so much.

And it was from all the sugar and I really can't even touch them anymore because it's just I'm so scared of that feeling. So for me, if my body gives me a searing headache as a result of something, I will quit it on the spot. Wow. And I will quit it on the spot. Wow. And I wish that we would do- It'll be easy. I would love if it gave me more headaches for things.

Yeah. Because I would quit things. But until it gets to that point, me keep going. But yeah, I've overdone it on those. Sometimes psychosomatic reactions benefit you like uh i i have a reaction to high fructose corn syrup that i know is psychosomatic it gives me brain fog whenever i have and even if i don't know that it has it in there if i just eat it's not psychosomatic it is my body i guess just knows i don't know how but because it's psychosomatic when you

oh no i don't even know how my body does it but my I get brain fog whenever I eat high fructose corn syrup and anything even if it's like I find out after I ate it that I'd had it I'm like oh yeah that's like you're just like you look at the label after you remember what you're talking about like you seem like a stoner like what's brain fog brain fog yeah it's like um yeah you just feel out of it it's like being when you get like four hours in your brain yeah exactly you can't do wordle i don't know oh that's good that's a good indication yeah when you can't do the wordle no you know how you like you have four hours of sleep and then you're just sluggish and slow and you can't think and nothing's coming to you yes that's what brain fog is okay yeah but because of that i have not eaten anything

with high fructose corn syrup in like 10 20 years wow it's in everything it's amazing yeah i mean on purpose on purpose sometimes it happens by accident i want that i want to do that i could do all the work that it takes to like train on high fructose corn syrup and do exposure therapy and get it back so I don't have a reaction to it. But what's the point? What's the point? It's not good for you. Exactly.

It's like, okay. Yeah, that's really good. I can't fall asleep without a sleep mask on. I've trained my brain to do that. But now because I like it because when I do have a sleep mask on, my body knows it's time to go to sleep. But if I don't have one, I have to wrap a towel

around my head or something. I have to like makeshift one and that's not great. So I always carry like five on me at a time just in case I lose them. But they are so, yeah,

there's certain things that my body has like learned it's time. You're like a little baby. That's good. That's just good sleep habits. Oh, baby. Yeah.

Although I've been waking up a lot recently and just like with anxiety in the middle of the night. Oh, yeah. You have a lot on your plate. I do have a lot on my plate, but I've been like kind of loving my life recently. I go on the road on the weekends. I work hard.

I play. I don't even play hard. I just work hard doing the shows. And then we get to hang out with friends. And then we drive to the next venue and travel all day. And then I get one day off a week, which is perfect. And that day I am flying. And so some people would go, Nikki, that's not a day off.

You need to be ecstatic. But to me, flying is a day off because no one can get you. And on your day off, you have to go to the grocery store. And you have to meal plan. And you've got to go to HomeGoods and pick up stuff for your pots on your front porch. I don't got to do shit because I'm flying Southwest through three different cities. And so there's nothing I can do. You're the only one that feels that way.

That's my favorite day off. No. Well, because in our house, day off equals got to go hiking. Oh, that's true. You got to go see bald eagles out in Southern Illinois. That's true. I don't want to go do that shit. That's true. You got to go see bald eagles out in Southern Illinois. That's true. I don't want to go do that shit. That's what days off mean to people.

And I want to be in the air. Where no one can control you. Yes. You're controlled by the airplane, but you are not controlled by it. And then all week, I'm just doing voice lesson, podcast, Pilates, Orange Theory, here and there. And by here and there, I mean one time never going back. Getting coffee. Writing music.

Botox. Hey, don't call me out. I am all stuck up today. I got Botox. I was going to get filler. I opted out. Ladies, if you need someone to encourage you not to get filler, I was about to get it today in my lips. And then I texted Anya and I go, did you get filler last time you went?

And she was like, no, I haven't gotten filler for years. And I was like, and then I, I, my nip lips are numb, right? Cause they put the numbing cream on. Cause they're going to poke you in the face with it. And I went out to the lobby and I go, I don't want to get filler anymore. Okay. Let's wipe it off. And I felt so bad, but they were so nice about it. Shout out to Janet front neck.

So I just got a bunch of Botox, not even a bunch, just a little bit. Yes. And I only know because I picked you up there. Yeah. And Anya said, I think you're just going through something emotionally. She was like, why do you need it? And I was like, I just want something different on my face. I just want to look at something different. I'm tired of seeing

pictures of me. I want to look something. And she was like, I think you maybe just need to calm down. Maybe you just need to go there and then say hi and walk out and feel like, I've been there. I did get a facial too and it was amazing. A hydrafacial. It looks good. It was so good.

I'm very happy. But yeah, if you want to go on the YouTube right now and see me be stung up, I got Botox, but it will not show up for 11 to 14 days. So see the results in two weeks. I'll see you there on YouTube. Thank you for listening to the show today. We'll be back tomorrow. We're going to be in Gary, Indiana and Cincinnati, Ohio this weekend, Friday and Saturday with Brian

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