The Nikki Glaser Podcast - #425 Tears For Your Own Music, Grey Alien Abductions & Movie Talk

Episode Date: March 22, 2024

Nikki doesn't have to wait for a balcony accident to shed tears to her own tunes.  She felt consoled by advice Jeff Tweedy shares in his book. Brian and Nikki answer what's ironic and when they love riffing on stage. Brian shares his theory on "grey aliens" and abductions. Nikki is fascinated by communities around people who believe they are being "gang stalked". Nikki and Brian have some more pet peeves to share about airlines. They even have an idea how to make air travel worse! Brian and Noa try to guess which classic comedy Nikki only watched recently. This leads to Nikki's review of the Holdovers and what the best movie of all time is. 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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on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. We want to speak out and we want this to stop. Wow, very powerful. I'm Ellie Flynn, an investigative journalist, and this is my journey deep into the adult entertainment industry.

I really wanted to be a player boy in my adult. He was like, I'll take you to the top. I'll make you a star. To expose an alleged predator and the rotten industry he works in. It's honestly so much worse than I had anticipated. We're an army in comparison to him. From Novel, listen to The Bunny Trap on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Here's Nikki. Hello, here I am. It's the Nikki Glaser Podcast. Welcome to the show. I'm in St. Louis, Missouri, alone in studio. My sister was maybe going to make an appearance on this show today, but she couldn't get a babysitter.

And when she floated the idea to my parents yesterday where she was like, Nikki asked me to be on the podcast and they were all hanging out. That's when they're supposed to go, we'll watch the kids while you do it. She said they didn't pick up the bait. What if they brought the kids? We have extra microphones. Why didn't she bring the kids? That would be such hell

to listen to. It's hell to be around when you love them more than anything you've ever loved anything so i think if you're just a podcast listener it would truly be a hell on earth to listen to those screaming kids it'd be cute at first and maybe interesting we could do something with it i believe me it crossed my mind but um then it also crossed my mind that they would we would get in a good conversation the kids would wander around my apartment and there would be something a very tragic image befell my brain and i don't want to go into what i thought about but it's like i'm on

a high rise okay so a little eric clapton song started playing yeah michael jackson no no michael jackson is the best way that could end yes um just a dangling baby is different than one that um drops to his death turtle yes, yes. Yes, yes. But you write a hit song about it. I think that I never got why people are like, oh, he wrote a song about his, he profited off his kid's death. Sorry that he felt his feelings and that's what came out. He processed his emotions and made art.

Are you supposed to just put that song up for charity to keep windows, to have better regulations for windows and high-rises? Is that what you're supposed to just put that song up for charity to keep windows to have better regulations for windows and high-rises is that what you're supposed to do with that money so you don't profit off your son's death i'm sure as soon as his son hurtled to his death he was like yes another song it just starts oh that's wonderful tonight hold on what if wonder what if wonderful tonight was the song that was inspired it's just a totally different song we're like wait not tears in heaven it's like no i just realized in that moment how much i was connected with my wife because we weren't gonna have this

thing between us anymore he's like no i wrote tears in heaven purely for the money the other one was for the kid that manifested it i actually wrote tears in heaven prior to such a tragic thing but i wrote a song the other day and i started crying when i was singing it i told the girls chat this it's embarrassing to admit to the public but i i just felt so and i mean this just humorously but it also is the first word that came to my mind when i started crying to the own thing that i was singing to myself that I had just written. I felt gay. Like I felt like the middle school definition, middle school 1997 definition of gay.

And I'm not thinking about gay people when I say that. And I hope gay people know I mean that. And I'm just using it for humor. I'm sorry if it hurt your feelings. But I just felt embarrassed. felt embarrassed but then i was talking to uh but then it's so crazy because right after it happened i was like oh are you crying to your little song nikki are you feeling your feelings but i also was like i felt it and it passed through me and then i picked up which i have right on my shelf in my kitchen actually so

that i've always put it there so someday i would just be like i'm just gonna pick this up and read it and i fucking did and it's uh jeff tweety's how to write one song so i was and it's kind of a small book it looks like a what a bathroom read like what's a coffee table book but not big one that you can pick up and just like read an excerpt and it's not like a thing. So it's a size of – it's inviting. And I just picked up – went to a random chapter and I sat down in like this – I have this like circular chair in my living room that's out of place because I always pictured putting it in a nook where I would read like into a nook of a room. Because it's like this big – Perfect for reading. It makes you want to read.

Yeah, but it's like like it's just what you would envision if you were like because you can put your whole body on it and tuck into it it's big circle white and a perfect circle and it has uh and it's just small enough and you just feel like it's my two people it's too uncomfortable but one person it's perfect and i always envision myself like having this in a nook to read but i've it's always just been in the middle of my living room and no one sits on it and we just put Guitar Hero on it. But I took Guitar Hero off and I sat in that nook and I turned it to face my balcony

because sometimes I want to be on my balcony, but it's too thin. It's the tiniest, thinnest balcony you'll ever see. Why do they even make those? If you're walking with two people, you literally brush up against the person. You can barely dangle a baby off that thing. Oh yeah, you gotta be indoors to dangle the baby

because your arms extend past the length or the width of it. Yeah. So I was like, so it was so perfect. I used the couch. I read this book that was what I was doing at the time. And then I also put my phone on the other couch. Get out of here, phone. I don't want to be distracted.

I'm going to read an actual book that's not on my phone, which is very much not how I read. and then i faced it to the balcony and opened the um window you know the sliding window and so i'm like on the balcony but like just outside of it like it's right outside oh my god did a bird fly in no please don't that would be the best part of it that's noah's nightmare and mine would be like if a bird suddenly was attracted to me and like liked the bliss i was putting out in the world and i felt like snow white and it like came to me and wanted to be on my arm i would be the happiest girl in the world and that's so funny noah that that is your absolute nightmare i i want to say i love birds i just don't like them in enclosed spaces with me

Because the fear is The wings will hit you in the face The claws will get in your hair It's like the chick from Love is Blind That you sent This is a common fear and I do not judge it I was so happy to hear That someone else has this insane fear

But I do want to poke holes in it So what is the fear though? What's going to happen worst case? Seeing the birds slam into the ceiling that someone else has this insane fear. But I do want to poke holes in it. So what is the fear though? I'm okay. Just like seeing a bird. Worst case. Seeing the bird slam into the ceiling and then just like drop on me. Yeah, that's not fun either. Seeing a little bird get injured and scared.

It's freakish. Yeah. And then it freaks out on my face. Oh, okay. So there we go. So it's going to your face to freak out. And then will the, it will like,

for me, a bird in my face, I don't want it's dander in my mouth i don't mind the wings hitting me in the face that seems kind of cool i don't want the dander is that the freak out thing or scratches beak sharp beak in my eye peck you peck your eyes beak in your eye okay that's a logical fear honestly that it sounds like horrible okay so what happened in the story but let me just poke a hole in it with my beak okay a poke a hole in your eye eye of logic um birds under duress are not going to like attack the only way its beak would go in your eyes by mistake and it would probably not

happen because you're going to close your eyes in defense already so it would be a really freakish accident to happen and also they're gonna try to get the fuck away from you they're never gonna fly into you a bird that flies in your house wants nothing to do with the thing that's moving that it doesn't recognize in the enclosure with it it's gonna go the opposite side of the room in my in my experience of trying to catch birds in houses which is one of my favorite activities because i want to like get them to love me and trust me and then i slowly can just take it out on my finger it's never happened that way I always have to put a blanket over it gently and then like carry it in the blanket but um I it's they do they do not want

anything to do with you but I that being said continue your fear it's it's who cares okay not like you encounter it that often it's not like I'm like no you gotta get inside a room with a bird it's like no other experience because some fears are like that where you hear people are like scared to do something and you go like people who are scared of flying you're missing out on a lot of life by doing that and i know you say no i take the train and i can drive you can't get place you can't get you can't drive to italy you know and you can take a boat and you're not going to. You're not going to.

I'm scared of the gigantic pine cones in my neighborhood. I've mentioned before that. Oh, yeah. You have a grenade sized grenade heavy. But it sounds like you're aware of them. So you're not going to get hit. It's probably you should be scared for other people. I'm well, I'm scared that the one day that I don't think about it on your defenses. Yes, that's what happens.

That's like Noah. The one day she opens the screen in her window is the day that bird flies in. I don't think getting hit by a pine cone that kills you instantly is the worst way to go. I put it on a list of preferable ways for me to go. Because it's funny. It's memorable. You get a crowd if you're in public yeah i don't know about the crowd i don't really want a lot of people to witness it i'd like few witnesses so i'd like the story to

take on a tale of its own because there's such few witnesses so i'd like it to become the stuff of lore yeah and then it gets spread around and then my death is like almost uh maybe someone threw it at you there's some people who's you only know about because they died i.e eric clefton's son i bet he'd be we wouldn't know who he is now maybe we would i don't who knows you know what i'm saying it's just like some people become immortalized by their death yeah whoa um like i'm trying to think of well i just follow a lot of accounts on reddit maybe people wouldn't this wouldn't come to mind for you this kind of thought of like oh yeah i know that person because they died but i have you know the falling man on 9-11 like that person's famous even though they didn't weren't

able to identify it the dust woman on 9-11 um well the falling man the falling man on 9-11 invented the snuggie so he would have been remembered. That was the same guy. Wait, the Snuggie predated 9-11 so much. And the falling man certainly did not survive that. The falling man invented the Snuggie. And then he fell out of 9-11 famously. Oh, so he drew up the plans for the Snuggie.

And then someone found those plans 20 years later, 15 years later? Yeah, pretty much. Well, what about the guy who invented the um what's that thing you ride on with the tours and he fell off uh oh segue yeah the guy invented fell off a cliff on the segue yeah it's pretty funny that was that was really funny what are other funny ways that you just go not funny but like i just want it to be oh stink i mean steve irwin oh yeah that's ironic well it's not ironic it's expected like that's the way he was gonna go yeah it isn't ironic you're right it wouldn't go in that alanis morissette song yeah because it's ironic in the sense that like the

things he attacked ended up attacking him i guess that's ironic but he it would go in the alanis morissette song because the alanis morissette song because the alanis morissette song is famously not ironic no i think those ones pass the test let's go through them it's like 10 000 spoons when all you needed is a knife very ironic it's like meeting the man of your dreams and then meeting his beautiful wife that's not ironic no not ironic what about this you you're a dietician and you die by a vending machine falling on you ironic that's ironic what about this you you're a dietician and you die by a vending machine falling on you ironic that's ironic what if you're an old man who turns 98 you win the lottery and then you die the next day um that's every day if you're a guy if it's ironic if um if you're not just i

think if you're 98 and then you win the lottery and then you die that's just bad luck it would be irony if you said i'm never going to play the lottery of my entire life and then on your 98th birthday for the first time you play and you win and then you die maybe that's ironic or if you say yeah the next day i'm gonna quit my job and then life quits you or said made some or but if you played the lottery every day and then you you win on the day right before you die um that is to me is ironic but if it's just like oh a random guy plays the lottery at 98 and he dies next day it's a little ironic i don't know who's to be the judge of this certainly not me an english major who never read

a book her entire college career but somehow got a major in english so talk about when you did read the book on the couch because that's where we were so then okay thank you noah so i'm no birds fly in unfortunately and i'm reading this chapter and jeff tweedy who is wrote um the book how to write one song and it's such a good book it literally is talking to you like you're like you could be any level of musician and you'd get something from this like i felt really seen as someone who was like really scared to write a song and anyway i had read half of it but i didn't finish it because i wasn't ready to write a song and i didn't want to fail the book so that was ages ago so i picked it up and just went to a chapter that i hadn't read yet and it

was about um how sometimes you'll write lyrics. And or that he. You know I'm reading and reading. And then he says. Sometimes I write a lyric. That will make me cry. And it doesn't happen that often. But sometimes I like.

I figure out how I feel about something. While I'm writing it. And he was like. And those are the moments. That make me want to write this book. Because I want everyone to have that feeling. Because I feel like, yeah, you're not an artist in that way. Like I had never, I've never cried at a joke I wrote because I was like, oh my God, I do love them.

Or what, you know, and I will miss them when they're dead. Like no joke has ever made me like feel my feelings really. It's anything, it's like push them away. Sometimes you write a joke and it makes you laugh yeah that's a feeling i guess that's how you know it's a good joke or at least you'll like it yeah or anger it makes the anger that i have about the subject is funny yeah because i get then being angry as brian and i both partake in when we get angrier it gets people tend to laugh harder yeah yeah right that's been the hardest thing for me is to recognize like you get so caught up in the fucking algorithm and what is

the fucking algorithm want that you lose sight of the fact that if it makes you laugh if it makes you feel something then it's worth putting out there it's a difficult thing to remember i know that's the hard one is like but sometimes i don't know i don't laugh at everything i do but i think i see other people laugh at it and i go oh there's some value here like i i i do trust other people think like know what's funny and i don't sometimes because there's sometimes where i'm like i don't like that joke at all but people laugh and i keep doing it even though it doesn't make me laugh i'm like it bring it's obviously clicking for people and i did think of it so there's some part of me that did think it was funny and

initially um no that's true too sometimes that happens where i uh where i'm like you think this is funny and it's like i guess it's my best joke now i don't know well sometimes they laugh and you don't you don't know you're being funny. Like I will say something and I'll literally like, I'll like, well, why'd you guys all laugh? And they'll all laugh in a way that it's like a, one of my,

like a closer. I'm like, I, it's like I had control over them to do that. The kind of laugh where you're like, boom, I know this. And they all light up.

It's like that kind of laugh. And you're like, what the fuck did I just reveal about myself? Yeah. Resonated. Why was that funny? And sometimes I can catch it. But I'm so bad at going back and listening to myself.

Like this weekend, I was riffing. And I was like, I said, I had a really fun riff. What is it? I'll share it. And well, I had two. I had Grand Rapids was so fun. I riffed. I was riff central.

And I was like, oh, my God, this is like, I mean, I maybe I'm the I just don Grand Rapids was so fun. I riffed. I was riff central. And I was like, oh my God, this is like, I mean, I maybe I'm the, I just don't riff on stage that much. So anything new will always kill. I actually have to experiment with it more, but it just felt like the idea of it being new was so fun. And the way I was,

I was excited to tell it. It's a, it's a joke about scratching your dog and like, make like when you scratch your dog, I think I've talked about it on the podcast maybe. And it looks like you're making them come like when they get that like their tails their foot starts shaking and they're like it's just like we're just all as a family gathered out being like look at her come like it's just kind of weird that we do that because there's

no difference truly no difference so i was working that out and then i had some other thoughts about stuff that are really fun but then i had this riff that i had not planned the next night about um oh i just for some reason in the middle of telling a joke about um oh i was talking about getting cummed in of course naturally i was talking about how it feels good to have to get cummed in. It like literally does feel good. It's it feels satisfying in some way that most men will never understand. And but it does feel good and it's less cleanup. And I was talking about that.

If you stay horizontal, you don't have to clean it up till the morning, you know, and and I was like, you'll have a raging UTI, but you will have, you know, stayed off having to clean up. Yeah. You get to go to sleep. But then I go, I just stopped and I was like, wait, does everyone here know that if you don't pee after sex, you have like an 80% chance of getting a UTI. Like a woman has to.

I don't know if it's at a certain age, but for me, that is like, I would never skip peeing after sex ever, ever, ever. Because it is just too risky. Noah, do you agree with me on this? I agree with you, but from personal experience, I have not gotten a UTI. Because you pee after sex? Because I did not pee after sex. I just wanted to go to sleep. And you did not get in a UTI?

No, but I've only gotten... You might be in that 20%. That's what I'm talking about. Yeah, I've only gotten one UTI my whole life. I never got them and I had friends that would get them chronically and I was really proud of myself. I must be a better woman.

My pH balance must be on point because it's kind of yeasty i think when you get a uti it's just a bacterial infection anyway it hurts when you're not better you get a little other way lots something happens that makes you feel like you have to go pee ladies it will happen to you at some point you will go what is this i have to pee but i can't pee and i maybe have to shit too and it all feels clogged up and feels dirty down there and there might be an odor and you're just like what the fuck it's a uti and you have to go to fucking urgent care because there's nothing over the counter so what it does is just inconvenience

your fucking life because you got to go to urgent care you got to sign up and you got to watch what number you are on the urgent care so you can show up right before azo doesn't do shit once it's locked in it's in it gets it reduces your symptoms i've heard okay i i understand that but it's not going to treat it like once you have a bacterial infection you need that's just gonna like you have to go to the urgent care at some point you want to have a doctor friend for me my my uti the only one that i got when i was like 13 or 14 was because of antibiotics. Is that ironic? Wow.

Yeah, that's ironic. That's in the song. Yeah, that is. Put it in the song. Let's call Atlantis. But I just was like, dude, does everyone here know that we have to do that? And I guess men might have to do it as well. But women were really just, there's too much mixing around on there and you got to flush it out right

after you have sex to get all the mouth stuff there's there's fingers and mouths and just get it out of that urethra hamster and then um not for the hamster um it but i said um unless you have a partner who you can pee on during sex and then that would then you get it out i mean you maybe have a little but like or something about like oh no i said that it was a riff about that's why i date guys that like to pee on me because it reminds me to pee they're peeing in my mouth so they can come, and I'm like, oh yeah, I gotta remember to pee after this. I like the idea of a girl having something heinous done to her, and she's like, thanks for the reminder. It made me laugh a lot.

It didn't even do that well, but it was so funny to me that I was like, someone write that down. It's just like, what an artist someone write down peeing and you're a guy peeing in your mouth reminds you to pee after sex yeah um and i said that out loud inside a uh you know theater that's mainly meant for orchestral performances because i'm an artist okay let's go to break um come see us this weekend in Cincinnati and in Gary, Indiana. That's a Friday night, Saturday night,

Gary first, and then Cincinnati are going to be great shows. And then a bunch, a bunch of tour dates coming up this summer. Uh, just announced, just go to Nikki laser.com and you can check those tour dates and come see me.

The shows have been so fun. It's going to be a big, uh, it's going to be a big fun summer of touring. So I want you to be a part of it, besties and i will see you there and we'll be back 2025 is bound to be a fascinating year it's going to be filled with money challenges and opportunities i'm joel oh and i am matt and we're the hosts of how to

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We want to speak out, we want to raise awareness, and we want this to stop. Wow, very powerful. I'm Ellie awareness, and we want this to stop. Wow. Very powerful. I'm Ellie Flynn, and I'm an investigative journalist. When a group of models from the UK wanted my help, I went on a journey deep into the heart of the adult entertainment industry. I really wanted to be a player boy model. Lingerie, topless.

I said, yes, please. Because at the centre of this murky world is an alleged predator. You know who he is because of his pattern of behavior. He's just spinning the web for you to get trapped in it. He's everywhere and has been everywhere. It's so much worse and so much more widespread than I had anticipated. Together, we're going to expose him and the rotten industry he works in. It's not just me. We're an army in comparison to him listen to the bunny trap on the iheart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts all right we're back so before the show began, Brian and I were chit-chatting about, what did you say? Shadow people?

Oh, yeah. Well, shadow people. We got into the ghost for a second there. Ghost, yeah. And then I said, well, we were talking about- We were talking about your, can I say? My mom's surgery. Yeah.

Yeah. My mom had to get eyelid surgery so she could see better. Yeah. So she got like a blepharoplasty, which is what I've probably determined she got. It's like where they take skin out of your eyelids because they get so droopy. yeah so she she got like a blepharoplasty which is what i've probably determined she got which is like where they take skin out of your eyelids because they get so droopy but this his mom could not see because her eyelids were being pressed down by all the skin and gravity and age and that is wild so she had to do it just so she could see better yeah and i can't i didn't even notice i

couldn't even tell brian didn't notice and she looks fair to be fair you don't look people in the eyes yeah not really i mean it's i kind of don't either so i look at people's mouths a lot and their shoulder and stuff i yeah i look away when i'm in a deep conversation with someone i look away i yeah i guess i noticed that about you but i think i might as well or i or i probably if you look away, I probably take it as a sign. I shouldn't be just staring at this person's eyes. So like I naturally look away, but it wouldn't be, I don't, yeah. But that's probably why you didn't notice.

Sometimes I'm making eye contact with somebody while I'm talking to them and I feel like I'm being rude. Like does this person want me to be drilling into their face right now? Well, they can always look away and then then you can know but you can't because then you lose the battle well then yes that person should feel threatened that person's a beta you're a beta you look away i like how you say me staring at this person isn't this rude and oh brian just look away well then i would lose the battle yeah you're engaging in battle with someone who doesn't know they're in battle. That is rude.

I'm like, excuse me, do you have any whole wheat bread? And then they look away because they work at Trader Joe's. And I say, well, you're a cuck. Yeah, I hate,

eye contact could be so, it could be too much, dude. I don't, I can't. I really can't do it for very long. I really like. No, I think I'm the same way it's and I feel seen and I start to feel like I'm falling in love and I don't want to do that with my optometrist but that's when you gotta you look like in their eye their eye is looking in

your eye like two inches from your eye I mean you can't see it so it doesn't feel as intense but there's a vibe sometimes I wish I was was in japan because in japan you're not supposed to look people in the eye it's different you have to show deference oh that's interesting i don't think i knew that about i don't even think i know that it's just maybe i'm making it up but i do remember i do i think it's my thing okay well well we were talking about his mom probably not being able to see i'm like oh my, now she can see a whole new world. And I was like, what's something on your periphery that you could go through life if you didn't have peripheral vision? You just wouldn't know it's there.

And Brian said ghosts. Yeah. And I love that ghosts just hang right here. But they do. And if you're fast enough, you can catch them. There's a specific type of ghost called shadow people. Wait, there's a peripheral ghost and it's called shadow people yeah that you can only see them in your periphery and they're not really ghosts they're like interdimensional beings

um and a lot of people claim that they see them uh in the in their periphery and we don't really know where they came from or what they are but they they can only be seen in that way. I feel bad for people who truly believe these things are going on. Because if they are true, it's so annoying that no one believes you. And also, you know it sounds crazy, but you feel it's so real that you can't. What would you do if you believed something insane and no one else believed it? It would suck. But I was listening to the beginning of a podcast about alien abductions and how they started in 1940 something, maybe into the 60s, around there within those two decades. And then they kind of stopped in like right with the advent of the smartphone. So like reports of alien abduction just like went

away when people started being able to like film stuff and i don't know the connection there but that's what the hosts kind of surmised from the timeline is maybe smartphones made it go away but it was something that people didn't claim to have happened to them until other they heard stories of other people doing it so there's a big famous story about an alien abduction and then all of a sudden everyone's like i was abducted um but also maybe they didn't know what happened to them until they heard someone else did and then that made them come forward who knows there was also a lot there's also trending different types of aliens abducting people like in the 70s there were a lot of aliens who were obsessed with preventing the world from being destroyed in a nuclear apocalypse which okay all like that makes the 70s were about yeah it's cold war yeah yeah

and uh a lot of the aliens in the 70s were these nordic beautiful uh white men and women who would come down instead of looking like the typical gray extraterrestrials they were like humanoid they were called nordics and that was a lot of the 70s they'd come down they'd fuck you and you'd fuck them and everything would be great and they'd say by the way we got to stop uh gorbachev in the middle of a alien gangbang yes wait a second so they would fuck you so what happened to the where are the ones that look, the heads have heads like guitar picks? Yeah.

Those are, when did those come in? Those are grays. Those were the OGs. I have a theory about the gray aliens. And that is when I think people who say they're abducted by gray aliens. Before you begin, can you just give your,

let besties know that you are very knowledgeable about this subject and why? Oh yeah. Well, I had a podcast called The Unbelievable Podcast from 2011 to 2018. That was all about- Seven years. Yeah. Tim Dillon was a co-host? A sidekick?

Yeah, for one year, he was the co-host. Yeah, it was a long time. It was pretty popular. But ultimately, we stopped because it was a lot of work for me. It was a lot of it was pretty popular but ultimately ultimately it was we stopped because it was a lot of work for me it was a lot of research a lot of clip getting and i was just like i can't spend 20 hours a week doing research for this podcast even though i loved the podcast and i loved all the unbelievers were the names of our listeners cool um and uh yes you would miss this shit i missed the podcast boom i stopped it in 2018 and then i wonder what would have happened if i kept going through covid

at the same time i'm glad i stopped when i did because i stopped pretty much when conspiracy theories started getting not fun anymore oh like they were just all racist it was just like there was there was nothing it was no longer like is bigfoot real it was more like are the jews behind you're right that that did take off let's get back to the nordic aliens fucking us yes and away from pedophiles and pizza joints so my theory about gray aliens is i believe that that is a psychological phenomenon of people re-experiencing their trauma perhaps in a lucid sleep state or um just having a ptsd style traumatic re-experiencing a trauma and a lot of the trauma comes from childhood when you're a baby. Perhaps, I believe, a lot of people who claim that they were abducted by gray aliens are

re-experiencing a molestation from when they were maybe even a baby or a kid. And that's why a lot of aliens will do anal probing. They'll take you up into their ship you'll be yeah it's all you can't do anything they're touching you and the reason why gray aliens look like they do is because when you're a baby and your perception yeah it's just a gray fuzzy thing big black eyes this is just what a baby perceives a person oh my god brian this is probably pretty pretty good theory. I like it. I believe all the people that are

certain that they have been abducted by gray aliens, a lot of them are probably just reliving their molestation trauma from childhood. I'm not saying it's all of them. There's also a lot of them who just want to make money or just want attention. I think it's a real

phenomenon. I think that the people the gray, I think it's a real phenomenon. I think that the people who are thinking that they were abducted by gray aliens actually do see that and believe it and believe it's happening. Yeah, yeah. But it's just like some of the psychosomatic pains. It's like your brain is just making that up. Exactly, it doesn't mean it didn't happen to you

because you're experiencing it like it did. So I'm not taking that away from you that it was terrifying and that you literally think you were abducted by aliens and you feel, but it might not be that, but that doesn't take anything from your experience.

Yeah, I mean, people don't like to feel like people think they're crazy, but it's, crazy is like, it's not your fault. Your brain's just doing something weird to help you cope,

potentially, if your theory is correct. It's not weird, it's protective, I think. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Oh, to make it feel feel like it's so you don't have to think it's your dad or your uncle or whatever or maybe to help you make sense of it for closure or it truly is like a disorder like if you're just hearing voices in your head and you say that it's satan talking to you like you need to get like medicated for that that's why i asked you if you knew about gang stalking

and oh yeah what's that really creep me out I found it through reddit and someone you know someone just had commented in another reddit like sounds like gang stalking and I like went to the subreddit and it's for people who feel it's it's there's

a let me just read it gang stalking or group stalking is a set of persecutory persecutory beliefs sorry in which those affected believe they are being followed stalked and harassed by a large number of people um the term is associated with targeted individual ti uh oh boy do you know what that is the rapper based rapper ti oh you can stalk whatever you like okay so um online communities um yeah a 2016 new year times article estimated that more than 10,000 people were participating in online communities organized around the conviction that its members

are victims of a sprawling conspiracy to harass thousands of everyday Americans with mind control weapons and armies of so-called gang stalkers. So if you go to the gang stalker subreddit, it's just people being like, people are following me and this is what happened to me today and they,

the guy in the striped shirt was like, it's just people feeling like they're being Truman showed a little bit, but also harassed and like really fucked with. And I, is that different from paranoid schizophrenia? It, that's what people think it is.

It's like people suffering with that or people suffering from drug like, um, symptoms like meth symptoms or sleeplessness or just, you know, yeah, it's just, but they all agree and they yeah, it's just, but they all agree and they all,

it's kind of cute that they all have this community where they do believe that their whole life is being monitored and they're being stalked. And it's like, it's nice that they have a way to connect. It's like orange theory. It's like a community. It builds community for that you're chasing or you're being chased. I mean, I guess you're chasing goals in orange theory.

But yeah, it's just like, it's, I sometimes like whenever gang stalking comes up on reddit because people make fun of it you know in the comments i always go and check out what they're talking about and then sometimes i get a little scared because they sometimes like it would be terrifying to live this way so i actually i have empathy for them i'm not like just making fun of them i feel like really sad that that would be horrible to think that you were your life was trim and show yeah but i've had people that friends with bipolar um believe some wild stuff and um and i guess i believed some wild stuff in my mental illness journey along the way then i'm just like what were you thinking but i always felt like i had a control over it you know i never felt out of control of my mind or body too much,

except when I drank maybe. And that's why I quit doing that. Cause that's when you, that's truly insane that we get blackout drunk and we just send our blackout selves. It's like sending, it's that show where they send a toddler out to get groceries, the Japanese show.

That's what you do when you get, it's called like, I forget. It was a hit on netflix for a bit but they send like a three-year-old and they monitor it closely but it just like goes out to get to do a task into the city and they just follow it wow that's what you do when you get blackout you just are like all right let's just see what happens i would i loved it i loved it so much why did i like it see that's fucked up that I liked it yeah like how do you

even I mean you like the loss of control oh I would just say to my friends let's get black out like I liked blacking out so much so you liked did you like the journey to black out or did you like knowing that you are blacked out I guess I liked the journey to blacking out because it always just involved like dancing and being loud and like confident and and like just happy literally just happy you know like excited about life no worries and then the blacking out part i guess was just i liked that because um it was risky i guess the risky oh it was risky it was a there's a little part of it when i'm going back and remembering like okay we're gonna get blackout tonight it was a little part of it when I'm going back and remembering like, okay, we're going to get blackout tonight. It was a little bit like shoplifting.

Like I'll get away with it. I'll probably survive and get through. But it's going to feel, it's risky. Like, will you? What's going to happen tonight? Where are you going to end up? When your eyes open tomorrow, where will you be? You don't know.

You're sending yourself out blindly. Did you have a friend who would bring you home? I mean, where will you be? You don't know. You're just sending yourself out blindly. Did you have a friend who would bring you home? I mean, how did you get home? I would say, let's get blackout, meaning everyone blackout tonight. You never drank like that, Noah? I did, but I always knew who was going to drive me home. Good for you. Even though he probably shouldn't have.

I was in New York City, though. It was like, we'll just take a cab or something. You know what I mean? Sure. Yes, yes. I have been in a cab. But I guess at the end of the night when you're blackout and you're in a cab with a stranger, something works extra in your brain.

You can't fall asleep. You have to make sure you get home. Yeah. But it feels like at some point you're so drunk there's nothing that any nothing there's no saving you like it's it um i love john mulaney's joke about how he would black out um i really related to it and i loved that he wrote it because i felt so alone with this but i would black out after like three beers oh because my body just but i knew what was happening because i had heard the mulaney joke before this started happening to me.

You know, this is after drinking for years, but I would take like a couple beers and then but he said his doctor said he's like, why do I black out after a couple drinks? And his doctor said, because your body like knows where this is going. It never doesn't go that way. So it's just it's like they're shutting down early. Oh, shit. And I was like, oh, oh my god like lights out like let's just shut it like we know we're closing no more customers are coming in let's just shut it down and so um i really related to that and that's kind of helped me know i had a problem comedy can heal you i used to do that at the deli that i worked at i worked at a deli when i was for a

long time and sometimes it would be like the deli's closing at nine and I would lock the door at like 730 and turn off the lights. And then people would come up and they'd be so mad because they're like, what the fuck? It's not even.

People don't know that small businesses, they can set their own hours. There's no law that makes it so they have to be open. But when you are a customer, you just feel like you said you would be. it's just like well to be fair the owner of the deli wanted it to be open but i mean let's just say you're a man who owns the deli and you wanted to close early that night yeah um yeah it happens in small towns like you're you're on the deli but you're also the

fire marshal and it's like well i gotta close down the deli to go but it is is so enraging when you are a person who is oh my god going to a restaurant or something or like you just feel so entitled like but google said and it's like what entitles you to this business right now it's like um it's uh yeah so uh gang stalking yeah that is a interesting subreddit and um really opened my eyes to a world i didn't know and so did um i'm just opening my eyes to so many new subcultures orange theory i mean i feel bad that i like i felt like i would bad mouth them in some way or made fun of them yesterday i want to be clear like um i even went i told my pilates um instructor about going to orange theory and she was like oh i thought you were gonna love it she was like i love it so it's something that

pilates instructors do love ones that are so i'm not making fun it's not a bad workout it actually is good just wasn't for me because i just um i don't need that i don't it's too loud the music's too loud and the guy talking is too loud and i'm a little sensitive uh sound bitch lately i if i wore i if i went back i would wear um earplugs yeah but um you know what's been loud lately that i really am mad at is the airplane speakers like when the why is that so loud and piercing thank you good point it's one out of ten is truly causing damage to people's eardrums yeah they are within five feet of that thing like the people seated closest to the speakers are in hell it's not okay and you are such an asshole for talking way more than you need to i've been saying it for years but no one no one needs to know the

speed of the wind in the city you're landing in no one's ever felt been interested in that unless it's like 60 mile an hour winds we don't give a shit that or what direction the wind is coming from yeah why do we have that information why are they why don't you tell us where we can pick up an Uber when we get in? Because there are no signs. I feel so bad for anyone who's sending their parents to a new city to figure out where the ride share is to get their Uber X. I am an experienced Uber finder. And airports leave you high and dry. There's no one around.

There's no one to ask for help. If there's anyone working in a baggage claim, it's these two ladies that are trying to get you to go mormon there's no there's no like help desk there isn't or you have to talk to anyone you have to go into one of the offices and there's already people lined up because they're back there's just no one around and it is so hard to find if you are in charge of the layout of an airport did you all get together and decide that we are going to make so few signs about it? We don't want them to find it. What is in it for you to not have people find Uber?

What's in it for you? I need to know. In LAX, it just says LA exit, which isn't a word. It's such bullshit. They tried to brand it and make a special exit. That makes no sense. Can you imagine you're from a foreign country and you land in LAX and you're trying to find an Uber or a way to get around?

LAX is not even something that you could look up what it means. It's so fucking confusing. I'm not kidding you. I just get sad when I struggle to find these ride shares. I always just think about my mom landing in a city by herself for a girl's trip or something and how it would add an hour to her already struggling day where she's carrying a bag like make it easy for old people you assholes make more signs be more explicit so yeah why doesn't the pilot talk about where that no that's so funny he gives you use he's just like the winds are going to be 60 miles per hour the city was founded in 1870 and guess what none of it of it is ever stuck. The river is flowing

at three miles an hour. But I'm not kidding you. Have you ever not heard the wind speed of the city you're about to land in? No, they always tell me the wind speed. And I go, looks like my catamaran's not going to happen this weekend. And have you ever even thought about, when they say that, does it make your mind do anything?

Mine, it just goes, it flushes right away. It's like when you flush and you poop and you flush and so it never even sits in the bowl it just goes right down auto flush yeah yes oh you don't even have to flush sometimes yeah it just goes as you're flushing you you you flush splish splash that's what that information does through it never even touches the bowl for me it's worthless i'm sick of it and it's too loud you're too loud and i know i got loud on this rant too but i did try to move the mic away from my face while i was screaming which pilots man some of you like to be heard and some of you flight attendants like to be heard and sometimes

i'm in the mood for it sometimes i like a little joke but most of the time i'm not but i just turn up my airplane noise it's none of my business some I like that they're trying to be cheery, but if they're a little bit cunty with that cheeriness, I don't care for that. That is really annoying to me. If you're trying to be funny, but you're just being mean. Cunty cheeriness? They're trying to force their cheeriness on you, and it's like, I'm in the middle of a flight right now.

It's not cheery, though. It's saying mean things and being being like um and you know we what's an example i kind of like the one where they're like we don't want to we will take your we will find your airpods and they will be on ebay by the end of the day like i don't like that it's like a teacher that's like a it's just when they get kind of when you can sense their yes when they we've all had teachers like this what teachers that would be funny about stuff that they need to tell us and teachers that would be funny but it's cruel and they hate you and there's a simmering hatred for you i can just you're not masking it as well as you think you are women and men who get snarky funny just women leave men out of it

it feels feminine to me whatever it is it is a feminine thing of like being because guess what i got it in me too i love being mean with jokes but it's not the funniest you can be and it's not pleasant but i do love being vindictive with jokes so i get it too oh yeah i'm a flight attendant in my soul um all right we have to take a break and we'll be right back 2025 is bound to be a fascinating year. It's going to be filled with money challenges and opportunities. I'm Joel. Oh, and I am Matt.

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Can we stop? And I'm not really even mad at the person making the announcement. I know they have to do it for work. You can't be. I'm not mad at the corporations for trying to offer you credit cards. Who yet? I'm mad at the fucking people who take the pamphlets. There's people that are-

People don't take those pamphlets. I see people- They must, though, because they've been doing it for years. Yes. They wouldn't do something for years if it didn't work. People must be taking these pamphlets well these people want these miles well can't you just get a credit card somewhere some other time sometimes i'm even a little bit like you're so right hey you guys let's all agree to not take those pamphlets

anymore to send a message that we'll do it on our own time and they'll stop if they're not getting sales from that but actually they might still take it as a sale because they might track that that person who got that credit card the next day was on a flight before and heard the pitch. It's just free advertising. Dude, it is. Capitalism is a battle for your attention

and anytime that they can get your attention, they will insert an ad. You're not even kidding. I'm kind of surprised we're not getting, like, there's not an airline that just plays ads the whole time and it's like 10 bucks.

Oh, yeah. Spirit's about to do that. I bet you it's coming. Yeah. I just came up with a great idea because I bet people would take a $50 flight and watch ads the whole time.

Wait a minute. I mean, you do get ads when you're watching the videos, even on the apps. You can opt out of watching the videos. In this flight,. You can opt out of watching the videos. In this flight, your eyes are kept open.

Yeah. It's like the opposite of a conversation. And you're marketed things for people like you who are willing to put up with. She pieces of shit. No, poor people that have to do this. It will be mind control. That be getting sucking yeah i mean i i can't imagine people like i signed up for disney plus so i could watch era's tour and i i sign up for i have i'm lucky enough to be able to afford premium versions of things where i don't have to watch ads on these streaming and when i see an ad i get

like if anya pulls something on her phone and i have to watch the ad before we watch a youtube video together i just go like send it to me friendship like i can't i won't do this but it is it's so disrespectful that they're like if you can afford it you don't have to watch this slop but if you can't we're gonna sell you a bunch of more shit so you'll be even more poor so then you can't then you'll have to get the version that has six ads instead of three because you're gonna buy so much shit you're gonna be even poor it's like why that's cruel to make people pay so that they don't have to suffer like i don't know what the solution is though am i crazy but back in the day when cable first came out wasn't it commercial free i think that was maybe like the draw of i i can't my dad would know because he started in the cable industry when the cable industry started in 1983.

I think my dad started and worked until 2013 in the cable industry. So he would know but I think HBO certainly is and was HBO only has ads for HBO shows, which I like and it's like a trailer. So it's fun. Yeah, it fun yeah it's fun but no one watches HBO live anymore and do you want to know how I know because my special good clean filth was on HBO the other night on TV I got not

one DM about I didn't get any more new follows I mean I didn't check follows because I don't really know what that is or how to check that really unless you're paying close to the number but um i didn't get any like dms about it i didn't get any like mentions of people putting on their story like usually if my special is airing people people don't care people aren't watching the only time you would watch hbo as it's like just airing is if you're my parents and you have good clean self already programmed into your system so that it will alert you when it's on or you're at a hotel and you just got in and you have good clean filth already programmed into your system so that it will alert you when

it's on or you're at a hotel and you just got in and you haven't had time to put your streaming stuff in sure and you just want to eat your thai food because you landed late and it's cold and you just go okay i'll just see what's on and you fit you've put on fox because they always have some fun game shows um you watch beat bobby flay he's on constantly and that's a really good show to watch but um can i say that um uh my favorite shows if i'm just turning on the tv it's i'm gonna go to fox and if i'll watch late night but usually when i land it's like i usually or like get back to um on like a friday night from a show late night shows haven't started yet i want to go to bed and it's um i will watch i will check out what fox is showing because

there's usually like a song about like um or like a show about guessing celebrities singing or something um beat bobby flay and then um what's the other like a movie that might be, that I haven't seen yet, which guess what I have not seen. And this is criminal. Okra. Or no, that's not a movie. Okra. Okra.

What? Okra. I have not seen that. Well, no, I have not seen that. This is a movie that, okay,

this is, this is one of the classic comedies of, of my era, of my generation. No, of my generation. No, of my generation. I'm not 60. Clueless.

I'm like at hot. Great guests. Noah, you are on the right track. It is a legally blonde. It's when I'd already been doing comedy. We're talking to early two thousands. No, I have not seen Miss congeniality,

but that's not the right answer. And I have also not seen sweet Congeniality but that's not the right answer and i have also not seen Sweet Home Alabama or Legally Blonde which i know is gonna blow people's minds but i don't really care about hot women being like i know they're funny it just didn't appeal to me and i don't know why it still doesn't i'm sorry but this one is like men can't believe super bad no super bad it's amazing i went on to see super bad american amazing but in that it's it's right with anchorman in terms of importance to people oh wow and it's not old school but it's right there too euro trip no i'm sorry no i don't know

if i've seen your 40 year old virgin no that's a great guest virgin is a good guess. I did see that. I loved it. Dude, Where's My Car? Loved that movie. American Pie. No, amazing. But we're talking later. And we're talking, okay, let's... Harold and Kumar. No, I did see Harold and Kumar. Wasn't a huge fan, but definitely a classic.

You need to see... Road Trip, also a classic early comedy. This is going to be... Jurassic Park. Okay, Will Ferrell has a cameo that's one of the greatest things ever. Oh, um... Dodgeball.

Oh, boy. Not old school. Not Dodgeball. Anchorman. Will Ferrell cameo? Yeah. That's the greatest thing ever? I didn't know about it.

I may have talked about it on the podcast. The Lego movie? I literally saw a clip of this, and I go, I've never seen this Will Ferrell scene. He's sitting on a couch, and he's like eating cereal in a robe, is what I i'm remembering but maybe that's not it and and vince vaughn is no uh owen wedding crashers wedding crashers i've never seen and i think it would

probably be one of my favorite movies um but there is a scene with will ferrell in it that's i have to say it's one of the funniest things I've ever seen in my life. Do you know what I'm talking about? That scene? No. Wait, have you seen Wedding Cashers? Definitely.

But I guess I don't remember the scene for some reason. Really? He's like calling to his mama. He lives with his mom and he's talking about, he's like the original guy that goes to weddings and crashes them.

Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's kind of like Jerry O'Connell's role in Can't Hardly Wait, where he's like the old guy that comes back, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's kind of like Jerry O'Connell's role in Can't Hardly Wait, where he's like the old guy that comes back and he's like, yeah, I used to do this. I used to be the coolest guy on campus.

Remember that scene? Yeah. That was so good. Can't Hardly Wait's the best fucking movie. You know what I watched on a plane? Hmm. The Holdovers. Did you see that?

Oh, yeah, I've seen it. Yes. Let's talk about it. What did you think of The Holdovers? What is that? I haven't heard of it. Paul Giamatti plays a teacher at a private boys school that's kind of like a, what is it called when you send your kids away and you get them out of there?

Boarding school. Boarding school, thank you. In the 60s. A curmudgeonly teacher from a boarding school who's- With a lazy eye. With a lazy eye who is stuck taking care of several kids who are not able to go home for the holidays with their family and he's just a stinky curmudgeon professor who smells because he has a actual body condition that makes him stinky so he's just like

unattractive and like he has a weird eye going one way and he's just not and he's bitter about life and he's bitter about his place in life and he could have been more and all these things he wanted he could have been an author and he's what about the character you're just describing paul giamatti that's so funny so he did have to wear a weird eye and i'm like he could have just been him it doesn't you know like his eyes are already doing something fun um but something fun that would be great that's like a that's like a a mom or something to that but their kid your eyes are just doing something fun honestly it is fun because it makes him who he is to watch like yeah no i love paul and i've been horny for paul giamatti especially in that amy schumer sketch where they like make out i've been like oh my god he's hot so i don't feel bad

saying that about him because i actually am attracted to him so um but anyway in this movie he plays this professor and then um he gets he has to stay with the kids who don't get to go home for the holidays because their parents suck or alcoholics or have abandoned them or are just like you know mom's got a new husband so she's going away to the bahamas and so these all these kids get stuck at this boarding school over Christmas break. They have no school. And the heat shut down. And Paul Giamatti has to watch them. And hilarity ensues.

Now, it's not hilarious. It's cute. He's amazing. Paul Giamatti's great. The boy's great, even though he's way too old for the role. But it still worked. There's one scene later on that was maybe a pickup that they did after he had you know filed for uh aarp um no he was really yeah it was a lot in the parking lot

at the end i guess it was just the end yeah and he looked a lot older because the all of a sudden the lighting you could see like fine lines on his face yeah not wrinkles but like oh he's he's older than and he was like driving a rental car what oh yeah you can't do that till you're 25 okay so then so it was good yeah but best picture nominee no way i mean i really loved it i didn't yeah i don't know what a best picture should be these days but i don't either so maybe that's i thought it reminded me of goodwill hunting and i love goodwill hunting and that's why i was like oh goodwill hunting just 20 years later it didn't seem as like raw as goodwill hunting it's maybe not quite as raw there's like a more a sheen to it but it was like a new england school mentor mentee dead poet society was my

favorite that's that's on the if we're going we're going dead poet society is the most fucked up then goodwill hunting then holdovers holdovers is lighter than those two yeah i didn't like that dead poet society as much as goodwill i loved it so much i haven't watched it in years but i remember seeing it in high school and declaring it. It is my favorite film! I loved it. I was obsessed with it in high school, and it was really old by that time anyway, but I just loved that the ending was not happy.

And then that's the guy from House. He was the guy from House. Not Hugh Laurie, but Hugh Laurie's boss. I don't know anyone else from House, but I do know all the other people in that movie. Ethan Hawke was in it? The main character, the main boy in Dead Poets Society was in House. Oh, I didn't know that.

I actually haven't seen him as an adult. I know that one of the boys was so cute and he ended up being the guy that was on news... Radio? Newswork. Newswork. No. cute and he ended up being the guy that was on news news radio news work news work no off the the the aaron sorkin thing about a newsroom newsroom uh-huh newsroom and then he's on something else too maybe the good wife i don't know he's he's great though he's in a schumer sketch as well one of my favorite ones where they are Josh Charles oh my god I had the biggest crush on Josh Charles me too

why is he so hot because it's kind of unassuming I loved him I don't know you know what he kind of has a vibe of another guy that didn't get a lot of like girls being swoony over who they should have been swoony over Steve Zahn

don't mess with his on do you know who i'm talking about brian noah's gonna find out in a second steve zahn z-a-h-n oh yeah okay so was it that thing you do he was like the goofy drummer i guess no no he was the bassist i don't know what he was um and what else is even uh joyride diary i don't know i'm from these things what will you go back for saving silverman no that war for the planet of the apes no yeah that thing you do go before that and what was he in before that um strange wilderness no you've got mail you've got mail you've got mail that's what it is yes that's what he was the guy in the bookshop that worked with meg ryan who was like so adorable oh

god there were some 90s guys that played that kind of character the other one was jerry mcguire the the manny he was the nanny that was the man i was very attracted to him as well in the 90s yeah oh but that thing you do is one of the best movies of all time like i don't know if it's best picture worthy but it's uh it is the most watchable fucking thing tom hanks kills it tom scott everett kills it and that's where that song's from yeah and they don't even just have that song they have they even have so many songs in that movie that are so that song is so good it sounds like it's from the beatles it doesn't even sound like

good like a movie oh my god live tyler is so beautiful and so perfect in it um but tom hanks is just great as their manager it's just a great movie and i love this i just love it like i love any movie that deals with like show business i always whenever i would pitch ideas to people to develop i'm like okay so it's like set on a tv set and they're like people don't americans don't really have an interest in this like the regular americans the morning show i know there's always like exceptions but by and large 30 rock people 30 rock i know but 30 rock wasn't a huge hit it got six seven seasons i'm just saying it i think tina fey would say it wasn't a it is one of the best tv shows to ever exist without question but it was not a it was a critical hit

but i don't think it didn't great numbers but i've just heard the feedback i've gotten from um the world and this was like maybe three or four years ago when i was thinking about making a show um a average person doesn't really interested in the inner workings of hollywood they're just like they don't really care and there are exceptions to it but like by and large that is not they just want to see like things that represent normal mostly normal life but it's hard because i don't really relate to those like whenever they're like nikki let's do your character but if she was a photographer and i'm just like i don't know i would kill myself if i had to do that no offense

to photographers like i would never have done that and so i can't think like that but then you go okay well then it's not me so i can't be a photographer photographer. Nikki Glaser can't be a photographer or whatever. I just picked photographer. I think Whitney was that in her show, Whitney. And that actually worked. And it would work. I just found it interesting that people are like, no, we don't really care about.

Like Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, people weren't that thrilled about that show. And I fucking loved it because I'm interested in that world. And I'm not saying this is all people. I think there are going to be a lot of besties who are like, no, I love that world because I'm interested in that world. And I'm not saying this is all people. I think there are going to be a lot of busties who are like, no, I love that world because you guys are savvy and cool.

People are interested in the police, the fire, and the hospitals. Those are the jobs they want to see. First responders. And science fiction. Can I just say, science fiction to me is as off limits of an interest as heavy metal

music to me. Oh, I don't, I don't understand it. I can't relate to like it. It's just, I know it's just, but,

but there are some things that you guys would never, ever like, no matter how much time you spent with it, you couldn't, and that's not true. I think, yeah, there's just certain things that some people are totally into and you just go it's

just not for me and i don't science fiction i don't really like other worlds that are just invented out of nothing and my mom the other day said the same thing she was like i just don't care about yeah like fantasy stuff i can't get into it either but the people that are into it are so into it that it makes me want to get into it because it seems it's like sports fans or being a swifty might i say like i want in because i want to i love being because it seems it's like sports fans or being a swifty might i say like i want in because i want to i love being a swifty it's one of my favorite things because i care so much about something and know so many details about this thing that's like wouldn't exist if it weren't for her mind so it's the same thing for rr tolkien or what jj rr am i confusing

people jr tolkien jR. Tolkien. Is that right? J.R.R.? That's Lord of the Rings. I thought it's Tolkien. Tolkien. Yeah, yeah, yeah. K-E-I-N. I didn't know how to pronounce it, but get it together.

Or what's his name? George R.R. Martin. Wait, why are there so many R.R.s? In science fiction. What does it stand for? I mean, it's... Yeah, R.R. Ronald Reagan. J. Abrams? They insulted... J.J.? in science fiction what does it stand for I mean it's yeah RR Ronald Reagan

J J J Abrams they insulted JJ they inserted the RRs after the 80s to support Ronald Reagan

and they never took them out JJRR Abrams JJRR yeah yeah isn't it JJ Abrams or is it J Abrams it's JJ Abrams yeah you gotta have the double letters hey what's up jj yeah i think so that's kind of cute i don't know if i i just call him dad wait i have i have um a i just had an idea i don't want to forget to say it because it's

about the planes way back when we were talking about planes no go back capitalist plan spirit airlines if you want to hit me up i can be your marketing manager they should at the end of the flight when you're walking off the flight they should hand you a book of coupons for things that are in the city that you landed in whoa and they can make money from the businesses who are like I want to be in the coupon book and it's just like another way to how would people not be doing that that is like just money to be made and then you get the coupons and then you're like oh look $5 off a free

donut and you're targeting people who are visiting your city and want to explore and already are like they're on vacation so they're of the mindset of like spending money but saving money it is a brilliant plan. I could just see that book scattered all over airports where people just dropping it. Yes, but just like everything else.

And they don't have to take one if they don't want one. It's kind of like the credit card thing. Yeah. Do you want a coupon book? You can get a free book tour. I like this idea. I know. Or just an app.

We've got to start a business. We've got to start a business. It'd be an app, Brian. It'd be a coupon app. And it's an app for people who travel when they land, they, yeah. So? Okay. We can start.

That's an easy business plan. We need seed money. We need now. Okay. So the app is that you, it's for people who travel, who are tourists in towns. And then if it senses that you are in that location it unlocks coupons for you that you won't know about till you land in that city that's right that's right okay i just added that thing to it so it incentivizes traveling there and it incentivizes like i'm special so

i'm unlocking something and you get free stuff every once in a while there's giveaways and things like that you land in chicago and then boom free boat tour free architectural boat tour for you and well can i can i pitch a thing that i want to do i want to start a swifty account on my instagram that's just for swifties and you pay five bucks to subscribe you know how you can do like close friends yeah it's a subscription service so that's where i put all my swifty content so i don't have to get made fun of by people who aren't Swifties. Yeah. Well, you can have their subscribe on Instagram now.

Yeah. So I think I'm going to do that. But I feel bad making money off of her. Like, I think I'm just going to add it up and donate it because I just don't want I don't want anyone to think I'm doing this to, like, get rich. Like, I just want to be I want to talk freely about Taylor Swift. Yeah. Without anyone without Tim Dillon seeing it. That should be a feature of Instagram because I have the same problem with my apples.

Blocking Tim Dillon. I do cartoons on my page, but I was like, I can't post Apple content on my cartoon page because the people following me for cartoons don't want to see a bunch of Apple shit. They should have a way not to have separate profiles, but just a way to divide your profile up into categories so that if people want to follow that section, and it's the same amount of followers all gathering up in the same place, but it's divided. How would you do that, though? I don't know. Instagram's got to figure this out because

TikTok's going away. We need them to enhance their user experience. All right. Well, they're on it. They're listening and they're tuned in. This weekend, Gary, Indiana, Cincinnati, Ohio. See you there, besties. Check NikkiGlazer.com for all my tour dates, which there are tons coming up.

And also, get your calendars ready. April 11th. April 11th. I don't know what day of the week that is. Let's look it up real quick. April 11th is an important day because F Girl Island, which has been renamed. It's a Thursday on the CW. It's got a wonderful new name.

F Boy Island didn't do too well on the CW. Let's be honest with ourselves. We need the views. This is not something that's just like, oh, I can skip that. Nikki's my friend, but she's fine. I need you to watch F Girl Island, which has been renamed to Lovers and Liars because it's a...

It's a brilliant marketing strategy. F Boy Island didn't do great, so we're leaving it behind for this, but we are an F Boy Island spinoff. It is the same gameplay, but instead there are three guys looking for love, and it's a bunch of women Who are either F girls Who are just there for the money

Or nice girls Who actually want a relationship And it's Fucking wild So good This is the thing With reality shows They're either lovers

Or they're liars Or they're liars Lovers and liars CW April 11th Guys I'm not kidding If you liked FBoy Island Or if you didn't even watch

FBoy Island I'm not kidding you It's so much better because the more girls for a reality show, the more insane. Set it to record. Set it to record now. Lovers and Liars, April 11th, CW.

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