The Nikki Glaser Podcast - #465 Childhood Trouble, Is Nikki In A Cult? & Lake Living... It Up!

Episode Date: August 29, 2024

Nikki wanted an extended hang, so she invited her sister Lauren to join the pod. They got to reminiscing about childhood trouble and laughed about the time they really ticked off Julie. Over the weekend, Brian hit his 'spiral of insanity' while making small talk. Nikki's had a major epiphany after listening to a Sam Harris pod and is wondering if she's low-key in a cult. As she climbs the Hollywood ladder, Lauren will need to be her mouthpiece. Nikki couldn’t vote for her own Emmy, Brian definitely had the worst roommate ever, and after hanging out with mini Taylor Swift phenom Kellen, Nikki might just turn into a full-on lake person. 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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Welcome to the show. It's the Nikki Glaser Podcast. Coming at you from St. Louis, Missouri. I'm here in studio with my sister, who is kind enough to join us last minute. I was just like, Oh, just saw you at the parents house. Yeah. And inviting me. Yeah. And then I was driving home. And I was like, Do you want to do the podcast? And you were like, Sure. And I was like, Yes. Hell yeah. So I'm so glad you're here. Thanks for being here. Brian Frangie is here. What up, Bri? That's right. your sister from another mister that's what we

call you and then uh noah is here as well hi noah hey guys um everyone have a good weekend you know what i went to trader joe's and i had an interesting interaction with the cashier where she said i said how are you and she said great and i said you're great where she said, I said, how are you? And she said, great. And I said, you're great. And she said, yeah, I think so. And I was like, wow, that's amazing. And she said, how are you? How's your weekend going? And I said, honestly, it's, it's just like, fine. Like I'm doing chores. You know, it's like, I feel like I'm on my deathbed. I'm not going to like, remember this weekend. yeah one of those and she was like oh that's that's a good point that's a good point i said what about you and

she said yeah i don't think i'll remember this weekend either and then i said okay so it's not great it's not so well i mean so yeah i mean i just uh it's just interesting that you asked me that because i feel like i've gone off down like a spiral of oh right like you've already been through this of like what your weekend was and it was one of the ones that won't be remembered. But I feel like I'm losing it. No, I think you're so right. I just, the more I look back on, you know,

pictures that'll pop up on my photo feed of like, this was a year ago or whatever, or just memories in general, like big things can happen and I still don't really remember a lot of them. Wow. And it's just general like big things can happen and i still don't really remember a lot of them and it's just even big things like even big stuff i can kind of be like oh like i don't remember the details of it or you know oh there was one we ran into a girl lauren and i were at dinner with our parents and the kids like a week ago or so. Oh, yeah.

And this girl that we went to school with, that Lauren was friends with when we were little, she was there with her kids at the same playground slash place to eat. And Lauren said to me later on that this girl said to you. She said, oh, I saw your sister. And she was like, yeah, I remember your sister smeared shit all over my face. I was like, what? Little shit on your face? Yeah, when we were young.

She said at the mall, there was your birthday party. It was like a birthday party. And I smeared shit all over your face. But if you hear that. Must have been like a Bath and Body Works lotion. It totally was not actual shit. Definitely wasn't. shit all over your face but if you hear that must have been like a bath and body works like it totally was not shit actual shit definitely wasn't but i had to clarify i was like that is just so uncharacteristic did you say shit did i said i i literally i said was it literal shit i asked her

and what she said no it was like something else okay and so that girl remembered that because that probably really embarrassed something I did really embarrassed her. Whereas from my point of view, like I don't remember that. Like if I were to really embarrass someone or like devastate someone's life in that way that they remember it for that long, I it would have it would have landed on me. I would still remember it. But to me, it was probably just we were smearing icing on each other's faces or something. And I just probably went a little too hard because I could be a little too aggressive sometimes just because i would get excited but i

don't think i was ever like i want to make this girl feel bad yeah and i probably did something that was embarrassing to her at the time and it to her that was a moment she'll never forget like we all those moments of like where we tripped and fell or we someone smeared shit on our face and to them it was like totally nothing because i don't even remember this party i don't remember Like we all those moments of like where we tripped and fell or we someone smeared shit on our face. And to them, it was like totally nothing because I don't even remember this party. I don't remember her. I don't remember anything about this. But I do know that one time I snapped a girl's swimsuit and she had remember that girl that was our friends with Kelsey and Jamie and Lindsay.

And she went to the water park with us one day and the cousin. Yes. And Jamie and Jamie and Kelsey's parents drove us. So our parents weren't there. And we were playing in the back seat. And she had, I guess, the week before slid down a tree, like fell off a tree or something. And got really scraped up on her back. And I, like, didn't remember that when we were all snapping each other's swimsuits.

And I snapped hers. And it, like, broke open her scabs. And she started bleeding everywhere. And I got in so much trouble. It was probably, she probably doesn't even remember it. But to me, I got in trouble. So it's like, I even tell that story being like, am I going to get subpoenaed? You have like shame around it. Yeah.

Like I can't, I get a little bit, I'm like already like closing up on myself. Like a little, like a crustacean. Even talking about it. But no one else in the car even remembers that incident and to me it was like the biggest thing so memory is all just subjective how did your parents like not punish but how do they reprimand you like when you say that you got in trouble how'd you get in trouble i got in trouble from their parents like the like her aunt who was my neighbor's mom i just remember her being like

why would you do that you know like that kind of thing of just not getting in trouble but just getting yelled at yeah and i just didn't get yelled at that much unless it was by my mom and by my mom i just sorry it just didn't matter to me when my mom yelled at me she yelled no offense mom you're definitely listening but she would yell a lot so it's just one ear out the other if you do it too much your kids don't care or respect you because i never i never got was scared of mom were you i think one time when we shared the be pretty cutting with her words i was scared when she when we spilled the nail polish on the carpet because i knew that was like that that wasn't able to clean up we We were so scared. We were terrified. Like, I don't even know.

We weren't scared of physical harm. I put like, we were just messing around, painting our nails. And we used to share a bedroom as a kid. And I put the nail polish bottle on top of your head. And she swiped it away. And it went all over the comforter, the it was on those disney comforters forever i still remember the it was like a magenta right yeah yeah it was everywhere it was all over this like it was like a white bookcase my mom had just painted like a really creative like she'd spent

all this time painting this like cool bookcase or not bookcase but like dresser drawer or was it the bunk bed that she painted yeah bunk beds yeah it was all over the bunk beds too it was all over and i mean devastating and i remember that was the only time i was very scared of mom but otherwise we weren't like punished as kids i don't i feel like we were good kids i was really good i just didn't but that's why not because mom and dad can't understand why my kids are so badly right right well, right. Well, why were we good? I don't know. Compared to your kids. And your kids aren't like bad, but they don't listen.

They don't listen. They have their moments where they're just like, do whatever they want. Yeah. And they literally, yeah. And then, yeah, mom and dad were just trying to school me

the other couple days ago. What they say. And I'm like, what are you going to do? You have to get these kids in line. I was like, he's a two-year-old like he's not i don't know i think it's frustrating yeah i mean they they yeah they have i don't think their way worked that well we all turned out fine whatever they're gonna be fine but i don't know what to do like i wouldn't know what to do either because you kind of do the opposite of what your parents do and then they walk all over you my mom said

you gotta spank them you just gotta do it and i was like mom i didn't really respect the century and having your kids be frightened of you and the spanking doesn't work it either makes them it's either yeah and it's just exactly yeah well but even that you're upsetting everyone no one likes you when you act like well mom and dad used to spank us but i didn't respect it because it wasn't hard enough it didn't really hurt so i wasn't scared of it i would just kind of be like embarrassed for them that's why i would say didn't hurt every time yeah you would go didn't hurt didn't hurt and dad would always make fun of that and it's like but they didn't hurt us so it was like so dad would always make fun of that. And it's like, but they didn't hurt us.

So it was like, so I honestly was kind of like, you're pussies. Like, put some shoulder into it. Like, I kind of was like, it should hurt more than this. And this doesn't do anything. It seemed like, why would you do that to your kid? I guess when I look back when I was acting out, I just wanted attention. I just wanted someone to care about what was going on with me. Like I'm like, because I was never bad to be bad.

And that is all my children's behavior is attention seeking. That's all it is. Yeah. So what do you do? How are you feeling? Like, do you just like start to care about the stuff that they're showing you and stuff? Because you already do. I can't picture a mom who cares more than you.

Like, what more do they want they just want constant attention i don't know i mean i we try we try timeouts they don't really work i try to be just the calm parent talk things through and just take away like if they're throwing a ball let's take the way the ball you know just take away that the weapon, whatever they're using that they're using improperly. Or just, I even do try to like, if you do this, you don't get dessert tonight. If you keep doing this, then. Consequences. Yeah.

We're no TV the rest of the week. Did it work for you guys to be good? What did your parents do? Well, this reminds me of a scene from the greatest movie of all time, Good Will Hunting, where Matt Damon gets abused as a child and he says my dad used to come home drunk and he would take out a switch a belt and a wrench and he'd say pick one and then matt damon would and then robin williams was like i'd pick the switch with that one son and then matt damon was like i picked the wrench every time and robin was

like why and matt damon was like because fuck them that's why oh i've almost uh referenced every single goodwill hunting scene on this podcast i think you have except uh how about them apples well i'll never reference the most famous scene yeah um yeah what did you did you guys get uh beat with things hands things hands but like and also yeah like with my family it was just kind of like terrorizing us making us scared which the repercussions of that as an adult is like terrible yeah not good like they would threaten stuff that you like if it if it did if you did that this is what would happen it was just like a lot of yelling and, you know, just like loud noises. Oh, my God. Loud noises. Noah sent this video the other day of a little baby, like a one and a half year old, I'd say, maybe one.

And it's playing on this woman's lap, probably its mom. And it's like putting blocks inside a thing. And it's just like, you know, pouring different things into things. And then like a person comes in the room and just starts arguing with the woman, like kind of just like talking like this. And I'm not doing like that, like kind of just that tone,

not even directed at the child. Right. Was it? No, they were sitting across the table. So the child was sitting at one side of the table, just playing with blocks, like Nikki said.

And then, um, I believe it was the mom, uh, comes in and then someone comes in and they start having a confrontation in front of the child. Yes. And the baby shuts down. Just completely shuts down.

Doesn't want to play with the blocks anymore. Even when they're done arguing, the baby's just kind of like staring into just space. So sad. And it's not even directed at the baby. Like the baby's just witnessing this like loud, abrasive talk. And I was just like that was trauma right there you know because you like you think about your own childhood and you're like well i didn't get beat and i didn't get i didn't watch my dad beat my mom and my dad didn't

beat me and my parents didn't like it wasn't there was no sexual abuse there was no physical abuse but there was lots physical abuse but there was lots of yelling around there still is there's still we just heard it this morning the grandkids get a get an earful for sure yeah it's just hard not to fall into that because even i do this morning like i went over there to drop off my dog while i took a pilates class like near their house and i just like fell into talking like that little zippy like that like naggy uh raised voice which i can sometimes bring into the house like it cannot be going on and then i bring it in because it's just like what i know and it's not like their fault it's what they grew up with too

a for show um because more so than we did. Yeah, exactly. It's just almost... Do they expect everyone to just be perfect people and perfect parents constantly? I feel like society has been functioning pretty well with a bunch of angry and parents. It's getting pretty bad, Brian.

I don't know if you've looked around lately or done a show that highlights uh haven't you just recently show run a show that highlights the polarization of our country and how angry some people are and out of touch certainly but i feel like it's unavoidable like people aren't perfect and i feel like babies the quicker they get used to imperfect people the better yeah yeah there's a there's definitely an argument for like what are they gonna do when they first get yelled at by an adult if every time they ever have any kind of conflict it's like now how does that make you feel well we don't like to do that like they're gonna fucking you know this is i'm not the i'm the millionth person to say this in probably

a week on a podcast but it's like they they definitely i remember the first time you get yelled at by like a different person or it's it's jarring but you survive it and yeah like your kids are now going to catholic school and you were kind of excited lauren because you were like oh they're gonna get some like some real discipline discipline just from like from not from their parents just i think different expectations than um have you noticed a shift even just like with one week of school is there they come home singing religious songs oh does jesus love them yes he does yeah for the bible tells them a lot oh that's good yeah my little sister went to catholic school and she didn't become a big catholic no no one does most people don't special just came out okay

chad daniel's his special he was like i don't think there's a bigger contingency of people than a the group of people that used to be catholic and are like oh fuck no no he's like that is the biggest group of people that there is in this country. The weird thing is, is that the parents that send their kids to this school, none of them are religious at all. And they kind of have that same mentality. But there's just not a lot of choices

where we live in the city. Right, to get to a private school? Yeah, it's a private school and everyone lives around in the same neighborhood like my kids could walk to school which is so great and I wish I would have learned a little bit of religion I was thinking about it I'm like you know it helps you to be a good

person there's lessons in there you're learning the golden rule and you know Aesop has got that covered too we could just stick to his fables and there's no doctrine that you need to follow and you're gonna burn in hell but they don't teach when do they learn about hell? When do kids learn about hell? I think now.

Immediately? Really? You've got to instill that into their psyche at an early age. Well, Arlo is going to have his first communion this year and he's not even baptized

so we have to get all three of our kids baptized. What? Can't you just lie and say he was or do you have to have paperwork? Well, then you'll go to hell. You'll get eggs by lightning.

You'll straight to hell. But if you don't believe in any of it to begin with, Lie about your child's baptism that's like the i just worst thing you can we have to do it all right like the only kid that doesn't let's take him to the y today dunk him in the water in the shallow end and have an old man say some mumble some shit over his head yeah and have his mom and dad next to him kind of crying or whatever they do. What do people do? There's nothing lamer than seeing people getting baptized in like millionaires pools. Like full grown adults.

You gotta do it in a lake. It's so sad. I mean, I guess it's like a great experience to like give your life over to something. I do feel that way when I became a Swifty. I feel like it was like this is it's exciting to embark on a new thing. That's going to be you, that you're going to like throw yourself into fully love completely. And when you just like,

it really is like a religion, except you are like a Jesus person. And I was actually listening to Sam Harris today and he was talking about cults and he was talking about how, you know, the cult of Trump and stuff and how, like, if you disagree with him at all, you're kicked kicked out like you either love everything he does or you're

kicked out and i was like that fucking sucks you should be able to disagree with anyone that you politically align with and still be able to like them and vote for them and have their constituents like you as well but with trump it's like if you got to be on board if you say anything bad about him you're out and i was like that sounds a lot like being a swifty because you're not allowed to ever ever within the swifty community say have any criticism taylor and i obviously have criticism taylor because i have criticism of fucking everyone there is and you should because no one's infallible but i will not ever speak of it because i'd because also it's come after you and it's not important because she does not have political sweat I mean she could but she she does I don't need to voice my criticism of anything that she

does because it's only putting negativity out there I'm not I'm doing it because I'm scared because of the cult of Swifty but I'm also doing it because it's not it's I'm tired of people commenting on things negatively when they don't really, even though that's something I enjoy doing so much and I will miss as I get more and more famous. You just can't do it. Instead, you just ask your parents their opinions about things. That's my new thing is I have my sister on

and I go, what do you think about? And I say a show that we've watched together and I know she feels the same way I do and then she says it and there's nothing on the line for me. Yeah. So look for more of that

in the podcast because I can't really share my own opinion anymore. Actually, I absolutely will but I like Bobby Altoff. Do you know who that is? Uh-uh.

You definitely know who that is. She does like interviews and she kind of like talks like this and she's just like, she's really pretty and she's like a young girl and she just like interviews like different rappers what was that

she doesn't emote in her interviews yeah she's just like you have a podcast so explain your shoes and she does it in bed you know she like yeah she's so she's just captivating to watch her name's bobby altoff i'll send you her stuff she's you will be obsessed but people all they write under her shit is like you've ruined your face you filled up your face too much because she got a little bit i don't even know she got filler she got botox and her face looks better and people are just so fucking jealous because they can't afford to do what she does so they have to be like you ruined your face or guys like want to fuck her and they're frustrated that they can't you ruined your face and yesterday she was just like you're such a loser if you write stuff like that look at your life what are you doing with your life i don't like if you want to

do what i do because you're jealous clearly go do it the internet's free to put stuff out on do your own thing leave me alone and i'm like and chris was listening to it being kind of like they're not all losers it doesn't take that much to write you ruined your face like they could have really full lives and i I was like, a good point. Good point. In between picking up their kids from after school, volleyball team.

They're like, Oh yeah, you ruined your face. I was like, yeah, you're right. They could be like trading on the stock floor and just being like, you ruined your face.

Like they could have really, they could be earning lots of money and feeling great about themselves. But what I do think is that you're a sad person. If you write anonymously a mean thing to put online that isn't like reviewing art and like if you're just commenting on someone's face to be mean i've wanted to do it before and you know where you do it you do it in your dms with your best friend you send you send bobby eltoff's face and you go she ruined her face to your friend and by the way bobby el Toph did not ruin her face.

She looks fucking better than ever. I'm obsessed with her. And anyone who says she ruined her face, you're just jealous because her face looks good. And you wish you could look like that, but you're scared to go to the doctor and get stuff in your face because you're a pussy. Just ask your sister what she thinks of Bobby L. Toph's face. Oh yeah, I would. I should.

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Bobby took down the post where she was calling people out so i i don't want to it's that's the clip where you can really see her face uh and um but she was like you got another one i can i mean i'll send it yeah yeah i'll there was a show i was gonna ask you about but now everyone will know i don't like that show if i ask you about it even though i've asked all my friends about this show to be like am i the only one who's not into it because it feels like it now i gotta know what it is and and i i'm not the only one i think everyone's masquerading and acting like they like the show huh the crown no no i can't say let me say, if you are a true listener, I will drop hints throughout the course of these episodes.

And I won't even. I'll figure it out. Not today's, because it's too obvious. But people I really like and people who I admire make this show. And also, this show is not bad. And if I made this show, i'd be really upset at someone who is nitpicking it the way i'm nitpicking is it a comedy and to be honest with you i'm

that's a great question brian one of maybe the best questions that you could possibly ask i think i know exactly what you're talking to what it is i'm not sure if it is or not now no i i'm not even like it's it's well into a uh let's say possibly fourth season and i'm not even through the second season you just gave it away for no i didn't no i didn't i didn't you the answer i did a fake number just now um and i'm well i'm not even halfway through what is out there for people to consume. So I'm not. We've never talked about it before. And I've been on the phone, like on my phone watching it.

Here's my problem. I need two times the speed. Thanks. I need 1.5. And you can't do that on a TV. You can only do it on apps. And I'm sorry to people who make TV and movies. Things are changing.

I just consume faster and I want things to happen faster but i will there are a lot of things i like about the show and i should have started with that but now i check your phone okay let me check my phone and see if you got it right you go nikki no no no no no damn i was so sure ted lasso is what brian guessed and I will say I love Ted Lasso. And I actually didn't finish the third season because I was savoring it too much. And now I wait because I just it was like a treat that I would let myself have every now and again. And and then I don't think I ever finished it because I just treated it out too much. And then by the time I went to go back, I was like, I got to watch more episodes. There's so much TV I have to watch.

Well, it's coming back. It's going gonna have a fourth season what wait i kind of heard that yeah well yeah it's like the major players are coming back the major players yeah oh so it'll be roy it'll be um there's still there's still what's her name feeling out keely keely oh keely you do a good impersonation of Keely. Do I? Keely. I used to. If I watch enough, I can do good Keely. But she's- So good.

Is it? So good. It is spot on. The only one that they were like confirmed not coming back was Jamie Tartt. Oh. Well, we can do without him. Yeah. He's great, but the show can go on without-

Will Ted be back? I got to assume. He's like the show can go on without would ted be back i gotta assume he's like the ep how could he not well i was just think i was honestly thinking when i heard that they were just gonna take like everyone who like they were gonna take all the supporting cast and make a new show and probably bring on as many people as possible but it would be called something different but it would still be in that world and maybe they'd buy the rights to it and pay off whoever i could see keely having a spinoff i would i would love that spinoff and did she and i don't even know if she ended up with roy or jamie they were both coming at her and i think the third season oh wait do you i don't think i finished the third season yeah what the fuck is wrong with us because it was good i'm not gonna be able to accept keely in that role after seeing her in fargo oh god she was so good in fargo i hope she wins the emmy for that i voted so hard

for her for that i loved her because at first i was like i don't know if i can believe keely in this role and then she was just really incredible oh my god that was so good that show was this your first year voting in the emmys or yeah yeah guess what? I didn't get to vote for myself. Why not? Chris and I both were voting and we're like, where's my category? And we were like, what the fuck? And so I wrote my publicist. I'm like, I can't vote for myself.

Voting's closing in a couple of days. And she was like, I'm looking into this. This is crazy. And she had just gotten a text from, I think alex edelman who also said i can't vote for myself and i go well that's weird because i can vote for alex edelman or no no i couldn't vote for alex so i was like i could vote for the tom brady roast and i was in that so i'm like if it's about being in the thing why can you vote for it if you they make it so if you're nominated you can't vote for yourself which i think is so dumb because i remember in third grade i was

running for class president and i remember asking mrs pickett can i vote for myself and she said do you think the president of the united states does not vote for himself yeah i go oh my god you're right why shouldn't i be able to vote for myself why couldn't you can't and neither could chris because he's a producer on it they like really got in there and made it so you can't vote yeah so i can't vote on i can't vote for you either because i'm not asked to vote at all oh really i don't even know how i got in something i just i want to know about the process what is it what happens you have to agree that you've seen at least one of the things in each category that you vote on so it'll be like

outstanding dramatic series and then it'll take you to a screen that goes do you have they'll give you all the nominees have you seen at least one of these and then you say yes and you lie and then you vote for your friend no that's not what i did i had to say a lot i had to say no to some things because i hadn't seen it but i'd seen one thing in most huh so just one day you wake up and you got a random email i mean i'm sure there was a lot of process behind it that I could have looked into and been like, oh, you know, maybe me presenting at the Creative Arts Emmys last year got me in. I don't really know. But I got to vote this year. Or maybe me being nominated this year got me in. I will say I'm devastated that I wasn't nominated for Best Reality Show Host.

The CW just doesn't, they don't, what's it called? Nominate, elect people. They don't put forth their people. Why? Because it's $900 a submission. I was like, I would have paid it.

I literally would have, I could have been nominated for, I could have been nominated twice. It would have been awesome. And I should have been. for I could have been nominated twice It would have been awesome And I should have been I worked hard on that show And I just feel like it would have Happened because But $900 they were just like

And you know it's If they do me they have to do everyone within the CW And that's thousands and thousands of dollars That they probably don't have Why couldn't they have asked me Like hey we can't afford to do this. Do you want to submit? Give us $900.

I would have done it in a heartbeat. Yeah. And so Jeff Probst will win again or whoever. But yeah, that's coming up. That guy's swimming in Emmys. He's drowning in them. Yeah. I'm trying to think of a TV or movie

So Chris votes also? Yeah, Chris voted this weekend as well. How many times has he voted? Is this his first time too? I think, no, he's been nominated. He has an Emmy, so I don't know. Oh, for what? Wait a minute.

He has an Emmy for, I think, storytellers that he did with Adele. Wow. I could be wrong. I didn't know this. Yeah. Emmy Award winner, Chris Convey? Yeah, it's-

Wow. I don't even know where it is I think it's at Curren's his brother's cabin because they were using it he gave it to Curren to for like a pussy magnet like just to have in his apartment

to have like a girls come up and be like it's a real Emmy you know like just for fun because he was like I'm not using this and so it was at Curren's forever and I think it's

probably like in storage somewhere I don't even know but hopefully he'll he'll have another one that we can – We'll have two we can put on the mantle here. What are you guys – are you and Matt watching anything good? No, not really, actually. Are the kids watching anything good? Just kidding.

That's all we watch. I swear, we don't even get to watch TV. That sucks. I know. What do you do with your free time? Just go on your phone? Oh, I just watched the what's the

Scott Peterson. Oh, yeah. We already discussed that. He's innocent, right? Oh, completely 100%. Why is anyone debating it? Isn't it hilarious? His family is just in such denial. Oh, it's sad.

It's so sad. Yeah, it's so sad. It sucks so much that he didn't just divorce her. I know. He sucked a fucking pussy. Why did he have to kill her? Yeah. And his dumb mouth never, his mouth is the only thing that moves on his stupid face.

Everyone's like, Nikki, there's new Scott Peterson interviews on Amazon. I'm like, I have no interest in watching that marionette talk and his his he just is sad on the top and just mumbles on the bottom he's awful to watch he's awful to look at he's such a lying miserable piece of shit i the idea i just can't even i can't even believe that that thank god for amber yeah i i had a gripe with it but i shared with on the podcast oh really okay i think they could I just can't even, I can't even believe that he's. Thank God for Amber. Yeah, I had a gripe with it, but I shared it on the podcast before. Oh, really? Okay.

I think they could have gotten a confession out of him if she would have just acted horny for what he did. Yeah. Can you imagine if she would have just been like, Scott, I know you did it. And I just like, I want to help you like not go to jail forever. Will you just tell me like where you put her body? I'll go look for it. Like if she would have just been like, it's so hot.

Like I'll help you. Yes. And he would have been like, okay i i dumped it here and like if she would have even shown the slightest bit of wetness over the fact that he killed his wife he would have been like i did it yeah i really think so he was so stupid but thank god for stupid i mean thank god because he got caught but like um yeah i'm i'm really my mom watched worst roommate ever last night she goes she texts me worst roommate ever oh my god i told her to watch it and i go i haven't seen it and she goes wait who lauren must have recommended it is it good uh the first

the first two episodes yeah really good okay yeah really good just each one is a different story that's the way it is with Netflix stuff. Like the first two episodes, you're like, I get it all. And then the third one, we're looking for something gruesome. And there's a lot of violence. I mean, there's murder involved. There's, you know. Wow.

But it's every story. Every episode is a different, you know, a different situation. I had a bad. I should be on that show. What was your roommate situation? Well, in college, I had... Oh, wait. Yeah.

You had a really weird one, though, in New York. Oh, God. I've had a lot of terrible roommates since I just bring it up. But in college, I lived with a child molester. Oh, my God. What? I didn't know it was a child molester.

How did this happen? Did he get busted? Yeah. Well, I think I might have told this before, but he uh he was a friend of one of my other roommates and we had like an opening so he came in i didn't like know who this guy and um he was really weird the whole time he was this like scrawny mustachioed man which is like now that i'm thinking that's kind of fits the bill and he would be drunk all

the time and he would do weird things. Like if my girlfriend at the time would go to the bathroom, he'd like stand outside the bathroom and then like drunkenly knock on the door to be like, are you in there? Are you naked in there? This is like, can you,

and I'd have to go out and be like, can you not bother my girlfriend while she's in the bathroom? So he was a weird guy the whole time. And then one day while he was at class, the police just came to the front door and they said um is this guy there um he's wanted for child molestation oh my god yeah and i said well no he's in class and they're like can you get him to come back and then me and my

roommates plotted to get him to come back by calling him and saying that we were all going to Applebee's and he had to come back right away because we were trying to get half-priced apps. Oh my God. Yeah. And then he came back. This is the line I always say.

He likes half-aged ass, not half-priced apps, but okay. He came back expecting spinach artichoke dip, and instead he got the opposite. He got arrested for child molestation. Oh my god! He came back to the house, and it was literally like the TV. The cops hid around the corner, like behind a bush,

and then he walked up to the front lawn, and they ran out and tackled him. Whoa! Wait, so were you working with the cops cops like sharing the like text or like his computer or something like that so that they would know yeah did they did you get details of how they caught him yeah well that's that's like even that's like really sad they caught him because the kid uh who got old enough to start talking about it. Good. Yeah. For that kid. It was like his cousin or something, and it wasn't like,

it was like a, he probably was drunk, and he did some questionable things in the guise of potty training. Let's just put it that way. Oh, dear God. Yeah, yeah. Oh, God.

And then the kids started talking about it oh my god actually this is so horrible i don't even want to like talk yeah we don't have to get into it but wait what i want to know is were you guys like fuck we gotta find a new roommate was there like a part of you that was like shit because that is taken away yeah you gotta cover his rest yeah i actually don't know what we did after it was pretty close to the end of semester so i think we were like i think we felt like we could handle it and also i just assumed that he would continue paying his rent i actually don't know what happened after that in terms of rent that's a good question i don't remember but yeah he got taken away in cuffs so i never saw him ever again So you were in college during this time? Yeah, this was college.

And then the guy who knew him went to his court case and was following the court case. And the guy never went to jail. He was released on parole. And then several years later, he was spotted in Indianapolis and he had become a goth. So that's the end of his arc. I mean had become a goth. So that's the end of his

arc. I mean becoming a goth is if pedophiles have to run free I hope they become goths because kids are not like drawn to goths. And you wouldn't employ a goth at a place where kids are

like being or working. So it's kind of like a deterrent. Instead of knocking on doors, pedophiles just have to dress up like goth at a place where kids are like being, are working. So it's kind of like a deterrent. Instead of knocking on doors, pedophiles just have to dress up like goths. That's your punishment. You're never going to let your kid hear one of those. That is interesting. Like it would keep people,

it wouldn't make, if you got like tattoo face gothness, it would make it so you wouldn't get employed anywhere that you could work with kids it would be like a permanent like keep kids away kind of thing yeah yeah all right that's interesting um this weekend a tonal shift um i got to um go see that boy from Instagram perform Era's tour and it was so awesome. It was Well you didn't just get to go see him

You performed with him You were like his backup dancer Which I didn't know was going to be part of it So I was in Battle Creek, Michigan for Friday and Saturday. Shout out to every bestie who came. It was sold out shows. It was so fun to be at. So fun to just do two nights in a row and not have to travel.

And like, we were like at this casino with me and Ari and Sean and Anya and Emily, my social media girl, shout out Emily. I know you're listening. And, and then Emily and I stayed for Sunday and went, drove two hours to go see Kellen and how this all came about,

which I didn't really remember how i even found out about this little boy was that the the there's a girl named alissa who's neighbors with kellen and she's friends with his dad and he lives with you know he spends part time with his dad and part time with his mom but his dad's house used to be next to alissa and alissa became friends with the dad and everyone and she loves this little boy and it's like it's like her aunt his aunt you know and Alyssa and Paul her husband Paul saw me on Jimmy Kimmel talking to Kamal about my love of Taylor Swift Paul was like Alyssa you got to see this because Alyssa is a big Swifty and Alyssa decided to tag me in the video of Kellen that she first put up and so that's how I saw it and was like oh my god this kid's amazing and then he kind of goes viral within the swifty community and um and then yeah and then i told

this other day but she was like hey you're gonna be in michigan i wish we could come see you but you know kellen has a show that night and i was like what do you mean he has a show that night and she goes oh well he's doing the he's like doing a show in his backyard on saturday and i said man i would go see it but i have a show and she was like well he'll move it to sunday if you want and i was like okay and so sunday i just stuck around extended the trip um everyone on the tour went home except me and emily and emily and i drove got driven by the casino two hours to this lake this house on a lake which is a beaut oh my god this guy's neighborhood is so cute he's a little boy he's nine he's turned nine kellen and his sister emory who is 13 i think and she was like a stage manager and the dad is like the sweet guy i love i think named chad i

want to maybe didn't hear that correctly but i remember it was chad and then alissa and paul and then his grandmother was also there it was just us seven and we got there and we hung out they had a fruit tray and a veggie tray for me they had like skinny pop and all like they had my writer it was so sweet and then i gave kellen some presents that i got at target i bought him like a um a taylor Torture Poets outfit like this like white dress with a black choker and black gloves and he loved it and he was like I already have an outfit planned for that and I was like

it's totally fine you don't have to wear you don't have to like any of this I made it very clear I never liked I don't like giving gifts to kids because I always felt like as a kid I had to act like I liked everything and I always felt kind of embarrassed for, I had to act like I liked everything. And I always felt kind of embarrassed for the adult that was giving me stuff when I got stuff that I hated.

And so I even do it with your kids, Lauren, whenever I give gifts. I'm like, it is so okay if you don't like this. I don't care. You can always be honest with me. It's not gonna hurt my feelings. Don't pretend you like something. Just never be,

I don't want kids to ever have to be fake to appease adults. Unless you spank them and then follow the rules but um so he was really sweet he loved it and he was so cute and then the show we were just like okay let's like mosey onto the backyard and we sat down and he played lady gaga intro music which is like the song that plays before eras there was a countdown and then he comes out and does all every single era almost i think he skipped no he didn't skip midnight he it started getting late because it was taking a while and his outfit changes and he had to hydrate because it was really hot out it was like in the 90s and he's wearing these like elaborate costumes and he's

giving it his all and dancing and everything so we they cut the short set list a little bit short and which that was what i was really impressed by because i was like i thought oh my god he's planned this thing for weeks like he has every song memorized he has all the movements memorized if we have to cut this short like we're gonna have a tantrum on our hands because i've witnessed that but he was just like his dad's like hey buddy you know i think we're gonna have to cut down some of reputation he goes okay let let's we'll do delicate. We'll skip. Well, we can skip that.

So look what I made you do. Like he was just so amenable to the skips and he had like he was totally fine with everything. He would like and then I was projecting a lot of myself onto it. Like, oh, my God. Like if I had put this all together as a kid and I messed up at all i would be like stop it we have to start over like if everything didn't go right but he was there was one part it's so cute i don't know if we'll put it in the vlog because it's like i don't want to ever embarrass him i just only want to celebrate the great things he did but at one point he like sneezed in the middle of like don't blame me lord maybe and he was like and just i six inches of snot just drips out of

his nose and he's still singing with it like swinging and then he just wipes it and wipes it on his like skirt dress thing and this keeps the show going he was such a professional he nailed all the notes he had all the looks and he he had practiced certain dance moves so he would kind of like look he kept raising his hand when he would need assistance and that just meant us like running up and and then he'd be like so you guys are just trying to break free during this and we were like we don't even know what that means like you just give us different dance moves he's like and then you guys twirl and then you're gonna do this okay and i was like i don't know what that dance move is and he'd be like no actually it's it's more like this and he would just nail it and show it and i'm like

this would take me weeks to learn, Kellen. And he's telling us like on the fly. And me and Alyssa were like his backup dancers that he asked to like come in every so often. He was just like so cool and sweet and like wanted us involved and it didn't have to be perfect. It like taught me how kids can be just so magical

and lovely and just, me as a kid could never have done what he did because i was too scared of what people thought i was too scared of not being perfect even now i'm like wow like i gotta let go of some of my perfectionism because i was even trying like starting to project it like where i was like why don't we do that part again kellen like you can really you miss that but he would just keep going and just pick up where he left off and there was no like i'm so dumb why did i mess that up which i see in your kids they do that a lot of like i'm stupid and like so i was worried that it was gonna happen but he was just like so easy going go with the flow so sweet and his sister was 13 and so appreciative of like him and like helpful and

doing the costume changes and the music cues because sometimes he would he would do all the music like the tour so it doesn't go exactly with the tracks in the song so it'd be like you have to do the first verse and then you have to cut to the bridge like you can't like and so there was a lot of different like cuts being made and his dad was like okay buddy you want to his dad was so worried about him hydrating because it seriously was so hot he was like okay so um you're gonna wear this dress for it or you're gonna wear this one like thank god for dads like kellen's dad because kellen's spirit in with another like in a child that has a different kind of father or mother or like thank god for the family and the people

around kellen because he is a beautiful boy who is just so more himself than even i am after 40 years of trying to be myself and he is just and so is his his sister emory um they're just such beautiful kids that are like so loved and like allowed to be themselves um in this just like just sweet supportive way that is just it's everything that's good with it made me like so proud to be an american oh it was just like this like michigan on the lake performing boats were coming by like what is going on like me and kellen are just singing all too well and people are coming by on paddle boards like what what's happening? And it was just so sweet. And Emery was starting middle school today.

Sorry, Monday. And she was like, I'm starting middle school. And she kind of knew the gravity of that statement. She was like, well, I'm starting middle school tomorrow. And I go, okay. And I'm like packing up my bag. It's like the end of the night. And I'm like, I'll tell you.

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So scary And I go listen you're a smart girl I'm sure you've heard about how tough it can be And she's like yeah And I'm like it is tough It's gonna be tough Kids are mean It sucks sometimes

But please remember no matter what happened you're gonna have the best time but you're also gonna have some really bad times just as life but just please and she didn't ask for this by the way i'm just like listen to me i'm like holding her shoulders like you gotta listen to me what's adam sandler and um what is it happy what's the billy madison where it's, he holds the kid's face and it's like going like, that's what I'm doing to this girl. I'm like, it's going to be hard.

I was like, but none of it matters. I promise you the thing that seems like it's going to devastate your life and follow you around for the rest of your life. Like something that maybe some kid latches onto and makes fun of you for and the whole school knows about it. It means nothing. I promise you, no matter what, none of it means anything. And then I was like, well, that's just disparaging the whole experience.

That's just like invalidating middle school is just it means nothing. You know, because sometimes I tell mom, mom will be worried about what she's wearing. And I go, no one's looking at you, mom. And I don't mean to say that to be mean to her. But I'm just saying, ease up on yourself. No one's paying attention to this much detail of your shoes plus the socks. And she goes, that is so rude. And I'm like, no, I'm not saying no one sees you.

But she's taking it that way because you do feel less seen as an older woman. You messed up your face. but she's taking it that way because you do feel less seen as an older woman but i just mean like face i think for the kids though it's hard to imagine the future so much no because they're living so presently yeah i was thinking like would this have landed on me like obviously i'm trying to say what i wanted someone to say to me back then but i don't even know what i would have wanted to hear like if i don't know what she perceives me does she even look at me as aspirational is she even like i hope i turn out like this girl like i'm putting all that on that like yeah she's probably looks up to me she doesn't care i mean she was like will you move here like it was kind of cute she was like you should move here because i was like chris and i should get a house up here it's beautiful oh my god god michigan's gorgeous i was

like i want to live here like why not like not? Like, what is holding me in St. Louis except for family? You can sing Taylor Swift's Helen all the time. You should have pulled her up to you and said like, listen, you have to know this about middle school. Your friend Jen is a bitch and she will betray you.

And that would have been, I think, more effective wisdom. What do you think? Like, what do you even say to these kids? Because I don't know that. Be sure of yourself. Like, be confident. Like, that's the biggest thing.

If you don't care what people think about you. But how do you impart that? But you can't bestow. I know, you can't. I think it's just hard to know. Just know, like, you are an amazing person. You're a good person. You have so much to offer.

Well, I think it's fucked with me that, I think that is good, but that takes a lot longer than just like, here's 20 seconds of me giving you a pitch. Like, I was trying to think of the elevator pitch for like making it through middle school and to me it's about I just always thought things would follow me forever I really did like I just thought there was no way what trauma did you have you know like people finding out I peed my wet my bed okay people finding out that I picked my nose in sixth grade and that girl saw it and she told everyone people finding out that my backpack is from goodwill or like whatever the fuck it was like

or me wearing ugly shoes one day and one kid saying something and then everyone like kind of knowing that I have ugly shoes like little shit like that would be like I'll never outgrow this and I don't know if anyone telling me that I would that it doesn't matter would have actually landed but what didn't help which I think is said a lot is that high school is the best years of your life or childhood like I wish I could go back to middle school was the best that

fucks with you because you go oh well then if this isn't good what's the point of any of it and then I'm then you know I just I just want to prevent kids from ever hurting themselves because that is something that like i just feel like when you have such an underdeveloped brain and things seem so catastrophic and be that there are kids that do that and you hear stories of that it's like when i was in middle school i didn't hear about kids

doing that and i think if i would have it would have been like maybe a thing i would have been like maybe i'll try that so i just like i'm trying to like this girl's really strong and she did have a strong sense of self and i'm actually not worried about her but she's gonna be okay because of the home that she lives in sounds like her parents are very encouraging and non-judgmental and i think that's rich that's what're not rich. That's what kids need. They're definitely fine. I mean, if she's got a cabin on a lake, she's going to have plenty of friends. It's not a cabin. It's just a house. But that's what I

liked about it. That's what I like about Michigan is that these people don't seem insanely rich, which I think I'm kind of disgusted by. They just seem like they're doing great and yet the lake is nice. Like, it's not like,

I feel like there's lake living. I'm sorry to, like, when Chris talks about getting a lake house in Missouri, I'm just like, where people just like dump, you know, Red Bull into, like, they'll just like, we'll fill it up with,

you know, Red Bull because there's a drought. Like, who cares? They're like fucking catfish and they're like coming all over different like i just feel like i don't know if that's missouri doesn't really respect i just feel like lake living it's just like disturbing wildlife plunging through this off-roading through these rocks and messing up all these ant like you don't realize when you're like off-roading through shallow creeks and driving through all this shit you're killing thousands of organisms

literal thousands if not millions of species of animals because you're like i love nature disrupting their habitat yeah and being loud in michigan just felt like people have like i'm sure there's that going on there too but i'm like i want to go to michigan lakes where it seems even though flint is notoriously dirty water like the water seems purer it doesn't seem like people are disrespecting nature which i just am always like what if sorry to get political final thought if you love the if you love hunting and nature so much why do you want to vote for someone who doesn't give a fuck about any of it? If you love wildlife and buck hunting and being out and camping and off-roading and four-wheeling and all fishing, which I think a lot of people enjoy, why do you want to vote for someone who wants to ruin it all?

Who doesn't give a fuck about any of it? Why? He doesn't believe in climate change. That's the difference. They don't believe in climate change. Well, that's actually a helpful thing. That actually makes sense to me. Because if you love nature and you don't believe in climate change, you think that everything will be okay.

And I think that is, I just answered my own question. They just think everything will be okay. But just know that if you enjoy parks, they don't have any respect for those. I will say this. I've been to a great many national parks in our country. And by far the most despicable park I've been to because of the people was Hot Springs, which is in Arkansas. And going there, it was like there was like a motorcycle and loud car parade happening 24-7 down the main street of Hot Springs. The people were disgusting and awful.

I could not bear to be there for longer than five minutes. It's not everyone down there. And everyone in Michigan is not like respectful and just like smelling the air and just only listening to like, you know, gongs chiming as they meditate by the lake like listen this happens everywhere but there is we loudness in nature fireworks setting up fireworks around nature it's disgusting it really is something that we need to like look into and be like wow we need to wake up and not do fireworks anymore on fourth of july because it makes animals abandon their babies. They're freaked out. They don't understand it.

They don't know that you love America and that's why you're doing it. Like they, they doesn't, they're not like, wow, that's beautiful. Beavers aren't like, look kids.

Like it's just, they salute. They say George Washington. That's the only time you can get them to do that. It's like, there's a nature is being totally destroyed, but like, you're right.

Like I, I don't like going to, Lauren just said, and I hope that you didn't think she said anything except that. Because when you were talking about, when you were talking about Arkansas, we, we know some people from Arkansas.

And one time, um, they were, we were kids and we were hanging out with these people that we are friends our family is friends with and like the kids were telling it which they were just like teenagers like trying to be like kind of they were like preteens yeah

they were talking about yeah we like we were like what are they're like we're gonna see some we're like we don't know what that is so we just kept calling them because we didn't know we come to find out they were saying naked live hoes really fast so we just called them nega la haos now the people that's talking about like strippers yeah they were going to see strippers and they were 11 years old yeah and these little

boys were going nega la haos and we were and we thought it was the funniest thing. We still joke about it. We still did. 25 years later. The solution to fireworks is forthcoming. And if you kept up with this current season of America's Got Talent, which I... Oh, drones. That's right. Oh, so you know about this. Drones are the future.

I have seen the drones. It's a peaceful firework and it's beautiful and you can get much better visuals and shapes and words. I think that people are going to say fireworks are lame. Drones are what's... I can't wait for the turn on fireworks. We saw that in Vegas.

Remember we saw the drones in Vegas? Yeah. Yeah. I feel like they're already using them a lot. But I can't wait for it to be embarrassing to use fireworks. I can't wait for that turn in culture where we realize, oh my God, this disrupts the environment. And first of all, dogs.

I think it's just education. Nobody is, I mean, people are slowly realizing. Yeah, that it's affecting. That's not gonna work. Making them slowly realize that it has negative effects on nature is not gonna work. It needs to be, they're not that cool.

They're lame. They're boring. That's how you get them to stop. Yeah, well, Chris sent me a bumper sticker of a guy in his car. He saw it on Reddit and it said, only gay cops pull me over. Or no, only gay cops give me a ticket. So it's only for like, he gets pulled over and then that cop has to make a decision.

The worst thing a cop, I can imagine the cop where this guy's from is like i'm not gay so like if he writes the ticket the guy he is saying he's gay based on the bumper sticker but he's also like can't give into the bumper sticker but like i think most cops would just go like fine i'll let him go oh my god i saw for his life a report that in there's like this i saw this like you know frontline episode type whatever tiktok where they were doing a news report about these these two black people in i think in the deep south that have like a trump store that's like pro trump and they sell this thing called the white privilege card and it looks like an american express card but it's like it's white and it just says white

privilege card like i'm white since blah, blah, blah or whatever. And the reporter goes, who buys these? And they go, white people. And then it goes into this whole thing of people that were buying the cargo. Yeah, I give this. When they ask for my license, I give them this and I get let out of tickets all the time. Yeah. Yeah, I saw that too.

That was CNN segment. I can't believe that would work. So try it. No, I'm just kidding. I'm kidding. Vanity license plate. Did I tell you guys this? No.

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