The Nikki Glaser Podcast - #491 Talking Smack on Comedy, Oopsy Doggy & An Eastern Medicine Haul

Episode Date: November 22, 2024

Nikki and Brian have been talking smack all morning, so of course, it spills over into the pod. Brian gives his somewhat controversial take on the latest in entertainment, and Nikki’s here for it. Nikki’s been obsessed with English Teacher and is dying for more shows like it. She got legit excited when a friend told her she's on Brad Pitt's radar. After a little scare at the park, Nikki might have to get her dog a private trainer while she's away hosting the Golden Globes. Meanwhile, Brian’s trying to get Chris to join the ginseng craze, but Nikki’s already ahead of the game with an Eastern Medicine gift from a Bestie. They go off on the flaws of the medical system and pledge to meditate more. Somehow, they end up creating an "In & Out" list for the new year and agree that Seinfeld stands the test of time. In the Final Thought, they rant about pet peeves at the gym. 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.

Jon Stewart is back in the host chair at The Daily Show, which means he's also back in our ears on The Daily Show Ears Edition podcast. Join late-night legend Jon Stewart and the best news team for today's biggest headlines, exclusive extended interviews, and more. Now this is a second term we can all get behind. Listen to The Daily Show Ears Edition on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Here's Nikki. Hello, here I am. Welcome to the show. It's Nikki Glaser podcast, second part of the week. I'm in St. Louis. Brian's here. Noah's here. Brian and I were already texting this morning, talking smack. Talking smack. It's good to talk smack first thing in the morning. It really gets your day going. It really gets you going.

It's so fun to just send each other something and be like, what is this? Well, yeah, it's just more of just send each other something and be like what is this well yeah it's just more more of the same the industry is um just making the same mistakes over and over again and not realizing and they're not going to catch up brian has done the analytics on this and he is so right is this about the 60th season of days of our lives coming oh no Oh, no, is that a thing? That's a good thing. Yeah, I'm happy for that, that that's still going. Because I felt like soap operas would have died out by now. Not that one.

It's nice to see something last long at all. Like, this is the age of one season and done. To have something last 60 seasons is a nice thing. It's good to have a commitment. Without getting too in-depth and alienating the people who don't give a fuck about Hollywood and how it runs, what is the overall gripe, Brian,

that you think that they're, the mistake they're making over and over? That we are not making, like, we are now, because I have your brain incepted into mine, and Chris, too. Chris also is of your same thinking.

It's adjusted the way i do things even though i was maybe erring on the other side of things and and it's it's the wrong way to do it tell tell me about it okay this is controversial and maybe i'll get in trouble for saying this and i don't think i will but and this has nothing to do with the fact that trump just got elected i just want to be clear but truly for about the last 15 years hollywood and comedy only and i i can't speak to not comedy but hollywood felt that making political statements with being the first blank or breaking this ceiling or doing something with this type of person was more important than making something that people wanted to watch and for about six there's a six-year span where there was enough like liberal support for that that people would watch it even if they didn't really like it,

they would just support it. And that is ending. And what happened was, when comedy became that in the industry, there was this void of comedy, mostly for white men. I'm a white man. Mostly for white men.

The industry was not filling. And so that comedy went to the internet. And all of a sudden, there was this explosion. All of a sudden. All of a sudden. I can't stand all of a sudden. It's everyone. Smart people say it all the time.

They say all of a sudden. All of a sudden. And I would never correct you if you were a dumb person, because I'd just be like, ah, well. Did I say all of a sudden? Yeah, you said all of a sudden. I think I just slurred. Let's play it back. Let's play it back.

Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe this is my Jennifer Garner moment where she's like, actually, Conan, that's not a real word. And then they look it up and he's like, it is! Okay, go on, Brian, sorry. So then comedy went to the internet

and podcasts. And because Hollywood did not service those people, these white men and others, apparently now that Trump's been elected, apparently it's also Latino men and Asian men or whatever. But that's the problem is dicing up people into these groups and thinking that you can pander to these individual groups and give them like like if you're a woman you must want to see a show about a powerful woman being tackling women's issues and it's like that's not true you just want to see a good show i gotta be honest like i think women don't want to see that like i i i'm speaking for myself but when i'm going through a hard time in my life and i need tv to soothe me i don't want to see someone like living their best life and like doing thing

like i don't want inspiration i want kind of like um uh depression porn you know like i want things to validate the state that i'm in i want things i don't want to i don't want to watch aspirational things or did you like handmaid's tale no actually i was too disturbed by it i it was too real i just saw the first episode and i've based everything i know off the show based on that one episode i just didn't like i didn't like how like good men were like oh it's weird i'm getting your money well that's crazy babe i don't like this either like it felt like kind of the vibe post trump where it was like women were all really upset and men were kind of like yeah i'm sorry and you're just like yeah you should be even more mad but it's like well it's so weird that your money is

mine now well maybe we'll look into this and then they don't and then they fight kind of i was just kind of feeling like oh that's kind of the vibe of like they're mad but not mad enough and now i'm completely numb to everything like i don't my mom's like guess who's the oh god she picked up her phone last night who the fuck is mcmahon some wrestling person and she and i go i don't care anymore i literally you could tell me kid rock is the secretary of defense i don't care anymore. I literally, you could tell me Kid Rock is the Secretary of Defense. I don't care. He probably is right by now. I am done.

I've given up. Like, I've turned off my brain. I was saying on Girls Chat today that I felt like this country was a, had like term, you know, has terminal cancer. And was like stage three or four around the election and now it's it's definitely there's no we're off chemo we're not trying anymore and we're just waiting for it to die and i i'm just gonna enjoy it while i have it i'm not gonna like bitch about it i just i just you know i'm just gonna lean into it's great for me uh it's 65 degrees november 20th in St. Louis, Missouri. It's like, this is kind of awesome.

I don't have fucking kids. I don't have, I don't, I'm just going to stop. I'm going to turn off my empathy for a couple months because I can't really handle it. And I got to focus on work and I don't really have time to give a fuck about all the atrocities of the world. I just don't, I just don't have time for it. I can't do it. So just muting my empathy. And what are you going to do?

You're going to wake up every day and be upset every single day about something that you have no control over? I just said, Mom, put down the phone. Like, Dr. Oz. Of course, Dr. Oz. Of course, it's Dr. Oz. Yeah, Dr. Oz is in charge of Medicare.

That seems like an Onion article or an Onion headline. It's not anymore. We're living in the Onion and I am just enjoying the ride. Kid Rock is in charge of the geological survey because he's into rocks. Because his name has rock in it. Yeah, yeah.

That's going to happen now. But yeah, I think that with comedy, it's like, I think you're absolutely right. Like, Chris is always, you know, when we were working on my past two specials any kind of moment where i'm kind of like you know ladies or like you know just kind of angry at men in general which i've never really am it's always like i'm almost like i'm not i wasn't playing into that vibe or trying to serve that like wokeness it was just like it was almost saying it ironically at sometimes at some points in my set where i would just kind of make the easy joke about like about throwing men under the bus or being like, it's so hard to be a woman. And he just very gently was like, I got to be honest.

Like, I don't want to listen to this stuff. We already know it. It just turns me off and if you want if if i'm gonna have to listen to you complain about so and so is selling out this place and other that guy is selling out this place and i'm not or or any kind of complaint you have comparing yourself to people who don't make these kinds of bold statements or these kind of woke statements you're choosing to alienate people that would sell out those places by saying this stuff these little like cutting little remarks so that was not easy to hear and it was like a little bit of like oh so you're gonna silence me and you're gonna let this is the fucking patriarchy at play right now it i heard it

but i also was like you know what the people that buy tickets to my shows don't need to be scolded about who they are it's actually one of the parts about comedy i hate more than anything is when you group a whole group together and you like the tribalism of like you're all like this like even when i get into the stuff about like dads don't do as much as moms i always reiterate dads i am not mad at you i am not saying men step it up there is no part of me that wants that these are just the gender roles i'm just pointing out that it is there is a disparity but i'm not being like what the fuck like that's why i'm choosing not to be a mom because i know the roles and i don't want that role like i would want the dad role that sounds good and i'm not shitting on you by saying it's easier than being a mom i'm just i'm trying to make fun of the fact that these are the gender roles, not that you are somehow, you know, holding us back or whatever.

Like, I have to reiterate that because I truly believe that. Like, it's not a dad's fault that he's expected to do less. It's just it just is the way it is. And also, not every joke has to become a huge thing where you're making a statement about the patriarchy. It can be just you're just joking around about this and like i feel like even ali was watching this um a movie that came out in 2017 or something about billy gene king and did you know this story about how billy gene king um battle of the sexes yeah the battle of the sexes do you know this story about how Billie Jean King? Battle of the Sexes? Yeah, the Battle of the Sexes. Do you know that story? Very vaguely.

So I think it was the 70s, but back in the 70s, there was this like, quote unquote, misogynistic man who said that there's no way that a woman could be a man in tennis. Is that right? Jimmy Connors? I don't know. Yeah, I think so. I believe so. I still have to watch it.

I still have to watch it. This is like my cursory knowledge of things that I should know more about. Okay, yes. Anyway, I don't want to butcher this, but it was this huge event in the 70s where there was like a misogynistic man versus a feminist woman and they're going to have a tennis match and there were two matches and I don't want to spoil it, but there were two matches and they had different outcomes. But in the lead up to these events, the misogynistic man was being ultra misogynistic on purpose to like juice up the events and like a wrestling match and billy jean king was also rolling with the

punches and being like oh you think women need to be in the kitchen he's like women should be in the kitchen pregnant barefoot not playing tennis and she's like yeah well you know men should have their dick cut off or whatever and it was fun and everyone was saying it with like a little bit of like a tongue-in-cheek we're having a good time they had the tennis match and um if you i mean ultimately billy jean king came out on top and no one was like this is such a this is horrible that they were even talking this way. It was just fun. And that's what I feel like we should return to is being like, not everything has to be so incredibly serious,

where everything is an indictment on society. Well, there's a lot of activism. What? There's a lot of activism in TV shows, and sometimes people just want to watch a boob tube. They just don't. Yes. We don't need the

activism and comedy in our in any anymore i know i don't want to learn things sometimes right that's what happened feel that's why the the that's why people aren't watching those shows like well that's why claptor became a thing rather than laughter like with in comedy like you would just say a statement that people would feel like i got i got to agree with this so then they would clap and that it would almost take the it almost seemed to the naked eye that it was this person's killing because they're getting an applause break but it's just like they had nothing else they couldn't laugh they had to do something so that's what they did with it and it happens all the time it's like makes tv unwatchable i can't take clapping anymore like i i love thank you so much to people who make

tiktok videos and reels where you take out the laughter and the clapping because i can't watch stand-up because of all the fucking applause breaks and just like showmanship of just like basking in we don't i don't need to see that shit i can determine myself i'm not at home standing up clapping let's just get through it let's get to the next joke i don't need to see you being so grateful that everyone showed up to radio city or wherever the fuck you are like i don't care and i love when they when you watch these clips and i go, why is this suddenly watchable for me? Oh, cause they took out all of that.

Like there are some shows that I would, I would venture to guess. I don't want to call out one show because it's a friend of mine, but their show is probably 50% clapping at least. And I would like to someday with Chris time it because it's, it's one of these things that I, I always just do 10 seconds ahead every single time he hits a punchline because I know that it's going to be

well you know what I change the gender when I'm talking shit about people all the time and no one ever notices we know it's not Conan because you love him so who is it going to be Conan doesn't bask Conan does not bask I mean Conan needs to come back

I think I love conan so much i yeah i've been watching like old clips of his and it was just so silly and fun and he wasn't really um there was yeah there wasn't a lot of well that's what happened to the late night shows well i don't care i love jimmy kimmel and i am so grateful for his show especially the week after he won like i was just waiting every night to see what Jimmy would say, because I just felt like Jimmy has such a big heart and really put his self on the line by taking a huge stance on things. And I just felt like, you know, he'll he's the one that's going to pay the price if Trump really has his way with like, you know what I mean? Like he put his neck out there and is really extremely brave. I wrote him an email being like thank you so much because i really felt that way i was like i it was the only thing that week that made me feel better was watching his show and yeah it was just

it must have been hard to make shows that week i i you know i haven't like kept up with things but i'm always uh i'm such a huge fan i i love that Jimmy Kimmel is political. I'm not talking about his show at all. Obsessed. I do want to say it goes both ways, too. It's not just woke comedians doing woke things with the applause that's cringe.

It's also people on the right who are just repeating Fox News talking points as their comedy, which is also cringe it's like the point of a comedian is not to just buttress your political point of view it's to make unique observations and make people laugh and like i don't know george carlin george carlin was very political in almost everything he talked about and yeah and i loved it those were unique point of views those were his ideas yeah like it didn't he didn't seem to be straddling like any line it was just kind of like you know yeah he hated both

sides yeah exactly for sure well he would attack both sides but but he also he was he had his own unique perspective on things. And that's, I think, what a joke is. And right now you have people on the right who are literally just saying Fox News talking points as their jokes. And you have people on the left who are literally just repeating something that Rachel Maddow would say on MSNBC as their jokes. And instead of getting laughs, they're getting applause. One show that I'm obsessed with right now that is just like feels like a remedy, a balm

to my soul because it's so funny and like is doing exactly what I want from comedies and have craved and is just nailing it so fucking hard. I'm obsessed with English Teacher on fx i watched five episodes last night have you guys seen it yeah sean patton's on it he's amazing in it it's

so fun to see a you know an old friend who you started in comedy with just like latch into a role and like thrive he's so good i think it got renewed for season two already it's it better it is so from the get i mean the pilot is incredible the whole fucking show is so good it's so the the people talk like real people um the like there's just one scene where the guy's like talking to his boyfriend at a restaurant he's in the middle of this really big point and he's like and then he overhears the song playing he's like i love the song he's like and you know what it's about it's about principle it's oh fuck i love this song and it's about me standing up for what's right and it was just like that little moment like who thought to put that in the script like you see that happen all the time it's just so fucking real i just love it so much

i can't recommend it enough i wrote on you last night as i started the first episode i was like this is fucking great you and matt will love english teacher she started it immediately and was like oh my god we are obsessed it's just an instant you'll love it an instant in an instant and then my dad came home from tennis because i was watching with my mom while my dad was at tennis he came home he jumped in on episode five we were cracking up like hard laughs hard laughs on a show where you don't know the characters yet you just met them and you're already in like truly a plus a a plus i love this show and everyone is the performances are out of this world the the woman who plays the the female uh friend teacher um is so good the guy that created the show who's the lead i think they all write on it it's just it's it's brilliant it like yeah the lead is the creator he's amazing and it's not renewed for season two yet i just looked it up

it real it that is a travesty because it is an instant hit it is so fucking strong it just makes me think of how many strong shows are out there that just don't make it like i have so many friends who are like one of the best scripts I ever wrote in my life. It almost got made and then it didn't. And I go well where is it? Wasn't that 15 years ago? Why don't you dredge it up again? Why can't we get that back out there?

I remember learning my freshman year of college. At University of Colorado. It was the only class I ever retained any information from. That and a psychology class I took. But this one was about television. And he was telling. He was like how many pilots do you think get made a year and we all like guessed and he was like or get written a year and like considered and read and we were all like 25 and he was like it was like 500 to

a thousand and he goes how many do you think get made and then we were like i don't know 10 and he was like no like 70 i mean this is 2003 and he's like and how many of those shows actually go to to air uh it was like five and then how many of those become a friends uh one every six years it's like it's it's it blew my mind but there's within that there's so many scripts that are just would have been the next seinfeld would have been the next curb would have been the next 30 rock that just never see the light of day because it was just the wrong time. They just had a show already with that kind of

setting, or they couldn't find the right lead for it, or he was, you know, had a deal with someone else. It's like, I just think it's so weird in this business that if something doesn't, you've had things almost go, and then that thing is dead. You can never bring it back out again. The best script I ever wrote is sitting in fox right now and why yeah i don't know why don't they dust it off and consider it

again when they're having a slow season i don't get it here's what's infuriating is in despite every all those numbers you just said think about all of the horrible shows that do make it to air it's like how did that get filtered through a process of thousands to make it to series oh i don't know i don't know like are they i mean well to be fair there was this attaching an actor that's really famous nepotism i don't know sometimes and sometimes not sometimes just like a random piece of shit. Now, I do think that to make a show good, there is an infinite number of things that can go wrong. And even if you have an amazing script, an amazing idea, there's a thousand different factors that go into making a show good or bad. And if any one of those things goes wrong, if it's an exec, if it's a prop person, if it's anything, if it's the title, if it's anything if it's the title then you could

wind up having a piece of shit show so it is like i understand how these shit shows make it to air but yeah no i i agree it's like we don't need writers don't really need to write anything anymore there are dig up old scripts and then update them to have cell phones in them there are okay we gotta go to break we'll come back after this and we won't talk about TV anymore. Cause I know some people are gonna be like enough. All right. We'll be back after this. Jon Stewart is back in the host chair at the daily show,

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What do we have to talk about besides this theory? Anything going on in your guys' lives? I got, mine's pretty boring over here. It's just been like, wake up, go to Starbucks, walk my dog, go to the park. Oh, my dog almost got hit by a car today that was fucking terrifying i don't know what to do because i like letting her off leash it's like there's a huge fields for her to run she goes she gets out of the car and she goes like zipping and then she

gets so much energy out chasing squirrels and she just got a little bit far away from me because i let her go and she never runs in the street like Like, she just knows stay in grass. But then she got us, she saw a squirrel and she had to chase that dragon. And she just went across the street. And my, you know, I held my breath just being like, Nikki, if you lose her, this is your fault. And you can live with the consequences. Like, this is, you know, I like was like ready to lose my dog and watch my dog get run over. And she didn't. And I was, I screamed so loud my throat hurt afterwards because

i was just like and then i felt so dumb like i how can i let that happen and i can never let that happen again but i don't really know how to prevent it because that is our favorite thing to do is go and i will just chase her more every time she goes and runs i will chase her so i'll be close to her so that she never gets by the road. Can you catch up to her? She usually, like, I can let her go pretty far and she always comes back to me and never goes in the street. We've been doing this I mean, we've probably done this 50, 60

times going to this area of the park and this is the first time that a squirrel just got her to the edge and then that squirrel darted across the street so then she followed. And so I just have to stay I have a plan now that i'm just not gonna let her get near roads and i just can't and and that'll be because off leash yes exactly you need a yard i know but dogs don't like to run as much in yards as they do when it's like a

open field you know what i mean like you let a dog out in the backyard and it just stands there. Because the same smells over and over. Yes. It needs new smells. And on the leash, she just doesn't know how to behave on a leash and I'm trying to train her. It's just a fucking... Hire somebody. You can just hire somebody to train her.

Come every day for two months and then you'll have a perfect dog. Really? Or you give her to someone and they keep her for like two weeks, and they just do a program with her, and then they give her back to you trained. That's just perfect. Okay, that's interesting. I actually was thinking about what am I going to fucking do with her during Golden Globes, and maybe I'd take her to somewhere to go train in Los Angeles.

Yeah, because there's probably tons of them out there for oh yeah rich people who are on everybody should do that you know it's just so much it's you don't have to be responsible for teaching your dog how to how to send our kids to school right right exactly why is it shameful to not train like i don't i don't want to train i just i don't know how to do it if you have the money, then just pay to get your dog trained. And then in two to three weeks, you will have a perfect dog. Okay. This is interesting.

And I should have been doing this all along. Okay. Thank you. It's never too late. It's never too late to train a dog. You can't, you can't teach an old dog new tricks. Yeah,

that's true. I think that's true. She's so cute. I'm obsessed with her. But yeah, any, any news out of your life? Well, this is so fucking boring.

But I did want to talk to you about this because I wondered if you ever tried this. Have you ever taken ginseng? Oh, God. Like ginseng tea? No, I think I probably had ginseng infused Arizona tea or something. Oh, yes. No, I've never taken ginseng. No.

I mean, it really works. It really is. For what? For your brain? And how do you take it? I drink it as a tea. I've been talking to Chris about this. You're going to see ginseng popping up in your life now because Chris is on board.

More things he'll buy and not use. Yeah. So, well, so ginseng is like, there's ginseng is like there's american ginseng there's asian ginseng it's very popular in china like old men in china are sipping on ginseng tea constantly so much so that it's kind of like a joke like look at that old man sipping on that tea that's what they say where did you hear about it um i i've been reading you get into it right now well you know just trying to solve all my problems with herbal supplements but i ginseng tea works a lot like caffeine except it's not jittery and it doesn't give you a crash and i don't know how people with caffeine will respond to ginseng

because maybe it's not like powerful enough it's like telling someone who like does heroin to like do jumping jacks but it is like a replacement for caffeine and i was like there's no fucking way this works this is a bunch of you know you know chinese bullshit and then i drank a cup of ginseng tea and i really felt like laser focused and energized for several hours as if i drank caffeine did you just buy the ginseng tea at like the store like a normal store did you have to go to like a um asian food market and get like the real stuff i got it off amazon um it's one of those you know how there's like teas that are like this isn't tea this is medicine you know those boxes i got one of those yeah okay i actually a bestie just sent me she just opened a eastern medicine shop and she sent

me a bunch of herbal supplements and things that i've been taking that are supposed to like she was like i know you have depression and anxiety so here's what did you get ashwagandha i mean i could go get hold on let me go get the card that she sent me one second i got some supplements okay you hear oh my god They're so cute. Okay. So, she, the Eastern Philosophy is the name of. I think that is a bag of ginseng you have right there. The easternphilosophy.com. No, it's not. These are like dates.

Yeah, at the Eastern Philosophy. This is not an ad, by the way. This is a bestie named Nina Chang, C-H-E-N-G. She wrote a book called Chinese Medicine for the Mind, a science-backed guide to improving mental health with traditional Chinese medicine. It includes 35 plus herbal formulas for depression, anxiety, ADHD,

and more. She said, Nikki, I hope you enjoy reading my new book, Chinese Medicine for the Mind, and learning about traditional Chinese medicine's natural approach to mental well-being. I also included some other goodies from the Eastern Philosophy, my Chinese medicine online apothecary okay so there's relax plus which is i don't know how to pronounce one of the most researched herbal medicines for depression anxiety okay relax plus i've been taking it every day don't know what's going on yet but i've been

taking it for i think five days and you take little beads. It's amazing what they look like. They look like little sixlets. Do you know what sixlets are? They look like little beads. They're like the size of a bead that you would put on a friendship bracelet. And they're little black beads. And I don't know what's inside them, but I like it. So that's page 75.

I don't know. People have been like, I don't know. Whenever I was on the antidepressants, i don't know i don't know people have been like i don't know whenever i was on the antidepressants i didn't know if they were working or not but this is supposed to take the place of like a um a zoloft which antidepressants were you taking none you've never taken them like in my life i took prozac i took trintelix. I took Zoloft. I took lithium. And did that help you? Or do you feel like, do you hate them? I never knew.

I just always was like, I think I felt like numb on them for a while. I remember when I was friends with a famous person, she was talking about how her mom was on Zoloft and that they went hang gliding and that they had like GoPros on their heads, you know, to be like, to film them hang gliding and that they had GoPros on their heads to film them hang gliding. Her mom was on the same dose of Zoloft I was on and she was like, yeah, my mom... We looked at the video

later of us hang gliding and the whole time I'm hang gliding, I'm like, whoa, holy shit, whoa! Then we're landing and we're going through this tall grass. It's swapping us in the face. We're like and we're like oh my god and my mom was just like just no expression just like looking around and i was kind of like oh i think she just said that i was like man i relate to that feeling of like not being impressed by anything yeah and so

then i got off it and then um the exact thing happened to me with Cymbalta. I felt numb. I couldn't feel anything. And then my stepdad passed away. And I was like, I don't feel sad. And that's when I decided I'm going to stop taking Cymbalta. And it was really hard to get off of, too. You get brain zaps. Oh, my God.

I've been getting brain zaps lately. Those brain zaps are awful. Dude. Okay. So I've been getting those lately. And I think it's from, I don't know. These pills you're taking. No, it was before the pills.

Over the last five days, I've been getting brain zaps. No, no, no, no, no. It was actually, they went away with the pills. I think I was getting them from tiredness. Interesting. Or maybe my ADHD meds, I don't take them enough, and I was taking them last week. I don't know what it was, but it was like, it's that it feels like a jolt on your scalp. Not much your brain, but like your scalp. Is that what what it feels like like a burning in different sections of your scalp not for me

for me it felt like a electric lightning bolt in my brain it was like okay then that's not what i felt because i kept looking up like what is this like random sharp scalp pain and it kept saying brain zaps and i'm like but mine's on my scalp i would never think this was in my brain it just feels on the skin of my scalp anyway so this formula that she that i got called relax plus um it says it's the most researched and proven remedy for depression in the world its name refers to the wonderful effects the remedy has in supporting circulation as well as softer emotions digestive function function, and inner resources, while also stabilizing mood. A 2001 randomized double-blind placebo-controlled study

found that for mild to moderate depression with anxiety, this formula was as effective as Zoloft, but its effect felt sooner and was deemed safer and less expensive than its Western medicine counterpart. So if you guys want to, check this stuff out. This is, again, not an ad. I'm going to be buying the stuff for myself. And then she gave me.

Okay. So she gave me that. It's called Relax Plus. R-E-L-A-X-X Plus. And you can find it at the Eastern Philosophy or the easternphilosophy.com. Soothe Well, a popular herbal formula for instant calm. I haven't tried that yet. Luang Tea, L-O-O-N-t a tibetan medicine herbal tea for mental instability my mom and i

have been fucking chugging this shit every night and we're loving it l-o-o-n-g-t it's just like a soothing tea i mean tea always makes me feel soothed so i can't speak to it beat like having remarkable effects all of a sudden on my body but i was feeling anxious yesterday i went to my parents house i made this tea that i had made the night before too and i felt calmer once i had that tea in me but even if it's a placebo effect it that that that's real working yeah placebo is real if it's convincing enough to you that your brain's like oh right you're actually feeling the placebes yeah and then fooping jujubes fooping jujubes are essentially dates. And this is a bag of these dates.

And it says a super food. No, a super food. It's a Pokemon that I caught. A super food herb used in TCM. I don't know what that is. For relieving anxiety. Yeah. So these are sponsored by them.

Eat two to three a day straight out of the bag. So it's like a dried date. But they're a special kind of date. They're almost like they have like a raspberry color to them. Anyway, this book is I'm going to read. I'm actually really excited to read it. I think this is like the future of what American health system is

going to be because even my sister is going to take away our medicine. Eastern medicine was around even longer than Western medicine so just this is what people are doing because it's so terrifying to go to the doctor because you don't know what you're gonna get you don't know the bill that's gonna proceed you just like you can't anticipate fucking anything anymore and it's like if people are terrified to go to the doctor because of all the expenses that they're just even my sister the other day has a pinched nerve and i um and she

goes i'm going to the chiropractor today i'm like okay sweet i'll meet you there because i'm kind of obsessed with watching youtube videos of like muscle manipulation stuff so i was like i'm going to see it live i was like i'm here for youtube live and i walked in and um and i got to see her get an exam and it was like so asmr i like loved it so much but she's in so much pain the poor thing but she just told me i'm just doing this because i am just trying to like work around the the medical system she was like i'm just trying to do anything that doesn't get me near a hospital with all the costs like at least this is like up front about costs like you know exactly what you're getting and shout out to cairo one on lindell near the schnooks they were so it was it was like in a strip mall and i was like what is

this gonna be but the guy um who was her uh physician was so thorough so kind so empathetic so um like was didn't recognize me or anything like was not was almost putting on a show of like teaching us about alignment and all these in ligaments and different um showing us different diagrams but like it was just the kind of attention to detail that like made me feel so good about the world and like oh my god there's still some people in the medical profession that are still passionate about what they do and and really want to help people because you just read so many stories about doctors being dismissive of women's pain and and men's pain too it's you guys as well but just like not getting it i mean the the horror story of your medical uh bullshit

that you've had to deal with brian that was our only made your tooth pain only came out of you of malpractice of someone misaligning your filling and setting your whole jaw off kilter and then you not saying anything because you didn't really feel comfortable saying something and you did but they kind of dismissed it it's like it's it's a nightmare so it was just like actually this chiro one place really made me feel so good i was like i texted my mom immediately i'm like i want to get you in with this guy he he's legit anyway what'd you say no i'm sorry well i was saying what happened what you were describing that brian went through has just happened to my friend who has tmj and he got a couple of teeth put in or something and they misaligned it and it just like really aggravated his tmj now every time he eats he his jaw cracks no that's terrible oh god that's so

upsetting i'm so sorry to your friend dentistry is maybe like a a false profession i don't believe in dentistry anymore i don't think that they actually help i think getting cleanings helps i think getting cavity fillings helps to a degree but like everything else that they do it feels like it's a bunch of quackery like they don't even know what the fuck they're doing my friend went to a dentist here in st louis and was told that she needed nine teeth filled and like a couple root canals like something crazy like crazy right and so she was like she was gonna do it because she's like but she was like this is weird for me i've never really had anything like this like i had cavities here and there she went to a second

opinion no cavities yeah these people are they're grifters i'm out on vegas but just be be be cautious out there and it sucks you have to get a second opinion because that's cost money right and time yeah yeah i'm out on vegas i'm out on dentists i'm done okay those are my two things You have to get a second opinion because that costs money. Right. And time. Yeah. Yeah. I'm out on Vegas. I'm out on dentists. I'm done. Okay. Those are my two things.

2024, my two ins and outs. We're getting to the end of the year. We can start doing ins and outs. Yeah. I should think of some outs because, yeah, I'm... You got an in. Well, empathy. You're out of empathy. I'm out on empathy till the end of the year.

Empathy will come back January 6th, which I know is a weird date for it. But post Golden Globes, I am shutting it off. Can't care. Can't. No, I actually have no empathy between January. I don't even know. Yes. Yes.

That's those are the dates. I'm out on. I'm out on loud noises. I'm tired of everything being loud. I'm out on, I can't even think of anything else I'm out on. I'm really in on sleep. I think I'm back on meditation. In. Yeah, Kirsten told the girls chat that she's been meditating just five minutes a night before she went to bed and she said that she was she was like i've never even heard her say anything

like this but she's like i don't know i've just been feeling so awkward lately like i just feel awkward and i didn't really know what she meant by that but she's just like i don't know i just can't think of what to say what i meant to talk and then when i do talk i feel like i'm saying the wrong thing and she's never been someone that ever has struck me as someone that's awkward and so i couldn't really picture it but i understand i think we can all relate to that feeling and then she said she started she got away from meditating because she had a baby and life kind of got in the way and then she got back into it just five minutes a night and she said her awkwardness has gone away wow wow that's a cure yeah i mean i believe it what it what it creates is mindfulness you know it creates like you will think about your

thoughts before you say them you can get your ducks in a row before you just open your mouth it creates a way for you to sort through your thoughts and not just have a junk drawer in your head that you're just grabbing blindly thoughts and spilling them out so i think it's good i tried to meditate today but i fell asleep so i tried do you remember when we were on the radio show you would meditate every morning before radio and i think you were doing like 20 minutes yeah and then you'd go home you do more every single morning because that's what tm is it's 20 minutes in the morning 20 minutes in the afternoon and yeah it was it was really a good practice and my dogs would sit they like, it was really a good practice.

And my dogs would sit. They knew it was time to meditate after their walk. And I'd come back. And it just, yeah, it's great. I really want to get back into it. I'm glad I didn't stay. If you fall asleep, it's fine. Is that where you go to different parts of your body?

No. It's the one that you pay for that you can't talk about at all because they want to make money off of it. And it's like a sacred practice that they pass down through Venmo exchanges. And you get a mantra. But pretty much if you want to meditate, if anyone's like, it seems like too, what do I do? Literally, close your eyes, set a timer on your phone for five minutes close your eyes and just pay attention to your breath literally you could just say in out in your head just repeat in out

with your breath you gave me a uh you gave me my mantra i forgot what it was though yeah i could get busted for that um yeah i think i just gave give me my mantra. Some dentist gave it to me. We're done with dentists. Yeah. Yeah, you just say something over and over. Dentists should be a slur. You're anti-dentite. Dentists should be like saying- You're a rabid anti-dentite, Brian.

Do you remember that Seinfeld commercial? Oh my God, there is. Yeah. He was like, dentists are, what do they say? They're sadists with better magazines yeah jerry doesn't like dentists and then kramer accuses him being you're an anti-dentite he goes i am not an anti-dentite he goes you're a rabid anti-dentite jerry and i did not know what an anti-semite was when that episode aired so i didn't even know like what it was based off of.

And then at the very end of it, he's like, so he's like, he's in a, he's watching someone get married, I think. And he's sitting next to Will, Grace from Will and Grace.

And she's like a girl he's trying to hit on. And he's like, he's like, I hate Dennis. And she's like, I hate Dennis too. And they're kind of like relating about it. And he, she's like, oh, they're, they're the worst. And he's like, hate dennis and she's like i hate dennis too and they're kind of like relating about it and she's like oh they're they're the worst and he's like finally like yes this girl

that i'm hitting on like gets that i don't like dennis and no one else does and we have this connection and she goes not to mention the jews and then it just freezes and goes to get to i like i'm seinfeld is like this i'm back on sein Seinfeld. In. In. In. In. In. In. In. In. All right. Random episodes of Seinfeld. Bring them back into your life. They are so soothing. They are so nostalgic. I was just texting Andrew about it because I posted one of my story. So many people wrote to me on Instagram being like, oh my God, this is one of the best scenes

ever. You know, it's when George finds the golf ball and the whales blow hole. Sure. And he's like, you know, the sea was angry that day, my friends. I was in many a top 10 list. Yeah. Like an old Jewish man trying to return soup in a deli. like you know the sea was angry that day my friends i was in many a top 10 list yeah like a old jewish man trying to return soup in a deli maybe i added jewish to that but he's in a deli

so um but um and soup it's all soup and soup yeah and returning soup no offense but yeah that seems yeah that's the jewish thing you can do it was just it's just the best show when we watched it last night my dad i just i go dad you want to watch a seinfeld it was like 11 at night we were kind of like maybe it was like 10 30 i was like let's put on a and we're like hell yeah we put on a seinfeld and i picked the the marine biologist episode that's the most one of the most famous episodes he's like i don't know we've seen this one a bunch and i go but that's why it's so good like let's just put it on and go and it was it's just man it's just so funny and so it just reminds me of a simpler time i think it's nostalgic but i even think if you don't um like know like or you didn't grow up with seinfeld it's something it's really like a

soothing show and everyone i really i hate people that older people that talk down to me but if you're a younger person that's never seen seinfeld i.e emily i think emily's probably seen seinfeld it's one that you should go back and watch it's just yeah it's a classic that's why it made me so pissed when um i forgot what the controversy was what seinfeld said that made everybody mad something about israel or something like that and everyone was on threads it wasn't even twitter it was threads saying how Seinfeld was never funny. I never understood why.

What? It was the only time I actually posted a thread where I just said, everybody needs to put their pitchforks away. Seinfeld is one of the best shows of all time.

Of all time. It's just people allowing their political beliefs to infiltrate their enjoyment of a comedy show. Because Seinfeld said in an interview something about, I don't even remember what, they all entirely discounted

one of the best comedy. But you can't help if something turns you off about something that you love. There are things that I used to love and then I hear that person be shitty or I hear that person say shitty or i hear that person say something and i'm just like i now like hate what they do and i literally do hate it it's not

even like i'm choosing to hate it to take a stand like i don't like it anymore and um but it's it's rare that that happens i think i can mostly separate the art from the artist but um right like if i found out that like matt gates wrote the office i don't know if i'd be able to watch it the same way that's a really good point he certainly did you know i i was particularly mad at other comedians who were also shitting on seinfeld the show as if that didn't influence their entire comedic sensibilities during this controversy that to me, irredeemable. It's care. It's very care. I will say that I recommended on the podcast

that movie What's it called? My Old Ass, you know? And Emily watched it. I got a message from her last night. First of all, she looks exactly like the girl in the movie. So she said she felt like she was watching herself live this thing that oh you're already is going to make you very very emotional what

happens in it but she was like so she's like filmed a video of herself after she watched she was like nikki what the fuck i just got done i'm like got done sobbing it was like i don't know it was like i was watching myself like go through this because you said I looked like her and then I kind of started seeing it and then it was like me. And it was so cute, but I can't even imagine what that would be like because this movie was already so impactful.

But to think that the person looks like you would blow your mind. And it's very satisfying when something pays off as much as I know it's going to with someone like she just was and she was like it's just like gonna change the way i live my life forever i'm like i think it will and even saralina said that to me too she was like oh my god my old ass has like changed the way i look at the world and like how i'm going to live and it really it rattles you and it's so good and but it's not disturbing it's just like whoa like life is

precious and um yeah i'm gonna go see a nora tonight i think i need to see that i want to i gotta watch all the best picture stuff i don't i really don't want to watch dune oh you don't have to watch dune we gotta go to break we'll talk about it when we get back john stewart is back in the host chair at the daily show which means he's also back in our ears on the daily show ears edition podcast the daily show podcast has everything you need to stay on top of today's news and pop culture you get hilarious satirical takes on entertainment politics sports and more from john and the team of correspondents and contributors. The podcast also has content you can't get anywhere else, like extended interviews and a roundup of the weekly headlines. Listen to The Daily Show, ears edition on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Do I have to watch Dune? I don't have to watch Dune. No, you don't have to watch Dune. You understand what Dune is. If I make a Golden Globes joke about it, it's going to be about the little things in their nose. That's all I care about. That's all the thing I know.

That's very interesting to me. It's in the desert. You know that. It's got the sand worms. Yep, I know about that that so you don't need to know and the zen guy is in it and uh timothy chalamet is in it that's all you need to know i'll see deadpool because that's like a fun romp i've never seen any before but i hear they reference hugh jackman's divorce in this new Deadpool Wolverine.

Yes. Where they're like, well, that's why you're back because you're going through a divorce and you need to pay for it. It's like, what? They do? They do. They reference everything. It's a movie entirely. The foundation of the movie is meta jokes.

It's like there's nothing to the movie. I'm in that. I'm into that. I mean, wait wait isn't when one movie like brad pitt's in it but he plays an invisible guy or something yeah yeah that's a funny joke that's the last deadpool i think deadpool because you only see at the very last second south park when they got george clooney to play a character and he's just a dog going it's just george clooney but he never talks i think it's so funny. I love when George Clooney and Brad Pitt do

comedy things. Remember when Brad Pitt was the weatherman on what was that? Was that John Oliver? Oh, really? What was that? Or was that Jim Jefferies' show? Oh my God, someone said the other day in an interview they're like, because I was talking about the Golden Globes, I'm going to be performing in front of Brad Pitt

and George Clooney, and they're like, and I was talking about how I'll have to contextualize myself. These people have never heard of me. And the woman was like, well, Brad Pitt's pretty tuned into comedy. I'm sure he's aware of you. And I literally got turned on when she said it. And I had just been talking about how my body is not producing any kind of moisture anymore. And my insides feel dead and hormonally i'm just

like not ever turned on and it was instant being turned on that brad pitt might have heard of me before i because i made the joke like i'm wet now and then i literally was like i'm not even joking you that really did it for me that he may have like he has he's he's a he might he's aware he has a general awareness i mean that is kind of cool when someone's aware of you of course say your name out of thin air someone like brad pitt who you would like i remember the first time i ever heard his name was in the cafeteria in third grade literally third grade we had this old black woman that was like our um you know cafeteria like kind of she would just walk around and tell us to eat our lunchables and stuff i remember one time she was

like you eat that cheese because i hated cheese as a kid i hated it and there was a big stack of it and she was like don't waste food and she made me eat the cheese mrs gordon shout out you're definitely dead by now but she was i remember we all thought it was so funny because she was like oh that brad pitt is so cute we were like she's got a crush on this young boy um but yeah uh that was that that would be cool brad pitt was the uh was played this bit as a weatherman on the jim jeffrey show multiple times recurring and george clooney would pop up on john ol Oliver on Last Week Tonight every once in a while as a recurring bit he had a button where John Oliver could press a button and just summon George Clooney

wherever he was and talk to him for a few minutes and George Clooney would act annoyed by it and be like why do you keep abusing the button that was the bit for that that's a good bit and then Matt Damon's constantly doing stuff for Kimmel it's cool

when these a-listers have a sense of humor the last of the a-listers yeah i have something that it is what i have a thing that i i wanted to bring up i was at the gym yesterday and i had to give someone attitude 12 no i don't do tb12 anymore i i have i'm that's have your TB12? No, I don't do TB12 anymore. I have, it's out. TB12's out. Okay, I didn't know that. Yeah, weightlifting's in. Okay, got it. I returned back to lifting weights

because honestly, there's just no replacement for it. You have to lift weights. Final thought, you gotta lift weights. Yeah, it's so much better than doing resistance bands. I know, it's better. I hate that it's better. I gotta do it too so much better than doing resistance bands i know it's better i hate that it's better i gotta do it too i've been doing it yes go on so you're lifting weights so i was at the gym and okay so you know when you're at the gym and it's busy and people want to use the machines and you have to wait for the machines and there is what do you what do you do if you

want to use a machine that someone else is using? You linger. You can linger. You can observe. You kind of have to figure out like what's going on. You do your own thing nearby, but you kind of like make it known that you're kind of there. Like you just get in their periphery. So they're aware and maybe they speed it up a little bit and don't like, you know, search kayak for flights for their Christmas vacation or whatever while they're sitting on the bench yes well you can go up to the person and say um how many more sets do you have left this happens all the time of course yes yes how many more sets do you have left or what i love

doing at the gym which is this is very common it's like i invented this right this is very common someone goes up to you they say how many more sets do you have left and you go oh i actually have three more sets but do you want to work in with me right which is very common and then while you're resting the other person comes in and does their set and you have this kind of like camaraderie where you're like always i like i'm nodding at each other when you're done with your set because like now it's your turn and then when you're finished doing your sets you can walk away and go, it's all yours. And that's just a great bro moment. You don't have to talk. So I'm doing this exercise at the gym, and this bro taps me.

Tap is the wrong word, because he touched me too hard. Where? He tapped right on my shoulder. He gently shoved me and pushed me on the shoulder. My back was... I didn't even know anyone was behind me. And he did this like shove thing. And I was like, whoa.

And you're wearing headphones. I bet I had headphones on. He had headphones on. I turned and I was like, uh, and I just assumed that he was going to ask me like how many sets I have left. And I said, I have two more sets left.

And then he said, well, I've been sitting here and you've been doing nothing for several minutes and I need to use the machine. And I was like, first of all, it wasn't several minutes. At most it was one and a half minutes.

And so I was like, this guy's being a piece of shit. So I had to give him, say, I'm sorry you haven't gotten your dick sucked in a while. Well, that's always what it is. The weird thing about this guy is like 15 minutes prior to

that i accidentally made eye contact with him while he was on like totally like he was across the and he his eyes were crazy like he had like crazy eyes this guy wanted to fight and so i looked down so then he gave so he already like had had me pegged and he gave me he gave me a little shove and he said i've been sitting here and me pegged and he gave me he gave me a little shove and he said i've been sitting here and you've been and you've been doing nothing for several minutes and i and i need and i was like oh do you want to work with me i said do you want to work with me which is like an olive branch and he ignored that i said that and i said do you need this and he's like yeah i'm gonna need to use that and then i was like okay he's like, yeah, I'm going to need to use that. And then I was like, okay. He's like, you've been waiting for several minutes.

And I said, I took out my headphones and I said, yeah, it's called resting between sets, which is very normal. And I said it loud enough so that everyone around me, and he did, he was, he was kowtowed. I don't know if that's a better word. You won. He was kowtowed and he stepped away. And then I twisted the knife. I can think of a better word. You won! He was kowtowed, and he stepped away, and then I twisted the knife.

I twisted the knife. Oh, what did you say? Hold on. I did my set. I finished, and when I was done... It's all yours. But I didn't say it with any attitude at all. I gave him a smile, and I said, it's all yours, buddy, and I walked away. Oh, that's good.

Water off the shoulder. Oh, yeah, yeah yeah you killed him with kindness killed him with kindness at the end he can't have any he just he's got to be embarrassed about how he behaved he was a little bit too aggressive and then he followed me in the parking lot and took out a barbed wire bat and he bashed my skull in so that's the downside of doing that he's a dentist he's a dentist no there was um i had a moment in a plant class last night yesterday and she was saying like this is one of my pet peeves of these classes but by the way like shout out to all the teachers at the place i go to if you listen to the podcast i'm obsessed with all of you I rarely have any complaints like it's my favorite thing in the world to go to these classes but there's one thing that I think it

doesn't if I was a teacher it would happen to me too where you say and for 15 more seconds we're gonna do this and then next we're gonna transition to this and blah blah and this one I just felt like I was the I felt like she was a little bit off with the counting. And so I started like, I didn't rely on her anymore because it would be like 15. And then I felt like, man, it's been 20. And then she'd go and 10,

nine. I'm like, well, we're doing 30 when she's saying 15, like this is way off. So I, so I was like, I'm going to start counting now to see if it's actually 15,

because I've been doing all of these classes that I'm like, we don't need 30 more. We need 15 more. Like this is too much much my legs are like shaking and they hurt and so i was on the machine and she was like in 15 seconds we're going to transition we're going to put the legs in the knee blocks and we're going to do this and take the armbands and blah blah blah she's describing the next exercise and then she goes and in 10 and i just go jesus christ like i couldn't because i was already like so like holding a plank i was just like oh jesus christ i like made a really loud noise i was so embarrassed and uh and it was it was not right because the thing is these classes like you can just do whatever you want

they're so supportive i love the. They're like so motivating. They say this is the next 50 minutes are yours and yours only. You take what you want and leave the rest. And I always like love that message. And like we thank our bodies afterwards. Like they're the best classes. But that is a thing that sometimes gets on my nerves is, oh, also, I don't want to hear break the bungee cord. I want you to pull that bungee so hard it breaks it. They are not able to be broken. No one ever will. You're giving me something that is unattainable.

Just like, let's just, I don't want, or they'll say like, push your heel so hard that it breaks the pavement. And I understand it's like a cue to make you do a certain thing, but I don't like being told to do things I can't do that are impossible to do because then I will always feel like a failure well the bungee cord can break but it has nothing to do with how hard you push it has to do with like general wear and tear

so it's like eventually it will break and it's like whoa you must have pushed really hard it's like actually it's just been it's like old yeah and I don't like I don't like when the songs don't transition to each other so like it'll be like the loudest song that'll be dead quiet we're all like and then it's like here comes the one two two to the three and like shibuzee starts up again but

it's like this weird period in between where we're all like and like it's just so uncomfortable i do love what i i would have thought i hated it when they go like nikki great form like when they say your name and like shout you out i would have thought i hated that but i love it i love being rewarded and told that i'm doing a good job three yes what we were talking about yesterday you're a three also emily wrote to me last night and was like wait what's a three and i was like take the enneagram bitch and so i sent her the thing and she is a two and then i sent her all of the two stuff and she was like oh my god it's spot fucking on yeah it was just it's so interesting

yeah she's a helper she's a helper so i a lot of people like this and like how the instructor counts down is is very important and i feel it's not seconds no i feel betrayed and i i turn off the instructor if the instructor says we're gonna do 10 and then counts down from 10 and then does that bullshit where they go 10 9 8 7 6, 5, 5, 5, 5. And they make you do extra. What? I would quit so quickly if that shit was going on. Some people like that because then, oh, I did four extra because they just said five

again and again. Here's one more that really bothers me where they say, I need you to say pulse it. If you're putting your leg up in there and you're pulsing up one inch, down one inch up one inch down one inch sometimes they go up one inch up one inch up one inch and i go well i can't keep going up an inch but they're tough they don't tell you to go down i need i need pulsing yes and then i also um i don't like uh what was the last thing i don't like that happens sometimes i did the bungee one i did the the pulsing the call out the call outs the countdowns the oh what is it oh i forget now um wiping down your machine is degrading and um but now i'm kind of liking to do it because i do it so fast and i get out of there.

I just I just I love my whole team. I love my I love the place I go to. They know me by name. I go in there every day. It's so fun. It's so rewarding. I really love classes. I always thought I would hate classes. I'm really sad that I went my entire adult life never doing classes because I thought I was too competitive.

That would ruin it for me. That it would make me feel fat and slow and out of shape but it's like actually like no one is watching you in a class because they're so hard no one's paying attention to you literally no one oh here's the thing I wanted to say I don't like when they pit you against each other when they go like go slower than the person in front of you and if there's no one in front of you you're setting the tone for the whole room me no like I don't want this to turn into a competition i don't want people to be looking at me trying to go slower than me like i don't like that i don't like being but i get why they say it it actually does help you to go slower because it but i don't like

competition places like soul cycle they'll have like a leaderboard and you get top 10 on leaderboard as you're cycling. Who's going the fastest? Oh, my God. Sometimes you just go to a class and you're on your period and you're tired and you shouldn't even be there. And you just want to phone it fucking in. And sometimes I just want to tell them, girl, I just want to put like there should be a little flag you can put on your machine and go like, don't even try to correct me. You're lucky I'm here. There is,

this is going to be a sloppy as fuck. Um, because sometimes you just don't want to get, you don't want to bring that energy of like, this is the one time you get to do this all day. You thank your body. We're going to fucking work so hard because sometimes you don't have that. You sign up for these classes two weeks in advance because they fill up and you

think you're going to be that motivated on 8am on a on a monday but you're not and you're just like you soap as a little slippery slug and you just want to kind of like you know um just bullshit your way through it but these classes are great these girls are never rude they always make me feel good afterwards um i love it and i really recommend classes for anyone out there who's like scared of classes that you'll be judged or people will be like wow she has bad form or like no no one's looking at you i'm so happy that you got to this place because you know when you had just started i mean this is a complete like 180 so i just i was going to private lessons and paying you know almost 200 for an hour just so i wouldn't have to be in a class because i wanted it just to be one-on-one.

And I got a lot out of it. There's no question about it. But classes are so much cheaper. And they're just like, and you don't leave and you won't give up and you can't slap an opalist because you are like beholden to the class vibe. But you had to go through that. That was a necessary step for you to get to the class was the individual training because you would not do it if you were bad at it so you needed the training first so then you can go in front of a whole group of people and do it well but it's never done no that's the worst part is that as soon as you're done with the class it's count down till the next one you

gotta keep going again and again and again it's never over until it's over all right the podcast is over thank you for listening to the show this week um we will be here next week on the road this weekend in birmingham alabama i think on saturday memphis tennessee on friday memphis i think there's still tickets available for memphis i think birmingham probably a couple as well um these aren't markets i go to a lot so if i I'm in your area, please come see me. And then next weekend, Hot Springs, Arkansas. I have been on a tour of the fucking South, dude. It was Oklahoma, then Texas, then Iowa, then South Carolina, then North Carolina.

Then before that, before Oklahoma, Florida. Now, Birmingham, Memphis, and next week, Arkansas. Then North Carolina Then before that Before Oklahoma Florida Now Birmingham Memphis And And next week Arkansas Crazy And then

We're rounding out The end of the Tour This year In New Hampshire And Vermont So I think the tickets

Are maybe still available That's the deep south Of the north Yeah exactly So I'll see you on the road. We'll see you on the podcast next week. Thanks for listening. Don't be cuffed.

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