The Nikki Glaser Podcast - #502 Surviving Boyhood, Game Time Decisions & LET THEM!

Episode Date: January 17, 2025

A loud moment at the gym turns into a pleasant whisper for Nikki. We honestly have no idea how Brian survived his boyhood with all the dangers he was dodging. Nikki’s all about people who make a career change later in life, while Brian thinks there should be limitations. After some hellish rumors on the internet, Nikki and Brian clear up some stuff about the Golden Globes mid show bit. They also give props to some game time decisions that made Nikki’s showing on point. Nikki is reading Let Them by Mel Robbins and it’s helping her not stress about what people think. In the Final Thought, Brian points out that Nikki hit 2 million followers on Instagram and is basically a news maker now. And Nikki shouts Bill Burr for his Jimmy Kimmel Live! showing as they talk about the state of comedy. 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: @NikkiGlaserPod 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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Hello. In St. Louis. We're all remote. Happy New Year. Good. Happy New Year. You know how we didn't get to say that because so many things happened at the beginning of the year that were horrible and good?

Yeah. Yeah. I don't think I said Happy New Year to a single person. I don't think I said it to you when I was with you on New Year's Eve. That's crazy. I don't think we did. No. What did you guys do for New Year's Eve?

Wait, how did you guys ring in the new year like we were out doing sets that night but then we caught we were done by like i think 10 45 and then we went home the last time was at the comedy store and then chris and i just went home and watched um anderson cooper and yes um andy cohen getting drunk uh in times square that's the best way to do it i think that's the best of all those shows and we looked out the window and saw some fireworks and i was just like i fucking hate fireworks i think they should be banned they're so disruptive to the world everyone's stressed out by them they remind you of they either sound like gunshots or bombs yeah also fire i mean this was before we were terrified of fire i guess but should have still been terrified of fire

and also they are just bad for animals they just don't know that it's the celebration of the new year or 4th of July they're not animals are not festive it's one of the worst things about animals and but the other worst thing is that they're too stupid to know

what's happening and they just are horrified whatever your dog does is what a squirrel is doing they abandon their babies, and their babies starve to death. Like, it's terrible, you guys. Just stop with the fireworks. Just can't you just hoot and holler?

Why do we need fireworks? I'm so annoyed by them. The replacement for fireworks is drones. Yeah, the fireworks are horrible. The birds obviously don't know that it's July 4th. Most of them are from Mexico that are around here anyway. So they're not even patriotic. And it scares them all away.

And it's horrible. We have immigrant birds. All of our birds are pretty much immigrants. Build that wall higher. They're definitely just flying over the border. Yeah, it's just, I hate fireworks. And it sucks because Chris loves them so much. And he's so patriotic. And it's like a part of it's not even a part of like his patriotism, but it is. He loves them. And I think it's one thing that will destroy us. Ultimately, it's like it's worse than like if he wanted babies or something. And I don't like it's this will divide us for forever because it's his favorite holiday, I think. And all I can think about is just animals being scared and owls being like, whoo,

and like turning their heads all the way around, being like, where's that coming from? And then abandoning their babies and then their babies starve. It's the worst. Chris has always said to me, ever since I've known him, that he just wants to settle down with a nice woman

and light some fireworks together. Raise some fireworks, I guess. I've always hated them. Even as a a kid i was totally scared of them i always felt it was the i was embarrassed at how scared i was of them i just don't like loud sounds out of nowhere i i hate balloons i don't like when kids are playing with balloons because i feel like they're gonna pop at any second i don't like a balloon just like kind of traipsing across the ground like Like I just feel like it's going to hit something. It's going to pop and I'm going to be scared. I just don't like being scared.

Because it's a jump scare. It's a jump scare. You don't know what's going to happen. I don't like jump scares. Yeah, I hate balloons. I love helium. I think that's a really fun part of balloons. Yeah, I just don't like any.

I don't like loud noises. I had Pilates today and I really really like this girl um who's the instructor but she it was very loud and i was plugging my ears as i was like doing a uh lunge on this like equipment and i was i was hoping that might like catch on like that's too loud but then i was like no i don't need to be passive aggressive and i just got off the thing and i ran and got some tissue paper and I just stuck that in my ear. So a different kind of passive aggressiveness that is like solving my problem and not making

it her problem. She still might have seen that and taken it as a passive aggressive. That's what I'm saying. It's like, but at least I was doing a thing for myself that was like sustainable and not plugging my ears. And then after the class, she like was passing out the things to wipe down your thing. And she very discreetly was like you were amazing on the golden globes you blew my mind oh my god so nice and i

was like you could scream all you want for the rest of your life girl i'll you can get away with anything now because she was passing things to wipe down the machines and you're like i don't need any i have it in my ears and then i can just use this they sometimes they give me double because i sweat so much um but i yeah i'm back at it that feels really good can i go back to the fireworks just for a second because there's this go back forever fireworks are also dangerous for the people lighting the fireworks there's this famous incident from a football player uh a new york giant jason pierre paul who's gonna be a Hall of Famer. He keeps playing. JPP, they call him.

And he's an incredible defensive lineman with a ton of sacks. But one year when he was on the Giants over the summer, he blew off two of his fingers. He still plays? He still plays, yeah. He played for like 10 years after that.

I think he still plays. Wow. And then everyone made fun of him for having blown off his fingers. I always love that meme that's like July 3 3rd it's like this is the last day for so many americans to have all their 10 fingers there's like a meme that goes around it's like oh that's so true yeah um yeah i think they're extremely dangerous i don't like when they shoot every different way i like sparklers they're tame they're quiet they're gentle when i was in high school they smell good

there was a couple of times or maybe it was middle school where one of my friends got a load of fireworks and then we would go into his backyard and we'd launch them at each other of course you guys are boys yeah which was like i can't believe i didn't i don't know how i survive boyhood no we most of them don't. I'm not even joking. How do you all not run into traffic? How do you all not get severe concussions every day? How are you not just constantly... It's amazing that you survive.

Yeah, I don't know. I've been thrown through doors, thrown through a glass showcase. I've been body slammed through a table. I took somebody I did a Mortal Kombat move to one of my friends in elementary school and I broke

his teeth off I punched two people in the face by accident I closed the line some kid he went flying in the air like a Muppet How do you punch two kids by accident? One of them was we were playing we were in elementary school i think it might have been even sixth grade and we were

playing the punching game where we'd punch each other and like at first it was just like oh i punched you in the leg now you punched me in the arm and that was the game and then we were it was after music class we put our recorders away and i was sitting there and i was like yeah i was like i've got a good move to do and i was like i'm gonna go to punch him in the face and then at the last second go down and hit him in the stomach you know because like a fake out and then i just punched him in the face i like forgot to go down oh yeah yeah okay so i guess that's accidental but not really i don't know what i have no control but yeah lots, lots of that. It's so much of that. But what did you what did you do anything New Year's Eve?

Wait, you weren't with that. Allie wasn't in town. So you didn't. Yeah, I just went home. I don't even know if I noted that it was midnight. I might have even when this when the clock struck midnight, I might have said to myself, hey, you know, and that's it. Look at that. And that was my New Year's this year.

I'm fine with, by the way. But I don't even know. I just what did you know and that's it look at that yeah and that was my new year's this year which i'm fine with by the way but i don't even know i just what did you know it were you awake yes i was awake i actually uh watched a magic show on new year's eve like on tv or like in person no live in person whoa so we had we had a party i I was in Utah and my sister hired a magician who came in. What? Wow. For like how many people?

I would say maybe like 15 people. That's cool. Sharpo? Sorry, what? Sharpo. He's just a magician. I'm just randomly

saying magician. Actually, I don't remember the guy's name. Oh, that sucks. That's like how comedy, whatever people go. I went to a comedy show and they were great and I go, who was it? And they go, I don't remember the guy's name. Oh, that sucks. That's just so... That's like how comedy, whatever, people go. I went to a comedy show and I go, and they were great. And I go, who was it?

And they go, I don't know. And I'm like, oh, no. No one remembers. No, it's okay. I was sold on it. I'm like into magic now, I believe. Because there's no thing to believe in. All you believe in is a talent.

Right. Well, I believe in the talent being some kind of like weird force of nature no that the force of nature is physics and it all the rules apply they're not just doing anything else but it is cool yeah and and the room was set up in the way where he was standing in front of a glass door. So I could kind of see from behind him what he was doing through the reflection. Exactly. So I was like, oh, I'm totally going to see him putting stuff up his sleeves and all that.

No, you can't see anything. I couldn't see anything. No. He was so good. I can't do it. I don't like it because I want to just know. That's why I used to love that Penn and Teller show that they would try to guess what the trick was. And it was called like Stump Us or something. And they would have magicians come in and perform for them.

And they would tell the magician, is this how you do it? I don't even think they said it out loud, but they were like, we're going to whisper in your ear, is this how you do it? And if it is, you have to admit it. And then if you stump us, you win a bunch of money. Because they've seen every magic trick in the book. They don't reveal how it was done to the general public, though. I don't think so. I think that's

against the rulebook. There was a show back in maybe 20... Based on Overseas Development. That's how I know magicians' rules. And I think that was all made up. Great reference. Well, there was a show, a special show, 20 years ago. You know what I'm going to all made up well there was a show a special show 20 years ago you know what I'm saying yes where the guy wore a mask

and he revealed everything and there was a huge blowback in the magic community about yeah it was probably inspired Arrested Development was that guy yeah yeah probably because Job on the show is a magician and he's in the magicians alliance and he keeps getting kicked out of it and like

any uh yeah it's but they talk a lot about about revealing things and how you can't and um yeah that guy that guy he was excommunicated from the magician's alliance how they know who it was i bet they probably magicians probably know they know how to figure out they knew this guy was the thing the mass magician was saying listen all of these tricks have been around for 20 to 30 years. I'm only showing you how these tricks are done because I think it's time for magic as an art form to move forward and move beyond these old sawing a woman in half tricks. Right. It's time for new stuff. We need an evolution.

Otherwise, magic will die out. That was his. In reality, he's just getting paid buttloads of money by Fox. Oh, man. David Blaine changed my life when I discovered him my freshman year of high school. That's that show that aired on like it was like ABC, I think. And he was levitating and he was sticking things in his hand and he was taking a chicken's head off. And then they put the chicken's head back on yeah and uh i convinced my geometry teacher mr booth to clear a class so that we could we could show it and i because my

dad taped it and i was like mr booth i have a show that you're gonna be obsessed with because he you know it's like magicianry is like math and he let me take over the class and show this video and it blew everyone's minds i mean david blaine when he first showed up on the scene was insane. And he still is. I love watching any kind of celebrity he's impressing. But sometimes it just gets too gross. I don't want to see needles going into flesh.

I don't want to see a frog being eaten. Chris Angel type shit. That teacher's a really good teacher. I mean, he saw that you were passionate about something and then he let you express that shout out before yeah what was that you've brought mr booth up before i love mr booth i there's some when teachers are good man it sticks with you i saw someone recently who went to kirkwood high school oh when i was in um hawaii this guy came up to me and was like, he was eating dinner next

to us. And we kept hearing their table say St. Louis. So we'd be like, what? And then he came up at the end of the meal and was like, I'm sorry. I don't normally do this, but I just discovered you. I knew about you, but I saw the Golden Globes and I went on a deep dive about you. And I was reading your Wikipedia last night in bed with my boyfriend. And I gasped because I went to Kirkwood High School, too.

And I was like, oh, my God. too. I was like, oh my god. And then I was like, what teachers did you, when did you graduate? He graduated in like 2000, I think like 11 or 15 and I graduated in 2002 so I was like, oh, this is going to be rough. But I knew one teacher, Madam Kalfas.

We've talked about her before. She's the greatest woman alive. I love her so much. And she recently wrote to me because I had posted about her we've talked about her before she's the greatest woman alive i love her so much and she recently wrote to me because i had posted about um how being vegetarian isn't enough like the egg industry is disgusting dairy industry is disgusting and like it's just it's a nice step but it's not it's it's i wish it were enough to is what i said and she wrote to my instagram story and said your sister taught me this i was a vegetarian for 20 years and i had no idea what was going on in those other industries and your sister who my sister is a spanish was a spanish teacher at kirkwood high school madame calvis was working with her then even though i had her

she's been there for like 30 years she said my sister enlightened her and she's been vegan ever since and i was so proud of my sister i'm so proud of my sister my sister is not a teacher anymore at kirkwood high School she abandoned her career because she just wanted to try something new at the age of 39 and she is now working um at a um I'm not going to say the name of it but like for people who want to redecorate their bathrooms she's like helping them design and decorate their bathrooms which is like she's so excited about it because she's like it's a thing that people are so excited about doing like when you get a new because she works at like a nice place right so these people are getting like heated floors and like a big tub and a towel rack that heats

the towels and like really like a nice basin and like a nice toilet that raises when you walk in like um and so she's like helping people do something they're so excited about you know which is like it's a good point and i'm so excited for her and she just started this new job and it's amazing 39 to switch careers is like really difficult to do and yeah be pulling it off and be happy that's a that's an incredible inspiring story it took a while though i will say that she you know she stopped teaching this past year in May was her last month and then she was looking all summer looking all fall like trying hard and like managing being a mom for three kids and feeling like this is all I do now is these kids and she

was you know did a bunch of things around the house and she just learned that she was like I think I like interior design like I think that's interesting to me and she never really even thought of exploring it before um but then she was just like what could i do in this space and she met with chris's mom who's an interior uh decorator and she got like a lot of help from her like she just asked around like she just did it the right way yeah and she's so bold to like take that risk and uh you know she went to school for teaching she got so many degrees she has risk. And she went to school for teaching. She got so many degrees. She has a master's.

She put a lot into teaching. And to just say, you know what? Maybe I didn't pick the right thing for myself now. Maybe that was right for me then. And it wasn't a waste. I taught for 10 years. And I'm ready to... I know that not everyone has the opportunity to do that, but it was inspiring to me.

I highly recommend for anybody. They say it's never too late. It is too late for some things. You can't be a professional basketball player. I would even say you probably shouldn't even do comedy if you're 40 and you're like, let me try comedy. I think it's probably too late. Everyone always says Rodney Dangerfield started when he was 60.

Yeah. It'll take 10 years to find your voice, so by 50, you could... You know what? Give me an example of any 40-year-old. I don't think people do it. Because there's no examples. I don't think it's possible. Honestly.

I really don't think it's possible. Honestly. I would think you, I don't think it's, I really don't think it's possible if you have kids and you want to be a good parent and you want to be around. I truly don't think it's possible. I don't think I would be able to be

this successful with kids. I just don't. And I don't think it's possible if you're not obsessed with it. Yeah. You just have to put in so many fucking hours. But if you are someone who has kids

that are like grown i could see committing enough time to it and becoming obsessed with it and getting good enough that then you are an old comedian who's like fresh on the scene like that's a thing that people are interested in if someone's like really good at comedy and old you know and like has a fresh is it gonna be fresh though every time i see someone someone's like really good at comedy and old you know and like has a fresh is it gonna be fresh though every time i see someone who's like starting off comedy and they're like you know 55 or 60 or something yeah their comedy styling is always like borscht belts like if it's always back when before they had kids what they remember is comedy example of someone miss pat is someone who got like,

I don't even know how old she is because she looks ageless, but I'm guessing she's, she looks in her 30s and I'm serious about that, but I'm guessing she's in her mid to late 50s. I have her age. How old?

It's public information. 52. Oh, shit. Sorry, Miss Pat. But you look in your 30s i was just like adding up because i just i thought your story was that you were older but she looks amazing she is amazing but she got her start kind of late i think yeah and she was she got shot her tit got shot off she was like she has a crazy life she was she had so many kids at a really young age she was on welfare

she was working at mcdonald's and jimmy carter came in she had a great story she told on kimmel but she lived like a thousand lives and then started comedy and she only started comedy because of her um i think her welfare person the person who she like checked in with or whatever said you're so funny yeah her caseworker said you should try comedy and then she did yeah and she was great at it okay so here's she is a fresh perspective she was uh she started comedy in 2002 so she was 30 when she started which i think that's probably the i can't imagine being 55 or 450 and starting and then actually like just being willing to go to open mics and then like kiss ass to a bunch of 20 year olds to try to get on a comedy show i honestly think you have a better chance of becoming super famous as a woman in or that or man in your 50s starting comedy and throwing

yourself into it as fully as you would have at your in your 20s than you do in your 20s because there are so many people in their 20s it's a way to stand out so you stand out that way out okay yeah jason ellis started comedy later i think but no i i disagree because it's been a long time it's been a long time nikki since you've been to open mics and i will say you go to open mics especially in la there are 50 year olds there there are people there all they have like a vibe of like we know the vibe that they're bringing in they're not bringing in a vibe of like dedicated being obsessed with it they're giving a vibe of like they like they just need a place to hang out. Well, no, they're also- Do you know what I mean? No, I totally agree with that.

Some, some, not all. By any means, not all. There's a bunch I've seen that are like, they have like a baby reindeer style of comedy that they're trying to push on the open mic people. Okay, we have to go to break. That is such a good point. But I do think it's never too late for comedy.

And I think that if you just got to put in the work and give yourself 10 years of working your ass off. And I think that if you, if you just got to put in the work, maybe give yourself 10 years. I just don't want you to start because it's not a threat to you. You're there. No threat to you because they would be older than you. If they started at how old are you, Brian?

36. Okay. I don't want any, I don't want 20 year olds to start. I don't want anybody to start. Just stop. I know. I know that feeling. I know that feeling, but it's an illusion.

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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 podcast or wherever you get your podcasts okay so we wanted to talk about a thing that's been happening since the globes and then since the fires after the globes is that during the golden globes during what we called a halftime show a halftime report i did this thing from the floor where i was like amongst the celebrities and i was talking about you know

the stats of the show and it started out in the writer's room as like we were going to do like an official kind of um you know football kind of nfl you know halftime report it also came from like from the from day one we were saying we want to do like TNF style jokes football yeah there's a football styles jokes about what just happened and that that kind of like writing jokes hours before like

about the thing that you just watched right so we were like oh we can easily do this let's like take the first half of the show and let's write a bunch of jokes about things that happen. Like there's nothing more fun. And that's why people are live tweeting. They want to see jokes about what they're watching. And then award shows get away from that because they stick to the script.

And it's like, let's leave this part in the show that is just for we'll have a selective group of people in the in the room watching the feed and just writing this halftimeime report that I will then be able to go over with them, because I have a lot of time in between when I have to go out, that we can go over and make a halftime thing. Less time than we thought, because you did an incredible, which elevated the show, 10 costume changes. I don't think we talked about that, how much that elevated the show for you to do 10 wardrobe changes during the course of the show. People did very much like it. Yeah. No, it made it like,

oh, this is a thing. What's she going to be in next? It's something for other people. It's like, maybe not for me because I'm not a fashion person, but there are people watching this who are interested in that. Fashion people loved it.

Yeah. I mean, that was an incredible, I don't know whose idea that was. It was your idea or someone else's, but to do that many wardrobe changes was a great idea. Well, I think it just goes with, if we just found out how many times I was potentially going to be in the show and we were like, okay, let's just do a different look for each one because why wouldn't we? But I don't think the Tina and Amy do that. Did Seth Meyers do that? Definitely not.

I don't think men do. I don't think anyone cares. But I think, yeah, it was really fun. And it made it fun for me. And it's nice to give the audience something new to look at. You know, like they've heard jokes. No matter how good the jokes are, it's like, I do care about what I wear because I do think talking is boring no matter what you're doing. If I were singing and dancing, I could maybe stay in an outfit the whole time. But even that, like you watch Taylor Swift, you watch Beyonce, they're making outfit changes

throughout the whole show because, not because they want to show you different looks, yes, but because it's part of keeping people's focus and entertaining people. You think that sometimes outfit changes or changing up your glam is just some kind of vapid thing.

I just want to look hot in different ways. It's like, no, you want to keep people interested. Newness is part of the performance. Yes. And I do think it matters what you wear on stage. And I do take care in,

in that because I do think watching, especially in my standup, watching someone talk on stage for an hour is getting, getting, get boring. Yeah. No matter what there's, there's valleys, valleys you know for peaks

to happen there are valleys and during those valleys just take a look at my legs i don't give a shit take a look at my shoes look at my bunions like i'll give you some things to look at see if you can see my skirt i don't know just have some fun maybe you'll catch a nip slip maybe you'll see my underwear line i don't it's just like give them something else anyway that was a really fun thing but during this halftime show. I actually have it queued up. I can play it on the. Okay.

Yeah. This is what I said. Just the moment. This is not the whole halftime show. Yeah. This is part of it. Past and crew are leading the way with 11 mentions. Oh, this is like breaking down the thank yous. Moms are holding strong with three shout outs.

God, creator of the universe, zero mentions. mario lopez host of access hollywood one all right no surprise in this godless town so that's the that's the moment in question and by the way it absolutely crushed i mean the breaking that down was so funny. It was so fun. There are moments in comedy where you have said things. I probably rehearsed that three times. I probably said that four, maybe. We didn't even know the numbers.

We didn't know that Kieran Culkin was going to mention Mario Lopez until he did. So we were waiting for something funny to put in that fourth category. We knew God. We were hoping God maybe had zero mentions. That's what we like had predicted. And it came true. So you guys came up with that that night? It wasn't like pre-planned or anything?

That was like a couple days before was part of this breakdown would be we fill in the stats there of like thank yous, right? And so we predicted there'd be agents and reps. And then we predicted there would be like a wife section and then, but in, in moms or whatever. And then we predicted gods with zero. That was just like a placeholder for like, this could be funny.

We actually pitched it to do with someone at first where I would be joined by someone else. So we had to, we had to write out a script predicting what would, how funny it could be to present to the person to sign on to do it with me and um they ended up signing on but then we changed kind of the format of it we were like we don't we were gonna make it very sports centery with graphics and me holding a mic with a little you know the label on it and um potentially some sports people involved and then we just kind of

made it like we don't need to do all that like it'll that'll be already implied in my way i talk perfect yeah yeah that was one of i think a hundred different literal game time decisions that we made correctly i mean there were so many things so many that were like a or b choice a or choice b and we just nailed it every single time and looking back it's just like the roast there were some choices that if we went in the opposite direction that would have tanked the whole thing yeah there's one in particular i'm thinking about during the halftime show that's like if we did that oh no that would have been that would have been bad yeah and you know

who said let's like who was just not feeling that was chris convey was like i just think it's a bit and then it just takes one person to go i don't know and then i see that and i go wait do you not know does anyone else not know about this and then someone else goes i don't know either and then we all suddenly realize oh we all are kind of like not on board with this as much as we thought because it also can go in the other direction that way of like do you like that like popular was a perfect example of that being like does everyone can everyone admit that we love this and we were like yeah and we were like kind of embarrassed too because everyone's like at first like uh i think it's fun you know but um yeah we made a

decision not to make it all blow it out like very sportsy and not brand it so much and just like have me talking in that kind of cadence was kind of the decision i made we need to learn that lesson by the way let's we should flag that because this is the second time it happened on the roast and it happened on the Golden Globes where we were going to do this thing where we're like targeting somebody. And it was like just kind of like mean. And we cut it at the last second and we didn't regret it. So next time we should just know. Yeah, maybe not targeting someone and hitting them hard for no reason is not the way to go. No, it's not.

And it was even though the person we were going to target, I love so much. And I knew that it was going to it was going to come from a place of love of like it. It totally could have been misconstrued. And it would have it was I'm so glad we didn't do that. I'm so glad. And there was another moment too where we were going to like say kind of a roasty type joke at someone that i interacted with and i cut that joke last second and then let's not even talk about the rock joke like i'm so excited we didn't do

rock too like yes not the rock but the joke that had the word rock in it yes um yeah there were so many like we just made we made very good choices my only regret is not saying wicked table you're gonna love this yeah only regret and i wish i wouldn't have had the spotlight i wish it would have just left it on the normal like i don't think we needed that um to make it seem like it was like this moment but i don't think it hurt it but i don't think it needed it yeah um those and then i have a couple more i mean mean, I could go on and on. We're full of regrets. Everyone's full of regret.

All the time. Yeah. So anyway, this, so that part of the show, people have been, I, I first saw it.

Um, Oh, Mike Lawrence was the first person to write on, I think Tuesday when the fire started, like, um, maybe you guys should have thanked God more. Mike Lawrence,

one of our writers, like was like, Oh, as we pointed out in the show, maybe if you would have thanked God more, Mike Lawrence, one of our writers, was like, oh, as we pointed out in the show, maybe if you would have thanked God more, this wouldn't be happening. He was obviously joking. And I don't think anyone saw that

and then extrapolated from it. I think it was just, you know, he was parallel thought with some crazy people. So then there's been all these evangelical people. We don't know if they're evangelical. They might be Catholic. It's not. No,olics love me

catholics wrote about me in their newsletter in the number in the number one catholic newsletter serious magazine they wrote about how nikki glazer called out godless hollywood yeah like oh by the way got that part where it was like no surprise in this godless sound that was in the script and then got taken out. And I put it back in because I and I you could hear me kind of like wait. And then I just pulled it out of my brain to say it, even though I didn't write it initially. It was just an earlier script and got taken out of the prompter. But I'm glad I said it because it just made me laugh. And I like to say godless town.

I like the cadence of it. And it ended up being a really famous person's favorite favorite you know that day that i was on the podcast and i got a text from a really famous person yeah that person the most famous person i know was like i loved this one joke and that was that person's favorite joke and i and if no one else liked that joke it was like worth it to tell it because that person loved it yeah and um anyway, people have been making these videos saying that like I I am responsible for the fires. They don't even understand that I was calling out people not thanking God. And by the way, I was doing it sarcastically, which they don't even catch. They're just taking it the wrong way, thinking that I'm saying don't thank God.

That's good to not thank God God even though my character was saying the most crow god joke in the entire that's ever been uttered in Hollywood in the last 40 years where we said no one thank God what the fuck's wrong with you yes is what we said and that's what we were pointing out blaming me but I'm like no I was pointing out the right well it's just totally fucked up that they're saying that because of that joke. Now you're responsible. And some of the comments are so mean. They're like every tear shed because of the fires is Nikki Glaser's fault.

They're saying like, I hope you suffer. I hope your career. I hope you die. I haven't read any of this, but honestly, these don't hurt my feelings at all. They're from batshit crazy people.

And what's interesting is that I'd say, I'd say out of every single comment i've read except maybe one um because i'm like i i'm engaged and i'm kind of engaging with them on the yes instagram on nikki glazer pod instagram because oh god you are they made like a we uh we posted a clip of something that's not even this clip stupid it's not even you like these people what's wrong with them do they not understand comedy what like okay tell me what you're doing it's not even this clip we posted a clip about what did we post noah this week on the nikki glazer pod instagram it was it was about the making of popular it was about the making of popular it wasn't even about the godless town and

yet there's all these people who are commenting on it flocking from these areas and what's interesting is like except for one person i think 99 of the people are not from it, flocking from these areas. And what's interesting is like, except for one person, I think 99% of the people are not from America. They're from South America, like Brazil, Ecuador, or they're from Southeast Asia. So there must have been some influencer on TikTok that's from a foreign country who was ground zero for this conspiracy theory and who spread it

and then sent all of their followers to go attack us. Yes yes i'm getting emails and my email is not even out there like people are just taking a wild stab in the dark what my email might be yeah and finding ways to say it's all your fault yeah and then saralina on the girls chat today sent a link that said my mom is really excited because you are going viral in the philippines and she didn't realize she was sending me like a thing that was like this woman should burn in hell right because it's all in like um filipino is that is that the language uh filipino i think that's what they that's the yeah that's they are but i don't think that's the language i think it's like some i don't i'm sorry i don't know what it is yeah i'm i'm glad i don't because i don't want to hear things about me um no it's uh let me see it's it's it

makes me really happy i love filipino okay great you were correct thanks okay good i'm thank god yeah it's um but i oh thank god oh are you sure about that yeah i, I'm thanking God. By the way, I do believe in a higher power. I don't call it God. But I'm not a godless person. And I would never thank God in a speech, though, because I think that's insane to think that they would have any say in me winning a Golden Globe. It just doesn't seem right. I forgot who, there was a comedian or somebody who posted this who said like, the audacity of people to pray.

Yeah, you know what it is? I don't remember exactly. I think I told it on the podcast, but it's Ricky Gervais telling when people pray to God for their keys, the arrogance that God would help you find your keys when he didn't stop the Holocaust. Yeah, exactly.

It's like, it's just, it's perfect. And so by the way, it just says exactly what it is. Where were these people when Ricky Gervais was hosting the Golden Globes, a man whose entire career is based on mocking God openly? I love it. Bring it on.

How come God didn't light LA on fire when Ricky Gervais hosted the Golden Globes? And out of all of the godless things that happen in Los Angeles, all of the crimes and sins, you think it was a joke that was told in the Golden Globes that made him decide to set it on fire?

Right. And for all the people who are super religious and stuff, is God evil? Why would God do that? That's not like the purpose of God. He doesn't like set things on fire. Well, God punishes people who aren't.

Well, that's some Old Testament shit. That's some Jew shit. These people should be Jews. In Judaism, that's not it. Because that's the Old Testament. Why wasn't he struck down that night? Well, yeah. I mean, George Carlin did that in one of his stand-up specials.

He said, if God exists, may he strike me down right now. And he said that on a stage. And God didn't do it. It took 35 years. Yeah, it took him longer. Because here's the thing, I believe, is that I believe in God. I fear God. I don't think God cares about these things.

I don't think he's got bigger problems. If he's truly the creator of the universe, Earth isn't even probably on his top 10 of planets. So to think about the narcissism, to think that the one creator of the universe is like focused on a joke set at the Golden Globes and will destroy the lives of millions because of that joke is egotistical to the max. I'm so happy that this doesn't bother me at all if if anything it makes me very proud because my dad um like is such an atheist that he like there's no there would be no

better like achievement for me than to pick like to piss off all these like really zealots you know these insane people and so it makes there's something in me that uh feels good about that and there's no part of me that's like i honestly i i wouldn't care if i came across like people calling me a bad person because uh you know i upset god because i just don't believe that's true but then it's it only hurts me when people say something that i believe is true about myself like that's really the only time that i feel but i will say there was a thing that um i'm trying okay so i'm i got i bought this book called uh let them by mel robbins that i saw oprah say was like a book that changed her life and i've gotten all you know i think two of the girls chat girls on it laura and uh saralina and, Laura, I just said your name the way it's sounds like it's supposed to be pronounced Laura, even though it's Laura, uh, Hala, uh, Hala's reading it and Sarah Lena.

And it's just about, um, you know, when someone's mad at you, when, you know, person in front of you is driving too slow. When someone's being irrational, if your boss is blaming you for something, you just let them. And then you seriously, when you say let them about something it gives you a superiority that is that is um not what you should stay in but it gets you out of that feeling of like but it because you sometimes need a feeling of superiority just to get out of a feeling of shame right so it lifts you up suddenly you'd be like let them i don't care i'm unbothered I'm better than all of it. And then you do the next thing, which is let me. And that's where you go back down. You take that superiority and you get back down to right sized where you know, maybe I have something to do with the fact that they're mad.

How can I be a better person? Let me focus on things that actually matter, like what you can do. So anyway, it's really helped me. It's helped her. Sarah Lena said it's helped her. But I was talking to my therapist yesterday about how I am doing a lot better with people being like mad at me or not liking me and it not affecting me. And because there was a certain person that got really, really upset with me recently and really let me have it. And they were really actually very right to be mad at me. And I felt like at my first instinct was like, oh, shit, I really shouldn't have done that thing that made them mad. And like, why did I do that? And all the things that you go through when someone's mad at you and you actually

feel shame about it and I was headed to Hawaii when this is going down and I'm getting these texts that are very angry from this person and I could see in Chris's eyes him being like oh no our trip is ruined like Nikki can't handle someone being mad at her and she's not being able to fix this this person is not accepting her apology it's just it's never they're never going to this person is like done with Nikki and is like truly telling her like don't ever talk to me again and um and I could see Chris kind of like panicking and even I was like oh fuck this is about to ruin my trip and then I just apologized and I just was like and owned it and said yeah i regret doing that thing and i i'll always be sorry for this and i can't take it back and it's taught me to

be a better person i won't make this mistake again in other ways said my piece and i was like didn't think about it at all and this is someone whose opinion i would have guessed matters very deeply to me what this person thinks about me. And I just didn't care because I couldn't I couldn't control it. And thank God it was like right on the right. It happened right as I downloaded the book, let them. So I had read like 10 pages of it and kind of got the gist of it. And I just was like, let let them be mad at me.

Let them like I can't control it. Did you care if they accepted your apology or not no that was another thing it was like i knew in my heart that i was sorry and it wasn't just a placeholder i wasn't just placating them i knew and i also knew that i will i wouldn't have done that had i given it more thought and i won't do it to someone again i will it will change the way i behave in the future. So I came from this a better person. And I really there was nothing I could have done to prevent it. Like I didn't think about this person's feelings when I did the thing. And there was no way that I should have.

I there was no there was no I should you know, obviously I should have. But there was no part of me that could have in that moment. I was I was not in a state of mind when I hurt this person's feelings to have protected their feelings. I forgave myself for it, and it doesn't matter if they forgive me. They get to be whatever they're going to be. I can't change it, and it was so freeing. I didn't think about it at all. I even thought I'm not even going to be able to interact with this person's work anymore

because this is someone whose work you could probably consume each of us could consume and I thought oh I really like this person's work if I see it out in the world now I'll probably have to like swipe away from it really quick and stop listening or stop watching whatever it is and I came across this person's work and I loved it and was able to sit through it and enjoy it and that was huge for me because in the past you know my whole Taylor Swift story when I like said those things about her and ended up in her documentary I couldn't like listen to Taylor Swift after that because I was like I hurt Taylor Swift and then I was able to after I apologized publicly even before she wrote on it I was able to listen to her again but like hurting someone even if i

just like can't even if i loved them it's like makes it hard for me to enjoy their product anymore yeah but it's kind of like a reverse michael jackson where it's like are we allowed can we listen to michael jackson because he did all those things then you kind of have to get over it i'm having that now with kanye where it's, I really like Kanye's music, but he hates juice. I, I know I, I'm able to separate the artist, I think from almost everything all the time, but this time I was really happy about it. But I will say my friend, um, ran into, she's a huge Harry Styles fan and she ran into Harry Styles in the street after his concert.

I think I maybe told him, if i did and she asked for his picture and he said no very politely because if what i know this too just from being of minuscule time like you know famous is that when one person does it other people see and then they start being like who is that and that right and i can only imagine that harry styles level oh my god it would be a line down the fucking block so he was just like no because he hadn't been noticed yet she was the first person to kind of be like is that you know and so he's very polite and said no i'm sorry and she was so humiliated that he said no that she literally can't listen to his music anymore because she's just like gets embarrassed even hearing it because she was so embarrassed even though he wasn't mad at her it was very polite

but you know just to be told no by someone that happened to me after the roast at the after party of the roast i went up to gronk and i was gonna ask him for a photo and he like totally ignored me and boxed me out and now i can't listen to his music anymore either what a shame yeah um yeah it's uh but i will say that um i had my therapy session yesterday and i told my therapist about this moment and she was like and i was talking about my friends and i was like i've noticed my friends and i don't know if i was ever this way but i have a couple friends including one of our close friends and then some girls on the girls chat who and i don't understand this maybe help me understand this both of you if like the other day i think i could share this i'll check

with her and maybe we'll take it out but i think it'll be fine saralina said that she like she was walking into a coffee shop or something and she didn't see this woman behind her who was like older and probably needed help with the door and she didn't like push the door open more and she saw it too late to help the woman with the door and And she was like, this woman thinks I'm a terrible person and is going to be mad at me. And she like was still struggling with this feeling hours later after the stranger might have thought she was a bitch. For me in that moment, I might be like, oh, this is awkward in the coffee shop and she

might think I'm a bitch, but it probably I know that I'm not and that it was an accident. And so even if she would be mad, I just wouldn't. I don't think ever a version of me before or after let them the book would have cared what this stranger thinks, because I know that I'm not a bitch and I just didn't see her. Would you guys carry that with you all day? Our other friend was at dinner and was thought this guy was mad at him. Remember that thing I talked about? Remember Sean was like, that guy hates me because he stared at me? That's what Sean thinks about everybody all the time.

Yeah, but what is that? That makes me so sad for people to think that strangers might hate you. Noah, do you relate to this? I don't relate to that, but I think it has more to do with our friends wanting to be good people rather than if people don't like them you know like does this mean that i'm a bad person but like i guess that's

it's an insecurity on like a a level that i don't like it's like um it's almost like they because that's what i was trying to say to sarah lena is like if you are certain that you're a good person no matter what other people think, it won't matter. And you're doubting that about yourself. And as soon as you're able to solidify that and know that it won't matter what other people think. You're right.

And she is a good person. She's one of the best people I know. She would never like leave anyone in the lurch or like wanting, she would like buy someone a door. That would be easier for them to open. like she's the most giving person ever so for her to feel that way was it just like it makes me so mad because i just want to like i don't want her to have to suffer with that there are so many times that i feel like um people think i'm weird or something and and so it happens so often to me that i think i'm immune to like how yes strangers feel about me because i'm just can't i can't do that every single day all day

that's what my therapist said she was like nikki you i the reason you are better at this now is because you've had more experience with it than other people of strangers having opinions about you and you've just gotten immune to it or because you gotten used to it it's like exposure therapy because it used to be a crippling thing to me if like people I cared about didn't like me, right? Like people I know, people I'm going to encounter. And now even that, I don't care. And I never thought it would be something that I could get used to or like have experience with enough or get my 10,000 hours of being judged that you just let it go. But I really feel like it's such an accomplishment

if you can get there. And this book, Let Them, really helped me. If you're relating to this at all, the book Let Them by Mel Robbins is really, really helpful about people being mad at you. It's so freeing to just be like- You can't control, not my circus, not my monkeys. You can't control what other people are thinking about you.

You just have to go, you have to just be your best self. And if you're nice, you know, you're nice. And if someone decides you're not nice, like if they're, you know, in a Brazilian church and they decide you're evil,

not your, it's not on you. A part that I'll, and I'll finish by saying this and we'll go to break. But the thing that really resonated with me that made me feel like, oh, I can't let this happen anymore. Is that when you,

when someone's mad at you and you are obsessed about it and having anxiety about it, you have given your whole life to them. You are wasting your potential, your growth, your strength, like you're wasting your life and you're just like giving it to someone else. Is that what the life you want to live is giving it to other people? And you don't have an option when you're trying to control how other people feel about you. You're giving your life life to them it's like they are dictating your mood if they're happy with you then you get to be happy with yourself if they're mad at you you're mad at yourself so is that the life you want to live is if some person your boss or the girl who works in

the cubicle next to you or the girl you went to high school with who said something shitty on your instagram like you're letting her decide how your day is going to be. What? Like that kind of put it into focus for me of like, I don't want I'm not someone who's like, I choose my life and I live it. I'm gonna but like, at least I'm not gonna let people who truly don't matter in the scheme of things. Tell me how I'm going to feel about myself.

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Listen to The Daily Show, Ears Edition, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Final thought. You're at 2M on Instagram now. Oh, at two now baby 2m yeah you're in the 2m club anything that you say can be construed and made into a headline that people will want to read because there's gonna there's you've reached that next level of fame well yeah chris was saying to me it makes sense why celebrities don't do interviews and they don't interact with people on social media and they don't they just don't they like kind of isolate themselves because everything they say or do can be used against them. There's a downside to it. Like if you don't do interviews for 20 years and all of a sudden you come out like Robert De Niro during the election and start rambling about Joe Biden.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, that's not good. But you can do it. There is a good way to do it. And that is my boy, Timothee Chalamet, who does a million interviews. Yeah, he does shout outs. He's just deferential to everybody. There's no like there.

He's not being honest because he was being honest unless he is being honest. And that's how I just can't be honest anymore. Yeah. If if he was being honest he's not going to start shit talking anybody for any reason because he's acutely aware of the internet and how the internet responds to everything he says i thought you were saying he's a cutie he is a cutie he's a cutie where he's a cutie i like what he wears and he's great at interviews shout out to michelle may shout out he's so good uh unknown shout out yeah but then is that who i am is just being someone who's positive He's great at interviews. Shout out to Michelle May. Shout out. He's so good. Queen unknown. Shout out. Yeah.

But then is that who I am is just being someone who's positive all the time about everything. And then, yeah, you're a little bit different because you're a comedian and he's not. How good was Bill Burr on Jimmy Kimmel, by the way? Oh, yeah. I watched that. That was great. I love it. I love whenever he just gives that dose of reality to a situation where it's like, what are we all doing here?

And you think he might end up on the other side of things? You know what I'm saying? There are so many comedians who go the other way, and he's still maintaining this level of truth. He's from Boston. And Boston has just always been

that way. It's like, these are a bunch of tough working class guys, and yet they're aligned with you know the la and new york city it's like what's going on here i love the last moment of that clip it's on kimmel right now and i posted on my story but um in the last moment of the clip he was talking about screaming in his home or something and his daughter's like dad it's just the toaster he goes he goes she goes is this really about the toaster he's like it's not even that's not it has nothing to do with the toaster he's like and she goes what's it about or something he's like you don't even want to know like it was it was just this like nice reference to like this undercurrent of trauma or whatever that has led him to react that way

it's like it just shows a lot of introspection on his part that I think people don't really expect from him anymore. Over the last 10 years, he's kind of developed that sensibility. He did mushrooms and had an awakening. There's a crazy clip

of him on Conan during COVID where he talks about a mushroom trip and how he's been angry all these years and he never knew what it's like and he's not even being funny like conan's waiting for a punchline and he's just like yeah just an angry guy and uh there's a lot going on you know like he's just like he's like he's just talking about how he did mushrooms he took too many he had an epiphany that um he's never dealt. Like I'm kind of paraphrasing from, I'm not remembering it right at all,

but he's just saying there's a lot that happened to him that he didn't process. And it's just turned into this anger and he's like calling himself out. And it's like, he even calls himself out in the Kim. I love someone that is so can seem so righteous. And then all of a sudden goes like, ah,

I was full of shit. I don't know what I'm talking about. Like how great is that in someone that is a wonderful quality for someone to be so positive no no so certain that they're right and then to be able to just completely undermine it all by being like yeah i didn't realize how much helicopters were i was an idiot like he we famously know that he got his helicopter license because he wanted to escape la if shit ever went down and then kimmel goes did you do it were you thinking about he goes i didn't know they were so fucking expensive he's like i didn't think about that and it was just so nice to hear him throw himself

and he didn't have to make a sophie's choice with one of his kids about who he's great i'm so grateful we have his voice like i was just watched that being like fuck yeah he got it from what i from what i can tell he seems to to get it right and it was just it's it's so nice to have him out there talking i'm so i'm grateful for his voice it feels like kind of a carlin-esque uh bullshit detector that we need out there. Yeah, we need more of that. In the midst of everyone trying to seem, do comedy and be cool. And I'll include myself. Like, you know, there's,

it's hard to just keep it real. It's tough because I'm curious to see what the next generation of comics comes up with because we need the counterculture to return. And right now, the most, you know, the comedians are kind of aligned with the people in charge and so it's it's like we're not really getting the the bullshit detector version of

comedy right now yeah interesting yeah all right well i i saw i saw a lot of it in that in that interview and i was heartened to say the least i was so excited to see that clip because it's like and he was on a talk show being funny about the fires already yeah there you go and he had to evacuate it was it was really nice to see i like i turned down a talk show interview that was supposed to be tomorrow no yeah tomorrow friday to you guys um because i thought it was too soon to be funny and also i'm just tired yeah you deserve a break on tv again i didn't feel like like going to a fitting and picking out an outfit this is also the perfect time to take a step back and just let it all

you know just let it all sink in let it all marinate and let people miss whisper to me in pilates classes yeah exactly and let people miss the pre-fire time when we were all innocent and happy. And Nikki Glaser was crushing it at the Golden Globes. Yes. The last, the last thing that happened in Hollywood. Yeah. I,

I haven't received the critics choice awards and they get postponed again. We don't even know if they're going to happen. Wow. Yeah. Grammys is happening though. And they're donating. I didn't know that the Grammys made money but I guess they're donating

the proceeds of the Grammys which I didn't know was a thing to the fires. Taylor Swift donated 10 million dollars. She did? Yeah.

I didn't see that. Oh my God. Yeah. She's amazing. Beyonce did 2.5. Yeah. I mean it's great that there's a lot of people

donating and you should continue to donate and Ali and I donated to the uh pasadena humane society i did too yesterday yes um that's good to do i saw yeah we want to we want to donate to the animals i know i do too i don't know why i say that yesterday but like i do too and i feel bad but you know what you know you can't you can't pick and choose what pulls at your heartstrings it all does but for me i'm just i'm into animals and i just and i've explained it before because animals don't know what's going on and that is what there's something about humans.

I know that the human struggle is awful and there's maybe more suffering because they know what's going on. But for some reason, animals being like, I'm scared and I don't know why is so much more heartbreaking to me. And just that makes me get out my wallet faster. And I'm sorry if that offends anyone, because I think sometimes people go like, oh like oh you can't shut up about veganism but you haven't even mentioned this atrocity and it's like i can't help what gets me going yeah this is just let them be mad at me nikki let them be mad let them be mad and then let me put my money towards things that I care about. So yeah, check out that book. Do we miss any other things? I'm going on tour.

It's like all sold out and crazy. I know it's crazy. I have like four shows in Denver, four shows in New York, four shows in Boston. Yeah, everything's selling like crazy. If you want to get tickets,

I would get them very, very soon. I think some shows just went on pre-sale and they're already sold out since yesterday. It's nuts. I'm going to bring the heat for you guys. Not too much. Yeah. But I'm going to bring you a wet heat. Yeah. You're not going to set the world on fire.

You're going to... No. But yeah, the tour dates coming up are Minnesota at the end of the month and then Atlantic City. But hey, put it to the test. There's still tickets to Atlantic. Oh, good. Still tickets to Atlantic City. Go to a different city, call it a godless town, and see if it works again.

And see what happens there. Yeah. If it burns down. All right. Let's test it. Let's see if they're right. I will light this country on fire. Yeah.

Figuratively and literally. All right. I'll try that. We'll see you out there, and we'll see you next week on the podcast. Thank you for listening this week. Bye right, I'll try that. We'll see you out there and we'll see you next week on the podcast. Thank you for listening this week. Bye, Brian. Bye, Noah.

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