Therapuss with Jake Shane - Session 107: Marcello Hernández

Episode Date: February 26, 2026

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You talking to me? Kayak, got that right. Dada. Hey, pussies. Back to Therapists. I filmed an intro for this yesterday during the blizzard, but I was told I had a bugger in my nose, so I had to refilm it.

I don't know why I told you guys that, but there you go. We just had a huge blizzard in New York, so that's why I'm filming this on my phone because we couldn't get the equipment in time. But I hope you guys enjoyed last week's episode on Netflix. I am currently on Broadway for All Out with Jenny Slate, Nicholas Braun, Ray Romano. If you've already come and seen it,

Thank you so much for coming. I hope you loved it. If you haven't, tickets are available in my bio. I am on the show until March 8th. We are closing it out. It is written by The Incredible Simon Rich and directed by Alex Timbers, who I adore. Just like it's been one of the greatest experiences of my life. I have a show tonight. I'm so excited. But for tonight's episode, we have the Incredible Marcelo Hernandez, who I am very grateful and honored to call a close friend. I've known him for years. He is one of the best people I've ever met. He is hysterical. I've had the pleasure of seeing him live, which was just, he really could get up on that stage and deliver stand-up for 10 hours straight like a marathon

without taking a beat. Like, he is someone that I truly believe is made for this. He is so talented. So if you haven't seen his stand-up special American Boy, which is on Netflix, please go see it. It is incredible. He is incredible. Marcelo, I love you.

As far as life updates with me, my psychiatrist is trying to get me to go on Wilbutrin. Brett, who's on it, says it's amazing. and then I have other people telling me it might make my anxiety worse, so I'm kind of just like going back and forth on like whether I should do that or not. I guess I think that's all the updates I have for you guys. Enjoy the episode, I'm sorry for the short, low quality intro.

It is because of the blizzard, which was amazing, but also now there is slush everywhere and it is impossible to get anywhere. But enjoy the episode. I love you, Pussies. You know, you're my first recording of this new, set, new season, new everything. I was going to say it looks a little bit different, but I like it.

I like how it looks. I can see the show before. Of course. What's your favorite episode? I don't know. I like to see you excited. You get very excited for almost everyone. But I don't know.

I think the Renee Rapp one was really fun. Oh. Oh, you do actually watch. Yeah, of course. Oh, okay. Well, I'm so excited. You're here. Well, everybody, welcome Marcelo Hernandez.

Yay. His new Netflix special American Boy is out now. It's amazing. Thank you. How was it? I was filming it. How was everything? I'm sorry, I'm so rusty.

I haven't done this in like four months. It's okay. You've been traveling, taking little thirst traps. Yes. I see you. Yes. I see him. Yes.

Did you like my thirst trap? I think you're doing great, man. Thank you. You're looking for love, I imagine. Yes. I have a date tonight. Wow. Well, he actually texted me at 6 a.

I'm trying to cancel. What? He said, I woke up. I feel sick. I was like, all good. We can rain check. He's like, no, no, no, let's keep it. So I said, okay, are we stolen for the same plan?

I said that at 10 a.m. What time is it now? It's 3.30. He hasn't responded. God. Do you get, do you not get germophobia when they tell you they're feeling sick? No, I'm pretty desperate. You're down.

I'm like, whatever. Wow. And I think a 6 a.m. cancel is pretty respectable. So respectable, but he said, he said, I woke up. I don't feel good, but I can't tell if I'm just tired. So I said, okay, well, we can rain check if you want. He said, no, no, no, I just worked out. I feel fine.

So let's keep it. So I'm like, okay, great, sushi fu-fumi at 8.30. Right. And he never responded. He woke up in the first thing that came to his mind. Was me? Right. Speaking of relationships, you're not married.

Well, no, I was not married. It was a promo, but, um. That was promo? That was promo. For your Netflix special? Of course. Oh. You can tell.

Well, by now they will have seen the second part. Well, I thought you were married. I know, I thought that's what you did over break, because you told me you were going to your, didn't you, weren't you at your girlfriend's house? Yeah, I went to us here in the Dominican Republic, yeah. Yeah, how was that? It was awesome. I love her.

I love the Dominican Republic. She's so cute. Have you met her before? Really? You have? We spent literally an entire night together. Is that true? Oh, yes, of course, of course.

I remember. Yeah, yeah, sorry, sorry. We were in your sprinter van. Yes, of course. We were smoking cigarettes. We had a blast, yes. I remember. Like, we spent like at least four hours together.

We spent a long time together. I don't, yeah, okay. How'd you guys meet? We met at a charity event in a New York. York and a friend of hers wanted me to make a video for her dad because her dad was a fan and then she was like the friend the uncomfortable friend that comes with the friend to do the asking for a video thing and then i just saw her and i got her instagram and a year later um we finally went out love comes around it does it really comes around it's for you it's for you i know that's just

what i have three days well you have three dates three dates you're gonna figure it out if it's for you, you will have, what do they say, you turned over every rock? Yeah, every rock has turned. Every rock is turned. Well, I have a date tonight. I have a date Friday and I have a date Saturday. You can't talk like that. What?

You just can't say that. What do you want me to say? You have to at least pretend to be selective and, you know what I mean? At least put the, like, at least be like, oh yeah, I never say stuff like I never go on dates so they feel special. Because if, for example, if I'm a guy that asks you on a date, right? Yeah. And I'm watching your podcast.

And I see you go, I have a date tomorrow. I have a day on Friday. I go, I'm canceling. Actually, I might wake up sick. Okay, so pretend to be selected. Yes, at least. Hide it. You know what I mean?

You want them to feel special. And when you tell them that you have a date every other day, they go, okay, well, there's confidence. They should be like, if I'm the best one, I should be the best one. But like, what are you going on? Listen, I'm trying to date you. I don't want you to go on three days. in one week.

Right, of course. You know what I mean? So how did your relationship happen with your current girlfriend? You went on one day and then you were like, okay, it's it? No, we went on like 20 million dates. Okay, so I have a question.

How do you like, like, how do you like, listen? Right. So like, do you know what I mean? Oh, of course I know what you mean. I have a whole thing about it in the show. No, of course, of course. Your mom didn't believe you had ADHD.

It's fear. You listen out of fear. But I'm not fearful. But you have to be. because I think you have to be scared to make them feel bad, you know, and to make them feel like you don't care. When's your birthday? August.

Leo? Yeah. What are you? Guess. Asparagus. What? I don't know, dude. An octopus.

A year of February. October. October, yeah. Yeah, of course. But how old do you think? think I am. Cancer. Well, how old do you think I am? How old now?

Yes, wasn't that the original? No, I thought you were asking me what sign you were. Oh, well, you guessed it. October, cancer. Well, that would be June. Virgo. Scorpio. Scorpio.

Yeah. Scorpio. That means that you have a thing. That means that you think everything's good and then they, but. Yes. Is that true? Are you into astrology or is your girlfriend? No, I just know what a scorpion is.

Oh, okay. My rising is Gemini and my moon is Gemini. and I. Okay. So that means I don't come off as a Scorpio at all. Okay. Except when you tell people that you have four dates. Well,

that's very, that's very Scorpio. But I, I think, okay, I think my main issue with dating is that like my love language is talking shit and gossiping.

I can't gossip with someone I barely know. I hear you. Do you know what I mean? I can't sit there and talk shit about someone. I don't know you. Right. You know? That's tough for you.

It's tough. Remember the first time we met? No. I do. It was at the SNL after after. Oh, I remember now. Yes. Of course.

I told you I was a big fan of yours and I wanted to see you. Yes. And then I went to your show. Did you like it? Of course. I texted you. Yeah, but what like, what do you really think? Jake, you're doing, you're doing something that no one has done.

You know what I mean? Like, this is a new thing. It's like the podcaster that has to go and try to do live shows. and you have to figure it out as you go. So I recognize that. So I'm not like, what? I've been doing stand-up for 10 years. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So, like, stand-up, you can't watch me and be like, oh, no, and there's been a million stand-ups before me. Right. Like, there's not a million Jake Shains that you were able to look at for inspiration. Right. You had to figure it out, and you've done a great job, and your audience likes it. They're having a blast.

Did they seem like they were having fun? Yeah, 100%. And you're reading this stuff. It was really fun. What was your favorite part? I like the, I like the texts. Yeah. I like the text.

Good crap, please, sir. Because you are also, like, the type of person to go through a text with someone one by one text, like you just did with me. Yeah. Like, that's who you are. Right. You go, and then four hours later, I haven't heard back. And then, you know, then you talk about what that means and all that stuff. Oh, speaking of hearing back.

Oh, my God. Who is it? Um, it's my manager. You know how it is. I know. Oh, yes. Well, you said that, you told me that you had never worked on something as hard as you have your Netflix special. Yeah.

What do you, like, can you expand on that? What do you mean by that? Well, God, I'm doing such a bad job at asking questions. I brought you some gifts. Well, I want to hear about the Netflix special first, but then I do want to see the Can I bring you the gifts? Because I think that you're having trouble listening. You're having a little bit of a time.

And I want to give you a gift. I want to bring the vibe really high. Okay, yes, I love, I love presents. Presence, presence, presence. Okay, presents. I'll be right back. I got you. I'm got to, so many bags.

I got you a bunch of stuff. Did you do this on every podcast you went on? I do like, I don't like to show up empty hand. I always say that. It's very generous. So first things first, this is a sleep mask. Oh, my God. Wait, I actually love this.

I love to sleep with a sleep mask. When we go on the road, some of these hotels, they're not, like, perfectly blackout. And I think this is going to help you with that. I brought you some cozy socks. I think you're going to like these. Oh, my goodness. You can put them on when you're getting your calm on. You seem to be the type of person that I think gets very high stressed out.

Yes, of course. guy. Yeah. And so this is something you can grab onto and squish it. It's a squishy burger. I think that'll help you. And then I got an egg as well just in case you get sick of one. Oh my God.

I love it. Okay. Goodness. Okay. That one's weird. And then you get sick of it and then you can do this. Is it slimy? Just a little slime.

Okay. Okay. I got you a candle. This is like everybody does the same thing. Oh, it's not. Where did you go? Marshalls? And then I got you a book.

This is a book called the Honeycrisp Orchidin. I don't know. I kind of just grabbed one. But it's... So what's it about? City Life was treating her just fine until a sour turn of events knocks her out in one fail swoop.

What, a car hitter? I don't know what happened. But you can look at it one day. Okay. And then I got you a weighted blanket. This is all from Marshalls. None of this is expensive. Sorry.

Wait, no. And then this is my favorite one. Okay. I saved it for last. I know I saw you once you go grab it and then you did it. I didn't. I didn't. I saved it for last because this I think is,

this is something I've been wanting to tell you. Okay. You know, and it's something that I think you need to think about more often. I think, tell me if I'm wrong, do you feel like Jake can be sometimes a person that is always thinking like what can go wrong? We've been talking about this. You've been talking about this?

So I got you this. I already know what it says. I got you this. And it is, it says this. What if it all works out, Jake? So did you... Jake, what if it all works out? What if it doesn't?

You need to put this in your room. You need to put this in your room and you need to see it every day. Okay, honestly, you know what? I will. Okay, great. Mission accomplished. Thank you so much.

I got you a bunch of kids. Of course. Thank you. Listen. Oh, my God. I've never had somebody bring me so many gifts. You must be so good at Christmas time. I do like to be Christmas guy.

You are? Yeah, I am. What was your favorite Christmas you've ever had ever? Oh, I don't know. I definitely like Christmas better now because I have money and I can give stuff to people. Okay. For a long time, I was just the receiving guy. And I like better to be the one that is making stuff happen.

Really? My mom loves the real, real, real. I love the real real. She loves the real real, and she saves stuff on the real real. And then on Christmas, I asked my sister to get in there and tell me what my mom saved. And then my mom will, like, call my sister and be like, some bitch bought the boots. And then I give her the boots on Christmas, and she goes, you're the bitch. And that's been a fun.

That's fun. Your mom seems awesome. Did she love your stand-up special? She's the best. I think she loves it. I think she's watched me talk about her so much, but I think she loves it. I think she's proud of me, and I'm proud of her. Oh, what was the first time she ever saw you do stand-up about her?

I don't know. I've always had her somehow in the set, so probably from the beginning since I was 18. And I try to make her look good as well, but I also want to, like, get this stuff off my chest. No, I mean, you did. You did. What was your favorite bit that you do in your Netflix special? I like the ending. Ending's great.

I think stick around for the ending. The ending's amazing. The ending, when I came up with that, I was like, I was really proud of myself. How do you come up with all of it and connect it all as one cohesive story? It takes a lot of just like looking at it. I have transcriptions. So I get it all transcribed. And then I read it.

I try to look at how we can connect something to something else. My assistant, Marty, who was a co-producer on the special, she has been so helpful with me and, like, walking through stuff. And, like, if I can't figure out how to connect something together, we sit down and we talk about it. I think you have to find, you have to not be afraid to invite people in a little bit. Ultimately, everything is your choice, but, like, invite people in. You're great at that.

When I went to your show, he had a full, it looked like a bachelorette party. He has all these girls. the back and they're all talking about what he's going to do and what you're going to do and what you're going to say. And I think it's really, it's good. Oh yeah, you said. You said it was like a family reunion. It's, yes.

You have literally a family reunion at your shows. Is that every show? No, no. Radio City was a lot. That's a lot. Did you come out after with me? No, you didn't. Oh, I blacked out.

Yeah, yeah. I could feel you. I could feel that this was like a thing for you. Oh, I was ready to get messy. It was, yeah, you were ready to get messy. And then we went to Atlantic City the next night. Oh, my God. I know.

Well, I had forced. shows in a row. I did D.C., New York, Atlantic City, went out after Atlantic City, and then we had to fly in a seaplane to Boston. Wow. Yeah. You're living it up, man. No, a seaplane? What? What's wrong with that? It's exclusive. It's only a few people, yes? It was, it flies so low to the ground that you don't need to put on airplane mode. Like, okay, that's funny. Like, I, I had, we were supposed to drive there, but we missed our car. Right. And, That's crazy to miss a car.

Because a car is in like a plane where it's like, last call, it's a car. Well, no, no, no. What happened was I was supposed to wake up at 7 and I woke up at 11. That's why. To miss a car, you really got to miss that guy. Yeah, I missed it. And then the only way to get to Boston in time for the mean greed and the show was by seaplane. Well, actually, Zach, my manager said, I caught you a plane.

That's sweet. And I said, okay, cool. Let me ask you this, because obviously we're all very proud of you. You've been killing it. No, I'm proud of you. You have a new set. You're moving on up. Uh-huh.

That's great. Where were you before? Like, before we all got to know you, like, right before you were starting to make these videos of, like, do, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, the POVs. Yeah, the POVs. What, um, sorry, I was about to try to say one. No, no. Where were you?

What were you doing? What was the transition for you between, and I'm sure this is like a... No, so I actually never get tired of telling the story. So thank you so much for asking. I worked at a record. label and my boss at the time became my manager. Got it. What were you doing at the record label?

I did international marketing. Right. So like if a song was popping off in Germany, like I would like like look at the data and like have them put spend behind marketing in Germany for the song. And then I became an assistant to this guy, Zach, who's now my manager. Wow. I was really bad. At the job.

Horrible. Yeah. I was personality higher, he says. That makes sense. Yeah. I think you still are. I think so too This is the ultimate personality

I think so too I'm a personality hire for sure You feel that way 100% You had a lot of jobs Before you started working at SML A bunch What were, you said you would sell

I sold tickets on the street Yeah I used to sell electricity I used to go door to door In Brooklyn and stuff And ask people to give me their electric bill Would they be like Go get fucked

100% every time 100% of the time But there was one girl That was like really good at it And I think she thought I was like cute And she took me to Gucci and she bought herself a belt

and she asked me if I wanted anything I was like shut up I swear and I was like no I'm okay you sat down no of course not it felt so weird I also wasn't like into her or anything oh okay I felt transactional yeah I felt transactional and um but it was like it was very weird and then I was also an intern at a comedy club

I used to like run food and clean the floor or whatever after the show and I also sold medications I used to have a headset on the What did you sell? During the pandemic, I used to sell like a Gabapentin and stuff. I love Gabapentin. I love Gabapentin.

You sold that? I didn't sell the medication, but I would get it delivered to your house. Oh, okay. I could get it delivered at your house at no additional cost to your insurance. Oh, really? Of course. So what's the upside? The upside is that you don't have to go to CVS and it's the pandemic and you're over 65.

And I think that this is a time right now when people, with everything that's going on, that's what they couldn't mention COVID. You had to say with everything that's going on. Why can you mention COVID? Because it's illegal kind of. It sounds threatening. It's like you're going to die. So I would be like with everything that's going on, I think that it would be beneficial maybe for you to have these things delivered to your house and we can do it in a temperature controlled case directly to your house at no additional cost to your insurance.

And you can give us some instructions if let's say that the mailbox is a few minutes away from your house. We can make sure that this put there at a secure place so that you know and we know, but nobody else does. Or if there's a dog or something like that, you're going to want to tell us that so that we can make sure that you get your medications and that you don't miss out on something as important as your. Medicatapentin, yeah. Wow, and was that your favorite job? No. Okay. No.

And so when did you start, like, okay, so. That's when I started making videos when I was doing that. Okay, because you, I recently just saw these videos. They were like Miami weekend recaps that you would do. And it was like, you would do these like quick five seconds sound bites of what happened in Miami that weekend. Is that what led you to Estenal? Kind of. That was like the first step.

That's what got me to move out of my house is because I was making these out of my mom's, my dad's house. Because I moved from my mom and my sister were going to die. Because I was scared that my mom and my sister were going to die. And I started to get really scary. I was spraying them down and I was making them get naked when they get back from the supermarket throwing the clothes in the wash

Well you guys were in Miami too So like Nobody cared And I was coming from New York Where there were like people Yeah, I was sitting in the street So I was freaking out And I was at my dad's house

And so I would wake up before the job I would write And then after the job I would go to my friend's house I would hang out with him I would tell them the stuff I had written And then at the end of the week I would film whatever our favorite idea was And I like after my fourth or fifth one

This account reached out And asked me to make little videos for them And they paid you They paid me. And then after like a few months of doing that, I was like, you need to give me, you know,

$500 a week so that I can quit my headset job and do this full time. And then he was like, you need to get more responsibility. So then I became like the creative director of the account. And then I did that until S&L pretty much. How did S&L come about? So when I was doing that stuff in Miami,

this guy from this guy Tim Dillon, you know Tim Dillon? Yes. So he had me, well, I asked him if I could open for him in Miami because I was like thinking I was starting to make waves in Miami.

And he said he didn't care if I did or I didn't. So I grabbed my phone. Wait, wait. What? I said, can I open for you? And he said, I don't care. He actually said, I don't give a fuck. Wait, but was he serious?

Yeah, I guess. I think he was just like, you know, it's also comedian to comedian. He's being funny. And so I grabbed the phone. I took it to the club and I was like, he doesn't give a fuck. Can I please do it? And then they were like, sure. Oh, oh, it was like that.

Yeah. Okay. They said yes. And then after the show, he invited me to go on the road with him. So I went on the road with him, and he introduced me to CIA. and like after I was on the road with him I started getting on the road with other comedians as well Gilbert Godfried Mark Vieira

I would go on the road with them and then CAA had signed me and then I was he told me that if I, Tim Dillon told me if I didn't move back to New York he would fire me basically because he wanted someone that was working in the clubs in New York so I got like a friend of mine that was moving out there to let me live with him for like a little bit of money because he was doing

he has too much money and I didn't have any money so he let me like pay him a little bit where you were in union school where? Okay. I grew up in New York, so. Nice. Well, before the pandemic, I had moved to New York, I was in Bushwick first, then I was in the lower east side in this guy's apartment, this bald guy, and he used to drink half a beer and put it

back in the fridge. Ew. Very interesting. And then the pandemic, I had to move back into my parents' house in Miami, and then I moved back to New York with my buddy, and then I was doing stand-up every night. I was hosting and all this stuff. And just for laughs is this big festival in Canada, where a lot of people get discovered, and I got the audition for that.

And so I auditioned for JFL and then I went to Canada. I got it. And then in Canada after I did the six minutes, my agent, Erica Lancaster, who is from CAA, who used to work at SNL, was like, I'm going to introduce you to them. And she introduced me to the people from SNL. And then they invited me to do the audition process. Wow. And so what's the worst you've ever bombed?

There's a few. There's probably a bunch of them. I'm good at blocking it out immediately. It's like a sports thing. Like when you have the worst game of your life, you have to forget it immediately. And so I forget it immediately. Like you played. soccer when you were a kid, right?

And in college. Oh, right. Where'd you go to college again? I love this because there's nothing there. I know. I know. I know. I know.

I do. I do love it. My friends, oh, my friends were, do you, does your mom still live in Miami? Yes. My friends were just there for New Year's. Oh, my God. It's fun. Thank you, Seekek again for sponsoring today's episode.

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Nobody told me that I should have something to be therapist about. I'm looking at... Do you want me to go first? Oh, please. Okay, so I'm therapist about a few things. Right. Okay, my one thing is that the guy hasn't texted me back that I'm supposed to go on a date with later.

I'm therapist about that. I'm therapist about the fact that I had a dream last night where my teeth were getting pulled. And when they were getting pulled, there was a string attached to the tooth that was like they had to cut off until I woke up like this. At three, I woke up at one, and then I woke up at three and then I woke up at six.

from each from a nightmare, different nightmare. And the one with the teeth pulling was just the worst. And so that set my day off horribly. Right. And then I have to pee a lot. Right. Like in 10 minutes, I'm going to have to go pee. So should we work on your diet?

I have been. What do you eat? I had lamb chops last night. That's not good. What? That's heavy. What do you eat? I mean, I don't know.

I try to eat like sushi as much as I can. Well, that's where my date is supposed to be. tonight. So, thanks for bringing that one up. Bring it right back to that. No, I don't know. I eat chicken and rice all the time. Oh, every guy I've ever met, all they eat, chicken and rice.

That's it. Chicken and rice. I just order chicken and rice. From where? From anywhere. Japanese places have a lot of chicken and rice. I have a Latin place next to my place in New York that they bring it to me, and it's great.

But yeah, chicken and rice feels safe. And rice is what they tell you to eat when your body is, like, not dealing well with other foods or when, like, yeah, the brat diet. rat diet. So I try to do that. I try to do a lot of rice. I'm trying to leave rice. I'm trying to do chicken in like greens.

But I just, it's just so boring. It's so boring. It's so bored. My favorite thing about rice is when you, it's like, it, I describe it as like an empty canvas and you can paint it with sauce. And it soaks up all the sauce.

Interesting. Yeah. Do you like, um, what's the wet rice? What? The wet rice. What? Um, the wet, it's a dish. Everybody eats it.

The wet rice. It's like a saucy rice. rice. Risotto? Yes. Oh my God. That's what you were referring to? It's pasta.

That's pasta. Oh, that's pasta? But it's in the class of pasta. Because it's full of sauce? I don't know. But you just said it's in the class. Because it's like, who else is in the class? Like if I'm like going at it's an Italian restaurant, it's like a pasta.

And then under pasta is risotto. Is that true? Yes. Okay. What's something like you wonder about straight men? I wonder. what it feels like to have sex with a vagina.

Right. I heard somebody said once that it feels like you're sticking your dick in a warm hot tub. Right. Do you have any other things? I just heard whoever out there

agree with me, by the way. I just heard whoever out there said, my voice from Miami. I heard him say, damn. All right, so that answers your question.

Is that what it feels like? Damn. What else you got? I don't know. Like what straight guys? What else do I have to You know. Do you feel blessed that your metabolism is fast?

Oh my God. You think gay guys have a slower metabolism? Well, I think I'm the only one. So I'm, yeah. I don't know. I think our metabolism is the same. I think we need to get you off lamb chops. I think we need to get you on a lighter.

You need to eat lighter foods. Feel light. Feel fast. Okay. So like what? Like you can, like before soccer games, you do carbs, you have a little bit of pasta and have a little protein and then you're good to go. I want you to stay light.

Do I look like I lost weight to you? Yeah. Shut up. 100%. I swear. And I know you, so I know that you've been working on it. And when I met you, it was before you started working on it. So there's results.

Okay. You're getting results. I'm so excited for your premiere tomorrow night. I know you're coming. I'm going to get tipsy. Let's do it. Are we going to get drunk? Yeah, we have a little after party too.

Oh, well, that's why I heard. Come on. Let's have some fun. Okay. I'm only in LA for a little bit, so we got to do it. I know. You tried to get me to come out the other. night.

I know. And getting Jake to go out is so funny because he has never said no to me once. He never says no. He'll never say no. Instead, he'll go, okay, yeah, okay, yeah. And then I don't hear from him until the next day at 5 p.m. That actually is exactly what happened. That's what you do.

Well, that is what I do. I don't say no. I say, like if somebody were to ask me, like if she'll ask me a question, Louise Waspne, I'll say, oh, just give me the night. I'll think about it. Right. You never say no. Never.

Maybe we've got to work on that. Maybe you should say no. more. No, is liberating. I don't like saying no. No, I can't. I can't. I can't. Oh, but I was in bed.

And then a guy like you would go, no, I'm sorry, I can't, I love you. But I told you. I was like, I'm in bed. And you were like, get out of bed. How many, yeah, of course. It was 6 p.m. It's like, what?

How many people, do you say I love you to everybody? Every single person. And people, if they don't feel comfortable, say, yeah, you didn't say it back to me. You said, all right, buddy, love. Yeah, it just, it felt, it feels fast. But I do love you. I know, but I,

I, you know, I think you got to put some, you got to start to put some weight on that, you know? I say I love you to my barista every morning. Taylor, hi, Taylor. Hi, Taylor, love you. Yeah, she writes on my coffee every morning. Does she say love you too? Yes.

Okay, that's sweet. And if they, if they don't feel comfortable, saying it back, they go, love. How long, that's what I did. How long have you known her at your barista? A year. Okay. That's a long time.

Yeah, she's everything. We have each other's numbers. We text. Okay, so that's someone you love. Yeah, I have your number. Who's someone that, yeah. Yeah. Who someone, who someone, when is it too soon to say I love you?

I say it as like word, I just say it. Like that's my version. Goodbye, love you. And so let's say that I'm one of the three men you're going on a date with this week and I'm watching this. Oh, no, I've done that before by accident. And I'm like, I did not mean that. Got it. I did not mean that.

So it does mean something. I guess. When? Do you have a different thing that you say to people that you like really like? I think, oh my God, I hope I get a boyfriend this year now that I'm thinking about it. Yeah. I really, I really hope I do. Why do you want a boyfriend so bad?

What are you gonna, what are you guys gonna? Like, what is the, the thing that you want to do with a boyfriend that you can't do now? I want to binge watch television with someone and then like be able to have sex in the middle between episodes. Wow. That's beautiful. By the way, that's beautiful. That might be one of the most relatable things you've ever said. That's like what I want to do.

That's why I want a boyfriend. I'm like sitting there and like sometimes I'm watching TV and I'm like, oh my God, wouldn't it be so nice if I was laying on someone's chest right now? Of course. Or I was making out with someone. course. Have you ever seen Homeland? Not yet, no, I haven't seen it. Oh my God, strap in.

Why? It's amazing. Yeah? I'm on season six. Have you seen Pluribus? It was a lot of world building, and I'm just, I knew I was too stupid. Got it. I was like, you know what?

I'm too stupid. Interesting. It was like giving the same amount of, do you watch Pluribus? Of course. You finish? Yeah. What do you think? I had Brett spoiled the ending for me.

Sorry. Um, no. That's not the ending, but, um, I loved it. I loved it. I think it's just crazy. And it's like in the breaking bad vibe. Well, I love Breaking Bad. Also, when we were watching it, all I could think of is the weird shots that they do, like, to transition between scenes.

It's like, that guy is really amazing. The guy that made that show. I love when people think about stuff like that. Because it's really sick. Like, I'm the guy now that I'm, like, rewinding to see the creative little. touch that they did. Like there's one thing where like someone gets hurt and there's like blood. And then you like in your head, the first thing you think of when someone gets hurt, it's

blood. And then the next scene is someone making like a pink lemonade and the powder that they put in is red. And then when it's mixed with water, it makes the water look like it was blood. And then you find out when it pulls out that she was just making like a lemonade. What? Wait, what? Did you hear what I said?

I heard what you said. Where were you when I was talking? I was thinking about how funny it was when I asked you what it was like to have sex with the vagina. And your friend out there said, damn. That's what I was thinking about. Fair enough. I said something that made sense. You said that she got hurt.

There was blood. And then the following scene, there was red blood lemonade. Exactly. Isn't that interesting to you? No. Okay, fine. What else are you watching? Oh.

Is this your least favorite podcast you've done this week? No. Okay. Awesome. But I also know you and like you. It's hard for you to piss me off. And love me. I can't get therapist about this.

Okay. You know what I'm therapist about? What? I'm therapist about when you have a great night. Uh-huh. You have a fun night. You have a few drinks. You have the time of your life.

You truly enjoy it. And why is it that the next day has to be so bad? Oh my God. You think that? Do you know what I mean? You don't get hung over? I do. You don't get anxiety.

Oh, well, I do. You know? But you, you need to know how to do it right. Is that just the price that I pay? You don't, you don't have like a routine. You don't lay in bed, watch television, smoke. Well, you don't smoke anymore. Smoke a joint, order food, maybe get an IV.

You just, I have to work. Well, I don't drink on the weekdays. Never. I try not to. What if you had a big, this is a special occasion, I mean. Yeah, then that sucks. Right? Yeah.

It's just the price you pay, I guess, for having fun. Is you have to have a horrible thing? Are you hung over right now? Is that why you bring that up? No, no, but it happened after the Critics Choice Awards, I went out with my friends. I know, I got the call. Yeah, you did. Oh my God, did I miss such a fun night?

It was so fun. Fuck, what did you guys do? We went to Chateau, and we just talked and had a blast. You told me you were going to the one. And Alexander Scarsgaard was there. Shut up! What? Yes, and you could have met him.

And he was drinking with you guys? He was having fun. He was right by us, yeah. I got to talk to him, got to talk to his dad. Have you been watching all the Oscar Noms? Um, no, I haven't. You haven't seen any? No, but it's exciting to me to see people, you know, be rewarded for the stuff that they do.

Have you seen one battle after another? No, I'm dying to see it. I got to share like a little moment with Leo at the Critics' Choice Awards. What was the little moment? He was like, he was like looking at some papers because I think he was going to present or something. And I just got to be like, hey man, and we had met one time before. And he's just, he's cool. He seems that.

He's very, like, a cool guy. And all I've heard about him is that he's just a tremendously hard worker. And he loves his mom and he, you know, hangs out with his mom and got a lot of respect for that guy. Did you bring your mom to the Critics Choice Awards? No, she couldn't come. She's working. My mom is like a workhorse. What does she do?

What is your mom like? Me. She's like me. She's you. Yeah. Well, I always say, think about who could have made me. Right. Yeah.

What does your mom do? My mom, she works for a Belgian company. It's like a sales at a Belgian company. And ever since I was a kid, she'd be like up at 4 am. Because it's a time difference. Right. And then I would wake up at like 7.30, 7.45 and I'd be angry. And she'd be like, you got no idea what is.

Do you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But she's just, you have never met her. No, I'd. She'd love you, dude. I, you know what? I think we would get along really well. I know.

Because she likes to go to the mall for 10 hours. She likes to go to the mall for 10 hours. She likes to, and not anymore. She used to. Not anymore. Now she's like online. She loves to be online. And, but she'd invite you to drink wine.

She'd invite you to come over. She'd tell you you have to stay with her. She goes, stay with me. Oh my god, I hate being alone. She would love it. She would love it. You have to come meet her. You have to go to Miami.

I know. I know. Me show you. I would like that. Because last time I was in Miami, I was like, I can't do this ever again. No. It's just intense. It's intense.

There's like 24-hour clubs. There's multiple 24-hour clubs. Yeah. My friends went to the club at 7 a. I am the other night. To space. Yes. Of course.

Oh, okay. So are you planning on getting drunk for the after party? I want to have a couple drinks, sure. Yeah. What does a guy like you do with money? I don't spend it. I'm Jewish. So you don't spend?

What's your, what do you spend? Well, no, I do spend. What do you, I go, what would you say I spend on Louise? Close. Close. Close. Close and travel.

Yeah. Like, I like, you've got to travel well. I do. And I do. And if you ever want, like, I am a master class. And like, convenience is key. Right. Do you know there is a service that I just discovered today that the second you land,

you get off the plane and they just drive you home? From the plane. Yep. And what's the service? Delta VIP. Oh, yeah. I've done that before, yeah. Yeah.

But they don't take me home. They take me to my car. Well, that's when I met. How do I spend my money? I like, lately I think it's been like, I just love the take being with my friends and covering it. I need to stop doing that. But I've had plenty of conversations about this that I need to like chill about it.

You like doing that? But I just do like taking care of it. But I'm getting better about it because it's a lot of money. You have to like... I'm dead. Hold on. What? What are you about to do? Call Payton.

Can I guess what the call is? This is a call where Peyton tells me that you have never paid for anything for them in their entire life. You know. Hi. I'm with Marcello. We're doing therapists. Guess what I said we're talking about how like, first of all, say hi. Hi. Hello, Payton.

She says, miss you. Oh, I miss you too. He said, I said, I said, how do you like to spend your money? I said on clothes, whatever. I said, how do you? Or not at all. Yeah, or that. And then I said, how do you like to spend your money?

You'll never guess his answer. Am I supposed to guess? No. He says he likes to pay for his friends. Cool. I want you to get a notebook, get a pen, and take notes. But Peyton, I need to work on that because my friends will love me. Either way, right?

Like, yeah, but what I love if Jake, like, brought me on a date, like, every once, every three years, yeah. Jake. I know it's about it. You got to do better. Well, I did. I did pay, it was just on a vacation from hell, and I did offer to pay for her room, which I didn't do. Okay. But, but.

Of course you didn't. However, Jake did get me a purse I had been wanting forever for my birthday. The prod of party, the, what was it? The prod of party party party purse. Yeah. It's a proud of bag with a rave on it. With a what? With a what?

Oh, a disco ball. It's the Prada party purse. But to be fair, Peyton, we were at drinks and Peyton started pulling up bags and saying, I want this one. Also, to be fair, I think that you roll a lot deeper than I do. Like, I don't go out with maybe as many people as you do. Like when you go out with. How many people you go out with?

We don't have many friends. It's like three or four of us, Max. Yeah, that's. Wait, there's five of us. Well, I'm trying to make you look better. But I don't think it's a good thing. I think I need to like relax about it. Okay, I think I need to work on it.

I think you're doing good. Yeah, you guys can find a happy medium together. Let's find it. I love that. Thank you, Peyton. Okay, love you pay. Love you. Oops.

Have you ever been to Dominican Republic? No. You speak a little bit of Spanish? Um, okay. Ask me a question. Okay. How's-you-hmm? That's-se-as-ee.

That's-ee. That's-ee. Sorry. One more time. What more more? What do you most? How long have I studied Spanish for? What bothers you?

Oh. I can't speak Spanish actually. Okay. There's nothing really there. No. How was the Dominican Republic when you want? It was beautiful. It was beautiful.

You have to go. The people, it's really just an unbelievable place. And it's beautiful, and I think it's on the rise. And I think that it's peaceful. and it's a natural beauty. Do you gossip a lot? I wouldn't say I gossip a lot. Because your mom?

Yeah, I think it's a mom thing. Yeah, I think. I figure out who's doing what and what they did with what. My mom also would always do the thing where my mom and my grandmother, they gossip about people they don't even know. They would just do like if they see a news story about like a child that was abducted immediately they're coming to me and being like, you're a child.

That could have been you. What? To live my life in fear that that could have been me. What is the most trouble you've ever gotten into with your mom ever? Because in your special, you talk a lot about how you got in trouble at the mall, how you got in trouble. That's the one, the phone call. Really? That's the biggest thing I've ever done.

But you said you punished yourself. Well, yeah, but I mean, it was like, I was already punished. It was like, I felt like punishing myself. I didn't punish myself. I just felt like, I felt so bad about it. It was like truly like, it was, we haven't taught. We still don't talk about it because it was that bad. He basically like told everyone on the bus that he, his parents let him smoke cigarettes and drink.

How old were you? Ten. Yeah. And he got a call from CPS being like, we're going to take you away. It turns out it was just his mom's friend fucking with him. Yeah. But his mom was like every single day for two weeks when he, would go to school, it would be like, all right, well, I have to go pee in a cup to prove that I'm not on drugs.

It was all a lie. The whole thing was a ruse. Yeah, it was a ruse. I got rused. But that was, like, probably the worst thing I ever did. That, and then it was just, like, little stuff, you know what I mean? Like, I had to. You were a good kid.

I was not really a great, I was a good kid. Like, I never did anything insane. But I definitely was, like, I would get a lot of trouble in school. A lot of times that my mom is like, I'm working until 4 p.m. You can't miss the bus. And then I get a detention. And then I have to miss the bus. and many times she would have to pick me up at school at like 7, 8 p.m., stuff like that.

I never had any, like, any, like, drug or alcohol abuse situation. I think the most trouble I ever got in was when I blacked out and broke my wrist. And my mom had told me two days prior that she was okay with me drinking a little. And then she was like, you know, like you would have a drink here and there. And I was like, oh, okay, great. And then I broke my wrist. Oh, my God. I never got any trouble like that.

Like, no police trouble. Ooh, one time. This was really bad. one time I I crashed my car texting and driving and I hit a person and they came out of the car like

I didn't hit like a human I hit a car but the people came out like my neck my back did you have to like handle it through insurance or I don't even remember I think my mom and they were like but they did the thing about scaring me like you might have to go to court well you could have you hit someone I know it was really bad

you know the guy still hasn't texted me back the guy that I'm supposed to want to do Yes So it's getting worse. I think also when you're with a friend and you're having a conversation, you can't relax about it, but the time is not passing that phone.

How is he not texting me? I'm so sorry. Can I call him? No, we have a date in four hours. I'm actually so confused. Should I text him? What if I just call him from my phone just to see if he's on his phone?

And he won't even know it's me. Can we please do that? He won't even know it's me. Yeah, safe, yeah. No. Yes, yes, yes, yes. This is really a speaker. Do not disturb.

I'm doing double. I'm doing double. you just have to. It's part of the thing. Is not available. Up the phone. Shut up. Hang up.

Hello. I'm calling in regard to the car on sale in the Facebook marketplace. Call me back, please. Thank you. I don't think that's bad. Hello? I had to go pee. I had to go pee.

That voice. Why won't? So did he decline your call? He declined the call. He's on his phone. He's, but also I feel like he's really in something that's. busy. Yes, he's busy. That makes me feel like you're okay. It's not that bad. I need a boyfriend. I'm going to crash out. I'm going to crash out.

And if he calls you, he's not going to call you back. I wanted the voice mode to be a person you don't call back. Well, you're calling about the car on Facebook marketplace. Yeah, which is, hey, that's not about that on the fly. Okay, so we're about to get into the tell me what's wrong. Before we do, I do have to pee my pants. Okay, great. Let's take a break. This episode of Therapus is brought to you by booking.com. Booking dot, yeah! So I actually have my best friend Alice on the phone with me right now. Alice, we just got back from Japan together.

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Everybody has such different needs for where they want to stay. and booking.com just makes it so easy. So literally, thank you booking.com for helping my trip with Japan and helping me book, obviously, all of my tour spots. Also, at this rate, I've been in New York for a week now for Broadway, and I booked it on booking.com because I wanted to make sure I was near a gym, somewhere I could get coffee, just, like, walking distance to like anything I would need. So seriously, thank you booking.com. I would literally use it for everywhere I go, and it's been the most helpful. Find exactly what you're booking for on booking.com.

Booking. Dot, yeah, book today on the site or in the app. Okay, so tell me about the SNL schedule. I know the, okay, well, I guess people watching would know. The SNL schedule is, do you, are you, do you write? Yeah. Okay, so you write. So I'll tell you, Jason Sudakis, name drop, alert.

Okay. He told me that people always ask him about the SNL schedule, and he had to find. a quick way to explain it to someone. And he gave it to me so that I can do it and then it makes my life easier. So on Monday, we talk about it. Okay.

We talk to the host, you talk to the writers. Everybody talks on Monday. Set meetings for Tuesday. On Tuesday, we write. All day, all night, we write. And on Tuesday, there's that dinner that we all go to with the host that Lauren and the producers,

they select some cast to join them at dinner with the host. Okay. You guys get drunk? No, because you got to go back to the office. Got it. So you can have one maybe, but you got to go back and be a person. So Tuesday we write. Wednesday we read.

So on Wednesday morning, you send in all your sketches. At Wednesday afternoon, we all sit at the table and we read 38 to 40 sketches. So it takes hours. So we're done at like 8.30, 9. You sit at that table for a long time. And then from 9 to like 10, 10.30, they pick what's on the show. So then on Thursday, there's rewrites all day. So the ones that were picked, you meet up with all the writers and you rewrite the sketches.

You find out which moments weren't that good. You try to make them better. And then on Thursday night, I believe there's a few rehearsals as well. And then Friday is when you record everything that's pre-recorded and also you rehearse a lot of the other sketches. Okay. And then on Saturday, you do... Usually you get there at like noon and then you're there until 1.30 a.m. when it's over. So Saturday we're rehearsing all day and then at 8 p.m. we do the dress rehearsal.

And then at 10 p.m., we find out what was cut between dress and air, 10, 10, 10.30. And then at 11.30 we do the show show. What has your favorite show you've ever done bed? I think the one that was most emotionally, like, the one that made me cry was with Bad Bunny when he hosted. the first time and he brought like obviously like I was helping people that were putting Spanish into his sketches I felt like important and like useful and that was really nice and then we had this protective mom sketch that I had done with Pedro where he's my mom and we you know Lauren and the producers thought it was maybe we bring it back for that one then we brought it back

and I got to write it and put Bad Bunny as my aunt and Pedro as my mom and it was funny and we had a great time and I think after that show I remember like going to the after party and seeing my friends and just cry it was like big like hysterically sob yeah like uh like um but it was like you know it was a moment yeah of course and I felt like I had like really like done something yeah that's amazing that was a big one and then what is on the flip side a sketch where you you got off stage you were like I literally I've never bombed that hard in my life. It happens a lot. Like at dress rehearsal,

some of the sketches just don't work and you just you get cut and you get cut. We've done a few that just don't work. But I pride myself on like, it's okay to be like for a second to be like damn or whatever but like I don't get too low. And I try not to get too high either.

Really? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You ever heard the song Happy and Sad by Casey Musgraves? No. You should listen to it. Yeah, it's a good one. It talks about like when you're feeling really happy. You're like, oh, my God, something bad's going to happen. Right. It's tough. And, oh, Tom Hanks has a great quote that I saw him do on a YouTube thing where he's like,

whenever you think you have it all figured out, you're wrong. That's the quote. And then whenever you think that you have nothing figured out and everything's going bad, you're wrong as well. Oh. If you would just give me a second to finish it. Yeah, that was a lesson in patience for me. Yeah, exactly.

Well, let's, I'm doing it. Before we get into the tummy what's wrong, I'm going to see, but still no response. That's cool. Well, he ignored the call. He's busy. Pass me one of those stress balls. You're making me stressed.

I didn't realize it were going to be so sticky, Jake. I'm sorry. I like it. Oh, it's slimy. It's slimy. I'm sure it'll get dry the longer you have it. What was your favorite place when you would go to the mall with your mom? And you said you hated it, which actually is probably the most shocking part of your special because I love the mall.

Really? Well, I guess that doesn't mean you would like it. But what was your favorite place to go to? We're different, you and me. In the mall? My favorite place to go to in the mall. I don't know. I really didn't enjoy it.

But I will say that I would go now. You want to go to the mall? I would go to the mall. I would go to the mall with you. I'd go to the mall with my mom. I would go to the mall. I'd probably have a good time. I also think back then you have no money.

Right. Right. You're like, what am I doing? Yeah. And wanting something is scary because your mom is like, really, Mr. C in math. Did you have an allowance as a kid? No. Okay.

I would get like sometimes my parents would drop me off at a place called Sunset Place and that's where you do lose your laps and you have your first kiss and all that stuff And they would give me 20 bucks I'd get up they'd be like I would my parents would give me 20 as well You do that but I never had an allowance I never had like chores I never was like oh I took out the trash I deserve money mom was like no this is my house and I pay rent You know I didn't or mortgage you know I didn't do chores as a kid Never did chores never did chores never not once You think that it's hurt you in your older life absolutely I didn't know how to do laundry until I got to college

Oh my God I didn't know how to do the dishwasher until until I moved into my second apartment in college. Whoa. Well, so the tell me what's wrongs, you obviously know since you've seen the show. Of course. And we prescribe stuff.

Right. My best friend of 10 plus years has a lying problem. Recently, she's been retelling stories that I'm a part of, and she's adding things that are untrue and always end up making me look bad and her look good. Whoa.

I've been there. Other friends have noticed it too. Okay, well, that's the first part. And she even fabricated a story and told my coworkers, which made me really uncomfortable, and I had to do damage control. What do I do?

So it's awkward when you have a friend like that because they'll never, because they already have the lying problem. Like that's seeded into them. They will never look at you and tell you that they lied. Ever. You think so? I know so. You'll say you just lied.

They'll say no, I didn't. Even if you put the pressure on? Yeah, they'll say, no, I didn't. You're lying. Whoa. I don't really know what to describe. I think you need to have, like, more faith in people. Oh my God, you know what I prescribed?

What? Do you remember in the episode of Plybis where she gave her the truth serum? Yes. That. The truth serum. Which is... Heroin? Tequila.

Oh. Or something. Oh. Sorry. Because didn't she ask for heroin in pluribus? Yeah, but that was not... That had nothing to do. Whatever.

I prescribe like a let's have drinks with this girl and have a lot of drinks. Like a lot. Eat enough drinks that towards the end of the night, when you're blackout, you go, hey, I'm not mad. But we have. have to talk about this. Do you watch the real housewives? A little bit with my family, yeah. Which ones do you watch?

Because that is something that they would do. My sister does Miami, Salt Lake City. Shut up. Of course. Salt Lake City is apparently the best one. It is the best one. Okay. Do you watch Salt Lake City?

A little bit, yeah. Who's your favorite? I don't have a favorite. Come on. I don't have a favorite. But my favorite. Lisa Barlow, I'm very important to God. Have you heard her say that?

No, what did she say? She says, I'm very important to God. To God. Yeah. Okay, that's funny. I like Miami. I like in Miami. Miami's one of the best too.

Miami is one of the best. I like the girl that's with the firefighter. I don't watch Miami, so I wouldn't know. But I do know that it is considered one of the best. I only watch Salt Lake. Miami's really good, though. So you watch? My sister.

Yeah, I sit down with my sister sometimes and I watch the Housewives with her. It's television. People, you can hate on it all you want. It's television. It's good TV. Some of the best actors in the world watch Housewives. The stuff happens. It's drama.

It's, can you believe her? I love that. I don't find myself. to be a very dramatic person. Like I don't like get there very often. So it's nice to see people get there over stuff that's not that important. You're not dramatic? Not that dramatic.

I think I definitely am dramatic, but I think that level is kind of performative. You know what I would prescribe actually? To this girl? Yes, Real Housewives of New York City, scary island episodes. Because Kelly Benson, or maybe not Scary Island, but just like that whole season with Kelly Ben-Simone in general, because she just lies through her teeth. My friend, my friend, Gwyneth. Remember that?

Oh my God. She's just a liar and you just, you can't. You have to just, like, deal with it. Right. But only if you love this person, do I recommend having the drinks and doing the thing? Mm-hmm. My twin sister and my boyfriend have been hooking up behind my back for months. Wow.

I found out through a mutual friend that told me when we were a little drunk last weekend. You see? You see how they get? You see how the information gets out? Yes. I feel so betrayed by both parties, obviously, and have no idea what to do with this information. I haven't told them I know yet, and it's taking everything for me not to murder them both. How do I handle this in the most evil way possible?

Whoa, in the most evil way? My twin sister is hooking up with my boyfriend behind my back. Would you consider yourself to be a petty person? Not too petty, no. I also don't think I'm petty. She would disagree. Petty to me is like if somebody, like, if you find out that someone's been talking to someone else behind your back

and they tell you, you post like a story with the person that told you that stuff. You know what I mean? That to me is like petty behavior. That's calculated. That's calculated and petty. Oh, but if I find out someone's talking about... I'd have the opportunity to do that and I didn't do it. Oh, do you get your feelings hurt if you find out someone speaking about you behind your back?

No. Neither do I. No. Well... Because what? Because what? Because there's no such thing as what? Bad press, honey.

You believe that? I don't know. I just wanted to say it. Okay. What do we prescribe to this girl? Oh, no, no, how do we prescribe? She wants the most evil solution. I mean.

I mean, the classic response is like a rom-com where like John Tucker must die, which I've prescribed many a times. However, What's that? You never seen John Tucker must die? No. Oh, it's fabulous. Oh, really?

You would love it. Okay. It's amazing. I recommend something crazy. Oh, I actually know what I recommend. I recommend something crazy, but this has lifelong effects. Okay, what? Tell your mom.

Oh, yeah. Because it's her, it's the sister. You know what I mean? And it's like, and they look the same, and it's hard to pick one. but when you find out something like this, I would prescribe girls on HBO, specifically because Hannah, the main character's boyfriend,

starts hooking up with her best friend behind her back, and she writes a think piece on it. Oh my God. Yeah. Naming names? No, but they know. My parents of 20 plus years just told me... This was an evil solution to send it to you,

so you read it on here. Oh, yeah. This was part of it already. So, like, if you know, you know. If you know now, And if you really want to be evil, tell your mom. Tell your mom. Tell your mom.

What would your mom do? If she found that out. Like, let's say you had a brother. It would just be like, I still love you, and you'll always question if that's true. Really? You know what I mean? What? Because you were like, she'll be like, she'll tell you that's wrong and that you did the wrong thing and that you should never betray your sister like that.

And then for the rest of your life, you'll kind of live with that guilt of like I let my mother down in a crazy. way. God, I don't have that guilt. No? No. Do you have any siblings? Yeah. Exactly. I'd be like, look, desperate times. What? Probably. Like, I don't know. Oh my God. My parents of 20 plus years just told me at the ripe age of 24. My parents of 20 plus years. Just, that's just your parents. Okay, I guess you're right. Yeah, she was telling us her age. That's what she was. My parents just told me at the age of 24 that they're getting divorced and my dad is joining. a polycule. What is that?

Oh, that's when you have sex with multiple people. It's a relationship with multiple people. The weirdest thing is my mom is totally fine with it. Well, obviously. Like, they've been talking about it. Please, how do I cope with this?

It's so weird, even though I'm already out of the house. Oh, you just have to, it's, you're at that age where you're like, oh my God, my parents are just growing up children. They don't know what they're doing. Right. Do you ever feel that way? Like, oh, my God, my parents are just grown up children. I prescribe a group chat with the wives.

Why? Just get in there. Sorry to have some wine and try to enjoy it. they feel guilty too they just took up a normal family the other people in the polycule I think that the other people in the polycule

I think that they feel bad too they're like oh my god this guy had a normal life and then now because of the polycule it's all kind of kind of be different now so use that guilt

to kind of have some fun try to have some fun try to make them you know get you some gifts yeah double Christmas yeah with that it's probably like triple triple Christmas

well your parents are divorced right my parents are divorced so do you get double Christmas I get double Christmas yeah sure okay I get double Christmas I have a I have a mom

I have a stepdad and I have a dad. And my mom and my stepdad, they got divorced and then they got back together. Wow. Oh, my God. Love your mom's energy. She's just... Didn't work?

Let's just try it again. Literally. And the real savage move is to divorce. It's like, whatever that problem was, it was, we're divorced. Right. And then if you can repent, uh-huh. Take your time, repent away from me.

Right. You know what I mean? You were religious man? Um, I believe in God, yeah. Okay. I believe in God. I pray. You pray?

I pray before every show. I don't pray before every show. I prayed before my special. I pray every time I got on a plane. And I pray every once in a while on my own. I do want to, I've been trying to do this. I want to pray every night. Okay.

Does your girlfriend also pray? I think she does have a relationship with God, yeah. Oh, that's beautiful. But I want to pray at night. I want to pray at night. I used to do this where you pray at night and you talk about what you want for the, what you're thankful for today

and what you want for tomorrow. Okay, let's practice that right now. Okay, ready? All right. What are you thankful for for today? Are we really going to pray? Oh, okay, yes. Because if we're going to pray, we're going to pray.

Okay. Okay. Ready? Let's do a little prayer. Let's do a little prayer. All right. The Father of the husband. Yeah.

God, I am thankful for my friends, for my family, for my health. I'm thankful for this week in L.A. I've been able to share a lot of time with people that I admire and people that I respect. I am grateful for my special letter is coming out. Thank you for allowing that to happen without a hitch. And thank you for giving me the opportunity. to have this week to promote it and to try to get people to watch it because you know how much work I put into it. That's what I'm grateful for today.

I'm grateful for my family, for my friends, for my relationship, and for the people on my team that make me a better person and make me work very hard. Jake, what are you thankful for today? Okay. Thank you, God, for giving me the health to be able to work out this morning. I loved my workout. Thank you for letting me have this space to interview my friends and talk to them. I would actually really appreciate it if you had the guy that I'm going on the date with tonight, text me back. I've been waiting and I need to know if I need to show up to sushi fu-fumi at 8.30 p.m. or not.

But other than that, I am so grateful. I'm grateful for my body. I feel like I've been looking a little slimmer these days. so thank you for that. I know that's both you and me together. And I'm grateful for, you know, I was actually looking in the mirror today, and I decided that I really liked my hair, so I'm grateful for my hair. I'm grateful for, okay, so I know that this is, this is like off and on,

but, like, I am grateful for European Wax Center. Even though that it's poorly run, I am grateful for them because I feel really comfortable with my upper arms right now because they're waxed. And thank you for that. And thank you, amen. And then no, no, now we do what we want for tomorrow. Oh, okay. Okay.

Oh, I already jumped the gun on that one. It's okay. And for tomorrow, I pray that you please give me the opportunity to have an amazing screening for my special and that everybody comes and that they enjoy it and that they feel identified and that they feel that they had a moment of release and that they laugh. And I also pray that tomorrow you keep everybody safe in my family and in my family and in my friends and that my girlfriend has a safe flight from New York to LA to come see the screening. And I pray that tomorrow you also remind me whenever I can to help other people when it's possible.

And I'm in. And now you for tomorrow. Okay. For tomorrow, I'm going to the store at 11 a.m., and I want them to have the size of the blue and white striped shirt that I really want. So I pray for that. I pray that I do a good job in my workout after I buy the shirt if they have my size. Wink, wink, wink.

And I pray that I find joy in my day tomorrow. Amen. That was sweet. That was sweet. That was so fun. I do pray that I have this shirt. Just be grateful. Be grateful.

Is that what religion is? Do you think just gratitude or no? I think it's gratitude. I think people... Oh my God, I saw that too. Yeah, I think people... Is that a fly? I think so.

It was God. It was God. It was. That's nice. It was. And what did I do? I went away from me. No, no, but you were just startled by his presence.

Thank you. That's sweet. I think it's that. I think it's you being grateful for the world that you have. And I think it's also when things go bad, you need someone that you want to be on your side. And I think it's, you know, it's true that, you know, he's always listening.

And I think it's also just placing intentions into the world is, I think it's a healthy thing. I do that silently. Good. You know what? Did that feel good? I felt so good after prayer. You know what I mean? Oh my God, I feel amazing.

And imagine doing that every night before you go to sleep. You just feel like, oh, I'm putting it out there. I'm putting it out there. And then now you start to kind of live life with intention. I keep on going out and I cannot get a hint for the life of me in multiple ways. I never know when to go home. Girl, same. I never know when I'm too drunk, but mainly, well, obviously, that's the point.

of being drunk. But mainly, I never know when someone is into me. I've had experiences where I make the first move and it feels completely. So how can I trust that someone is doing the same to me? I fumbled the bag so hard so many times. How, how, how do I know when someone is flirting with me instead of just bantering or humoring me? Please, it's such a problem.

I can totally relate to that. Interesting. How do you know, how did you know when your girlfriend was flirting with you? We went on a bunch of dates. I think it took time. Patience. I think. I think also sometimes you have to make a move and see what the reaction is.

I think, you know, if you go on a bunch of dates and you're saying goodbye, you can ask to kiss or to see if it's okay. And I think I really respect people that go, are you flirting with me or are you just humoring me? I think that to me is. Oh, my God. If I go on my date today, I'm going to use that line. It's good, right? Yeah.

Are you flirting with me? Are you interested in me? Or are you just playing with me? Are you just being nice? And I think that's like a cute and honest way to get it out of the way and then you know. And then maybe you get a person that's, you know, really honest. And it's like, you know what? Honestly, I am just being nice.

I am seeing someone or I'm not looking for anything. So why go on the date? No, not on the date. Just like a random person at a bar. Okay, sorry. That hit home for me. That one really hit home for me. Let's manifest something before we get to the next one.

Okay. I'm going to manifest that he texted me back. Did it? No, he didn't. He's busy, dude. That's fucking insane. He rejected the call. He rejected two calls back to back.

What if that was the biggest opportunity of his whole life? Well, it's from an unknown number. That was... By the way, it kind of was one of the biggest opportunities of his whole life. And I think he passed. I can't believe he had to text me back. He passed. I can't believe he didn't text me back.

He's busy, Jake. Relax. What was I going to tell you? Oh, who do you want on the show that you haven't had on? Taylor Swift? That's, okay. Have you met Taylor Swift? I met her once, yeah.

Was she lovely? She was sweet. She was with Travis at an after party, and I brought shots, and we did, like, a shot together. She's cool. Who is the most star-struck you've ever been to meet on SNL? I think for me,

because I listened to a lot of Spanish music when I saw Bad Bunny, I was kind of freaking out. Carol G. I was freaking out. I think, for me, it's like those people really are, like, whoa. And then, I think I would freak out if I ever saw, like, Jennifer Aniston. I think she's a legend.

One time I was waving at someone. And we watched the morning show. Oh, you watched the morning show? show. Yeah, I watch it. Brett loves that show, my roommate. I watch it a lot. I once was waving at someone and Jennifer Aniston was staying in the same hotel as me. She thought I was waving at her and she said, oh, no.

And I said, oh, no, but it was like Jennifer Aniston. You said, oh, no. No, I was just like, oh, my God, that's so awkward. Like, I just had that. And it was with Jennifer Aniston. She's a legend, isn't she? Was she the one that was dating Justin Thoreau? Yes, they were dating.

Yes, they were. Have you ever seen the leftovers? No. Fantastic. Oh my God. Talk about God. Right. You know, I have a show coming out.

Really? Yeah, on Hulu. And I'm making it with Paul Burganti. Oh, nice. What is it called? Untitled as of now. Okay, and it's all about you. Of course.

Oh, my God. You worked with Paul for a while. You're not going to invite me? No, we didn't overlap. You didn't overlap? No. Oh, but you're going to invite me to do the show? Yeah.

I've actually thought of you. Okay, but if you're not too busy, you have like 10 different movies coming out this year. Got Shrek. Yeah. Isn't that insane? Have you filmed truck already? Yeah, it's been a tall voiceover, obviously. Okay, got it.

Yeah, it's crazy. What's your Shrek voice? It sounds a lot like me. Oh, okay. It sounds a lot like me. And you play Shrek's son? I play one of Shrek sons, yeah. One of?

Yeah, he's getting around. No, he's very fertile. But that's really crazy, exciting. And I did one with Kevin Hart, and it's coming out in July. Oh, yes. I've heard about this. What's it called again? 72 hours.

And what's it about? It's like a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, boys movie it's like the boys it's for everyone but it's because there's a bunch of there's a big like girls moment as well but um it's uh what you mean it's like like there's a group of girls in it that are hilarious and there's a group of boys and um Kevin is like in the boys group and we are uh it's like a bachelor party movie okay so what do you think the biggest difference between boy and girl humor is I don't know because I think I have a little bit of girl humor you do because you grew up like your mom and your sister yeah house

woman um i don't know i guess i think shane gillis is boy humor totally you know what i mean and then i think i am like i'm in the middle yeah i feel like i was very much a guy because i played sports and stuff but i grew up with a lot of women and i'm i feel comfortable like hanging with women wine nights with my aunt talking you know i mean i talk about it like um something like when i was younger i felt like a real guy at school and then i would come home and my sister would be like i met someone and i'd be like show me a picture how how what's your each difference with your sister? Three years.

Older? She's older? She's younger. She's amazing. She's an architect. Well, she studied architecture and then she got into interior design. Isn't your girlfriend in architect as well? She is, yeah.

Wow. Listen. Listen, guys. You did listen about that. She's a badass. She makes furniture and stuff. Yeah, she's showing me on the printer in which you forgot we hung out on. We did hang out on it.

Yeah, my sister is like, my sister, I am the loud one and she's the quiet one. And she has such like a spitey sense. for people and she kind of like she just is great at analyzing things and you know what's something that she does that I'm really jealous of that I think we need to do what is I'll be like something will happen with any of my friends or anybody

and I'll be like this happened with this person what's going on and she's like you have to wait like don't jump to a judgment give it a little bit of time your sister says this she's like really emotionally intelligent and oh I don't got that it's literally

what it is it's It's like you're saving your energy because I come up to her with a problem and I'm like, I'm ready to be pissed. I'm ready to get therapist about this. And then she's like, chill. Whoa. When's her birthday? She's June 20th.

Gemini. Gemini. And she says this stuff. She's also therapist. Okay. But I think also like, for example, the texting thing, like if someone's not texting me back and I'm like, what's going on or like, you know, a business thing isn't happening. And I'm like, it's not happening.

Why won't they answer? I sent like a text with a request and I'm not getting anything. She's like, relax. People are busy. Things happen. Sometimes I don't text back. Sometimes you don't text back. So give people the same grace that you wish that they gave you.

Okay. Wow. Let me just check if he texted me back though. I do want to see. Okay. So he still hasn't texted me back. You're giving this guy so much power. You know that.

That power is mine. That power is yours. And what are you? A bad bitch. Okay. Wow. I want to hang out with you all the time. We do need to hang out more.

We do. That's a fact. That's a fact. When are you going back to New York? Sunday morning. I leave New York Sunday morning. Okay. All right.

Next one. I've had to keep up a lie about my quote, fake boyfriend for way too long at this point. It started as a joke for my family members over the holiday. Someone took it seriously, though, and it got back to their daughter, my friend, who was over the moon about this for me and told a bunch of people who cares. They've all been super supportive and none of them are people I'm crazy close with. It has been literally six weeks of this now. and I want to nip it in the bud before the holiday season is over

without too many follow-up questions or people thinking I'm a freak help you just say it's a joke they got out of control and you didn't know how to end it you just need to be honest honesty that's what I learned whenever I would get in trouble at school I would just think oh my god I did it I'm sorry yep accountability is big you want to know why I did that because one time I lied and the principal brought in the other person like I had been playing the field with both people and they oh my god I'll never forget it let's just say

their names were like, um, Jenny and Casey, and Jenny and Casey got into a blowout fight. And the principal brought both Jenny and Casey in, and I had been like talking shit about Casey with Jenny and about Jenny with Casey. And they brought them in and I literally were sitting there and they looked to me like, get fucked.

Pick aside. I was 11. Wow. It was horrible. You were meant to do this. Do what? That's what you're doing. Okay, thank you.

Jake and guest. So you, me and my best friend had some. to get a new roommate because our lease was up and our other roomie moved out. We found this amazing girl. We're both boys who seemed really nice, sweet, and energetic. Flash forward not only two weeks in and my friend and her have already started to flirt hardcore around the house and have already kissed. So you're jealous.

I'm happy for the two of them, but we're in a year-long lease and I don't want the whole thing to blow up. You're jealous. I know you say don't get involved, but this is sort of my problem too. No, it's not. No, it's not. And the whole thing of like, I don't want the whole thing to. blow up, why are you manifesting that?

Maybe you wanted to blow up. Yeah, maybe because you had a crush on the girl or you have crush on the boy. Right. Wait, we didn't even really talk about your Netflix special enough. I don't think we talked about it enough. Let's talk a little bit about it. I don't think we talked about it enough. Let's talk a little bit about it.

It's fantastic American boy. It's out on Netflix now. It would have already been out at this point. Yeah. But the direction is incredible. Thank you. Nicholas Gusson. He works with Adam Sandler.

He's that a bunch of cool stuff. It's amazing. Thank you. How, you said it's the hardest you've worked on anything ever. I know we kind of touched on that earlier. I can explain. What did you mean by that? So basically when you first, when you film a special, before I film a special,

and I said this yesterday on the Dak Shepard show, but it was crazy because I was freaking out and I was trying to get guidance from anybody. Like help. And I called Dave Chappelle because he has done a million of these. Right. And I called him and he told me, I gave me a few pieces of advice. And I actually said this on Tiger, really, not on the Dex Shepard show. But he told me just little things to remember about the cameras, about the lighting of the audience.

And stuff that I wouldn't have thought of that was very technical stuff that I needed to hear. And so I came in with that mindset of like, okay, I'm going to do everything I can to make this as good as possible. And so we did that. It was also drama because the shirt that I wanted to wear for the special, we tried to get multiples because you sweat through the shirt and you need another one. The shirt is a one-of-one vintage shirt. So there's no multiples. There's one shirt. So after I finish each show, my mom who was there the whole week,

she's taking it off, she's spraying, she's doing the thing with a air blow dryer. That was shot over multiple nights? Oh, yeah. That wasn't one night? No. You've done an excellent job at making me think. Wow, talk about movie magic.

Movie magic. I'm so glad you said that. I was nervous about that. That was over multiple days. I really, truly. We filmed six, Jay. No. Yes.

No. Yes. And your best friend out there is that front row every time? Yeah, well, no. He was at, that was. Movie Magic. Oh, okay. Did you guys plan the DAP-Up at the end?

I planned the DAP-Up. Okay, because it was really smooth. I actually made, I decided the entire seating chart based on the DAP-up. Really? Well, it was very smooth and worked. Thank you. That was amazing. And your mom introducing you was also very sweet.

She's adorable. And, yeah, so that part was crazy. The shirt thing was a fiasco. And then it was doing the shows. Great. Have a fun night afterwards. After party. Everybody's there.

All my family came to visit. visit me. My uncle passed away right before. So it was like kind of like in memory of him and my Tio Pepito, who I love so much. And I have a letter P here. My girl got me this necklace. Oh, that's beautiful. And his, you know, his widow came and his kids who I love so much, Jose Ignacio and Nico and Dicchi.

And I got to see them and they got to see me do this thing. And a lot of my family and friends and my dad and my stepdad and everybody was there. And my sister, of course, and it was a big moment, have fun. And then afterwards, two weeks later, you have to get into editing. And editing was insane. I spent a week, nine hours a day with my director going literally moment by moment, breath by breath, cutting to different camera shots. I know every shot of the show.

I am like, I had to watch it so many times. We did an audio pass where we just listened to it. Then we had to do a visual pass. And then we did, I probably did like four or five different sessions on my own where I went through it. And I wrote notes on everything. What's an example of a note? Like, why would you cut a certain angle? I don't want to cut to this camera angle because my face, you can't really see my face in this.

And you have to see my face because it's a reaction. Got it, got it, got it. I don't like this shot. I think it's too dark. I don't think, I think because it's too dark, you're kind of going to lose interest. I think we're cutting too much between these two jokes. I think we should stick in one camera shot. A lot of that stuff.

And then, and then you're doing. audio stuff like he's so sick of listening. Me what? No, I'm not. It doesn't matter. You're doing audio shots. No, I'm not. Why would you say that?

I don't know. I just felt it. I thought I was doing it. Literally, as I'm listening to you, I'm like, wow, I'm really interested in that.

Okay, great. Yeah, great. I'm glad. I'm just, I'm just projecting. Listen, um, so the audio passes,

are you listening to it and be like, I didn't like that laugh? Was that the real laugh? Did you bump it up? Did you bring it down? What did you do to that? Is that fake? It sounds too loud.

I think that that you you juiced it you bumped it I don't want to bump it I don't want to lie I want it to be real if they didn't laugh that hard then they didn't laugh that hard so it was like doing that a lot and it was a lot

so what so how my brother my step brother watched the whole thing and gave me notes I had to send it to another friend of mine who watched it and gave me notes you know my mom would watch it and think about you know my mom was like I have flyaways

in my hair can we fix that with movie magic did you fix it with me of course um So it was just so much, so much investment into it. And then even until now, this is investing in it. This is working on it. Right. Promoting it and doing all this stuff.

And I had never really done podcasts before. We've been speaking about this for quite some time. I've been wanting to do your show and I haven't been able to because I told you I wanted to have my special done. You did tell me that. And I did. And now here I am. You're a man of your word. Thank you very much.

And I love you. I love you too. Do you mean it? I don't know. Okay. Well, today I learned that. Maybe praying is good for me. You should try it.

Yeah, I should try it. Even as just a meditation, I think it's a beautiful thing. Yeah, I agree. Well, Marcello, thanks for coming on the show. You're welcome for coming to the show. And I want to tell you that I'm very, very proud of you. And this is so exciting. And you just sold this to Netflix.

And you used to be an assistant at a record label. And you made it out. And you're making a real name for yourself. And you're sitting here next to some super famous people. I'm watching you reach every person that you've wanted is coming. And Taylor is coming. I'm going to manifest it. That's very sweet.

She will do it. And I'm proud of it. you and I'm grateful for you and I hope you enjoy your gifts. I love you. Thank you for my gifts. I'm proud of you. You're welcome. And I'm grateful for you as well.

Thank you. I love, bro. Love. You want to give a little bye pussies? Goodbye, pussies. Yay!