#108 The State Of Being

are going to show up. UM. And it's so funny because before the shows, no, I always go like, I bring up Andrew Um and I say, you know, he's the co host of my podcast, Nickols Podcast. And then I get some wooves and I go like, who we got that some besties in the crowd, and people yell at like and you know whatever, Um, what else do they yell? They yelled up something else that has really made me laugh. But UM, I never know to say.

I'm just like, like, it's because it's awkward because there are people there that like don't listen to the show, and I don't want them to feel alienated by my enthusiasm for the Besties. But I gotta be honest. I'm like, I always go, hey, I you know, if you don't listen to the podcast, what the funk is wrong with you? Like I kind of like do a joke where I lash at the at them, But um, the Besties are

putting in the hours. Yeah, And I just feel I mean I've said this countless times, but I just feel like they're my friends and it's just a different, different connection than the people whom I have seen my Rose compilations or uh know me from Stern or what you know. Those are fans that I value as well. But um, the Besties, I'm like, oh my god, they're just here

to like support their friends. They're they're almost there, like my parents are there, you know, like or you know my high school friends, where they're like, we know this girl, like this is an act, like we're we're going to

see her in her dance recital. I almost feel like they see through it sometimes where I'm like, oh god, they know the real me, like, and I know they appreciate the jokes and like the craftsmanship and and I have to say, like my act has become more like the podcast than it ever has before in terms of just the stuff I want to talk about, the kind of topics wee I cover on stage. I say we like it's a but I mean I do feel like

it's a weak thing. But anyway, I always feel a little bit awkward because I'm so excited about besties being there, and the rest of the crowd is like, wait, what is this thing that we're not a part of, And I'm like, yeah, I I don't want to say it. Well, anyone listening to this is a bestie, so and anyone who's not get on board, and I'll of you just as much as the rest. But they're my favorite fans,

I have to say, you know. And then my favorite fans on top of that are once that bring me Taylor Swiss merchandise but uh no, not really but kind of. Um No, I don't need any gifts. Please don't feel obligated, but you um but just know that, like I'll never forget you if you do. Um no. Uh But anyway. St. Louis is gonna be so fun because obviously my parents are going, Um, I just have to drive down the road.

I'm not flying there. I Uh, I don't. I feel a lot of pressure to have like local references and things, which I will have, but who knows. I' you know, there's just gonna be a lot of people from my life there and a lot of more pressure to be spectacular. But I feel really good, so I am going to be spectacular. So it'll be fine. So your your best friend from New York Anya in your hometown, that's not special. I don't think she's ever been here. That's a good point.

Wait was she at my show? Maybe she was here for the pageant shows. Yes, she was right before we shut down. Um, last January. January, I did the pageant in St. Louis, which is a big deal for me because I had seen so many acts at the pageant who I loved growing up and everything. Um. But yeah, she'll be here and that'll be really fun. Kursten is coming into town, um from Kansas City to be here. Uh. And my friend Taylor is also in town, who we went out with the other night. I'm going to dinner

with them tomorrow night. I'm so excited to just have like a girl's dinner. Um, and Andrew might show up to so a girl's dinner and yeah, it's gonna be a fun weekend. I'm just getting ready to you know, I can't wait to like actually talk about it. I just always am like when these people go you can't talk about this thing until we announced it, I'm like, are you gonna take it away from me if I talk about it? Like are you going to is a breach of you assume me? Like, what's going to happen?

All I've been saying is that I'm having a lot of cameras following me around for the next eight weeks of my life ten hours a day. They're coming to hang lights today and making my whole apartment a studio and not cleaning up. Dude, I'm just I just got off the phone with my therapist face time to with her and I go, I am not doing anything different. I'm not going to try to present anything different than what I am. And it's a lesson for myself to be like, X up yourself, don't try to hide who

you are. And she was like, oh my god, a year ago. If I pitched the show over a year ago. She was like, if this would have been happening to you a year ago, I would have been like, don't do this. You are not in the right state of mind to do this. And she was like, but you seem to have gotten to the right place because I was like, I'm not smoking pot it there's nothing I'm

hiding really anything anymore. Um, which before I was just not that I was hiding pot but it was just like not something I would have wanted the public to see. But now I have nothing that I'm I want the public to not see. I was even like putting my like anal douche fucking thing away the other day, cleaning it, and I was like, oh, what if they found this, And I was like, that would be hilarious. I'd just be like, here's what this is and how you use it,

and hopefully this will help someone do it. I don't know. It was just interesting to hear my therapist say, yeah, I think this would have been a bad idea. But that's what I do, is like I put things into motion that I'm gonna have to get my ship together for so that when they finally happened, I go, oh, my, Like I I quit drinking because I got a pilot at MTV for Nicki and Sara Alive, and I realized, oh, I can't make a TV show if I'm hungover every day. So it just made me finally go, well, if I

want this to succeed, I gotta quit drinking. And it like forced me, forced my hand. Um, I watched Dancing with the Stars last night a little bit of that. I'm finally able to revisit that show after um, you know, without a lot of resentments. But that's no, I still have resentments. I was angry the whole time I watched it, being like that Len guy, the old guy Len, you know, the old guy who looks like you know he uh is in a frame at the Haunted Mansion when you

go up Disney. He's like the one that's like old men withers passed away and he's the one that haunts

the place. That guy is one of the judges. I hate when old men who like, maybe we're ballroom dancers in the past, like it's like the all coroly thing, when like these old men yell at these little gymnasts like your foot did not lend perfectly on the map after you did that, you know double what like the thing I could never do, even in my wildest imagination, because I'm an old man I'm going to scream at you. It's just like, shut up. Why don't you try to

do it, bitch. That's what I wanted to say to that lend guy God when he was mean to me. He goes because so I got done with my fucking dance when I was on Dancing with the Stars and I was just like, I can I'm a dancer, Like I just like exclaimed that because it was like a triumphant moment for me that like I danced on TV equals you're a dancer. I didn't really think I was a dancer. And he was like, no, you are not. That was awkward, and I'm just like, yeah, you dumb

old man. I'm I'm a comedian, Like why don't you why don't you give me a lower the bar, like I would lower it for you if you know, if you if I put you up to any task that wasn't having a nurse wipe your ass. I really mad at him, and he was just such an asshole to me and so mean, and I know that's his like gimmick on the show, like he's supposed to be the mean one, but like kid, I wanted to kill him

so hard. Everyone on that show was kind of kill um, but please have me back and I'll like totally be like, Lenn, thank you so much for my score. I really wish I would have gone harder on him, and I was going to I had plans on the second night after he said something mean, I was gonna say I had a really good line for him. I forget what it was, but if he said anything negative, I was just gonna

I was gonna zing him with something. It was a jerk store moment you know from Seinfeld where George is eating. If you don't know the Seinfeld reference, I'm gonna explain it. But if you do know it, skip ahead thirty seconds. George is at a meeting with a bunch of people and he's um just stuffing shrimp in his face from like the shrimp cocktail that's in the middle of the table.

And there's a guy across the thing that goes, hey, George, uh, the ocean called they're running out of They're running out of shrimp, and everyone laughs and he's like ha ha, and George feels stupid. And then on the everyone the meeting ends and George you see him have this epiphany of like, oh my god, and he goes and he sees Jaredy's like, I thought of the best line, the best comeback, but it was too late. So I'm gonna set it up again so I can do the comeback.

And its comeback is So he goes to this meeting he he gets, he flies in these people to have this meeting again. He orders a bunch of shrimp cocktail. He's stuffing his face with it again, you know, over the top stuffing his face, and then finally this and he's this guy goes hey, George, and George is like and like stuffing his face and he looks up slow and he's like waiting for the guy to say the line.

He goes. The Ocean called, and uh, they said, they're running out of shrimp, and George just takes out his napkin and like like settles himself in and finishes chewing and goes, well, the jerk store called, and they're running out of you. And then the guy goes, why would they, You're the top seller, and everyone laughs again and he's like,

God damn it. So there's constantly moments in my life where I'm like, oh, work store, I thought of the perfect line, so I did that with this Len guy, and I was like, second night, if he's mean to me, I'm going to throw this line in his face. I forget what it was. It was really good, and then he was nice to me. He was nice because I think he sensed he knew because he knew I was getting voted off, and they can't be mean to the person who was getting voted off because it seems like

a pylon. So so he was meaning the first night to justify that that was going to get voted off the second night. But the second night they all already knew because it's a fixed show, that I was going to get voted off. And there was I mean, there was no Like my mom was like, I knew you were getting voted off when they had the cameras in our face, like the whole time they had his front row very I mean you were there. Noah. Yeah, it felt I had no idea, oddly enough, no clue that

I was getting voted off first. Anyway, I watched it last night and Glebs Gleb's partner's sporty spice. She looks amazing. I don't how old she is. Uh, you know what, it didn't even matter to me. I was just like, WHOA, I don't know wa to know that that's that's true. But I was just speculating, like her face looks so good whatever work she's had done me want um she dressed. Yeah,

I nailed it, That's what I said. But she's a decade older than me, which is wild that when I was jamming out to Spice Girls, it was just a woman that was ten years older. I mean that's nothing. Um, but she uh, she's a dancer. Get out of here

with this ship Loser's season. Let's bring every person that is lost first first eliminated back onto Dancing with the Stars and let's do it again, and I will have that whole tirade against Land wiped from the inn or not, even though he'll probably be dead by then because he's old. Burn I really got him, And you're old and you might die soon. AT's such a weak joke. Sorry, Lenn, I hope you live forever in our memories because you

will die soon. Um. So Noah, you, speaking of gymnasts, would to go see the touring you West gymnastics team that came through there like traveling around America, not competing, but just like performing. Yeah, the Gold over America tour, that's what it's called. That must be so fun for them to have the pressure off of like a slight stumble that they don't have to do everything the like they They maybe can get their periods that week, or

eat a couple more bites of food. They don't have to have their a tendril of hair might be able to slip out of their tight you know, top knot. And they won't like be deducted points by a bunch of people who have raged because they'll never be as tiny and as talented as these women. Um. Do I have anything against judges? Possibly? Yes? So was was there a spirit of te almost what it was like? Like you said I should go see it. I I think

you would really enjoy it. Um. I had no idea going in what I like, what I should be expecting. It was just the USA Gymnastics tour um Uh. Jordan's childs Simone Biles uh and then like a bunch of mother to be Sorry, well I don't know the rest of their names because I'm just like Brett uh Morgan heard was there. I know she's a big deal. So it was just like it was exactly what you said, Simone Bile comes out and this and she's like, this is just for us to let loose and have a

good time. And it was all about like girl power. There was all these like cute, sparkly outfits, mostly dancing, and then in the second part they kind of highlighted each gymnast um and there was a lot of like gymnastics and dancing at the same time. It was just so entertaining. I felt like when we went to see the Dancing with the Stars tour, yes, it was like all that pageantry was like so cool, it is so fun.

And you said that you were really like inspired even yesterday you wore like a fun like kind of bright tank top and you were inspired because of all the like outfits that you had seen the day before. Tell me about that, Like, what did it? Does suck that only pop stars and gymnasts get to dress in these fun or dancers on Dancing with the Stars get to dress like this? What? What is is it going to change the way you look at your wardrobe? I think I'm going to have to color my hair pink again.

I mean, it's so fun, it's so the pink hair. I missed that um trend I just feel like now I'm just it's like the nose ring thing. My friend Catherine says, when I wanted to get my nose pierced, I go, is it? Am I too old evan nose piercing? And she goes, you're not too old to have one, but you're too old to get one. And I was like, that's a good point. Um, So that's why I did the fake one. Maybe I'll do fake pink extensions because pink is so cute with blonde. I just love the

color pink. But I also related to I really love Taylor Swift's era, uh lover era, which like if Swifty fans know her going through different eras, and my favorite one was Lover is just all pastels and pinks and like kind of inspired this studio look, Honestly, I just like purples and pinks and like, you know, the colors of the sunset. And I was running yesterday and I saw the sunset, and I go, why isn't everything that

Like it's like the most beautiful thing ever. Why isn't And it's the most representative, like uh, you know, just uh example of like nature at its finest is a beautiful sunset like everything should be those colors to make us happy. I don't know, but I also feel like I have to like move on to my next era, Like I can't I can't be doing the colors from Taylor's Lover era, but like I just bought a ton of merch from that era because it's all fun, beautiful,

tide eyed, bright colored things. Um and for my I'm planning my special and uh, what I'm gonna wear and stuff, and I just yeah, I want to dress like I want to dress in like a leotard, like almost like a pop star. And I think that's why I wanted to do a dance at the end of my special, to justify wearing something that fun. But why do I need to do that? Why can't I just do stand up in a lee it's heart. I would love that

you have my full support for that. I mean, maybe it would be distracting, but it would be honestly, you know what, Like I hate that thing of like, don't dress sexy. It's distracting. Well, sorry that I there. Men have a d d or like people life is distracting. You also have TikTok on your phone in your purse and how are you not looking at that. When I'm on stage, there's women wearing nothing in your phone, yet you are still listening to me. So if I'm wearing something,

who cares if it's distracting. I think there's so many rules with stand up, and I think they're being broken right now by us going back and watching Norm McDonald clips by Bo Burnham's special by you know, uh, you know, even many years a few years ago now at this point, but Nanette, which everyone was so angry about that, what a threat to stand up that was? Do you know? Just like you know, she actually was saying exactly what I wanted to do, and I didn't realize I was

actually echoing the same sentiments. But like, there's always a punchline to get you out of the awkwardness of a real moment, and I resent that. I just want sometimes to just linger in the moment. And maybe that isn't comedy,

but um, why does everything have to be funny? Yesterday I did an NPR interview, um, like the public radio here in St. Louis with this lovely woman who's so smart and such a good interview or a Sarah Femski, and you know she talks like this it's like NPR on air in St. Louis, like St. Louis, and it's just, you know, she had just talked to some Afghan refugee and I was talking to someone about a book about

discrimination in college campuses. And then she's like, F Boy Island host Nikki Glazer is here in studio to talk. And we had this whole interview and then we did a piece afterwards for the last five minutes, and she was like, I don't know. I was watching F Boy Island and I just and she doesn't listen to the podcast. She goes, I just got the sense that you could be like the next Oprah, Like you have a lot

more to say and can empower women. And I was like, that's so weird because I was just saying I want to brine brown out and she was like, oh, I should have used that reference. I'm so old. I'm like, no, the Oprah's obviously a great one, but you can't compare yourself to Oprah. It's like comparing yourself to Beyonce. People are like, excuse me, you think you're gonna be Beyonce? Know I'm like, no, I mean I'm gonna be Um. Like Michelle Williams Prosperity. Let's get Andrew in here. Andrew

Andrew Howe impression of our toilet. Yeah, I know you did, I know. I know when I know, I know you, I could I know him when I know too much about you. It's weird. I but I know when you poop. I know when you go in your room to poop um and then I hear through the wall, and that's that's that's just me practicing my stand up how just Lee bust I slept good last night? Uh yeah, trying to think. No, not recently. I haven't had too many midnight bouks. I think I'm a little bit I don't

know what it is. I don't know what it is. But I haven't been pooping in the middle of the night, which is nice, Which is all. I just haven't been getting up to yes, okay, I've just been shipping in the bed. Were those eminem's in your bed or a little tiny? Well? What Seth didn't bring up yesterday is that they put sardines under my med I mean he didn't bring up a lot. We got we got off track with Seth. I wanted to just have stories about you. I like that he came in with like a plan,

like how he was going to tell things. He had a couple of stories and wanted to get out. Um, he's a great guy. He's the best dude. I love him talking to him a decent amount, especially because he's so and I'm sober, and what are you talking about? Usually sobriety and like he's so we talk about, you know, shallow things, exports in the well. Yeah, we just talked

about girls, pussies, you know. No, No, we talked about like it's funny with him because he was as silly as he was a little less silly to me, but we were always competitive about being funny. So now he's eight years sober, I'm three years and I feel like I'm gonna I'm gonna catch up. Okay, Well that's that's the funny thing about sobriety, Like you can never get more years than or you helped to never get more

years than you, fellow sober brothers and sisters. Um, but hopefully he falls off and then I'm three years ahead. I guess that's so funny. But no, he's just he's like a different person now and he wasn't bad before. He was just self sabotaging. He does hearing him talk about it. Uh yeah. He seems to have a good a good head on his shoulders, A big head. He you know what, he has a little it looked bigger. It looks big on the thing. Yeah, he has a pinhead.

He has a smaller head than me. That's crazy. I know, it's weird. It really looks big. A lot of gel, a lot of hair gel. That's it's the way alone that you know, the human head weighs eight pounds, but sets weighs fourteen with all the depth and two pounds without it, which is weird. Yeah, it was great having

them on. I appreciate you. It is, of course it's fun to have friends on, and I think that our listeners enjoy that as well, like having people that we really know and who know us, and that just represents the the common person that isn't maybe a I think that's why people like us, because we don't talk like we're famous, I hope, or like not famous, but like like we're in the biz. Maybe I do. I mean,

I don't know. I was watching a Norm McDonald, Oh my god, the Norm clips Andrew sent me last night or the clip was wild you guys, what do you have to google to get that YouTube? Red car bit Norm McDonald Jenny? Yeah, it was. It was a YouTube Comedy Awards and it was Norm McDonald hosting with two other people. One of them is Jenny Slide. One of them some idiots. Sorry to you, sir, but I even went to it. I mean, this was seven years ago,

but I went to this guy's instagram. He was so cringe and I hate saying it's so cringe, but dude, you sent me the clip being like, I go, Oh. I didn't say was cringe or anything. I just thought, he's he's perfectly mean. No, can I just say what you said about him? Because I go, I go, Andrew, what are you doing in your bedroom? Because he was just in there and I was like, come out and he was like, oh, I'm watching Norm clips. And I

said what are you learning? What you learn? And he said, be a horrible person, be a horrible personable person until you die. I said horrible. He said, I mean he was quite mean in the best way. And I said example, and he sent me this clip and I go, which part because it's a long thing, and you go the whole thing. So then I was like, okay, I'll just watch the whole thing. I Norm is so funny. He

calls the Lonely Island. He goes, the Lonely Island is coming up next to they're interviewing people as they go in this comedy red carpet and they're like, the Lonely Island's coming up next door, as I call them Andy Samberg and the other two guys. It's not it's honest, it's not mean. It's a joke. This is a comedy. Obviously. I know that I'm not moron. I know that he's being funny, but it's still mean because two guys are not happy about this. Child should have been happy. It's

Norm McDonald. I'm just saying that they got a little butt hurt. Was really like not cool to me when they were just kind of like, um, all right, yeah yeah,

because it's mean, but it's funny comedy. They should have been like, I don't know, Norm McDonald, maybe we're I'm watching this through the lens of like he's dead in a legend and everyone's just said what a legend he is, and before he died he wasn't maybe as talked about like such reverence, But um, I was a little bit like, come on, guys, of course was making a joke, but they were like not happy, and it made me awkward that they were not happy just laugh along when someone

insults you. He was the guy who I think Andy was kind of trying to be like, oh like for

the guys. I mean, and Andy does get it and he seems cool, But is there a comedian that you guys would want would like feel so happy to be roasted by, like, um, you know, like, honestly, I avoided Patrise O'Neil before he died because I I mean, obviously I've avoided him after he died too, but before he died, I would never want to run into him because he was someone that could just he wouldn't say Lonely Island and the other two guys. He might say that, but

that was that would be low level Patrese roasting. Patrese could like see your deepest insecurity right like right away and call it out in such a specific way that you It would be like, you know, when I've been roasted before and they've said things that I go, oh my god, people, I thought that they were gonna make fun of my flat ass and the fact that no one knows who I am and I'm a whore, not that like I'm deeply insecure and I look like Owen Wilson. Like those kinds of things are like, Oh no, I

thought I was the only one that thought that. That's what I never wanted. I missed out on meeting Patrice because I actively avoided him because I thought he'd be like, look at you over there, look quiet, like you know you're not as funny as everyone, and that's why you're sitting there quiet because you somehow tricked your way into like he would call me up for my being an impostor that I think I am, which everyone goes, you're

not an impostor, you are funny. I think he would be like, no, you're not, you are an impostor or something like he would confirm my deta'sphere. Yeah, there's a different there's a there's a certain tact to being roasted

and being made fun of. I think for me, I like getting made fun of, usually by people that can take it back, like or it's like it's in good Like you could tell when someone's roasting where they're just being mean, you like, like not being I don't know, I feel like Patrese when he got made fun of. He he loved it too, even though no on the

roast of oh well, yes that was Charlie Sheen. When Amy went after Patrese and said, it's not only a roast of Charlie Sheen, but it's a it's a um, it's a funeral for Patrese's foot, she was like, he's like gonna die of diabetes. And she was like, um, she said something of like God, I have to find it because she went after him hard and he he got up. He's sitting there mumbling to himself while she's doing the jok and he goes, this bitch just sit

next to me all night being nice. What the funk? Like? He's not laughing. He's very confused by it. He's kind of like, wait, she was jokes that night were about him like dying and dying of diabetes. Yeah, but that's what like, that's what you're supposed to do. The obviously, I just think that he thought is proply like a little but that's how he worked. Was calling out like the most honest stuff. And in the thing is she

she was calling he would that's what he does. So he was He's to me an example of someone who couldn't take it. But oftentimes comedians who are brilliant at calling out other people's things, they they see other people's things because they are so self aware of their own things, and because of that, they don't want to be called out for it. And you know that's I The guy on the red carpet that was doing so is Jenny slates some fucking guy, and that guy was so fucking cringe.

At one point he has a Hannibal Buriss and he goes and well, when did you know you were funny? And by that, I don't mean like your sense of humor, like the way you look, and it was just like what it was so uncomfortable. It just said it just like sat there and die like. And then Norm McDonald told a joke about his doctor calling him ugly, like it was a self deficating joke, and the guy goes, yeah, I can see how he would say that, Yeah, I mean you're really ug like he just it was just

so awkward. He's so bad at he That guy was like funny for YouTube pranks, you know, like yeah, that's why he got the job. And he didn't know he's never I think, probably been around someone that's actually funny. Like in his world, he's probably the like, oh he got him. He said he's ugly, and everyone's like, dude, you're fucking great. And that guy was probably told he was great until that day, you know what I mean, Like that guy was probably like, dude, you're the funniest.

Oh no, they're fucking He's gonna prankers, dude, that's the fun. And then he gets there and he's never put it together that ensemble. Either it's a genius or or like didn't really think, I mean retrospect, it was like, it's glorious because norm is just so on fire with all the stars are here tonight and he started reading creating all these YouTube stars that no one's ever heard of, and um, yeah, he's just like he. But I thought, what I liked about Norman that is that he laughed

when people made fun of him. He actually was like enjoying it. He would give people good laughs. He was encouraging. He wasn't one of these comics that like thinks. I mean, he had the ability to sit back and never laugh at anything anyone else does because he was so funny. He's so much funnier than everyone else. He could sit on his throne and be like but he was generous

with laughter. Well, the video is also watching last night to him he was talking about to allude back to like hopefully we just talked like regular people, because we are just regular people at the end of the day, everyone's the same, We're regular, were regular. Yeah, where all those things I'm ladded and um, I think like I think, Like he said something about like no one wants the guy that's the smart the smartest comic, like the guy

that's like you know, I don't know. It was just interesting, like he was saying, like I I go after being like playing the smart dumb guy essentially. But you know, people love George Carlin because he was so brilliant with his takes. I mean, obviously there's a way to do smart comedy where it's still impressive, but it could come off preachy, I think, And that was what he was saying last night in his video about because he was brilliant.

I mean, he do that kind of comedy where it's like this is but I don't think he could because he wasn't like that normally. George Carlin was like that. He was very intense and talked like that. You see him an interview, he talks like this, Norm, It's about consistency, It's about being the person you are off stage on stage. And for everyone that says talk to Norm like that knew him personally. He was pretty much the same on and off stage. And I think that those are the

best comedians and those are the ones that aren't. And the Edge he's coming in later today. I can't wait for Edge to show up if he is. I mean, I know he's really busy with everything he has going on a lot of pussy downtown, but he might stop by in between. Yeah, it's just um, you know. I have to always stop myself from proselytizing and like getting on my soapbox and being like I know better. But at the same time, I admit I read thirds of books.

I admit I don't have I'm I don't know certain Like while I'm saying things, I'll be like, also I'm dumb. Like I throw in that constantly because I want to. I want to make people aware that even though I'm acting like I know what I'm talking about, I don't. I don't necessarily know the other day, my sister goes you, you talk like it's just like that's the way it is and there's no other way. And I go, I know, because I think that it's that way, and so I

do think that. But you're entitled to have that's your problem if you if you disagree with me, disagree with me. I'm not gonna see what happens if I disagree with you, And sometimes I'll go, I'll I'm a good arguer, for sure, I'm a good debater. But if you are right, debate me, and like, let's have it to debate you this morning about the two weeks O off thing. And I looked it up and you're you're I I think there's uh, we're both kind of in the in the middle, but

there is a thing. I get what you're I get what you're saying, because how you were saying. Sometimes what um if you shoot it in your cock, it makes no I know when you zof takes two weeks to like work, and so whatever you're feeling from the zolof today is the zoloft you took two weeks ago. So if you if you miss a dose two weeks ago, it's not you're not gonna feel it today. You're gonna feel it in two weeks at least. That's what my psychiatrist used to tell me, which is interesting because so

I'm whatever. I went and googled it obviously because I was just like, I don't because you know, you take Adville. So there's shelf life of drugs and you, so it's like twenty half life. Yeah, half life and shelf shelf half life. There's a That's why I can't debate with you. I can't even say two words without I just don't want no. I know I'm sucking around, but no. But like, so it could be twenty six hours later it's fifty in you, and then another six hours a quarter a

half of that is in you. And then it says you can have withdrawal symptom within two to three days from not taking your dose because it is actually out of your system. But I see how it could be confusing because it does take two weeks to start. I was told specifically that when you skip a dose, don't worry, it's going to be a two weeks later that you're going to feel like I was told that by a

psych like a psychiatrist, like a doctor. So that's why I thought that that there are some drugs that stay in you. Some SSR I said, actually have longer half lives. I guess it then, is actually one of the quickest ones. I think paxel is zoft is actually one of the longest ones. But we could look that up. I think Zoloft is actually on the extreme side of like the

longer half life, but I could be wrong. The thing is like, I didn't have it for three days though, and I think I was just tired from the road and the thing that I looked up it's called withdrawals. Yeah, because I was like, I don't know that I'm right, and then um, I got distracted and didn't tell you. But I wasn't gonna like, oh, I'm not right. I'm not going to tell him. I know, I didn't think that I looked it up and I was not fully right. But but you're all the symptims you described as from

someone not taking their medicine. Yeah, I think it's a mixture of that. And we did travel a lot. Oh yeah, you get travel hangovers and you had that long ass travel day. I mean, like it makes sense, but you know you were shutting yourself in your room for a couple of days and I was like, is he depressed? Well yesterday I was like, really fucked up? What does that mean? No, like meant like I couldn't concentrate on anything and my brain felt like very hazy, and I

don't know. I just in the past, I would probably get a time. I'd probably have a panic attack yesterday if I didn't have so of what would have cost it? Know? You noticed times when I just think over I just think tiredness and then wanting to get so sometimes what happens is I'll get so tired, my body will feel tired. I'll feel bad for being tired, and then I go, well, why can't I think straight? Think straight? Andre and like

try to tell myself because is I mean? I'll be completely I get jealous of how like yesterday you're like out there talking and you're like and like you don't get affected by like travel, you don't get affected by certain things. And it's like, I'm like, why am I fucking so tired? And then I think you might judge

me for that? And then I judge myself for that, and then I'm like, well just then be better, be be be aware, And so then that's when the panic would set in of being like get back on track. So it's like the guilt over the the anxiety over the judgment, both from externally and inside yourself of like you, yeah, you can't just let yourself be sad or yet or

not be lazy or be low. I was really depressed on Monday night, like because I, uh, yeah, I traveled all day and then I get back and I was trying to fulfill the void of like feeling restless and feeling like lonely and just feeling all these things where I filled it with like masturbation and then filled it with trying to watch TV. Then that didn't work, and I was just like I need to take a melotonein

and get out of this. And I also I I texted a bunch of friends being like I'm really depressed right now, but it's because of A, B and C, Like there's this isn't me being a bad person or like weak. It's like there's reasons for it and it'll be different tomorrow. That's the last sentences where I can get to now where I couldn't get to before. Is a day from now or two days from now, you're

gonna be fine, just wait and be patient. I also have a trouble enjoying the fine times sometimes though, because I'm like, it's gonna get bad again, like nothing's ever gonna last, Like don't get to it because I think I think that that is part of the depression, is when you get so excited about I'm never gonna be fat again, I'm always going to be in shape, I'm always going to have a zest for life. Everything is always going to be great when you are again, the

disappointment is so big. So even when I'm having a great time where I feel like I'm so attractive, my waist is so tiny and I'm tan and my skin is clear, don't get fucking wrapped up in that stuff. Don't feel like that's your identity and a reason to be happy, because it will go away, all of it will and if and that's that's I just want to balance of like accepting when I'm good, accepting when I'm bad, and not having it mean who I am? Um? And let's get to the news. So true, So tellst the

weekend is here. Boy. I hope you have it all the swells out there, and I hope you checked out a video on YouTube. This is my no on inact down in the French quarter. You have the h the accent that comes out when we go to the baseball game and a foul ball gets it and you go, oh, come on down, down down now, every town ball end up in my lap. He can't say it's so far. It's the thing that maybe you can do that makes

me laugh harder than anything. Isn't it's because it's it doesn't even seem like he's meditated, Like it's not premeditated to scream now, no go I'm down now. It just is a it's a reflex that a ball shoots up and he just goes, oh, now come down on down now, now, now, come on down now. Now. I love it so much because like a sneeze, like you can't help it, because when it's like especially when it's like two hundred feet away just looking to my left and right of people

going this kind of thing is gonna. But yet you get embarrassed with me when I picked up Luigi ship on the street with some leaves. But why are you not embarrassed of that beautiful To walk away from the people, you have to sit there and sit with them. That's the beautiful of sports that you could yell anything. You could yell cheta cheese, come on down there on the mouth chetta of the harmarty and everyone goes, what yeah, har party sounds like a picture it is? He played

for the carbon. He lives in our built, Like, yeah, there's one. There's one guy on the Cardinals team who lives in our building. And I always see him on a Lime scooter. So when we went to the Cardinals game, my sister and I were when he went up to about we were like, write that love, you'll write that love. People were just like what but they didn't care because you can shout anything. I mean, a person like that in my life. Yet that because because he's always writing

it be the press. Don't you going right to mardel down now you'll be okay boy, okay, news al right. I love birds getting in on a car getting this is about love? Actual love birds? Or is this about two people? People? People that two people dressed as lovebirds getting it on in a car had to be rescued by cops after releasing the Toyota Yars hard handbrake, rolling down a hill and the car rolling on its side. The police report says the couple were strengthening their relationship.

So this couple be fucking in a jaris. I was picturing her like putting the E break inside of her and strengthening her pussy. I've always there's something sexual about that E break that sometimes I do just want to sit on it because dude, when it's it's hard to push down, there's something about like I think I will

do that in my life. I want a relationship where a guy gets in the car and I'm like just like, oh, I'm looking for something and I have like my skirt over it so they don't know, and I'm like, um, I might just have the break inside me and they'll go, what the fuck is wrong? I love doing weird sex things and having guys go what is wrong with you? And I'm just like, isn't this hilarious? This is in me?

And then it's like the hand break though it's like a strong construction man with tough things, like tough hands, Like that's how it feels like when you pull it up. I don't mean the ones that are like, you know, like the old school ones right where it's a manual like car where you're having to like I mean the break it's almost like skinnier than a deck. Yeah yeah, but it makes that sound. It gives you like that really like you gotta pull it those last that last inches.

It's literally like you're stopping the car from going down the hill with just your hands. Some girls can't getting really aroused by the way a man drives. I didn't know that about myself, but I can be really unattracted to someone by how they drive and then really horned up.

I think it's about feeling safe and feeling like they take chances and they're just like badass, and like I want to feel safe but also be like a little bit like, oh my god, he's like kind of going fast, Like that's my like zone of arousal is like feeling like I'm protected and he's worried about me and like he's buckled up and like he's not gonna put me in harm's way, but we're gonna like he's gonna get me there like an old stick shift, Like does that

turn you on? I don't care what you drive. I just like the vibe of like your your your vibe on the road, but that there's a thin line between that and being right like driving too fast and too erratic. No,

I don't want him to do it for show. I want him to do it so we get there fast, and like he's just like God, these people don't like it's kind of like me, Like I drive in a way that's like I'm Everyone around me is probably thinks I'm a crazy driver, but what I'm doing is like I know where I'm going and I'm more spatially aware, and people are just kind of like and I'm just like, Okay, I'm just gonna cut in front of you because you're slow, and I know you're not going to speed up erratically

because I've been seeing you for a half mile now driving thirty in a forty, So I'm gonna I'm just gonna go in front of you, even though I know there's like two car lengths for me to weave in front of before I hit the car in front of me. It seems crazy, but I know there's no way this guy is gonna all of a sudden speed up and block me. Yes, but that does happen now, I have I've been in one wreck when I was sixteen, i hit a garbage man, but since then, I've never been

in line that canna be a line from Clueless. That's such a funny line. But when you're sixteen, you get a pass. When you get first get your license, I gotta wreck my first month every Like any parents out there do, do not let your children just get a license and just go willy nilly. They don't know what they're wing. When you're sixteen and you like pulling, I would pull into like another lane and like completely like run a guy off the road, and then he'd get

up in me and go, what the funk man? Fuck you? And I'd be like a sorry about when people run like get in my lane and they don't see me, I don't go what's wrong with you? I'm just like they didn't see me, Like it's okay, just slow down and go oh, like you protect them from themselves, Like don't I hate people that see someone making an error and then they speed up so that the error is even worse. It is opposed to just seeing someone making the error and giving them room to make the error

like it's okay, Like you've done that too. Wouldn't you want someone to give you space as opposed to like, actually I'm going to speed up to show them that that was so dangerous, Like now you're making it a thing when really they're not going to learn from that. Just give them space and make the road a safer place. My brother's like, we're in Florida, like that guy could have a gun, and I'm like, exactly, that's the thing.

It's like these beg men out there. Stop when if I accidentally don't see you in my blind spot and I start to veer over, honk gently, but then don't speed up so that it's more dangerous. And if you can break enough so that this dumb idiot that didn't check all of her rear view mirrors enough can just ease into the road because you know you can do that. But if you're trying. But this goes back to your

first thing. If I see something, I squeeze in and I know they're not, but then that behavior probably leads to you eventually cutting someone off. That's that's why I don't know. It's not I don't cut people off. I just get in front of them in a way that they might be like, wow, that's going faster than me, and got in front of me. I'm not going cutting them off so that they have to break they don't they can keep going. I do everything so that everything

can stay the way it was. There's no me making someone have to go what But oftentimes they do that because they're crazy and they're they're too anxious, and that's not my fault, but I do, but I do. You know. Anyway, sex in a car is so hot, so people like, uh the jarus. I love a guy that drives the rus is getting laid. I love um that. The cops reported it as them strengthening their relationship and gave him kind of a pass on that. I think yards a

small car to fucking you. Yeah. Yeah, like at the back of a land cruiser with the seats are down. That's like a full lunch. Yeah, like a studio bedroom. Yeah, it's pretty How did it work out? It was just like me and my ex boyfriend were both living with our parents at the time. It was like over like a no. Actually we were both living with their parts and so we didn't have a place to go, and we were both broke, so we couldn't get a hotel room, and so I was what music was playing was the

a c on was the windows. When I would hook up in a car, you fogged out no, I would not. I would turn off the car. But you know my dad, My dad has taught me to not nothing hotter than a girl being like, we gotta turn the car off. And number one waste of energy is when you have a car that's just turned on and just running as it's parked. So you should have the a. I mean you're sitting there. It was in the winter, so like it would get cold and then we would heat it

up with our body heat and it was kind of fun. Yeah. Yeah, it's hard. It's hard too, like those positions. It's not. It's not it's not a set like in movies. It's like, oh, my first time I'm going to be in a bag scene and you know there's always that scene. I mean, what kind of guy. I just want to get fingered while the guy drives and I'm in the passenger seat. Yeah, that's one time my ex boyfriend and I we were

driving across the country and he hooked up. He had a He brought in one of those boxes that has plugs in it so that we could plug in the wand which was our the third party of our relationship. And I had the wand we're driving across the country. We're doing like a road trip that girl just got

murdered on kind of thing. It was the same kind of road trip of like all the national parks driving to l A from New York, and um yeah, I would just be like getting it in the front seat and he would just be driving and like it was so that was so hot. I love that. I just love being uh yeah. And then you ever get think you got caught. Sometimes I just to jerk off when I drive and I feel like, no, I never no. I would put up like a T shirt in the window. I didn't want anyone to see it. I don't like

people seeing me having sex. I'm not like one of those unless people want to watch. That's different. But subjecting the public to that it's not good. It's you end up having to have road ahead. I've gotten road ahead. I don't love it because I have to remember a joke that I used to do about this. What about it? Um? I used to have a joke that I don't want to do it because I think I might put in my special it's really good, But I used to do

it all the time. I liked it giving RoadHead because first of all, it's That's why I think I have like I'm I'm always turned on by someone when they're driving, and I kind of want to, Like I like when a guy has to like do something like focus and like it's trying not to come kind of thing. I like doing it when like when a girl trying to perform surgery and I go down on like something like

like hard transplant. Yeah serious, Oh my god, that's that's got to be a porn genre where it's like, can you save my dad's Like this family is just begging, Like the surgery is very intricate, and if she's not totally focused and the guy's going down on her, that would be so hot. I know that there's a lot of porn where the girls talking to her friends and

a guy's going down and she's just like yeah. Like that's where like I like Biden giving a presidential address, and I think we had a president that actually was big. Clinton definitely got a blow job, stay to the unions talking about domestic terrorism or okay, next story, um let's

see here. Oh another yards no, that would be Apple is working on an algorithm that looks like user users health information such as physical activity levels, sleep patterns, of mobility and effort to create software that could diagnose depression. So they're gonna make like an app to actually be called duh, Like you don't need to look at my heart Set's just am I an American who has Instagram diagnosis depressed? Everyone is depressed? Can I just say that?

Stop acting like you're too good for depression? Who do you know that's not depressed? If you do know someone, it's someone who doesn't have a smartphone or theirs. It's just like everyone's kind of deprised. It's not it's it's okay to admit it, but that is a computer being like based off this and this and this, and like it's like shut the funk up, Like I like, no, it's like, do you follow em Rada and Alexis reren Um, Yeah, you have severe depression? You followed Dan Blizzarian. Yeah you might.

You're probably suicidal and we should just admit you to a hospital right now. Like and then you're like thanks Apple, like I would have never known, and like Apple gives a fuck about our mental No, they want to know because you'll buy more when you're depressed, and then they'll give you more ads during that time because now they know yeah, now it's all and they probably are in with pharmaceutical companies to like okay. Well, the the other day, I I cannot believe this app that was that was

you know, marketed to me on my stories. I'm watching Instagram stories flips to one and it was like, do you not understand your emotions? Are your emotions blocked? Do you have trouble cry? I was like, this motherfucker, how did it know my specific thing that I don't cry that I've blocked you in your bathroom right now? Are you looking in the mirror? Are you telling yourself so specific? How did someone make an app or program that this

cater to my needs? It felt it felt like a bot made it, you know, like a bot made an app that's going to reroute me to an app like it like it's it's just it's what. I don't trust anything anymore. I can't. I'm just like, how did that? It really felt? It didn't feel good, but you didn't feel seen. Sometimes with with you know, Posh Mark or like some of the shopping sides are going to they'll they'll really nail my needs where I go. This person knows me better than anyone but no, I felt seen

for sure. I mean that is interesting that our phones know us better than our partners, Like our phones will suggest presence for us to get ourselves. That your your husband would never buy you. Yeah, your wife, And it's like, motherfucker, I wanted a new PlayStation. I didn't want to Pandora like jewelry, like shitty charm bracelet with a martini glass on, like you know, I wanted a divorce. Yeah, my app somehow new that. All right, let's take a quick break

and we'll be back with our weekly sports Alright, we're back. Okay, let's do it Weekly sports Gears Andrew's Weekly sports Moment. Man, she's gonna kill me one day. Okay, A better turned a promotional bet into you said better and I was better A better? No one, Okay, I wish I wish you were a better man. I wish you. Yeah, waiting watching the clock. It's got to stop her. Okay, take that a bet tour. No, it's a better, but it's just not the best way to say it. What do

you say someone who a guy who plays bets? Yeah, I don't write you can you can rewrite them in your brain to present them so that I don't want to make no upset. If I was reading that, I would say, oh, a better, and I could read it like, but if I'm hearing it, you got to sometimes change a man who bets or a person who turned a promotional a one who promotes dollar which iss bet into a hundred thirty three thousand via a sixteen NFL parlay

and hit fifteen consecutive picks. Okay, well, you're gonna have to tell me about parlay is when you football? Uh no, it's a so you bet you have to each game has to win, like each game you have to hit. So let's say you bet the forty nine ers they gotta win, and then connected to that, the Dolphins also have to win. That's a two game parlay. If and then you bet, I'm not going to get it. It doesn't matter. Okay, So this guy and just he won

fifteen out of fifteen picks. He picked correctly, and then it was up to the sixteenth. He would have made seven free promotional bet by the way, so he didn't put dollars or he did, he did, but he got that free from the casino, which is just Now I wonder how much this guy is spent in his lifetime betting, Like that's what I always go. Is this really a guy that just wandered in and was there with some

friends doesn't usually bet. That's a great story. This guy is gonna now turn this dred three thousand into a bunch of losses. His family hasn't eaten for three months because he did a forty eight game parlay, which he just felt good on sports. I mean, how does not everyone do it that it cares about sports? I mean, if you feel like it would make you care so much more. I mean there's a whole there's a billion dollar industry. Because I did this one day, I did.

I go, oh, you know what I'll do. I'll figure it out. I'll just do a lot of small bets, but a lot of games. And I bet fifty games at like fifty dollars a game, and I lost forty eight of them. So I had a forty eight negative

parlay or whatever. I don't know. I didn't connect them all, but I just lost, and I lost and just going and take you gotta go get cash because that was before Venmo and when you feel cash being turned over, I was like, okay, I'm gambling sites and things must have benefits so much from digital because you just don't feel like you're spending actual money. Um and chips, you know, like chips don't feel like money. That's why they use chips,

I feel like. And also did you know that the carpet on a casino floor is so erratic so that if you drop a chip, you will not see it, and they and they can if they can have it as a gain and there that's why the carpet looks insane. It's not because they're fun. And I think it's also a mental thing of keeping you more awake, like more things happening in your eye. And that's why it's so cold in there as well, because it keeps you awake, so then you could bet longer, because the longer you bet,

the more chance you have to lose. I'm so grateful that and you should be too as well. That you had that loss and it felt so bad that you go, I don't want to do that again. Like that's the way some people feel after they drink and they have a hangover there, like that was stupid and not worth it. I'm not going to do that again, Whereas I was like that was worth the good feeling that I had on the on top of that, you know, or McDonald

gambled away his life's fortune three times. I heard, Yeah, he was talking about how he would gamble and I and I get this too. So when you're like addicted to being like being a spender and you're spending your money and you make like two d tho dollars right, and you spend let's say you spend a hundred fifty of it, then you have fifty thousand left, you don't see it as like I got a hold. You're like, I might as well just get rid of this too.

Like there's a weird mental thing. And that's what he was talking about on WTF where he lost like a few hundred grand and markets like how did you keep playing? He's like, well, I already lost that. I might as well. That's a weird like mental thing. I heard this thing from my brother in law who now has a retail shop.

He was like doing some research about just like pricing and what people do, and he told us that, you know, if there was some ski shop story of a guy that had a ski shop and there was a coat that was like twenty dollars, you know, it's uh, some kind of special coat. The person bought brings it up to the counter. It's like, I want this coat, and they go, actually, the hood is not the hood. I have to unzip this. The liner actually is an extra

ten that doesn't come with the coat. And the person goes and they just go, okay, you'll throw it in. They do that because they know they put the liner in the coat knowing it's going to be an add on, because if you're willing to part with for a coat, you're willing to part with thirty dollars for the whole coat. So it's like it's psychologs. Initial was the French fry is like the number one add on thing and that

and that changed everything. So like when when you buy a cheese beer meal, like and you're like, oh, well when we have some fries with that, and you're like, oh yeah, yeah, that makes sense, you know, Like they don't even think about it and they're like, well, here's another dollar. It's it's like already bought. That's why movie places make a small soda two dollars, a medium soda five dollars, and at large six dollars, because why would you spend an extra dollar to get the large, when

really the markup is from the small to large. You're not even looking at the small because you want a lot. You're looking at the medium, and you go, well, what a deal that is based on the large. It's all fast forward to that guy having diabetes and getting his feet cut off and losing two million dollars of medical bills. He's like, yeah, but I saved that Amy Schumer, offending him at the roast. All right, let's get to our weekly m segment where we go through listeners mail. It's

time for fan trax fan tracks. It's time. All right, let's listen. Do we have voice memos? Do we have emails? What are we what are we going through this week? No, all right, today we're going to get some voice smails because we've just been having unbelievable uh fan tracks. I just want to thank everyone and sorry if we're not getting it on the show, but uh, but we feel from them. And Noah goes through all of those and you go through some of them to and do it.

I used to. I did. I checked them out just if there's so many where now it's like it's like insane, and I think, yeah, it might even be down because there's so many I don't know. No, it's not down. It's worth spreaking. Just fine. This one came in seventeen hours ago from Christine Ready. Yes, Hello, Nikki, No uh, and Andrew, I hope you're having all the swells. Um, I'm calling in with a dating app success story because you guys were talking about the apps not too long

ago in one of your episodes. And have a little tip for the besties, and that is to let someone know you're a bestie. Um. I met someone recently. We had a phone date before our actual date, and we were talking about different comedians we like. I said, I'm a Nikki Glazer. Stand I listened to all her episodes of her podcast. He's like, no way, me too, and right off the bat, so not awkward at all. We're talking all the funny things we like about you guys.

And Um. After a few glasses of wine, I decided to be super vulnerable, as Nikki does recommend um and I told him that the thing I relate to you most about you, Nikki, is when you talk about being a stained person. I used to be addicted to spray tans. Many of my clothes are orange. I keep a bottle of hot sauce by my bed and not sure why it makes me feel safe. Anyways, just wanted to let the other besties know that it's a great conversation starter and it's a quick way to see if they can hang.

So anyways, don't be cut and thanks so much for your podcast. Everyone loves you. You're the tits By. I can't take it. And this is why I can't. I can't handle like, oh my god, I'm just like so, I just I'm so touched. I can't even I'm kind of speechless because that's just um. First of all, I just you just sound so cool and I'm like, I want to be friends with you, and like, just someone that sounds that cool that likes me. It's just like and just is so funny and cute and just kind.

It just is very very makes me feel so good.

And the fact that people can connect over the stuff we talked about and that you could share that with someone that you felt stained and you knew that he would know what it kind of meant because I had described it, and that you know, obviously he likes someone that me being me who is staying described herself a stained so that it makes her feel more comfortable, like, oh, he's not going to reject me, NICKI thinks she stained and he listens to her stuff and she's been a

while since I have felt so good in my heart the bed like I always have things by the bed, popcorn ready to go. I was listening to her voice, and remember that actress from like Mall Rats. She was like really big back in. She had like short blonde hair. She was so cute. She was in like all those oh yeah Jennifer Tilly, Yeah, she like this and she was in Liar, Liar, Yeah. And I kept picturing this girl. Yes,

I oh my god, that girl was so sweet. I hope it works out with you in that guy, and even if you just are just friends, like I think that's I feel the same way about the shows I listened to. When I meet someone who likes Howard Stern, I'm like, yes, we already have something in common. We speak a similar language. Um God, that made me feel great. Holy shit, I can't this. This segment's uncomfortable for me because it's a lot of compliments and um, but I'm

really grateful, Thank you so much. Her name is Christine. Yeah, Christine, thank you so much. Okay, um, how about one from Allison? I hope you guys fucking a youris soon. Okay, Alison, what do you got to say? Hey? Nikki Andrew Noah. I was listening to today's episode and I just had to come leave a voice message when Nikki said that she didn't pick up a paycheck from a job and they were emailing her. I did a similar thing years ago, and I've always thought that that was just like the

weirdest behavior I was. I bartended at this place for only like a month and then quit because I got a job actually in my field, and they had like cash there for me, and they were emailing me, like you need to come get this cash. And it was like months later. I don't know why. I was like so embarrassed to go pick it up. I'd like, I can't explain it. Yeah, and like eventually they were like, Okay, if you don't pick it up by next week, we're

gonna like buy the staff pizza. And then I went and got it and just felt so weird, Like I'm like, I'm just so happy to hear someone else say that they did that, Like, dude, this pod really like makes me feel like normal about a lot of like random things, and I love it so much. You guys are the best. Okay, bye, thank you so much Ellison. Like, dude, I used to be so ashamed of that thing of not picking up the check, and I remember my parents being like, what

is wrong with you? And I'm like, I mean I still do stuff like that where I mean even reading people. When people give me letters on the road that are just all I know, the ones gonna give me a letter to say they hate me. I mean maybe, but like generally these I meet these people and they're like giving me gifts and then there's a letter with the gift and I can't read it even though it's literally is the it's like money. It's just only nice things. And I just feel, I, why can't I do good

things for myself? Why do I? What's also the embarrassment of going back to a job that you on even were at for a month? I think for her probably, you know, just waiting so long the first time that people are like, why then they've had to call you three times and now you're gonna you're gonna have to dress? Why you didn't pick up the phone for three times. But listen, everyone does this. Ship I it made me feel so good to hear Alison say that she did it.

But I've learned that everyone does this where it's like other people some people just not everyone does it. Some people truly don't understand how you could ever not go

pick up a check. But I'll tell you there's a lot of people that really relate to not doing something that we could also be like not deserving, not feeling like you deserved that money because you quit, you know what I mean, Like like or like I'll have a check for this show downstairs in the mailbox and I won't go get it because part of me, I think, probably feels like I don't deserve. What are you doing, dude? I also threatened me with someone's gonna have a pizza party.

Fuck that, Like she was gonna go, yeah, let him have it. I would be like, good, it's going to a good cause. I'm proud of her for going to get it. Love it. But I do that all the time of like just avoiding things I want. I was just thought of an example that was so like recent. Oh, I mean, we've all felt this way. When let's say someone texts us and then we don't get back to it right away. We go, we'll get to it tomorrow.

Then we don't get to it tomorrow. Then then it's a week later and they and you go, you know what, I can get back to this. There's an excuse for why I didn't you have oh shit, But then you wait on that one, then follow up a third time, and at that point you could just go, I'll just I'm just gonna not know this person anymore. I'm just never gonna I'm gonna I should just end this friendship.

When really, let's just start being okay with not getting back to people, because because you you if someone did that to you, you would understand it wouldn't be because I've done it to people that I love. But get back to them, and don't be okay with getting back okay with getting back late and go and listen. I am such listen. I don't know why I couldn't do it, but I have. I have some sort of weird thing where I once I you know, missed three of your calls.

I just got scared of even writing you ever. I've done this in my life. Could you play how they're going to react when you finally right back. Oh, I guess you do finally right back? You know what? Sometimes they do fine, you know, but my dad did. He goes, how is the weekend? Two days ago? And then yesterday Row fears firs bueller anyone, bueller bueller bueller, and and then I was like, funk, I can't write back, And then I just wrote back. He was okay, cool, get

some like. It was like such like, I don't know, it's like whatever. Just if people don't forgive you, they're in the wrong. You would forgive someone if they go sted you for three weeks when you're following up. It's just and don't take it personally if someone does that to you, because realize that you've done it to them, and it doesn't mean you don't like that person. It's just like bad timing. Okay, let's get to the next one. But in this case, I hate my father. Oh yeah, okay, yeah,

that's different. But no, I'm just kidding Dad. I love you. You can't wait to play golf with you in a few weeks. Okay. From Taylor Taylor, Hey, guys, I'm a huge fan of the podcast. A mispronunciation story. I was substitute teaching for fourth grade, and um, I was supposed to read this passage this to the students and it was about crocheting, and so that's proct crocheting. I pronounced it as crotchetting. And I said it probably fifteen times.

It wasn't just like once. It's all about and literally one of the students had to correct me. It was really embarrassing. But okay, crotcheting, Oh my god, that I mean that that is I think you made that's that kid that corrected you really got a bump to his self esteem that day. And he'll never forget that. He'll always tell the story of the teacher that said. I hope he always tells it, because that's a great story that my teacher repeatedly said crotcheting. Yeah. Um, and that's

a that's an easy one. Fun that's a fun word to mess up, especially if you're in third and hear that. Yeah, I don't know that fourth grade is no crotch. Maybe that's kind of a more adult term, but any mispronunciation is so hilarious. Final thought, when any time a teacher

messes up, it's the funniest thing ever told. Never forget the time at an assembly where we had a speaker come, a woman come to give us like a motivational talk to the senior and fucking Ryan Blanner yelled at Slut at one point because she said she had a male roommate. He just goes. I mean they we were out of control that we did not No one respected this woman. I wasn't. I was fortified because she was just like because it was senioritis. They didn't know what to do

with seniors anymore. We didn't care about school. It was like a free period that we all like because the teachers had a planning thing. They threw us into this the theater to go watch this woman give this weird kind of like dumb motivational talk. The woman stopped and was like I'm not doing this anymore and and just walked off stage. And it was so and I remember him doing that and being like you asshole, like that

is just so out of line. But everyone laughed, you know, and I just remember being really embarrassed for but are are are uh senior class principal who wasn't the real principle, but each class had a principle. Mr Pittman walked up onto the stage and he was feure like you tell he was mad and he just stood there and where it's silent in the auditorium and he's just shaking his head and the woman's gone. At this point is he's like is she gone? And everyone's like, yeah, she's gone.

It's so dead quiet, and he's like, uh ms, Nixon, will you go get me a dictionary please? And so we're all just like kind of like what all right? And so she goes to get a dictionary. It's still quiet. We're all kind of like snickers are starting to happen, you know, people are starting to be like a little bit. It takes too long. She goes and gets a dictionary. Finally brings on stage and he's like this very like

um uh uh, what's the word formidable? Like man, he's like kind of like he's a bigger guy, stern, angry, and he's so like he's sweating with rage for us, so embarrassing, and he just goes embarrassment. I'm gonna look up the word embarrassment because that's what I'm feeling. And he flips through and it takes him like kind of too long to find it, and he's like, Akada has to go back a couple of pages and then forward one and then finally finds he goes embarrassment, the state

of being embarrassed. He packed the wrong word, wrong word to look up. He should have looked up embarrassed, you know, but he he who goes the state of being embarrassed. And it's like, no, no one really understood. I understood the irony of it, and like how funny was because I remember at the time my best friend Halla, her dad was our actual principal principle. He wasn't there for this, but I like was kind of the comic, like one

of the comic reliefs of our group of friends. And Dr Holly, who was our principle, was a really funny guy, and like really loved the funny person. And we were always fighting to be like does Dr Holly like he's my his favorite friend of Laura's. And I remember he I told him the story of embarrassment the state of being embarrassed, and he thought it was the He has me tell it to this day. It was the first

time I did performed comedy. When the guy said it was he like, I think he then went went and looked up embarrassed, you know, And I was like, like, I think, but I don't think anyone caught how funny it was except me, because I remember that was the

first time I can look back and go oh. I was like kind of thinking comedically of like I'm going to tell that story because it's so it's the stakes were so high and the tangible dictionary like it was different then and it was just so but just and I saw it coming to because when I go embarrassed, I was just like, I don't know if that's or like you know, but saying the state of being and I remember just going oh no, like the cringe of like he's about to stay embarrassed. I remember a teacher,

my senior hearn. He was our Spanish teacher, and he was he hated me, especially me, and because we were not good students, we were very like loud and just doing dumb things like we would weird things like I don't rest you with like we might have to take this out. But he would get a boner and his pants and then like move his bone, mean move his boner in his in his khakis with just the might of his Okay, that's the kind of thing you were

doing instead of learning spit worked. Anyways, there was a rat in a sombrero and he went to grab the sombrero off. You mean there was a stuffed animal rat, No, like a real rat somehow got into sombrero. And when he pulled the sombrero, wait, why do you have a rat in a sombrero in your class? What it's happening? I don't know why I was in there. I don't know. Okay, there was a live rat in your classroom that had

a squirrel. It might have been a squirrel and it was There was no reason for it to be in there. And he went to a dream you had. Maybe Rusty never was hard. I mean, this doesn't make anything, confusing them better. So there's a squirrel embarrassment and he pulls it off. He goes kno, which means fucking Spanish, and we when he said, because the squirrel jumped at his head or rat whatever it was, somebody with four legs with a tail. I can't believe the setup to this

was Rusty gets boners that he can move. Why was there a rat? Caro? I mean I literally I thought you were insane to present that and not say a like. I had to talk us through and be like it was a stuffed animal rat. I should have said he went to grab the sombrero and a fucking rat was

in there. That's how he should have done it. Oh so, yes, he was going to grab a sombrero that was on the top of the shelf and there was some kind of rodent that had made a nest in it, and it fell out, and then your teacher goes cone, did you guys know that meant fuck? Yes, and we were dying. Teachers are real, yeah, and he got scared. You never see a teacher scared, you know, because they're always in control.

I remember a teacher saying funk for the first time when he was like, um, I want to fuck you, and I was like, whoa, that's crazy, you said fuck. Yeah. It wasn't about anything else that he said. It was just like whoa. Really to the point, yeah, no, no teachers wanted to suck me. I was not that cute. You could always go back and I will, all right. Thank you guys listening, Thank you guys listening, Thank you guys listening the act of hearing. Yes, thank you for

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