#185 Besties Question The Pod

We weren't able to do it this morning because I perfect strangers too needed us both so early. But um, we said, no, we want to do a pod. We need to do a pod. We gave them three last week because of the holiday. What holiday was it, President? Yep, it was President and um, so we're doing it and it's going to be a special one. We're not gonna talk about murder unless it comes up, right. I mean,

there's probably five topics that always come up, right. Well, I just want to come with them things, okay, murders and Columbine. Just saying that that you didn't say, man, we did not get to it. I mean, I guess we can maybe get to it today. What one of our best seas wrote pieces are Columbine and we still haven't talked about Taylor Sif's heavy metal. Maybe we never get to those who knows what they're coming. We're coming

up in a year of the podcast. We have a lot of people who obviously on during fan threats, we always hear people that are like, I've been listening since I'm an O G fan, Like started at the beginning. Some of you are working way back to put together the pieces of the inside jokes that we ourselves don't even know the origin of at this point. But Um, regardless of it, we we just love our fans so much.

And you've heard me say it before. But if you're listening to this podcast, either it's your first time, we're your last time, I'll miss you. But I really appreciate you guys given us a shot and having us in your lives. And I wanted to follow up on one thing that I'm dying to know about just for my own personal interest. No uh, Um hung out with my best friend from high school, who I talked about earlier

this week. Her curtain was threatening to close. Halla also known as him because my friends in high school we just got lazy saying things. So we went from Laura Holly, which is her name, to Halla to it's harder to say it in Laura Holly. We edited a lot over it. We didn't even know what that meant. Um. She was the goalie of our field hockey team, the one that I wasn't on. After you know, you're playing hard to get on the bench, I could play. I mean part

of you wanted to be competitive with it. I feel like, no, no, I know, I know when I'm not good at something. I just know, do what you're good at, be fun to be around. You're not athletic, I know, but it wasn't. I'm not good at coordination and balls. I can I disagree.

I just not playing golf. You have a good golf swing, but I'm you know what, I get so nervous on the field, like if it's going to come to me, like even during kickball back in the day, in high school, like or middle school, grade school, even yep, and the guys are gonna make fun of me. The girls were always on my side. I never felt like that, but it just and then by high school, I think with field hockey. I wanted to do it because my friends were doing it. It's fun and you run a lot.

I like the running part of it, and I loved how good water tasted because it would be so hot I've not I always think back to just chugging my iced up iglue cooler of water and thinking, this is the best taste I've ever had, and how satisfying the end of practice was. And I kind of missed that. But when I got since once that made me not be able to walk, I was so grateful that I had to quit. You know, it was amazing before football, and I think they probably do that a lot in

a lot of high schools. They the parents would make pasta for the kids before before a game, and that's something I'm like, literally salavati right now because I'm just thinking about how good the fucking I always got. What's the one to start within our um roller station? Big z D? It really was big ZD. Other way I thought, sorry, but but it was big z D. And honestly, I don't know if this was the best food to eat before this whole carbo loading. I think that was in

early two thousand's, late nineties. Got a game in thirty minutes. Take down this fucking pizza. It's like really, But also, don't go swimming if you've just eaten, you know, like which isn't You can get a cramp and drown, so what is it um? And also if it's shark get you, you don't want them to have a second meal. So

that's why you really don't eat before. You don't want to like give they tell you don't go in if you're bleeding, or if you don't want to be like one of those little kinderballs where there's once he bites you open, there's another surprise of some brigatony. I've been thinking about the guy a lot more than if we haven't made jokes about his tragic passing. I want to say that jokes keep someone alive sometimes tragic thing to think about. And I'm we're never using him for fodder,

that is not it. But we look out at the ocean every day, yes and of thrashing waters and a floating towards swimming alone yesterday, what do I know? I go, haven't you you said? Haven't you heard of of Simon Simon cal who's taller, younger. What I was going to say about field hockey is that Hollow was our our goalie and she's just we came up with this thing of like hallo, don't cur because she would just be

like I don't care. In sixth or she wore a shirt that we made fun of that said whatever, and we're like, oh, Hollow, really this was this was popular in sixth grade. It was this was we would make fun of people that would go like, whatever, you're a moron, just walk away, and you would do the W turn it to an M and then just move your fingers to make it walk and then Hollow shut up one day with a cat in the hat hat on. Remember

those they were pretty cool. I remember she got a cat in the hat and then she was wearing shirts like whenever, and we were just like, when did you become like so like counterculture like sixth grade like suburb we we you know, we're just searching for any kind of identity, and um it turned into holod I do love when you wear a ridiculous hat and then you already have a comeback on your shirt, like you are already anticipating people making fun of your hat and you whatever,

whatever it all said, it's all here. It is good that your shorts are just kidding it just said umbro You're like, bro, what's your bum inside inside real inside? Um, Like, that's not even a hammed that's a ham river roast beef cloud. Um No, how was it hanging out with Holla? And did she occur? And did she say anything about Nikki? Did our curtain clothes? What did she say about Nikki

in high school? Anything that we don't know? Um, I guess I heard more about like, um, your friendships in college, we're talking about that and um. So she hashtaged in our text as we were anticipating the morning because like she's in temper are zone. She was in temperate Arizona and we met there. So I had like this long drive and it was the first time I was meeting her in person. We had just only been texting here

and there, and she hashtag did blind date? And I was like, you know what, I do feel like I'm about to go on a blind date, like a friendship blind date, because I really commended you on doing this. I think, well, I was a fan of hers from like all the stories that you tell about her. And then when I came over, you had sent her a message that I'm here and I say hello, and then um, you tagged her on Instagram and I was like, I'm just gonna start following her and like say hi. And

she she's like the coolest person over text. She's very social and you could just feel her like like good vibes even in like a text message. She's just awesome. She's a good hang I got really lucky. Yeah, so you had fun, But you that that is scary to me going on a new date with a new friend, Like it's all very intimidating. I really commend you for being like, I'm open to hang out with someone new and like drive to meet them, and I don't know, it's all that that that all that makes me nervous.

I'm sure some of our listeners can probably relate to that nervousness of like a new friend. Yeah, and also, I'm very like, I feel like my natural inclination is to be antisocial. So this was a really good way to push myself out of that. And even though on the surface we might not have anything in common or we come from two very different places, after we spend time together, we actually learned that we have a lot in common. And um, isn't that sweet? It was so great?

And then after the fact, like music did you listen to on the way there? I'm just wondering. Oh, that's a good point. That's a good question. What do you listen to before going to meet a new friend and you're kind of nervous, Well, there's a new band, but I like the crypt Death Crypta was it? I was. They're called Unprocessed, so I was listening to getting familiar

with their catalog. Okay, you know what. I commend you on all of this because I am someone who not only new friends I want to meet, I'll meet someone in person. I'll go Okay, I already know you like. The idea of meeting someone line and even online dating was very hard for me of like what if this person shows up and they totally suck and they're so

different on text and it's awkward. I don't all these dumb fears that are never realized because you can always just go I you know, I did this once and I want to do it again. But also listening to new music I find very hard to do. And um, I'm pressed with all of it, and I'm sotog and a new friend but you know how Noah just said, I have a tendency to be antisocial, So I wanted to do the thing that was the opposite of that,

that would challenge that. Like, That's what I love about Noah is that she in the face of those things, you do the opposite, Like you are aware of the things. You're not just stuck in your ways of like, well, this is just the way I am. You're like I, I can tell him missing out on something, and I don't want to just be that way, and and or if I am that way, I want to know that

I at least tried the other way. Like when I went canoeing one time in my adulthood in recent time, I was just I say, I hate this all the time. Let me get another shot to see if it really holds up that I hate it. And it turns out I was totally right that I was going. Yeah, I mean I I there were parts of it I liked, but for the most part, it wasn't something I would pick to do again. And at least you can say you did it. I went with my brother in law

with his big Muddy adventures. It's to St. Louis Company. If you're coming to St. Louis, and you want to do it outdoors, the activity and like canoe on the Mississippi River, like past the arch and all the ship that people don't ever get to do big muddy adventures.

Shout out to them, but not my not my bag and I all my last podcast, um, when I was doing it over covid, I had described one of the guys that was on the canoe trip with us as a wet old man because he was doing this demo of showing us like, if you fall out of the canoe, here's how you get into another one. So we jumped out of this and came over to arts and I just did it. My sister and I were just like, we just don't want to deal with like a wet man because you're this big. So we called this guy

a wet old man on my podcast. I had no idea that he would ever hear it, but of course someone told him that I called him, uh, wet old man, so then this is really funny. So then I felt so embarrassed. I didn't want to see this guy again, even though he works for the company that my brother in law is at and I do run into him because he's there all the time. So I was so embarrassed. He thought it was funny. Everyone was like, no, he

gets it as a joke. So one day I was visiting my brother in law's office and had this white board with all this like to do list, and so I drew up I wanted to do list. I wrote like in the middle of it, I I wrote dry out the wet old Man. And then there was one night when the wet old Man got a little drunk at a at some kind of Christmas party or something, and the next day he had overslept for work, and so he later saw that and thought it was them.

It was everyone planning an intervention to dry him. And so he goes message received Matt, Message received, and Matt was like, what do you mean. He's like and it was a total misc like miscommunication and the wet old man, who is not even old and he's actually there was one time where I was like, who's that? And I was like, oh my god, that's what old man. He looks already just got his two year chip. But he yeah, he said to Matt message received, I got it, and

that's like, what are you talking about? He's like, I saw what you wrote on the board? I get it? You know what? Got it? And he's like, wait, I don't know, and he goes because I didn't even tell mad I wrote that, I don't think. And so it was just sitting up there, you know on white boards when people write stuff, and it's like you it looks like an active board, but it's all been sitting there forever. So um yeah, yeah, it was really funny that he

was just like, got it. That's like wait, He's like, I got to sign like they would front of about his drinking by writing dry out wet old man. That's the idea of his intervention. His intervention is just him like accidentally walking in on the board and the boards like, look, you've got a problem. I freaking I speaking of dry race board. I remember Rusty. Back to Rusty, his aunt

one time sat us down. She opened like an office and she sat us down and she brought us into this room real quiet, like you guys gotta see this, and we're like what the funk? Like what it could it be? And we walk in and it's like a conference room. Nothing else in there except the dry race board. And she writes Rusty on the board and she takes to your racer and she erase it and goes, huh no, I swear to God, this is what you're doing with

your life. No, no, you're She was literally just bragging, like case, what was the first time she was seeing a dry race board? Oh? I thought she was doing an intervention like see you now look what drugs can do to you. I thought it was another dry erase board intervention story. Look, if you ever adds, how great is that crisp feeling of like writing with one for

the first time? What about when they raise the teacher would erase it and there would be one little like the tail of the t would still be on it, and it's all you can think about. I love that. That's such a common I know, but I'm a lefty, so it would come off that's the problem. Oh yeah, any lefty out there knows your fucking hand here just done. Yeah. People are like, this is a lefties understand. It was just a guy's hand that was yeah, yeah, black hand. Yeah. Well, um,

today we're gonna do something different. We're you during today's perfect Strangers. Shoot you put out a call on our Instagram. I guess too. For for bestis to send in questions for us Q and a open to anything. What's so funny? Is your ass fun in? Thumbs down? I swear to God and I'm looking at you. My ass doesn't want to do it. I know your ass doesn't, but maybe

your brain does. But you were looking at me. I'm looking at you, looking at the other people on perfect Strangers, and I'm going, was so sweaty out there, and I sat on my phone and it but dialed you down. It thumbed down has an opinion where Noah goes yeah, it goes Noah goes open to anything, like like, is that what you want to name the segment? And you just go thumbs down. I'm looking at you, like, how is she doing everything? And then I thought maybe Robin

had your phone. That's what I thought, And I thought you was working with us, got it? And then you start doing join FaceTime calls. I'm like, what the I'm so glad it called you guys instead of anyone, and I love I facetimed you with my Literally I was sitting on my phone with my bare ass because my

dress was so short. I mean not that you would have been able to see anything, but I could have FaceTime nearly and ASKT whoa and yeah, that's a lot that's up closing personal boys, I'm so glad it didn't pick up for you. Was it picking up? Could you see anything? Could you hear anything? I mean there was I thought something had happened. You're visually when you do when you do a FaceTime call, it's you know, especially with me and Andrew was a group calls. I was like, oh, no,

I hope everything's all right. So I picked up and I did video. You were on audio and I started hearing stuff. But like so I just hung up real quick because I felt like it was like an invasion of your privacy, because I realized that it was. Yeah, at least I wonder how many bud dials have like someone's got caught cheating or caught like doing some or you're just talking some stories from our best days about that,

like the worst times you've called. I mean there's always the story of people talking about someone and then you you send it to that person. Oh my god, but I do want to say that, Um, during the what was I just gonna say, hold on daring the during the Perfect Strangers taping, Fuck, it was something good. Um, you, Oh my brain working. No not well, um no, just okay, never mind. Well, I'm sorry that I thought down that. Oh, just the idea that I would be just like, oh,

I know what I wanted to say. I want to say. Today was full of funk ups for me. You thought I might be dead this morning because I didn't wake up to my alarm clock. I didn't. Yeah, like Robin was so scared. She's banging on my door for twenty minutes, she said. And finally her pounding like you know, was in my dream because I was getting pounded in my dream too, and so it started to sound like knock on wood um, and I woke up, but just to

have my friend. I'm like, when your friends think because you are not waking up that you've killed yourself, you aren't doing something right, like something's wrong. And so I told Robin, I go, I would never kill myself before killed yourself on the plane that one time. I know, I thought you've killed yourself. I know, I promise you I'm never going to kill myself. So if I do die via suicide, it's like an Epstein situation, you know what I'm saying. Like I had an island for pedophiles.

That's what I mean by that. But if um it was funny today because I go murder, I've already came up. I go. You thought I go. You thought I'd kill myself and Andrewes, No, I just thought you died of old age, which then you killed yourself after you heard yes, So good, Okay, Well, we have a lot of questions to get through today. That's what we're doing on the show today. What you know, what how old Jesus was when he died three? You know what the age to

life expectency back then was? What wait, so he died young, so two years before the life expectancy, so he would have he was due to die into you. I just saw a bid on this and you could have waited it out. He would have been dead in two years. And then no, it would even be talking about him anymore. What would you die of back then? Just probably flew stuff looking too hot on a cross or something. Yeah, I mean, all right, well that's that's someone's bite. Leprosy.

Oh yeah, maybe leprosy one really, Oh my god, if you've seen pictures of people with leprosy, just it's it's bad. There's always these photos. It was life was already so hard back there, back then that to walk around with an open wounds on your face, and then you would have you get shipped to an island. Didn't they end up going to like being shipped to like Hawaii or something?

I hope so at least it was like tropical I remember there was a movie where they were lepers and they were like out on that was Leopards and it was Jungle Books. That was different. Yeah, but you questions in one second coming back right after this game coming in now that was a leprechn Jennifer Aniston movie. Oh, I thought it was. Um, we're back, We're going to answer your questions. We got a lot on Instagram. Um, no, are you going to take us through these? I haven't

seen any of them. Andrew saw a lot of them. He said, there's enough to like take us into. You know, we could do that. I. Yeah, well, let's let's get to some of them. How about Andrew and I do it? I love it, like, well we'll ping pong rather, No, you can pick go ahead. No, honestly, you can have this in the news. I won't have anything. I love that guy. No, no, no, it's fine. I just like won't eat or like, you know, the guy with the cat in the hat hat and whatever shirt. Yeah, whatever, yeah,

it's cool whatever your shirt. Alright, alright, know what's the first question? Okay, so from Carlito burrito one mac and cheese or oatmeal. I mean I'm gonna go oatmeal. You know that mac and cheese. I mean those are such different foods. Not vegan, but if I'm going with, like in a world where you know, health is not concerned, mac and cheese. Ya, mac and cheese all day, Kraft, double up the cheese. Put in more milk, yes, oh,

put in more milk. I mean I wonder what mac and cheese is like with almond milk or like an oat milk or what you would even use the best mache. Yeah, it's just cheese and it's great. I like cold mac and cheese actually next day. Oh yeah, oh my god. And everyone always says that mac and cheese sounds like fingering a girl or something like that, or like a wet pussy or whatever. Have you ever heard that? No, but I guess it's a mac inside some cheese. No,

it's like when you squish your finger. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's sounds like a wet pus. What about you know, what do you like your pusses to sound? Probably go for the cheese pus, all right, yeah, just wet, sloppy. What's your favorite kind of mac and cheese? There is, I guess a lot of different kinds. I just you know, I really like I don't like eating broccoli unless it's in mac and cheese. Broccoli to it? Oh yeah, Why aren't more things added to baccan cheese than just bacon broccoli?

What else is added to it? Oh? Hot dogs? No? No, no, that's pork and beans. That's really good. That was a big meal. And when I was a kid, I used to do the instant mac and cheese where you just you know, peel the lid back on the cup. I mean, I mean, what's why is that so much worse? Microwave thing is an art, and I'm really good at it. I have to say, I know exactly how much time with your bagel bites and pizza rolls. What are you doing? Oh?

I gotta put those oven because those get chewy. Those bagel bites to get are too chewy, and then they're inedible there you literally can't get through them. I think I'd like to think that like song, like you know, you know you're an adult? What and they're a song? This is growing up? I guess this is growing up. I honestly felt like I was finally an mature adult when I would put bagel bites in the oven because I was a microp. Anytime I use the oven, I

feel like I should I could run for president. I feel like I should be, you know, at some global summit of some sort. Dude, I didn't use a big oven until recently. And then remember the pizza rack incident. I mean we you didn't know how to get things out of it. You could put things in it, pizza rack, just in pizza gate. Okay, next question, we're off to some really question. That's an interesting question. Yeah, that's a head scratcher. Okay, here's a here's a good one from

Hank's daughter. Have Nikki, Andrew or Noah ever had an obsessive person in your life or been stocked? Thanks? Been docked? What does that mean? No? Stars? When you stop? Oh, you know what, this is not the place I would talk about it if I had been, you know, because usually stalkers are he's he's offering he's like, do you guys want There's a difference I think between like online stock first person stock. I'm sure you've had some friends obsessed with you that work got a little weird. I've

never especially the more you become a celebrity. It hasn't happened. I don't I really don't want it to. And um, there have been people that I could tell are like Nikki, I love you so much like they they think we have a relationship that we don't um based on whatever they saw or something. And that's usually really law Like I don't even read it because I don't want to let it in because there's nothing I can do about it. Um.

So that's kind of been the only times. And then we've had a couple of incidents on the road that I don't really want to talk about that have been terrifying. No to the one time though that there was a guy that came to the meet and greet I still used the thing that he eventually pulled out. He was this guy he was in l A, I think at the Ace Hotel. Anything about the scene, you would think he's got something scary. He just didn't look like he

was like a norm like one of my fans. He was there at the show, Loan, he was at the meet and greet. He went to the end so he could have more time with me. You could tell he was like hanging back in the line, which is a lot of things that stocker people do. Oh man, I had another stalker, not a stalker, but a guy that I had to you know, I couldn't meet people after the show because he was there a couple of times.

Um that was in my club club days. But this guy, he was so he ended up being so sweet and just like kind of eccentric looking. But he had a bag of things he wanted to give me, and one of them was jeans with a bunch of like drawings on them that had nothing to do with me or him or anyone. They were just means he found. Another was like a random old shirt that he found that it was like it wouldn't even fit me. The jeans were children's jeans, by the way, Like I was flattered

that he thought they would fit me. And then at the very end, he's rummaging around this bag. Noah, and it's me, Andrew, Matt and a meal all just kind of Andrew and Matt and a Meal are already like tired of this guy's ship. It's the end of the meet and great, they're like they're just like suspect of him. And I'm trying to be nice because I'm like, maybe he's just like special and and so I'm like, oh, thank you so much. What else do you have? And he's he's rooting around and it seems like he was

like gonna be like and one more thing gone. I mean, that's what we all thought, separately, all of us, because he was searching this bag that didn't seem to be like there's not much in it. It seemed like he was waiting to get the to like put it right in his like to hold it the right way, or

to like undo it. Whatever you do, how do you take the how do you a gun or knife or a gun with a knife on the end of it like a bayonet and trump and so he but then he pulls out a brush, and honestly, I screamed, I know U, Matt. It was funny because Matt was like, I was ready to tackle the guy. I was. It was seconds away from tackling the guy. And a Meal and Andrew were like, I was ready to run they

were Dixie Chicks ready to go out of there quick. Yeah, but he was like, it's just a brush and there was no hair in it. It was new, and honestly, I fucking loved the brush and I still use it to this day. It was like a Goodie brush, is what the brand was, and I've never seen one like it, and I have it with me here, So jokes on us, I know. I I remember getting a brush and being like I don't even want to touch this thing, and then I looked at it and I was like, I

kind of love this, and so thanks to that guy. No. Have you ever had any kind of situations that made you scared? Um? Well, situation that made me scared. Yes. Um. One time I was walking home from elementary school and uh, I felt like this guy following me, and um, there was like a corner store that I used to go to all the time. He was Mr Kim's grocery store. So I was like, I'm just gonna go in the grocery store and I'll see because he had been following

me for a couple of blocks. So I went in and the guy stopped in front of the store with his back face to the door. And I was like, oh no, so I snuck out and I ran and then um, I just like looked from behind the car and I saw him going into the store and then I just ran home. Oh my god. It's good that you're aware. Yeah, I would have suggested to just like stay there and tell Mr Kim and wait instead of

like try to out run. But I'm glad that you. Yeah, you just have you ever felt that like someone's watching you? And like been right about it? Why do we know? Because we have senses Because we were fucking caveman. We had to give away from cyber tooth same cyber tooth tigers. That sounds like a great like um virus protection service, right, it sounds like another saber tooth tiger like joke because the tooth coming out of the guy's nose. I said, he was like a saber tooth. No, I don't think

it was that. I think it was long ago. I think no, it was way back. Some best people know what I'm talking about. There was a saber tooth tiger joke on the show Ham Drip. Wait so you wait, so you think that we have you ever felt that someone watching you? Know? But well, yeah, I mean in New York. There's been times where I've been on the street and I'm like, is this person following me? Anytime someone has a carry on or a roller bag on the street, I always feel like they're chasing me. I

hate that. I like that because that means that they because you can just hear that. I just hate that sounds so much. It's like one of my least fit I'll stop and wait until they walk like six blocks. This is a new thing I'm learning about you, is that you don't like certain sounds. I don't like the sound of that. I don't like the sound of air conditioning, and only the sound of shitty fans. Okay, nice fans. Though this one overhead is that bothering you? It's not

bothering me. But yeah, he has a fucking weird look on him, sucking old cybertooth fan. So called back end of a real quick thirty seconds ago. Um so uh no, but I had a guy, so this girlfriend. I had a crazy like ex girlfriend who was um who faked having a pregnancy. She said it was and it would end up being like a topical or something, which is like when it's outside. But I think she made it all up and she was just nuts. He was nuts,

And she had an ex crazy boyfriend. Like I thought you had only had like two girlfriends, who is this one? This one was not long, it was like four months anyway, So she had a crazy ex boyfriend crazy like when we were dating, like he like at any moment, he would like call her forty times, or like the guy when the past guy is my little brother was in the bed and ex boyfriends showed up and his eyes and kids in the in the room with him, and the guy was like six pounds. He's like, you're in

my bed and he's like what. So anyways, that's a whole another story. But um so I'm like trying to break up with her, but I know this guy's jealous. So I start getting random texts from a number that I don't know, like I'm gonna kill you if you go to sleep and I'm gonna murder you like this. So I'm like, this is the fucking crazy ex boyfriend. So I started sleeping with a knife underneath like my bed, like underneath like the mattress, like ready to go. Huh,

you should have gotten a brush. Yeah, it's scarier, but I would end up giving it the guy and anybody used it and falling in love with me. But anyway, so I end up sucking sleeping with a knife for like a month, and I'm like freaking out. I'm like looking out windows. I can't sleep. It turns out it wasn't the ex boyfriend. It was just a friend of mine, and I'm not that close with that. I just made fun of one night when we were drinking, and he took it so personally that he's like, Hey, I'm gonna

keep pranking Andrew because I'm so frank. It was a prank, a weird prank. But he's like, ha ha, I got you. You thought I was gonna murder you. I sleep with one eye opened, like and ended up being just a guy that like I sucking. I think I called I made fun of her being poor or something, and he got so offended. Do you that's interesting that so many things happen when you're drunk and you're just like, I don't even remember saying that or doing that. Do you, though?

Do you ever relate to the thing of like, you'll be in bed and you'll be totally having a normal night, everything's fine, and you just read something or you just think about ghosts, or you think about someone being outside and then suddenly they're they're like you just you can conjure up someone watching you and then get so scared and then like the other night, I couldn't even go to the bathroom because I'm so I got myself into such a zy in my head. But there was gonna

be a ghost, but they're not. They're like you thought of, like, just walk through it. It's invisible, but I still know. But the way you set that up is that you thought there was a ghost there, and then you went in there there was a ghost. No, there wasn't no, no, no no, But the way you said it, you have you ever thought of something and then it was like in your head, I mean, it becomes so real bad.

Then you just go put two seconds ago everything was fine, like what And I've said this on the podcast before, but I wonder when people are murdered or there's someone like that's breaks into their house or something, if there is that spidey sense beforehand, we'll never know because they don't make it, or if it was truly out of nowhere and it was just normal, like you know when in retrospect, people always like to tell themselves a story

about like I felt something weird? Is it really that only in retrospect or do people really sense something is off? You know, like that you can smell like how do we know? I mean, how many times have you woken up in the middle like they hear a noise and then you're like zero? I mean it couldn't wake up to Robin. The other day, I did think that if I if there was a tsunami warning, I wouldn't hear it because the white noise is so loud that I

would just die. And and you know, I thought about like the white noise sometimes might be yeah, yeah, interesting. So I'm gonna stop using white noise from now on. If anyone's interested in stalking me, I'm gonna fucking hear maybe just doing one year or something. Can you turn it down some? Uh? Yeah, By the way, I despise white noise. That's another thing you do. We've been over that too. Let's get to the next question. Okay, let's do one more question quick and then break one one

quick question and then go to break Yeah. One quick question. So this one's from Kathleen MP underscore. Do you think do you think you all would have been friends in high school. Oh, good question. Um, I think we'd be We don't think we would be best friends, but I think we'd be friends. I think Noah, you and I. It's a little bit different because I think Noah would have been so quiet and it would have made me

feel like intimidated by her. So I might have in the way she like dressed kind of alternatively, like kind of. I would have just thought we don't have much in common, so I probably wouldn't have. You know, I probably would have been nicer and she you were probably nice in high school. I'm guessing, but I don't know that our paths would have crossed as much. I guess. Wait, what were you like in high school? Maybe were you emo

or like punk rock? I don't know if I was, email was just like a I don't like uh, like I want to be in the Freaks club but didn't make it in there, like not freaky enough. Yeah, I hear that, like you were trying to You were trying to like not blend in though like you you weren't. You didn't want to be seen, but you didn't want

to be like everyone else. It's so funny when you want to be like the coolest loser and they're like, now we're getting and I think in high school, but yeah, yeah, oh yeah, you would have been like uh, you would have done I feel like you would have been like in the tech for like plays, And I'm not saying that, it's like you would have been in some kind of production thing and I would have been trying to be a talent. And it just like how we met naturally.

And I think that's how a lot of times you cross paths with people that you because you stick with people who I don't know. Yeah, I met a lot of I don't want to say a lot of the alternative kids that dressed in black and we're a little bit like moody, and I was kind of scared of of of just their anger or like just people You're going to go to Columbine right now, I think I like got I got to know those kids either, you know,

working on a class project together. You went to a bigger school that how many kids are in your school our graduating classes? Like then we're not The chances are very slim that if you went to my private school, we would not have crossed paths. You know what, I would have though if we would have been in the same class, I would have laughed very I would have thought you were very funny, and I would just try to been to your friend because you were nice people.

I was nice, but I was a class clown. But I was so there was like a tear of like like really like the hot popular girls that were like and I feel like you would be no offense but in the second tier. But like the cool girl could be in the first time who you think is attractive, but you don't know if she's attractive yet because she

hasn't really found her like fashion sense or anything. But she might not like shave like above her knee, you know, just because she like developed late or like thinking about cock late. So like you would be in that area, but I'd be. We'd be friends and we'd have some moments. But at a party, I wouldn't seek you out right but in between classes or like maybe like, yeah, you would have been popular, you would have been I was.

I was always friends with the popular guys that weren't quite as no offense, good looking, tall, like like because you were a sort kid, that's why, right, Like you were like the stud right, so I would have I was always on the outs the guys that were popular because they were friends with the guys that were popular, but that I felt like they were still approachable because they like weren't kidding that was me. If I was taller,

i'd spit on top of your head. But because I was yeah, yeah, no, but I I was like the popular and then I was like definitely popular, but just like just but I might have been scared of you because you were so funny. But as long as you weren't a funny kid that like made fun of other people, I would have been friends with you. But if you were one that made fun of other people, oh boy, I would have avoided you. I wasn't stayed out of your line of fire unless you came at me, and

then I was sucking guns blazing. No, I think we would have gotten along and caused the kid to real to be sad. No, no, no, I wouldn't. I didn't bully. I think I bullied someone, maybe a little bit grade accidentally, but no. I I think we definitely talked ship about dorks behind their backs, but never to their face. Never to make someone intentionally too that I was. I never understood doing that. And one day, there was one of the dorkier girls that would sit over in this collection.

There were these turtle sculptures in our common area, and we called the goth kids that said over there that were kind of like the the outcast, like it was. I went to school during Columbine. That was our ninth grade. So those Columbiny kids we're over like in the turtle. We called them the turtles, right, and but we didn't say this to their face. And one day we were like looking over at them for some other reason, like we're pointing. I remember, it wasn't about making fun of them.

And this girl, this brave turtle, came over to us and was like, oh, she walked up and was like, all you guys do is make fun Like she was taking out her anger at the table that was over

there of the really popular girls out on us. But I remember being like, I respect that she was tired of being the brunt of jokes because she was a turtle, and she fucking let us have it, even though it was misplaced, because I remember being like Laura, I would never I'm on your We were in girl Scouts together, but I was sitting at a table maybe with some girls that we're doing that, so and it's hard to

speak up when you're terrified of not being cool. I was best friends with the most popular kid in school in my grade, and then the other cool kids that loved to be friends with him, even though he was the best friend with me, like kept me around because of him, Like we're friends with me because of him. Yes, but I never felt that close to them because they were like waspy and didn't love Jews, you know, and

so then just barely hanging on. So I got tired of them to the point where I almost didn't even hang out with my best friend I was friends with them to then hang out with the kids playing Bond with like him necklaces, smoking Bond, listening to Fish playing Bond. Bond is like a video game that yeah, okay, So I started hanging out with them and I got a him necklace. I went to Fish. Yeah, you're just like hand rugs. Yes, what they want to be a drugg

either Yeah. Oh yeah, so you're like, I don't want to smoke. You just were trying to find a place to put in. I was just trying to get away from where like I couldn't win. Never gonna win. They were never going to accept you. We're always going to be a lot like how stand up was to be honest, Yeah, yeah, stand up can be so isolating, so bullying, and so elitist, and you're in groups and so you can't get in. I still struggle with it to this day, even with success.

There are still some people that I'm just like, they're the cool kids, and they always look at me and roll their eyes at any success I have. It's just and there's a part of me that I'm going to prove them wrong. But in the end, I just now I know those people are miserable and they don't like themselves. Anyone that's like so mean to other people and thinks they're so cool and has to make other people feel bad and like you're not gonna sit at our table.

They're so miserable and they weren't loved. And I truly know that now, But it's still fucking hard to get to. Let's take a quick break and come back with more questions. This question seems great by the way, I love it. Good enough us on all good topics. All right, we're back. Let's uh, let's get some more questions. These are great. Oh wait, are we not doing news at all? I guess we'll just do the only questions. Okay, uh, here's one from chel from Chelsea Vale. Do you think jealousy?

And Mr Brightside sounds like Chelsea. Can we hear it jealousy turning seats into this? Yes? I do think you know what I mean? Like, all right, you have to read it when you hear it. No, I absolutely will never hear that song the same way again, Jelsey, because they're British. If there's three syllables, though, I would say, hey Chelsea, Hey, Chelsea was hair jealousy? No way, Yeah, I bet my I told you this. I bet my

brother his hair jelly jealousy like hair like hair gel. No, just hair jealousy because I thought which it should be about, because that's what most men deal with and they had nice hair. Actually hair jealousy. I back, you can trust me not to and not fucking condition and if you don't have a good hair line, I'm not gonna be threatening. So all it really wants a thick old mullet mullet be like, yeah, thank you. I was trying to rhyme something with mullet, but it wasn't gonna happen. Um, yes,

it does sound like that. Good question. Next question, Okay, so here's one from Ellie Ciota at Ellie Ciota. How do I make new friends as an older single woman in her fifties in New York? Hmmm, Um, I would man like COVID stuff, but I would well, things are inching back to normal. The beauty thing, the beauty thing, the beauty thing about New York. Yeah, the beauty beautiful

about New York. Yeah, there's millions of activities that if you just pick what you are excited about, book club, fucking whatever it is, yes, book because you're in your fifty but just called meet up groups like meet up, Yeah, go play fucking dodgeball, go fucking I don't know. Yeah. I still get emails about a girl's beginning soccer, an adult women's like to learn how to play soccer for the first time in your life. And I still get emails and was always like, got a different version of

myself would have made new friends that way. I think that's a great way to meet people, especially at that age, you know what I mean. Yeah, find some were you passionate about and that you never got to do. Start there and then people in that class we have similar mind is you, and you'll probably end up being friends with them. Go places alone because I think that people are more apt to like involve you in their group and like have you joined along? Did you see you

watched Unorthodox? Right? Yeah? No, have you seen Unorthodox is an unorthodox r? I think it's just hey, not on a streamline. You know what I really liked about it. I just started watching it. I'm only two episodes in, but I liked how sty the girl when she goes to Berlin, she is so she you know, she escapes the her Williamsburg and in her life as an unorthodox

uh wife, and um, she escapes to Berlin. She's never communicated with like people who aren't Orthodox Jewish, She's never done she's never talked anyone, and so she's so open to meeting new people. She just like is at the coffee shop and it's just like can I help you carry those coffees? Like she was just friendly. And I think that like, you just gotta take that. You gotta take risks. You gotta be like Noah and go on

a blind day. You gotta do the thing that's telling you don't go to that thing alone, don't strike up the conversation, don't ask about that thing. Um. And also UM, I would say, if you have any like thing that you struggle with, there are like twelve step groups that are great places to meet friends if you want to like meet with like minded people who might be struggling with a similar thing. And it doesn't have to necessarily be struggling to be um, like not an alcoholic or something.

There's like a group called alan On that is like even if you had like an alcoholic aunt, you're qualified to go and it's just people talking about being a good human and it's pretty awesome. Also your expect patients like, I don't know how many friends you're gonna want, but I would I wouldn't say. I just need like two or three good ones. That's all you need. Don't think like maybe now you're like newly single or did she say that or she said you as single? But I

mean you need two or three. Just find two or three people that you like hanging out with every five. In New York, you can be fifty and be friends with twenty year olds like I have. Yeah, in New York, that's the best place to be because be open to any age, because there's twenty year olds living like fifth year old or fifth year olds living like twenty year olds. Like there's no you can really mix it up there. It's a great place to be. A great question. Good luck, Okay, alright.

This is from at a Town Beads. If you weren't in comedy, what would you do for a living? I love that question? Andrew, what about you? Um, I don't know. I did real estate before the older I get I wasn't My mind wasn't ready for real estate at that time. I never bought a house. I still don't. Only have bought one condo, but like I kind of have an understand. I like commercial real estate a little bit, like putting together deals. I like figuring out, like who could buy

Like a good salesman. I'm not that good of a salesman. I'm a good I'm a good Like what is it like a schmoozer. I'm a good schmoozer. Like you'd be a good guy that takes the clients out and like shows him a good time and it just like takes him out on the golf course whatever that is. I'd be great at that. The problem is is alcohol is so involved in that ship, especially in real estate in

New York. But I do like I like getting in my car and being like, oh, you gotta go look at a property two hours away and like kind of figure out, like that ship's fun, and then meeting up with the city and like, oh, that kind of stuff is fun. So you think you'd be doing that. I guess you want to be doing that. If you couldn't do comedy and you couldn't do anything in the entertainment world, what would you do right now if it was taken from you? I mean I guess that. I guess that.

I mean it depends how much money I have in the bank now too. I mean that's the other thing. I know, the money thing comes into play. Uh No, what about you if you couldn't do this job or anything in radio like super Easy? I so badly, but I don't have the discipline for school to study it. But I so badly wanted to work in crime scene investigation. Okay, yes, that's interesting to me. Do you listen to a lot of murder podcasts and stuff like? Do you do you want?

I don't know you as a like a you know, law and order SVU person No, because, um, I used to really be into it with podcasts and stuff. I think because I work in podcasting, I don't really listen to too many podcasts, um because I can't listen to it while I work. Um, but I really um there. So the field that I would would have gone into is called sterrology, which is blood splatter analysis this and you basically figure out that person and the murder happened

through the blood splatter and all that. How do you say sorology? And are you good at science stuff? Would you have done well in the classes that would you know you'd have to do leading up to that? I probably only would have done good in the classes with the topics that I would have wanted to learn about, but all the other stuff, I know, you have to do all the other stuff before that. How do you spell sorology? I don't even know? Like are s E R O L O? So it's se r okay? God,

I just I just love Noah so much. I know, isn't She's so fascinating because it's like either I'm going to do a comedy podcast or I'm going to figure out some blood. I'm gonna look at the way someone's blood brain exploded on a wall to figure out. We're going to tell some little jokes. It's it's that's my nightmare. By the way, really of crime scenes I I always are trying to photos of Do you ever watch the

first forty eight? No? H that's a really good show that really gets you into like what it looks like right away and all that stuff. That's more. Yeah. Most recently I like Mine Hunter, But when I was younger, I used to watch Autopsy, Forensic Files, like all those shows on like the i D Network. Wow, Oh my god, Well that's really cool. I love that answer. I would not have guessed that for you. Mine is Yeah, let me guess Andrew, if you weren't doing anything, I can't

do entertainment. Yeah, ship, I mean, I know you're a teacher for a little while. It depends if you want to make money. Oh, you'd be a psychologist. Um. I think I probably would because it would be easier for me than what I would really want to do. But I'd want to be a podiatrist and like like scrape people's foot legions all day long. It would be honestly have it for me. I wonder if though, people that get into that stuff because they love. They're really like satisfied.

They watch videos of it. Becauld you always find out like when you do what you love, it takes some of the fun out of it, like for a living like comedy I love obviously, but it's it's lost its glamour to me. But I wonder if scraping down people's wards would ever lose its glamor. Man, I am so excited. A bestie is gonna let me get at her foot in Vancouver, and I can't fucking wait. Not just imagine a million are waiting for you there. I would I would love it. I mean, I'm I'm not kidding you.

And I was kind of nervous about her work because she was like, I'm going to send you a picture of it, like I asked her to send me a video of it, and I was like, kind of nervous that was gonna be one that I'm just like, I don't really care, it's so good. And I was like, girl, I feel bad you even have to walk on that thing, and because I know how painful they are, but she says it's not causing her pain, and I cannot wait

to get at it. And I don't know, like I'm gonna I'm gonna bring like something to treat it with, Like I'm going to try to like actually, look at our look at the talents were coming to. If you have a war us, bring it backstage and I will scalpel it and break. And you have to just surrender the fact that I don't know what I'm doing, and I might. I don't want to hurt anyone, but I just want to get out it. Look if you heard

someone Noah could figure it. I don't understand there's literally anyone who has like a sex fetish, there's anyone who will fulfill that for you. You You can, you can pay an escort to really do anything you want. But for someone like me whose deepest fantasies is scraping on a fort award, there is no way to do that without going to medical school or you can't go to I can't do it voluntarily, like for volunteer purposes, you have to have a degree. So it has to just have someone.

You have to find a friend that trust you. So it's and none of my friends trust me, Like Robin even was like I wouldn't let you touch me with a thing. And I'm like, you're probably right, but I'm really excited that because we see you go after your own skin like a fucking banshee. Sometimes, yeah, I do, but it's so satisfying. Sometimes I watch you go after your nails with the fucking uh yeah talking to me

like a nail. Let's go over jokes and I'm just looking at you, look going after your nail, try to get that hangnail and just rup it out. I mean, I'm sure I do things that fucking make you want to. Let's get the next question. M hmm. Okay, um, one more question and then what we got to wrap this up. This has been fun and this is just a bonus. So if you didn't enjoy it, um, you're it almost didn't happen, and we're gonna do it tomorrow. Now. We'll be back tomorrow with the real podcast. This is from

This is from Katie Kosik for Niki. Okay, maybe, Andrew, what do you do to get out of looking down at the ground while playing guitar moments? M hmmm, well, no one plays guitar too, so let's let's all talk about this looking down while playing guitar moments. Oh oh, I know what she's talking about when I was playing guitar and I got sad and I looked down. Um, I actually just I think you're talking about just depressive moments in general, Like how do you get out of those?

The guitar moment was not so that was early. That was like almost like the the sniffles before cold Like it was just felt really good to me just to stare um for depression. I talk about it. I tell everyone that will listen how bad I feel. And I'm not asking for like them to solve it. I just want them to, like, I just want to get honest about it and like talk about how I'm really feeling. And then there's something that lifts once you're able to be like brutally honest about it that I found is

really soothing. But generally, I just tried to tell myself, this isn't gonna last forever, um, and if it doesn't get better, I could call a doctor. Honestly, I I you got to get a doctor involved, you got to

call someone and and and get some help. But um, when I feel those thing, yeah, she's like no, I mean, like can you not how can I not stare in my hands when I'm trying to do it in a Um no, I just feel like, yeah, that's but I just found like the freedom being honest with yourself about how you feel and other people without trying, without scaring them. So when you sleep in a month later, they don't

think you killed yourself. But like just being honest because it's not You're not a bad person to be really said, no matter what your your situation is. And also just get get help, you know, like and if it is guitar, like just that simple, just like what that's what? Not what you're talking about. If you're playing chords, it's easier. You can't look up when you're reading the news. That's what you want. I didn't lose my job. I gave it away. There's two different stories. How do you get

out of depression when you're in it? Like when you don't you make fun of me for not being able to read, that's it. Don't do that and give them. Wait what do you really do? Yeah? No, I'm not trying to do that. But do I write letters? Um? Wait, what do you do? I don't know. I try to, Like I'll do an activity. I'll go hit golf balls, I'll go to the gym. I'll try to better myself even if everything is telling you not to do it.

You'll always fucking feel better after you. Have you ever felt like I should go do that and you just can't, And then what do you do with that? You just wait till you can. You just sucking jerk off and you fucking don't even clean up, and then you watch a documentary and then you fall asleep with jis in your bed, and then you wake up and you go, man, I'm still sad. And then you have some golf balls and you're like my hand and taking a shower. It's so hard to do, but it and you as a girl,

you're like, I gotta blow dry my hair. Just like take a shower, Let your hair dry it the way it is, and actually try to fill in the scene in the shower like you're in if you can't get yourself to really emote, just like try to like act like you're in a movie of someone who's suppressed, Like get it out and like just have will pass. Yes, the thing that helps me a lot that it's gonna go that it's not always going to be this way, because it wasn't always that way. I saw Tom Hanks

talking to other actors. He's like, when things are terrible, you're not getting any jobs, everything's bad. This to show pass. When things are feeling great, everything's wonderful. Just to show pass always passes. But that doesn't mean that you shouldn't enjoy it. But just know that these might be temporary feelings and you'll get through it whatever it is. Yeah, and just try to talk to someone, anyone, even if you know, fucking record a podcast to yourself, just verbalize it,

journal it. And if you can't do any of that, ship be nice to yourself about not being able to do anything, and just be like I can't. If I could, I would, and just fucking be depressed and own it and wallow and feel bad for yourself to do all those things. Just don't be mean to yourself when you're depressed. Don't it on yourself for not being what you need to be, not being able to get out of bed. Don't don't add to it. You're already depressed. You already

spilled water on your computer. You don't like use an analogy. When I spilled water on my computer, I wanted to like punish myself. I already lost my computer. Why punish yourself more. You're already depressed and you're you're feeling sad. Don't be mean to yourself on top of that, Please God, don't do that. And if it's a tough plane in eight, chording right and then just mute the the that's about um.

Thank you guys so much for your questions and for being our besties, and we'll be back tomorrow with more show. Uh don't be cat and I came up with it.