#352 Meeting Rob Thomas of Matchbox 20!, Inappropriate Comments & Emojis

The Nicky Gliser Podcast. Glaser, here's Nikki. Hello, here I am.

It's a Nicky Glazer podcast. Welcome to the show.

It's the Thursday episode special guests in the room because Brian Frangie is not Because Brian Fangie isn't here, but he again is coming back next week.

You'll hear all.

About his wedding and his honeymoon, which we covered a little bit on the show yesterday. If you missed it, do you everyone dismissed she doesn't use proper nouns, missed missals and verbs exactly.

Yeah, you look pretty today, mom?

Well thanks, I do like your you look like Dorothy. Do I look like the circus?

No?

She did, just come.

From white Yeah, you wore white pants to the circus?

Good question? Why not? I don't know no a word? Yeah, no, no, no, it's.

Okay.

It's a clean, big top show.

Like they go round and round?

Oh no they did. How do you know that they did?

They have all about it.

You sent that on the chain, And remember I sent you a picture of a flower that had a bunch of holes in it to scare you. Oh my, oh here, because I hate those those motorcycles going round and round.

Oh yeah, okay, was that there there? Yes?

Today, yes, get the fuck out?

Yes.

Do you do you get anxiety watching that?

Oh my god?

No.

There were several very dangerous things going there one night.

Thank you.

What was my first word as a child, dangerous?

Yes?

Yeah, I would point out things that were dangerous. You would not You would not have liked it. Your dad was even scared. He was like, I didn't hate kind of bad ship. Yeah. I.

And then I first thing I asked my mom when she came in today, Oh, by the way, Taylor's here, Anya's here and Noah's here, so Taylor's.

Back is we have to cover Mashbox twenty last night. She was not going to be here today.

But I was like, on the way home last night, I go, you got to come back tomorrow because you were a part of the Masonical experience, even though my mom was also there. But I asked my mom were there any animals at the circus and she said yes because she felt shame because she knew I was going.

To get well I didn't. I didn't hire them.

I mean the need to go see these.

I know that there's going to be camels.

Yeah. And when Dad and dad said that it was kind of cool, like, oh, it's cool that they're doing that, and you go, you know how they got them to do that?

Right?

They beat them profusely.

It was kind of exotic.

Where the way this woman was dressed and she just guided them with there are four camels in a line and anyway. Yeah, it was looked at their dogs. They had a great band which like played really exotic you know music. Okay, so it's the kids like excited about this. Yeah they liked it. Yeah, yeah, kids were.

Like our time in Jerusalem, and.

So many camels did they wearing like a lot of like face jewelry.

She was kissing these camels. Who was a woman so sweet?

Yeah?

Can you kiss someone after you you kiss their bruise? It like that will go? SONGA thought it was cute for you to kiss my purple black eye. Even though I got it from you, caught it from you, I still think we're serious. Good job, mom, that's what you said. I that's I say out too late? Please don't okay, just try a couple. I say, how too late?

I went on a date?

No, got nothing in my brain.

That's what people say. That's what people say. I go on too many dates. I was right, I can make them stay.

Yes, at least that's what people say there, that's what people say. Good, Okay, you got it. Okay, we're done.

That is terrible.

No, it's good, you're getting it. This is just no, it's about repetition.

With Julie, I think Julie should sing in a lower octave because you have a really good lower octave voice.

And then harmonized with Nikki. You know, I really grab your grave a Gertie.

Well, yeah, that was your nickname. Also with pig Woman, my mom had like a series of really unfortunate yes because she was a little bit chunky as a kid, and you're a woman though our fans child, yes, like one of our fans.

I told you this found she was show and said.

That her mom or her aunt or someone was also a pig Woman around the same time. And so people we looked up, Oh really, a couple.

I think it was like two people who said that, like their parents were called woman.

Big girl would have been more important because you were a girl. They made you a woman. It's like, that's not fun.

Your character. Were you woman? Someone called you? But my dad because it's short for tater bug, but he calls me bug a woman.

But you are but I love But what's your most exotic?

But what's the coolest bug?

You have? Your friendship? Butterfly? Thank you? The Pelicon had wasp was my favorite things city wasp? Yes?

And why is that so exotic? They're just kind of hard to find.

They have a long overpositor, which is their little butt goes like this and it sticks the eggs in and it goes.

Okay, is this wasp? How did you find it?

I just saw it because I like it a lot, and I around so long ago alive and I found out where they would hang out.

And then kill How did you kill him? I put him in the freezer so they go to sleep.

That's kind of a camel's I would be into that. Wait, that's what they did to Casey Anthony?

Well something like that, put oh sleepy sleep. You should know this, Ni.

What about Casey Anthony?

Well that's not proven, But where did you come up with it?

More than she knows more about John Benay than anyone I know. She knows more about jfk assassination than except on except on your dad.

Who's the next? Wait to meet Jerry.

Cross if you want to look up YouTube videos on the JFK assassination.

And then Columbine Taylor.

Is I asked her yesterday on the way Mass twenty I go because we were talking about like the Idaho House, you know where those murders were in Idaho that we're all talking about. They're going to tear down the house because this town is being like harassed by TikTokers and YouTubers and all these internet sluice are coming and taking pictures outside of it and it's just turned into like a fucking media zoo NonStop since it happened in October.

Circus, I might say, yeah, there's.

Camels there and a beautiful exotic woman kissing them would makes it okay for something. And then so they're going to tear down the house. And I was asking Taylor, like is that a normal thing? Because she goes to see a lot of murder places. She went to a cave that Charles Manson hung out in until it was an hour and a half to find the cave in California. Yes, yeah, what's the cave called for?

People who were Manson?

Well, the place where they lived was Spawn Ranch n Ranch sba H spawn.

You know, I know, yeah you were, let's go, I could have gotten found they posed in front of it. Oh it's still there. Yeah, well usually you know, go on. I asked her, I go, would you ever want to a Columbine with me? And she was like yes. It was like of course.

We were in Denver this past weekend for Brian's wedding and Chris we had a little bit our plight was at like six or three forty or something, and we were driving out and He's like, do must up in Denver or anything to go to lunch or like find it?

And I was like, we know what, Peggy, Peggy, thank you?

Thought she was going to call you the woman.

That's who started the pig one? Yeah, oh how dare she? Did you ask her why? She said woman a child?

Because it's funny the seventies, I guess, yeah, and it was women's lib.

Girl to be a woman like she was into that pig person.

But yeah, I even said, Chris joke. I didn't say it jokingly, but he thought it was a joke. I was like, we go to calm one and he like laughed, and you know how like when you present something serious and someone laughs, it off and you're too embarrassed to present it again. It's like, no, I actually want to do that, but I've been like three times now, but I want to go back, but Taylor is going to go with me.

Wasn't it kind of reh redone? Yeah, but it's still a window that guy hung out of.

Yeah, but the windows kind of looked still the same, and it's just it's beautiful.

He kind of.

There was a victim. I forget his name.

I used to't.

I memorize all the victims' names at one point on a plane ride because I felt really bad that I'm so obsessed with it. But I don't know the victim's name, so I had them all memorize at one point, all like eleven or twelve.

That's bad that I can't even remember the number, but I forget which one he is.

He survived, though he's paralyzed, but he I think he's paralyzed. He was. You can watch live footage of him like crawling. He crawled across the library and jumped out the window and they pulled him out. He's bleeding all down that it was and his leg was completely shattered, and he's pulled himself and there was I think the shooters were still active at that time. But I was telling Taylor yesterday, Sorry,

They don't understand the smell of death.

They don't understand how crazy it is to look at someone's bone fragments splattered like. They get disturbed by it, so then they start having trauma responses and crying. And so the combine killers could have killed a bunch of more people because there were still tons of people hiding, which who they saw, but they didn't because it was becoming to the point where they weren't picking them off across a field or whatever, which is a little bit easier,

And Eric broke his nose on a you know, the gun.

This because they didn't live.

Yeah, that's well, they didn't live.

But this was a theory that someone said of like why didn't they kill more people? Why did they kill themselves in the library kind of like when people were still in there, kind of like.

An hour and a half or something before the cops came. They could have yeah, to everyone, they could have just done so much more.

And and that was one person's theory of like they were actually they didn't realize.

The smell.

I thought that particularly the smell was an interesting detail of like do you read stuff.

Like this, do you doesn't see a little bit of make times?

Yeah, but like people like future and pee and like blood coming out. I thought that to Noah.

But it's like it's that it's all that it's like all bodily functions people just the smell of thang of like terror, everyone's yeah, crying and begging and blood like blood has a pungent smell and just the smell. I don't think the smell of a rotten corpse is what I'm talking about. It's more like the the blood everywhere. So anyway back to Masha was twenty my heart, blood is everywhere. Check your bingo cards. I can't believe Columbine

It's like the pasta pasta is just the tho.

Well, we realized that's not his quote, right, Yeah, it's from a different book.

It's Faulconer.

I knew it was.

I just thought it was sweet fast past. The foss doesn't have a past.

If you don't know what we're talking about. Yesterday's episode, Anya thought it was really funny.

In the audiobook of Harry Prince Harry, he starts with a quote from William Faulkner, and it's like, but he doesn't say past, he says the post, and it says past a bunch of it, and it's just really tone.

He played it, but for some reason, it's very funny.

Twice is a lot. He is British, right, so we expect it would be weird to be past. It would be so weird.

A much.

You know, we'd be like, what a phony be American? I mean they can't do anything?

Yeah.

Oh, and you know who I was talking about yesterday that I was like really disappointed in who was like going off on them, being like she's he's a winging little bitch he grew up in a royal family when when it was Kelly Osbourne because I was really disappointed because I usually like her. Yeah, but I think she's hungry. Oh she is, looks very very She's on ozempic for sure, and so has her mom, Sharon. Her mom Sharon, you

By the way, you never get to get off of it, so you cannot get off no or you gain it all back speed diabetes?

Is that no one that sent me that article?

There's an article like there's a o zembic finger now and it's like women are going to their jewelers and dru their rings resized because their fingers are shrinking.

Oh I thought it was like ompic fingers from bar Put your finger in your throat and barf and you get like a little dot on it or something.

Yeah, everyone's everyone's on it. But what was I gona?

Okay, so match Box twenty weren't weren't right, So this is the whole crew. I told you yesterday on the show that like, I asked Rob Thomas for twelve tickets, which is unbelievable. Can I just read what I wrote to him so we all understand that I'm not a crazy person.

I honestly was like, oh wait, these people are coming to you said, Okay, more people, Rob Hi, You're coming to Saint Louis next week and I'm so freaking excited.

Please forgive me for asking you for comps, but that is exactly what I'm doing. I will be buying tickets if I don't hear back, So please feel free to ignore this. He said, are you kidding, of course, let me know what you need and we will set it up.

I said, I love you. We'll let you know how many asaps.

Thank you, Rob, and then he got back to me, and then I said, I'm so embarrassed because I cast two wide of a net asking my friends and family to go. I thought they'd say no because of kids and such, but they are all huge fans and so excited. I have twelve people willing and able to go. I am so sorry to ask for that, and I can and gladly will pay it for some were all of them. And then he said, let me ask my tour manager. I don't have any other guests, so could be okay.

And I really said.

COVID because Taylor was like, we had the COVID test, and I'm like, COVID, Yeah, we're all kind of like over it, and if you get it, it's like just keep going to work with if you can. But like a singer is the only person that really gets knocked out by COVID. I mean, I know people get very sick and can't like sit up straight, but like it attacks your threat.

You can't fuck with that.

And Rob Thomas, as we know, is a singing god, a vocal uh titan. He is one of the best vocalists. Going fight me on this, I'll win.

It doesn't matter, right, amazing. I've never even known who he was really, Yeah, I'm but when you fan, yeah, well I was six songs by you and you knew them.

Yeah I knew. I didn't even know. I knew that.

Yeah, but they are that band that I was telling Taylor yesterday, if you don't like Matchbox twenty, you're wrong.

Yeah, you're just there's nothing. There's got to be something for you in it.

It does not.

It's not like it's it's he's not trying to be cuh like like someone likes Drain or Marion five.

You can't group them with other nineties two thousand bands that are kind of in the same genre because there's nothing c about him. He's just writing his heart. He's not trying to like manipulate it all. Chris and I were talking last night about the song three Am, and Chris was like, I kind of thought he was in that vein of guys that's like trying to get laid

Nothing c about his lyrics.

There's nothing like he's not you know how artists like a lot of times, especially like they're just trying to be hot and stuff. He's never dry to be He's just had to try. But three Am, you could maybe argue is a little bit of like mothers be good to your daughters, like trying to get laid song because it's like I must be only I don't know.

You could argue that it's a best soil latter that you're ever heard.

What is that? Oh?

Yeah train?

But you know why it's not because it's a song about his mom with cancer, So there's it has nothing to do with a woman.

So it's like it's sincere from his heart. He's such he loves women. He's so sweet.

I love his songs.

He is the tailor.

He's like a male Taylor Swift to me, like he really captures emotions in a way that resonate with me. We're gonna talk about our experience at Rashboks twenty because it's kind of insane when.

We get back from us.

All right, so I get everyone's going to mass Pax twenty, but I only have five passes to go backstage, and no one can get there early enough except me and Taylor to go backstage because you got to be tested and we had to get there at like six, and so Taylor and you're going.

To go backstage pre show or post show for the concert?

Pree he does pre yeah to hang.

I think he did a meet and greet at like during the sound check with people, and then I guess friends can come back and hang. The show started at seven thirty, so we got there, We got COVID tested.

The wallflowers opened, they did it.

It was Matt Nathanson, but he the flowers were supposed to He was Matt Maidanson was amazing too.

I know it was good though.

Yeah, it would have been cool solo weird band.

Where did you guys watch that?

And it's so weird because the drummer for Liz Phair contacted me on Instagram weeks ago and was like, Hey, if you ever want to come to a Liz Fair show, I'm a drummer for and we'd love to have you, and I was like, that's awesome, we would love I would love to go. I'll check out our tour. And then he was the drummer for Matt Nathanson, but I didn't realize it until I got home and he dammed me and was like, that was me. You're on your Instagram. It was so weird.

Anyway, so everyone's connected.

What did you ask?

Well, where did you watch the pre ban?

Well, we got there. We come in and they are waiting for us. The police are like, come on in. I'm driving your beat old Jaloppie. I'm embarrassed. The license plate is bent on the front because always get too close to my gate and it like pulls.

It up like a crunch into a.

Get back.

I know it won't. I need to examine that cars like that because the stickers I never put on because I lost the stickers. So i'm the plates are paid for, but the registered St. Louis they ran the registration stickers. I'm they're they're expired. I went, I know, but I know you to lose them. I love this, so the cops way, listen. We get in and yeah, I've been driving with unregistered plates for since November. I don't care.

Sorry, I sang this star spangled Sorry, I love.

A married god.

No, I feel like it'll be a good story and we'll all have fun. I don't feel like going to the DMV.

Who cares? What's it going to save me a two hundred dollars ticket.

I don't care. Okay, maybe most people would, but I just that if I was being two hundred dollars, if someone paid me two hundred dollars to go to the DMV and wait, I wouldn't do it.

So I went down the streets. Quite, I will go for you for two hundred dollars, But I don't think ticket entirely.

So so very young actually so oh yeah, remember we used to get Taylor just real quick. The other day at the nail salon. What happened to you?

Oh Mary?

My enemy thought that I went with my sister who's a year and a half younger than me, And she said to us, oh mother daughter.

Meaning it I was Corey's mom. You gotta be kidding me, gotta head.

I was like what.

I was like, I'm one year older than her. I had I was one and aware guess tip for Mary? And I was like, that's ripe. So I don't go there anymore.

Your dollars as my daughter is apart from me. That is insane.

Nobody comment about like you.

No one would do that.

She was joke, you don't know what my sister looks like. She looks older. You don't even know. She doesn't she's fresh.

You know your sister has a Benjamin button and so she looks very young.

That is a wait.

I guess that the other way. That is so awful, and I would still be recovering from that.

I am. I think about it every day. I'm like, get whatever cream Mary uses. She's like seven and twelve. Remember one of.

Our friends were just saying their housekeeper was like about her husband. They were like, is that yours?

What did they say? Like, oh you, She's like, I'm one year older than him.

She's like.

She was almost proud of Holla for being like You're like, oh, good job, you got a young man.

Sorry, he was like wearing a beanie and like scuffling around.

Dresses is youthful. Yes, and he is always as a beanie.

Are we talking about John?

Yeah, Okay, Holla's husband. But that is just devastating. People just shut about like trying to guess. People are like how many months along are you? Don't ever ask anyone that. Don't ever wait what Sometimes they're like they're very pregnant.

Sometimes everybody asks that thing. You're obviously pregnant. And then they're like, I've never done it.

I always just got But then sometimes there's they're like nine months they're in labor, and I'm just like, so.

I just can't.

There's like my door woman downstairs, Donnetta.

She is awesome, but she was like getting a little chunkers for a while, and I was like, but it was like in the front, you know, and it wasn't anywhere else. But I didn't want to say anything, so I didn't and then she eventually was just so big that I was like, I can't.

I just when can you?

When can you do?

They have to say you.

Are man?

You shut what?

Wait?

What can you?

When can I do? You know what? As you showed us from No, okay, I was at a concert, or I was at Adam Sandler with Chris in like a box, or no Chris Rocks Chris Rock Show and Dave Chapelle in a box at the Enterprise Center and sorry at Enterprise Center. I recently didn't add for this event I'm doing at Enterprise Center.

And I was called the Enterprise Center.

Well yeah, why isn't it?

But they were like, you need to say at Enterprise. So I was just like, I can't wait for this Thanksgiving Eve. I will be at Enterprise Center like a robot. Me and Joe Buck were doing this ad. We're so yeah Thanksgiving Eve. If you're at Saint Louis Guns and Hoses, that's where the firefighters and the policemen fight each box each other.

I'm hosting it with Joe Bucks.

You don't know about that tailor I have heard about, but people still smoke cigarettes in this. I'll be there, I'm sure that's not true anymore. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's true.

Ye, the very smoking at that should Chris.

I was talking about someone.

Pelosi's desk. Yeah, He's like, and then you ship on Nancy Pelosi's desk. He said something, and he was making a point about something else. It was just a contextual thing, and this drunk idiot I me, just this girl goes as they should.

They should as they should.

And I go as they should. And she leaps up from her chair and gets in my faces like, yeah, why do you what about it? And I was like, I put up my hair in a ponytail on the way. I was ready. I was going to say something ship to her, and I did.

I gave her boyfriend a really dirty look, like what are.

You doing with this piece of trash? Yeah? And as they should.

I'm sure they're married with kids.

Now you should always you should ship on a desk.

I don't mean to call her trash, but I did. Maybe that's not a nice thing to call someone.

But she they say something like that, as they should, Like what why as they should have?

But on that?

Why?

Why is that a good idea?

Exactly?

I wouldn't sho on anyone's desk. What I wouldn't want anyone to ever have ship on maybe like Bill Cosby.

Finish It doesn't like she's not cleaning it. The janitor is cleaning it. Yeah, she's not going to see it or no, as they should.

So we get We pull in the cops, lediicine and we park right in between buses.

I put it on Instagram more like in between this shitty car. Your car that is old.

I like it.

It's a classic Lexus. Get out of here it.

Is, I will get out of here you No, I love it. It's nothing rides smoother than Alexis. That car rides ads right now and Alexis Lexus is center.

Have you ever drive driven?

I don't give a funk about cars, but I'm not getting you. Alexis cars so smooth, it's wild. It's different than any other car. And I am not someone who cares about that stuff. But it is a thing true. So I love the smoothness of it. But the breaks are going out and I'm probably gonna shie.

Driving smooth.

She's driving car I bought her. So I took her car after I bought her.

What I buy your right?

We have four yeah, okay, So I park in the hybrid buses Hybrid used twenty twenty one, right nineteen, All right.

Oh nads, classic, it's a great car.

So then we get out of the car.

I'm like doing my makeup real quick because I thought were gonna COVID test in the car, and then I have tend to do my makeup. So we get in and I'm like, they're like waiting for us, and I'm like and then we get out. We had to put on masks to wear outside just because they're like, you know, it's very scared. So we COVID test and then we go wait and we're just hanging out and like talking out in this like outdoor like backstage area that's very nice.

Artists do not deserve to see lobbed, deserve robbed. It's like a huge like do not take off this tag by penalty, like you know, the huge one. Yeah, you don't care about these penalties, no way, not for.

Making it nice for the artists. It was very sweet. And then and then and then what do we hear across like a heckle from across the court and a sexy man strode for It's like something like, look at those losers quarantine. We're there looking up. They can't come back to society. It was some kind of heckle like that of like look at those outcasts over there, weight.

And like losers. And it was Rob and we were like.

Hey, and then he was like, I'm gonna go vocal warm up. I'll be right back. And we were like and we were both just like.

He looks exactly like when we googled him yesterday. Wah, we googled he looked savior.

And tan and lean and fit.

He just looked healthy, the same, the same.

There was a blind man at the shin and he told me he met a blind woman at the meet and greet and that he was going to be most focused on her to see like if she's enjoying the show, because she's.

Just hearing her home.

He was like, I'm gonna be looking at at her no, And and I said I'm going to go up to her and go were you did you go blind like later or did you ever see Rop Thomas at any point?

Because I want you to know he still looks the same.

He looks if you were if you didn't lose your vision before the nineties, you're looking imagine the same Rob Thomas, because.

He is not.

He's the Paul Rudd of rock. Okay, no paging taking place at all.

It is bizarre better.

Yeah.

So anyway, he goes off and then we're just like and then he comes back and he hangs out with us for so.

For like an hour. Plush Rob Thomas about Wow, what are you about?

We talked about well, I aske him about his vocal warm up, and then I talked to him about just like perform what I really was trying to get to talk about performing and songwriting and but not in an obnoxious way where he's like, I don't want to do his storytellers right now. Like I I was just throwing out little things to see if he bit on any of them in terms of like wanting to talk about certain stuff, and he did. He likes talking about what

I got a lot of that. But he was just so funny.

He's such a good question ask her he would relate anything back. Oh, it must be like that and comedy, like your voices also has to be like wormed up. And how is that different from the way I musicians do it? It was, and we were talking about and then what was the guitarist name?

I forgot his name now I remember he's amazing too, and I just followed him on Instagram last night, but he goes by a different name on there.

He's there, male Ana. He is awesome.

Oh my god, that guy and his wife.

His classes and blond hair, and he's just like really sweet.

They came into the room and we're just signing the posters and he was, uh, I think it was Kyle. No.

What was the other one's name though, uh, Paul dust I think it was Paul Paul okay, And.

So he was signing all these posters and we were talking about. I was like, isn't it cool though, that like you practiced that like back in high school? Like I'm gonna be famous some day. I mean, he's a rock star. So he definitely did. And he's like, well, not when you have to do fourteen thousand of them. And I'm like, oh, yeah, I have like ten to sign on the backstage at my shows, and.

It's really fun.

But we were all and he was so nice and his wife was so cool, and we're just all hanging out talking about comedians and also like talk kind of trash, like talking about musicians and like what they do. And then at the one point someone asked me like, oh, have you seen Taylor's I had mentioned it going to Taylor Swift show and they're like, so, which one did you go to?

And I was like sick something and was like I love.

I was like, I just I'm a really big fan. And I was like but yeah, And then we were talking about her stamina, but they I mean. But then Rob Thomas went out there and performed for two hours and forty seven minutes NonStop. What I gotta say, he could have obviously done hours without any problem as well, three nights in.

A row waiting this guy. What time did he leave? What time is it over?

Oh it was over at.

Yeah eleven something.

Oh wait after it goes on at seven thirty, probably places till eight fifteen. Yeah, then there's an inn the five and then he played.

Three hours no.

And like two and a half, two and a half hours out all I was looking at the set list on setlist dot fm. It shows like every band set list and that says the running time of the show, and he's usually about two and a half hours to forty seven.

Because he said he was going to play two hours. Well what I was taking him for granted, Like for.

I had the set list in my hands, so you can oh, and I was showing it to you. I was trying to be like, we go, we got three am unwell and push as the encore. You gotta stay after the encore, you can't. I can't believe they put those songs in the encore, but everyone stayed. I mean it was awesome, not you guys, but.

They out when that trait, Yeah, it was awesome. No, it was so cool.

But then we go we go side stage to watch Matt. He's like, you want to go check out the opener. He's amazing. So we watch Matt Nathanson from the side stage and we're just like rocking out with Rob Thomas on the side stage, pointing out people in the audience and being like that guy's having the time of his life. Look at that guy, look at Mutton Chops, look at like We're just like not making fun of people, but

He was like like, you're you're an artist and my husband makes beer in the garage.

Yeah, like Rob Thomas is an artist and you make beer in our garage.

And so he really resonating with that because he says, I look out all the time and there's always that of like the person who wants to be there and the person they're with that's like pissed about it. And so that a really funny moment because I have that too at my shows, where like the guy will be super into me and their girlfriend will just be like ew or.

The other way around.

The guy's like I don't get this at all, and the girl's like you're my Taylor Swift and he's just like she likes you. I don't get it, and I'm like I don't either, dude.

So how are they touring? Are they on a bus?

How?

Five seven buses or yeahs seven semis or something.

Yeah, It's crazy that.

He's on right now.

I don't know it's long.

I think it's like it's been going since May, and I think it's going to go all summer. So he said it's like spring summer.

Does he have kids or does he is? His family has one kid.

He has a kid who's twenty four and they opened for him at the Hollywood Bowl. His band like the What the Lucky is the name of the band, and he's that's so cute. And his wife on tour with him. She was sick though, and so she was in the bus. She wasn't feeling well, so she was in the bus while we all hung out. But yeah, he's just like a wholesome family man normal. Doesn't think he's Rob bucking Thomas.

He was like, I don't like gossip, but I like drama. I like to be like, what's going on? But he doesn't like he's not like a guy.

He's not like a by the way, He's just a nice person and was so and I was like, you did not have to go. I kept being like, go do what you do, Like we're going to go to our seats, and he's like, no, this is what I do. Like we're just hanging so we're just in the backstage here. I mean, it's kind of like our shows on youa, Like we're just in his back stage green room where there's waters and cough drops and coffee and he's offering us all these things. And he.

Talked to me, which he was Taylor, So he was so nice to Taylor. Oh, he like yeah, he would like lean over and say something to you and then say I.

Was like you he's talking to me, Yeah, both of us.

I have brought friends around celebrities and they ignore my friends, you know, like it often happens that way, and that's what you almost expect. But he was like treated us as equals. There was no like and then I don't know, and then the show. I just have to say, like, you gotta go. If you think you like my trust twenty at all, you gotta fucking go to a show. Because I thought I thought I knew every song that

The thing, I knew a bunch too, and I didn't even know.

I would say they've had twenty five. I knew the billboard one hundred hits at least. Yeah, at this point as a band, not even to mention, I would guess that's around the number. It's outrageous how many hits they have. And his voice is better than ever. The band is having so much fun. They're running around the stage. They're not just like standing there playing like they're just they're so into it.

It was.

It was a great show and it rivaled Eras for me. Like I told him afterwards, I was like, I've been to sixty.

You know, you know my history at Taylor Swift.

This was up there in terms of watching someone who knows how to fucking foot on a show.

He was, He's amazing, that's all. I knew.

Sarah's dand have been How funny was that?

So he like did Jesus on it?

Yeah, he took them like whipping it around his head like a lasso. There's a video of it on my Instagram if you want to see he's whipping it around like his band must know that's what he does at that part or something Dan. It's like a jagged maxtand with like display at the bottom, and he's whipping it around his head all the way like like it almost like a child.

But it looked cool, and he's.

Just so nice and so cool, and we I was laughing so hard during the show because Taylor at one point was like, what if he listens to today's podcast and sees us googling Rob Thomas eighty eaters, short hair, red shirt and we had just acted so normal, will then.

Know what we were doing earlier.

I didn't hear this.

I'm like, it was nice that.

Oh my god, yeah, yeah, Beer, that's cool.

He's totally gonna see Like I want to make a clip of it, because that really made me laugh that we got so into specifics of what we wanted from that Google image turned Thomas, but he was just so nice and and then after the show I just texted him like I was like, holy fucking ship, that was insane, Like I just needed him to know how good it was, even though he just probably clearly knows, but it was.

Just I mean, mom, do you agree with someone? I couldn't believe it.

I mean, you went to eras it was up there with that right, Like in terms of an entertainer.

I was so amazed by that guy. Honestly, I couldn't even look at him. I had to look at the big screen. I was like, oh my god, his voice, and I thought he was going to die because.

It made the show.

The humidity was so bad, even question I think I'm gonna wear a Dunum shirt, and I go, I think it's a little hot. But he speaded through it. Within the half half. Halfway through the first song, he was it was a different color.

No, it kept getting wetter, and I thought he's going to take a break. Yeah, we were all getting if he needs water, someone get this guy.

But he was there was I thought he was going to probably have to change or something or take like a break. Never did you, No, he didn't. I mean I kept waiting for him to change. It was just like guzzling water. He didn't care. I mean, I was worried at first, but then I was like, this guy's a fucking piece in every environment. He there's nothing to worry about. That's the kind of show you want to go to where you like, I'm in good fucking hands. This is a pro.

The whole band is pro it's so nuts.

Did he talk between songs Only.

Once did he do a little speech of like, it's been a long time since we've seen you. He did a funny thing where he's like, you know, twenty twenty that we were all fucked to twenty twenty one, it was still kind of fucked. Twenty twenty two, that one was on us, we weren't ready yet, and then so and then he's like, but twenty twenty three that we're back.

Wish Chris were here to recount this.

But Wayne Quayne, I guess his name is Yes, I love I love Flaming Lips and I love that album. But he wouldn't stop asking people to cheer. He'd be it was obsessive and I'm not joking you. Probably one hundred times he would be like, louder, come and keep going, and we're all tired and standing. I'm like, dude, someone needs to tell him, heyah, Wednesday night in Saint Louis

No, yeah, co wit, what about the wheelies? Come on, now, what do you want people in the wheelchairs?

What they can't jump?

Stop a wheelie?

It's true, but yeah, the the he kept saying this and then and then that didn't It was not enough for him. And by the way, at a blaming live show, there's gigantic blow up doll type things happening on stage. Gigantic fills up the whole stage of these huge bears or whatever, and uh, I guess robots that have like penises, and then he there's confetti and glitter shooting out all the whole night.

Then there's like balls they.

Passed around, and there's these big balls that you kind of gotta watch because one might just hit you in the back of the head from behind, and you're like the ass, So don't like that, hate that because now I'm like, her name is Shee? I like can't watch because it's so worried about the fucking ball hitting me on the head And everyone going like did.

You see it? Smash that girl?

And I'd be like and they'd be like a slow video and then be on Reddit of me being like.

Wow, so where was this kind?

Then he breaks up.

This was in Hollyood, but it's like over in a different area. It's like a smaller venue. It's called like the Music Box in the same areas as the Riverport one last night. So then but okay, So then he breaks out a flashlight and starts shining it on the areas of the crowd to be like you need to cheer, and I'm like, I'm on vocal rest, bitch, I'm not cheering.

It felt like the first time someone ever been on stage, like it felt like that kind of energy. But he was having a blast.

I think he might be a little spectrum, which is great because it's provided us with great music. But he's just like he and maybe has done a lot of LSD or some kind of drug that makes him like I just want the love.

I want to hear love. I always feel sorry for those people to clean that cramp up.

I know, there's so much to Claire.

I mean all that confetti.

Yeah, god, you have sweets were little robots because that's like the and then we were collecting it.

We were putting it on this man and there was a girl at the show.

So one of the lines in this there's a man in front of us that these girls these there were these hot girls next to us that were like literally probably born the year this album that they were playing came out. It's called Yushimi Battles the Pink Robots, and it's an amazing album, front to back, kind of in the middle of kids a little but it's uh.

There's this one song like do you realize.

That you have the most beautiful face? And right before they started playing that song, I told to Chris and I was like, Chris, the girl to your right at about three o'clock has the most beautiful face in all of Saint Louis. It's I've never she's one hundred percent the prettiest person within two hundred miles of us in Missouri,

It's the prettiest girl.

She looked like Natalie Portman mixed with Kira Knightley, Like she had a foxy face mixed with like Kaya Gerber mixed with uh Lori Laughlin.

Like that kind of like small nose, dark eyes, really like.

Long hair.

But then she had fun little pigtails like that were like fun pigtails, and then she had sparkles like on her eyes like around like she was that is I can't stop thinking about. Yeah, it really was. But she knew every lyric. I was like, these girls are so cool that they were born the year this album came out when I was in college, but they were like on it so and they were and they were picking up these robot, little paper mache like paper robots and putting him on the guy in front of them because

Game O.

Singing at me and I was like turning away.

I have footage of it.

I'll put it on the Instagram of me singing to this girl and you can kind of see her. Her friend was also very beautiful, but not as beautiful as she. No offense to this friend. I know you already feel it, but but but actually she was. She was right underneath her. They were the two most beautiful people ever. But if you look beyond that's there on singing to and she has pigtails. And I'll put it on the Instagram. Okay, we're gonna go to break and we'll talk about something else when we get back.

I don't know what.

Okay, final thought, let's play just a tight round of that's impromptu of.

First first, best, first last best?

What is the whole?

Top one bottom, top one, first last bottom?

Sex?

It was your first?

Oh yeah, I can't say, Candy, who was your first sex? I can't remember when you told me don't give up your sex. That it's true. It's great advice. And believe me, Chris feels the bronto of that advice ringing true right now. I'm like, my mom told me not to give up by sex. He's like, we're in a relationship.

I have to honor my mother exactly. Yeah, keep it up.

Are you doing good?

So?

Okay, top one, Bottom one. I want to do emojis.

And I know we've done this on the show before, but never with We did it with Andrew and me and Noah, so it's been a while, so your favorite emoji changes. So it's and you don't even have to think of your favorite one. You can just think of which one you send the most or use the most. Okay, Mom, we'll start with you. Do you have a least favorite emoji?

I mean, you see, I don't even know what emojis are out there, but I do you know one that bugs me? Yes? Perfect?

Okay, that egg plant. I knew you're going to say, yeah, I have to say that to penis. Yeah, but it's like it does it doesn't even penis.

It's so gross to think about a penis that looks like an egg plant is I agreed.

Why don't even do the colm They do that and then they do the splash. It looks like I'll show you. I'll send it to you a place that would be great.

I love you put it to I mean, it makes my tongue well, but night shades really yeah, my favorite lectins, they really get.

My tongue for there.

I remember when you were like about the box.

Leftin, Like I was obsessed with lectins and try to do a diet without lectins you'll die. It's it's you can't eat anything. That's why you will lose weight because they're like seeds. Anything with seeds in it are like lectins, no potatoes, and you you know, when you look on any ingredient, it's like, soy lecton is an everything actually to watch so you hate them. You're not getting sent this and neat time.

One has ever sent me that. I always said, what the hell is this egg plant for? How do you know this?

The other day you were like, you said someone was love bombing someone, and I go, how the fuck did you know that term?

Vander pump?

She read, maybe, but how do you know the love addiction book? No? She doesn't read thank you, You don't read about no but I'm not. You're not reading like the body keeps the score, like getting the love.

That you want.

You're reading either one of because I gave it to you and insistent stuff. That's a balanced stuff.

Right.

How did you find out about love bombing?

Because it was we were at the seller and mom said something about like, well, he's just love bombing her, and Rachel finds him was like, what did your love? Where is your mom going up with these terms?

I love that term because when I I don't even know where I found it out, but when I figured it out, it's like, oh, that's a thing for.

Sure, where people just try to win you over by like saying the nicest things and gifts and.

Like and then they whip it out and I went away they whip it away. I haven't seen the whip away.

Well the love mom needs to have the whip away.

Oh okay, Well weise.

Is just love because my mom was describing someone that and that we know and she was like he is love bombing her and I was.

Like, I think he just loves her.

It's over so much, it's too much, like oh yeah, god.

Her business guy loves someone too much.

Never seen anything like yeah, but love something needs to be whipped away at some point. It needs to be a tactic to track and then to Okay, so then I know when do you use it? Okay, now you know,

What about this girl?

The one that's the hands like, I don't I like that one.

I like that one so like her. She's ditchy.

I like it when it's a man's because men are allowed to not know, but women.

I've never seen the man the man on that one.

And you're like, okay, I get it. What's your least favorite? You have flip phone, So I don't know my I don't know my least favorite, but I know my fave. Okay, just go to that the one the like investigation man, the one that's like.

With the raised eye.

Get Tayla has the best emojis.

One time she sent me one and I took a screenshot of it because it wasn't wearing my readers, and I expanded it and I was like, is this a prosthetic arm?

And it was.

She knows all the cool It was like a bof one. It was like, I can, we can do this, but.

Like p yeah, but it was a aesthetic lip because it had like the little attachments at the end of the hall dots on the end.

Exclusive.

Now that's cool, So like.

Find a crow or like not just the syringe, but like a different kind of syringe.

She knows, and I get excited to go through them because I don't get to see them all.

I like that.

We're talking about inclusivity on this podcast.

If that person who used that arm was at a concert and someone said wave your arms in the air, that would be as they jumped to a bunch of wheelies, they're like, oh man, I can't again, God, he's just likes to take his one arm networks to move the one that doesn't know he'd be kooky and take it off and wave it with it.

Yeah, that would be cool.

That would actually be cool. Okay, Yeah, I do like an investigative one that's just like hmm. I like the ones that are always like what are you doing here? My favorite, though, I use it all the time now, is the one that's melting I know yeah, and it's just like because it's a response to anything, if you fuck up saying something really dumb, if you like or like that was the best show of my life, I'm melted.

He's on acid, I think too. I was like, well there, you know, brain melted.

Oh yeah, yeah yeah, and mind blown used to be fun, but I think melt melty guy is the new one.

What about you guys?

I like that one.

It's very Dolly esque. My least favorite is like the swastika. I think that's kind of really it's overused.

Is there really one?

No?

Listen, I don't even know.

You're like going, here's a problem, you might as well be a SWASTI we got to be inclusive. There's teaky torches and I love that trucknuts. That would be probably so funny. I mean that if that was the fact that you thought that that we weren't kidding. Listen, I don't think I was out there.

You don't.

I really don't face it's like this.

I hate that one, like.

It looks like it's all yay, like yeah, so creepy. There's never an occasion for that. John said, I'll say the one that you know.

I think I probably talked about this on the podcast before bears repeating, right when emoji's the one emoji's like come out with new ones all the time, and the one had just come out of the bearing teeth emoji that's like.

Yae y, that's my bottom one.

Yeah, is that your bottom one?

Noah, it's my bottom one because I misused it and for so long, for so long, and I was texting with you and you're like, why do you keep putting that emoji?

Do you know what it means?

And I'm like, yes, I thought it was like a wide smile. It's teeth chattering.

You might have autumn because you or not.

You probably don't actually, because people with autism might think that's like, oh, teeth equals a smile.

And I thought it was too like because it's just like this, it's like but it's supposed.

To be like Yi, and I'm like Green, No, just kidding, Handy Green. There's one green that I'll like sit, I'm just kidding. I like that one.

My favorite one is like it came in the in the upgrade, which was like I guess like maybe half a year ago. It's the Twilight Zone eyes where it's like swirls for eyes and.

He's that one is really good.

Look at these.

No, I's like stickers, but the baring teeth one. I went on a date with a guy and then afterwards I went on a podcast and like talked about him and that was and he I knew he was listening or Is a live radio show. And then afterwards and I didn't say anything bad, but afterwards I was like or I just got in my car afterwards and the text I hear see from him because he was listening was three of those gritting teeth emojis, and I didn't know what it meant. I said to all my friends

Are you kidding?

Isn't that interesting?

I thought it was like praise thank you? Thought it does now I think thank you.

They've changed it so if you type in thank you in the emoji thing, it comes up. But it originally was supposed to be like high five.

Yeah, that doesn't make any sense.

But I'm going to look at my emojis and just see which ones are like popping up for me first right now.

And the Girls show, we use a volcano a lot. We made that the new lot, which.

Is volcano is a great thing instead of fire emoji. No one's going to misconstrue that. Okay, my most popular ones heart, Oh the TM. I put a TM on a lot of things when I try to trademark it because it looks just funny TM. When you're like I'm going to take a ship TM or like like you're just like it's like the ship or something like, don't try to steal it, don't.

Try to ship in five minutes volcano.

Itself.

Oh, yeah, you use use those. That's a very anya one.

I got it from Sara Lena.

Yeah.

I think Sara loves the current.

Spade told me a hilarious one that he would I think he'll be okay with me saying this because he said it to people before in front of me. He would like to DM a girl that he thought was cute or whatever. He would just do like a parachute, like dropping into your d MS like a guy parachuting in, which is hilarious. And then one girl sent a scissors that's right. I love that, and it was like I was so into it. It was like speaking of David Spade. You can come see us in Vegas at the Venetian

You can check those out a nick youguyser dot com.

And then I am going to be in Highlands, California with my dad opening for me this weekend on Saturday at the Yamava Theater at the Casino out there in Highland, California, so if you're around, and then big tour coming up this fall, and uh, let me listen to my own post right now. Chicago, Peoria, Englewood, New Jersey, Calgary, Napa, Wheatland, California, San Francisco, San Diego, Lawrence, Kansas, Riverside, Iowa, Boston, Baltimore, Rojo, Beth Beach, Iowa.

God, why does it keep scrolling?

Just stay Detroit, Portland, Rama, Ontario, Munhall, Pennsylvania, and Denver, Colorado. And then there is a Seattle date that will be announced soon. It's not yet, but don't worry. You will have chances to get tickets. It will be a big announcement on my Instagram, So follow me on there for that. And yeah, so I will see you out on the road this week.

What do you look at me like? You're so busy? I cannot get over it. I know, I just busy.

And then there happens to be other things I'm doing this summer too on top of it.

I know, I know what can I don.

Trying to because singer it's a little exhausting and I'm ready to just give in. I love it. I love my life, all right, Thank you guys very much for listening to the show. Thank you Mom for being here, thank you Taylor for coming back again. Thank you Anya, thank you Noah, and thank you Brian. Will see you next week on the show. Don't be cut and buy tickets to go see My tush twenty.

All day.

I'm not roth, I'm sorry it's three am.

I'm not lonely.