Speaker 1: The Nicky Gleiser Podcast.
Speaker 2: Nik glasern years, Nikki here, I am.
Speaker 3: It's Nicky Glazer Podcast. Welcome to the show. I'm Nikki,
Speaker 3: and what a great show we have for you. We
Speaker 3: are recording these a week in advance because we all
Speaker 3: wanted a week off for the fourth of July.
Speaker 4: Kind of, I guess I wanted one.
Speaker 3: I just didn't want to schlep my equipment to upstate
Speaker 3: New York where I'm going.
Speaker 4: And so can you talk about this fun? This is
Speaker 4: an annual event, is it not? Or no, yeh it is.
Speaker 3: It's Uh, Brian's here, but Brian's back. I didn't say
Speaker 3: Brian was maybe I did say, no, Yeah, you've been
Speaker 3: back for a while now this episodes. Yes, this is
Speaker 3: your second week. So Brian's back. If you haven't noticed,
Speaker 3: you haven't been being in and I haven't talking you
Speaker 3: too much. But Brian is back, and and Anya's here.
Speaker 3: Brian's back from his wedding, and Anya's headed into hers
Speaker 3: this weekend, I know. And then Noah is just in
Speaker 3: the precipice of starting to plan hers, which after hearing
Speaker 3: what Brian and Anya have gone through, I don't think
Speaker 3: there's a wedding that's imminent for Noah.
Speaker 5: It really is remarkable how I how stressful it can get,
Speaker 5: even though I didn't care really about anything other than
Speaker 5: people having a good time. But it just builds and
Speaker 5: builds and builds, and I don't think there's any way
Speaker 5: around it.
Speaker 4: Leading up to the wedding, You're just gonna be stressed.
Speaker 3: I'm not doing that. I'm gonna find a way around it.
Speaker 4: When I get married.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have a wedding planner. Yeah, it's good.
Speaker 3: Wedding planners, though, will bring you into their stress and
Speaker 3: you still have to make this is the thing people
Speaker 3: always go, Nikki, get an assistant for this, get it.
Speaker 3: You can just go instead of waiting all day to
Speaker 3: get a car at a place, just have someone.
Speaker 4: Get you a car.
Speaker 3: I'm like, but I got to tell that guy what
Speaker 3: to do, and that's stressing me out. So even allocating,
Speaker 3: even though I know what having a wedding planner would
Speaker 3: be great, But Anya, you've you even like the kombucha email,
Speaker 3: like you had to decide is it gonna be one
Speaker 3: large contained are they going to serve them?
Speaker 1: So I don't have a planner. If I had a planner,
Speaker 1: the planner would be getting all those emails, So I'm sure.
Speaker 3: That you think you don't think the planner would go, hey,
Speaker 3: what do you want a big one or a small one?
Speaker 1: Well, the planner still I be like, uh, I'm going
Speaker 1: to send Anya one email a week with a bunch
Speaker 1: of annoying questions and as opposed to every day it's
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not calling anyone annoying. By the way,
Speaker 1: if they're listening, like, I appreciate all the work she.
Speaker 4: Is, but behind your back, she would never do it
Speaker 4: on air. Do you have a day of on site
Speaker 4: her helper?
Speaker 1: I do, thank god.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's pivotal.
Speaker 1: Someone told me that At a Nikki show, a bestie
Speaker 1: came up and was like, get a day of planner
Speaker 1: if you can. I did it. It was fifteen hundred
Speaker 1: bucks and it was the best thing for you, my
Speaker 1: husband I could ever, that's mad I got. I have
Speaker 1: the lovely Derek Break Kate Walsh's ex assistant, because Kate
Speaker 1: has been lovely enough to offer her home to me
Speaker 1: to get married. There. By the way, I did want
Speaker 1: to say the other day when we were talking about
Speaker 1: how actors are so annoying, I was gonna say it
Speaker 1: is so true, except Kate Walsh is one of the
Speaker 1: only actors I've ever met in my life who genuinely
Speaker 1: cares who she's talking to and will remember things about
Speaker 1: these She's different. Yeah, she's unlike any other She's like
Speaker 1: a human knowing.
Speaker 3: My point about actors is not that people shouldn't that
Speaker 3: they're not great people and that some of them can't be,
Speaker 3: because a lot of them are great people. But people
Speaker 3: saying that they're fans of actors is flawed because you
Speaker 3: do not know that person personally. You can be a
Speaker 3: fan of their acting, but you're not a fan of
Speaker 3: the person unless you really you've seen them on hot
Speaker 3: ones or you know, like the Conan podcast, like you've
Speaker 3: got a sense of who they are. I'm not talking
Speaker 3: about Colbert for five minutes. Oh she was funny, had
Speaker 3: some good stories. I mean, like an extended podcast where
Speaker 3: they they revealed something of themselves that's a little bit
Speaker 3: more interesting. Otherwise, you are a fan of them as
Speaker 3: an actor, you are not a fan of the person.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you're like a little kid. You like go up
Speaker 5: to Robert Downey Jr. And like, wait, you're not Iron Man.
Speaker 4: You get upset.
Speaker 1: Yes, so to meet your idols. Sometimes it really is.
Speaker 3: You never say like compliments to like you never are
Speaker 3: just like a fan of a chef's work, but you're like,
Speaker 3: I like this guy, Like I'm trying to think of
Speaker 3: your mechanic. You like like your mechanic for what he
Speaker 3: does on your car, but you're not like, he's a
Speaker 3: guy I want to hang out with. But we extend
Speaker 3: that to actors because we.
Speaker 4: And some people maybe do want to hang out with
Speaker 4: their my mechanic. I love my mechanic. He's cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, invited me to go to Egypt. I want to
Speaker 2: hang out with him. I'm the sharks there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, watch out for those shark attacks, Papa.
Speaker 4: Sorry, else you're not going to get the Papa callbacks.
Speaker 3: I think I feel like we could have been canceled before.
Speaker 4: That episode hasn't aired.
Speaker 3: In my world that I'm recording, this can cancel for
Speaker 3: that episode, and so this might not even air because
Speaker 3: iHeart is like they went too far, Papa. But so
Speaker 3: your wedding's coming up, Brian's has just ended. Uh, Noah
Speaker 3: is engaged. I mean there's a lot and I'm moving
Speaker 3: in with my boyfriend. There's a lot of activity, a
Speaker 3: lot of it like Brian doesn't know to be like
Speaker 3: an announcement. So I don't blame you for not noticing,
Speaker 3: because I don't want it to be a big leg dang.
Speaker 4: Like when then there's like.
Speaker 3: A yes, like a spinning newspaper slow motion, you know,
Speaker 3: like I don't want.
Speaker 1: You to your Facebook relationship status.
Speaker 3: Now it's complicated before it was, you know, in a relationship.
Speaker 3: But yeah, Chris is like gonna slowly start moving his
Speaker 3: stuff in and then when I'm I'm going to l
Speaker 3: a for a couple of months to work on a thing,
Speaker 3: so he is going to in that time, like convert
Speaker 3: my guest room into his closet, which is going to
Speaker 3: be great because I mean I don't even use it,
Speaker 3: and then we're gonna he's just gonna do everything.
Speaker 4: Organized closet of all time.
Speaker 3: I do now because he hired organizers for me a
Speaker 3: couple of years ago, so I already have that. And
Speaker 3: then he's yeah for himself. It's insane, what this guy is.
Speaker 3: I've slept in his closet, he could. I've slept in it,
Speaker 3: and I was remarking about how organized it was.
Speaker 4: Yeah, wait, it has hoped ye in St.
Speaker 5: Louis yeah, when I did the Rowen, I uh, Ali,
Speaker 5: Chris graciously allowed Ali and I to sleep in his house,
Speaker 5: and I think he stayed at your house while you
Speaker 5: were on tour.
Speaker 3: And Ali slept in his maintained the separate bends and really, yeah,
Speaker 3: Ali slept in his bed and I slept in his closet. Yes,
Speaker 3: and that closet is clean, and it's so it's so
Speaker 3: cute over there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, he's a cutie.
Speaker 1: And I just suggested, did Brian sleep separately from Ali
Speaker 1: because he has sleep issues in screaming.
Speaker 5: Right, Well, it's not just that I believe that, it's
Speaker 5: it's something that everybody should do. If you if you
Speaker 5: don't miss sleeping next to your partner, it allows you
Speaker 5: to sleep better. You can have different sleep schedules. Ali's
Speaker 5: sleeping right now. It is currently two o'clock in the
Speaker 5: afternoon out here, and I wake up at six thirty
Speaker 5: because I don't have a blackout curtain and those sun
Speaker 5: wakes me up like I'm a farmer in the eighteen
Speaker 5: hundreds every fucking day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you need to get a blackout curtain. I would
Speaker 3: recommend that. Before sleep Mask. We were kind of talking
Speaker 3: before the podcast about a sleep mask for you, but
Speaker 3: just get because that sleep mass is going to come
Speaker 3: off by the morning. Anyway, it's good to help you
Speaker 3: get into maintain, Like when you're ready to go to sleep.
Speaker 3: It's good to like be like it's time to sleep,
Speaker 3: and you kind of train your face to feel it
Speaker 3: and then you're like, oh, it's sleep time, but it's
Speaker 3: gonna come off and the sun will wake you up.
Speaker 3: You got to get blackout curtains.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I'm I got to get to do it.
Speaker 4: Go to home depot.
Speaker 5: She knows, she knows the curtains better than me, and
Speaker 5: so's she's on shorted some samples, and I hope they
Speaker 5: get here soon because I am desperately tired.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, until then, get just go to Walgreens get
Speaker 3: a sleep mask.
Speaker 4: I will have this Luna one. And this one is
Speaker 4: such garbage.
Speaker 3: I have the same one and they send it to
Speaker 3: me free as like to promote it, and I couldn't
Speaker 3: even do it because it's so not good. Well, okay,
Speaker 3: it was like fifty dollars. Like other sleep masks that
Speaker 3: I've tried so far, it's better. Yeah, it's better than nothing.
Speaker 5: And I've tried other sleep masks that are too tight
Speaker 5: on my head.
Speaker 4: Yes, better than nothing, you know, the least we could do.
Speaker 4: But I do.
Speaker 5: I do see what you're saying that sometimes light gets
Speaker 5: in through the uh over overachieving nose hole and it
Speaker 5: gets right in underneath there, and then by the morning
Speaker 5: it is somewhere else. It's like it's like tucked in
Speaker 5: my pillow by the end of the day.
Speaker 4: Night.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I wake up every I love waking up and
Speaker 3: like it's off my face and I just like feel
Speaker 3: around blindly like.
Speaker 4: A blind mole rat, and then I find it and.
Speaker 3: Then I put it back on, and then it's just
Speaker 3: like time to go back into dream world.
Speaker 4: It's so awesome. I love sleep masks.
Speaker 3: It's my number one thing I would bring to like
Speaker 3: I was on Survivor or something, Mascara and a sleep man.
Speaker 4: Would you sneak it up your butt if you're going to.
Speaker 3: Jail, Oh yeah, you you need a sleep mask up
Speaker 3: in jail for sure. That would be important. Or I
Speaker 3: would just learn how to sleep with my arm sure
Speaker 3: my eyes.
Speaker 5: Like that if you had to, If you were going
Speaker 5: to jail for three years and you can only obviously,
Speaker 5: you can only fit a certain amount of things in
Speaker 5: your butt? What would be the top two things you
Speaker 5: would put in your butt to get you through the
Speaker 5: three years in jail.
Speaker 4: Fuck, that's a good question.
Speaker 3: He's done saying tea. I was waiting to stop.
Speaker 4: Call back. Yeah, you would bring.
Speaker 3: Tea on you and you would be making in the
Speaker 3: toilet or whatever they do.
Speaker 1: Never mind, you can only have a perfect cup of tea,
Speaker 1: so unless I can have a perfect English breakfast?
Speaker 3: And what what made you land on English breakfast out
Speaker 3: of all of them? Did you try the pekos? Did
Speaker 3: you try the try dealing?
Speaker 1: I do love a dar dealing too, but it just
Speaker 1: to me it's the perfect tea.
Speaker 4: Gee, do you guys hear it? Your jaw and mouth
Speaker 4: move like I did.
Speaker 3: It went it unhooked, it unhinged, like a fucking viper
Speaker 3: eating a mouse.
Speaker 1: I was making a list for myself earlier today and
Speaker 1: I was like, things you need to do today, and
Speaker 1: it was something like, you know, buy parmesan cheese, get tea,
Speaker 1: and then I went tea like I started laughing, and
Speaker 1: every wound I'm like, oh fuck, I really do say along.
Speaker 4: Hee, I like it.
Speaker 3: You just leading into the tea. I'm thinking I would
Speaker 3: bring I really like this. I would want to write
Speaker 3: while I'm in there, and I wouldn't want to write
Speaker 3: with like a dull pencil or maybe a pencil that
Speaker 3: had been sharpened where the brown part is like too
Speaker 3: extended to the tip.
Speaker 4: Do you know when like you sharpen a pencil in.
Speaker 3: The lead and the wood like you're writing with the wood.
Speaker 3: I want to I'd rather life in prison than like cotton.
Speaker 3: It's worse than getting you know, shived in the shower,
Speaker 3: that is, writing like on and then like having to
Speaker 3: write like on your mattress as like that. So I'd
Speaker 3: want like a clipboard up my ass and like a
Speaker 3: felt tip marker type pen that's good, and then the Bible.
Speaker 4: I don't know, actually I would be writing my own.
Speaker 4: I don't know what else.
Speaker 3: I would want a sleep mask probably, yeah, that's or
Speaker 3: a white noise machine, so any kind of thing.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of going on my head.
Speaker 3: But listen, if you know anything about me, I've been
Speaker 3: working towards this, So yeah, like an Amazon Echo could
Speaker 3: probably fit up my ass at this point.
Speaker 5: Got great writing done in prison, Martin Luther, King, Hitler, uh.
Speaker 4: People, Socrates, they all wrote in jail. People. He wrote
Speaker 4: nothing else.
Speaker 3: To do.
Speaker 1: There.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh he did. What was he in prison for
Speaker 4: his art? Hitler? Well, yeah, oh, I could tell you
Speaker 4: all about Hitler.
Speaker 5: He was, well, he was in prison for trying to
Speaker 5: create a coup for the government before the Nazis took over.
Speaker 1: Sounds so well.
Speaker 3: Your mom used to love that word, the coup. She
Speaker 3: used to be like, EJ, we just got the biggest coup.
Speaker 3: What is a coup? Like as a kid, I always
Speaker 3: remember it was like this girl's we have our hands
Speaker 3: on one of the biggest coups, like she almost like
Speaker 3: sounds like Trump, But it was always talking about a coup, like, EJ,
Speaker 3: this is a major coup, like we are getting this
Speaker 3: beef tenderloin for seven ninety nine coup, baby. And I
Speaker 3: don't think she really understood what it meant and that
Speaker 3: she could have been in prison for it. Okay, So
Speaker 3: Hitler got Hitler was trying to be Hitler before people
Speaker 3: learned how to be charismatic.
Speaker 5: A little bit too early. He went for the coup,
Speaker 5: and he was nearly killed. In fact, there was a
Speaker 5: some of his compatriots were killed right by, Like.
Speaker 4: The bullets flew past h.
Speaker 5: In this moment and hit people behind him and killed them.
Speaker 5: She and he survived. He went to jail and wrote
Speaker 5: mind confidence jail, and is this.
Speaker 3: Like the late twenties thirties?
Speaker 4: This has got to be the late twenties early thirties.
Speaker 4: I'm not okay, but yeah, well you seem to be.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I watched a lot of Hitler documentaries.
Speaker 3: What can you talk me through? The mustache? Like, because
Speaker 3: no one else was wearing that then, you know, like
Speaker 3: you think, oh, that's just the style, but it's like you.
Speaker 2: Look around, you go, no, it wasn't, so it was stylish.
Speaker 2: What didn't like Charlie others?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Charlie did not like the duo. I forget what
Speaker 1: their name.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Laurel Hardy, you're right, Okay, you're right. They do
Speaker 3: have the mustache.
Speaker 4: You know Joe Mackie's joke about Hitler, I think I do,
Speaker 4: but please tell me.
Speaker 5: The joke is he convinced everybody that blonde hair, blue
Speaker 5: eyed people were superior when he had brown hair.
Speaker 3: That's such a great joke because it's right, and no
Speaker 3: one said it yet and no one's thought it. Joe Mackie,
Speaker 3: if you have a chance to go see him, he
Speaker 3: tours like he should be doing theaters. He's on America
Speaker 3: Scott Talent. He's one of the funniest guys out there.
Speaker 3: And if you give a if you if he comes
Speaker 3: to your comedy club like a funny Bone near you
Speaker 3: or like a Crackers or something, you consider it so
Speaker 3: very lucky that you get to go see him for
Speaker 3: a cheap ticket because he's amazing.
Speaker 1: M A.
Speaker 3: C h I, Joe MACKI, you should look him up
Speaker 3: because he's he's one of a kind. Yeah, so you
Speaker 3: know a lot about Hitler. Okay, things in jail? What
Speaker 3: would you bring to jail?
Speaker 5: Brian Well, I have an answer that's like you know
Speaker 5: how when someone's like, what's the most dangerous animal?
Speaker 4: Then they go human being and you're like, fuck you.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, so yours is like I.
Speaker 5: Would bring cigarettes because then I can trade those for
Speaker 5: anything and smoke them.
Speaker 4: Man, I would start smoking again in prison.
Speaker 3: And that is a good. That Yeah, that's that's a good.
Speaker 3: That's like the three wishes, Like I was for more wishes,
Speaker 3: you're just more cigarettes, genie, and the Genie's like, you're
Speaker 3: not going to jail.
Speaker 4: Why do you keep asking for cigarette?
Speaker 5: But you watched Sixty Days in, right, I did, it
Speaker 5: isn't Yeah, so it days after watching that, I'm like,
Speaker 5: I don't know what what would work like it sounds
Speaker 5: like different charisma, yeah.
Speaker 3: And like a good posture and like an imposing presence,
Speaker 3: like you.
Speaker 1: Want to be an ac in a reality show about jail.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a reality show on A and E
Speaker 3: where people voluntarily went into prison and see if they
Speaker 3: could last sixty days and was there like a cash prize,
Speaker 3: Like what was the incentive?
Speaker 4: I don't even remember. There was no cash prize.
Speaker 5: I think it was just like to prove and then
Speaker 5: you're helping out the prison and prove its blah blah blah.
Speaker 3: Right right, so they yeah, but then they have to
Speaker 3: come up with a story because if anyone susses out
Speaker 3: that they're like full of shit. Because there's also like
Speaker 3: the documentary crew like kind of following them, but it's
Speaker 3: mostly like you know, CCTV footage of them trying to
Speaker 3: make their way making my way downtown Quinton Correctional Facility,
Speaker 3: Like it's really them just trying to figure out their
Speaker 3: place there and like and it yeah, it seemed on her.
Speaker 1: Are harmed or beat up or worse.
Speaker 3: I'm sure there was like a little of that, but no,
Speaker 3: because all the guards know that that person.
Speaker 4: Not the guard. Only the guards didn't know you're gets close.
Speaker 5: They have a signal where you can put a towel
Speaker 5: over your head and walk around like you're a sad
Speaker 5: ghost and they'll take you out.
Speaker 3: And they'll take you out, and that's when you've like
Speaker 3: tapped out before using like a And there is.
Speaker 5: That one guy one season who was so lame. He
Speaker 5: was lying to it. He tapped out after like three
Speaker 5: hours and then he got put into solitary confinement and
Speaker 5: he said he had his stomach hurt and he would
Speaker 5: never get he couldn't get.
Speaker 4: He never got a solidary.
Speaker 3: And he was he talked such a good game going
Speaker 3: in and that was so funny to see it because
Speaker 3: you really wanted him to fail because he wasn't the
Speaker 3: type of confidence that you're like, this guy's got it
Speaker 3: and then he failed and you're like, oh that sucks.
Speaker 3: You were like, no, this guy, I want him to
Speaker 3: get the shit kicked out of him. I want him
Speaker 3: to like have a a moment. That's yeah, that show.
Speaker 3: I should watch it again at some point. I'm sure
Speaker 3: there many seasons I haven't seen. I'm watching Jury Judy
Speaker 3: right now. It is fucking amazing. I can't recommend it enough.
Speaker 3: A bestie wrote to me saying, thank you God that
Speaker 3: you someone. She said that someone on the podcast had
Speaker 3: said Jury Duty was okay, and I.
Speaker 1: Was kind of like, oh oh, but I change my
Speaker 1: tune because I didn't know the premise and now my remise.
Speaker 3: Oh when you said that you didn't know the past,
Speaker 3: I was like, eh, Ohanya, Yeah, this is so funny.
Speaker 3: This is happening to people where they don't know.
Speaker 1: That it says the only thing about this that isn't
Speaker 1: a jury or whatever is that everyone is an actor
Speaker 1: except one person.
Speaker 3: So I missed that slide because it's really quick. It
Speaker 3: is quick, but I just don't know how anyone would.
Speaker 3: I don't watch a show unless I kind of know
Speaker 3: a lot about it, I guess, and the only thing
Speaker 3: that would ever sell me on this show is that
Speaker 3: the premise. So I feel like that's why My question
Speaker 3: to you was like, why did you start watching this?
Speaker 1: Then I just saw it on Instagram. Someone I follow
Speaker 1: was like, this show is incredible, It's genius, and I
Speaker 1: was like, I gotta try this out. But I was
Speaker 1: doing other stuff and I missed the beginning, and I'm like, also,
Speaker 1: the main guy looks weirdly familiar, like he could be
Speaker 1: an actor. He's like cute, and the one who's not
Speaker 1: an actor.
Speaker 3: And so there's one guy that's not an actor and
Speaker 3: everyone around him is an improv actor and they're brilliant.
Speaker 3: And there they're doing a documentary about age about jury duty,
Speaker 3: and so he believes that he's on the documentary, but
Speaker 3: he doesn't know that everything is fake around him and
Speaker 3: it's like Truman showesque and it's so funny and it's
Speaker 3: so it's so funny.
Speaker 1: I am like so wowed.
Speaker 3: Lisa Gilroy I wrote to her, I've written to several
Speaker 3: of the actors in the show saying you are a
Speaker 3: comedic genius, because it's just like they just need to
Speaker 3: know that they're so good. Oh my god, she's like,
Speaker 3: and like then they started writing really narsty comments and like,
Speaker 3: and she says, as well a lot, I'm an influencer
Speaker 3: and as well as my dog, I also am a
Speaker 3: representative for his Instagram, as well as I do lashtech,
Speaker 3: and as well as I am an actress as well
Speaker 3: as a model.
Speaker 4: Well you can tell she'd.
Speaker 3: Study has studied that girl who did the maps thing,
Speaker 3: and it was like as well as the iras as
Speaker 3: well as all No, it's retty you know, it's like
Speaker 3: curb probably where they're like, here's where we want it
Speaker 3: to go, but here's it's like a here's where it's
Speaker 3: going to go. And there is so in control of
Speaker 3: all of the factors and all of the things leading
Speaker 3: up to it that it kind of you'll see, it's
Speaker 3: so good, Brian, you'll really like it. Okay, we're gonna
Speaker 3: go to break Go watch your journey.
Speaker 4: Don't just kidding. Don't listen to me. Keep listening to
Speaker 4: the podcast. I'll be read back. Okay. So I just
Speaker 4: went to a voice lesson.
Speaker 3: We did a podcast earlier today and then I went
Speaker 3: to a voice lesson and I had like a breakthrough
Speaker 3: because I played a song for my voice teacher and
Speaker 3: I looked up and he was crying.
Speaker 4: Isn't that great?
Speaker 3: I'm so honestly, it's like the best accomplishment I could
Speaker 3: ever have. Because he said I let him down so
Speaker 3: much my performance.
Speaker 4: Now he was, yeah, I mean he was.
Speaker 3: We are very We're good friends, and so we always
Speaker 3: kind of like catch up first for about like a
Speaker 3: half hour and then the rest of the time is singing.
Speaker 3: So he had been we had been sharing but you
Speaker 3: know about from your dance.
Speaker 5: Coach, well, all sorts of things, my physical therapist. It's like, wait,
Speaker 5: I need physical therapy too, actually, but we just talked.
Speaker 3: For every lesson I've ever taken, I become you know,
Speaker 3: if the person's halfway decent or someone I would like,
Speaker 3: I become friends with them, and then I'm just it's
Speaker 3: an excuse to hang out with them, yeah, and right,
Speaker 3: So I just think, yeah, but that's just the way
Speaker 3: we do it.
Speaker 4: And I really like it because.
Speaker 3: I know now that the becoming like to have someone
Speaker 3: teach me how to do this thing that I'm struggling
Speaker 3: with bingo card scratch it off, guys, I'm talking about
Speaker 3: singing the thing. To be able to get that vulnerable,
Speaker 3: I have to trust someone so much and like have
Speaker 3: a very very intimate relationship in terms of like what
Speaker 3: we the things we share about our lives, and so
Speaker 3: we have become like really close friends. And he shared, uh,
Speaker 3: like he was having like a tough day, and so
Speaker 3: I think he was already in the mindset to like
Speaker 3: maybe cry and needed to get it out. But for
Speaker 3: me to be able to pull it out when he
Speaker 3: was not crying to begin with, was uh.
Speaker 4: I think.
Speaker 3: I think as a singer songwriter, Anya, you gotta think
Speaker 3: when the best Jevy, do you remember when you've made
Speaker 3: someone cry?
Speaker 1: Well, any time anyone's ever said like that song made
Speaker 1: me cry, or you know I did, because a lot
Speaker 1: of times at our shows, I'll do Satellite Heart from
Speaker 1: the Twilight soundtrack was which was available now at iTunes, Amazon,
Speaker 1: wherever you got your digital music, and people will say
Speaker 1: I heard, like the second you started playing that song,
Speaker 1: it just like took me back and I cried, And
Speaker 1: I'm like, that is the best compliment, And then they'll
Speaker 1: ruin it by being like, I'm so embarrassed that I
Speaker 1: love that song. I'm so embarrassing that I love that soundtrack.
Speaker 3: Either they are embarrassed they like Twilight, yes, not your song.
Speaker 4: They don't say your song no, but.
Speaker 1: It's so embarrassing. I totally know that song from the
Speaker 1: Twilight soundtrack. I'm like, it's so embarrassing I was on it. No,
Speaker 1: it's a proud achievement of mine.
Speaker 4: But of course there's no.
Speaker 3: Fascin way about reality people are always like I watched
Speaker 3: f Boy Island. I know, I'm like, it's good. There's
Speaker 3: nothing to be ashamed of, like what you like. It's like,
Speaker 3: obviously Twilight was very successful because something anything teenage girls like,
Speaker 3: as a culture we just dismiss as being dumb. And uh,
Speaker 3: this isn't my original thought, but I read this like
Speaker 3: there was like a comic about it, and it's like
Speaker 3: anything women all young girls like we dismiss culturally because
Speaker 3: it's they are, you know, emotional, and they're they're obsessed
Speaker 3: with things and they're just what's they're just it's doesn't
Speaker 3: really have a lot of it doesn't carry a lot
Speaker 3: of meaning. Or it's like vapid and vapid that's the word, yes,
Speaker 3: thank you, and and it's not. It's like, no, we're
Speaker 3: kind of onto something. We might were more emotional young
Speaker 3: girls that are going through the change, and so maybe
Speaker 3: we're more in tune with things that are extremely emotional.
Speaker 3: And maybe it's good. But were Twilight movies good? I
Speaker 3: never saw one. I've seen your scene, but I've never
Speaker 3: seen one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've seen it a couple of times, but I've
Speaker 1: never seen another one.
Speaker 3: I'm embarrassed in the books. I don't think I ever.
Speaker 3: I didn't read the books, but I heard they were.
Speaker 3: I don't think they were like, you know, even but JK.
Speaker 4: Rowling. People are like, no, she's a great writer.
Speaker 3: But then with who wrote Twilight books?
Speaker 4: Don't you William?
Speaker 3: Come on, I'm not trying to set you up.
Speaker 1: You should I know I knew her name at one point,
Speaker 1: of course, of course.
Speaker 5: Of course, yes, Sephanie Meyer from Hartford, Connecticut and forty
Speaker 5: nine years old.
Speaker 3: You guys ever read the The Gray Ones, the.
Speaker 4: What's it called, The Shades of Gray? Fifty shades of Gray? Yeah,
Speaker 4: fifty shades of gray?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Did you ever read that?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I read one.
Speaker 3: I only read the narsty parts, and I only I
Speaker 3: only read the parts where it was like, whoa, this
Speaker 3: is pornographic and it was nothing.
Speaker 1: I remember thinking that ring it when.
Speaker 3: I just went together it was and I went all
Speaker 3: of it, and I remember, yeah, we we read it
Speaker 3: to each other, and I was just like, this is
Speaker 3: kind of like not that big of a deal. When
Speaker 3: you're watching gang bangs everything, it's hard to like, really,
Speaker 3: it's not.
Speaker 4: It's not easy to make.
Speaker 3: Me blush unless it's that scene from uh, the Departed.
Speaker 5: Oh God, I gotta watch that. After you guys talked
Speaker 5: about The Departed, I was listening to it on the
Speaker 5: drive and I was Me and Ali were like, We've
Speaker 5: got to rewatch that movie.
Speaker 4: It's so good. It is so okay. So you've seen it. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I've seen it. I've seen So isn't the a cry?
Speaker 5: As a musician, is that like the equivalent of an
Speaker 5: applau break, or like a standing ovation or a spit
Speaker 5: take For a comedian.
Speaker 1: I mean, you guys think, me, what what is it?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Are you asking?
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm asking any Yeah, I think it's I think
Speaker 3: it's the equivalent of For me, I will say as
Speaker 3: a comedian's equivalent of I have never had anyone say
Speaker 3: the things that I've been thinking, Yeah, my whole life,
Speaker 3: or something like that, where they're like, it's so true,
Speaker 3: even though that's such a obvious thing to say, or
Speaker 3: it's almost we A hacky thing to say in response
Speaker 3: to a comic is to go like.
Speaker 4: It's some, but it's true.
Speaker 3: It's like when you're able to touch on something that
Speaker 3: either like the Joe Macki joke has been there all
Speaker 3: long and it's like low hanging it seems like low
Speaker 3: hanging fruit, but no one's ever pointed it out. Those
Speaker 3: are great moments, that are these awakening moments of like, wait,
Speaker 3: why did we all know Hitler likes? Why you know
Speaker 3: blonde hair, blue eyes? Why has no one made that connection.
Speaker 3: That's a brilliant moment of like cracking this thing. But
Speaker 3: then there's the other thing of everyone's kind of thought it,
Speaker 3: but are too embarrassed to even admit it to themselves,
Speaker 3: so they haven't even in their mind they've thought it,
Speaker 3: but they haven't even thought that thought, like that's a
Speaker 3: weird thought. They just think it, and then they move
Speaker 3: on to something else, and then you are reminded of
Speaker 3: that thought you had that one time, and it makes
Speaker 3: you feel like, well, maybe I could have written that joke,
Speaker 3: and you could have if you were paying attention to
Speaker 3: your thoughts the way we are, in the way that
Speaker 3: we have to to mind.
Speaker 4: For this stuff. But that's the way I feel.
Speaker 3: What do you think, Brian, Like, what's the best compliment
Speaker 3: you could get from stand up or or you know,
Speaker 3: any of the art that you do.
Speaker 5: I mean, the best thing I can One of the
Speaker 5: best feelings I ever had was I was doing a
Speaker 5: show at a bar in Vermont, and nobody knew that
Speaker 5: there was going to be a show, and they were
Speaker 5: all drunk and they were watching the fucking college football playoffs,
Speaker 5: which is like you're not going to pull them away
Speaker 5: from that, Yeah, and everyone was just going up into
Speaker 5: a meat grinder and just like one person and really
Speaker 5: some really like embarrassing things happened, like somebody took out
Speaker 5: a dollar bill and put it in one of the
Speaker 5: comics pockets like they were a stripper. So it's like,
Speaker 5: this is not good. And then like something really weird happened,
Speaker 5: was like I I one of the comedians who I
Speaker 5: just met, came off stage and I was like, man,
Speaker 5: this is a this is a rough crowd. And then
Speaker 5: is this in this was No, it wasn't Burlington, it
Speaker 5: was it was around there Killington? Who was Killington?
Speaker 4: Oh soundthing? You just made that up. Don't have a
Speaker 4: code factory, No they don't. They have a coat hanger factory.
Speaker 2: That's yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, a really weird moment after this comic I never
Speaker 5: met before, you know, we're all comics. So we get
Speaker 5: to talk and she came off the stage and I
Speaker 5: was like, good job, this is this this crowd fucking sucks.
Speaker 5: And she refused to admit that the crowd was bad.
Speaker 5: She said, I thought they were good. I thought they
Speaker 5: were fine. I was like, what what are you talking about?
Speaker 5: And I was like, oh, okay. Nobody the entire night
Speaker 5: got a single laugh, nobody even got anyone to pay attention.
Speaker 5: And yet she's trying to go ahead, like me, into
Speaker 5: thinking that this is a good crowd. And then she left.
Speaker 5: She didn't even stay for the other comics. So anyway,
Speaker 5: I went still around doing comedy. I'm sure she is.
Speaker 5: I went up last on the show, and I fucking
Speaker 5: got them. I got it. It was the most, it
Speaker 5: was the most. It was the happiest moment of my
Speaker 5: life in comedy. For just like I figured out it's
Speaker 5: almost like a parlor trick. I figured out what to
Speaker 5: do in that situation where no one's paying attention, everyone's drunk,
Speaker 5: they don't want to hear what you're saying. You can't
Speaker 5: just go up and do material. You need to do
Speaker 5: something else to get their attention.
Speaker 4: And so I did. I did my I asked. I
Speaker 4: told people to yell apples at me.
Speaker 5: Oh that's great at me, And I'll tell you what
Speaker 5: I think about it, and I did that hilarious.
Speaker 4: They almost like picked.
Speaker 5: Me up and like, you know, at the end of
Speaker 5: the sports oh My walk Down, I got like seven
Speaker 5: new Instagram followers.
Speaker 4: It was incredible cool. That is a great at the moment.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and uh so that's I guess would be like
Speaker 5: if someone was crying during a song.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we know absolutely. What was the song that you sang?
Speaker 2: I don't think did you say it? Oh?
Speaker 3: Oh oh so it's I wanted to talk about this
Speaker 3: earlier because it's it's been a while since this has
Speaker 3: happened for me.
Speaker 4: But I have a new song for my funeral playlist that.
Speaker 3: I need to be played if I die, and I
Speaker 3: haven't added it on Spotify yet to it, so listeners,
Speaker 3: I'm going to depend on you if I die. Please
Speaker 3: contact my parents and let them know this needs to
Speaker 3: be on my playlist. It's by boy Genius, who is
Speaker 3: the supergroup of Phoebe Bridgers and two other Lucy's Lucy
Speaker 3: Something and That and dacad Julian Illian Baker, Jillian Baker.
Speaker 3: I'm obsessed with those girls as well. I'm embarrassed that
Speaker 3: I didn't know their names yet, but I have not
Speaker 3: had the time to dots on them. I haven't had
Speaker 3: the time to do deep dives on those girls yet,
Speaker 3: but I am or however they identify. I'm obsessed with
Speaker 3: them though, and I'm like each individual, Like I really
Speaker 3: was kind of rolling my eyes about this group at
Speaker 3: first because just everything Phoebe Bridges does is cool, and
Speaker 3: it's like, God, can she just not be cool for
Speaker 3: one second? But this is a fucking great band and
Speaker 3: three part harmonies with all these women is and they're
Speaker 3: all great musicians, all great songwriters, and they all are
Speaker 3: like really actually good friends. I've watched countless interviews with them.
Speaker 3: They don't think they're cool at all, even though they
Speaker 3: are so like.
Speaker 4: That adds to it.
Speaker 3: They're kind of like that Matchbox twenty vibe of like
Speaker 3: they're not trying to be KA, like they are cool
Speaker 3: because and they make cool choices and you could accuse
Speaker 3: them of being KA, but they are not. They're genuine
Speaker 3: artists and they're great. But the song is called not
Speaker 3: strong Enough, And I found it because there was some Instagram.
Speaker 4: Meme that was like.
Speaker 3: It said something about like a basic bitch, like we
Speaker 3: know who you are, Like if you all you love
Speaker 3: all of these things you're struggling right now, because uh,
Speaker 3: it was. There was a couple of things on this
Speaker 3: like what are they called starter packs? You know when
Speaker 3: those memes do those things of like this is the
Speaker 3: starter pack for a soccer mom from Okay, you.
Speaker 5: Know, plugged in And I've never seen one of those,
Speaker 5: but that sounds you've never seen starter pack.
Speaker 3: That sounds like a great yeah, So this it's it'll
Speaker 3: just be like what that person would wear, like this
Speaker 3: kind of tanked up, this kind of water bottle, this
Speaker 3: kind of phone, these kind of shades, this kind of
Speaker 3: bumper sticker, and it was some starter pack for something
Speaker 3: and a couple of the things items on it. If
Speaker 3: anyone comes across this meme, please send it to me,
Speaker 3: because it's so hard to google a meme. You can't
Speaker 3: find them for the life of you. But it was
Speaker 3: some kind of thing. It wasn't completely a starter pack,
Speaker 3: but it was about the type of girl. And it
Speaker 3: said something like and you have not strong enough by
Speaker 3: Boy Genius on Repeat or something like that, and I
Speaker 3: had never heard that song, but I related to almost
Speaker 3: everything else in the starter pack, where I'm like, well,
Speaker 3: this clearly is going to be up my alley and
Speaker 3: I started listening to it in the airport in Denver.
Speaker 3: I think coming back from your wedding. Oh, it was
Speaker 3: it last weekend. No, it was this past weekend. So
Speaker 3: wherever I was was past. No, it was a weekend before.
Speaker 3: And I don't know where I was coming from. Did
Speaker 3: we have shows or something. I forget my life? Oh yeah, California. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: yeah I did. I forget my life.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I was with my dad and I was coming back
Speaker 3: and I started listening to it and at first I
Speaker 3: was like, yes, it's all right, and then listen four
Speaker 3: or five, I'm hooked. And then by listen twenty, it's memorized.
Speaker 3: And then and then yesterday I started to learn it
Speaker 3: on guitar and then I finished it and now it's
Speaker 3: like complete and I have the whole thing memorized. And
Speaker 3: the guitar is very hard to do. The strumming is
Speaker 3: like Dean did ding ding ding ding ding di d
Speaker 3: ding ding ding ding ding. It's like really really fast,
Speaker 3: and I was looking at it being like, okay, Nicky,
Speaker 3: calm down, You're not gonna be able to get this
Speaker 3: is too fast and this strumming pattern is too intricate.
Speaker 3: And it's too weird. You're gonna need like give yourself
Speaker 3: a month or two to get this down. Let's slow
Speaker 3: it down. And I only slowed it down once, and
Speaker 3: I was able to get it. After slowing it down once,
Speaker 3: I sped it up to it because I learned this
Speaker 3: lesson from.
Speaker 4: My vocal teacher.
Speaker 3: I'm taking like online, a course of She said that, Anya,
Speaker 3: and I thought this was very interesting. If you're ever
Speaker 3: recording something and it's too high for you, have someone
Speaker 3: just with their instrument take it down or take it
Speaker 3: up a half step and then just sing that up
Speaker 3: a half step and then go back to recording it,
Speaker 3: and it'll be so much easier because you're.
Speaker 4: Doing it harder.
Speaker 3: You're like working out with a so either you know,
Speaker 3: it was a great tip, and so I I went
Speaker 3: faster on it, and then by the time I went
Speaker 3: down it was able to get it.
Speaker 4: So I've become obsessed.
Speaker 3: And then I worked on it yesterday at my voice lesson,
Speaker 3: and then he gave me some pointers, and then today
Speaker 3: I came in and presented it and.
Speaker 1: He cried, oh my god, that's so cool.
Speaker 3: So I don't even want to listen to it because
Speaker 3: he always sends me the recordings, and it's better in
Speaker 3: my head than I'm thinking what it was. So I'm
Speaker 3: just going to leave it alone and just let it
Speaker 3: be and maybe listen to it in many years from
Speaker 3: now when I'm much better and I can go.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's so cute you thought you were good and.
Speaker 4: That you made him cry.
Speaker 1: Like I remember photographs of myself that I was just
Speaker 1: absolutely disgusted by, like in my early twenties, and then
Speaker 1: I'll look back at them and be like, oh, I
Speaker 1: got to find that picture where I was really overweight,
Speaker 1: and then I'm like, I'm so cute. What was I
Speaker 1: think you?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 1: I was fine? I was absolutely adorable.
Speaker 3: Like its cares. It happens to me within you know.
Speaker 3: I just recently did a photo shoot in Phoenix and
Speaker 3: this guy sent all over all of the pictures. Yeah,
Speaker 3: the newspaper guy. Yeah, and I couldn't thank you. Yeah,
Speaker 3: good memory. You want to hear the headlines?
Speaker 4: I can ye hear. And he hated them.
Speaker 3: He hated them, he like quickly wrote back, Well, keep brainstorming.
Speaker 1: I don't know what you guys are talking about.
Speaker 4: While you're looking that up.
Speaker 5: Can I just say nicky pod memes nicky pod memes.
Speaker 5: Can you do a starter pack for besties? That's a
Speaker 5: great meme for your That's a great what would be
Speaker 5: a starter pack meme?
Speaker 1: You have to have my Nikki podcast t shirt.
Speaker 3: Getting two I do, but only the first third of
Speaker 3: it at the book Getting too, I do.
Speaker 4: Book Taylor Swift Columbine.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I was going to say, actually, when people cry
Speaker 3: to music, the same when people say that you're my
Speaker 3: Taylor Swift to me, that gets through like nothing you
Speaker 3: would have. Like I know, I'm not expecting everyone to
Speaker 3: say that to me unless it's true. I would hate
Speaker 3: for you to say unless it's true. But you know
Speaker 3: the way I feel about Taylor Swift. If you communicate
Speaker 3: to me that I'm your Taylor Swift, I will like
Speaker 3: make love to you right now, like I will try
Speaker 3: to give you everything. I will like put myself inside.
Speaker 3: I like grab people that say that because I just
Speaker 3: know I can't even imagine anyone would ever feel that
Speaker 3: way about me, And it just feels so fucking good.
Speaker 4: Okay, what didn't I say?
Speaker 1: Oh, it's so bad.
Speaker 3: These were like because I was working with Chris to
Speaker 3: figure out what to say.
Speaker 4: So the idea is I did a photo shoot.
Speaker 3: And the guy wanted me to hold a paper and
Speaker 3: to look surprised at the newspaper, and then we were
Speaker 3: gonna write a headline. That's like me going, you know
Speaker 3: about the headline, but the headline was going to be
Speaker 3: a joke, right, So his like pitch was make it
Speaker 3: like Jeff Ross is funny or something. And I'm like
Speaker 3: Jeff like because he also photograph Jeff Ross. So he's like,
Speaker 3: you guys have a back and forth. You guys roast
Speaker 3: each other, you know, something like that, not a like, yes,
Speaker 3: a bad idea, but also like it's fine, Like it's
Speaker 3: fine that it was bad. I have to type in
Speaker 3: the keyword. So I finally he was just like writing, like,
Speaker 3: do you have any ideas for this? Because this is
Speaker 3: the one that's going to go in his book like
Speaker 3: the and he's and I told him, let me come
Speaker 3: up with the idea for it.
Speaker 4: So where did.
Speaker 1: I remember your idea that you were throwing around on
Speaker 1: the pod?
Speaker 4: What was it?
Speaker 1: Aging comedy like figures out a way to get naked on?
Speaker 4: That was too meta?
Speaker 3: And I never said it, but that was the one
Speaker 3: I would have loved to do, Like if if I
Speaker 3: posted I'll write that.
Speaker 4: Into the caption.
Speaker 5: So you're holding the newspaper like above your body and
Speaker 5: you're not clothed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's sitting on are like in a booth basically
Speaker 2: an open booth.
Speaker 4: Like a diner.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, well, like it's in a booth and I
Speaker 3: have my legs crossed in the newspaper is like right
Speaker 3: over my legs.
Speaker 4: And covering my boobs.
Speaker 3: But I'm definitely you could tell I'm definitely not clothed.
Speaker 4: Okay, let me see where I wrote.
Speaker 5: The going to be on the back of the newspaper.
Speaker 5: But that's not the article you're reading.
Speaker 3: But I guess I'm reading like where it says like
Speaker 3: see more, you know, like I'm reading this second part.
Speaker 1: We know that you only read the third, so you
Speaker 1: would not make it to that.
Speaker 3: I would never even I am in the I'm reading
Speaker 3: an ad for something, you know, like there's yes. So
Speaker 3: I was thinking Paul Rudd ages it would be a
Speaker 3: safe one, like something stupid like that teachers get pay raise,
Speaker 3: uh Wolf Blitzer.
Speaker 4: Nudes lead would be funny.
Speaker 1: I like that.
Speaker 3: Female starlett keeps original nose and then spraytan causes cancer.
Speaker 3: And I'm very obviously spray tann in this photo, so
Speaker 3: I thought that would be funny and.
Speaker 4: Word cancer probably.
Speaker 3: He wrote, Please keep sending more as they come to you.
Speaker 4: I didn't like them.
Speaker 3: It's alright, Paul, there's it's a hard order because I
Speaker 3: don't want it to be like a classic joke. And
Speaker 3: I also didn't want to spend too much time on
Speaker 3: it because I'm not being paid and I'm not gonna
Speaker 3: put this picture anywhere because I it's not my favorite
Speaker 3: picture of the bunch. So there's only so much work
Speaker 3: you can put towards something that you know, like when
Speaker 3: someone asked you to do something and you go, you
Speaker 3: realize you've been working on it for an hour and
Speaker 3: you're like, wait, why am I.
Speaker 4: Listen shocking about shocking article inside? Exactly? That would be
Speaker 4: that I would approve of because it's so op.
Speaker 3: It's just like shocking article inside because you're looking at
Speaker 3: the inside bath bad bad bath, bed bath and beyond
Speaker 3: coupon inside and I'm like twenty percent off. But uh yeah,
Speaker 3: so that happened today. I made my teacher cry I'm
Speaker 3: going to see Ben Folds tonight and I'm I'll hopefully
Speaker 3: cry it some kind of song.
Speaker 4: He sings.
Speaker 5: I went to go see Holland Oates at the Hollywood
Speaker 5: Bowl and they saved their top three songs for the encore.
Speaker 4: So the whole time you're listening out of the air. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you're listening.
Speaker 5: The whole time, You're like, man, when are they going
Speaker 5: to play a rich girl?
Speaker 4: When are they gonna play I can't go for that.
Speaker 1: I can't go for that?
Speaker 4: Yeah? And when? And then what's the other? Oh? H,
Speaker 4: you make my Dreams Come True?
Speaker 5: And they they didn't play them for the whole concert,
Speaker 5: and then the encore comes and it's oh and then
Speaker 5: it's like, okay, and now we're gonna play you Make
Speaker 5: My Dreams Come True? And the fucking monitors broke the speakers, so, uh,
Speaker 5: hall or Oates, I don't know which one is. The
Speaker 5: main guy he couldn't hear himself, so he didn't stop singing,
Speaker 5: and instead of stopping the concert and going back and
Speaker 5: playing it, he just went like.
Speaker 4: My monitors broke. Oops, I guess I can't sing this.
Speaker 5: And then the band played through the song and then
Speaker 5: they just went on no.
Speaker 3: So the other guy was doing harmony, like harmonies to
Speaker 3: things like the main the main vocals were not being.
Speaker 5: Song the main and he was unapologized, like I can't
Speaker 5: hear myself.
Speaker 4: I guess I can't sing.
Speaker 3: Do you see the Lewis Capaldi clip where he loses
Speaker 3: his voice on stage and glasson Berry they all like
Speaker 3: fill in for him and sing his hit song sweet?
Speaker 3: What's his hit song?
Speaker 4: That was sweet?
Speaker 3: I couldn't watch it because I was so nervous for him.
Speaker 3: Apparently there's a documentary of him and I love him.
Speaker 3: On any chat show, talk about someone that you can
Speaker 3: say you love, which I don't.
Speaker 4: My whole thing about loving actors.
Speaker 3: You can love singer songwriters because they're being like actually vulnerable,
Speaker 3: and if actors write their own stuff, you can love them.
Speaker 3: But I'm not letting you say you like actors anymore.
Speaker 3: No one gets to say it. But uh, yeah, he
Speaker 3: seems like I love Lewis Capaldi. I think he seems
Speaker 3: like a really funny, humble, goofy, really just cute guy.
Speaker 3: And then that moment it class. I couldn't watch it,
Speaker 3: but it sounded cute. Did you watch it, Anya, where
Speaker 3: everyone sings for him?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I did on mute exactly.
Speaker 4: The thing that is like essential that you hear it.
Speaker 1: Like that was really sweet on mute.
Speaker 4: It was yet I could I couldn't fast enough.
Speaker 3: I was like, I gotta hear this guy's scream for
Speaker 3: his dad as he's being eaten by a fucking bullshark.
Speaker 1: I've seen so many shows like that, and I know
Speaker 1: a lot of singers who like they'll get sick of
Speaker 1: their song. Like, imagine if you guys recorded you know
Speaker 1: you have oh hi Dadams, and your fans expect you
Speaker 1: to deliver the joke exactly the way you did it
Speaker 1: at the age of twenty three.
Speaker 3: Did it You'd be like, that's what you signed up
Speaker 3: for as a musician that wants to be a pop singer.
Speaker 3: Like it's a part of it that I know it sucks.
Speaker 3: That's why I don't go to Broadway shows. I think
Speaker 3: they're bored, and I don't want to see people do
Speaker 3: things they're bored of doing over and over all the time.
Speaker 3: And they didn't write the Broadway show. So there's also
Speaker 3: that for me where they're singing songs they didn't write.
Speaker 3: But Matchbox twenty, I don't give a fuck. If you
Speaker 3: don't feel like singing unwell, you gotta sing it. You
Speaker 3: gotta sing it like the day you wrote it, and
Speaker 3: that's what Rob Thomas does because he appreciates his fan
Speaker 3: At first, when you first start doing stand up comedy, Brian,
Speaker 3: you know this. You have to do the same jokes
Speaker 3: every night because you have to get good at telling them, right, Like,
Speaker 3: even now, I have to do the same you know,
Speaker 3: a lot of the same act and I don't get
Speaker 3: to deviate a ton, especially when I'm working towards a special,
Speaker 3: and it sucks because you're not as in it and
Speaker 3: it's a part of the process.
Speaker 4: I don't like.
Speaker 3: But if my life required me to do the same
Speaker 3: jokes I did at seventeen, that might have been hits
Speaker 3: them even now as I'm thirty nine, I would really
Speaker 3: resent it and probably not pursue it because it's not
Speaker 3: it's not what I want. But actually, no, that is
Speaker 3: what I'm pursuing. I do you you get it up
Speaker 3: and you sing Annie. There are times that you sing songs,
Speaker 3: you sing your songs that you've sang a billion times
Speaker 3: and you're kind of like, ugh, not feeling this night.
Speaker 3: What do you do to like get it up for it?
Speaker 3: Like do you just or do you just go an
Speaker 3: autopilot or what do you do?
Speaker 1: I'll make up my set. If I'm really bored, I
Speaker 1: like to challenge myself and be like, I'm gonna relearn,
Speaker 1: Like I'll do Broken Bottles, which has a hard strum
Speaker 1: or something like that. But if I'm I don't know,
Speaker 1: if I'm ever really truly not into a song, I
Speaker 1: just get into it. I'm just like you just do
Speaker 1: get into how cool this is. You're in a theater
Speaker 1: with all these people. I mean, there are definitely rough
Speaker 1: shows and rough crowds, like Brian was talking about, and
Speaker 1: that was the best thing to hear. You win them over.
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, I mean I've I think going I
Speaker 1: agree with you going to a show where you see
Speaker 1: someone like an Icon do a bunch of hits like
Speaker 1: acid Jazz, which I saw someone who shall remain nameless,
Speaker 1: but everyone knows her name, and she just was bored
Speaker 1: on tour and was doing every song in a weird
Speaker 1: avant garde jazz fashion and it sucked one, two, three,
Speaker 1: not that it was a different one. I did go
Speaker 1: see Feist, and I was so excited to hear my
Speaker 1: Moon my Man. I love that song, and she had
Speaker 1: chosen on that tour and I love her. I love
Speaker 1: all their stuff. But on that tour she was like, yes,
Speaker 1: dimming the theater so that all of the lights were
Speaker 1: it was like twilight, like you could barely see and
Speaker 1: on stage they had like barely any lady. And then
Speaker 1: every song was so slow and she did like one, two,
Speaker 1: three fold, I'm not exaggerating that fast.
Speaker 4: Are we get Brian's wedding? Let's speed it up?
Speaker 3: When's the draw was like, you can do that in
Speaker 3: the beginning for songs where we go, Okay, they're having
Speaker 3: a little liberties. Get back to it though, get on
Speaker 3: those bpms that we know and like, and we want
Speaker 3: it at the speed we want to sing it too.
Speaker 4: Okay, we'll be right back after this.
Speaker 3: Okay, we're back, so Anya ahead of the wedding, what
Speaker 3: are we feeling?
Speaker 4: What are the vibes?
Speaker 5: Are you?
Speaker 4: Are you?
Speaker 3: You? Are you excited to have that moment that Brian
Speaker 3: Frangie had where afterwards you get to be like it's
Speaker 3: over and then you get to just sip your tea.
Speaker 1: I hope all I hope is my parents are in
Speaker 1: one piece. Everybody's like makes it to the wind one piece?
Speaker 4: You want them? You don't want your dad to wear that?
Speaker 1: I just want everyone want to stay healthy. My mom
Speaker 1: has like some health issues. So I just hope everybody
Speaker 1: makes it to the wedding and that you know, I
Speaker 1: write my vows eventually I have not even begun, and
Speaker 1: then I pick out the right songs and then I
Speaker 1: can just have fun. I'm excited to do it.
Speaker 4: Do you know what you're walking down the aisle to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, his friend Chris Hansen, who's in the Natural Lines
Speaker 1: with him, is going to play live. He's going to
Speaker 1: do a song on guitar. He started playing some Paul
Speaker 1: Simon at the other day and I was like, dude,
Speaker 1: can you play that? It was like so pretty, some
Speaker 1: fingerpick thing, and then we might walk off to Coda
Speaker 1: Chrome because I love that song. And Nikki and I
Speaker 1: played the Kodak Theater in I forget what that was
Speaker 1: upstate somewhere.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know, get too.
Speaker 1: But it was and I did Codo Chrome and I
Speaker 1: just love that song, and he was like, I know it,
Speaker 1: I'll play it. So we're going to go a little
Speaker 1: Paul Simon vibe or maybe I'll walk down the aisle
Speaker 1: to Nico's. These days is it Velvet Underground and Nico,
Speaker 1: I don't know. He played something that was really pretty.
Speaker 4: I walked down the aisle to Simon and Garfunkle. You
Speaker 4: did Yeah, you did Marathon. Yeah. It was a guitar
Speaker 4: dual guitar version of America. Oh my god, good.
Speaker 1: Chris was talking about doing America last night.
Speaker 4: Maybe we'll do that.
Speaker 1: And what did you walk off to when they go
Speaker 1: way now? Pronounce you husband and wife for a.
Speaker 4: While, I'm dancing in the moonlight by King Harvest. Do
Speaker 4: Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do?
Speaker 1: I didn't even know he did music for these parts.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 3: Now Noah's starting to get the residual. She's getting the
Speaker 3: is in the final stretch, so she's kind of like
Speaker 3: going some stress and now it's being now nos Like, God,
Speaker 3: I gotta think of a song to come off to. Meanwhile,
Speaker 3: I'm adding to my funeral playlist.
Speaker 4: Wad I love that.
Speaker 3: I was talking to someone the other day as tube,
Speaker 3: but God knows what I'm going to be carried down
Speaker 3: the aisle to.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I was talking to my ex manager the other
Speaker 1: day we still have a friendship, and he was like,
Speaker 1: what have you been working on? I'm like, oh, just
Speaker 1: all the ship I have to do that. I'm like
Speaker 1: you know, getting all my shit together with finances. And
Speaker 1: I got a financial advisor and he have me doing
Speaker 1: like an estate plan and he's like, I couldnot believe
Speaker 1: you're doing an estate plan, like getting my will together
Speaker 1: and everything. And he's like, actually, that's one hundred percent
Speaker 1: on brand with you. And he worked with me a
Speaker 1: decade ago. So I guess I've always been like this, like.
Speaker 4: Planning for the end. Yes, the Jewish shit, it's a
Speaker 4: nice thing to do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it does make sense. Have you talked to your
Speaker 1: parents about this their end of life plan or mine?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Like I think it's just like the So my therapist
Speaker 2: said there's three conversations that are the hardest to have,
Speaker 2: and it's death, sex, and money. Yes. And Avi's dad
Speaker 2: just called him the other day and he's like, Oh,
Speaker 2: could you call me back. I want to you know,
Speaker 2: like I went to my gravesite and I think I
Speaker 2: really like it now and I want to give you
Speaker 2: some there.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, your dad talks to you about this stuff.
Speaker 3: This is like that's really cool. Yeah, that's a hard conversation.
Speaker 3: I talk about it so often with my parents that
Speaker 3: it's become normalized for me to be like.
Speaker 4: Dad, do not get that geode.
Speaker 3: I do not want to have to hold this up
Speaker 3: with Lauren someday and go do you want this or
Speaker 3: do I want this?
Speaker 4: Or do we throw this away?
Speaker 3: This geode that dad bought when we were in Arizona
Speaker 3: on a trip, that he doesn't need, that's just sitting
Speaker 3: on this shelf. So I referenced it all the time,
Speaker 3: you know, even this past weekend. I was playing my
Speaker 3: dad's guitar and he was like, it's so cool that
Speaker 3: I'm gonna have someone to give my like my guitars
Speaker 3: will still be played after I'm gone by like someone
Speaker 3: that is me, you know, part of me. And then
Speaker 3: he started going like and I'm trying to get Arlow
Speaker 3: into it, and I go no, no, no, And he
Speaker 3: was like, I'll give Arlow a guitar, and I go, well,
Speaker 3: Arlow will have to go through me. I will have
Speaker 3: to die then Arlow will get I'll give Marrio don't
Speaker 3: get any idea. But no, we talk about the death
Speaker 3: thing a lot, but also not really talking about it
Speaker 3: because if I really I can talk about my dad dying,
Speaker 3: and but if I engage my actual brain and turn
Speaker 3: it on, then my voice starts going like this, I
Speaker 3: can't handle it, and I will not go there really,
Speaker 3: but I do talk about it all the time because
Speaker 3: I think it's the thing that scares me the most.
Speaker 3: Waits well with the other one's sex. I got no
Speaker 3: problem with that. Death And then money, Yeah, money, I
Speaker 3: also have no problem with you. Annie was saying that
Speaker 3: her dad was going to ask everyone. She was like,
Speaker 3: She was like, just someone needs to run defense on
Speaker 3: my dad's I'm scared he's gonna ask Nicky and Kate
Speaker 3: how much money they make a year. And I was like,
Speaker 3: I'll gladly tell your dad what I make in a year.
Speaker 3: It's absurd. I'm proud of it. It's weird he can
Speaker 3: tell everyone. I don't give a fuck. We need to
Speaker 3: be more transparent. People need to know what actors are making.
Speaker 4: And it's not fair because you.
Speaker 1: Don't judge people and I do, and you allow people
Speaker 1: to be weird and who they are, and I don't.
Speaker 3: I'm not always I'm pretty degmental. But your dad asking
Speaker 3: we should be able to talk about money. I remember
Speaker 3: Judah Friedlander, comedian, once told me that every comedian should
Speaker 3: tell each other what they make on gigs. Yes, so
Speaker 3: that we know what to ask for because we all
Speaker 3: don't know.
Speaker 4: None of us is right. That's unionized and that's all.
Speaker 4: That's a huge dude, It's true.
Speaker 3: And you can get in trouble though for finding out
Speaker 3: or trying to find out, like certain companies, because they
Speaker 3: want to pay you all less. And it's like some
Speaker 3: I remember someone got an email that told them what
Speaker 3: everyone at their company made and they were like blown
Speaker 3: away at the discrepancy based on the job titles that
Speaker 3: are all the same and how much it's like. And
Speaker 3: so I don't like to talk about it because it
Speaker 3: sounds like I'm bragging, and which in a way it is.
Speaker 4: I'm not going to deny that.
Speaker 3: Like I'm like, sometimes I get an offer and I go,
Speaker 3: I can't believe I was, you know, I even said
Speaker 3: on here I was offer, you know, to do that
Speaker 3: Dave Matthews thing. It was like forty three thousand dollars,
Speaker 3: which I was bragging, yes, But I'm also like, this
Speaker 3: is the kind of money these places have. People need
Speaker 3: to know about it, and people also need to know
Speaker 3: this is the kind of money. People like me that
Speaker 3: have this kind of money, you better see us spending
Speaker 3: it towards good things. You better see us donating. You
Speaker 3: better see us like paying our taxes. You and I
Speaker 3: feel like I do do those things. You better see
Speaker 3: us lending money to our friends who might be in
Speaker 3: dire straits, who may or may not pay us back anytime.
Speaker 4: But the problem, I mean, you're you're, you're such a
Speaker 4: part of it.
Speaker 5: I've in the one percent. Well, it's the corporations. They
Speaker 5: have so much more money than any of us.
Speaker 3: Can you imagine obviously, But if we don't hold me
Speaker 3: to a standard or someone that's making as much money
Speaker 3: as me, then you can just we can just keep
Speaker 3: going up the change and going, well, I don't make
Speaker 3: as much money as Walmart. It's like, no, I have
Speaker 3: more money. My mom the other day was like, we're
Speaker 3: taking you out to dinner, neck you and you're and
Speaker 3: your dad and I are taking you out to dinner.
Speaker 4: Where do you want to go?
Speaker 3: And I was like, I want to go somewhere nice,
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna pay, okay because I don't want And
Speaker 3: she goes, We're going to Flavors. Do you want to
Speaker 3: do Flavors Indian? And I'm like, yes, but no, I
Speaker 3: really want to go to this Miley place and there's like,
Speaker 3: I know, the entrees are like twenty two dollars, it's
Speaker 3: way overpriced, and my Mom's going to go, this is ridiculous.
Speaker 3: And I know they want to pay, and they want
Speaker 3: to treat me because I'm their daughter and I give
Speaker 3: them so much and and it's nice to let people
Speaker 3: pay for you sometimes. I'm not trying to steal that
Speaker 3: from them. But I just told my mom, it really
Speaker 3: is dumb for you to that money means something to you,
Speaker 3: and like you that goes towards like a trip you're
Speaker 3: saving for, whereas to me, I don't have a lot
Speaker 3: of family, this is what I want to spend my
Speaker 3: own money on. So it would be like we went
Speaker 3: to a place and I had a gift card there
Speaker 3: that's expiring.
Speaker 4: Tomorrow, and you paid.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's how it feels to me to not let
Speaker 3: me pay because it doesn't need You need to spread
Speaker 3: the wealth, you need to be generous with it. So
Speaker 3: I think that's why people that's why I tend to
Speaker 3: talk about these figures is because.
Speaker 4: I don't know. I wouldn't. I was Amy and I
Speaker 4: used to always hang out Schumer.
Speaker 3: I used to find out what she made for things
Speaker 3: and I just remember being like, no fucking way, Like
Speaker 3: I didn't even know that was possible. You could make
Speaker 3: that money as.
Speaker 1: An ask for that when you get to that level
Speaker 1: and you did.
Speaker 3: Or yeah yeah, and sometimes as I do, but like,
Speaker 3: it's just it makes me realize I didn't get into
Speaker 3: comedy for that money because I did not think that
Speaker 3: kind of money was in comedy ever. I thought that
Speaker 3: kind of money was for Jaylaw, not like yeah, Ali
Speaker 3: Wong and me, you know, but it's it.
Speaker 1: Is, and I'm proud you bitch.
Speaker 3: Well it's I'm just I just got lucky.
Speaker 1: That's all it is.
Speaker 4: But thank you for being felt. We need like a
Speaker 4: side felt. No even when she said.
Speaker 1: A voice she's got that she's born with it.
Speaker 3: I know I'm not denying that, but I'm saying that
Speaker 3: is luck that I was born with that. If I
Speaker 3: was born with something, it's luck. It's all luck. But
Speaker 3: you can still be proud of my luck. And thank
Speaker 3: you for saying that.
Speaker 5: I just say about people who work in corporate corporations
Speaker 5: because I know that there's people out there who every
Speaker 5: year they go up for their raise and they can
Speaker 5: ask for three percent or they can go big and
Speaker 5: ask for ten percent, and you have to know that
Speaker 5: corporations will pay you as little as they can get
Speaker 5: away with and not a pan I need more than that.
Speaker 5: They will go as low as they can that you're
Speaker 5: willing to accept. And if you're afraid to ask for
Speaker 5: ten percent or three percent, just know that they don't
Speaker 5: give a fuck about those percentage points. They don't doesn't
Speaker 5: mean anything to them. You ask for as much as
Speaker 5: you think you're worth, and what I've seen is they
Speaker 5: will respect.
Speaker 4: You more if you ask for more money.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, it's so to my soone in my life
Speaker 3: was trying to talk about doing a raise and was
Speaker 3: so terrified of because he's He's like, my job is
Speaker 3: already so great. It's as I love my job so much.
Speaker 3: I don't want to ask for more money because I
Speaker 3: would do this for less money. But the mount he
Speaker 3: works and the value that he the job is easy
Speaker 3: for him because he's good at it, and that is
Speaker 3: why he's That's why it's easy. And I struggle with
Speaker 3: this too, Wermland, it's easy, So why am.
Speaker 4: I getting paid a lot?
Speaker 3: It's like that's you're you're being compensated because it is
Speaker 3: easy for you.
Speaker 4: And he is he could not.
Speaker 3: He kept being like, I'm gonna ask for like two
Speaker 3: percent more, and I was like, this, this company I know,
Speaker 3: I know would not that it is not anything to
Speaker 3: them to give you fifty percent more. It would not
Speaker 3: mean anything to their bottom line to give you a
Speaker 3: fifty percent raise and one hundred percent, So you not
Speaker 3: asking for at least ten is absurd. So I hear
Speaker 3: what you're saying, Brian, like these companies they can do it.
Speaker 3: There is the money there, and I always think that
Speaker 3: there isn't because I also know that when I'm negotiating
Speaker 3: and someone's like, ask for an extra one hundred grand
Speaker 3: because Whitney got that on this, she made millions on this,
Speaker 3: and you're just getting this ask for extra hundred I
Speaker 3: know that universal, whoever the studio is, that it all
Speaker 3: ends up going to Jeff Bezos can afford to a
Speaker 3: extra one hundred thousand. But what I'm thinking about is
Speaker 3: the departments that are in charge of those financials that
Speaker 3: they do have a little bit of titan purse strings.
Speaker 3: And I don't want Diane from Accounting to get in
Speaker 3: trouble because I'm asking for more. So I'm what do
Speaker 3: you think about that? When I'm thinking, when I'm thinking
Speaker 3: about these corporations, I'm like, yeah, of course, fucking whoever
Speaker 3: owns the CW can give me more money for f
Speaker 3: boy islet I know they've got it. Whoever's paying CW
Speaker 3: has the money to give me more. But I'm worried
Speaker 3: about CW, who's like trying to make do with what
Speaker 3: they have, and whoever's working in they're what do you
Speaker 3: say to the.
Speaker 2: Bole anyway, whether you ask for that money or not,
Speaker 2: it comes. It comes from a different budget, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 4: But whoever makes the budgets.
Speaker 5: They have money, They have wiggle room. They they know
Speaker 5: how much money they can play with. And is it
Speaker 5: going to be you that gets the ten percent or
Speaker 5: is it going to be fucking Brad who had the
Speaker 5: balls to ask for it. It's gonna be somebody. Just
Speaker 5: so let it be you ask for it, get that money.
Speaker 3: They have it, And what's the worst thing that can
Speaker 3: have Because I think some people are probably listening going
Speaker 3: like okay, but what if they go no, and then
Speaker 3: you're fired?
Speaker 4: Because why would you ever ask for ten percent more?
Speaker 4: Your fail far to you because it will cost life.
Speaker 5: I won't way more than ten percent of your salary
Speaker 5: to find someone to replace you and train them.
Speaker 4: It's not worth it to get rid of you.
Speaker 3: True? Is it that when you want things from people,
Speaker 3: they like you more. When you respect yourself and demand
Speaker 3: more things, people think you are more valuable.
Speaker 4: It's what you got.
Speaker 3: You're sing the tactic right now in a thing where
Speaker 3: it's like it's it's just absurd how much that works,
Speaker 3: and I don't like it?
Speaker 4: You know that?
Speaker 3: That is that the more you ask of someone, the
Speaker 3: more they end up liking you, because they have to
Speaker 3: convince themselves, like I wouldn't just be giving this girl
Speaker 3: this thing for free unless I liked her, So they
Speaker 3: they convince themselves they like you, even if they don't.
Speaker 3: It's kind of fucked up because it's a manipulation, but
Speaker 3: it works.
Speaker 4: And there's another reason.
Speaker 5: Sorry, there's another reason why people want ask for more money,
Speaker 5: and that's because to tell that's because they feel like that, well,
Speaker 5: I like this company and they're like my family and
Speaker 5: they treat me so well, and I don't want to
Speaker 5: push the envelope. And that's another thing that everyone has
Speaker 5: to realize. Your company does not give a fuck about
Speaker 5: you at all, at all.
Speaker 3: What oh, Brian, But Brian, this is a mom and
Speaker 3: pop company. And even though the guy at the top
Speaker 3: is a billionaire or maybe a multi hundred millionaire, he's
Speaker 3: my good friend and he really does care about me.
Speaker 3: I mean, he was at my kids, he was at
Speaker 3: the Christenage.
Speaker 5: Just wait my child till a larger company buys that
Speaker 5: guy's company and then does layoffs and gets rid of
Speaker 5: everything that you've ever loved about the company and eliminates you.
Speaker 5: And that's why you got to get your money when
Speaker 5: you can just get it, get your money.
Speaker 1: I'm kind of the point of view of I like
Speaker 1: what you guys are saying, and I do believe in
Speaker 1: a lot of it. But I'm also like, I know
Speaker 1: what I need, and I don't just want to ask
Speaker 1: for like an exorbitant amount just to see if I
Speaker 1: can get great. Like I like to live within my means,
Speaker 1: and also I like to save, obviously, and I like money,
Speaker 1: and I like having the convenience of money, but like,
Speaker 1: I also like job security. And I know a bunch
Speaker 1: of people that were laid off because they were too
Speaker 1: expensive for that company. Like if this happens in radio
Speaker 1: all the time, they like fire the program director, because
Speaker 1: the program director was making you know, two twenty a
Speaker 1: year or something, and everybody else is making sixty a year.
Speaker 1: So let's get rid of him or her because we'll
Speaker 1: save two twenty a year.
Speaker 5: That would have happened anyway, because accept the difference is
Speaker 5: they would have been making one eighty a year and
Speaker 5: they would have been laid off at least make the
Speaker 5: two twenty for the time you're there.
Speaker 4: Good point.
Speaker 3: And I do believe I know what you're saying on
Speaker 3: you where it's like I often say that too. Where
Speaker 3: there was a recent thing that my agents called me
Speaker 3: about and without going into total specificifics, they were saying,
Speaker 3: you're in this deal. Final thought. My agents called me
Speaker 3: and they were trying to get me on the phone.
Speaker 3: They're like, in this deal, you are. Part of the
Speaker 3: deal is that you're going to have to do more
Speaker 3: work and it might not be more money for you.
Speaker 4: In the end. There's a little bit more.
Speaker 3: Money, but it's not enough to maybe be putting your
Speaker 3: name out there that much. They get to use your
Speaker 3: name a lot, and you're not getting a lot out
Speaker 3: of them using your name. And then I said, I
Speaker 3: hear you, but having my name out there in any
Speaker 3: context where I'm saying I'm Nikki Glazer and it's playing
Speaker 3: on anything else is always good unless it's annoying, unless
Speaker 3: my name is associated with something annoying. But they were saying, like,
Speaker 3: this is not cool that they're going to use your
Speaker 3: name a lot, and I go, but I'm not not
Speaker 3: benefiting from this because the more my name is out
Speaker 3: there in any way, That's why I do tons of game.
Speaker 3: I do a lot of appearances for free on networks
Speaker 3: because I know the value of that airtime, whether that
Speaker 3: is an AD or not. And they're making money off
Speaker 3: of me being associated with this thing. You know, there's
Speaker 3: an upside to that as well. So it's like and
Speaker 3: it's like, is it much more work for me? And
Speaker 3: am I gonna be that greedy and be like I
Speaker 3: want more money? Probably I should be, But at the
Speaker 3: same time, I'm like, let me just throw that. Maybe
Speaker 3: if I throw them this bone, they throw me other
Speaker 3: bones down the line, right or something like that. But
Speaker 3: there is something too, and there's something to I don't
Speaker 3: need more more, Like I think some people get so greedy.
Speaker 3: I mean, we're seeing it with the billionaires who are
Speaker 3: trying to cage fight each other. They're like, we kind
Speaker 3: of gave up this, like this money race, like because
Speaker 3: we realize it's just like we know they're always a competition,
Speaker 3: you know, the Zuckerberg and the base is it Zuckerberg
Speaker 3: and Musk are gonna cage fight, which just sounds like
Speaker 3: something that is a made up thing by AI, but
Speaker 3: it's real that they're actually.
Speaker 4: Trying to do it.
Speaker 1: Deleted from Mediocracy.
Speaker 3: Yes, and I realized it's probably because they already like
Speaker 3: know who won the money thing and the power thing,
Speaker 3: and they're kind of bored of that, and they're like,
Speaker 3: now it has to come back down to like.
Speaker 1: Arm wrestling, like for us.
Speaker 3: Like we've already we already known.
Speaker 1: Show us their penises and be like a penis SWORDI fight.
Speaker 3: That's I would I would pay per views for that
Speaker 3: if they just revealed Mark Zuckerbert's little flaccid penis.
Speaker 4: Were listening one and must fine penis.
Speaker 5: We're obsessed with going up and down. They want to
Speaker 5: go into space or they want to go underwater?
Speaker 4: What going.
Speaker 3: Because they cannot be contained and they constantly are unsatisfied,
Speaker 3: and I mean, what any gram are they We're becoming
Speaker 3: obsessed with Anyagrams and the girls chat bingo card we
Speaker 3: I'm a three nine with Obama.
Speaker 4: Obama's nine two? Now what are nines like?
Speaker 1: Peacemaker?
Speaker 4: Peace maker and.
Speaker 3: They don't mind being like helping three Yeah.
Speaker 1: We're really good at supporting others and being like co
Speaker 1: hosts and like co stars and in a support position.
Speaker 3: I always tell people this, Anya could have been Taylor
Speaker 3: Swift if she wanted to be like she has. I
Speaker 3: don't want to be and the voice I'm not kidding you,
Speaker 3: you don't want to be had a deal and you
Speaker 3: were starting to get signed up, like you were starting
Speaker 3: to have that kind of rise to fame back if
Speaker 3: we go to the Twilight Times and Anya was like,
Speaker 3: this is too much pressure.
Speaker 4: It's kind of too much for me.
Speaker 1: I'd like to I'd like to be in theaters, but
Speaker 1: not in shed's not stadium.
Speaker 3: But to be Fiona Apple, you have to have done
Speaker 3: like a ton of press and all the things that
Speaker 3: you didn't want to do.
Speaker 4: You didn't want.
Speaker 3: That life of being having emails constantly coming in like
Speaker 3: you want what Fiona Apple has, but what it took
Speaker 3: to get there you just weren't. You didn't you were
Speaker 3: like this isn't like what my This isn't my style,
Speaker 3: and I respect that so much. I don't understand it.
Speaker 3: It's like, it's so it's so cool to me because
Speaker 3: we do need some of each But I can't understand
Speaker 3: having someone go being born with the talent and then
Speaker 3: obviously working hard to.
Speaker 2: Do.
Speaker 3: But you, I've watched you, and I'm like, she has
Speaker 3: everything Taylor Swift has. There's no difference between their two
Speaker 3: talents and literally none. The only thing is that Taylor
Speaker 3: Swift is a three and shary An that's that's the
Speaker 3: best compliment. That's almost better than ride during your song
Speaker 3: coming from no I.
Speaker 4: Will, I would. I'm not kidding you.
Speaker 3: Anya Marina is as talented as a songwriter as Taylor
Speaker 3: Swift and could be just as prolific and all these things.
Speaker 4: But she's not a three.
Speaker 3: She's a nine, and so she things that make that
Speaker 3: get her off to quote my mom, HI.
Speaker 4: Do not are not the same things.
Speaker 3: And that's what's so fascinating to me is that you
Speaker 3: can be born with all of these things, but if
Speaker 3: you're not the type of person who's motivated by praise
Speaker 3: and people loving you and strangers thinking you did a
Speaker 3: good job, and that's not like what fills you up.
Speaker 3: Then then you're not gonna like pursue that. And I
Speaker 3: think I love I love the idea of someone being
Speaker 3: so talented and just being like I'm good, like it's
Speaker 3: so cool and you are that.
Speaker 1: Maybe I mean, I definitely would love to sell out theaters.
Speaker 1: I'm just too afraid.
Speaker 5: And anxious an come on, accept compliment, be a good compliment.
Speaker 1: Acceptor sh No, she did have a compliment, But I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's so much like I don't want it.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's totally true, because the truth is,
Speaker 1: I guess it is.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 1: I think I would love to like be playing theaters,
Speaker 1: playing like an hour of my show and not have
Speaker 1: to stress about selling out right.
Speaker 3: But you but to get that, you have to do
Speaker 3: those other things, and you're not willing to do those things.
Speaker 3: So I am saying, you're like, no, thanks, I just
Speaker 3: could leave that I can do it. Probably that's not
Speaker 3: that's not true you because I've talked to you about
Speaker 3: your music confidence and you have.
Speaker 1: By the way, Fiona Apple doesn't do a lot of interviews.
Speaker 1: I think Fiona Apple made some incredible records. I think,
Speaker 1: and I haven't made records that are like really resounding
Speaker 1: with people in this time of like TikTok and Instagram.
Speaker 1: I'm not willing to do all that. You're right, I'm
Speaker 1: not like willing to be online all the time.
Speaker 3: But what I'm saying is you could and you're just
Speaker 3: not willing to. And that is maybe that's true because
Speaker 3: you're not.
Speaker 4: It's true.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't know how to do like may
Speaker 1: do that or you would enjoy, but you don't.
Speaker 3: You wouldn't enjoy it because you would be stooping to
Speaker 3: something that isn't artistically authentic to you. And that's not
Speaker 3: to say Taylor Swift does stoop so that, but Taylor
Speaker 3: Swift talked with a country accent for many years and
Speaker 3: she doesn't have one. So this girl did do things
Speaker 3: that were outside of what she wanted to do. She's
Speaker 3: not from you fit in, No, She's from Pennsylvania and
Speaker 3: she went to Nashville. But she she said, y'all a
Speaker 3: lot when she was coming out. That was what they
Speaker 3: were packaging her as, and she went, you know this,
Speaker 3: and she's a child. By the way, there's no shape.
Speaker 3: I'm not throwing shade on Taylor for saying y'all. And
Speaker 3: by the way, I would fucking say y'all if I
Speaker 3: was being a country star for a few if that's
Speaker 3: what I was going to start.
Speaker 4: Doing, you know, and like yeah the teen parents country
Speaker 4: for like yeah, it's it happens.
Speaker 1: But we had to find out how Brian is any
Speaker 1: a gramar Ran yet?
Speaker 4: Do you know what any gram you are? No idea,
Speaker 4: I'll pay you twelve dollars to take the test.
Speaker 3: Know what too, because it's twelve dollars to take the test,
Speaker 3: but then you get a really good answer of what
Speaker 3: any gramm you are, I'll send the test and ask.
Speaker 1: For twenty four.
Speaker 3: For twenty four, okay, I'll give you fifteen dollars to
Speaker 3: do it. I will give you a ten percent raise.
Speaker 3: I think this is what it kind of amounts to.
Speaker 3: Great show today, guys. Thanks for being here, Thanks for
Speaker 3: listening to the podcast. You guys. I hope everyone has
Speaker 3: a great Anya's wedding weekend. I got so many tour
Speaker 3: dates coming up. Let me just rattle some of the
Speaker 3: off Vegas. Well that's not going to be until September again,
Speaker 3: but get those tickets now. September twenty ninth and thirtieth, Chicago,
Speaker 3: September fifteenth.
Speaker 4: That's a big one.
Speaker 3: Guys, if you were in the Chicago area, want to
Speaker 3: plan weekend to Chicago the Chicago Theater. It's a huge venue.
Speaker 3: I want to sell it out so badly. I desperately
Speaker 3: want it, and I would love for every one of
Speaker 3: you besties to make an impact in selling that out.
Speaker 4: It would mean the world to me.
Speaker 3: That'll be September fifteenth, then Peoria, Illinois the next day,
Speaker 3: September sixteenth, Calgary, Albert I'm coming to Canada. I'm doing
Speaker 3: a casino in Minnesota, Napa, California, Wheatland, California, San Francisco,
Speaker 3: San Diego, Iowa, Lawrence, Kansas, my college town. If you
Speaker 3: or anyone in that area, the lead Center, I'm going
Speaker 3: to be back there, so fun. Boston, Maryland, Delaware, Atlantic City,
Speaker 3: We're doing again Portland, and then I will be in Munhall.
Speaker 3: Someone said, Nikki, come to Pittsburgh or Philly. I think
Speaker 3: mun Hall is close to one of those. Detroit, Michigan, Denver, Colorado,
Speaker 3: mass A, tans to Tucket. I don't know what that
Speaker 3: one is, but that's not everyrary. Don't worry about it.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you later.
Speaker 4: Thank you guys for listening to the show. Mash and Tucket.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't know sounds.
Speaker 4: It's like something you.
Speaker 3: Tell someone who wants to who's playing the first time?
Speaker 4: Is it mass transport Tucket, nash Tucket. That's how you
Speaker 4: remember it. I'll be there February seventeenth. Thank you guys
Speaker 4: so much for listening to the show.
Speaker 3: Don't be coo and digit test for that raise bitch.