Speaker 1: The Nicki Gliser Podcast Niki Glaser.
Speaker 2: Here's Nikki.
Speaker 3: Hello, here I am it's a Nicki Glaser podcast. Welcome
Speaker 3: to it. Joining me as always, Brian Frangie. He's in
Speaker 3: Los Angeles. How's it going, Brian?
Speaker 4: Hello, it's going fine. I'm doing fine. Everybody great.
Speaker 3: Thanks for Yeah, your wedding is coming up very soon
Speaker 3: in a couple of weekends.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, don't remind me. Anxiety levels are yes. If
Speaker 4: you want to get tickets to my wedding, you can
Speaker 4: go to our adam tickets dot com slash Brian's wedding. No,
Speaker 4: anxiety levels are at a high. Are at a high right.
Speaker 3: Now, Let's talk about that a little bit because we
Speaker 3: also have Anya here from she's in New York. She's
Speaker 3: also getting married, So you're getting married. Sorry, Anya's getting
Speaker 3: married July ninth, yep. And Brian, you're getting married June sixeenth, seventeenth, seventeenth.
Speaker 3: So this and then Noah is also engaged in TBD
Speaker 3: on when she's gonna get married. But this is wild
Speaker 3: that we have this, I mean, the randomness with what ages. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and then me who's like starting early stages of talking
Speaker 3: about that kind of stuff with her partner, Well.
Speaker 4: You're getting married on August seventeenth, twenty forty eight, twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: Did you never hear about that?
Speaker 3: Obviously I can work with that date. That is like,
Speaker 3: that's honestly, this.
Speaker 1: Is wait, did he I have so much to say?
Speaker 1: Did wry to say twenty twenty four?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: He said forty eight, twenty forty eight, And that is
Speaker 3: honestly a date I can work.
Speaker 2: Okay, got it? That gives me no anxiety. Perfect.
Speaker 3: We have so many things to talk about before we
Speaker 3: get started, though. I just want to say that the
Speaker 3: response about Brian has been overwhelmingly positive, almost one hundred
Speaker 3: percent positive. I see no no one said anything negative
Speaker 3: to me. I'm sure people are writing about it extensively,
Speaker 3: but I don't read that stuff. You guys know that,
Speaker 3: but no, I it was so it's so heartening to hear,
Speaker 3: especially on my Girl's Chat. My best friend Kirsten, one
Speaker 3: of my best friends, she's on the Girl's Chat and
Speaker 3: she's an avid listener to the podcast, and she said
Speaker 3: that she just she did an impression of you yesterday.
Speaker 3: We should play it. I wish I would have like
Speaker 3: saved it because there's too much other talk on there
Speaker 3: that I can't just like randomly play stuff because people
Speaker 3: are crying about their lives and stuff on there. So
Speaker 3: but she did cry about Brian's life a little bit. No,
Speaker 3: she just did an impression of you that was so sweet,
Speaker 3: because she's really good at impressions. But she said that
Speaker 3: she just loves I just trust her opinion. She would
Speaker 3: say nothing if it was like there was nothing to say,
Speaker 3: but she just said she thinks you're so funny.
Speaker 2: And she's like such an arbiter of.
Speaker 3: What's funny to me because she's one of the finnest
Speaker 3: people I've ever met. And she just likes your like
Speaker 3: tude and your mood and your and your dude you're dude,
Speaker 3: and she just likes she likes it, and she said
Speaker 3: so many nice things. And I know Noah was on
Speaker 3: that same chat. Did you hear that, Noah, didn't that
Speaker 3: make you feel good?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I'm trying to look for it now, But Okay.
Speaker 4: I hear that impression because it would inform me as
Speaker 4: to like what I how I am view We don't
Speaker 4: want to it's important as a comedian to know like
Speaker 4: what how people view you.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, I'll talk exactly at your pace right now?
Speaker 2: Does this sound like you too?
Speaker 1: You?
Speaker 3: I mean, we need this on the podcast. I'm talking
Speaker 3: motor mouth over here.
Speaker 4: I'm totally I have no idea how I sound or
Speaker 4: how it's supposed to sound, and I would love to.
Speaker 2: Are you doing stand up right now?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I got to show it tonight. I was in
Speaker 4: Arizona actually right now. Yeah?
Speaker 2: Are you doing a bit right now? You were in
Speaker 2: Arizona this past weekend?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was in Tempea, Arizona this past weekend at
Speaker 4: the Tempe Improv.
Speaker 2: Oh sweet, that's a good club.
Speaker 4: Who are you opening for Adam Conover? Oh?
Speaker 3: That's so fun because if you don't know, Brian wrote
Speaker 3: on Adam Ruins Everything, which.
Speaker 4: Seasons two through the Find finale.
Speaker 3: And then you also help him on his YouTube channel now,
Speaker 3: which is like blowing up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, YouTube channel, he's got like six hundred thousand subs.
Speaker 4: All of his videos get a million views. Yes, and
Speaker 4: he's like, yes, a versioning star in the WGA negotiations.
Speaker 4: He's really because he's amazing. Yes, and uh yeah, and
Speaker 4: he also had the show that you were.
Speaker 2: Where did you get that?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right?
Speaker 3: That and you've got a really great story about that
Speaker 3: that we should get into it at some point. Let
Speaker 3: me just hold let me just ask you, because I
Speaker 3: don't know if I know the story. How did you
Speaker 3: You did tell us you've got a blind submission for
Speaker 3: the Adam Conover.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, we did stand up together open mics
Speaker 4: and stuff in New York City back in the early
Speaker 4: whatever is the two thousand Tennis area?
Speaker 2: I know we need a name for that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what the fuck can we please? I'm sick and
Speaker 4: tired of saying the early aughts.
Speaker 2: Let's coin one whatever.
Speaker 4: Someone says the early.
Speaker 3: Makes sense, that's like two thousand and one to two
Speaker 3: thousand and eight, Yes, but then what are we calling
Speaker 3: two thousand and nine to two thousand twenty.
Speaker 4: It sucks because if it was the nineteen hundreds, you
Speaker 4: could just say that was the twenties, that was the thirties,
Speaker 4: that was the forties. When we're in the.
Speaker 1: Ten, why don't I say the tens.
Speaker 3: Because two thousand ten nobody does the early two thousand tens, Like,
Speaker 3: what does that?
Speaker 1: Why don't I say in the early tens, Because no
Speaker 1: one's talking about the twentieth century anymore.
Speaker 2: I'm talking about nineteen ten.
Speaker 1: All the time, cholera, automobiles, scarvy, we know.
Speaker 2: Nothing, Okay, I found it.
Speaker 3: I'm totally around in this conversation, but I think it
Speaker 3: doesn't matter. We need to be taken out of it.
Speaker 2: Okay, so let's get us.
Speaker 3: Betts Ky is on fire right now. I've had a
Speaker 3: perfect amount of latte, okay, which is one and a half? Okay, Well,
Speaker 3: here's any lattes.
Speaker 5: Here's Kirsten's impersonation of Brian wondering about his wedding.
Speaker 4: I'm real curious where Brian Franzi is getting married, Like
Speaker 4: where is the National Park?
Speaker 1: I find him hilarious and I'm so glad that he
Speaker 1: is a part of the show.
Speaker 4: I have a meaning to say that because.
Speaker 3: I think it, and he's waits for the right time
Speaker 3: to talk, and yeah, between him.
Speaker 2: And audiaving on it, it's like the best it's ever been.
Speaker 2: So thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1: She's watching white asparagus.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she's always like meal prepping. She's doing something of
Speaker 3: a woman of which I was. Okay, Brian, how did
Speaker 3: that make you feel?
Speaker 4: That's so nice? And you know what I don't I've
Speaker 4: never met Kirsten, I don't think, but I do feel
Speaker 4: like I know her somewhat from watching the show on
Speaker 4: e Yes.
Speaker 2: She's incredible.
Speaker 4: I have a face to a name and a personality
Speaker 4: to a face and a name, and I I really
Speaker 4: appreciate that, And I'm going to compliment the complimenter for
Speaker 4: complimenting me. That makes me feel really good because I
Speaker 4: have a lot of self sometimes about, you know, doing
Speaker 4: stuff like this, putting myself out there and pretty much
Speaker 4: everything in general, and hearing compliments like that make me
Speaker 4: feel give me the confidence to continue. And it's just
Speaker 4: so it's just so important to me that someone would
Speaker 4: say something like that. So thank you so much.
Speaker 3: Oh that's so nice. I just watched a reel the
Speaker 3: other day or some tic. It was on Reddit because
Speaker 3: that's where I get my tiktoks. But it was a
Speaker 3: girl saying I never ever. She was kind of annoying,
Speaker 3: but which I should probably not say that based on
Speaker 3: what she said.
Speaker 2: But she says, you'll see the irony of why I
Speaker 2: shouldn't have said that.
Speaker 3: She goes, never keep a nice thing to yourself, only
Speaker 3: keep bad things to yourself. Never keep a nice thing
Speaker 3: to yourself, unless it's like nice boobs nightice ass. She
Speaker 3: never She's like gave an example. She was like, I
Speaker 3: was walking by a girl on the street and I
Speaker 3: saw her journaling, and I said, you know what, I
Speaker 3: am so glad I saw this day because it is
Speaker 3: a nice reminder that I need to get back into journaling.
Speaker 3: And then the girl goes, I actually haven't journaled for
Speaker 3: so long. That feels so good to hear. This is
Speaker 3: gonna make me journal more. So she was like, by
Speaker 3: saying that, I not only reinforced what she was doing
Speaker 3: that she was doubtful of, and she's gonna journal more,
Speaker 3: but I'm gonna journal more. And I felt good. It
Speaker 3: was just like, Oh, that's we need to be I
Speaker 3: always called them drive by compliments. I started doing them
Speaker 3: at Lollapalooza in like two thousand and nine. When I
Speaker 3: started going to Lollapalooza, I would like walk around, Yeah,
Speaker 3: the early tens, I would walk around, and because there's
Speaker 3: so many crowds and you're just walking through rivers of
Speaker 3: people upstream, I would just go like, nice bag, great legs,
Speaker 3: cool hair, nice hat, like and I would just do
Speaker 3: drive bys.
Speaker 2: And so it doesn't have to engage in.
Speaker 3: A conversation, but someone's just getting a little slit of
Speaker 3: a compliment, especially when you're going to something where people
Speaker 3: are being dressed to be seen, like a Coachella or
Speaker 3: Swift Cella, which is Taylor Swift Concerts. I was walking
Speaker 3: in those masses of people and I'm like, I know
Speaker 3: that I'm dying for someone to compliment my outfit that
Speaker 3: I've put thought into. Because everyone puts thought into their
Speaker 3: outfit at Taylor Swift Concerts. That why am I not
Speaker 3: complimenting every single person who's outfit I liked? And so
Speaker 3: I started and it felt so good to do. But
Speaker 3: I do want to ask you to follow up Kristen's
Speaker 3: question what National Park? Because I kind of Chris has
Speaker 3: handled all of our travels, so I don't know exactly
Speaker 3: where it is and why did you choose that National park?
Speaker 2: And what are we going to be doing?
Speaker 4: I will answer that question. However, I have a comment
Speaker 4: about what you just said. Please but drive by compliment.
Speaker 3: So like again, you your your choices of when to talk,
Speaker 3: like Christen said, are just genius.
Speaker 2: No, they are.
Speaker 1: It's good talking.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I have waited till she has finished talking and
Speaker 4: now I am talking. And when you're doing striking and
Speaker 4: you have the WGA signs. You can write whatever you
Speaker 4: want on the signs, and a lot of people are
Speaker 4: like taking these signs personally and it is kind of like, well,
Speaker 4: I'm a writer, I'm writing on this sign. If this
Speaker 4: isn't a good fucking sign, then like, and you're surrounded
Speaker 4: by other people who could potentially hire you.
Speaker 2: Got to compliment people's signs.
Speaker 1: The AI signs, those are fucking awesome.
Speaker 2: Traffic zones are like the Kardashunes.
Speaker 4: People signs is a genius idea. And also you'd have
Speaker 4: to make sure your signs. So I wrote a bad one, Okay,
Speaker 4: so I feel very not because I thought it's so
Speaker 4: bad because I thought it was good. And then I
Speaker 4: would be like, people be like, what's your sign? And
Speaker 4: then I feel like yeah, and then it's like, oh,
Speaker 4: it was this, and then I would get silence, Like
Speaker 4: I was walking with these two people who are like, uh,
Speaker 4: you know, more successful than me and there, and I
Speaker 4: was like, I wrote this sign, but it's I haven't
Speaker 4: seen it around lately, because you know, you leave the
Speaker 4: signs there when you leave, and they're.
Speaker 3: Like, what, you can pick up your sign anyone, Like
Speaker 3: you just keep rotating signs and they say what did
Speaker 3: your signs say?
Speaker 4: And I was like, it said two wrongs don't make
Speaker 4: a writer, and then just like now silence, Like.
Speaker 1: It takes a minute to compute, but it seems to.
Speaker 3: Sense compute is the right word. I think this is
Speaker 3: an argument for AI.
Speaker 4: We need never realize now it's.
Speaker 3: Funny that it's bad. It's honestly, you weren't. It's not
Speaker 3: you did not. You were not trying to be like prolistical,
Speaker 3: like you weren't trying that's the wrong word. I'm bad writer,
Speaker 3: But you weren't trying to be to write something that
Speaker 3: was going to like make people think. You were being
Speaker 3: ironic kind of and doing a pun obviously because your
Speaker 3: writer puns are the lowest common denominers.
Speaker 2: So you were being funny by you. I see what
Speaker 2: you're doing.
Speaker 3: It is funny in that respect, yeah, because you're trying
Speaker 3: to be a little honest.
Speaker 4: I wasn't trying to be ironic. I was literally thought,
Speaker 4: what is wrong?
Speaker 3: What is that?
Speaker 4: I don't know?
Speaker 1: AI is one of them and there's got to be
Speaker 1: and not getting paid a writer, you know.
Speaker 3: I thought was interesting about the AI thing, which I
Speaker 3: didn't know until I listened to Justin Bateman on something
Speaker 3: or read something that.
Speaker 2: She posted the w the whoever.
Speaker 3: They're not even willing to talk about AI, right, isn't
Speaker 3: that there's like a stalemate about that, Like they just
Speaker 3: don't even want to talk about it or refuse.
Speaker 4: To come to the table to discuss it because they say,
Speaker 4: we refuse to put limitations on a technology we might
Speaker 4: use in the future.
Speaker 3: Right, Okay, But I didn't realize the problem would be
Speaker 3: that AI. Okay, so it's going to take people's jobs.
Speaker 3: That's the big that's the big issue. That is like
Speaker 3: front and center. But the truth is that even if
Speaker 3: that happens, and that's all legal and fine, AI will
Speaker 3: only be able to generate new material based on the
Speaker 3: material that it is fed from writers who have existed before.
Speaker 3: So writers need to be paid for the machines that
Speaker 3: are going to use their writing. Not to mention they're
Speaker 3: going to lose their jobs, but like they should be
Speaker 3: compensated for like the stuff that's plugged into the machine.
Speaker 4: I thought that was.
Speaker 2: There's everything that exists.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it takes everything that exists, it plugs it into
Speaker 4: the machine, and then it spits out a you know,
Speaker 4: a farcical uh you know, plagiarized version of a script
Speaker 4: that a writer would write and has no humanity in
Speaker 4: it at all. I really don't believe that AI is
Speaker 4: ever going to be able to replace writers in terms
Speaker 4: of that. But what it can replace, we got humanity
Speaker 4: it can replace. If it replaces humanity, then it'll be
Speaker 4: great because then they'll be AI making stuff for other
Speaker 4: AI and that'll probably be a utopian society that would
Speaker 4: be better than we currently have.
Speaker 2: But I saw a clip of Oh sorry, what what's
Speaker 2: your butt?
Speaker 4: Well AI, so sag After is gonna has just decided
Speaker 4: they're going to do a vote on whether to strike
Speaker 4: or not. Also, and like A, I can definitely replace
Speaker 4: actors and actresses by just like they could take a
Speaker 4: likeness of you, Nikki. Like let's say you sign a
Speaker 4: contract and I'm gonna be doing this show and then
Speaker 4: you do tape for one day and they get all
Speaker 4: the angles of you, and then they can take your
Speaker 4: likeness and they can just have AI perform all the
Speaker 4: other scenes for you and you don't get paid for that.
Speaker 4: And that's what f Girl.
Speaker 3: Island will be once we get all the footage from
Speaker 3: f Boy three. Yeah, yeah, So that's they're gonna go
Speaker 3: you can go home early.
Speaker 2: We've that is.
Speaker 3: I mean, deep fakes are already so good, like you
Speaker 3: can kind of do that. I watch this one that
Speaker 3: someone made me, my friend Brian Monarch, who does deep
Speaker 3: fakes of like you'll often see like Joe Rogan and
Speaker 3: theovonn on different faces.
Speaker 2: Brian Monarch is the guy behind those.
Speaker 3: But he did one of me as Taylor Swift, and
Speaker 3: I watch it all the time because I go there
Speaker 3: and then there's me doing stand up is Taylor Swift face,
Speaker 3: and you just realize that Taylor Swift's prettier than me
Speaker 3: because I look weird on her face, and then she
Speaker 3: looks great on my face, and you just kind of go, oh,
Speaker 3: we know what's going on here. But besides that, I
Speaker 3: love watching it because there's oftentimes that I watch Taylor
Speaker 3: Swift and or anyone for that matter, doing things with
Speaker 3: their fingers, young Korean children playing guitar, and you go,
Speaker 3: my fingers can do all of those things.
Speaker 2: Those fingers are not.
Speaker 3: I have abilities that mine don't why why. It gives
Speaker 3: me hope, but it also gives me a sense of defeat.
Speaker 3: Do you ever do that where you're like that person's
Speaker 3: body is no different than my athletes. You go, no,
Speaker 3: that's different. They've worked harder. But like guitar like schlovey guitarists,
Speaker 3: I'm just like, there's no muscle. There are muscles there
Speaker 3: that I'm not aware of, and you know, there's just
Speaker 3: more than anything, there's brain, uh matter that I don't.
Speaker 4: Have irons connecting each other.
Speaker 3: I watch Anya do like fingerpicking and like, I don't
Speaker 3: even understand. I mean I do because I have sense
Speaker 3: that practice leads to like memorizing things and all that stuff.
Speaker 3: But even when you're playing that one song A Through Street,
Speaker 3: which if you've never heard on your song not A
Speaker 3: Through Street, please spotify right now, pause the episode, go
Speaker 3: to it. It's one of my favorite songs. But the
Speaker 3: fingerpicking on that, you go like all up and down,
Speaker 3: and it's just so I'm like, do you do you?
Speaker 3: It's when you play that song, is it is it
Speaker 3: a memorization thing like your body has memorized it?
Speaker 2: Or is it like, oh, I know what I'm doing.
Speaker 1: It's not hard. You could totally do it. There's just
Speaker 1: one part that's a little challenging. It's all about just memorizing, uh,
Speaker 1: Like patterns in my mind, like my fingers make this shape,
Speaker 1: then they make this shape. I don't know what notes. Right.
Speaker 1: I have the same thing with you when you're playing
Speaker 1: a Taylor swift strum that I don't know that I've
Speaker 1: talked about multiple times, and I'm like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the skill you don't have on the TI it's
Speaker 3: the only thing I have to my name.
Speaker 1: It's very frustrating and I'm slowly getting it, and it
Speaker 1: does come with repetition. But man, you invested a lot
Speaker 1: of hours because you you're singing things at a different uh,
Speaker 1: you're doing a syncopated thing, which is really advanced, and
Speaker 1: you don't even know you're doing a syncopated thing, but
Speaker 1: it's incredibly hard for me. So nice it's like and
Speaker 1: patting your head at the same time.
Speaker 3: Right, Well, I have that feeling a lot when, like,
Speaker 3: you know, normal everyday people say like the funniest thing
Speaker 3: I've ever heard that is not just like you know,
Speaker 3: the way they said it, or like a funny thing,
Speaker 3: like it's like actually like mathematically hilarious, where I'm like.
Speaker 1: Oh, like two wrung make a writer.
Speaker 4: That's mathematically Oh so then I mean, this is just
Speaker 4: this is just life. You know, I wrote, I just
Speaker 4: drew a picture of a pile of shit, and it
Speaker 4: fucking lit up the place. Everybody was like, ha ha,
Speaker 4: look at that.
Speaker 2: Did it have any a caption with it?
Speaker 4: It was a pile of shit. It just was a
Speaker 4: pile of ship with flies around it. And people were like,
Speaker 4: I love that.
Speaker 1: You should go into art, not writing an animator.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you are an animator. You do great animations.
Speaker 3: Was that decasting at all for you?
Speaker 1: That you're like, wait, I barely tried on this.
Speaker 3: So embarrassing when that happens when you when you get
Speaker 3: a compliment for something that took zero, zero effort, Like
Speaker 3: in writing, in preparing my new special that I'm going
Speaker 3: to tape this December and Seattle Watch Out, I am
Speaker 3: talking to Chris about all my jokes and he's like, well,
Speaker 3: you got to do this one, and I'm like, I
Speaker 3: hate that joke. Every time I tell it, I cringe.
Speaker 3: I don't like when people laugh at it because I
Speaker 3: didn't do anything to earn it.
Speaker 4: I did.
Speaker 3: It didn't take any brain power. It was it was
Speaker 3: my shit. You know, It's me drawing a picture of
Speaker 3: shit which I have drawn, and I've actually talked about
Speaker 3: drawing shit on stage. And that was actually one of
Speaker 3: my favorite jokes is when I talk about I think
Speaker 3: it was my last special. Maybe I cut it out,
Speaker 3: but I talk about how I'm less. It was something
Speaker 3: about being less scared of people finding nudes in my
Speaker 3: phone than if oh, I can't take a picture of
Speaker 3: my shit. I've wanted to take pictures of my shit
Speaker 3: to like send my friends because they've been so impressive.
Speaker 3: And if I could just say for a second I
Speaker 3: had I did not really have a lot of exodus
Speaker 3: happening in my European trip. I have to go to break.
Speaker 3: I'm going to share with you something that happened this morning,
Speaker 3: and I want to talk about.
Speaker 2: It, but I was really stuffed up all the break.
Speaker 3: And then we're going to talk about shit when we
Speaker 3: get back, but I will not be graphic, and and
Speaker 3: maybe Brian will drop in sture of it. Okay, so
Speaker 3: we've got a lot of loose ends to tie up.
Speaker 3: We're going to find out why you're having a wedding
Speaker 3: in the and then we let me just talk about
Speaker 3: So the observation I made in my special about shit
Speaker 3: was that I didn't want my nudes to leak but
Speaker 3: I'm more worried about if I've never taken a picture
Speaker 3: of my shit, even though there's been times where it's
Speaker 3: looked exactly like something like one time it looked exactly
Speaker 3: like mister Hanky, the shit from South Park, like it
Speaker 3: was him, and I want to take but I couldn't.
Speaker 3: I couldn't because what if I'm what if someone finds
Speaker 3: my phone or it's been like especially huge, And I
Speaker 3: think the joke I made was like I could give
Speaker 3: birth out of my ass based on this, Like, and
Speaker 3: I've so Anya and I when we were living together,
Speaker 3: because I never want to take a picture of it,
Speaker 3: I would draw it. It's almost like, yeah, they I
Speaker 3: it would be better off drawing a picture of Mohammed
Speaker 3: than I would like the shit that I've there would
Speaker 3: be more damning for my reputation.
Speaker 2: But do you guys ever have the thing?
Speaker 3: So I was really stopped up in Europe, and I
Speaker 3: guess that is a common thing, like it's the travel bloat.
Speaker 3: Like I sent a picture to Anya of my stomach.
Speaker 3: She's some one back later I looked weirds once pregnant.
Speaker 3: I think we talked about this already, No, we did not,
Speaker 3: but I looked legit. Shivroy last episode of Succession six
Speaker 3: months pregnant, and I showed Chris. I put a towel
Speaker 3: over it to show Chris because I couldn't have him
Speaker 3: see my actual but I was like, just no, underneath this,
Speaker 3: look look at me, I look pregnant.
Speaker 2: He was just like, are you like?
Speaker 3: He was still confused by it.
Speaker 1: It is crazy what the body could do, and that
Speaker 1: it's just gas, mostly gas and water.
Speaker 3: Well mine was material, and it was and then I thought,
Speaker 3: you know, by the end of it, I was like,
Speaker 3: you know, things are happening, things are flowing. There's like
Speaker 3: little things happening here and there, but there was nothing substantial.
Speaker 3: And I'm not someone who tracks like what's going on
Speaker 3: with my body very much, but the past two days,
Speaker 3: I don't know if anyone's ever had this. I woke
Speaker 3: up this morning with a horrible headache and it started
Speaker 3: last night. And I've been kind of regular since I
Speaker 3: got back, which is my favorite word to say, I've
Speaker 3: been shitting normally. When people are just like regular, it's
Speaker 3: such a stupid word. It's like when people are like,
Speaker 3: we're trying and everyone's like, oh, you're getting cummed in
Speaker 3: every night.
Speaker 2: Like it's kind of the same thing of like I'm regular.
Speaker 3: It's like, eh, I just see like poop like coming
Speaker 3: out in a good amount of chunks coming out of
Speaker 3: your butt. So uh, I was thought I was regular.
Speaker 3: And then this last night I had like a headache.
Speaker 3: This morning, I woke with that headache. I couldn't get
Speaker 3: out of bed, and I was, you know, putting my
Speaker 3: eyemask on super tight so it would just push my
Speaker 3: head to make it stop. And then I went to
Speaker 3: the bathroom and I was like, oh my god, that
Speaker 3: was it. I was like, oh, this, that like solved
Speaker 3: my headache. Then I went down to Starbucks and had
Speaker 3: a sip of coffee and I instantly was.
Speaker 4: Like, what's the bathroom code?
Speaker 2: And it is.
Speaker 3: I try to memorize it because every time I always
Speaker 3: think I'm not gonna need it in my phone, but
Speaker 3: I should have put it in. I think it's oh,
Speaker 3: I remembered it sixty two twenty three, and you know
Speaker 3: how I remembered it. I was saying, that's like, just
Speaker 3: remember a disgusting age like a couple in Hollywood, like
Speaker 3: sixty two twenty three, Like that to me is just
Speaker 3: like a gap that would happen. So I went in
Speaker 3: there and I had the best BM of my life,
Speaker 3: which is is on par with many I've had, but
Speaker 3: isn't the best one Where you're in a public space
Speaker 3: where you're like kind of worried about the plumbing situation.
Speaker 2: And you're you're you're the eel that you release in
Speaker 2: the wild.
Speaker 3: The electric eel goes right down the hole like it
Speaker 3: knows where its home is, like disappeared souse.
Speaker 2: You love that when you.
Speaker 3: Look in and it's like already on its way, and
Speaker 3: you're like, this is gonna be no issue, because the
Speaker 3: issue is always the breaking up of it, and then
Speaker 3: it's then it breaks and then it tries to go
Speaker 3: in twice like those designs try to go in.
Speaker 2: We all know this.
Speaker 3: This is a thing that happens some of the most
Speaker 3: most of us. But I was like, has anyone talked
Speaker 3: about the satisfaction when you look down and you go, oh,
Speaker 3: good snake, you.
Speaker 2: Know where your home is. It's already like headed out
Speaker 2: the door. Is that relatable?
Speaker 5: I always imagine like the like those Olympic divers and
Speaker 5: they have like the perfect dive, and that's what I
Speaker 5: related to.
Speaker 3: Yes, Yes, it just slices through the water perfectly. There's
Speaker 3: gonna be it barely even there's no it doesn't touch
Speaker 3: the out. You could drop your phone in the bowl
Speaker 3: and if it just hit the sides, it wouldn't even
Speaker 3: touch the giant.
Speaker 1: And aren't you kind of shocked and proud when like
Speaker 1: the kale is coming out?
Speaker 4: Yeah? What do you mean?
Speaker 2: Like it's like, like what's coming out of the hole?
Speaker 3: Oh, I've never had that before, but I think in
Speaker 3: Europe I did a little bit, even though that my
Speaker 3: poops weren't big enough because in Europe that's where it
Speaker 3: would have happened, because the water level is so low
Speaker 3: in Europe toilets.
Speaker 1: Yes, And you have another observation Berlin that you never
Speaker 1: saw because in Berlin apartments because we weren't in apartments,
Speaker 1: we were in hotels. But in the apartments in Berlin
Speaker 1: there is a poo shelf and there's no water, so
Speaker 1: when you poop, you poop on a shelf in the
Speaker 1: toilet and then there's like then it flushes. So it's
Speaker 1: truly disgusting because.
Speaker 3: So it flushes, it comes from the water comes from
Speaker 3: the side of the bowl onto the shelf and pushes
Speaker 3: it down like a wall.
Speaker 1: And do you know what the shelf was for? It
Speaker 1: had a practical poops for people to inspect for worms
Speaker 1: and stuff. So you're supposed to like go through your poop.
Speaker 1: It's insane. I went to my friends and I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: it smells the entire bathroom up. If it doesn't immediately.
Speaker 2: A trophy shelf. It's for some of the things I've
Speaker 2: let go.
Speaker 3: And I had worms in my poop in fourth grade
Speaker 3: and I remember seeing them and then they went back
Speaker 3: inside really quickly.
Speaker 2: By the time I called my parents in, Oh god, And.
Speaker 3: I remember being like, there were and I thought I
Speaker 3: was hallucinating because they would not come out again once
Speaker 3: they got spooked by my parents being there. They were
Speaker 3: party worms and they don't like parents around, and so
Speaker 3: they ran they thought the cops were coming. They ran
Speaker 3: back in the poop, and I was like, I know,
Speaker 3: I saw it. And then I made the dumb mistake
Speaker 3: of telling my friend Molly Collier and you're out there.
Speaker 3: She's actually nice to me now, she's a fan. She
Speaker 3: spin at shows, but she I told her in fourth
Speaker 3: grade that I had worms in my poop, and man,
Speaker 3: then everyone everyone knew. By lunch or by recess that
Speaker 3: I had worms in my poop and then I had
Speaker 3: to deny, deny, deny, kind of like Kendall Roy in
Speaker 3: the final episode in one pivotal scene, not gonna spoiler,
Speaker 3: not even a spoiler alert, just giving you you got
Speaker 3: to get to it if you haven't gotten to it yet,
Speaker 3: to get to it. But have you ever done that
Speaker 3: where you told someone something embarrassing when you were young,
Speaker 3: and then.
Speaker 4: Well you denied, and then you pooped, and then you're like, everybody,
Speaker 4: look at my poop because the worms hide, and then
Speaker 4: of course the dumb worms would come out if you
Speaker 4: showed everybody yeah.
Speaker 3: Or if you were yeah, if everyone go, look there's
Speaker 3: no worms, because you know they're going to hide, and
Speaker 3: then that's when they're like, hey, what's up.
Speaker 2: I'm finally ready to come.
Speaker 3: Out, like they're pride month for worms. Yeah okay, Brian,
Speaker 3: Why why the national park? We know you love the outdoors.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, your lady, Ali, But why this one?
Speaker 2: And where are we going?
Speaker 4: We are going to Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado, right, okay?
Speaker 4: And that's also where I proposed And yeah, Ali and
Speaker 4: I have this thing where we want to go to
Speaker 4: all sixty three national parks before we die?
Speaker 1: Before we die? Yeah, how many do you have?
Speaker 4: Over twenty? Over twenty? Yeah, oh that's good. You can
Speaker 4: die soon, yeah, I've Yeah, maybe I shouldn't go that fast.
Speaker 2: Lesson, are you getting married outside? Are you when?
Speaker 3: Are you starting to look at the weather, like is
Speaker 3: it that far out that you can start kind of seeing.
Speaker 2: Mountain two weeks?
Speaker 4: Mountain weather is unpredictable, but I kind of hope, you know,
Speaker 4: the mountain weather, really I don't. I hope that it rains. Honestly,
Speaker 4: I love the rain. I think it would be great
Speaker 4: if it rained. It's outside, but it's a coming.
Speaker 3: Really seems easy going, like she wouldn't care if it rains,
Speaker 3: and she'd look like hot and rain.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think, yeah, she she would. She wouldn't care.
Speaker 4: I think she's like prayin too. Thank you, thank you
Speaker 4: very much.
Speaker 2: You got a good one.
Speaker 4: When you say that on the podcast, you know she
Speaker 4: listens to the podcast, and when you say she's pretty,
Speaker 4: it like makes her weak.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 3: If she doesn't know she's she's one of the prettiest
Speaker 3: people going, like naturally effervescently, a beautiful person like Chris
Speaker 3: and I are pretty obsessed with her, and she's just
Speaker 3: she's just a lovely person. I'm actually really looking forward to,
Speaker 3: like going on trips with you guys as couples and
Speaker 3: getting to know her more and better because she's just
Speaker 3: an instantly fun person.
Speaker 2: I first met her.
Speaker 3: I think maybe I met her before Tim's wedding, but
Speaker 3: that's when I first feel like I got to know her.
Speaker 4: No, we went to we went to a breakfast brunch
Speaker 4: thing at the Sunset Junction. Lizzie Cooperman was there, Yeah,
Speaker 4: Chris was there.
Speaker 2: Not an ideal such.
Speaker 3: Yes, I think I was in like a funky mood
Speaker 3: that day, and I've been in some funky moods around her. Actually,
Speaker 3: even when we went to dinner at that cow. I
Speaker 3: think it was, Oh, you feel like you if you're listening,
Speaker 3: I apologize for my mood that night.
Speaker 2: Oh, like I was in a bad mood man?
Speaker 4: Really, Yes, Oh I was.
Speaker 2: I'm not. I don't think I was. I know I was.
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 3: I was depressed that day and I was being kind
Speaker 3: of like existential dread nikki of like I don't even
Speaker 3: like my life, Like I was just being a bitch.
Speaker 3: And then I think it was probably triggered by how
Speaker 3: pretty she was. And I was feeling fat that night
Speaker 3: and she just looked and she got like all this
Speaker 3: food that I was like, man, she just is one
Speaker 3: of these girls that can eat what she wants and
Speaker 3: like she just looks great, like just me at my worst.
Speaker 3: And then I and then I knew Chris. I felt
Speaker 3: bad because it was supposed to be like couples having
Speaker 3: a couple of dinner and like getting to know each other.
Speaker 3: And I'm just morose and I'm not being rude, but
Speaker 3: I'm just being I'm just in a bad mood. And
Speaker 3: and then I felt bad because I know that I
Speaker 3: wasn't my best for that. And it was like I
Speaker 3: think that Chris was was wanting it to be like
Speaker 3: this is we're going to be this foursome, you know,
Speaker 3: this is the quad, the reference succession, and I felt
Speaker 3: like I blew it.
Speaker 2: And then I felt like we.
Speaker 3: Were deemed it on the street though, because we talked
Speaker 3: to you about some ideas.
Speaker 4: This is mind blowing, how because.
Speaker 1: What was this like the early times?
Speaker 3: This was no, this was November December, yeah, it must
Speaker 3: have been January.
Speaker 2: Okay, I was here. It was before Brian was on
Speaker 2: the podcast.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you guys were just visiting. You as were just visiting,
Speaker 4: and maybe this was when you were doing uh real
Speaker 4: a fortune or something. I don't know, Yes, exactly I was.
Speaker 2: We weren't.
Speaker 3: This wasn't in our Santa Monica trip where we were
Speaker 3: living there. This was a separate visit when I was
Speaker 3: just at a hotel down the street. So yeah, he
Speaker 3: was there visiting.
Speaker 4: Yes, this this is a lesson to everybody listening. I'm
Speaker 4: sure this happens all the time. Because I left that
Speaker 4: dinner thinking that I was a piece of shit and
Speaker 4: I felt like I wasn't at my best because I
Speaker 4: had gotten my tooth extracted six days prior to the dinner.
Speaker 2: You were in pain.
Speaker 4: I was in horrible pain. I just felt like I
Speaker 4: wasn't anything. I couldn't get anything. I asked the wait
Speaker 4: I can't have to ask the waiter what's the softest
Speaker 4: food they have?
Speaker 2: But that was funny. You brought levity with your pain.
Speaker 4: But this is the lesson. This is the lesson. After
Speaker 4: that dinner, I was in the car with Alli and
Speaker 4: I was like, was I just a piece of shit
Speaker 4: all night?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: And she was like no, No. I was like it
Speaker 4: just didn't feel like you know, usually when the the
Speaker 4: four or the three of us, ALLI wasn't usually there,
Speaker 4: but when the three of us hang out, it feels
Speaker 4: just very easy, comfortable and easy. And that night I
Speaker 4: was like, I think I was a piece of shit. No,
Speaker 4: it was me, man, Yeah, you were picking my vibe.
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 3: I will take responsibility for that because you were in pain,
Speaker 3: and I'm sure there was something off about you, but
Speaker 3: I was not having I was not yes ending that night,
Speaker 3: and it was on me, and I like, I've been
Speaker 3: pretty reflective this morning. I was doing some journaling about
Speaker 3: my mood disorder that I clearly have, and like that
Speaker 3: reared its head in the international trip like literally a
Speaker 3: thousand times. I just there's an email coming to you,
Speaker 3: Anya at one o'clock because I have this new feature
Speaker 3: on Gmail that everyone should do. If you're writing on
Speaker 3: your phone, you hold down the send button and then
Speaker 3: it gives you the option to send later and pick
Speaker 3: a time. Yeah, and it's so great because I wanted
Speaker 3: to send this. I wrote this whole email to Anya,
Speaker 3: just you know, going over our trip, a post mortem
Speaker 3: if you will, and just thanking her. But I was
Speaker 3: also like being reflective of like all of the shit,
Speaker 3: like all the shitty things I did on the trip,
Speaker 3: because I was like pretty like not great sometimes, I
Speaker 3: you know, and and there was nowhere for me to
Speaker 3: like usually and I'm not making excuses, but I am
Speaker 3: usually I have alone time to cry or to like
Speaker 3: really panic and like kind of vent, not even cry
Speaker 3: because I don't really cry when I'm alone, but like
Speaker 3: being alone, I guess helps me just let it out
Speaker 3: in whatever way. But I was never alone because I
Speaker 3: was with Crystal whole time, which is great because I
Speaker 3: wasn't like abusing food with for my feelings because I
Speaker 3: was accountable. I wasn't like there were so many great
Speaker 3: things about living with someone, and in fact, Chris and
Speaker 3: I decided like we want to live together after this
Speaker 3: trip because there were those great things spoiler alert, but
Speaker 3: I but I do think that living in small hotel
Speaker 3: rooms where there's not separate rooms and places for you
Speaker 3: to get away and have a loan time, because when
Speaker 3: we had that in like certain areas we now falcony, even.
Speaker 1: If you Todd had separate rooms, like no time to
Speaker 1: do any it.
Speaker 3: Just my feelings got constipated and so I was cranky
Speaker 3: and bloated the entire time. None of my clothes fit,
Speaker 3: which is the number one time for Nikki to I
Speaker 3: hate to talk to the third person, but for me
Speaker 3: to feel bad is to be uncomfortable in my clothes.
Speaker 2: None of them fit.
Speaker 3: And I made the mistake of I have this amazing
Speaker 3: stylist here in Saint Louis who hooks me up with
Speaker 3: She writes companies on my behalf and has them send
Speaker 3: me stuff and then I post and tag them and
Speaker 3: then we send them back.
Speaker 2: And I've talked about this.
Speaker 3: They're all sample sized twos, but I didn't try on
Speaker 3: any of the outfits before I went because I was like,
Speaker 3: I'll be fine, you know. And then I get there
Speaker 3: and I have nothing to wear except these clothes that
Speaker 3: are all too tight and make me feel insane.
Speaker 2: And meanwhile I can't poop. I'm bloated.
Speaker 3: I just and I was like under the impression that
Speaker 3: Europe is supposed to make you like diuretic or whatever,
Speaker 3: but it didn't happen for me, and so I was
Speaker 3: just like a moody bitch and like I really and
Speaker 3: I don't think I'm alone in this.
Speaker 2: That's why I'm sharing it.
Speaker 3: Like I don't think this is something unique about me
Speaker 3: or I'm a bad person, But like I when I
Speaker 3: get in a bad mood, I want to make other
Speaker 3: people in a bad food too, Like I want other
Speaker 3: people to feel mad or to feel to feel like
Speaker 3: I feel.
Speaker 2: What is that?
Speaker 3: And why do I don't think everyone does that because
Speaker 3: I don't have it happen to me from other people
Speaker 3: all the time. But like, what is that need to bring?
Speaker 3: Why don't I want to absorb some people's happiness instead
Speaker 3: of bring people down with me because.
Speaker 4: I don't want Yeah, you're looking for affirmation. You want
Speaker 4: I feel this way, and if other people don't feel
Speaker 4: this way, that means I'm a psychopath and so I
Speaker 4: need adds to it.
Speaker 1: And you know what I say about psychopath? Am I crazy?
Speaker 1: I'm so weird? Why can't I be like other people?
Speaker 2: We're also harder work to feel better, it's easier.
Speaker 3: And when you're feeling sad, your your muscles are like
Speaker 3: you're you're emotionally weak, like you can't do the hard thing,
Speaker 3: and it's easier just to do the worst thing, which
Speaker 3: is just stay in that mindset and like make little
Speaker 3: jabs that, like you know, aren't specific enough for that
Speaker 3: person to go like fuck you, but like, are shitty
Speaker 3: enough that they feel bad, Like.
Speaker 2: I'm probably a kind of expert at that.
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, we talked about muscle memory in the first segment,
Speaker 5: and because you've done it so much, it's just like
Speaker 5: muscle memory now, so I'm like unwired that it is
Speaker 5: really difficult with.
Speaker 2: A guitar, except in mindes with you know.
Speaker 4: It feels so good to keep digging and digging deeper
Speaker 4: and just piling on. That's it almost feels like indulging in,
Speaker 4: like eating a bunch of food, or like, uh, we're
Speaker 4: staying in bed, Like if you wake up in the morning,
Speaker 4: you just stay in bed. Like it's so easy to
Speaker 4: just keep doing that. And something I learned recently is
Speaker 4: that you can fake being happy, all right, you can
Speaker 4: fake it. You can smile, you can just even if
Speaker 4: it's like to psychotic degree of being like I'm happy.
Speaker 4: This is amazing, Oh my god, this is the best
Speaker 4: thingy ever. And the trick is that will not make
Speaker 4: you feel better that day, but it will make you
Speaker 4: feel better two days from them.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's like exercise or like eating right. Why doesn't
Speaker 3: it just show up right away?
Speaker 2: I gotta try that.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's true.
Speaker 3: Can I tell you about a book I'm reading a
Speaker 3: third of right now that I'm so into, Yes, and
Speaker 3: this is legit. I know that I've felt this way
Speaker 3: about a lot of books, but I stand by all
Speaker 3: the ones that I said, this is good. This is
Speaker 3: kind of talking about the same kind of thing that
Speaker 3: I There was a book I was reading a long
Speaker 3: time ago.
Speaker 2: Let me just I forget what it was.
Speaker 3: It was probably last summer, and it was about manifestation
Speaker 3: and quantum physics and how if you imagine something enough.
Speaker 3: It's also Louise Hey. I've talked about her, just like
Speaker 3: the power of positive thinking, and obviously this has been
Speaker 3: talked about extensively everywhere you look. But this book that
Speaker 3: I don't know why it was in my library on
Speaker 3: my phone, but I think I just download books sometimes
Speaker 3: from the subreddit books.
Speaker 2: It'll say like, what's a book that's changed your life?
Speaker 3: And I just anyone who has a list that I
Speaker 3: think is compelling, I'll just download all those samples of
Speaker 3: the books. And so one day I was looking for
Speaker 3: something to read, and that day, being on the way too,
Speaker 3: on the way to the Europe trip. I was reading
Speaker 3: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck, which, by
Speaker 3: the way, is was everyone read in twenty fourteen or
Speaker 3: sixteen when it came out.
Speaker 2: It's so good, you guys, I know, it's kind of
Speaker 2: ki and.
Speaker 3: It's like the set of like the amount of people
Speaker 3: who like commented on my book and were like, Oho,
Speaker 3: that's a funny title, Like how did were you asleep?
Speaker 2: In twenty sixtey?
Speaker 3: This was everywhere, but they but it it really and
Speaker 3: the guy kind of it's in a co way, but
Speaker 3: it's very conversational and he's not ka.
Speaker 2: The book is not ca.
Speaker 3: They made him call it that, like the publishers were like,
Speaker 3: you should call it that. He wanted to call it
Speaker 3: something else. So like just like my show Not Safe
Speaker 3: with Niki Laser, which that name was so cuh and
Speaker 3: I didn't like it at all because it made it
Speaker 3: seem like what.
Speaker 2: I'm doing is not safe.
Speaker 3: We wanted to call it NSFW, just like not safe
Speaker 3: for work, like this is stuff that like you shouldn't
Speaker 3: watch it work, and it wasn't us being like we're
Speaker 3: so nuts.
Speaker 2: Safe for work.
Speaker 3: But then they were like, no one knows what NFW means,
Speaker 3: them being Comedy Central, and they weren't wrong. Some people
Speaker 3: didn't know, but they would have googled it or something.
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter anyway, they made us call it not safe,
Speaker 3: and I hated it because it sounded like I thought
Speaker 3: I was sweet, and I don't think I'm sweet. Sometimes
Speaker 3: I do, but I'll usually attest to it. Then I
Speaker 3: did not think I was sweet, So I hated that title.
Speaker 3: So anyway, don't judge a book. But this book I'm
Speaker 3: reading now, it's called The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
Speaker 3: by Joseph Murray PhD and then Comma d D.
Speaker 2: I don't know what DD is Dungeons.
Speaker 1: And dragonstor dentistry.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: But it's it's it was written in the sixties, I believe,
Speaker 3: or maybe the early seventies, but probably sixties, and it's
Speaker 3: it's the language kind of the way it's written is
Speaker 3: kind of new age and kind of kind of like
Speaker 3: it just sounds like some guy who thinks he's pretty sweet.
Speaker 3: But it is all about and it's just what I
Speaker 3: love about it is you get everything you need from
Speaker 3: the first chapter and then it's just repeating it over
Speaker 3: and over. And I love a book like that, because
Speaker 3: what that tells me is this is simple, but what
Speaker 3: is difficult is getting it through your fucking skull. So
Speaker 3: I like a book that's not like this is all
Speaker 3: these steps. It's like, what is difficult is not what
Speaker 3: we're doing. It's what it is forgetting all the stuff,
Speaker 3: you know. And that's the same thing my voice teacher
Speaker 3: said yesterday. He was like, singing is not hard. People
Speaker 3: think it's hard, but what is hard it's psychological. What
Speaker 3: is hard about singing. He's like, most people could be
Speaker 3: good singers. He was like most people besides like Harvey
Speaker 3: Fires who actually has a throat thing like both of
Speaker 3: his vocal like all of his vocal folds are.
Speaker 2: Filing at the same time.
Speaker 3: So he always said like this, He was like, that
Speaker 3: guy can never sing good, but most people can sing.
Speaker 3: What gets in the way is trying too hard. And
Speaker 3: what you need to do is learn how to to
Speaker 3: not try, which is hard in and of itself, but
Speaker 3: it's actually you have to learn to not do things.
Speaker 2: And that's what this book is about.
Speaker 3: It's about just positive thinking, like how you have to
Speaker 3: just anytime you have a negative thought, just don't say
Speaker 3: it out loud, don't give it. I've said yesterday on
Speaker 3: the Girl's Chat, don't put air in that balloon, like
Speaker 3: just you know it's there, have the thought, but like,
Speaker 3: don't feed that dog. The dog that's like, ah, like
Speaker 3: don't like, don't feed that possum.
Speaker 2: Let starve.
Speaker 3: But the thing that I like about is that you
Speaker 3: because it talks about how it can heal. And it's
Speaker 3: also quantum physics y, which I always like, but it's
Speaker 3: not actually talking about that, but it's the same things
Speaker 3: as the other guy talked about. That really sold me
Speaker 3: on how manifestation is a science and it's not just
Speaker 3: like fufu woo woo God shit, and this is all
Speaker 3: about God and how people pray things away and how
Speaker 3: prayer works, not because necessarily God is doing things for you,
Speaker 3: but because your subconscious mind is what is running everything
Speaker 3: in your body. It's the thing that's keeping you breathing.
Speaker 3: You're not like thinking like I have to breathe right now,
Speaker 3: you know, like it just keeps your heart beat going.
Speaker 3: All these things, your subconscious mind is in control, and
Speaker 3: your conscious mind is giving directions to your subconscious mind
Speaker 3: all the time. And your subconscious mind is kind of
Speaker 3: autistic in the sense that it takes you literally. It
Speaker 3: does not have a sense of humor, it does not
Speaker 3: have a sense of irony, So you have to tell it.
Speaker 3: Have I said this before on this podcast? Yeah, sorry,
Speaker 3: sorry to repeat myself, but I think it was like it.
Speaker 4: But I'm getting in again and again.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry to do it again, but I'm so on
Speaker 3: board and I do think there's something to this. I'm
Speaker 3: resisting it so much because it's so it's exactly what
Speaker 3: we're just talking about. It's the harder thing to do,
Speaker 3: which is just not feed that dog and feed those
Speaker 3: negative thoughts because you want to so badly. But the
Speaker 3: more I read about this, it's like prayer works because
Speaker 3: you are trusting that God is going to take care
Speaker 3: of it. The people that prayer works for where they
Speaker 3: heal things about their body, things that they could never heal.
Speaker 3: It's not because you know, necessarily God is waving his
Speaker 3: magic wand and a miracle is happening. Your subconscious mind
Speaker 3: is your conscious mind is saying, please, God, take this away,
Speaker 3: and it's believing that God is taking it away. People
Speaker 3: that really believe there's a guy that's like I care
Speaker 3: about you, and I'm going to take care of you.
Speaker 3: They believe it so much that you send a signal
Speaker 3: to your subconscious mind that is not doesn't have any
Speaker 3: sense of like does any make believe or that you
Speaker 3: would ever be lying to it, And it actually runs
Speaker 3: with that and then starts the healing process and it
Speaker 3: works on a cellular level of all this. You know,
Speaker 3: the way that you are breathing right now, and you
Speaker 3: don't have to tell it to breathe. It will start
Speaker 3: healing these things. And it can work for ailments, and
Speaker 3: it can work for talent and artistry or a thing.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: I've just been going, like, my body rids the energy
Speaker 3: that it doesn't need and keeps what it does.
Speaker 2: And this is my new weight loss plan.
Speaker 3: I am like, instead of because I've been like trying
Speaker 3: to tool with like maybe I'll try to get on nozepic,
Speaker 3: maybe I'm gonna start starving myself again. All these things,
Speaker 3: I've just been like kind of gambling with myself. But
Speaker 3: instead I'm just telling myself, my body uses the fuel
Speaker 3: it needs and it gets rid of the fuel it doesn't.
Speaker 3: It doesn't keep around things it doesn't need, and that
Speaker 3: to me is what being the right size is is.
Speaker 3: Like I don't want to. I just want to be
Speaker 3: the right size for me. I'm feeling a little bit
Speaker 3: bloated right now and to get to that right size,
Speaker 3: which I have been before, and I've been healthy at
Speaker 3: that size. I'm just telling myself, I am a beautiful,
Speaker 3: long slender.
Speaker 2: Lady, which I am.
Speaker 3: I'm a tall lady that has long slender features, and
Speaker 3: that is just who I am, and that is who
Speaker 3: I will. I'm just saying saying that to myself over
Speaker 3: and over. I'm not saying I am Kate Moss. I
Speaker 3: am you know things I wish I were that my
Speaker 3: body can't be necessarily. I'm just sending the messages of
Speaker 3: something that I know is within the realm of possibility
Speaker 3: for me, and I'm telling my body like this is
Speaker 3: what I am. And I'm also telling my body I'm
Speaker 3: one of the best singers that's ever lived. I'm one
Speaker 3: of the greatest comedic minds of all time. I am
Speaker 3: the voice of a generation. I am telling myself things
Speaker 3: that I let me just sneak it in, don't really believe,
Speaker 3: but no, I am saying them over I'm just saying
Speaker 3: that just because I don't want anyone to think that
Speaker 3: I think these things, but I want to be these things.
Speaker 3: And so I am telling myself that I am because
Speaker 3: you the key what I've learned, And if anyone knows
Speaker 3: more about this than me, please enlighten me. But the
Speaker 3: key is not to say what you want to be
Speaker 3: and be like, I want to be the best singer ever.
Speaker 3: I want to be the best singer ever. Like writing
Speaker 3: that over and over or you know, meditating on that,
Speaker 3: it's I am.
Speaker 2: I am right, the best singer ever.
Speaker 4: It goes beyond just like make forcing your subconscious do it.
Speaker 4: You need to have that attitude. It is a requirement
Speaker 4: in order to become the best singer ever or the
Speaker 4: best comedian ever. Because the way the world views you
Speaker 4: is only fifty percent on talent, then it's fifty percent
Speaker 4: on confidence. And you need to have that aura about
Speaker 4: you that says I am the best and I know it.
Speaker 4: Are you stupid because it seems like you don't know
Speaker 4: it yet. That's the way you become the best.
Speaker 3: I'm scared of being that though. Let me be honest,
Speaker 3: I'm scared of being that dilute. Let that person that
Speaker 3: I know who's delusional. I want to feel again like
Speaker 3: I want to approve of myself. I want to know
Speaker 3: my limitations and be okay with them. But at the
Speaker 3: same time, You're right, I do. I do want to
Speaker 3: be the best singer in the world, which I'm never
Speaker 3: going to sound like Beyonce.
Speaker 2: I don't think or Adele.
Speaker 3: I don't think my head shape or my vocal chords
Speaker 3: are shaped in the way to ever.
Speaker 2: Be that way.
Speaker 3: But I think Taylor Swift is my favorite singer, one
Speaker 3: of my favorite singers, and she does not have the
Speaker 3: same voice as a Kelly Clarkson or an Adele or
Speaker 3: a powerhouse of like Ariana Grande, and I think she
Speaker 3: would even admit that. But her voice to me is
Speaker 3: something so special that I would trade in all of
Speaker 3: those girls for her voice any day, because it's it's
Speaker 3: perfect to me. And so I think that that is. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I think that's what I'm getting at. And it's so
Speaker 3: hard to do though. I gotta say that maybe this
Speaker 3: is why I'm repeating it on here is because I
Speaker 3: I when I first read it, I was like, this
Speaker 3: is what I'm gonna do every morning. I'm gonna write
Speaker 3: one hundred times over. I'm the best singer in the world.
Speaker 3: My body rids itself of energy that it doesn't need.
Speaker 3: It keeps what it needs. I'm a slender, beautiful young woman.
Speaker 3: My face is not falling off my skull like I
Speaker 3: was gonna say all the things like you can't am
Speaker 3: or like gravity will affect my face in a beautiful way,
Speaker 3: like I'll say, whatever it.
Speaker 4: Is, nuttle bit of the I uh, my body rids
Speaker 4: itself of things it doesn't need. There's too many negatives
Speaker 4: in there. It should be my body only keeps what
Speaker 4: it needs like something like that.
Speaker 3: Yes, okay, yes, you're right, that's good. Keep it positive.
Speaker 3: That's a good point. And I was like, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: do this every morning. It's been a struggle for me
Speaker 3: because I've been waking up feeling not like that, and
Speaker 3: I've given into not having those thoughts, and I've I've
Speaker 3: given into the negative thoughts, and I've been like kind
Speaker 3: of blowing up those balloons. Even though I'm reading this
Speaker 3: book knowing and I know for sure this works. I
Speaker 3: have no question. I'm as sure as there's no free will.
Speaker 3: And you guys all know how I feel about that.
Speaker 3: I'm positive this works. I've never been so positive of
Speaker 3: anything in my life yet. I'm still struggling to use it. Brian,
Speaker 3: have you been on you? I know that Noah and
Speaker 3: Anya know about the power of positive thinking.
Speaker 2: Why aren't we all doing this all the time.
Speaker 4: Because of the pharmaceutical industry they want to make money
Speaker 4: off you by giving you pills. Everyone. Capitalism just tells
Speaker 4: you you're not enough, and we have if for fourteen
Speaker 4: ninety nine a month, we have the solution your problem
Speaker 4: and it takes five seconds. People are too lazy, They
Speaker 4: just they don't want to do.
Speaker 1: How do I get it?
Speaker 4: Apple TV? You know that's all you need?
Speaker 2: Oh right?
Speaker 4: I mean whatever it is like, you know, you could
Speaker 4: take a pill, or you could go to this person
Speaker 4: or whatever they're selling, or you could just buy this
Speaker 4: hamburger and you'll feel better for five seconds. That's what
Speaker 4: capitalism is. It's it's creating needs in you, saying you're
Speaker 4: not good enough, you don't have this, and you need
Speaker 4: all of these products.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you stink, you're disgusting.
Speaker 4: You're a piece of shit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, why don't you do it? Do you do? You
Speaker 3: do a lot of positive stuff, But like.
Speaker 1: I think human beings are I keep doing We're complicated.
Speaker 1: We're not all positive. So we have a lot of
Speaker 1: this darkness, and that's why we probably don't do this
Speaker 1: stuff every day because the dark voices are always there,
Speaker 1: and it's just a practice. It's like yoga, you know,
Speaker 1: every day you try to turn the volume up on
Speaker 1: the affirmations and the positive stuff and turn the volume
Speaker 1: down on the bullshit. So much of what I what
Speaker 1: was what was ailing me was I was believing my
Speaker 1: thoughts and then I realized my thoughts are not facts.
Speaker 1: It's just like an angry guy in there. That's like,
Speaker 1: you know, the cool thing about affirmation or like dreaming, daydreaming, fantasizing,
Speaker 1: visualizing what you'd like. Uh, I think that that's so power, prayer,
Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it is. The reason it's
Speaker 1: so useful is sometimes you haven't even thought about what
Speaker 1: you want. You're just thinking how much you don't like
Speaker 1: what you have? Oh the sacks? Why is this this way?
Speaker 1: I hate my voice, I hate my partner, I don't
Speaker 1: like where I live. And then if someone's like, what
Speaker 1: what do you want in.
Speaker 2: A perfect world?
Speaker 1: Like my experiment about let's say a phone rings and
Speaker 1: you pick it up and your dream is on the
Speaker 1: other end of the phone. They're like making this job,
Speaker 1: or you're gonna move here, or you're gonna be dating
Speaker 1: so and so. What is the phone call saying? Like
Speaker 1: when you write down wow, or you visualize the dream,
Speaker 1: it's hard and sometimes you realize it. Fuck, I don't
Speaker 1: know what I want. I don't even know what I
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 2: What I want.
Speaker 3: My mom has said that to me my whole life,
Speaker 3: you don't even know what you like. When she's holding
Speaker 3: up two pairs of shorts for me to like wear
Speaker 3: to school and we're at Famous Bar and she's shopping
Speaker 3: and I'm doing that thing crossing my arms and she goes, Nick,
Speaker 3: which one of them?
Speaker 2: Do you want to get these or this one? I'm like,
Speaker 2: I don't know. She was like, you don't even know
Speaker 2: what you like?
Speaker 3: And I that's another That's another struggle for me. Is
Speaker 3: like Chris talking about what's our five year plan? Just
Speaker 3: imagine what you want in ten years? And I'm like,
Speaker 3: more of this. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't I don't know. But what about that phone call?
Speaker 3: I want to hear what if we had to, if
Speaker 3: you have to choose right now that a phone is
Speaker 3: gonna ring and on the other end is going to
Speaker 3: be what is it?
Speaker 2: Anya? It's like asking you something, or.
Speaker 1: It's like, guess what this information? She got a job
Speaker 1: by SNL or you're okay, he's doing a movie with
Speaker 1: Judd Apatower.
Speaker 2: So it rings.
Speaker 3: First of all, I'm not going to answer because I'm
Speaker 3: gonna be like, who the fuck is this number?
Speaker 2: And your ringers off.
Speaker 4: Miss and it goes to voicemail, and it's like, hey,
Speaker 4: what is your dream? If you have a chance, and
Speaker 4: you please call me back because I have a lot
Speaker 4: of good things.
Speaker 3: My voice mail is full, so it just doesn't even
Speaker 3: get through. Okay, Brian, what is your call right now?
Speaker 4: Ring? Ring?
Speaker 3: Ring?
Speaker 4: Ring? Ring? Hello? Oh, and I have to say I'm you,
Speaker 4: I'm you. Hello. Hey listen, Brian, you just this, Oh
Speaker 4: this is your dream calling you? Uh listen, you just
Speaker 4: sold a cartoon to Fox or Pulu or something, and uh,
Speaker 4: you're going to be the creator and showrunner of your
Speaker 4: own cartoon.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, that's a good one. Okay, guess what
Speaker 2: can you.
Speaker 1: This is not outlandish to mean, don't know it at
Speaker 1: all at all.
Speaker 3: I'm like, well, that's what I'm asking is do you
Speaker 3: have scripts out there to the could that happen? Could
Speaker 3: a script get into the hand of someone that could
Speaker 3: call you and say that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I did sell a show once, but
Speaker 4: it just didn't get picked up the series. So it's
Speaker 4: I'm I'm close enough, but I uh yeah, you know.
Speaker 4: I it's just so hard.
Speaker 3: That's so God man, your dream stresses me out. If
Speaker 3: that call came in, I'd be like I got to
Speaker 3: come up with an idea and I got to like
Speaker 3: learn how to draw, Like I love that someone else's
Speaker 3: dream could be my like kind of like uh stressful thing,
Speaker 3: But I love that dream for you, and that is
Speaker 3: so gonna happen for you and even you putting it
Speaker 3: out here like this, there's maybe someone listening that's like
Speaker 3: works in you know, uh what's it called talent development?
Speaker 2: Or like, you know what what is it called when
Speaker 2: companies are looking for scripts and stuff?
Speaker 4: Oh, there's a production company development?
Speaker 3: Sorry, development, there's someone working in television development that has
Speaker 3: some sort of now is a little bit inquisitive of
Speaker 3: like what's the sky I have to offer? Because yeah,
Speaker 3: and where could we send them to go check.
Speaker 2: Out your stuff?
Speaker 4: No, I do. I would love to write your Instagram.
Speaker 4: I go to my Instagram at Brian Frangie. But I
Speaker 4: would love to have one day. This is not like
Speaker 4: my dream, but I do want to have a coffee
Speaker 4: table book about apples. Yeah, okay, that seems pretty easy.
Speaker 2: That's the next call. Yeah, that's the text that you get.
Speaker 3: Okay, We're going to get to the rest of our
Speaker 3: calls after this break, and I would implore you guys
Speaker 3: to think of this yourself and maybe call into the
Speaker 3: show and let us know what you're u And you
Speaker 3: can find that at our Instagram underneath our bio in
Speaker 3: the in the biopart, there's a link to a place
Speaker 3: where you can leave us a fantherex message and.
Speaker 2: Tell us what your call is. This is so fun.
Speaker 2: We'll be back with more. Okay. Noah, ring ring ring,
Speaker 2: it's your dream calling.
Speaker 5: Hello Noah, yeah, Hi? Can you speak louder I can't
Speaker 5: hear you.
Speaker 4: Are you there?
Speaker 2: Hello? Yeah?
Speaker 3: One second please, I just need to close out these
Speaker 3: windows right here.
Speaker 2: And yes, Hi, it's uh noah, noh. We have great news.
Speaker 5: You have land with a farm and cows and horses
Speaker 5: and all the animals that you've ever dreamed of. It's
Speaker 5: all paid for. You won't have to pay property taxes,
Speaker 5: either it's all yours?
Speaker 2: Oh whoa? Okay, So Noah's dream is to inherit land
Speaker 2: with cows. What else was on it? Horses?
Speaker 4: Chickens?
Speaker 2: And where is this? Okay? So wow, this sounds great.
Speaker 2: Where exactly can I ask? Just can I ask a
Speaker 2: few questions?
Speaker 3: Is that?
Speaker 4: Okay? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Of course? Okay? The rest of your life? Exactly? Is
Speaker 2: this farm?
Speaker 5: Uh in Arizona where there's really comfortable weather all year long?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 3: Wow, well this is really great and I'm just gonna
Speaker 3: need a couple of days to think about it.
Speaker 2: There's gonna be dogs and cats. Do we say that?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: Oh wow? Will they get along? It sounds like it's
Speaker 2: two animals that don't get along. I'm thinking of all
Speaker 2: the problems.
Speaker 3: This is my inheriting land and getting a cartoon that
Speaker 3: I have to produce.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry to make it.
Speaker 3: About me, but I'm thinking, like, I love that other
Speaker 3: people's I love that everyone's dream is so different. You
Speaker 3: want to have an animal sanctuary? That's that's that sounds
Speaker 3: so good? Noah, I want to go visit it. That
Speaker 3: does exactly a wing for birds pun intended. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: can't either. When he retired, I was like that is
Speaker 3: my dream. I want to be able to retire and
Speaker 3: just like save animals, we should we should collapse on
Speaker 3: that because I want to have Yeah, I want to.
Speaker 3: I also would love whenever I see these videos online
Speaker 3: of like cows playing with balls and like birds flying
Speaker 3: around and being friends with other fishes and stuff like
Speaker 3: it's that's so, that's so great. Okay, so that is
Speaker 3: a great call. I don't know how you're gonna have
Speaker 3: the property tax part of it.
Speaker 1: It's all paid for in the dream.
Speaker 3: Yeah, someone is gonna like leave you something like this
Speaker 3: is totally plausible. That's someone who you're a nice person. No, no, no,
Speaker 3: no one in your family. That's that's not gonna happen
Speaker 3: for you. But like Jesus, you know someone is gonna
Speaker 3: encounter Noah and be so touched by her like overall
Speaker 3: generosity and spirit that you're gonna be one of these
Speaker 3: people that has left something just from like you being
Speaker 3: kind of being like, oh, sir, your shoe is untied
Speaker 3: instead of and being like I know it is. They're
Speaker 3: gonna be one. Thank you so much. Let me put
Speaker 3: you in my will and give you all this land. Okay,
Speaker 3: Ring ring, Ring.
Speaker 1: Hello, mate, it's Anya.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm doing you, and then you're your dream.
Speaker 1: Hey, you know that song even fucking toiling over for months,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be in the trailer for this thing. And
Speaker 1: you're gonna be independently wealthy because, uh, you and your
Speaker 1: co writers will split two point five million dollars and
Speaker 1: you can finally buy that house that you want with
Speaker 1: the dream kitchen, and your parents are going to live
Speaker 1: close by, and you'll live in the same city as
Speaker 1: your friend, so you won't have to do this podcast
Speaker 1: on zoom and all your friends and family will be
Speaker 1: close by.
Speaker 3: I just tell you, like, I'm not even joking. I
Speaker 3: first of all, I love this dream. But the other day,
Speaker 3: Chris and I were talking about moving in together and
Speaker 3: then eventually like getting a house if we get married
Speaker 3: and all these things, and I was like, you know,
Speaker 3: we're talking about where we want to live, and I'm like,
Speaker 3: I want to live and I love living in Saint Louis,
Speaker 3: but I was like, I got to get a friend here,
Speaker 3: like I need a friend here that I can see every.
Speaker 2: Day, like I need it.
Speaker 3: And I was like, I'm gonna work on convincing Audien
Speaker 3: move to say Louist.
Speaker 2: Really and so yes, we're open.
Speaker 3: So we're open to I know, and Chris goes really
Speaker 3: and I go, I think they're open to it, and
Speaker 3: I'm like, I think I can sell them on it.
Speaker 3: I'll just like see what I can do. But I
Speaker 3: do in your dream as well, because it's part of mine.
Speaker 3: I like need to live close to a friend.
Speaker 1: That's the thing everyone that is so useful about this
Speaker 1: because I don't even know exactly what my dream is.
Speaker 1: I just know generally I want to be close to
Speaker 1: friends and family.
Speaker 2: Don't know how that's going to happen, but you don't
Speaker 2: have to know.
Speaker 1: But just by articulating it, something in your subconscious mind
Speaker 1: kind of like revs up a little bit, and then
Speaker 1: you start making choices in your life that are slightly
Speaker 1: different because now you kind of know the feeling you
Speaker 1: want to have, like I want to have the feeling
Speaker 1: of being close to friends, or like doing the podcast
Speaker 1: in the same room, or like having my parents down
Speaker 1: the street. Don't know how it's going to happen, but
Speaker 1: it just I think it affects your choices in small ways.
Speaker 1: It's not magic, you know what I mean, But it
Speaker 1: just gets you thinking in a different way.
Speaker 2: Okay, here's mine. Wait what Brian.
Speaker 4: No, I was just going to ring the phone. But
Speaker 4: I do want to say it's also important. It's not
Speaker 4: just thinking in the same way. It's when you do
Speaker 4: this phone call conversation, it generates a feeling inside of you.
Speaker 4: It's a feeling of what you would feel like when
Speaker 4: you did have success with your subconscious Braine, is.
Speaker 3: Your subconscious mind that you're getting it, and then your
Speaker 3: subconscious mind makes it happen.
Speaker 1: So often you start feeling more worthwhile and worthy. Like
Speaker 1: when I was trying to be in a happy relationship
Speaker 1: and I was painfully single and sad and dejected. I
Speaker 1: would do that in the mirror every night, like as
Speaker 1: if the guy I liked, my dream partner was saying
Speaker 1: all the things I'd ever want said to me. And
Speaker 1: at first I couldn't come up with anything. Then I
Speaker 1: was like, well, how could you have a dream partner
Speaker 1: if you don't even know what you want? But then
Speaker 1: it was like, I love you, I have your back,
Speaker 1: You're the sexiest person I've ever met in my life,
Speaker 1: like things that sounded ridiculous, but I'm like, you said
Speaker 1: it out loud, yes, And then I started in the
Speaker 1: mirroring yeah, and then I'd be like this is so
Speaker 1: awkward and weird, but like, why is that crazy?
Speaker 2: Where did you hear to do that?
Speaker 1: A friend of mine was like, you should do some affirmations,
Speaker 1: like tell yourself all the things you want your dream
Speaker 1: and you got it. And then I started going to
Speaker 1: bed at night instead of crying myself to sleep. I
Speaker 1: had the feeling that I was in love and I
Speaker 1: was having amazing dreams, and I was like giddy and
Speaker 1: like I had this crush feeling and I was like
Speaker 1: this feels bad, Like this feels like I'm getting away
Speaker 1: with something like doing drugs. I was so high off
Speaker 1: this feeling. It fucking worked. So if you're in that
Speaker 1: situation in your life, try that for a couple nights
Speaker 1: in a row. Tell yourself the things you wish your
Speaker 1: dream partner would say to you. No one ever has
Speaker 1: to know. You never have to say it on a podcast.
Speaker 3: You don't have to, but like, it's so nice that
Speaker 3: you did, because it is embarrassing all these things, like
Speaker 3: doing them alone or like that's why it helps this
Speaker 3: phone call thing, to like do it as a podcast.
Speaker 3: This is like content, so it doesn't have to be
Speaker 3: as embarrassing. And that's where I ask you to call in,
Speaker 3: because I'm asking you to do it so you don't
Speaker 3: have to feel.
Speaker 1: Bad about it.
Speaker 2: Okay, Hello, Hi? Is this is this Miss Glazer?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Hold on, I got my sleep mouse?
Speaker 2: Who is this? Wait?
Speaker 3: Hi?
Speaker 2: I'm actually this is urgent.
Speaker 3: I don't it won't take long, I promise you, and
Speaker 3: and you can think about it and don't worry.
Speaker 2: This is not going to you. You aren't. You don't
Speaker 2: have to do anything right now about it. That's my dream.
Speaker 3: Is someone's starting back with like you don't have to
Speaker 3: get back to this right away.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: Taylor Swift has heard about you and your love of
Speaker 3: her music and appreciative appreciation of her music, and she
Speaker 3: is really looking to mentor someone musically to take them
Speaker 3: to through the process of being a singer songwriter. And
Speaker 3: she really thinks, based on what she's heard from you
Speaker 3: and what she's seen of you, that you really have
Speaker 3: what it takes to be a great singer songwriter and
Speaker 3: that she can really help you through that process, and
Speaker 3: she wants to be your mentor and is inviting you
Speaker 3: to come out on the road with her and just
Speaker 3: be a part of the experience, and she'll try to
Speaker 3: help you write off stage, and she really also wants
Speaker 3: some of your comedic input in her own life. And
Speaker 3: I think that she artistically thinks she could both benefit
Speaker 3: each other very much. And then eventually we'd like to
Speaker 3: work towards a place where you can, you know, a debut,
Speaker 3: you know, do be featured on a song of hers
Speaker 3: on a future album, and then share the stage with
Speaker 3: her at some point in a future concert if you
Speaker 3: work hard enough and you get to the point where
Speaker 3: she thinks you're deserving of that.
Speaker 1: I love this. No one knew this. What not really?
Speaker 3: This is.
Speaker 4: Like not to this degree.
Speaker 3: You never wanted to meet her, Like Chris, don't meet
Speaker 3: her until she wants to meet you, Like that's that's
Speaker 3: the ticket, is like, you don't meet her.
Speaker 2: We heard that from someone famous. I forget who.
Speaker 3: Chris could remind me, but he said, don't because I
Speaker 3: think I have a chance to meet her this weekend,
Speaker 3: and I'm gonna turn it down because I just don't want.
Speaker 3: I want to meet her when she wants to meet me,
Speaker 3: and because I'm going to see her this weekend. Sorry
Speaker 3: to people who haven't been able to go to aras yet.
Speaker 3: I know this is getting annoying, but in Chicago I'm
Speaker 3: going to see her with my mom and then another night,
Speaker 3: two nights. But yeah, I just feel like I think
Speaker 3: my last time we did this and the girls chat
Speaker 3: this phone call thing, my dream was like her asking
Speaker 3: me to be in a music video, but that would
Speaker 3: be like me being like funny in it, and I
Speaker 3: don't really want to do that, Like I wanna. I
Speaker 3: like what Pariglia did in her music video.
Speaker 2: I thought that was so awesome.
Speaker 3: I would have loved to be asked to do that,
Speaker 3: but I want I want to I want her help
Speaker 3: in becoming an artist, even though like and I want her.
Speaker 2: Approved.
Speaker 3: I guess it would be or like I want her
Speaker 3: to see something in me and be like, you've got it, girl,
Speaker 3: you know something like that. I think that's why that
Speaker 3: whole thing was about, like she's noticed that you have
Speaker 3: what it takes, but that you might need some assistance,
Speaker 3: and she's going to help you because I acknowledge that
Speaker 3: what I want I need a lot more help on.
Speaker 3: So I think what I've learned from my from this
Speaker 3: test is that I I'm still about the hard work
Speaker 3: of it. All, and I don't want like a simple fix,
Speaker 3: but I want to earn something.
Speaker 2: But I want Yeah, I want. I'm open to help.
Speaker 4: So what did you when you were saying that and
Speaker 4: you were doing the phone thought, how did you feel?
Speaker 4: What were the feelings that manifested.
Speaker 3: Like, Yes, I get to go do something and like
Speaker 3: be a student again and be a novice, and I
Speaker 3: get to clearly I'll be paid well and taking care
Speaker 3: of on this tour, so I don't need to worry
Speaker 3: about money. I don't need to be worried about taking
Speaker 3: like I love doing comedy and gigs, like I'll never
Speaker 3: stop doing that, and I would probably still do the
Speaker 3: podcast on tour with her. But it was like there
Speaker 3: was a feeling of like youthness, of like youthfulness, of
Speaker 3: like newness, like when you're learning something new or you're
Speaker 3: embarking on this thing that's like scary.
Speaker 2: There's like there was.
Speaker 3: A feeling of the feeling I had in my early
Speaker 3: twenties like pursuing comedy, of like I don't know what
Speaker 3: this is, this is crazy, or like and of like
Speaker 3: approval like uh, that you're on the right track and
Speaker 3: that this thing that you're kind of throwing yourself into
Speaker 3: and have a lot of self doubt about is is
Speaker 3: validated by the person that you care so much about.
Speaker 3: Uh and and like, you know, like Jerry Seinfeld telling
Speaker 3: me I was funny. I was like, okay, got it,
Speaker 3: I'm good like now, And for many months I was
Speaker 3: like very like I was riding that high, you know.
Speaker 3: And Anya even had to remind me in Europe like
Speaker 3: remember what Seinfeld said, Like you're funny, Like you don't
Speaker 3: need to question that, And but I do, because I
Speaker 3: listened to clips of Tim Dillan, and I'm like, how
Speaker 3: how can I think I'm funny when there's Tim Dillan, which,
Speaker 3: by the way, he is a book coming out. I'm
Speaker 3: so fucking excited about it. It's he's I think I
Speaker 3: heard him on your mom's house. I was listening to
Speaker 3: clips this morning. I don't know if I was cutting
Speaker 3: with them or I was like trying to be inspired.
Speaker 3: It's hard to tell when you're listening to someone you
Speaker 3: admire so much, like whether you're like trying to make
Speaker 3: yourself feel worse about it. Clips are cut, by the way,
Speaker 3: meaning they're edited. I get that, but still off the dome.
Speaker 3: He is so he's one of the he's just superhuman.
Speaker 3: And I and the fact that I'm even able to
Speaker 3: acknowledge that and know that makes me feel special, Like
Speaker 3: I know that I'm talented because I'm able to know
Speaker 3: that Tim Dillon is the best.
Speaker 2: Like clearly there's something.
Speaker 3: It gives me self esteem to know that I know
Speaker 3: for sure he's the best. But he's shared in this
Speaker 3: Your Mom's House clips was so funny. It's the one
Speaker 3: where he's introducing his book. You can find it online.
Speaker 3: I think it's like Tim Dillon Clips is like the
Speaker 3: YouTube channel. But he's talking about how his dad like
Speaker 3: one time told him like, you know what's good about you?
Speaker 3: He was like, I was smoking cigarettes with my dad
Speaker 3: at the age of like well in his car. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Like he was like, and you know he told his
Speaker 3: dad told him, you know what's good about you, like
Speaker 3: meaning there's one thing he finally found it. He goes,
Speaker 3: you never smoke him down to the filter. He always
Speaker 3: leave something. He goes, that's what's good about you. And
Speaker 3: it was making me last word. But then he also
Speaker 3: said that his dad used to always like kind of
Speaker 3: say things like there's always gonna be someone who can
Speaker 3: do what you do, You're never that special kind of
Speaker 3: like always cutting everything with like, no matter what you
Speaker 3: achieve in life, there's someone who can do it, like
Speaker 3: kind of the way I think about myself, of like
Speaker 3: anyone can do this. It's not that I'm not special,
Speaker 3: and in certain ways I am, But I said, I
Speaker 3: tend to see things pretty like it's about hard work,
Speaker 3: it's about luck. It's just like, don't don't get on
Speaker 3: your high horse too much. And his dad would say that, Tim,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, it's so funny that. But I think
Speaker 3: Tim dillan out of every comedian I know, I do
Speaker 3: agree that most comedians people could do that, and they're
Speaker 3: are like like copycats of like it's kind of repetitive
Speaker 3: a lot of times. It's not that we don't need
Speaker 3: more of that. It's great every you know, artists are
Speaker 3: inspired by others. But I do believe Tim Dillon is
Speaker 3: one of the exceptions to that.
Speaker 2: I think he is.
Speaker 3: So extraordinarily uniquely funny. And I was just thinking, like
Speaker 3: I'm just like, uh was I don't think I was
Speaker 3: cutting with his clips, because sometimes I do.
Speaker 2: I go like, God, you'll never be this funny. He's
Speaker 2: so fucking smart. And fast and funny.
Speaker 3: But this morning I was like trying to be more
Speaker 3: inspired by it and tap into whatever that. Obviously I
Speaker 3: admire it, So it's somewhere in me that kind of
Speaker 3: like honesty and brutality with which he speaks that I
Speaker 3: look up to so much that I'm like, let me
Speaker 3: get some let me have more of that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and let me tell.
Speaker 3: I'm even talking like him now, Like, let me let
Speaker 3: me listen to this and absorb some of it. The
Speaker 3: other day, I was trying to write like a bunch
Speaker 3: of jokes about one topic. I just wanted to write
Speaker 3: a bunch of jokes about having gained a little bit
Speaker 3: of weight, because I think that's just like an interest
Speaker 3: topic to discuss it, just like just a little bit,
Speaker 3: you know, like it's not enough to really complain about
Speaker 3: or for anyone to feel bad about you. But I
Speaker 3: was like, where can I go with this? And I
Speaker 3: was on this porch of this hotel in Tel Aviv,
Speaker 3: and I was like, I just want to write a
Speaker 3: bunch of jokes, And instead of just trying to do that,
Speaker 3: I was like, who writes a bunch? Who just has
Speaker 3: jokes rapid fire? And so I just started watching Jim
Speaker 3: Gaffigan on two times the Speed on YouTube, and I
Speaker 3: just like dumped buckets of jokes on my head and
Speaker 3: like I was sopping wet with that kind of like
Speaker 3: thinking and that kind of joke writing, which Jim Gaffigan
Speaker 3: is just like joke. There's no fat in the jokes.
Speaker 3: There's no like you know, yes, I typed in like
Speaker 3: fat jokes and it's like all Jim gaffigin. But if
Speaker 3: you ever want to hear jokes about any topic, you
Speaker 3: type in Jim Gaffigan in that topic and he has
Speaker 3: twenty minutes about it, and I think he has the
Speaker 3: most precise like writing. So I've been using things that
Speaker 3: I'm jealous of or sorry that I'm envious of to
Speaker 3: inspire me more so lately.
Speaker 2: Do you guys ever do that?
Speaker 3: Do you ever like immerse yourself in something that you
Speaker 3: might avoid otherwise because it makes you feel bad?
Speaker 4: I mean Tim Dillon did that to me. You know.
Speaker 4: Tim Dillon was my podcast co host for like eight
Speaker 4: months on like ten years ago, on The Unbelievable podcast.
Speaker 2: Wait, I think I did know this, but I forgot it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he was my he was my co host who
Speaker 4: were co host do you agree.
Speaker 2: With me about what that he's extraordinary.
Speaker 4: Well, this is what happened on the podcast. He would
Speaker 4: be on the podcast and I was like, this guy
Speaker 4: is a fucking star and like he's just he shouldn't
Speaker 4: be here. And then eventually like what is he doing here?
Speaker 4: And then so we had eight months of you know,
Speaker 4: great podcasts and the eventually he left to do his
Speaker 4: own podcast. But I this was like in twenty twelve,
Speaker 4: I was like, this guy is so funny. It's like,
Speaker 4: I'm not ready to be on the same podcast as him.
Speaker 4: And then he did leave, and then the podcast was shit. No,
Speaker 4: but it was it was fine, and I was I
Speaker 4: saw it from twenty twelve or whenever it was. And
Speaker 4: then he left, and then I was not surprised when
Speaker 4: he when he blew up.
Speaker 2: Are you still friendly with him?
Speaker 4: If I saw him, he would say hello, but I
Speaker 4: don't like, you know, text him or anything. Gays.
Speaker 2: We're podcasting for eight Was it a was it a
Speaker 2: bad ending?
Speaker 4: One of the best moments of No, No, it is
Speaker 4: a perfectly fine ending, one of the best moments. Because
Speaker 4: he would come to my apartment in Sunnyside, Queens and
Speaker 4: I used to make chicken franchse. One of my best
Speaker 4: dishes that I could make, and one of my proudest
Speaker 4: moments is I made chicken Franchise and there was some
Speaker 4: leftovers and Tim was at the house and I was like,
Speaker 4: you want some chicken Franchez because I know he's like
Speaker 4: a foodie guy. Yeah, And he goes and he tastes
Speaker 4: the chicken franchise and he goes not bad, not bad. Yeah,
Speaker 4: a little too much white wine, but not bad. And
Speaker 4: that was like, oh my god, that was like the
Speaker 4: best compliment coming from him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he ill. I mean, it's the best compliment coming
Speaker 3: from him that he was a co host.
Speaker 2: He must. You don't agree to be a.
Speaker 3: Co host on someone's show and you think they've got something,
Speaker 3: and which you clearly have, there's no question of that,
Speaker 3: that's why. And you don't you don't ask someone to
Speaker 3: be a post on your show if you don't see
Speaker 3: that they have and like like you did with Tim,
Speaker 3: like I want to absorb someone something of what this
Speaker 3: guy has. But yeah, it's and then it's hard to see,
Speaker 3: especially it's sometimes hard to see people that you started
Speaker 3: with or like we're beneath you. In the comedy world,
Speaker 3: like you know, eclipse you or like I struggle with
Speaker 3: all that stuff, but I'm finding like just just try
Speaker 3: to try to enjoy it and not compare yourself, but
Speaker 3: like use it to learn. Like that's why I want
Speaker 3: a mentorship from Taylor Swift, Like use these things as
Speaker 3: mentoring devices as opposed to like making you feel bad
Speaker 3: about stuff, like do you do that?
Speaker 2: Anya? Do you do this?
Speaker 1: I think envy is one of my favorite emotions because
Speaker 1: it tells me what I want, and sometimes I don't
Speaker 1: know what. I'm one of those personalities that's a that
Speaker 1: can you know, has a really hard time making decisions
Speaker 1: because I can see all the good sides of each
Speaker 1: possible option. But I remember when I was working at
Speaker 1: the radio station as a DJ in San Diego and
Speaker 1: I saw my friend's tour schedule. She was a singer songwriter,
Speaker 1: and I was like filled with envy and rage, and
Speaker 1: then I was like, what are you doing? Why are
Speaker 1: you on the radio if you're so envious? Start taking
Speaker 1: steps to have her life. If you want her life,
Speaker 1: what are you doing? And that's when I was like, Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm stuck here because of me, But I can have
Speaker 1: what she has if I start taking like, no one's
Speaker 1: going to knock on my door and call me and
Speaker 1: be like, hey, guys, so you have a full tour
Speaker 1: scheduled that's sold out. If you've never even made a.
Speaker 2: Record, what was the purpose of this call?
Speaker 1: This calling thing, the things we were on our phone
Speaker 1: calls are possible. Everything you we've all said, I mean,
Speaker 1: is extraordinary. But you're taking voice lessons. You are comedian.
Speaker 2: Taxes are unavoidable. It's death and taxes that she's never
Speaker 2: gonna die.
Speaker 1: No, Noah might end up being like I saw a
Speaker 1: really cool farm in Arizona and.
Speaker 3: Attracts exactly text she can afford the property tax, text
Speaker 3: right off because it's a pea. Yes, yes, because it's
Speaker 3: a sanctuary. Okay, thank you, all right.
Speaker 2: Also, I just found to have the.
Speaker 1: Weddings on your land. You can write it all off.
Speaker 1: That was it? Just that envy is really is really
Speaker 1: helpful to me. So sometimes I'll hear a song that
Speaker 1: I'm like, God, damn it, I wish I had written that,
Speaker 1: and then I'm like, just start writing something like that.
Speaker 1: I think it informs your next steps. Was that an
Speaker 1: answer to your question? Did you ask me?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: That was good?
Speaker 3: Okay, No, no, no, I think that was I think that
Speaker 3: was it. I actually saw this thing. I'll end on this.
Speaker 3: I followed I guess on Instagram you can like follow
Speaker 3: hashtags and I follow like voice teachers or something. And
Speaker 3: there's this woman that I really like and she sells
Speaker 3: like or she she's yeah, she sells classes, but she
Speaker 3: also gives good advice.
Speaker 2: And this was one that I really liked.
Speaker 3: She's talking about performance and like being a better performer,
Speaker 3: and she said visualization is the practice of mentally imagining
Speaker 3: yourself performing in a way you would like to perform
Speaker 3: in real life. It's a mental rehearsal of skills toda.
Speaker 3: The idea is used in Olympic sports training. The studies
Speaker 3: show that when athletes use visualization they improve performance up
Speaker 3: to thirty percent. So for your next performance, try mentally
Speaker 3: rehearsing your performance scenarios and see if your physical performance
Speaker 3: of those scenarios and actions improve. So the thirty percent improvement,
Speaker 3: I've read that before too. I think Neil Brennan suggested
Speaker 3: me a book that was like the ten percent. It
Speaker 3: wasn't ten percent happier. It was some sports book about
Speaker 3: like visualization and like you meditate and you imagine the
Speaker 3: game you're about to play, and then those players play better.
Speaker 3: I've never done anything like that where I'm like prep
Speaker 3: picturing the performance.
Speaker 2: I would struggle with that.
Speaker 3: I struggle with like fantasy and like even you know,
Speaker 3: with masturbation. I'm never like thinking about some thing. But
Speaker 3: I guess now that there's a I usually looked at
Speaker 3: fantasy of like you're so dumb, you're never going to
Speaker 3: get this, Like this is just a sad thing, like
Speaker 3: I pictured it like kind of pathetic, And now that
Speaker 3: there's a purpose behind it that you could be thirty
Speaker 3: percent better, maybe I could start trying to do it.
Speaker 3: But there was another one too, that said, be well rehearsed.
Speaker 3: Science has proven that when musicians or athletes rehearse their
Speaker 3: performance ahead of time, they perform up to thirty percent better.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's so true. We all fucking know that.
Speaker 1: Bring is back to the thing we started with in
Speaker 1: the beginning about weddings and anxiety. Today, this morning I
Speaker 1: did like a little bit of wedding prep work that
Speaker 1: I've been putting off, and I felt so good and
Speaker 1: excited about getting married, which is a nice feeling, just
Speaker 1: because like I don't.
Speaker 2: Know I bought.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I bought like this stuff I'm supposed to wear
Speaker 1: under the dress, which is so annoying and complicated to
Speaker 1: me because I don't know how to wear, like what
Speaker 1: kind of bra and what kind of slip and I
Speaker 1: have to get the slip altered and it's fucking annoying.
Speaker 4: But I did it.
Speaker 1: I bought all the things. I'll probably not wear any
Speaker 1: of them, but I bought a bunch of options and
Speaker 1: answered the caterer and wrote to the fucking delivery people,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh, now I'm getting prepared. It's the
Speaker 1: same thing as playing guitar for a couple hours or
Speaker 1: like before Europe, I picked out all my outfits and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, I was like thirty percent less
Speaker 1: nervous because I'm like, I know what outfit I'm wearing
Speaker 1: on what day, and it feels so good.
Speaker 3: Do you ever watch these people like on YouTube, like
Speaker 3: the guy Jay Shetty with the ice blue eyes, and
Speaker 3: like all these other like influencers that you kind of
Speaker 3: think they're full of shit. Ryan Holliday he's the stoicism guy.
Speaker 2: There's Lewis Howells. He's a friend of mine.
Speaker 3: But like these guys and it just seems so easy
Speaker 3: for them to do all these things all the time.
Speaker 3: It can't be, though, right, Like, no one just lives
Speaker 3: thinking positively, always practicing. I think the only person that does,
Speaker 3: maybe is Taylor Swift, because and that is why she's
Speaker 3: been so successful. Like I look at her success and
Speaker 3: it's like I read this diary that they posted on
Speaker 3: the Reddit the other day because she shared her like
Speaker 3: journals from the years, and it was like, today's the
Speaker 3: anniversary of when she picked the nineteen eighty nine album cover,
Speaker 3: and I was like, who gives a shit? And then
Speaker 3: I read the journal entries where she was like, I
Speaker 3: arrived in Shanghai. I'm very tired and jet lagged, and
Speaker 3: I knew if I slept, I'd be totally screwed. So
Speaker 3: I went to the gym and I'm like, that's Tailor's Swift.
Speaker 3: And then she wrote like and I just was feeling
Speaker 3: unsatisfied with the photo shoot we did for nineteen and nine.
Speaker 3: I can't describe, but I just am not finding what
Speaker 3: I want. So I went back to the original stills
Speaker 3: that we took for like the outfit fitting or whatever
Speaker 3: I'm paraphrasing. But she was like and I looked at
Speaker 3: the polaroids and I realized, oh my god, there's this
Speaker 3: one polaroid of me that doesn't have my eyes showing,
Speaker 3: and there's just something captivating about it.
Speaker 2: And that's the cover.
Speaker 3: And it was just like, ohoh, it was she going
Speaker 3: over things, not sleeping when you know that it's gonna
Speaker 3: fuck with you, not because you know, she didn't she
Speaker 3: needed rest, and this was at a time in her life,
Speaker 3: I think when she was exercising too much, and she
Speaker 3: would probably admit that too, But I was just reading
Speaker 3: that going like, there are there are certain people like
Speaker 3: this who got into good habits young, and like instead
Speaker 3: of me beating myself up that like I'm I wasn't
Speaker 3: twenty two and you know, going to the gym instead
Speaker 3: of sleeping and picking out my album cover and performing
Speaker 3: a sold out show in Shanghai with a ticker tape
Speaker 3: parade like and all these things. I was just like,
Speaker 3: what can I do to maybe be more like that?
Speaker 3: Or like, how can this inspire me? So I'm gonna
Speaker 3: try to do more of that.
Speaker 2: This was an enlightening This is an inspiring.
Speaker 1: Episode for me too.
Speaker 3: You guys got me? H, what are we all gonna
Speaker 3: do just to sit by your phones all day. I
Speaker 3: want all out, just pick up every spam call.
Speaker 2: All right, that feels good.
Speaker 3: Well, until next week, we have so much discuss it
Speaker 3: will be we'll get into wedding planning details because that's
Speaker 3: all coming up very soon. Leave us fan threxes. We'll
Speaker 3: get to those next week as well. Thank you all
Speaker 3: for the messages you send, all the kind words about
Speaker 3: Brian and the show in general, and we'll see you
Speaker 3: next week on the show. Don't be kiss and you
Speaker 3: just manifest that sh Wu conches mine baitch