#346 Wedding Status, Shifting To Positive Thoughts & The Perfect Phone Call

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Nicki Gliser Podcast Niki Glaser.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Here's Nikki.

Speaker 3 (00:10):
Hello, here I am it's a Nicki Glaser podcast. Welcome
to it. Joining me as always, Brian Frangie. He's in
Los Angeles. How's it going, Brian?

Speaker 4 (00:20):
Hello, it's going fine. I'm doing fine. Everybody great.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
Thanks for Yeah, your wedding is coming up very soon
in a couple of weekends.

Speaker 4 (00:31):
Oh yes, don't remind me. Anxiety levels are yes. If
you want to get tickets to my wedding, you can
go to our adam tickets dot com slash Brian's wedding. No,
anxiety levels are at a high. Are at a high right.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
Now, Let's talk about that a little bit because we
also have Anya here from she's in New York. She's
also getting married, So you're getting married. Sorry, Anya's getting
married July ninth, yep. And Brian, you're getting married June sixeenth, seventeenth, seventeenth.
So this and then Noah is also engaged in TBD

(01:04):
on when she's gonna get married. But this is wild
that we have this, I mean, the randomness with what ages. Yeah,
and then me who's like starting early stages of talking
about that kind of stuff with her partner, Well.

Speaker 4 (01:18):
You're getting married on August seventeenth, twenty forty eight, twenty twenty.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Did you never hear about that?

Speaker 3 (01:24):
Obviously I can work with that date. That is like,
that's honestly, this.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
Is wait, did he I have so much to say?
Did wry to say twenty twenty four?

Speaker 4 (01:34):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:34):
He said forty eight, twenty forty eight, And that is
honestly a date I can work.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
Okay, got it? That gives me no anxiety. Perfect.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
We have so many things to talk about before we
get started, though. I just want to say that the
response about Brian has been overwhelmingly positive, almost one hundred
percent positive. I see no no one said anything negative
to me. I'm sure people are writing about it extensively,
but I don't read that stuff. You guys know that,
but no, I it was so it's so heartening to hear,

(02:04):
especially on my Girl's Chat. My best friend Kirsten, one
of my best friends, she's on the Girl's Chat and
she's an avid listener to the podcast, and she said
that she just she did an impression of you yesterday.
We should play it. I wish I would have like
saved it because there's too much other talk on there
that I can't just like randomly play stuff because people
are crying about their lives and stuff on there. So

(02:27):
but she did cry about Brian's life a little bit. No,
she just did an impression of you that was so sweet,
because she's really good at impressions. But she said that
she just loves I just trust her opinion. She would
say nothing if it was like there was nothing to say,
but she just said she thinks you're so funny.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
And she's like such an arbiter of.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
What's funny to me because she's one of the finnest
people I've ever met. And she just likes your like
tude and your mood and your and your dude you're dude,
and she just likes she likes it, and she said
so many nice things. And I know Noah was on
that same chat. Did you hear that, Noah, didn't that
make you feel good?

Speaker 4 (03:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (03:06):
I'm trying to look for it now, But Okay.

Speaker 4 (03:08):
I hear that impression because it would inform me as
to like what I how I am view We don't
want to it's important as a comedian to know like
what how people view you.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
Okay, well, I'll talk exactly at your pace right now?

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Does this sound like you too?

Speaker 1 (03:29):
You?

Speaker 3 (03:29):
I mean, we need this on the podcast. I'm talking
motor mouth over here.

Speaker 4 (03:33):
I'm totally I have no idea how I sound or
how it's supposed to sound, and I would love to.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
Are you doing stand up right now?

Speaker 4 (03:39):
Yeah? I got to show it tonight. I was in
Arizona actually right now. Yeah?

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Are you doing a bit right now? You were in
Arizona this past weekend?

Speaker 4 (03:47):
Yeah, I was in Tempea, Arizona this past weekend at
the Tempe Improv.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
Oh sweet, that's a good club.

Speaker 4 (03:53):
Who are you opening for Adam Conover? Oh?

Speaker 3 (03:57):
That's so fun because if you don't know, Brian wrote
on Adam Ruins Everything, which.

Speaker 4 (04:02):
Seasons two through the Find finale.

Speaker 3 (04:06):
And then you also help him on his YouTube channel now,
which is like blowing up.

Speaker 4 (04:10):
Yeah, YouTube channel, he's got like six hundred thousand subs.
All of his videos get a million views. Yes, and
he's like, yes, a versioning star in the WGA negotiations.
He's really because he's amazing. Yes, and uh yeah, and
he also had the show that you were.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
Where did you get that?

Speaker 4 (04:25):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (04:26):
Yeah, that's right?

Speaker 3 (04:26):
That and you've got a really great story about that
that we should get into it at some point. Let
me just hold let me just ask you, because I
don't know if I know the story. How did you
You did tell us you've got a blind submission for
the Adam Conover.

Speaker 4 (04:40):
Yeah, you know, we did stand up together open mics
and stuff in New York City back in the early
whatever is the two thousand Tennis area?

Speaker 2 (04:49):
I know we need a name for that.

Speaker 4 (04:51):
Yeah, what the fuck can we please? I'm sick and
tired of saying the early aughts.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
Let's coin one whatever.

Speaker 4 (04:57):
Someone says the early.

Speaker 3 (04:59):
Makes sense, that's like two thousand and one to two
thousand and eight, Yes, but then what are we calling
two thousand and nine to two thousand twenty.

Speaker 4 (05:10):
It sucks because if it was the nineteen hundreds, you
could just say that was the twenties, that was the thirties,
that was the forties. When we're in the.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
Ten, why don't I say the tens.

Speaker 3 (05:18):
Because two thousand ten nobody does the early two thousand tens, Like,
what does that?

Speaker 1 (05:23):
Why don't I say in the early tens, Because no
one's talking about the twentieth century anymore.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
I'm talking about nineteen ten.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
All the time, cholera, automobiles, scarvy, we know.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
Nothing, Okay, I found it.

Speaker 3 (05:38):
I'm totally around in this conversation, but I think it
doesn't matter. We need to be taken out of it.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
Okay, so let's get us.

Speaker 3 (05:46):
Betts Ky is on fire right now. I've had a
perfect amount of latte, okay, which is one and a half? Okay, Well,
here's any lattes.

Speaker 5 (05:56):
Here's Kirsten's impersonation of Brian wondering about his wedding.

Speaker 4 (06:02):
I'm real curious where Brian Franzi is getting married, Like
where is the National Park?

Speaker 1 (06:09):
I find him hilarious and I'm so glad that he
is a part of the show.

Speaker 4 (06:14):
I have a meaning to say that because.

Speaker 3 (06:17):
I think it, and he's waits for the right time
to talk, and yeah, between him.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
And audiaving on it, it's like the best it's ever been.
So thank you, thank you.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
She's watching white asparagus.

Speaker 3 (06:34):
Yeah, she's always like meal prepping. She's doing something of
a woman of which I was. Okay, Brian, how did
that make you feel?

Speaker 4 (06:43):
That's so nice? And you know what I don't I've
never met Kirsten, I don't think, but I do feel
like I know her somewhat from watching the show on
e Yes.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
She's incredible.

Speaker 4 (06:53):
I have a face to a name and a personality
to a face and a name, and I I really
appreciate that, And I'm going to compliment the complimenter for
complimenting me. That makes me feel really good because I
have a lot of self sometimes about, you know, doing
stuff like this, putting myself out there and pretty much
everything in general, and hearing compliments like that make me

(07:17):
feel give me the confidence to continue. And it's just
so it's just so important to me that someone would
say something like that. So thank you so much.

Speaker 3 (07:24):
Oh that's so nice. I just watched a reel the
other day or some tic. It was on Reddit because
that's where I get my tiktoks. But it was a
girl saying I never ever. She was kind of annoying,
but which I should probably not say that based on
what she said.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
But she says, you'll see the irony of why I
shouldn't have said that.

Speaker 3 (07:41):
She goes, never keep a nice thing to yourself, only
keep bad things to yourself. Never keep a nice thing
to yourself, unless it's like nice boobs nightice ass. She
never She's like gave an example. She was like, I
was walking by a girl on the street and I
saw her journaling, and I said, you know what, I
am so glad I saw this day because it is
a nice reminder that I need to get back into journaling.
And then the girl goes, I actually haven't journaled for

(08:02):
so long. That feels so good to hear. This is
gonna make me journal more. So she was like, by
saying that, I not only reinforced what she was doing
that she was doubtful of, and she's gonna journal more,
but I'm gonna journal more. And I felt good. It
was just like, Oh, that's we need to be I
always called them drive by compliments. I started doing them
at Lollapalooza in like two thousand and nine. When I
started going to Lollapalooza, I would like walk around, Yeah,

(08:26):
the early tens, I would walk around, and because there's
so many crowds and you're just walking through rivers of
people upstream, I would just go like, nice bag, great legs,
cool hair, nice hat, like and I would just do
drive bys.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
And so it doesn't have to engage in.

Speaker 3 (08:40):
A conversation, but someone's just getting a little slit of
a compliment, especially when you're going to something where people
are being dressed to be seen, like a Coachella or
Swift Cella, which is Taylor Swift Concerts. I was walking
in those masses of people and I'm like, I know
that I'm dying for someone to compliment my outfit that

(09:00):
I've put thought into. Because everyone puts thought into their
outfit at Taylor Swift Concerts. That why am I not
complimenting every single person who's outfit I liked? And so
I started and it felt so good to do. But
I do want to ask you to follow up Kristen's
question what National Park? Because I kind of Chris has
handled all of our travels, so I don't know exactly

(09:22):
where it is and why did you choose that National park?

Speaker 2 (09:25):
And what are we going to be doing?

Speaker 4 (09:27):
I will answer that question. However, I have a comment
about what you just said. Please but drive by compliment.

Speaker 3 (09:33):
So like again, you your your choices of when to talk,
like Christen said, are just genius.

Speaker 2 (09:40):
No, they are.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
It's good talking.

Speaker 4 (09:44):
Yeah, I have waited till she has finished talking and
now I am talking. And when you're doing striking and
you have the WGA signs. You can write whatever you
want on the signs, and a lot of people are
like taking these signs personally and it is kind of like, well,
I'm a writer, I'm writing on this sign. If this
isn't a good fucking sign, then like, and you're surrounded

(10:06):
by other people who could potentially hire you.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
Got to compliment people's signs.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
The AI signs, those are fucking awesome.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
Traffic zones are like the Kardashunes.

Speaker 4 (10:18):
People signs is a genius idea. And also you'd have
to make sure your signs. So I wrote a bad one, Okay,
so I feel very not because I thought it's so
bad because I thought it was good. And then I
would be like, people be like, what's your sign? And
then I feel like yeah, and then it's like, oh,

(10:39):
it was this, and then I would get silence, Like
I was walking with these two people who are like, uh,
you know, more successful than me and there, and I
was like, I wrote this sign, but it's I haven't
seen it around lately, because you know, you leave the
signs there when you leave, and they're.

Speaker 3 (10:53):
Like, what, you can pick up your sign anyone, Like
you just keep rotating signs and they say what did
your signs say?

Speaker 4 (11:01):
And I was like, it said two wrongs don't make
a writer, and then just like now silence, Like.

Speaker 1 (11:08):
It takes a minute to compute, but it seems to.

Speaker 3 (11:13):
Sense compute is the right word. I think this is
an argument for AI.

Speaker 4 (11:18):
We need never realize now it's.

Speaker 3 (11:23):
Funny that it's bad. It's honestly, you weren't. It's not
you did not. You were not trying to be like prolistical,
like you weren't trying that's the wrong word. I'm bad writer,
But you weren't trying to be to write something that
was going to like make people think. You were being
ironic kind of and doing a pun obviously because your

(11:44):
writer puns are the lowest common denominers.

Speaker 2 (11:46):
So you were being funny by you. I see what
you're doing.

Speaker 3 (11:49):
It is funny in that respect, yeah, because you're trying
to be a little honest.

Speaker 4 (11:54):
I wasn't trying to be ironic. I was literally thought,
what is wrong?

Speaker 3 (11:58):
What is that?

Speaker 4 (12:00):
I don't know?

Speaker 1 (12:01):
AI is one of them and there's got to be
and not getting paid a writer, you know.

Speaker 3 (12:09):
I thought was interesting about the AI thing, which I
didn't know until I listened to Justin Bateman on something
or read something that.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
She posted the w the whoever.

Speaker 3 (12:21):
They're not even willing to talk about AI, right, isn't
that there's like a stalemate about that, Like they just
don't even want to talk about it or refuse.

Speaker 4 (12:30):
To come to the table to discuss it because they say,
we refuse to put limitations on a technology we might
use in the future.

Speaker 3 (12:38):
Right, Okay, But I didn't realize the problem would be
that AI. Okay, so it's going to take people's jobs.
That's the big that's the big issue. That is like
front and center. But the truth is that even if
that happens, and that's all legal and fine, AI will
only be able to generate new material based on the
material that it is fed from writers who have existed before.
So writers need to be paid for the machines that

(13:00):
are going to use their writing. Not to mention they're
going to lose their jobs, but like they should be
compensated for like the stuff that's plugged into the machine.

Speaker 4 (13:08):
I thought that was.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
There's everything that exists.

Speaker 4 (13:13):
Yeah, it takes everything that exists, it plugs it into
the machine, and then it spits out a you know,
a farcical uh you know, plagiarized version of a script
that a writer would write and has no humanity in
it at all. I really don't believe that AI is
ever going to be able to replace writers in terms
of that. But what it can replace, we got humanity
it can replace. If it replaces humanity, then it'll be

(13:35):
great because then they'll be AI making stuff for other
AI and that'll probably be a utopian society that would
be better than we currently have.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
But I saw a clip of Oh sorry, what what's
your butt?

Speaker 4 (13:45):
Well AI, so sag After is gonna has just decided
they're going to do a vote on whether to strike
or not. Also, and like A, I can definitely replace
actors and actresses by just like they could take a
likeness of you, Nikki. Like let's say you sign a
contract and I'm gonna be doing this show and then
you do tape for one day and they get all
the angles of you, and then they can take your

(14:06):
likeness and they can just have AI perform all the
other scenes for you and you don't get paid for that.
And that's what f Girl.

Speaker 3 (14:14):
Island will be once we get all the footage from
f Boy three. Yeah, yeah, So that's they're gonna go
you can go home early.

Speaker 2 (14:20):
We've that is.

Speaker 3 (14:22):
I mean, deep fakes are already so good, like you
can kind of do that. I watch this one that
someone made me, my friend Brian Monarch, who does deep
fakes of like you'll often see like Joe Rogan and
theovonn on different faces.

Speaker 2 (14:36):
Brian Monarch is the guy behind those.

Speaker 3 (14:38):
But he did one of me as Taylor Swift, and
I watch it all the time because I go there
and then there's me doing stand up is Taylor Swift face,
and you just realize that Taylor Swift's prettier than me
because I look weird on her face, and then she
looks great on my face, and you just kind of go, oh,
we know what's going on here. But besides that, I
love watching it because there's oftentimes that I watch Taylor

(15:01):
Swift and or anyone for that matter, doing things with
their fingers, young Korean children playing guitar, and you go,
my fingers can do all of those things.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
Those fingers are not.

Speaker 3 (15:13):
I have abilities that mine don't why why. It gives
me hope, but it also gives me a sense of defeat.
Do you ever do that where you're like that person's
body is no different than my athletes. You go, no,
that's different. They've worked harder. But like guitar like schlovey guitarists,
I'm just like, there's no muscle. There are muscles there

(15:34):
that I'm not aware of, and you know, there's just
more than anything, there's brain, uh matter that I don't.

Speaker 4 (15:42):
Have irons connecting each other.

Speaker 3 (15:48):
I watch Anya do like fingerpicking and like, I don't
even understand. I mean I do because I have sense
that practice leads to like memorizing things and all that stuff.
But even when you're playing that one song A Through Street,
which if you've never heard on your song not A
Through Street, please spotify right now, pause the episode, go
to it. It's one of my favorite songs. But the

(16:09):
fingerpicking on that, you go like all up and down,
and it's just so I'm like, do you do you?
It's when you play that song, is it is it
a memorization thing like your body has memorized it?

Speaker 2 (16:20):
Or is it like, oh, I know what I'm doing.

Speaker 1 (16:23):
It's not hard. You could totally do it. There's just
one part that's a little challenging. It's all about just memorizing, uh,
Like patterns in my mind, like my fingers make this shape,
then they make this shape. I don't know what notes. Right.
I have the same thing with you when you're playing
a Taylor swift strum that I don't know that I've
talked about multiple times, and I'm like.

Speaker 3 (16:43):
Yeah, the skill you don't have on the TI it's
the only thing I have to my name.

Speaker 1 (16:49):
It's very frustrating and I'm slowly getting it, and it
does come with repetition. But man, you invested a lot
of hours because you you're singing things at a different uh,
you're doing a syncopated thing, which is really advanced, and
you don't even know you're doing a syncopated thing, but
it's incredibly hard for me. So nice it's like and

(17:09):
patting your head at the same time.

Speaker 3 (17:11):
Right, Well, I have that feeling a lot when, like,
you know, normal everyday people say like the funniest thing
I've ever heard that is not just like you know,
the way they said it, or like a funny thing,
like it's like actually like mathematically hilarious, where I'm like.

Speaker 1 (17:25):
Oh, like two wrung make a writer.

Speaker 4 (17:29):
That's mathematically Oh so then I mean, this is just
this is just life. You know, I wrote, I just
drew a picture of a pile of shit, and it
fucking lit up the place. Everybody was like, ha ha,
look at that.

Speaker 2 (17:43):
Did it have any a caption with it?

Speaker 4 (17:45):
It was a pile of shit. It just was a
pile of ship with flies around it. And people were like,
I love that.

Speaker 1 (17:53):
You should go into art, not writing an animator.

Speaker 3 (17:58):
Oh yeah, you are an animator. You do great animations.
Was that decasting at all for you?

Speaker 1 (18:03):
That you're like, wait, I barely tried on this.

Speaker 3 (18:06):
So embarrassing when that happens when you when you get
a compliment for something that took zero, zero effort, Like
in writing, in preparing my new special that I'm going
to tape this December and Seattle Watch Out, I am
talking to Chris about all my jokes and he's like, well,
you got to do this one, and I'm like, I

(18:26):
hate that joke. Every time I tell it, I cringe.
I don't like when people laugh at it because I
didn't do anything to earn it.

Speaker 4 (18:33):
I did.

Speaker 3 (18:34):
It didn't take any brain power. It was it was
my shit. You know, It's me drawing a picture of
shit which I have drawn, and I've actually talked about
drawing shit on stage. And that was actually one of
my favorite jokes is when I talk about I think
it was my last special. Maybe I cut it out,
but I talk about how I'm less. It was something
about being less scared of people finding nudes in my

(18:56):
phone than if oh, I can't take a picture of
my shit. I've wanted to take pictures of my shit
to like send my friends because they've been so impressive.
And if I could just say for a second I
had I did not really have a lot of exodus
happening in my European trip. I have to go to break.
I'm going to share with you something that happened this morning,

(19:17):
and I want to talk about.

Speaker 2 (19:18):
It, but I was really stuffed up all the break.

Speaker 3 (19:21):
And then we're going to talk about shit when we
get back, but I will not be graphic, and and
maybe Brian will drop in sture of it. Okay, so
we've got a lot of loose ends to tie up.
We're going to find out why you're having a wedding
in the and then we let me just talk about
So the observation I made in my special about shit

(19:41):
was that I didn't want my nudes to leak but
I'm more worried about if I've never taken a picture
of my shit, even though there's been times where it's
looked exactly like something like one time it looked exactly
like mister Hanky, the shit from South Park, like it
was him, and I want to take but I couldn't.
I couldn't because what if I'm what if someone finds
my phone or it's been like especially huge, And I

(20:03):
think the joke I made was like I could give
birth out of my ass based on this, Like, and
I've so Anya and I when we were living together,
because I never want to take a picture of it,
I would draw it. It's almost like, yeah, they I
it would be better off drawing a picture of Mohammed
than I would like the shit that I've there would
be more damning for my reputation.

Speaker 2 (20:26):
But do you guys ever have the thing?

Speaker 3 (20:28):
So I was really stopped up in Europe, and I
guess that is a common thing, like it's the travel bloat.
Like I sent a picture to Anya of my stomach.
She's some one back later I looked weirds once pregnant.
I think we talked about this already, No, we did not,
but I looked legit. Shivroy last episode of Succession six
months pregnant, and I showed Chris. I put a towel

(20:51):
over it to show Chris because I couldn't have him
see my actual but I was like, just no, underneath this,
look look at me, I look pregnant.

Speaker 2 (20:58):
He was just like, are you like?

Speaker 3 (20:59):
He was still confused by it.

Speaker 1 (21:02):
It is crazy what the body could do, and that
it's just gas, mostly gas and water.

Speaker 3 (21:07):
Well mine was material, and it was and then I thought,
you know, by the end of it, I was like,
you know, things are happening, things are flowing. There's like
little things happening here and there, but there was nothing substantial.
And I'm not someone who tracks like what's going on
with my body very much, but the past two days,
I don't know if anyone's ever had this. I woke

(21:27):
up this morning with a horrible headache and it started
last night. And I've been kind of regular since I
got back, which is my favorite word to say, I've
been shitting normally. When people are just like regular, it's
such a stupid word. It's like when people are like,
we're trying and everyone's like, oh, you're getting cummed in
every night.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
Like it's kind of the same thing of like I'm regular.

Speaker 3 (21:47):
It's like, eh, I just see like poop like coming
out in a good amount of chunks coming out of
your butt. So uh, I was thought I was regular.
And then this last night I had like a headache.
This morning, I woke with that headache. I couldn't get
out of bed, and I was, you know, putting my
eyemask on super tight so it would just push my
head to make it stop. And then I went to

(22:07):
the bathroom and I was like, oh my god, that
was it. I was like, oh, this, that like solved
my headache. Then I went down to Starbucks and had
a sip of coffee and I instantly was.

Speaker 4 (22:17):
Like, what's the bathroom code?

Speaker 2 (22:19):
And it is.

Speaker 3 (22:20):
I try to memorize it because every time I always
think I'm not gonna need it in my phone, but
I should have put it in. I think it's oh,
I remembered it sixty two twenty three, and you know
how I remembered it. I was saying, that's like, just
remember a disgusting age like a couple in Hollywood, like
sixty two twenty three, Like that to me is just

(22:41):
like a gap that would happen. So I went in
there and I had the best BM of my life,
which is is on par with many I've had, but
isn't the best one Where you're in a public space
where you're like kind of worried about the plumbing situation.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
And you're you're you're the eel that you release in
the wild.

Speaker 3 (23:02):
The electric eel goes right down the hole like it
knows where its home is, like disappeared souse.

Speaker 2 (23:08):
You love that when you.

Speaker 3 (23:08):
Look in and it's like already on its way, and
you're like, this is gonna be no issue, because the
issue is always the breaking up of it, and then
it's then it breaks and then it tries to go
in twice like those designs try to go in.

Speaker 2 (23:20):
We all know this.

Speaker 3 (23:21):
This is a thing that happens some of the most
most of us. But I was like, has anyone talked
about the satisfaction when you look down and you go, oh,
good snake, you.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
Know where your home is. It's already like headed out
the door. Is that relatable?

Speaker 5 (23:36):
I always imagine like the like those Olympic divers and
they have like the perfect dive, and that's what I
related to.

Speaker 3 (23:43):
Yes, Yes, it just slices through the water perfectly. There's
gonna be it barely even there's no it doesn't touch
the out. You could drop your phone in the bowl
and if it just hit the sides, it wouldn't even
touch the giant.

Speaker 1 (23:54):
And aren't you kind of shocked and proud when like
the kale is coming out?

Speaker 4 (23:59):
Yeah? What do you mean?

Speaker 2 (24:01):
Like it's like, like what's coming out of the hole?

Speaker 3 (24:04):
Oh, I've never had that before, but I think in
Europe I did a little bit, even though that my
poops weren't big enough because in Europe that's where it
would have happened, because the water level is so low
in Europe toilets.

Speaker 1 (24:16):
Yes, And you have another observation Berlin that you never
saw because in Berlin apartments because we weren't in apartments,
we were in hotels. But in the apartments in Berlin
there is a poo shelf and there's no water, so
when you poop, you poop on a shelf in the
toilet and then there's like then it flushes. So it's
truly disgusting because.

Speaker 3 (24:37):
So it flushes, it comes from the water comes from
the side of the bowl onto the shelf and pushes
it down like a wall.

Speaker 1 (24:43):
And do you know what the shelf was for? It
had a practical poops for people to inspect for worms
and stuff. So you're supposed to like go through your poop.
It's insane. I went to my friends and I was like, oh,
it smells the entire bathroom up. If it doesn't immediately.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
A trophy shelf. It's for some of the things I've
let go.

Speaker 3 (25:04):
And I had worms in my poop in fourth grade
and I remember seeing them and then they went back
inside really quickly.

Speaker 2 (25:10):
By the time I called my parents in, Oh god, And.

Speaker 3 (25:12):
I remember being like, there were and I thought I
was hallucinating because they would not come out again once
they got spooked by my parents being there. They were
party worms and they don't like parents around, and so
they ran they thought the cops were coming. They ran
back in the poop, and I was like, I know,
I saw it. And then I made the dumb mistake
of telling my friend Molly Collier and you're out there.
She's actually nice to me now, she's a fan. She

(25:34):
spin at shows, but she I told her in fourth
grade that I had worms in my poop, and man,
then everyone everyone knew. By lunch or by recess that
I had worms in my poop and then I had
to deny, deny, deny, kind of like Kendall Roy in
the final episode in one pivotal scene, not gonna spoiler,
not even a spoiler alert, just giving you you got
to get to it if you haven't gotten to it yet,

(25:55):
to get to it. But have you ever done that
where you told someone something embarrassing when you were young,
and then.

Speaker 4 (26:00):
Well you denied, and then you pooped, and then you're like, everybody,
look at my poop because the worms hide, and then
of course the dumb worms would come out if you
showed everybody yeah.

Speaker 3 (26:08):
Or if you were yeah, if everyone go, look there's
no worms, because you know they're going to hide, and
then that's when they're like, hey, what's up.

Speaker 2 (26:13):
I'm finally ready to come.

Speaker 3 (26:15):
Out, like they're pride month for worms. Yeah okay, Brian,
Why why the national park? We know you love the outdoors.
Oh yes, your lady, Ali, But why this one?

Speaker 2 (26:27):
And where are we going?

Speaker 4 (26:28):
We are going to Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado, right, okay?
And that's also where I proposed And yeah, Ali and
I have this thing where we want to go to
all sixty three national parks before we die?

Speaker 1 (26:44):
Before we die? Yeah, how many do you have?

Speaker 4 (26:49):
Over twenty? Over twenty? Yeah, oh that's good. You can
die soon, yeah, I've Yeah, maybe I shouldn't go that fast.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
Lesson, are you getting married outside? Are you when?

Speaker 3 (27:00):
Are you starting to look at the weather, like is
it that far out that you can start kind of seeing.

Speaker 2 (27:06):
Mountain two weeks?

Speaker 4 (27:07):
Mountain weather is unpredictable, but I kind of hope, you know,
the mountain weather, really I don't. I hope that it rains. Honestly,
I love the rain. I think it would be great
if it rained. It's outside, but it's a coming.

Speaker 3 (27:20):
Really seems easy going, like she wouldn't care if it rains,
and she'd look like hot and rain.

Speaker 4 (27:24):
Yeah, I think, yeah, she she would. She wouldn't care.
I think she's like prayin too. Thank you, thank you
very much.

Speaker 2 (27:30):
You got a good one.

Speaker 4 (27:31):
When you say that on the podcast, you know she
listens to the podcast, and when you say she's pretty,
it like makes her weak.

Speaker 2 (27:38):
Oh my god.

Speaker 3 (27:39):
If she doesn't know she's she's one of the prettiest
people going, like naturally effervescently, a beautiful person like Chris
and I are pretty obsessed with her, and she's just
she's just a lovely person. I'm actually really looking forward to,
like going on trips with you guys as couples and

(28:00):
getting to know her more and better because she's just
an instantly fun person.

Speaker 2 (28:04):
I first met her.

Speaker 3 (28:06):
I think maybe I met her before Tim's wedding, but
that's when I first feel like I got to know her.

Speaker 4 (28:12):
No, we went to we went to a breakfast brunch
thing at the Sunset Junction. Lizzie Cooperman was there, Yeah,
Chris was there.

Speaker 2 (28:22):
Not an ideal such.

Speaker 3 (28:23):
Yes, I think I was in like a funky mood
that day, and I've been in some funky moods around her. Actually,
even when we went to dinner at that cow. I
think it was, Oh, you feel like you if you're listening,
I apologize for my mood that night.

Speaker 2 (28:36):
Oh, like I was in a bad mood man?

Speaker 4 (28:38):
Really, Yes, Oh I was.

Speaker 2 (28:41):
I'm not. I don't think I was. I know I was.
I was.

Speaker 3 (28:44):
I was depressed that day and I was being kind
of like existential dread nikki of like I don't even
like my life, Like I was just being a bitch.
And then I think it was probably triggered by how
pretty she was. And I was feeling fat that night
and she just looked and she got like all this
food that I was like, man, she just is one
of these girls that can eat what she wants and
like she just looks great, like just me at my worst.

(29:05):
And then I and then I knew Chris. I felt
bad because it was supposed to be like couples having
a couple of dinner and like getting to know each other.
And I'm just morose and I'm not being rude, but
I'm just being I'm just in a bad mood. And
and then I felt bad because I know that I
wasn't my best for that. And it was like I
think that Chris was was wanting it to be like

(29:29):
this is we're going to be this foursome, you know,
this is the quad, the reference succession, and I felt
like I blew it.

Speaker 2 (29:36):
And then I felt like we.

Speaker 3 (29:37):
Were deemed it on the street though, because we talked
to you about some ideas.

Speaker 4 (29:40):
This is mind blowing, how because.

Speaker 1 (29:43):
What was this like the early times?

Speaker 3 (29:46):
This was no, this was November December, yeah, it must
have been January.

Speaker 2 (29:54):
Okay, I was here. It was before Brian was on
the podcast.

Speaker 4 (29:58):
Yeah, you guys were just visiting. You as were just visiting,
and maybe this was when you were doing uh real
a fortune or something. I don't know, Yes, exactly I was.

Speaker 2 (30:07):
We weren't.

Speaker 3 (30:08):
This wasn't in our Santa Monica trip where we were
living there. This was a separate visit when I was
just at a hotel down the street. So yeah, he
was there visiting.

Speaker 4 (30:15):
Yes, this this is a lesson to everybody listening. I'm
sure this happens all the time. Because I left that
dinner thinking that I was a piece of shit and
I felt like I wasn't at my best because I
had gotten my tooth extracted six days prior to the dinner.

Speaker 2 (30:31):
You were in pain.

Speaker 4 (30:32):
I was in horrible pain. I just felt like I
wasn't anything. I couldn't get anything. I asked the wait
I can't have to ask the waiter what's the softest
food they have?

Speaker 2 (30:43):
But that was funny. You brought levity with your pain.

Speaker 4 (30:46):
But this is the lesson. This is the lesson. After
that dinner, I was in the car with Alli and
I was like, was I just a piece of shit
all night?

Speaker 2 (30:54):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (30:55):
And she was like no, No. I was like it
just didn't feel like you know, usually when the the
four or the three of us, ALLI wasn't usually there,
but when the three of us hang out, it feels
just very easy, comfortable and easy. And that night I
was like, I think I was a piece of shit. No,
it was me, man, Yeah, you were picking my vibe.

Speaker 2 (31:16):
I was.

Speaker 3 (31:17):
I will take responsibility for that because you were in pain,
and I'm sure there was something off about you, but
I was not having I was not yes ending that night,
and it was on me, and I like, I've been
pretty reflective this morning. I was doing some journaling about
my mood disorder that I clearly have, and like that
reared its head in the international trip like literally a

(31:41):
thousand times. I just there's an email coming to you,
Anya at one o'clock because I have this new feature
on Gmail that everyone should do. If you're writing on
your phone, you hold down the send button and then
it gives you the option to send later and pick
a time. Yeah, and it's so great because I wanted
to send this. I wrote this whole email to Anya,
just you know, going over our trip, a post mortem

(32:04):
if you will, and just thanking her. But I was
also like being reflective of like all of the shit,
like all the shitty things I did on the trip,
because I was like pretty like not great sometimes, I
you know, and and there was nowhere for me to
like usually and I'm not making excuses, but I am
usually I have alone time to cry or to like

(32:28):
really panic and like kind of vent, not even cry
because I don't really cry when I'm alone, but like
being alone, I guess helps me just let it out
in whatever way. But I was never alone because I
was with Crystal whole time, which is great because I
wasn't like abusing food with for my feelings because I
was accountable. I wasn't like there were so many great

(32:49):
things about living with someone, and in fact, Chris and
I decided like we want to live together after this
trip because there were those great things spoiler alert, but
I but I do think that living in small hotel
rooms where there's not separate rooms and places for you
to get away and have a loan time, because when
we had that in like certain areas we now falcony, even.

Speaker 1 (33:12):
If you Todd had separate rooms, like no time to
do any it.

Speaker 3 (33:16):
Just my feelings got constipated and so I was cranky
and bloated the entire time. None of my clothes fit,
which is the number one time for Nikki to I
hate to talk to the third person, but for me
to feel bad is to be uncomfortable in my clothes.

Speaker 2 (33:32):
None of them fit.

Speaker 3 (33:33):
And I made the mistake of I have this amazing
stylist here in Saint Louis who hooks me up with
She writes companies on my behalf and has them send
me stuff and then I post and tag them and
then we send them back.

Speaker 2 (33:45):
And I've talked about this.

Speaker 3 (33:46):
They're all sample sized twos, but I didn't try on
any of the outfits before I went because I was like,
I'll be fine, you know. And then I get there
and I have nothing to wear except these clothes that
are all too tight and make me feel insane.

Speaker 2 (33:59):
And meanwhile I can't poop. I'm bloated.

Speaker 3 (34:01):
I just and I was like under the impression that
Europe is supposed to make you like diuretic or whatever,
but it didn't happen for me, and so I was
just like a moody bitch and like I really and
I don't think I'm alone in this.

Speaker 2 (34:14):
That's why I'm sharing it.

Speaker 3 (34:16):
Like I don't think this is something unique about me
or I'm a bad person, But like I when I
get in a bad mood, I want to make other
people in a bad food too, Like I want other
people to feel mad or to feel to feel like
I feel.

Speaker 2 (34:33):
What is that?

Speaker 3 (34:34):
And why do I don't think everyone does that because
I don't have it happen to me from other people
all the time. But like, what is that need to bring?
Why don't I want to absorb some people's happiness instead
of bring people down with me because.

Speaker 4 (34:50):
I don't want Yeah, you're looking for affirmation. You want
I feel this way, and if other people don't feel
this way, that means I'm a psychopath and so I
need adds to it.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
And you know what I say about psychopath? Am I crazy?
I'm so weird? Why can't I be like other people?

Speaker 2 (35:06):
We're also harder work to feel better, it's easier.

Speaker 3 (35:11):
And when you're feeling sad, your your muscles are like
you're you're emotionally weak, like you can't do the hard thing,
and it's easier just to do the worst thing, which
is just stay in that mindset and like make little
jabs that, like you know, aren't specific enough for that
person to go like fuck you, but like, are shitty
enough that they feel bad, Like.

Speaker 2 (35:31):
I'm probably a kind of expert at that.

Speaker 5 (35:34):
Yes, yes, we talked about muscle memory in the first segment,
and because you've done it so much, it's just like
muscle memory now, so I'm like unwired that it is
really difficult with.

Speaker 2 (35:45):
A guitar, except in mindes with you know.

Speaker 4 (35:48):
It feels so good to keep digging and digging deeper
and just piling on. That's it almost feels like indulging in,
like eating a bunch of food, or like, uh, we're
staying in bed, Like if you wake up in the morning,
you just stay in bed. Like it's so easy to
just keep doing that. And something I learned recently is
that you can fake being happy, all right, you can

(36:11):
fake it. You can smile, you can just even if
it's like to psychotic degree of being like I'm happy.
This is amazing, Oh my god, this is the best
thingy ever. And the trick is that will not make
you feel better that day, but it will make you
feel better two days from them.

Speaker 3 (36:27):
Oh, it's like exercise or like eating right. Why doesn't
it just show up right away?

Speaker 2 (36:33):
I gotta try that.

Speaker 1 (36:34):
I don't know if that's true.

Speaker 3 (36:35):
Can I tell you about a book I'm reading a
third of right now that I'm so into, Yes, and
this is legit. I know that I've felt this way
about a lot of books, but I stand by all
the ones that I said, this is good. This is
kind of talking about the same kind of thing that
I There was a book I was reading a long
time ago.

Speaker 2 (36:50):
Let me just I forget what it was.

Speaker 3 (36:51):
It was probably last summer, and it was about manifestation
and quantum physics and how if you imagine something enough.
It's also Louise Hey. I've talked about her, just like
the power of positive thinking, and obviously this has been
talked about extensively everywhere you look. But this book that

(37:12):
I don't know why it was in my library on
my phone, but I think I just download books sometimes
from the subreddit books.

Speaker 2 (37:20):
It'll say like, what's a book that's changed your life?

Speaker 3 (37:22):
And I just anyone who has a list that I
think is compelling, I'll just download all those samples of
the books. And so one day I was looking for
something to read, and that day, being on the way too,
on the way to the Europe trip. I was reading
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck, which, by
the way, is was everyone read in twenty fourteen or
sixteen when it came out.

Speaker 2 (37:42):
It's so good, you guys, I know, it's kind of
ki and.

Speaker 3 (37:46):
It's like the set of like the amount of people
who like commented on my book and were like, Oho,
that's a funny title, Like how did were you asleep?

Speaker 2 (37:53):
In twenty sixtey?

Speaker 3 (37:54):
This was everywhere, but they but it it really and
the guy kind of it's in a co way, but
it's very conversational and he's not ka.

Speaker 2 (38:03):
The book is not ca.

Speaker 3 (38:05):
They made him call it that, like the publishers were like,
you should call it that. He wanted to call it
something else. So like just like my show Not Safe
with Niki Laser, which that name was so cuh and
I didn't like it at all because it made it
seem like what.

Speaker 2 (38:15):
I'm doing is not safe.

Speaker 3 (38:16):
We wanted to call it NSFW, just like not safe
for work, like this is stuff that like you shouldn't
watch it work, and it wasn't us being like we're
so nuts.

Speaker 2 (38:24):
Safe for work.

Speaker 3 (38:25):
But then they were like, no one knows what NFW means,
them being Comedy Central, and they weren't wrong. Some people
didn't know, but they would have googled it or something.
It doesn't matter anyway, they made us call it not safe,
and I hated it because it sounded like I thought
I was sweet, and I don't think I'm sweet. Sometimes
I do, but I'll usually attest to it. Then I
did not think I was sweet, So I hated that title.

(38:45):
So anyway, don't judge a book. But this book I'm
reading now, it's called The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
by Joseph Murray PhD and then Comma d D.

Speaker 2 (38:54):
I don't know what DD is Dungeons.

Speaker 1 (38:56):
And dragonstor dentistry.

Speaker 2 (38:59):
Oh yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (39:00):
But it's it's it was written in the sixties, I believe,
or maybe the early seventies, but probably sixties, and it's
it's the language kind of the way it's written is
kind of new age and kind of kind of like
it just sounds like some guy who thinks he's pretty sweet.
But it is all about and it's just what I

(39:21):
love about it is you get everything you need from
the first chapter and then it's just repeating it over
and over. And I love a book like that, because
what that tells me is this is simple, but what
is difficult is getting it through your fucking skull. So
I like a book that's not like this is all
these steps. It's like, what is difficult is not what
we're doing. It's what it is forgetting all the stuff,

(39:42):
you know. And that's the same thing my voice teacher
said yesterday. He was like, singing is not hard. People
think it's hard, but what is hard it's psychological. What
is hard about singing. He's like, most people could be
good singers. He was like most people besides like Harvey
Fires who actually has a throat thing like both of

(40:03):
his vocal like all of his vocal folds are.

Speaker 2 (40:05):
Filing at the same time.

Speaker 3 (40:06):
So he always said like this, He was like, that
guy can never sing good, but most people can sing.
What gets in the way is trying too hard. And
what you need to do is learn how to to
not try, which is hard in and of itself, but
it's actually you have to learn to not do things.

Speaker 2 (40:23):
And that's what this book is about.

Speaker 3 (40:24):
It's about just positive thinking, like how you have to
just anytime you have a negative thought, just don't say
it out loud, don't give it. I've said yesterday on
the Girl's Chat, don't put air in that balloon, like
just you know it's there, have the thought, but like,
don't feed that dog. The dog that's like, ah, like
don't like, don't feed that possum.

Speaker 2 (40:45):
Let starve.

Speaker 3 (40:47):
But the thing that I like about is that you
because it talks about how it can heal. And it's
also quantum physics y, which I always like, but it's
not actually talking about that, but it's the same things
as the other guy talked about. That really sold me
on how manifestation is a science and it's not just
like fufu woo woo God shit, and this is all
about God and how people pray things away and how

(41:09):
prayer works, not because necessarily God is doing things for you,
but because your subconscious mind is what is running everything
in your body. It's the thing that's keeping you breathing.
You're not like thinking like I have to breathe right now,
you know, like it just keeps your heart beat going.
All these things, your subconscious mind is in control, and
your conscious mind is giving directions to your subconscious mind

(41:31):
all the time. And your subconscious mind is kind of
autistic in the sense that it takes you literally. It
does not have a sense of humor, it does not
have a sense of irony, So you have to tell it.
Have I said this before on this podcast? Yeah, sorry,
sorry to repeat myself, but I think it was like it.

Speaker 4 (41:51):
But I'm getting in again and again.

Speaker 3 (41:53):
I'm sorry to do it again, but I'm so on
board and I do think there's something to this. I'm
resisting it so much because it's so it's exactly what
we're just talking about. It's the harder thing to do,
which is just not feed that dog and feed those
negative thoughts because you want to so badly. But the
more I read about this, it's like prayer works because
you are trusting that God is going to take care

(42:15):
of it. The people that prayer works for where they
heal things about their body, things that they could never heal.
It's not because you know, necessarily God is waving his
magic wand and a miracle is happening. Your subconscious mind
is your conscious mind is saying, please, God, take this away,
and it's believing that God is taking it away. People
that really believe there's a guy that's like I care

(42:38):
about you, and I'm going to take care of you.
They believe it so much that you send a signal
to your subconscious mind that is not doesn't have any
sense of like does any make believe or that you
would ever be lying to it, And it actually runs
with that and then starts the healing process and it
works on a cellular level of all this. You know,
the way that you are breathing right now, and you
don't have to tell it to breathe. It will start

(42:59):
healing these things. And it can work for ailments, and
it can work for talent and artistry or a thing.

Speaker 1 (43:07):
You know.

Speaker 3 (43:08):
I've just been going, like, my body rids the energy
that it doesn't need and keeps what it does.

Speaker 2 (43:14):
And this is my new weight loss plan.

Speaker 3 (43:16):
I am like, instead of because I've been like trying
to tool with like maybe I'll try to get on nozepic,
maybe I'm gonna start starving myself again. All these things,
I've just been like kind of gambling with myself. But
instead I'm just telling myself, my body uses the fuel
it needs and it gets rid of the fuel it doesn't.
It doesn't keep around things it doesn't need, and that
to me is what being the right size is is.

(43:39):
Like I don't want to. I just want to be
the right size for me. I'm feeling a little bit
bloated right now and to get to that right size,
which I have been before, and I've been healthy at
that size. I'm just telling myself, I am a beautiful,
long slender.

Speaker 2 (43:52):
Lady, which I am.

Speaker 3 (43:53):
I'm a tall lady that has long slender features, and
that is just who I am, and that is who
I will. I'm just saying saying that to myself over
and over. I'm not saying I am Kate Moss. I
am you know things I wish I were that my
body can't be necessarily. I'm just sending the messages of
something that I know is within the realm of possibility

(44:16):
for me, and I'm telling my body like this is
what I am. And I'm also telling my body I'm
one of the best singers that's ever lived. I'm one
of the greatest comedic minds of all time. I am
the voice of a generation. I am telling myself things
that I let me just sneak it in, don't really believe,
but no, I am saying them over I'm just saying

(44:36):
that just because I don't want anyone to think that
I think these things, but I want to be these things.
And so I am telling myself that I am because
you the key what I've learned, And if anyone knows
more about this than me, please enlighten me. But the
key is not to say what you want to be
and be like, I want to be the best singer ever.
I want to be the best singer ever. Like writing
that over and over or you know, meditating on that,

(44:59):
it's I am.

Speaker 2 (45:00):
I am right, the best singer ever.

Speaker 4 (45:02):
It goes beyond just like make forcing your subconscious do it.
You need to have that attitude. It is a requirement
in order to become the best singer ever or the
best comedian ever. Because the way the world views you
is only fifty percent on talent, then it's fifty percent
on confidence. And you need to have that aura about

(45:23):
you that says I am the best and I know it.
Are you stupid because it seems like you don't know
it yet. That's the way you become the best.

Speaker 3 (45:31):
I'm scared of being that though. Let me be honest,
I'm scared of being that dilute. Let that person that
I know who's delusional. I want to feel again like
I want to approve of myself. I want to know
my limitations and be okay with them. But at the
same time, You're right, I do. I do want to
be the best singer in the world, which I'm never
going to sound like Beyonce.

Speaker 2 (45:52):
I don't think or Adele.

Speaker 3 (45:54):
I don't think my head shape or my vocal chords
are shaped in the way to ever.

Speaker 2 (45:59):
Be that way.

Speaker 3 (46:00):
But I think Taylor Swift is my favorite singer, one
of my favorite singers, and she does not have the
same voice as a Kelly Clarkson or an Adele or
a powerhouse of like Ariana Grande, and I think she
would even admit that. But her voice to me is
something so special that I would trade in all of
those girls for her voice any day, because it's it's
perfect to me. And so I think that that is. Yeah,

(46:23):
I think that's what I'm getting at. And it's so
hard to do though. I gotta say that maybe this
is why I'm repeating it on here is because I
I when I first read it, I was like, this
is what I'm gonna do every morning. I'm gonna write
one hundred times over. I'm the best singer in the world.
My body rids itself of energy that it doesn't need.
It keeps what it needs. I'm a slender, beautiful young woman.

(46:44):
My face is not falling off my skull like I
was gonna say all the things like you can't am
or like gravity will affect my face in a beautiful way,
like I'll say, whatever it.

Speaker 4 (46:56):
Is, nuttle bit of the I uh, my body rids
itself of things it doesn't need. There's too many negatives
in there. It should be my body only keeps what
it needs like something like that.

Speaker 3 (47:08):
Yes, okay, yes, you're right, that's good. Keep it positive.
That's a good point. And I was like, I'm gonna
do this every morning. It's been a struggle for me
because I've been waking up feeling not like that, and
I've given into not having those thoughts, and I've I've
given into the negative thoughts, and I've been like kind
of blowing up those balloons. Even though I'm reading this
book knowing and I know for sure this works. I

(47:29):
have no question. I'm as sure as there's no free will.
And you guys all know how I feel about that.
I'm positive this works. I've never been so positive of
anything in my life yet. I'm still struggling to use it. Brian,
have you been on you? I know that Noah and
Anya know about the power of positive thinking.

Speaker 2 (47:46):
Why aren't we all doing this all the time.

Speaker 4 (47:48):
Because of the pharmaceutical industry they want to make money
off you by giving you pills. Everyone. Capitalism just tells
you you're not enough, and we have if for fourteen
ninety nine a month, we have the solution your problem
and it takes five seconds. People are too lazy, They
just they don't want to do.

Speaker 1 (48:06):
How do I get it?

Speaker 4 (48:07):
Apple TV? You know that's all you need?

Speaker 2 (48:09):
Oh right?

Speaker 4 (48:11):
I mean whatever it is like, you know, you could
take a pill, or you could go to this person
or whatever they're selling, or you could just buy this
hamburger and you'll feel better for five seconds. That's what
capitalism is. It's it's creating needs in you, saying you're
not good enough, you don't have this, and you need
all of these products.

Speaker 1 (48:28):
Yeah, you stink, you're disgusting.

Speaker 4 (48:30):
You're a piece of shit.

Speaker 3 (48:33):
Yeah, why don't you do it? Do you do? You
do a lot of positive stuff, But like.

Speaker 1 (48:37):
I think human beings are I keep doing We're complicated.
We're not all positive. So we have a lot of
this darkness, and that's why we probably don't do this
stuff every day because the dark voices are always there,
and it's just a practice. It's like yoga, you know,
every day you try to turn the volume up on
the affirmations and the positive stuff and turn the volume

(48:59):
down on the bullshit. So much of what I what
was what was ailing me was I was believing my
thoughts and then I realized my thoughts are not facts.
It's just like an angry guy in there. That's like,
you know, the cool thing about affirmation or like dreaming, daydreaming, fantasizing,

(49:22):
visualizing what you'd like. Uh, I think that that's so power, prayer,
whatever you want to call it is. The reason it's
so useful is sometimes you haven't even thought about what
you want. You're just thinking how much you don't like
what you have? Oh the sacks? Why is this this way?
I hate my voice, I hate my partner, I don't

(49:43):
like where I live. And then if someone's like, what
what do you want in.

Speaker 2 (49:47):
A perfect world?

Speaker 1 (49:48):
Like my experiment about let's say a phone rings and
you pick it up and your dream is on the
other end of the phone. They're like making this job,
or you're gonna move here, or you're gonna be dating
so and so. What is the phone call saying? Like
when you write down wow, or you visualize the dream,

(50:09):
it's hard and sometimes you realize it. Fuck, I don't
know what I want. I don't even know what I
don't know.

Speaker 2 (50:15):
What I want.

Speaker 3 (50:16):
My mom has said that to me my whole life,
you don't even know what you like. When she's holding
up two pairs of shorts for me to like wear
to school and we're at Famous Bar and she's shopping
and I'm doing that thing crossing my arms and she goes, Nick,
which one of them?

Speaker 2 (50:30):
Do you want to get these or this one? I'm like,
I don't know. She was like, you don't even know
what you like?

Speaker 3 (50:33):
And I that's another That's another struggle for me. Is
like Chris talking about what's our five year plan? Just
imagine what you want in ten years? And I'm like,
more of this. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (50:42):
I don't I don't know. But what about that phone call?

Speaker 3 (50:45):
I want to hear what if we had to, if
you have to choose right now that a phone is
gonna ring and on the other end is going to
be what is it?

Speaker 2 (50:53):
Anya? It's like asking you something, or.

Speaker 1 (50:55):
It's like, guess what this information? She got a job
by SNL or you're okay, he's doing a movie with
Judd Apatower.

Speaker 2 (51:02):
So it rings.

Speaker 3 (51:03):
First of all, I'm not going to answer because I'm
gonna be like, who the fuck is this number?

Speaker 2 (51:07):
And your ringers off.

Speaker 4 (51:09):
Miss and it goes to voicemail, and it's like, hey,
what is your dream? If you have a chance, and
you please call me back because I have a lot
of good things.

Speaker 3 (51:17):
My voice mail is full, so it just doesn't even
get through. Okay, Brian, what is your call right now?

Speaker 4 (51:23):
Ring? Ring?

Speaker 3 (51:24):
Ring?

Speaker 4 (51:24):
Ring? Ring? Hello? Oh, and I have to say I'm you,
I'm you. Hello. Hey listen, Brian, you just this, Oh
this is your dream calling you? Uh listen, you just
sold a cartoon to Fox or Pulu or something, and uh,

(51:46):
you're going to be the creator and showrunner of your
own cartoon.

Speaker 2 (51:50):
Oh my god, that's a good one. Okay, guess what
can you.

Speaker 1 (51:55):
This is not outlandish to mean, don't know it at
all at all.

Speaker 3 (51:59):
I'm like, well, that's what I'm asking is do you
have scripts out there to the could that happen? Could
a script get into the hand of someone that could
call you and say that.

Speaker 4 (52:09):
Yeah, I mean I did sell a show once, but
it just didn't get picked up the series. So it's
I'm I'm close enough, but I uh yeah, you know.
I it's just so hard.

Speaker 3 (52:18):
That's so God man, your dream stresses me out. If
that call came in, I'd be like I got to
come up with an idea and I got to like
learn how to draw, Like I love that someone else's
dream could be my like kind of like uh stressful thing,
But I love that dream for you, and that is
so gonna happen for you and even you putting it
out here like this, there's maybe someone listening that's like

(52:39):
works in you know, uh what's it called talent development?

Speaker 2 (52:44):
Or like, you know what what is it called when
companies are looking for scripts and stuff?

Speaker 4 (52:48):
Oh, there's a production company development?

Speaker 3 (52:51):
Sorry, development, there's someone working in television development that has
some sort of now is a little bit inquisitive of
like what's the sky I have to offer? Because yeah,
and where could we send them to go check.

Speaker 2 (53:03):
Out your stuff?

Speaker 4 (53:08):
No, I do. I would love to write your Instagram.
I go to my Instagram at Brian Frangie. But I
would love to have one day. This is not like
my dream, but I do want to have a coffee
table book about apples. Yeah, okay, that seems pretty easy.

Speaker 2 (53:20):
That's the next call. Yeah, that's the text that you get.

Speaker 3 (53:23):
Okay, We're going to get to the rest of our
calls after this break, and I would implore you guys
to think of this yourself and maybe call into the
show and let us know what you're u And you
can find that at our Instagram underneath our bio in
the in the biopart, there's a link to a place
where you can leave us a fantherex message and.

Speaker 2 (53:42):
Tell us what your call is. This is so fun.
We'll be back with more. Okay. Noah, ring ring ring,
it's your dream calling.

Speaker 5 (53:52):
Hello Noah, yeah, Hi? Can you speak louder I can't
hear you.

Speaker 4 (53:56):
Are you there?

Speaker 2 (53:57):
Hello? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (54:00):
One second please, I just need to close out these
windows right here.

Speaker 2 (54:03):
And yes, Hi, it's uh noah, noh. We have great news.

Speaker 5 (54:08):
You have land with a farm and cows and horses
and all the animals that you've ever dreamed of. It's
all paid for. You won't have to pay property taxes,
either it's all yours?

Speaker 2 (54:19):
Oh whoa? Okay, So Noah's dream is to inherit land
with cows. What else was on it? Horses?

Speaker 4 (54:28):
Chickens?

Speaker 2 (54:29):
And where is this? Okay? So wow, this sounds great.
Where exactly can I ask? Just can I ask a
few questions?

Speaker 3 (54:38):
Is that?

Speaker 4 (54:38):
Okay? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (54:39):
Of course? Okay? The rest of your life? Exactly? Is
this farm?

Speaker 5 (54:46):
Uh in Arizona where there's really comfortable weather all year long?

Speaker 2 (54:50):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (54:51):
Wow, well this is really great and I'm just gonna
need a couple of days to think about it.

Speaker 2 (54:56):
There's gonna be dogs and cats. Do we say that?

Speaker 4 (54:59):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (55:00):
Oh wow? Will they get along? It sounds like it's
two animals that don't get along. I'm thinking of all
the problems.

Speaker 3 (55:08):
This is my inheriting land and getting a cartoon that
I have to produce.

Speaker 2 (55:14):
I'm sorry to make it.

Speaker 3 (55:14):
About me, but I'm thinking, like, I love that other
people's I love that everyone's dream is so different. You
want to have an animal sanctuary? That's that's that sounds
so good? Noah, I want to go visit it. That
does exactly a wing for birds pun intended. Yeah, I
can't either. When he retired, I was like that is

(55:36):
my dream. I want to be able to retire and
just like save animals, we should we should collapse on
that because I want to have Yeah, I want to.
I also would love whenever I see these videos online
of like cows playing with balls and like birds flying
around and being friends with other fishes and stuff like

(55:56):
it's that's so, that's so great. Okay, so that is
a great call. I don't know how you're gonna have
the property tax part of it.

Speaker 1 (56:03):
It's all paid for in the dream.

Speaker 3 (56:05):
Yeah, someone is gonna like leave you something like this
is totally plausible. That's someone who you're a nice person. No, no, no,
no one in your family. That's that's not gonna happen
for you. But like Jesus, you know someone is gonna
encounter Noah and be so touched by her like overall
generosity and spirit that you're gonna be one of these

(56:26):
people that has left something just from like you being
kind of being like, oh, sir, your shoe is untied
instead of and being like I know it is. They're
gonna be one. Thank you so much. Let me put
you in my will and give you all this land. Okay,
Ring ring, Ring.

Speaker 1 (56:44):
Hello, mate, it's Anya.

Speaker 2 (56:47):
Yeah, I'm doing you, and then you're your dream.

Speaker 1 (56:50):
Hey, you know that song even fucking toiling over for months,
it's gonna be in the trailer for this thing. And
you're gonna be independently wealthy because, uh, you and your
co writers will split two point five million dollars and
you can finally buy that house that you want with
the dream kitchen, and your parents are going to live

(57:11):
close by, and you'll live in the same city as
your friend, so you won't have to do this podcast
on zoom and all your friends and family will be
close by.

Speaker 3 (57:23):
I just tell you, like, I'm not even joking. I
first of all, I love this dream. But the other day,
Chris and I were talking about moving in together and
then eventually like getting a house if we get married
and all these things, and I was like, you know,
we're talking about where we want to live, and I'm like,
I want to live and I love living in Saint Louis,
but I was like, I got to get a friend here,

(57:44):
like I need a friend here that I can see every.

Speaker 2 (57:48):
Day, like I need it.

Speaker 3 (57:50):
And I was like, I'm gonna work on convincing Audien
move to say Louist.

Speaker 2 (57:56):
Really and so yes, we're open.

Speaker 3 (57:58):
So we're open to I know, and Chris goes really
and I go, I think they're open to it, and
I'm like, I think I can sell them on it.
I'll just like see what I can do. But I
do in your dream as well, because it's part of mine.
I like need to live close to a friend.

Speaker 1 (58:12):
That's the thing everyone that is so useful about this
because I don't even know exactly what my dream is.
I just know generally I want to be close to
friends and family.

Speaker 2 (58:23):
Don't know how that's going to happen, but you don't
have to know.

Speaker 1 (58:26):
But just by articulating it, something in your subconscious mind
kind of like revs up a little bit, and then
you start making choices in your life that are slightly
different because now you kind of know the feeling you
want to have, like I want to have the feeling
of being close to friends, or like doing the podcast
in the same room, or like having my parents down

(58:48):
the street. Don't know how it's going to happen, but
it just I think it affects your choices in small ways.
It's not magic, you know what I mean, But it
just gets you thinking in a different way.

Speaker 2 (59:00):
Okay, here's mine. Wait what Brian.

Speaker 4 (59:06):
No, I was just going to ring the phone. But
I do want to say it's also important. It's not
just thinking in the same way. It's when you do
this phone call conversation, it generates a feeling inside of you.
It's a feeling of what you would feel like when
you did have success with your subconscious Braine, is.

Speaker 3 (59:23):
Your subconscious mind that you're getting it, and then your
subconscious mind makes it happen.

Speaker 1 (59:27):
So often you start feeling more worthwhile and worthy. Like
when I was trying to be in a happy relationship
and I was painfully single and sad and dejected. I
would do that in the mirror every night, like as
if the guy I liked, my dream partner was saying
all the things I'd ever want said to me. And
at first I couldn't come up with anything. Then I

(59:48):
was like, well, how could you have a dream partner
if you don't even know what you want? But then
it was like, I love you, I have your back,
You're the sexiest person I've ever met in my life,
like things that sounded ridiculous, but I'm like, you said
it out loud, yes, And then I started in the
mirroring yeah, and then I'd be like this is so
awkward and weird, but like, why is that crazy?

Speaker 2 (01:00:07):
Where did you hear to do that?

Speaker 1 (01:00:09):
A friend of mine was like, you should do some affirmations,
like tell yourself all the things you want your dream
and you got it. And then I started going to
bed at night instead of crying myself to sleep. I
had the feeling that I was in love and I
was having amazing dreams, and I was like giddy and
like I had this crush feeling and I was like
this feels bad, Like this feels like I'm getting away

(01:00:30):
with something like doing drugs. I was so high off
this feeling. It fucking worked. So if you're in that
situation in your life, try that for a couple nights
in a row. Tell yourself the things you wish your
dream partner would say to you. No one ever has
to know. You never have to say it on a podcast.

Speaker 3 (01:00:49):
You don't have to, but like, it's so nice that
you did, because it is embarrassing all these things, like
doing them alone or like that's why it helps this
phone call thing, to like do it as a podcast.
This is like content, so it doesn't have to be
as embarrassing. And that's where I ask you to call in,
because I'm asking you to do it so you don't
have to feel.

Speaker 1 (01:01:06):
Bad about it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:07):
Okay, Hello, Hi? Is this is this Miss Glazer?

Speaker 4 (01:01:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:01:18):
Hold on, I got my sleep mouse?

Speaker 2 (01:01:19):
Who is this? Wait?

Speaker 3 (01:01:22):
Hi?

Speaker 2 (01:01:22):
I'm actually this is urgent.

Speaker 3 (01:01:25):
I don't it won't take long, I promise you, and
and you can think about it and don't worry.

Speaker 2 (01:01:31):
This is not going to you. You aren't. You don't
have to do anything right now about it. That's my dream.

Speaker 3 (01:01:37):
Is someone's starting back with like you don't have to
get back to this right away.

Speaker 2 (01:01:41):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:01:42):
Taylor Swift has heard about you and your love of
her music and appreciative appreciation of her music, and she
is really looking to mentor someone musically to take them
to through the process of being a singer songwriter. And
she really thinks, based on what she's heard from you

(01:02:04):
and what she's seen of you, that you really have
what it takes to be a great singer songwriter and
that she can really help you through that process, and
she wants to be your mentor and is inviting you
to come out on the road with her and just
be a part of the experience, and she'll try to
help you write off stage, and she really also wants
some of your comedic input in her own life. And

(01:02:26):
I think that she artistically thinks she could both benefit
each other very much. And then eventually we'd like to
work towards a place where you can, you know, a debut,
you know, do be featured on a song of hers
on a future album, and then share the stage with
her at some point in a future concert if you

(01:02:46):
work hard enough and you get to the point where
she thinks you're deserving of that.

Speaker 1 (01:02:51):
I love this. No one knew this. What not really?

Speaker 3 (01:02:58):
This is.

Speaker 4 (01:03:00):
Like not to this degree.

Speaker 3 (01:03:02):
You never wanted to meet her, Like Chris, don't meet
her until she wants to meet you, Like that's that's
the ticket, is like, you don't meet her.

Speaker 2 (01:03:11):
We heard that from someone famous. I forget who.

Speaker 3 (01:03:13):
Chris could remind me, but he said, don't because I
think I have a chance to meet her this weekend,
and I'm gonna turn it down because I just don't want.
I want to meet her when she wants to meet me,
and because I'm going to see her this weekend. Sorry
to people who haven't been able to go to aras yet.
I know this is getting annoying, but in Chicago I'm
going to see her with my mom and then another night,
two nights. But yeah, I just feel like I think

(01:03:35):
my last time we did this and the girls chat
this phone call thing, my dream was like her asking
me to be in a music video, but that would
be like me being like funny in it, and I
don't really want to do that, Like I wanna. I
like what Pariglia did in her music video.

Speaker 2 (01:03:48):
I thought that was so awesome.

Speaker 3 (01:03:49):
I would have loved to be asked to do that,
but I want I want to I want her help
in becoming an artist, even though like and I want her.

Speaker 2 (01:03:59):
Approved.

Speaker 3 (01:04:00):
I guess it would be or like I want her
to see something in me and be like, you've got it, girl,
you know something like that. I think that's why that
whole thing was about, like she's noticed that you have
what it takes, but that you might need some assistance,
and she's going to help you because I acknowledge that
what I want I need a lot more help on.
So I think what I've learned from my from this
test is that I I'm still about the hard work

(01:04:24):
of it. All, and I don't want like a simple fix,
but I want to earn something.

Speaker 2 (01:04:28):
But I want Yeah, I want. I'm open to help.

Speaker 4 (01:04:33):
So what did you when you were saying that and
you were doing the phone thought, how did you feel?
What were the feelings that manifested.

Speaker 3 (01:04:43):
Like, Yes, I get to go do something and like
be a student again and be a novice, and I
get to clearly I'll be paid well and taking care
of on this tour, so I don't need to worry
about money. I don't need to be worried about taking
like I love doing comedy and gigs, like I'll never
stop doing that, and I would probably still do the
podcast on tour with her. But it was like there

(01:05:03):
was a feeling of like youthness, of like youthfulness, of
like newness, like when you're learning something new or you're
embarking on this thing that's like scary.

Speaker 2 (01:05:12):
There's like there was.

Speaker 3 (01:05:14):
A feeling of the feeling I had in my early
twenties like pursuing comedy, of like I don't know what
this is, this is crazy, or like and of like
approval like uh, that you're on the right track and
that this thing that you're kind of throwing yourself into
and have a lot of self doubt about is is
validated by the person that you care so much about.

(01:05:35):
Uh and and like, you know, like Jerry Seinfeld telling
me I was funny. I was like, okay, got it,
I'm good like now, And for many months I was
like very like I was riding that high, you know.
And Anya even had to remind me in Europe like
remember what Seinfeld said, Like you're funny, Like you don't
need to question that, And but I do, because I

(01:05:57):
listened to clips of Tim Dillan, and I'm like, how
how can I think I'm funny when there's Tim Dillan, which,
by the way, he is a book coming out. I'm
so fucking excited about it. It's he's I think I
heard him on your mom's house. I was listening to
clips this morning. I don't know if I was cutting
with them or I was like trying to be inspired.
It's hard to tell when you're listening to someone you
admire so much, like whether you're like trying to make

(01:06:19):
yourself feel worse about it. Clips are cut, by the way,
meaning they're edited. I get that, but still off the dome.
He is so he's one of the he's just superhuman.
And I and the fact that I'm even able to
acknowledge that and know that makes me feel special, Like
I know that I'm talented because I'm able to know
that Tim Dillon is the best.

Speaker 2 (01:06:39):
Like clearly there's something.

Speaker 3 (01:06:40):
It gives me self esteem to know that I know
for sure he's the best. But he's shared in this
Your Mom's House clips was so funny. It's the one
where he's introducing his book. You can find it online.
I think it's like Tim Dillon Clips is like the
YouTube channel. But he's talking about how his dad like
one time told him like, you know what's good about you?

(01:07:02):
He was like, I was smoking cigarettes with my dad
at the age of like well in his car. Yeah,
Like he was like, and you know he told his
dad told him, you know what's good about you, like
meaning there's one thing he finally found it. He goes,
you never smoke him down to the filter. He always
leave something. He goes, that's what's good about you. And
it was making me last word. But then he also

(01:07:23):
said that his dad used to always like kind of
say things like there's always gonna be someone who can
do what you do, You're never that special kind of
like always cutting everything with like, no matter what you
achieve in life, there's someone who can do it, like
kind of the way I think about myself, of like
anyone can do this. It's not that I'm not special,
and in certain ways I am, But I said, I

(01:07:43):
tend to see things pretty like it's about hard work,
it's about luck. It's just like, don't don't get on
your high horse too much. And his dad would say that, Tim,
and I'm like, it's so funny that. But I think
Tim dillan out of every comedian I know, I do
agree that most comedians people could do that, and they're
are like like copycats of like it's kind of repetitive
a lot of times. It's not that we don't need

(01:08:05):
more of that. It's great every you know, artists are
inspired by others. But I do believe Tim Dillon is
one of the exceptions to that.

Speaker 2 (01:08:12):
I think he is.

Speaker 3 (01:08:13):
So extraordinarily uniquely funny. And I was just thinking, like
I'm just like, uh was I don't think I was
cutting with his clips, because sometimes I do.

Speaker 2 (01:08:22):
I go like, God, you'll never be this funny. He's
so fucking smart. And fast and funny.

Speaker 3 (01:08:26):
But this morning I was like trying to be more
inspired by it and tap into whatever that. Obviously I
admire it, So it's somewhere in me that kind of
like honesty and brutality with which he speaks that I
look up to so much that I'm like, let me
get some let me have more of that.

Speaker 2 (01:08:43):
Yeah, and let me tell.

Speaker 3 (01:08:45):
I'm even talking like him now, Like, let me let
me listen to this and absorb some of it. The
other day, I was trying to write like a bunch
of jokes about one topic. I just wanted to write
a bunch of jokes about having gained a little bit
of weight, because I think that's just like an interest
topic to discuss it, just like just a little bit,
you know, like it's not enough to really complain about

(01:09:05):
or for anyone to feel bad about you. But I
was like, where can I go with this? And I
was on this porch of this hotel in Tel Aviv,
and I was like, I just want to write a
bunch of jokes, And instead of just trying to do that,
I was like, who writes a bunch? Who just has
jokes rapid fire? And so I just started watching Jim
Gaffigan on two times the Speed on YouTube, and I
just like dumped buckets of jokes on my head and

(01:09:29):
like I was sopping wet with that kind of like
thinking and that kind of joke writing, which Jim Gaffigan
is just like joke. There's no fat in the jokes.
There's no like you know, yes, I typed in like
fat jokes and it's like all Jim gaffigin. But if
you ever want to hear jokes about any topic, you
type in Jim Gaffigan in that topic and he has

(01:09:51):
twenty minutes about it, and I think he has the
most precise like writing. So I've been using things that
I'm jealous of or sorry that I'm envious of to
inspire me more so lately.

Speaker 2 (01:10:02):
Do you guys ever do that?

Speaker 3 (01:10:03):
Do you ever like immerse yourself in something that you
might avoid otherwise because it makes you feel bad?

Speaker 4 (01:10:08):
I mean Tim Dillon did that to me. You know.
Tim Dillon was my podcast co host for like eight
months on like ten years ago, on The Unbelievable podcast.

Speaker 2 (01:10:17):
Wait, I think I did know this, but I forgot it.

Speaker 4 (01:10:20):
Yeah, he was my he was my co host who
were co host do you agree.

Speaker 2 (01:10:24):
With me about what that he's extraordinary.

Speaker 4 (01:10:27):
Well, this is what happened on the podcast. He would
be on the podcast and I was like, this guy
is a fucking star and like he's just he shouldn't
be here. And then eventually like what is he doing here?
And then so we had eight months of you know,
great podcasts and the eventually he left to do his
own podcast. But I this was like in twenty twelve,
I was like, this guy is so funny. It's like,

(01:10:48):
I'm not ready to be on the same podcast as him.
And then he did leave, and then the podcast was shit. No,
but it was it was fine, and I was I
saw it from twenty twelve or whenever it was. And
then he left, and then I was not surprised when
he when he blew up.

Speaker 2 (01:11:03):
Are you still friendly with him?

Speaker 4 (01:11:05):
If I saw him, he would say hello, but I
don't like, you know, text him or anything. Gays.

Speaker 2 (01:11:10):
We're podcasting for eight Was it a was it a
bad ending?

Speaker 4 (01:11:14):
One of the best moments of No, No, it is
a perfectly fine ending, one of the best moments. Because
he would come to my apartment in Sunnyside, Queens and
I used to make chicken franchse. One of my best
dishes that I could make, and one of my proudest
moments is I made chicken Franchise and there was some
leftovers and Tim was at the house and I was like,
you want some chicken Franchez because I know he's like

(01:11:35):
a foodie guy. Yeah, And he goes and he tastes
the chicken franchise and he goes not bad, not bad. Yeah,
a little too much white wine, but not bad. And
that was like, oh my god, that was like the
best compliment coming from him.

Speaker 3 (01:11:50):
Yeah, he ill. I mean, it's the best compliment coming
from him that he was a co host.

Speaker 2 (01:11:54):
He must. You don't agree to be a.

Speaker 3 (01:11:57):
Co host on someone's show and you think they've got something,
and which you clearly have, there's no question of that,
that's why. And you don't you don't ask someone to
be a post on your show if you don't see
that they have and like like you did with Tim,
like I want to absorb someone something of what this
guy has. But yeah, it's and then it's hard to see,
especially it's sometimes hard to see people that you started

(01:12:19):
with or like we're beneath you. In the comedy world,
like you know, eclipse you or like I struggle with
all that stuff, but I'm finding like just just try
to try to enjoy it and not compare yourself, but
like use it to learn. Like that's why I want
a mentorship from Taylor Swift, Like use these things as

(01:12:43):
mentoring devices as opposed to like making you feel bad
about stuff, like do you do that?

Speaker 2 (01:12:48):
Anya? Do you do this?

Speaker 1 (01:12:50):
I think envy is one of my favorite emotions because
it tells me what I want, and sometimes I don't
know what. I'm one of those personalities that's a that
can you know, has a really hard time making decisions
because I can see all the good sides of each
possible option. But I remember when I was working at
the radio station as a DJ in San Diego and
I saw my friend's tour schedule. She was a singer songwriter,

(01:13:12):
and I was like filled with envy and rage, and
then I was like, what are you doing? Why are
you on the radio if you're so envious? Start taking
steps to have her life. If you want her life,
what are you doing? And that's when I was like, Oh,
I'm stuck here because of me, But I can have

(01:13:34):
what she has if I start taking like, no one's
going to knock on my door and call me and
be like, hey, guys, so you have a full tour
scheduled that's sold out. If you've never even made a.

Speaker 2 (01:13:45):
Record, what was the purpose of this call?

Speaker 1 (01:13:47):
This calling thing, the things we were on our phone
calls are possible. Everything you we've all said, I mean,
is extraordinary. But you're taking voice lessons. You are comedian.

Speaker 2 (01:14:01):
Taxes are unavoidable. It's death and taxes that she's never
gonna die.

Speaker 1 (01:14:06):
No, Noah might end up being like I saw a
really cool farm in Arizona and.

Speaker 3 (01:14:12):
Attracts exactly text she can afford the property tax, text
right off because it's a pea. Yes, yes, because it's
a sanctuary. Okay, thank you, all right.

Speaker 2 (01:14:24):
Also, I just found to have the.

Speaker 1 (01:14:26):
Weddings on your land. You can write it all off.
That was it? Just that envy is really is really
helpful to me. So sometimes I'll hear a song that
I'm like, God, damn it, I wish I had written that,
and then I'm like, just start writing something like that.
I think it informs your next steps. Was that an
answer to your question? Did you ask me?

Speaker 4 (01:14:45):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:14:45):
That was good?

Speaker 3 (01:14:45):
Okay, No, no, no, I think that was I think that
was it. I actually saw this thing. I'll end on this.
I followed I guess on Instagram you can like follow
hashtags and I follow like voice teachers or something. And
there's this woman that I really like and she sells
like or she she's yeah, she sells classes, but she
also gives good advice.

Speaker 2 (01:15:06):
And this was one that I really liked.

Speaker 3 (01:15:07):
She's talking about performance and like being a better performer,
and she said visualization is the practice of mentally imagining
yourself performing in a way you would like to perform
in real life. It's a mental rehearsal of skills toda.
The idea is used in Olympic sports training. The studies
show that when athletes use visualization they improve performance up
to thirty percent. So for your next performance, try mentally
rehearsing your performance scenarios and see if your physical performance

(01:15:29):
of those scenarios and actions improve. So the thirty percent improvement,
I've read that before too. I think Neil Brennan suggested
me a book that was like the ten percent. It
wasn't ten percent happier. It was some sports book about
like visualization and like you meditate and you imagine the
game you're about to play, and then those players play better.

(01:15:49):
I've never done anything like that where I'm like prep
picturing the performance.

Speaker 2 (01:15:53):
I would struggle with that.

Speaker 3 (01:15:54):
I struggle with like fantasy and like even you know,
with masturbation. I'm never like thinking about some thing. But
I guess now that there's a I usually looked at
fantasy of like you're so dumb, you're never going to
get this, Like this is just a sad thing, like
I pictured it like kind of pathetic, And now that
there's a purpose behind it that you could be thirty

(01:16:14):
percent better, maybe I could start trying to do it.
But there was another one too, that said, be well rehearsed.
Science has proven that when musicians or athletes rehearse their
performance ahead of time, they perform up to thirty percent better.

Speaker 2 (01:16:26):
I mean, that's so true. We all fucking know that.

Speaker 1 (01:16:29):
Bring is back to the thing we started with in
the beginning about weddings and anxiety. Today, this morning I
did like a little bit of wedding prep work that
I've been putting off, and I felt so good and
excited about getting married, which is a nice feeling, just
because like I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:16:48):
Know I bought.

Speaker 1 (01:16:50):
Yeah, I bought like this stuff I'm supposed to wear
under the dress, which is so annoying and complicated to
me because I don't know how to wear, like what
kind of bra and what kind of slip and I
have to get the slip altered and it's fucking annoying.

Speaker 4 (01:17:00):
But I did it.

Speaker 1 (01:17:02):
I bought all the things. I'll probably not wear any
of them, but I bought a bunch of options and
answered the caterer and wrote to the fucking delivery people,
and I'm like, oh, now I'm getting prepared. It's the
same thing as playing guitar for a couple hours or
like before Europe, I picked out all my outfits and
all of a sudden, I was like thirty percent less
nervous because I'm like, I know what outfit I'm wearing

(01:17:23):
on what day, and it feels so good.

Speaker 3 (01:17:25):
Do you ever watch these people like on YouTube, like
the guy Jay Shetty with the ice blue eyes, and
like all these other like influencers that you kind of
think they're full of shit. Ryan Holliday he's the stoicism guy.

Speaker 2 (01:17:38):
There's Lewis Howells. He's a friend of mine.

Speaker 3 (01:17:41):
But like these guys and it just seems so easy
for them to do all these things all the time.
It can't be, though, right, Like, no one just lives
thinking positively, always practicing. I think the only person that does,
maybe is Taylor Swift, because and that is why she's
been so successful. Like I look at her success and
it's like I read this diary that they posted on
the Reddit the other day because she shared her like

(01:18:03):
journals from the years, and it was like, today's the
anniversary of when she picked the nineteen eighty nine album cover,
and I was like, who gives a shit? And then
I read the journal entries where she was like, I
arrived in Shanghai. I'm very tired and jet lagged, and
I knew if I slept, I'd be totally screwed. So
I went to the gym and I'm like, that's Tailor's Swift.
And then she wrote like and I just was feeling
unsatisfied with the photo shoot we did for nineteen and nine.

(01:18:25):
I can't describe, but I just am not finding what
I want. So I went back to the original stills
that we took for like the outfit fitting or whatever
I'm paraphrasing. But she was like and I looked at
the polaroids and I realized, oh my god, there's this
one polaroid of me that doesn't have my eyes showing,
and there's just something captivating about it.

Speaker 2 (01:18:44):
And that's the cover.

Speaker 3 (01:18:44):
And it was just like, ohoh, it was she going
over things, not sleeping when you know that it's gonna
fuck with you, not because you know, she didn't she
needed rest, and this was at a time in her life,
I think when she was exercising too much, and she
would probably admit that too, But I was just reading
that going like, there are there are certain people like
this who got into good habits young, and like instead
of me beating myself up that like I'm I wasn't

(01:19:07):
twenty two and you know, going to the gym instead
of sleeping and picking out my album cover and performing
a sold out show in Shanghai with a ticker tape
parade like and all these things. I was just like,
what can I do to maybe be more like that?
Or like, how can this inspire me? So I'm gonna
try to do more of that.

Speaker 2 (01:19:26):
This was an enlightening This is an inspiring.

Speaker 1 (01:19:28):
Episode for me too.

Speaker 3 (01:19:30):
You guys got me? H, what are we all gonna
do just to sit by your phones all day. I
want all out, just pick up every spam call.

Speaker 2 (01:19:39):
All right, that feels good.

Speaker 3 (01:19:40):
Well, until next week, we have so much discuss it
will be we'll get into wedding planning details because that's
all coming up very soon. Leave us fan threxes. We'll
get to those next week as well. Thank you all
for the messages you send, all the kind words about
Brian and the show in general, and we'll see you
next week on the show. Don't be kiss and you
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