August 28, 2025 • 43 mins
It’s a Just Us episode which means your funny NYC ladies are back and spiraling. Nora’s fresh off (we hate to say it) her summer Euro trip with some key observations: Germans don’t smile but their government actually cares about them, and she’s returned with a new puffy shirt from Lisbon that she’s proudly debuting in this episode. Catch it on YouTube if you dare.
Meanwhile Hanna is planning her Lady Gaga look, we plot to only book guests who could double as potential suitors, and we crown Florence + The Machine the witch of music (meant lovingly). Also maybe Nora should stop hating on Taylor Swift because she’s here for the girls.
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(00:16):
Boom. Marco was like, really?
I didn't really like that clap. She can't complain because I put
out water. That's how prepared I.
Was wait, she's she's actually acting shocked.
She's like my mouth. Wait, why is it unplugged?
Cuz it was making a watery noiseand I have to clean it.
It's a beautiful noise. It sounds like a rainfall but
(00:38):
like I just need to clean it andI didn't have time cuz I was.
Doing everything I was like, there's no lights.
OK, this is a good start. You guys don't know this cause
like to you, it's just like, oh,the next episode's happening
now, but Nora hasn't been here in two weeks.
Two weeks, it really did feel solong.
(01:00):
I feel so like different, but also exactly the same, you know?
Like it felt like I didn't leaveand then it felt like I left.
And then you were back. And then I was back.
But yeah, I don't know if you can tell that I left because of
my shirt. I don't know if anyone knew.
If you're not watching on YouTube, you're going to want to
you're. Going to want to you've.
Got a new shirt on? Yeah.
(01:22):
And I would say you have a little sun, really give a little
glow to you for sure. Fuck yeah.
I did a lot of biking on my trip.
I'm sorry, did you get the squeak I'm having?
I thought I had the squeak. Maybe they're both squeaking
now. I mean, yeah, yours is worse.
Yeah, mine's really loud. OK, I'm going to sit still like
this. Like a doll.
Yeah, I just got back from this is a.
(01:45):
New ring. Yeah, that's really nice.
This is great. The green.
Yeah, it's a wedding on it's. A wedding ring.
Oh wait, it's my left hand. That's my.
Right hand OK, it's a wedding ring I just got back from, and I
hate to say it, Europe. I've never been to Europe in the
summer. I've always had to go to other
places like. I can wait if you want, you
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know, but it's is it amazing? The ring.
Oh my goodness, There you go. Oh my gosh, I I got it one I
didn't. I was really I every time I
bought something, which was veryrare.
I think these are the only two things I bought.
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I bought another shirt too, because a woman really pressed
me into it. But did you love it?
I felt it as much. So yeah.
It's also puffy. But I I felt so guilty.
I was like I should not even be in this country I should not be
doing anything. Why?
Just cuz like I'm unemployed andlike.
That's the time to. Do it.
No, I really don't have any money.
(02:48):
Yeah, but like when you're employed you don't do it cuz you
have work you're trying to save up and you just started a new
job. So I just, I feel bad I didn't
buy anyone gifts like you. Normally I bring back a little
gift like I brought you a littlecherry.
Basket split the ring, Yeah, butit's.
Right. You know, this time around, I I
was, I was selfish. I was.
That's good myself. I think that's a good call.
(03:11):
But yeah, I went to Lisbon for aweek and then I went to Berlin
for a week. What a difference in culture
there. Let me tell you that.
Yeah, which one would you? Prefer to go back to Lisbon.
Lisbon. Yeah, I here's the thing with
Berlin. I I get it.
Like I get like I, I understand why it's cool.
I had amazing magical moments biking around.
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It's a really bikeable, it's allflat and they have like really
good bike lanes and stuff. However, what's up everyone's
ass? We don't know.
Are they mean? Yeah, Germans suck.
Compared to like, compared to like, You know how people are
really hard on New Yorkers? No.
New Yorkers are better, OK? The Germans that I'm friends
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with. So I have one friend.
I have two friends in Germany who I saw and I they are
incredible, hospitable, sweet, loving people.
And I met one of I met some of their friends and they were
great too. However, the strangers of
Germany that I interacted with refused to smile, refused to to
(04:17):
even acknowledge my existence and seemed just so passive
aggressive and stressed out and angry and not happy and.
Now what's that about? What's going on over there?
Well, 'cause like, you know. Like when you come here, if
people get like that, it's kind of like, well, that's fine.
I don't know, Like America's terrible right now.
Like things are just getting worse every minute.
They are becoming a little more conservative, I guess, in their
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politics, like they're leaning towards.
So there's been a lot of like protesting and stuff.
That being said, nothing's wrongreally.
Compared to America where everything's in flames, yeah,
everything's. But things are definitely like,
there's issues, right? But here's the thing about
Germany that kind of fucking pisses me off is like, you go up
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to people and you ask them what they do and they're like, I'm a
storyteller and you're or like, I'm a poet and it's like,
amazing. So what's your job?
And they're like, Oh no, the government gives me money to do
this. They give us an artist's like
stipend. How?
Much. Is it?
It's enough that they can like, you know, basically survive.
(05:21):
That's what they do. So I met a lot of.
Storytellers like with with where things are in America,
like you'd be so stupid to even start fighting for an artist
stipend like that. Must be bottom of the list of
things the government would everdo for.
Us and then they were like, they're and I was like, well,
how about health insurance? And they were like, 'cause I, I
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knew that their health insurancewas cheap, like, Oh, no, we
don't pay for that. They have it.
Free to tell. Then why are they being so nasty
walking around on their artist stipend?
Also, yeah, I mean, I I'm just kind of like you guys.
What the fuck? Like.
What did I do with my artist? I yeah, I know.
(06:05):
I'm trying to think what honestly I would do with my day
if truly all we were doing was like podcasting, writing and
comedy. Which is a lot of stuff that we
already do around jobs. I listed out everything that I
was doing and I was like, but I'm unemployed.
And they were like, no, you're doing so much.
Don't you have your artist? I like nothing for my and.
I was like, no, no, no, no. Like America's like actively
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like billing me for what I'm doing.
Like, I just got a $900.00 bill from Mount Sinai for having a
breast exam because there was a lump that was really insane.
I literally said to that I was like, there was a lump in my
boob. I had to go.
Yeah. And they were like, yeah, well,
it's. Like, well, we didn't ask you
to. Go.
We didn't ask you to do that. You could have lived with it
and, you know, found out what happened.
I saw how it went. That's 900.
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Dollars. That's with insurance.
That's insane. So that kind of like pissed me
off because then and then I started playing this game with
myself where I just walked around smiling at everyone
because I was alone. So I was just.
Like in your I Heart New York shirt.
Yeah, I also accidentally brought my I Heart New York City
shirt. Now, I already laughed when I
saw that because I thought that was funny.
(07:09):
And you had already told me thatpeople didn't seem very nice.
So I was like, this is funny. But now picturing you wearing
it, like smiling at everybody, that's really funny.
Here's the difference between Germans and New Yorkers.
They're both mean. Like, we both have mean people,
but New Yorkers are going to sayit to your face.
Yeah, you know, they're gonna belike, get the fuck out of the
way, motherfucker. But you know what else I think
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like if, if, if you were at some, if a New Yorker like
yelled at me, yeah. And I turned around and was
like, I'm really didn't mean it.They'd be like, sorry, sorry.
You know what I mean? Like, I feel like guys have like
yelled at me and then I've reacted and then they've kind of
like calmed down. I didn't go to Berlin but it
feels like maybe no calm down. There's just no.
But there's no reaction. It's just like a stare, like a
(07:51):
glare or like a like a passive aggressive, like sorry.
Yeah, it's really. What's the weather like there?
The weather was beautiful when Iwas there, but typically it's
not. But it was like I like, it was
amazing while I was there and everyone was talking about how
amazing it was. The whole experience was great.
(08:11):
Honestly, I like look back at Berlin fondly.
I just would never want to be around German people for the
rest of my life. Like other than me?
Other than you and my friend Charlotte's German, I actually
have some German friends, but it's just, and I really do
we're. More.
We're more Swedish than German. Well, the one thing I did say
(08:33):
accidentally at this dinner party I went to with a bunch of
Germans was I was like, they were like, so how do you like
Berlin? Like, do you feel like you could
move here? Because so many New Yorkers come
to Berlin and they're like, I'm going to move here.
And then so many Berliners come to New York and they're like,
I'm, I feel like there's a big crossover there.
I was like, I don't know, I feellike I'm just like too loud and
Jewish for this place. And they were all just
(08:54):
completely silent. And I was like, Oh no, no, no,
no, no. I didn't mean because of like,
because of what you guys did to us.
No, I just. Separately in general.
This is something I talk about alot.
Like I say this in New York, like, or I say this about a guy
that I just went out with in NewYork.
I'm like, I'm just too Jewish for him.
Yeah, and if they got silent when you said that, like you
can't live there. But I really do feel too Jewish
(09:17):
and too loud for Berlin. For Berlin, the streets are so
quiet, like there's so many people, but it's silence.
I don't think I would like that.I don't know if you would.
It's very pretty, but it's just very quiet.
People are very reserved. They just keep to themselves.
OK? It's not.
I like it a little. But then yesterday, I mean, you
(09:38):
know, I'm, I'm walking to the grocery store and then this
woman is just screaming behind me.
She's just screaming, go back toPhilly, you motherfucker.
Yeah, we're back in New York. Hold on.
Go back to Philly, motherfuckers.
Everyone from Philly, you shouldgo fucking kill yourselves.
Why the fuck are you here? Are you ugly ass bitch?
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And she starts pointing at me. She starts pointing at other
people in the street. I think she and she was a little
out of it. No, maybe she was right on it.
She's like Philly, Philly, Philly, Philly.
And I'm just like, yay. I'm.
Home. And everyone doing whatever they
want. Loudly.
Yeah. Sounds like in Berlin they kept
themselves. Yeah, quietly.
New Yorkers kind of keeping themselves loudly.
(10:20):
Exactly. Yeah, exactly.
And it's just kind of, it's justa very different.
I really don't think I could live somewhere quiet.
Like I really like. I need like some background
noise. There's no chaos.
There, everything's very orderly.
I probably would like. That there's a lot of rules.
No one jaywalks. I was jaywalking everywhere.
No one jaywalks. Even if it's like completely
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empty, like the street's empty, everyone's just waiting for the
sign. And I'm, I was just booking it.
That was weird. And one person looked at me and
I was like, there's no, 'cause there's no cost, let's go.
What are you? Doing like why would they just
stand there like that's life, that's time and their life
passing by I. Don't know it's I guess.
Everyone always says that there's no urgency anywhere.
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This is the way there is here. I mean, they're on their artist
stipend so maybe they don't needto go anywhere.
They don't have to go to work. They don't.
If you're a poet on an artist's type, in the day's pretty free.
Like that's insane. It really makes you think how
twisted we have it, like we, ourgovernment really doesn't want
us to be happy. No, no, no, they want.
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And every day they do more and more work to make sure of it.
I met this woman. I went to a nude spa.
It was a Coed nude spa, which was also a big shocker
culturally. Like everyone's naked together
and we all swim together and we go with saunas and everything.
We get this pass, it's called the Bali.
It's it's an amazing experience.Wait, this one's in Berlin.
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This is in. Berlin.
In the heart of Berlin, there's this random spa that's like
pretty like it. It's so weird.
You go in and like, they're justlike, the only rule is no
clothes and you're looking around.
You're like, there's boys here and it's like, yeah, there's
boys here. So it's just like, Dick's out,
Vagina's out. Everyone's just it's.
Amazing you. I thought about you a lot.
(12:08):
I've been to a nude spa before with Coed in New York.
Was it Coed? Yeah, really.
Yeah, nudity has never fazed me,but that's because I think I
grew up in a naked house. Not like my parents are walking
around naked, but like, I don't think we've ever shut a door in
our life. Yeah.
So I'm very used to nudity. And then in college, there was
this nude spa in Queens. And I went with, like, my RA
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friends and it was like a big deal for them.
But I was kind of like, this is it for me?
I really, really wanted you there when I was walking.
I mean, being naked there alone was kind of like, what the fuck?
But like it was great but. Everyone was naked there alone.
Everyone, well, they wanted people and friends.
Like, OK, there were a lot of moments on my trip where I was
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alone and there's there were moments where I was like, Oh my
God, it's so amazing. I'm having this moment.
And there's some moments like, damn, it would be nice to have a
friend here. Like the one person who I'm
walking around naked. I went to a an open air cinema
thing like where you what? It's a draft through a movie.
Let's make it too. It's called what it is open air
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cinema. Yeah, that's what they call it.
It's like you sit outside, it's nice and.
That title is very like artistic.
Open S cinema. I'm like, so it's a drive
through without a car. Yeah.
And I go and I sit. I bring a a big jar of Nutella
'cause that was all I had and everyone, everyone.
(13:35):
And like a spoon and a spoon. OK, and everyone well, first I
actually had a couple of pretzels.
Oh, that's nice. So that was like all crinkly the
the sounds. I want you to focus on the
sounds right now. During the film Silence, you
could hear a pin drop. Everyone was being so good.
I was like, if this is in New York, people would be screaming
at. The no wait, did no one have
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snacks? No one was eating snacks.
Is that an only American thing to eat?
At the they ate they had they got popcorn before, but as soon
as the movie started they stopped eating it.
Where opposite you don't eat it until the movie starts.
And during the film, the film, I'm like spooning the Nutella
with the pretzels. I'm getting the pretzels out
there. The humiliation of a plastic
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bag. Do you know what?
I mean a silent German film. I'm sitting alone.
With your new talent. With my new talent trying to dip
in the stick. At one point I ate the stick,
broke into the new talent. I was like, oh shit.
That's going to be a whole thingtrying to get that out and like
where were you in the setup? Well, you know, like like to the
(14:38):
side, but like everyone around me was like but.
Like you're not like all the wayin the back, No, you're like
part of the. Experience I can't see, you
know, I'm like. OK.
Geriatric with my hearing and seeing and stuff.
Really, it was a pretty big screen.
It was like a giant projector and.
The movie was in English, so I didn't even have to read the
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subtitles, but the movie is about a, a girl, a girl and her
father and their relationship. And it's clear that the dad dies
in the end. And it was I was.
And you know, we talk, we talk about our dead dad sometimes,
but I never really get like too into that kind of stuff because
it makes me really upset. So of course I'm bawling in the
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movie. With the pretzels.
With the pretzels. Like all over my face.
I'm like hysterically crying. I have my hood up.
Everyone's like looking at me. I'm like, I'm like, you guys
are. It's a really sad movie, people.
In Berlin are like, so what's? The next to me I was like, I
have a dead dad. My dad's dead.
What did he say? He was like, what?
They didn't. Speak English.
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He like didn't want to connect over the movie.
It's just you never realize how American you are until you're in
Berlin. Sounds like until you really go
to Berlin. In Lisbon, it was party time.
Yeah. It was like it was that we
should go back and it's party time and everyone gets it.
It's very New York in that way. Dizzy.
(16:03):
Really. Are you OK?
And I haven't been eating a lot and I'm now feeling OK.
I think I just took like a two big swig of the coffee.
Do you want some food? I've just got some groceries.
No, it's OK. I'll wait till I get home.
But you know, when, like, you have, like, a little head rush.
Yeah. And then it lasts, like one
second longer than you're used to.
And you're kind of like, oh, no,I need to take this seriously.
Yeah, that's what just happened.And this is my remedy.
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But I'm OK. Maybe because I'm talking too
much because I'm on coffee that.Doesn't that wouldn't make me
dizzy? I don't think that would trigger
a spiral for me, no. But I think I didn't eat a
proper meal last night or this morning.
And now I've kind of like woke up, walked over here, drink the
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coffee. So it might have just.
All you didn't eat anything thismorning.
No, I was trying to eat a littlebit of my oatmeal but it just
was way too early because I don't eat until like 11 AM.
Yeah. And we're we're up in, we're up
in Adam. I guess I'll eat when I get
home. Yeah, but welcome back.
But welcome back to America. Welcome back to New York.
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I do have to say I was kind of, it was nice to come be back.
I was like, all right. It's a wrap.
I always feel that way when I goanywhere, like on the last day
I'm like I'm ready to get. Yeah, it's time to get home.
I just love my house and my routine, Yeah, more than
anything. It's, It was hard creating
routine when I was travelling somuch, but I, I was able to in
(17:31):
some capacity, like I would get my groceries.
Grocery shopping abroad sucks. It's so embarrassing.
Why just because I didn't, you don't know what anything is or
German. So when I went to the grocery
store, I was like Googling everysingle thing and I ended up
buying things that made absolutely no sense.
And like, it's not like looking at it, you can't figure it out.
(17:52):
With some things, yes, like if it's clearly a tomato, right?
But if it's like, I kind of wanted to get like, I don't
know, like iced coffee, which they don't drink.
They don't drink anything with ice in Europe.
They like eat ice. Just like ridiculous.
We love ice. I love ice.
Double whammy here. Literally.
And so I picked up this one thing.
(18:14):
It said ice. It translated to iced coffee.
It was like the heaviest Creamermilk with like a coffee flavor.
Disgusting. Disgusting.
Yeah, there's a lot. Cream milk flavored like coffee
sounds terrible. I went on a date.
How'd it go? It was.
(18:35):
It was good. Do you want to talk about it or
not? I'm just shooting out all night.
I hate. You know what sucks is when
people ask, how was your trip? And you never, no one ever
cares. You don't need to hear it.
You know what I mean? OK, Like, you know what people
like when people go on a trip? I'm like, Oh my God, how was it?
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And it's like, I don't really give a shit.
Well, I feel like you want to know if it was good or bad and
like the main highlight. Yeah, I, I feel like I want to
see pictures, but I don't alwayswant.
My mom will always tell me, like, about the people she meets
when she travels. And it's kind of like, that was
yours. Yeah.
You know what I mean? These were your people.
Like, I feel like I would never tell my mom who I met when I was
(19:20):
travelling. Right.
Like me and when me and Ryan McCormick were on the cruise, we
like came back. It always comes back.
To that and we he kept telling people stories about like the
people that worked on the ship. I was like, they don't care.
They don't care who worked on the ship.
They really don't. They really don't care.
It's but I care about your date.I care about your trip.
I I'm trying to and it's too late now.
(19:42):
If I didn't care, it's like the most episode.
No, but that's why I'm stopping myself right now.
Why stopping myself? Because our listeners are
probably like, all right, we getit.
She went to Europe for once, foronce.
And people, it's crazy. People do this every summer.
I'm like, how do they do that? Well, I feel like I don't know.
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I don't really dream of travel so I can't really even weigh in
on the matter. What's going on?
He had things, the headphones move forward, so I felt to hear
that my hair had stuck up and I was like that it needs to be put
back down. You said that you had a list of
things to tell me when I was gone.
Should we transfer over to that?Some of it I would not say is
(20:26):
for the podcast shit, some of it's just like like like.
Scaffolding outside my house. That it did not make my list
scaffolding. Outside your house.
I came back, I was shocked. Where was is it?
It's that way. Right next, it's right outside
and Wayne, the guy who runs the salon, I looked at him and I
said, what's going on with this?He's like don't even get me
started. He must be pissed.
(20:48):
That's not good for business. It's not, and we don't talk
about that enough. We don't.
No, the Starbucks across from myhouse has now the ugliest little
sign up because they have scaffolding and they got this
paper sign that says we're open.It's like just shut down, like
those little, those little signs, scaffolding really, they
have to do it. It just pops up.
(21:08):
It's unavoidable. They must do it, whatever.
But it blocks the whole, the whole business.
And then imagine being a business that used to get so
much sunlight and now it's over.The scaffolding's going to block
the sun and it's going to be up there for probably like four or
five. Months.
Oh, it's never going to end. It's once you get a scaffolding
in New York. Good luck.
Good luck, it's up is the Astoria orange theory has
(21:32):
apparently had it for like 2 years.
The orange, the what? The orange theory in Astoria,
they've had it for two years on the call that we have to have
every Monday. They're always talking about it.
I'm kind of like, just it's yours now.
Yeah. Like, stop.
Stop being like, oh, still have it.
Like you're going to have it. Like that's your.
Scaffolding. That's your scaffolding.
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Make the best of it, Constance. Hope had it really bad, my
friend. You know, Hope, but for our
listeners, Hope, who actually was on this podcast, she already
lives on a ground floor apartment.
Her window, she has one window in her living room that goes out
onto an alley. So already it's a little bit of
a tough sunlight situation and put a scaffolding up.
(22:15):
She must like it must feel like end of day.
Yeah, she's completely. She's like.
She's got a sun lamp. Did she get one?
I don't know if she has a sun lamp.
Her birthday's coming up. I wish I could buy her a
present. I can buy anyone presents right
now. I can only buy myself a wedding
ring and a puffy shirt. 2 puffy shirts. 2 puffy shirts.
Can't wait to see the next one. I'll try to.
(22:37):
Maybe I'll wear it for the next episode if you you want.
It might be a little overkill. The woman, what do you see?
It's it's purple silk. The woman who sold it to me was
like, I'll give you a deal. I'll give you a deal.
Shirt from Grease. I kept being like, I don't know,
I don't have any money. And she was like 15 euros.
(22:59):
I was like which is which is like 20 bucks in New York and I
was kind of like. All right, really an amazing.
Deal. Yeah, I know.
I was like, all right, yeah, it was 25.
So it's kind of like, OK. We're working our way down.
And she was kind of cornering meand like rolling a cigarette
really closely to my face, so. It's like, let's just get out of
here. Yeah, it's easier to just take
the sale. Yeah, I'm just like, great,
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can't wait for me, $20 share. I can't wait to see it.
It's puffy. It's puffy.
I think puffy suits me. Yeah, it looks really nice.
And I think it's because in my previous.
Life and I always said this in this crop I've.
Always said this, that I felt like a Renaissance lady kind of
rebelling in some capacity against the men.
OK. Like I always, every time I
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watch like a Renaissance movie, I'm like, I feel like I identify
with it, but more in like an anarchist way.
OK. So I wouldn't have been loyalty,
I would have been like a a wench.
A wench, you know, and this is your wench shirt.
This is kind of a wench top. Like it's a really hot, cute
top. But when you say it like that,
it is a little wenchy. I have a Renaissance body in a
lot of ways, you know, Definitely so.
(24:05):
I've always identified with that.
I drank way too much coffee today.
This episode's going to be ridiculous to listen back to.
You think? I just feel like I've been
talking so much I can't stop. OK, Hopefully I chill out by the
time Malik gets here. Malik.
Malik I don't know. I'm just, we're just going off
of Lori Cooper, which who is never someone we reference or
trust like that. I know, why would it be Malik?
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But like I don't know if that iscorrect and they gave her the
correct he. Said it after he was like, yeah
I'm Malik. Then it's Malik.
Because if he would, maybe he was being.
Polite. Maybe they're both like making
fun of her I. Don't know.
Yeah, I don't know. Wait, I'm so excited to have
someone else here that we can talk about her.
We're now like 2 for two you. Guys, buckle up for next week
(24:51):
because we have a great guest and.
As you can see, we're prepping. We're.
Prepping. Already it is episode we're
prepping. For we have some really amazing
guests coming up, like really good wins.
I mean, one of them I'm like, I cannot believe is happening.
One of them I'm going to do someresearch on.
I understand the weight of him and I need to now know the
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history. Maybe he has some history.
He. Has some history.
And I kind of feel like by the end I might be dating him.
Which one? Both of them but.
Like the Renaissance shirt. See, I think we.
Really need to focus and maybe this is something I should say
offline, but I'm going to say itright now.
(25:35):
Let's only get guests that are potential suitors and they have
no idea. OK.
So it's going to be men only can.
I be honest, yeah. I don't think people who come on
our podcast like really listen to previous episodes.
Oh, no, no, no. So I think we could secretly be
like, hey, just you guys know, every episode moving forward is
going to be a man we're trying to set up Nora with, and they
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would never know that. That's like the underlying goal
of the podcast. Yeah, let's do that.
And then and then it's kind of fun for the listener.
We had a woman. I have a woman that I was
supposed to book but I'll just throw her.
Away. No, just kidding.
We don't want her. Unless you're thinking about
that. It might be.
So let's have a run. If sparks fly, then that's
probably for the best. That would kind of be fun.
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I'm thinking about if I'm listening to a podcast and I
know the secret, but like there's like maybe having a
woman on, she would listen to a couple episodes but there's no
way a man is listening to previous episodes.
No men that have been on our podcast or will be on our
podcast while I ever listen to this episode.
They'll, they'll, maybe I'll give them a little credit, watch
some clips, they'll go to our Instagram.
(26:39):
They'll they'll get the vibe, but they're not like watching an
episode. Yeah, so we OK, let's think
about this. Wait.
We can kind of secretly say that's the goal for the next
two. OK, Yeah.
So you guys know that. Now you Riddle me that, you
Riddle me that. Now we need to really be now
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we're not booking the timeless torches.
No, we still have to. We still.
Have to? Well, 'cause I don't know, that
feels too old for you, I know. I don't want you to have to beat
them. Just assume if there's ever a
man in our in my general generation on assume there's an
alternative motive. Yeah.
(27:20):
And maybe we can say that in theintro, like you guys know what's
going on. You, you guys know what's going
on? The guy's sitting there.
He's like, what's going on? How did we did that?
Well, today, like, oh, look who's here.
Look who's here. Quick quink.
They'd be like, they're like. Who are you these?
Girls. I can't.
My throat is a little is hurting, but I can't tell if
(27:41):
it's because I literally was chain smoking for the last two
weeks. Yeah.
I would say. I'm so, I mean, God, it's so
weird to think that this episodeis going to come out after the
Love Island reunion. We're going to know so much.
I know I need to maybe watch some reels of Love Island to get
(28:02):
back into it for tonight. I'm so like.
Following them for every move they make, every step they take.
I've been watching you. I've been seeing Maya, I guess
is like going to a lot of sportsgames and that's all I know.
After tonight, though, I need togo on vocal rest.
After tonight, I feel like I'm gonna know literally everything
about every single person on Love Island, including everyone
(28:25):
from Casa. Mora, do we know if Sierra's
there? Yes, she's gonna be there.
Oh. Oh.
Sierra, No, I don't think so. Yeah, when you said Sierra, I
found Andrea. Yeah.
Do we know if Sierra's there? Yes, yes.
She will be there, but it's, I mean, I've been following them
on TikTok, on Instagram to the point where I feel like I know
(28:49):
quite literally everything aboutthem.
Who's still together? Olandria and Nick are still
together. That's actually really
surprising. Sierra's in Houston right now
doing a little bar tour and everyone's really happy about
it. Good.
That's good. Huda's single.
Huda's single, but she's crushing it.
Like she's like, her fitness routine is like, that wasn't me.
(29:11):
For her body water bottle, thankyou.
Her body's insane. Like if nothing else came out of
this, people are going to followto learn how to look like.
Her exactly like she is and it she makes it very because I went
onto the website to see because they do digital consultation.
So I was like, obviously I'd like 1 and it make it very clear
they're like you will not meet with Huda.
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Don't think for a second you'll get to meet her.
Because you know where I was gonna go with that?
I was gonna do it then she her ass was gonna be here.
Yeah. But like no, the fact that I DM
D amaya at the beginning of the show being like, hey, wanna be
on the podcast. Like thinking that she had her
cell phone. It was like her second.
To like and think like some of the people that I've DM D.
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To be on this podcast with such confidence, I'm like, fuck it.
It was just like, Nora What? I I mean the way that I was
chasing Zoron. I still feel like he'll kill.
He'll come on. I I was chasing them.
We definitely could get Brad on.Brad.
Brad Lander. Oh, Brad.
He's like, he's kind of like around here all the time.
(30:18):
I've seen him twice now. He's kind of like, I feel like
if we could just be like, after an appearance, if you could just
come up. Yeah, he seems really nice.
We have to go in person and trapthem.
OK, That's how it works I feel. Like with microphones.
And be like, hey, we're doing aninterview.
Also, hint hint, you might be Nora's next friend.
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We have to break up Brad's family.
Who? I want to say.
I could see you as someone like Brad, like not like necessarily
like look wise, but like he justseems like a really nice guy but
also gets really heated about, yeah, some stuff.
I just feel like that could be agood alignment.
I really want to be with someonelike Zoran how to tell every
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single thing about him. Like I literally Google Joron
and that's exactly. And he's really high.
He's really high and he's reallywell spoken.
He's really chill. He's funny.
We're the exact same age. Are you really?
Wow, think about the difference in achievements.
I didn't know that. Well, no, no, no, I'm not
thinking about. That everyone.
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I was talking to a bunch of people who were all like in
their mid 30s and we were all like, so run's a little
humbling. Yeah, that's like we really
aren't there. I saw a clip of Lady Gaga, like
after her third, her second album and she's on Ellen and
she's like, how old are you? And she's like 23.
And I was like, I kind of like when I hear Lady Gaga's story of
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like, hustling in New York, I'm like, she probably didn't make
it till 2930. And it's like, no, she was 23 on
Ellen. Yeah, I'm seeing her on
Wednesday. That's I'm so excited.
I never go to concerts. I bought a full outfit.
I'm What's the outfit? It's this very cute.
(32:04):
So the vibe of her concert is kind of like a little goth, a
little metal, just a little bit of a darker theme, but kind of
like that seems to be the energy.
So it's a the dress is like tight to over my butt.
It's a black like tube top style.
OK over my butt. But then the bottom is half
flowy, but a little ripped. Fuck yeah.
(32:25):
Then I'm wearing my knee high boots with the silver thing and
then I got this headband that has those little silver holes in
them. Do you know what I'm talking
about? Those headbands?
Yes, yes, I know exactly. That and then I got a matching
bag. Wow.
And I'm doing it. I'm getting my nails done for
the show. Yes, first time this year.
No more. No, I'm going to Dolphin Spa.
(32:47):
It's right near my house. So I'm kind of like if this is
the one, their prices align withmy old place.
OK, so I'm like if this is the cuz I kinda I definitely haven't
gotten my nails done because anytime I have extra money like
I owe people money. I have like a lot going on in
Venmo at the moment. So I'm like OK, I can never
afford to get my nails done, butI also feel like it's because I
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don't have a place I like. So it's kind of like I'm not
going to spend money if I don't,if I, if I'm going to hate the
manicure, if I'm going to because with acrylics like gel
extensions, that's going to be with you for a minute.
So if it's a bad job, you're like living with a bad job and
you paid like it's not cheap. So Dolphin Spa matches my price
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points and is literally one block away from my house.
Amazing. So and it fits all my
requirements as the massage chair for the pedicure.
A lot of places over here just have like a bench or like a cozy
chair. No, I wanted, I want the
massage. Chair.
Yeah, of course. Like who is not using the
massage chair? You use it right when you get a
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always. Always, Yeah.
It's always so complicated. How the hell do you get it to
just do your upper back? Really?
I'm always like, I'm always like, it's.
All over. I'm always doing the mix.
I'm fine. You want all over, but it's
always embarrassing when it's the vibrating portion and you're
in your chair and your feet are shaking and they're trying to
hold them still. What color are you getting?
Black. Now she's she's seen to be
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having a little. Some of her costumes have a neon
orange. Fuck, yeah.
So my outfit's gonna be all black with neon orange.
I might ditch the headband. I was trying it on yesterday.
It's, it's thicker. Like, it goes, like, pretty far
back on my head. Yeah, but like because of the
like silver little holes in it. Do you need to borrow makeup
(34:31):
too? No, no, I have makeup.
Well, I'm saying like, like intense makeup.
I have makeup, I just don't use it like black.
Litter. I have black litter.
I have this cool black litter that eyeshadow that I bought
forever ago that I don't use. You should do like the Julia
Fox, like Smudge. Maybe, maybe I still have to.
(34:54):
I have to remember that I have to be in this all night and I
get really fussy in makeup. Yeah, you don't want it to ruin
your night. But wait, and do you see what
Ryan's going to wear? Ryan has like, quite the look.
Prepared. I saw when you when you showed
me on on FaceTime and he had hiswig on.
You don't even know what's come of it.
Now I'm actually think that likeme, him and Mackenzie are going
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to look like 3 really different energies.
Yeah, like I feel like mine willlook on theme what kind of looks
a little brat. Ryan is like I think is leaning
just towards going in drag and Ithink Mackenzie is going to be
like in a classic, just black look.
Do you kind of feel like some ofthe artists kind of overlapped
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with their themes a little bit like Brat and Mayhem and then
like Cowboy Carter and Taylor's like they were like both like
silvery cowboy looks and then like, and it's like, who came
here? First, I would definitely say
like you mean Taylor's like new album?
Well, Taylor, when she was on tour the same time as Beyoncé, I
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felt like the outfits for those tours, it was Rent.
It wasn't Cowboy Carter, it was Renaissance.
It was like a silvery look. And then she also had like a
silvery thing going on, maybe. I don't really remember.
Cuz I know her new album that's coming out.
I I don't know anything about itother than I've seen the cover
art. Yeah.
And that is like silver jeweled,like showgirl look.
(36:25):
Yeah. I don't really know much about
what Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter look was.
Well. She did have that look was just
western, but she didn't have that bedazzled hat.
I saw some of her outfits at the.
Renaissance. She was on the.
Horse. I remember the horse.
Yeah, I remember the horse. I remember the horse.
I wouldn't say Mayhem is alignedwith Brat.
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I would say it's really different.
But my choice of outfit is, I think like if I would have gone
to BRAT, I could have worn this exact thing.
Yeah. And totally just like slicked my
hair back and I'm going to be inBRAT.
Yeah, that's what I'm kind of feeling.
That's I bought, I bought 2 dresses, but one of them is
like, it's just like there's, there's nothing like wear
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whatever you're comfortable in. But like, do you ever put
something on and like remember your age?
Oh yeah. It was like such a costume dress
and I was like, I'm 28, which islike not old, but like it's not
on. I felt like a 22 year old in it.
Yeah. Like I felt like a 22 year old
playing dress up. Have you?
Seen that SNL skit like Forever 33?
Yeah, with like, the giant cashmere sweater.
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Ryan was saying he loved the second one more.
But like I just, I felt such like a old person trying to
dress like a young person in I'll show you a picture of the
dress. I literally looked like I'm
wearing like a Halloween costumeof like a 10 year old girl.
Maybe you should keep it for Halloween.
I When you buy 3 dresses for a concert, like 2, maybe even
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three, got to go back. You know what?
I mean, it's Halloween is aroundthe corner.
I know I got to figure out what I'm going to be.
I Yeah. I mean, I don't.
Maybe I will this year be Florence in the Machine.
She just came out with a new Halloween album.
And she's kind of following the energy of everybody.
Yeah, because Lady Gaga, this album, she's like kind of metal
and she's angry and she's loud. Florence's is the same, but.
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Florence, I am such a Florence apologist.
She she's, she's actually a witch like she when you go to
her shows. I went to one show of hers and
she has people dressed up in these like flower crowns.
It's very Midsommar and they're all, she sacrifices one person
at every at every show and they come up and she's like sacrifice
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and like people come. She comes down and she puts her
hand on people and they start weeping.
It's very culty. It's very flowers.
It's very witchy. She's so fucking cool.
She was like, so important to me, like in high school and
college. Yeah.
Like she's. Amazing.
She's an amazing singer. And yeah, she's coming out with
a Halloween album and it alreadylooks fucking nuts.
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And I'm like, you're the witch. And so maybe, and I've always
wanted to be Florence, but people don't understand the
relevancy. Like, people don't understand
why Florence is iconic. All they think her dog days are
over. And it's like, no, no, no, no,
no. You haven't listened to like,
like her new album. It was so good.
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Was it Dream Fever? It was like the best album of
the year. I'm shocked it didn't get a
Grammy. Has she ever gotten a Grammy?
She should win them every year. Yeah, she's insanely pounded.
Her voice is so beautiful too. She's so good and she's such a
she's really. Respected.
I feel like within the industry,like she's really praised by
like her colleagues totally. But I think it's for the best
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that, I mean, she's of course insanely famous and successful,
but she's not like mainstream mainstream.
But I kind of think that's for the best.
Yeah, she has. Kind of like a Lord, kind of
alt. Yeah, like, of course she's
famous and everyone knows her, but like, she's not getting
attention the way like a Taylor Swift would.
But like, that's for the best because they would ruin it, I
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think. Well.
I hate Taylor Swift so. I know you don't.
Which is really, I know it's hard for everyone.
I just don't feel anything abouther.
I feel pain. Really.
Yeah, I just feel pain it. She reminds me of capitalism in
such a way that, like, makes me feel sick.
However, she has been doing a lot, and I think we've talked
about this on the podcast. She like donated a lot of money
(40:29):
during like a natural disaster at one point, like more than the
government. So yeah, she's pretty good about
spreading her money out. Yeah, and she is politically
active, so. Yeah, and she takes really good
care of her teams as well. Like at the end of the tour, she
gives everyone, like, insane bonuses.
Yeah, I feel like compared to other people with platforms,
(40:50):
she's kind of a lot better. Yeah, maybe I should stop
hating. Her and I kind of feel like
she's really actually, I don't like Taylor Swift, like I don't
I couldn't name like one album for you, but I listen to a lot
of pop culture podcasts, so I listen to people talk about what
she's up to and I I do think it's a little impressive to be
(41:11):
on her level of fame and successand kind of be not in the public
eye and kind of modest. You know what?
I. Mean you think she's modest.
Like, like, for like a woman, female pop star, I just feel
like she's never really been like, flaunting like sexuality,
(41:32):
which is whatever. Like, if you do, that's amazing.
And if you don't, that's fine too.
Yeah. I just think it's a little
impressive to be that like, successful and like, get so much
attention. I feel like she's never kind of
gone through like a sexy phase. Like I feel like I this is, this
is gonna, I'm gonna sound crazy.For a second, yeah, yeah.
I feel like when people I hate on Taylor Swift and like her
(41:55):
fans, I just feel like it's another thing.
It's like I feel like all of herfans are women, you know what I
mean? She so I kind of feel like just
let the girls have her, you knowwhat I mean?
Yeah. It's like when everyone was
making fun of her tour and like her the friendship bracelets, I
was like, I don't know, it kind of feels like young girls and
like female joy. So kind of like they're fine to
(42:15):
have. Her it's like enjoy.
Her. Yeah, you can have her if you
want her. Yeah, I don't want her, but
yeah, if I wanted her, I could. Have her.
You could have her. You could have her.
It sounds weird. If I wanted her, I could have.
Her. You could have her.
The young girls can have her, yeah.
Well, this has been a good episode of just us, Just us.
We have a couple minutes left. We we can't go on for too much
(42:38):
longer. It's a shorter episode because
we have another plan for some coming.
And you guys know, and you guys know with those I went chugged
this way too quickly. Really.
I really have to pee. It's like, honestly crazy.
And let's we never do the intro.I'm Hannah Gerlander, and you've
been listening to New Yorker of the Week, where we talked about
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Berlin, Lisbon and Lady Gaga. Everything.
Everything but New York. Everything but New York.
I could have filled you in on more New York stuff.
I know. I asked you what were the
highlights? Well, I wasn't gonna tell you my
list of, like, stuff going out of my life.
Life with the people's names. Yeah, well, you never know.
(43:19):
You never know if they're listening or not.
I guess they're not. Probably when I think about what
I'm thinking about. Yeah.
I'm gonna update you on here. We gotta go.
All right. All right.
Bye.
Boom. Marco was like, really?
I didn't really like that clap. She can't complain because I put
out water. That's how prepared I.
Was wait, she's she's actually acting shocked.
She's like my mouth. Wait, why is it unplugged?
Cuz it was making a watery noiseand I have to clean it.
It's a beautiful noise. It sounds like a rainfall but
(00:38):
like I just need to clean it andI didn't have time cuz I was.
Doing everything I was like, there's no lights.
OK, this is a good start. You guys don't know this cause
like to you, it's just like, oh,the next episode's happening
now, but Nora hasn't been here in two weeks.
Two weeks, it really did feel solong.
(01:00):
I feel so like different, but also exactly the same, you know?
Like it felt like I didn't leaveand then it felt like I left.
And then you were back. And then I was back.
But yeah, I don't know if you can tell that I left because of
my shirt. I don't know if anyone knew.
If you're not watching on YouTube, you're going to want to
you're. Going to want to you've.
Got a new shirt on? Yeah.
(01:22):
And I would say you have a little sun, really give a little
glow to you for sure. Fuck yeah.
I did a lot of biking on my trip.
I'm sorry, did you get the squeak I'm having?
I thought I had the squeak. Maybe they're both squeaking
now. I mean, yeah, yours is worse.
Yeah, mine's really loud. OK, I'm going to sit still like
this. Like a doll.
Yeah, I just got back from this is a.
(01:45):
New ring. Yeah, that's really nice.
This is great. The green.
Yeah, it's a wedding on it's. A wedding ring.
Oh wait, it's my left hand. That's my.
Right hand OK, it's a wedding ring I just got back from, and I
hate to say it, Europe. I've never been to Europe in the
summer. I've always had to go to other
places like. I can wait if you want, you
(02:05):
know, but it's is it amazing? The ring.
Oh my goodness, There you go. Oh my gosh, I I got it one I
didn't. I was really I every time I
bought something, which was veryrare.
I think these are the only two things I bought.
(02:26):
I bought another shirt too, because a woman really pressed
me into it. But did you love it?
I felt it as much. So yeah.
It's also puffy. But I I felt so guilty.
I was like I should not even be in this country I should not be
doing anything. Why?
Just cuz like I'm unemployed andlike.
That's the time to. Do it.
No, I really don't have any money.
(02:48):
Yeah, but like when you're employed you don't do it cuz you
have work you're trying to save up and you just started a new
job. So I just, I feel bad I didn't
buy anyone gifts like you. Normally I bring back a little
gift like I brought you a littlecherry.
Basket split the ring, Yeah, butit's.
Right. You know, this time around, I I
was, I was selfish. I was.
That's good myself. I think that's a good call.
(03:11):
But yeah, I went to Lisbon for aweek and then I went to Berlin
for a week. What a difference in culture
there. Let me tell you that.
Yeah, which one would you? Prefer to go back to Lisbon.
Lisbon. Yeah, I here's the thing with
Berlin. I I get it.
Like I get like I, I understand why it's cool.
I had amazing magical moments biking around.
(03:34):
It's a really bikeable, it's allflat and they have like really
good bike lanes and stuff. However, what's up everyone's
ass? We don't know.
Are they mean? Yeah, Germans suck.
Compared to like, compared to like, You know how people are
really hard on New Yorkers? No.
New Yorkers are better, OK? The Germans that I'm friends
(03:55):
with. So I have one friend.
I have two friends in Germany who I saw and I they are
incredible, hospitable, sweet, loving people.
And I met one of I met some of their friends and they were
great too. However, the strangers of
Germany that I interacted with refused to smile, refused to to
(04:17):
even acknowledge my existence and seemed just so passive
aggressive and stressed out and angry and not happy and.
Now what's that about? What's going on over there?
Well, 'cause like, you know. Like when you come here, if
people get like that, it's kind of like, well, that's fine.
I don't know, Like America's terrible right now.
Like things are just getting worse every minute.
They are becoming a little more conservative, I guess, in their
(04:39):
politics, like they're leaning towards.
So there's been a lot of like protesting and stuff.
That being said, nothing's wrongreally.
Compared to America where everything's in flames, yeah,
everything's. But things are definitely like,
there's issues, right? But here's the thing about
Germany that kind of fucking pisses me off is like, you go up
(05:00):
to people and you ask them what they do and they're like, I'm a
storyteller and you're or like, I'm a poet and it's like,
amazing. So what's your job?
And they're like, Oh no, the government gives me money to do
this. They give us an artist's like
stipend. How?
Much. Is it?
It's enough that they can like, you know, basically survive.
(05:21):
That's what they do. So I met a lot of.
Storytellers like with with where things are in America,
like you'd be so stupid to even start fighting for an artist
stipend like that. Must be bottom of the list of
things the government would everdo for.
Us and then they were like, they're and I was like, well,
how about health insurance? And they were like, 'cause I, I
(05:43):
knew that their health insurancewas cheap, like, Oh, no, we
don't pay for that. They have it.
Free to tell. Then why are they being so nasty
walking around on their artist stipend?
Also, yeah, I mean, I I'm just kind of like you guys.
What the fuck? Like.
What did I do with my artist? I yeah, I know.
(06:05):
I'm trying to think what honestly I would do with my day
if truly all we were doing was like podcasting, writing and
comedy. Which is a lot of stuff that we
already do around jobs. I listed out everything that I
was doing and I was like, but I'm unemployed.
And they were like, no, you're doing so much.
Don't you have your artist? I like nothing for my and.
I was like, no, no, no, no. Like America's like actively
(06:27):
like billing me for what I'm doing.
Like, I just got a $900.00 bill from Mount Sinai for having a
breast exam because there was a lump that was really insane.
I literally said to that I was like, there was a lump in my
boob. I had to go.
Yeah. And they were like, yeah, well,
it's. Like, well, we didn't ask you
to. Go.
We didn't ask you to do that. You could have lived with it
and, you know, found out what happened.
I saw how it went. That's 900.
(06:48):
Dollars. That's with insurance.
That's insane. So that kind of like pissed me
off because then and then I started playing this game with
myself where I just walked around smiling at everyone
because I was alone. So I was just.
Like in your I Heart New York shirt.
Yeah, I also accidentally brought my I Heart New York City
shirt. Now, I already laughed when I
saw that because I thought that was funny.
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And you had already told me thatpeople didn't seem very nice.
So I was like, this is funny. But now picturing you wearing
it, like smiling at everybody, that's really funny.
Here's the difference between Germans and New Yorkers.
They're both mean. Like, we both have mean people,
but New Yorkers are going to sayit to your face.
Yeah, you know, they're gonna belike, get the fuck out of the
way, motherfucker. But you know what else I think
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like if, if, if you were at some, if a New Yorker like
yelled at me, yeah. And I turned around and was
like, I'm really didn't mean it.They'd be like, sorry, sorry.
You know what I mean? Like, I feel like guys have like
yelled at me and then I've reacted and then they've kind of
like calmed down. I didn't go to Berlin but it
feels like maybe no calm down. There's just no.
But there's no reaction. It's just like a stare, like a
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glare or like a like a passive aggressive, like sorry.
Yeah, it's really. What's the weather like there?
The weather was beautiful when Iwas there, but typically it's
not. But it was like I like, it was
amazing while I was there and everyone was talking about how
amazing it was. The whole experience was great.
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Honestly, I like look back at Berlin fondly.
I just would never want to be around German people for the
rest of my life. Like other than me?
Other than you and my friend Charlotte's German, I actually
have some German friends, but it's just, and I really do
we're. More.
We're more Swedish than German. Well, the one thing I did say
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accidentally at this dinner party I went to with a bunch of
Germans was I was like, they were like, so how do you like
Berlin? Like, do you feel like you could
move here? Because so many New Yorkers come
to Berlin and they're like, I'm going to move here.
And then so many Berliners come to New York and they're like,
I'm, I feel like there's a big crossover there.
I was like, I don't know, I feellike I'm just like too loud and
Jewish for this place. And they were all just
(08:54):
completely silent. And I was like, Oh no, no, no,
no, no. I didn't mean because of like,
because of what you guys did to us.
No, I just. Separately in general.
This is something I talk about alot.
Like I say this in New York, like, or I say this about a guy
that I just went out with in NewYork.
I'm like, I'm just too Jewish for him.
Yeah, and if they got silent when you said that, like you
can't live there. But I really do feel too Jewish
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and too loud for Berlin. For Berlin, the streets are so
quiet, like there's so many people, but it's silence.
I don't think I would like that.I don't know if you would.
It's very pretty, but it's just very quiet.
People are very reserved. They just keep to themselves.
OK? It's not.
I like it a little. But then yesterday, I mean, you
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know, I'm, I'm walking to the grocery store and then this
woman is just screaming behind me.
She's just screaming, go back toPhilly, you motherfucker.
Yeah, we're back in New York. Hold on.
Go back to Philly, motherfuckers.
Everyone from Philly, you shouldgo fucking kill yourselves.
Why the fuck are you here? Are you ugly ass bitch?
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And she starts pointing at me. She starts pointing at other
people in the street. I think she and she was a little
out of it. No, maybe she was right on it.
She's like Philly, Philly, Philly, Philly.
And I'm just like, yay. I'm.
Home. And everyone doing whatever they
want. Loudly.
Yeah. Sounds like in Berlin they kept
themselves. Yeah, quietly.
New Yorkers kind of keeping themselves loudly.
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Exactly. Yeah, exactly.
And it's just kind of, it's justa very different.
I really don't think I could live somewhere quiet.
Like I really like. I need like some background
noise. There's no chaos.
There, everything's very orderly.
I probably would like. That there's a lot of rules.
No one jaywalks. I was jaywalking everywhere.
No one jaywalks. Even if it's like completely
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empty, like the street's empty, everyone's just waiting for the
sign. And I'm, I was just booking it.
That was weird. And one person looked at me and
I was like, there's no, 'cause there's no cost, let's go.
What are you? Doing like why would they just
stand there like that's life, that's time and their life
passing by I. Don't know it's I guess.
Everyone always says that there's no urgency anywhere.
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This is the way there is here. I mean, they're on their artist
stipend so maybe they don't needto go anywhere.
They don't have to go to work. They don't.
If you're a poet on an artist's type, in the day's pretty free.
Like that's insane. It really makes you think how
twisted we have it, like we, ourgovernment really doesn't want
us to be happy. No, no, no, they want.
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And every day they do more and more work to make sure of it.
I met this woman. I went to a nude spa.
It was a Coed nude spa, which was also a big shocker
culturally. Like everyone's naked together
and we all swim together and we go with saunas and everything.
We get this pass, it's called the Bali.
It's it's an amazing experience.Wait, this one's in Berlin.
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This is in. Berlin.
In the heart of Berlin, there's this random spa that's like
pretty like it. It's so weird.
You go in and like, they're justlike, the only rule is no
clothes and you're looking around.
You're like, there's boys here and it's like, yeah, there's
boys here. So it's just like, Dick's out,
Vagina's out. Everyone's just it's.
Amazing you. I thought about you a lot.
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I've been to a nude spa before with Coed in New York.
Was it Coed? Yeah, really.
Yeah, nudity has never fazed me,but that's because I think I
grew up in a naked house. Not like my parents are walking
around naked, but like, I don't think we've ever shut a door in
our life. Yeah.
So I'm very used to nudity. And then in college, there was
this nude spa in Queens. And I went with, like, my RA
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friends and it was like a big deal for them.
But I was kind of like, this is it for me?
I really, really wanted you there when I was walking.
I mean, being naked there alone was kind of like, what the fuck?
But like it was great but. Everyone was naked there alone.
Everyone, well, they wanted people and friends.
Like, OK, there were a lot of moments on my trip where I was
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alone and there's there were moments where I was like, Oh my
God, it's so amazing. I'm having this moment.
And there's some moments like, damn, it would be nice to have a
friend here. Like the one person who I'm
walking around naked. I went to a an open air cinema
thing like where you what? It's a draft through a movie.
Let's make it too. It's called what it is open air
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cinema. Yeah, that's what they call it.
It's like you sit outside, it's nice and.
That title is very like artistic.
Open S cinema. I'm like, so it's a drive
through without a car. Yeah.
And I go and I sit. I bring a a big jar of Nutella
'cause that was all I had and everyone, everyone.
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And like a spoon and a spoon. OK, and everyone well, first I
actually had a couple of pretzels.
Oh, that's nice. So that was like all crinkly the
the sounds. I want you to focus on the
sounds right now. During the film Silence, you
could hear a pin drop. Everyone was being so good.
I was like, if this is in New York, people would be screaming
at. The no wait, did no one have
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snacks? No one was eating snacks.
Is that an only American thing to eat?
At the they ate they had they got popcorn before, but as soon
as the movie started they stopped eating it.
Where opposite you don't eat it until the movie starts.
And during the film, the film, I'm like spooning the Nutella
with the pretzels. I'm getting the pretzels out
there. The humiliation of a plastic
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bag. Do you know what?
I mean a silent German film. I'm sitting alone.
With your new talent. With my new talent trying to dip
in the stick. At one point I ate the stick,
broke into the new talent. I was like, oh shit.
That's going to be a whole thingtrying to get that out and like
where were you in the setup? Well, you know, like like to the
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side, but like everyone around me was like but.
Like you're not like all the wayin the back, No, you're like
part of the. Experience I can't see, you
know, I'm like. OK.
Geriatric with my hearing and seeing and stuff.
Really, it was a pretty big screen.
It was like a giant projector and.
The movie was in English, so I didn't even have to read the
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subtitles, but the movie is about a, a girl, a girl and her
father and their relationship. And it's clear that the dad dies
in the end. And it was I was.
And you know, we talk, we talk about our dead dad sometimes,
but I never really get like too into that kind of stuff because
it makes me really upset. So of course I'm bawling in the
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movie. With the pretzels.
With the pretzels. Like all over my face.
I'm like hysterically crying. I have my hood up.
Everyone's like looking at me. I'm like, I'm like, you guys
are. It's a really sad movie, people.
In Berlin are like, so what's? The next to me I was like, I
have a dead dad. My dad's dead.
What did he say? He was like, what?
They didn't. Speak English.
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He like didn't want to connect over the movie.
It's just you never realize how American you are until you're in
Berlin. Sounds like until you really go
to Berlin. In Lisbon, it was party time.
Yeah. It was like it was that we
should go back and it's party time and everyone gets it.
It's very New York in that way. Dizzy.
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Really. Are you OK?
And I haven't been eating a lot and I'm now feeling OK.
I think I just took like a two big swig of the coffee.
Do you want some food? I've just got some groceries.
No, it's OK. I'll wait till I get home.
But you know, when, like, you have, like, a little head rush.
Yeah. And then it lasts, like one
second longer than you're used to.
And you're kind of like, oh, no,I need to take this seriously.
Yeah, that's what just happened.And this is my remedy.
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But I'm OK. Maybe because I'm talking too
much because I'm on coffee that.Doesn't that wouldn't make me
dizzy? I don't think that would trigger
a spiral for me, no. But I think I didn't eat a
proper meal last night or this morning.
And now I've kind of like woke up, walked over here, drink the
(16:46):
coffee. So it might have just.
All you didn't eat anything thismorning.
No, I was trying to eat a littlebit of my oatmeal but it just
was way too early because I don't eat until like 11 AM.
Yeah. And we're we're up in, we're up
in Adam. I guess I'll eat when I get
home. Yeah, but welcome back.
But welcome back to America. Welcome back to New York.
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I do have to say I was kind of, it was nice to come be back.
I was like, all right. It's a wrap.
I always feel that way when I goanywhere, like on the last day
I'm like I'm ready to get. Yeah, it's time to get home.
I just love my house and my routine, Yeah, more than
anything. It's, It was hard creating
routine when I was travelling somuch, but I, I was able to in
(17:31):
some capacity, like I would get my groceries.
Grocery shopping abroad sucks. It's so embarrassing.
Why just because I didn't, you don't know what anything is or
German. So when I went to the grocery
store, I was like Googling everysingle thing and I ended up
buying things that made absolutely no sense.
And like, it's not like looking at it, you can't figure it out.
(17:52):
With some things, yes, like if it's clearly a tomato, right?
But if it's like, I kind of wanted to get like, I don't
know, like iced coffee, which they don't drink.
They don't drink anything with ice in Europe.
They like eat ice. Just like ridiculous.
We love ice. I love ice.
Double whammy here. Literally.
And so I picked up this one thing.
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It said ice. It translated to iced coffee.
It was like the heaviest Creamermilk with like a coffee flavor.
Disgusting. Disgusting.
Yeah, there's a lot. Cream milk flavored like coffee
sounds terrible. I went on a date.
How'd it go? It was.
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It was good. Do you want to talk about it or
not? I'm just shooting out all night.
I hate. You know what sucks is when
people ask, how was your trip? And you never, no one ever
cares. You don't need to hear it.
You know what I mean? OK, Like, you know what people
like when people go on a trip? I'm like, Oh my God, how was it?
(18:56):
And it's like, I don't really give a shit.
Well, I feel like you want to know if it was good or bad and
like the main highlight. Yeah, I, I feel like I want to
see pictures, but I don't alwayswant.
My mom will always tell me, like, about the people she meets
when she travels. And it's kind of like, that was
yours. Yeah.
You know what I mean? These were your people.
Like, I feel like I would never tell my mom who I met when I was
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travelling. Right.
Like me and when me and Ryan McCormick were on the cruise, we
like came back. It always comes back.
To that and we he kept telling people stories about like the
people that worked on the ship. I was like, they don't care.
They don't care who worked on the ship.
They really don't. They really don't care.
It's but I care about your date.I care about your trip.
I I'm trying to and it's too late now.
(19:42):
If I didn't care, it's like the most episode.
No, but that's why I'm stopping myself right now.
Why stopping myself? Because our listeners are
probably like, all right, we getit.
She went to Europe for once, foronce.
And people, it's crazy. People do this every summer.
I'm like, how do they do that? Well, I feel like I don't know.
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I don't really dream of travel so I can't really even weigh in
on the matter. What's going on?
He had things, the headphones move forward, so I felt to hear
that my hair had stuck up and I was like that it needs to be put
back down. You said that you had a list of
things to tell me when I was gone.
Should we transfer over to that?Some of it I would not say is
(20:26):
for the podcast shit, some of it's just like like like.
Scaffolding outside my house. That it did not make my list
scaffolding. Outside your house.
I came back, I was shocked. Where was is it?
It's that way. Right next, it's right outside
and Wayne, the guy who runs the salon, I looked at him and I
said, what's going on with this?He's like don't even get me
started. He must be pissed.
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That's not good for business. It's not, and we don't talk
about that enough. We don't.
No, the Starbucks across from myhouse has now the ugliest little
sign up because they have scaffolding and they got this
paper sign that says we're open.It's like just shut down, like
those little, those little signs, scaffolding really, they
have to do it. It just pops up.
(21:08):
It's unavoidable. They must do it, whatever.
But it blocks the whole, the whole business.
And then imagine being a business that used to get so
much sunlight and now it's over.The scaffolding's going to block
the sun and it's going to be up there for probably like four or
five. Months.
Oh, it's never going to end. It's once you get a scaffolding
in New York. Good luck.
Good luck, it's up is the Astoria orange theory has
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apparently had it for like 2 years.
The orange, the what? The orange theory in Astoria,
they've had it for two years on the call that we have to have
every Monday. They're always talking about it.
I'm kind of like, just it's yours now.
Yeah. Like, stop.
Stop being like, oh, still have it.
Like you're going to have it. Like that's your.
Scaffolding. That's your scaffolding.
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Make the best of it, Constance. Hope had it really bad, my
friend. You know, Hope, but for our
listeners, Hope, who actually was on this podcast, she already
lives on a ground floor apartment.
Her window, she has one window in her living room that goes out
onto an alley. So already it's a little bit of
a tough sunlight situation and put a scaffolding up.
(22:15):
She must like it must feel like end of day.
Yeah, she's completely. She's like.
She's got a sun lamp. Did she get one?
I don't know if she has a sun lamp.
Her birthday's coming up. I wish I could buy her a
present. I can buy anyone presents right
now. I can only buy myself a wedding
ring and a puffy shirt. 2 puffy shirts. 2 puffy shirts.
Can't wait to see the next one. I'll try to.
(22:37):
Maybe I'll wear it for the next episode if you you want.
It might be a little overkill. The woman, what do you see?
It's it's purple silk. The woman who sold it to me was
like, I'll give you a deal. I'll give you a deal.
Shirt from Grease. I kept being like, I don't know,
I don't have any money. And she was like 15 euros.
(22:59):
I was like which is which is like 20 bucks in New York and I
was kind of like. All right, really an amazing.
Deal. Yeah, I know.
I was like, all right, yeah, it was 25.
So it's kind of like, OK. We're working our way down.
And she was kind of cornering meand like rolling a cigarette
really closely to my face, so. It's like, let's just get out of
here. Yeah, it's easier to just take
the sale. Yeah, I'm just like, great,
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can't wait for me, $20 share. I can't wait to see it.
It's puffy. It's puffy.
I think puffy suits me. Yeah, it looks really nice.
And I think it's because in my previous.
Life and I always said this in this crop I've.
Always said this, that I felt like a Renaissance lady kind of
rebelling in some capacity against the men.
OK. Like I always, every time I
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watch like a Renaissance movie, I'm like, I feel like I identify
with it, but more in like an anarchist way.
OK. So I wouldn't have been loyalty,
I would have been like a a wench.
A wench, you know, and this is your wench shirt.
This is kind of a wench top. Like it's a really hot, cute
top. But when you say it like that,
it is a little wenchy. I have a Renaissance body in a
lot of ways, you know, Definitely so.
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I've always identified with that.
I drank way too much coffee today.
This episode's going to be ridiculous to listen back to.
You think? I just feel like I've been
talking so much I can't stop. OK, Hopefully I chill out by the
time Malik gets here. Malik.
Malik I don't know. I'm just, we're just going off
of Lori Cooper, which who is never someone we reference or
trust like that. I know, why would it be Malik?
(24:28):
But like I don't know if that iscorrect and they gave her the
correct he. Said it after he was like, yeah
I'm Malik. Then it's Malik.
Because if he would, maybe he was being.
Polite. Maybe they're both like making
fun of her I. Don't know.
Yeah, I don't know. Wait, I'm so excited to have
someone else here that we can talk about her.
We're now like 2 for two you. Guys, buckle up for next week
(24:51):
because we have a great guest and.
As you can see, we're prepping. We're.
Prepping. Already it is episode we're
prepping. For we have some really amazing
guests coming up, like really good wins.
I mean, one of them I'm like, I cannot believe is happening.
One of them I'm going to do someresearch on.
I understand the weight of him and I need to now know the
(25:14):
history. Maybe he has some history.
He. Has some history.
And I kind of feel like by the end I might be dating him.
Which one? Both of them but.
Like the Renaissance shirt. See, I think we.
Really need to focus and maybe this is something I should say
offline, but I'm going to say itright now.
(25:35):
Let's only get guests that are potential suitors and they have
no idea. OK.
So it's going to be men only can.
I be honest, yeah. I don't think people who come on
our podcast like really listen to previous episodes.
Oh, no, no, no. So I think we could secretly be
like, hey, just you guys know, every episode moving forward is
going to be a man we're trying to set up Nora with, and they
(25:56):
would never know that. That's like the underlying goal
of the podcast. Yeah, let's do that.
And then and then it's kind of fun for the listener.
We had a woman. I have a woman that I was
supposed to book but I'll just throw her.
Away. No, just kidding.
We don't want her. Unless you're thinking about
that. It might be.
So let's have a run. If sparks fly, then that's
probably for the best. That would kind of be fun.
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I'm thinking about if I'm listening to a podcast and I
know the secret, but like there's like maybe having a
woman on, she would listen to a couple episodes but there's no
way a man is listening to previous episodes.
No men that have been on our podcast or will be on our
podcast while I ever listen to this episode.
They'll, they'll, maybe I'll give them a little credit, watch
some clips, they'll go to our Instagram.
(26:39):
They'll they'll get the vibe, but they're not like watching an
episode. Yeah, so we OK, let's think
about this. Wait.
We can kind of secretly say that's the goal for the next
two. OK, Yeah.
So you guys know that. Now you Riddle me that, you
Riddle me that. Now we need to really be now
(27:00):
we're not booking the timeless torches.
No, we still have to. We still.
Have to? Well, 'cause I don't know, that
feels too old for you, I know. I don't want you to have to beat
them. Just assume if there's ever a
man in our in my general generation on assume there's an
alternative motive. Yeah.
(27:20):
And maybe we can say that in theintro, like you guys know what's
going on. You, you guys know what's going
on? The guy's sitting there.
He's like, what's going on? How did we did that?
Well, today, like, oh, look who's here.
Look who's here. Quick quink.
They'd be like, they're like. Who are you these?
Girls. I can't.
My throat is a little is hurting, but I can't tell if
(27:41):
it's because I literally was chain smoking for the last two
weeks. Yeah.
I would say. I'm so, I mean, God, it's so
weird to think that this episodeis going to come out after the
Love Island reunion. We're going to know so much.
I know I need to maybe watch some reels of Love Island to get
(28:02):
back into it for tonight. I'm so like.
Following them for every move they make, every step they take.
I've been watching you. I've been seeing Maya, I guess
is like going to a lot of sportsgames and that's all I know.
After tonight, though, I need togo on vocal rest.
After tonight, I feel like I'm gonna know literally everything
about every single person on Love Island, including everyone
(28:25):
from Casa. Mora, do we know if Sierra's
there? Yes, she's gonna be there.
Oh. Oh.
Sierra, No, I don't think so. Yeah, when you said Sierra, I
found Andrea. Yeah.
Do we know if Sierra's there? Yes, yes.
She will be there, but it's, I mean, I've been following them
on TikTok, on Instagram to the point where I feel like I know
(28:49):
quite literally everything aboutthem.
Who's still together? Olandria and Nick are still
together. That's actually really
surprising. Sierra's in Houston right now
doing a little bar tour and everyone's really happy about
it. Good.
That's good. Huda's single.
Huda's single, but she's crushing it.
Like she's like, her fitness routine is like, that wasn't me.
(29:11):
For her body water bottle, thankyou.
Her body's insane. Like if nothing else came out of
this, people are going to followto learn how to look like.
Her exactly like she is and it she makes it very because I went
onto the website to see because they do digital consultation.
So I was like, obviously I'd like 1 and it make it very clear
they're like you will not meet with Huda.
(29:35):
Don't think for a second you'll get to meet her.
Because you know where I was gonna go with that?
I was gonna do it then she her ass was gonna be here.
Yeah. But like no, the fact that I DM
D amaya at the beginning of the show being like, hey, wanna be
on the podcast. Like thinking that she had her
cell phone. It was like her second.
To like and think like some of the people that I've DM D.
(29:56):
To be on this podcast with such confidence, I'm like, fuck it.
It was just like, Nora What? I I mean the way that I was
chasing Zoron. I still feel like he'll kill.
He'll come on. I I was chasing them.
We definitely could get Brad on.Brad.
Brad Lander. Oh, Brad.
He's like, he's kind of like around here all the time.
(30:18):
I've seen him twice now. He's kind of like, I feel like
if we could just be like, after an appearance, if you could just
come up. Yeah, he seems really nice.
We have to go in person and trapthem.
OK, That's how it works I feel. Like with microphones.
And be like, hey, we're doing aninterview.
Also, hint hint, you might be Nora's next friend.
(30:38):
We have to break up Brad's family.
Who? I want to say.
I could see you as someone like Brad, like not like necessarily
like look wise, but like he justseems like a really nice guy but
also gets really heated about, yeah, some stuff.
I just feel like that could be agood alignment.
I really want to be with someonelike Zoran how to tell every
(30:59):
single thing about him. Like I literally Google Joron
and that's exactly. And he's really high.
He's really high and he's reallywell spoken.
He's really chill. He's funny.
We're the exact same age. Are you really?
Wow, think about the difference in achievements.
I didn't know that. Well, no, no, no, I'm not
thinking about. That everyone.
(31:20):
I was talking to a bunch of people who were all like in
their mid 30s and we were all like, so run's a little
humbling. Yeah, that's like we really
aren't there. I saw a clip of Lady Gaga, like
after her third, her second album and she's on Ellen and
she's like, how old are you? And she's like 23.
And I was like, I kind of like when I hear Lady Gaga's story of
(31:43):
like, hustling in New York, I'm like, she probably didn't make
it till 2930. And it's like, no, she was 23 on
Ellen. Yeah, I'm seeing her on
Wednesday. That's I'm so excited.
I never go to concerts. I bought a full outfit.
I'm What's the outfit? It's this very cute.
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So the vibe of her concert is kind of like a little goth, a
little metal, just a little bit of a darker theme, but kind of
like that seems to be the energy.
So it's a the dress is like tight to over my butt.
It's a black like tube top style.
OK over my butt. But then the bottom is half
flowy, but a little ripped. Fuck yeah.
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Then I'm wearing my knee high boots with the silver thing and
then I got this headband that has those little silver holes in
them. Do you know what I'm talking
about? Those headbands?
Yes, yes, I know exactly. That and then I got a matching
bag. Wow.
And I'm doing it. I'm getting my nails done for
the show. Yes, first time this year.
No more. No, I'm going to Dolphin Spa.
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It's right near my house. So I'm kind of like if this is
the one, their prices align withmy old place.
OK, so I'm like if this is the cuz I kinda I definitely haven't
gotten my nails done because anytime I have extra money like
I owe people money. I have like a lot going on in
Venmo at the moment. So I'm like OK, I can never
afford to get my nails done, butI also feel like it's because I
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don't have a place I like. So it's kind of like I'm not
going to spend money if I don't,if I, if I'm going to hate the
manicure, if I'm going to because with acrylics like gel
extensions, that's going to be with you for a minute.
So if it's a bad job, you're like living with a bad job and
you paid like it's not cheap. So Dolphin Spa matches my price
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points and is literally one block away from my house.
Amazing. So and it fits all my
requirements as the massage chair for the pedicure.
A lot of places over here just have like a bench or like a cozy
chair. No, I wanted, I want the
massage. Chair.
Yeah, of course. Like who is not using the
massage chair? You use it right when you get a
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always. Always, Yeah.
It's always so complicated. How the hell do you get it to
just do your upper back? Really?
I'm always like, I'm always like, it's.
All over. I'm always doing the mix.
I'm fine. You want all over, but it's
always embarrassing when it's the vibrating portion and you're
in your chair and your feet are shaking and they're trying to
hold them still. What color are you getting?
Black. Now she's she's seen to be
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having a little. Some of her costumes have a neon
orange. Fuck, yeah.
So my outfit's gonna be all black with neon orange.
I might ditch the headband. I was trying it on yesterday.
It's, it's thicker. Like, it goes, like, pretty far
back on my head. Yeah, but like because of the
like silver little holes in it. Do you need to borrow makeup
(34:31):
too? No, no, I have makeup.
Well, I'm saying like, like intense makeup.
I have makeup, I just don't use it like black.
Litter. I have black litter.
I have this cool black litter that eyeshadow that I bought
forever ago that I don't use. You should do like the Julia
Fox, like Smudge. Maybe, maybe I still have to.
(34:54):
I have to remember that I have to be in this all night and I
get really fussy in makeup. Yeah, you don't want it to ruin
your night. But wait, and do you see what
Ryan's going to wear? Ryan has like, quite the look.
Prepared. I saw when you when you showed
me on on FaceTime and he had hiswig on.
You don't even know what's come of it.
Now I'm actually think that likeme, him and Mackenzie are going
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to look like 3 really different energies.
Yeah, like I feel like mine willlook on theme what kind of looks
a little brat. Ryan is like I think is leaning
just towards going in drag and Ithink Mackenzie is going to be
like in a classic, just black look.
Do you kind of feel like some ofthe artists kind of overlapped
(35:36):
with their themes a little bit like Brat and Mayhem and then
like Cowboy Carter and Taylor's like they were like both like
silvery cowboy looks and then like, and it's like, who came
here? First, I would definitely say
like you mean Taylor's like new album?
Well, Taylor, when she was on tour the same time as Beyoncé, I
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felt like the outfits for those tours, it was Rent.
It wasn't Cowboy Carter, it was Renaissance.
It was like a silvery look. And then she also had like a
silvery thing going on, maybe. I don't really remember.
Cuz I know her new album that's coming out.
I I don't know anything about itother than I've seen the cover
art. Yeah.
And that is like silver jeweled,like showgirl look.
(36:25):
Yeah. I don't really know much about
what Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter look was.
Well. She did have that look was just
western, but she didn't have that bedazzled hat.
I saw some of her outfits at the.
Renaissance. She was on the.
Horse. I remember the horse.
Yeah, I remember the horse. I remember the horse.
I wouldn't say Mayhem is alignedwith Brat.
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I would say it's really different.
But my choice of outfit is, I think like if I would have gone
to BRAT, I could have worn this exact thing.
Yeah. And totally just like slicked my
hair back and I'm going to be inBRAT.
Yeah, that's what I'm kind of feeling.
That's I bought, I bought 2 dresses, but one of them is
like, it's just like there's, there's nothing like wear
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whatever you're comfortable in. But like, do you ever put
something on and like remember your age?
Oh yeah. It was like such a costume dress
and I was like, I'm 28, which islike not old, but like it's not
on. I felt like a 22 year old in it.
Yeah. Like I felt like a 22 year old
playing dress up. Have you?
Seen that SNL skit like Forever 33?
Yeah, with like, the giant cashmere sweater.
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Ryan was saying he loved the second one more.
But like I just, I felt such like a old person trying to
dress like a young person in I'll show you a picture of the
dress. I literally looked like I'm
wearing like a Halloween costumeof like a 10 year old girl.
Maybe you should keep it for Halloween.
I When you buy 3 dresses for a concert, like 2, maybe even
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three, got to go back. You know what?
I mean, it's Halloween is aroundthe corner.
I know I got to figure out what I'm going to be.
I Yeah. I mean, I don't.
Maybe I will this year be Florence in the Machine.
She just came out with a new Halloween album.
And she's kind of following the energy of everybody.
Yeah, because Lady Gaga, this album, she's like kind of metal
and she's angry and she's loud. Florence's is the same, but.
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Florence, I am such a Florence apologist.
She she's, she's actually a witch like she when you go to
her shows. I went to one show of hers and
she has people dressed up in these like flower crowns.
It's very Midsommar and they're all, she sacrifices one person
at every at every show and they come up and she's like sacrifice
(38:42):
and like people come. She comes down and she puts her
hand on people and they start weeping.
It's very culty. It's very flowers.
It's very witchy. She's so fucking cool.
She was like, so important to me, like in high school and
college. Yeah.
Like she's. Amazing.
She's an amazing singer. And yeah, she's coming out with
a Halloween album and it alreadylooks fucking nuts.
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And I'm like, you're the witch. And so maybe, and I've always
wanted to be Florence, but people don't understand the
relevancy. Like, people don't understand
why Florence is iconic. All they think her dog days are
over. And it's like, no, no, no, no,
no. You haven't listened to like,
like her new album. It was so good.
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Was it Dream Fever? It was like the best album of
the year. I'm shocked it didn't get a
Grammy. Has she ever gotten a Grammy?
She should win them every year. Yeah, she's insanely pounded.
Her voice is so beautiful too. She's so good and she's such a
she's really. Respected.
I feel like within the industry,like she's really praised by
like her colleagues totally. But I think it's for the best
(39:46):
that, I mean, she's of course insanely famous and successful,
but she's not like mainstream mainstream.
But I kind of think that's for the best.
Yeah, she has. Kind of like a Lord, kind of
alt. Yeah, like, of course she's
famous and everyone knows her, but like, she's not getting
attention the way like a Taylor Swift would.
But like, that's for the best because they would ruin it, I
(40:08):
think. Well.
I hate Taylor Swift so. I know you don't.
Which is really, I know it's hard for everyone.
I just don't feel anything abouther.
I feel pain. Really.
Yeah, I just feel pain it. She reminds me of capitalism in
such a way that, like, makes me feel sick.
However, she has been doing a lot, and I think we've talked
about this on the podcast. She like donated a lot of money
(40:29):
during like a natural disaster at one point, like more than the
government. So yeah, she's pretty good about
spreading her money out. Yeah, and she is politically
active, so. Yeah, and she takes really good
care of her teams as well. Like at the end of the tour, she
gives everyone, like, insane bonuses.
Yeah, I feel like compared to other people with platforms,
(40:50):
she's kind of a lot better. Yeah, maybe I should stop
hating. Her and I kind of feel like
she's really actually, I don't like Taylor Swift, like I don't
I couldn't name like one album for you, but I listen to a lot
of pop culture podcasts, so I listen to people talk about what
she's up to and I I do think it's a little impressive to be
(41:11):
on her level of fame and successand kind of be not in the public
eye and kind of modest. You know what?
I. Mean you think she's modest.
Like, like, for like a woman, female pop star, I just feel
like she's never really been like, flaunting like sexuality,
(41:32):
which is whatever. Like, if you do, that's amazing.
And if you don't, that's fine too.
Yeah. I just think it's a little
impressive to be that like, successful and like, get so much
attention. I feel like she's never kind of
gone through like a sexy phase. Like I feel like I this is, this
is gonna, I'm gonna sound crazy.For a second, yeah, yeah.
I feel like when people I hate on Taylor Swift and like her
(41:55):
fans, I just feel like it's another thing.
It's like I feel like all of herfans are women, you know what I
mean? She so I kind of feel like just
let the girls have her, you knowwhat I mean?
Yeah. It's like when everyone was
making fun of her tour and like her the friendship bracelets, I
was like, I don't know, it kind of feels like young girls and
like female joy. So kind of like they're fine to
(42:15):
have. Her it's like enjoy.
Her. Yeah, you can have her if you
want her. Yeah, I don't want her, but
yeah, if I wanted her, I could. Have her.
You could have her. You could have her.
It sounds weird. If I wanted her, I could have.
Her. You could have her.
The young girls can have her, yeah.
Well, this has been a good episode of just us, Just us.
We have a couple minutes left. We we can't go on for too much
(42:38):
longer. It's a shorter episode because
we have another plan for some coming.
And you guys know, and you guys know with those I went chugged
this way too quickly. Really.
I really have to pee. It's like, honestly crazy.
And let's we never do the intro.I'm Hannah Gerlander, and you've
been listening to New Yorker of the Week, where we talked about
(42:59):
Berlin, Lisbon and Lady Gaga. Everything.
Everything but New York. Everything but New York.
I could have filled you in on more New York stuff.
I know. I asked you what were the
highlights? Well, I wasn't gonna tell you my
list of, like, stuff going out of my life.
Life with the people's names. Yeah, well, you never know.
(43:19):
You never know if they're listening or not.
I guess they're not. Probably when I think about what
I'm thinking about. Yeah.
I'm gonna update you on here. We gotta go.
All right. All right.
Bye.
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