#448 Brian is Back! Chris in Studio! Airport Shenanigans, Dangerous Situations as a Child, & Dallas Cowboy Cheerleads Doc

Published Jun 26, 2024, 11:00 PM

Nikki is reunited with Brian and joined by Chris Convy in this episode. Brian talks about his surgery and how his gallbladder was a size of a condom - not sure if we are talking wrapper or balloon. Nikki discusses her interactions at the airport and how to befriend airport employees. Nikki and Chris still haven't landed on a name for their dog. A brainstorming and honesty session about puppy names occurs holds barred! Nikki talks about her latest stories on the road and doesn't appreciate audience members recording sets. She goes into length explaining why that is unacceptable at comedy shows. Nikki and Brian share horrifying stories from childhood about being insane with siblings (nearly killing them!). Chris shares his thoughts on the Dallas Cowboy cheerleader doc and Brian shares the latest on the AGT tryouts. 

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The Nikki Gliser podcast. Glaser here I am, It's Nicky Glazer. It's Nicky Glazer Podcast. Welcome to the show. Brian's back. He doesn't have a gall bladder anymore, but it's Brian. Franjie We. Chris Conby is also in studio with me and Saint Louis. Welcome to the show, Brian, welcome back.

Thank you, thank you very much. Yes, I lost exactly two ounces by removing that gall bladder.

Two ounces.

Two ounces. I don't know, I think is it I don't know, if not big, it's like the size of a honestly, like the size of a condom. WHOA, That's like the best thing I could think of.

It's kind of like, yeah, what else is that?

Those are all different sizes.

That's a good point.

What kids of a shirt or a shoe?

Yeah, one of the things are condoms size I guess like a lollipop wrapper that you get it, the dentist condoms.

Condoms are bigger than the lollipop, A match a.

Match book condom, like in a package a condom?

Oh yeah, like a round Yeah no, it's it's undone and it's filled with stuff. So I would say, like a condom filled with half filled with water. That's what only half?

Oh okay, I was picturing like a condom in the wrapper.

Okay, I could have said balloon, but balloon would have you would.

And then we would have when you could have said condom, Brian, and.

Then we back where we fucking started.

The gall bladders the size of a tiny penis sized balloon.

Okay, good to know. And how do you feel?

Pretty good? I feel conversation. Yeah, after this conversation, I feel upset, bewildered, confused.

You came back to work too soon. Okay, so you you. I followed up a I thought you were having it like later than you were, but I followed up asking you, how are you feeling about this upcoming surgery?

And you were like, I already had it. So you had it on last Monday.

Yeah, almost a week and a day ago. And I feel better now than I did before the surgery. I felt like I was being poisoned, and now, like the poison, I'm not receiving the poison anymore. So there's Holistically, I feel a lot better. I feel more mental clarity, I feel more energy. I'm obviously still recovering from the incisions and things like that. So I'm like, not like running a marathon, but without a doubt, this was so far knock on wood, A great decision.

Oh, I'm so glad to hear that. Yeah, I wanted on Monday too. You guys both had something removed on Monday. Wow, whatever this dog's name is.

Sorry, what do you want to I just wanted to thank you all the besties who reached out, who told me about their gallbladder experiences. I a lot have a lot of besties have had their gallbladders out, and they're all fine. I don't No one sent me a message that was like, don't do it. I got it done and it was terrible. Everyone was like, I did it, I'm fine, everything's great. And there was one best thing in particular who got their gallbladder removed at the same hospital in Austin that I went to the emergency room for.

Oh wow, look at that, look at that.

I know the world's just filled with people in different places.

I just saw a thing today, like a reeal that was like.

Talking about how I send it to my friends and now I already forgot the whole gist of it. But it's like you are we're all in the same planet together. Every hundred years, it's a whole new batch of people, and you got to kind of look at the people you're here with. Is like, we're all in the ship together, and it's so crazy that we ended up the same time instead of just being being one of these people that's like I hate people. Oh yeah, I hate people.

Or like even like in traffic, you just loathe. You just make enemies of everyone. You're walking on the street, somebody cuts you off, that's an enemy. Yeah, you're in traffic, you're just making anymy.

I heard a good one recently. And you're not gonna like this because it is got a lot, but you're supposed to try. When someone cuts you off and does something really aggressive to get ahead of you think that that person has to go to number two so so bad, and then you kind of like go all right, yeah, going on, Yeah that you know my thing and it has always been this way and besties know this is like when someone when I accidentally like cut someone off or something or like do something wrong, I immediately want forgiveness, and yet I'm not able to give it to anyone who does that to me. So I'm trying to remember the times that I've done stupid things where I'm just like, oh, I need to get over, you know, the Luis k joke of like but.

I want to go there now, and I want to go there.

But it's easy to give forgiveness when somebody is sorry, but if somebody doesn't give you the way a bad motion you're it's difficult to Oh.

I always wave frantically, yeah, thank you so much, where they're like kind of like, no, it's okay. In Saint Louis, there's this thing of like everyone is so nice here, or at least like pride themselves on being like fair that they do this thing that Chris and I realized, like there'll be two lanes that merge right into one. Let's let's say it's an on ramp onto the highway and there's two lanes merging. Well, Saint Louis's don't want to ever cut in line, so they won't take the side that is supposed to do like a zipper motion, and so they all line up in one and then no one's in the side one. And if you go in the side when everyone looks like you're like trying to cut the line, or something when it's really like, no, guys, this is the way it's supposed to work.

So people are out politing each other.

Yes, Meanwhile traffic is being backed up on the road that the zipper method is trying to alleviate.

Yes.

And then I will say another thing about Saint Louis drivers that have noticed is that they because of this same thing of like, they don't like rudeness, they don't like cutting man, they don't let people in like in LA and I think I guess New York I've driven and like other places, I feel like they let you. LA is probably the only other place I've driven a car they let you merge. When you're like, oh, I just need to get like ship I forgot, people just are like yeah all day.

It doesn't They do not let you in. If you're trying to get from Long Island into Manhattan and you have to cross the you know, the George Washington Bridge or whatever, it's like you have to literally like pretend you're going to hit the other car before they let you in. You have to be like, look, I don't give a fuck, I'll hit your car. I want to get in front of you.

But that's the language there, like there's yeah, there's different language all over for those things, for like in New York. That's I used to This is gonna sound like a brag, but I used to ride my motorcycle around New York.

Oh yeah, cool.

I know I'm cool.

I know you're so cool.

What about now?

Oh my god?

Whoa sun glass?

Okay, I didn't know who I was dating. I just oh my god, I feel like I'm cheating now because now I'm with the guy who rode a motorcycle ten years ago.

I motorcycle. There's a different one now.

Yeah, riding around with your helmet on.

You ride around usually with your helmet on, and you.

There's just different rules in different places, and so it isn't necessarily rude to do certain things.

In New York.

It's just you have to be aggressive to let them know then you mean business. Otherwise they're all playing by the same rules. And so it looks horrible to you if you're from someplace where everybody's like doing something different.

But it's just different.

Yeah, it's I will say that.

Yeah, I'll let anyone in in front of me, but if they don't like give me a thank you, it's just so not okay.

I can't handle that holding the.

Door for someone, no thank you, no politeness, Like I will be that person that's like, you're welcome. I'll do it.

I'll say we Because I'm a woman, they're not going to hit me.

But if I was a man, I probably wouldn't, you know, like if a man to a man, I probably wouldn't. And I will say the other day, I was at the airport and I was on time, like to get everything done then I know needed to do on time. But I get in line at the you know, priority line, and there's like two people in front of me.

Motorcycle.

Yeah, And I waited for the two people in front of me, which is a little dense for a priority line. Usually at Saint Louis there's just like no one there. I get to the front, She's like, I can't find your ticket. I'm like, oh shit, sorry, I met. I'm at Delta. I'm supposed to be an American. I walk over to America and the primary priority line is like six people dense, and now I'm looking like I have five minutes to check my bags before things go down, and I am stressing because I have to make a connection like it's this isn't good. Five minutes to check a bag, and now there's one person at the desk and she's on the phone. You know, when they pick up the phone, it's not good. So and she has four other people after that guy. So I start panicking and I just start I write you, I write everyone in my life. I'm I'm not going to make it, and I do the thing that I hate doing, but I tell other people you got to do it. I say to the guy in front of me, I'm so sorry, I'm gonna miss my flight. I'm gonna yeah. I think I said that just makes sense to him. It's like, I'm not gonna miss my flight, but I was gonna miss the baggage check in time, in which case I miss my flight. And he goes, I'm late too, and I go, how late are you? When's your flight? And he goes, it's boarding now, and I go, well, you can't check a bag anymore if you're flight sporting. That means that you had this conversation with him yeah, I go, well, I go, ooh, that's bad. I go, you can't check a bag before it cuts off at forty five minutes before your flight and he goes well and I go, all right, well cool. So then that guy kind of gets taken away for some reason because I guess the authorities were on good Yeah.

Once you med, woman, they take you out.

And I get to the front somehow, and this woman is like not happy with me and how late I am. And I'm like, I was already a minute over. So it's forty four minutes before, and I go, can you please find a way to check my I'm so sorry. She's like, you have a dog too, and I was like I already called about the dog. And she goes, you need to fill out this form and I'm filling it out and she goes, just the bottom, man, just the bottom, because I'm like trying to fill it. I'm like, I didn't hear you. You're kind of mumbling. These people are experts that just like saying things that like to each other that you and sometimes you go what and they go I was talking to her and You're like, I don't know what I'm supposed to be listening to because you look down, you don't look at me. And so then.

She she gives me my ticket. I'm like, thank you so much. That was so helpful.

You made like you made my day run to the gate, and now my my boarding pass will not and she goes, do you want your boarding pass? And I go, no, I can get on my phone because I just don't want to bother this woman anymore. She hates me. And then I go to my app. It's not coming up on my app the boarding pass. You need a boarding pass to go through security. Everyone knows that. So I am now very close to my flight taking off and I go back to the go up the stairs, back to the desk, and I was like, I go, I just go up to her because she's helping someone else. But I just don't have time. And I'm like, I need a boarding pass that we'll let me check in. And she goes, I asked you if you checked in already?

Yeah, And I go, no, you didn't.

You asked if I had a boarding pass, and I thought I could pull it up on here, and she goes, you didn't check in yet, and I was like, but it doesn't let me check in because I have a dog. I have to check in. You have to check me in. That's the way it goes. When you check a dog. It doesn't let you check in online ever, and so yeah, Brian knows. So she goes, I asked you if you checked it, and I said I did. You asked me if I wanted to put paperboarding, and I was like, I'm not getting into this. I go, you're right, I'm sorry, and she goes, well, I'm gonna have to book you on a later flight.

And I'm like, oh, fuck, just go I don't know what I'm gonna do.

And I just start crying, and she then starts typing furiously and then just hands me by boarding pass and goes, you better run, and then gets me on the flight. So if I hadn't cried, I would not have made that flight. And I know that for a fact.

I want to try to empathize with those people, because like they have to work all day at an air force and there's this constant angry people coming at them. And I don't imagine this woman is in like her fifties. I'm just guessing no, thirties. Yeah, so she's like between your thirties and fifties. Yeah, because he's taken to that, well, I would the longer she's there, the angrier she'll get over time.

Is my was myde Oh the way I just said, you think we're all as if I'm in my fifties. I've accepted that I'm practically in my fifties now that I've turned forty, I'm already fifties. This weekend, we heard some guy talking about hanging out with older people and he goes, yeah, well, it's a bunch of guys in their fifties. And we were trying to guess his age afterwards, and any made the point because he disparaged guys in their fifties. He's definitely in his thirties, and we nailed it because forty he was like a bunch of fifty year old guys, and we're like, you wouldn't say that in your forties.

Because you're close to that's too close.

So he's thirties. It was interesting, So, Brian, you're right, like I do want to empathize with them as well, but.

It's hard to. It's like can't and I do, but I.

Feel I feel bad. You know, they're not paying them enough.

They're not they're not getting paid enough. And it's the same thing with like post office workers. People show up and they just don't.

Know, Oh my god, the rules.

Yes, the people working in there know the rules perfectly, and then they they don't love that you don't know the rules, and that it's making everybody's life harder, including theirs, they and other passengers, right, and so it's just you're getting the worst of people because they're stressed about traveling. They're not great at it. Usually priority lines a little bit different.

I mean, my mom.

Goes, she just wants those buddy passes, that's why she's doing the job. And I go, this woman is not a world traveler, I promise you. It's just a job that showed up on monster dot com. Like it's not my mom goes, she's getting those free flights though, Like my mom's always looking at how these people are getting the perks. Yeah, and so then this, so then this week, and I go there every week every Thursday or Friday, I'm there at this exact same time to check in for a flight. And this week I'm going there and I'm like, I really hope she's not there, Like I know she'll remember me, and she's there.

We don't want to go and be like, well you get there early.

And I wasn't really responsibile, I was I was I wasn't late, but I was. I was on time, but I wasn't like super early, but I was just like, she's gonna remember I was the frantic girl who was like who she had to be like, ma'am, calm down kind of thing.

Remember we we met somebody or I met somebody because you were running late and a fight that we were both taking and I got there early and I made like buddies with this person American, and she was amazing. I think she ended up like knowing about the radio show that I do, and she knew who you were and then and then I think I might have gotten her number or something.

I think so, and would would be like next week. But once she found out about my motorcycle a well.

So I show up, so my mom drops me off and I told my mom this whole story, and she's like, oh, I hope she's not there. And then I show up and I'm like she's here, and I text her and I walk up and she goes, oh, I checked you in last week. I was hoping she would and I go, I go, yeah, and you saved my ass. I was like, thank you so much, and she actually did, like you know, she's definitely she was about to not those people have actually annoyed me and we's she could have done that without me crying.

Here's the problem. Yes she could have.

But I think that there are always having to try to teach lessons because they don't want this to happen again to you or other people, and so they have to kind of be there has to be like a little bit of a balance of like, hey, you messed up, but I helped you, and also their slave to these horrible policies. So because this is problem I have with America that I love so dearly, is like everybody's litigious, and so then companies have to have policies, and those policies have to be enforced by people that don't want to do it. You know, they're putting this onus, on these workers that aren't making enough money to deal with the worst humanity has to offer.

And they must be being checked on the if they're following the policy so much, and like it's because otherwise you wouldn't give a shit about the policy.

I've had I've had more people do nice things like that person has yeah and sort of bent a rule a little or done something than I've had people be bad to me.

Yeah. Absolutely, I will say there's more good people, and I'm glad that she's one of the people that are in this world with me on this ship for these hundred years, because I said, you helped me so much last time. And then she has to get on the phone because I'm I'm in the bulkhead seat and the dog can't there's no seat for the dog to go under, and I need to be in I got moved to the front row. I'm texting my assistant like, hey, you can't ever put me in front row, even though I I already told you I hate front rows. But she was like, I didn't. They just bumped you up and then that's where I put you. And then so then she gets on the phone with the gate agent and she's like, she has a dog. She can't be in the front row. And the woman on the phone's not understanding. She goes, she's new. She was like, I need you to understand this, lady. She got to me a lady, which was fine, has a dog. It can't go and she's explained it like fourteen times. She gets something and she goes, oh my god, I go wait, what was going on there? She was like she's new things are and then we bonded like.

Me last time, they have to put out their fellow employees and ask for favors to yes, to get all that stuff.

Yes, And so she was actually ended up being so cool and I think now we're front buddies and I'll get her number for you to hook up with.

Motorcycle Lady, by the way, I think is in the running for the dog's name lady because of Bill Burr.

How he goes lighty.

Yeah, And she just woke up from that maybe because Ally had a family dog growing up that was named Lady, very good dog.

Lady's a cute name. She just seems like a girl to me though, And we wanted to name her girly, but my friend Kirsten's dog's name is girly.

You could name her girl. We can just call her girl, and you can call her girly or from any variation of girl. And then we get to say good girl and bad girl, just the way we want to. Yes, And then that's her name is girl. And then you get to be like, hey girl.

Hey girl, Oh that's interesting.

I really don't like that name. I'm just gonna be honest girl. Yeah, why. I don't know. It just sounds like a little bit like too trying too hard to come up with something that no other dog's name would be. Lady a classic old name. The other names you mentioned before seemed to be like more normal dog names. Girls seems to be like a gimmick in my opinion, what.

If we said girly to people who ask.

Then that's her name?

Sure, yeah, well whatever is, everyone can ask it.

But this isn't a kid where you're like, oh, I can't name my daughter the same name as my friend's daughter because.

I Kirsten's pregnant and I know the name of her baby that's gonna be due in August. And I thought it would be so funny if I named this dog that girl's name.

It would be so fucking fuck you, Kirsten.

Can you imagine.

Yeah, let's name it Sarah Lena.

Oh my god, that's funny. I would be so happy to be named after a dog, or to be a dog, to have a dog.

No.

Gary Veeder, who was on the show the last episode, named his daughter or son after a dog that he and his wife both loved. They owned a dog walking company, and I was like, that's so cute, awesome, and it's so and it's so a thing that a comedian would someday be like, can you believe my parents name me after a dog? And we'd all go, oh my god, what terrible parents, even though they're like, you could be great parents for naming your kid after a dog, because it's like funny and cool or it's like they're the word. We can spin anything, Brian, what names?

What names? Do you think?

So a friend just saw the dog for the first time and the first thing that came to his mind Nathan Lane, Yes, that's just what came that was in his heart for this dog girl.

Okay, Layney, what about you?

I hate when you are talking to someone like sometimes I meet someone whose name is Jack and my dog's name is Jack, and then I go, Jack, that's my dog's name. And then sometimes those people get offended. Yeah, I hate those people. Those people can roten a burning shiit.

I get excited when people have a dog named Nikki. In fact, I don't think I've told this on the podcast. I hope that I haven't.

Is there a sound effect that we can do that's like breaking news? Dn't d' that's it?

We'll be right back up to this with this breaking news story. Okay, I don't know that if I told this, but I met a bestie.

I've told you, Chris. I met a bestie at a.

Meet and greet and she was with her husband, and she was very excited to meet me, so sweet and was like, oh my god, we were listening to your podcasts on the way here, like this is like such a dream come true. It was so nice, and she was like and she was like Jonathan and she like calls over her husband because she's having a moment with me first, and then she's like I need I need him here for this, and she was like, I need to tell you both something and did I tell this yet, Brian, and she goes, she goes, Jonathan h Nicky's nephew and niece are named Poppy and Arlowe, and I just see his face drop and she goes, those are our dogs' names, and she was like, I named our dogs after Nicky's niece and nephew and I didn't want you to know at the time, and he was like, you you did, Like he felt so left out, but also like kind of confused, but also like didn't care. He was just like Okay, that's cool. I was like, I'm sorry, Jonathan, like you cut because I know that would really irritate you.

Like what if you've done to me?

Yes, yes, so yeah it was. But he was really like because I was like taking care of him, I was like, oh my god, this really doesn't mean anything. She was just you know, it's there, my niece, and have your very cute and she was like, we were listening to your podcast on the way here and you were talking about Poppy and I thought you might also say Arlow and he would have connected it. And I didn't want to tell him until we were here with you. But it was really it was a very cute moment that fans have been doing the sweetest things like that means so much to me. Oh my god. This weekend, I'm at Foxwood's Casino, which is this huge, huge casino campus in the middle of Connecticut. I don't know if it's in the middle. I don't really know where we were in Connecticut, you know, no, and I have no idea even where Connecticut is, to be honest with you.

And I go to the Starbucks.

There was only one Starbucks on campus, and I go alone Onya, I wanted Anya to walk me because it was I had to show there the night before, so I'm like kind of recognizable. Especially you know, if I'm just like out and about in a town, I would never care about going to Starbucks on my own because I don't feel recognizable. But when I'm at a casino where I'm performing and my posters everywhere, like, I was just like, I just don't It's a long walk. I was like, Anya, will you go with me? And she was like, she just gave me your hat, and she was like, you'll be fine because she had she had really need to take anab and she was tired, and it's a long walk to Starbucks. So I was like, actually, okay, I'll just go. So I put on my hat and I rush over there and I didn't get recognized at all. Pretty good good. Uh moved very fast, looked to the ground and probably no one gave.

A shit, and uh, why is NI running with that hat on.

And uh don't and saying don't look at me, don't look at me, don't look at me as I walk through all these casino tables where no one's focused on anything except the cards. Okay, So then I get to the Starbucks and I lock eyes with this girl who just goes like and her name is Stephanie l. Kelly, because she gave me a friendship bracelet with her name on it so that I would remember her with her Instagram handle so I would know she is, like she's by herself. I literally think Stephanie was perched up at the Starbucks waiting for me. It was like at the watering Hole trying to shoot a buffalo, you know, like she's gonna show up. Yes, And Stephanie, You're right, I was. I had been there two hours before, and I was probably there two hours after. I saw you as well she saw me. It could have been coincidental, but I do not begrudge her waiting there. I would have done the same exact thing. I think it's actually pretty cool. And she was wearing the shirt that Chris made for himself to wear to Era's tour last year when we went to see Taylor, which is a bunch of pictures of me with it, and it says Taylor Swift on it, and it took you.

A long time before you realized it wasn't.

T Taylor Swift.

I was just like, oh, that's oh my god, that's a cool shirt. Weird did Oh my god, but it's me.

And then I saw when I saw her shirt, I recognized it immediately because it's really cool design, and I was like.

How did you what is how did you get that shirt?

And she was like, I messaged Chris back when I saw it, and then he told me about and I probably tagged the T shirt company at the time too. So she had it made and she had all these friendship bracelets made. One says Gilly, which Gilly I gave her earlier and she chewed on it until it broke. And then she has one that says the Smallest Man who Ever Lived Bridge, which is my favorite Taylor Swift song. And then she has one that says football and j LO, which are two things that I've done one eighties on this year, and then she and Someday You'll die. It was the nicest thing. She was so excited. She had moved around some things to even come. She was like, maybe my biggest fan I've ever met.

Did the back of the shirt say hashtag team Helio?

Oh No, I don't think it did. That's so funny that Chris did.

But if people can buy the shirt so the Baked Teas has made it available.

On their website.

Yeah, Baked Ta baked Ts.

Baked Ts on Instagram. Yeah, and it's in St.

Louis. It's so cool. And yet Chriss said team Healey on the back when we went to Aris, because that was around the time that Taylor was getting a lot of heat for dating Matt Heally and he Chris had heard me being like, leave her alone, let her have fun with this guy. As we all know, she wanted us to say in the first place, Swifties, We're not I wasn't a Sarah or Hannah.

You know it from the get go. And so you had.

Team Healey on the back, which was hilarious, which no one knew the impact that Healey would have at that moment.

Oh yeah on her discography.

But man, do we know now anyway, this is this is the coolest thing that she did. So she straight up she goes, I go, let's get a picture, and she goes, she shows me her phone and her phone is my phone case, which is a phone case I bought two weeks ago when I got a new phone. I haven't talked about it on the podcast. She just saw it on the podcast, and she bought it. And the reason she bought it is probably not because she loves it. It's because she knows that I bought Taylor swifts phone case, and she said that you're my Taylor Swift, so I bought your phone case and she got my phone case. And it wasn't like I made I made an announcement. I got this phone case. She just like sleuthed it.

And that was so cool to be impressive.

I felt it was. It was like what I would do for it was she did exactly what I would do.

She's me Now I'm her biggest fan, so I'm going to get all of that stuff. Yeah, you have to get see.

Kelly, Stephanie l Kelly, Stephaniel Kelly. Yeah, she was awesome. That was so cool and there were so many really sweet busties over the weekend that I hugged and we just shared just such a show.

Stephanie next to me walking around in that hat.

The hat that Anya got because it's like a dead friend's logo that they made for his funeral, and Annie was like, please don't lose this, please, and I go, I'll just get you one made if I do. And she was like I don't want to hear that. And I'm like, but it'll be that you won't know, and she was like, I don't want, I want, and I go, i'll take a picture of it in case I'll just get it. But she was like, no, I want that one. And I understand, but I anyway, it was this weekend, right, Yeah, they were amazing.

Are you having fun right now?

Yes, I'm having a lot of fun. I'm having Yes, it is so great. It's yeah. It's nice to be selling out shows and not worrying about promoting them like crazy and just having audiences that like want me to be insane and like say crazy shit, and like they're not that horrified by it, and like I'm really going to I did some stuff this weekend that I was like, I came up with this idea to do a bit. I don't even want to say what it's about because I'll probably get canceled the mere mention of the concept what it's about. But I was like, if I can make this a joke that I could do ultimately on the couch for like Kimmel or something, I will succeed in my life. And I think that it's it's kind of there. But during the bit that I was working on, I go because I was talking about getting canceled, and I was like speaking of I'm gonna do it some jokes about this concept, and the audience is like yikes, and I'm like, just stay with me because I'm on the right side of things. And then I go into it and there's some jokes that me and you know, Ari Finling was on the road with us this weekend, Sean O'Connor. We wrote some jokes that were not the nicest.

Yeah, yeah, so everyone knows.

So we wrote some jokes that were just kind of for us, and then I kind of said some of those just because it was just peppered them in and and I felt safe in that room of like we know, I know this is wrong and that I don't actually think this and all these things.

And then I saw that people were filming.

Me and that's what happened before.

Film and I go, put away your camera, see you filming me?

Usher?

Make her delete that?

Yeah, that's awesome.

Really good at getting through people's pokes. And then I realize even if the Usher made are deleted, like you can just go through deleted things and get it back and it made it seem like, man, maybe now we should film this.

Then other people started.

Filming Yeah yeah, And I'm like, God, do.

You really want to be the one who like cancels me?

Like?

Is that something that people want to do?

People want to post on their Instagram videos of you doing material that no one's seen before for their own social media clout, whether or not it cancels you or not.

Man, there is nothing worse than a just grainy stand up video out of context on someone's Instagram feed. You're such a loser if you do that. I mean, I understand why you do it, but you really are a loser if you post that.

That's that's easy because there are people listening to this right now that are has been very excited about you or other comedians.

I wasn't another losers, It's I'm just kidding.

It's the same thing. I just read a tweet that's you know, I read it. I saw it last year. But it's like, uh uh.

Hey, everybody posting, you know, videos of your fireworks on Instagram.

Nobody is watching it.

Yes, well, I guess I'm not calling you a loser because I've taken video of Taylor Swift but I won't post it unless it's like really good footage, because I'm looking at footage constantly on Instagram and I'm like, I see what's out there, and like, I know, I've taken some videos that's like out of the audience shots some of the best going right, and I'll post that. But if you're posting stand up clips that you don't if you're not a comedian and don't really know the art of like how A, first of all, you shouldn't do it because that's proprietary and it's something that I'm going to use later that isn't out. So it's like it's.

Different than cool, it's different than music, right, so yeah, explain that whole idea.

Well, yeah, it's a joke I haven't said before. And so it's in the early stages of like you're this is a live experience where we're just all supposed to be doing this together. Now you can say you heard that before and maybe show your friends the video then after it's now out and be like, look at I I saw this version of it when you're in a living room with your friends. But posting it is just making me look not as good as I am, and professional as I am because I'm working out new material.

And it's but then explain that, explain I think that's interesting.

Because they throw out a lot of stuff when a when a joke is raw, that is never gonna make the final.

One, right, But we know that.

But just to back it up a little bit, So comics go out, so they do an hour, right, they they record an hour for let's say HBO check out.

Some day you'll die and vote for it and vote and he submit it.

Oh yeah, But they'll do an hour, right, and then they'll tour. Right. People will will go watch that.

And be like, oh, I love Niki Glazer, and then they'll go on tour, right, And during that tour they're doing new material, right, or some comics are doing some of the material from that. But you do new material. You don't want people to hear the stuff they just watch on the special on your with Live. You want people to have a new experience. But during that new experience, you are working out new.

Some bad notes and these new songs I'm singing like, you're you're doing things that are and it's fun to witness those not it's being hit when you're live. But I don't want them on the internet out of context where people don't know that it's new.

So people are witnessing you experimenting with new material, and so you're working things out, like I've seen Chris Rock like before that big live special that he did, and he did some things that were very similar, but they weren't the same as what I saw on the special, And so.

He was working out the perfect way to do these.

And there's no way with an audience, and that without I can't do it in front of a mirror. I can't do it in front of myself's animals. I can't even do it with a zoom call with six other writers. Like, you don't know how it's gonna work in an audience without doing it in front of an audience.

So I and that's the fun part about.

Stand up is that you get to witness something that's only for you in that room, like I'm not gonna I'm gonna remember that room. You have me for an hour, like we have each other, and there's no one else in the world that in that moment, and that's what's special.

So that's what's.

Special and beautiful about this art form is that there are it's not going to a concert and you want to hear the exact songs that you heard from the album. You're hearing something new and different, and.

Maybe new stuff is gonna be shaky.

Maybe you'll never see again.

Or amazing, yes, and you might get to see.

Like I've told a lot of times, I've told audiences, you're gonna hear that was the first time I ever said that, because it just you inspired me to say that, And you're gonna hear it on my next special, and you're you. Please tell people you were there. You were the reason I came up with it, because it is a collaborative thing. But I will say, like, I don't want to get to the point where I have to use those fucking bags that you put your phones in. You know why, because I like to be able to check my phone during the show. I'm someone who looks at their phone, even at Ara's tour.

I like to check my text. I like to check what time it is.

I like to check, Like, I don't mind people looking at their phones during the show if they put it on a very you know, low dim setting or whatever, and I want them to be order some dim sum. I want them to be able to get on Uber eats. I want them to be able to take pictures too, Like pictures are great and video if you if you want to look at it later. I don't mind video, but gotta be sneaky about it. Don't like when you're just holding it up. I can see it so clearly because it's like the screen reflects back at me and it's my phone case bitchee Kelly's fault. Yeah. So it's just like, I just wish people wouldn't do that, And because I've never cared about that that much because I'm like, I don't know, like no one even cares what is going out about me. But now I'm at this moment where it's like I have things to lose if you show the wrong clip of me at a show where I'm testing out a joke that is never gonna I never intended it to make anywhere. I just threw it out there. I'm testing and you know, someone could say that's Nicky's new material, that's her big take on things, and then I could stand to lose things. Honestly, Well, I think.

That's the thing that's that's problematic is if people see a video of you working something out and being like, that's Nicky's stance, where oh, it's something that you just maybe came up with. That's the thing about the way Nikky does most of her writing. Nicky's coming up with a lot of it on stage as it's happening.

And I've said things that I would never stand behind or like that are just the craziest thing to say because I am I'm comfortable with the crowd, and I know that this just stays here and like, you know, I'm not saying words that you shouldn't say, by the way, like I'm never You're never gonna catch me saying the worst things in the world. But like I'm saying stuff that I don't mean a lot, and I just want it to be safe. But if it's not, I'll go do music. And you guys don't want that. No one wants that I'm doing it, but no one's and begging for it, Okay, So yeah, I mean it's just I understand them. You're not a loser, but you're you're I'm just trying to I guess I was just trying to make them feel bad, like, oh, I don't want to be a loser, so I won't film. Yeah, I'm doing the thing my mom did where she was like tried to scare me from ever going out. So she said that if you when I was little, if you go past the driveway, you will die.

Wow. You crazy?

Yeah, And so my dad would come home for work, Brian, It's insane. So my dad would come home from work and be like, because we lived on a river, so her whole thing was I'm gonna fall in the river. Like it was our driveway went directly into a river. There's a road, you know, next to the river. But so my dad would come in for work, and he's a river guy, so he'd be like, let's go canoeing, and I'd be screaming crying like we'll like, but I couldn't even say we'll die, Like I didn't know the way to say it. So that's why I hate hikes and canoeing. Wow, probably because I think we'll die. And we almost did. One time, my dad took us out canoeing on a trip with my family, and my mom and sister were in a canoe and they got caught in this thing called the dreaded root wad, where like the water like swirls around this root wad system and it could pull people and children under and they're boat capsized and they were screaming, and my my sister was like five, and all we remember her screaming was oh, mama, because it was so cold, and she was probably screaming for her mom. And I remember my parents being very rattled after that, and I could tell like, oh, my sister almost just died, like because she almost drove to death. It was that it was that scary because they couldn't. We didn't go any further the rest of the night. We just stayed on that bank and we had a lot more to do. Like, have you ever had moments in your childhood where your parents like you knew something massive just happened because of their reaction.

Not that I can remember off the top of my head.

When they got divorced, Oh yeah, that's subtle change things. WHOA, Mama, WHOA.

Another time I remember I was screaming, crying. We were getting out of the car at a rest stop. We must have been six, because we would drive from Saint Louis to Cincinnati all the time. After we moved to Saint Louis from Cincinnati. We stopped at a rest stop and I was screaming, throwing a tantrum about something, and I was like, I remember it was my dad wanted me to tie my shoes something, and I was like, ah, and I hated socks, and I hated the strings on tying shoes where they would go like it would like. I just don't like string cotton on cotton being like tugged. I hate it.

Tailor, that's a tailor thing.

I don't like when the cotton is like frayed and you can see this little strings coming off. Anyway, So I was screaming. I flew back and we were by the car. I just got out of the car, flew back, fell on the ground, started writhing around, and my head went right behind the wheel of a truck and it started backing up. My dad fell to his knees, bloodied his knees, horribly pulled me out as.

The truck was coming over. My hair almost crushed my skull.

And I remember, like that was just like a I'll never forget My parents will never forget it, obviously, but because that was just I threw a lot of tantrums when I was that age, but that one stayed with me because my parents were like catatonic after it, you know, like couldn't eat and yeah, and.

My dad can't throw yourself behind the tire, right you.

Oh, I was just like no that I wasn't so sidal.

It was. I do be about socks and shoes, like I really just hated socks and tying shoes or like any like confining my feet. Just my bunions were already cranking at that point. But yeah, yeah, I was just throwing a you know, a child's tantrum, and and I just remember sensing something had shifted after that, where like they were both like, oh my god, she almost just died. Yeah, and they're so bummed out that it didn't happen.

I do have a moment like that that happened to me too.

Okay, we'll hear about it right when we get back from this. Okay, Brian, what is your moment you remember?

I remember me and my brothers three years older than me, and we used to fight a lot, like physically fight, and we were playing and I remember he was like there was always a moment in the fight. I was younger, I was smaller, so he would always be able to defeat me. But there's always a moment in the fight where I would go insane and I would always beat my brother if I went nuts, like I would turn to a creature of I would just go insane, I would go berserker, I'll go like super saying, and then he'd be like, there's I have no chance because I'm not going to be as crazy as he's going to be right now.

Like you would just get like you would fight dirty.

I would just do anything.

Sister would do the same.

God.

Yeah, it would be like before that moment, it would be like we're fighting, but we're not really going to hurt each other. And then if I go super Saiyan, it's like he's going to try to kill me.

Literally, yes, yes, no, one's we all know that sibling that can just switch like that.

Okay, yeah, so it's like being pushed into a corner. So we were playing, We're playing the show Gets Smart. Yeah, so and Get Smart the agent smart. You said this thing where he'd take the butt of a gun and he'd hit someone in the back of the neck and they would knock them unconscious. It was just like a move they did, right, And so we had these two like cap guns and are The game we were playing was called get Smart, where we would bull whip each other whatever it's called the pistol, whip each other in the back of the neck to try to knock each other unconscious. And so we were doing that to each other and we're running around the house doing that. Yeah, it was a fun game. And then at a certain point, I like lost my mind and I was like, I can't take this anymore, and I went super Saiyan and my brother you could see the fear in his eyes, and I charged him and I got him to the ground and then he was lying on his back and I leaped off the couch into the air, knees first, right onto his back. It was insane, and my brother was in excruciating pain. He was writhing around. He was really hurt. And my dad came and he saw this, and that's when my dad had that reaction where he's like, he's like, this isn't just horseplay, Like you could have paralyzed your brother.

So it is horseplay. It's Christopher Reeve's style.

So God, I hope people didn't have their phones out there.

Yeah that that that that rage that comes out, like.

Yeah, my sister used to have it.

She you could it elicit that like there were certain words or thing I could say that would make her turn into that berserker thing you're talking.

About, Yeah, the berserker.

Why don't you just use the Hulk analogy, Like doesn't he turn green when he's like gets so crazy?

You could do you hulk out?

Okay, so would be like the same thing. All right, Yeah, so you know that I famously when we went to go see Avengers.

No, not Avengers. This is this X me.

Yeah, this is one of the X Men. It might have been the Wolverine. Yeah, it might have been X Men Wolverine.

Okay, so there's the one where he wakes up in the morning and he stretches after he gets out of bed.

He gets out of bed. He doesn't have a he doesn't have a.

Sh it's a shot from behind.

Yes, oh yes, this is around I remember this because it is around twenty sixteen.

Yeah, because a lot. Yeah we did, and I accidentally did it mean too. But my body just gasped, Like I just gasped. That's the sound that came deep from within my like why my womb. I don't know what was happening, And I gasped, and like I just was like like and Chris heard and like, just I don't know. Swim was like, did you just get like it was such a lame thing for me to do? But I didn't mean to. It wasn't like I was trying to be like, oh my god, look at his back and so like, there's nothing more lame to me that than someone trying to make someone feel like, look how hot I think that guy? No, but I was gonna say, my sister we used to do, don't upset her if she's holding a remote or holding something, because she'll just throw that thing, like she'll throw the scissors.

She'll throw the remote at your head.

One time she held me in Kurston hostage when I was supposed to be babysitting her with a knife and like she's so embarrassed by this story to this day. But she wouldn't let us pick up the phone to call my parents because she was holding a butcher knife next to it and was like and we were both like, you're fucking nuts, and she was like, I'll cut you. And she seriously would have. She was so oh yeah, she would have. She absolutely would have. She was not It was really scary. But then I was more verbally assaulting and my dad used to just see, Yes, my dad used to just say, Nikki goes for the jugular. Every Jesus Christ, you just go for the jugular, don't you. Like I I'll just say the thing that the whole family has been tip tiptoeing around. Well, it's all because we know mom blah blah. Like I'd say the thing that like no one wants to talk about yeah and uh, and that would really devastate people.

But I will say.

That I've been I've been kind of almost entering into these like moments where I've just been like I can't take it anymore and I like lose control. But it's been happening in my pilates classes. Last Monday I did it. And then this Monday, I think I should not work out on Mondays after road weekends like Garfield. Yes, I should just sit plate a platter of lasagna that I just ate.

Yeah it really, see, what is it?

What do you think the deal is with that?

So I went to the class, uh last week, and we just get to there, I'm already struggling because it's like ten minutes and I'm like, I don't know how to like I'm gonna do this whole thing. But I think that at probably every class is like, how am I gonna do this whole thing? This is hard right now, but I always persevere, but not always because last Monday, we get to this one thing that was kind of not easy for me to do in terms of everything's hard, but this one was really like my body doesn't do it right, and I just get so narrowed at myself for not doing it right, and I just scope, you know, I'm done, and I rolled up my thing and I walk out of the class.

Fifteen minutes in.

You stop, you.

Roll up your matt like you're proving a point.

No, I that might have been the old Nikki. I definitely do this just like this is one's my fault, Like I'm not trying to be like you made up this thing and I don't like it. Instructor, because yesterday I was at my regular plates class that I go to all the time that I love, love, love. The other one I left it's kind of like the hot plates thing and I don't love it, So that was easier for me to walk out of. But this one yesterday, the girl came up right away and was because she saw me just get a towel and start wiping the thing off, and she goes, is what you know? She's like, are you okay? And I go no, I'm just not feeling it today, and she goes, I respect that. And I had to walk out of the class in front of everyone, and I want to just say it's very empowering.

I did not get start clap you.

If they weren'd in a holding a plank at the time, I'm sure they would have their ass cheeks were slowly being flexed and clapping they I've seen it happen one time in the Plotate's class that I went to where a girl quit halfway through, and I remember being.

Like, good for you, but also like, couldn't couldn't tough it out?

Could Yeah? Yeah, And then I know that's what they thought for me, but I just couldn't do it. And I want to just empower more girls to leave classes, because first of all, if I would have just not showed up to that class, which I was planning on kind of thinking about doing, I would have charged it, been charged fifteen dollars. This way, I did a sixteen minute workout. I didn't get charged fifteen dollars and that's the end of those that lists. And I left with my day. I didn't leave with my uh. I did not leave with dignity. I felt off the rest of the night.

Ye, you're also giving a gift. You're giving a gift to the rest of the class for they're they're supporting you and saying good for you, but they feel better about themselves because they're going to finish the class when other.

People could the laser couldn't hack it.

But I've read a few things that say so often people just don't want to work out, and there's a lot of people that.

Have said, just go go.

For five minutes and if and if you get through the five minutes, you do the ten and if you if you.

Get through that, then oh maybe you can just do this. And if you can't get through it, then just go home and that's okay.

And I think that I always say, like what they're thinking when they say that is you're going to wind up doing the hour because.

You're going to see totally.

But for you to get up at eleven minutes, it's such a fuck you to those people, and they're smug attitude. Their little trick.

Final thought I just didn't feel cute. My outfit was mismatched because my laundry wasn't good. I was pale. I have a burn on my leg. I was also on this news. They're trying to fit more machines down there, so they added one right by the bathroom. And the machine doesn't it's not the same as the others, and it's in the corner, and I just felt like, I don't like that. And the ropes were like you know when you're doing arm stuff, and the ropes were different sizes, so I had tilt to make it work. So it was It was a lot of things, but it was also I just started my period, which girlies, you know, like I just was tired. I felt bloated, you know the word I wanted to say and didn't say. I felt I just I And I traveled eight hours that day on two different planes.

I was like that I shouldn't have been doing this.

But you booked the class because these classes fill up so freaking fast. Yeah, that you had to book it two weeks in advance, and go, I guess I'm gonna want to work out when I get home.

On a four o'clock flight at six o'clock. No, no, I didn't.

You had no business being in that class.

I had no business being there.

And I went to the front desk and I go, I'm sorry because that is a different girl. And she was like, what's going on? Like you can tell it never happens there. She was like, is everything okay? And I was just like, I just I'll see you tomorrow.

Those girls in class are for real, real.

It's there. They all have amazing bodies. I mean it's it's it's you don't go in there and you can't half ass fucking anything in there. So it was really I was proud of myself though, and I empower more people to just leave a class early if you're not feeling it. But I will say I felt shitty the rest of the night, like I couldn't feel good about it because I felt like I failed in some way. And I want to double up today because I'd promise myself that and I'm not going to. But it's like there is a part of me that feels like have you quit things in your life? Like have you like straight up have you guys like felt because I've quit so many things in life and I want to know, like I want to find an example of when it felt really good to quite well.

As I get older, I learned that there's I have wisdom about working out, Whereas if I'm working out and like a muscle is twinging or I feel like I'm pushing it too hard, I used to just go push through it. Brian, you can do it and sometimes you get injured. And now whenever I feel like that, if my knee is tweaked or something like that, I'm like, I'm just not going to finish and I'll rest. And that is to me wisdom. It's not shame. It's not shame wisdom.

No, it is wisdom that is good. But in some days it's just you just can't.

You just don't got it do it.

Some days I'm just so tired and I can't really and it's it's hard for me to admit I'm tired. After a weekend where I did it, you know, I did two shows at Foxwood's at two nights in a row, so that felt like, oh, you were just at a.

Casino for two days straight.

Usually I'm traveling each day there's a show I'm traveling, so it kind of feels like you traveled all weekend. It felt like I didn't deserve to feel tired, which.

Is a strange relationships, So strange deserving things and wanting things and if you've earned.

Them, I know.

But I did have a fun night last night.

What did we end up watching?

We're watching.

Oh, that's why I probably felt bad.

Yeah, yeah, that's probably well. We went back and forth between the Stanley Cup. Yes, the Dallas cheerleadership, which you like.

I mean it's not horrible.

No, No, it's a it's it's well done.

It is well done.

But there's things about it.

There's about it.

Well, what what are you talking about? I feel like it's there's messaging that seems a little strange.

What's the messaging?

You don't like they're they have to do this, but.

Somehow, culturally they've made it seem like this is very important, so crucial to the game and the people of Dallas and then the people of Texas and then America. I mean, maybe I've gone too far with the America.

No, she goes even in New Jersey, being a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader is everything.

And this girl's talking to her friends and it's like, no, it's.

Not ya kuwait and like even that show.

Cheer I loved. I loved that show.

I didn't watch it, but yeah, it's great.

It's really it's it's it's like a perfectly done docu reality series with like a good ending and yeah it's really really steaks and all that fun stuff. And it's like, you know, these are these people's lives and that's when they're like high schoo age.

I think maybe maybe it's college.

It's actually it's college, Okay, but this is post college and it's important to these people.

And I've I you know, like absolutely, we all have things that feel so important and that we're striving for and that we want. But I do find a problem with this being like the most important thing these women will ever do in their whole lives. And but I mean, I guess I can relate to having things like people would be like the roast doesn't mean anything to anyone, Nikki, and like you're obsessed with it, but like, ultimately it doeses with it. Okay, that's good.

You aren't obsessed with it at all.

Yeah, Okay, good people keep bringing.

It up to you because it was a big cultural moment. Yeah, but you are always deflecting.

That, right, that's a good point. Okay, good because I feel bad making fun of these girls, making like I guess comedy. Sometimes people can make it into like everything that is hinging on.

This moment here.

Here's what I love about it though, is there are so few play these these young girls go into cheer and gymnastics and dance, and they they work from the time that some of them are like five six years old, and then they go through high school, they do competition. Then they go to college and they do competition, and then what's next, Like these are the opportunities that are next. Some of them could go do tours, like with Taylor Swift because they've done dance, and some people can do like the cheer stuff, or then you teach, but they're these people have worked more than half their lives on these things, and then there's very few opportunities for what's next.

So it's nice if there's something.

Yeah, the girls from twenty four to thirty two, right that have something, but they burn out in five years.

This documentary is great.

It hurts their bodies so much and they're doing routines that they know hurt their bodies, but they like won't take this like crazy jumps, you jump and split and then you land on the ground in a split, and like destroys.

These girls' hips getting jump split up.

The thing I don't like about this documentary, and I wonder if anyone else watching the show has the same problem, is that the coaches will be assessing these girls. They are all trying to make the team Brian. So there's like all these girls auditioning and they have to re audition every time they make They make the team for a year, and you have to re audition for your spot, and it's really competitive and ongoing process. And these these women that used to be Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders are the coaches, and they're and the judges, and there's a meteorologist that's a judge too.

That's the worst part to me is there's these women that have been cheering their whole lives and they're experts, and then there's these choreographers that have been doing this their whole lives.

Then there's hair and makeup people.

It's like one guy.

She's reading his bio. He was like, She's like, and Mark is a thought influencer. I don't even know what a thought influencer is.

He's like, my.

Publicist just wrote that he's just like some.

He's a meteorologist.

The judges are ridiculous and they're talking about this girl's you know, and he what did he say? He goes her face, her face is just a little too big, and then that girl didn't make it because everyone goes, yeah, I see it because of me.

Meteorologists didn't like somebody's face. That to me, I was disgusted by this.

Yeah, and the way that he got on the green screen circled it and said that there is a cold front moving in and that was rude.

To But I also what I don't like.

Sorry to hijack this, but I don't like it when people are so desperate to do something that the people that are the gatekeepers can take advantage of them.

Yes, and that seems I see.

That's what I kept seeing is all these moments were these these girls are dying to do this, and there's people that maybe don't have their best I have no idea, but you're just like, these are the situations that you hear about later that somebody did something and.

They give them a makeover and they make this girl go brunette, and then they're looking at it later and they're like, I don't know if I like the brunette, and the girl is like crying because she doesn't want to go brunette. She's been blonde her whole life. But she's going along with it because they've said it's the Tyra Banks thing of America's next top model. We're gonna go. But what I don't like about it is that they'll assess the girls moves and be like, you know, her kicks just aren't in line with other people's. Her face, she's just trying too much in the face, and then they don't show what they're talking about. And I want to see evidence of this, and it would be a very easy thing to show, So producers of that Netflix show, it's a great show. Otherwise, I love it. I'm compelled. We're four episodes in. We are going to finish the seven can't wait? And what else are anything else we can recommend watching that? We love oh.

Uh all too well, too well?

Oh Jake Jillenhull. Chris keeps calling it all too well because that's the song about Jake Jillenhall. But it's the Jake Jillenhall Show, presumed innocent, and it's on Apple and it's so good, except for when they think you're the shows think you're on your phone now, so they repeat the same thing fourteen times. They assume that you're taking phone breaks, and so they will tell you things over and over. It's a little bit of a show for people who might be dumb, but it's also for people who are smart too. We can all get on board with the show.

By an you watching anything, Yeah, I mean I'm watching America's Got Talent season nineteen. Oh my gosh, season twenty. I don't even know who is the frontrunner. Well, it's still in the auditions right now. But there's one comedian on it from Africa who's not bad. And then there yeah, there's some good singers. But yeah, it's what America's Got Talent is kind of degrading a little bit because like that, it feels like they're putting too much emphasis on the backstory and not enough emphasis on the talent.

Right, So degrading is a good word for even the cheer thing. Just there is a level of degrading that is going on.

It's hard to watch.

Oh man, but there was this guy, he's a janitor from Indiana who's never even been on the plane before WHOA. And he used to just sing in the hallways of the school at the middle school, and the kids kept saying, you're a good singer. You're actually a really good singer. And so his fiance convinced him to go on America's Got Talent. And he is just this the most normal looking man you've ever seen in your life. He's like a middle American, pretty overweight, missing teeth, glasses, wearing a like a cabby hat, like button down shirt that you get at a big and tall store. He's just out there and he is just the sweetest, most unassuming man. He's really nervous, which right there you're rooting for him because you can tell he's so nervous. And then he proceeds to sing journey Don't Stop Believing, and it's better than the original.

Wow, okay, this I mean he is.

So good now, to be fair, it's kind of like listening to the world's best karaoke rendition. But he is on. He doesn't not miss a note, and that, as we all know, is like an impossible song to sing. He does not miss a note. And then he is and then they always do this thing and they play with your heart strings. He finishes the song and then they like pause for three seconds before the audience reacts. So you're like, how are they gonna.

Like it too?

Yeah?

Yeah, and then everyone stands up gives him a standing ovation. And why does it work? Why does it work over and over again? Because that guy from Indiana. Yes, of course this is all heavily produced, and the producers know what's gonna happen when this guy comes out, and they know what they're doing pulling our heart strings. But that guy is real and he didn't know that he was gonna do well. I've had friends that have gone on America's Got Talent thinking they're gonna do well, and then they do poorly. He doesn't know he's gonna do well. He goes on, but producers don't say like, yeah, we're gonna kind of present you. Yeah, he goes out, and so when they're cheering for him, he's crying. He can't he truly cannot believe it. And then I don't want to give away what happens unless you want to hear what happens. Sure spoil alert. He gets the golden buzzer from I forgot who gave him the golden buzzer. But if you don't know the golden buzzer.

Each of the judge, I know that now, each of the judges, you ruined my week. I don't even know what that is.

Okay, each of the judges has one opportunity to do the golden buzzer per audition rounds, and they all give it to him, just one person. There's been there's been times in AGT history were all four decided collectively to do the Golden bus But like, I don't know who gave him the golden buzzer, Like Sophia Vergara gave him the golden buzzer. I think it was Sophia, or maybe it was Heidi Kloon. But he gets the golden buzzer. And then he went from disbelief to like catatonic disbelief. He truly he doesn't even know what's happening right now. He's like spinning around in circles. And then he says, like, I've never been on a plane before. This was the first time I ever went on a plane, and now I'm here and I got the Golden buzzer, and here's the best part. Then he goes backstage with Terry Crews, who is the best host other than Kevin Hart, who is better at the roast and Terry Crust. But Terry Crews is such a good host. He goes back and he puts he calls his fiance on speakerphone and he tells his fiance I got the Golden buzzer and she goes, I knew you would. I told you. And that's just I mean, ultimate support. It was just incredible. I just love and I was crying. It's I cry eight to ten times an hour.

Watch the plane because they couldn't fly her out.

I mean, how could they.

They didn't have enough money. They didn't have enough money. He's a janitor.

Yeah, but that's show kind of Yeah, this shows so cheap.

Yeah, they really are. Other things I'll recommend watching is Jimmy Glick on Jimmy Jimmy Kimmel and Bill Maher He I just watched an interview he did with Bill Bill Hayter on Jimmy Kimmel. Did you see it? It's so funny. It's five and a half minutes of like hilarity, but.

It doesn't it feels like it.

Feels like thirty seconds.

I know, I looked at it five.

Thirty so perfecting, perfectly done. Perfect Jimmy on Jimmy Kimmel Live. It's on Jimmy Kimmel Live right now. And he's uh, he's a Martin Short's car. He's a character played by Martin Short in a fat suit and it's so it's like an older guy in a fat suit. And if you see that, you got to get into Jimmy Glick. I am so jealous of someone who has not heard of Jimmy Glick and gets to go watch all the things of that because that was insane. And all right, that's it for the show. We I'm going to be in Chandler, Arizona this weekend. I don't know exactly where in Arizona that is, but that is going to be Thursday and Friday this week in Chandler, Arizona.

At Chandler, it's right between Ross Rachel and Ah, there we go.

Could I have been less specific about where it is? Okay, it's the Gila River Resorts Casino in Chandler, Arizona. And it looks to be near Phoenix, so uh south of Phoenix. Uh, you know, Tucson is also near it, So come on out to the Gila River Resorts Casino this Thursday and uh Friday, and then I'm off to double in to go see Taylor Swift and.

That is not an Ironlin Italian.

Alright, guys, we'll see you then. Oh yeah, there you go.

Oh god, alright, it's gone to doublin.

To see all right, I'm gonna go walk you a monster and then we'll come back and do tomorrow's episode.

We'll see you then, don't Pica and bike

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