E339 Nikki Glaser
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1 hour and 56 minutes
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228.13797
Summary
Nikki Glaser is a stand-up comedian, writer, and host of the MTV Movie and TV Awards. She's also a singer and songwriter, and she tells us about her love of bees and how they ruined her childhood.
Transcript
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She has a new tour that she's embarking out on.
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She's also the host of the upcoming MTV Movie and TV Awards.
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For me to set that parking brake and let myself unwind.
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People always forget that vegan is like everything.
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They were ruined because of your perception of bees
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It's like, let's get your top three bee incidents.
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they always had bees there for some reason, you know?
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and just wander off into the woods and disappear.
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They're like, I want to say tens of thousands of bees.
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But you guys were events canceled because of bees.
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who their skin was real clear looking, you know?
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Like one of those kind of premature baby kind of...
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But some kids were never the same, I feel like,
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Yeah, a lot of people say those types of things.
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I mean, but we're all searching for an identity.
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But then you kept your Halloween costume on it.
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I never knew I was supposed to have long hair as an adult
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in movies they make it look like it's not that hot.
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that you would take some of your masturbation time?
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So therefore you're not having to like feed this addiction,
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like jerking off is really just like a porn addiction
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you're just going to put that obsession into like woodworking
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It would have just been nice to have pictures of myself,
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like in a canoe or with like a nice statue I'd done or something.
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you have no accomplishments when you're younger.
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I didn't know how to like whittle or do a whistle.
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if we had to do like a talent show and it couldn't be standup and it couldn't be podcasting
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if we were in a talent show with a bunch of comedians and none of us could do comedy,
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what would yours be that you have the best shot of actually being considered?
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I don't know how you're going to perform that at this talent show,
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but I think I could do it if we had like a small black box theater,
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like I could probably do some Ileon Gonzalez type ship,
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I could probably do some Ileon Gonzalez reenactment.
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You emancipated yourself from your parents when you were how old?
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How'd you know that it was even a possibility to do that?
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who's that guy that had that church out in Texas or whatever?
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I think we were more like roommates and family kind of in a weird way.
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the fact that you were 14 and we're able to do that,
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saying tough things to family because they're family or doing something selfishly because
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like just accepting that just because they're your family doesn't mean you have to put up
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was I just like a weak kid who was just afraid to take the fucking brunt of it?
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That's so funny to frame it that way because in no way would anyone hear about a kid taking
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mom and dad don't get her like a kid could do that.
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To make that happen and to actually legally do that,
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that's someone who realized I'm smarter than this and I know I need to get out and I need to protect myself.
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I went to stay with friends and then I would take my backpack,
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to school and I would find friends to stay with,
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So you were just fly by the seat of your pants,
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I was staying with friends and then I finally found a friend who could let me stay full time.
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And we got into some mild drug issues over there.
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I think it just wasn't like the best vibe at my house,
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I met my partner and he didn't know that I wasn't a good dancer.
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We were meeting for the first time and you could see him be like,
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he knew our fate because I just don't have like a natural talent.
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So I would never try it out for cheerleaders because I wasn't like sex.
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But also it was mainly about like short skirts and being like,
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like having your belly out and like being like boys like me.
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And so I would never do anything to like draw attention to myself in that way.
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That they were going to be rapers or that they were going to be bad boys?
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that I would be bad at and they would tell their friends and make fun of me.
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Cause I would hear stories of it constantly every day from my guy friends.
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I couldn't imagine him being a girl when I was young.
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And she gave him a blow job and she threw up because he gagged her with it.
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Like he was getting images that probably inspired that.
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And then she threw up and then the story is like,
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I can't believe whoever did it first ended everybody else's childhood.
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So those people need to be called out in every town.
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whoever got the first blow job and receive the first blow job in your grade.
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I cried when my best friend since fourth grade gave a blow job because I thought I go,
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I just want to eat nerds with you and go to the sweet factory and get a bunch of candy and then go in the photo booth.
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Go to the gap and like dress up in funny outfits.
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Now she's wearing short shorts and she's hanging out with the gas station.
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we predicted who's going to be the first to sex boyfriend,
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Everyone thought I was like poised for all of this.
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And who had only made out when a guy like had to be kind of like,
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but he had to be on spring break when no one else knew.
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And then even though he wasn't the most popular boy in school and he,
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it just so happened I went to spring break my junior year and I wasn't not,
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but I go down to Florida and me and my girlfriends,
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we're getting guys cars that are just like cruising.
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Did y'all have any tattoos or did somebody just get one?
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And so she's friends with some of the cool guys.
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but we are on the beach in Fort Myers and who rolls up on the beach.
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And they rolled up on y'all because they were striking out.
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They were killing it in Kirkwood in the halls of Kirkwood high school.
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So they ran out of options because it was the best girl.
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plan a spring break where the hot girls group of girls is,
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going and the guys aren't going because they will know you.
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The familiarity will make them invite you over.
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That was my first kiss was like two of the most popular guys in school.
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And then they went back and they wouldn't tell anyone.
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And we had a girl who had mono for like seven years.
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you had to drink water or have sugar or something,
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Cause I'm an adult and I don't really worry about it as much.
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you just stop thinking about them and they go away.
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I'll hold my breath for about five or six seconds.
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there's probably people who've taken their life.
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I thought they couldn't get rid of their hiccups and just,
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Where's Fauci when it comes to these fucking hiccups?
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Why are we still inconclusive and it's all old wives tales with hiccups?
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that should be our cause that we all settle on.
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You just hold your breath until they go away or you die.
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So her parents had to go over to his parents house.
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Her parents called his parents and they all had to go,
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I would love to follow up today and hear their side of this.
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and you keep it off and he just kept it in the living room.
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I think it was probably the same girl actually a couple of weeks after that.
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but I also don't feel like I would even be able to conjure what race that is.
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I don't want to dip you out of like talking about race,
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Gypping someone out of something is very not good.
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Like we actually thought that our tribe leader was do you think or red bear or whatever.
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everybody could think it making it like cute and like fun.
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But that's because if some girl does that and she's pulling on her hair and stuff like that,
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and I had to share a room one night with two of those.
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If that's the funniest thing we've said on this episode,
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I'm fine saying that's the funniest thing I've ever been a part of ever.
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Think about the things that were big when you were young.
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and she would just be like howling over the speakers.
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Every girl that worked at CPK could relate to Evanescence singing that.
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I would smoke cigarettes on the way home from CPK after memorizing that menu.
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There was nothing better than smoking a cigarette on your way home from work.
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I love smoking a cigarette and like listening to it like a great song and just feeling cool.
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It does just because like younger people do it.
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So I guess younger people are cool and you're like,
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I hate them and they destroy lives and I haven't smoked one.
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I only had one in 12 years or something and I quit on a dime and it's very easy to quit.
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Now people are sucking like this electronic thing.
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I want to have a fake cigarette and shoot this like we're like mad men.
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And just be cursing everybody I worked with as I left.
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I wanted you to say like a funny place you worked.
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I didn't need to hear like the whole backstory of your.
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even though I literally don't remember one detail from it.
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like that means a lot hearing that from you because I,
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I think is like wanting to be fuckable and also wanting to be funny and fun and be,
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I didn't discover that I was fuckable until very late in life.
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But what I was going to say about that is like,
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I worked at a pizza place and I worked at a nail salon or a,
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my first job was at like a hair salon as like the receptionist.
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but I like was taking appointments and we used to write them.
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One day my tears splashed down and like totally ruined a whole appointment.
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I was up nanny most of the time because it's just like,
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like they don't think you'll like hurt their kids.
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It's all about the JPEG when it comes to nanny.
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I was babysitting like with a service that would just dispatch you.
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I look at sugar babies or like OnlyFans girls and like,
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thoughts and girls that are just like porn stars.
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but I'm still weird about putting that kind of stuff out there.
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I even remembered asking my buddy to go with me because I was nervous,
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I didn't give a blow job until I was a junior in college.
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It was a comedian that that's the interesting part is I can't say who it was,
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I'll tell you whatever you want to know because I would trust you,
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I don't like knowing some of that kind of stuff.
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I'd like to be able to imagine you blowing a couple of different people that I have.
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Who's who's like sneaking into people's houses and talking.
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It seems like I do because I talk about sex a lot,
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and I'm sure you'll probably get five variations of the same question,
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So what I've always noticed is a lot of female comics will start out like their
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first like big hit gig is like a lot of sexual based humor.
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with female comics and it doesn't seem like there's a lot of them when there
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I actually did a show at RAF Lake and Heath one time.
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So what she was referencing is what a lot of people say is like,
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there's this documentary called hysterical about female comics.
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And it's the last thing I'm sure a lot of people want to watch and I'm in it.
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And I did not expect this to be so fucking good and moving.
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you're such a scared little girl who doesn't understand her worth.
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And then I watched all these female comics that I'm friends with in this documentary.
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who you would think would be like not into that.
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I watched all of my friends on there being like,
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Harvey Weinstein was at a fucking open mic that,
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At least it's presented in that documentary because we were like silenced about our bodies and like controlled about it for so long that when you talk,
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you want to talk about like what you've been doing.
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like stand up on Fallon four or five times at this point.
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I don't have to talk about sex and talk about sex in any of that.
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I've done tons of like squeaky things and people go,
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The thing is I talk about sex because I like it.
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I'm not trying to talk about sex with you today because I am like trying to be like sexual or because I don't really,
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It's interesting and no one's talking about it.
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that is saying it on stage and having people laugh and go or have girls go,
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talk about sex because I want men to know how we're feeling and I want to understand how men are feeling.
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So I want to express what I think men are feeling and hear if that's right or not.
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and make people feel better about it because I'm just,
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the reason I talk about sex is because I'm so fucking scared of sex and like,
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you don't even exist if somebody doesn't have sex,
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I would be a sex therapist if I wasn't a comedian.
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Do you think that women don't get broad enough with their topics though?
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like hobbies and stuff and feeling you waste time.
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When I do something now that feels like if I masturbate now,
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I'm trying to think of another or get a massage.
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Like I'm getting a foot massage after this one.
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Like I want it or smoking weed when I probably shouldn't being like,
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I don't like talking about it because it just seems kind of vulgar to me sometimes.
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I guess sometimes I don't like talking about it,
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but then that makes you feel shame about the sex stuff.
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I'm getting into talking about molestation on stage now.
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Like I want to do like a fucking molestation chunk.
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I'm so fascinated by molestation and what it does to people and,
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and how much it's happening that we don't know about and how much it affects.
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So many of my friends that have opened up to me about being molested.
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Why don't we just admit that everybody's molested?
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Even if you enjoyed it and you were with a man and now you're in a relationship,
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but it scarred me to be scared of men and feel like they could just jump on me
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So I've been with my girl for about four years now and I love her to death.
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I feel like the sex has gotten a little predictable in terms of like,
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who's going to go where kind of things like that.
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And I was wondering what I can do to maybe spice things up.
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without really having to ask her what she wants me to do to spice things up.
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So some things that I don't think are for every woman,
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but that a lot of men don't know are most women.
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I'm not an expert in any way that I've never thought about answering this,
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but I'm just going to share some things that I,
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And it's being definitely a light choking can't ever hurt somewhat.
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but doing that out of the blue and just even a light one still feels a little bit like what?
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if at any point you don't want to do any of this,
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like all these websites have like easy straps to put under the bed that you can hide.
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Then if she's wearing a pair of underwear that are easier,
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but you can't because her legs are down there and then take a scissors and fucking cut
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but make sure they're not a pair like hanky panky that are like 18 bucks a pop.
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I'd be like this fucking guy doesn't give a fuck about my nice.
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and then he would like pay me for them later or whatever.
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This guy can do with his girlfriend of four years.
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He knows her well enough to be able to try all of this.
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I feel like he's not saying that he said it got monotonous,
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This is when you push her to do things that might be a little too
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if a girl's sucking your dick and you grab her hair a little
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Or I'm just going to be really disappointed in you.
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girls stop just trying to exist on your own wetness.
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because so many people are in stagnant sex relationships.
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I think the guy can now have sex with his wife.
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I think you're making my advice seem like too much,
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you want a Counting Crows song playing in the background?
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I think about a blowjob is you just have to enjoy it.
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if someone can't understand that it feels better
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like I was trying to figure out the directions.
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But the coolest thing is he found it without me telling.
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If you just do what we tell you to do and do it well,
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So ask and tell girls because girls need to learn.
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I feel like I didn't learn how to do stuff until I was in relationships where it was like,
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we could actually have some real conversations about what is good and what's bad.
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a lot of times is I didn't start masturbating until so long that I didn't.
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I'm always looking for different ways to approach a girl at a bar.
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What's the sexiest ways a man can approach a woman at a bar?
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like watch your video before you approach a woman at a bar and mimic whatever it was that
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you were putting out in that because that's a sexy guy.
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And like the way I was just mesmerized by that.
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but some things that I would like to hear is like,
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you were the hottest girl in this bar and I know that's a line,
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one thing that I liked that my friend used to do was,
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Like he'd see a girl park and like on a bench and be like,
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So let me know if you want to go out and it's email.
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But like that is hot because he didn't give me his number.
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I need to like prove this guy worthy of getting his number.
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So he kind of negs you in a way with just the email.
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And then he also makes it so like either way he's going to be fine.
01:00:01.640
well then that was hot and confident and just what that was confidence.
01:00:10.440
A lot of places you can't even get into without a shirt though.
01:00:46.200
We have a podcast together called the Nikki Glaser podcast.
01:00:52.620
So I would love if people would subscribe to that.
01:01:16.040
like best friends and it's just platonic and people are like,
01:01:29.800
Cause I didn't want to go back to New York or LA because I could get a
01:01:34.760
I was there for the whole pandemic and I was starting a podcast and I knew I
01:01:46.560
We got a fucking penthouse like apartment in St.
01:02:36.200
I told this person I wanted to be with them forever.
01:02:39.340
but like you're one of many men I could probably see myself.
01:02:42.200
And would y'all share a bed at night sometimes?
01:02:45.400
But I didn't have sex with them because I don't have sex with people until they're my,
01:02:52.880
they're committed to me and like want to be with me.
01:02:57.260
it didn't end up being that because we wanted different things.
01:03:00.880
but it was so nice to fall in love and like Theo,
01:03:11.120
I'm ready to like be with this person forever where you're like,
01:03:22.000
Like I've been in love before with guys and felt like I was,
01:03:24.680
I was like literally probably in love with Dave Matthews in high school.
01:03:27.520
Like the feelings I felt for him were so intense that they really.
01:03:32.960
like the urinal of their bus up over that bridge.
01:03:35.380
Remember that really kinky shit and it hit all those people on that bridge.
01:04:10.560
our brains get a little less acute for making jokes.
01:04:15.840
Cause it seemed like it might be racist or something.
01:04:19.980
Patrick's say it's brown for what's a shit holiday.
01:04:25.840
What's like the most crazy thing to say about the color brown as my joke brain.
01:04:42.500
Sometimes I wonder if my brain gets a little less acute sometimes.
01:04:55.760
I was showing you to the person I was in love with actually.
01:05:06.160
he's just so you're well known as someone who is just like,
01:05:11.440
Jessalyn and I were actually talking about you.
01:05:13.800
but we were talking about you the other night and just saying like,
01:05:24.400
it's just so cool to see you just like really refine it.
01:05:43.500
But you see this guy that is a genius kind of start to lose his mind.
01:05:49.580
he was starting to get paranoid about things like who knows what it was.
01:05:58.280
I forget that it could have been a specific thing that was leading to this,
01:06:02.100
there's a scene of him on Conan later on in his life before his death where he's just not sharp.
01:06:09.880
you feel like you're watching your uncle being interviewed.
01:06:23.840
but my memory for what the fuck I'm talking about gets worse.
01:06:30.820
I definitely feel deteriorating from just like not sleeping from,
01:06:53.020
can you just quickly tell me what led you to do that and what it was?
01:07:07.000
I was literally having so much physical pain from stress that I was like,
01:07:16.840
and so ketamine for stress for physical pain because they know it's mental.
01:07:22.440
cause I feel like it's definitely psychosomatic pain.
01:07:24.820
it comes literally from stress from like things from thoughts and like stressful moments that it happens.
01:07:41.940
You read it and you learn that you're back pain.
01:07:47.260
the fact that you were able to acknowledge like this is stress and I need to treat the stress,
01:07:52.320
People are getting back surgeries and it's all because it's their subconscious mind is like rerouting pain that they don't want to feel up here to the weakest parts of their skeletal.
01:08:00.180
So your bulging disc is not supposed to hurt as bad as it does.
01:08:20.320
I also quit caffeine about two and a half weeks ago.
01:08:26.020
I am totally obsessed with caffeine addiction because I am addicted to it.
01:08:29.960
And I know you asked about my ZV as if they were caffeine.
01:08:38.360
I tried to quit caffeine for 20 minutes and was like,
01:08:41.760
felt like I had COVID because of the symptoms of like in the morning,
01:09:03.780
I think I've been tired from not some of the caffeine,
01:09:24.900
your brain kind of goes through like these warp zones and stuff.
01:09:30.840
I remember at one point I thought it was a cryptocurrency.
01:09:35.420
You might be a little bit slower than you normally are,
01:09:41.440
I'm clearly seeing that whatever you did did not affect how funny you are and
01:09:52.940
I'm healthy enough to have an experience from it.
01:09:58.740
a lot of my stuff is spiritual in nature and I probably just need to have a
01:10:16.100
like about over a year and like accept a God or higher power or like admit
01:10:23.880
And that's kind of like about the acceptance of like,
01:10:35.800
and the higher power thing and raised being raised as an atheist.
01:10:44.660
I just picked up things from around the neighborhood,
01:10:59.940
catch me watching seventh heaven and they'd be like,
01:11:03.060
Like go memorize some fucking Marilyn Manson lyrics or something.
01:11:08.600
I would go to Christian young life camp because it was just to flirt with boys and my friends.
01:11:22.280
And so now I feel really weird being like telling my parents,
01:11:24.800
I was living with my parents over the summer and I was so depressed that I was started praying
01:11:32.620
tell me about it because I was so depressed that I called Neil Brennan being like,
01:11:43.080
I'm going to check myself in somewhere cause I'm fucking want to kill myself.
01:12:00.980
but I got caught praying one day because I was trying to talk to a higher power,
01:12:15.880
Doesn't it feel like something I feel like when I put some,
01:12:19.700
like if I talk inside of myself subconsciously to a higher power and I'm not saying your higher power is to be any specific religion.
01:12:36.740
I haven't always felt like that in my whole life,
01:12:41.900
And then it's nice because then life every day isn't just my responsibility.
01:12:54.500
And now you learn as soon as you finally accept it,
01:12:57.020
which as someone who didn't believe in God and like to accept that there's someone looking out for me and that always is with me,
01:13:02.800
even when I'm like having a relapse or like always,
01:13:10.220
my like biggest problem is like I quit drinking,
01:13:12.900
but my biggest problem is like eating disorder stuff.
01:13:15.160
even when I start to do those behaviors that I know lead to bed or I'm smoking too much pot,
01:13:20.380
if I sit and acknowledge like whoever's looking out for me,
01:13:36.660
sometimes I talk to dead friends and I feel like that helps me of like,
01:14:00.360
it feels like some to have some connection to some other.
01:14:07.440
It used to seem like it was part of life so much more.
01:14:13.100
like the fact that they would like pray to the sun and the moon and like to the
01:14:34.520
Sometimes I'm on Instagram and I'm scrolling and I just go,
01:14:38.960
you've been scrolling a while and you're not feeling good about this.
01:14:47.180
Don't also do the thing where you feel bad about yourself.
01:14:54.620
what was the thing that you were saying about how long have we been going?
01:15:12.560
I got like diagnosed with ADHD and you have ADHD as a,
01:15:29.240
I just don't want to have thoughts of killing myself.
01:15:41.620
and how many Native Americans killed themselves?
01:15:55.060
but I think that's a total different mental and spiritual animal than just like,
01:15:59.980
and you're doing it because your dad made you because you have to sacrifice a virgin on the first full moon or something.
01:16:09.800
I think it's why you see a lot of people trying to get back into things that are just more like,
01:16:15.660
I think it's one of the nice things about actually having,
01:16:20.100
I just feel there's a little bit more nature around me.
01:16:22.400
I can go run a few times a week around this Lake Radnor and it's like,
01:16:28.100
Do you worry about saying where you're going running?
01:16:29.840
Do you care if like the gang gang shows up on your run?
01:16:40.140
Arabs like to go walk by the Arabs use a lot of parks.
01:16:44.260
If you notice that middle Eastern people love to use parks.
01:16:52.780
I was just in like the Cayman islands and I was on an island for two and a half months,
01:17:00.300
And then the show ended and I stayed two more weeks.
01:17:02.760
I'm not coming back until the States need me for something.
01:17:22.940
I accepted a gig that I truly accepted on based on hearing the name of it and being like,
01:17:33.140
Like I feel like we're just doing things that make us happy.
01:17:39.400
I got over my depression probably in the fall cause I went and got treated for it.
01:17:43.320
And I like on a dime started treating my ADHD and I have not had one suicidal ideation
01:17:50.800
But over the summer I was in a really dark place and it could come back because I've
01:17:59.360
which is one of the main reasons why I tried the ketamine therapy because it's had a lot
01:18:02.560
of success with getting people off their antidepressants.
01:18:04.640
So I also want to do mushrooms and LSD to treat.
01:18:18.440
Sam Harris is the reason I'm a better person now than I was the summer.
01:18:40.420
I didn't fall for that Gwyneth Paltrow thing that everyone was passing around.
01:18:45.980
she said there was some headline the other day that was like,
01:18:50.560
One night I even had to eat bread and everyone's going,
01:19:08.080
his app is so helpful for if you're going through depression or just existential crisis.
01:19:14.100
and the fact that there's no free will has really helped me too.
01:19:27.500
the concept that you have any control over anything you do.
01:19:33.780
You're really not because it's too much of a concept.
01:19:41.080
the idea that you're not in control of your life,
01:19:46.860
You should probably not trigger warning because some people,
01:19:48.820
people with like psych psychiatric does like illnesses can't handle this.
01:19:56.360
the idea that you are controlling anything you do,
01:20:02.640
I had the thought though of I'm going to pet that rat.
01:20:07.280
I could do anything right now and I'm going to go choose.
01:20:10.500
So anything that you can argue as a choice is a thought that popped in your head
01:20:16.980
You didn't choose that your heart's beating much like those other things.
01:20:22.780
And everything you do is based on what you think.
01:20:25.100
So if you're not choosing what you think there's,
01:20:27.140
it's either completely random or it's a determinism,
01:20:36.500
it just sounds like more that it sounds like a bigger thing that we'd have to
01:20:48.420
it's a short book called free will by Sam Harris.
01:20:50.260
I could see it taking a lot of pressure off of people because then it's like
01:20:53.720
the decisions and the choices you make are not as,
01:20:56.420
they're not going to hamper yourself as much either.
01:21:05.580
When they open up a guy that shoots up a fucking mall or something and they,
01:21:21.600
it completely explains why this otherwise normal man had this complete shift.
01:21:28.600
he would probably get a different charge because of that.
01:21:38.080
We have some sympathy for that guy in a way that we don't have for a Jeffrey Dahmer,
01:21:45.200
whether or not they open their brain and found something,
01:21:50.360
When really Ted Bundy didn't want to be born with the,
01:21:53.720
he didn't choose the brain that made him a serial killer.
01:22:00.080
Because everyone does exactly what they're going to do.
01:22:06.400
And I'm not saying I forgive child molesters or murderers or someone who could like hurt my family.
01:22:12.180
I would be furious because that's just human nature.
01:22:15.400
But I understand that when I think of child molesters,
01:22:19.720
I'm so angry at what they do and disgusted by it.
01:22:28.660
They need to like get help and do what they need to get help.
01:22:38.280
everything is something that's weird in your brain.
01:22:40.180
So whether it's a tumor or just your brain's weird and we can't really see what's weird,
01:22:46.300
I think some of that will be interesting as we learn,
01:22:48.220
just as we evolve more and learn more and we start to see like,
01:22:59.280
a lot of times because I've always felt that way,
01:23:02.020
like even my friends that have gotten in trouble for sex stuff,
01:23:15.220
you live in an environment and a society and society is shaped where people
01:23:23.440
And sometimes some people need to go back into the broth,
01:23:26.840
And I understand that we want to punish people and say like,
01:23:33.880
But really the reason we put these people away is because they harm society.
01:23:45.520
that sucks that he's a serial killer and his brain is like that.
01:23:49.180
but we put them away as an example of not what to do to not,
01:25:24.080
we have to kill him because he's killing other animals.
01:25:26.000
He's his sacrifice will be less than how much harm he
01:25:30.760
Sometimes you have to do things just for the greater good of
01:25:43.040
I believe in it because if I got that life sentence,
01:25:51.320
I'm advocating for the prisoners to like have that option.
01:26:04.380
I want to have a gun just so I can like kill myself before some
01:26:09.860
Then hopefully I think if some prisoners will wise up and they
01:26:19.140
It would be better to go back into the amoeba or the,
01:26:31.540
And keep like writing letters to the girl you murdered.
01:26:39.720
Documentary that some creep is going to make because they want to
01:26:42.500
make money off the fact that you murdered someone.
01:26:43.380
I watched those YouTube videos of like them interviewing sociopaths.
01:26:49.480
what's a murder you could do and be honest with me.
01:27:03.240
but I would love to just see his eyes pop out even more as I
01:27:07.600
slowly choke the life out of him for being probably a murderer and
01:27:11.680
the most prolific serial rapist that any of us have ever known.
01:27:33.860
If a guy grabs you and shoves you in a car and you're screaming,
01:27:46.460
And that would be hard for me to do just to feel,
01:27:48.180
but actually it would feel great to someone like that.
01:27:55.280
but you have a better chance of surviving that.
01:27:56.920
Then he's not going to take you to go do a podcast,
01:28:03.600
that's one thing I think that's tough for a lot of women is you have that,
01:28:06.380
that chance out there of getting sexually assaulted.
01:28:11.760
they just are going to want to either spend time with me or give me a ride.
01:28:19.580
one of the moments I'll never forget about you that I had on the street in front of the improv on Melrose.
01:28:25.200
Do you remember you were coming back from your car?
01:28:40.140
you were coming back to the improv from your car,
01:28:54.260
and it's kind of in like a couple blocks more where the comics park,
01:29:23.680
it's up to me whether or not I get raped is the other kind of,
01:29:31.020
it's just saying something flippant about a thing that I actually fear every time I leave there.
01:29:44.780
He doesn't know the experience of being a woman and like,
01:29:53.320
But then you texted me right after it and we're like,
01:30:23.820
It is because also I'm a comic and that's a funny joke.
01:30:31.800
It sucks that you couldn't make a race joke a few minutes ago without everybody thinking
01:30:39.740
but I might catch someone in a vulnerable state.
01:30:41.940
Like you caught me in a vulnerable state where I was already thinking about being raped and
01:30:45.000
I might say a race joke and it catches someone who's watching,
01:30:47.780
who is black and was discriminating against today all day today.
01:30:50.640
They didn't get something cause they are black.
01:30:54.260
And then they hear me say a racial joke and it just makes them go like,
01:31:02.840
But then we've gotten to this space in the world where it's like,
01:31:07.560
And I want to be able to say things because we have to do things that's for the common good.
01:31:11.360
Like it's gotten to this point where it's like,
01:31:13.680
you're never going to make everybody on Twitter happy.
01:31:18.720
And so you have to be able to take some risks in every,
01:31:28.220
It's like 99.5% of people would just laugh at the joke.
01:31:34.820
And there's that one person that's had a tough day.
01:31:37.360
but we're also starting to raise people to think that just cause they've had.
01:31:54.000
was that you deter you from being around that man?
01:31:55.840
I really like a guy to maybe wrap his head around like understanding.
01:31:59.740
Cause I don't not eat chicken cause it's not good.
01:32:02.620
Everything you're eating is something that I enjoyed for years of my life.
01:32:06.960
but I don't do things that sometimes that I want to do because it's right.
01:32:12.000
Like I don't murder people that I want to murder.
01:32:16.000
I don't hit my mom sometimes when I want to hit her because it's not good for the greater,
01:32:23.180
But you have to be able to eat something at a certain point.
01:32:37.480
I can see the humanity in a plant's eyes and I can see,
01:32:44.720
I understand people can separate fish and squids,
01:32:47.540
even though my octopus teacher should ruin that for everyone.
01:33:19.300
but it doesn't matter if something's dumb though,
01:33:20.800
because something's dumb doesn't mean it means it should be killed.
01:33:30.420
Just don't make animals suffer up until you kill them.
01:33:41.060
because the cow's existence up until the death penalty is what I'm bothered by.
01:33:45.420
And you can't guarantee that these animals are treated well.
01:33:54.820
because those are probably the ones that are treated right.
01:33:56.200
But it's just a picture of a woman like holding a chicken.
01:34:03.800
Unless my sister had chickens and I definitely ate those chickens.
01:34:12.780
I wish we could get inside the brain of a chicken and know if they mind or not.
01:34:23.420
and I think down the line we will have that ability.
01:34:28.240
And I'm not saying that I'm perfect and that everyone needs to go vegan,
01:34:33.620
This thing that humanizes octopuses and like not humanizes,
01:34:38.720
you realize like they have emotions and this person,
01:34:42.800
Apparently if you watch this and my mom loves calamari so much that she won't
01:34:50.260
So you're living ignorantly so that you can protect yourself because you like
01:34:56.680
But then it's just going to become whoever has owns the media is just going to be able
01:35:00.680
And then they create the products that they want us to buy then,
01:35:05.680
hopefully vegans are not doing anything wrong except wanting animals to be happy.
01:35:17.480
I used to have like a bit about it in my act and I dated a vegan and I would call,
01:35:25.940
I'm just kind of trying to say the same things that when I wasn't a vegan kind of
01:35:29.920
made me see the other side and actually embrace it and really love it.
01:35:33.000
And I'm just sharing with you my experience of realizing that animals want to live just
01:35:39.360
And pigs are terrified from the second they're born cows and pigs.
01:35:52.860
it's not because Charlotte's web is that's a good experience.
01:36:02.140
not one minute of it from the time they're plucked from their mom until they're put
01:36:09.720
they're just made to get fat that there's no one that's caring about their needs.
01:36:15.420
deep feelings like your dog never sees in its however long it lives life.
01:36:32.680
you can take this out because eat what you want.
01:36:35.760
I'm just saying what I learned that that's why I can't even eat meat anymore.
01:36:38.920
And I fucking hate it because I miss fucking feta cheese.
01:36:42.140
So it's part of it that you just miss those things and you want to have them.
01:36:50.200
They're angry because they're weak because of protein.
01:36:53.480
I didn't say that I'm angry because I just don't understand why.
01:36:58.640
dedicate their lives to saving dogs can eat pigs.
01:37:07.100
if one minute of what that pig that you're eating is life or that chicken that
01:37:16.560
I'm thinking about maybe getting a Welsh terrier or something.
01:37:22.440
if a minute of the pain that a chicken that you're eating,
01:37:32.840
if you're a little Welsh terrier that you get someday that you're going to
01:37:35.040
love more than you ever even thought possible loving a dog,
01:37:40.480
if someone inflicted that kind of life for 30 seconds onto a dog that a chicken
01:37:44.280
and a pig experienced their entire life for 30 seconds,
01:37:49.540
you would have that person charged with cruelty.
01:37:52.600
They kept them in a box for that dog that it wasn't able to run.
01:38:00.660
Like the things that happened to these animals,
01:38:02.180
if we had a little bit of it for our precious pets,
01:38:05.120
we would never tolerate it yet when we see when we can't see the footage and
01:38:13.640
I definitely contribute to horrific injustices to human rights.
01:38:32.140
Cause like there's also countries where they eat dogs.
01:38:41.400
I wish we would start eating dog because it would make people wake up to the
01:38:50.300
but I do think that people need to wake the fuck up and realize that when you,
01:38:59.940
But I think there used to be how you would never fucking ever eat a hamburger.
01:39:04.040
I think there used to be times where there was like a connection between animals and
01:39:10.120
And so if they took something's life because they needed to survive,
01:39:15.360
And the cow lived in a natural environment or if it was formed,
01:39:22.140
I more value it when someone hunts with a knife against an animal.
01:39:36.420
but at least they fucking fucked a lot and ate a lot and jumped over creeks and like
01:39:40.480
had some adventures in their life that animals are supposed to camp.
01:39:49.400
We should take these animals and give them a week in the wild.
01:39:54.700
You want YMCA camp for these animals while they grow up.
01:40:02.240
There's a thing called in the vegan community that I would never do called
01:40:05.840
And PETA does it a lot where they meet up with these slaughter trucks as
01:40:11.920
They're packed into these things and you can just see their snouts through
01:40:14.460
these little cages and they're dying of thirst.
01:40:18.360
they're basically dead because if they were dead,
01:40:23.020
if I finished the soda and I was just talking to you,
01:40:24.860
I would just start crinkling the can cause I know it's trash.
01:40:30.320
you're not going to give them the best last meal.
01:40:38.640
So these pigs are in the worst conditions headed to slaughter.
01:40:43.680
it's called bearing witness because just to see,
01:40:48.020
I see you and I knew you were an animal that deserved more.
01:40:55.300
they feed water to these thirsty pigs through the thing.
01:41:08.440
that's pretty much an outward bound experience of like,
01:41:12.740
Cause you've been kicked and prodded and living in shit and eating bad
01:41:21.340
I think some of it is not people's fault though.
01:41:24.040
Some of it is just the way that society has evolved.
01:41:32.660
there's no opportunities for a lot of people to go do all types of certain
01:41:36.540
Like that's why I'm saying you don't have to go all vegan.
01:41:40.880
sometimes you don't have a choice like that as a parent that's trying to take
01:41:45.180
but there are plant-based options at Burger King now.
01:41:50.380
I know that vegan stuff is expensive and I can say that it's elitist of me to
01:42:13.380
all I do is I have to spread the message because it's shit like this that got
01:42:17.440
And so I know I might sound like a Jehovah's witness right now.
01:42:21.460
That's what I feel in my heart for animals is my job.
01:42:25.120
I am letting severe injustices of human injustices happen.
01:42:30.640
this is just my cause I pick and I'm drawn to it.
01:42:36.020
And the only reason I went vegan is because vegans wouldn't shut the fuck up.
01:43:05.500
my theater tour last time got stopped in the middle.
01:43:10.180
I had just finished my tour when COVID started.
01:43:26.800
It was just doing clubs up until the first theater tour date.
01:43:29.640
And then all of a sudden it's a theater and people are paying more money.
01:43:42.980
Like I had a band open and I brought my friends on the road.
01:43:55.420
I might do like private concerts before my shows,
01:43:58.520
like a cafe is in town where I just do Taylor Swift,
01:44:04.100
but I like singing Taylor Swift with other Swifties fans.
01:44:09.660
the show itself and my dad and I sang over the summer.
01:44:12.920
I remember seeing that version of Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper's,
01:44:18.840
but we rewrote it about me living at home with my parents.
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And like hearing my parents fuck through the wall,
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I went to voice lessons and like learned how to sing like Gaga.
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but the standup show is not going to be singing.
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I really am excited about like the whole thing.
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You're never going to be watching something and going like,
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I have friends that are talented that want to work and I can make them money this way.
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And then I get to bring my dad who's fucking 66.
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He's been playing in bars and at nursing homes during COVID,
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so I'm going to sing with him and then I might,
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I love the fact you're able to kind of like get into St.
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I was just saying that because I'm hosting them this week.
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I'm like out here and instead of getting a hotel and just being like,
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I usually come out and do my stuff and then hang with my LA friends.
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in case my LA friends are busy or like whatever,
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I brought all my friends at like who I brought here today.
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I constantly have friends around that are like,
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it's so great to be in this position and to like,
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I think getting to a place in your life where you're comfortable to exist as you choose.
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That's one thing I think I hear a lot from you,
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even just in this conversation is just getting to a place in your life where you feel comfortable existing.
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Cause I'm always scared that someone's going to go,
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This is like a platform to like get people's attention.
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cause there's a lot of times I see stuff of me and any girl and lots of guys watching would relate where you just go like,
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Like I have really low self esteem when it comes to my looks.
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I like when I see myself looking really fucking ugly and like dry skin and I look like old.
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I look like sometimes I see my face and I'm like,
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I feel like anyone who likes me is still going to like me.
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the people I love when they start looking like shit,
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You're allowed to look like shit someday if you want to,
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I used to be really embarrassed at how messy I was like my car.
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I have to like clean my car if a boy is going to get in.
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Because I have LaCroix cans in the passenger seat.
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Because if you get to be authentic across the board and really are like,
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because the thing I realized is about comedy and you tap into it big time.
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Because this is the thing I noticed about you is you just talk and it's funny.
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Like I know you're aware of what you say is funny,
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but you talk in a way that you almost act like you don't know.
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you're in a position now that you know that your fans get you and you know that
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that you can show up and you don't really have to prepare.
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You can just start talking and it's going to be good enough.
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but I could get on stage and talk about fucking anything and be entertaining at
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If I'm comfortable and not worried about what you think,
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I'm really high because the audience just wants in.
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I think that's one thing I'm trying to tap into a little bit more,
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One of the things I want to work on more in the coming months.
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you've always said some really nice stuff to me.
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I want to know how that joke popped in your brain,
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That was the funniest thing I've heard in a while.
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And then we talking about an animal and you just pulled long and then right.
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It's like the first thing that entered in your mind.
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it looks like one of the penises in the porn that I watch quite often.
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I feel really bad for guys out there based on porn.
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but our vaginas are different in comparison too.
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So we're also feeling the same kind of insecurity.
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And I just want to let guys out there with small dicks know,
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as long as you're not on your phone the whole time.
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but it's a NikkiGlazer.com slash tour for tickets.
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Like I never promote podcasts because I'm always like,
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But I love the way you're doing it at home now.
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I can't help but like share gossip about my life.
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it was inspired by watching people like you and how you do it and just are yourself.
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So if you like this show and you liked my appearance and you've made it to the end,
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definitely subscribe to the Nikki Glaser podcast.
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maybe they'll have a vegan option in the future.
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the guy who started Raising Cane's is from Louisiana.
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I know that that's like everyone's favorite fried chicken.
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that's pretty cool that you're having that guy.
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It'd be interesting just to hear how it all happened.
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Now I'm just floating on the breeze and I feel I'm falling like these leaves.
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but it's going to take a little time for me to set that parking brake.
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On the runaway train with a heavy load of my past.
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they're worn so thin that they're damn near gone.
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It is going to be a phrase in my mind saying that,
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And there are other people who wanted to come yesterday.
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I bet you're going to give it a nice note plus.
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I bet I'm going to show you something for this.