Brittany Broski is a comedian, podcaster and content creator originally from Dallas, Texas. In addition to her viral clips online, she is known for her shows “The Broski Report” and “The Royal Court”, both available on YouTube.
Brittany Broski joins Theo to chat about growing up in Texas, living in South Korea as an air-force kid, her terrible job as an insurance agent, blowing up on Tik Tok, why she desperately needs Caleb Pressley, her love for the Renaissance Fair, problematic McDonald’s characters, and much more.
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Today's guest has her own podcast, The Broski Report.
She's a comedian, a content creator, whatever that term means.
And she is one of a kind.
I'm thankful to spend time with her today, Miss Brittany Broski.
Shine that light on me I'll sit and tell you my stories Shine on me And I will find a song I've been singing I love you!
I love you!
Good to see you, Brittany Broski.
Thanks for coming.
This is a dream, Mr. Vaughn.
Oh, that's sweet of you to say that.
Yeah, what's going on?
How's your day going?
Man, I've been up since like seven.
Really?
I'm in a podcast tour today.
Are you?
Yeah.
I did.
Do you know Cody Coe?
He's a YouTuber.
Yes.
Yeah.
Yeah, I know who he is.
White guy.
He's in the White Guy Network.
The funny White Guy Network.
WGN.
That's him.
You got the WGN?
Yeah, I filmed with him this morning.
Oh, that's great, huh?
I was podcasting a lot.
I've got my own podcast as well.
Yep, the Broski Report.
You got it.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I was watching a clip of, I was watching an episode, actually, and you're singing.
You were like.
You're like a singer.
Thanks.
That's nice.
Yeah, that Celine Deion song.
Oh, you live.
That's it.
Yeah, it was so good.
Like, is that, yeah, did you have that skill?
Like, so, yeah, for some of my audience that doesn't know, like, yeah, I know you're from Texas.
I am from Texas.
Right.
And I know you're extremely funny.
Thanks so much.
Yeah.
Some of your stuff, like the stuff where you're like in bed and like on the toilet.
Yeah, I'm like on Secret Britney, I guess, is the one I'm on.
You do not follow my account.
Is that yours?
Yes.
Yeah.
Oh, I'll freak out.
So I like Secret Brittany and the, yeah, just the, it's just so.
I think it's called aggravated mental illness.
Okay.
That's kind of, I think, the medical term.
Is that what it feels like?
It's what it feels like.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's kind of like, you remember when they used to tour circuses of people?
Oh, yeah.
You mean like the specialty guy, like this lady, like can catch her ovary in her mouth or whatever?
Bearded woman, I feel like bearded woman sometimes, like, book.
But it's me filming it being like, check this show.
That's how I feel sometimes.
You know?
Yeah, sometimes it is weird because you're the subject and the director.
Exactly.
Yeah.
That's interesting.
It's like found footage.
Yeah, of yourself.
Self.
Yeah, my brother called me that.
He's like, man, I watch this video and it just, this old comedy video, you just made me damn tear up.
And like, I don't know what he's talking about.
It's like a clip somebody made or something.
Yeah.
I'm like trying to fucking get some Chick-fil-A.
I'm like, ugh.
I hate that when you're having a sentimental moment, you have to roll down the window to tell the Chick-fil-A person what you want.
Yep.
You're like, one second.
Yeah, let me get a six-piece grilled.
You ever tried their grilled nuggets?
Uh-uh.
Delicious.
Really?
Yeah.
I would recommend.
You know, there's supposed to be a secret menu at McDonald's.
Have you heard about that?
I'm not in the secret menu club.
Can you look up some of these secret items that they have over there?
Is this like, you mean like seasonal?
Oh, what is this?
Yeah, you can add an egg to your burger.
Now, what do we think is in a McDonald's egg?
Probably not any egg.
I don't know.
I mean, yeah, I don't, yeah, it's probably mostly, it's got to be have some egg in it, huh?
Yeah, I wonder if you raise a McDonald's egg to completion.
Yeah.
Is that the term?
Okay, from fertilization to burger.
Right.
From when Grimace and whoever...
Who's the...
Isn't it the Irish one?
You know about this lore?
like Seamus.
Oh, something.
Oh, Hannigan.
He's like this, uh, forbidden McDonald's character.
That's like a raging, uh, Oh, he does.
But it's like made up.
For the Irish.
Republican Army.
Oh, that's who it is, huh?
Oh, Irish Central.
Here we go.
Oh, yeah, Irish Central.
Who was Uncle O'Grimacy and was he really in the IRA?
Wow.
So this is a real, how the 1970s Shamrock shake-toting McDonald's mascot, Uncle O'Grimacy.
Uncle, he diddled somebody.
Got mixed up with the IRA.
They used to have some really intense storylines before America was like, we can't handle this.
Yeah, we need to lock this down.
With St. Patrick's Day season upon us, oh, the legend of Uncle O'Grimacy, as well as his cringy green shamrock vest and diddly diddly eye accent, lives on in YouTube, thanks in part to the U.S.-based nonprofit.
Is there a video?
No way.
Here we go.
McDonald's Shamrock Shakes.
McDonald's everything looks green.
Green butterflies.
I'm green footprints.
Uncle O'Grimacy.
Hello, boys.
I'm back.
And I'm painting everything green to match me Shamrock Shakes.
Shamrock shakes are back?
Yummy.
Let's celebrate at McDonald's.
Shamrock shakes.
They just have guns.
Shamrock shakes.
They're a beautiful green.
Uncle O'Brien.
Oh, so they're trying to bring a new character, and I guess it just didn't stick, huh?
I guess not.
I do love how these character shapes are just kind of nutsacky in general.
They were both kind of nut-shaped.
Yeah.
You know?
Yeah, I think they want to give you a like a comfortable.
Like, hey, you could look like this.
This is the ideal male form.
Keep coming here.
Yes.
You could look, you could be one of us.
Yeah.
What happened to that uncle of Sharnin?
If you look it up, brother.
Yeah, I just wanted, I do want us to get to the end of what actually happened.
Yeah, I don't know how his story ends.
Here we go.
Introduced the new mascot, Uncle O'Grimacy, in 1975.
The Irish uncle of the purple mascot, Grimace.
Oh, he was an actual uncle.
They're related.
They did a 23andMe.
They did a bloodline.
They did a fucking.
Oh, my God.
I couldn't imagine being related to that guy.
Would travel from Ireland each year, bringing shamrock shakes to McDonald's land.
Uncle O'Grimacy was quietly phased out of McDonald's marketing after a few years due in part to an alleged incident in Philly.
In Philadelphia.
That always happens in Philly.
In 1978, where the person portraying him, scroll up, please, made statements in support of the IRA and that British soldiers were better dead than alive.
Wow.
That is crazy.
So that's just some typical Irish banter, though.
What do you expect out of a guy like him?
If you're expecting anything other than just patriotism, you're wrong.
Yeah, if you're expecting anything.
First of all, this guy's obviously some lactose junk.
I don't want to fucking put him on blast, but he obviously big on milk.
Big milk guy.
To bring a bag of milk or a bunch of milk from Ireland.
Yeah, you brought your foreign milk into our country?
Get that shit out of my face, dude.
Yeah, that kind of blows me away, Uncle O'Grimacy.
Dang.
I can't believe you didn't know that.
And some of them were mint flavored, too, which is insane.
I don't like that.
What is a shamrock shake?
What is the flavor?
That's a great question.
Yeah, I guess I just thought it was just green flavor.
You know, whatever that, not lime, though.
Like how Kool-Aid is just red-flavored.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
The shake was.
Lemon lime flavored with a vanilla ice cream, lemon lime sherbet and vanilla syrup.
By 1973, the shake was merely a green-colored vanilla shake.
It is now mint-flavored, so I guess they still have a version of the shake.
When you were growing up, was Olive Garden like a treat?
Yeah, I mean, we had a guy, we had a place, we had a place, Larry's Ribs, we had a place, was it called Garden Options, I think?
It was like this salad area or whatever.
Okay.
There's salad, like health food.
Yeah, a place where you could summon a Julie into carrot and people would drive from 20 miles to see it or something.
Yeah.
Olive Garden was not, it was a prom kind of destination.
Yeah.
How old were you when you went to Olive Garden for the first time?
Oh, God.
I don't know.
I guess whenever I really started to get a palate for the world, probably.
For Italian cuisine.
Yeah.
17, I bet.
Okay.
Those Andy's mints.
Oh, they're good.
I thought that's what made me think of it, the shamrock shake being mint flavored.
I remember like, because we used to do Olive Garden like birthday or, you know, like a really like special event.
And I would always want to go and those Andy's mints, my mom would fill her purse with them and we would snack on those.
Like she'd put them in my lunch the next day for the next like week or two.
It was like a real specialty.
Looking back, chocolate mint, really not, not good.
Yeah, not great, I don't think, but I thought they were pretty good.
Yeah.
Or were we just kids?
I still sometimes, if I'm leaving a place, they got those.
At first, I'm walking past.
I'm like, nah, fuck them.
But then I get two steps away.
Yep.
Come on, come on, fucking.
Make that Yui.
Let me boomerang a little.
Pull that Yui.
And get me a little mint going on.
You've toured in the UK, right?
Yeah, I have.
You ever tried those nasty...
The orange chocolates they have over there?
It's like, I imagine if you were to scoop diarrhea out of a toilet and need it, that's kind of what it's awful.
Oh, wow.
Offshore work, huh?
Offshore drilling.
There you go.
Oh, that's crazy.
What do the British do?
They're still very confused.
They need help.
Well, they only have a few flavors over there.
Well, they don't care about, they didn't care about food.
I don't think if you go to Britain, it's not, and you go to Scotland, Ireland, wherever else you can go over there, you can't, the food isn't.
Nobody's like, hey, come here for, it's usually potatoes, beans, sausage.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They eat like it's still, there's Germans flying overhead.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
It's very much a war meal.
It's a war meal.
That's government rations.
Yeah.
Yes.
It's very much, yes, our, and I don't want to say illegal immigrants, but our semi our new friends in America, okay, are eating way better than this.
You know, they always talk about this online of like, you know, the UK colonized everywhere, stole the spices, stole the artifacts, whatever, and you bitches seasoned shit with salt.
You couldn't figure it out beyond just salt.
Even then.
Yeah, I wonder if some of that's a ruse, because if you think if they had done all that, they would have better music.
Well, I mean, they had the Beatles.
They got great music.
Yeah, they have Sinead O'Connor.
They've had the Pogues.
They've had One Direction.
I was just about to say it if you weren't.
Thank you.
And they've had Fred again.
Is he British?
Yeah.
Hell yeah.
I believe he is.
You're locked into DJ culture.
Skrillex.
Skrillex isn't British.
Okay, I just wanted to say it.
Oh, damn, you're right.
Oh, he's from Ballham.
Yeah, dude, come on.
Ballham.
Yeah, Fred again.
I saw him perform a couple weeks ago.
You could put him in a police lineup in front of me, and I would not be able to identify him.
Well, I think that's why they're just, that's why they named him that.
That's why his parents, even they were like, oh, it's just.
Again.
Yeah.
We get it.
Yeah, that's bro.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, he could, yeah, it's kind of nice.
He could probably blend.
But, you know, especially now that his career is getting so big that he could just blend in.
Oh, yeah.
What about you?
So, you start out and you're in Texas because I just want my audience to know more about you.
Yeah, let's get into the lore.
Is it okay?
Yeah.
Some people don't like to talk about it.
Could you imagine if I was like, I'm not really that derails an interview, too, right?
It's like, what are we doing?
Yeah, sometimes.
Well, I think it's interesting with podcasting.
It's like sometimes I forget that my audience doesn't know people.
And so I want to know more about.
So I have to make sure I do a good job of introducing them.
You want to know my social security number.
Let's get to it.
Yeah.
If you give me a little bit of it, we can figure out.
Pull up the rest.
I'll learn the rest.
Okay.
Yeah, ask away.
Sexy line for somebody.
I'll learn the rest.
Hey, you give me, give me two digits of that phone number.
I'll learn the rest.
I'll Google it.
You give me your grandma's name.
I'm finding your whole family on Facebook.
Don't worry about it.
Oh, my God.
Yeah, so you started out in Texas.
You went to A ⁇ M?
I went to A ⁇ M. Yeah, I graduated with a lib arts degree.
Oh, yeah?
You know it.
With a minor in Spanish.
Ooh, really?
I do.
I speak Spanish.
Do you?
I do.
That's beautiful.
Thank you so much.
And what made you want to learn Spanish?
Was it just because there were so many people speaking Spanish in y'all state?
Yeah.
I mean, it's like you start taking Spanish classes as early as sixth grade in Texas.
So it's like you have the beautiful option of learning a second language for free, you know, as a kid.
And if you follow that all the way into a collegiate level, it's like it's a life skill that you never lose.
I mean, ideally, you know, you have to practice it, of course, but like it's great.
And I feel like graduating, it gives you a leg up on like, I understand a different part of the world that a lot of Americans never do.
Yeah.
You know, they just really don't care to learn not only a second language, but about other cultures.
So, and Spanish obviously is like, it's spoken worldwide, but so many different countries, so many different cultures.
It's not just one Latino culture.
Yeah.
It's very beautiful.
Yeah, I got to learn more.
I got to really.
You got a little bit of it in it, in you.
Yeah, my father's from Nicaragua.
He speaks Spanish when we were children, and he would call me names.
I think I don't want to say, we can beep it out.
I think he called me like F-A-G or whatever.
But he was also very old.
Yeah.
So it wasn't like a young guy calling, you know, it was just like an old, like, I don't even know if he knew who I was.
He said hard T. Yeah.
He said the F-slur with a hard T. Yes.
Yeah.
I think he just thought I was some like kid in his house bothering him.
So it makes sense.
Neighborhood kid.
You got to say something.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But so that was pretty wild, I remember.
But he would speak a lot of it to his friends and he would have people over and they would like smoke cigarettes and fucking play like, what would they play?
Dominoes and just, you know, and my mother then would just fucking make him sleep in the living room at night.
That sounds really prosperous for you as a kid to really grow in.
It was kind of romantic, I guess, in some ways.
Yeah.
Because he'd always go out there and he would be out there in the living room.
And then when they got divorced, my dad would wait by the window.
Some guy would drop him off from to come see us.
Okay.
He's like 75 at this point, 78 maybe.
And he would, so he'd come and we'd go get some pizza and then he would sit by the window in a chair and wait for his friend to come back and pick him up.
And his friend was always out on the town.
And so his friend late.
Oh, would be it was like four hours later.
My dad would just sit by the window.
And my mom would turn the light off on him sometimes.
Because we had to save electricity money.
So she just asked him if he was okay.
And he'd be like, yes.
Damn.
And then she would shut it down.
But anyway, but yeah, so tell us more about you.
Sorry.
Shout out your dad, though.
But yeah, he had that little bit of like, he liked telling stories from where he grew up and stuff like that.
So there was some culture about around, but not a ton.
Okay.
That sucks.
I feel like you could have really connected in a different life.
My dad is a, he was in the Air Force.
Oh, he was?
Yeah.
And he's retired now.
But he flew A-10s for a while and watched Top Gun and really was like, that's it.
And said I'm not going to do it.
I don't do it.
God, so many men that happened to, huh?
Yeah, I think for a lot of men, and correct me if I'm wrong, Tom Cruise is kind of like y'all's Taylor Swift.
I think he was, and then he got so rich and weird or allegedly weird.
The Scientology kind of of it all.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think you get so like known that then the media shapes whatever they want people to think you are.
You don't have any real who are you going to tell?
Yeah, I think Tom Cruise for a lot of specifically Tom Cruise and Top Gun for a lot of men, it was like, that's the coolest thing I've ever.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
Like really changed a lot of people's lives.
So my dad was in the Air Force.
He does like contract work for the government now, but he really loved it.
We moved around a lot as when I was a kid.
And I lived in South Korea for a bit.
I did.
And then we moved back to the States.
I've lived all over the southeastern United States, anywhere from like Arizona, Texas, Alabama, all the way up to Virginia.
And then, yeah, I ended up at A ⁇ M. And I loved it.
I loved A ⁇ M. I really did.
Yeah, it was great.
Wow.
So living in South Korea, do you even remember living in South Korea?
I was in sixth grade.
It was crazy.
I remember I was like old enough to remember.
And I moved back to the States after we were there for a year.
And it was just like some redneck middle school in Wichita, Falls, Texas.
No, no, no, when we moved back to Texas.
Oh, I thought it was like Korean redneck.
I was like, how would that even be like?
Bobby Lee.
The day Decreting That's what it Yeah Oh, shit.
Yeah, yeah.
What do an Asian redneck sound like?
I wonder.
I don't know what they sound like, but I imagine it's just like eating chicken and dumplings with some, those cool, like, ramen spoons.
You know what I mean?
That's probably, that's it.
We were there for a year, though.
And I remember we lived in Seoul, like in the capital, and the smells were crazy.
I had never in my life, like, first of all, been outside the U.S. You know, So that was kind of culture shock at first, too.
But like, it's a whole different when you walk down like a market, like the fresh fish market and the spices, and it's just a different, it was crazy as a kid.
Yeah.
It was kind of scary, but then like you live there for a year and it's like, I might be Korean.
Yeah, you get in, you start doing like some of the cultural stuff.
You start like.
We would like bow to each other as we would, because, you know, it's a cultural thing.
It was crazy.
It was crazy.
It was, it was a lot of fun.
Looking back, like crazy experience as an 11-year-old, 12-year-old.
Yeah.
Oh, I bow anytime I walk into like any Chinese restaurant or anything, I bow right out the gate.
They're like, you don't have to do that, man.
Triple bow.
I'll fucking see a bitch in the distance and fucking crack her off one day.
You would curtsy.
If I'm flexing, yeah.
I'll fucking.
I'll fucking flee.
This poor man, he's got some condition.
I don't want ticks like that.
All we do is pray for him.
Yep.
You know, that's one of my favorite clips on TikTok.
Really?
All we can do is pray for him.
About the people at Vineyard Vines?
Is that what your clip was about?
Oh, I didn't know the full...
Yeah, somebody was selling the illegal Ozimpic at Vineyard Vines in Charlotte.
That's right.
I have seen it.
I was worried that it was going to come into some of the communities I live in.
Yeah, somebody had called in about it.
And I was like, this shit is just.
We got to just, all we can do is pray for him.
It's in his hands.
That's it, man.
Well, fake Ozimpic.
I was talking to a girl out in L.A. and she, every time I saw her, there was less and less of her.
She was literally disappearing.
Withering away.
I'm not even joking.
Good for her.
Yeah.
Good for her.
She can still work.
Good for her.
Yeah.
But yeah.
But it just like, and then here was a kicker, though.
One day she's like, oh, I'm going to be out of town for a few days.
I was like, oh, what's going on?
She's like, I'm driving down to Mexico to get some Ozempe.
Some Zemi.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Some Zim.
Some Ozimpic.
Some Ozimpica.
Yep.
You got it.
I'm like, well, we can't, what are we, if we're taking Mexican Ozimpe?
Look.
What can you say?
No, I'm glad that, I'm glad we are still getting drugs from Mexico instead of just China or where we're getting them from now.
You're like, look, I'm not complaining.
Yeah.
She's just withering away.
But it was just, she seemed like an addict.
That's what I'm saying.
Oh.
Look, that's what this whole thing's about.
Right, right, right, right.
Yeah, she seemed like an addict.
Do you know anything about kratom?
Kratom?
Yeah, kratom.
Scary.
Yeah, have you, why have you talked to men that are using it?
I've got young gentlemen that are off the crate.
No, I've got some friends who have accidentally been like, you tried this shit?
I'm like, that's an opioid.
I'm pretty sure, right?
It's like a synthetic opioid.
And they just sell it.
Oh, yeah.
It's crazy.
You can get it at the gas station.
It's crazy.
Oh, my nephew totaled so many of his vehicles on that.
That's bad.
Very alarming.
What is kratom?
A tropical tree native to Southeast Asia.
That sounds, first of all, fictional.
Okay.
Willy Wonka.
Yeah, they could write anything.
Consumption of its leaves produces both a stimulant effect and sedative effects.
Whoa.
And can lead to psychotic symptoms and psychological and physiological dependence.
What is the point?
I'm not sure.
Is it a treatment for something?
I know Brendan Schaub was taking it for a while.
He's a podcaster and comedian.
I know Bobby Lee, I guess, manufactures it.
I mean, I have no idea if it's his people doing it or who brought it.
It's over.
Can we get a video of someone on it?
I'm just curious to see the effects.
I've never really sat around with someone dealing with a flare-up.
What you should know.
Okay.
Awful.
It's like a drink.
It's like a smoothie.
Ground this shot.
That's what they sell.
Yeah.
Let me see someone under the effects of Kratom.
I always wonder, whoever you got Googling back here, are they just like, every day I want to quit?
They don't fucking know.
Every day.
They had an idea.
They would already have brought something up.
Right.
Oh, that guy's on Kratom Withdrawal.
First ever death by Kratom.
Oh, no.
It's like crack a little bit.
Yeah, I would just love to see someone under the influence.
Yeah, that's crazy.
I've always wondered, what were we talking about before, though?
Asia.
Your Korean experience.
Dude, I remember the first Asian we ever had, or there was a, somebody said there was one.
Right.
And so people are like, what in the fuck are you talking about?
Yeah, people were fucking beating each other and drinking Dr. Peppers and just fucking furious about it.
And so me and two of my buddies, we got a taxi cab to go see where this alleged Asian guy was, you know, because it was in Slidell, Louisiana.
It was like 17 miles.
And like, you can't just tell your mom I want to go see an Asian and they're going to bring you.
You know, it wasn't that kind of time.
And so next thing you know, we get a taxi over there.
It was a pizza hut.
Remember Pizza Hut?
Bring up those unique rooftops.
The rooftops, the combo.
You know, remember the pizza hut had those unique rooftops?
The like brick.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
A pizza hut had burned down and that roof was snug on the ground.
And somebody had just said that Asian people were living in that.
And that was like the rumor that took over the area.
Do you remember, what's the pizza place that's in, it's combined with another one?
It was $17 to get over there.
What's the one that combined?
Oh, I think that's.
You know how they'll have like Baskin Robinson Duncan?
Yeah.
Like the combo double whammy.
They had a pizza.
Pizza talk about, yeah.
Bring this back.
Yeah, you like that?
I think there's something so I just a patriotic tear comes down my cheek when I see that.
Look at this fucking arterial gangbang over here.
I was going to say for people.
Dude, this will change the pH balance in your p.
That will.
It will.
It will.
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Oh, I didn't know they were doing all this.
I get nervous when I see some of this kind of stuff.
Well, you can't handle it.
Well, if you see like a Long John Silvers and a KO, like, do they really get along, the Colonel and the fish?
Like, you just wonder if the mascots give, you know, are they.
Yeah.
Who's the Long John Silvers mascot?
Is it a fish or is it John?
I think it's.
Oh, it's a pirate.
No, I think it's mercury poisoning.
To be honest, I believe my friend Billy and R.I.P.
is not dead, but he ain't doing well.
Okay, okay.
He's off the mercury.
He's got some flare-ups still, but he's going to be fine.
Love you, dog.
Shut up.
He's a sweet guy.
Yeah, Long John Silvers.
I could not tell you a single person in my life that I have ever known that has eaten at Long John Silvers.
And they used to be with AMW.
Remember that?
That's what it was.
And that was, people were, oh, people were shook when that happened.
Yeah, Long John Silvers and AMW combined.
But then what happens?
The kitchen combines?
Like, what happens inside?
It's the same hormonal 17-year-old slinging fish and root beer floats.
Oh.
Oh.
See, that's the thing I don't want.
That was a bodily reaction.
I don't want fish near my ice cream.
Near your milk?
Yeah.
You want fishy milk?
Come on.
What's wrong with fishy milk?
You're right.
I guess it's my, I guess I, yeah.
I should, I'll have a little.
Just a bite.
Do you ever used to do the, if you don't like it, spit it out in my hand?
Did your mom ever used to do that?
No, dude.
My mom never saw us.
My mom would drive by and yell for us to brush our teeth out of the car window.
Okay, well, I had to.
Okay, what happened to me?
Sorry.
Yeah, why am I having this weird day where I'm just saying it?
I'm just making it about me.
Thank you for coming in.
Of course.
And yeah, what does it feel like?
Because you didn't start out in comedy.
You started out as an entertainment.
Like, what was your first way of entertaining people?
Arguably, my parents' divorce was I have got to be the center of attention.
That'll do it.
Really?
You think that did it?
Yeah, for sure.
Wow, that's so interesting.
Yeah, I need people to look at me.
Yeah.
I always, I like to make people laugh from a young age, but that's every fucking funny person is like.
I always just had to knack.
Shut the fuck up.
Yeah, but it also is like why.
Like, it's interesting.
Yeah, why?
Do you ever really think about it and think about why?
Yeah, I think it's just an innate joy, you know, to have everybody look at you and be laughing with you.
Like you were able to create that response in the room.
You know, it's a real pat on the back feeling, but it's also like it's insatiable.
Once you start, you can't stop.
That's a good point.
There's some addictive tendency to it.
I never thought about that.
Yeah, it's a high.
Yeah, because then you see like it's an effect.
It's almost like a wizardry, I think, when you're – We got our own brand of Kratom.
Yeah, it's that, I think, for me as a kid.
And I was a theater kid as well.
Oh, yeah.
That did it.
And then in college, I don't know, I did improv in college, but it was like improv at Texas A ⁇ M. What are we doing?
It was like.
Well, that's yellow's whole cheerleading team, it seems like.
That whole thing is Lil Abner.
I was like, what?
I don't even know what's going on.
Yeah, the Yellowers are going to be a point of confusion for a lot of people.
That's what it is, you know what?
It's a point of confusion.
If you don't know about it, And there were links going around like last year, two years ago, something had happened.
I think there was a big video that went around.
From A ⁇ M?
A ⁇ M. And it was making, and that was the first time you saw that there was a male, like, they're not cheerleaders.
They're yell leaders.
Yell leaders.
That's what it was.
And people didn't know what was going on.
Yeah, it's a lot.
Because, well, when you think about it, and this is, it's a weird thing for me as a woman.
And I respect A ⁇ M, man.
My god cousin or somebody went there, James.
Somebody.
He's doing pretty well.
Divorcee, but he's good.
He went there or he's there now?
He's already gone.
Okay.
Yeah, he's gone.
Yeah, it's a way because the history of A ⁇ M, which I don't know if you, it was a military school for the longest time.
It's Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College.
Yeah.
And so women weren't allowed in until like the 60s, 70s.
I'm not joking.
And minorities were not allowed in until the 60s, 70s as well, which is fucking late to let in.
Women, then minorities?
Yeah.
Let me think if that's how I would do that.
No, no, no.
I might be lying.
I think it was minority men, and then they let in women in the late 60s, early 70s.
Regardless, it's fucking embarrassing.
But the culture at A ⁇ M now, I would argue, is very progressive.
I wouldn't have gone there if it wasn't.
But it's weird because they still have some of those like hyper masculine traditions like the Yell Eaters.
We're not going to have cheerleaders.
You know, we have, yeah.
And there's five of them.
Oh, there's only five.
There's five five.
Yeah.
There's two, two juniors, three seniors.
Oh, my God.
And they.
So there's five men each year who, and do they have the, they must have tryouts.
Oh, yeah, it's serious.
And they show up.
It's a political race.
You run for yellow leader.
And they get voted in?
Yep, yep, yep.
Oh, my gosh.
I didn't know this shit.
It's crazy.
And there's so many, I mean, like after a game, you throw them in the pond and all this, and they're in all white.
It's real slutty if you think about it.
Oh, they throw these men in?
They throw the men in the pond and all white.
Wet t-shirt contest.
All men.
Okay, so.
And we don't do cheers.
We do yells.
Okay.
And for different plays during a football game, we do different yells accordingly.
And so, you know, so it's really involved.
It is because the crowd, you don't sit for an A ⁇ M football game, which I think is kind of common in SEC.
I want to go.
We should go to an A ⁇ M game.
I'd love to take you.
It's so much fun.
I would love to go.
I love that they're in the SEC now.
Yeah.
I think that's really fascinating.
And yeah, I'm trying to think of what else I know about them.
I've never been to where the school is up there in College Station.
I've wanted to go, but I just haven't gotten to go.
Well, it's the only thing there.
I mean, there's nothing to go.
What else does it say about the Yell team?
Is there anything else?
It's such an interesting thing about the leaders, about the group.
When did it start?
Yeah, do Yell Leader history.
There you go.
Yeah.
The tradition of Yell Leaders began during a football game in the early 1900s.
The Aggies were losing badly and the audience was growing bored.
Wow.
The upperclassmen ordered the freshmen to find a way to entertain their guests, many of whom had been invited by Texas Women's University.
Wow.
It was separate.
But women had a part in it.
In the crowd.
We need to entertain these ladies.
We need to entertain the women.
Hey, women still want to be entertained.
It's true.
The tradition of yell leaders, the freshmen found white coveralls and began leading the crowd in yells.
They had so much fun and received so much attention from their audience that it was decided that only upperclassmen would be allowed to participate in leading Yells of the Future.
Wow.
So they made the younger people do it, saw that it was awesome, and then like, you can't do it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Actually, never mind.
Give it back.
It was very bad.
So there's a, when they're going for, you got to help me out.
When they're going for a field goal or for a, what's the conversion called?
Two-point conversion.
Two-point conversion.
When they're doing that, the yell leaders will squat on one knee under the field goal post and it's called squeeze them eggs and they'll squeeze their nuts.
Oh, yeah.
Which is like they're bracing for them to make the, it's just, it's so gay.
I love it.
Yeah.
Oh, look at that.
That's true.
That's fucking.
Squeezing eggs.
Squeezing eggs, baby.
And we used to do that every time we passed by this town because my dad was always like, do not ever knock anybody up in that town.
And he would make us, even when we're kids, he would, he got that in us.
That chastity belt.
Yeah.
Just hold your nuts when you drive through there.
Protect the goods.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You do not want to.
Yeah.
You know what else I want to talk to you about?
Knock anything up around there.
I need Caleb Presley biblically.
And that's your best friend.
I just texted with him today.
Festival guy.
I have a crush on him that's like...
It's bad.
Because he's another SEC boy, right?
Tennessee.
He went to North Carolina.
Yep.
You're kidding.
Why is he?
He's like a volunteer.
But he is a volunteers fan.
He says he played at North Carolina.
He didn't.
He's a liar and a cheat.
True, but he's handsome.
It is true.
And he is extremely unique.
You guys are similar, I think.
You guys are in a nice time.
You think?
We look a little related.
Oh, I think maybe it's true.
You guys both have blue eyes.
Yeah.
You have blonde hair.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I have the same facial hair as him.
Oh, damn.
No, look, I think it's just, yeah.
Yeah, I, I, because he's been on your pod a lot of times.
Yeah.
And I've seen all your stuff.
I mean, you went hunting with him and stuff like that?
Yeah, we went turkey hunting together.
Yeah.
And it was interesting because, yeah, I'd never been hunting and then I don't think he'd been hunting.
But some people were eating, there were some children out there eating mushrooms and they were making everybody nervous.
But yeah, we had a great time.
He shot a turkey.
I didn't.
That's sad.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The turkeys were some of them.
Yeah.
Some of them looked like they had been, I don't want to say using.
But some of them were not doing that good.
Mercury.
Yeah.
They're off the merc.
We're off the merc.
It was like.
But yeah, when you were singing on That show, it was like it's so magical.
You can sing really good.
Thank you so much.
It's the theater kid.
I can't.
What was like your first play that you did?
Are you a Monty Python fan?
Yes, John Cleese.
I did spam a lot.
That was the first one where I was like, this is a lot of fun.
Yep.
Damn, you had that locked and loaded.
Did they?
Monty Python spam a lot.
And guess what?
They had me cross-dressed.
They did?
I didn't play a woman a single time in the whole production.
No.
They had me in a beard.
What?
Yep.
And did you feel, did your parents write a note or anything?
Like that, I guess, yeah, you just play what you get, but it's weird.
It's interesting to have a woman just play the man as a, like, in a high school or something.
It's something to be said about the director looked at me and was like, get her in a beard.
Let's see her in a beard.
And it worked.
I did it, but I think it's a compliment to me if you think about it, that there was no one manly enough to do it the job except for me.
You could pull it off.
I can pull it off.
Wow.
That's fun.
Was it a good time?
Oh, it's so much fun.
Because that, I mean, any Monty Python, I mean, it's so not PC today.
You could not do it today.
Yeah.
But it was, they, they edited it down for a high school production to do, you know, so it was funny.
It's funny.
We did Adam's Family as well.
Oh, you did?
Yeah.
What's a song?
Like, what's one of the songs from Spam a lot?
I could not tell you if you held a gun to my head.
Really?
Forgot it all.
Damn.
Yeah.
I remember I was in, I was a theater kid too.
What'd you do?
I did.
That doesn't shock me.
Yeah.
I think I, well, I didn't like to ride the bus home a lot of times because it was like the poor kid bus or whatever.
So I wanted to stay at school to do stuff.
I would be like, I'm staying.
I'm involved in something.
I'm in the fucking website.
Extracurriculum.
Yes.
And yeah, I got in Key Club.
Yeah.
No, I got in, yeah, theater.
And we did Sherlock Holmes.
Oh, fun.
It was fun.
And I was doing, I was Watkins, right?
And so I come out.
Watson.
Watson.
It was kind of the dream role.
It was a heavily urban.
We had a lot of black characters.
So I was Watkins.
But I come out, right?
And I, for some reason, I just did a Mexican accent for my character.
Okay.
And it wasn't any of the ways we'd ever rehearsed it.
And so everybody is like, what the fuck, dude?
Now Watkins is fucking Mexican.
Creative liberties were taken.
Yeah, and it was really kind of selfish looking back because everybody was just kind of shook and they didn't know what to do.
But I kept being like, what's up, homes?
Like I did it all just for that joke.
And I bet it killed.
It killed for a little bit, but then it was like.
You hadn't learned like the rule of threes yet and all that.
I didn't have any plan.
And it got old fast.
And then you couldn't not be Mexican.
So for the next hour and 10 minutes or whatever, you were Mexican.
You made your bed.
You got to lie in it.
Miss Porcio was so furious.
Man, I say a silent prayer for theater directors every night.
You know, high school theater directors are kind of like God warriors.
They're soldiers.
Yeah, I don't want to say that they are very similar to who was that sergeant that helped during Katrina, that guy everybody loved.
Joel Osteen.
Pull a picture of Joel Osteen.
Didn't he not open the church up?
Yep.
And the Lord's not working during this storm.
No, who was that?
No, it's not really Joel Osteen.
It is Petraeus.
It was General Petraeus.
Anyway, that joke took too long.
That's all right.
My brain should have been better at it.
Yeah, were we talking about Brittany?
Oh, you were a theater kid.
Yeah, I was a theater kid.
Yeah.
Yeah, so it's always been, but I didn't go to school to be like, I want to be a comedian.
It was never on my roster.
I mean, my friends in high school were like, you should audition for SNL.
Oh, so people said that to you.
So people, so you were entertaining.
You liked it, yeah.
I liked it, but it's also like, first of all, not how that works.
You don't just audition for SNL.
Yeah, people don't understand at home.
They're like, man, what you doing, man?
You're going to get you over there, do you a little something?
You know, Saturday night.
Yeah, what's Gwyneth Paltrow doing?
People text me that on a fucking Friday, bitch.
You're like, I'll fucking know.
Don't know.
Could not tell you.
Yeah, that was always like a...
It's also, I don't know, it's a very interesting conversation because I feel like with what you do and with what I do, there is a path to success in comedy that's not, you don't have to do SNL anymore, you know?
No, and it could derail you.
Arguably, yeah.
Like, would you be able to tell some of your stories and antics and have some of your same energy that you, would you know each week that even something you wrote was going to get on there?
It's a nuts.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
And it's, yeah, I think you're totally right.
Yeah.
And to be able to connect with an audience, you know, as like on a very personal level, you can't do that when you're always playing a character.
And also on top of playing characters, having to fight for your spot every week.
Why would, you know, it's like that.
It can't be the only way to make it in comedy as a young person.
Yeah.
So I feel very fortunate that, you know, I graduated college, started to work in a job.
I used to be an insurance agent.
Oh, you did?
And then I worked at a bank.
And then.
Oh, I love going to the, I used to love, I used to, I used to love going to the bank.
It's a great experience.
Wasn't it so much fun?
Be like, can you make change for this 100?
Yeah.
And they'd be like, yeah, I can do that.
And you'd sign in and you knew somebody that worked at the bank.
And so you'd be like, yeah, just putting my work check in.
It made you feel good.
Yeah.
Remember those pins that were attached to the desk?
Yeah, man, bring those back.
And every time one would be missing, you're like, oh, what happened here?
A crime.
Okay, did we get that on camera?
Yeah.
Yeah.
You want to know something?
I figured out from working at a bank and the doorway of every bank.
So like if you're the teller and you're looking at the door, there are lines that go up the Vertical of the door so that you can identify if someone robs or whatever how tall they were.
No, it really is like a, yeah, holy isn't that crazy?
Smokes.
It's how you identify, so you can get like a, what's that called?
Suspect description.
Oh, suspect, suspect description.
They just had three children robbed a bank.
Oh, good for them.
Good for them.
Yeah, Houston's little rascals.
You're joking.
Three Texas juveniles dubbed the little rascals, age 11, 12, and 16, accused of bank robbery.
The boys allegedly walked into a bank and showed a threatening letter to the teller before fleeing on foot with an undisclosed amount of cash.
Wow.
It sounds like there are bank robbers.
The FBI has arrested three minors in connection with a bank robbery in Houston, and they have been dubbed the little rascals.
Love it.
You know, the 16-year-old is like the ringleader, and the other two are like, yeah, bush.
Yeah, we'll do it.
Yeah, we gotta.
Yeah, boys.
Yeah, when we doing it, huh?
And they're like, oh, we doing it next week.
But then the day came and like, oh, I thought we was just getting some candy or something.
Bush, I don't know about all of this.
Yeah.
Oh, wait, a little.
But here's what has happened now.
It's like you do a crime.
You get somebody to write an article.
And now you are a, now they're going on tour.
They are going to fucking.
They're on the billboard top 100 right now.
They'll have a song out in two months.
Featuring Fred again.
Yeah, yeah.
The little rascals.
Good for them.
Yeah, and that's so interesting to write a letter.
What would you put on a letter?
Oh, I remember, dude, one time I was trying to flirt with the girl at the bank.
And so I wrote this note that said what?
It was like, hey, great to see you today at the bank.
I've seen you before.
At the bank.
Would love to connect sometimes.
So I'm walking over and I slide it into the dish and you can see immediately like people are not are like, this is a robbery.
Yeah.
You know, tactic.
Yeah.
And one of the managers came and got it.
And yeah, she couldn't go to that branch anymore.
Banned from the facility.
It was just shamed.
Man.
Oh, you mean like you personally couldn't, you wouldn't go there anymore.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Sorry.
I wouldn't go anymore.
Yeah.
I thought she embarrassed you.
They went ahead and walked you out of that building.
No, I knew.
The second I'm sliding under, I realized, oh, I see what's going on here.
Yeah.
I'm sorry.
Right.
They think I'm a robber, and it's just very scary to them.
Yeah.
That's the plight of being a man, huh?
All you want is just some love.
And they're like, get them.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Feel sorry for you guys.
I wonder if it is.
You guys have it so rough.
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Who is, there was an article I saw, some lady just had, there was a lady who said she was too pretty.
Can you look that up?
You see this?
She's too pretty.
So she was going to shave her head.
There you go.
Isa Gonzalez claims she missed out on the movie rolls because she's too pretty.
Oh, God bless her.
And thought about shaving her head to make herself less attractive.
I remember being told for so many projects, she's too pretty for the role.
She's too hot for the role.
Then I'd just be like, what is Margo Rubby?
She's the hottest, beautiful woman ever I've seen in my life.
Even though she doesn't believe any of this is really about her.
I had an identity crisis for so long time, she says.
I was like, do I shave my grammar to make it more racist?
Do I, what did she offer to do?
Change her grammar?
I said, you're changing the grammar to make it more racist.
Oh, am I?
I don't think it's racist.
The lady.
It's a perfectly beautiful English sentence and you're like skipping words because she's Latina.
Oh, no, I'm trying to make it so it makes sense to people.
Right.
Do I make, because I feel like if you just say it like a white person, do I make myself less attractive?
But if I'm like, do I make, it gives it like the picture.
I can see it coming from her.
Do I make myself less attractive?
There you go.
Okay.
That's wild, though, huh?
That is a problem I never have had to think about.
I'll be totally for real with you.
She is beautiful.
I know.
She looks very nice.
Did you – yeah, what were you – yeah, did you have thoughts like that growing up?
I remember like – No.
I had thoughts like I was, yeah, just always was like worried about how I look or just felt.
Anything that I could feel bad about, I would find a way to feel bad about it.
Oh, yeah.
You know?
Yeah.
You ever do the thing when you, I mean, now that like fame, you ever look for it online?
You seek it out?
Seek out.
Like hate or people talking about you in a negative way.
Sometimes you see stuff and sometimes it's so accurate, it's fucking makes you laugh or it's like, yeah, that's real.
Damn.
Sometimes you're like, oh.
But I have like, what do I have?
I have like paranoia a lot of times, you know, like I'm, I get paranoid about my hair a lot of times.
My body, sometimes the way my body was shaped.
I think you're beautiful the way you are.
Thanks.
Just trying to think of things that people think.
I guess everybody has like things, huh?
Yeah, I was always told I looked like the yellow Eminem.
Which one was she?
We pull up.
It's a he.
It is a man.
Oh, well.
Go ahead and pull up yellow.
Put him in spam a lot.
That's all I'm telling you.
He would kill in spam a lot.
Cast that guy.
Oh, wow.
I think he has nice legs.
Thank you so much.
I see that.
I think that is the ideal body type.
Yeah, that look.
It's where we're all headed, I feel like.
Circular.
Yeah, I got the yellow M ⁇ M a lot, and I got Mr. Incredible.
Katy Perry, I see some.
I get Kitty Perry.
I get Adele sometimes.
That's when people are feeling nice.
Oh, I see that.
When they're trying to, like, get me.
I'm like, fuck.
Yeah.
Yellow M ⁇ M is pretty funny.
I can't argue yellow Minimum.
Oh, yellow.
If something's funny, it's great.
You have to, if you think things, if you like to be funny and something is funny, it wins.
Yeah.
Whoever commented that on my shit, you won.
It always wins.
Yeah.
You look like Morgan Wallen, too.
I look like Morgan Wallows in mud.
I used to have this joke.
I would say, I look like somebody that looks like they might have matches on them.
And I always thought that that was a fair description.
Yeah, that's so specific.
You look like Morgan Waluigi.
I don't even know who that is.
That makes me laugh.
Look up Mario and Waluigi.
Oh, yeah.
He's like the evil one.
Oh, yeah.
He's the evil version of Luigi.
Oh, okay.
You're the evil version of Morgan Wallen.
Oh, okay.
I'll take it.
Unless Morgan Wallen's also evil.
I think he's probably not.
This to say.
Yeah, we had, I'm trying to think of any other draw, like when I was a kid.
Oh, we did the vampire thing one time, Dracula we had to do.
A play.
It was fun.
And it was always in theater class, you were always around some of the kids who were probably gay or closeted too.
Sure, yeah.
So it was just interesting, you know, because you always like, but you knew those, you got like kind of close with those guys.
Some of the funniest people you'll ever meet.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
But at that time, it wasn't like, like when I was in high school, it wasn't people wouldn't really say if they were gay.
So I think back then you would kind of, you got to be around like some of the kids or just kids that were like maybe questioned or something.
But theater was always like kind of like a hodgepodge group, you know?
It was always kind of the misfit.
Absolutely.
Was it the misfits?
Yeah.
And it was the kids who got kicked out of band.
You know how fucking weird you have to be to be kicked out of band?
Man, the freak weirdos.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, that was my, my theater group in high school was like some of the weirdest fucking people I've ever met to this day.
Wow.
Like as a child, I remember being like, you're weird.
And as an adult, I'm like, God.
And they, and they, it's sad too, because it's like, what did you end up doing with your life?
Usually not much.
You know, those kids, you mean?
Yeah.
I don't know.
We had, it was also, we had guys like that low-key could sing, but didn't want to admit, were like afraid to sing in front of other guys.
So it was always that, that crazy night at school where you were like, we have a chorus, like, or a choir or whatever.
Like, you had no clue you had a choir or a chorus.
And then it was like one, one week at school when you were a junior, somebody's like, the chorus is going to perform.
And everybody was dressed like they worked at a Chinese restaurant.
And they would come out and fucking sing.
You're like, Ricky sings.
And it's beautiful.
It's fucking beautiful.
And then you would see on the next day, he would act like he had never done it, dude.
That's the thing.
You got to act like he's not a star.
Yes.
Yes.
Like you didn't have American Idol at all.
That's a great point.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They had like, yeah, I remember this one kid named, I don't even know what his name.
I don't even know if he had a fucking name.
It was like Caramel or something.
And he sang Jewel.
Like the singer Jewel?
Yes.
And people didn't know what to do.
And the curtain closed and the world had changed.
People were like, fucking Caramel did.
It's never the same.
Yeah, it never was the same.
And yeah, you saw him and you were like, God, that guy, I didn't know.
Yeah.
And you never would have known.
Yeah.
That's the beauty.
I think.
That is cool.
That's a talent.
That's a talent show time of year.
Yes.
When that happened.
Did you ever do the talent show?
Yeah, I MC'd it one time.
You DJ.
Yeah.
Oh, no, you like hosted it.
Yeah, just like the hosted it with this funny girl at school named Rebecca.
Did you do stand-up?
No, I did it once I got out of like 24. I think I started doing it.
And it was, yeah.
I mean, stand-ups, yeah, it's been great.
I don't know if I would have found another avenue to be entertaining.
I don't know.
Once I saw stand-up, I was like, oh, I couldn't believe it was a real job.
Period.
Yeah.
You were like, I remember in college, we won tickets.
They would always call you every day.
I'm like, you won tickets.
To what?
Every day.
That's right.
And usually we would just hang up or somebody would call them a name and then hang up.
And then one day we're like, we'll go.
And it was to a comedy show.
I don't remember when we got there and we knew what it was going to be.
But sometimes until you see something, you don't really know what it is.
Like the Blue Man Group.
Yeah.
You don't really know what it is until you see it.
Yeah, did you go?
I love the Blue Man Group.
Oh, is it good?
Yeah.
You've never been?
We'll go there after we go to an A ⁇ M game.
Okay.
Sorry, continue.
No, no, no.
Hell yeah.
Oh, wow.
Could you pull up a video for Theo?
Yeah, you know what?
I have no concept of what this is.
It's going to be like Shang Yun or whatever.
It's going to change.
What are you going to say?
I was going to say Shen Yun.
Every.
Oh, definitely, huh?
This could literally also be a political national convention.
Just say that.
Like, I would not be surprised.
This is what I imagine they were doing at Jonestown.
Like, in Jonestown, I don't know what was going on, but.
Fast forward where they get to the paint.
They'll put neon paint.
This is rufous to soul.
They put paint on themselves.
They'll put paint on the instruments.
Oh.
And then they turn a black light on and they'll play the drums and it goes everywhere.
I had no idea they even did music.
I thought that they ran around and kind of hid from each other.
Okay.
Like I literally, that's what I thought Blue Man Group did.
This is crazy.
If you would take in this style, I would be like, no way, this is Blue Man Group.
Wow.
Yeah, I saw it in Vegas with my fed.
Think about this.
I took a family trip to Vegas with my family at the ripe age of 15. And we saw the what is that trip like for a girl?
Because a lot of girls go on this trip with their family to Vegas at that cuspy age of like.
Yeah.
Like I'm reading One Direction fan fiction, but also like I'm afraid of men.
Yeah.
It was terrifying, but it was it was a lot of fun.
And I thought the Bellagio was the nicest place on earth.
Because it is.
I like it.
I really like it.
I like the Bellagio.
Where do you stay when you go to Vegas?
Oh, God.
I stay last time I went, I stayed at the Wynn.
The Wynn's nice.
Because that's where I think I had a show at, and I really liked it.
My friend Jasmine works over there.
Okay, cool.
You had a little hookup.
So a couple friends that work there.
I just did the people that I see and I see them repeatedly and I feel more at home.
Okay, period.
Yeah, I like the Bellagio.
It makes me feel like I'm in Italy.
Yeah.
That's for people who have never been out of the country.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
I remember the first time that we went to Rainforest Cafe.
Oh, that's a great example.
I used to take my girl there all the time.
It's a nice facility.
Facility.
Well, I kept promising her I was going to take her to like, we were going to do like a Caribbean cruise and fucking.
It's just Rainforest Cafe.
I mean, yeah, I would hope like sublimely it would help our relationship, I guess.
Or like she would remember like, oh yeah, we're going to do that one day, you know?
And we didn't.
Never did.
There's nothing more romantic than going to a place where children are running around at your feet, you know?
Screaming kids.
Yeah.
Throwing poop like monkeys.
Yeah.
What?
What's up?
Oh, you were in a very realistic rainforest, Castle.
Yeah, yeah.
I don't know about the one you were going to.
You ever been to...
You haven't interviewed Post Malone?
No.
Really?
I would love to.
I've met Post Malone one time.
He was getting along.
Yeah.
You've interviewed him?
I've not interviewed him, but I've met, he's a sweetie.
I mean, and he's from where I'm from in, well, kind of.
He's from Grapevine, Texas, which is in the Dallas, like metropolitan area.
And I used to go to the Grapevine Mills Mall, and there's a rainforest cafe there.
And I did one time witness a toddler someone had left on the floor unattended.
And they had taken off their diaper and were going to play with the poop.
That was what.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, it's B-Y-O-B there.
I feel like for a kid, there's no other.
Yeah, you don't fucking, I'm not showing up in a rainforest with an empty diaper, dude.
I'm not just a child.
Well, I'm not showing up in a rainforest and just playing with something strange, you know?
I brought my own toys.
Yeah, yeah, I brought my own toys, man.
Dude, we had the first time I ever learned about like theater and stuff, I never really thought about this, but we, in the apartment down from us, they had a married couple, right?
And they were, I believe they were gay.
Okay.
But both of them would always, when I was, when one of them wasn't there, when the wife wasn't there, the husband wasn't there, I would always sit there with their son.
And the son, now I know something was probably wrong with him.
At the time, I just thought he just was kind of complacent.
Okay.
And the other parent would always complain about the other one, but it would always be that like they, you know, like everything they complained about, it was always just like, well, that's what a husband is, or that's what a wife.
You don't like that he's got a penis.
Yeah.
It would be like, yeah, like, well, I wish she used a comb, you know, and it'd be like, well, then that's, you can't be upset.
But they would both play, watch musicals all the time on television.
Interesting.
And I would always watch like, yeah, there would be like newsies, different stuff like that, different theater stuff.
Okay.
So it was the first time I'd ever saw that stuff, I remember.
That's crazy.
And then I dated a girl that worked at a Renaissance fair for a little while.
Oh, that's fun.
I love a Ren Fest.
Did you ever, were you a competitor?
What are they called?
No.
Performer?
Performer, yeah.
No, I wasn't, but I did enjoy.
I love Game of Thrones.
I'm a big G-O-T fan.
Yeah, I've seen some of your, you have a lot of references that.
Yeah.
Well, I've got a show that we're trying to do.
A Royal.
Yeah, I've got Royal Court.
Royal Court.
Got a bunch of, would love to have you on.
Yeah, is it for Do Guests Come on?
I haven't seen it.
Yeah, it's a celebrity interview show that we write the show around them.
You should have Druski on.
We're trying to get Druski on.
And he's just the busiest motherfucker alive.
That's true.
And he rolls with like 45 people with him.
So we're trying to get him.
We had to get him a bunch of sausages and stuff when it was coming.
So what do you mean by that?
Just food items.
Oh, okay.
Some people want certain stuff.
The writer is just full of Jimmy Dean sausages.
Yeah, I mean, they wanted sausages.
Hell yeah.
I know I respect it.
Can't hate it.
Pretty good.
Yeah, we're trying to get Druski on.
We'd love to have you on.
Thank you.
Backtrack, Ren Fest.
I've only been to a Renfest.
I've never performed there, but I imagine that that is crazy.
Because you know how at a bar all the bartenders usually are having relations with each other?
Yes.
RenFest is worse.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, the girl that I was dating, she Ended up leaving me for a guy who was a did the horseshoes or whatever.
And it's called cost them or cleaned them.
Yeah, a farrier, the guy who re-puts them on.
How do you spell that?
Farrier?
Farrier.
I watch a lot of those videos.
I love those.
Sometimes it makes me feel weird, though.
Sometimes it's like, hey, guy.
They'll get too deep in there.
I did not know that was the word for it.
A farrier is a specialist in equine hoof care, including the trimming and balancing of horses' hooves and the placing of shoes on their hooves, if necessary.
My sister married the son of a farrier.
Ferrier.
Yeah.
Farrier.
Sweet talking son of a Ferrier.
Preacher man.
Yeah, it makes me feel a little weird when they get way too deep in there because it's, I don't know if it's bone and I don't know if it's, is it like what our nails are made of?
Right.
You don't know and you're like, hey, and the horse doesn't have, you almost want the horse to have like a person next to it who speaks horse.
Right.
Who can be like, that's far enough.
Yeah.
Time.
But yeah, the girl I dated, she was like a little, yeah, Renaissance Fair.
It's home of the white tit.
It's home of the mammary.
Oh, the girl I dated.
Mammary land.
She was just a beautiful little boiled egg of a lady and I. And we, because it was more of a Rubin-esque woman's world because the skinny girls, it would make them all be in like the malaria area or whatever.
The plague plate.
Like the skins coming off or whatever.
Dryas is tent.
Yeah.
Yeah.
If you had like noted, you were in like the scurvy stable or whatever.
Yeah.
You'd have a pile of three tree people.
You're going to be dead body number four in the pile.
That's what they would do.
You have to be well endowed to work at the Ren Fest.
Oh, she was a fucking little one.
Oh, my God.
That is crazy.
That is crazy.
And I love the dress, too.
I mean, like, boob aside.
I agree.
It's just beautiful period pieces.
A lot of people by us would do Civil War reenactments, Renaissance fairs.
It's where like, yeah, a lot of children could get work.
Chimney sweeps.
I don't know.
I was thinking like work for you.
Yeah, dude, that Renaissance fair shit, that shit was fucking.
And then I remember she actually auditioned years later because she stuck with it for like six or seven years.
She got really into it.
Yeah, it's a lifestyle.
Yeah, I guess so.
Because she even flew to Dallas to audition for Medieval Times or whatever.
Love Medieval Times.
And didn't get it.
How do you get rejected from Medieval Times?
I don't know.
I guess it's tough to get in.
There's only one woman slot, by the way.
It's the Queen.
Medieval Times is a sausage fest.
Oh, that must be why.
It's all the Knights.
I don't know.
Yeah, look up the Dallas Medieval Times.
See how many stars it has.
I've frequented that many a time.
Really?
Yeah.
Oh, you know what I'm talking about?
Yeah.
I used to live in Louisville, Texas, which is in Dallas.
4.7.
We know about that.
If people don't know what Medieval Times is, you've been, right?
Yeah.
Okay.
It's a dinner theater.
Yes.
That is in the middle is a big sand pit where it's literally they'll do equine jousting.
They'll do hand-to-hand combat.
It's crazy.
And then each like section of this big auditorium is like you get a color and you cheer for your night.
You cheer for your color.
The bad part that happens is people start abusing drugs usually in the evening and that somebody gets too fucking crazy.
When you fall into the horse pit.
There's a lot going on.
I mean, you're sitting there.
You're supposed to be like this fine dining experience.
The animals, you know, it's some people, they don't want to be around it.
Then don't go is what I would say.
That's true.
More for us.
There's a part, which I don't know if you remember this, with the falcon.
They do a, you remember this?
There's a guy that comes out and they're like, the royal bird whisperer.
And they come out and it's that guy with the glove and the falcon.
Yeah, I think the bird was off when I went.
Oh, he was off duty.
Or it might have been an off week.
Oh, there he is.
Here we go.
Oh, yeah.
And this guy, oh, I think maybe I have then.
But this thing will eat a bread off someone's plate.
Sometimes, yeah.
I mean, you're fucking with nature here.
You know what I mean?
Look, and he'll send him around.
He flies through the whole stadium.
Oh, that thing will fucking steal a sister's wig out there.
It'll steal a small child.
Happy second birthday to Amelia.
It's got Amelia and it's Clinton.
It's just real unfortunate.
I love medieval times.
It's one of my favorite places on earth.
I think it's one of the best things that America's come up with.
Yeah, you know, there's not as much dinner, uh...
Theater, I feel like, as there used to be, probably.
Yeah, I still live in Nashville.
Oh, that's right.
Yeah, I thought you moved to Austin.
I'm going to move tomorrow.
No?
I think about it sometimes.
Just, yeah, I think about it.
Do you remember I met you in Nashville?
Oh, my God.
I should have had the picture pulled up.
I met you.
I think it's in the gulch at that breakfast spot.
Hold on.
No, let me think for a second.
We can put the picture in later.
Yeah, I'll send you the picture.
Okay.
I saw you come into this place and I was there with my friend Forrest and I go, I think that's the Yvonne.
And you walked in, you're just getting breakfast.
And he was like, holy shit, it is.
And we sat there and we were like, do we bother him?
Oh, wait, I do it, Fenwick's.
Is that what it's called?
Bring up Fenwick's.
It's like a breakfast spa.
Yeah.
And you go up to the counter and order and then you go sit down.
Oh.
Is it look?
Let me see the inside.
I should have had the picture locked and loaded to show you.
Yeah, I don't think that that's it.
No, that's not it.
Anyway, I met you in 2021 before any of this kind of like happened for me.
Crazy.
Wow.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Anyway, I was going to say dinner theater.
Dolly's got her thing there in Nashville.
In Pigeon Forge, has a dinner theater?
Yeah, my sister went to Pigeon Forge for her anniversary.
Oh, fun!
Um, I gotta get spend some time over there, I haven't spent that much time over there.
Um, so yeah, what's it like for you?
Because you weren't a comedian then, not really, I was a tick tocker, right?
But I wonder if that's just the new, like, you know, something's happening in comedy right now, too, where there's a lot of videos that are being put up are crowd work.
Yes.
And it's not like a lot of material.
There's people doing crowd work tours.
That's crazy.
It's crazy, right?
Like, it's really, because it just makes me think like, and I'm not judging it.
I'm just looking at it.
Right.
And then like, are we getting to the point where like things are liquidating kind of where it's like, you don't need material anymore?
But, cause I, I, I hear from some people it's like, oh, I'm tired of seeing crowd work.
And it's like, well, but that's also a masterful art, you know, if you can do it well.
It's done right.
A lot of the crowd work I see on TikTok is like, what do you do?
Bro's a banker.
Yeah.
And that's the joke.
What are you talking about?
What's funny?
Like, I don't, you know what I mean?
Yeah.
But it is interesting.
I had a guy say the other day, he's like, you know, one guy, I love him, but he doesn't post anything with any material anymore.
It's just, but then also it's like you have to save your material for when people come out to see your live show.
Yeah, like when you go on Fallon or whatever and you have to burn bits, it's like, I guess that's part of it.
But how else are you going to get people to want to come?
You know, like, I don't know, it's a difficult thing, but at the same time, if you're talking about someone like a Matt Reif, where it's like you're doing crowd work, but half of the gag is that like people want you.
And I mean, he's fallen from grace now totally.
Has he?
Oh, absolutely.
Oh my God, did you miss all this?
No, I know that people accused him of something, but that seemed extra.
That seemed ridiculous to me, kind of.
His whole comedy special was basically him saying, I don't like having a primarily female audience.
I want dudes to like my comedy.
And the whole like 30 minutes of his special are like, I hate women.
Like, I fucking, don't you hate it when bitches, like, it's horrible.
Oh, I didn't know that.
Why would you alienate your audience like that?
And that's what I think happens when it's like you got famous from your crowd work and people liked you and women liked you.
Why would you alienate the women?
Yeah.
They're the ones that like really support you.
They buy merch.
They show up to the meet and greet.
You know, they, I don't know.
It was sad.
Oh, that's interesting.
I didn't know that.
Is that a thing that people are, is that like, is this a thing going on, Nick?
Look, he called his fucking thing problematic.
Like he's making a joke out of it.
Is he topless?
Oh, yeah.
Wow.
He's nips out.
I didn't know that there had been this fall from grace.
It's bad.
Oh, gosh.
And to do that whole sort of rampage of like, I want men to think I'm funny.
Well, they don't, brother.
So what, what now?
You know what I mean?
You lost your woman audience and your man audience.
But he's still selling out dates.
So I don't know.
Maybe it's.
So then did he really then?
Right.
How effective is canceling?
Right.
Oh, I don't think I think the best thing you can probably do is get canceled if it's for something that really means something to you.
But if it's just somebody writing an article on some.
But yeah, I don't know.
I didn't see the special.
I didn't either.
Oh, you didn't even see it?
I saw clips.
I saw the first five minutes.
No, I didn't watch the full thing because I was like, this isn't funny.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, it's not.
I'm not rocking with it.
Well, I feel like we should see.
I'll have to see it.
But I didn't know that there was this fall from grace in the, like in the why is Matt Reif turned against his female audience?
If you've been on TikTok, you probably had Matt Reif pushed on you.
But it's just people found him that he's entertaining.
There's a lot of entertaining stuff, man.
He's got a lot of great stuff.
Oh, that's the whole thing.
It's like we're all entertainers, you know, and I think it's just about highlighting people who are genuinely very funny and very original and very creative and like should have a Netflix special.
You know, if your whole thing is predicated on controversy, boring, don't care.
You know, like, I want to tell me a joke.
Right.
Yeah, that's interesting.
I think, is there a lot of, like some people, it feels like they create, it's more about, I'm trying to think of people that it's more about controversy.
Like, what does that mean when you say that kind of?
Well, for him, I mean, coming off of all the drama on TikTok, that was when he was like, and I'm, here's my special.
Oh, I see what you're saying.
I did, yeah, I missed, I think, a lot of that boat.
I just knew that he was just on tour and that the ladies loved him.
And we were talking like five months ago, I remember talking about how he was like, there's not a ton of like that handsome of a guy who gets to also do comedy.
It kind of works against you in comedy.
Oh, God.
Being hot.
Yeah.
Does it help you out?
I needed you to look over at me.
So if I'd have fucking just had a fucking, oh, God, if my mother would have fucked somebody with some cheekbones, I wouldn't even fucking worry about this shit.
If she'd have fucked one guy with a dimple in our town.
Please.
Yeah.
And look, I know that guy didn't have dimples.
I know it was an incident with a fucking can opener, but still, mom, bang that guy.
Yeah.
Oh.
But no, I didn't know that that.
I didn't know that Matt had had that fall from grace.
But I guess if he's still selling out, does he even care what's even going on?
That's the thing, which is just like, what are we even talking about?
Because evidently it just doesn't fucking matter because he's going to make money regardless.
I do think that TikTok has become a breeding ground for like, it's very democratic in nature, you know, of like comics that probably never would have gotten discovered are having a renaissance.
So it's a really cool thing, too.
And it's also cool for yeah, I mean, a lot of people find you and me on there.
Exactly, where they never would have found us before.
And also, I mean, I have such a different path than you of like, I have no interest in stand-up, but I like, obviously, this sort of setting.
And like, I'm, I'm, I would say I'm well endowed comedically, probably, thanks to my dad, but I, I don't want to take it on tour or anything like that.
So what do you do?
And you do the internet and you can do it, you know?
But don't you think eventually you, that, that could evolve where you may want to?
Yeah.
You know?
Yeah.
And not, and, And not to even like, you know, I respect totally what you're thinking, but I've thought about that too.
It's like, I'm always somebody I never wanted, I'm always like, nah, I won't do that.
And then a lot of times I end up being like, oh, yeah, this is okay.
Yeah.
You got to force me to do it.
And then I'll be like, it's kind of fun.
Yeah.
I'm worried.
Yeah, I'm worried about that when it comes to standout because I feel like once I start, I can't stop.
It's going to be addicting.
Oh, start doing it?
Yeah.
I can't bomb, though.
I'll kill myself.
Spit.
Oh, the spit I don't care about.
It's the death.
It's fucking someone losing their life not to opiates in America.
If I bomb, I'll kill myself.
Oh.
At least once.
Oh, well, then you're going to need some extra lives, dude.
The craziest part, dude, I remember one time just bombing so hard.
What do you do?
Your whole, well, my brain was like, I'm not staying here and hanging out with you.
My brain like left in like the back of my body.
And then I just remember like a bunch of sweat started pouring down my throat, which had never happened, right?
Like you can sweat inside your body.
And I was like, oh, this is going so bad.
And I still have like 20 minutes left.
Fuck me.
It hurts so bad.
It hurts so bad, man.
Is that, do you think it was a combo of material wasn't strong enough, audience blue ass?
What happened?
Oh, it was, I had to perform at a college.
It was lunchtime right after lunch.
It was a lot of like derelict children who, it's the kids who would be, come to that thing.
It's like, yeah, I'm in college.
I could be playing video games or just laying in my bed, touching my beautiful young body.
But instead, I'm going to walk.
Instead, I'm going to walk over to the student union because I saw a flyer up somewhere.
Let me go see this redneck.
Tell me a joke.
So first of all, it's complete derelicts who would even do that, right?
Or adventurous people or people that came strictly to fucking judge you and ruin your day.
so that's like You have or you haven't?
I've done one stand-up set.
Did people know you were going to be there?
It was at this like, my friend's doing a thing at his house, like one of those things.
And it was 22 comics on February 2nd of 2022.
It was like saying Grandhog's Day.
Exactly.
St. Patrick's.
Actually, I think it was on 9-11.
February 22nd.
Yes, 9-11.
Grandhog, baby, that forgetful venison they call it in some cultures.
Vermin.
Yeah.
That is crazy.
That's an American tradition only, right?
Can you look up the history of Groundhog Day?
Well, the natives probably had something to do with it, I would guess.
And shout out to the natives and sorry about everything, but I believe that they had a lot to do with it, dude.
The Groundhog.
Who's going to fucking look at a Groundhog?
Some perv, probably.
Some perv that was like, and if he comes out of that hole and goes back in the hole.
Hey, look, I ain't tell you nothing, but I believe this animal's got a little thing.
Okay, so if he comes out, he got a thing on him.
What does it say?
Go back to it.
Groundhog's Day.
The Pennsylvania Dutch were immigrants from German-speaking areas of Europe.
The Germans had a tradition of marking February 2nd as Badger Day.
Candlemas?
Of marking Candelmus, which is February 2nd as Badger Day, Dockstag, on which if a badger emerging from its den encountered a sunny day, thereby casting a shadow, it heralded four more weeks of winter.
Wow.
So it's a badger.
We got it wrong.
Also, where the fuck does that even come from?
I'm even more confused.
Candlemas is a Western Christian festival observed in the Roman Catholic and Lutheran churches.
In folk religion, various superstitions continue to be linked with the holiday of Punxitani beginnings.
The first reported news of a Grand Hog Day observance was arguably made by the Punxitani Spirit newspaper of Punxatani PA in 1886.
Up to the time of going to press, the beast had not seen its shadow.
God, first of all.
The mark of the beast.
First of all, this is how they think of us entertainers.
This animal's coming to fucking entertain you.
And they saying, oh, this beast ain't even showed off yet.
It just goes to show you.
It's call time.
It goes to show the pains you even have to go through to win over an audience.
However, it was not until the following year in 1887 the first Grand Ogle considered official was commemorated there with a group making a trip to the Gobbler's Knob part of town.
Okay.
Okay, okay.
So I'm not saying it was a little.
This is a real fella's hanging, I bet.
People have gathered annually at the spot for the event ever since.
I would like to go to that one day.
We could add it to our list of things to do.
It's on the to-do list when we do our Great American Road Trip.
Yeah.
That'll be a real beautiful time.
I think that would be really nice.
You think he's still alive?
That guy right there?
Yeah, I'm sure.
The marmot.
Oh, that animal?
Yeah.
He looks chill, huh?
He looks like, let me do another take.
You got it wrong?
Dude, if you've been in there all year, what did you come out and just fuck it up?
That's so embarrassing.
He bombs.
You're like, I got the news wrong.
Yeah.
He comes out of the hole and the little turd comes out and he's real embarrassed.
Let's go do it again.
He's kicking it back in with his foot.
He stepped in it.
What do you think about the TikTok ban?
Did you see it?
Yeah, I've, here's the thing.
Just do it.
Like, I'm tired of this edging.
We're going to do it.
Oh, we're not going to do it.
I think that it's a red herring for, oh, you really want to ban an app during an election year, you know, where arguably, like, it's a very democratic app in nature, but I think that the Timing is intentional.
Oh, you do.
So you think, because who passed it, that Congress or the representatives?
TikTok, Congress years-long case against Byte Dance.
It was 50 to zero that they're passing this shit along.
What are you saying, Zach?
It was both sides, and it was Congress.
Oh, wait, both, but it hasn't passed the Senate yet.
But Biden promised to sign it if it hits his desk.
So the House of Representatives, the House Committee voted unanimously last week to advance bipartisan legislation that would force ByteDance.
That's the Chinese ownership, right?
To divest its TikTok ownership within 165 days.
I think it's just a shame because TikTok, we've seen it's just, it's launched so many businesses and it's a way to share information and it's a way that, I mean, not to get too like socio-political, but like the more we're on social media and the more that we don't like interact with each other, we've lost the concept of third places, you know, like public parks and coffee shops where we can go to talk to each other.
TikTok is that third place.
When you ban that, was it people are going to go to Facebook?
You know, and it's like you can't really have a community.
It's just sad, you know, like we found a way to actually connect with each other and see cultures and things that we never probably would have seen.
And now we're going to ban it because why?
Because of security and privacy.
Brother, my social security number and parents' address has been on the internet for years.
Yeah.
You know, like our credit cards are there.
What are we actually talking about?
Well, yeah, that's part of it.
I agree.
Like, why you don't think there's so many other sites that have our information?
I don't trust Facebook and Instagram to have our information just as much as I don't trust a different company.
But they're saying since this is a Chinese company that some of the argument is that China would never allow us to have a company over there.
But I'm more scared of our information already being completely monopolized.
Exactly.
And if it's not bite dance, it's going to be, you know, name the winner.
It's just forcing someone to own it.
And I think there's a lot of people that say they don't want like or there's a theory out there that they don't want information like from Israel, Palestine, from like the war, like that kind of stuff.
Like, you know, censorship for sure.
They want censorship.
And people want to be able to have there be like a big three who owns what you can see.
You can control it.
And so this is something different.
So that almost makes me feel like that could be the reason, you know?
It's overall just very sad.
And it's launched so many careers for so many people.
And it's, I think, been an overall net positive for, I don't know, my life specifically, but also just like, I don't know, it's fun.
Oh, there's no doubt it's fun.
I mean, I find myself getting more, like in my downtime, it's like, it's so interesting because each moment is a new, what is this?
Even if you have your own algorithm, sometimes you forget that you do and you're just like, what is this?
And then sometimes something flies in from like totally out of left field and you're like, wow, that's so, I never would have seen that.
That's interesting.
I didn't know I was rocking with this.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Didn't know I was fucking with it like that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You're like, damn, I didn't fucking know I was like that.
I discovered Caleb Presley on TikTok.
Really?
Yeah.
He had that clip go viral with Post Malone, actually, where he was like, always tired of being a Cowboys fan.
And I was like, that's hilarious.
Who is this guy?
I need him.
What do you say?
That's a gift.
People who say he's so funny, man.
That's a good impression.
He's a wonderful guy.
I feel lucky to know him.
Yeah, it's so funny.
Like, yeah, some of the people you'll get to meet or know, that's true.
Yeah, all the friendships you made.
It's also as what we do, where we make content online, that's a major platform going away that you can't promote on, you know?
Well, yeah, I mean, it would be, it would be really a travesty.
Then you would really have to go through like, it just, yeah, I wonder if there's more to it.
Because I just feel like China has as much of our information as they want.
That's a done deal at this point.
It's like everybody goes to Timu or something.
Everybody's buying like shovels or whatever or whatever they're getting.
You know, they're buying shovels, rope, duct tape, whatever.
I'm just spitballing here.
Frigid heirs.
Do you like living here in LA?
How long have you lived here for?
I moved from Dallas in like early 2020, right before.
The pandy?
The pandy.
So I was paying LA prices to not enjoy LA, which was so much fun.
It's all right.
I like it.
I think it was culture shock for me at first.
I don't know if you experienced that too.
Like being from the South, I was like, you bitches are weird out here.
Well, there's fast.
There's so much going on.
There's people on bikes and stuff, and you just don't know what's going on.
Yeah, those scooters.
Well, yeah, there's just so many little, there's like, there's a lot, there's just a lot more happening.
Yeah.
It's a lot busier.
Like even when I go back to Nashville, like it's just, it's another feels like when you're there, it's like, I got to go get my kids from school.
Yes.
You know, like you're hanging out with celebrities and it's like, I got to go.
It's 3.30.
And I'm like, damn, y'all have real lives here.
Here doesn't, it feels like a different planet.
You know, it's like not, especially in entertainment.
It's like, I don't know what we're all just tweaking.
It's not real.
Yeah.
It doesn't see.
Yeah.
You're like, what is going on?
And I just wonder what it's like now if you don't have comedy.
Well, I guess now you started your podcast.
Like if you don't have the stage.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's just interesting to see like, is the stage and doing stand-up still a viable way where people feel like they can get an audience?
It's probably changed.
It definitely has.
I mean, especially when you talk about selling tickets.
How do you get people to care?
You know, right, they have to see, right?
So you have to be able to have stand-up and then, or have some sort of a live show that's good and then also have people see you.
Yeah, have the discoverability.
Because on Instagram, it's like you can't people who follow you will see your tour dates.
If they don't follow you, who gives a fuck?
You know, they don't know about you.
So it's like that, that's the beauty of TikTok is that it's anything can go on anyone's for you page.
And that's going to go away, maybe.
So, I mean, that sucks.
But YouTube, there will, a competitor will rise.
You know, when Reels came out on Instagram or YouTube Shorts now, where people just need short form content, someone or maybe a new app.
I'm hoping for a new app, but we'll see.
Yeah.
Yeah, it always evolves.
What else do we have in the news, Nick?
Anything else?
A sons of OnlyFans model admits he films her content for her.
No.
Son of OnlyFans model admits he films her content for her.
Wow.
While most teenage sons can't be bothered unloading the dishwasher for their mothers, this one goes above and beyond.
Oh, I don't like that.
Andresa Urach is a successful OnlyFans content creator and boasts over 3 million followers on Instagram.
Wow.
That's really all you had to share with us?
That was the best of the best you had to share.
Wow.
Arthur is the one who does it.
man, I mean, but it was, hey, it's he's.
Do you think he gets a cut?
I mean, he used to live in there.
So I'm not saying that makes it fair, but it's like.
What's that Miranda Lambert song?
You know, The House that you built me.
Yeah.
The house that, you know, they say you can't go home again.
Yep.
Yeah.
I just had to come back.
One last time.
Wow.
Ma'am, I know.
You don't know me for me.
You like Tyler Childers?
But these handprints on the front steps are mine.
This is what, yeah, if you're filming your mother's vagina, this has a hole.
I don't, I think this might be the first time anyone's ever thought about it from that perspective.
What Miranda was doing when she wrote that.
Well, I'm just saying it has like, yeah.
But is it getting to that where people don't have jobs anymore and they're like, everybody is, you know, you have somebody driving DoorDash and filming their gun at the same time just to make.
Ends meet.
Seriously, you start to wonder if that's if people keep losing jobs, is that how dystopian it ends up, you know, because then what, Brittany?
Oh, then what is I think at some point we're all just going to have to sell post-pics, even men.
You got to figure out a way to sell post-pics.
I think you'd fold your nuts into something kind of romantic or something, you know?
I don't know what you would do.
Origami nut.
Or some, you know, a thing.
Wow, that's cool.
Origami nuts, yeah.
Something you'd put on a pillow at a night at a fucking nice hotel.
Right, right.
You know?
Yeah.
A little trinket.
Something you'd set in the, yeah.
On the toilet roll at a nice hotel, you know?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
God.
Man, that's unfortunate.
Any other news?
Sorry, that was a lot.
We'll get you out of here in a few minutes, Brittany.
No, you're good.
Here we go.
Do we have any that aren't fucking life-altering?
Well, this is important.
And I thought since you were an insurance agency, surely you'd understand this.
Taiwan man persuades friend to get legs amputated for $1.3 million.
Now, see, if it wasn't a scam.
If it wasn't a scam, do you think it'd be worth it?
$1.3 million?
Would you do it?
No.
No, I don't think I would.
You think you know somebody that would, though?
You could call.
What if this were that new, like, phone a friend show and it's like...
Sharks, I've got a crazy business proposal for you.
University student?
Oh, he's so young.
Forced himself to have a W invitation after he put his feet in a bucket of drives for more than 10 hours, which caused frostbite.
I was thinking it was going to be more like saw style.
Like someone is there with a comedically large saw.
Oh, yeah.
That's actually...
Claims that on January 26th, scroll up, please, brother.
Zang got frostbite while riding a motorbike with his friend.
That's what they said.
The prosecution said that a few days before the incident, he filed for life, health, and accident insurance.
The sum of the policies was $1.3 million.
He was taken to a nearby hospital where medical personnel thought his wounds were fake.
According to the release, the medical staff reported that although the patient's feet were frostbitten, they were neat and symmetrical.
Oh.
Injuries and no socks or shoe marks.
No fucking way.
So how'd they get the amputation then?
It's nowhere close to freezing.
They're saying he did it to himself.
Oh.
So they're saying he needed the amputation, but he did it to himself.
Oh, also, they said in Taiwan, a subtropical region, cases of severe frostbite requiring amputation are unheard of.
Yeah, that makes total sense.
The plastic bucket that was used to freezing feet, insurance papers, a white polystream box contained dry ice, eight cell phones and electronic devices were discovered by police during their investigation.
So they were running a scam.
Oh, yeah.
If you have eight burners, dude.
Man.
And yeah.
Wow.
That is, I can speak from personal experience.
Insurance companies do not give a shit if you live or die.
Are you serious?
Absolutely.
Like I had, because I worked at a call center for insurance companies.
It was like a brokerage.
And people would call in and they'd be like, I'm in a car wreck.
I'd be like, let me pull up your policy one second.
Put them on hold for 30 minutes.
They'd be like, my leg.
And I'd be like, one second, sir.
Listening to the old music.
And I'm pulling up.
I'm taking a bathroom break.
And I'm like, all right, got your policy right here.
I'm not going to help you.
I'd be like, I just got hit by a semi and my fucking whatever and my dog, my dog was in the, please.
And I'd be like, I would have to pull up their policy and see where they selected.
I don't want that coverage.
And I'd have to be like, are you sitting down?
We cannot help you.
I was like, I'm in a wheelchair.
Now I'm forever sitting down.
I literally had to be like, on this day at this time, and I quote, you said, fuck y'all, I'm not paying for that shit.
I had to quote it back to them and be like, you rejected this coverage.
It's not covered.
I'm so sorry.
Well, what the fuck do I pay for?
Fuck, y'all are scammers.
It's like with insurance, the more you pay for, the more it's worth it.
Because when that shit happens, not that, but like when shit happens, you're going to be thankful that you're paying for it.
And you would have people yell at you.
All day, every day.
And call you names?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
I got called a bitch on the phone more often than not, I would argue.
Yeah.
It was a good time.
We used to get angry voicemails from people and we used to play them for each other and laugh.
Because it was, you have to laugh at a certain point, you know, because it's like, you're mad at the situation, not at me.
I had to realize that because I used to cry.
I used to cry.
Would you?
Yeah, they're so like people are mean.
Oh, yeah.
You know, I used to cry because I was like, I thought they were mad at me.
No, they're mad at themselves for.
Yeah, you fucking give me my money.
Yeah.
Literally, I have gotten that message verbatim.
And I was 21 when I graduated college and I'm sitting there in this desk like, is this the rest of my life?
Is that me with a, thank you for calling Todd Insurance.
And did you have a lunch break too or not?
Yeah, I had a lunch break, but I would always try to go over.
And so at the end of the lunch, I'd be like, I'm going to go take my dump.
And I'd go in the bathroom and I'd hide.
And I'd just be on my phone.
And they'd, oh my God, this company was so micromanagey that I would be in the bathroom.
And it was one of those bathrooms where the lights were like motion activated.
And I would sit in there for so long that they'd go out.
People would come into the bathroom and literally knock on the stall door and be Brittany.
It was awful.
It was awful.
I hated every fucking minute of it.
Dude, one time I was going to do a number two somewhere in Seattle, right?
Poop Capital of America.
Yeah, is it what?
Coffee Capital?
Poop Capital.
Is it?
Well, it's the Coffee Capital, so poop.
Checks out.
Yeah.
And yeah, I went in.
I go in, and when I go, there's a bathroom attendant in there.
There's like a guy working in there, right?
Who's just handing you a paper?
Right.
So I go sit in the stall and the dude comes and knocks on the door.
He was like, don't worry, bro.
I got you, right?
I don't know what he means.
I'm like, what do you mean you fucking, I don't need anything, right?
So now I'm wondering, like, how much does it cost?
Like, was I supposed to pay like a tariff or something?
Like, like, how much does it cost to shit in here for a few minutes, you know, to be in here defecating?
And am I running up a tab?
Now I'm like all concerned, right?
It's an hourly rate.
So then here's what happens.
The guy, somebody else comes in and knocks on the door, right?
They have to use the bathroom.
This guy, the bouncer, the shit bouncer, whatever, starts yelling at the fucking dude knocking on the door.
He's like, hey, leave my boy as is, right?
Well, you mean he was defending you?
He was defending you?
Yeah, the bouncer's like, hey, hey, leave my boy as is, right?
And I'm like, I don't know either one of these guys out here.
But he's riding for you.
Yeah, yeah, that guy's riding for me.
Yeah.
So they actually ended up getting a little bit of altercation, but.
And you're just pants around your ankles.
Yeah, I'm just like, why did I pick this place?
Yeah.
You're whole out.
Yeah.
Oh.
That's, that's, you ever been walked in on while you were shitting?
Like someone opened the door?
I did it at a woman's restaurant the other day.
Apparently it was a gender sex uniform restroom.
And I didn't know.
I mean, I guess I did know.
Yeah, I went in there.
And it's just that it was like at a, in somewhere, and I opened the door and there's a woman sitting right there.
Man.
She'd forgotten to lock the door.
Man.
Well, that's not necessarily your fault.
I mean, that's like, if you're not locking it.
Yeah, I wonder if she likes that.
Probably not.
But what can you do at that point?
You know, it's like, and then you got to stand outside and be like, you done?
She's got to walk by you as you walk by.
That's the weirdest.
No, just leave the restaurant at that point.
Yeah, yeah.
I think that's weird.
If I'm in the bathroom, so I won't even come out until the bathroom's empty usually.
That's the way to do it.
Really?
Yeah.
Well, yeah, I don't want to look that person in the eye.
You just saw my gooch.
You know?
Or even if you're just in there, yeah.
Yeah, you're probably right.
Yeah.
Any other good news, guys?
Oh, speaking of your royal court.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaking of your royal court, Buckingham Palace confirms King Charles III is alive after Russian media reports his death.
Classic Russia.
Oh, man.
And that's Princess Diana's husband, huh?
Yes.
Yeah, after reports surfaced in Russian media that the monarch, who was recently diagnosed with cancer, passed away, Buckingham Palace put an end to the speculation telling news agency TASS, we are happy to confirm the king is continuing with official and private.
Well, that's right.
He's the king.
Because Queen Elizabeth died.
He's been the king for what, maybe a year now?
Maybe.
When did Queen Elizabeth die?
Do you know that meme of...
You know that meme of whenever someone dies, they'll split the face and put XXX Tintassion with that person.
Have you ever seen this?
Look up X Tintassion, Queen Elizabeth.
Like anytime any public figure does.
They'll post this and be like, R.I.P., Queen Elizabeth, you would have loved September 9th, 2022.
And what's that?
The day after she died?
It was the day after she died.
She'll never see it.
Yeah, I remember when Princess Diana died.
I was at my friend's house, and he was a homosexual prize fighter, right?
One of the toughest fighters that they had in our area.
And he invited me over there.
In the gay weight class, or what is that?
What is homosexual prize?
No, they didn't have it.
He was the only fighter.
Yeah.
Okay.
But he was the toughest guy around, but he was also gay.
So they just didn't even have a guy like him.
Okay.
And he was, and he sold a bunch of weed to the kids, but he was awesome.
Yeah, he sounds awesome.
Oh, yeah.
You shove him on the pod.
He's deceased.
But yeah, he drove into an embankment, actually.
But he was before that, we were at his house getting high over there.
And he's like, Yeah, Princess Diana died.
And he started bawling, crying.
And I didn't know Princess Diana was.
And I thought it was like our mayor, his wife, or whatever in our town.
You thought her first name was Princess.
Well, I just didn't know.
Like, it was such a big deal.
And he had all these beanie babies, these Princess Diana beanie babies.
But wow.
It literally, I mean, akin to like if Jesus had come down and gotten shot.
Yeah.
Oh, people were heartbroken.
Yes.
My best friend's mother has like statues of Princess Diane in their house.
Yeah, she's like a saint.
What does the royal family even do though?
That is actually a great question.
What are the kings do?
Regrettably, a number of the kings' forthcoming public engagements have been rearranged or postponed.
He sounds like he's dead.
His majesty would like to apologize.
But what does he do?
I mean, I think they just like eat beans on toast and like – They be royal and they like be racist sometimes.
Yeah.
For fun.
Wasn't that, it was a big thing that Queen Elizabeth like fucking hated Megan Markle.
Did she really?
Yeah.
Oh, wow.
It's like blatant racism for fun.
Oh.
These meetings are completely private and no official records have kept what is said.
He receives daily dispatches from the government in a red leather box, including briefings ahead of important meetings or documents needing his signature.
Wow.
The king is the UK head of state, but his powers are largely symbolic and ceremonial.
He remains politically neutral.
Interesting.
There's something so silly about all that garb.
Yeah, I wonder if you didn't have it, though.
Would it be too much of a loss of tradition?
Right.
Have you seen the coronation chair?
It's like a graffitied, ugly, yeah, look up King Charles coronation chair.
It's like the most unassuming, it's like the most important throne in all of royal history of the UK.
Oh, wow.
It's just ugly and it's like wood and it's got graffiti on it.
It looks like the birthday chair at a Texas roadhouse where my sister used to work at.
It does.
It does.
Literally.
Yeah, there's like ash, ash marks from cigarettes.
Yeah, yeah.
There's peanut shells on the floor.
Yeah, it just has some Conway twitty lyrics or something like chiseled into it.
Oh, wow.
Happy anniversary, Mark and Carol.
Yeah, that's what my sister used to bring out all the time.
God, I love a Texas Roadhouse.
She was a waitress?
Yeah, she was a waitress.
I bet that was fun.
She did a pretty good job of it, I think.
I think people enjoyed her energy.
She just got a, she's a nurse now.
Period.
Yeah, that Texas Roadhouse to nurse pipeline is pretty common.
It's really common.
Yeah, where are all my Texas Roadhouse to fucking nurse bitches at?
Where are the nurse hoes at?
Texas Roadhouse.
Are you excited having a podcast?
How long have you had yours?
I launched my video.
Oh, dude, your video with that fucking shirt collar?
Show that video, dude.
Tell me about that.
Okay, so you know what a dicky is.
Yeah.
You're familiar with a dickie?
There you go.
Yeah, I'll let you play it.
Fake collars from Amazon so I can wear a sweatshirt, not have to put a collared shirt under it.
Girl, that's stupid as fuck.
So bad.
Do you look like every character from Harry Potter and one character?
You know who I look like?
Fucking Chris Farley from that one, the Chippendale sketch.
Fuck it up.
That's what I look like.
No, Angel Baby, you do not look like that.
That is.
Well, I put the top on for mine.
This, I remember my mother showing me this skit.
Oh my God.
I really was like, this is about to be a fashion moment, wasn't it?
Humiliating.
I can't believe that.
How much did they charge you for those?
That'll run you about $4.99 a pop.
And you don't think China has our information?
They know the width of Brittany Broski's neck.
They know my neck cup size.
Well, she's got some Ds on her.
It's a girthy, it's a D-cup neck.
Hey, look, that's a 12-inch neck.
That is.
It's a good, good diameter.
Yeah, that shit was real humbling.
What else, Nick?
Anything else good in the news?
I feel like they were kind of negative from if we could.
We had an Uber driver attacked in Chicago, New York City squatters.
Uber is leaving Minneapolis.
Yeah, that's crazy.
What's that about?
Yeah, I saw that Uber is – Uber's no longer going to be working in Minneapolis.
Uber and Lyft, right?
Excuse me.
Very fair.
You can audition for the Yell team.
Oh, it's only guys.
It's only guys.
Damn.
Why don't they have a women's one?
Nope.
Tradition.
It's horrible.
There will be one day when there's a woman Yellater.
God willing.
After the Minneapolis City Council voted 10-3 to override Mayor Jacob Fry's veto of a ride-hailing pay raise ordinance on Thursday, Uber says it will pull out of the entire Twin Cities metro starting May 1st.
Uber wrote, we are disappointed the council chose to ignore the data and kick Uber out of the Twin Cities.
Oh.
Putting 10,000 people out of work and leaving many stranded, but we know that by working together with all stakeholders, drivers, riders, and state leaders, we can achieve comprehensive statewide legislation.
I don't trust Uber.
What's going on?
What are they supposed to do?
Cabs?
Oh, the new ordinance aims at guaranteeing drivers earn minimum wage in Minneapolis.
It requires ride-healing companies to pay drivers' rates equivalent to the city's minimum wage of $15.57.
Amen.
I think they should have to do that.
They definitely should.
So that's why they don't want to pay them $15.57.
They'd rather ban both companies.
That's crazy.
They didn't ban it.
Uber and Lyft voluntarily Pulled out because I see.
So they're saying if you want to work here, you have to pay them that much.
I think that that's fair.
I think that I was just in Australia and they have there it's like a livable wage, right?
I can't imagine that.
So people can get like $30 an hour just like for like so many jobs.
What is it?
Look it up, Nick, so I know what I'm talking about.
But you know what?
First of all, you $23.23 per hour.
It's a minimum pay rate provided by the Fair Work Act of 2009.
That's like what I was making with a full bachelor's degree.
Yeah.
Like I worked my ass off to make $20 an hour.
That's crazy.
And so the crazy part was you would see, so then everybody's like kind of happy in their job.
It's like everybody knows that they're going to be able to survive.
They're going to make it through.
So there was this total energy.
Australia's minimum wage is, go back, is Australian $23.23 per hour for adults over the age of 21. So actually the Australian is the same amount as U.S., though.
It's $15.23 U.S. Is America's that?
Well, I guess it depends on the state.
Yeah, what's our...
I made $7.25 an hour.
California, it's $16 an hour.
But the cost of living in California is so much higher than everywhere else.
It's unbelievable.
The federal minimum wage for covered non-exempt employees is $7.25 per hour.
Do you ever work in the food industry?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, I used to sell Mexican food for a living.
And what else?
Yeah, I worked at another Mexican spot.
And then, yeah, I was a waitress or whatever, waiter.
You were not a waiter.
You were a waitress.
I was a waitress.
Which one did you work at?
Baskin-Robbins.
Oh, you did?
I worked at Baskin.
I was slinging cream.
Were you?
Praise God, mama.
Slinging cream at the age of 16. I worked there 16 until I turned 18. Oh, really?
Now, did a lot of guys come in there to flirt?
Because I feel like, really?
It's old people who go, like to physically go into a Baskin-Robbins, it was like old people being like, I'll have the regular.
Sir, I just started working here.
What's your regular?
And that's going to be a large milkshake.
Imagine a large at one of those places.
Praline, butter, pecan, praline milkshake.
Wow.
And that shit's delicious.
I can't lie.
Yeah.
Old people, they love pistachio.
They love butter pecan, praline, whatever.
All those, like, it seems nasty.
Pretty good.
And I would have to make these grown men who like own companies their milkshake.
Oh, wow.
So they like it.
It is an old-fashioned kind of place, basketball.
And it seems like, but it's prominently white.
Is it a white clientele mostly?
It's a white clientele.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Because I worked at what was the one Coldstone Creamers.
Oh, that's where they do the scoop and the chop and the.
Yeah, we were fucking.
Yeah.
You did that?
Huh?
Oh, I chopped the shit with a credit card.
There I am.
I'm looking at a fucking get weird, boy.
You're dipping it in that water, that murky water.
I'm like raging in that bitch.
Amexes.
It is.
You're doing it with your hands.
Yeah, God, it was fun.
Coldstone wasn't like a culinary experience.
Oh, yeah.
Coldstone was a vibe, man.
People like that.
I like cake batter straight up.
You didn't do any mixings?
I was throwing a little bit of sprinkles, but nothing crazy.
I don't like it where it like infects the ice cream so much and it gets colored out.
That's fair.
So I just put it in a certain area and eat it fast.
Almost like put a little mustache of sprinkles on it.
Right.
Right.
Get that in me first.
A ribbon.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I liked it, though.
Yeah.
What else?
Well, the Uber drivers, well, oh, in Australia, so everybody makes a live away.
So you'll see like a gorgeous woman working construction.
Period.
And what's wrong with that?
Nothing.
You don't see.
We need more of that.
We need more.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's just like you don't, you would see like a supermodel.
So I'll put it like that.
You would see a supermodel working in, like you'd be walking by the construction site.
Damn.
She's like calling you.
Oh my fucking God.
Like what I will just build.
I will let that lady fucking just build my, build like a two bedroom, two bath in my heart.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Crown molding.
Yeah.
I trust her with my life.
Yeah.
So it just, I guess that was kind of interesting.
I think, yeah, that just the minimum wage is too low, but I don't know enough about economics to learn about that.
And I'm kind of in the same boat with you.
I should have somebody on to talk about that with.
Yeah.
You should see if Caleb's available.
Yeah, he doesn't know.
Tennessee could ban marriage between first cousins.
Wait, Tennessee.
Oh.
Yeah.
Oh, come on.
Dude, my buddy Justin's going to be pissed.
I'm not even joking, dude.
Come on.
Well, here's the thing.
Here's why they're even.
What do you mean?
I'm not saying it depends on where you live.
Here's the thing.
If you don't have any gas money, your parents don't have a car, you live in an area, how far will you walk for love?
That's the question.
For Gooch.
What would you do for Gooch?
Well, at a certain point, if your family lives rural enough, how far are you going to walk to make love?
How far would you walk to make love?
Me?
12 miles.
You're capping it at 12?
Yeah.
I'm not walking.
After that, I'm like, who's within this area?
Yeah.
And if you do it myself, if it's over 12. Oh, yeah.
But I think, yeah, it's just interesting, I guess.
I will admit I did not know that it was already legal to begin with.
First cousin, that's your parents' sibling's kid.
Right?
Yeah.
Now I'll say that.
That is a little too close to home.
That's like For real inbreeding.
That's not even like, oh, it's a third cousin on your mama's side.
She got divorced three times.
That's your for real blood.
Yeah.
Why buy the cow when you can just smash your cousin?
You know, that's that kind of thing.
I feel like it's like.
But House Bill 2041, initially filed for introduction by Representative Darren Jernigan, prohibits marriage between first cousins.
What does that say about Dan and Shea going down?
Dan and Shea are surprised.
Dan and Shea surprise.
Oh, I thought that was related.
Oh, they surprised the voice fans downtown.
Never mind.
Yeah, that's actually crazy that it's legal.
I know.
Gosh.
Are we supporting Bill 24-20?
I think that at this point, especially with Uber.
Now, if you live in Minneapolis, you could be fucking your cousin.
But with Uber, I think you got to figure that out.
In this sort of scenario, I mean, Tennessee, that's already pretty, that's redneck.
Some places get pretty rural.
Yeah.
Yeah.
If you get it out of East Tennessee.
If you remove Uber and Lyft from Tennessee, we're dealing with something major.
Yeah.
A pandemic, an epidemic.
Yeah.
Well, I wonder what would happen if all those things went away.
We would go back to almost a different time, really.
That's what I'm saying.
I was talking about third places earlier.
Like, what if we have to leave our houses?
What would we do?
Oh, like, where would we go?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Cause I guess like, yeah, like you're more of like a culture where everything is really on social media, you know?
Whereas my life's been kind of split where that wasn't really the case.
So it's like, I don't, you just, it's a different time.
It's just more, I will say this.
There's more room for imagination.
And you used to leave things up to chance more.
Sure.
Like it felt like if you saw somebody or ran into somebody or there was, then it was like a, there was like, oh, the world has some purpose in this.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's gone now.
I feel like everything you hide behind a screen, what's there to risk?
There's no like spontaneity.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There wasn't as much like, will I see them again?
And if you do, it meant there was like so much value and buildup.
Like, what if I'll ever, will I ever see them again?
What if I never see them?
You know?
You're talking about like potential partners or friends?
Yeah, potential partners.
Yeah.
Like if you saw a girl, then you would just pine over her until like the next time you saw her.
And you're like, God, when I see her, I'm going to say something.
And then you wouldn't say anything.
And you'd be like, but when I see her next time.
Exactly.
And then it would be 20 years later.
She'd be married.
And you'd be like, but when I see her.
Things are going to be different.
If I just would have seen her.
Oh, if I just would have seen her.
Now you can find her address and show up to her house or send her a DM and say, just your penis.
I see you.
Yeah, I see you.
I see you.
I'm outside your house.
Yeah.
Scary.
Yeah, I saw you went through some love issues.
Recently, there was a guy you had kind of met and it fell off.
Yeah, I had an Irishman.
We were talking about the Irish.
I had an Irishman that I met on a Christian dating app that I did a brand deal with.
And I was like, they gifted me premium and then the premium ran out and I went ahead and paid for it myself.
Amen.
$34.99 a month.
Get your life.
And I got it.
And I found this beautiful young gentleman.
And he was.
In Ireland or in the U.S.?
He's going to be in Dublin.
He's in Dublin.
And I was in Nashville at the time.
And I was, so we were messaging and he was still awake because that's what, that's Eastern time.
Yeah.
So they're only five hours ahead, but back here, it's eight hours ahead.
So it just sort of slowed down.
And then he was responding to me like every three to five business days.
And I was like, this isn't very romantic.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
He was so funny, though.
Cause I'm always worried, you know, when you talk to people from other countries, it's like, you're going to get my sense of humor.
Yeah.
And he did.
And he was smart.
And he like went to college.
And I was like, okay, okay.
But I'm going to Ireland in July.
You'll see him then, you think?
I'll see him.
So were you guys FaceTiming stuff chatting like that?
No.
Not one voice message, not one voice message.
No way.
Not even a voice message from an Irish.
You got to get it.
He did tell me, though.
He said, he goes, I need to tell you something.
And I was like, there's nothing you could say because I'm so, I've built him up in my mind.
I'm like, there's nothing you could say.
He said, I've got some fucked up teeth.
Does he?
And I said, does he?
And I said, it can't be that bad.
He sent me a photo.
Just of the teeth.
Yeah.
It's bad.
It's not that good.
It's not that good.
And I don't really have dental insurance I can offer him.
You know, we're kind of self-employed entertainers.
There you go.
And those look like, yeah.
Yeah, if your teeth look like the ones you see in like the bones of a skull or whatever, that's always bad.
You know?
A Victorian skull?
Yeah.
That usually feels bad to me.
Yeah.
You got teeth that belong in a museum.
Yeah.
He sent me that photo and I said, oh.
Yeah, what is that?
I wonder, because there is something about you meet people online.
It just feels so tough.
Like it's like, does this mean any, what's going on here?
And then you'll spend so much time in this fantasy world of your own.
Like you see their pictures, you think about this, you've seen them from so many angles.
You're like, God, it's.
You think you know them.
You don't know that person.
No, you don't know them at all.
And you have all these judgments already about them without any of their own real energy.
That's, it's very true.
And like, I'm filling in the blanks with what I want them to be.
Oh, yeah.
He could be a fucking perv loser, but I'm like, in my head, we're married.
We've been happily married.
We have some tiffs sometimes, but yeah, we're married.
And it was in the church and we have two kids.
But it's like, yeah, it's scary to think like I'm going to his country, a place I've never been before.
And so if you told him like, hey, I'm coming there.
And did you do it to go see him?
I wouldn't care if you did.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We've all done things like that.
I mean, hello?
You've never flown across the world for a dick appointment?
You're lying.
I've flown some places.
Domestically.
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
If you add them up, yeah, it's definitely an international flight.
Yeah.
You got some Delta points, you know?
Yeah, yeah.
You've had at least a free flight, probably.
You had Diamond Medallion.
Or flown somebody in, you know?
That's crazy.
I want to get to that level.
I want to start flying dudes out.
But it's just what he's doing.
You're going there or just the girl coming to see me.
Yes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But you front the bill, right?
Yeah, I think that that's fair if they're spending their time to do it.
Right.
Yeah, I'm going to start doing that for men.
I think that.
Yeah.
I'm going to get some dudes flued out.
Flued, dude.
Oh, I see it.
Well, that's a thing.
It's just interesting.
It's like, yeah, how do you find?
Because a lot of relationships are online these days.
I just saw an article the other day.
See if you've seen anything, Nick.
And then we'll get out of here, Brittany.
The place people meet now is online.
It used to be an actual real place.
Yeah.
But that's over now.
Oh, it's a graph.
How couples meet in the U.S. Whoa.
Work was the number one under friends?
In 1980, this is an example.
Through friends was 33%.
Whoa.
Work was 25%.
A bar was 22%.
Through family was 18%.
Grade school, first of all, pedophile, I'm going to say that, was 10%.
The schoolyard.
Neighbors was 8%.
Whoa.
And online was 0% in 1980.
Now, does this say just actual numbers?
Do I have to go through all that again?
That's 2020.
Over 50% of all relationships.
Yeah.
Wow.
That just makes me sad, you know?
But I think it goes into kind of what you're talking about.
It's like, how do you get back?
Yeah.
What are the percentages, Nick?
Just find them for us in a little graph or in not a graph, but in just a list if you can, brother.
What it's like, yeah, because I wonder what things do you miss by not having that old-fashioned thing.
Yeah.
Like it would just be like, I remember you'd see a girl.
I saw a girl go by on a school bus one time and I saw her through the window.
And I fell in love with her.
Yeah.
Of course.
Of course.
And then I told people she was my girl for a couple months, right?
And she was, we're seeing each other on the weekends and shit.
And there was no it was so sad.
And I was just at my apartment just being sad.
Yeah.
And then I never saw her again.
She might have been the one.
She might have been.
You think about her?
Yeah, I still think about her sometimes.
Man.
Nearly 45% of survey responders reported online dating apps to be the place.
Wow.
Making it the most popular spot.
I feel like it's more than that.
That's crazy, though.
Yeah, and girls always have to do so much to get ready for a date, I feel like, you know.
Yeah, dudes just barely even shower.
Barely show up.
You know?
They left half of them at home.
It's just pitiful.
There's this picture of, you know, just like the difference of the effort that like men and women put into a lot of things.
There's this picture of Beyonce and Ed Sheeran at the same award ceremony.
And Beyonce's in this beautiful like Terry Muglaire vintage gown, just like glamp, thousands of dollars.
Ed Sheeran's in jeans and a button-up.
And they're side by side.
They perform together.
He's in fucking.
That's it.
Oh, that's the most Ed Sheeran vibe ever.
He's always like that.
You cannot blame him.
It's in jeans and a t-shirt.
I love it.
Yeah.
Wow, that's crazy.
She looks dressed like a beautiful ovary or something.
He looks like somebody who fucking donates at a sperm bank.
Who's banned from a sperm bank?
Yeah.
And God bless you, Ed.
We definitely.
God bless Ed.
He's one of the greatest musical minds of a generation, but we have got to get you in a suit, brother.
He's one of a kind.
Oh, that is really special.
He's one of a kind.
And I shouldn't mean fallopian too, but that's what I mean.
Fallopian tube.
Happy International Women's Month, by the way.
I'm always an inch away from what I really mean, you know?
We can get you there.
Yeah, I love this photo.
It's crazy.
Yeah, that is pretty wild.
I saw him perform one night.
I was watching who the chain smoker is in Las Vegas, and he came out and performed.
He's amazing.
So good.
Yeah.
And at first, they're like, just do part of your songs.
He's like, none of my songs, it's like, I have kind of ballad-y stuff.
Yeah, heart-wrenching.
Yeah, and you guys are like DJs.
But then, like, so they've did a little bit of one of them and then another.
And then next thing you know, it was just like, it became like his shit.
I'm in love with the shape of you.
That song goes crazy.
It was fucking hype, dude.
Gorgeous, fucking lonely, but also feeling something at the same time.
It makes me very like if Ed Sheeran can find love, beautiful love, I can.
You know what I mean?
It gives me, he's, he gives me hope.
Is he married?
Happily.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
I didn't know that he was married.
Yeah, it's interesting figuring it out, finding somebody.
You know?
Yeah, what if you had to move to Dublin?
Oh, that's where, what's her name's from?
Sinead.
No, that other lady you said looks like you guys look alike each other.
People tell you sometimes.
Adele?
Adele.
She's British.
Oh, she's British.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
She's from London.
South London.
Oh, that's nice.
This hosier is from Dublin.
Oh, he is?
I need him desperately.
Yeah, dude.
Yeah.
In like the most biblical sense that a man and woman can need each other.
I need him like that.
Yeah, there's something real interesting about that hosier.
He's about six foot seven, and that's not a job.
Big monster of a man.
Love him.
Oh, that's a long boy.
If you're stretched out.
God, imagine being that long and just longing around everywhere and you can't even hide, you know?
That would break my heart.
But at concerts, I bet it's nice.
You can look over everybody, you know.
But then people meet up at you at fairs and stuff.
Yeah.
Meet at the big Irish guy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Just meet at Danny at 11. People are like, Danny's like, what the fuck, man?
Wherever Danny's going to be.
You got to trust him.
Danny just gets all fucked up and he's never there.
That is crazy.
I know.
It is crazy.
Anything else, man?
I thought there was one other thing I was going to ask you about.
Yeah, let me share it.
You know, we didn't even get into, I had questions for you too.
You did?
We'll have to do a part two.
Okay.
I had questions about God and about, but you've talked about that a little bit before.
Not that much.
You know, I think about that a lot.
I've been trying to have a better relationship with God.
I was going to say, because you did not grow up like in the church.
No.
But it's been a journey for you.
Yeah.
Especially with sobriety and, you know, just getting older and the more you realize about the earth and the world and people.
Where have you landed?
Yeah, I think I need a faith.
Love that.
But does it have to be nominal, like Christian?
No, I think I like prefer.
I don't know if I prefer is the word.
I use Christianity because that's the thing I'm most familiar with.
So I think I use a lot of those like kind of symbols, you know?
But I think, yeah, it could be any way you use to find faith, you know, and build a relationship with a higher power.
I just find that I just need it more and more.
It's just too much strain.
I just can't handle it.
That's real.
Unless I like, you know, I've been just trying to say like thy will be done more often and say that as much as I can.
It's just like, suddenly like everything is not my responsibility.
Yeah.
Because that's how I get to feeling like that.
Everything in the world is my responsibility.
Yeah.
Weighs heavy.
Oh, it just, and it's, it's just this weird stacking weight that you don't even realize is happening.
Yeah.
It's also self-inflicted.
Like you did that to yourself.
Right.
And it used to be a good skill when I was a kid because I felt a lot of self-responsibility.
Like I have to take care of myself.
So then it made sense.
It was like everything is my responsibility, it feels like.
So I need to do that.
But then as I got older, it's not this, it's like you're not a kid anymore just trying to get their little life done.
Now you're an adult, everything is not your responsibility, you know, and it shouldn't feel that way all the time, you know.
I like that.
I like that it's kind of outside the bounds of like the church, but it's still familiar.
I like that.
Yeah.
What do you feel about it?
Oh, man.
I'm ex-Christian.
You are?
Yeah.
Oh, you're, you were a Christian?
I was.
I was raised in the Baptist church.
Oh, really?
It's like, well, Baptist on my mom's side and Pentecostal on my dad's side.
Pentecostal, they get wild.
They skirt it up.
They skirt it up.
They got, it's almost like Amish sometimes.
It's speaking in tongues and like fire and brimstone.
So I feel like I have two extremes on both sides.
And that's a weird way to come up because it's like, especially as someone who's funny and has success, which I'm so grateful for and I'm so fortunate, to accredit that to a God and not me and what I've built is kind of where I struggle, you know, where it's like, all glory to this other thing, but he didn't do it.
I did the work, you know?
And so much of it, I think, is chance.
TikTok happened at a certain time that I happened to be posting videos.
I'm not more deserving than any other person.
We just got lucky, you know?
So I struggle with it sometimes of like, I've been told that you need to look at the world this way, but I don't.
So what do you do?
And I sometimes have trouble sleeping at night over it, but I don't miss the church.
Yeah.
You know?
Did you meet any men in the church?
They're very judgmental.
Are they?
Yeah.
Christian men are the first to shame you.
Yeah, the church can be like that.
You know, even like Kat Von D was here and she's a Christian.
She's like turned her life over to Christ recently.
And she was just talking about how, yeah, some of the first to judge so often are like that you're not doing it the right way.
All that kind of shit to me seems ridiculous.
Everybody's just trying their trying, you know, and they're trying to figure out.
And I think it also, like, some of that relationship evolves over time.
Definitely.
Yeah, I think I got to the point where I just feel like the gods are up there like doing their fancy stuff and having like a dinner and like doing things.
Yeah.
And then like a crumb of like creativity falls off of their table and like, and it hit me in the fucking back of the head or something.
And I was like, I was wondering what that misshapen dent was.
So I think I feel like that.
Like I just feel lucky that sometimes that I get to be like a conduit.
Like some people, everybody's kind of a conduit at different times for joy.
You know, somebody can even just hug you and they can be like the, some people have the best hug.
Some people have the best and make the best squash casserole.
And some people make the best or great art.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Vessel's a great sort of image as well.
Just like a, yeah, conduit of joy.
I love that.
Yeah, I'm just like a radio station for the Lord.
You know, it's like everybody is.
FMJC.
And sometimes it's fucking rattly bullshit, but every now and then you catch something.
It's like, all right, that's all right.
Yeah.
You know, so I know you help a lot of people too who have similar.
Yeah, we got a lot of, we got a lot of people.
Yeah, a lot of people going through it.
You got a lot of broken fans.
Oh, we are a meetup of really fucking some real beautiful fucking animals.
Yeah, I got my audience is incredibly gay and female and also non-binary, but also very mentally unwell.
Yeah.
And I love it.
Yeah.
You got to have a little flavor.
Well, yeah, and I think people are trying to, it's tough to figure it all out.
It is, it's hard.
Yeah.
And I think it's got to be really tough if people, especially when it comes to people like, like being non-binary or a lot of that stuff, I can't even imagine.
You know, my friend is a comedian and then he got, he transitioned to a woman.
And it's just been interesting to like see what that is like for him.
I watched your video you posted.
I loved it on when someone called in and asked for advice on being a man.
Yeah.
And I thought your response was so beautiful.
Oh, thanks.
Yeah.
Her name's Theo, too, actually.
This lady.
And yeah, it was interesting.
Yeah, you just try to give somebody some pointers, you know?
Yeah, and just grace.
Red Rover.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
I can't imagine, dude, if I went over to being a woman, I don't know the first thing I would do when I would get there.
Yeah.
Probably close the door and be like, what are we in at now?
This is a lot.
What's going on down here?
Or just all of it.
Yeah.
Gosh, I couldn't even imagine.
Imagine all of the new things you would have to do.
I'm imagining it.
Yeah.
you go.
I wonder which way is easier.
If one way is easier than the other, I would imagine.
Well, I won't even try to speak to it, but I do think that there's like, I think women know more about men than men know about women because we've had to figure out how to live in a man's world.
Y'all have never had to figure it out, you know?
Like, good point.
I think that that, and I'm not saying it would be easier.
I'm saying that there is more knowledge that we know.
Yeah.
If that makes sense.
Yeah.
I would probably think that about men, you mean.
Yeah.
Oh, because we're always wondering, what do men think?
What do men like?
What is this?
And I know men think the same thing, but it's also like, especially when you talk about religious communities or in the South where it's like, your whole life expectancy is like, you get married to a man, you have his babies, that's your life.
You know, it's not really career driven the way that it is in like maybe New England or the West Coast.
Like it's very traditional.
Do you think it's better?
Do you think one is really better than the other though?
Because I've thought about that.
It's like, cause then I have friends that like just work forever and then they achieve all their goals and work, but then they don't have a family and they feel, you know, some type of way about it.
I think to each their own.
I don't ever want kids.
Yeah.
You know?
You don't?
No.
Never, never.
We're not going to have any little yellow M ⁇ Ms running around.
Damn.
What about some Irish ones?
What about some what?
Some Irish M ⁇ Ms. Some Irish M ⁇ Ms, maybe.
Dude, if you could have a little fucking Irish kid, there's no way you couldn't imagine that.
I'm a mom.
I think that having little ginger babies around me would freak me out.
Yeah.
What are y'all doing?
You know?
Oh, definitely.
And they outlaw that.
They won't even allow you to donate ginger semen anymore at the sperm bank.
They banned Ed Sharon from the sperm bank.
That's crazy.
Brittany Broski, thank you so much for hanging out.
If you guys don't know about Brittany, check her out.
I know a lot of you guys do, but yeah, just nice to be able to talk to somebody.
Big fan.
Thanks for having me.
Thank you.
Yeah.
It's been a dream.
I appreciate it.
It's very sweet of you to come and spend time.
And yeah, I hope you look forward to seeing what you want to do with your talent.
Probably porn.
Yeah.
Yeah, if this doesn't work out, we're going to, you know.
Hey, well, hopefully you have a son to film it.
I think you just, look, you're going to need cheap labor with these wage rates.
Brittany, thank you so much.
Thank you.
And let me know about Caleb.
Go ahead and send him my number.
I will.
I'm going to send him that picture that we all took.
All right.
Love it.
Now I'm just floating on the breeze.
And I feel I'm falling like these leaves.
I must be cornerstone.
Oh, but when I reach that ground, I'll share this piece of my life found.