Ozempic Curious with Jared Freid: Thursday, November 13th, 2025

Speaker 0 Good morning, girlies. It's the toast.

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Speaker 1 It's the toast.

Speaker 2 I sound amazing.

Speaker 2 Welcome back to the toast and happy

Speaker 2 Thursday. I I'm joined by somebody who's been on the toast before, who was highly requested, and kind of does give like energy of my husband.
It's Jared Freed. Hey, Jared.

Speaker 1 What a beautiful compliment. I'm so happy to be here.
Thank you for having me back.

Speaker 2 Thank you for dressing up.

Speaker 1 Let's talk about your outfit today. I listened to the Bethany Frankel episode and you were like, Thank you for dressing up.
And then I thought back to my last appearance with Jackie.

Speaker 1 And I'm in a cut-sleeve shirt.

Speaker 2 What's a cut-sleeve shirt? Remember?

Speaker 1 Like no sleeves, like a Del Rey. Did you have your arms out? Arms out.
I looked like a total

Speaker 1 Florida man.

Speaker 1 And my mom, I got done with it. My mom goes, because listen, let me just say, the toast community.
It's huge. In love.
I am, I am, the mishbucha here is crazy.

Speaker 1 Love them. I was at the airport.
I'm at PBI yesterday. A girl comes up to me.
She goes, Are you here for the toast?

Speaker 2 Oh my God. I love that girl.

Speaker 1 She was amazing. And I go, I actually am.
I flew back early so that I could be on with you. And so then I was like, I, I was like, I got to get dressed up.

Speaker 1 I got to look, I got to bring Bethany energy here.

Speaker 2 She's a mogul. She's down for you.

Speaker 2 Let me tell you why. Right.
Because you're a podcaster.

Speaker 2 Podcasters know it's like a cozy, whenever somebody comes on and they're not a podcaster, like I knew Bethany was going to show up in a dressing heels. So I like leveled up a little bit.

Speaker 2 You're so right. So then I wore my leggings and my cardigan today because I'm like, it's Jared.
He hosts two podcasts.

Speaker 1 I know. I never shut the fuck up.
And I, no, I listen. But then I left this show last time.
And like, listen, the Southeast Florida people were talking.

Speaker 1 And my mom goes, look what you wore. You look sloppy.

Speaker 1 Are you kidding me you don't shave you have a beard like you know you get that review from mom and that's devastating devastating and moms use the words that like crush heavy you look heavy the word heavy is like tattooed to my memory like it makes it almost worse than fat heavy is much worse than fat yeah there's such a like a dark connotation there.

Speaker 1 Fat is like off the cuff. Heavy.
Fat is fun.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Heavy, you've put thought into it. You've thought about my health.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I was going to say heavy has health implications for sure. Absolutely.
It's like what a doctor says. Like, a doctor wouldn't say fat.
A doctor would say heavy.

Speaker 1 Totally. You know, I coined the term heavy.

Speaker 2 Oh, you did?

Speaker 1 Yes, I actually invented the word heavy.

Speaker 2 And you wrote the camper and the counselor, right?

Speaker 1 I wrote that.

Speaker 1 I am the inventor of all things heavy.

Speaker 2 You guys, Bethany was on yesterday. I just have to say, the power of Bethany is so real.
Like, I could not believe the amount of like likes, comments. Like, she's such an, and you know,

Speaker 2 especially on TikTok, like, which, and I'm not making a comment about her age, it's just like a younger app. I mean, I strive.

Speaker 2 I feel old on the way like her content every time we mentioned her like it's she's so magnetic and she is this sort of just like lightning rod whatever she says people have something to say about and I can tell you in person it was very disarming because

Speaker 2 She was really nice. Like, and I don't know if I was expecting her to be nice.
Do you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 I totally understand because everything feels like an argument with her.

Speaker 2 Right. And I'm used to seeing her on TV, too.

Speaker 1 Totally. I just, I think she's fantastic.
I am a fan. I also like discussing her.

Speaker 2 She's so interesting. She's so interesting.

Speaker 1 She's, you know, you talked about like the money she's made. She's unbelievably successful.
So like, that is like without saying, she doesn't even have to say it. She will say it.

Speaker 1 She'll make sure to let you remind you how successful she is. And that's why it's so fun to discuss her.
Like, I think she's lightning rod.

Speaker 2 A thousand percent. Built for TikTok.
And she built for TikTok. And she said so many interesting things.
I don't know if you saw this part where she said that her now, like, you know, second.

Speaker 2 career as a content creator influencer, like day to day, makes so much more money than her former life as like a TV star. Right.

Speaker 1 Well, the world is flattened as far as media is concerned. You know that here.

Speaker 1 Like there's, there's like maybe less people watching each thing, but they're zoned into those things and there's less people watching the major stuff, you know?

Speaker 2 Totally random. You know what? I just remember the last time I saw you was not even planned.
I went to the comedy cellar with like a bunch of friends and you were there.

Speaker 2 I have to tell you, I had never seen your stand-up before. I'm familiar with like your internet persona, not your IRL persona.
Hysterical. Thank you.
And I'm not going to lie, I wasn't expecting much.

Speaker 2 You know, someone, you're like, oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 You never know.

Speaker 2 And stand-up is just like very particular, too.

Speaker 1 I love, I am a stand-up comedian. That's who I am.
So I love doing, I'm on the road right now. I'm doing a tour.
So thank you. I appreciate it.
And everyone, I'm Fort Lauderdale. Come to my show.

Speaker 1 I would love that.

Speaker 2 Let me ask you a question.

Speaker 2 I'm being so Bethany right now.

Speaker 2 Your internet career, your stand-up career. Sure.
How do they match up revenue-wise? I'm just like nosy.

Speaker 1 Huh. I guess to me, it's all the thing.
I don't really like divide it that way. I think it's somewhat even.

Speaker 1 They're both doing, you know, mediocre.

Speaker 1 I need more of both. Right, right.

Speaker 1 So whatever Bethany is saying no to, I'll take

Speaker 1 those other things. The power of no.
The power, I'm all about the power of yes and more, more, more no. The power of what I can get.
Yeah, the power of, please let me keep doing this.

Speaker 1 Please, I'm desperate. I need you.
I need Jews to start, you know, going to my shows more.

Speaker 2 Is that your demographic mostly?

Speaker 1 I kind of say that because I think we all kind of have to have have our people when it comes to like, you know, the people that the toast community, whenever I meet them, I go, that's a toaster.

Speaker 1 You know, like you know them. And then when you see someone outside of that community, I'm also like incredibly someone that I wouldn't recognize in my show.
I'm like, I love it.

Speaker 1 I'm like so excited that you get it. You're into it.
You know, when I do my stand-up, like my last show that I taped, it was basically an episode of Seinfeld.

Speaker 1 And so the whole thing connected. The end connected to the beginning.
And it was all about going to the beach with my family.

Speaker 1 And I tell this story and it went from a two-minute story to an hour story. And then I'd have Jews come up to me and they're like, oh my God, that's my life.

Speaker 2 That's my life.

Speaker 1 And do not Jews get it. And it's like, just like an episode of Seinfeld.
Good question. Well, just like an episode of Seinfeld.
That's a Jewish show to us.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah. But it says she never mentions being Jewish.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 Rarely. And that's kind of how I do my shows.
Like, because I'd have everyone of every background come up to me and go, that's my mom. Right, right, right, right, right.

Speaker 1 Like the mom saying, you look heavy to me is a universal experience. That is everyone.
That word, it hits you. It gives you a chill down between the the eyes.
Totally.

Speaker 1 Like my mom, literally on the way here, I'm calling her to let her know like I'm on my way here. And she goes, do you have a beard? Do you have a beard?

Speaker 1 And I'm like, can I just get through one sentence with you? Right. She goes in the saddest direction with every conversation.

Speaker 2 In terms of like your household growing up and food and weight, like what was the vibe?

Speaker 1 Oh my God. Eat, eat, eat, stop eating.
You're getting heavy. Oh, really?

Speaker 2 Like food foist upon.

Speaker 1 Well, you know, Bethany, listen, I love Bethany, but like

Speaker 1 the idea that she's like not on board with ozempic like get i think being that was somebody clearly who had never struggled with it like if you don't get the struggle i actually brought this here okay you brought your own creamer no no no there were creamer over there oh okay if you look at a creamer and think this is 7 000 calories you are just like me it is right it's insane this is and this is like 20 calories but it's like to me no this is the fattest thing you could do the fattest thing you could do like if i see someone put a creamer in their coffee i'm like we are not alike right you and i like i get get black coffee so that I can eat later tonight.

Speaker 1 Right. And have as many calories as I want, which will be way more than the creamer.

Speaker 2 Oh, I didn't know you had an eating disorder. I'm so glad to talk to you about this because I do too.

Speaker 1 Right. I mean, like, we, we.

Speaker 2 It's the, it's the, it's, it's partial, like, Jewish just childhood, but it's really also the generation we grew up in, like, um, like toxic diet culture. Cause how old are you? I'm 40.
Okay, yeah.

Speaker 2 Maybe not we grew up.

Speaker 1 I'm sorry. I'm not going to aging myself a little bit.

Speaker 2 I'm a young 40. But like, that was the vibe back then.
And now, like, parents would never.

Speaker 1 Like, snack wells. You remember Oline?

Speaker 2 I remember Snack Wells, my favorite.

Speaker 1 Right. Like Oline, that oil that was like supposedly.
Like I was eating Oline chips as if it was going to make me lose weight.

Speaker 2 100 calorie packs. 100 calorie packs.

Speaker 1 And it's like the story of my life. I've been trying to lose 10 pounds my whole life.
Like, and it's like, so when I hear the.

Speaker 2 Have you ever dabbled in the GLP-1?

Speaker 1 So a lot of my new act, the show that I'm doing, is about my parents trying to get me to do Ozempic. Uh-huh.
Like they are like...

Speaker 2 They're pro.

Speaker 1 Oh, I'm prozempic. Yeah.
Like, like, I, like, I am, like, honestly, I say in the show, I'm Ozempic curious.

Speaker 1 Like, I, I do have a, like, that is like, like, that's something I'm like, oh my God, there's a cure for this, right? Literally. Right.
And I, you know, my parents, parents are both on it.

Speaker 1 And so they sent me to, this isn't in my act, but I sent, they sent me to a doctor, like, because I was like, I need a doctor. Right.

Speaker 1 Yeah. So I go to the doctor and they've been saying that, like, they're hinting at.
They're like, she's going to set you up. She's going to set you up.
She's going to get you all set.

Speaker 1 You won't be eating like this forever and I kind of ignore it because I'm like it does annoy me of course because it's like like when you're told to have go on Ozempic by your parents it's like how disgusting do I look right no like am I that am I that awful so the doctor I walk in and I could tell she was told by them because the whole time she's going you don't look so bad you look you're pretty healthy I'm dying I'm dying she's like she honestly reacted to me as if she was surprised I didn't get airlifted right into Dr.

Speaker 1 Nazardin energy yeah right and I was like she's like your how your blood pressure is pretty good. I can't believe it.
And I went to them, I go, did you guys say something to the doctor?

Speaker 1 And they're like, no, HIPAA, HIPAA. They just keep repeating HIPAA.
I'm like, that's not like how it works. How it works.

Speaker 2 So what is stopping you from taking the plunge? Because I've done it and it's amazing.

Speaker 1 Everyone who does it, I was just talking with, you know, Name Drop. I Des Bishop at the cellar.

Speaker 2 Okay, name drop.

Speaker 1 I'm such a name drop.

Speaker 1 So Des is was telling me about how he's like, dude, what is your resistance? It's just like you're saying. And I'm like, but you look great.

Speaker 2 You don't need to be on.

Speaker 1 Well, this is the other thing. I don't, I know I don't need it, but I would feel like, listen, if I went from an XL t-shirt and stretching it out to, I don't even want to go to a medium.

Speaker 1 I want to go to an XL t-shirt, putting it on and doing that. And walking away.
Yeah. Right.
Like, walk away t-shirt, buddy. Right.
That's all I want. Right.

Speaker 1 And I, I literally, it's mostly because my parents are telling me to do it now. Now, now you don't want to because now you're saying, right, I don't want them to be right.

Speaker 1 My dad literally looked at me and goes, it's not about if you're going to take it. It's when you're going to take it.
I'm kind of with your dad. I am.
I am too.

Speaker 2 So do you know Dr. Terry Dubrow?

Speaker 1 I don't know Dr. Terry Dubrot.

Speaker 2 You don't?

Speaker 2 You will when I explain. Heather Dubrot from the Real Houses.

Speaker 1 TTD? TTD. TTT.

Speaker 2 Heather Dubrot from the Real Houses of Orange County. Her husband's like a huge plastic surgeon.
He does the show botched. Okay.
And he's also like just mega doctor. He goes on every podcast.

Speaker 2 And he went on Ben's podcast.

Speaker 2 And Ben keeps quoting this one line that he said that micro-dosing GLP ones, even if you're not overweight, is like the the best thing you can do right now like on planet earth for longevity like he encourages everyone to take it um so just do what that information

Speaker 1 i'm a pusher though i'm a pusher i believe listen and some people think this is like a sad i hate people who are like oh uh

Speaker 1 fuck off okay like fuck off um this is a real life thing the food noise thing like bethany like her talking about food noise how she coined it i'll make fun of her to the day i die about that i like bethany but like if you don't know you don't know you can't understand you can't empathize that's why i asked her because I feel like people who, and I always know when I can meet someone, whether they're fat or skinny, like I can just tell almost instantly if they've ever struggled with their weight.

Speaker 2 Right. Because it's just a different breed of human being.
And I find it like, if you don't get it, oh, good for you.

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 1 I'm jealous.

Speaker 2 I'm jealous. But that's why I hate when people like talk about Ozembic when it's not for them.

Speaker 1 Right. No, listen, don't.
You know, don't, I do that with stand-up. You know, when I go on stage, I'm going to talk about my life.
Right.

Speaker 1 Why would I talk about something that has nothing to do with me? That is actually offensive. To put yourself in to have a hot take to try and get people angry.
That's not what I'm looking to do.

Speaker 1 Like, if you, last night, last night, I got done. I yell at the bachelor.
I love yelling at the bachelor. I love yelling at the golden.

Speaker 1 The golden. The golden.

Speaker 1 Mel's season was a total disaster.

Speaker 2 I'm cracking up. We have the golden bachelor correspondent here.

Speaker 1 I never watched. I was on the show.
What? I was on.

Speaker 2 They did a roast. You were on the golden bachelor?

Speaker 1 They did a roast episode and I led the roast.

Speaker 2 Where the girls contested the guy roasted the guy. Yeah, because basically.
Was it Jerry?

Speaker 1 No, it was Mel Mel.

Speaker 2 Okay. Oh, Mel's a guy.
Okay.

Speaker 1 Mel's a guy. And Mel basically said some stupid stuff on a podcast.
So they're like, we got to make fun of him. They brought me on to make fun of him.
And it was a fun episode, but Mel.

Speaker 1 It was cool. And then I went to the reunion.
It was literally a dream come true.

Speaker 2 Oh, I actually did not realize. I'm so sorry that we were in the presence of like a major star, a network star.

Speaker 1 I know. I am a public perhaps.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I, you know, I'm the second most famous guy in Del Rey during the offseason.

Speaker 2 Because Dave Portnoy is the first.

Speaker 1 Is he a Del Rey guy?

Speaker 2 I think so. Oh, no.

Speaker 1 I'm the third.

Speaker 1 Who's the other? The guy guy who's shirtless on the bike who goes around with the speaker on. Local celebrity status.
Love that.

Speaker 1 So I

Speaker 1 go. So the goal.
So last night I go, I get done with my bachelor stuff and I'm like, I'm hungry.

Speaker 1 Of course. Of course.
I go to a bar to get, I'm like, I'll get chips and salsa.

Speaker 2 Just a light app.

Speaker 1 Just a light app. It's midnight.
I got to go on the toast. I got to put on my suit.

Speaker 2 Got to look slim.

Speaker 1 Got to look skinny. So then

Speaker 1 all the seats at the bar are full. So I go to a pizza place next door.
I have two slices of of pizza.

Speaker 1 While I'm eating the pizza, I'm thinking about the chips that I'm going to get at the bar next door. Wait, that's really crazy of you.

Speaker 1 I thought you were going to fuck. I thought you were going to relate.
No, no.

Speaker 2 The crazy, no, the thinking about food is not at all. The going to the pizza place while your chips and salsa was on its way.

Speaker 1 No, I didn't order it for. I left.
Oh, oh, oh, oh. Got the pizza.
And then I was like, should I get the chips?

Speaker 2 I thought you placed the order and it was taking too long, so you got pizza in the meantime.

Speaker 1 No, no, no. I'm like, okay, well, that's it.
That'd be a lot of fun. Okay, yeah,

Speaker 1 I agree with you.

Speaker 2 No, I don't, yeah, of course, like major regret, totally. And, like, when I get even though, pizza greater than chips and wok, absolutely.

Speaker 1 I, when I go for coffee, if you look at the baked goods and you're not sitting there the whole time getting coffee, going, don't get the cookie,

Speaker 1 don't get the cookie, we're different people.

Speaker 2 Well, we are different people because I get the cookie, I don't even think about it.

Speaker 1 Well, then I get the cookie, and then 10 minutes later, I'm like, what the hell?

Speaker 2 Why did I get the cookie? Yeah, can I ask you a total like a tivot question? You also had a Netflix special. I did.
Can you tell me how that,

Speaker 2 what sort of tangible results, does that change one's life?

Speaker 1 Like, here's what it changed for me. And it's off of Netflix now.
Oh. It was a two-year lease.

Speaker 2 Oh, it's been two years. It's been two years.

Speaker 1 And then I have a new special that's taped and I'm trying to sell them again.

Speaker 1 And, you know, I have to, if I'm to be honest, like a lot of, like, it was a lot of validation.

Speaker 2 To get it the first time.

Speaker 1 The first time. Like, I've been doing stand-up now 15 years.
I do stand-up every single night of the week

Speaker 1 for 15 years. And And when you tell people you're a comedian, you know this.
You tell people what you do. I'm a comedian.
Oh, really?

Speaker 2 It could be one of two things. It could be very sad or it could be very not sad.
So I guess leading with, yeah, I'm a comedian. I have a special on Netflix.

Speaker 2 That's like the pinnacle of success in comedy.

Speaker 1 It's literally.

Speaker 2 Like SNL.

Speaker 1 Well, it is like SNL. In the now, there's no debate.
You know, there's nobody that can, like, I have people, oh, you're a comedian, really?

Speaker 1 And I used to say when I, I was like, oh, they're like, where can I find your stuff? Netflix. You know, I go Netflix.
And then they're like, game over. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Done. Love that.

Speaker 1 Like, boom. I lost that.
When it goes off. So I, you know, a little bit of- By the way, they're not going to follow up.
I know. I feel bad.
Say it.

Speaker 1 But I have, like, the special I have taped right now is like for us. Yeah.
Like, it is about my parents. It's about my dad asking me how much I weigh when we were at the beach.
What?

Speaker 1 And it's like, at the beach? And it was in Delray Beach at the Seagate. And I go there with my family.
It was a two-minute story that turned into an hour. And I love it.
I love telling it.

Speaker 1 It hurts me every day that it's not out yet. Like, it actually pains me.
And you're holding this.

Speaker 2 Yeah, but you're holding on to special. And you're holding on to sell it to the best possible.

Speaker 1 I want, no, it's not even money. I want the most people like us to feel a community because I feel a community.
When I hear people go, I loved it. That's my mom.
That's my dad.

Speaker 1 I'm like, this is a beautiful thing. Like, it actually, and I'm not doing this.
I don't do this for hokey reasons. Right.
I do this for me to make money and make a living. Get your living, yeah.

Speaker 1 Right. I, but I, it really does pain me.
So if anyone out there is at Netflix.

Speaker 2 A buyer.

Speaker 1 If you're there. So we're in talks and whatever, but I, when you get the Netflix special, you go, of course.
I felt like as confident as I've ever felt. And now I'm not a confident person.

Speaker 2 It's such a

Speaker 2 like a legitimizer.

Speaker 1 Right. That's that's it.

Speaker 2 Especially when you do internet stuff, too. I think some people like it's considered, it's just like lowbrow.
People look down on it. Totally.
And so to get the big green check mark. Right.

Speaker 2 Do you pay a lot for that?

Speaker 1 No. Right.

Speaker 2 It's just like a credit thing.

Speaker 1 It's, you get money. Prestige.
I get paid back. I, I, you funded.
I put my own money into it. So, you know, I did the tonight show.

Speaker 1 When I did the tonight show to my parents and their friends, it was the tonight show. Oh, look at him.
But then you do Netflix. It's a different, it was a different tier.

Speaker 1 And it was like our group, our age group, you know, my age group and yours.

Speaker 2 Yeah, because we're not on the same age group. Say that again and you'll be escalated.

Speaker 1 You're right. You're right.
I'm an old man. I came here with my cane.

Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 And then SNL, has that ever been like a goal of yours?

Speaker 1 I think it's passed me by. You know, when you get out and start doing open open mics,

Speaker 1 you start to hear like so-and-so got an audition. Like they kind of pluck you.

Speaker 2 Right. And you never got plucked.
Never got plucked. Was it like a big dream of yours? Are you?

Speaker 1 It was never like on my dream, like growing up. I didn't like look out at the moon at night and push up on a.

Speaker 1 Please, please, Lawn Michael.

Speaker 2 No, because for some comics, like that's the end-all be-all.

Speaker 1 It's a total. I have friends on the show that I love, respect, think are amazing.
If that had happened for me, that would have been amazing. I had to take a different road.

Speaker 1 And again, like when you talk about the internet stuff, like the internet for me, when I was doing it, it was an act of survival. Right.
Like, okay,

Speaker 1 no one's booking me. No one cares about me.
No one thinks I have an opinion that's interesting. All right,

Speaker 1 let's do a podcast. Let's write.
Let's make jokes. Let's do TikTok.
Let's do Twitter. Let's do Instagram.
Let's yell at the bachelor. Like the things I do are stupid.

Speaker 1 They're all survival.

Speaker 2 That's why I said you remind me so much of my husband because you appeal to women, but you're not talking about women's stuff. You're just talking about yourself.

Speaker 2 But so much of what you talk about and Ben too with the food and the weight, it just, it's like a women's issue.

Speaker 1 I love that you say that. And it, because I'm not also pandering.

Speaker 2 No, no.

Speaker 1 And Ben isn't either. We are doing what we love doing.
Right. Like, I love a kibbutz.
Like, I love sitting and doing a podcast.

Speaker 1 Like, I love the hash out, the breakdown, the, when someone says this text from a guy, what do you think? Right. Let's sit and talk about it.
That's, I've loved that my whole life.

Speaker 2 So he loves a key key.

Speaker 1 I love a key key. So I, so when this whole thing was like, so I do get a lot of boyfriend in the beginning, right? Boyfriends at the show.
What's this guy?

Speaker 1 He must be lying to my girlfriend if she likes him. It's like, no, your girlfriend's fucking cool.
Yeah. She gets it.
You should start fucking being funny too.

Speaker 2 And then do you feel as though you use your platform at all to get women? Are you single?

Speaker 1 I'm single. I, you know,

Speaker 2 how do you manage being a voice for women and then also a a man who likes women? It's tough.

Speaker 1 It's tough. I imagine.
It's tough because not in the way that, like, oh, I'm

Speaker 1 sick. Right.
It's tough to even talk about because I sound like anytime I do something publicly, it seems like I'm trying to fuck.

Speaker 1 Interesting. Right.
If you say, like, oh, I'm in Florida. Oh, you know.

Speaker 1 He's in Florida.

Speaker 1 He's trying to find the Florida women. You know, it's like, so it's hard.
And also, I have a dating podcast. So, and I am tasked on the dating podcast to speak honestly from the male point of view.

Speaker 1 Perspective, yeah. So to some women, it's enraging because some of them, especially our listeners, the listeners here are successful, doing great.

Speaker 1 And the one thing maybe in their life that's like kind of driving them

Speaker 1 is dating. And then I come on there and I think dating and most men

Speaker 1 are not a priority for them. Right.
They don't care. There's no

Speaker 1 clock ticking. Right.
So it's very frustrating. And there's a male-female thing going on online right now where like, there's a lot of anger between the two sexes.

Speaker 2 Oh, you know what? I would love to hear. Do you know who Scott Galloway is? Yeah.
He's at NYU professor. He's always like doing theses on like culture and stuff.

Speaker 2 And he's writing, I think he's on a press tour right now for a book he wrote all about men and how like society has really abandoned men. It's like, ha ha, funny, men suck.

Speaker 2 But this is an entire species of people who's like being forgotten about.

Speaker 2 And when men don't have like love in their lives, they don't have nurture in their life, they turn to like violence, pornography, and misogyny.

Speaker 2 And then the women are like, well, why is it our problem? And it's like, well, it's not, but, you know,

Speaker 1 what do we do? He also doesn't say it's the women's fault. It always gets kind of missed.

Speaker 2 No, but what he says is like when a man doesn't have a relationship with with like a woman who loves him, then he turns to all these things. So it's like, well, you're crazy.

Speaker 1 Like, why is that our problem? And it isn't. I get annoyed when you're kind of, he kind of leaves that out, I think, purposely to get like clickbaity.

Speaker 2 Yeah, but it's okay.

Speaker 1 Even though he says he doesn't need clicks, he's like the ethical click guy.

Speaker 1 So I have my issues with him, but I also like what he's doing.

Speaker 2 Me too. And it's an interesting conversation about like man-hating culture, which is like very much the culture we live in, straight men,

Speaker 2 and how like men are the worst. And it's like, it's in movies and it's kind of embedded in culture.

Speaker 1 and it's like ha ha funny and what he's saying is like these are actual now like the real life implications well there's also incentive online to make fun of men like because it's harmless it's easy right and it's punch up you know online if you punch up you're good doesn't matter who you're punching up at uh-huh but just best punch up right so i get the joke but i'm also allowed to go eye roll you know so you are a victim of it i am a victim of of so much so much hate speech

Speaker 1 like well that's the thing that's why I really enjoy doing the UA podcast because I'm taking a subject and I'm trying to take the air out of it that's why we don't get a lot of viral clips right because I'm dying it's more thoughtful than that right I well because I go I would love to go online and be like like I see men this men talk yeah and I go well listen here's what the anxieties a guy is going through take it or leave it like ours going saying on the UA podcast is I'm gonna tell you the weather and if and I might be telling you it's raining out so bring an umbrella right like I'm not here to apologize I guess I am if I'm just explaining what a guy could be going through.

Speaker 1 And I think a lot of times women are like, these men are stupid, but they're also master manipulators at the same time when they're dating.

Speaker 2 When a lot of times it's not that deep.

Speaker 1 It's not that deep at all. And I'm saying I always try to speak in the key of me.
I try to speak I, I, I,

Speaker 1 because if I speak for myself and I speak honestly, you can't hurt anyone. I'm, I'm not looking to hurt anyone.
My, my goal is to just tell you what I feel.

Speaker 1 So like we had a thing, we had a clip that was like, Jordana asked me, like, what, would I date someone who drank a Red Bull in the morning?

Speaker 2 And I'm like, that's kind of crazy.

Speaker 1 Well, right?

Speaker 1 Would you? I said, no. And it's with you.
But I'm not saying there's no man on earth who could or would.

Speaker 1 I'm saying I wouldn't. I would look like when you see the icks, like I did a bit in my special about the icks.
And it was about how I can't understand it because it's not very male. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Like there isn't one thing that could make me not want to fuck a woman. Right, right.
That's really funny.

Speaker 1 Yeah. So I talk about it, and then I collected women's icks.
I kept asking. And

Speaker 1 the comments section, when people get mean about the icks, and it's the Scott Galloway problem.

Speaker 1 Because when people talk about icks, to me, a fun ick from a male perspective, a fun ick is that one woman's ick could be another woman's husband.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Because I would say, like, I'd go to like Phoenix and I'd be like, what are your icks? And they'd be like, sandals with jeans. And all the women would be like, ew, ew, heyman, hey man, you know,

Speaker 1 so then they, and then there would be one woman next to a guy, and he'd be in sandals with jeans, and she'd be like, Robert, but you're cool, yeah, not you, and it's like, and you go, that's fun because we're just taking the air out of you.

Speaker 1 Yeah, when someone says mean to Waitstaff, it's like, that's not an ick, that's an asshole. No one would inspire me.

Speaker 2 Okay, and I also think we've lost the plot when it comes to like the definition of it. Right.
I'm giving it to you. Yeah.
People will say an ick for something that's like illegal.

Speaker 1 Someone will say for both.

Speaker 2 Someone will say an ick for something that's like a deal breaker. He cheated on me.
That's an ick. No.

Speaker 1 Well, that's where I believe young men, if they're online and they're reading that, they feel attacked because they go, so you think that, you know, again, I'm not saying this is what's being said, but it could be felt that way.

Speaker 1 That like when you get carried away with any ick you say is a, you know, you can say it because you're a woman who's punching up. Because you're punching up.

Speaker 2 Exactly.

Speaker 1 Now we've lost. the plot, as you say.
Correct. So again, I don't know.
This is why I'm a middle-class comedian. I never speak in extremes.

Speaker 1 I see both sides. I see both sides.

Speaker 2 I see it. I'm constantly seeing both sides.

Speaker 1 Right. I don't want to fuck a dude who wears sandals or jeans either.

Speaker 2 1000%.

Speaker 1 So I don't know. It's,

Speaker 1 I don't know. I love doing, you know, stand-up and that's like the whole point of stand-up.
You know, it's like the house is on fire. Making people talk.
Right. But the house is on fire.

Speaker 1 Here's why I think it's on fire. Right.

Speaker 2 It's commentary. It's more, especially these days, comedy is less like slapstick punchline than it is like storytelling and cultural commentary.
Totally.

Speaker 2 And some of my favorite like stand-up in recent memory is like commentating on the state of the world because it is so fucked up. It's not even so much like, you know, knock, knock.

Speaker 1 Oh, totally. I mean, like for me to, I do 15 minutes on how my parents offered me their Ozempin.

Speaker 2 And the fact that you didn't take it is like so crazy. Ozempin is so expensive.

Speaker 1 Well, I'm lazy, so that doesn't help. Like I'm like, oh, I should do that.

Speaker 2 And then like a year later, of course, do it.

Speaker 1 So I move like a sloth. Just ask my parents.
Like, I mean, I just bought a place in Delray Beach.

Speaker 1 And when we went and searched for apartments, my dad would just turn to the realtor and be like, he can't handle it. He can't even wipe his own ass.
He can't even do anything for himself.

Speaker 1 And I'm like, can we just keep this in-house?

Speaker 1 Like, can we keep all my inabilities?

Speaker 2 That's hilarious. What do your parents make of like them being your muse?

Speaker 1 They, they go, they think it's like crazy. Yeah.
All of it. They, like, I.

Speaker 1 They love bringing their friends to the show. And their friends.

Speaker 1 Oh, I have to say, my parents, like, I talk a lot of shit, they are, when I told them I wanted to be a comedian, my mom didn't get it. My mom, because moms want to know that they did a good job.

Speaker 1 So my son's a doctor, done. Mom did well.
Right. My son's a comedian that you've never heard of.

Speaker 1 I got a lot of explaining to do. Moms aren't good at explaining.
My dad was like, oh, okay, you want to be one of the guys on 30 Rock who's sitting around the table writing. Right.

Speaker 1 And he saw it as like a business venture. He's like, you got no wife, no kids.
Go try and

Speaker 1 make it happen. And since then, like, and then two years in, I remember I did a show.
You've probably been, I was in Connecticut. I'm doing a show at a casino, and I'm bombing.

Speaker 1 I'm just not doing well. My mom was there.
And in the middle of bombing, like, no one's laughing. My mom starts laughing at me because of how badly I'm doing.
Queen.

Speaker 1 And I look at the crowd, I go, that's my mom.

Speaker 1 And they all started laughing. Right.
And from then on, she has been like so on board. She will, she will literally love hearing from toast people.

Speaker 1 Like she heard about me from here was like, like the, the best. What show were you on? I've been hearing about it everywhere.
Oh, I love that. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 She goes around the, you know, the country club and people go, did you see what your son said about you today? And she's like, what did he say? What's your mother's name? Kim. Shout out Kim.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Kim, not a Kimberly.
Straight up Kimberly. Just Kim.

Speaker 2 Yeah. She wasn't born Kimberly.

Speaker 1 No, Kim. That's really crazy.
Yeah. I love that.
So, yeah, she's a total character. My whole life, I've been, and I'm sure you have these people where my whole life, everyone.

Speaker 1 You know, they go, you're Kim's son? Oh, like, that's my whole life. Yeah.
And it's, it's, I wear it as a, you know, a badge of honor. And then I also like when Pete, again, it's like food noise.

Speaker 1 If you don't get that, we're two different people. You're gonna get my mom.
Right. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 What is your, um, and then we do have to dive in, but last question.

Speaker 1 I never shut the fuck up.

Speaker 2 Bringing girls to meet your mom.

Speaker 1 Tough. Yeah.
Tough. It is, it's brutal.
It, well, so being single and being a comedian who talks about dating stuff, it's hard because I have to be more upfront than I'd like to be.

Speaker 1 Like, I'm more honest on a podcast than I am, you know, than I can be. Like, I'm here.
I'm single. I'm having the what are we talk right now with.
Right, right. So, like, I, so it's hard.

Speaker 1 And it's hard for me because I was in a relationship. And then when that ended, I think, and you know this, the social media, when do you mix your life with social media? Yeah.

Speaker 1 And it's not even that it's a lot of people that care. It's just that you have to hear it.
Yeah. And I don't want to, I don't want to have to undo that.

Speaker 1 I don't want to have to unbutton that shirt again.

Speaker 2 Especially if it's somebody who hasn't like agreed to this sort of life.

Speaker 1 I just want to be excited and so excited that I can put aside all logistics, all logical thought.

Speaker 1 And people who know me for a long time, you know, they'll go, well, what it's been a long time of you saying that. And it's like, I know,

Speaker 1 I know.

Speaker 1 I feel badly because people ask me, they're like, do you want to be in a relationship? It's like, do I look like a weirdo? Right, right.

Speaker 1 Like, like, like, do I look like some like Vinny Bopparelli or or whatever vinnie boparelli good old vinnie boparelli do you um exclusively date jewish girls yeah love that i just think that we would have it's more a mathematical equation what do you talk about with a non-jewish girl i don't want to have to explain summer camp i don't want to have to explain high holidays and how i don't go but i say i go and i get tickets for it i don't want to have to explain

Speaker 1 my mom like again that's any

Speaker 1 I just think I'm like playing the odds, so to speak. And I do feel a familial connection with people who are Jewish.
So

Speaker 1 it's really playing that where I'm like, again, like the time wasting. I don't want to waste other people.
I'm fine wasting my own time.

Speaker 2 Of course. But when you're doing it.
Detaining a girl who you don't think you could take it all the way with is a waste of their time. And I respect that immensely.

Speaker 2 Well, I've wasted a lot of women's time. I'm sure you have.
So let's dive into the fast five stories. Are you ready, Jared Freed?

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Speaker 2 Okay, so the stories today I chose are not like the usual fodder, but I feel like you just have funnier takes on them.

Speaker 1 A lot of pressure.

Speaker 2 And the first one is some comedy news because Eddie Murphy, you know, he has a documentary coming out

Speaker 2 where he admitted that he refused to go on SNL for decades because they made a joke about his movie flopping.

Speaker 2 So Eddie Murphy has opened up in his his new documentary, Being Eddie, about his decision to stay away from SNL for decades.

Speaker 2 It all stemmed from a joke that David Spade made on SNL in 1995 about Eddie Murphy's struggling movie career.

Speaker 2 Murphy previously called the joke racist, but he says in the doc that his anger was directed towards the show at large and not David Spade directly.

Speaker 2 SNL made Eddie Murphy a comedy star, and he revitalized SNL's ratings when he was cast from 1980 to 1984.

Speaker 2 And then a decade into his post-SNL blockbuster movie career, he experienced a box off his flop with the Wes Craven directed horror movie Vampires in Brooklyn. Okay.

Speaker 2 And then David Spade joked about how the poor reception on SNL said, on weekend update, look, children, it's a falling star. Make a wish.
You make a Hollywood minute omelette. You break some eggs.

Speaker 2 That's like crazy.

Speaker 2 First of all, I love that Eddie Murphy is just admitting to holding a grudge. Like normalized holding grudges for decades.

Speaker 1 Totally. I mean, stars are just like us.
You know, it kind of like makes me happy and sad. Yeah.
You know, like, it's like.

Speaker 2 Because you think when you get to that level,

Speaker 1 we're on the same page. Yeah, that nothing can hurt me.
Right, Eddie Murphy. What am I trying to, what am I pursuing if Eddie Murphy feels insecure?

Speaker 2 It's so true about like one joke on a show that talks about everyone.

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 1 And it's like when people, when we talk about commenters, we're talking about like 1% that don't like us when it's really just, you have to have such a huge audience who likes you to have haters.

Speaker 1 Have haters.

Speaker 1 And we get obsessed with it. And I'm like, well, once I do this or do that, once I have a Netflix special, I'll never care again.
Right.

Speaker 2 I care.

Speaker 2 Even more.

Speaker 1 If you call me heavy, I will be very upset.

Speaker 2 You should title your next special heavy.

Speaker 1 Heavy? Yeah. I got to do a bit about that.

Speaker 2 I think. Yeah.
Oh, do you not have a bit? No. Just about the word heavy and how deep-rooted it is.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God. Heavy.

Speaker 2 Do you know the song Heavy by Florence and the Machine?

Speaker 1 I like Florence and the Machine.

Speaker 2 It's a great song. And then when you walk off stage, you could play that song.

Speaker 1 I think it's a great idea.

Speaker 2 I'm so heavy. It's so good.

Speaker 1 I've always wanted to come out. I wanted to end my special with what's her name?

Speaker 1 It was called Workout. Like, I'm feeling my fitness.

Speaker 2 Oh, Kanye Workout song?

Speaker 1 No, it was.

Speaker 1 What's her name?

Speaker 2 Oh, let's get physical, Olivia Newton-John.

Speaker 1 No, I'm. Okay, I'm out of it.
I'm out of physical. I just flopped that episode.
You could kick me off the show forever. I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 The funny thing about Eddie Murphy taking this so personally is like, there are two reactions to getting made fun of on SNL. You can either lean in and be like, this is amazing.

Speaker 2 Actually, to Bethany's credit, they made fun of her on SNL. She made a million videos about how much she loved it.

Speaker 2 While it wasn't like the most amazing, flattering depiction of her, it was like, obviously exaggerated. She loved it.

Speaker 2 I think if you've ever, you know, been made fun of on SNL, you either like say like, this was mean or this was amazing.

Speaker 1 You've made, there's an element of they're talking about you. Oh, big time.
If you're in the SNL, if you're recognizable enough for SNL to talk about you. And that's Bethany.

Speaker 1 To Bethany, she's bottom line Bethany. Yeah.
That's why she makes TikToks all the time. You know that, right? She's making hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Speaker 2 From the creator fund, yeah.

Speaker 1 The creator fund, like, and she's all about money.

Speaker 2 Well, and also, like, I feel like when people get upset that they've been mocked on SNL, the SNL cast members are like, well, this is the art and this is comedy. They're all very much.

Speaker 2 So for Eddie Murphy to dislike a joke. When like he did that to other people, I find that really interesting because he was on SNL for four years.
Right.

Speaker 1 I, I, I just, it's, it's just a showing of humanity from someone who was the biggest celebrity of all time.

Speaker 2 It's so true.

Speaker 1 So it's like you go, wow, it's beyond none of us. We all are insecure.
We're all in our heads. So that makes me feel good.
Yeah. And then I'm like, man, Jared, I can't believe that I'm going to like.

Speaker 1 It doesn't get better. Right.
It doesn't get better.

Speaker 2 Right.

Speaker 2 Who's like your,

Speaker 2 who do you look up to? Who's for real?

Speaker 1 Your comedy.

Speaker 2 Your comedy. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So I have friends that I love that like everyone should go check out.

Speaker 2 Or like, sorry, people we've heard of.

Speaker 1 So Kevin James.

Speaker 2 Oh, that's a great one. Are you familiar with what's going on with Kevin James on TikTok?

Speaker 1 I heard. There's a guy that looks like him.

Speaker 2 It was a school teacher. So people think it's him.
I'm not sure what the windup was, whether it was actually him, AI generated, or somebody who who just looks like him.

Speaker 2 But it's this guy teaching people how to paint, being like, I'm making a canvas. Like, if you want to follow along, and he's, it's literally Kevin James.

Speaker 1 It's crazy.

Speaker 2 What was the wind up there? Is it him? Is it not? Is it AI?

Speaker 1 I don't think he's doing that. I don't know.
Me neither. I'm not

Speaker 2 too wealthy to do that.

Speaker 1 Right. Kevin James.
So he has a special called Sweat the Small Stuff that you can go watch on YouTube. It's probably been.

Speaker 2 It's old.

Speaker 1 It's old. It's from the 90s, but it has so many bits that like last.

Speaker 1 And I just love how physical he is. I love how he like is, he's like a big guy who moves.
Like I always wanted to be a big guy who is light up my face. I love that.

Speaker 1 You know, like I wanted to be like a, like a, like a real like agile. Twinkle toes.
Yeah. I love when big guys can wear good clothing.
Like I like a big guy outfit. I like a big guy look.

Speaker 1 I'm just like Kevin James to me is like, people have said to me, they're like, it reminds me of Kevin James. And I'm always like, you got it.

Speaker 2 When you said it, I immediately got it. That's a great one.

Speaker 1 I really, his stand-up, and he's not known for standing up.

Speaker 2 No, I didn't even know that he did.

Speaker 1 A lot of the King of Queens and King of Queens is a fucking awesome show.

Speaker 2 You know, it totally has like passed me by, not to age myself. I think I'm a little younger.

Speaker 1 You're a little bit.

Speaker 2 But I love Leah Remini. She's great.
Queen, a Scientologist's Queen.

Speaker 1 How about Stiller? Jerry Stiller's in it, too. Oh, wow.

Speaker 2 Crazy girl. You're also so Jerry Stiller.

Speaker 1 So I did the Nantucket Comedy Festival, which is just basically they fly you out to do shows for a bunch of rich people.

Speaker 1 And Jerry Stiller apparently had a house that was like right by where the boat's coming into Nantucket.

Speaker 1 And he would do laps in the ocean every morning. Wow.
Can you imagine you pull up in Nantucket? Fucking George's dad is like, hey, waving to you as you pull into Nantucket?

Speaker 2 Well, to me, like the Stillers are so not Nantucket.

Speaker 1 Nantucket is so.

Speaker 2 Nantucket is so not Jewish.

Speaker 1 So not Jewish. So not that energy

Speaker 1 type of Jew. Yeah.
It's like banker Jew. I think there's phylums of Jews.
He's like banker Jew.

Speaker 2 He's like Long Island Jew.

Speaker 1 He's Long Island. Like, yeah, not that.

Speaker 2 I find that so interesting.

Speaker 1 Yeah. No,

Speaker 1 I love that story. I was like, oh my God, really? They're like, you might see him.

Speaker 2 They talked about that. That is shocking.

Speaker 1 Like he was an animal. Right.
Like a whale.

Speaker 2 Okay, next up. We have news about my favorite people in the world, Alec and Hilaria Baldwin.

Speaker 2 Hilaria? Ilaria.

Speaker 1 From Weston Massachusetts. Hillary Massachusetts.

Speaker 2 She says that she's a little bit of a bad.

Speaker 1 We're the same age and from outside of Boston. We are like

Speaker 1 the same age.

Speaker 2 We're contemporary.

Speaker 1 I'm yadded.

Speaker 2 So Hillary, Hillary, Hilary Baldwin says that she and her husband Alec are in therapy

Speaker 2 to navigate their age gap.

Speaker 2 I also feel like

Speaker 2 of all the things those two have been through, you know, the accidental murder, the

Speaker 2 Spanish Scandal, your age gap is really not that bad and not your worst problem.

Speaker 1 She is like an unbelievable internet watch.

Speaker 2 She is something else.

Speaker 1 Because you can't lie on the internet. You know that.

Speaker 2 You can't. You'll get caught immediately.

Speaker 1 You will be found. You can't hide.

Speaker 1 And she has been, like, people are like, wait a minute, you're not not spanish right you're from western massachusetts you're 41 years old your name is hiller i went to high school with you we called you hiller and and then she is just like unbothered unbothered i think she's bothered but like she just kept publicly yeah and no and she didn't change anything too she'll still be like como se dite right like she's she's seriously one of the craziest people ever and i actually feel at this point we have no choice but to respect her i there is a level of respect for someone who could ignore commenters who are viciously angry at you and you know what like and who who got you like

Speaker 1 you were lying.

Speaker 2 Right. And she won't, she's like Rachel Dolezal.
It's insane. Even Rachel Dolezal admitted that she wasn't black.

Speaker 1 I don't even remember the Rachel story. Well,

Speaker 1 I know of it, but I'm saying like...

Speaker 2 She was, is, was a white woman who pretended to be like a mixed race woman. And she pretended so hard she became the president of the NAACP.
It's like the most prestigious black organization.

Speaker 1 That's actually like a movie.

Speaker 2 And it's actually a verb. It's a verb.
When you pretend to be something you're not, you do Rachel Dolezal. Really?

Speaker 2 I made that up.

Speaker 2 I'm literally Bethany.

Speaker 1 You're Bethany. Coin the term.

Speaker 1 I, Anna Roizman, who's a hilarious comic, she's so funny. She does an impression of Alaria Baldwin.
Okay. And then Alaria saw it.

Speaker 1 And then they got together to do a video. And then.
Oh, that's nice.

Speaker 2 When you can lean in.

Speaker 1 Right. But she said she like kind of half leaned in.

Speaker 2 Yeah. The thing is with celebrities, I think they know now, like when the internet comes up with something about them, the best way to handle it is to lean in.
But they have like such big egos

Speaker 2 that for a lot of the times they won't and it just makes them look bad or they do it, you know, kicking and screaming and you can tell it's not real.

Speaker 1 You know as a comedian, yes and. That's the only answer.

Speaker 2 Yes and yes and you got a yes and like when Leah Michelle, that conspiracy theory that she doesn't know how to read.

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 2 It went on for years without her addressing it. And it was clearly bothering her so much.
So much other people were like, well, now I actually feel like it's true. Right.

Speaker 2 And she recently leaned in and it really helped her overall Q score rating.

Speaker 2 But she waited far too long.

Speaker 1 Too little, too late to me. You got to really own it and make fun of yourself, but like, it's a hard thing to do.
Like, you know. It's better said than done.

Speaker 1 If you hit on something that really, I mean, Eddie Murphy. Yeah, right.
Like, you know, Eddie Murphy wouldn't go on SNL because of one joke that honestly, like, I don't even think

Speaker 1 it would be so upsetting to him. But, you know,

Speaker 1 as my dad would always say to me, I can't tell you how to feel. Right.
And you can't tell someone how to feel.

Speaker 1 And when I, you know, get angry that I want to have a cookie and I feel like crap about it. And then I eat the cookie and then I

Speaker 1 feel like crap again. And then I eat a second cookie thinking maybe that'll bring me back.

Speaker 2 You know? I just want to say, I don't know you all that well, just based on our conversation thus far. You seem like an excellent candidate for Ozempic.
I'm just saying.

Speaker 2 Just like the way you talk about food and your thought process, not physically.

Speaker 1 No, I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 To me, the benefits from Ozempic, obviously, I loved being skinny. It was the greatest time of my life, was more so how my mind felt.
That's what I said to Bethany yesterday.

Speaker 2 I'm not addicted to Ozempic. I'm addicted to the feeling of just being free.

Speaker 2 It's like that meme where your shackles are off. Like, it's just freeing.

Speaker 1 If I, honestly, what you're saying, I understand it.

Speaker 2 You would run out of material.

Speaker 1 That's a problem, too. You'd be dead for your career.
I don't know if you're an X-Men fan.

Speaker 2 I'm definitely not.

Speaker 1 I asked that thinking, what are you asking? X-Men, there's a portion of X-Men where it's like, we found the cure for your genetic mutation. And then this idea of like, do I lose myself? Right.

Speaker 1 Will I lose myself? And I do like myself like

Speaker 2 life.

Speaker 2 I felt that way too.

Speaker 1 You know? Yeah. So, and then also, what would I talk about?

Speaker 1 All I talk about is what I'm going to eat, how I'm going to eat, when I'm going to eat, how much I ate, how mad it made me, how I hugged a pillow to go to bed at night.

Speaker 2 But listen, you need to have more confidence in yourself than that. Like, you are super talented.
I'm okay.

Speaker 1 Thank you.

Speaker 2 You'll be fine. You'll be fine.
We are talented. Of course we are.
Yes. All right.
Our sister here, this is a perfect segue.

Speaker 2 Amy Schumer has revealed why she deleted all of her pre-weight loss photos on Instagram. So Amy Schumer has gone through a huge weight loss.
She's been open that she did it on Manjaro.

Speaker 2 And she says she did it for health reasons. She had a ton of health issues like endometriosis.

Speaker 2 She has a need to say that. No, of course not.
No. She did then also, you know, lose weight.
That's just what happened.

Speaker 2 And then like a bunch of her Instagram photos went missing and people just assumed it was like all fat photos gone, which is relatable. I think we've all been there.
Sure.

Speaker 2 So fans noticed that she wiped her entire Instagram except for one carousel of herself in a mini dress just most recently. She looked super slim.

Speaker 2 But she then posted on Instagram to dispute the reasoning. She said, I'm proud of how I've always looked.
I've been working to be pain-free. I finally am.
My endometriosis is better.

Speaker 2 My back is healing. I no longer have Cushing syndrome.
So my face went back to normal. I'm grateful to be strong and healthy, especially for my son.
Your Instagram is not your identity.

Speaker 2 It's a curation of what you want the world to see. And I feel strong, great, and beautiful.
It's been fun sharing that.

Speaker 2 She insisted she didn't purposely go on a weight loss journey and that her main focus has always been her health. I'm sure my weight will always fluctuate.

Speaker 2 I'm a perimenopausal woman on HRT meds, wishing you strength and self-love on whatever path you're on, as long as it's kind and respectful to all people, no matter their weight, race, or religion.

Speaker 2 Peace.

Speaker 2 She's not saying that.

Speaker 1 No matter your weight, race, religion, black, white.

Speaker 1 She doesn't

Speaker 2 do this. No, she doesn't.

Speaker 1 This is what I actually, this is the type of story that will gain me no fans. Okay.
Do you know what I mean? Like, you know, because I hear this, and the internet hates humanity. Yeah.

Speaker 1 The human response. I was at the comedy cellar two nights ago.

Speaker 1 I'm waiting to go on stage. Humble brag.
Humble brag. I pull up my phone and it's Amy Schumer, who I have had named.
I'm Mr. Nick.

Speaker 1 You know me. Whenever I'm around Amy, no one is nicer to comedians.
Like she remembers my name. She has no reason to remember me.
She has done things that I've heard about like for other comedians.

Speaker 1 Oh, that's really sweet. That when you hear them, you go, whatever, you know, whatever you feel, I just disagree with.
Respect.

Speaker 1 Like, I have an ultimate, I just think Amy, like, and she puts comedians in her movies.

Speaker 2 Yeah, she does. She's a real deal.
I love her. Right.

Speaker 1 And she's a stand-up, like, at her soul. So, like, that's to me, Jewish people and stand-up comedians, I have the same love for.

Speaker 2 Well, they are usually one or two. One of them.

Speaker 1 The Venn diagram is just a circle. Right.
So

Speaker 1 when I saw the picture on Instagram, you go, whoa. Yeah.
That's a human reaction.

Speaker 2 Yeah, no, she's had a transformation.

Speaker 1 Right. And I saw the picture and I was like, what? I was like, and immediately went to her profile.
And then I saw no other pictures. So this.

Speaker 2 That's she wanted you to say right and so to get feedback for amy to be like you know i guess the media is making the big deal no human beings saw your picture went whoa what did she used to look like what did she used to look like when did this happen this is and she looks fantastic i'm happy she's happy we've been documenting her mangero journey because we're just sure we're obsessed with you know glp so i have known that she's been on the journey for a while because i think she shared she turned shared this like turnt video in her car like maybe a year ago

Speaker 2 And the thing with Amy Schumer is she's been famous for a long time.

Speaker 2 She's fluctuated her weight in the public eye for a long time.

Speaker 2 And I don't think unless you have been at her level and had your body talked about as much as people have talked about her, especially in the comedy space where men can be just fucking vicious.

Speaker 1 And men can go on stage, look at the woman.

Speaker 2 And say what's going on if they want.

Speaker 1 Of course they're not. As far as looks are concerned, female comic, that is the hardest thing in the world.
What you wear on stage is such a thing that I don't have to deal with.

Speaker 1 Like if I wore this suit on stage, people are like, what's the deal? Yeah. For Half a second.

Speaker 2 You're too dressed up.

Speaker 1 Right. What a woman goes through with everything she's wearing, it's in her head, it's in the audience.

Speaker 2 Makeup, jewelry, hair.

Speaker 1 Disgusting men in the audience who are thinking because she talks about sex, she must be talking about me. Right.
It's like, right. It's like a whole,

Speaker 1 it's a whole Frappuccino of garbage. And I noticed it.
Like when I've opened for female comics and when I've been, you know,

Speaker 1 and seen all this, you see it and you go, that is something I feel lucky to not have. And I'm not trying to be a fucking hero.
I'm just saying.

Speaker 2 No, but you're graceful that you don't deal with it.

Speaker 1 Totally. So when I see like people, I under what you're saying is totally right.
Like she's dealt with this for now two decades. Right.

Speaker 2 And it's got to be, and also having a baby, which just changes your body. She can do whatever the fuck she wants, in my opinion.
Like, I don't give a fuck. And you know what?

Speaker 2 I lost a significant amount of weight. And I can tell you I wanted to delete every fat picture of myself from the internet.

Speaker 2 I so relate to this. And even though she claims that's not why she deleted the photo, she's not clearing up why she did clear her Instagram.
It's not like she has a new album coming out.

Speaker 2 That's the only time you can clear her Instagram.

Speaker 1 Well, that's the thing. When she goes, that's why I laugh at her.
Race, religion, creed. You're like, you don't have to do this.
Like, real humans, not people who aren't online and disgusting.

Speaker 1 Don't care. Of course.
Of course, you're going to delete.

Speaker 2 No, the race, religion, piece thing is giving like cast and crew.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you don't have to do that. That's where I go.
I roll. I would say it's funny.

Speaker 1 Like, when you see a picture, when you, there is nothing more backstabbing than seeing a picture where you don't like it on a night where you got dressed thinking you look good.

Speaker 2 What was the point? Right.

Speaker 1 And you're like, is my whole, am I delusional? Is my whole life a lie? So when you have your Instagram feed, you want it to be a representation of what you see.

Speaker 2 And what you currently are.

Speaker 1 And how you feel. So her being like, I'm just going to, but you're right.
Like when you're a celebrity, it's like, there's just different rules for you.

Speaker 2 There are. And you think, like, thinking you can get away with stuff that you can't get away with.

Speaker 1 Right. And then to say to the media,

Speaker 1 don't do that. Right.

Speaker 1 No, assholes are going to say asshole shit.

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Speaker 2 Our last two stories are not super pop culture, a little bit more human interest. I thought you might have a funny take on the penny.
Are you familiar with the penny, the coin?

Speaker 1 I've had a couple pennies.

Speaker 2 Has died. No more penny.
No more penny. They've been talking.

Speaker 2 They minted the final penny.

Speaker 1 Well, that's going to be worth more than a penny.

Speaker 2 232 years. So it currently takes 33 cents

Speaker 2 to create a penny. So the treasury has been operating at a deficit when it comes to the penny for a while.
And I don't know what took them so long. The penny is gone.

Speaker 1 What are dads going to talk about now? Because that's like a going dad fact where it's like, you know, the penny costs more to make than it is. Right, right.

Speaker 2 It is a great fun fact. Actually, Jackie was the one who just told me that the other day.
I'm like, well, that's so dumb.

Speaker 1 Do you have to deal with like living down here or being down here? Is it like the conversations with people that you must have?

Speaker 2 Oh, I don't talk to anybody. I don't leave my house in New York or Florida.
Like, I don't go anywhere.

Speaker 1 But people must approach you.

Speaker 1 Ben.

Speaker 2 Like, I don't leave. I literally do not leave my house.
I like that.

Speaker 1 Have you ever become like a shut-in? Like a...

Speaker 1 Because you're a social, you seem like a social person.

Speaker 2 It's actually something I'm kind of struggling with, like post-having a baby. It's like, once I had the baby, I was like, all right, let's get back.
Like, I want to go out.

Speaker 2 And the first couple of times I left, I felt horrible. Just like, I don't like being away.
And so now I'm very much like a shut-in. And Ben is the one responsible for like our social events.

Speaker 2 And so he pushes me a little bit, which I'm glad he does because I would never leave the house if he didn't. But sometimes I want to slap him.
I'm like, we're not going.

Speaker 2 We're not going to the Jonas Brothers concert.

Speaker 1 Right. Well, he wants to do like event events.
That's like a lot.

Speaker 2 I don't know if I'm like all day things.

Speaker 1 Like we went to the Ryder Cup. That's a lot.

Speaker 2 there's with the baby no no no so it's like tough because if i'm not with the baby i'm in hell right and if i'm with the baby i'm in hell too i might have sweating my ass off the rider cup it was a thousand fucking degrees walking around and it was still great it was a party event they had like golf carts and everything we had this indoor thank you to celsius like with the air conditioning sure it was still horrible but you still have to like dive there drive back feed i'm literally breastfeeding my tits out like it was just you need some like intermediate events you need

Speaker 2 starter events i know you need like a couple's dinner maybe okay so i'm always suggesting a couple's dinner And recently I've been really into the idea of hosting dinner parties because that way I don't have to leave the house.

Speaker 1 Well, listen, I've never seen it.

Speaker 2 Did you ever see that episode of 30 Rock where Steve Martin has like a dinner party at his big house in Connecticut and it turns out he's on house arrest?

Speaker 1 Oh, really? Like, that's literally me. The show 30 Rock, I mean, like, if you go.

Speaker 2 It's brilliant.

Speaker 1 It's almost like a timestamp. It's like so current eventsy that I forgot it was current events.

Speaker 2 It's also the craziest show. I have re-watched it probably three or four times.
times. Not only does it get better every time, it is timeless.

Speaker 2 That's kind of how I feel about friends, even though recently it's like not been so good.

Speaker 1 It's a comfort show.

Speaker 2 It is. 30 Rock is definitely my, I just re-watched it over the summer.
It's the best show on TV.

Speaker 1 I, I, listen, I've never met Ben. What?

Speaker 1 I would love to meet.

Speaker 2 You want to go on the good guy?

Speaker 1 I will be. I would love to go on.

Speaker 2 You're such a good guy-like guy.

Speaker 1 I would love to be, I'll be your hangout in Del Rey. Totally.
Your intermediary hangout. I'm just, I'm not just saying this.

Speaker 1 We should get together. We'll have.

Speaker 2 I can't believe you've never met Ben. Do you cook? Do you eat? Like, what kind of

Speaker 2 benefit?

Speaker 1 He likes tuna, which I don't like. That's the one food I don't eat.
Wait, that's his.

Speaker 2 I can't stand tuna fish. I mean, same, but...
Really? Oh, but I'm like a very picky eater. I peanut butter and jelly every day.
Like, I eat like a two-year-old. Really?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 I can't believe you don't like tuna.

Speaker 1 It's the one thing my whole life.

Speaker 2 I won't tell Ben.

Speaker 1 Don't tell Ben because we want to start on a fan. Right.
Do you eat fish?

Speaker 2 I eat everything. You eat chicken salad?

Speaker 1 Oh, my God.

Speaker 2 Okay, so you probably just haven't had good tuna. Let Ben make you.

Speaker 1 I think I had bad tuna once, and it affected me. The smell, and the consistency.
But I watch his food stuff. His food stuff's great.

Speaker 2 He's an amazing chef.

Speaker 1 Well, he's friends with, so Plug City, to go give a plug. Plug.

Speaker 1 My buddy's bar in Charleston. He knows my buddy Keith.
Okay. Keith and I.

Speaker 2 Yes, Keith.

Speaker 1 Keith and I went to camp together and to pick up.

Speaker 2 Is it the bar that Craig also owns?

Speaker 1 Yeah, Uptown Social. By the way, by the way.
Oh, Uptown Social.

Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 Ben's always talking about that. By the way, Uptown Social.

Speaker 2 They own a bunch of bars in the city, too.

Speaker 1 In this off the wagon, Down the Hatch, 13th Step. So Keith and I.

Speaker 2 13th Step. Yes.

Speaker 1 We're like best friends.

Speaker 1 But Uptown Social has been like a home to me.

Speaker 1 When I go to Charleston, I'm going to be there in the new year I'm doing a show there But I know that Ben so like our paths have paralleled other than the podcast world interesting so and and Keith is always like I love Ben Yeah, you should you should meet him.

Speaker 2 I'm not really shocking. We'll meet one I'm gonna tell Ben you guys should do a podcast for a whole year.

Speaker 1 I'm in I'm in I'm in okay

Speaker 2 but I Jared in penny out

Speaker 2 Now I'm gonna start collecting them because you know they're gonna go up in value. Well, that's the thing.

Speaker 1 Are we gonna be like beanie baby moms now?

Speaker 2 We're gonna like start collecting pennies because they're gonna be worth something one day a couple months ago i got a quarter okay and it was like a special quarter what was special about it um i just could tell it had like specialness and i googled it i actually took a picture and said chat gbt like the the year um it was like a design on the back i had never seen maybe it was like a special edition do you remember when they did the quarters for each state Of course.

Speaker 2 Did you have the map?

Speaker 1 Oh my God.

Speaker 2 Oh, did I have the map? Oh my God. I never filled it out.

Speaker 1 It was like the Monopoly game at McDonald's. Yeah.

Speaker 2 It was the Livestrong bracelet. Like, you didn't have it.
Like, right.

Speaker 2 What are you, a loser? And I actually asked ChatGBT the quarter. They said it could go for anywhere from $25 to like $25,000.
Come on. I don't remember what I ended up doing with it.

Speaker 2 Well, I was at to say, hold on to your pennies, kids. Are you going to throw our fifth and final story? And again, I would never choose this, but this is so you.

Speaker 1 Okay, okay.

Speaker 1 Doesn't that ever scare you?

Speaker 2 Yes, of course, because you're about to be offended.

Speaker 1 And you're like, right. They're like, oh my God, this is so you.
I saw something.

Speaker 2 And it's like something disgusting.

Speaker 1 Something out of the garbage.

Speaker 1 And you're like, that's me? Totally. I just saw someone eat food off of their stomach while they were sitting at the beach.

Speaker 2 Okay, well, this is so you ready? Adult film.

Speaker 1 Darren's coming on, putting up all the masturbation stuff. No, no.

Speaker 2 Adult film is accidentally screened in a passenger lounge of a ferry, leaving young passengers screaming.

Speaker 2 So this happened in England, which makes it even funnier. Love it.
A ferry company has issued an apology after accidentally playing an adult film in its passenger lounge.

Speaker 2 DFDS, which is the name of the company, said the unfortunate incident occurred on October 26th while one of their Trans Match ferries was heading from the French commune of DP to the town of New Haven in England.

Speaker 2 Passengers had been watching the Formula One Grand Prix on the onboard loungees. You know, everybody had their eyes on the TV.
Totally. On the tube, as they say.

Speaker 2 During a delay on the crossing, but once it had finished, the crew were unaware that an adult film was the next item to be shown.

Speaker 1 That can't be an accident.

Speaker 2 The company said during the delay, a group of passenger passengers asked if they could watch the F1 Grand Prix on the TV in the lounges.

Speaker 2 And unfortunately, the crew were not aware that once the program finished, the next item

Speaker 2 to be broadcasted was an adult film. Once they were alerted, yada, yada, they swiftly changed.
We're very sorry for the understandable upset and anger that was caused.

Speaker 2 Their crew has worked hard to resolve the situation.

Speaker 1 This is like the next act of the French Louvre robbers. They're like, we're moving on to horrifying young children.
Right.

Speaker 2 Did you hear that the password to the Louvre security system was Louvre?

Speaker 1 I heard that. And it's like,

Speaker 1 relatable. I mean, relatable.
We're all just.

Speaker 1 When you were a child, you thought adults were like smart and being adults.

Speaker 2 And then every now and then I have these sort of like existential moments where I'm like, I am the adult right you having a kid has to do that to you Yeah, of course It's like I'm in charge and the people I thought were in charge like were so wise I guess like I am kind of wise, but I mean you have a multi-million dollar business It's true.

Speaker 2 I'm still the dumbest bitch. You'll ever meet like sometimes I do things.
I'm like, oh my god. Oh my god.
I'm so stupid.

Speaker 2 I'm sometimes actually kept up at night by like the dumb things I've done in the last couple of years.

Speaker 1 Excuse me. Coin the term Porgy.

Speaker 1 Pargy. I have

Speaker 2 I like Porgy too.

Speaker 1 Porgy Pargy. What does Pargy mean? Now you said it before.
I didn't know.

Speaker 2 I'm sorry. So no, it's totally fine.
I didn't read my so you didn't read the one sheet.

Speaker 2 So, gargy pargy. Okay.
So, we just say, we say things weird, you know. So, we say, oh, that's gorgeous.
That's gorgeous. That's gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous.

Speaker 2 Then we're like, gorge, garge, garge, garge, gargy, gargie, gargy, pargy, pargy. It's, so it's evolved.
It's evolved from gorgeous.

Speaker 2 So sometimes somebody would be like, all right, I'll meet you there at 10. I'm like, okay, Pargy.
Now it means like great, okay,

Speaker 2 beautiful. Like, it can be extreme.
Like a supermodel. She's Pargy.
Totally Pargy. But we're meeting at 11.
Pargy. Pargy.
Yeah, it's very casual, too. Give it a little handle.

Speaker 1 I also love it off the lips.

Speaker 2 Pargy. Agreed, especially with the headphones.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Very ASMR.

Speaker 1 People don't know how great it is to wear headphones.

Speaker 2 We were talking about that before. And it's so funny because when Ben came on, he's like, I never wear the headphones.
I'm like, really?

Speaker 1 He's not his mind.

Speaker 2 He's out of his mind. I'm like, can you just test my theory? I think that when you can hear yourself here, it makes it.

Speaker 2 I know we're sitting in front of lights and cameras and people, but like sometimes podcasting can just feel like a conversation, like in a good way, but it doesn't. always feel like a performance.

Speaker 2 And when you put the headphones on, it's like when you get on stage with a microphone.

Speaker 1 It's power. Totally.
And also, it makes me a better listener. Yes.

Speaker 2 And I fear, you know, even though I have to say, I have days out when you were telling that pizza chips and guac story, I missed the like the middle.

Speaker 1 That's what I did. That's what you understood.

Speaker 1 Well, that's my fault. You're worried about the story.

Speaker 2 He's my fault. I was just like, I'm really tired.
And I just like zone out for 10 seconds and I missed the important part.

Speaker 2 I'm like, wait, did you get the chips and guac or you went next door while you were waiting?

Speaker 1 Right now there's someone listening who's like, me too.

Speaker 1 Which is like the beautiful part of a podcast.

Speaker 2 That's so true.

Speaker 1 I communicate. I was afraid of coming in here.

Speaker 1 I'm like, okay, like, you know, i you and i have a very similar energy yeah so i it can be a lot it can be a lot and i don't want to come on here and like i want to be on your show and i want to like make this work the best episode ever i feel like it was i think it was i i want to do one last question okay because you i do believe we have similar energy before we have one more question if you don't mind no i love the idea of british children being horrified by a porno on tv

Speaker 1 and crumpets

Speaker 1 what is that we didn't even talk about this

Speaker 2 right it's like it's disgusting but so funny So funny.

Speaker 1 Being British is just the accents.

Speaker 2 Agreed. Being British makes it funnier.

Speaker 1 Right. My nanny!

Speaker 2 Especially because they're so buttoned up and like obnoxious. Well, it's like, well, you watch porn.
Right. What's less buttoned up than that?

Speaker 1 Right. Just some woman eating some dude's asshole on the day.

Speaker 2 I wonder how adult it was. Right.
Was it just like, you know, Euro trip or like a film?

Speaker 2 I think if you're... Was it a film for adults or an adult film?

Speaker 2 They said adult film.

Speaker 1 They said it. I think it's got to be a prank.

Speaker 2 Because, hang right, how does a pornographic DVD even get on a ferry?

Speaker 1 Right. Why are you bringing it? And then why is it getting accidentally fell into the DVD machine? You're like, totally.
Right. So it's like, that is a probably 20-year-old dude.

Speaker 2 Yeah, who thought it was hilarious.

Speaker 1 And then saw, like, you know, with pranks like that, it's like you expect you're like in your imagination, you're like, it goes amazing. It's going to be one, but there's one person's going to laugh.

Speaker 1 And then said, when it's 30,000 kids.

Speaker 2 Watch it was like a school field trip.

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 1 Oh, no.

Speaker 2 My final question for you was, because like you said, we have very similar energies. And I feel like as I've gotten older, I've gotten much more comfortable that like my energy is not for everyone.

Speaker 2 But when I was younger, especially like doing, you know, this for a living, you just want everyone to think you're like the best, funniest and like want you around all the time.

Speaker 2 But we are, you know, an acquired taste.

Speaker 2 How do you, especially with like internet, how do you

Speaker 2 get past not being for everyone?

Speaker 2 I haven't gotten past. I'm just like looking for tangible events.

Speaker 1 Well, you and I, I think, are very, I feel you. I feel like we're so alike that like probably our insecurities are like when you say, I just want people to think I'm funny.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's like all I want.

Speaker 2 100%.

Speaker 1 So when like someone's like, I've seen you stuff on the internet. I'm like, ooh.

Speaker 2 Butt clench.

Speaker 1 Say funny.

Speaker 1 Say funny.

Speaker 1 And so

Speaker 1 I'll never get over it. I'm going to be Eddie Murphy no matter what.

Speaker 1 I would also say when I'm not for someone, like my thing is just all fun and games and stupidity. Like I'm never.

Speaker 2 So you're not for fun.

Speaker 2 It's like if somebody's not for you, you're not for fun.

Speaker 1 That's what, exactly. That's kind of how I think about it.
That person must be so miserable. Totally.
To not like me.

Speaker 1 I'm talking about farts.

Speaker 2 Imagine that.

Speaker 1 Well, also, like, I only speak for myself. So I must have

Speaker 1 a nerve. A nerve.
And this has taken time. Like, you know, you've evolved as a comedian, as a personality.
Like, things you did when you were younger, you would never do now.

Speaker 1 Some people can never forgive who you were before.

Speaker 2 Oh, please. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I am an evolving person with differing personal

Speaker 1 thoughts and opinions, and I'm willing to be wrong when I was before.

Speaker 1 And I have to say, if you can't have fun with what I do, time to look in the mirror and say, hey, miserable fuck, time to cheer up.

Speaker 2 That's more about them than it is about you. And as our viral TikTok sound, to quote the great TikTok sound from the toast.
Yes. We are a delight.

Speaker 1 An absolute delight.

Speaker 2 Two more caring, charitable individuals. And I know us like offline.

Speaker 2 The fact that we have so many haters genuinely blows my mind.

Speaker 1 It's crazy. And it's like, also, I think this, what happens is we live in a direct-to-consumer

Speaker 1 world. So we love a DTC.
That's why we can do what we do. But we also have to accept that people are not going to shop in our business.
Right.

Speaker 1 And what happens online is because we're direct-to-consumer and the consumer knows that, they feel the need to yell on their way out of the store.

Speaker 2 Right. Announcing their departure like it's an airport.

Speaker 1 We don't give a fuck. And we do.
We really don't. But I do.
No, no, sorry.

Speaker 2 I mean this this is my whole pussy. I do not give a fuck.

Speaker 1 All from the puss. Right.

Speaker 1 Direct from the puss. Yeah.

Speaker 2 You heard it here first. DT DF.

Speaker 1 Go. Go.

Speaker 2 Jared, I can say confidently, I'm definitely going to have you back on if I come back to Florida. You pass the test.

Speaker 1 I made it on a Claudia episode. Yes, you did.
Because my energy with Jackie, I feel like.

Speaker 2 You have to shapeshift.

Speaker 1 No, I love, because I'm like, okay, I'm Claudia. Yeah.
And now you're Claudia. Right, right, right.
So I'm like, and I have people say that to me.

Speaker 2 That's why I think you were the perfect co-host with Jackie, because it was very similar energy of a regular episode.

Speaker 1 Sure. And I was nervous about it.

Speaker 2 Sort of like Manic, Claudia. Yes.
Regular stable Jackie.

Speaker 1 So I pull, you know, I was like, let's pull back.

Speaker 2 Let's pull back. So this was you pulled back?

Speaker 1 No. Yeah, right.
I had a great time.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I didn't shut the fuck up.

Speaker 2 No, you were great. Everyone follow Jared on Instagram.
I'm your podcasts, you up podcasts, and the J-Train podcast. He's on tour.
Tell everyone where they can buy tickets.

Speaker 1 Please, thank you so much.

Speaker 1 This is the only, look, all I want for people to do is come to the show. Okay.

Speaker 2 If you could do one thing.

Speaker 1 If you could do one thing, I'm in this weekend. I'm in Durham.
There's not a lot of tickets sold.

Speaker 2 Okay.

Speaker 2 We love the honesty.

Speaker 1 Performing for the ushers.

Speaker 1 I'm in North Carolina, Charlotte. I'm in Charlotte.

Speaker 1 That's doing okay. Fort Lauderdale.
I want to invite you to the show. I would love to have you.
I already told, Jess, we're going to get her to the show here.

Speaker 1 Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Thanksgiving weekend. So it's like the perfect get away from your parents, get away from your family, or bring your family because I talk shit about my parents.

Speaker 1 So it'll be like me talking about the family. Perfect therapy moment.
Right. Um, and then I go to San Diego as well as Orlando, and then I'm in Philly, New York, Boston, uh, Tampa, Tempe, Arizona.

Speaker 1 I'm all over this great country of ours. JaredFreed.com.
Just go to my Instagram, it's all there.

Speaker 1 And again, like what you said, like I love what you guys do here because it's like, it's all fun and games. We're talking about pop culture.

Speaker 2 Fun. Life should be fun.

Speaker 1 I love it. And we're, we're, I'm a Florida man.
You're a Florida woman.

Speaker 2 I'm not, but ish. Yeah, right.
I'm here.

Speaker 1 You're here. Um, so I, and I can't thank you enough.
I love being a part of the thank you.

Speaker 1 When that woman came out to me at the airport, it was kind of beautiful. It no, it really does like tickle my tuck.

Speaker 2 I love that. Yeah, guys, thank you so much for listening to the Tosa London Morning Show.
We delivered the Fast I Sorry, Dee Mitchell every Monday, Friday, and YouTube.

Speaker 2 So, if you're watching this on YouTube, please feel free to subscribe and give us a thumbs up.

Speaker 2 We're also available as podcasts, anywhere podcasts we found out at Spotify, Tinsischer, Public Radio, IR Radio, Casbox, all the places where we listen to podcasts.

Speaker 2 Find us the Toastlevest review about how beautiful, stunning, and wickedly talented we are. We will see you tomorrow.
Who is it going to be? I don't know.

Speaker 1 They got to hire you for the

Speaker 2 storage wars bidding.

Speaker 1 Or that. Or I was going to say the end of the prescription drug commercial.

Speaker 2 Love that too. Hire me, Ozempe.
Yeah.