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Drew
Welcome to this episode of Emergency Intercom. Oh, hey. No, you left your voice in your room. Go get your voice. Well, you just did, so you left your voice in your room. Go get it now. Go get it. Before we go.
India
No, I.
Drew
Should I just pick up where what we were talking about, we were talking about being depressed per us and I was like, damn, I can't believe I've actually had my year of rest and relaxation. I also didn't even, like, think about it like that until you said that. When you were like, you have fully had that.
India
Yeah.
Drew
And then I was like, oh, yeah, I literally did. Because.
India
Because I read books. I want to set the record straight. I read books and I read them fast. And we'll insert a little clip of me reading my year, finishing my year of rest and relaxation in Japan, because I was also in Japan and, you know, I took a day to myself to just read books because I'm an intelligent being and I want to further my knowledge.
Drew
Why are you as a man reading a book for girls?
India
I think you know the answer to that.
Drew
Because you're open minded and loving.
India
Because I'm a feminist.
Drew
But I think that's also why it was hard for me to finish that book, because I started that book and it genuinely made me feel crazy. There was one other book that Orion had recommended to me, which of course the books Orion is recommending to me make me feel batshit crazy. But there was like another book that she had given me and I couldn't finish it. I remember starting it in New York and I was with a friend and I was like, I actually have to put this down because it is, like fueling something in my brain that I'm like, I miss being like this and that's bad. And then that's how I felt with my year of rest and relaxation. Because that's literally what I was doing. Not as gnarly because I was fully just abusing, like, Melatonin instead, which. That's another crazy arc to think about. And that's also like, I. We kind of lightly mentioned Kratom and, like, that, like, two weeks ago. But melatonin is another thing that I think it's, like, way too normalized how, like, much it's pushed on young people.
India
People take way too much melatonin. One, you're not supposed to exceed 5 milligrams. The more you take, the less it affects you. And then on top of that, if you take it for long enough, it up your sleep cycle. So, like, after you get off of it and you're like, oh, I think I can sleep without it. You can't sleep without it because your.
Drew
Body stops producing natural.
India
I think they make, like, baby melatonin.
Drew
Yeah, they make it for bab babies, which is actually so up. But I used to use the. Out of melatonin, which was, like, a really gnarly, like, period, because I was going up to, like, this is naughty, naughty, naughty. Do not do this. But it was, like, having such a little effect on me. I was going up to, like, 80 milligrams of, like, melatonin. Like, I literally was taking so many.
India
Because that is at that point, and.
Drew
It literally wouldn't work. And I would just keep going at that point.
India
That is my year of rest and relaxation. Because she took a bunch of melatonin. She would be like, I took melatonin and obviously a bunch of other, like, yeah, like.
Drew
But I would just, like, do that because I couldn't sleep, but I was so depressed, and I just wanted to go to sleep, and I hated being up. And then, like, that started kind of in Miami. And then when I moved, it got like, exponentially worse for the next year and a half, like, 2018 to, like, mid-2019. And I would literally.
India
What do you think caused it?
Drew
So this really funny thing happened to me. Like, not only did I move, and I was, like, in. I was just in love. And this person I kind of knew, like, something happened to them. Like, but I don't like, you know. Yeah, we've been to the same kind of parties.
India
Yeah, we celebrated.
Drew
But on top of that, I was also just, like, a, like, dreadfully depressed teenager. Like, I think for as long as.
India
You knew me, so violent.
Drew
I was always like, dude, up until, like, I think even the age of 21, that's when, like, this, like, kind of layer of my body shed. And I. I'm, like, now, like, I still have my. My downs, but, like, not nearly as much as when I was younger, dude. It was like. So I, I like, can't believe. Why are you, are you giving me a sexy look while I talk about being really depressed? Like, to make me feel better?
India
So hot.
Drew
I can fix you, but what the was I saying?
India
That's a knee slapper.
Drew
But when I got to la, it got really bad because I didn't have to fake in front of my parents anymore because in Miami my parents would get on my ass and be like, oh my God, like, who gives a. Like, get up and go do something. And I'd be like, fine. So I would have to fake it. And then that's also what started my like, gnarly melatonin use. Because I was like, dude, I can't balance staying up all night. I need to like, like medicate myself to sleep. Whatever became this whole thing. And then when I got to LA and it was really bad, I. Here was my schedule. I would wake up at the beautiful time of anywhere from 4 to 6pm and my favorite coffee shop closed at 7 and was like a 5 minute drive from our apartment. So I would wake up, lay around for as much time as I had before. Like, I, I. And also, this is so evil. But I like had a time because they turned off their espresso machines 30 minutes before closing. So if I woke up at 4, I could just lay in bed for another hour and a half.
India
If Enya missed this coffee, it would be gnarly. It was gnarly. It was so dangerous and violent.
Drew
I know. It was so bad. And I didn't have an espresso machine or like a little cafetera because I was just like a piece of shit. And I was like, I don't want to do anything. I just want to get it and not have to work for it. I just want everything that I need to sustain partial life and like kill it there. What's also crazy is, like, all I was doing was sleeping and being mad depressed. But like, I still made time for that coffee. Like, don't talk. I still was like, don't talk to.
India
Me before India has her coffee.
Drew
What's crazy is how many days of like life hanging out with y' all I miss.
India
Also, like, I was just thinking about that. Like, because I would wake up at like a good time. I would be like, up at.
Drew
You've always been like a pretty early riser.
India
And then you wouldn't be up until six. Six. You were like, you had just fallen asleep by the time I was getting up. So I would like wake up and Just be so bored all day long until you got up and I had my like two hours with you before you.
Drew
But then my two hours with me were dreadful because I was just so upset. I think I was still. I wasn't the worst to be around, but like it was hard to be around me because like I was so.
India
Obviously it was, it was like anything we said could be turned into a conversation about how depressed you are or not even like how to depressed you are, but just how. Because I don't even think you labeled it as that then until later. But like early on you were just like, I don't know what's going on.
Drew
Yeah, earlier I was just like, I don't know why I feel like this and I don't want to be here and I won't say what I was saying. But yeah, my, my thing I said like 18 times a day. Also like just scary because where I was mentally, like it wasn't like a fun thing to hear because it was like so real that I was like not doing good. So I literally was just.
India
It was, I remember it was actually so fucking scary hearing you say that shit because I was like, she fucking means that. Like she literally means that.
Drew
And so yeah, I would wake up and then I would order an egg sandwich from Earth Cafe, which was like, like that, like fluffy, like Italian bread. And it would just be scrambled eggs, mayonnaise, spinach and tomatoes.
India
We need to bring back Earth Cafe.
Drew
Yeah, because Earth Cafe, like is awesome because it is literally like NPC food, dude. Like, it's like although their Mediterranean plate that rips like that is good. But like for the most part, eating there is literally like what it might feel to be a Sims character. And you're like, I'm hungry. And then someone just like fills up your bar. Like that's what eating at Earth Cafe tastes like.
India
It's just sustenance.
Drew
But yeah, so I would get an egg sandwich from Earth Cafe and then I would go right back into my room and rot there for another five to six hours, like watching YouTube videos and God knows what else, just sitting in my fucking room and doing Nothing until like 7am or like sometimes I would just like pop some melatonin, be like, I don't want to be up anymore. And then I would go back to sleep and then wake up. And I did that every day, like without fail. I did that every day for like way.
India
It was crazy.
Drew
I also do think like living in that dark ass apartment didn't help.
India
That fudgeing building sucked balls like, our windows, we were like, oh, my God, we have such beautiful big windows. But they were like the bubble and gas inside had expanded and it made them, like, super fucking foggy and you couldn't see out of them and it wouldn't let sunlight in. So it was just dark and dingy all the fucking time. And then the room or the window in my room, actually, I don't think ever got sunlight. Like, if we wanted.
Drew
Your room was so dark.
India
It was so bad. And then that's why I, like, loved coming to this house, because my window, I mean, my room is the brightest room I think, ever invented and created. Like, it's borderline a glass house. And I don't put my blinds down ever. I don't have curtains because I think curtains and blinds are evil and you should rise with the sun and be the naked neighbor and let them all see you naked.
Drew
Also, what helps is, like, I don't want to give the layout of our whole house away, but since your windows.
India
They already know from YouTube.
Drew
Since your Windows aren't like, towards the street, like, it doesn't really matter, but. But, like, I think about that all the time. I'm like, if, like, I've, like, been outside.
India
But you're also a girl and men are fucking terrifying.
Drew
I know. So I'm just like, literally, like, petrified. Also, like, recently, when I'm hot in my room, I swear someone's looking in my windows. Like, it got so.
India
Girl, they're not in your windows, they're in your walls. You're schizophrenic. The bugs are under your skin right now. You need to claw them out.
Drew
I always swear someone's in my fucking. Like, no there. Last night or two nights ago, I genuinely thought someone got into the house. Like, something. I was like, I was. This is the annoying part about having, like, really good intuition, is that when I'm high, I'm like, my intuition is always right. I know this is happening. Also, last night I was messaging someone on Facebook market about, like, the chairs we want.
India
Yeah.
Drew
And he was like, oh, I do, like, delivery, like, via doordash. Where do you stay? And I like, told him, the area we stay in, not like our address, but, like, the. The name of the area. And he goes, oh, I'm there too. I could easily get there, get them there, or something like that. And last night at 1am Also, what the fuck Is this setup on Facebook market? I've never used it on my laptop, but when you get a message, it, like, rings every, like, two Minutes, it, like, will pop back up on the screen and ring. And like, I'm like, I don't know if he's poking me or like, what the.
India
I don't know how Facebook pokes. Oh, my God. Still have pokes on Facebook?
Drew
I don't know because I never used to.
India
Was that feature? What was that feature?
Drew
It's like.
India
Like, hey.
Drew
It's like, I'm too nervous. I don't know what to say. Like, hopefully if I poke you, you'll.
India
Say, oh, so it's like a tap on Grinder.
Drew
Oh, what?
India
Yeah, it's like, you're beautiful. I'm gonna tap you. No taps. Don't tap me. Message me. Don't message me. Some.
Drew
Are those, like. Some bios are like, don't tap.
India
Yeah, exactly. That's funny mask for math. Don't tap.
Drew
I. But, yeah, I was, like, really convinced that he was gonna, like, that somehow he got my address from my Facebook account and that, like, he was hacking me and, like, gonna pull up to my room yesterday, and I was really scared.
India
Yeah, he got your address.
Drew
I mean, he probably scared I turned off my laptop and went to sleep. Like, that's how scared I was.
India
The thing is, is he probably key logged your laptop and got your address and all your information, and he's probably just been like, casing out the joint recently. And the person you heard inside the house was probably him finding out the layout of the house. So he can get.
Drew
Oh, so he could deliver the chairs and put them where they're supposed to go?
India
No, so he can get you.
Drew
Get me what? Oh, get me the chair.
India
Yes. So just be. Just be careful.
Drew
Yeah. I like, have been thinking somebody's after.
India
Me and is such a psycho. Like, I. Literally yesterday I had such, like a. Like, I had, like a. Or maybe it was two days ago. I had, like, a full body. Like, I was like. Like, something changed inside of me because this used to piss me off, and I've shifted my mind frame on it, and I used to think it was like an insult to my intelligence and an insult to, like, everything I am as a being. But when you're like, did you lock the door? Like, can you make sure you lock the door? I'm like, yes, I fucking locked the door. It was locked 0.5 seconds ago. And it used to piss me off, but something changed in me, and now I'm just a good person, and I recognize that my friend is a fucking freakazoid.
Drew
I know. You just realized I was actually crazy. I like it. We've again, we've talked about this, but it is like debilitating how I think doors don't lock when I lock them or anybody locks them. But like, it's definitely part of the part of my brain that's like, if you want to do it, if it's gonna get done and you want it right, you gotta do it yourself. And like the part of my brain that like, feeds into, like, that you're smarter.
India
And the part.
Drew
No, the part that like, nobody understands that doors don't lock. No. No one else in this room knows that when you lock a door and turn around, you have to check it 20 times. I'm the only one who knows that information in this room.
India
It's real. It's real.
Drew
But yeah, I. And then also I do this thing where like, I'll check if the front door is like bolted and locked. And like, we, we literally have like an insane lock.
India
We have like 14 locks on our front door. And we didn't even, like we moved in. And it had locks all over the front door. And there was a lock. There is a lock on the outside of my bedroom door. So that whoever was in there, probably a demonic spirit. There were blood handprints on the inside of the closet. You remember seeing them. There was something up going on in that bedroom. And honestly, I think me having such a bright and light spirit moving in there made the spirits or demons or whatever move out. And I'm just such a good person that I was able to do that. But yeah, who the lock? What are you locking in that room from the outside?
Drew
Your child?
India
Yeah, but there's a balcony door that doesn't lock from the outside.
Drew
Well, it was like, it had the landlord special when we first moved in where it was like shut. Sealed shut from the paint.
India
Yeah.
Drew
But yeah, sometimes at night I go to lock the door and I think somebody's already inside behind me. Like, even though I just locked it, like, that's how deep it goes. Like, I'll go to like lock the doors again and it's like mega bolted. Like, literally a human being would have to break through the door itself to get inside. And even though it's like that, I turn my back and I am convinced somebody is inside right behind me and I have to run to my room.
India
Damn.
Drew
Yeah.
India
Well, I've been watching this new show that like, I'm like, why is no one fudgeing talking about this? Because it's actually like so sick. But has anybody seen Squid Game?
Drew
What you mean like one of the Biggest shows like that ever aired on Netflix.
India
Yeah, like Squid Game. It's like this small little thing that I've been checking out recently. And then I stumbled upon another show called Strangest Thing.
Drew
No, no, it's. It's Stranger Things and you know, someone in the show, so I don't know.
India
What, like, the craziest thing is. There's a song in it called Running up that Hill by Lauryn Hill that became the biggest song ever made.
Drew
And she made it. Okay, so like, you know a lot, but you know so little. So, like, what's happening? Because you know these shows and things exist, but like, your information, I just.
India
Don'T know what you're talking about because, like, I wouldn't know if I knew it. You know what I'm saying? The strangest thing. The strangest thing about it all. Someone said that? Nevermind. Who was that?
Drew
Josiah?
India
No, no, there was someone that like, we. Like a random fucking person. Maybe it was like an Uber driver or something said that. Oh, we were in the hotel in Miami in the lobby and someone was like, damn, that's just the strangest thing. As Finn walked out and bend in here and I was like, oh, my God, that is so sick.
Drew
You know what's funny is I probably didn't even correlate that they were making that joke. Like, they literally were just like. That is like. Because that was a random ass hotel for y' all. Yeah, like, I placed them in a hotel in like Havana, Little Havana, which is a lit ass area, but for tourists. Is it like the most popping? Because that's like the one hotel was.
India
Insane because it was. It was smaller than our podcast set and it slept for four people, apparently. And it was the messiest. Like, we were walking on 3 inches of debris every night to get to our. So disgusting.
Drew
You know what it is? I thought those rooms were bigger, but the. All the, like, king and queen rooms are like, really nice there. I don't know why they even have those, like, quad ones.
India
But also, if you want to let.
Drew
Me say for free and like, I can review it and like, give a good review and lie.
India
It was a nice hotel.
Drew
No, it is a nice. Any hotel that like, uses the labor. Aesop. I'm like, yeah, I'm in.
India
Yeah, it was like a nice ass hotel. But I think what it is, is that's like a kid's room that you get and you put your kids in there and then you're across the hall so you can have sex with your.
Drew
Partner that fully is. Or it's for the friend groups who go to Miami and come back and nobody's friends anymore.
India
Yeah.
Drew
What's up with that? I've been thinking about that.
India
I've been thinking about that, actually, because Miami changes people. Miami brings out demons in people that they didn't previously know about. You can just be hedonistic and nice and evil.
Drew
Right.
India
Not me, though.
Drew
Never me.
India
Not our friend group, though.
Drew
Right. So was that good or just, like, whatever?
India
Was that good or just whatever? Like, is that a good price or whatever? Like, whatever the price.
Drew
Just, like, whatever. It's good.
India
We've recorded four days in a row, and I have nothing else to say.
Drew
Yeah, I think people who say that they, like, enjoy tea, like, drinking tea are lying.
India
Like, no, but, like, it's tea. That's like, tea, sis. Like, I love drinking tea. Like, hermit the crab frog drinking his tea. Like, the tea I'm gonna sit my tea emoji.
Drew
The Kermit the frog. Wait, is there, like. Is there, like, a. Like, a video of, like, the puppet Kermit drinking tea? And that's where that started. Like, why did, like, the frog emoji and the T emoji become, like, a joint unit?
India
I don't know, but that era of Twitter where Kermit the Frog was, like, the reaction meme to everything is actually so embarrassing to look back on. And, like, I was a part of it.
Drew
Oh, it's because he was in a Lipton tea commercial.
India
So this is the whole thing. Let me sip my tea. And then, like, I can't. I literally can't.
Drew
Jim Henson literally was, like, freaking the fuck out in the afterlife when this.
India
Was in his goddamn grave. Do you remember the Dark cloak dude? Yes.
Drew
I feel like it's still, like, a thing.
India
I don't know. But, yeah, Hermit, the crab era. Why can't I fucking say Kermit the Frog? Yeah. I don't even remember, like, the punchline set up to that one.
Drew
But it's like, me talking to my evil self. Me sees a fluffy dog. Me to me steal him. 22,000 retweets.
India
Save. Save all that.
Drew
Oh, my God, I tweeted this.
India
It's at Anya, our landlord calls me Philip. And in your arm, she called you arm.
Drew
I know.
India
A RM arm. Like Justin Bieber.
Drew
She'll just, like, give us, like, nicknames and, like, not call us.
India
And then she, like, comes to the front door and she's like, hi, Drew. Like, hi, Drew. But on the phone, she's like, philip. And then I literally heard her call you Fucking arm. I know.
Drew
I think you're hearing me.
India
She called you arm and your name is India. Like, it's insane.
Drew
I. Because she, she usually calls me on. Like, she'll just call me on and then I'm like, I'm like, okay, I understand that. Like not everybody can say my name, but on is I. That's a first. But it's literally. I think it's because she's too lazy to get it all out. Like she's just like.
India
And I think she's literally so much.
Drew
I know she's awesome because she's just like. I don't know, she's like so classic. Like she's just older woman, takes care of herself and like dresses up for like.
India
And she loves, she loves. I think she was nervous about like having kids move into her place and then she like every once in a while just come by for like maintenance. And also the other thing is she just lets herself in.
Drew
I know, she just comes in time.
India
I don't think it's legal, but I find it endearing cuz she is like mother.
Drew
Like, she's like, yeah, I don't mind because she's like a sweet like older woman. So I'm like, you do you?
India
Yeah, but we have our beef. Cuz she's a landlord. But like she's awesome.
Drew
She also is awesome because when Azul went missing, she. I think she kind of felt guilty for it because what happened was when the painters were in the house cleaning, she kept going in and out and leaving the doors open along with the painters. And then Nazul got out during that and she saw me freak the out and be like, oh my God, my cat's gone. And now every time she comes in or when people are working on the house, she's always like, close the door, close the door, close the door, close the door. They have a cat in here. Close the door. And like, she's really on it. And like, we'll go. Like when they were redoing the whole like complex, she like kept going to the guys to come in and like look around to fix things. She was like, close the door behind you. And then like for any balcony, she would tell them, like, you have to ask her when you could come because she has a cat.
India
Tell her we need guests on this podcast so fucking bad. Talking about our landlord right now, like, what are we talking about? What are we doing? What is going on?
Drew
Well, I thought it was awesome.
India
I think it's awesome too. But I'm just like, I took myself out of it and put myself in their shoes and hearing someone talk about their bro.
Drew
Everybody has a landlord and knows about Kermit the frog sipping tea though Relatable.
India
I actually don't give a at this point and I don't care who hears this. But I think we should talk about the Jaden Smith hangout stories because I was thinking about them the other day and I was like, that was insane. Like that era was insane. It was like peak Jaden Smith being like, I don't even know.
Drew
Everybody being obsessed with him.
India
Yeah, everybody being obsessed with him and like him just saying the most like cryptic online and like people eating it up and being like what the does he mean by that? And literally being one of the most famous people in the world. And one day we were kind of just like casually hanging out. I don't know, it was just like in a big group setting and he was there and we were at a.
Drew
Friend'S house showing him their music and we just so happened to. To be there. So we like met him.
India
Yeah. And also what's his name was with him.
Drew
Moises.
India
Moises Arias was with him and had a giant, which I thought was really wholesome, endearing and cute and had a giant Louis Vuitton duffel bag with him with like God knows what. It was like the biggest bag I've ever seen in my life. But anyways, we like go upstairs, we're hanging out for a little bit. He is literally sitting in the window like fucking Batman. Like perched up, just like silhouetted by the moon. Yeah, Jaden is like silhouetted by the moonlight. And he's just like saying the craziest shit I think I've ever heard anybody ever say in my life. And he was just talking about like not to air too much of his business out, but like he was talking about the schools he went to and like what they did at those schools. And I was like, what they learned? Yeah. And I was like, oh, this is some like actually like demonic L A shit. Like whatever. Like this is crazy. Granted I had just moved here and I'm from shit ass nowhere, Texas and I was completely culture shocked by someone going to a school that wasn't that learns magic. Like you're learning magic at the school. Like that makes no sense.
Drew
His, his school was like super based.
India
In like it was literally the school of magic. Like he was telling me that they would like do magic under the stairs.
Drew
This is also when he was a fudgeing kid.
India
Like we have to have this. We don't know this person, like, we've met him maybe twice, and, like, I guarantee he doesn't even remember my face. But, yeah, so he just kept going.
Drew
Especially your face, because it's, like, so forgettable and.
India
Wow. Wow, bitch. Wow. But anyways, he was sitting and just, like, telling. He, like, commanded the room, obviously, because he's fudgeing Jaden Smith. And everybody was like, you're Jaden Smith. You're Karate Kid. Like, this is great.
Drew
Listen.
India
Yeah, we're going to listen to this. And he was sitting there, and then he started going on about this giant, like, amulet sitting on his fucking chest. And it was like a necklace. It was like the biggest thing I've ever seen anybody have on, like, their body. And he was just explaining. It was like, it's a quartz crystal wrapped in copper. And he was saying that this is, like a GPS locator for satellites in space. That, like, if he ever gets lost, they can beam down and, like, find him from this GPS device sitting on his chest. And it was like.
Kai
But it wasn't like, it's like an iPhone.
India
Yeah, it was.
Drew
No, he literally. He made that comment. He was like. He was like, what nobody realizes is we've always had iPhones. Humans have always had iPhones.
India
And then, I mean, he's not wrong.
Drew
Like, like, he isn't wrong because, like, for every generation, they've had something that they were like, this is, like, the, like, most, like, interconnected, like, piece of technology we have at the moment. Like, this is what keeps us connected. And he was like, if you go all the way back, something as simple as, like, a rock with, like. Like, something written on it with someone's iPhone, that was their everything. That was like, what kept their information. So he was actually spitting fucking bars. But at the time, I was like.
Kai
That'S pretty freshly 18.
Drew
And he had been talking for two hours. And I was like, what the fuck is he talking about?
India
And why are we scared? I'm so scared. I was like, this is L. A.
Drew
And Moises kept asking what was in my backpack? Because he had a big backpack that was.
India
They were bonding over their backpack.
Drew
He just kept asking me, what's in your backpack? And I was like, he just wanted.
India
To be able to show it was inside his. Yeah, I was just like.
Drew
He was, like, freaking me the fuck out. Because we also.
India
When we listen to him, Wait, but let me. Before we move on from the crystal around his neck, just if you zoom in on the motherboard of an iPhone, it is made of, like, crystal and copper. And so like, he's kind of right, but. Yes.
Drew
But, like, he just kept asking what was in my backpack. Also. I don't know why we're being like our, like, our friends. Like, it. We. We had gone to fucking Brockhampton's house.
India
Yeah.
Drew
Because Ian was like, oh, come listen to the album.
India
And we were like, yeah, we're the biggest fans ever right now.
Drew
Saturation, too. It was literally like. Like, I was like, this is what being in LA is about. This is lit.
India
And we went to their house and.
Drew
We were like, cool, we're just gonna sit here and listen to the album. And then they're all like, he's here. And we're like, who's here? And then they're like, jaden Smith.
India
He pulls up in a giant GMC and everybody goes outside to greet him.
Drew
It was like we stayed in the room, I think, with Matt, because we were all like, I am, like, too scared to go out there. And like, I. I didn't. Like, this wasn't where I thought my night.
India
It was literally like, he's here. He, like, he's here. It was like. It was ominous almost.
Drew
And, like, they, like, went out and, like, got him and whatever. And then we ended up in, like, Romeel's room. At the time, it was like the studio. Yeah. So it was like this small room and, like, the whole band wasn't in there. It was literally like, I think, like Matt, Ian Merlin, Romil, Jaden Smith, Moises, and then us.
India
Oh, I love this part. This is my favorite part of the story.
Drew
It was in a dark room, like, the D off, they turned off the lights. It was ambiance or I don't know what the vibe was, but I was just hyped because I was like, I get to listen to this album, but obviously I'm like an 18 year old who's like, now, like, from Miami, like, sitting in, like, kind of interacting with. I think that was like the first, like, famous person I had really interacted with. So I was just like, sitting there dead silent and not being able to enjoy myself all the way, because I felt like I was being perceived by this, like, new human I was interacting with, who I knew is, like, one of the most. He was. He's like fucking Jaden Smith. So we were just like, sitting there listening to this album and then we're like, okay. We're like, all getting comfortable and we're like, this is okay. Like, it's not that deep. The room is dark. We can enjoy ourselves and, like, freak the fuck out. That we're listening to this awesome album for the first time, and then all of a sudden you just hear like, like a. Like, Like a flash. Like, you know, like really big flashes, how you can hear them winding up from electricity.
India
And it literally genuinely blinded us. Like, I was disoriented. Like, it was a Call of Duty flashbang. Like, you throw a flashbang in a room, it's like. And like, you're like your ears are ringing and you're, like, trying to, like, get in.
Drew
It's also like, at the same time.
India
It'S like this area is flashbanging you.
Drew
It's literally like this small kind of foggy room because, like, someone had smoked in it or something. Like, I don't know why there was smoke in it.
India
Yeah, it felt like it was a.
Drew
Foggy room and it was just Moises going around, like, to everyone to get their reactions.
India
It was like, I want those photos so bad. I want those.
Kai
Literally a Men in Black device.
India
It was wiping our memory from the album so we couldn't leak it. It was literally insane.
Drew
So insane. Like, it literally, like. And then it's just like. Like also just so over stimulating because it's like Saturation era. Just like, so, like. Like, it's just so much. I would argue that Saturation 2 is my favorite album, but, like, of the three, but simply, it was just so much. Dude, it was literally fudgeing insane. And me and Drew, like, we thought. That's when we thought it was over. We were like, okay, now James Smith's gonna leave. But no, but then we all got brought up to the seminar in the big room upstairs. And then he spoke to us for like, two hours. And I mean, like, yeah, like the iPhone thing. Like, he said a bunch of stuff that if. Now I heard like, a young Jaden Smith saying that I'd be like, this kid is way too intelligent for his time. Like, he, like, he has too much to think about. But at the time, I was so greened out, I was like, what the is this? And then Moises is, like, grabbing at my purple bag, which also was like, why did that purple bag give me so much attention from, like, random men? When I was like, I know because.
India
You had the wagon.
Drew
And I was. But I was given that by somebody.
India
So, like, it was hanging off that bag, and people were like, oh, oh.
Drew
Damn, she knows she's killed. But yeah. He was like, what's in your bag? And I was like, I don't know.
India
If Beyonce and Lady Gaga telephone. She knows.
Drew
I was like, I Don't know garbage. And he was like, let me see. And I was like get away. Like I wasn't saying get away, but I'm really like, dude, you're so high.
India
And you're freaking me out.
Drew
And I watched you a lot as a kid and now you're like really.
India
Proud to get my bag and have.
Drew
He is the most interesting human I've ever seen like interact in rooms. Yeah, I like, I, I really want.
India
To like one to one conversations with him because like it was mainly them talking to us. But like I wish I was able to just like inquire a little bit and just dig a little deeper especially into moises areas. Also his boxed water was actually so advanced and really.
Drew
Does he own box water? Is it just one really?
India
I, I think he owns boxed water, not box water.
Drew
I think it's the blue one.
India
Oh yeah, the blue one. Yeah, it's not box water, but still like his water company was really advanced and he was like doing in like Flint, Michigan when still no one has ever done for it and he was just out there giving out free water which was so sick. But yeah, his, his whole mission with that. I was like, damn, that's really cool. Is it still a thing?
Drew
Just water? Yeah, yeah, I, I have it. The coffee shop I like in Miami carries it. So yeah, I put a few dollars in Jaden's pocket because I just like still with him.
India
Yeah, he's just a boy. Like buy your food. I would love in their products and their services. Don't ask for it for free.
Drew
That's what we like, that's what we do with our friend Jaden. I wish we could. I, I would love, I would love to have another conversation with him. But yeah, that was like the most interesting.
India
We could easily worm our way into a room with him somehow. Yeah, we're like parasites.
Drew
But he would know. He would be like, who are these freaks? Like I don't remember them.
India
Yeah.
Drew
Or maybe he does, who knows? But yeah, that was like the most insane thing I'd ever witnessed because I was like, I'm literally watching Jaden Smith like go on a tangent that I honestly didn't have the intelligence to keep up with. And I was so. That was like my most overstimulated night like I had ever had in my life. Especially after being.
Kai
Flashback's really interesting.
Drew
It literally is such a good take. Like it's true. Like we have always like.
Kai
Like humans crowding around a fire.
India
Yeah, yeah. Looking at every fire.
Kai
Everyone looking at Tick tock on the Couch. Like, it's the same thing.
Drew
It go back. He was literally on his.
India
The inherent and incessant need. The inherent incessant, not primal, but what's it called? Royal blooded need to have entertainment while I feast. And that's what I do. I eat. And I can't eat until I watch television. And that's from my royal blood. That's what you think my colonial blood colonism is here.
Drew
You didn't even say it right.
Kai
You're the worst colonizer.
India
Colonialism, Colonism. It's like in the gut. It's in your colon.
Drew
I'm in your guts, Drew.
Kai
Appropriating colonizer culture right now and failing at it.
Drew
I know you, like, don't even know shit about. You don't know shit.
India
Well, I just bought, like, 36 houses in Japan in a really rundown neighborhood so I could rent them out. Like, I'm doing what I was put here to do.
Drew
What you were put here to do. Everybody who is a landlord, you could trace them back to evil. Yeah, except our landlord.
India
Except for. I mean, but even still, she has her moments where she's mean.
Drew
She's a bit evil.
India
Yeah, but like, you can't stand a landlord fully. But just don't say anything to me when I am a landlord. It's in my cards. I'm gonna be real. Actually, I could never do that to someone. I gotta be. I have to clarify. I could never do that to anybody. Oh, my God, she's so much piss.
Drew
Oh, also, I want to, like, say it, but the last time I saw Moises was at arcade and he was going in on the boxing thing. Oh. It's literally, you know, the video of me running up and hitting it. He literally saw us doing that. I was like, that looks fucking fun. And that's why we need to hang out with him, because he gets it fully get it. Like, he would be able to hang, I feel, because he literally saw us running around and fudgeing, hitting the shit out of it. And then when we all finished, he, like, went and started like, hella playing with it. And he was there before us and nobody had touched that machine.
India
Oh, my God. I want him on the fucking podcast now. Saying those are. That's our first guess. All right, listen.
Drew
Everybody would be like, cool, but like, where is Orion and Josh?
India
Like, listen, listen, listen. Everybody clip that last thing and say Drew and Inya on Jaden Smith. Blow it the up so we can have a content point of contact with Jaden Smith. Don't do that. But you Could. You could clip it if you want and post it, but don't feel the pressure too.
Drew
You can't, because I'm gonna legally go after you and get it taken down.
India
I'll just text my friend and be like, yo, link me with this person.
Drew
Link me. Let's.
India
Let's Lincoln build.
Drew
Yeah, let's Lincoln build. I want to get you at a table outside of Erewhon and pick your brain. That's what I'm gonna start saying to people. I want to go get some food at the hot bar and sit outside of.
India
This is my go to. I just love the way you see the world. Like, you just see it. So.
Drew
So how.
India
So good. So differently.
Drew
Your viewscape on the way we live is just so.
India
I was trying to mimic that one guy that I was showing you on Tick Tock. That, like the male gaze guy.
Drew
Oh, yeah. Right, right, right, right.
India
We won't get into that.
Drew
When will we move past? Right, right.
India
I don't think ever. I think it's in our society forever.
Drew
Right?
India
Just like yoss is in my vocabulary till the end. Till the day I die. Oh, I just said a Kanye lyric. I'm a Texas guy till the day I die.
Drew
You didn't, though. Now you did. Do you want to cut it or, like, cut it?
India
Cut it.
Drew
You, like, are giving, like, your brain is fully empty right now.
India
It's just because I've spoken so much. What did that. What did that say? 45 minutes, because I missed it. I just saw.
Kai
Man, I love my little app, you know, Kai.
India
Wait, can I show them?
Kai
Yeah.
India
So we don't, like. So we have kind of like an idea of how long we've been recording for. There's no way you can see that. Kai has this little app that shows you. He'll hold it up, and he'll hold it up for, like, three minutes. And we. We're obviously looking at it, and he's just holding.
Drew
Well, like, that's the hard part is because, like, we want to be able to acknowledge that we've looked at it without being like, okay, cool. Kai, you can put your phone down.
India
Recording. And I'm not joking.
Drew
Yeah, I can see that. It has been.
India
Oh, my God.
Kai
That gets me every single time without.
Drew
Fail, I guess Kai, because he somehow thinks it's gonna be his fault, and he gets, like, scared.
India
Wait, but the way red means recording.
Drew
What the are you doing?
India
Have you ever seen the YouTube channel Red Rings recording?
Drew
No, but I. I, like, actually can't.
India
Wait to play Fortnite Opn.106.9.
Kai
What is that?
India
What.
Kai
What was red means? Recording. It's that, like, unlocked something in my brain.
India
Wasn't that, like, music, YouTube channel. The key of awesome, Ducky of Awesome.
Kai
Is that not, like, a really old YouTube channel?
India
It's probably like seven years old. But he still posts today and his content still is that up the audio.
Drew
Like, you doing that?
Kai
I don't give a. I think it's gonna sound good. Yeah, it's gonna sound cool.
India
Thank you.
Drew
My God.
India
Bro, you're being a B word right now. You're not even gonna say it? Because I love you, dude.
Drew
What is this episode? Like, what is happening? There's, like, gonna be so much to be cut because we're just, like, dead.
India
I don't think so.
Kai
I actually think it's a good one.
India
I actually was the best episode we've ever recorded.
Kai
I was like, this is a really good one.
Drew
Yeah, you're a really good one in.
India
Bed, but you just don't have a gauge of when you're good.
Drew
Yeah, I don't have a gauge because I'm fucking straight, bitch. You would have a gauge. What, G, A, Y, G, E. Well.
India
I'm a G A Y M E R gamer. So let's talk about it.
Drew
You're like, not though. I wouldn't consider either of us actually like, to be gamers because playing Fortnite is like. It's like what it used to mean when you only played, like, Call of Duty. Like, I don't think if you only play Call of Duty in Fortnite, you know, you get to consider.
India
Well, now I'm playing Yu Gi. Oh, my Steam deck.
Drew
I. I wouldn't consider that. That's like playing solitaire. Like, you're not.
India
You're not. There's more thought to it. It's like chess, and the more you learn about it.
Drew
Also, I was playing chess does not make you a gamer. It makes you a nerd ass. Loser. Loser. You're a loser.
India
I. I can't do anything. Do you see how I'm treated? I just have hobbies, and I want to put a label on myself. This is why I can't label myself, because people don't let me label myself.
Drew
I'm labeling you for you. You're a.
Kai
So you have a victim complex and.
India
I have a giant. Like, what's the fucking difference? Like, I'm confused. Like, I really don't know. Like, the difference. Victim complex, giant penis. Like, they're synonymous.
Drew
They are pretty synonymous.
India
Well, the new Fortnite update is fucking lit. Also, I've been getting into Pokemon vcg, which is just competitive Pokemon. And it's fucking lit. It's fucking lit. Video game lit, that. You saw me watching it yesterday. I know, and I was into it. I was, like, on the couch, like, lean forward watching because it's like nail biting. It's like sports. I've also been watching so much basketball. I have to read this. This is, like, the funniest thing I've ever read in my life. And you didn't really have a reaction to it when I read it out loud, but I was like, damn, this is like a banger. Like, damn. Well, I got two, actually. I got two.
Drew
You didn't have a reaction to what I sent you last night. That literally made me crack the fuck up. I've been on a really crazy SNL video like. Like, see this.
India
That's why.
Drew
Because I don't have other social medias. I've become the most generic human in terms of consumption. I'm literally watching snl.
India
Well, no, because it's fair, because Kiki Palmer Tour, and they're finally going with, like, green out humor because they saw Please Don't Destroy is like, doing numbers online. So they were just like, oh, this is what the younger generation wants to see. And, like, who fucking cares about all the old dying freaks? Like, this is what we're going to start doing.
Drew
And that is what all the cast members of SNL said, which is actually, like, kind of up for them to say they don't give a. About their older, like, audience and they want them to die.
India
Yeah, but they should.
Drew
So we'll see if. We'll see if they correct that.
India
But yeah, Kiki Palmer, I think we. Did we talk about that yesterday? No, but she.
Drew
At this point, when this goes up, it's gonna be so old.
India
Destroyed.
Drew
I know. She's so good. She's hilarious, dude.
India
Like, this is her moment.
Drew
Yeah. All of the skits she was in, I don't know if you've seen any of them, are so funny. There was another one I watched last night that I hadn't seen. That, like, was really fucking good. She's just been so good. But show the thing that made you crack up. I'm sorry.
India
The reason men can't satisfy y' all sexually no more is because y' all are overdoing it with these toys. Stop tasering your pussy every night. It's damaging the nerves and feelings.
Drew
Yeah, Tasering.
India
Stop wing biting.
Drew
Tasing. Does it say tasering? Yeah, that's fudgeing awesome. No, like, literally, I'm not kidding. Okay. I was gonna say something crazy, but I'm not gonna say that. But once you go to, like, wingbot, going back to analog is really difficult. Like, it's just, like. It's unnecessary. It's like. It's like having a car and then being like, I'm gonna take my bike eight miles today. It's like, no, but I'm hungry. And, like, I can get to the store in, like, three minutes.
India
That analogy is so sick.
Kai
Do you think that it actually does, like, desensitize stuff? Because, like, I was talking to my friend about this, and she was like, yeah, I use my vibrator and I'm a little bit concerned about being able to have normal sex.
Drew
I don't think so. Because I still have enjoyable sex, like, when it's not included in the picture. Yeah, like, I don't think so. But what I was gonna say is I tapped into analog not that long ago. I was like, I still got it.
India
Like, this is.
Drew
I can still tap in. I can still tap into analog when need be because, okay, they need to figure out how to make vibrators with an undying battery. Like, I don't give a fuck if you have to put lead in there. Like, anything so that I don't have to plug it in. What? I have to plug it in. That's so crazy. Like, I don't care what you got to put in there. Lithium to make? Yeah. Like, give me a lithium battery. Give me something I can't put on an airplane, and I'll just buy one for different location.
India
Respect. Respect. This is also awesome. Hey, my sister is thinking about getting her nipples pierced. I know you're not photoshopped, so is she allowed to see yours? I'm for real. Just gonna show her my phone. She won't let me see. I just offered because I'm taking her and she's complaining about how all these models photos are fake as it doesn't matter. It doesn't affect me either way. So it's up to you. I don't care. I just told her I know some females who have them and I could try. So this dude hit up a.
Drew
Tried to get pictures of her tits.
India
And on his Snapchat and was, like, using that as an example.
Drew
That's so funny. I. I used to want my nipples pierced so badly.
India
It was the finsta era.
Drew
I know. I still kind of want it. Should we go get our nipples pierced and belly button pierced?
India
I Want my hairy, disgusting belly pierced so bad.
Drew
We should do it before we go to spring. Like, literally now is the time to do it. Because the problem is every summer rolls around and I'm like, I wish my belly button was pierced. But then the problem is you can't go in pools and, like, do all the fun stuff. And also the sweat makes it, like, more prone to infection. And that's my biggest fear with, like, piercings, is getting an infection. So now would be the time because it's all cold and you're going to.
India
Be bundled up and you're not going to be all sweaty and nasty. Yeah.
Drew
Although, like, if you, I guess we would literally have to get it next week because. Yeah, during its healing process will be in really cold places. And I think wearing too tight of clothes is bad for it because it like, like we'll tug, tug it. I would be the to get a belly button piercing and rip my shirt.
India
Off and it rips through my belly.
Drew
Button, falls off, it turns into an Audi and just shrivels off.
India
You know, if you poke, if you're a guy and you poke your belly button, you can feel it in your penis tip. Try it, Kai.
Kai
Wait, what?
India
What? Did you poke your belly button really hard?
Kai
Oh, I think I, oh, what the.
India
I know.
Kai
Whoa.
India
Crazy. I, I, you try it. See if you feel it anywhere. Okay. We're literally sexually satisfying ourselves.
Drew
I know. I'm like, I have to go and I'm like, digging in my skirt.
India
We have to start.
Drew
All right, well. Oh, okay. I'm gonna show you the clip and you're not gonna think it's funny, like, but I think I thought it was so funny because it's so bad. This, like, joke that was on snl, it literally made me crack up because this was like, this was like a, like a barning moment. But it was like so funny because he really believed in this joke. It's so stupid.
India
Frogs in the rainforest have a higher.
Drew
Pitch call than urban frogs.
India
Study also finds that female frogs be shopping.
Drew
And the whole crowd is kind of.
India
Like, oh, saying, I stand by that joke.
Drew
Like, immediately after joke suck. Like, you know, you wrote it and was like, that's not the best I've ever done. But for some reason it's so good.
Kai
Like, respect.
India
But I have one more little thing. No, I can't do that. Never mind.
Drew
What are we gonna do? Okay. You were the worst fucking you. Okay, okay. Yeah, you can if you want, but should I just start going into media?
India
Oh, I've heard we're Doing media.
Drew
Okay, well, let's get into media.
India
Was my, like, whisper really warm?
Drew
Yeah. And I, like, felt it on my hand.
India
I tried not to make it warm.
Drew
Well, you made it warm, so.
India
Little boxes on the hilltop Little boxes made of tiki Remember what you're fighting for Little boxes on the hilltop and traffic and suburbia and a 95. Remember that's what you're fighting for.
Drew
What are you saying?
Kai
It makes perfect sense to me.
India
Little boxes on the hill okay, I'm.
Drew
Going to give this album away. I've been listening to it for a very long time. It is Charles Stepney, step on step. I really like that album has been just on rotation for the past few weeks. It's really good. It's really sweet. Just a good listen. And it's really long. So it's like an hour and 17 minutes. And that's why I've been listening to in the car. And then also this song just reminds me. I've already said it, but, like, it, like, reminds me of, like, looking out the train window in Japan and just being like, damn, life is so sweet.
India
We were in Japan.
Drew
When you, like, just live it to love the people you love and learn to get what. Because you saying we were in Japan and, like, I don't know, it just made me think of everything in such a sweet way, but can't get it out of my head by electric, like, orchestra. I also just love the color because I have these, but I really have been wanting for so long a pair of glittery, like, Dorothy, like, super Dorothy ones. But I can only find costume ones ever. And then, like, Mew Mew makes, like, silver ones. Like, but I need, like, these. I need Repetto. Repetto. If you're listening, I need you to make these in glitter. And I know maybe you're worried because, like, they might not sell the shoes. They might not sell as well because, like, for somebody to own, like, glittery Dorothy shoes is a big statement. But I will get a pair. So that's all that matters is if you sell one. And I will buy them.
India
Yeah.
Drew
And I'll be happy. And I. You know what? To make it worth your while, I'll. But I'll buy two. I'll buy one in this size. I. And then one in a bigger size so that I could put thicker, longer socks. So now you have two sales on your hand. So think about that.
India
Yeah.
Drew
You have two sales on your hand if they go on sale.
India
Right.
Drew
Because they're way too expensive. Right, Right.
India
Okay. So my media is bad Vibes by Palmistry and Blade. And Isabelle loves Story. That's a cool song. Also. Wait, where the is that at? Oh, no, hold on. I've been listening to Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross again in. Sugar Storm is still a fantastic song. It's actually my top song of 2022. Sugar Storm is. And then it's A Little Lost by Arthur Russell. Hyper Valid by.
Drew
Which is so funny because I like, like, I guess a lot of your music I don't hear you play because you play it in your room.
India
Yeah. And also when I'm back in Texas.
Drew
Yeah.
India
But yeah, I discovered Arthur Russell what Crystal by Apex Twin. And then the fifth is such great high. It's remastered by the Postal Service, which I love that. That's in my top five. And then I've been playing Pokemon and what have I like, why is my voice doing that? I feel like I sound like I'm about to start crying. I'm not. Just so sad and emotional.
Drew
My God, get over yourself. And then it made it onto my topless songs too. So that was both like.
India
Yeah, but mine was my number two.
Drew
That was not my number two. My number two was. It's a rap by Mariah Carey. My top five is like so funny. It's Waters of March by Art Garfunkel. It's a rap by Mariah Carey. Healing by Todd Runesgren. Which is really annoying because two of those songs are in worst person in the World. So I watched that movie and was like, God, those songs are so good. And I listened to them so much. I would die for you by Prince. Which is no shocker because that was like my song. I need to make a new edit of the whole year footage.
India
I'm surprised.
Drew
While I couldn't love you more, John Martin, it was like, it's number seven because number six is oh My Love. Number seven actually is Mercury by Steve Lacy. Then Fuck All Night by Jay Z. And then Wild Horses by Prefab. I might post this. I might take out all of my really deep cuts because I'm a piece of shit and I don't want everybody to have what I listen to because I am a gatekeeping cunt. But I might, like, maybe make a little public playlist.
India
Nice.
Drew
If you're fucking lucky, bitch.
India
So after such great heights, it's Hotel Breakfast by Blade. It's not up to you by Bjork. True Love will Find you in the End by Dan Daniel Johnston and Chroma Key Dream Coat by Boards of Canada. I think my top artist was boards of Canada, which is lit.
Drew
So annoying is you mentioning that Daniel Johnson song. Just remind reminded me I had Josh cracking the up because I kept singing it wrong on person. On purpose and person. All right, bye, guys.
India
What do you mean? What is. Do you know what on person means?
Kai
I have no idea what that means.
Drew
One day when you say something to me, I'm just gonna fucking deck you in the wiener.
India
No, see, that's. I love that.
Drew
Oh. But I kept messing up the lyrics and be like, did you know that's actually what the word said? And he was. For some reason, that was making him so laugh. I was like, true love will never find you in the end. Like, did you know that's what he said? And then he just. For some reason, I was making him crack up, and I'm like, bro, you've never listened to the fucking song. We'll find you in the end. All right, Bam. Well, thank you, guys.
India
Until true love will find you thank.
Drew
You guys so much.
India
In the end this is a promise with a catch. Only if you're looking Will it find you inside the light the light dude.
Kai
It honestly sounds so good.
India
Thank you. True love will find you in the end Just left.
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Emergency Intercom: Enya's Year Of Rest And Relaxation
Host/Authors: Enya Umanzor and Drew Phillips
Release Date: December 16, 2022
Episode Overview
In this episode of Emergency Intercom, hosts Enya Umanzor and Drew Phillips delve into personal experiences surrounding mental health, substance use, and the challenges of relocating. The conversation seamlessly transitions into lighter topics such as media consumption, memorable encounters, and humorous anecdotes, all infused with the podcast’s signature comedic flair.
Time Stamp: [01:10] - [01:50]
The episode opens with Drew reflecting on his personal journey over the past year. He muses on the concept of having a "year of rest and relaxation," connecting it to his own struggles with depression.
Drew:
"[01:10]… I can't believe I've actually had my year of rest and relaxation."
Enya (India):
"[01:29]… I read books and I read them fast. And I'll insert a little clip of me reading my year, finishing my year of rest and relaxation in Japan…"
This segment sets the tone for a candid discussion about mental health and the coping mechanisms the hosts have employed.
Time Stamp: [02:02] - [03:54]
Drew and Enya delve into the topic of melatonin use, highlighting its over-prescription and societal normalization.
Drew:
"[02:02]… I was fully just abusing Melatonin instead, which is another crazy arc to think about."
Enya:
"[02:53] People take way too much melatonin. One, you're not supposed to exceed 5 milligrams…"
The conversation underscores the risks of dependency and the impact on natural sleep cycles, with Drew sharing his extreme melatonin usage.
Time Stamp: [04:07] - [07:15]
Drew recounts his move to Los Angeles and how it exacerbated his depression, leading to a worsening reliance on melatonin.
Drew:
"[04:32]… When I got to LA, it got really bad because I didn't have to fake in front of my parents anymore…"
He describes his bleak daily routine, characterized by excessive sleep and isolation, and the physical environment's negative influence on his mental state.
Time Stamp: [07:15] - [15:05]
The hosts explore the theme of paranoia, discussing fears of intruders and the psychological effects of living in a dark, confined space.
Drew:
"[12:54]… Somebody's looking in my windows. The bugs are under your skin right now…"
Enya:
"[09:55]… my room never got sunlight. It was so bad."
This segment highlights the interplay between environment and mental health, emphasizing how physical surroundings can amplify existing anxieties.
Time Stamp: [15:05] - [21:45]
Enya and Drew share amusing and slightly strained interactions with their landlord, depicting her as a caring yet intrusive figure.
Enya:
"[20:31]… She called you arm, and your name is India. Like, it's insane."
Their landlord's endearing quirks, such as giving nicknames and being overly cautious after their cat went missing, add a humorous layer to their living situation.
Time Stamp: [21:45] - [33:01]
A highlight of the episode is the recounting of a surreal experience meeting celebrities Jaden Smith and Moises Arias. Drew describes the encounter with awe and amusement.
Drew:
"[25:16]… he was just sitting in the window like fucking Batman… his school was the school of magic…"
Enya:
"[32:10]… he was like, doing in like Flint, Michigan… his whole mission was really cool."
The hosts vividly describe Jaden Smith's unconventional behavior and the overwhelming nature of the interaction, blending humor with genuine intrigue.
Time Stamp: [33:01] - [47:11]
Transitioning to lighter topics, Enya and Drew discuss various media, including TV shows like Squid Game and Stranger Things, and their take on modern entertainment trends.
Enya:
"[15:43]… has anybody seen Squid Game? It's like this small little thing…"
They also touch upon the evolving nature of fandoms and the impacts of pop culture on personal lives, peppered with humorous takes on current trends and nostalgic references.
Time Stamp: [47:11] - [53:57]
The latter part of the episode is filled with playful exchanges, jokes, and funny stories about personal quirks, such as aspirations for body piercings and amusing interactions with friends.
Drew:
"[45:05]… We should do it before we go to spring… I'm gonna pick your brain."
Enya:
"[50:51]… I've discovered Arthur Russell…"
Their chemistry shines through as they engage in witty banter, making the conversation both entertaining and relatable for listeners.
Mental Health Awareness: The hosts openly discuss their personal battles with depression and anxiety, emphasizing the importance of recognizing and addressing mental health issues.
Substance Use and Dependency: Highlighting the risks associated with over-the-counter supplements like melatonin, the episode serves as a cautionary tale about dependency.
Impact of Environment on Well-being: The discussion underscores how living conditions, such as moving to a new city or residing in a dark apartment, can significantly affect one's mental state.
Humorous Human Interactions: From quirky landlords to celebrity encounters, the hosts infuse humor into their narratives, making personal stories engaging and digestible.
Cultural Commentary: Through their conversations about media and pop culture, Enya and Drew offer insights into contemporary entertainment and its influence on everyday life.
Notable Quotes
Drew on Melatonin Abuse:
"[03:37]… I was taking so many melatonin..."
Enya on Excessive Melatonin Use:
"[03:50]… It literally wouldn't work. And I would just keep going..."
Drew on Paranoia:
"[12:54]… Somebody's looking in my windows. The bugs are under your skin right now..."
Enya on the Landlord's Nicknames:
"[20:31]… She called you arm, and your name is India. Like, it's insane."
Drew on Meeting Jaden Smith:
"[25:16]… he was just sitting in the window like fucking Batman…"
Conclusion
This episode of Emergency Intercom offers a blend of deep personal reflections and lighthearted humor. Enya and Drew navigate through serious topics with authenticity while maintaining their comedic essence, ensuring an engaging and relatable listening experience for both regular fans and newcomers alike.