Josiah we need to be friends

Summary

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Emergency Intercom: "Josiah we need to be friends"

Podcast: Emergency Intercom – iHeartPodcasts
Hosts: Enya Umanzor & Anya (Drew Phillips is referenced, not present)
Release Date: April 17, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this highly candid, offbeat, and hilarious episode, Enya and Anya recount their recent trip to Texas, diving into their outrageous experiences at their Austin live show (with special love for their friend Josiah), friendship dynamics, self-identity, navigating mental health and medication, and the subtle art of being weird together. They touch on everything from the destructive powers of Miami girls' trips, running into podcast listeners who double as future dentists, their relationship with substances, and the beauty of close platonic relationships. Bursting with in-jokes, personal stories, and comedic banter, this episode captures the heartbeat of Emergency Intercom: friends oversharing, laughing at the absurd, and somehow sliding into deeply real moments.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Texas Show, Friendship, and The Legend of Josiah

[02:30–08:14]

• Enya and Anya recap their magical live show in Austin, expressing gratitude for their audience and the unique, chaotic energy their friend Josiah brought as the opener.
• Josiah's performance, described as unchoreographed and unrehearsed, becomes a highlight for both hosts, eliciting laughter and tears backstage.
• Memorable Quote:
  • "It made me very grateful for not having taken my own life all those years I wanted to." – Enya [04:38]
  • “Josiah...is like a savant...the way he can consume a genre or a form of media and creation and then just be able to mimic it in his own way within, like, the same hour is so crazy.” – Anya [06:10]
• They reflect on how their group values creativity for its own sake, not for external validation.

2. Spontaneity, Authenticity, and Social Projections

[08:14–10:14]

• The hosts get meta about their approach to life and performance: “we fly by the seat of our own pants.”
• They joke about their new favorite insults (“pill popping gaywad”) and analyze the tone/context needed for words to land right.
• Notable Quote:
  • “Gaywad gets a lot of power when you add the pill popping. A pill popping gaywad is crazy.” – Enya [10:02]
• The conversation humorously morphs into a reflection on their wild years and how those experiences shape adulthood.

3. Drugs, Addiction, and Empathy

[10:41–14:50]

• The hosts reflect on past wildness, grateful they got experimentation out of their systems young, and contrast that with friends who crashed hard in college.
• Anya shares a story about helping a friend in and out of rehab, emphasizing compassion and knowing when to let go.
• They joke about polygamy and its relation to intimacy, landing on a tender note about the deep, effortless intimacy in their chosen friendships.

4. Fan Encounters, Stereotypes, and the Emergency Intercom Listener

[15:13–19:01]

• Anya and Enya gleefully recall a bizarre rooftop pool night in Austin, and meeting a listener who is in dental school, challenging the stereotype of their fans as only “bed crumb people.”
• Memorable Moment:
  • "Emergency intercom fans aren’t just people with crumbs in their bed. We can do all those things." – Anya [17:32]

5. Self-Image, OCD, and Mental Health Realness

[19:16–20:37], [54:37–55:36]

• Enya shares the relief of being diagnosed with OCD and understanding intrusive thoughts, advocating for specialized (ERP) therapy, and promoting NOCD as a resource.
• Both discuss their struggles with “hair dysmorphia” and the relationship between physical appearance and self-perception.
• Notable Quote:
  • “Finding out I had OCD alone was genuinely so relieving...Why are the questions never ending? And why do all the questions end with me being horrible and I’m going to burn for eternity for all of the bad things I do all day, even though I don’t do anything bad?” – Enya [19:16] & [38:49]

6. Social Skills, Conversation, and Over-Therapization

[28:51–33:16]

• The pair lament how the internet has made “bouncing” off each other in conversation seem self-centered, when in reality, it’s how friendship deepens.
• They critique the pressure to have “high-stakes” conversations and the trend of over-therapization, proposing that not everything has to be analyzed for conflict or lessons.
• Notable Quotes:
  • "People now observe somebody exchanging information...and see that as, 'Oh my gosh, this person always has to bring the conversation back to them…’ Baby, so we’re bouncing off each other. That is all most conversations are.” – Enya [29:10–30:11]
  • “It’s like, can’t we just kiki? Can’t we just talk?” – Enya [33:16]

7. Friendship Maintenance and Everyday ‘Conflicts’

[33:45–38:15]

• Enya and Anya dissect how real friendship is proven by daily, sometimes unspoken, micro-sacrifices for one another—like choosing when to stay out or go home to suit the other’s needs.
• Notable Quote:
  • “You move your pieces around this person if you want to keep this person on your board. And it doesn’t have to always be yelling and screaming and conflict...” – Enya [37:30]

8. Medication & Identity: The Vyvanse Tangent

[44:47–54:12]

• Enya muses on her relationship with Vyvanse (for ADHD), feeling ambiguity about needing or wanting pharmaceutical help to maintain “productive adult” routines.
• Anya chimes in with insight about recognizing when Enya’s on or off her meds, reaffirming their close understanding of each other.
• They riff on the economics of selling prescription meds, but then circle back to real talk about the tricky relationship between medication, creativity, and satisfaction.

9. Nostalgia, Hoarding, and Sentimental Value

[55:36–58:22]

• Anya details going through old boxes, reflecting on the importance of saving mementos for a future imagined audience (like grandchildren), shaped by a family legacy of frequently purging belongings.

10. Pop Culture, Coachella, and Final Reflections

[61:36–end]

• They rapidly run through “Media of the Week” – with Enya shouting out Sean John Baptiste and Anya raving about Slater’s Coachella set and embarrassing herself over not knowing Jerry Maguire is not a documentary.
• They close with gratitude for their years-long partnership, anti-nostalgia stances, and hints at next week's Coachella content.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• Josiah’s Impact:
  • “I’m so happy I didn’t kill myself. And I meant it with my whole fucking chest because, like, what do you mean there’s a chance I killed myself and I never got to be 27 years old watching my 24-year-old friend put on a roomy costume…” – Enya [04:48]
• On Friend Group Authenticity:
  • “It’s not even about [public acceptance]. It’s really about the sleepovers and doing all that to your friends. And then every now and then, by the grace of God, we get to do it live.” – Enya [07:28]
• On Conflict in Relationships:
  • “There are things we put up with each other on such little levels that…most of it is just like, okay, I’m trying to think of something…” – Enya [34:05]
• Therapy and Internet Culture:
  • “Not everything needs to be a conversation. I don’t know why it’s so hard for people to just kiki and have fun… it feels like a lot of relationships I see, it’s just like people like wanting to fight to prove that they can communicate.” – Anya [31:55]
• Coexistence & Individuality:
  • “I’ve just always wanted friends. I already have that. I have friends and peers beyond my wildest dreams. I’m not really chasing more attention.” – Enya [49:59]
• On Listeners:
  • "Emergency Intercom fans have sex. So much of it." – Enya [25:33] (tongue-in-cheek)
• Self-Recognition:
  • "Everything I say is a projection to an extent. But I gu. Single thing every human says." – Enya [18:43]

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Texas/Austin Show & Josiah’s Set: [02:36–08:14]
• Philosophy of Why They Do What They Do: [07:55–08:49]
• ‘Pill Popping Gaywad’ and Riffing on Labels: [09:08–10:14]
• Addiction & Helping Friends: [11:01–13:12]
• Hostel Pool/Meeting a Dentist Listener in Austin: [15:13–18:22]
• OCD, Therapy, and Mental Health: [19:16–20:37], [38:49–39:52]
• Conversations & Social Skills: [28:51–33:16]
• Friendship Compromises & Micro-Conflicts: [33:45–38:15]
• Enya’s Vyvanse Tangent: [44:47–54:12]
• Nostalgia, Storage, & Family Stories: [55:36–58:22]
• Media of the Week + Pop Culture Goofs: [61:36–63:19]
• Closing Thoughts/Reflections on the Podcast: [60:20–61:36]

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Tone & Takeaways

The episode radiates the authentic, sometimes chaotic humor, and intimacy that makes Emergency Intercom stand out. Enya and Anya’s energy oscillates between irreverent jokes, sharp self-awareness, and strikingly honest moments. It’s an episode that rewards longtime listeners and welcomes new ones to their unfiltered, frequently absurd universe—where loving your friends really is the biggest flex.

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Transcript

[Enya]

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[Anya]

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[Anya]

All?

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[Anya]

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[Diana Maria Riva]

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[Anya]

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[Diana Maria Riva]

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[Enya]

Pinterest instead of having sex?

[Diana Maria Riva]

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[Anya]

Hey hey.

[Enya]

Welcome to this episode of Emergency intercom. Guys, today there's so much to talk about.

[Anya]

Yeah.

[Enya]

Went to Texas. We had a great show in Austin. It was magical.

[Anya]

Thank you for going. I needed that.

[Enya]

Guys, guys, we needed that. Needed that. It's like a girls trip, except not to Miami because we all came back still friends.

[Anya]

Oh, my God. Did you see that series, like, when the trio becomes a duo?

[Enya]

Yeah.

[Anya]

Do you see all that drama?

[Enya]

Oh, no, but that's like, I. I don't know if, like, what you're talking about, the current drama, but, like, that's a common. Like, that's a common topic online. It's like a Miami trip will make or break you. And girls.

[Anya]

I mean, us and our girls, we went to Miami and came back stronger than ever.

[Enya]

Actually, no, I haven't spoken to half the people on that trip in 18 years.

[Anya]

I mean, yeah, true, true, true.

[Enya]

Like, literally not true. Like, two of them basically live here. One of them being Josiah. Oh, my God, it's so awesome. Josiah moved. Oh, also, wait, actually, we should talk about that. Josiah's opening set.

[Anya]

Yeah, yeah.

[Enya]

Austin show.

[Anya]

Insert the clip. Really, really major, really special thing happened.

[Enya]

The most magical thing I've ever witnessed. Like, easily top 10 things I've ever seen in my life. And I was crying, laughing, and it

[Anya]

was laughing and crying so hard backstage that she legit. You could legitimately hear it from the audience. Like, there were tears running down both of our faces. And it was just like one of those moments where, like, I just could not believe what was fudgeing happening on stage. And someone was like, what is. What is emergency intercom even about? And like, that's literally what I was thinking on the side of the stage. I was like, what are we doing? But it was literally the funniest thing I think.

[Enya]

I know. It was the greatest thing I've ever seen. It made me very grateful for not having taken my own life all those years. I wanted to.

[Anya]

And yeah, literally sidestage said that she was like, I'm so happy I didn't kill myself.

[Enya]

And I meant it with my whole fucking chest because, like, what do you mean there's a chance I killed myself. And I never got to be 27 years old watching my 24 year old friend put on a roomy costume and sing a cover of a popular song that breaks into a. Then he dances an unchoreographed, unrehearsed dance that he. Everyone was like, what are you gonna do for the dance break? And he's like, it's just whatever comes,

[Anya]

it's just Gonna come to me naturally. And then. And then he does a set of comedy that we made with him within 12 hours of the show itself, dude.

[Enya]

Also, like, I wouldn't even say we made it with him, because made it with him was. He was like, damn, I should practice what I'm gonna do for my standup. And then we just sat in a room with him and watched him come up with that stuff. And we were, like, laughing in a painful way. And anytime we were like, that's so bad and uncomfortable, he'd be like, okay, good, so I'm gonna keep that one.

[Anya]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Enya]

I love the hook in his ass joke.

[Anya]

And you better not. You better be quiet. You better be quiet, dude. I'm not getting breakfast with you, dude.

[Enya]

He's literally so.

[Anya]

He's a crazy person, but Josiah literally, like, to me, is actually like, one of the most special people.

[Enya]

Yeah.

[Anya]

I have ever encountered in my life. Like, just, like, beyond just, like, our friendship and being a good person and a caring person, like, the way he can, like, consume a genre or a form of media and creation and then just be able to mimic it in his own way within, like, the same hour is so crazy. Like, yeah, he can hear any song and be able to, like, match the tune.

[Enya]

Like, play it.

[Anya]

Play it on the guitar. He can watch, like, any reality show and be good at reality tv. He can, like, fucking watch stand up and just consume it and then become it. And it's just like, dude.

[Enya]

Like, I know he is just one of the. He's, to me, one of the last standing. Like, to me, there's people who are born to be. I mean, like, he's like a savant. That's kind of it. That's, like, the word I'm looking for. He's just a fucking savant. And it's just hilarious because I've been grateful, and you have, too, I think, to be around a lot of really artistic people who actually are, like, entrepreneurs in their own right and savants. But Josiah is like, the rare. The rarest form of that, because he genuinely deems no value from, like, public acceptance, which I also think is why we all get along so well. Because, of course, like, especially in this job, it's easy to start valuing the public, especially once it becomes your livelihood. But I am so grateful that, like, we've been able to find so many people who literally. It's just. No, baby, it's not even about that. It's really. It's really about the sleepovers and doing all that to your friends. And then every now and then, of course, by the grace of God, we get to do it live. But, like, even that, like, that's not even the joy of it.

[Anya]

The joy of, like, that whole show was for us. Yeah, like, the whole. The Everything we said on stage and did on stage, we do is for us.

[Enya]

And, like, that was a moment where I was really grateful that, like, oh, my God, we're just so. I've been really grateful. And I mean, look up. Oh, Drew's not grateful. He's fucking pissed.

[Anya]

I'm fucking throwing shit.

[Enya]

But I've just been so grateful that, like, I am able to live under the, like, stubbornness that is I and yu humans or have consistently only done what I want to do. And by the grace of God, people.

[Anya]

And actually the only times we did what other people told us to do,

[Enya]

it blew up.

[Anya]

Bad things happened. But we won't get there. We won't go there. We fly by the seat of our own pants. And I think that's important.

[Enya]

Well, while we were in Texas, I decided my new thing is if you're acting crazy and being fucking annoying, you're a pill popping weird ass bitch. You're a weird ass pill popping. Because a lot of y' all are starting to give me pill popping energy. Like, you're a pill popper. You're tweaking, you're tweaking off your pills. I can hear them jangling in your fucking pockets.

[Anya]

Not the viewers.

[Enya]

Yeah, no, not y'.

[Anya]

All.

[Enya]

This is what you play if, like, I'm sure a lot of y' all are introverted. Just play like me talking like that next time someone's being annoying around you out of one of your pockets and kind of lip sync it. Like that uber sound.

[Anya]

Yeah, Like Enya's new word is calling people pill poppers. Mine is calling people gay wads. Like, and the people we have found goes crazy. Yeah, Like a pill popping gay wad. Like, why did we, like, deviate away from calling people gaywads?

[Enya]

Well, because Lindsay Lohan, right, or Hillary Duff, which one of them told us not to say?

[Anya]

I think both of them don't say gay.

[Enya]

Yeah, they're not allowed to.

[Anya]

But, like, you're not allowed to say gay unless you're a queen. Like, Enya's allowed to say gay because I gave her the pass.

[Enya]

Yeah, I'm allowed to call you a gay wad because.

[Anya]

Because I am a gay one. And it's not coming from a hateful place.

[Enya]

But to me, gaywad is like, like the word nuts. Like, it's like what's his nuts. But gaywad gets a lot of power when. When you add the pill popping. A pill popping gaywad is crazy.

[Anya]

Yeah.

[Enya]

But also to me, like, I would. I would love nothing more than to be three drinks in and like 50 milligrams of an edible on a fatty meal in my stomach rumbling as I encounter the most magnificent which is a pill popping gaywad. And like, that combo sounds amazing, but just like every word, it really matters what the Tony put because like, bitch, you could be low key you when you were a teenager. Pill popping gay water.

[Anya]

Yeah. No, actually all of that is very true.

[Enya]

Popping pills and like gay one used as like.

[Anya]

I mean, that song Popping Pills is all we know. That was literally me for like two years.

[Enya]

I can't believe that. I mean, there is something to be said about getting all of that kind of like out.

[Anya]

I actually am forever grateful that I got to experience all that shit when I was like, younger and I got it all out of my system because a lot of the people that were very sheltered growing up, I mean, I took it to an extreme that like, I haven't even really spoken about on here that I will never probably talk about because that's my. That's her story. That's my story, his story. But a lot of the people that were very sheltered growing up and didn't get to experience a lot of the things I saw them all crash the out in school. Like, they went to college and crashed out and a lot of them have. Haven't fully, fully recovered. And actually one of them, I won't say their name, but they took a lot of money from me and I would just like, I just gave them like, cash because they were like, I just went to rehab and I need help, like, getting back on my feet. And I was like, sure, relapse. Then I heard from them again because they wrote me a letter from rehab and they asked for more cash and they're like, I swear to God, I'm gonna pay you all of this back once I'm back on my feet. When I give money to people, I never expected, never expect to get it back because it's just like the likelihood of getting it back is very low. And I don't want to put that pressure over people. And I've had money held over my head at some points in my life and I know how to. How horrible it feels.

[Enya]

Yeah. Also naturally, I feel like just by nature, even when, like, you don't have bread in your pocket, it's like, you come from the. Like, I'd rather bow my head and, like, have rumbly guts than watch you go through that versus, like, oh, then I have to be your teacher through it too. And, like, no, it's like. It's like, there's so many levels to it. It's like, literally, it's like, with all love and grace, be free.

[Anya]

Just keep it. Can you keep?

[Enya]

Keep. Okay, so he asked for more.

[Anya]

Oh, he just kept asking for more and more money until eventually I was like, I'm never gonna see this money back. This guy should be on his feet by now. And I think he's doing good now. Like, I genuinely think he's, like, killing it, dude.

[Enya]

That's the hardest thing in those kind of situations is pulling back, is when you kind of, like, allow someone in that situation to fly.

[Anya]

Yeah. And I think, like, his. His family did the right thing because he was very, very addicted to a lot of substance. I think he was a poly addict and, like, he was addicted to polygamy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he was a poly addict, which is. Polygamy is fucking evil. It's evil.

[Enya]

Polygamy is worse than addiction.

[Anya]

You are.

[Enya]

Polygamy is an addiction.

[Anya]

Oh, selfish and fucking greedy. I'm joking. Do whatever the fuck you want.

[Enya]

I literally do whatever you want, but

[Anya]

I still don't include me in it.

[Enya]

I just. You know, I'm okay with the fact that some things I'll just be an old ad about. And you. You just can't sell that to me. You can't sell that hoopla to me. You can't sell that hoopla to me. But again, I am. And I think you are too, coming from such a blessed place in terms of intimacy. Like, the intimacy and depth we have with. With even the waking cashier we graze upon in the smoke shop.

[Anya]

Even our, like, audience to an extent.

[Enya]

Yeah, no, literally, like, it's. It's. It really is just such a blessing. So I think that is why, like, as much as I make fun of polygamy, I'm like, I guess I get it. Because, like, it takes a village to feel loved. And sometimes you want that love to come with a dick in your butt. And you know what? I'm not gonna get mad at you. Like, sometimes we don't want to play with our butt.

[Anya]

Like, sometimes we want to dig in our butt sometimes. Sometimes we need our butt digged in. That's where we're at. And that's okay. I'm not going to.

[Enya]

I'm digging that dick in my Butt. I'm digging that dick in my butt.

[Anya]

But I. I need to know how many of y' all watch has been hotel. That's all I need to know. I did do, like, a live stream.

[Enya]

Well, with the art, with the amount of art we receive from our fans, which I am so grateful for. I love that, like, it is genuinely, again, such a blessing. And we've always talked about that.

[Anya]

We were talking about the Austin show for a second. We had a goof and a gaff in Austin. And also, like, randomly, like, even before the show, we ran into, like, a lot of viewers of the podcast, which was, like, really funny. And at our hotel that we were staying at, we, like, were. We were only there for, like, 24 hours, and we were like, okay, we need to go to Waffle House, and I think we need to swim in a pool while it's raining. And it was raining in Austin. So at night on a Saturday, we were like, fuck it, let's go swimming. We didn't realize the entire city of Austin, like, goes on the rooftops of these buildings, like, at night. So it was like, me, Inyan, Josiah, shirtless in our swim trunks and in goggles. Insert the pic. While there are literally, like, hundreds of people just partying on this rooftop. Like, it's like a club, and we're just swimming in the middle of it. But besides that, the, like, hostess knew who we were, and the first thing we said to her is, we were like, girl, we want to get up today. So, like, we're. We're trying to get drunk. I had two sips of a drink,

[Enya]

and I know literally, our crew loves to be like, we are getting trash today. And then, like, three, maybe four drinks in.

[Anya]

It's like, I'm nauseous.

[Enya]

My chest hurts. I'm hot.

[Anya]

But should we go outside?

[Enya]

Should we go stand outside for a second?

[Anya]

We always do that.

[Enya]

We're like, we should go stand outside for a second.

[Anya]

Then we get outside the Uber.

[Enya]

Should we stay outside, but then get in a car and then go back outside and then get inside a different

[Anya]

place and then get in with MC pillow and detail.

[Enya]

I keep cutting you off. I'm so sorry.

[Anya]

You're okay.

[Enya]

I'm excited.

[Anya]

But the worker there took what we said about getting up to heart, and she proceeded to give us the most amount of alcohol I've ever seen in my life. Like, it was three double shots two times. So each of us had four shots, essentially for free, which. Shout out you.

[Enya]

Thank you so much.

[Anya]

So fierce. You got us there, like, we were. Our tummies were aching. But, like, we. You got us to where we wanted to be, and I appreciate that, so thank you.

[Enya]

I know she literally heard where we wanted to go, and she became Uber driver. She became UVU driver.

[Anya]

She was UVU driver. But the funniest part about the story is when she was delivering the shots one time, she. We were just, like, kikiing with her and she was like, yeah, I listened to the podcast. I've been listening for a while. Like, I. I listen when I go to school. And we're like, oh, what are you going to school for? And she was like, oh, I'm going to be a dentist. Like, I'm training to be a dentist. Which, don't let anybody tell you, emergency intercom fans can't be dentists, can't be doctors, can't be lawyers, because can't go to Harvard. We exist. We exist. Me, you, Enya exists. Like, we can do all of those things. Like, we, We. We can. Emergency intercom fans aren't just people with crumbs in their bed. Like, we can do.

[Enya]

Emergency intercom fans aren't just, like, weird people who, like, kind of don't talk and then when they do, they say something you don't understand and you laugh at it. And, like, you try to be chill with them, but they're, like, kind of odd.

[Anya]

That's us, baby. That's. That's me and you. Well, yeah, that's.

[Enya]

That's anytime. It's like. It's like the two episodes ago, though, where I was like, stop doing this, this and that. Like, yeah, I'd just be naming myself. Like, I'm not kidding. Everything I say is a projection to an extent. But I gu. Single thing every human says,

[Anya]

like, I have a big dick. That's a projection because I literally have a big dick.

[Enya]

No, it's a projection of armor, because you don't.

[Anya]

I mean, you know, like, I know that I will humble you.

[Enya]

I know that thing is filling, satiating. Yeah, but that's a nutritious meal. Finding out I had OCD alone was genuinely so relieving, it felt like it gave an answer to a question I had always been asking, which is, why do I have so many questions? Why are the questions never ending? And why do all the questions end with me being horrible and I'm going to burn for eternity for all of the bad things I do all day, even though I don't do anything bad?

[Anya]

And don't forget about that skin scrubbing.

[Enya]

Oh, yeah. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, that was bad. Real OCD is a serious condition where unwanted distressing thoughts called intrusive thoughts get stuck on repeat in your head and you feel complied to engage in certain behaviors called compulsions to try to make them stop. NO CD is a perfect place to start. It really can help you manage all of your OCD symptoms and get on a track where you can live with things and you don't always have to be answering to question in your head.

[Anya]

Guys, OCD is one of the most treatable mental health conditions out there if you get the right specialized kind of therapy. OCD needs ERP therapy or exposure and response prevention. It's proven to be the most effective treatment. Regular talk therapy isn't recommended for OCD and can actually make it worse. That's where no CD comes in. They're the world's leading OCD treatment provider and all of their licensed Therapists specialize in ERP therapy.

[Enya]

Therapy with no CD is 100% virtual, covered by insurance for over 138 million Americans and includes support between sessions so you never have to face OCD alone. To learn more about OCD therapy with NOCD, go to nocd.com and book a free call with their team.

[Anya]

That's nocd.com another podcast from some SNL

[Robert Smigel]

late night comedy guy not quite on Humor Me with Robert Smigel and friends. Me and hilarious guests from Jim Gaffigan to Bob Odenkirk to David Letterman help make you funnier this week. My guest, SNL's Mikey Day and head writer Streeter Seidel help an acapella band with their between songs Banter Hunter singer in the group the Worst. Yeah, me. Is there anything to the idea that because you're from Harvard, you only got in because your parents made a huge donation?

[Anya]

The Yard Birds, right?

[Enya]

That's the name.

[Robert Smigel]

The Harvard Yard. But they're open if you have a name suggestion.

[Anya]

We're open.

[Robert Smigel]

Since you guys are middle aged, one

[Enya]

erection,

[Robert Smigel]

listen to Humor Me with Robert Smigel and friends on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast.

[Anya]

Humor me.

[Robert Smigel]

I need some jokes to make me seem funny.

[Diana Maria Riva]

Will Ferrell's Big Money players and iHeart podcast presents soccer Moms.

[Enya]

So, I'm Leigh Ann. Yeah. This is my best friend Janet. And we have been joined at the hip since high school. Absolutely. Now, a redacted amount of years later, we're still joined at the hip. Just a little bit bigger. Hips wider. This is a podcast. We're recording it as we tailgate Our youth soccer games in the back of my Honda Odyssey with all the snacks and drinks. Sidebar. Why did you get hard seltzer instead of beer?

[Diana Maria Riva]

Well, they had a bogo.

[Anya]

Well, then you got it.

[Enya]

Do you want a white collar sub? Beer. Just hang on. What are y' all doing? Microphones. Are you making a rap album?

[Anya]

I would buy.

[Robert Smigel]

It cuts through the defense like a hot knife through sponge cake.

[Enya]

That sounds delicious. Oh, you're lucky I'm not a drug addict. You're lucky I'm not an alcoholic. You are lucky I'm not a killer.

[Robert Smigel]

I love this team, and I'm really

[Anya]

trying to be a figure in their lives that they can rely on. Oh,

[Enya]

listen to soccer moms on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Diana Maria Riva]

Hey, I'm Diana Maria Riva. Actress, mother, lover, and a Gen X woman walking through life one hot flash and hormonal, crying jag at a. You ladies know what I mean. I'll bet you a perimenopausal chin hair you do. So let's talk about it. Join me on my new podcast, how Hard Can It Be? With the Ana Maria Riva, where I call on my Gen X squads from Ohio to Hollywood as we navigate midlife's most fantastic bs.

[Enya]

All of a sudden, I had hanging ness happening on my own. I was like, what the hell is that? I was married when I had her,

[Diana Maria Riva]

so I didn't even consider how empty

[Enya]

that nest was gonna be.

[Diana Maria Riva]

Mood swings, night sweats, fupas, sex drive. Wait, what? Sex? Dating at 45. How high can it be? Getting naked at 50 with the new guy?

[Enya]

That one's kind of hard. No. Well, that's lighting.

[Diana Maria Riva]

They say we can't polish a turd, but we're sure gonna try. So let's get blunt with laughs, tears, or tears of laughter, and dive into it unfiltered and unbothered and ask, how hard can it be?

[Enya]

I cannot believe I'm about to say this out loud in public.

[Diana Maria Riva]

Listen to How Hard Can It Be With Diana Maria Riva as part of my Cultura podcast network, available on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

[Enya]

Podcasts. No fillers.

[Anya]

No fillers.

[Enya]

No fillers.

[Anya]

No fillers in it. No sugar. It's keto.

[Enya]

It's keto.

[Anya]

This dick is keto. That dick is keto. Yes. Yes. No sugar. Yes, yes, yes, yes. But she was telling us she was training to be a dentist, and I was like, oh, like when you get your License. Like, I'll be your first patient. Like, I would love to be your first patient without skipping a fucking beat. She looks. She snaps to me, and she goes, goes, girl, I'm not playing anywhere near that mouth. I know it's been. I. I know what's happened in there.

[Enya]

I don't remember her name, because by the time we left, I was drunk as. Because again, she took us there. But she was so funny also because right before she did that, the first thing she said was, she kind of, like, we were sitting at these benches, and she crouched down. And she crouched down right near where my purse was, and she goes, one of y' all smells like a skunk.

[Anya]

And I was like, oh, is it me? Do I smell bad? And then India flew her weed across the country. That's what it was. Yeah. Yeah.

[Enya]

But she was so funny, dude. Her being like. She was like, no, I've listened far enough times to the. You do with that mouth. And I don't want to get in it. I don't want to be in it. I don't want to be near it. I don't want to touch it. Like, she literally. She went for kind of a minute.

[Anya]

Yeah, no, she tore. She had us laughing, and she, like, took. She seized the moment, and she. She kept it going. But I have. Have a good mouth. Like my enamels.

[Enya]

You have a good mouth. That's why you got all those horror stories about what's been done in that mouth.

[Anya]

Yeah. Yeah. We so freaky.

[Enya]

We so freaky over here. Who says emergency intercom fans don't have sex?

[Anya]

Emergency intercom fans have sex.

[Enya]

So much of it. So much. As I grow older, I realize. I think people. People think I'm, Like, Mormon. Like, expand with the way I navigate. Like, I think people assume because I am hot. Duh. And I am, like, very outward facing, like, confident that I'm, like, way more sexual and, like, romantically, like, you're the

[Anya]

picture of the meme where it's like, you text all this freaky, and then you get there and you sit on the edge of the bed with your purse. You're not freaking freaky.

[Enya]

Oh. Literally, I'm like, if I'm not doing all that. Calm down, calm down, calm down. You never heard about literary engagement, period? Like, sorry, I'm a. A budding academic who loves to read some fiction every now and then, so I have an expansive knowledge of how to arouse the mind.

[Anya]

Exactly. Hi, Kai. Hi, Drew. I love you. You're so hot. Oh, Kai, thank you. I think the Same things about you. And you're so sexy.

[Enya]

He. First of all, he would never say that. That sentence could, I don't think, ever come out of his mouth, but about any human, like, I can't imagine that. Oh, my God.

[Anya]

Wait, no, we talked about that. Kai can't say the word sexy.

[Enya]

Yeah, no, he doesn't know how to do that. I would pay a lot of money. Well, not. Let me not say that he's not here. Like, one I won't do is I won't make fun of somebody when they're not here. And he's gonna listen to this. And if he was here, I would go in about it, like, to you, Kai, and tell you that, like, something's wrong with you. But I don't actually think something's wrong with him.

[Anya]

You're just flirting.

[Enya]

You know what, too? Actually, I think a lot of people do take the way I interact with everybody as flirting.

[Anya]

Well, I mean, it's. It's really hard to tell because I've seen you flirt, and then I've seen you just, like, interact. Interact with a person, and it. There is a very fine line of hatred and, like. Like, flirtation. Like, the way Anya flirts is like, she will clock your deepest, darkest, most evil insecurity you have and, like, not call it out, but, like, poke at it slightly. And for some reason, it works on every person you flirt with.

[Enya]

Well, it's because they. They're like, damn, she sees.

[Anya]

She sees me. She sees me.

[Enya]

Wait, the girl.

[Anya]

You don't call out insecurities?

[Enya]

No, I don't call out insecurities. I definitely do engage romantically. Like, I feel like, not that I have to prove myself, but because I am very comfortable with most people, I feel like I have to dig, like, double down to prove to someone that I, like, am intrigued by them romantically, if that makes sense. Yeah, but then there are the, like, people who just are like, oh, my God, everyone loves me, and this girl loves me. I don't know why we were talking about that. Oh, we were talking about how Kai can't say sexy.

[Anya]

Yeah, that's what we got there. We looped it back around.

[Enya]

We weaved. I'm not kidding. I wonder how often I'm just talking in circles and making no sense to somebody and they're just letting me go. Because I think it probably happens often.

[Anya]

I think for me, too, it does as well. I think. I think that's just kind of who we are. We're always like, bro, like, no one. No one. Like, like, we have to lead the conversation, because no one leads the conversation, and then it's just us rambling for an hour. But no, I still stand on that. Like, people are scared to talk.

[Enya]

Yeah. Also. Well, again, it goes back to that thing we always talk about how the Internet gave so much good. But when you don't get to put all of that useful knowledge into practice, it becomes, like, not only futile, but you kind of start to get lost in the study and see things so black and white. Like, there is this idea, and we've talked about it, about how people now, like, people now observe somebody exchanging information. So, like, if you tell me a story about something embarrassing that happened to you that had specifically to do with, like, a barista, and then I would let you finish and laugh and, like, interact with it minorly, and then when it gets to me, I just, like, say a similar story. And people now see that as, like, oh, my gosh, this person always has to bring the conversation back to them once it lands on them.

[Anya]

And I'm like, baby, so we're bouncing off each other.

[Enya]

Not only that, you might find that is all talking is. That is all most conversations are, is sharing anecdotes based on similarities. And then occasionally, if you're lucky and you have intimacy, you get to start exchanging the differences. But I'm like, yeah, that's why a lot of y' all can't get past, like, I think the beginning stages of a friendship almost because you're anticipating, like, I guess I don't even know what people are anticipating. You're anticipating a therapist maybe, of, like,

[Anya]

they just want to talk to someone.

[Enya]

Yeah.

[Anya]

Not with someone.

[Enya]

And be. But I'm also, like, I don't. I don't know if every conversation has to be, like, myriad of or not.

[Anya]

It doesn't have to be high stakes. I think every. People. Sometimes people think all conversations have to be, like, high stakes. And, like, I have, like, noticed that, like, for some people, I mean, specifically in relationships, like, they almost, like, desire conflict, where it's like, we have to, like. Like, to prove that this relationship is working, like, we have to be, like, having a million conversations. And I mean, I've said it from the jump of the podcast, like, not everything needs to be a conversation. Like, not it does. Like, there are certain things that I do believe need to be spoken about. But, like, I. I don't know why it's, like, so hard for people to just kiki and have fun. But, like, it feels like a lot of relationships. I see it's just like people like wanting to fight to prove that they can communicate. Yeah.

[Enya]

Yeah.

[Anya]

And it's like, I think it's just a symptom of everyone just taking advice from like 16 year old girls on TikTok. That went viral.

[Enya]

Yeah.

[Anya]

And just like also everyone has a therapist now, which I think is good ultimately.

[Enya]

But yeah, but there is definitely an over therapization happening because I would argue like, like I am that person. But again, because I can navigate my life in a very by choice blase manner. I can like, I can be very like, does it matter? Nothing matters. But it's. That's so true. You being like, everyone's taking advice and wants to prove they can communicate. But yeah, it's like again, everyone wants to prove that they've done the studying that, that they've in taken all the information and so they, the second they get like, it's literally like, I don't know, standing in. When like you put your name in a bucket and you're like, oh, I hope I get to go up on stage, it's like, that's your time, that's your time. You only have this short amount of time to be like, yes, I'm actually like really? I. I'm really smart. I'm really good. I'm really good. I'm really good. I'm really good. I'm, I'm a good person. Like, so everyone's trying so hard to like get that in the door too so quickly and I'm like,

[Anya]

like, can't we just like.

[Enya]

Kiki, can we just talk?

[Diana Maria Riva]

Can we?

[Anya]

Guys? I don't know how Jeffrey Epstein is going to recover. His digital footprint is up. Dude, he is never getting into college. He is never, they are never getting into college.

[Enya]

Like he is never going to have another job.

[Anya]

Mm.

[Enya]

Wait, I, I'm so sorry but I did just remember something. But you were saying how people in relationships especially like to kind of point out conflict and point that they can get through conflict to be like, see how much I love you. I'm willing to communicate through this conflict. I would argue that every single day you are actively making subtle, conflicting decisions when you are sharing your life with a person, whether platonically or romantically and those subt, if looked at even for a second would prove and should be able to be signed. But again, it kind of even goes back to like self security and confidence and it's again, it's like people and it makes sense. Like only two extreme levels. Can you kind of be proven to yourself that like I am Good. I am moral. I am saying I am good. Like, whatever, all those things. But I think about how, like, I love you so much and vice versa. But there are things we put up with each other on such little levels that of course, it's like, yeah, there are some times where, like, okay, now it's to the point where it's like, something has to be said, but most of it is just like, okay, I'm trying to think of something. Like,

[Anya]

it's just little. It's just like, little, like, trivial things where it's just like, is this worth blowing up this whole relationship for?

[Enya]

Yeah. And, like,

[Anya]

I don't know.

[Enya]

It's like, even. It's like, when I go out with you, like, if I, like, make a plan to leave the house with you, I'm somebody that if I leave the house, I have usually full intention of staying out all day. But I know, and there's been so many times where I will actively go out of my way to make sure that if I make a plan with you, I can make sure you are getting back home or, like, going. I will go out of my way to do that. And it's not something that I'm like. Because we. I'm always like, no, I'm going to take you back. What? Like, don't trip. But that's an inconvenience that I, like, openly, happily, like, go out of my way to do. And, like, to me, that's kind of like a proof of concept in terms of conflict, because this does conflict with what Enya wants to do. Like, Enya does not. Enya wants to hang out with Drew and go to the flower shop. But also, Anya's already on this side of town. If Enya was alone at the flower

[Anya]

shop, she'd be, like, it to Blue Mercury.

[Enya]

Go to Blue and, like, Larchmar and, like, go run around and, like, see who else is out and, like, it. Let's get lunch, let's get a coffee. Like, let's see the world. But no, I know that Drew wants

[Anya]

to go back, and the vice versa is true, too. Like, sometimes I'm like, anyone wants to stay out, I'm psychologically prepped to stay out.

[Enya]

I mean, you did it the other night of that after party. Like, you weren't in a, like, mood to go. And that was just kind of where, like, the people you love the most, at least, like, in terms of, like, our little crew, like, it was just like a trio of us. Basically, we wanted to go out. We, like, met Dom there. Or, like, not met Dom, but, like, we. You just, like, by nature folded to

[Anya]

that for, like, the greater good.

[Enya]

Yeah, and not only greater good, because it's like, it. I don't know. Yeah, but that was something I thought about when you were talking about, like, conflict. Because I think about that a lot as well. Like, I suck dick in the laundry room is always shitty, and I know that drives you crazy. And every now and then, I have the self respect, and then I'm like, okay, let me move this and pick this up. Because I can tell it's bothering Drew and it's like, just like little things like that. It's like, yeah, you move your pieces around this person if you want to keep this person on your board. And it doesn't have to always be.

[Anya]

It doesn't have to always be yelling and screaming and conflict. And you need to change. You need a change. Like, you need to leave, girl. Let us change on our own accord.

[Enya]

Like, I know if I'm in the passenger seat with Drew, he's gonna, like, talk to every car that cuts him off. And most of the time, I'd be like, no, I'm never getting in a car with that person. I'm like, I love this man so much. I'll. I'll get in the car with him and I'll ignore it.

[Anya]

And I know when I'm getting in the car with Enya, my life is in danger, but I want to be in danger with.

[Enya]

My ears are in danger because the music is going to be too loud

[Anya]

and the weed is too loud.

[Enya]

Yeah, everything. The car stinks. Like,

[Anya]

this is a part of the gig, guys.

[Enya]

The gag and the goop is the

[Anya]

gag and the goop is Zara Larson's brother is Daniel Larson. And no one's talking about that.

[Enya]

Dude. Dude, I love her so much.

[Anya]

Oh, Daniel is a he. Him, actually.

[Enya]

Us to Owen, when Josiah got brought up. Who's she? She sounds gorgeous.

[Anya]

Yeah. And she is also Josiah getting called ma' am and sir by TSA agents in the airport at the exact same time.

[Enya]

Finding out I had OCD alone was genuinely so relieving, it felt like it gave an answer to a question I had always been asking, which. Which is, why do I have so many questions? Why are the questions never ending? And why do all the questions end with me being horrible and I'm going to burn for eternity for all of the bad things I do all day, even though I don't do anything bad?

[Anya]

And don't forget about that skin scrubbing.

[Enya]

Oh, yeah. Oh, my gosh yeah, that was bad. Real OCD is a serious condition where unwanted distressing thoughts called intrusive thoughts get stuck on repeat in your head and you feel complied to engage in certain behaviors called compulsions to try to make them stop. No CD is a perfect place to start. It really can help you manage all of your OCD symptoms and get on a track where you can live with things and you don't always have to be answ to that question in your head.

[Anya]

Guys, OCD is one of the most treatable mental health conditions out there if you get the right specialized kind of therapy. OCD needs ERP therapy or exposure and response prevention. It's proven to be the most effective treatment. Regular talk therapy isn't recommended for OCD and can actually make it worse. That's where no CD comes in. They're the world's leading OCD treatment provider and all of their licensed Therapists specialize in ERP therapy.

[Enya]

Therapy with no CD is 100% virtual, covered by insurance for over 138 million Americans and includes support between sessions so you never have to face OCD alone. To learn more about OCD therapy with NOCD, go to nocd.com and book a free call with their team.

[Anya]

That's nocd.com another podcast from some SNL

[Robert Smigel]

late night comedy guy not quite on Humor Me with Robert Smigel and friends. Me and hilarious guests from Jim Gaffigan to Bob Odenkirk to David Letterman help make you funnier this week. My guest, SNL's Mikey Day and head writer Streeter Seidel helping acapella band with their between songs banter. Who's the worst singer in the group? The worst? Yeah, Me. Is there anything to the idea that because you're from Harvard, you only got in because your parents made a huge donation to the group the Yard Birds.

[Anya]

Right.

[Enya]

That's the name.

[Robert Smigel]

The Harvard Yard. They're open.

[Anya]

Do you have a name suggestion? We're open.

[Robert Smigel]

Since you guys are middle aged, one

[Enya]

erection,

[Robert Smigel]

listen to Humor Me with Robert Smigel and friends on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Humor me. I need some jokes to make me seem funny.

[Diana Maria Riva]

Will Ferrell's Big Money players and iHeart podcast presents soccer Moms.

[Enya]

So I'm Leigh Ann. Yeah. This is my best friend Janet. And we have been joined at the hip since high school. Absolutely. Now, a redacted amount of years later, we're still joined at the hip. Hip. Just a little bit bigger. Hips wider. This is a Podcast. We're recording it as we tailgate our youth soccer games in the back of my Honda Odyssey with all the snacks and drinks. Sidebar. Why did you get hard seltzer instead of beer?

[Diana Maria Riva]

Well, they had a bogo.

[Anya]

Well, then you got it.

[Enya]

Do you want a white collar? Something here just hit. What are y' all doing?

[Anya]

Microphones?

[Enya]

Are you making a rap album?

[Anya]

I would you believe I would buy.

[Robert Smigel]

It cuts through the defense like a hot knife through sponge cake.

[Enya]

That sounds delicious. Oh, you're lucky I'm not a drug addict. You're lucky I'm not an alcoholic. You are lucky I'm not a killer.

[Robert Smigel]

I love this team, and I'm really

[Anya]

trying to be a figure in their lives that they can rely on. Oh,

[Diana Maria Riva]

listen to soccer moms on the

[Enya]

iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Anya]

American soccer is about to explode. The World cup is coming. Ramos sending Ernie Stewart the chip Score. Usa. I'm Tab Ramos. I'm Tom Bogart. On our podcast, Inside American Soccer, you'll get the real storylines.

[Enya]

I'm not worried about Pulisic. I'm not worried about Baligan.

[Anya]

I'm not worried about McKinney. My only concern is what happens in the back. The biggest decisions. You're going to look at stats and numbers. He has no shot at making this World cup team. And the truth about the US national team, it wouldn't be a huge surprise

[Enya]

if our team ends up in the

[Anya]

quarterfinals or potentially a great run into the semifinals. The World cup is almost here. Experience it all with usa. Usa. Listen. Inside American Soccer with Tom Boger and Tab ramos on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Podcast.

[Enya]

You predicted the Erica Kirk tour.

[Anya]

Oh, really? No way. Shut up.

[Enya]

I mean, you. It's. It's your classic. Like, this is your thr at the wall or. No, the. Well, what's being referenced is if I

[Anya]

do die legitimately, I want a funeral world tour. Have I talked about that before? Like, talked about this in a casket? And fly me across the world to different stadiums and tour my body. I will be the first.

[Enya]

And then someone. I saw a comment that was like, king Tut says hello.

[Anya]

Yeah, yeah, for real. His body's in the museums.

[Enya]

Like, no, wait.

[Anya]

Is. Is King T a girl or a boy?

[Enya]

They say boy.

[Anya]

Oh, King tutorial.

[Enya]

Because you were thinking King Kylie. Yeah, we're living in the future, baby. Oh, maybe in the future. The kings and the queens, the crowns fall on any head they choose.

[Anya]

Exactly. I mean, that is like the Kardashian Jenners are literally like modern day American royalty.

[Enya]

Yeah. I mean, when we talk about like living through the new gilded age, it's like, yeah. And wait, why are my roast jingling? Oh, I'm the jester.

[Anya]

You're the jester and the clown. Nothing ever changes. It just evolves, devolves or evolves, evolves.

[Enya]

I had a dream, by the way, that you grabbed me by the shoulders at like a party situation and I was about to go outside to smoke and you were like, enjoy it while it lasts. You quit Monday. And you like laughed in my face.

[Anya]

Wait, you're subconsciously insecure?

[Enya]

Yeah, I think I am, but. And I've been, I've been thinking about it. Well, it's like this weird thing because of course I. It dawns on me often that I am a 27 year old woman who smokes the same amount of weed as somebody who just saw Superbad for the first time at the age of 13. Oh God, the plumber.

[Anya]

Yeah.

[Enya]

Oh, I'm gonna have him look at my tub while he's.

[Anya]

We have black mold in moldy basement. Legitimately, for the first time ever in my life, I actually can confidently say we have black mold than it is on the ceiling. And I'm going to insert the picnic.

[Enya]

I just say keep talking. But yeah, I've been thinking a lot about my consumption of weed and I kind of go back and forth because as I have mentioned, every time, every episode, every waking moment, I have OCD and ADD adhd, whatever the. I think they like conjoined the two combination. None of that is real. OCD is real. None of it's real. But yeah, I def have some. I got my. I'm trying to get my ducks in a row. Anyways. I have also briefly talked about how I have a prescription to vans. I am prescribed vans and I don't really like taking it. I like taking it in the sense that, wow, this is awesome. What? There are people who like. Can do tasks without spending the four hours before it, contemplating about the task that has to be done in four hours. And what am I even supposed to do in these four hours? I guess I have to sit and ruminate about that task I have to do in four hours. I should prep for that task. And then in the middle of prepping, I get lost in some other thing because I'm like, holy. Like, why is the task take me this long? I'm gonna kill myself and go to bed. So it's like good in that end specifically for being a responsible adult. And also even in the senses of being actively in conversation with my family. For instance. Like, I find that when I'm. I also talk about how I'm really bad at texting and communicating with my phone and when I am more actively taking my vyvanse. I've never. It's never been something I've taken every day. But I used to take it like twice a week to get work done and to like kind of like be able to ground my weeks in a way. And then I stopped doing it because, I don't know, I guess I actually, now that I think about it and since I'm alone just talking to myself, I wonder if part of it is kind of that phenomenon that happens when people get on SSRIs and stuff. It's like, oh, my medication is. I'm working now. I like, maybe that's kind of what it is, is I think to an extent I was like, okay, like, yes, this shit has changed my life. Because I was like the most like productive I'd ever been. But I was like, do I really need this though? Because I find that I like enjoy my time and my day better when I don't have it because I get to live in this like la de freeform world. But then when I'm in that freeform world, which is like what I've been doing, I feel really anxious because I just have a hard time grounding my feet into the fact that like days are passing and time is passing and everyone's doing things with their days. But I don't have any general value in my mind, body and soul towards like societal rankings of importance, which sounds stupid, especially because I mean, I'm a public facing figure. Obviously attention means something to me, but I think attention means something to me in the sense of the second I feel seen or understood even to the slightest and by one person, I kind of feel good and I feel my fulfillment and I feel my joy. And of course an abundance of that which I've been blessed with is something I'm so grateful for. But again, when I have Vyvans or like a medication or like a schedule, which I can only really abide with, with, by. With medication because without. With medication in my system, I don't necessarily have value to those things, but it makes it unironically. It's something I can give shape to versus without it. I'm literally going on a tangent by myself about my relationship to Vyvans versus without it. I don't see because I don't have a connection to the values of like, financial gain. Like, my only values of financial gain are like, the ability of like, my freedom and assistance of my family. So, like, as long as I'm able to maintain that, like, I don't necessarily shoot further than that. And by the grace of God, I've been able to attain that and successfully have that. I've just always wanted friends. I already have that. I literally, I have, like, friends and peers beyond my wildest dreams. Like, I've been so lucky that I like some of the greatest artists I've ever loved. I've been able to like, meet, learn from, work with, like, be around, make laugh, vice versa. So I'm not really chasing that. I'm not chasing like, more attention because I don't think I necessarily want more attention. I. I'm down for more attention, but I don't. Again, I'm not like a numbers person. It's like how I have no connection to like numbers and math and stuff. But then with Vyvanse, all of those things don't necessarily have value. But when a Vyvanse is in my. I'm like, oh, I see what y' all are seeing. Like, I get it. Yeah, I should tap in. And like, that even goes as far as, like, when I'm on a Vince and stuff, it's easier for me to even communicate with people because I'm not in my la di da free form of like, do I have to reply to a text when I'm in your face? You know I love you. And then when I'm on a vivans, I'm like, oh, humans are so much more complex than that. Communication is a key point of our existence and people are expectant of that. And you should be a communicator, even in these simple forms. I was just talking about how I haven't been taking my vyvanse. Have I told you I have a crazy surplus happening right now?

[Anya]

Girl, we're flipping it. Do y' all need. Y' all need vans? Like, pull up, we'll sell it. $30 a pill.

[Enya]

30 is too low.

[Anya]

No, it's not. I think you can like literally only get like $5 from. Well, because when I was in high school, like selling mine, like people, I would sell them for like 20 bucks a pill. But now it's just so over prescribed. Like, literally every single person can get a Vyvanse or Adderall prescription. Now if you had blue M30s, authentic blue M30s or Opana 80s, you could sell those for like 80, 120 bucks a pill. But now they all got fentanyl in them. Actually, I don't even think they make fake opponents anymore.

[Enya]

I don't think any drug is what it's even saying it is. Because even, like the Viman's thing, sometimes I take. I'm like, I don't feel this at all. This is like, not a real thing. But that's also. I just, like, don't. I was talking about how, like, I don't take it anymore because I actually, while talking to myself, I've realized, guys, I think I've been doing to my vyvanse what some people do with their SSRIs when they're like, I'm good. I don't need it anymore. Loki. I've been doing that with my vibes because I'm like, yeah, it makes me work and stuff, but, like, can I get to work? Then I get all, like, silent.

[Anya]

I know it is.

[Enya]

And then, like,

[Anya]

it is really interesting, like, watching you get prescribed that and like, just kind of seeing, like, I can fully tell, like, when you're on it or when you're. I mean, that kind of goes back to what we were saying earlier a little bit. Like, not everything needs to be a conversation. Like, I can tell when you're actually upset versus when you're on your medication, period. Like, and like, I used to not be able to tell that. And I used to be like, oh, is she, like, mad at me? Like, did I do something? But now it's giving. I can tell.

[Enya]

Sorry, Rain. Literally just in the middle of that, texting me because she's, like, checking my location. She's all, I haven't left. Yeah, I know. It's so weird also, I guess because

[Anya]

in my head, I can also tell when you're coming down from it too. And that's when I give you your space because, like, a. Via Vans come down.

[Enya]

Yeah, I took one.

[Anya]

Yeah. And. But you were in such a good mood, like, all day yesterday. Like, I'm cute.

[Enya]

Yeah. But it's also, I guess because I took one and I had a bunch of stuff I had to do and, like, I was like, happily achieving all those goals. Yeah, maybe. But also, I don't know. I like, interesting. But I. I also think because I don't take it as often anymore. So like, now when I take it, it's usually on a day where I'm like, I need this because, like, I actually have things to do. And I'm like, mentally preparing to, like, be in that state. But also, I got things making me happy.

[Anya]

It's me and my new glasses.

[Enya]

I know. You do look so good in them.

[Anya]

Do I look, like, handsome?

[Enya]

Like, you do look really handsome.

[Anya]

I didn't do my hair today. I just, like, rolled out of bed, so.

[Enya]

Your hair always looks good. I don't know why you trip on it, dude.

[Anya]

I am so caught up on hair dysmorphic. I think I literally am hair dysmorphic. And it's because I had ugly hair hair for two years, three years, unkept ugly hair. And I think it just completely rewired my.

[Enya]

Did you get a haircut? Yeah, right?

[Anya]

Like a month ago. About a month ago.

[Enya]

Maybe you need another haircut. I think I need a haircut.

[Anya]

This morning I was like, I think I need another haircut. Yeah.

[Enya]

Because I've been really hair dysmorphic. And I think it's because I need a stylized cut because I've just been for the past year, like, trimming my own hair, which is not trimming your own bush, but it's just because I don't know what I want to do with my hair. Like, there really isn't much else to do. Huh? It's just all my head, and I'm not cutting it off.

[Anya]

I. I briefly spoke about this before I left to go get the plumbers, Bitch. It's chopped and screwed. And y' all remember when I used to, like, scream and fight about that goddamn mold in the couch? Like, I would fall. I would fall asleep on the couch because I was getting mold spores in my fucking lungs. Well, I think this black mold is keeping me awake because I have not been able to sleep recently. And it's right below my feet. It's right below my feet in the basement. It's in the wall.

[Enya]

No, luckily. Luckily, you're over the garage, so you're, like, a little far.

[Anya]

Yeah, no, it's. It's not even close to me. But I have been going down there a lot. Like, I went through, like, all of, like, my storage containers because I was like, which. And you heard me talk about this, like, 37, 000 times. But it was really so special to me to go through all of these boxes of that I boxed up, like, more than a year ago, and just like, look at how. Look at how cool I was.

[Enya]

Cuz also, a lot of that stuff, too, is, like, not even just boxes from when we moved, but it's like we. You had. We had, like, a lot of stuff that we just had shoved in boxes in general or like shoved in our closets that we weren't interacting with anymore.

[Anya]

Yeah. And so I just like went through it and I was like, wow, like, all of this is so cool. And I'm so happy I held on to it because I came from a family that like once every decade they would go through every. Everyone's room and just throw away everything or go through the attic and throw away everything. So there's not a lot for me to like, look back on from my childhood. Like, even my Pokemon cards got thrown away, which I'm still pissed about to this day.

[Enya]

But my dad is so pissed about. He threw our Pokemon cards away and he's mad about it. But he was going through our storage

[Anya]

and he found a few, especially Cara's. Like.

[Enya]

Yeah, well, Cara had so many. Me and Car used to steal.

[Anya]

Yeah.

[Enya]

From Target.

[Anya]

And like, I. She's like a little bit older. So like, the cards she had were like.

[Enya]

No. Yeah. My dad found a bunch of them and they were. He had a bunch of shiny ones. Like old. Like, he had a shiny charizard. Like, not charizard. What's the. He had a bunch of the shiny ones.

[Anya]

I don't know anything about. But I'm still like, pressed about that. Like, the only thing we did keep were like family photos and. Which I'm like, if you threw away family photos, I'd shoot you with a gun. And he was like, trying. My dad was trying to. And they moved into their new house. But like, whatever saved them. But I think because of that experience, like, growing up, like, I will just be a hoarder of everything I ever own. And like, every house I move into will have to have a basement or we'll have to have storage or I'll have to get a storage unit. Because I. All I can imagine is like, in 50 years when I have like grandbabies and like, they're like first going to high school, they're like freshmen or whatever. Whatever. The idea of them like going through my basement or storage unit and finding all these like, sick ass clothes. Like, all of like literally every concert that I've been to for like the last like four or five years, I buy merch to just to put in this bin just for my grandchildren in the future.

[Enya]

That's so sweet.

[Anya]

And like, it was cool just seeing all of the. The. All of the things I went.

[Enya]

Stuff you've collected.

[Anya]

Landlord's call. Sorry, guys, my house is rotten and I just spoke to the landlord and they have to cut out half of our basement. Ceiling and work from the basement all day tomorrow and all day Saturday and all day Monday. Party. It's gonna be a party, but at least I won't have black mold in my lungs. I read online that you needed, like, proper PPE protocol or N90 masks, and it sent me back to covered era, where I got like, oh, I hate mold, guys. I hate that. And it's so scary looking. Coachella. Coachella just happened. Hey, I feel crazy. I don't know how people, like, do solo podcasts where they just, like, talk at a camera by themselves. Like, I know Inya could probably do it, but, like, me sitting here having a conversation with y', all, like, yeah, right. Like, what am I gonna talk about? Like, oh, I got new glasses. How do I look? I feel pretty sorry I did an outfit change.

[Enya]

Cause I'm about to leave to go do some very exciting stuff with my friend Rain Judge, who has some very exciting shit she's been fucking drilling into since November. I would even argue August. She's like, that Fortnite meme, or. It's not a Fortnite meme. I only care about it for Fortnite, the pickaxe. It's like, you're almost to the.

[Anya]

Oh, you're almost to the diamonds keep mining.

[Enya]

But, yeah, so I'm about to go

[Anya]

and, like, the demos are crazy. They're so good.

[Enya]

But, yeah, that's just, like, been my journey with my drugs, love.

[Anya]

My pros journey with the drugs. And I spoke about mold poisoning and then how hard it would be to be a solo podcaster.

[Enya]

I love you. I love that we get to do this together.

[Anya]

I love you, too.

[Enya]

I'm not even kidding. I was talking to somebody about that. I was like, who was I talking about? The podcast. Oh, it was a really nice woman I met, whose name I don't remember. I met again through Rain. She, like. I think she works in publishing. But I was talking about the podcast, and I said, what year we started? And both her and this engineer were like, oh, that's, like, kind of early. And I was like, that's so funny, though, because in 2017, the reason we did emergency intercom was because in 2017, when I was doing my podcast, we had done, like, two episodes together, and we were like, wait, this is where the magic happens? And then, yeah, sure, it took us six years to get it off the ground, but baby, listen.

[Anya]

And every single comment for about four years was, can y' all start a fucking podcast? Like, it was called Radio is Dead. Right? Like, what happened to Radio is dead.

[Enya]

Like, radio is dead. It'll become something else. Never that name again, though, baby. I don't return to the past.

[Anya]

And also, I don't do nostalgia core. It's been rehashed and revised a million trillion different times now. So.

[Enya]

Okay. I came back to give y' all my media. My media of the week is honestly loving your friends. Yeah. And Sean John Baptiste. I've been listening. I think that's his full name. I've been listening to his whole discography, and it's really good. A friend of mine put me on, and now I just can't stop. I just can't stop listening.

[Anya]

I just can't stop coming. My media of the week is Slater's Coachella set and also Brittany Murphy's Coachella. Yeah, Brittany Murphy. We listened to Slater's album on the way to the airport for the Austin show, and it was really, really big for me. I still can't stop listening to that album. And I just watched. So fucking embarrassing. I just watched Jerry Maguire last night. And before I went to Jerry Maguire, I thought it was a documentary about a guy named Jerry Maguire, but it's not. And if you know the movie Jerry Maguire, you know how fucking funny that is. And after the movie, I was like, oh, I thought it was like a documentary about, like, the making of Jerry Maguire. And I got clocked immediately. And I just thought a guy was Jerry Maguire and I thought he was a real person and I thought he was a musician. And about 10 minutes into the movie, I realized what I had just done and I was humiliated.

[Enya]

I mean, that's also. Drew started Miniature Wife and thought it was unreal.

[Anya]

He thought it was a primordial dwarf. I thought. I thought miniature. And I've never picked a show faster in my goddamn life to watch. But it was.

[Enya]

It's just. Honey, I shrunk the kids. But for a 37 year old who just married the love of her life from high school.

[Anya]

Yeah. And it's also like weird anti feminist shit. I don't know. Makes me feel weird. But thank you guys for tuning in. Sorry it's a shorter episode. Sorry, it was very weirdly and sporadic. Sporadic. But we're getting the black mold out of our house. We had to film quick. We're trying to get something out to you guys by tomorrow. I do want to talk about Coachella next week because I have thoughts and opinions. I have ideas.

[Enya]

It'll be perfect, though, because we get to see how Weekend two plays out.

[Anya]

Yeah. And then we can have a Disney added. Yeah, 3pm slot to bring the. To the. On Saturday. To bring them to the motherfucking Sabina. No, to bring them to the venue early. So it's like. Because I think like having.

[Enya]

Are they having an issue with like.

[Anya]

Yeah, because everyone wants to get there like four or five and it's just like a show for infrastructure and security. But sorry, I'll let you go. Thank you guys for tuning in. Peace and love.

[Enya]

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[Robert Smigel]

another podcast from some SNL late night comedy guy not quite on Humor Me with Robert Smigel and Friends. Me and hilarious guests from Bob Odenkirk to David Letterman help make you funnier this week. My guests SNL's Mikey Day and head writer Streeter Seidel help an acapella band with their between songs banter.

[Anya]

Where does your group perform?

[Robert Smigel]

We do some retirement homes. Those people are starving for banter. Listen to Humor Me with Robert Smigel and friends on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, what's good y'?

[Anya]

All?

[Robert Smigel]

You're listening to Learn the Hard Way with your favorite therapist and host Kid K Games. This space is about black men's experiences having honest conversations that it's really not safe to have anywhere. But you're having them with a licensed professional who knows what he's doing. How many men carry a suit of armor? It signals to the world that you not to be played with. And just because you have the capability, that does not mean that you need to listen to learn the hard way on the iHear radio app, Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcast.

[Diana Maria Riva]

My mother in law spent years sabotaging our relationship until karma made her pay for it.

[Anya]

Alright Sofia, tell me about how we started this story.

[Diana Maria Riva]

She moved in for two weeks, lasted five days, left a mess and then pressed her ear against their bedroom door and burst in screaming. When kicked out to a hotel, she called her son in law's workplace pretending his partner had been rushed to the hospital by ambulance.

[Anya]

She faked a medical emergency.

[Diana Maria Riva]

And spoiler, that was just the beginning. To find out how it ends, listen to the OK Storytime podcast on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get podcasts.

[Enya]

This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human.