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Katie Nolan
Pablo.
Pablo Torre
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Katie Nolan
I mean, not back in college.
Dan Soder
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Pablo Torre
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I just got a non consensual fist.
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Katie Nolan
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Katie Nolan
Where the were you, dude?
Dan Soder
I'm at work, dude.
Pablo Torre
I got aing job, dude.
Katie Nolan
Does it make it into so do I. Does it make it into the YouTube video? If I'm not late? If I'm the one who was here first, Were you getting to it then?
Pablo Torre
First before.
Dan Soder
Before both of us. Before, first, before me.
Katie Nolan
I mean, Pablo lives here. It's his office.
Pablo Torre
Slept under this.
Katie Nolan
He works all the time and everyone's mad at him.
Pablo Torre
And that makes me wealthy.
Katie Nolan
It's not your first New York Times episode because you guys did an episode without me. But I. This might be my first New York Times episode.
Dan Soder
You guys can't wait.
Pablo Torre
In our partnership, this is very legal specific.
Katie Nolan
Is it or is it not?
Dan Soder
Can I.
Pablo Torre
Can I say New York Times and the Athletics.
Dan Soder
That was Hamburger's New York Times, right?
Pablo Torre
Yeah. Hamburger made his debut in the Athletic Podcast network in partnership with the New York Times. Do you guys not pick up what I'm putting down? This is a very specifically. Oh, yeah, we got merch. A fan. A fan made merch. This is not even our own doing, but thank you to Ernie Threads.
Katie Nolan
Ernie Threads. Let me know.
Dan Soder
Ernie Threads.
Katie Nolan
Look at that sick hat. What's the joke I missed? Not that I don't listen to every episode, Pablo.
Dan Soder
It's just I have the transcript of every episode tattooed on my back if you want to read it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This.
Pablo Torre
This is. This is a key part of the thing that people are already sick of us.
Katie Nolan
My back.
Dan Soder
Really big bank.
Pablo Torre
How are you guys? How are you guys?
Katie Nolan
Good.
Dan Soder
Can I. Can I say something? Did Alonzo Hamburger. Did he send you a message on Instagram?
Pablo Torre
Yes, he did. He sent me. He sent me a text. I got. Dear Pablo, mere words cannot express my gratitude for align me best guest on your podcast. I. I never imagine the episode of sheet such an overwhelming response. I truly appreciate the opportunity. Kudos to your editing staff. What an awesome job. Exclamation point. It goes on. It goes on. Hamburger was not entirely sure when he joined whether it was in fact Michael Joe or not. I think for various points not clear to him. Still, now it is.
Katie Nolan
I'm glad went well. I also felt bad in the moment being blindsided by Hamburger, because I did feel like I owed it to standup comedy to have known who that was. I should have known that that's when that was like, the whitest thing I've ever done was not knowing who he was.
Pablo Torre
I think it's the whitest thing that all of us had ever done.
Katie Nolan
And then I got left out of when you guys got to go like, we're not that white. And I'm like, yeah, that's. I know. What about?
Dan Soder
Because we literally aren't that way.
Pablo Torre
I know we had to lose you on account of being the whitest person in the room, but he was so. He was so gracious.
Dan Soder
Straight up. Lovely.
Katie Nolan
That's so sweet.
Pablo Torre
No one sends a thank you note after. No, that begins. Dear Pablo, mere words cannot express my gratitude. And it goes on. I'm just like this man yeah, that's.
Katie Nolan
Really made me cry a little bit.
Pablo Torre
And now I just love that people on our, like, social accounts, just whenever we do something notable, people just go hamburger.
Dan Soder
Speaking of your social accounts, I don't think this show follows me. I don't think I'm followed by this show on Instagram. And honestly, that's fine. Whatever. Whatever.
Katie Nolan
I don't follow the show.
Dan Soder
What's that?
Katie Nolan
I don't.
Dan Soder
I don't follow anyone. So that maybe that's why I never follow the show.
Katie Nolan
You don't follow anyone?
Dan Soder
I follow my wife, my son, my sister, my brother.
Katie Nolan
But it's part of the ecosystem. If anyone's going to follow you, you owe it to follow.
Dan Soder
Well, I don't, though.
Pablo Torre
This is why we weren't in the VIP line for a special. It was those people that he.
Dan Soder
You were. You were in the.
Katie Nolan
You were on Instagram. You'd know we're a big deal if you followed us. You'd know.
Dan Soder
I only. I only look at the people. Like, if you. Let's say you like my thing, then I look. Then I look at your thing.
Katie Nolan
That's. Do you realize how that sounds? Are you hearing yourself say it?
Dan Soder
You don't understand, though. Yes, it sounds bad, but you. But the people, the people.
Pablo Torre
Purely transactional.
Katie Nolan
If you like me, I'll consider you.
Dan Soder
Yeah. People look at my. Like I look through people look at my story, you know, whatever. Then I look. Then I go click, click, click, click, click through those people. But I don't.
Katie Nolan
That's insane.
Dan Soder
That's an insane person followed. I don't want to be following people on Instagram.
Katie Nolan
What if the people who look at your story don't know? What if you don't know them? What if they're just people?
Dan Soder
Then I. Very quickly, I'm like, I'm not.
Katie Nolan
What a waste of your precious time.
Dan Soder
I don't know. I think if I followed more people on Instagram, it would be. It would be bad for my Twitter. Twitter now is absolutely horrible for me.
Katie Nolan
Twitter sucks in general.
Dan Soder
It does.
Katie Nolan
Gone. I miss what it was.
Pablo Torre
Disagree.
Dan Soder
You like it better now because you're.
Katie Nolan
You're famous, engaging in stuff. I mean, you're having full.
Pablo Torre
I'm beefing.
Dan Soder
I'm beefing with billionaires for you. It's good.
Katie Nolan
That's why Twitter sucks. Cuz I log on for, like, little jokey joke.
Dan Soder
Yeah.
Katie Nolan
The. The. The website that used to be all about the character limit, that taught me about how to make things. It made me funnier.
Dan Soder
Yeah.
Katie Nolan
Is now I log on and it's 18 paragraphs from a billionaire about how business works at my friend. And I don't understand or care about any of it. And I go. I'm just going to go scroll through people's pictures from vacation.
Pablo Torre
Can I confess that, like, I'm so glad I don't know anymore.
Katie Nolan
Can we just say that the podcast is going to start?
Dan Soder
Well, I think that used to happen with this podcast also. It used to be like, hey, guys, before you come in, have, like, some this, this, and this. Prepare. Yeah. Now it's just absolutely wild west. Anything can happen on this podcast.
Pablo Torre
It used to be a thing where I tried to structure it, and now I just see this so genuinely as relief. And I mean that in every sense. Like, relief for this is how most.
Katie Nolan
People use a social life. But I. I understand.
Pablo Torre
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This feels like a nice change of pace.
Katie Nolan
I lost.
Pablo Torre
I was. I was. I was like.
Katie Nolan
I started writing an email. What did you say?
Pablo Torre
I was just making sure that the Paris Hilton TV series was not called the Social Life. It was called the Simple Life.
Dan Soder
The Simple Life.
Pablo Torre
And I was like, are you comparing me to. Just like, would you.
Katie Nolan
Paris Hilton?
Dan Soder
And was Nicole Richie also on the Simple Life?
Katie Nolan
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Dan Soder
Okay.
Katie Nolan
They did a whole. You know that pitchfork, what's that called? American.
Dan Soder
Yeah. Grant. It's part of it. Grant show is not correct. That's the guy from Melrose Place who's married to the lady who won the Emmy.
Katie Nolan
Who. Which was the podcast that won the Emmy. Did you see Chris Emiliotti's speech? Most likable lady on Earth. I love that woman. She was so good in Penguin.
Pablo Torre
I did not see it.
Katie Nolan
And her speech was so cute. It was just so sweet. Thank you so much. I love you. And I love acting so much.
Dan Soder
She seems delightful.
Katie Nolan
She seems delightful.
Pablo Torre
She was there.
Dan Soder
I saw her in Once the musical on Broadway.
Katie Nolan
Oh, my God.
Dan Soder
And she was.
Katie Nolan
I love Once the Musical. Wait, she can sing?
Dan Soder
Oh, brother, can she?
Katie Nolan
I think she kissed Dan. I think she kissed Dan in a movie. I've never watched it. Dan's in a romper.
Pablo Torre
Now we're finding out stuff.
Katie Nolan
Just don't.
Dan Soder
We've got to get her and hamburger.
Katie Nolan
I'd rather see the bathtub. Okay. I don't.
Dan Soder
Why did you say the bathtub?
Katie Nolan
Because I don't want them to show me them kissing stuff. Don't.
Dan Soder
The bathtub.
Katie Nolan
She's so funny.
Dan Soder
There's no reason for the bathroom.
Katie Nolan
She's so pretty. She's so successful. I know. It's Acting. But I don't. I'm not an actor, so I'm not built. I don't know what actors have in them the ability to go.
Dan Soder
The ability.
Katie Nolan
It's not my husband that's kissing that person. I go like, ew, stop.
Dan Soder
Yeah. I think me. I think actors have the ability to break up and get divorced. That's what they have.
Pablo Torre
Can we talk about. This is a good topic.
Dan Soder
Okay, here we go. We are.
Pablo Torre
Here we are. We found it on.
Katie Nolan
This is what I brought. I'm going to. I feel like I'm going to expose myself. I feel like that's not a progressive way of thinking. I feel like I'm embarrassingly monogamous.
Dan Soder
I see what you're saying. I. I also. I also feel that way. I think that if I had to do if. Well, first of all, I'm nowhere even remotely near the level of success that someone is like, would you want to be in this scene that involves a lot of smooching sore. Smooching plus. God forbid.
Katie Nolan
I mean, I couldn't.
Dan Soder
But the idea.
Pablo Torre
Streaming service.
Dan Soder
The idea of smooching plus is absolutely. It's horrifying to me, and I guess it is. That's just part of it.
Katie Nolan
Looking at it.
Dan Soder
It's just part of it.
Katie Nolan
I would never. I'm. I don't know if I would never stop him. I would never stop him from doing something he wants to do. We would have to have a conversation, but I would absolutely stop myself from watching it. That's like. I wouldn't. It would bum me out. Why would I do that?
Pablo Torre
This was like a controversy. It's always. It seems a controversy, certainly when it comes to, like, the Superman stuff. Have you guys heard about that controversy?
Dan Soder
What's the Superman.
Pablo Torre
Oh, so David Corenswet.
Dan Soder
Yeah.
Pablo Torre
Who is the new Superman? And the. Lois.
Katie Nolan
I haven't seen it yet. Visually. What a Superman, huh?
Dan Soder
Yum, yum. Delish.
Katie Nolan
I didn't. That's not what I meant. But also. Yes.
Dan Soder
Is it not what you meant? But isn't it absolutely Superman? Like, if you. If you just. If you saw that guy walking down the street. But that. That's probably Superman.
Pablo Torre
Superman, Yeah.
Dan Soder
I think I just saw Superman.
Katie Nolan
He has glasses on, but I think it's him.
Dan Soder
Have you seen Vision? Have you seen his. Okay, I'm not letting you get the thing you wanted to say. Have you seen his audition tape? His audition tape was circulating.
Katie Nolan
Great.
Pablo Torre
Oh, yeah.
Dan Soder
Oh, my.
Katie Nolan
A lot of credit goes to his. Also his partner. His. I believe that's his girlfriend. Or wife or whatever his relationship situation is that's doing the reading with him. I'm like, they're doing a great job. It's August 28, 2025, about 3pm I'm sitting here with, of all people, Superman.
Pablo Torre
Hello.
Katie Nolan
Welcome.
Dan Soder
Thank you. I'm pleased to be here.
Katie Nolan
This is weird.
Pablo Torre
I'm not weirded out at all. You said you wanted to interview me.
Katie Nolan
Yes. But I've helped Dan with self tapes and been like, oh, I'm not given with that. My wife letting things breathe.
Dan Soder
She's also helped me with self tapes and I feel like my wife went to college for acting as an incredible actress. But sometimes she's like, I'm really not into doing this for the 50th time. So I have to, I have to get it those first few takes. Or she very absolutely reasonably is like, I think this is enough now.
Katie Nolan
Yeah, I think we have it. If we were going to get it, we got it.
Dan Soder
Yeah. None of these takes are different at this point.
Pablo Torre
I love the gentle.
Katie Nolan
You're in severance.
Pablo Torre
The gentle feedback of like, you need to stop thinking this is going to get better.
Dan Soder
Yeah. What is happening is progressively you are getting more tired, not better.
Pablo Torre
Rachel Brosnahan.
Dan Soder
Yeah.
Pablo Torre
Plays Lois Lane in the new Superman.
Katie Nolan
She's great. She was great. But she was also great in the house of cards.
Pablo Torre
Okay.
Dan Soder
House of cards. Yeah. She's great in house cards.
Pablo Torre
So the point being that there was this controversy around her significant other in real life, her partner. And it's a function of how steamy the chemistry was.
Dan Soder
Yeah.
Pablo Torre
Between the two of them such that even there were these like behind the scenes videos of like maybe her planting seemingly a smooch after the camera had stopped rolling so into the scene. They were.
Dan Soder
Yeah.
Pablo Torre
This was one of the clips that got circulated. And so the question that happened was how does her partner in real life feel now that all of these people are in his mentions making fun of him for being cucked by yum yum delish Superman?
Katie Nolan
I mean anybody.
Dan Soder
I think the mentions are. The mentions really amplify the problem, I think because it's like, like you know, to are talking and the conversation's kind of innocuous and a third person comes by and is like, oh, you're like, wait, did I. I didn't know that.
Katie Nolan
I. I didn't feel that. But now that it's been felt, I.
Pablo Torre
Have to take the offense podcast started just the podcast.
Dan Soder
The. So I could see that being. However, whatever capability you have to overcome just the, the smooching Plus, a third party jumping in and being like, you should be upset about this, I think would make you naturally. I'm not strong enough to imagine a world where that doesn't make me feel worse.
Pablo Torre
So here's a Variety headline from July of this year.
Dan Soder
Okay. As this episode is effectively news. This is just breaking, guys.
Pablo Torre
We're in the news breaking now. Neil McDonough says in Variety, quote, hollywood turned on me. End quote.
Dan Soder
Oh, I remember this.
Pablo Torre
I wouldn't kiss another woman on screen. Yeah, Colon. I couldn't get a job, and I lost everything.
Katie Nolan
Oh, my God.
Pablo Torre
Neil McDonough, a veteran character actor who's appeared in everything from Band of Brothers to Desperate Housewives, Minority Report, American Horror Story, suits and more.
Katie Nolan
What a. What a. IMDb suits and more. That's great.
Pablo Torre
Suits. Plus, he revealed during an interview on the Nothing Left Unsaid podcast that Hollywood shut him out to kiss other actors on screen.
Dan Soder
Yeah, I remember. I remember hearing about this.
Pablo Torre
They have five children together, he and Ru Robertson. Since 2003, they have been married. He's had in his contracts that he wouldn't kiss another woman. And it was him, really, who had a problem with it. This is a quote. My wife didn't have any problem with it.
Katie Nolan
It.
Pablo Torre
But he couldn't do it, and Hollywood turned on him. Apparently, he got blackballed is what he's saying, because he had this rule, which. But that real Katie Nolan position is what I'm hearing. That's what you. That's what you would do.
Katie Nolan
I don't know. I just, like, I can't. I have always said I don't think I'd be a very good actress because I'm not very. My. I kind of only am just this one way, and if you like it, that's awesome. And if you don't, unfortunately, this is what I've got. And so acting's always interesting to me. I also feel like, with the rise of misinformation, just to, like, zoom out a little bit every. The thing I'm losing sight of first is, like, real and fake. Anything that blurs the line of real and fake to me at this time makes me go, like, I don't know. I think we need to know what's real and what's fake because it's. Things are starting to get a little go.
Dan Soder
Wait, what are you talking about?
Katie Nolan
Zooming out too far to then zoom back in?
Dan Soder
Okay.
Katie Nolan
That, like, the. I've always had it. I've struggled with being able to act. I couldn't act like I was kissing somebody unless I really was enjoying kissing them, that would be what I would have to do. I would have to be enjoying it to look like I was enjoying it. I mean, not back in college, for God's sake.
Dan Soder
For absolute God's sake.
Pablo Torre
Offering a fist bump to a limp.
Dan Soder
I just got. I just got a non consensual fist bump.
Katie Nolan
As a fully realized connected adult. Like, I can't. I don't know how people do. That's how I recognize. What I'm trying to explain is how I recognize acting is a skill. Because there are people that just go like, yeah, I'm kissing that person. It is. It means nothing. I am not enjoying it. They actually have really bad breath. The ability to just make it seem like this incredible, to create fake chemistry is the antithesis to me of what my whole life is about. So I. That's why I. Why am I explaining this? And you're looking at me like, I.
Pablo Torre
Think this is a compliment.
Katie Nolan
I don't know. He's trying to explain why I don't. Why I can't do that. And I respect that. He. I think he's saying the same.
Dan Soder
I think I respect. I respect it too. Being like, I look, I just don't want to do that. Makes me feel weird. Is it. Is that you got blackballed? Like, every. Every part they were like. And this is. And it's smooching.
Pablo Torre
Plus quote.
Katie Nolan
Is it. He finished all those roles and then said, no more kissing. And they were like by.
Dan Soder
I don't remember. I don't know his oeuvre well enough to know how much smoochin he's done on screen.
Katie Nolan
I'm scrolling through my library of times. I've seen his face and I don't see anywhere there's parted lips.
Dan Soder
Also, I don't think of him as. I think he's too. I guess maybe I'm misunderstanding the definition of a character actor because I think he's kind of too handsome to be a character actor. To me, a character actor is someone who you look at, you're like, how'd he get famous? You know what I mean? But this guy, right away, he's not a character.
Katie Nolan
And I could be wrong, but he's went to Harvard.
Dan Soder
Yeah.
Katie Nolan
Where'd you go? Just so we can. I can know who to appeal to.
Dan Soder
New York University.
Katie Nolan
Also really good.
Dan Soder
Hey, thanks.
Katie Nolan
In this situation, I understand picking Harvard.
Dan Soder
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Katie Nolan
I thought a character actor was like a guy who plays a lot of like, small or woman. A guy is gender neutral who Plays a lot of, like, little roles in big things that you've seen that, like, really help the plot, but they don't get a lot of credit.
Dan Soder
Sure, sure. But. But you wouldn't say, like, you know, they're. For example, on Sex in the City, there are sometimes an actor who's, like, the hot guy in this episode, and you wouldn't be like, that's a character.
Katie Nolan
Oh, sure, sure.
Pablo Torre
But. So, for instance, Paul Giamatti, killer.
Dan Soder
Seymour Hoffman, character actor.
Pablo Torre
So this is.
Dan Soder
This is part of, I think, Steve Buscemi, character actor.
Pablo Torre
So. So when I had Hank Azaria on the show, I was calling him a character actor. Not sure if that was pejorative.
Dan Soder
I don't think it's necessary. I don't think some people might take offense.
Pablo Torre
But I guess for him, like, he was literally. He's known for different characters and voices, so I think for him, maybe it's different. But the definition of it seems to be an actor known for playing unusual or eccentric or interesting characters in supporting roles rather than leading ones. So it doesn't need to be like, you're on screen for a second, but you're just not the main guy. And you are apparently pretty weird.
Dan Soder
Yeah, it's like a little bit of a weirdo. Like, this guy's playing, like, the police chief, you know?
Pablo Torre
Well, I guess. Well, character actors also kind of like a backhanded way of saying, like, you're also not.
Katie Nolan
You're not the famous guy.
Pablo Torre
You're not the hottie.
Katie Nolan
Not the big famous hottie.
Dan Soder
The hot guy's not the character actor. Normally.
Pablo Torre
Can hot guys be character actors?
Katie Nolan
Probably. Let's think of one.
Dan Soder
Left to your face, I'm thinking.
Katie Nolan
I'm looking at all the pictures. I'm looking at my brain pictures.
Pablo Torre
It's very painful.
Katie Nolan
Hot guy repertoire. Looking really hard. Okay.
Dan Soder
No, I don't think I could do. I. I don't think I could do.
Pablo Torre
I mean, but this seems to be.
Dan Soder
I don't think I could do smooching either.
Pablo Torre
Just because.
Dan Soder
I mean, I guess I would do it, but I just seem so.
Katie Nolan
Said he would do it. Sorry, that was.
Dan Soder
He said he would do it. He said he would do it.
Katie Nolan
He said he wants to kiss other people.
Dan Soder
I would be so stressed out. The idea of it is just. Is very stressful.
Pablo Torre
Yeah. Think it'd be comfortable.
Katie Nolan
Whenever I've heard people talk about it, they talk about how valuable having, like, a very comfortable scene partner is that it's like, oh, I depended on that person the entire time because they are do they do this all the time? And for me, I was very freaked out by it.
Dan Soder
Even that feels kind of something to me. Right where it's like, that's why we have intim. Joan made. It was that I said, that's why.
Katie Nolan
They have intimacy coordinators. But now it's become a cool thing to signal that, like, I didn't even need or want one. I actually told them to take the day off. And you're like, they're. They're.
Pablo Torre
I'll coordinate this.
Katie Nolan
You're not helping. You're not helping.
Dan Soder
But even when they are like, you know, oh, but I was so scared to do it. But then I worked with Sarah, and she made it so easy. It's like, that's also kind of like, wait, it makes. It makes sounds like, oh, we have a special. I'm in love with this woman. It was actually quite easy because I'm in love with her.
Pablo Torre
Well, there's also just the larger context, and this is true of all workplaces where, like, people who work together, especially in romantic settings, the performance of romantic. At least they do actually end up dating.
Katie Nolan
Yeah.
Pablo Torre
Like, the whole idea. A showmance.
Katie Nolan
Yeah.
Pablo Torre
The whole work wife premise.
Katie Nolan
I've met a lot of. Of the people that I've dated at various jobs throughout my life, so I, I. That also probably, I'm realizing, feeds into why I feel this way, where I'm like, if my job were to kiss you and they. Everybody claps. Like, it's like, of course your brain. Your brain would have to be so strong to not go. Like, so we're in love with this person, right?
Dan Soder
Yeah, I think so.
Katie Nolan
We're performing a relationship now.
Pablo Torre
We're podcasting.
Katie Nolan
So I. Am I a bad person that I'm like, oh, it would be tough.
Pablo Torre
Anyway, the whole point, I think it's almost. I think you're almost virtue signaling.
Katie Nolan
Oh, no, that's bad, right?
Dan Soder
Pure.
Katie Nolan
I. I wish. I think what it is, is I'm fascinated by people's ability to go, oh, well, that's acting. It doesn't matter. And I'm like, I wouldn't be able to do that. I just don't think I would be able to.
Dan Soder
I understand that it's acting. Like, I. I understand that, but it would still. It would make me uncomfortable if my wife, who was an actress, was like, I'm going to be an actor again. And the first role I'm taking is Smooch City. I'm going to be like, well, it would. I wish you. I wish you would take something else.
Pablo Torre
Spin city. Spin off.
Katie Nolan
If it's like, is that why you got back into it? So that you could go smooch? I just feel like it would be like if the murder was real, if the murder. If you would go and to a movie set and when you were acting murder, you actually murdered. It's like that you actually kissed.
Dan Soder
Yeah, right.
Pablo Torre
This is like Tom Cruise actually doing his own stunts.
Dan Soder
This is, this is so close to you being like, I think Shrek might be real.
Katie Nolan
Yeah. And why not? Has anyone considered Fiona? Probably not.
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But Shrek certainly there's a donkey thing I workshopping over here.
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Let us know when you get it.
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Pablo Torre
The work wife as a related concept.
Dan Soder
Okay.
Pablo Torre
Which is a thing that is certainly like. Speaking of just like things people are talking about this year. I feel like I've been inundated with like work wife viral Coldplay thing. Yes.
Katie Nolan
Yes. You saw that obviously.
Dan Soder
Of course.
Katie Nolan
Yeah. I just didn't know. Sometimes I don't know. This one I think got to every single buddy.
Dan Soder
Absolutely.
Katie Nolan
That exists.
Pablo Torre
But just the premise.
Katie Nolan
Kind of like Hawk Tua.
Dan Soder
Yeah, good. We're just gonna be. Let's churning out references.
Katie Nolan
I watched a guy watch that on his phone.
Dan Soder
Speaking of smooching. Plus, you know what I mean.
Katie Nolan
The work wife. You got a work wife, Pablo?
Pablo Torre
Yeah, Rob.
Dan Soder
I could see Rob being your work wife.
Pablo Torre
Rob's been whispering sweet nothings into my ear this whole podcast.
Katie Nolan
That's really sweet.
Pablo Torre
He sent me a photo of a guy named Robert. Is it Richard? Richard. I don't know how to pronounce.
Katie Nolan
He's doing this.
Pablo Torre
He has. He has a. He's an apostrophe between the ri. Apostrophe and the chard. And he looks like that guy that we just talked about. Neil McDonald McDonough.
Katie Nolan
We've named too many men. I've lost them in my mind.
Pablo Torre
So check this out. Neil McDonough. Yeah, check this out.
Katie Nolan
Oh, my God. It's a real Jay Z. Troy Aikman.
Pablo Torre
We got a Jay Z. Troy Aikman situation with Robert Richard.
Katie Nolan
Yeah, I see it.
Pablo Torre
That's what Rob's whispering in my ear.
Katie Nolan
Thanks. Rob. That's helpful.
Pablo Torre
We've had a side chat about this guy for a while and you guys work.
Katie Nolan
Smooch, you said.
Pablo Torre
I mean, it just feels like emotionally fraught sometimes.
Katie Nolan
So he did kiss her, you're saying? No, Dan.
Pablo Torre
Oh.
Dan Soder
The thing is. Oh.
Pablo Torre
Oh.
Katie Nolan
So to be so that super cool chick who's incredible at her job and great at singing.
Dan Soder
Incredible. Yeah.
Katie Nolan
You did mention how this came up.
Dan Soder
I think she plays an instrument to.
Katie Nolan
The piano in there.
Dan Soder
And my God, when you see her play the piano, you will be blown away. I mean, my goodness.
Pablo Torre
So you were at the Emmys?
Dan Soder
I was at the Emmy.
Katie Nolan
Did you win? You won an Emmy?
Dan Soder
I did not win an Emmy.
Katie Nolan
I'm sorry. Is that the mean if you had one? I would have felt bad if I.
Dan Soder
No, that's okay. That's okay. I did not win an Emmy. I wasn't.
Katie Nolan
You didn't win a Peabody.
Dan Soder
I did.
Katie Nolan
Peabody. Peabody.
Pablo Torre
God damn it.
Dan Soder
I want a Peabody. We heard anyway seen.
Pablo Torre
Yeah, I've also seen.
Katie Nolan
Because we hang out without cameras.
Dan Soder
We did that one time.
Pablo Torre
That one time.
Dan Soder
That one time we did. Never again probably, but possibly.
Katie Nolan
No. Yeah.
Dan Soder
Even when we do hang out without the cameras, it's almost like this.
Katie Nolan
Yeah.
Dan Soder
It's like a. Have you seen Pablo takes out his computer?
Katie Nolan
What were you saying?
Dan Soder
I have no idea.
Pablo Torre
You were at the Emmys and you won but didn't.
Dan Soder
Well, I didn't win the show that. The show that I work for won.
Katie Nolan
That's winning.
Dan Soder
That's winning.
Katie Nolan
That's winning.
Dan Soder
Well, I don't get a statue. The stand, the stat, the producers, etc, get statues. I don't get a statue. But it was pretty fun. It's cool.
Katie Nolan
That's sick.
Dan Soder
Yeah. So that's kind of.
Katie Nolan
You were nominated for Severance?
Dan Soder
Yeah, I was nominated for smallest role.
Katie Nolan
Tiniest little half of least likely to.
Dan Soder
Be seen on an episode of a television from a season that was before this year.
Katie Nolan
Okay. Yeah, they just. That's new this year. They just started giving that out. Last year's best tiny guy from the show, I think.
Dan Soder
Good. This feels good.
Pablo Torre
Best actor in a cable news reenactment.
Katie Nolan
Yeah.
Dan Soder
Best actor on a TV show inside of a TV show.
Katie Nolan
I don't know. Hold on. There were a lot.
Dan Soder
Yeah. That probably goes to like Wolf Blitzer in something.
Pablo Torre
Yeah, right.
Katie Nolan
Like Sharknado, somebody from Succession. The other s show.
Dan Soder
Good with a great show.
Katie Nolan
Yeah. Were you in that?
Dan Soder
I'll tell you what. I was in that, but they cut me out. A fun story about that was.
Katie Nolan
Wait, you Literally were in.
Dan Soder
And I literally was in it. I had.
Pablo Torre
I heard this recently when Hamburger was there in your.
Dan Soder
I told the story.
Pablo Torre
You referenced it. But I was. I was actually curious, like, what happened?
Dan Soder
I think it was the pilot. I was in one. I had one line, and I think the line was like, hey, Captain, or something like that.
Katie Nolan
Nice.
Dan Soder
You know what I mean? One of those. It's one of those things where, like, you know, on the day of. They're like, oh, they just wrote a new. Who. Does anybody know that could do this? I think it's. I think that's how I got that. I get there, and the director gives me a very specific set of instructions. He's like, I want you to. At this exact moment when this thing is happening, that's when I want you to say this line to Jeremy Strong. And then Jeremy Strong is like, hey, I get conflicting ideas from.
Pablo Torre
Oh, no.
Dan Soder
Jeremy Sharp. Maybe. I don't know. Maybe it wasn't Jeremy. Sean. Anyway, I get. I get two different, very specific opposite directions. So I abs. I just.
Pablo Torre
So you smooch.
Dan Soder
I'm abs. I'm totally in smooch city. I kissed him. So I kissed him. I tried. I tried. I tried to kiss him.
Katie Nolan
I tried to.
Dan Soder
Plus, I just felt so. I was so anxious about this one line, and I said it. And you'll never see it any place. It's not a line that's necessary.
Katie Nolan
What was the line?
Dan Soder
He thinks it's the line I'm pretty sure was, hey, Captain, or hi, Captain, or.
Katie Nolan
It's got to be so scary when you sense that, like.
Pablo Torre
Or you're the captain.
Katie Nolan
I have to do this perfect or they're, like, gonna be mad at me.
Dan Soder
Yes.
Katie Nolan
Like, do it exactly like this. And you're like, it's not. We're not feeling out the scene. I'm here to do this. If I don't do it right.
Dan Soder
Yeah. I'm effectively a lamp.
Katie Nolan
If I screw him up, it's gonna be a big problem.
Dan Soder
That's exactly right. And so it's. And it's also one of the first times that I was on a set where it's like, oh, this is, like, really real. It's very real. So just, like, I'm stressed out. I'm getting complete opposite directions. I'm trying to do it right. I'm sure it's almost impossible to do it, like, really badly. I think the other fun thing about doing it that early on is I don't. The other actors in the show didn't know that I Was no one. I don't think so. I'm like in holding with them, just like chilling with all them. And everybody was super nice.
Katie Nolan
Cool cast.
Dan Soder
That's kind of that story.
Katie Nolan
That's really cool.
Dan Soder
But I was in succession, even if you can imagine it, less than I was in Severance.
Katie Nolan
It's very funny. And I'll just also say they don't only cut stuff that was bad or that they didn't like. They have to cut stuff for time.
Dan Soder
You know what? It might have been too good. They might have thought if we show this guy. We gotta do a spin off.
Katie Nolan
Exactly.
Dan Soder
We're gonna do a hey Captain spinoff.
Katie Nolan
Exactly. And he can't steal the show.
Dan Soder
Yeah. Coming this year to HBO Family.
Pablo Torre
Hey Captain.
Dan Soder
Hey Captain. The story of an intern at Waystar Royco.
Katie Nolan
That's where you started. But wait till you see.
Dan Soder
Exactly. Wait till you see he ends up a hobo.
Pablo Torre
Katie, what do you know about the thing where Dan smooched when either called.
Katie Nolan
It had to be you or it's only you. Or there was always you. It's something.
Dan Soder
It's a movie or it's a.
Katie Nolan
It's a movie.
Pablo Torre
You know what the plot is.
Katie Nolan
No, I don't. I don't. And this isn't because I don't love him. It's because I do. It's because I love him so, so much.
Dan Soder
Yeah. You're ready. And you're about to find out what it's. What? That's.
Katie Nolan
And that's fine. I can do the plot. Just please don't actually show me them kissing.
Pablo Torre
Is it. It had to be you.
Dan Soder
Pablo's trying to engineer a fight between you.
Pablo Torre
It had to be you.
Katie Nolan
Is that. That's what it's.
Pablo Torre
That's what it's called.
Katie Nolan
Okay.
Pablo Torre
Sonia, a neurotic and charming jingle writer, dreams of having an exciting life.
Dan Soder
I wonder if she sings and plays the piano in there too.
Katie Nolan
Oh my God. I bet.
Pablo Torre
The sudden marriage proposal from her boyfriend.
Katie Nolan
And that's him. That's my date.
Pablo Torre
Whether she joins the ranks of her married friends or pursue her fantasies.
Katie Nolan
Is he not even named like as the character?
Dan Soder
Are they. Is he the lead of the movie?
Katie Nolan
Sonia, boyfriend.
Pablo Torre
A 30 something young woman panics when live in boyfriend. Chris Jensen.
Katie Nolan
Is that him?
Pablo Torre
Dan Soder.
Katie Nolan
Okay, Chris, Jen, let's go.
Pablo Torre
Marriage.
Katie Nolan
Yeah.
Pablo Torre
Her refusal hurts him and he walks out.
Dan Soder
Sorry.
Katie Nolan
Been there, done that. Said yes.
Dan Soder
So.
Pablo Torre
Kristen, Melody. Yeah.
Katie Nolan
Yeah.
Pablo Torre
Okay.
Dan Soder
I mean now I feel like I'm gonna watch this movie.
Pablo Torre
I think we should. We probably just play It.
Katie Nolan
What? No.
Dan Soder
It's gonna be the best episode.
Katie Nolan
It's not possible.
Dan Soder
Are you Detective?
Katie Nolan
Did you email about Google? I'll kill you. I'll kill you. Google. Oh, I hate it.
Pablo Torre
So her leg is straight across.
Dan Soder
Stop it. Pablo.
Pablo Torre
What the. They're on a couch just watching tv.
Katie Nolan
This is what I do every day. She's playing me.
Dan Soder
My job here. She's me. But she can sing.
Katie Nolan
This is your. Hey. This is your.
Dan Soder
But you can sing too, bro. I've heard you. You can sing.
Katie Nolan
I was just kidding. You're so great at what you do. You. You. You should pursue this. Maybe. Maybe.
Dan Soder
Chris, why are you getting so worked up about this?
Katie Nolan
Because you're just. You're like this with everything. It's like you're. You're okay with everything just being okay.
Pablo Torre
Why shouldn't I be?
Katie Nolan
Because okay is like. It's. You know, that's like settling for a seven out of ten.
Dan Soder
A seven is great.
Katie Nolan
A seven is. It's. That's barely passing. If you get. If you get below a 70 on a test, you fail. You only live once, and you should at least try to have everything in your life be a 10.
Dan Soder
That's crazy.
Katie Nolan
That's not crazy.
Dan Soder
Why is that failing?
Katie Nolan
I think 65, isn't it? I think you're more than a 10. You do? Of course I do. If they kiss, I swear.
Dan Soder
Shield your eyes.
Katie Nolan
I'll walk out.
Dan Soder
Pablo, Shield your eyes.
Katie Nolan
We won't be friends anymore. Pablo.
Pablo Torre
I don't know what's about to happen.
Dan Soder
Oh.
Pablo Torre
Honestly, that was.
Dan Soder
This is. This to me is very sweet. The level of actual legitimate anger.
Pablo Torre
I was about to throw this cap over Katie's eyes to preserve our friendship. I didn't know what's about to happen in that video.
Katie Nolan
I didn't finish watching it.
Dan Soder
The control room pressed like a big red button.
Katie Nolan
They wouldn't do this to me. They would do this to me. You were about to do that to me. They.
Dan Soder
She stands so good.
Katie Nolan
Damn.
Pablo Torre
Is Dan. Dan's great, baby.
Dan Soder
I don't think I've seen him do acting stuff. I know that he does.
Katie Nolan
That's what everybody knows him from. I thought. I'm sorry. Why?
Pablo Torre
You haven't watched Jim Billions and Billions?
Katie Nolan
No, he's great. He's. He's the best.
Pablo Torre
That was. That was a high. But by the way, a couple things.
Katie Nolan
Number one, stressful. Here's your wife cheating on you. Roll it, boys.
Pablo Torre
Katie, I don't think you've learned anything from our conversation about the ins and outs of What? Hollyw is like real Neil McD energy. Blame. Blame my work husband for that.
Katie Nolan
I will. I will.
Dan Soder
Yeah, we blame. We blame him.
Katie Nolan
I'm gonna. I'm gonna push for a work divorce.
Pablo Torre
I will also point out that knowing nothing about this film other than what I've been googling quietly while you guys have been saying words, she does appear to be playing the role of Katie Nolan.
Katie Nolan
Does she say yes? Do they get married? Did it have to be each other? She's. I just. The whole point of this was. She's so good in the Penguin. Did you watch it?
Pablo Torre
I did not watch.
Katie Nolan
Have you seen it?
Pablo Torre
The Penguin.
Katie Nolan
I think it's okay if you have. It's okay. Get to episode four.
Dan Soder
That's where it all happens.
Katie Nolan
Unreal. And I don't know. I'm not up on all of the lore of Batman and all of that. And I still. As a standalone show. I mean, there's a lot of great acting in it. She's unreal.
Dan Soder
Oh, wow. Okay. I'm gonna check it out.
Katie Nolan
And she won. And she gave the cutest little speech. And she sings and she can. I should just. She can have them, right? She's probably, like, married and happy. It's not a yeah. Thing. It's just, you know.
Pablo Torre
Do you want to see a scene where they're in bed together?
Katie Nolan
No. What? Yes. What has led you to think that yes is the answer?
Dan Soder
I heard. I read that she has a secret husband who does. Stand up. I wonder who it is.
Katie Nolan
We should look into it. Pablo should find out. I'm gonna. Mark Cuban. I'm just gonna be. And third of all, if you'll see, he truly loves meme the most.
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Pablo Torre
I'm going to admit to just having googled Dan Soder sex scene.
Katie Nolan
What the. After that whole speech about how it really is genuine, he's like. And I. I liked the pain.
Pablo Torre
I just need to know.
Katie Nolan
Kind of like, I just need to.
Pablo Torre
Know if it's out there.
Katie Nolan
Scared. I actually was looking for a way to get out of this friendship.
Dan Soder
So if I could just find to knowing you.
Katie Nolan
How's your family? Who I now know. And I feel genuinely interested in how they. You brought your daughter to the Emmys.
Dan Soder
My daughter came with the Emmys.
Katie Nolan
She looked great.
Pablo Torre
Did she.
Dan Soder
She had a really good time.
Katie Nolan
She appreciate time. The.
Dan Soder
I think she did it. She met a lot of people that I work with, and after pretty much every person that she met, she was like, oh, I think that's my favorite one now.
Katie Nolan
I love that because there were a.
Dan Soder
Lot of delightful people.
Katie Nolan
I love that.
Dan Soder
And yeah, she kind of had a really great time. And also, the people at my work are very. They're very willing to center a child. So they really, like, make her feel like a superstar. Yeah. No, you.
Pablo Torre
You were mean.
Katie Nolan
Oh, she's a cool kid. I'd center her.
Dan Soder
She had. She had. She had a great time. She recently got braces. That's something that's going on in our house. Did you guys have braces?
Katie Nolan
Yeah. At a tough time in my life, too. I was not looking my best.
Dan Soder
Yeah.
Katie Nolan
I was going through a tough.
Dan Soder
We're gonna want a picture. We're gonna need a picture of that.
Katie Nolan
Let's find that there were. I've reached a point now where I can look at them and not. There was a point in my life I was like, I don't ever show me me in middle school. I was miserable. I was so sad.
Pablo Torre
Did you have the haircut?
Katie Nolan
I was actually kind of at. But at one point I was growing out. The haircut, which I had already prepared for, was going to be a tough. That's why I was like, let me get this out of the way in middle school before I get to high school. But it's. It was a tough transitional period of haircut where it just. I had a shaggy, long dying for the flat, and I had. And I had these big braces, and I was just. But now I look at that and I see it's the same. I'm in there, you know, it's. It's me. I just was. People weren't very nice to me about what I look like.
Pablo Torre
Were there nicknames?
Katie Nolan
Yeah, I'm sure she's fully crying on today. Is the goal to get me to be upset.
Dan Soder
I also. I had braces, and it did not happen at a good. Things were already going so badly for me, and then I got braces. But I thought. I thought I would be fine with the braces. No one will even know that I have them because I'm getting clear braces. And just to be crystal clear on what that means is not invisalign.
Katie Nolan
Not crystal clear at all.
Dan Soder
It's braces that are, like, you know.
Pablo Torre
Vaguely pretending not to be there. It's the Shaquille o' Neal hiding behind a tree of braces.
Dan Soder
It looks like your teeth also have teeth. It's not cute in any way. So I had. I had acne. That was absolutely crushing the game.
Katie Nolan
Did you get on acting?
Dan Soder
No, I did not.
Katie Nolan
Good. That's good.
Dan Soder
And I had braces, and I had straight up bubonic eczema. I mean, I had eczema just all over the place. So I was kind of. I was.
Katie Nolan
You were going through it.
Dan Soder
I was really going through it.
Katie Nolan
You were molting. Yes, you were molting. You were becoming the beautiful butterfly you are today.
Dan Soder
Once those braces came off and the acne went away and the eczema was still there, I was a king of the pharmaceutical Dupixent, baby.
Katie Nolan
I call it Skyrizi every time.
Dan Soder
No, it's Dupixent. Give me that sponsorship. Whoever. Whoever you are, doctor, do give it to me.
Katie Nolan
You wouldn't do a pharmaceutical sponsor for Dupixent.
Dan Soder
I absolutely.
Katie Nolan
Because you do use it. Yeah, yeah, maybe.
Dan Soder
But I would absolutely do it. I would. I would shoot Dupixent into. I would. I would have. I would come in here like pinhead. You know that pinhead from Hellraiser?
Katie Nolan
Yeah.
Dan Soder
With the Dupixent. I love. I love it.
Katie Nolan
Wait, I have a can. I want to. Can you table the Serena Williams row conversation?
Pablo Torre
Serena Williams row.
Dan Soder
Because she's doing the oic.
Pablo Torre
Oh, yeah.
Katie Nolan
She's doing. We go.
Pablo Torre
Is the Think we go. Is the GLP one of choice, Row?
Katie Nolan
No, Row is the company that she gets it through. It's like, you can also use row. I believe it used to be called Roman, but then they started appealing to women as well. They dropped, man, and it just became Ro.
Pablo Torre
Kims is a thing.
Katie Nolan
Yes. And you can get.
Pablo Torre
Provided we don't have them as a sponsor.
Katie Nolan
In this episode, when he said hymns, it's like you. Allows you to connect with a doctor, and they'll give you a prescription without ever having to. It's like that kind of telemedicine that became a thing during COVID From necessity. Born from necessity.
Dan Soder
Yes.
Katie Nolan
And now I think they're, like, trying to figure out how to regulate it or whatever. She did ads for Row. Her husband sits on the board.
Pablo Torre
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And just read it.
Katie Nolan
In the ads for Row, she's just pushing the actual product, which made me go like, that's interesting, because it's not. She's not being paid by the pharmaceutical company to push the product. She's being paid by the company that gives it to you. But yet the headlines were all like, serena Williams confesses that she too uses GLP1s. And it just seemed like such a very complex, layered story that you love those. So I wanted to drop that in your lap. Pablo should find out about that, because that was tough. I mean, seeing an athlete. Nobody. Everybody's got body stuff. Body stuff is hard to talk about.
Dan Soder
Not me. Cannot relate.
Katie Nolan
I didn't mean to laugh right away. Everybody has body stuff, and we're. It's like every. I hate talking about it because I don't like the thought of making somebody at home feel any type of way about their own body. But that was weird to me because.
Pablo Torre
She is the paragon of female athleticism and.
Katie Nolan
And it. And she said that even she need. She just needed to use it to get the last. The last 15 off. And I don't know. I looked into the medicine of the stuff. It's actually very interesting. They're. They're like, currently trying the medicine that was originally used as like a diabetes medicine, and then they approved it for weight loss, and now it's being approved for a lot of other uses. They're actually looking into using it to treat addiction because of its ability to target whatever it is that's causing that. And so in that way, I'm like, this medicine really might be, like, game changing, life changing, like, can help people that really need it in all types of ways. I just don't know why? The thought of the woman that speaking about it being Serena Williams makes me go like, well, that she isn't one of the. And I don't want to, but. And then you're like, you don't want to tell anybody what to do with their own body.
Pablo Torre
This is interesting. I mean, because really what you're describing is your reaction not to her decision, but to the presumed pressure that she must have felt to want to make that decision.
Katie Nolan
Yes. And also the. The pressure that might. Somebody else might feel once to her. She's saying that she wants to destigmatize it by coming out and saying, like, even I needed it. But in the articles about this, since it's not on behalf of that company, it's on behalf of Roe, they're using language that suggests shame. So they're saying, like, Serena Williams comes clean about using GLP1s, and in the article, she's saying that she wants to destigmatize it.
Pablo Torre
We're seeing Serena Williams goes public. We're seeing Williams opens up, Admits opens up.
Katie Nolan
And it's. These are all.
Pablo Torre
Finally opens up, reveals all things that.
Katie Nolan
Suggest there should be shame involved while she's saying she's trying to remove shame.
Pablo Torre
Serena Williams shocked fans.
Katie Nolan
Yeah.
Pablo Torre
With her new slim selfie.
Dan Soder
But I do think there is shame. Like, people, the. Everyone in Hollywood is like, oh, the £400 I lost. I mean, I've just been walking a lot. It's like, no, you haven't. We. We know that you've been on these drugs. So there is actual shame around using it. Everyone's pretending they're not using it, but when suddenly everyone lost 20 pounds at the exact same time, you are like, huh, this diet is either incredible or you're all on these drugs. And they all are. And to me, I'm not saying that. I'm not arguing against anything you've said.
Katie Nolan
No, put them up.
Dan Soder
Absolutely, absolutely, absolutely. GLP it away, bro.
Pablo Torre
I'm fist up.
Katie Nolan
No, put your dukes up, please.
Dan Soder
I think you should do. Do it. Wegovy. The other one. Ozempic.
Katie Nolan
Ozempic.
Pablo Torre
There's a bunch Pixin it do picks in.
Dan Soder
It do. Pixen doesn't do this particular thing.
Katie Nolan
I' agree with you. I think anyone should do anything that they want.
Pablo Torre
That is also my house position.
Katie Nolan
Right. I think what my issue is is that I understand the mentality of her doing it from her standpoint, but I'm watching it in execution, and it's not destigmatizing, it's actually reinforcing. The shame that's associated with it by saying that she's coming clean about it. And if she's not destigmatizing it, then what she is doing is. I don't know, it's. It's scary to me. I think of being a little girl who everybody goes through a time where they're like learning their body and how their body carries weight and how their body handles exercise and responds to certain. Whatever it is. And they're going, serena Williams needs it. I need it. I'm gonna get on it right away. When really that person might not have needed it. Maybe that person just needed to. And then. Because then I think now that's a lifetime with a pharmaceutical company. And that to me goes. Gets really risky, like pushing that on. I don't know. People look up to Serena win. So it's very complex. And again, I want to be clear. Like, I don't. If you use it, I don't judge or anything.
Pablo Torre
We're gonna clip this very unforgivingly. And so you will get in trouble. You know what I'm saying? Outside of that totally nuanced discussion.
Katie Nolan
But it is interesting. But like her.
Pablo Torre
Her truly profiting off of this as a spokesperson for the broker of GLP1, I think that does change the premise. It's not simply she believes in a product and has said that she uses it. It's the act of selling and promoting via some membrane of separation between the actual product, the. The drug and.
Katie Nolan
How does that sound to you? What does that do in your brain? Because you were just talking about how you would gladly do a dupixent. You would be paid by dupixent because you use dupixent. So I'm wondering.
Dan Soder
I would. I would drink a bucket of wegovy. I thought. What I have heard is that I have heard that it can give you.
Pablo Torre
I would drink out the bucket, drink a beer snake.
Dan Soder
Do you know those. Do you know those hats that you have with the upside down things on the straws going into your mouth? You could load that. You could do a wovi in this one and an Ozempic in that one and I would slurp that. I guess to me, I don't have any. I'm distrustful of pharmaceuticals companies and their motives all the time. I. That's maybe a dangerous thing to say. I don't know of anyone who's been on these things that has suffered a, like, long term side effects. But that could just be like a. Yet.
Pablo Torre
Well, exactly.
Dan Soder
You could be on McGovia or Ozempic and die from a disease that no one's even heard of yet because it's a. Because it's a wegovy side effect that we haven't tracked. But I know people who have taken it, and me too, had incredibly bad gastro issues in the. In the, like, you know, whatever, the maintenance phase or whatever. Gotten, like, diarrhea for real. You know what I'm saying?
Pablo Torre
That's what it says on the box. Diarrheal for real in italics.
Dan Soder
Yeah. May cause diarrhea. And then a little FRFR is the sound the diarrhea makes. So I. I'm not. What I'm saying is I have no judge of people who take it, which I don't think you're saying either.
Katie Nolan
No, no.
Pablo Torre
And if, by the way, it does seem to be as drugs that have been debuted in a dystopian era, as those go, this seems to be wildly effective based on early returns.
Dan Soder
Yeah.
Pablo Torre
With all of the caveats that we're all pointing out of, like, who knows what unintended consequences both sociologically and pharmaceutically.
Dan Soder
The other thing that will happen, if that's already happening, is you will. Some people can afford this, some people can't. So in many ways, how, like, you know, just general health is a marker of your economic status. Like this. It'll be clear once everybody's on this, like who. There's going to be a right, a very visible line between who can afford it and who can't.
Pablo Torre
Yes. All of this. You slurping GLP ones.
Dan Soder
Hashtag me slurp.
Pablo Torre
Hashtag me slurp. Reminds me there's no other way to think of that. Well, there's.
Katie Nolan
There's one other way.
Pablo Torre
There's one other way I want to think about it, and it's the video I want to show Katie.
Katie Nolan
No. God damn.
Dan Soder
God.
Katie Nolan
I jokingly pointed at the tv, but.
Dan Soder
This is your fault.
Katie Nolan
I jokingly no, because he also did the kiss. I said I would be willing to do this so as not to see the kiss.
Pablo Torre
I can't understand.
Dan Soder
Can't you not show this?
Katie Nolan
You know what? I pivoted. I love this clip. Keep showing me this clip.
Dan Soder
Put me.
Katie Nolan
Show me where he puts the. In his mouth. I want to see it right now.
Dan Soder
Edit us.
Katie Nolan
Come on.
Dan Soder
Edit me into this clip is what I want.
Katie Nolan
Make it me who's doing it. Make it me who's doing this. I actually would love that.
Dan Soder
I think you shouldn't say that. The Internet is.
Katie Nolan
I love the way he rubs his face in It. Okay. I'm loving this. Oh, good. Run it back from the beginning.
Dan Soder
I. I have tried to put me on board with this bit, and I am. I can't do it. I can't be here for it. How long does he do this for? What did he win?
Katie Nolan
Unless they just cleaned that tub. You are. You've got old hair in your mouth.
Dan Soder
I don't think we watched this much of it before.
Katie Nolan
I don't think we did either. I think I got them to turn.
Dan Soder
Yeah. This is unbelievable.
Pablo Torre
We've rarely gotten this deep into the clip.
Dan Soder
This.
Katie Nolan
Unbelievable.
Dan Soder
Has either of you seen this movie? Has either of you has either?
Pablo Torre
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Katie Nolan
You know what I just realized? He kind of looks like Walker Bueller. You know Walker Bueller, the pitcher?
Dan Soder
I don't.
Katie Nolan
He. I did.
Pablo Torre
Los Angeles Dodger Walker Bueller.
Katie Nolan
No, he was. And then he was on the Red Sox and he stunk, and now I think he's on the Phillies. Philadelphia Phillies pitcher. Walker Bueller kind of gave up on baseball.
Dan Soder
Tbh.
Katie Nolan
Well, it's back. It's back in a big way.
Dan Soder
You know, I love Sh. Otani. That's. That's. That's.
Katie Nolan
He just.
Dan Soder
50. 50.
Katie Nolan
Yeah. Well, a new 50. 50.
Dan Soder
Yeah.
Pablo Torre
Thank you for reminding people we're a sports podcast.
Katie Nolan
Sports. They happen. Watch.
Dan Soder
Hashtag me slurp.
Katie Nolan
Well, they might not happen. I feel like you're ending the NBA. Can I be honest? I feel like we're not gonna have an NBA anymore. I feel like it's just done.
Pablo Torre
Our investigation continues.
Katie Nolan
I know. And I'm, like, kind of half understanding it.
Pablo Torre
Can we. Can we end with a palate cleanser?
Dan Soder
What does that.
Katie Nolan
No, because that's before it got bad, you guys. That's when she was still just the.
Dan Soder
Come on, look at her.
Pablo Torre
Look at this.
Dan Soder
Look at that hair.
Pablo Torre
Young Katie Nolan.
Dan Soder
This is before. This is before.
Katie Nolan
That's in second grade. That was the day I got. That was probably, like one of the first days I had that haircut. That was the first day my mom was like, this is what we're gonna do with you.
Pablo Torre
You're wearing a necklace.
Katie Nolan
Over my turtle.
Pablo Torre
Over a dark green, forest green turtleneck.
Dan Soder
Framingham. Where are you from?
Katie Nolan
Framingham, Massachusetts.
Pablo Torre
Look at that look. Look at that hair, the bangs, the Machio esque.
Dan Soder
Yeah, it is. Imagine a second grader walking into the salon being like, I want what he has. And it's a picture of Jarmir Yaga.
Pablo Torre
If you could tell. If you could tell. Young Katie Jarmir Jagger Nolan.
Dan Soder
I want the Mario Lemieux. Please.
Katie Nolan
If I could tell her. What?
Pablo Torre
That everything that came out of your mouth in the last five minutes would come out of that mouth as an adult. I don't know.
Katie Nolan
What?
Pablo Torre
Yeah, that was gross. We're gonna probably. I'll just end the episode.
Katie Nolan
I'm talking to a kid. Pablo. What the.
Pablo Torre
This has been Pablo Torre Finds out a Meadowlark Media Production and I'll talk to you next time.
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Date: September 23, 2025
Host: Pablo Torre (The Athletic)
Guests: Katie Nolan, Dan Soder
(Note: Despite the title, the transcript features Katie Nolan and Dan Soder as primary guests.)
This episode explores the intersections of personal boundaries, the artifice of acting, social media habits, and cultural perceptions around relationships—both real and performed. Through playful banter and candid confessions, Pablo, Katie, and Dan wander from tales of being "blindsided" by comedian guests to awkward reflections on on-screen intimacy and broader questions about authenticity in both showbiz and everyday life. The group also touches on trending topics, from celebrity body image to the cultural "work wife" phenomenon, infusing each segment with humor and revealing self-awareness.
[02:15 – 04:42]
“Dear Pablo, mere words cannot express my gratitude for align me best guest on your podcast...” – Reading of Hamburger’s message, [03:37]
[05:01 – 06:45]
“The website that used to be all about the character limit, that taught me how to make things—it made me funnier—now... it’s 18 paragraphs from a billionaire about how business works.” — Katie Nolan, [06:23]
[06:48 – 07:54]
“…now I just see this so genuinely as relief. And I mean that in every sense… This feels like a nice change of pace.” — Pablo Torre, [06:58]
[09:03 – 16:16]
“…all of these people are in his mentions making fun of him for being cucked by yum yum delish Superman?” — Pablo Torre, [12:23]
“…whatever capability you have to overcome just the smooching Plus, a third party jumping in and being like, ‘you should be upset about this,’ I think would make you… feel worse.” — Dan Soder, [12:59]
“...I think we need to know what's real and what's fake because things are starting to get a little go.” — Katie Nolan, [14:28]
[24:49 – 26:18]
[27:01 – 31:03]
"I'm effectively a lamp." — Katie Nolan, on walk-on roles and the pressure to perform accurately on-set [29:45]
[33:33 – 35:01]
“Here's your wife cheating on you. Roll it, boys.” — Katie Nolan, [34:46]
[41:44 – 47:10]
"She is the paragon of female athleticism..." — Pablo Torre, [43:29]
"What my issue is… watching it in execution—and it’s not destigmatizing, it's actually reinforcing the shame that’s associated with it by saying that she's coming clean about it.” — Katie Nolan, [47:09]
[49:29 – 49:50]
"...once everybody's on this, there’s going to be a very visible line between who can afford it and who can't." — Dan Soder, [49:29]
[51:53 – End]
“Once those braces came off... I was a king... Dupixent, baby.” — Dan Soder, [41:12]
The episode is filled with quick, dry wit, self-deprecation, and earnest dialogue that oscillates between incisiveness and absurdity. Katie’s blend of vulnerability and comedic timing, Dan’s sardonic humor, and Pablo’s earnest curiosity fuel a conversational warmth that turns even personal or tough topics into approachable fare. The trio never sidesteps complexity or discomfort—they lean in, laugh, and land on honest admissions.
This episode of Pablo Torre Finds Out stands out for its blend of pop culture scrutiny, self-aware humor, and real vulnerability. From smooching on-screen to the ramifications of celebrity body talk, it delivers laughs, fresh perspectives, and a sense of camaraderie. At its heart, it’s a rich, talky exploration of how we blur the personal and the performative, whether online, at work, or in love.
(For those who haven’t listened, this summary provides a roadmap of the themes, inside jokes, and meaningful exchanges that defined the episode—no ketchup required.)