#506 Taylor's Back, Grammys Excitement & Some Morbid Curiosities

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Nikki Glaser Podcast | Episode #506: Taylor's Back, Grammys Excitement & Some Morbid Curiosities

Release Date: January 31, 2025
Hosted by Big Money Players Network and iHeartPodcasts

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Introduction

In Episode #506 of The Nikki Glaser Podcast, host Nikki Glaser returns alongside her regular co-hosts Brian, Lynn Williams, and guest Taylor McGraw. The episode navigates through a blend of personal anecdotes, deep dives into true crime, reflections on personal style, and excitement surrounding upcoming awards ceremonies. The conversation is both engaging and thought-provoking, offering listeners a comprehensive look into the multifaceted lives of the hosts.

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1. The Fascination with True Crime and the Columbine Tragedy ([02:24] – [16:18])

The episode kicks off with Taylor McGraw bringing a vintage book from the 1970s to the studio, sparking a conversation about "The Journals of the Columbine Kids." Brian and Lynn delve into the motivations and psychological profiles of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the perpetrators of the Columbine High School massacre.

• Brian: "They wrote lists like 'Things I Hate,' similar to what I was making in high school. It was like, only I am fascinated."

• Lynn: "The book changed my closet. I started wearing only my color, and people began to notice."

The discussion explores various theories behind the tragedy, including the psychological turmoil of the shooters and societal influences. The hosts express a mix of morbid curiosity and a desire to understand to prevent future atrocities.

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2. Color Analysis and Personal Style ([08:32] – [10:02])

Transitioning from true crime, the conversation shifts to the book Taylor gifted, titled "Color Me Beautiful," which focuses on color analysis and its impact on personal dressing and confidence.

• Brian: "It’s based on your undertone. I'm serious. We're making history today."

• Lynn: "I got rid of everything in my whole closet and started wearing only my color. People started to notice."

Lynn shares how adhering to her color palette transformed her wardrobe and boosted her confidence, while Brian humorously discusses his struggles with accurately identifying his own colors without a spray tan.

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3. Reflections on Memorials and Tragedies ([14:01] – [24:07])

The hosts discuss their visits to memorials, including the United 93 Memorial, providing introspective thoughts on significant tragedies.

• Taylor: "Visiting United 93 was very sad and thought-provoking. It felt like a natural history exhibit with people snapping pictures everywhere."

• Brian: "I think about how events like 9/11 could have unfolded differently and the impact they have on our collective memory."

They reflect on the importance of memorials in understanding and processing past events, highlighting the emotional weight and the ongoing search for closure.

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4. Starbucks' New Initiatives and Homelessness ([28:53] – [39:36])

Brian introduces a discussion about Starbucks' recent policy changes aimed at enhancing in-store experiences, which inadvertently affect homeless patrons.

• Brian: "They now require partners to write messages on cups and are trying to cut down on loitering. It feels like they're pushing out homeless people."

• Taylor: "It's like they're making the cafes less welcoming for those who need a place to rest."

The conversation critiques the implications of corporate policies on vulnerable populations, underscoring the tension between business initiatives and social responsibility.

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5. Personal Space, Clutter, and Consumerism ([40:01] – [43:54])

A relatable segment where Brian discusses his struggle with bathroom clutter, amplified by receiving excessive beauty products and gifts.

• Brian: "My countertop is cluttered with everything from dog poop bags to old vape pens. I'm overwhelmed."

• Lynn: "You need a dispenser where stuff pops out the bottom and you put it back on top."

The hosts share humorous and candid stories about managing personal spaces amidst consumerism, emphasizing the challenges of maintaining order in a world saturated with products and advertisements.

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6. Grammy Nominations and Comedy Insights ([55:06] – [74:25])

The episode crescendos with excitement surrounding the Grammy nominations, particularly Brian’s nomination for Best Comedy Album. The hosts discuss the competitive landscape, including perennial winner Dave Chappelle.

• Brian: "I'm nominated for a Grammy, and it's crazy. It would be the coolest one to win."

• Taylor: "Dave Chappelle has won the last two comedy album awards. It's not looking good."

The conversation delves into the art of comedy, referencing Chappelle's mastery and comparing it to their own comedic journeys. They also touch upon the responsibility of comedians in society and the impact of their work.

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• Brian on Color Analysis: "It flips back onto your. That's not your color." ([05:56])

• Taylor on Color Confidence: "Now that you have textual proof that the color you're wearing is proper, then you have confidence when you wear the color." ([07:18])

• Taylor on United 93 Memorial: "There was a woman who would go to every single thing and like take a picture of it." ([22:38])

• Brian on Grammy Excitement: "I got to win a Grammy is so exciting," ([63:16])

• Taylor on Dave Chappelle's Comedy: "He's more comfortable up there right now than I am in bed." ([64:08])

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Conclusion

Episode #506 of The Nikki Glaser Podcast offers a rich tapestry of discussions ranging from deep psychological analyses of tragic events to light-hearted conversations about personal style and the chaos of managing clutter. The hosts' ability to navigate serious topics with humor and insight makes for an engaging and memorable listening experience. Whether delving into the complexities of true crime or celebrating personal achievements like Grammy nominations, this episode encapsulates the essence of Nikki Glaser's brutally honest and entertaining approach to podcasting.

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Final Thoughts

For listeners who enjoy a mix of candid conversations, introspective discussions, and a touch of humor, Episode #506 is a must-listen. The interplay between the hosts provides both depth and levity, ensuring that each topic is explored thoroughly while maintaining an engaging flow.

Transcript

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[Lynn Williams]

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[Lynn Williams]

Hello.

[Brian]

Here I am. Welcome show. It's the Nikki Glazer podcast. I'm in St. Louis. Noah and Brian are here, also in Studio in St. Louis with me, Taylor McGraw. Been on the show before. She's hot trains.

[Lynn Williams]

Quick draw.

[Brian]

Quick draw McGraw.

[Taylor McGraw]

Quick draw McGraw.

[Brian]

She just came in hot and told me she has a book from the 70s that she got from the library. I'm guessing.

[Lynn Williams]

No, I got it you. Where you bought it, you know, on the Internet.

[Brian]

On the Internet. Okay. I know that seems like, duh, Nikki, but Taylor doesn't, like, buy things from the Internet. Like, she doesn't. You don't. That's not something I know of you. Although you did get me a book, and we need to talk about that.

[Lynn Williams]

You got it.

[Brian]

Yeah, we need. I'm like, thank you, by the way. I'll just say that. But we need to talk about that book. Oh, yeah, Brian. Yes, we will get to that. Brian shall guess what book Taylor got me that I think. Oh, will have me on some kind of list.

[Taylor McGraw]

Okay.

[Brian]

Because I own it.

[Taylor McGraw]

Okay.

[Lynn Williams]

Oh, then I'm on so many lists.

[Brian]

Because it's not even a book that's, like, for people interested in this. It's, like, for people who are, like, deep knowledge. Like these people, I think is what I think the book is, like, geared towards. Even though I do, I am fascinated.

[Taylor McGraw]

Is it the Mormon Bible kind of.

[Lynn Williams]

No, you just say whatever.

[Brian]

I was making a joke. I mean, it's. It's. It's full of just like the Mormon Bible. And it was written by a crazy person. It was written by at least one crazy person, much like the Mormon Bible who just started amending the Mormon Bible so he could have more things he wrote. So he wrote the Mormon Bible, Joseph Smith, and then he's dead. He's dead, but, like, only for, like, a hundred years. Like, so this is like, a very new religion or not.

[Taylor McGraw]

Golden plates. I've got the golden plates.

[Brian]

Oh, I never saw a Book of Mormon. All I know is that he wanted to fudge more women. So he just, like, pretended to have a dream where he talked to God or he had to do that. And then he was like, oh, my God, God says that I can have multiple wives. And then if people are like, great, we all get. And he's like, no, not you guys. And then they. Then he. Then people started having. I've talked about this before, but they. People started having. Part of the religion is that you have a relationship with God that is personal, and then you have one that you, like, share with the congregation kind of. But like, everyone has an intimate relationship with God. That's part of Mormonism. But then. Or it was then Joseph Smith was like, actually. Because then people started getting their own, like, insights from God that would make them do things. And Joseph was like. So then he goes, actually, only I do. I'm sorry. I thought that was for everyone. I like, I read it wrong. And then he rewrote it. And then that's when sex started going like, no, we're doing a different kind of Mormonism. Because he was changing it so much. And they were like, we like the old way. And. And that's. Yeah, like you said, it's the same for every religion.

[Lynn Williams]

Who knew that?

[Brian]

So you want to guess what the book is or do you want to hear what book Taylor had today?

[Taylor McGraw]

Well, let's start with the Hot story. That's how we started.

[Brian]

Yeah, she came in hot with a book about colors for.

[Lynn Williams]

That are good for your Color Me Beautiful.

[Brian]

It's called Color Me beautiful from the.

[Lynn Williams]

70S, or color analysis, I think they're calling it now. The kids.

[Brian]

Yeah, you might have seen it all over Tick tock reels. At least if. If you're a woman consuming the same things I am, where they kind of like color match you to see which colors of makeup and, and clothing you should wear that is best for your skin and overall veins. It's based on your veins.

[Lynn Williams]

You said it's based on, like, your undertone.

[Brian]

Oh, that makes sense.

[Lynn Williams]

Yeah. Like you're. It flips back onto your. That's not your color.

[Taylor McGraw]

I've never heard someone use undertone in a play on words before. This is the first time I've ever heard that.

[Brian]

I'm serious. We're making history today. Yeah, but I do. I'm just like, I don't know. Because she showed me all the colors and she goes, okay, this page of colors, is this what you like to wear? And I was like, I don't know. And then she was like, what about this page of colors? Is this what you like to wear? And just like, I don't know. And. And then I don't. I don't think I liked any of them. And then you were like, the one that I was like, yeah, the book's a little old, but aren't Colors. Like, just colors. I'm sorry. I know there's like infinite colors, but.

[Lynn Williams]

It feels since I got into this. I'm telling you.

[Brian]

No, there's so many. Like. Like you would say, like, there's a purple that looks good on you, and then there's a purple that looks horrible.

[Lynn Williams]

Yes, yes, yes.

[Brian]

And they're both purple.

[Lynn Williams]

Like, Noah, would you wear purple?

[Brian]

Yes, I would love to wear purple. I love purple light. Or like, we're talking lavender or, like a lavender. I don't look good in, like, a deep purple. And I was just going to ask if. If there's a color that you love, but, like, anytime you put it on you just. It just does not look good on you. Every color, I think yellow. I always want to look good in yellow because I see some blondes looking really striking in yellow, and then it never works for me. Yeah, in a similar way.

[Lynn Williams]

Depends. Certain yellows. Yeah, it just really depends on the tone.

[Brian]

But I told Taylor that any color looks good on me when I have a spray tan. Sorry. Like, every color is a thousand percent better on me. And there are no colors that look good on me when I don't have a spray tan that don't look better. Like, they look fine, but they will always look better with a spray tan. So what's that about?

[Taylor McGraw]

I mean, that's why black men always. They can wear whatever color they want. And a white guy tries to put on one of those pink shirts or whatever, and they look like a loser.

[Lynn Williams]

I mean, there's skin tones that are definitely better than others. That's a fact. And, yeah, white people are struggling in that department.

[Brian]

Well, we should. We've had it good for a really long. We deserve it. No, it's. Yeah, it's. It's. So I wore this color today because Taylor went through my closet and I said, pick out, because I had a different outfit on. And she was like, you should never wear that color. And I was like, fuck, bitch. And even it's popping through on this pillow. I want to get this pillow out of the shot, because that might be. Actually, Marian, are you the color that doesn't look good with me? I kick her across the room. Don't wash me out. So I chose this color. But then. And I do love a light pink, but with my arm, without spray tan, that's hell. And then when I think it's making.

[Lynn Williams]

Giving us some color, but also it's going to this. You can't.

[Brian]

You can't contend with. With the walls and the chair and everything. But Taylor, you said this book literally changed your life, or these theories literally changed your life.

[Lynn Williams]

Changed my closet.

[Brian]

What do you mean by that?

[Lynn Williams]

Well, I've been into it for a long time, cuz my grandma used to be obsessed with it when we were young. She'd always be going up to people and the store, like the Goodwill and going, that's not your color. But she was talking about it when I visited her. So I got this book so I could have something that she liked to talk about that I could talk about too. And I got rid of everything in my whole closet and I started wearing only my color. And then, since then, people will be like, oh, you look great today. Whereas no one ever has ever, ever said that before. And if it's my color, then people be like, I love that shirt, but it's just a regular old shirt. Like, this is a plain turtleneck.

[Brian]

I get compliments because I'm wearing a color. You know what I mean? Like, people are like, that's a fun. Like you, like, are peacocking because of the color. So I would, I would just assume it was that as there's also the fact that maybe.

[Taylor McGraw]

But now that you have like textual proof that the color you're wearing is proper, then you have confidence when you wear the color. And then people see that confidence and.

[Brian]

They go, wow, absolutely. Could be that.

[Lynn Williams]

That colored me beautiful. Yeah. But a lot of it is. My colors are black and white and winters are the only ones that really should wear black and white.

[Brian]

Yeah. So people are summer, autumn, spring or winter. Right?

[Lynn Williams]

Yeah. And so a lot of people will say I look really good when I'm wearing black. So I don' think that that color gives me confidence.

[Brian]

No, it would. When I wear black, I feel confident because I'm like, it's slimming. It just is all put together. You look at least clean. It's monochromatic. It makes me feel cooler. Like it would give me a skip in my step. I look goth. I look like I could have written the book that Taylor bought for me. It's the journals of the Columbine kids.

[Taylor McGraw]

Oh, okay.

[Lynn Williams]

He could have guessed.

[Brian]

Literally, the journals of the Columbine kids printed. And like, so the journal is on the side, on the left side. And then like the transcription of the journal is on the right side.

[Taylor McGraw]

Man, these kids had journals.

[Brian]

Idiots. Oh yeah, they journaled. So what kind of kids.

[Lynn Williams]

Hold on.

[Taylor McGraw]

High school boy journaling.

[Brian]

That's like, oh, big time, big time. They were so. Okay, they were, they were like always.

[Lynn Williams]

Talking like, no, no, you just Read Klebolds. You did not read is full of like.

[Taylor McGraw]

Cleveland is his first name.

[Brian]

No, Dylan Cleveland.

[Lynn Williams]

Okay, so if you read the reason that I got that for you one year, I know you're obsessed with Columbine. But two, because when I was reading Eric Harris's I was like, this is literally us when we were in high school. No, it's like what it has has Things I hate list. And like People who walk slow. Get the out of my way. And like people who dress like this. That's what lists I was making when I was in high school.

[Brian]

Yeah, but we have like Nazi symbols.

[Lynn Williams]

And okay, he had a little.

[Brian]

He had a little issued by hatred and like, things. People's brains exploding and stomping on their rib cages and breaking.

[Lynn Williams]

But it was kind of funny. Both things can be true.

[Brian]

Both. Absolutely.

[Lynn Williams]

You can be an idiot and you.

[Brian]

Can separate the artist. Eric Eris me calling him an artist.

[Lynn Williams]

He's truly an artist.

[Taylor McGraw]

I wonder if they were inspired by the Carlin B. Because the Carlin bit came out. I mean, he did a few times in a few different specials in the early 90s. People I could do without. And then it was just like a list of people who say, what's up, man? You know, it's like stuff like that.

[Brian]

Totally. This was Eric Harris's brain dropping books that my dad had that I used to read.

[Lynn Williams]

Yes, I think it was. It was also like in the Zeitgeist. Because I never knew about George Carlin, but I was always making Things I Hate list. I think, just like I still do all the time. I love making people who walk slow. Yeah, I can't take it.

[Taylor McGraw]

They were like, you might be a.

[Brian]

School shooter if inspired by Jeff Fox. Yeah. Everyone blamed Marilyn Manson. No one was even talking about how the Blue Collar Comedy Tour is the reason Columbine happened. For those of you who don't know, Columbine was a failed bombing. It was not supposed to be a shooting. The shooting was supposed to be the aftermath where they just picked people off that were running from the bombing. They wanted to kill upwards of 500 people. They only killed like 12. It was kind of a failure on their part. And it was not inspired by Marilyn Manson. It was. One was a sociopath. And what do you think Dylan was? Do you think Dylan was also aggressive? Yeah, he was just. He wanted to kill himself. He was just suicidal.

[Lynn Williams]

Yeah, he just found that. He just went along.

[Brian]

Do you know that during that, like, there's a theory that during. I'm so sorry to make this about Columbine, but it's better than football, which we did yesterday. So. Okay, so I've said this before on the podcast. I'm sorry for people who find this stuff really gruesome, but this is kind of interesting to me, and I know it will be to you. During the shooting, there's a theory that because everyone goes, why didn't they kill more people? Like, they had the ability to. They were. They were walking by people. They were just kind of like, shooting into the corners of the room. Like, they went to the library. They were bored.

[Lynn Williams]

Like.

[Brian]

Yeah, they got bored by it. They. Eric probably got bored by it and was like, this isn't giving me the thrill of destruction. And, you know, being the Timothy McVeigh, kind of like RoboCop, I wanted to feel like. And then he also broke his nose on the gun going back, you know, so he was in pain.

[Lynn Williams]

Eric did.

[Brian]

Yeah, Eric did. And then Dylan was grossed out by it and was like, oh, no, this is way worse than I thought. And was, like, getting sick from.

[Lynn Williams]

Oh, yeah, I would imagine they don't.

[Brian]

And then they all just kind of. They just went. We're like, oh, what are we going to do? And they. You know what I always wanted. I know. So they're. Oh, yeah. The hugest.

[Lynn Williams]

They weren't that cool.

[Brian]

Yeah, they were not.

[Lynn Williams]

They were, but they weren't.

[Brian]

They weren't bullied, like, everyone.

[Lynn Williams]

They were not.

[Brian]

That was not the reasoning for that. Like, they. They actually bullied people ruthlessly. But what happened to, like, all those library books that, like, were there and.

[Lynn Williams]

Got, like, splatter, you know, I tried to get some Columbine.

[Brian]

What? I tried to get in my possession, but I want to go to a museum.

[Lynn Williams]

Like, I tried to get a Columbine. Like, a shirt that said Columbine High School.

[Brian]

Me, too. I go to the Goodwills by the Columbine when I'm there.

[Lynn Williams]

Oh, my God.

[Brian]

To check for anything.

[Lynn Williams]

I try to look on ebay for.

[Brian]

But then I go, I can't wear this. People are.

[Lynn Williams]

No, you wear it at home. Just like, I can't wear my. Casey.

[Brian]

I'm not a fan. Let me be clear before this gets pulled out of context and makes me seem like I'm, like, into it just in the way that you are into watching whatever murder, documentary or Law and Order that's fictionalized. It's the same thing.

[Taylor McGraw]

Glass houses.

[Lynn Williams]

But it's actually not the same because it's smarter. Because if it's fictionalized, you can't learn anything.

[Brian]

From it.

[Lynn Williams]

But if it's real, then you can fix. Find out why people are doing that so you can understand human nature.

[Brian]

I'm not. Please don't get me confused. I'm not trying to understand it to prevent it. Like, it is pure morbid curiosity to prevent it. But I am not saying I like it and I'm glad it happened and I want it to happen again. I'm just saying I'm interested in morbid stuff. I can't help it. I'm not going to couch this. Like, I want to change the world by learning what they did. There is something to that about the stuff. When I'm interested in pedophiles, because I do want to, like, learn their ways because I feel like me being more.

[Lynn Williams]

Do you want to undercover catch them by pretending to.

[Brian]

No, I just want to, like, be able to suss them out a little bit sooner than anyone around me. And, like, even better than, like, it's a point of pride. I just don't want to catch someone around my friend's kid to be like, I'm getting some bad vibes from that guy and be able to.

[Taylor McGraw]

You're slowly becoming, like, an advocate for pedophile awareness through your career. It's growing over time.

[Brian]

I will say that I'm not lying when I say that is part of the reason I'm fascinated by that stuff is to prevent it. But my Columbine fascination isn't to be like, I want to. Like, there's nothing I can do about those.

[Taylor McGraw]

Yeah.

[Brian]

I mean, I could probably see it coming a little bit. Like, if I had a teenage son who was journaling hours and hours inside a closed room with his friend, and they. Oh. The one thing in the book that I will say that I'm interested in, not so much the journals, because they're just the crazy, rambling.

[Lynn Williams]

They're so good.

[Brian]

They're good. What do you mean by that?

[Lynn Williams]

It's interesting to know what was going on in the mind of somebody that.

[Brian]

Read all the books. So I kind of, like, know already. I feel like they've already excerpt the stuff that I hear about. But what I am excited to read and I haven't yet because I'm literally saving it. You like, I used to save books where there were pictures of blue whales. I like, would. I would read the whole book, but if there was a picture of a blue whale on a certain page, I was so excited. I loved blue whales so much because they were the biggest animal ever, and they're so mysterious and they're rarely photographed and they're just like. So I would just like. Like I would goon out for blue whale. Gooning is where you don't come and you just like masturbate until you come. I would literally goon for blue whales. But I'm gooning for that book because in the last chapter is the transcript of the basement tapes which has only been seen by like select families that wanted to go, that had children that died in it or Eric and Dylan's parents, of course. But like that hasn't been released.

[Lynn Williams]

No.

[Brian]

How do they have a transcript of it?

[Lynn Williams]

I don't know. They did let some people in the media see it and I think the media. The media transcribed it, but it's not an exact transcription, I don't think because they just had to watch it and write it down really fast.

[Brian]

But I do think I'm on a list now that this book is in my possession.

[Lynn Williams]

Well, I'm the one that. My name's on it.

[Brian]

I bought a letter inside of it. That was so nice of you though. Thank. Because Taylor goes, did you get my present? And I go, I don't think so. Maybe. And she goes, oh, no, you'll know. And I did. Oh, I knew.

[Taylor McGraw]

Have you ever been to the United 93 Memorial?

[Brian]

No. But anytime I'm performing in Pennsylvania, I Google where it is to see if I can drive there because I feel.

[Taylor McGraw]

Like you would enjoy.

[Brian]

I 100% would. I've read all about like what happened. I have never seen the movie because I don't want to see it. I just want to read the things. Is anyone else like that where you don't want to see things, you just want to read it? Yeah, I don't want to see it. I'm sorry. I don't want to see the garrote or garrote with the hair of JonBenet wrapped around. I want to hear about it and I don't even really want to hear about it but. Or I don't even want to read it. I just. But I don't want to see things. So yeah, the U993. I would love to go to that spot of the field in Pennsylvania where it all.

[Lynn Williams]

I don't even know anything about it. The field is all I know. I have to get ready.

[Brian]

Let it roll. Let's roll. Let's roll. Means nothing to you?

[Lynn Williams]

No.

[Brian]

Okay, so on the flight, United 93, any Gen Zers out there listening. I know you don't know the. The details of 911 probably, but the law, the Lore. Is Laura a lie, though, or is it.

[Taylor McGraw]

No, it's fictional.

[Brian]

Well, this is. It's slightly fictional because we don't really know what happened on that plane, but we. There is evidence that the people on board that plane took off. That was already in the air when the Trade center was hit. Both times, I think, at least by the first plane. And so they were getting. They were calling down because they were hijacked, headed to the White House probably, and they called their family, and their families were watching the news and told them what was happening. And so they all knew. Oh, my God, this thing. We are a missile. This is. Nothing's gonna. Gonna come of this. We just need to crash this plane and we need to take over. And I don't think their goal was to, like, land it safely. It was just like, they just were.

[Lynn Williams]

Trying to not crash it.

[Brian]

And so one of the guys on the plane. Yeah, I'm sure there was someone, but.

[Taylor McGraw]

No one really knew how because the.

[Brian]

Pilots were there because Marky Mark wasn't there.

[Taylor McGraw]

Yeah.

[Brian]

So he claimed that he was. If he was on a plane in 9 11, it wouldn't.

[Taylor McGraw]

Wow.

[Lynn Williams]

So bold statement.

[Brian]

But they go. And one person overheard on a phone call. It's lore that the guy was like, we're gonna. They were boiling hot water to, like, scald the terrorists and take over what they were doing. And so they were in the back, boiling water. They're on the phone, like, having. Telling their family, and. And one guy goes, let's roll. And then it was like. Then they went and done. And. And it crashed in a field in Pennsylvania and didn't kill anyone except, you know, everyone.

[Lynn Williams]

Damn. That'd be. But I would like it.

[Brian]

And then that became like, you know, catchphrase.

[Taylor McGraw]

Catchphrase for the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

[Lynn Williams]

Oh, golly gee.

[Brian]

Yeah.

[Taylor McGraw]

So that's why the museum is very compelling and intriguing. Oh, yeah, I've been. I go all the way.

[Lynn Williams]

Tell me.

[Taylor McGraw]

I go every couple of weeks.

[Brian]

No, you don't. Wait, have you really been?

[Taylor McGraw]

Yeah, I've been because I, you know, I used to have the unbelievable podcast, and we actually recorded ourselves visiting the memorial because we used to do these, like, you know, in the field episodes where we would be like, we're here at the. Blah, blah, blah. Literally, we would be in. Well, you're not allowed to. At least at the time, you weren't allowed to go on the field because it was still an active crime scene. Which it was like, you know, 15 years later, 16 years later. And it's still an active crime scene because they're still trying to find like little artifacts from the plane explosion in the field. It's like hard to find archaeological dig at this point.

[Brian]

Whoa, okay. That's like when they found bone fragments on. They're still putting together. They're still finding survivors of 911 that there's a lot of people that are still missing and they've never found any evidence of their bones. And they're still sifting through the rubble. And like 10 years later they were doing some sort of like renovation job on a building a quarter mile away. And on the roof they found tons of bone fragments and were able to identify victims from that. But then no one even thought like, oh, maybe it landed on some fucking crazy. So what did you, what did you experience there? What's it like?

[Taylor McGraw]

Well, the most. It was definitely, you know, very sad and you know, you're very thought provoking. But what was most interesting to me in going there were the, the people visiting the memorial who. It really, truly was just like, it might as well have been like a museum of natural history exhibit where people were just like snapping pictures of everything with like flash and like. Like there was one woman who would like just go to every single thing and like take a picture of it.

[Brian]

Was it an indoor museum?

[Taylor McGraw]

Yeah, there's like an indoor part where they have like. You can listen to the recordings of the final phone calls. The actual recordings.

[Lynn Williams]

No.

[Taylor McGraw]

Yeah, that. That was probably the most like heart wrenching aspect of the exhi.

[Lynn Williams]

I would never listen to that.

[Brian]

Why?

[Lynn Williams]

It's too sad. Did you find.

[Taylor McGraw]

But, you know, it was like there wasn't the same amount of like. Like when we went to the Auschwitz thing and there was like these little things that just kind of like bothered me. Like the guards telling you to get out right away. Like that stuff. We talked about that.

[Brian]

Yeah. And they were all in like a. A uniform that was like reminiscent of.

[Taylor McGraw]

Yeah, it was like they really wanted you to feel what it was like to be onto a train car. But in the United 93 exhibit, it was just like there were people who were treating it like they were at Disney World, basically. Like they and the gift shop, they had like United 93, like paperweight.

[Brian]

They were selling turkey.

[Lynn Williams]

Why don't they have a Columbine one so I can get a damn shirt?

[Brian]

No, Columbine has a great memorial and it's somber as fuck and everyone's really respectful.

[Lynn Williams]

I want to go.

[Brian]

Oh my God, it. I have to take you. I hate to say good, but it's like, it's beautiful. Columbine's on one of the most beautiful properties I've ever experienced in my life. It's like surrounded by mountains and then there's a lake and a. And there's prairie dogs everywhere. Like hundreds of prairie dogs everywhere.

[Lynn Williams]

You know, my dad lives there at the time.

[Brian]

What?

[Lynn Williams]

Really?

[Brian]

Oh my God.

[Lynn Williams]

I mean, Littleton isn't that.

[Brian]

Well, yeah.

[Taylor McGraw]

Next to there.

[Brian]

Yeah. No, that's, that's where it is, the town. Right?

[Lynn Williams]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Brian]

Whoa.

[Lynn Williams]

Isn't that crazy? And also near JonBenet.

[Brian]

Did he have any.

[Lynn Williams]

Maybe was participating.

[Taylor McGraw]

What's he doing? He's always living next to these tragedies.

[Lynn Williams]

He's, he's still looking up JonBenet and Colorado. I just gave him a book about Colorado.

[Brian]

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[Brian]

So I went to Starbucks this morning and I want to just say that there is a new initiative that I heard about on the Starbucks subreddit that just came across my feed that they now require partners who. That's what they call baristas. As partners.

[Lynn Williams]

That's creepy.

[Brian]

They're all partners in this venture.

[Taylor McGraw]

They own some of the Starbucks industry, right?

[Brian]

Yeah, yeah, I guess that's it.

[Taylor McGraw]

You're shareholders, they're part owners. It's co op.

[Brian]

Totally. And they now are. As of yesterday? No, as of today, I believe. Is it the 27th, 28th. Yesterday. Well, okay, so I think maybe yesterday is when they started implementing it. I did see a very, very animated meeting going on about like the new policy. And I kind of overheard some stuff, but it seemed like upbeat and like, oh, people have some like new energy and enthusiasm around coffee. It was not. It was very dissimilar to the meeting I witnessed about when they integrated olive oil into coffee. Last year, Starbucks did this. Two years ago, Starbucks did a push where they were like, that's disgusting. I guess the owner of Starbucks, who is not the CEO anymore, went to Italy and was like, they put olive oil in their coffee.

[Lynn Williams]

I'll do it. I will do it.

[Brian]

It's all there. You could, you could buy olive oil at Starbucks for a while. And this was probably just started like being phased out a couple months ago. But there's an oliato I think is the oliato is the one with the that's it and it be. And it was. Oh, my God. They were all I. When I was witnessed because I'm a hangout at Starbucks and was writing a lot during this time because it was ready for my special and people that were learning about the olive oil and they training girl chain training partners. Like, the enthusiasm was low, the morale was down, but now everyone's jazzed again. So then I find out what's happening on the subreddit. They are now required to write a message on your cup.

[Lynn Williams]

Oh, I saw a commercial about that.

[Brian]

They are really getting back to the Space of like, will you look up, Noah, the new Starbucks initiatives that just started happening yesterday, it's not only writing on cups, it's to cut down on people loitering, I think, inside the Starbucks and to make it more of a place where you can go and hang out and. And meet your friends. And it's like getting back to the cafe experience that they got away from during.

[Taylor McGraw]

What's the difference between that and loitering?

[Brian]

Yeah, I think loitering is when you sleep and you smell bad, stand around. Oh, and you are clearly homeless. Yeah, it's trying to get rid of homeless people.

[Taylor McGraw]

I think it is making initiative to remove homeless people and replace them with college.

[Brian]

Yeah, but they're not going to say that. Yes, but I want it back to that, too, because I want. Actually, I want homeless people to have a place to go, obviously. And I like that Starbucks when they're just sitting there sleeping. I don't fucking mind.

[Lynn Williams]

Yeah, big whoopty do.

[Brian]

The other day, I was there and the homeless man was sleeping, and a girl was having a meeting with her superior, like, her boss, who was like, stopping by to check in on stores, and she was meeting with him, and she. There was. She saw the homeless man and she had to, like, do the thing where he kind of, like, creep around them to see if they're sleeping. And she's like, sir, are you sleeping? Because if we don't allow sleep, so it's like, just let him sleep. There's no difference. You don't even know if he is or not, like, with his eyes open or not. I wanted to get him some, like, glasses, like, some better sunglasses so he could always pretend.

[Taylor McGraw]

Sunglasses that have open eyes.

[Brian]

Eyes on him. Yeah. I was like, how do I help this man be able to sleep? Because, God, it would suck to be homeless and never find a place to just fucking rest your life.

[Taylor McGraw]

You know, the way they handle that at the New York Public Library system. And I got to imagine most public library systems, they put spikes on.

[Brian]

That's what they sound like.

[Taylor McGraw]

A pigeon. Yeah. No, because I used to go during my lunch breaks and. And when I worked in an office in New York City, I would go to the New York Public Library in Bryant park, and I would sleep in the. At a table, and they would not allow it. They would just. The librarians would go around with, like, a metal ruler and they would smack the table next to you.

[Brian]

That's so disturbing.

[Taylor McGraw]

Even if they saw you kind of, like, dozing off, they would smack the table.

[Lynn Williams]

And so, like, that's crazy.

[Taylor McGraw]

You'd be like studying your teacher.

[Lynn Williams]

What's the difference?

[Taylor McGraw]

You'd be like reading the Columbine journals over and over again throughout the echoey halls of the library.

[Brian]

I'm going to do it here. That's what makes you snap. No, that's. There's nothing I still think about. I think the worst torture I've ever felt because I'm a very lucky person. The worst mental torture I've ever felt in my life. Well, it's not the worst. The second worst, I'll save the worst for later, is being in class in high school and college, but mainly high school because it's less populous and you're in smaller classes and you can't stay awake and your head is bobbin and you're trying to keep it up and you're.

[Lynn Williams]

It's embarrassing to be.

[Brian]

And you know that if you do fall asleep, you're going to be really embarrassed when the teacher either calls you out or you're. You do the head bopping thing. Like you're doing the. Yeah, you're bopping along to some music that no one else is listening to. So it's. That is. That to me, is like the worst torture of my life. And I hate when I see people head bopping. Chris does it on planes and I'm always, like, holding his forehead against the thing. I can't stand bopping heads. It makes me so alarmed because I picture them, like, dreaming that they're falling and going, oh. Like, it's the worst feeling. I'm trying to prevent it.

[Taylor McGraw]

Or the teacher is like, would anyone here like to share their opinion on the Ottoman Empire? And then you head bob and it's like, no.

[Brian]

I would always beg. Listen up, teachers. Right now. If you have students falling asleep in class, it's not. Don't take it personally. You don't know what's going on for them at home. Don't be a bitch about it. Or a dick, whichever one you want to be. But don't be either of them. Here is what you do. Get the students to stand up and do five jumping jacks. That's. I would always want a teacher to, like, do something that would require me to, like, think or talk or get up. Like, just get them to stand up and stretch and get them to sit down. Like, do something. And don't single them out. Just make it a thing for the whole class. It really is only about that. Like, they need to. Like when you're just sitting there still listening to a monotone voice. Talk about something you're not interested in and being forced to even be there, of course you're gonna fall asleep. I hate when teachers would get like personally offended that you were falling asleep.

[Taylor McGraw]

Also, kids and teenagers need more sleep than adults do.

[Brian]

Do you ever catch students falling asleep in your class?

[Lynn Williams]

Yeah, but it's obvious that they, like came in tired, so I'm not gonna. I wouldn't ever do anything about it.

[Brian]

Yeah, but just like, maybe just because I think that sometimes I would want to learn and I would want to wake up, but I couldn't because the setting wasn't allowing me to. So if you even just go, like, I'm tired today. Let's just all get up and like.

[Lynn Williams]

Have 45 people do jumping jacks.

[Brian]

Not jumping jacks, but let me just like get up and just shake it off. Just shake.

[Lynn Williams]

Seventh inning stretch.

[Brian]

Yeah, yeah.

[Lynn Williams]

It's only 50 minute class, but still.

[Brian]

And it's just a totally wasted class when you sleep through it. And sometimes I would be like, I want to be awake for this. And I just couldn't because I was in a position where there's nothing else to do but fall asleep. Okay, what did you find, Noah? Okay, here's what I got. So they want to enhance the in store experience. One of the initiatives is writing on cups. The other one is the return of the condiment bar. Oh, yeah, that's back. I saw that today.

[Taylor McGraw]

Condiments, like what?

[Brian]

Like ketchup, no sugars.

[Lynn Williams]

Yeah, they need that.

[Taylor McGraw]

Wait, they got cream?

[Lynn Williams]

Yeah, that was never put enough cream ever.

[Brian]

It never came back after Covid.

[Taylor McGraw]

Now they're bringing it back. That was fun. You get to put it different flavored stuff.

[Brian]

Nope, you don't get to do that. There's no flavors. It is milks and it's. No, no plant milks. I'm guessing it is sugars and that is it and it is not. It used to be a vanilla powder, a cinnamon powder and a mocha powder. Yeah, those are not back. Those were fun and they're not back.

[Taylor McGraw]

Yeah, that's fun.

[Lynn Williams]

That's much cheaper than milk.

[Brian]

I think they. It's probably. And also like disgusting, like mess. Because it's like sugary and going everywhere. Yeah, I don't know. It's. So that's back. Anything else? Yeah, more ceramic mugs available for purchase. Asked you if you wanted a mug, Taylor. Yeah, yeah, they want people to stay. They're gonna hang out.

[Lynn Williams]

They're just being weird.

[Taylor McGraw]

But you can bring it into Starbucks for refills.

[Brian]

I wonder, because He. I was like, do you want it in a mug or to go? I think like, what are you talking.

[Lynn Williams]

Yeah, I think they want you to cool. I want to stay.

[Brian]

Okay.

[Lynn Williams]

And the one with the fire.

[Brian]

Yeah.

[Taylor McGraw]

They are removing fireplaces.

[Brian]

They are removing the upcharge on non dairy milks.

[Taylor McGraw]

Right, right.

[Brian]

That went into work. I could not believe how fast that happened. Like they announced it and it wasn't one of these rollouts where it was like, by 2028 we will remove plant like every kind of environmental change thing. Yes. It takes fucking five years. And by the time it's happening, it's like really late to the game anyway.

[Taylor McGraw]

And everyone else, by the time we, by the time we even get close to the deadline, they have another administration just change it. We never.

[Brian]

They made this happen. I'm not kidding you. They stopped charging me for plant milk the day it was announced. It was right away. And it was so impressive. I, I couldn't believe it. I had whiplash from it because I assumed it would take at least months and months. But it was right away. PETA really fought for that. PETA does make a difference. They, they were huge about like advocating for that. And it's just important because you shouldn't be penalized for not wanting to eat animals. And that's what they were doing. And, and it's great. And now my drink that I get is 774. And it used to be I was getting into the nines and tens at airports and it just does not ever pass 8 now.

[Taylor McGraw]

Nice.

[Lynn Williams]

Why is it 7 74?

[Brian]

Because I'm getting double pumps of sugar free vanilla. I'm getting it. Latte? Yeah, you gotta pay for the pumps, baby. 75 cents a pump. It's so dumb, but I don't pump. Another initiative is they set a goal of a four minute wait time in the cafes. That's really short. But I'm still not ordering in line. You're not doing the mobile app. I don't know what you doing when people are at. In line at the airport and it is truly down the terminal, probably like six gates. And it's. That is embarrassing to wait in that line. You have enough time to go buy a phone, download the app.

[Lynn Williams]

Maybe they're older like me.

[Brian]

Just. Okay, well then you have a right to be in that line because you don't have. It's only people who have an ability to get the Starbucks app. App. What are you. I don't understand what you're doing. Not getting it. What if you would. If you're willing to sacrifice 25 minutes waiting in line. Why would you just not buy the app? Like what is you. Because you're like no, I will not give them my information. Well, you're giving them 25 minutes of your time just standing in line.

[Lynn Williams]

That costs money. No, you said by that.

[Brian]

But people just don't want to do it because they're like, I don't want to just give in to the cool.

[Taylor McGraw]

Well, they also don't want to have the app on their phone.

[Lynn Williams]

They don't want to have.

[Taylor McGraw]

Every single store I go to is going to have an app. Like some people don't go to Starbucks often enough. I don't give a. I'm not saying I give a.

[Brian]

No, but like who cares if you have apps on your phone? Just like everyone. Stop being so organized. Just litter your phone with garbage. It doesn't matter. You'll find it. Stop having to have everything. Have a reason and a place you can search.

[Lynn Williams]

I love reasons and places.

[Brian]

I know you do. I'm. I'm actually like having an. I took a picture of my countertop in my bathroom that I've been living with for now 3 weeks. Cuz I usually have you or a housekeeper come in and clean at some point, but three weeks I've been left to my own devices and it's insane in my bathroom. It's. I tidied by the way. I. Not because you were coming, but you.

[Lynn Williams]

Have like 10 of everything.

[Brian]

Yeah.

[Lynn Williams]

You gotta pick one thing and use it till it's gone and then, and then.

[Brian]

You mean like one lip gloss? You don't need like 18 colors. Well, you would not think that if you go to the store and you say that like you need different kinds of lip gloss and I'm getting sent lip gloss.

[Lynn Williams]

I know you get sent so much stuff.

[Brian]

So much lip gloss. Which I love and I use once every three weeks. But I, yeah, I get sent a lot of stuff and I'm grateful for all of that.

[Lynn Williams]

But it's always, it's always been that way since you were a kid. You would have like six of the same thing and they're lost. I go, you need a dispenser where it pops out the bottom and then you put it back in the top. That's a really good idea of like each thing. Well, last night I was like for ketchup and the.

[Brian]

Because I was kind of in like a spiral of like what's wrong with you? Like literally no one in your life has a bathroom that looks like this. You can't think of one person in your life who struggles with messiness like this. No one. I couldn't think of a single person that would have a bathroom that is literally. Let me just paint a picture for you. Because I would never reveal the picture I took except maybe the girls chat when I'm like in a really funky mood.

[Lynn Williams]

But I just thought I didn't notice anything.

[Brian]

No, I straightened that. And you're used to it because you are already involved in my message. Every single piece of the countertop is covered by something and everything from a dog poop bag that doesn't have poop in it. Don't think that. To an old vape pen I don't use. To four different kinds of hair clips to a spray tan remover mitt. To different brushes like jewelry. It's every single. And then there's. I have his and her sinks. One of the sinks is just filled with stuff in it. It cuz Chris doesn't use it. He has his own bathroom. It's just a, a basin for me to collect old just things.

[Taylor McGraw]

What about drawers? Don't you have drawers?

[Brian]

They're stuffed. They're filled to the brim.

[Lynn Williams]

Oh, we got to po this bastard.

[Brian]

And I hate purging this stuff because it's still half full and there's product in there that someone would be like, oh my God, that's an. You got that? This is $40. You're going to throw $20 worth of product and I can't do it.

[Lynn Williams]

You just give it to me and I'll give it to my sister or you give it to your sister. We'll just leave it out by the library or the Starbucks for anybody. That's it.

[Brian]

All right.

[Lynn Williams]

I never throw anything away.

[Brian]

No, it's all open.

[Taylor McGraw]

So yeah, it's all been opened and tried.

[Brian]

I don't need it. I just don't need any more hyaluronic acids. Please no one send me anymore with Peptides. I can't. I have one skin thing that I use now. I don't want anymore. It's just too much. It's overwhelming.

[Taylor McGraw]

This is what all the companies are doing now. There's no point having ads or hiring someone to be in an ad. You must just send all your products to influencers and hopefully they shout you out.

[Brian]

Yeah, I get sent a lot of stuff and then I get follow ups of like, hey, did you get that purse we sent you? And I'm like, I did. I haven't had anywhere to go to wear it every time I photograph myself. Looking nice. Someone else is dressing me, and I can't incorporate my own stuff. Yeah, that's a problem. I need to get a long mirror that's clean so I can do like, this is the outfit of the day.

[Lynn Williams]

Oh, otd.

[Brian]

But I need, like, a clean mirror.

[Lynn Williams]

That mirror out there is good.

[Brian]

Yeah, that's good. That's a lot.

[Taylor McGraw]

You know, if they're sending you stuff on, you're not asking for it. And then they follow up and they.

[Lynn Williams]

Say, by the way, did you get.

[Brian]

Your ask for it? Because they say, do you want to look? We'd love to send you one of our purses. And I go, yeah, I'd love this purse, because who's gonna turn down a 300 purse? But then I get it and I go, this doesn't go with anything that I would ever wear ever.

[Taylor McGraw]

Right.

[Brian]

And then I just wait and wait, and they go, when are you gonna post about it? Shout out to hostage tape Tape. Mouth tape. That sent me so much mouth tape.

[Taylor McGraw]

Have you been using that?

[Brian]

I swear to God. They sent it to me, like, October 5th, and then October 7th happened two years ago. Oh, and it's called hostage tape. And I was like, I'm not about to be like, check out hostage tape. They literally wrote to me and go, hey, you want to post about it? And I go, I can't. And I'm really sorry that you're going through this time like, that your brand is going through, like, picked the wrong name. But also, if you pick the name hostage, you got to assume that there's going to be a hostage situation at some point that is going to, like, with your marketing.

[Taylor McGraw]

Yeah.

[Brian]

You know. And they go, we didn't know. They go, we're not struggling at all. And I was like, well, then you don't need me. But I'm not posting about. I'm not taping my face and putting a picture of my face with the word hostage on October 9th. Sorry, 2023. Not doing it.

[Taylor McGraw]

Yeah.

[Brian]

Suffered.

[Taylor McGraw]

Did Gaza tears suffer Their makeup company?

[Brian]

No, they weren't. No, they weren't. Yeah. I look at me complaining about I have too many things. But, yeah, that's a thing going on in my life. Last night. What? Oh, last night. I want to tell everyone there is a new documentary called the Fall of Diddy. Oh, Max. That's what I was like. I, like, save the date. I never saved the date for anything.

[Lynn Williams]

You watched it already?

[Brian]

I watched the first episode. That's out. It's fine. Let me just say it's like, it's gonna get better.

[Taylor McGraw]

Not a lot of juicy nuggets.

[Brian]

There's not a lot that I don't already. There's a big thing that I didn't already know. Like, a really big thing that's like a part of who he was coming up. Like, you would never even try to guess. I'm trying to like, even get you there. No, no, it's like, well, I'll just tell you, spoiler alert. The rest of it, like, this is. It's not a too big of. It's not like, leading to this. It's just part of the documentary. But I did not know. And I thought I knew everything about the Diddy stuff. Like, not everything, but the big things. Diddy first was a promoter on the scene right, right out of college. He did two years at Howard University, and then he started working with a label and then he started his own label. But before that he was promoting somewhere in, like, before he started his own label, he was promoting this crazy, huge hip hop night, I think, in Harlem that was going to be like a showcase. And it was literally at a gymnasium. And he was selling so many tickets for it and, like, killing it, promoting, because that's what he was great at. And he sold, like, oversold tickets. They were selling tickets at the door when it was already sold out. Like, they were just doing, I would say, in ethical things if it's already sold out, selling tickets at the door. And they couldn't fit any more people in the gym. And so they closed these gym doors. And there was a. A fucking crowd crush in 1990, I believe, in Harlem at this gymnasium. I thought I knew. Knew about all crowd crushes. I. I honestly, like, you are into research them crowd crushes. Yeah. My mom was at the who concert, the 1977, I think who concert where a bunch of people in Cincinnati got crowd crushed. So I've always, like. It's been a part of the lore of my life hearing my mom talk about that. And it's crazy. You literally, like, I don't even wanna talk about what happens to your body when you're in a crowd crush. But it's horrible. It's the worst way to die imaginable. But guess how many fucking eight. No, nine. Nine people died at this crowd crush that Diddy was the promoter for. And the first time you ever see Diddy in the spotlight is him at a press conference as one of the promoters of and responsible for the event, saying, you know, we wanna make sure this never happens again. So that really. And then there Were a lot of people in the documentary that were like, diddy got my sister a ticket, and she died there. And then Diddy, like, did. I don't. I was kind of half watching it because that's the way we watch things. So apparently, Diddy didn't do what he needed to do to make that situation right and take any responsibility for it.

[Taylor McGraw]

Of course, he shouldn't have been allowed to promote another show ever again after that. You kill nine people, you should. That you should be, like, criminally liable about this.

[Brian]

I know about pop culture things. I did not know. P. Diddy was one of the people that oversold an event that led to a crowd crush because. Well, it was really because the doors got shut and someone didn't open them. And then when they saw people, people were like, they're shutting the doors. We want to get inside. And just. Yeah. And so nine people died in 1990, and Diddy was. I couldn't believe. Was probably just in the local newspaper. We didn't have a huge. No, no, no. Yeah, but. But nine people dying. I can't believe New York City. No one sued, I would think, you.

[Taylor McGraw]

Know, it's pre Internet, so it doesn't percolate the same way that it would now.

[Brian]

Yeah, I guess. I guess you're right.

[Taylor McGraw]

You know, not to bring this into it, but it was probably a racial element where it was underreported because it was nine black people, most likely, and it was the 90s. It still wasn't, you know.

[Brian]

No, I. I think you're absolutely right, though. Like, it's like, oh, that's just what happens up there. And they didn't.

[Lynn Williams]

Yeah.

[Brian]

I just couldn't believe it. There was another one. I'm sorry to talk about tragedies on this podcast, but do you know about, like, the Kansas City, like, mall? Oh, my God.

[Lynn Williams]

I can't. I can't think about that. It's horrible.

[Brian]

I had no idea about that.

[Lynn Williams]

I told you recently. Huge.

[Brian]

Just look into it. I'm not gonna get into it. But so bad. Kansas City or What about the 80s?

[Lynn Williams]

Right.

[Taylor McGraw]

The Indiana Hockey arena explosions.

[Brian]

No, it didn't stop it. It really.

[Taylor McGraw]

That's. That's not. I'm serious.

[Brian]

Really? That sounded like a Brian, you know, like.

[Taylor McGraw]

Yeah, no, you know the can. The Kansas City Clown Wig Factory.

[Brian]

Yeah. Wait, so what happened at the Indiana.

[Taylor McGraw]

It was all the dyes from the clown wigs that set on fire easily and killed a bunch of. No, so there were. This was the. The largest disaster of. In terms of death toll In Indiana history, sports history maybe. But there was a hockey arena. There was a hockey game happening. I don't know what. I don't believe there was ever an Indiana professional NHL hockey team. But there was a hockey game going on. It was a sold out arena or something. And there were these gas tanks underneath the arena that, you know, were used for like heating and stuff. And one of them sparked and exploded.

[Lynn Williams]

Oh, people are just.

[Taylor McGraw]

People are just watching the game and then all of a sudden through the ice, ice, like an explosion happens and knocks I. And then people start, you know, people get blown out onto the ice and stuff. And then people are panicking and running and trying to escape. And then another tank explodes.

[Brian]

Oh, wait, how many people died?

[Taylor McGraw]

Something like in the 80s. I don't exactly.

[Brian]

What?

[Taylor McGraw]

No, yeah, like 80 people died.

[Brian]

That's so many.

[Lynn Williams]

I've never heard of that.

[Brian]

Whoa.

[Taylor McGraw]

Hundreds were hurt. Hundreds had like their limbs blown off.

[Brian]

And this is like the 70s or 80s. No way.

[Taylor McGraw]

Yeah. Let me look it up so I can.

[Brian]

Holy. Oh my God.

[Lynn Williams]

I mean, I'm not going to anything ever again.

[Brian]

I'm not kidding you. When I go to events, I Like when I went to my first Taylor Swift concert in. I think it was.

[Lynn Williams]

Yeah, I would never. That's too many people in there.

[Brian]

Oh, it. I love big. I mean, I'm going to Super Bowl. I can't wait if I want to. I would love to die with a big group of people. Like, it's. You can't be scared of things like that. And I always just think of like, how many big arena events are happening all the time. This is. It's not.

[Lynn Williams]

I also don't even want to go to a sporting game, so it makes it easier.

[Brian]

They're so fun. We gotta go.

[Lynn Williams]

Sporting game.

[Brian]

But I do sometimes, like I. I smoked a little weed before I went into the first Taylor Swift show I went to. And I think I've talked about this already. All I could think about was a plane crashing into and. And like, I couldn't.

[Lynn Williams]

Or the doors get locked and you get crunched and scrunched.

[Brian]

No, I just like. And that's why I was like, I will never smoke weed before a big event anymore. Or like where I'm with a lot of people because I just think catastrophe. And so I'm always. And I'm thinking of it like an explosion where it's like there's no warning. At least the plane, you'd be like, that's getting close. Oh my God, that's really close. You have like Some kind of. Like, it's. It's sudden, but like an explo. I always think about that. Like, how it's just like, so instantaneous. And then I'm like, it could happen now. Wait.

[Lynn Williams]

Now I think that everything.

[Brian]

Oh, God.

[Lynn Williams]

Like, even if I'm in a car, I'm like, this. Just had people just crash like this. I don't want to die. Why are we talking about it?

[Brian]

I don't know. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You can't do anything. You don't. You don't need to think about it because you want something to happen that way because it will be so fast and then you won't even know. True.

[Taylor McGraw]

I have more information about this Indiana thing. Okay, so it happened. It was the Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum. It was in 1963.

[Brian]

Okay. That's why we don't know.

[Lynn Williams]

Yeah.

[Taylor McGraw]

Well, I'll tell. I think I have a theory as to why we don't actually know. And it's because it took place on October 31st, 1963. Halloween. But notably, 22 days before JFK was shot.

[Brian]

Yeah.

[Taylor McGraw]

So definitely buried.

[Brian]

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Okay. That makes sense.

[Taylor McGraw]

Yeah.

[Brian]

That's like. Zoolander came out The Friday before September 11th, I think. And it got.

[Lynn Williams]

Oh, that's why it was no good. That's why that movie sucked.

[Taylor McGraw]

Retroactively affected the writing.

[Brian]

We don't realize how many things we don't know about because they happen.

[Lynn Williams]

Oh, my God.

[Brian]

Next to something that's bigger that steals it.

[Lynn Williams]

Yeah.

[Taylor McGraw]

Sort of like the Golden Globes.

[Brian]

Yeah. Yeah. I had two days of. Of two days of being in the Fame before flame.

[Lynn Williams]

Yeah.

[Brian]

But at least I had it and I tasted it and it was sweet. And. And now it tastes burnt.

[Lynn Williams]

Jesus Christ.

[Brian]

So dumb. No. Yeah. O. I have exciting thing to talk about.

[Taylor McGraw]

Oh.

[Brian]

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[Taylor McGraw]

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[Brian]

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[Brian]

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[Brian]

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[Lynn Williams]

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[Brian]

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[Brian]

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[Taylor McGraw]

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[Taylor McGraw]

Comedy award in this free ceremony. You can't go.

[Brian]

I can't go. But that's okay. If I win, I win. It sucks that I won't be able to, like, give a speech or whatever. But the really important thing is that I get to go to the Grammys and because I I begged.

[Taylor McGraw]

Isn't it crazy that the Golden Globes happened and is in the past and you did it? I mean, that's like wild that that's not just a thing, that no one can take that away. It happened, it's done. It's in the past. You can't go back in time and remove that from the timeline.

[Brian]

People probably have the same feeling about their weddings or any big event that just seems like it's so far off it's never going to happen. And then it happens and you're like, oh, it's, it was always in the foreground for me and now it's behind me. Like, I'm not even used to seeing it back there. Like, I can't really conceptualize where it is in my life now because it's over. But, but yes, that does boggle my mind sometimes. Final thought. So I Was just excited because the. No. Will you look up who's performing at the Grammys? Because the list is, like, fudgeing great. And also, Taylor Swift is nominated for best album, best song, best, you know, everything. So I'm so excited about. Yeah, I mean, she's probably gonna win them all. I am a huge fan of the nominees this year and the people performing. So the reason you want to go to the Grammys better than any other award show is because there's performances. You get to watch all the best potted people in the business sing at you in the room. Like you're at a really intimate setting when these people are usually arena acts that you'll never see that close up in this small of a room you get to see. And. And they're trying harder than they've ever tried in their lives for when they come, you know, they're not performing the same way they perform on stage in St. Louis. I'll tell you that. They are giving it their all. This is, you know, a global stage, so it's just the best ticket in town. So I get a ticket, I get asked to go. They say, you can go. And I go, can I get good seats, though? And they go, yeah, you'll be somewhere in the mix. And I'm like, all right, well, that's fine. As long I go, I want to be on camera. I'd like to, you know, at least have some evidence that I'm there. I know I'm sounding, like, greedy and, like, entitled. Please don't come at me for this. It's just, I. Yes, I want to be on camera. I'm a person that likes being on camera. So anyway, can you say who's performing? Noah. Yeah. So you have Sabrina Carpenter. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Doji. Oh, my God. I'm so excited about. About what's gonna happen. I'm so excited for. For Sunday. I'll be, like, deliriously tired from doing the road all weekend, but I'm just gonna dance my face off. I'm gonna do a Taylor Swift where, like, you just dance the whole time and you just enjoy being at the show without blocking people behind you. I'm gonna be mindful, but just gonna have the best time. Chapel Road. Who else? Benson Boone. Who? Billie Eilish. Yeah, I mean. And Charlie xcx. I'm. I mean, these are all performances I would pay to go see otherwise. Do you. Did you recognize half of those names?

[Lynn Williams]

Not a single one.

[Brian]

Sabrina Carpenter.

[Lynn Williams]

No. I've heard of Charlie xcx, but I don't know what it is.

[Brian]

Brat.

[Lynn Williams]

What?

[Brian]

Brat.

[Taylor McGraw]

Brat. Summer.

[Lynn Williams]

Is that another person?

[Taylor McGraw]

They're having a whole live.

[Brian]

Is. Brat.

[Taylor McGraw]

They're having a big concert benefit for the fires in LA into a dome. And I believe the. What's the other one? Where the. Where. Where is the roast held?

[Brian]

Kia for.

[Taylor McGraw]

Yeah, I think at the Forum and at the Intuit Dome, there's a huge concert that has, like, every celebrity that's ever existed, I think, is going to be performing at this thing.

[Brian]

Yeah.

[Lynn Williams]

Get a ticket.

[Brian]

I. Yeah, I hope to present at one of those. No, I've. I'm so excited for the Grammys. It's the best ticket in town. I got to win a. I got to be nominated for a Grammy every year. I got to get in that bill.

[Taylor McGraw]

What's interesting about this Grammy nomination for Best Comedy Album is that the two people. So you were nominated for a Golden Globe, an Emmy, a Grammy, a WGA Award, a Critics Choice Award, and a Critics Choice.

[Lynn Williams]

Oh, what.

[Taylor McGraw]

So what's interesting about this Grammy nomination is that the two people who defeated you in each of the previous two award shows are not nominated for the Grammy one. So you're not facing off against Ali Wong or Dick Van Dyke. Van Dyke, like, or even Jamie Foxx is not nominated.

[Brian]

Oh, wow. Okay. Who's nominated for the Grammy again?

[Taylor McGraw]

The Grammy is the prisoner, Jim Gaffigan. Trevor Noah, where was I? Which is also Jim Gaffigan. I don't know why he. Armageddon, Ricky Gervais, Nikki Glaser, Someday you'll die. And then I think probably the front runner, Dave Chappelle, the dreamer. Because Dave Chappelle, I think, always wins this award.

[Brian]

Right, right, right. Yeah, I just. I'm happy to be nominated, which is really cool. Just being able to say that you're a nominee is really surprised. I mean, it was crazy. It would be the coolest one to win. What did my dad say? That must. He was really excited. I think that was. Yeah, I think he texted. I think I texted them, and I think he was just, you know, they were so pumped and. Yeah, that's. That would be the. I definitely, like, let my. My voice teacher know right away because, you know, just like any one musical in my life, I'm like, grammy. And they're like, want you. You know, I know there was a lot of that, but, yeah, on my way to a little egot.

[Taylor McGraw]

Yeah. Dave Chappelle won the last two comedy album awards in a row. 24 and 24.

[Brian]

So.

[Taylor McGraw]

Interesting.

[Brian]

Chiefs.

[Taylor McGraw]

Like, exactly. This is the him going for the three. Pete, you're the Eagles here. You're trying. Yeah. And then it was Lucy K. Although, you know, the one year that. The only two years in the 2020 is that Dave Chappelle was not nominated. Were the ones that he didn't win. So he won every year he was nominated. He's won.

[Brian]

Yeah, it's not looking good.

[Taylor McGraw]

Oh, he's won. Maybe he needs a 2, 3, 4, 5. He's won five of the last seven years.

[Lynn Williams]

That's.

[Brian]

Oh, my. And deservedly so. He's amazing. I did. We didn't talk about his snl. Brian thought thoughts.

[Taylor McGraw]

Oh, yeah. I thought it was great. I mean, it's just when. When you watch Dave Chappelle now, it's beyond comedy.

[Brian]

It's.

[Taylor McGraw]

It's more like a sermon. And you're watching someone who. You just want to hear their opinion and you want to.

[Brian]

Yes.

[Taylor McGraw]

It's almost like he's the president.

[Brian]

Oh, I thought the ending was so good. Palisades, Palestine. Like, that was just sitting there for everyone. And I didn't see that anyone come up with those two. That thing at all. Yeah, I thought it was really fun and I thought he was just so. It's just, you know, I always say about him. I remember watching him one time at the Comedy Cellar and he was on stage and I was like, that man is more comfortable up there right now than I am in bed. Like, it really looks that way. I was like, that is the key. That guy cannot be thrown. Because there was a couple times he didn't get the laughs he wanted to or the mic wasn't on the way he wanted. Like. Like there were a couple things that could have thrown his performance or made anyone else feel nervous or feel like, you know, once you don't get a laugh, you want in the beginning that you're expected to get, that can, like, derail the rest of the set very easily, just with the audience. Because the audience loses faith in you. But he just gets you back right away. Yeah, he's just. There's no one better to be in leading the charge up there. Like, Dave Chappelle walks on stage and you know everything's going to be okay.

[Taylor McGraw]

Well, that's what can go wrong. He's earned the right to have those moments because the audience truly trusts that he's going somewhere. Whereas if you're just like some open micr and you start flailing, then people start to turn on you.

[Brian]

But even like an open micr who doesn't let that stuff bother Them the audience would project Bob. Like, there's some. It's like Chappelle is just. Can be. I don't. I don't. It almost transcends, like, what he's doing. It's like he's just has this aura about him that puts everyone at ease. Yeah.

[Taylor McGraw]

He also. I don't know if he, like, thought about this move or if this just comes naturally to him, but like, this, the little things, like, he was sitting down for most of the monologue on the stool, and then when he started telling the story about Jimmy Carter, he stood up almost to, like, show respect to Jimmy Carter.

[Brian]

He's amazing.

[Taylor McGraw]

Yeah.

[Brian]

When he did the Mark Twain Prize for Kevin Hart, it was like, baffling to me that he didn't have a script in the prompter. And Chris, still to this day, who produced it, doesn't know if he had, like, really memorized what he said or if it was like, off the dome. And my thought is, I told Chris, I think, if I could guess, I think he definitely thought about what he was going to say. And it wasn't just off the dome. I don't think he works that way. I mean, he does sometimes, but not on something like, of this kind of import. Yeah, I think he thought about it and probably rehearsed it in his head a couple times and maybe wrote some notes and then just was. Trusts himself at this point to do it. But what do you think? Do you think he could have just, like, out of his head, We've wove together a presentation about Kevin Hart that, like, had a beginning, middle and end and had a through line and like, a message and all that stuff. Do you think he just can do that freestyle now? Now?

[Taylor McGraw]

I think it's possible. I think without a doubt, he was, like, thinking about what he was going to say. Like, I don't think there was no. No thought put into it. And he was just, like, pulled off the street, like, can you say a few words? And then he just pulled that out of nowhere. He probably was, like, walking around being like, what can I say about Kevin? And the reason why I know that it's possible to do that is because there was this guy I. At the improv theater I used to perform at in New York called the Magnet Theater. There was this show called Kiss Punch Poem. And I don't remember this guy's name, but it was a full improv show. And at the end of the show, a man would go up and he would improvise a full poem based on the improv. Show he just saw. And every week I would go see this guy and the poem was every single time more amazing than any poem I could ever even imagine writing. And it incorporated all of these things from the improv show that had just happened. So we know it wasn't like pre written. And I was in awe of watching this guy do this so he could do it. I believe that it's possible that Dave Chappelle could also do it, like weave all these things together and just kind of spin a yarn that ends at a poignant moment to.

[Brian]

Was that guy old?

[Taylor McGraw]

No, he wasn't. He was like late 20s or early 30s.

[Brian]

But I will say the book that I'm reading, the Anatomy of a Breakthrough, I just got to the part yesterday about Andre Agassi and Lionel Messi, and it talks about how they are the best at their game because they slow down in the beginning. So Lionel Messi has never scored a goal in the first two minutes of a game in his entire life. And there's been a. There was one story about like where a channel played every Lionel Messi goal that's like, you know, two seconds long. Just goal after goal. They played them all back to back. And it lasted like over a weekend. Like 48 hours of just goal, goal. And not one of those was ever scored in the first two minutes of the game, which he is in. And so the first two minutes of the game, he barely runs around. He's just scoping out what he's going to do and planning for it. And it's not about. They say, like, you know, I watched, you know, that quarterback show and Mahomes and all Kirk Cousins, all these guys are watching tape of the players and there's, you know, and Andre Agassi even said, like, yeah, he can study someone's tennis game that he's about to play. Or Lionel Messi said he can study, you know, these soccer players and watch tape all day. But the athletes that he's playing, the way they show up that day is going to be different than anything that he could have prepared for. And so he wants to know what they're. They're like that day. And no one else does that. And so it's about. There's a lesson in slowing down in the beginning to get your bearings. And Lionel Messi also is Lionel messing in his pants. And like he's on the toilet for like 40 minutes before every game because he's so nervous, just his brains out. And the coaches used to make fun. There would be other, like, you know, early on in his career people would make fun of him and say like this guy is not going to be anything because he's just himself. He has like, you know, chronic diarrhea beforehand because he's so nervous. That's the thing that happens to your body when you get nervous. I know a lot of comments happen to me that a lot before they go on stage.

[Taylor McGraw]

Right. Well, there's an evolutionary reasoning for it because you need to. To lighten your load and run away.

[Brian]

From a predator or you're spraying like a skunk. But. And 70 of serotonin is made in the gut, that's why. Oh, so, so what does that mean? Stuff to get more serotonin or you're getting for like it creates anxiety. So like anxiety is like mainly built in the gut. That makes, I mean it makes total sense. But he, so they, he part of this was that they said how was he able to play so well when he is a nervous wreck? Because there are so many performers that like throw up before they go on stage. They have stage freight every single time and then they go out and they kill it. Like isn't. Aren't nerves associated with like doing poorly? It also talked about the guy that is the free solo guy. This is a very. I'll get into it later but really fascinating research on this. But the reason Lionel Messi is able to throw up and himself a ton before the game is because he takes those two minutes of the game to ease himself into. And he doesn't just start playing, he doesn't just walk. Like if I'm shitting my brains out before I go on stage, I'm so nervous I shouldn't go out. What I'm learning from this is I shouldn't go out and be like right into my act, like woo. Like just hop on and start performing and running around like crazy and trying to score goals. Because I'm still nervous. I just stepped off from where I was shitting before. Ease into it. So go out on stage if I'm super nervous for performance, which doesn't really happen that often, but if I find myself next time having a lot of anxiety beforehand, like slow down in the beginning and amp up to it and you'll be able to harness an energy that you can then be your best, be best.

[Taylor McGraw]

And speaking to like Noah's biological or chemical reasoning. I feel like if you're, you know, shit in your pants before and you're producing all this serotonin, which. Serotonin is a motivating agent and then maybe it just takes some time, a few minutes for whatever chemically happened in your. Your, you know, your shit explosion to go through your veins and then make you feel the calm and the focus that those chemicals were producing.

[Brian]

Oh, yeah.

[Taylor McGraw]

And then you get there and then you're ready.

[Brian]

Yeah. It's. It is. It's. It is wild. I'm learning a lot from this book. It's called the Anatomy of Breakthrough. And I am going to finish it, and I'm gonna keep dropping little tidbits that I don't really know all the details of. I just downloaded the audiobook, so maybe I can help with it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Noah's so good at taking notes and actually, like, paying attention and knowing exactly the data that they give. And I'm just like. I think, like, it's because he, like, was, like, not scared anymore because I just, like, I. Yeah, it's not good. It's compelling. I'm excited for this. So, yeah, check out that book and. Yeah. And. And start plowing through it, Noah, so we can catch up to each other. I'll slow down on it. I'll get back into the letter them theory, which I just found out is plagiarized.

[Lynn Williams]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian]

Most things, but I'm gonna still keep going. It's like I'm. I don't care where she got it from. I know that's wrong. I already. She already got my money. I'm not giving her any more of it. But it's.

[Lynn Williams]

How do you think you're not going to be caught when you do.

[Brian]

I don't know. I do believe that the author of the let them theory. I'm not going to get into her name or whatever. I do think that she may have, like, found the let them theory. She found it through her daughter who was like, mom, just let them. She, like, said. And she had this light bulb moment. Moment. So I think that maybe her daughter might have copied it, like, gotten it from this poem that went viral in 2023, which everyone's saying. And then her daughter said the Let didn't know that she had even gotten it from that. You know how you can see things online? You don't even know where it happens. And she goes, mom, let them. And her mom goes, that's brilliant. And then. But then she also wrote the book with her daughter, which she claims several times in the book, but her daughter's name is not on the book, which is so strange.

[Taylor McGraw]

That's weird.

[Brian]

She's being called out for a couple things, and I don't Know how to feel about it.

[Taylor McGraw]

She a psychological or something?

[Brian]

I don't think so.

[Taylor McGraw]

So what? She heard her daughter let them. She heard her daughter say let them one time and then that gave her the authority to write an entire book.

[Brian]

She has glasses and she has an ability to talk.

[Taylor McGraw]

Okay.

[Brian]

Where she pauses a lot. I don't like after everything she says.

[Lynn Williams]

Oh, no, no.

[Brian]

Which gives what she's saying. Do you understand? More weight.

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Yeah, the Girard Carmichael effect.

[Brian]

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