Ed Helms and Brian Huskey

Summary

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Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil

Episode: Ed Helms and Brian Huskey

Release Date: February 5, 2026
Guests: Ed Helms, Brian Huskey
Host: Jameela Jamil

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Overview:

This episode revels in the most mortifying, embarrassing, and frankly bodily Wrong Turns of its trio—Jameela Jamil, Ed Helms, and Brian Huskey—showing listeners that everyone’s life is a recurring string of cringe-worthy disasters. No life lessons, no silver linings—just honest, hilarious mutual humiliation. If you’ve ever felt alone in your awkwardness or public mishaps, these stories promise you’re not alone.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. How They Process Shame and Embarrassment

• The group analyzes cultural differences in handling shame:
  • Brian reveals his Southern upbringing taught him to "ignore shame and humiliation at a pro level." (04:09)
  • Ed shares, "So we're so good, we're trained just not to talk about or address any of this stuff or purge any of it from ourselves. And so it does. It just sits and festers." (04:12)
  • Jameela brings in British sensibility: “We all die buried with our secrets. I think it’s why we have to drink so much.” (04:41)
  • Jameela sums up British and Southern coping: “Bruised fruit makes the sweetest jam.” (04:38)

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2. ADHD and Perpetual Life Confusion

• Ed opens up about living with intense ADHD, explaining:
  "I very rarely know what's going on. I'm honestly, like, constantly trying to construct a narrative of the situation I'm in that makes sense...That is sort of a baseline confusion that leads to a near constant state of mild embarrassment." (06:28)
• Jameela and Brian both share their partners have ADHD and describe the constant fires to put out, with Jameela quoting Trevor Noah:
  “Time is either now or not now.” (07:12)

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3. Micro Humiliations

Ed’s “Corpse Plane Sleep”

• Ed describes his unique sleeping style on planes, revealed by his wife:
  "I sleep like a rotting corpse on a plane... my head is back and my mouth is just slack open... It looks ghoulish." (08:17–09:24)
• The family treats this as ongoing comedy, taking pictures to document Ed’s sleeping “style.”

Office Set Flatulence

• Ed recounts farting in a sealed car while waiting to shoot a scene with Angela Kinsey, not realizing she’d be entering moments later:
  "She gets in the car and just goes, 'Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God.' ...And she's like, God, jeez. And gets out of the car." (13:33–14:04)
• Ed takes responsibility, refusing to blame craft services: “A lesser man would have thrown craft services under the bus.” (15:05)

Brian’s Restaurant Nightmare

• Brian, re-enacting a Monty Python bit in a Chinese restaurant, accidentally says something racially insensitive:
  "I was singing it out to this room of people. And everybody just went by, oh, my God. And I just was immediately, like, deemed as like, racist monster in the eyes of all these people." (19:45–20:41)
• The shame is magnified by the “liberal college town” setting: “I really wanted to go. Like, I was writing a personal statement I had to release to my neighbors.” (20:46)

Family Flatulence

• Brian’s grandmother’s handling of gas:
  “She would just irruptively fart... but she would always go, whoops, sorry... and just, she'd call it out, and it would just be there.” (17:39)

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4. Big Wrong Turns: Epic Humiliation Stories

Ed Helms’ Bangkok Food Poisoning (Hangover 2 Set)

[24:12–30:57]

• Ed caves to peer pressure, eats street food in Bangkok. Immense regret follows:
  "I ate something that night that was essentially what it turned into was like a bomb inside of my body and a bomb that exploded with so much intensity and violence that no hole was safe." (26:27)
• Is violently ill while filming a riot scene shirtless in the red light district:
  "In between takes, I'm curled up on the sidewalk... my co-stars are feeding me Sprite with a straw and gently patting my head." (30:08–30:42)
• Production shows little sympathy—advice is to be ready for the next call time:
  “Yeah, yeah, I hear you... Your pickup will be 6am tomorrow.” (28:01)

Jameela’s Abscessed Tooth While Interviewing Bradley Cooper

[31:38–35:10]

• Jameela had to participate in a live press junket with a “huge abscess in my tooth.”
• Pain relief only came from keeping her mouth full of water, which she then had to spit into a bowl between Bradley Cooper and Heather Graham on camera:
  “Every time I ask a question, the camera's on me... The only place to put the spittoon for all of my abscess spit is between Bradley Cooper and ... Heather Graham.” (32:44)
• “They never wanted to be interviewed by me ever again. ...Every. I never saw either of them ever again in my life.” (34:52)

Brian’s Legendary UCB Fainting Flirt

[37:07–47:12]

• During a marathon improv festival, Brian, exhausted, underfed, and a bit stoned, listens to a woman’s detailed account of snapping her toe.
• Has a history of fainting and, triggered by her story, slowly “commits to the bit” by fainting, face down, in the middle of a party:
  “Instead of sitting down, I just kind of like slowly laid down... creating a little parting of the sea, and just lay down... on this beer soaked, disgusting floor and just was like face down.” (44:19–45:30)
• Everyone assumes it’s a comedy bit; he’s left there for 15 minutes before anyone intervenes.
• Later rumors swirl that he had blacked out from partying:
  “All these stories, all this lore had happened overnight.” (48:11)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Ed Helms (on perpetual confusion from ADHD, 06:28):
  “I very rarely know what's going on. ...That is sort of a baseline confusion that leads to a near constant state of mild embarrassment.”
• Jameela Jamil (on British stoicism, 04:41):
  "We all die buried with our secrets. I think it’s why we have to drink so much."
• Brian Huskey (on family gas, 17:48):
  “She would just irruptively fart. ...Whoops, sorry. And just, she’d call it out, and it would just be there.”
• Ed Helms (on his airplane sleep, 08:17):
  "I sleep like a rotting corpse on a plane... it looks ghoulish."
• Ed Helms (on Bangkok food poisoning, 26:27):
  "A bomb that exploded with so much intensity and violence that no hole was safe."
• Jameela Jamil (on British actors discovering American craft services, 15:46):
  "It's like, why is he speaking in a British accent? ...My asshole must be open 70% of the entire season."

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [01:13] Show intro & guest introductions
• [03:17] How do you process embarrassment? (Cultural approaches)
• [06:12] Ed’s experience living with ADHD
• [08:17] Ed’s airplane “corpse sleep” micro humiliation
• [11:38] Ed’s Office on-set fart disaster
• [14:24] Jameela’s first year on The Good Place and craft services consequences
• [19:45] Brian’s restaurant racial mishap
• [24:12] Big Wrong Turn: Ed’s food poisoning ordeal in Bangkok
• [31:38] Big Wrong Turn: Jameela’s abscessed tooth live interview with Bradley Cooper
• [37:07] Big Wrong Turn: Brian’s UCB fainting story and aftermath

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Closing Sentiment

The episode is a masterclass in making people at home feel better about their own everyday humiliations. The trio leans into bodily failings, accidental offense, cultural taboos, and extreme physical discomfort with raucous, self-roasting camaraderie. They reflect genuine friendship through “trauma bonding” and leave the listener with one overriding lesson: We’re all disasters sometimes—and the only sane response is to laugh.

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Where to Find Them:

• Brian Huskey: Instagram @thebrianhuskey, UCB LA shows Soundtrack & Asscat
• Ed Helms: Podcast Snafu, upcoming projects
• Jameela Jamil: Substack “A Low Desire to Please”

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Transcript

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[Ed Helms]

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[Jameela Jamil]

Well, hello, guys. Welcome to Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil. This is the show where dignity goes to die, where we really bare our souls for the public. You know, because people are out here. Times are terrible. The world's ending and they're feeling vulnerable and they feel bad about decisions they've made. And so we're here to tell them about worse decisions that we've made. Ways in which we have humiliated ourselves in ways they could never even conceive of so that they can feel smug on their morning commute to work. So, people, this is for you. Joining me today, I have an actor, writer, comedian, singer, and world class banjo player, known for such indie projects as the Office, the Daily show with Jon Stewart and the Hangover movies. He hosts the podcast Snafu and is the author of Snafu, the definitive guide to history's greatest Screw ups. He's in the perfect place. It's Ed fucking Helms. Hello.

[Brian Huskey]

Yay.

[Jameela Jamil]

Hey.

[Brian Huskey]

I love his middle name is Fucking. Yeah, it's great.

[Jameela Jamil]

Yeah, big time. I am also thrilled to welcome a comedian, writer, actor from Veep Bob's Burgers, Community Parks and Recreation and Children's Hospital. Together, he and Ed are the products of Upright Citizens Brigade. So blame them. It's Brian fucking Husky.

[Brian Huskey]

Also middle name. Also middle name. Yeah.

[Ed Helms]

Spelled without a chain.

[Jameela Jamil]

Way to go.

[Ed Helms]

Brian Huskey.

[Jameela Jamil]

Gentlemen. Hi. I'm very starstruck. I'm a big fan of both of you. How the fuck are you both doing?

[Brian Huskey]

This is.

[Ed Helms]

Well, I'm delighted to be here. And I have to say I did not realize the premise of this show coming in, and I don't like it. I'm gone. I don't want to humiliate myself.

[Brian Huskey]

You'll know that, you know, they underpitched it. The responsibility and the self evaluation is.

[Jameela Jamil]

I hate to oversell actors, but we're saving lives here, guys. And I think that that's really important to just take a moment, take that moment.

[Brian Huskey]

Thank you.

[Ed Helms]

Thanks for saying it. Because a lot of people don't realize it. We are saving lives just by talking about random shit.

[Jameela Jamil]

I'm incredibly brave.

[Brian Huskey]

And recorded.

[Ed Helms]

We're so brave.

[Brian Huskey]

We're brave now more than ever.

[Jameela Jamil]

Us, 100%. Yeah. You guys in particular.

[Brian Huskey]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jameela Jamil]

What a time. What a comeback. Brian, would you say you feel embarrassed easily in this world?

[Brian Huskey]

I think so. But I realized that I'm really good at just compartmentalizing it and sticking it inside. And then it comes back later as cancer. As cancer or as resentment or just negative self talk. You know, I just put it into the database. It's like, well, here's some evidence as to why you're failing. And so I'll just load it up.

[Jameela Jamil]

I do actually find that if I suppress rage, it's between three to five business days before I get an actual kidney stone. So I genuinely process everything fast. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Huskey]

Your attention.

[Jameela Jamil]

Speedy keeps the score.

[Ed Helms]

Yeah, score.

[Brian Huskey]

There it is.

[Ed Helms]

It keeps us good also. But, Brian, you're forgetting one other very important aspect of all of this, which is the. You and I are southern and that's like, we ignore shame and humiliation with.

[Brian Huskey]

Oh, yes.

[Ed Helms]

At like a pro level.

[Brian Huskey]

Oh, yes.

[Ed Helms]

So we're so good, we're trained just not to talk about or address any of this stuff or purge any of it from ourselves. And so it does. It just sits in festers.

[Brian Huskey]

We have, like, emotional boils versed in self gaslighting. Like, we just, like something can be happening in front of you, it can happen to you. And then later on, just like. That didn't happen. We're not gonna talk about that. That's just gonna go away.

[Jameela Jamil]

Bruised fruit makes the sweetest jam.

[Brian Huskey]

Oh, wow.

[Jameela Jamil]

Just like a lovely nice way to spin on that. I'm British, so as you know, we all die buried with our secrets. I think it's why we have to drink so much. We're literally like we're swallowing down the pill of life.

[Brian Huskey]

Yes.

[Jameela Jamil]

Guzzling it down with Guinness upon Guinness.

[Brian Huskey]

I think our Southern roots is just steeped in the fact of, like, our society, our identity is built on exploitation. And to reconcile that. Nope, nope. Nope, nope. Gotta bury it, gotta bury it, gotta bury it.

[Jameela Jamil]

The British not known for that. No, no, no, no. Everything we did, we made ourselves with our bare hands. That was our tea.

[Ed Helms]

Yeah, absolutely.

[Jameela Jamil]

We gave it to India. Actually. They got it wrong. That's true.

[Brian Huskey]

True.

[Jameela Jamil]

What about you, Ed? Do you feel like you handle disaster well?

[Ed Helms]

Well, disaster. Like, I think I'm actually a fairly cool cucumber under pressure, but when it is like, an accident or something or a crazy situation, I might actually do okay. But if it's anything around dignity or pride or. Or shame, then I'm kind of a basket case. Like, I immediately retreat. I'm like a little turtle. I just hide and I.

[Jameela Jamil]

Someone have to poke you in your asshole to get your head back out.

[Ed Helms]

Yeah.

[Jameela Jamil]

Great.

[Ed Helms]

Good to know you do that to turtles.

[Jameela Jamil]

Is that why you're doing this on Zoom? Yeah, I mean, that's what I do to turtles.

[Brian Huskey]

That's what turtle emts do when they're. When they're out, they're poking the butt.

[Jameela Jamil]

It's not just turtles that works for. But we'll talk about that another time. That's for another podcast, but thankfully, I've had.

[Ed Helms]

You'd think I'd be better at handling embarrassing situations because I've had so many of them, and I'm very good at just manifesting them all around me.

[Jameela Jamil]

Yeah. And it's always been that way. Right. You just never grow out of it, or did you grow into it?

[Ed Helms]

I think so. Well, I think also as a person with very intense adhd, which is a real thing in my case, I'm not making a joke of it. It is a real thing. And one of the ways that I feel divergent from, like, the rest of the population is that I very rarely know what's going on. I'm honestly like, all constantly trying to construct a narrative of the situation I'm in that makes sense. I don't know why people do things and why I'm constantly catching up. I'm understanding things, like, days later. And that is sort of a baseline confusion that leads to a near constant state of mild embarrassment.

[Jameela Jamil]

Yeah, my. My boyfriend's got very severe adhd, and he talks about, you know, we saw Trevor Noah talk about time as either now or not now. And that's. That's the. Those are the only two ways that someone with ADHD can see time. And so I watch my boyfriend just put fires out all day where it's like, the doorbell's going, the phone's ringing. It's like, who is that? It's all things that he's arranged but he's completely forgotten about because it's not happening now.

[Brian Huskey]

I, too, my partner has adhd, and it's been an education in patience. Patience. It's been an education in, like, that you can't say. Sort of like, well, why don't you just do this? And she's like, well, because my brain doesn't do that, so I can't do that.

[Jameela Jamil]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Huskey]

And then it's just a negotiation between the two of us of, like, where the Venn diagram overlaps. Of like, okay, I can handle this. And then some stuff I've told her is like, I. I can't handle it.

[Jameela Jamil]

Like, I forced him to set, like, 20 alarms a day, so it sounds like the EMT in. Anyway, I would love to have an example of some micro humiliations. Ed, I thought we could start with you.

[Ed Helms]

Sure. Yeah. So this is one that I've probably been doing my whole life, but I didn't realize it until I got married and had a very loving wife who also loves to make fun of me relentlessly. God bless her. So what happens is I fall asleep on airplanes all the time, which is a gift. I'm honestly glad to be asleep on airplanes. But what I never. But what I never knew until I was married is that I sleep like a rotting corpse on a plane. Like, I look. I look like my head is back and my mouth is just slack open. Gravity is just pulling on my face in the most awkward and weird ways, and I'm usually slouched in some very unnatural position, and it looks ghoulish. Like, it looks. It's very. It's. It's very upsetting looking. And so, of course, my wife takes pictures of this every time we're together on an airplane, and I am flooded with pictures of me just looking insane.

[Brian Huskey]

And this is my favorite Instagram account, by the way.

[Jameela Jamil]

Yeah.

[Ed Helms]

Oh, no.

[Brian Huskey]

So great.

[Ed Helms]

She's Instagram.

[Brian Huskey]

Oh, God. It's got a lot of traction. It's got ads on it now, so it's pretty good.

[Jameela Jamil]

Oh, that.

[Ed Helms]

That would be great. But it's just like. It's weird enough being a recognizable person on. In public places, airplanes and airports and things, but to know that, like, someone who I may have greeted like a flight attendant who's like, oh, hey, nice, a big fan, or whatever, and they're like. And I'm like, all cool. And I go. And I sit down and then I see a picture later, what I'm looking like on this plane. And it Is.

[Jameela Jamil]

I don't think your wife's the only one taking those pictures as well. I think there's loads of commuters around this country.

[Ed Helms]

I hadn't thought of that.

[Jameela Jamil]

Again, 100% take that picture.

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[Ed Helms]

There were EMTs waiting for us when we landed. The whole plane was concerned about head helps.

[Brian Huskey]

And do you snore badly? Yes.

[Ed Helms]

And so sometimes. Well, if I'm on my back, I do snore. If I'm on my side, I'm fine. But in an airplane chair, yes, I will snore. And my. And now my kids are in on it, and they'll just be like, you know, I'll wake up to the whole family laughing at.

[Brian Huskey]

Yeah, I woke myself up on a plane one time with a. And just the person next to me just, like, nodding and smiling like they had been watching me for a while.

[Jameela Jamil]

Waiting for the.

[Brian Huskey]

Waiting for the snort.

[Jameela Jamil]

Yeah. My boyfriend is a stinger and he's got a big set of lungs. And so it's properly like, I dream of Jumanji weirdly all of the time because I'm hearing a fucking lion in my bed. And so it gives me, like, I have safari dreams all the time.

[Brian Huskey]

Seriously.

[Jameela Jamil]

Because of the sound that's fucking coming out of him. It's insane. I am chron. Awake absolutely everywhere. All of the fucking time. I wish I could sleep on planes. I have to get very, very high to be able to do it. And then.

[Ed Helms]

But would you still wish you could sleep if you knew you looked like me on a plane?

[Jameela Jamil]

No. You know what? I'm actually okay. I think I'm good. Yeah. Yeah. No, I take it back. Happy. Not sleep. Happy to be awake and sane looking awake and alive.

[Brian Huskey]

The only way out of this, Ed, is to only do red eyes because everyone else is going to be asleep.

[Jameela Jamil]

Otherwise, 100%, you can't do a morning flight ever again.

[Brian Huskey]

Ever again.

[Jameela Jamil]

You also have a micro humiliation around an episode of the Office.

[Ed Helms]

Yeah. Oh, yeah. This is a beauty. Okay, so this is. This is a classic. Everyone's had this. This is my version of it. We're shooting an episode of the Office. And in this scene, it's Angela. Kinsey and I are in a car together, but we're in a parking lot and we're having a sort of intimate conversation. So. And the show is obviously shot as a sort of fake documentary, so they wanted to shoot it from really far away. So the cameras and the whole crew, they're all like 150ft away. And Angela and I are having this Kind of intimate conversation in a car, sitting in this car together. So I get in the car and I'm waiting for Angela to come. The crew's getting all set up, they're finishing the setup. And. And I see Angela over, you know, she's over with the crew, maybe getting some makeup touch ups or something. And. And I'm like, I have a few minutes. I'm okay. And so I tooted. I farted. I just had a little too. Because I was by myself. I was like, I have time.

[Jameela Jamil]

Quiet, loud.

[Ed Helms]

Well, honestly don't remember that part, but it was, it was like a nuclear waste level odor. Like it was a very quiet, quiet. It was very. So okay, so whatever. I'm by myself. It's going to be fine. But then I HEAR the first A.D. say, you know, like, okay, pictures up and Andrew walking towards the car. Angela starts walking towards the car. I'm like, I'm very far away from everyone. So I'm not that worried until I see Angela start walking towards the car. And I'm like, this is that. There's no. I have no. No way. She gets in the car.

[Brian Huskey]

Oh, wow.

[Ed Helms]

She's always in the car.

[Brian Huskey]

Oh, no. Yes.

[Ed Helms]

This was all in a car.

[Brian Huskey]

I thought you were standing by the car. But it's like, no, no, no, no.

[Ed Helms]

We're in the car.

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[Ed Helms]

Sealed. It's hermetically sealed.

[Jameela Jamil]

It's a Dutch oven.

[Ed Helms]

Yeah, it's a Dutch oven. And so she gets in the car and the entire crew at this point is now focused on us. The entire like 30, 40 people and cameras are all focused on us. And we're about to start shooting this scene. Angela gets in the car and just goes, oh my God. Oh my God, oh my God. And the crew is like, what?

[Brian Huskey]

What?

[Ed Helms]

What's the matter? What's the matter? And she's like, God, jeez. And gets out of the car.

[Brian Huskey]

Wow.

[Ed Helms]

And it's just one of those moments where, you know, our bodies do this thing that is embarrassing and sometimes it just like happens at a bad time. And God bless Angela. Angela, by the way. Yeah, I love. Angela's one of my dearest friends and I adore her. And she handled it with great respect and dignity. She was shocked.

[Jameela Jamil]

She was so protective of you, obviously.

[Ed Helms]

And then immediately got out of the car as one should. I too got out of the car and we let it ventilate for a minute or two, but there was just no hiding it from everyone. The entire crew in the moment.

[Jameela Jamil]

And you're mic'd up.

[Ed Helms]

Oh, yeah. And we're mic'd. Yeah.

[Jameela Jamil]

I mean, they probably heard the bomb go off in the first place. They knew exactly what they were doing. They sent her in after they heard the.

[Brian Huskey]

They might have heard it.

[Jameela Jamil]

They were like, time for Angela.

[Brian Huskey]

But a testament to that, you're one of the good ones in the business, because, like, a lesser man would have thrown the craft services under the bus and be like, it wasn't me. It was that, you know, oh, my God.

[Jameela Jamil]

I was just about. I was just about to throw craft services under the bus. I was just about to. Literally. That was my next sentence. I was like, it's the fucking craft service. I know, because we're eating all kinds of crazy shit. And so, you know, I've spoken before about my first season on the Good Place. I'd never acted before. So I was jumping in with all these trained comedic genius actors. And I had never had craft service because I was never an actor. So I just thought, oh, my God, like, I'm gonna take this home every day. And I was getting my money's worth, and every week I was expecting to be fired. So I was like, I've got to eat as much as I can. I gained 13 pounds in the first season alone. So by the end, I look more like Pablo Escobar. And it's like, is this Narcos?

[Brian Huskey]

Her storyline is unclear.

[Jameela Jamil]

Yeah, it's really worth. And so I. It's like, why is he speaking in a British accent? And so. And I, like, my asshole must be open 70% of the entire season. Like, I'm just like, I am. I'm British. I don't have the. Whatever this atomic bomb that is American food is. I was not ready for it. We don't eat well, was some of that. It was some of the most. It was the most embarrassing year of my life. But I think it actually got me through because then I was more ashamed of that than I was of my acting. And so I was so focused on my anus that I didn't have time to be self conscious. You know what I mean? Cause you're just. You're clenching for Britain.

[Brian Huskey]

Sure.

[Jameela Jamil]

At that point. And I remember this particular scene where my partner Jianyu has, like, painted a picture of me and I have to walk in, and Mike Scher, who's directing, wants me just to walk in one straight line and go see the painting. And I keep taking two steps and then stop and clench. And then I take two steps and I stop and clench. And he's like, what are you doing? Just walk in one straight line. And I was like, I just think, for effect, she should. My character would be, you know, And I don't know anything about my character. Who am I seeing art at this point? Yeah. I was like, you know, I think she's shocked to see the picture. Was like, okay, I don't care what she thinks. We have eight seconds. Get to the fucking painting. So I. I just couldn't do it. I farted all the way down to the painting. Yeah. And then I had to, like, kiss the guy holding the painting. And I was like, this is one of the worst moments of my life. And I learned absolutely nothing from that and kept going with craft services straight afterwards.

[Brian Huskey]

There you go.

[Jameela Jamil]

I champion.

[Ed Helms]

I gained 10 pounds on my first season of the Office. I'd never been on a network TV show like that. It was the craft service is. And. And it's even. It's better now. But at that point, like, TV was so flushed with cash, it's just.

[Brian Huskey]

Yeah, it's just sugar.

[Ed Helms]

So much crap.

[Jameela Jamil]

I miss it. Oh, God, I love it.

[Brian Huskey]

My grandmother farted in my face one time.

[Ed Helms]

I can't believe. Wait, your grandmother?

[Jameela Jamil]

My grandmother, like a legend.

[Brian Huskey]

I wanted to say this. This is like. This is a good way to handle it. A very southern, old lady way to handle it. She would just irruptively fart. Doing the dishes. Just like. Just a big old ripper. And. But she would always go, whoops, sorry. And just. She'd call it out, and it would just be there. And one time, I was in her bedroom with her. She was getting ready. We were going to church. I was already ready. I was probably, like, 10 or something. I was just sitting on the edge of the bed, and she was in front of me. And then she moved in front of the mirror, standing right in front of me so I was at butt level, and she just let one go, like, full.

[Jameela Jamil]

Sorry.

[Brian Huskey]

Full experience, and. Whoops.

[Jameela Jamil]

Sorry. That is amazing. Yeah, that is amazing. Couldn't.

[Ed Helms]

Sorry.

[Jameela Jamil]

Couldn't be me. I'll never announce it. I'll always pray that you just think something is very wrong with the room.

[Ed Helms]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jameela Jamil]

That's the elevator or the car.

[Ed Helms]

My family growing up was just sort of like, if it happened, it was just. It was immediately like, oh, who needs a. Who needs a glass of water?

[Jameela Jamil]

Yeah.

[Ed Helms]

Like, anything.

[Jameela Jamil]

Anything.

[Ed Helms]

Anything to redirect.

[Brian Huskey]

Or. Do you guys ever do the thing where you try to mimic the sound by, like, rubbing your hand on, like, leather or something?

[Ed Helms]

Or groan or quickly like.

[Jameela Jamil]

No, I cough.

[Ed Helms]

Cough.

[Jameela Jamil]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, Brian, what about you? Any little micro humiliations you want to share with the group?

[Brian Huskey]

I mean, honestly, I don't know if this is a mic. I was thinking about this story and it really is kind of on the edge of like, oh, God, it's so uncomfortable. But it is steeped in the fact I come from the south that. So I'm very sensitive to this. But the long and short of it is I was with some friends at dinner and I was in a Chinese restaurant and I was mid-20s, and I was very excitedly, as dorky comedy guys do, recounting a Monty Python bit the nights. You say knee.

[Jameela Jamil]

Amazing.

[Brian Huskey]

But I didn't really know the gibberish that they were saying. And I sort of fumbled one of the words that they said in their. Their thing, and the word was adjacent to finagle, but it came out as something else. And I am not exaggerating every single person, because I was doing it loudly too. Because in your 20s, nothing funnier than a loud person in a restaurant. And I was giving everybody a show and the restaurant went dead silent. Just like, clink, nothing. And even my all my friend group was like, Brian. And they sold me out immediately. I was like, I didn't say that. I didn't say that. I was singing it out to this room of people. And everybody just went by, oh, my God. And I just was immediately, like, deemed as like, racist monster in the eyes of all these people.

[Ed Helms]

And I felt so like I just.

[Jameela Jamil]

Wanted to go one by one by one to every single person.

[Brian Huskey]

I really wanted to go. Like, I. I was writing a personal statement I had to release to my neighbors. And. And it didn't change. Like, it was. And it was like we hadn't even gotten the appetizer, so we had a whole meal.

[Jameela Jamil]

Everything. Everything you ate had like, spit and come in it 100.

[Brian Huskey]

For, like, for every five minutes for the next hour or whatever. I was just like, I didn't say that. You guys know I didn't say that. It sounded like you did. I did not. Even my girlfriend at the time, she's like, I can't believe you know what I was saying.

[Ed Helms]

You know, I wasn't there, Brian, But I'm still just like, why? How? I know. How dare you?

[Brian Huskey]

I am disgusted with myself still.

[Ed Helms]

I'm disgusted with you.

[Jameela Jamil]

That is a fucking nightmare. An entire restaurant thinking you said that.

[Brian Huskey]

Yeah, terrible.

[Jameela Jamil]

Especially with your Southern shame and your guilt.

[Brian Huskey]

And I was sort of new to this little town. Like this. This little tiny little college town, like.

[Jameela Jamil]

A liberal college Town, very liberal. And the KKK has arrived.

[Brian Huskey]

Like the one. It's like the one. So a blue dot and then surrounded by red and they're like, oh, you came in from out of town, huh? I'm like, no, I.

[Ed Helms]

Come on, guys. I'm one of you.

[Brian Huskey]

Come on.

[Jameela Jamil]

Well, hopefully you'll survive the quick break. We're going to have.

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[Jameela Jamil]

And we're back. All right, it's time for your big wrong turns.

[Brian Huskey]

Whoa.

[Jameela Jamil]

Are you ready?

[Brian Huskey]

Oh, my God. I'm not. Ed's.

[Jameela Jamil]

You're not ready?

[Brian Huskey]

Ed's not even Ed.

[Jameela Jamil]

Tell me, should we get into it? Let's get into it.

[Ed Helms]

You're gonna force me to relive this.

[Jameela Jamil]

Yeah, I am. Yeah, I fucking am. Because remember, this is a service for the people. It's not about us Us. It's bigger than us. All right, Ed?

[Ed Helms]

Yeah, you're right.

[Jameela Jamil]

We're warriors. We're Saviors, we are heroes.

[Ed Helms]

Some may say, yeah, this is a heroic thing that I'm about to do.

[Jameela Jamil]

This is great work that we're doing.

[Ed Helms]

To talk about my own humiliation. All right, here we go. This was many years ago, probably about 12 years ago. We're shooting the movie Hangover 2. And of course, most of this movie takes place in Bangkok, Thailand, which is where we're shooting it. And Bangkok is an incredible city, and it's really just so vibrant and wild and cool. And also there's a lot of street food there. And also there is a very big and busy red light district in Bangkok. So both of these will come into play. So first, the street food. We've been there maybe three or four days, and one of the crew guys is like, hey, I know, I know. This great little joint. We should grab a bite. So me and Zach and Bradley and our buddy jp, we all go to this place and we all get some food. And I'm just like, something in the back of my head. I'm like, this is not a smart thing to do. I probably shouldn't be having street food in Bangkok. Like a weekend.

[Jameela Jamil]

Is the Russian roulette for your asshole a classic.

[Ed Helms]

Yeah, for sure, sure. But I'm also, like, I'm. I don't want to be a wuss. I want to live in the moment. I want to just, like. I want to be here now and, like, fully engage with Bangkok and, like, drink it up, you know, so. And I'm also sort of like, in this mindset of, like, if I'm not precious and nervous, like, my body will compensate and my body will just move through.

[Brian Huskey]

Okay, so bodies work. Yeah, this is.

[Ed Helms]

This is not. This is not what happened. That's not how bodies work.

[Jameela Jamil]

People who pray on that food. Yeah, right.

[Brian Huskey]

Germs think that way.

[Jameela Jamil]

Yeah.

[Ed Helms]

Germs don't care what you think.

[Jameela Jamil]

Or they don't care about your vibe.

[Ed Helms]

No, no, no. They don't care about how confident you are. So I ate something that night that was essentially what it turned into was like a bomb inside of my body and a bomb that exploded with so much intensity and violence that no hole was safe. Like, every exit point of my body was. Was in play.

[Jameela Jamil]

Just shitting out of his eyes.

[Ed Helms]

Shitting out of my ears. Like, out of my ears. I'm barfing out my ears.

[Brian Huskey]

Sweating through your pores.

[Jameela Jamil]

And it's so hot and humid and sweaty anyway and crowded and everything's very bright and very shovey and there doesn't seem to be from What? I hear a lot of, like. Sort of like, oh, would you like this luxury toilet over here, sir?

[Ed Helms]

Yeah, it's sketchy.

[Jameela Jamil]

It's weird.

[Ed Helms]

Yeah. And the air in Bangkok is a little thick and stinky. It's just a heavy, humid. Yeah, you're exactly right. So I'm in my hotel room and I'm like, I think I'm dying. Like, I really think I'm gonna die. And I've never been this sick before in my life. And I'm thinking I'm just, like, scared to death. Like, I'm gonna die miles, thousand miles from anyone I love.

[Jameela Jamil]

But wait, where are your friends at this point? Have you left Bradley and Zach?

[Ed Helms]

Yeah, this is like, hours later. So we're back at the.

[Jameela Jamil]

Have you gone off wandering to the red district by yourself? Like, why? Are you alone? No, no, no, no.

[Ed Helms]

That comes. That will come into play.

[Jameela Jamil]

Okay.

[Ed Helms]

That hasn't happened yet.

[Jameela Jamil]

So. Okay.

[Ed Helms]

Yeah. Okay.

[Brian Huskey]

So.

[Ed Helms]

So I get back to the hotel and I'm. That's when I. My body explodes and I.

[Brian Huskey]

That's.

[Ed Helms]

This has happened to everybody. This isn't like the most.

[Jameela Jamil]

I'm not even.

[Ed Helms]

This is even the worst part.

[Brian Huskey]

I haven't gone to the bathroom ever. So this is gross.

[Ed Helms]

It's.

[Brian Huskey]

So.

[Ed Helms]

There are moments in this. In this. My hotel bathroom hat. The toilet is in its own little closet. And there are moments where I have to spin around so fast to change trajectory into the toilet that I actually wind up bashing my head on the door jamb.

[Brian Huskey]

Oh, my God.

[Ed Helms]

While I'm dealing with all this.

[Brian Huskey]

So none of that was makeup for your character when he's all beaten up?

[Ed Helms]

No, but I had this huge welt on my head, and I called the first ad. The first assistant director who was the one who had taken us out to dinner. And I'm like, jp, I don't think I can. I don't. I think I'm dying. I don't know what to do. And he's like, yeah, yeah, I hear you.

[Jameela Jamil]

So.

[Ed Helms]

So, yeah, your pickup will be 6am tomorrow.

[Brian Huskey]

And.

[Ed Helms]

And it's just such a. Such a brutal reminder that, like, this show must go on.

[Jameela Jamil]

Hollywood waits for no man.

[Ed Helms]

Doesn't give a he. I mean, he. He's like, nice, but he's like, yeah, yeah. So, okay. So we'll see and see. At six in the morning. Hanging.

[Jameela Jamil]

Good luck with that concussion.

[Brian Huskey]

Yeah.

[Ed Helms]

Yeah, right.

[Brian Huskey]

There's a link to some diapers. Come on in.

[Ed Helms]

So the next day, we're shooting this scene in the red light district of Bangkok, which is a zoo. It is wild. It's nuts. It's like a thousand strip clubs, like, crammed into, like, two or three city blocks. And. And we're shooting a riot scene, and I am the one ginning up this riot. And my shirt is off, and I'm, like, screaming and yelling and I'm barfing. Like, actually, at this point, I think I've stopped barfing. But I'm very much in recovery. And so, as you can guess, this is a fairly seedy part of town. And it's just. It's not clean. Like, the streets and sidewalks, they're not clean. But I am so sick that in between takes, I'm curled up on the sidewalk. Ew.

[Brian Huskey]

I'm shirtless.

[Ed Helms]

Cause I can't even stand. It's pure adrenaline. Every take, just to get up and do the thing. And then I curl back into this fetal position and. And my co stars, Zach and Bradley, God bless them, they're sitting next to me, like, feeding me Sprite with a straw and, like, gently patting my head. I mean, the most tender and loving care I am well, to this day, forever grateful for. But the people walking by are just like, what is happening? How is this man curled up on the street?

[Brian Huskey]

That guy parties. That guy.

[Ed Helms]

That guy parties. If he's curled up on the sidewalk of the Bangkok Red, this guy is hurting. And it was deeply humbling. Deeply humbling.

[Brian Huskey]

I'm so surprised that, like, production wasn't like it sounded. They're just like, all right, deal with it. Because normally, like, if you're precious cargo, like you guys are, it would just be. Get them in there, get what they need.

[Jameela Jamil]

Like, you know, IP drip, like all these other things. JP fucked you over. I think he didn't want anyone to find out what he'd taken. I think that was him covering his own ass.

[Ed Helms]

Yeah, that's true.

[Brian Huskey]

I really do.

[Jameela Jamil]

Because normally it's like, let's get a doctor. Let's get electrolytes. Let's, you know, all the things. I think you got fucked over.

[Ed Helms]

There was a nurse person kind of, like, giving me charcoal tablets and, like a Tums, but this and that Tums. But, like, nothing could. Nothing could help me at that.

[Jameela Jamil]

I had a memory of, like, a really early interview in maybe 2009 with Bradley Cooper, maybe 2010. He was still, like, kind of blowing up at the time, but him and Heather Graham were on the show together. And I. I'd maybe been on television a couple of weeks when I did this, so it was definitely 2009. I really do. Yeah. And I. I was interviewing them, and I had a huge abscess in my tooth. I'm prone to these. Or I was prone to these. And so my tooth was sort of. You know, when you have an abscess and you leave it too long, it starts to swell up an entire side of your face.

[Brian Huskey]

Oh, boy.

[Jameela Jamil]

So I'm the Elephant man on one side. So I go to say hello to Bradley, and he sees the one side of my face first, and then I move and he goes, whoa. And then goes, so sorry. Cause he thinks that's just what I. That's just my face. You're like, whoa.

[Brian Huskey]

Properly and everything.

[Jameela Jamil]

Hey, hey, how about that makeup? You know? And Heather Graham's being very gracious. I think she can tell from the fact that I'm green that I'm not very well. And I have to explain to them that, you know, and I can only speak out of one side of my mouth. They're like, what is England?

[Ed Helms]

Wait, was this on the Hangover Press junket?

[Jameela Jamil]

I think so, yeah. Yeah, it was. And it was just the two of them, and it was on Channel four. And the only way I could not be in agony and I don't know if anyone else has ever experienced this, is if my mouth was full of water. That was the only pain relief I could have because of the pressure. It created, like, bariatric pressure or something. So they just kept on letting me sip a little bit of water, but I couldn't swallow that water because it's just sitting in abscess. Right. So I have to spit the water out. But I'm live. We're live on television, so I'm having to interview them. And then every time I ask a question, the camera's on me. And then the only place to put the spitoon for all of my abscess spit is between Bradley Cooper and that gorgeous, heavenly woman, Heather Graham. And I'm. So. I have to keep going. And so, you know, tell us about the film. What was it like to shoot? And, you know, and then I would jump across and spit in between both of them. Little bits of spit would go on, like Bradley's trousers. I could see, like, little flecks of shit and on Heather's bare legs. And I just had to. And they know what's in there. They know it's, like, pus and sick and there's, like, everything. And, like, honestly, it's the worst fucking. It was one of the most humbling, you know? And, like, he's so Handsome. She's so beautiful. Like, I was so excited and it was just the most. I think it was the most disastrous interview I've ever had to give in my entire life. And I was just dying, man.

[Ed Helms]

I was like, I'm going to tell you something, Jamila. That's the most proud, professional interview I've ever heard of. It calls to mind Bob Costas during the Olympics when he had conjunctivitis.

[Brian Huskey]

Do you remember this?

[Jameela Jamil]

No.

[Brian Huskey]

What happened?

[Ed Helms]

It was. It was just like, I don't know, a couple of Olympics ago, Bob Costas was anchoring the Olympics and all the Olympic coverage, and he had the worst pink eye.

[Brian Huskey]

Oh, wow.

[Ed Helms]

You've ever seen. And it was. It was just like oozing and giant. And he had a bandage like, one day and another day and. But he's like powering through and it's absolutely jaw dropping and the most hilarious, horrific thing to watch. But I'm betting that you pulled it off and no one even knew that you were dealing with that. And that isn't. That's incredible.

[Jameela Jamil]

Yeah. I mean, they both were like, well done. Forget it. Because I could only have water out of my mouth long enough to ask the question very fast. And then I would take another sip and then I would spit. Then I would. It was the craziest system. They never wanted to be interviewed by me ever again. Every. I never saw either of them ever again in my life.

[Brian Huskey]

Go to the dentist.

[Jameela Jamil]

Yeah. I asked Heather Graham to do a headstand live on television in a tiny black dress. And she did it, I think, just to get away from my spittoon. I'm so sorry, Bradley. If you're listening, and I know you're a dedicated listener to this show.

[Brian Huskey]

Hey, celebrities. They're just like us. Yeah, sure, sure. They're just like us.

[Jameela Jamil]

Oh, man, that's fantastic. We're going to be right back after a quick break.

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[Brian Huskey]

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[Jameela Jamil]

And we're back. All right, Brian, what's your big wrong turn?

[Brian Huskey]

Oh, geez. Oh, geez. Okay, well, okay, so I, Ed, and myself are associated with a theater called the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. It's an improv theater. It changed my life. And there was a period of time when they would do the Del Close improv marathon, where it was three days of continuous shows at different venues, thousands of performers coming in from all over the country and stuff. And this happened just post divorce. So I was in a weird space where I was kind of super vulnerable and sad, but also like, I have. I have freedom now.

[Jameela Jamil]

There's all these boobies.

[Brian Huskey]

Yeah, there's all these boobies that could be there. So I was sort of in like a I'm. I'm younger than I am state of mind.

[Jameela Jamil]

Cool, cool, cool.

[Brian Huskey]

So I had been doing shows for. I'd been up for, like, I don't know, 20 hours straight. I've been doing shows, I've been drinking, I've been smoking some marijuana and not eating food. Like, if I ate food, it would.

[Jameela Jamil]

Be like, that's for old people candy bars to eat. Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Huskey]

I did eat a diner steak, which was like this. The size of like a brillo pad or something very small. So I went to. They had a big party. They had like a big sort of after party thing in the middle. It's an ongoing party. So they rented this venue that was like, over on the west side. It was the top of this building. This, like, old sort of like, factory. So they had this big factory space and this patio out on the side.

[Jameela Jamil]

I bet you got there and you were like, this is where young people go.

[Brian Huskey]

I was like, man, this, man, I am as young as all these people are. And so I was chatting with a woman from out of town. I was flirting a little bit, you know, and so she was describing her show to me. And we had been talking about this idea of committing to the bit where even if the joke is not working, if you really lean into it and commit to it, you can make it funny. And so she was like, well, I guess I really committed to the bit. And it kind of. It blew up in my face. Because she was describing how she had to step. She had this bit where she kept having to step up on this chair. And the last time she stepped up on a chair, her foot. Foot slipped and she hyperextended her toe and she heard like a crack. And I have a thing. I have a history of fainting. Like, I faint a lot. My mom fainted a lot. I sound like I'm bragging now.

[Jameela Jamil]

No, no, no, no. I think all the time.

[Brian Huskey]

Yeah.

[Jameela Jamil]

Honestly, like, I'm amazed I don't actually have a fainting cat.

[Brian Huskey]

Yeah. If I. If so when I get shots, I have to be very direct and I have to, like, I have to sit down. You can't talk to me. I'm going to look forward to. And just do it and don't drag it out. Just do it. And because people always like, so what's going on with you these days? I'm like, just do it. Because if I think about it, what happens is I picture the needle making contact with the skin and then separating the skin and pushing into the body. And there's a term for it, it's called like, it's. It's your vagus nerve takes over. And so it's something like versa Vegas or something.

[Jameela Jamil]

How do you faint? Do you go backwards? Do you know it's happening in advance? You go forwards. Are you like those goats that when they get stressed, they get paralyz and then they fall onto their side?

[Brian Huskey]

Funnily enough, I fainted only three weeks ago.

[Jameela Jamil]

Oh, sure.

[Brian Huskey]

Because I went with my girlfriend. She's like, I'm nervous to get the flu. Can we do some immunity stuff? And we found this place in town that did like B12 shots. We just kind of walked in and so she got it. And then the lady's like, you can get in the shoulder and your butt. And I was like, eh, let's do the butt. But then the second I said that, I was like, that's not a good move. I don't think that's right. Because I realized I had to turn around, hold onto a metal bar that was attached to the wall. And then she did the shot.

[Jameela Jamil]

That feels very prisony.

[Brian Huskey]

It was very prisony. And also, B12 shots hurt like a.

[Jameela Jamil]

Mother all day and you get a headache. It's crazy.

[Brian Huskey]

Ooh, it hurts. So it just felt like concrete was being injected in my. My skin. And so to answer your question, how do I faint? Apparently, like, I. I say I feel like I'm going to need to lay down, and then I. My eyes roll back and my hand Shakespeare, and I start to convulse. Oh, so not sexy.

[Ed Helms]

Oh, that is not cute.

[Brian Huskey]

Not sexy.

[Jameela Jamil]

I love it.

[Brian Huskey]

It's not sexy.

[Jameela Jamil]

All that happens, I just go down like a pancake wherever I am. But. But I have time just to go. My boyfriend told me this. He said all I hear from somewhere in the house is, oh, no.

[Brian Huskey]

Oh, no.

[Jameela Jamil]

And then.

[Brian Huskey]

Yeah.

[Jameela Jamil]

And so my phone is smashed to pieces because, like, you just hear, like. Like you hear phone smash first and then body bam.

[Ed Helms]

Now, wait, what is the first. What's the first thing you feel? Because I. The. The one time I almost fainted, I got tunnel vision, and I could tell that I was about to black out. This happened. And then I was able to pour water on myself and lay down, and I was okay.

[Brian Huskey]

But, yeah, the main thing, you're supposed to just lay down and put your feet up because all the blood's going away.

[Jameela Jamil]

Oh, that's interesting.

[Brian Huskey]

So what I do, what happens to me is I get. My ears start to kind of like, get crackly noise. It goes a little tunnel vision to my ears, and then my hands shake, my hands get really quaky. And then apparently I look like you on the plane, Ed. Like, I become a rigor mortis. Like, I stiffen up and my eyes roll back, and it's not. It's not. So. My girlfriend thought I was dying. She literally thought that I'm the one person in the world who's like, like, adversely has a reaction to B12.

[Ed Helms]

Wait, did you fully faint then?

[Brian Huskey]

I fully fainted. I fully fainted.

[Jameela Jamil]

I fainted. Any seeds?

[Brian Huskey]

And I woke up. So I woke up and I thought I had closed my eyes for, like, 10 seconds. And she's like, Babe, you were out for five minutes. Like, just laying there.

[Jameela Jamil]

Oh, that's so scary.

[Brian Huskey]

She was so scared.

[Jameela Jamil]

Yeah, man. No, I only go out for about, like, a minute. I'd say that's how I feel. How do you think that? I just can't see any color. I stand. Mine happens from standing up. I stand up, and then the world just never loads. Loads.

[Brian Huskey]

Yeah.

[Jameela Jamil]

And then I just go down.

[Brian Huskey]

I. If I squat too long. Like, if I squat down.

[Jameela Jamil]

No need to brag, man. Like, we're all friends, you know, if I.

[Brian Huskey]

If I never go to the bathroom. But I'm squatting. Yeah. No, but, like, if I. If I'm doing like that and I stand up really Fast. I will get Head Rush city.

[Jameela Jamil]

And.

[Brian Huskey]

And there was. I'm recently. I was like in a hardware store and I almost did that because I got stood up really fast and I was like, I don't want to faint from. For all these dudes.

[Jameela Jamil]

Yeah, these are like hardcore men. No, I faint fucking everywhere. Okay, sorry. So you were saying.

[Brian Huskey]

So, okay, yeah. Anyway, so. Okay. So. So.

[Ed Helms]

So you're flirting.

[Brian Huskey]

I'm flirting. She's describing the. The cracking of her toe, which might have led to a breaking of a toe. So I'm not hearing the smaller details. I'm hearing the hyper, you know, macro photography of the bones snapping and little brittle bits going into her sinews and stuff.

[Ed Helms]

And that's where your mind is, is like, this is the movie in your brain.

[Brian Huskey]

While I'm trying to be charming and kind of in slow motion. Slow motion. And so I, My memory is. I. I was like, oh, you know what, hold on a second. I'm a little.

[Jameela Jamil]

I'm gonna come.

[Brian Huskey]

I'm a gentleman. So I say, hold on a second, I'm gonna come. I said, I. I'm. I'm a little tired. I'm just gonna sit down here for a second. But you keep telling your story. And she said that I said that, you know, that's what I did. Did. And apparently, like, instead of sitting down, I just kind of like slowly laid down, moving all these people, like, creating a little like, you know, partying of the sea, and just lay down the middle of this beer soaked, disgusting floor and just was like face down and laying there and really slowly. And so I did it so slowly.

[Jameela Jamil]

Like a snowflake, like a little snowflake.

[Brian Huskey]

Is about to melt. And so she thought, like, oh, my God, he's committing to the bit.

[Jameela Jamil]

Bit.

[Brian Huskey]

He's really committing to the bit. Oh, my God, of course, of course. And so people come by. He's like, what the. Up with Husky. He's like, he is committing the. Out of this bit. I was left on that dirty beer.

[Jameela Jamil]

Slipping into a coma. No one's lifting your head.

[Ed Helms]

Were you convulsing like a fish? Like, what's happening?

[Brian Huskey]

I was kind of like, apparently, like, kind of. I'm like laying down on my side, you know, like a little curled.

[Jameela Jamil]

Oh, that is very, like. It feels very you to be like the gravestone being like, he died as he lived. Committing to the bit.

[Brian Huskey]

Badly flirting.

[Jameela Jamil]

Yeah.

[Brian Huskey]

How he lived. I'm not. I was left laying on this floor surrounded by hundreds of people for 15 minutes, everyone just looking at me and Being like, oh, my God, this is improv. Improv is everywhere. We, we're doing it.

[Jameela Jamil]

It's art.

[Brian Huskey]

And then someone was like, I really don't think he's okay.

[Ed Helms]

Wow.

[Brian Huskey]

Wow.

[Ed Helms]

This is a. Demetri Martin had this bit about how the worst place to have a heart attack is during a game of charades. And this is.

[Brian Huskey]

Nobody knows it.

[Jameela Jamil]

So funny.

[Ed Helms]

Yeah. And you're living proof of that. Nobody's helping you.

[Brian Huskey]

Nobody's helping me. And then. Okay. So then the help I get is even subpar because they contacted the two teenage interns who were helping out with the part, who were just basically taking out garbage and stuff. And so I kind of wake up for a second with these two teenagers lifting me up. They're like, oh, Mr. Husky, we're gonna get you to a safe place. And I didn't know. Know what was happening. They had a green room set up, which is just sort of like a corner of the thing that was, you know, roped off. But they elected to walk me through the center of the. The major part of the party where everyone is like looking at me just like this, you know, like I had been shot or something. They take me into the men's bathroom and prop me up in a stall and leave me there and I pass out again. Again. So I remember being like. I remember being taken in there and be like, what? What's happening? Why are you.

[Ed Helms]

This is like. This is really.

[Brian Huskey]

It's insane. It's really insane.

[Ed Helms]

Like, you could have needed serious medical attention.

[Brian Huskey]

I could have needed serious medical attention? Yes.

[Ed Helms]

I mean, a person exhibiting your symptoms would like, for being down on the floor for 15 minutes, it sounds like.

[Jameela Jamil]

A stroke at that point.

[Ed Helms]

Yeah, it's like you call an ambulance at a certain point.

[Brian Huskey]

Point I think their perception was like, oh, man, he partied too hard. That's a problem. He's got to be near a toilet.

[Jameela Jamil]

It's just an overdose.

[Ed Helms]

That's actually fair. That's actually fair.

[Brian Huskey]

Yeah. Yeah. This is. This is 17 year old science.

[Jameela Jamil]

So how did it go with the go.

[Brian Huskey]

Oh, yeah. You know what? After I came and telling the story and then I faded and then they found me in the bathroom.

[Jameela Jamil]

That's why he fainted. He came so hard from the bone breaking story.

[Brian Huskey]

Yeah, she. Yeah, I didn't see her again, weirdly enough.

[Jameela Jamil]

Oh, weird.

[Brian Huskey]

So weird.

[Ed Helms]

It was such a good meet cute. I know.

[Brian Huskey]

It would have been such a great. And I found out later she's a nurse or something like, oh, that would have been perfect. But it Wasn't.

[Jameela Jamil]

But what. What nuss.

[Brian Huskey]

What happened to me was like, the next day I was met with all these people who were like, hey, man, I heard what happened. I was like, what'd you hear? What happened? They're like, I heard you did a huge bong hit and, like, blacked out. And then I heard you, you were doing like, you know, Jack Daniels sh. Shooters, and we're out of control. Like all these stories, all this lore had happened overnight and stuff.

[Jameela Jamil]

And I was just, I think, is that cooler to have an overdose than to just like, be like. No, I. I heard about a woman's bones breaking and then I was unconscious for the next 45 minutes.

[Brian Huskey]

It's somewhere between just divorced, 45 year old man.

[Jameela Jamil]

Right.

[Brian Huskey]

Kind of making a fool himself in public or bone breaking. So, yeah, it's like somewhere in between.

[Jameela Jamil]

Oh, God bless you. Well, I can see your ring now, so. Yeah, it is.

[Brian Huskey]

So. Yeah.

[Ed Helms]

That is so fabulous. Husky. I love this story. And it's odd to me because you're able to talk about bones breaking in explicit detail in this conversation. What is it about the different contexts?

[Jameela Jamil]

So you were in the driving seat.

[Brian Huskey]

Well, I think in that situation I was exhausted, underfed, like dehydrated.

[Ed Helms]

Yeah.

[Brian Huskey]

And maybe a little drunk or stoned or something. So, you know, caution flags.

[Jameela Jamil]

Just extra fragile.

[Brian Huskey]

Extra fragile. But it does. I do have to do a little bit of, like, mental work sometimes with like. I fainted when my daughter got her blood taken one time, and I woke up on a cot next to my daughter because she got. She got lightheaded and seeing me faint. So they put all the huskies on a cot.

[Jameela Jamil]

Why are you allowed to drive? How do you get here today?

[Brian Huskey]

Let's see. I didn't eat or drink a bunch of food. I stayed up all night. I got a big rig and I came over here.

[Jameela Jamil]

I'm excited to have you. My dad does not have my fainting thing at all. Once I fainted in the hallway of my apartment and my head went down so hard that my legs flew back up in the air.

[Brian Huskey]

Oh, wow.

[Jameela Jamil]

And then when they landed back down, they landed with either toe, my big toe, and my second toe straddling the radiator. We have very thin steel radiators. So it went down so hard it split my foot all the way. Sorry. Don't faint. Don't faint. Don't you do it. So it split my foot all.

[Brian Huskey]

All.

[Jameela Jamil]

The way down the middle. And I had to go to the hospital. And my dad, I remember, I'll never Forget. Get this. Because it was such a foul injury, and I can see how painful this is for both of you, and I'm so sorry, but my dad, like, had to sit there in the emergency room while I was being sewn back together, and he got hungry, and so then he went. I was like, I can't believe he's leaving me to go and get food. But he didn't, because he's a good dad. He came back with his chicken pizza. What kind of a animal eats chicken pizza? And brought his chicken pizza back and ate it while watching me have these stitches. And then at one point gestured to me, would I like some while I'm having my foot stitched about together? No fainting. I don't get it from him.

[Ed Helms]

Wait, how old were you?

[Jameela Jamil]

I was maybe 13. He was visiting me. I was young. Yeah, I was 13. And I just, you know, I. I weighed nothing.

[Brian Huskey]

Yeah.

[Jameela Jamil]

And so when my one side of me went down, the other side just flipped upside down. It's so, like, I still get like. Like a sort of like, oh, in my asshole just thinking about it, because it's just so painful and awful. But, yeah. Anyway, I think that's it for the day. We've told so many stories. I think I'm gonna save our listener story for another day. But you guys have been an absolute dream come true. I hoped to ever get to meet you, and then to be able to sit down and have such a lovely, funny chat has just been beyond my wildest expectations. Thank you so much for coming on this podcast. I adore you. It's been so bonding. I feel like I know you so well now, and I feel like we all know how to look after each other, you know what I mean? Which is true friendship. Anything goes down with you two, and I'm there. I fucking know where to the next.

[Brian Huskey]

Time I start to fade. I'm texting both of you.

[Jameela Jamil]

If any of you hear me go, oh, no. You'll know to come running.

[Ed Helms]

We trauma bond it, guys.

[Brian Huskey]

We're all.

[Ed Helms]

We trauma bonded.

[Jameela Jamil]

That's the Pokemon. You did it.

[Brian Huskey]

You are listener. You're welcome for our healing powers.

[Jameela Jamil]

Welcome for our service Kumbaya. Where can everyone find you and see you? And what do you want them to.

[Brian Huskey]

Watch and read for myself. Come on over to Instagram and see posts about my dogs at the Brian Husky. And then if you're in la, come every second and fourth Thursday of the month at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. We do soundtrack. And then I'm occasionally in another show there called ass cast.

[Jameela Jamil]

I love ascat's.

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[Jameela Jamil]

Yeah yeah. I love that show. And what about you Ed?

[Ed Helms]

So please tune into my podcast Snafu. It is a absolute delight. It's about history's greatest screw ups. It'll make you smarter and fun at dinner parties and what else that's that's kind of the main thing right now. And then there's things coming up but way down the road road so we'll save that for another time. This was really really fun.

[Brian Huskey]

Thank you.

[Jameela Jamil]

So fun. Thank you for coming. Wrong Turns was created and produced by me, Jamila Jamil and Stuart Bailey. And thank you to consulting producer Colin Anderson. You can email us a voice memo of your own Wrong turns. All you have to do is email personal disaster storiesmail.com and don't forget to subscribe like review wherever you get your podcast podcasts and tell your friends about us. I have a substack. It's called a low desire to please. That's enough of me. I'm gonna fuck off now. Bye.

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