The podcast features a candid and reflective conversation between two hosts about love, marriage, social media, and personal identity. They question the necessity of formal marriage and the excessive paperwork that surrounds it, suggesting it feels unnecessary when their lives remain unchanged. Blair shares her journey of stepping away from social media for five years, during which she gained deep self-awareness but missed significant life events. A central theme is the sensory challenges faced by people with autism, especially in loud, bright environments, prompting a call for greater inclusivity and respect for neurodivergent experiences. The hosts critique the commercialization of entertainment, particularly the demand for promotional content that feels inauthentic and emotionally taxing. They reminisce about Blair’s first concert in Austin, a formative experience that sparked a lifelong passion for live music. The conversation is interwoven with personal anecdotes, including a powerful emotional connection to the song "Men in Black," which serves as a tribute to her late brother. The hosts emphasize authenticity, personal boundaries, and the importance of staying true to oneself in a world driven by trends and performances. Ultimately, the episode underscores a desire for genuine connection, self-respect, and a break from societal expectations—especially for those on the autism spectrum or navigating complex social dynamics.
Do you still want to marry Rish? Um, you know, I can't say that I think about marrying very much, but if I were to marry I'd prefer. You might as well. If you're going to do it, you might as well. I don't want to be worse off than I already am now. What if you say the same? That's fine. Okay. But I don't know why we got to do it under the law and God then. Sure, sure, sure. You know? If you're not going to come up. If I'm going to come up, I don't really understand why we got to do all these papers. Yeah. If I'm going to live in basically the same apartment. Uh-huh. If you're not giving me a new whip then why are we, why are we got to sign a bunch of documents? Yeah. Absolutely. Interesting. Interesting. No, but I wouldn't be on the marry for money either. Like, I'd have, I can only marry for true love, but I, I'm not also trying to like be marry a broke dude at this point in the game. Do you think if you got married to like 23, you could have married somebody broke? Uh, I mean, I had a lot more options then. You said kind of everything was on the table for you. And my parents are always like, what happened? Interesting. But that's just because they wanted me to be married to like a banker with two kids and I was like 27 in Orange County. Yeah. I guess that's, and as a college ball player, I feel like that was really, that was really there. Oh, 100%. Yeah. No, I had older brothers and, and then my parents were like, remember when you did it, when he liked you, when he liked you, like, as I go, when I go down to visit them and like see all of them with their beautiful families. Yeah. Beautiful family. Blonde families. Beautiful blondes. You know what I mean? Wonderful play. Yeah. Exactly. You know, they all blonde and every one of them kids about six, six every one of them kids long as hell. They look very aerodynamic. Yeah. I can't. I'm picturing it. Well, you know, a lot of men were interested in having D1 children, you know? Of course. Once you've proven that you could do that. Yeah. Once you've proven you were a D1 athlete. They won that fast switch. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Were you fast? Oh, honey. I would absolutely dance around these fools. Really? Oh, my God. I was twirling spinning. They could catch me. I'll leave a class mug by me. Yeah. This is fast. It was silly. I didn't know. I didn't know you as an athlete. I know. I didn't know athlete Blair. So I didn't get to see myself. I haven't known athlete Blair for many years. You still play volleyball at all? Absolutely not. Never. I never find myself in a volleyball situation. Sometimes people are like, you ever play intramural, you know? And I was like, oh, on Sundays when I'm flying homes from somewhere. Yeah. From Sacramento. From soccer. From forges. Sacramento. Yeah. From five shows in Colorado Springs. Yeah. No, I'm not doing intramurals after that. Also, volleyball is one of those sports where it's not fun to play if people don't know how to play because it actually looks nothing like the real sport. It's like people are just like chicken winging. Sure. For those of y'all who are listening who are not aware because we did not give the people a context, Blair was a division one volleyball player in college. Yeah. Lots so many years ago. Yeah. It was a it was a while back, but not that long. We're both so young. Yeah. And you know what else we should do before we get all the way started? Totally. We should welcome you to the show. What the fuck is going on? Welcome to my favorite lyrics. The podcast where we talk about music lyrics, except for when we talk about other stuff. I'm wearing sunglasses today because Blair has them on as well. And I want her to feel included. Welcome to the show. Blair Stockton. Oh my god. Thank you. God. I love it. Welcome. That felt so good. Um, I really, I kind of forgot to do it because we were already kind of in a groove. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We're continuing. Yeah. These are actually prescription, but they feel good. And yours are look very nice as well. No, but you know what? I've done this before. I did this when, uh, when we had, uh, when we had Peyton and, uh, damn, she's going to be furious. When we had Peyton and Hunter, uh, when we had them, one of them wore sunglasses and I put some on. And I thought that people would know that it was part of the bit. And I got a bunch of people commenting and DMing be like, why the fuck you got them shades on? Oh, you think you think you think that's how you got it? Oh, right. My, I just started a podcast and I, uh, I wear sunglasses on and I have the guests for them. Oh, really? It's like part of it. Yeah. Well, it's just so that you don't, uh, so nobody's just yourself feels the pressure to come in a full beat. You know, they can just come as you are. Sure. And otherwise, I would, if it weren't for these shades, trust me. Make up. Right. And also this is right. And also, then there's a lot of bright lights in here. What happens if you have autism, like I do. Mm. So I got to focus on, I got to focus on the host I can lock in and give these people what they need. That's an important question is what, what happens if you, if you have autism? I mean, we haven't even thought about that. We need to consider, we need to be more inclusive of what we got going on. What about the people who have autism, like Blair? Yeah. You ever think about how challenging it is for her to be in this environment? Think about how many stimuli there are? Yeah. Under the bright lights. Think about how the lights feel on her skin, probably prickly. Probably prickly and bad. So let's, let's maybe keep that in mind going forward. Hey, Devon, you know what? A lot of people. Not to comment. Yeah, thank you. I appreciate that. You're so inclusive. Something about this city, I don't know if you thought about this. New York City? New York City, baby. Yeah. If, well, I don't know if this is rumble around in there before, but a lot of noise is over here. Whoa. And this town. Whoa. We got to start getting drops for when people drop big information like that. Damn, son, where did you find this? I'm staying over there at Rosebud's house. Oh, sure. Look, very nice place. I've never been. Oh, all about you over. No problem. Yeah. After this, you want to go to Rosebud's with her and her child and their child. But I will go up this early morning and there was a man outside the window. Hey, man. That happens. Oh, he had the squeegee? Yes. Yeah. And I said, oh, damn, they have an ice cream. Oh, god. I said, I can't even watch a little morning TV without being an asshole in this town. Yeah. Fair enough. I just ran to work in his ass off 9 a.m. Who am I? Who am I? You're trying to watch secret lives and morning lives. Next thing you know, Mr. Squeegee outside. Mr. Squeegee outside. I'm going to eat, or eat, or eat, or eat. I'm going to squeeze you out there. I said, god damn. I'm about to hit pause and get back to an email. Yeah, fair enough. They said, Mr. Squeegee, man. He said, I'm at work. Why aren't you? I know. I better pop a threads off. Yeah. Damn. I don't got no threads account. No. No, I decided. I decided. I think probably about four or five years ago that I wouldn't download any new social media applications. I was just like, I'm not building no new accounts. I'm not getting no new passwords. Like, whatever I got right now, that's what I'm rocking with. Right. I mean, whatever the next thing is, like, the next frontier of social media, you know, there's always going to be another one. I am sick of these god damn frontiers. You feel what I'm saying? Why are we always on the cost of another frontier? I'm exhausted. It's our remember. I remember, like, I feel like we're around the same age. And I feel like I remember. Love that. I don't know exactly how you are. But I can tell. How many did I get? I could tell. We're in the neighborhood of the same age. I remember being younger and, like, my space was really powerful. My space was the place to be. And then my space gave way to Facebook. Sure. And then Facebook gave way to Instagram. And then Instagram is now kind of gave way to TikTok. But Instagram's still around. Instagram's still the main thing that I am presently on. Are you on? Yeah. But whenever the next thing is after TikTok, when TikTok dies away, I won't be participating in. Right. That's not for me. I'm ready to be old and be like, they're like, oh, you're not on fucking flip-flip. Sure. And I'm like, I don't know. I'm not building a flip-flip account. I don't got a letterboxed. Yeah. I don't have that. I don't have the will. No. I don't have that drive. I'm trying to move away. I'm trying to get out. I know. I recently followed you on Instagram. Well, let's talk about this, actually, Blair. Let's talk about this. Because it's like, Blair was on some real famous people's shit. Blair was on some real famous shit as it pertains to Instagram and her social media presence. Which is that Blair and I met each other probably right before the pandemic. Probably six, seven years ago, Blair and I met each other for the first time. Maybe you did our show or I met you at our show back before the pandemic. And we followed each other. And then I went to Blair's account at some point after that. Yeah. You know, down the line. Yeah. And I was like, oh, Blair's unfollowed everyone. Blair went to a point where Blair followed zero people. She was moving like she's fucking the president. I saw a lot of people said to me. I was like, oh, you think you're beyond say. Yeah, that's a real big time move. And I was like, absolutely not. I was just had, I had these flashes of being on my deathbed at say 97 years old. And I was like, oh, no, I missed my life because I was looking at Instagram watching. I don't know. You know, I had sort of just a shutter and all encompassing total body fear come over me. And from that moment, I said, oh, there's a loud little voice in there. There was a loud little fucking voice just roaring at me from the inside. And it took me about one year of thinking about it to get up the courage. And when I finally did it, so many people will live it. I was getting texts like, what the hell? And I was like, do you guys have notifications on? What is up here? So I didn't follow anyone for five years. And in that time, I will say I did unfollow you. That's fine. No, I always supported everyone who did that. It just felt like I was like, well, it can't be this is a guy. We got to do this together. We gotta be with each other. We gotta be without each other. I understand. So I probably missed out on a lot of big life events because of that. Yeah. I probably missed out on some really important and cool things you had going on. And I'm sorry for that. No, that's don't you
be more about it. Yeah, there's a lot of huge stuff. Don't worry, like after this, you could just hit a quick Google catch yourself up. But, um, no, actually, it was such a peaceful five years. I really got in touch with myself. Were you just not, did you just not look at social media? But I follow everyone back on TikTok and Threads. I was just like Instagram is the one that seems to take up the time, you know? And so, um, in, look, I have never, I've never really liked social media and, uh, I didn't start posting videos on Instagram to like a year and a half ago mistake. I was like, oh, I'm just going to do it another way, you know? Uh, same. Yeah. Um, now we have to sell tickets and yada yada, close, close, close. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're, and your, and your reps going to be on you about that? Yeah, I, yeah, it's just, you know, it's a, it's a really dark time. I just want to say that we live in a healthcare. Yeah, we live in a healthcare. It's really, really bad. What's happening right now in, in, in more ways than one, but specifically the fact that it's like, okay, so like, all right, I'm going, I'm already going to Cleveland for a couple of shows. Right. Now I also got to make a video where I'm like, Hey, everybody in Cleveland, hey, Cleveland, I'm going to be, I'm going to be over here. So like grab your tickets. They're going to be at the link in by I'm doing four shows at the fucking Cleveland Cleveland House and everybody's going to be so fun. That shit makes me want to put a bullet in my head. It's so painful. And the, and sometimes like, and sometimes a club will hit you up direct. Like, I've gotten away with basically never doing it. And I've been asked to do it on multiple occasions. I just did a club in Philly. And they like hit me up being like, Hey, so like, it really helps sell to, and I was like, damn, I saw that post. I was like, yeah, yeah. I was like, I was like, damn, my shit. Okay, it's like that. It's like that. We all reaching out to be to be like, damn, okay. And so I was like, okay, what's a version of it? So I made a very silly version of it that made me want to not hurt myself. Right. But, but yeah, overall, I think those videos really make me sad. And now that's just kind of like what's happening now. That's just like if you want to be in this media ecosystem, you have to make the video where your eyes are dead. And you tell people you're going to be in Richmond, Virginia for three nights. Yeah. It hurts my soul to do. I know. I don't, I mean, and then I, and then I always end with like these earnest, pathetic pleas where I'm like, the kind of thing you can do for a comedian is by tickets early because then we don't have to stress the entire week when you're just going to buy anyway. And I was like, oh, that is true. Sad. But it's also like, you know, and we'll get off the standup in a second. But like, like, sometimes I feel like these clubs will be tripping out. They'll be like, oh, like, can you, can you push the tickets? And I'm just like, look, these shows are on Friday and Saturday night. By the time the show starts, people will come. Yeah. It's just like, I, most, the comedians are not famous enough that people have to buy their tickets a month in advance. Right. You only have to do that if you're like, these are going to sell out. So I have to get them now. But that's 90% of comedians. That's not their situation. So most people like, okay, I'll decide on the day. Right. On Friday. I'll be like, all right. Yeah. Yeah. Let's, let's go see some standup. But those super famous, that'll probably be us after this comes out. Yeah. Once this, once the clips from this come out and they see what types of riffs we're doing. Yeah. You're not going to be able to buy a day off, baby. Now, you're going to have to get them five days in advance. That's, we going to establish that precedent soon. Well, now, so I know that you're the host of this podcast. Yeah, you're about to ask me a question. I can't wait. So I did sue you on Monday night at the karaoke spot. That's true. And I was singing off microphone, which you caught. Yeah. Blair was doing this thing where, I mean, it is like doing standup with or doing karaoke with a bunch of comedians. Well, that too. There's a lot of Disney in the mix in a way that I was really stunned by because that's how they all learned in like their vocal schools to sing and and Mateo was doing. Yeah. When they come at me, I said, maybe I'm a drunk. I didn't go doing singing wicked in the school. I was at prom. I was doing cool shit and get. But guess what? You're artists now. Yeah. You're artists now. You can't be, you don't even play in our murals. So guess what? You better, you better take some of them lessons. Go ahead and go and get that voice right. I would love to take voice lessons. Really? Oh my God. Because like, can you try it? Can you sing something really quick for us? I want to hear what you're saying. Voice sounds like because you're never saying, no, I was singing. I actually had to leave because my voice was already gone. Can you, can you hit something for us? Sing maybe some TLC. Waterfalls? An old man turned 98. He won the lottery and died the next day. He was a. Yeah, no. Keep going. Backfights. I'm transfixed. You're shortening. Dead throw. Part of it. Yeah. Yeah. I let him do this. But then if I tried to raise the volume, it comes, it's too brittle. I'll come with you. Come on. And isn't it ironic? Don't you think? I don't know the rest of it, really. But a little too ironic. Yeah, really do think. Oh, you really were under salinate. You're really not, you're not a bad singer. Oh, well, you know, a lot of men like to tell me about my voice on the internet. I get a lot of feedback. Yeah, you have a distinct voice, sure. But like. Hateful, hateful words. Distinct. And I say, and I say, bitch, then why all these people paying to come see me? No one's coming to see you, bitch. True. Say that. Yeah, say that. I say, how many cartoons are you on? Motherfucker with your lame ass ordinary voice. Yeah, say that. Yeah, but also if I sing one song, my voice is gone. Oh, interesting. Yeah. Your voice does sound like you're always on the verge of being horse. I am. And that's why I can't smoke weed or cigarettes. Yeah. But I have to take my 5-mill gram THC night gummy every night for all just for a recreation. It was related to your voice. I'm saying. You're saying in general, you need to. I have to take the gum because I can't spoke. Oh, I see. Yeah, yeah, just you can voice is always on the verge. Yeah, but you don't need, you don't need them strains in you. Yeah, I feel that. Yeah, for sure. Blair from Orange County, California. Correct. How could you tell? You've told me. You've told me that, which you told me that with your voice. You're from Texas. That's true. Yeah, I'm from Texas. Can you. Wait, you actually just told me, you told me at karaoke, you told me the first concert you ever went to. Can you tell that to the people? Yeah, you told me your first ever concert. Oh, because I was only four operals per second while every single other person was sober there. It's a lot of sober people in the function. I actually found it so majestic. I was like, for me getting off of a plane and coming to this goddamn karaoke thing, first of all, you're not catching me on a karaoke. I love to dance and stuff, but I mean, I'm never gotten on the mic. I mean, isn't. I do it every night. It's not enough for these people. I have this exact same relationship with karaoke. To me, I've always been like, oh, I think karaoke's for people who never get to feel special. Yeah. You know, like, it's for people who never get to like, they're like, oh, I've always wanted to perform and they get the space to be like, yeah, I'm going to get out here and like let it go. That's my whole fucking, we're on the mic right now. Right. So it's like, I've performed in front of thousands and thousands of people over the course of my life. Sure. So it's like, I don't feel an itch that I'm like, oh, it's Saturday night. Yeah. I got to go like, that's very, I feel fine on that. So karaoke's literally never my idea. Same. I will do it. And I'll sing a couple songs just in the spirit of the activity. But yeah, I really, I don't need it. Well, I do have to say I had so much fun. I had a good time. But I was the only person drinking there and I like don't even drink very often. Sure. But in order for me to connect with the situation and all the people that were so comfortable singing. Yes. I really, I had to put a few down. People were excited to get on. So I guess that's why I told you what my first concert was. And what was that for the, for the people I've had listening. DLC at the Honda Center in Anaheim. It was so cool. Chrissy Naguilera open left. I still live. It was majestic. My, I've never talked about this on Mike on the show. But my first ever, my first ever concert was this, it was a group called Shweizi. Oh, sure. I heard it. It can't, it can't. Oh, wait. I have to, I have to get ready for Shweizi. That was, that was the first ever concert that I went to go see. It was like 2008, 2009 in Austin, Texas, during South by Southwest. We like knew somebody, who knew somebody who worked at the venue. And we were like underage, but they like still let us in. And that was the first ever like, so first ever live music somehow I'd ever seen. I was like, I was like, I wasn't like a little kid. Like my, my parents really weren't taking me to concerts. I didn't even really know you could do that when you were a little kid. It wasn't really presented to me until I got older. Right. And so, yeah, that's a way less cool. Was there like a venue that you would started going to concert to? Like once you got older? Um, I would say like in Austin during that era, I want to go see Childish Gambino at Stubbs by myself, which if you're listening to you live in Austin, that'll, you'll understand. I went to Stubbs alone in like 20, it must have been like 2012 because like none of my friends really listened to him. I drove down from my college town, which is like 40 minutes away. Wow. And to Austin to go see Childish Gambino by myself. So industrious. And I met a, I met a guy who I thought we were like hitting it off with as friends. And then at a certain point, he started grinding on the back of me. Whoa. Yeah. You was a D L or you just misread the signs. Tough to say. Right. Tough to say. Tough to say in hindsight.
I didn't know as much. It was 2012, Obama was president. - I've been to me all the time. - My home mentality was different. In terms of not knowing if a guy's gay or not? - Sure. - Oh, sure. Are you one of those girls who be thinking of gay guys into you and then he's like, "Oh, no, I'm a gay guy?" - No, but I think a lot of the straight guys I know are gay. - Fascinating. Sure. - Well, I just never hear anyone talk about Dix as much as straight dudes. - Yeah, sure. - And maybe it's because I'm in the comedy of Irina. - Sure, sure, sure, sure. - But I'm like, "Oh, yeah." No one else cares as much as you guys. I mean, you guys are obsessed. - Yeah. - Sorry, I don't mean to say that to you personally. - It's okay. You can say it to me. - I'm just speaking from the quantitative hard data that I have compiled. - Yeah, you've done your research. You've done your research and I think, I feel like, especially like really early in comedy, I feel like you're Dix, one of the first things that you start talking about. - Right. - Some people stick with that as I could. - Some people stick with that all the way down the line and then some people kind of like look around and they're like, I definitely, I had a my dick joke like pretty early in the game. But that's, this is how it is. - Yeah, I know it's just how it is. - It's just how it is. - You know, that is natural. - And some people commit a big chunk of their careers to continuing down that road. - Right. - Yeah. - What was a young Blair listener to in Orange County? What was pop in? - Well, obviously, crazy sexy, cool. - Banger class. - Was my first CD, sorry, not to age myself. We had compacted this, bitch. What do you want me to do? It was so huge and like going to buy a CD with my mom taking us to go buy a CD was so exciting. - Yeah. - Huge. Blink one, 82 was really big. No doubt Tried to King Them was my second one. - I wish it's so much cooler than mine. - Orange County was cool, I guess. - You guys had a whole TV show based on it. - Well, yeah. No one from Orange County calls it the OC though. - I believe that. - Yeah. And like, I was more salt the Orange County was like a little more surfy versus like the fancy part. But yeah, and then, oh, I was obsessed with Gwen Stefani, who has recently made a turn into some. - She's full mega, right? Is she mega or is she mad, ma ha? I guess it's kind of two sides of the same coin. - How those two paths of people like the hippie people and the extreme conservatism somehow came together - Dark Dark Zone. - Over a vaccine. - Dark Dark Zone that we're in right now. - It's absolutely insane. But yeah, yeah, she's like, I don't know, she's like peddling some Christian. - Nationalist, shitter, whatever. - It's tough, Gwen specifically is tough because Gwen Stefani like when she was. - She was punk. - She also just was so fucking cool. - I know. - She was like when I was a little like Gwen Stefani was like the coolest fucking girl. And it's like, I feel like when you're that cool, it either you either stay that cool forever. Like Andre 3000 still seems like a coolest fucking guy and he's always been that way. Or I feel like it gets really, you go like Kanye and it gets really fucking strange. - Right. - It can only like, I feel like there's a fork in the road and I feel like Gwen, she went down the strange path. - I know, she did and it's really sad for me because she was like, I just left her. Like my whole like, skater, tomboy, like femme thing. It was all, she was like my idol. You were doing, you were, I loved it. - I loved it. - You were running around in low riders. You were running around in low riders, getting tattoos in old English font. - I don't have any tattoos. - Being a Harajuku girl. - Yeah, I know what I'm never happy about. - You didn't pick up on that part of Gwen's career. - No, I didn't. - When she was being a full chola. - No, I didn't do that. I didn't have a bindi. - Oh, she did have a bindi in the Don't Speak video. She did have a bindi. That's before we were having those conversations. - It was. We were, one time it was just at the beach in Laguna and then she, this is P, ultimately I blame Gavin who cheated with the nanny to make her fall into the arms of Blake Shelton. - Gavin was her husband? - Gavin Rossdale of Bush. - Oh, sure. - Um, cheated with the nanny, so corny. - It's just be a little more original which you have to tell me. - Absolutely, okay, Jude Law. - Yeah, step out Schwarzenegger. - Oh, Schwarzenegger. - You're a longtime governor. - There's so many more endless. - It's just like, come on, man. It's just be original, I'm just saying. - Leave the house. - You feel me, go somewhere, don't stop being so lazy. You fucking a lady that's already right there. You're already fucking one lady in the house. Now you got to fucking another lady in the same house. Go to a different house, my boy. - Yeah, absolutely. You thank you, tell them. - Go to a different house. - Step out. - Fuck somebody else's nanny. - Go on the street. - If you want to be a rich one, fuck somebody else's house keeper at the house. - Yeah, that would be interesting. - Yeah, do something this off the beaten path. - Then your kids could at least, oh. - Yeah, and also, fuck an old lady for once. - Wow. - Why you always go, why she always gotta be 23? Fuck a lady that's 48, if you want to be interesting. Stop being a fucking hack. - Absolutely. - You don't know what I'm saying. Fuck Susan Serendin, if you really try to be honest with you. - Let's fucking go. - Let's fucking go. - Susan Serendin, I feel like Susan Serendin probably got a lot of hot young boyfriends. - She's a bad one. I've seen her in real life. - I was just gonna say, like she's still to this day, like has such a sexual aura about her. - She's like 76. - Yes, but she's still like has it. - Yeah, she does. - Like it's coming off her. - Yeah, it is. - Oh yeah, we were talking about Gwen, but yeah, that was tough. Oh, I was at the beach. I made it eat. - Yeah, there we are. - You know. - There we are. - The phones, man. Our devices. - I know, I fucking, that's scrambled our whole brains, man. - They are scrambled. I can't even read anymore. - Neither can America. (laughing) - We got a couple laughs off of Carmen that are so involuntary. That's how I not really got her for real, 'cause I'm like, she's real. That really just like slipped out. - Is Carmen a tough laugh? - Not necessarily, but it's just like, I feel like she listens to me talk so much that she's like not, she's not really like, she's not charmed by me in the way that she would be if she just meant me. - Just like you. - So it's like every now and again, I'll get a proper, like kind of like damn. That's really, yeah. I had that caffeine this morning. - Whoa, what was your choice of caffeine? - I had a green tea. - Oh, that's so mild. I thought you would say some hardship. - No, I don't really drink caffeine like that. - Really? - So what I do have it like, I really mean, I really be all one. - Oh my God, one green tea really shot you up. - Yeah, and it was like three hours ago. - Oh my God, you know what I'm on? This is sad. - Can't wait. - I had Celsius this morning. - Okay. - Not from the can. - From a dispenser? - From the powder packet that I brought from home. They make packets. I'm on instant Celsius. - You put it in water? - That's so much. I put it in water. I filled that up. I said, I got one podcast, I got two podcasts. How am I to get through this, you know? For all the noise in this city, the constructions out there. - It's loud, people have been talked about it. - It's crazy, so I had to shoot myself up with one of those powder Celsius's. They can be feel like a goddamn junkie. - Yeah. - You know, I had a cook zero after that. - Oh my God. - Could have taken up right after this. - Jesus. - You're telling me, pal. - I'm praying for you. - Thank you. I'm still recovering from karaoke. - Yeah, that was a, how late were you all day? - Oh, I thought I left before you. I, I researched it. - Oh, sure, oh, you did leave before me. That's true. - I read you a text and he's like, where are you? Did you leave? And I didn't respond. I was like, you know, I left motherfucker. You know, I left in the night. - I respect the Irish goodbye. It feels really good sometimes. I really don't have it. I don't like having it. You gotta say goodbye to so many people. There's like 20 people in the room. - No, there's no small space too. - You gotta do a 20 person. - Okay. - And then I wanna be like, you can leave pushing. - Well, yeah, and then people hitching with that. - Yeah, I am a pussy. I have to go. My voice is gone. - Sure, sure, sure. - Yeah. - A good part about getting older, though, is when people call you a pussy you know that, like that doesn't, that doesn't stick to you. Somebody calls you a pussy and you're a 21. You're like, no, I stay here. I have another drink. Somebody calls me a pussy as a man in my 30s. I'm like, that's, you got me. You got me night night. I miss being able to be peer pressured into doing anything. - Oh, really? - I, I'd say no to the Pope. I have, I'll say no to anyone. - Mm. - Yeah. - You gotta go to sleep. - I don't have FOMO. - Well, but that's, I think that comes with age two because you've experienced most types of nights. - I guess. - You know, this is like every type of party night that could ever happen by the time you get to 30s. You're like, I have done that. - Yeah. - I've done as many drugs as I'm gonna do. - Yeah. - As many types of fucked up as I'm gonna probably get. And like, also for me, I've learned this so much of like, when I was like, really staying out like that, so much of it was like, 'cause I was trying to hook up with a woman and like. - And I'm not operating that way. - That's what I'm saying. And like, once you take that off the table, then you're actually, I feel like you're just like, oh, I don't need to. - Me here. - I don't need to be here. Like that's the only reason I really be anywhere at four o'clock in the mornings 'cause I thought I might have sex. - Yeah. - Like once that. No, now that's all, yeah, you know what I mean? - I don't know, I, uh. - That's why a lot of times I failed. A lot of times I feel, a lot of times you. - Thank you for your honesty. - Of course. I mean, it worked, I'm not gonna lose you. It didn't work, you know, they worked so much time. - You covered it time. You know, you know what? You, you, you, you, me. You, you, you, you. I haven't even been to relationships for like 10 years, isn't it? - No, but like, no, but like.
but how many years, several, several years, right? - Yes, yeah. - I've been, I'm a known relationship. - Right, right, right. - I'd be in, but like, I think that-- - You're talking way back, way back when in the history books. - I think it's, yeah, I feel like I feel like a big part of my, like I used to be out being like, like, okay, well, she invited us over here to this apartment, and then like, we're, let's go over to the apartment, and then like-- - Oh, like after? - Yeah, and then like, see where it goes, but then sometimes it'd be like, you and like, another dude in the apartment, you'd be like, oh, that's weird. - What's this situation? - Oh, and y'all both-- - You're in a violent battle. - Yeah, both you and they're trying to figure out who get nasty night, and then sometimes you come out on the losing side. Sometimes, nobody wins. Sometimes it just ends up being a night where they don't really got a speaker, so her roommate got to put her phone in like a solo cup, and then turn the volume up real high, and then y'all both just listen into like an album that nobody really cares about, and then you just gotta cut your losses at 3 p.m. - Right, no, no, no, my favorite lyrics at 3 a.m., then maybe. - And you feel me? (laughing) Anyway, Blair, you brought us some lyrics today. - Of course I did. - You brought us some lyrics today, which are really near and dear to my heart. This is an artist that like, has not really come up, he's not come up on the show as much as he should have. - Also, he has been brought up before. - He must have in some capacity, but like, not as much as he's about to right now. - Yes! - I'm gonna give this to you. We've got all the lyrics up. I want you to give the name of the song and the artist, the people, and then whatever realm you wanna talk about with this, whatever resonates with you. - Okay, well, to the people out there listening, this is DJ Salki coming at you with the great Will Smith Men in Black. ♪ Here come the Men in Black ♪ (laughing) I still fucking love this song so much. My mom would drive us around in her suburban and we really turned it up and my mom really likes to jam. You know, so she was cool with that and we'd really, we'd be really having the time of our life. - Yeah. - And I gotta tell you this, Devon. - What's up? - I love those Men in Black movies. - Of course. - I think movies plural, you love all of them. - I didn't stutter. - No, this is uncommon. Now this is an uncommon take. 'Cause but first one I feel like it's kind of an objective classic. - The third one is really good. Is that the one I'm getting right or is it too? One of the other ones is good. - Well, I need you to tell me. - I know, I'm forgetting 'cause, you know, I took a Zquill last night, so. - Everything a little hazy. Everything a little blur. You take that Zquill the night before, next thing you know, that next day. Look, I'm staying with the family and I can't even believe how everything's still coming off so quick. Rosbaid asked for one of my Zquill. I said, "Sure, babe, and she gotta get you more tomorrow." She gets me, and all this time I thought that one pill was the dose, turns out two pills a dose. She said, "How will you take that on two? Throw two down the goal it." I said, "Sure, no problem. I like to sleep this morning." Oh my God, I need a tow truck to get out of there. - Got you. - Anyways, Men in Black, incredible. When Will Smith decided, "Hey, I'm gonna become the country's most foremost clean rapper." - Yeah. - And he put out a lot of hits. This one, and I don't know if you also know this about me, actually, I kinda like a little space flair, you know. - How do you mean? - Oh, I'm aliens. - Oh, you like stuff that involves aliens. - Sort of. - Got you. - And this was-- - And this was-- - And this was-- - Space flair. - You like space flair? - Yeah, space flair. And now they're sort of like, yeah, aliens are real, but really Men in Black was my first introduction into the alien space. And they made them look quite unsavory, you know. - The aliens, yeah. - Yeah. - Yeah, that one guy who gets, like, infested by the alien, he gets, like, feds by the alien. And he turns into, like, a nasty-- - Egger. - Excuse me. - Yeah, and-- - And he drinks all that sugar water. He turns into, like, a roach man. - Sure. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Like that. - Yeah. - If you've seen the movie, that was an incredible impression, just not-- - Thank you. My late brother, Russ and Peece, did an incredible-- - I did an incredible Egger impression. - Wow. - And the night before his eulogy, I was writing his eulogy and my brother and dad have, like, been writing theirs for weeks, and I didn't want to write it because I didn't want to, like, make it be real. And I wrote in there about how he did a really great Edgar from Men in Black impression. And then the next morning, hold on, this is crazy. Are you ready? The radio, the first song that came on, was "Men in Black." And I could feel that it was my brother 'cause, like, I could feel him, like, thinking it was a funny joke. And I was like, oh, my God. 'Cause I couldn't remember the last time I heard that song. And so, "Now Men in Black" is really on my mind. And, you know, when someone dies, you try to make everything a sign, like, every fucking bird chirp, every bird that goes by, you know, every goddamn butterfly, like, RJ, and then, but this one, I knew it was him. And so, "Men in Black" is now my sign for him. - Wow. - And then, my first time back on "Stage," and this is crazy. You ready for this? The last thing that the comic before me randomly brought up "Men in Black," like, right as I was about to be brought up on "Stage." And I was like, oh, that's crazy. RJ's here. - Yeah. - Yeah, sorry to make it serious for a second, sort of, but that was really true. - That's beautiful. - Yeah, but I haven't heard much about "Men in Black" lately, so. - I mean, it's a 30-year-old movie at the end of the year. - I think so. - So, it's kind of, societally, we're just, we're thinking about different stuff. There's a lot going on that's not "Men in Black" related. - I know, but that's how I know that, that's how I can distinguish the sign. - No one's bringing up "Men in Black" Willie Nilly. - Right, exactly. They gotta be, come on, big, big Willie Nilly style. - Big Willie Nilly style. - Speak on that. Speak on that. - What? - Isn't it so fucked up that the '90s was 30 years ago? That feels really bad to me. - I know, that's crazy. - 30 years ago, it's supposed to be the '70s. Everybody knows, 30 years ago, it's supposed to be the '70s, 20 years ago, it's supposed to be the '80s. - It's so true. - 20 years ago, it's not supposed to be 2006. That's really bad to me. - It's so true. - Continue. - No, it's great. I think, God, we have the age of faces. - Yeah, yeah. - You know, that is so really for us. - Yeah. - But-- - In 2006, I was one. I was, I was just born. - But I will say this man, you know, I always had such a huge crush on Will Smith from, I came home after school every day and watched Fresh Prince. I was like, God, this man is just so much swag. - It is. - Just endless. - Endless swag. Always getting in trouble, just so funny, wearing a lot of bright colored clothing, going a lot of hot chicks, you know. - Of course. - Always getting in trouble, but weasel an out of it, you know. - It's kind of living like how all of us would like to live. - Yeah, I love it. - Very aspirational. He was wearing his shoes in the house. - We're in his shoes. - He was in the house and they were always really clean. - It was incredible. He's got a hot cousins. - He had two really hot cousins. - I know, incredible. - Yeah, that's-- - Yeah, and I was just such a fan and then like, you know, he started being in movies and then it comes out with this. And yeah, and even, you know, I know a lot of comedians were really mad about the Chris Rocketing, I probably shouldn't say this on record, but, you know, the little dust up between you. - Yeah, yeah, no, I'm familiar with that. But what were you going to say about it? - I don't know, things happen, you know? - That's what you were going to say. What you were going to say is as it pertains to that whole incident, your whole stance on it as things happen. And you were like, I can't say this. You're like, there's no, whoa, the comedy community is going to eat me alive, if I-- - Look, I'll say this about autistic people. We're extremely loyal. I love the men since I was a child. - Okay, we can. I'll be perfect all the time, you know? - And you know what, Blair, I think I pick up what you're putting down and I'll tell you this. Me and you, we're on the same side of this. - Yeah, look. - We're on the same side of this. - Look, to me, we'll smith. Let's get 'em in another blockbuster baby. Let's keep it rolling, huh? - It's time. It's time. America's so divided right now. Will Smith is somebody that I really do feel like could bring us back together. - Hitch, you kidding me? - I saw Hitch in theaters. - You did? - Yeah, in middle school. - I thought even my nizzles, like the prettiest woman I've ever seen in my life. - She was. - She was. - She was. - Oh my God. - She was, she is. - She is. - She's still good. - Well, yeah, she's having a great time. She's so thrilled to be married to Ryan over there. - She got babies with him. - Yeah, she loved it. So I love when people can do that. Would you, do you want kids? - We don't have enough time. - Oh. But I mean, it's easy for men, you get to be the dad. - That's true. - It's not even close to the same thing. - Yeah, no, no, no, no. And that's really God, if you're listening and we know that you are, why'd you do it? Like that. - Yeah. - Why'd you do it? Why'd you design it where the men could have a kid at 71 and when we got to do it by like 35? - Well, you have a really compassionate heart. - Yeah. - Always thinking about the other people around you. That's insane. (laughing) Even though you sang Drake the other night. - Well, that's because I love Drake. - Do you really love Drake? - I actually do. This is-- - He posted you. - This is, yeah, Drake did post me. And this is a, this is, the Drake is a very common theme on my podcast. - Yeah. - He comes up quite a bit. - Right. - I do, I, I love, shout out Drake. - I mean, I'm sorry. - We gotta, you gotta pull up, dawg. We got so much to talk about. One day we, one day this podcast will have Drake on it. - Yeah, no, I'm saying, I'm saying, I'm saying, I fully believe you. I believe that, I mean, he already is posting you. - He, he is, it did come from an account that does not belong to us. - Right, that does. - Just post our stuff, but that's a separate thing. - Yeah. - But I do love Drake. I feel like I really grew up with Drake.
I think he's, he's gone down a path that I'm not really rocking with presently, but many of my favorite artists have. That's like that is just kind of something that happens with artists that you love sometimes. But yeah, one of my new karaoke songs that I've been doing is just hold on, we're going home. Yeah. And it's an incredible one. Yeah, that's fun. I think so when I do karaoke, I think about it like such a comedian where I really go in being like, some people are like, what song do I want to sing? I really am like, what song is going to get so room moving and sure enough you put on just hold on. We're going home. People are standing up. People are belting them. Toons out. It's a, if you're doing karaoke, go ahead and put that on. Watch the whole room. Get happy. Yeah. No, it's true. And it did, it did numbers, even after joyful, joyful. Yeah. Which they did like three times. Yeah. Maybe even more. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, the thing about that age group, I was like, they were all picking really good songs. They were. Except I couldn't have done with less Disney. No, I, I think I left before that really popped off. I know there was one wicked and I was like, what the hell is going on here? People did Mulan. People did. Um, I can show you the worlds, people were, people were getting people did a song from Pocahontas. I want to say a little mermaid. Right. Oh, that's too much. Yeah, that's. I love, you know, Rosebud spends a lot of time trying to hide her, um, theater degree. She maybe, basically, I feel like her entire personality is, um, hiding that she was a musical theater major. Not know this. And so when it comes out, 'cause she was feeling safe in the confines of her close friends, um, it's thrilling, it also is scary, you know, to see what she was, once was, but, um, yeah. That's before she was sober. Yeah. That's true. That was before she was sober. She was belting out them show tunes. I know. singing in silver it was such a sight to see Disney Disney it was real Disney yeah anyway the song lyrics sorry I mean a dust park hole could get me off track of course Will Smith minute black Will Smith oh yeah and then there are some pretty like when I was looking at this to send it over um you were some uh a bit more sexual leery than I remember let's get into it in the men in black okay let's talk about it because like when you think of men in black you don't think anything sexual no I think it's family friendly I think it's something it was a song I was listening to when I was in like first grade yeah same so like I was belting out in front of my mom of course I got no yeah what kind of sexual stuff is he saying it says um let me see a bounce on it with me just bounce she said let me see it just bounce oh no I fully miss read this but to be fair I was in the car and I told you there's so many stimuli out there yeah there's a lot of what the sounds and everything so like I miss read it so what are the actual lyrics um I can't we have to move on no what I can't I can't deal with this I can't deal with this I can't deal with this is the whole show my mom's gonna listen to this and then she thought she's gonna realize that I made something like freak nasty that wasn't I attributed something that wasn't even there from PG 13 was Smith and so what did you think the I won't you won't do it I won't you won't do this with me no galaxy defenders yes I like that one um so yeah actually it's not sexual I I was maybe making him sexual and I apologize that's something man usually do the women but oftentimes they make something sexual when it's not supposed to be yeah yeah yeah I heard about this if someone does that and stop doing it I'm not man cut it out that's enough it's a man to make brother to brother it's time to start acting right and that's something and that's what we stand up for on this pocket a lot of these other podcasts everybody's gonna oh man can man can do this alpha male duh duh oh we take these we take these type of vitamins no I don't talk like that on this show you know that you know how I talk I said respect women um big old guy dressing back remember that just the case we have a face to face and make contact the title held by me and my being means what you think you saw you did not see so don't think be what was in I was going back to to the back wave lines on walking China moving time let's go out against extraterrestrial violence um I love that little mind eraser thing uh yeah the fucking I know what you're talking I would love to have one of those because one one thing that I like to do Devon is when um people ask me any question that I don't feel like entering could could be um extremely benign anywhere to extremely not benign uh huge spectrum and I would say that's private you know and so people know me as just sort of keeping out and I would love one of those arms at arms length I'd like a mind eraser Blair why won't you let us in I think I'll let people in it's just some people could stand and keep a little more in you know sure some people trying to get close and it's like that's not that's not what we're doing that's not like our situation no no it's not our situation I just mean like you know on the internet they're sharing everything I got on these pockets they go so you're autistic huh I said yeah you caught me I'll go on this walk I said who you think who you I tell you they in I'm not I'm not gonna lie I thought you you were talking about being autistic was a bit no oh I thought that was because you know now people are always I know now everybody's like oh you know I'm on the spectrum like every no no no I'm on the TV shows out and they make having autism was pretty fun I do have a formal diagnosis I know whoa I didn't know supermodels could get it either um I was on a podcast with Rose blood and they were like ask me about it and she's like no I was there when she got the diagnosis she started crying and I was like so you can all stop saying that everyone wants it and is trying to act like they have it that is happened you're not doing that but I do I hear what you're saying there is like a there's a separation of church and state that I feel like needs to exist more yeah I like I I'm with you on this yeah I also I try not to get too deep into it all right you know like here or on the internet you've got to try to well especially you need to keep some mystery yeah and especially relationship people which you know a lot of people at our age um they want to hear what the single people are up to sure and I said look I'm been busy talking to my dead brother okay I've been talking to mediums I've been in small I've been in terrifying towns around the country you know traveling around I've been on the Delta in an Uber a lot of that a lot of Marriots a bunch of Marriots I've been very busy and you know I'm not like some disgusting male comedian I'm not I'm not trying to get it in on the road I don't like I'm not it's bookier if you're a woman doing comedy I'm not a casual a bang out not for me not interested respect yeah respect also I feel like you get a certain amount of that out of your system and then you're kind of like well I don't know what you're saying to me Devon I'm saying I'm talking about in the Royal we in the sense of in the Royal we in the sense of like you know in in life what you're like 24 right you know what I mean he's still doing it he's still he's outside yeah he's out there you know I'm saying he what's what's that bar called when I lived here when I first moved here in 2012 like anytime I went to that was it called the 13th step yeah yeah yeah it's still no the 13th step I know exactly what Barrier talk about yeah and every time I went there for a while I would make out with the finance guy that makes sense one time I this guy was like let's go back to my place or whatever and I went I walked in the door yeah there was three full size what is it a vintage soldier armor of like yeah royal armor like from the 1600s yeah and I was like yeah I got a run you can't be involved with none of that and I was like it was so sad oh and then also he took me to like this black bar after and he was like he took it to a what bar a black bar black in terms of black people then went into this the whitest man I've ever seen weight confident dancer in the middle the dance floor dancing in a way that was so embarrassing everyone stopped and was like watching him and I was like he is not with me and yeah yeah and they weren't watching him in a good way not even a little I was like be ashamed but also there's a because there's a version when there's a white boy in like a all black people space there's a version of it where there's a version of it where like even if he's not an awesome dancer even if even if he's just like got a little bit to it yeah let's go Frank I see you Frank like there's a version of that yeah where it's like okay you got a little something to you in a way that my boy a Connor McNutt you know McNutt he's so funny I love him McNutt's my fucking boy and like and he does have this he has this he has I remember the first time I ever met him because it's not so serious this guy was a thousand percent serious and Connor's got enough groove to him that like as like he does make black people be like you are right man like yeah but if you if you actually can't dance you'll kind of it'll kind of be a record scratch moment and then everybody will be looking at you and like I'm like look look at what you do I wanted to die look at what you're doing this is the same guys the armor yeah and then after the black people dancing situations then you you brought this up I didn't she I didn't ask you what were you doing in 2012 did you go from a painful break I didn't say oh did you ever go to a place where there was armor I didn't I didn't bring that up
She brought it to me now she mad at me. - Sorry, I got it. - You see how they do, this how they do. - I got stuck in a horrible flashback and then got way too honest. And I wish I could, you know, go back a few steps, but yeah, that's just the truth. - Wishback, you go back to the 13th step. (laughing) Come on, come on, I had a green tea. I had a green tea, I'm kind of feeling it. Today I'll say that much. I'm kind of feeling it. - But it was like the worst men in the world that could ever be assembled in one place. - Sure. - I do. - You know, and you don't have to say yes or no, but I do, I see you being, I see you in the finance bro world. I do, I can imagine that was-- - I think I aged out. - Oh, sure. 'Cause they're all looking for fresh bread. - 25, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Inters. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course. Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course. They're not being original with theirs either. They're like, they're like, male comedian. When like, when I always really feel for like-- - I was just talking about this. - When you see like a girl who's like 22, enter into any comedy scene in any city around America, that girl is like, it's like they just dropped blood in the water. - A hundred percent. - And truly like, I'm like, oh well, it's only a matter of times. One of these much older gentlemen is about to be on her. And then like, and then like a year later, they're like interrelationship. - Yeah. - Or like maybe like six months later, that she's like interrelationship with is like, a 40 year old man who's like nasty, but he's like, he's popping in fucking Pittsburgh or whatever. He's like, really, he's one of the funny Pittsburgh guys. - Oh my, girlfriends, like we all think what, you know, 'cause it happens to-- - It happens to all of you. - All the, in the first couple of years, were like, I cannot believe they got to sleep with me. - Yeah, several times. - Ew! (laughing) - I almost said it! The community service is wrong! - Yeah. - It's wrong, no, I was just talking about this 'cause sometimes like at the store, or at least like when I first started working there, like three, four years ago, there's still like older dudes there that they don't know, they think just 'cause I'm like, only been around there for a while, that I'm new to, I'm like, no, I'm old bitch. - Yeah, sure. - You missed the Trick Me window by a while. (laughing) - And it would have to, you'd have to catch me in the Trick Me window and I'm gonna catch me straight up. (laughing) - You're not gonna get me just. - No, but I mean like early on, like me and my girlfriend, we laughed like you, we thought like a guy who was like past in a club was like a big deal. - Of course. - So sorry. - And at least you were in LA. - No, I started here. - Oh, you started here, I actually didn't know it. - That's how I know everyone here. - Interesting. - Yeah, I spent my first like five years here, and then I moved to LA. - I was seeing this happen in like Austin, Texas, before like a pre-Jo Rogan Austin, Texas, when I came up and that was, I've seen some really nasty versions of that. I'll say that, 'cause at least if it's in New York City, it's like it could be somebody who was like, on a couple episodes of crashing or whatever, you feel me like, they could have had like a little bit gone. They could be like, oh yeah, he did like, Letterman in 2007. - Whenever single one of a woman in comedy audition to be a girl that sleeps with open micro on a mattress. - Sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, yeah. That was a-- - It was a grind. - That was a time. - It was a time where like, I was definitely going up for like, you know, ex-young comedian. This is a period where like every, I was like, Jibooki was getting everything. - Oh, of course. - You remember the Jibooki, Jibooki was, I was like, oh, up and coming young comedian. I'm that. - Yeah. - Jibooki. - I know, this is a suck, you can't say like, up and coming anymore. - Yeah, I'm like-- - But like everyone else still is like, yeah, or up and coming. - Once you get on the show that I worked on it, really, you can't really be-- - Oh yeah. - You don't say the name. - I can say, once you get on SNL, you really can't. You really can't say I'm up and coming. But I feel like-- - Are you having to get your sleep back? - Yeah, I think my life has become better in kind of every single way. - Oh good. - There's not really any way in which my life is worse now that I don't work there. - Yeah, I mean, not sure, as opposed to like, almost every other show besides like, I don't know, 5%, maybe actually does launch people though. - Yeah, it really does a thing that like, almost nothing else in the industry could do. It is like, and I had like a pretty made career during my time on the show, I like-- - Come on. - No, I'm just self-aware. - Not for me. - I thought you're killing it. - I mean, I did some funny shit on there. But like, it was, I didn't get a ton of shit. I wasn't like, in everything, you know what I mean? Like, I didn't have one of those types of careers on the show. - Chris, he knows. - Husband's tips. - You've known me like, I couldn't get, they wasn't giving me them types of spots. But like, even them like getting out of it, like people do just, the industry treats you so different. - Yeah. - After you like, if you stick around on a show for a couple of years, it really does like, it really does change the game. - Yeah. - It does, it used to make you a movie star. - Yeah. - And it really doesn't do that anymore. - Right. - But like, it definitely does makes people, - Makes it easier. - You're higher up on screen. - You're higher up in some conversations. - Yeah, that's better. - Blair, before we get out of here, we're gonna listen to a voicemail. - Oh. (upbeat music) - Hey, Devon and this theme to guest, I just listened to the episode with Meatbrick and you talked about it to you with it by Will Smith and I thought for sure you would bring up parents just don't understand by Will Smith. I remember listening to this in the car, like on my iPod or something, and kind of nodding my head. And the first verse is like, I'm getting close for school and there's so uncooled parents just don't understand. And it's normal and then it escalates. So parents just don't understand whatever, normal refrain. And then it goes into, I stole my mom's Porsche. And to avoid reading this to you, essentially, he picks up a young woman in his fast car that he stole and things are heating up and speeding up. And he gets, you know, it references like her hand on his knee and her unbuttoning her shirt. And then he gets pulled over, of course. And this is a part I will read. "Come to find out the girl was a 12-year-old runaway." Uh-oh. "I was arrested. The car was impounded. There was no way for me to avoid being grounded." Parents just don't understand. So we have to address this? Yeah. I'll go first. Sure, thank you. I'll go first. I'm really concerned right now. Well, this song is, this song is really funny because it's like, all right, yeah, he picks up a girl. I'm assuming he's probably like in his late teens or like early 20s when this is popping. So like, let's call him 19. Let's call him 19. That's, he's stole his parents' Porsche. He's in his car and he's driving. He's a girl. He picks her up. He, you know, gets pulled over by the cops. He gets arrested because as it turns out, she's 12. She's 12 and he was speeding. So he's in trouble in two different types of ways. Then he gets, he's at the prison. And he's talking, he's in a, he's giving his mug shot, he's like doing a lineup, like a police lineup. Presumably for the 12 year old girl to be like, that's the molester. Yeah. And what he's concerned about is he's like, I'm gonna get grounded. (laughs) That's, he's like, oh, my bear, once they find out, oh man, once they find out about the car thing, I can't even lie, I'm getting, I'm not gonna be able to watch TV for a week. I know, dang it in his mom's, and he's not gonna be able to steal his mom's Porsche 'cause he's gonna be in the slammer. Yeah. But look, I would never have sought the turn coming. Like it was just such a fun light home. It was just so fun, I was having a great time. You see, he's just like, he's also so funny in it. He is. Oh, and then we had to turn the 12 year old girl. That's what I'm saying. What a bummer. It's a fun thing, he's in the car. You're like, oh man, he's in the Porsche. Like he's with me. Yeah. Oh, and he picked up this girl and her hands on his knee. She thought it's an underwear shirt. Right. And then you're like, oh, the police are involved. And they're like, oh, no, he's on his Chris Delia. Yeah. He got a girl that's really not of age. Right. And then it calls his whole situation into question because it's like, did he, like, do you think this character knew that? He wants you to believe that he had no idea, but it's like, maybe he already stealing shit. I know. Maybe he on his sinister stuff, maybe he did know, but he planned like he didn't. Right, and who can say what is real? Because they said that she unbuttoned three buttons on her shirt, but she was clearly wearing a dress. No buttons. So let's, and let's talk to the wardrobe department. Yeah, so, so we don't know what's real, what's not. I'm hoping that it was not real. I didn't see that turn coming. I would have liked to continue the other direction. Yeah. When we all, you know, I stand with the law, I stand with women above, even the heroes. If I have to cast out Will Smith for doing something like that, but I don't know. It seems like it was just sort of an art piece. I'm hoping. You're hoping? I'm hoping. I don't know. Yeah, I guess there's no way to know for sure. I wouldn't have known about this until this caller came in. And that's exactly what we do with Blair Socky. Thank you so much for pulling up to the pod. You have anything you'd like to plug for the people before we get out of here? Thank you so much. I am, of course, a trigger trove of knowledge about music. No, you can find me. I have a new podcast, I'm quite passionate about, called "Space Style" with Blair Socky. We talk about all sorts of things and a little bit of aliens. And then I'll be at Netflix. This is a joke. May 5th at the Hollywood Improv. And on tour, I'm on tour. And every, all my shows are at Blair Socky B.A.
L.A.I.R.S.O.C.C.I. and all social media. - Shut up. - Thank you. - Also go, I got some tour dates. Go, go see me. I think, I don't know when this is coming out. I'm going to San Antonio. I'm going to a few places. Come see me on tour. The show's really good and I don't want to have to post one of those first videos. - Yeah, I was just gonna say, buy the tickets now so he doesn't have to post the video. - Please, the videos really make me sad and they hurt my heart. I feel like I shouldn't have to do stuff like that. - And Drake is gonna be following him soon so he doesn't want to have to post his videos. Pretty soon and I don't want Arbore to have to see that type of stuff. I don't want him to think that that's what my life is like. So buy those tickets. Thank you guys so much. Love ya. - Thank you so much. - Bye. - Next time can you call and not reveal that? - My favorite lyrics is a production by DiscoNap. If you guys like what you hear, leave a review and tell a homie about the show and make sure to follow us at my favorite lyrics pod on all social platforms. Except for Twitter, we offer that. You can learn more about this week's guest and the my favorite lyrics team by checking out the show's notes. And thank you to the guys that made this show happen. Executive producer Lauren Mandel, producer, Carmen Carrigan, our editor Nicole Lyons, fringe podcast who engineered this episode. And yeah, that's all the people that I'm gonna thank for now.
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
The hosts discuss the absurdity of marriage laws and paperwork, emphasizing a desire to avoid being worse off without significant changes to their current lifestyle.
Blair shares her experience of disconnecting from social media for five years, using the time to reflect deeply and reconnect with herself, despite missing major life events.
A recurring theme is the discomfort and sensory overload for people with autism, particularly in bright, noisy environments, highlighting a need for greater inclusion in public and media spaces.
The hosts critique the commodification of entertainment and comedy, especially the pressure to produce promotional content that feels inauthentic and emotionally draining.
Blair recounts her first concert experience at South by Southwest in 2009, a pivotal moment that shaped her lifelong love of live music and performance.
They reflect on the cultural shift in entertainment, noting the fading influence of classic 90s music and the rise of digital content, while valuing personal authenticity over trends.
A key moment involves a heartfelt connection to the song "Men in Black" as a symbolic tribute to a late brother, blending personal memory with shared cultural touchpoints.
The conversation ends with a call for authenticity, resilience, and boundary-setting in relationships and media, especially for neurodivergent individuals.
Summary:
The podcast features a candid and reflective conversation between two hosts about love, marriage, social media, and personal identity. They question the necessity of formal marriage and the excessive paperwork that surrounds it, suggesting it feels unnecessary when their lives remain unchanged. Blair shares her journey of stepping away from social media for five years, during which she gained deep self-awareness but missed significant life events.
A central theme is the sensory challenges faced by people with autism, especially in loud, bright environments, prompting a call for greater inclusivity and respect for neurodivergent experiences. The hosts critique the commercialization of entertainment, particularly the demand for promotional content that feels inauthentic and emotionally taxing. They reminisce about Blair’s first concert in Austin, a formative experience that sparked a lifelong passion for live music.
The conversation is interwoven with personal anecdotes, including a powerful emotional connection to the song "Men in Black," which serves as a tribute to her late brother. The hosts emphasize authenticity, personal boundaries, and the importance of staying true to oneself in a world driven by trends and performances. Ultimately, the episode underscores a desire for genuine connection, self-respect, and a break from societal expectations—especially for those on the autism spectrum or navigating complex social dynamics.
FAQs
Blair has not followed social media for five years due to a personal realization that constant scrolling led to emotional detachment and a fear of missing out on life. She found peace in self-reflection and now only engages with platforms like TikTok and Threads, avoiding Instagram due to its time-consuming nature.
Blair believes that the pressure to constantly post and perform on social media is exhausting and outdated. She values authenticity over curated content and feels that platforms like Instagram have become a source of anxiety rather than connection.
Blair acknowledges that her voice is often described as fragile or brittle, and she admits that singing can make her voice 'go away.' However, she finds it amusing and has expressed interest in taking voice lessons to improve.
Blair’s first concert was in 2008 or 2009 at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas. She was underage and had to sneak in, and it was a transformative moment that sparked her lifelong love of live music.
Blair associates the song with her childhood, her mother's love for music, and a personal tragedy involving her late brother. The song became a symbolic sign of remembrance after he passed away, and it’s now a meaningful part of her life.
Blair is on the autism spectrum and finds that loud environments and bright lights are overwhelming. She values privacy and mental space, believing it helps her focus and connect more deeply with others in a comfortable way.
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