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Why ASMR Triggers Love and Loathing GUEST COMEDIAN PAMELA WALT
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Hi, I'm Nikki Davis Jr, stand-up esthetician.
What am I?
Speaker 2Licensed, licensed comedian.
Yes, thank you.
Yes, thank you.
See, that happens when you let your license lapse.
Yeah, I know, if you let your license lapse, then you lose your lot in life if you lose your license lapse, then you lose your lot in life, everything I lost, it all.
Speaker 1Okay, no, I'm just kidding.
Um, we're starting a little bit different.
Normally I have sandra on the other side of me he's right here, uh, my co-host, slash sherpa boyfriend, uh set decorator and um, since we don't have a ton of time because we've shortened our podcast, first of all like and subscribe we've also, uh, made it so that our podcast we, one of our parking meters is up every in the middle of every podcast.
Speaker 2We don't know who it's going to be, so we have to always frantically get to the topics, uh, and one of us leaves with the parking ticket.
Speaker 1So once you bring out our, why don't you introduce our?
Speaker 2guest.
So our guest today is someone I've known um for quite for my entire Don't age me, I will never age you, ever, absolutely not.
Speaker 1A year and a half, two years I've known this person for two years, which could be a long time.
Speaker 2A quarter of my life, a quarter of my life.
And she's always been funny and she's always been silly, and there's always something.
She's super cool, cool and just when you think that she's not paying attention or listening, she'll come back and like she's really quick, I like that.
She can be in a room and you're like, wait, is, is pam here?
And then she'll just come out of nowhere and just say something really hilarious and then it's so uh, she's a talented actress, comedian, fantastic writer.
Pamela walt yay, thank.
Speaker 3Thank you for an intro.
Half the time people do think I'm dead.
I'm not off book, by the way, is that okay?
Speaker 1I didn't memorize my lines, that's okay.
Thank you so much for coming.
It's so good to see you.
Speaker 3Good to see you.
Speaker 1Thanks for having me.
Speaker 3Is this weird?
I don don't know this whole scenario is.
Speaker 1This is the only way I talk to people.
Oh, okay, good, just into a microphone, yeah that actually makes sense.
Yeah, absolutely, if it's not into a mic right yeah, exactly that's what we're here for.
Speaker 2Talking to microphones.
It's gonna be funny.
Every place we are we're just like yeah, could you?
Oh, no, I didn't do the dishes, and then what all right, so we have some three of three topics.
Speaker 1I'm gonna let you pick, uh, which one of these three that you want if you're listening and not watching.
Speaker 2Nikki has these things that scientists used to call paper okay so pam is opening up the paper and pamela looks at it read it wrong.
Speaker 3I thought it said racial fetishes and I was like my meter's actually up.
Speaker 1It's facial fetishes.
Speaker 2Oh interesting, I never realized that facial and racial are just one letter off.
Usually, like the, you know, the last part of the word is like the root of it.
So I wonder what that means If you're racial and facial.
Speaker 3Have you ever given a racial facial I?
Speaker 2don't think so.
I think I just got canceled.
It was nice knowing you guys Thanks so much.
Oh my God, I wasn't wearing blackface, it was a racial facial Okay.
Speaker 1Oh, my God.
Speaker 2I'm not a skincare expert.
Speaker 1I know we all have to go Sondra, you're on your own.
Speaker 2My parking's up.
I'm getting a ticket.
Speaker 1All right, so the reason why I slash ChatGPT picked this is because I asked it for some strange sort of topics.
Oh, you're fine.
So what we're going to look at a little bit and you don't have to stick to the topic 100, um is, and what time do we need to be like about uh, 220, 220.
What time is it right now?
Speaker 2okay, hold on um 19.
Speaker 1Will you let me know, like sort of.
So I okay, we're going, okay cool, all right.
So um so the reason why this topic is interesting is because especially women seem to love watching skincare.
I don't know, do you watch skincare?
I like ads.
You watch ads?
Okay?
Speaker 3yeah, because you're forced to instagram you know what I like to do, god, why am I talking um?
It's a podcast I like to just scroll and then look at the ads and then look at the comments.
Speaker 1Oh, right and see like what, like if people believe in it, or yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3Or like just what people say.
Speaker 2Who's talking shit about it?
Exactly yeah.
Speaker 3Yeah, who's talking shit?
Yeah, that should be a movie.
Speaker 1Yeah Well, asmr videos is what I think I was born with.
Talking about Like people do.
Dr Pimple Popper oh yeah, I can't.
I can't either, and I'm an esthetician and I do that for a living and I can't watch it on camera.
I don't mind doing it, but I can't watch it.
It's so gross to me.
So gross, but yeah, like the sound of pimple pumping or slapping.
Speaker 2Oh, really that's.
Speaker 1Yeah, or even people watching the massage.
Speaker 3You know, they're like yes, oh no.
That makes me angry.
Speaker 1Glad you picked this topic.
Tell me more why that makes you angry.
Speaker 3I don't, I think I don't like noise.
Speaker 2You don't even like sounds, you're like it's noise, it's noise, it's a silent movie all the way.
Speaker 3What about?
Speaker 2if you hear like lip smacking, like couples kissing in movies or something like that.
Speaker 3Why are they doing that?
To me it's like yeah, what is this porn?
Speaker 2I never hear yeah, it's like why is this?
You're slurping.
Yeah, what is this?
Speaker 1It's so bizarre.
Speaker 2If we're kissing, I don't hear that, but if somebody else is, I'm just like oh God, no, go literally get a room away from me, so I don't hear it so you don't like asmr either.
Speaker 1I'm not really, I don't think I really meant to it I guess there's certain ones that I might like like, um, I'm trying to think of what they are, but some people do whispering, some people do like, uh, this, this is like a big thing, a big no-no for for so I'm like, is it people?
Speaker 3are they talking about me?
Speaker 2that's hilarious.
It's very possible asmr is too sneaky why are you whispering?
Speaker 1um, yeah well, I guess part of facial asmr is I guess it's caring intimacy without touch.
So some people, like you, might not want to hear things, but some people there are people who don't want to be touched.
Speaker 3So maybe that's their.
Avoid it I might be avoiding, you might be avoiding my therapist.
One of your.
Speaker 1One of my favorite jokes of yours is how like your arms are to to like swat children away for from you oh yeah, that's my stepmother joke yeah, that's very avoidant yeah, I guess that's one perspective that's the only one I saw, because I've had step parents, okay.
So I guess ASMR helps to reduce your heart rate, so maybe that's why people do it.
Speaker 2I like sounds.
I think I like sounds of things like Velcro, but when people make sounds like the chewing or that, that's a big one for you, that I can't.
Oh, I grew up, my dad hated it so much that, like I grew up, I couldn't.
When I chew food, I have to keep my mouth shut.
Um, and then, as he got older, he did it his entire life and I was, and then I hated him.
So it's just, it's a cycle.
It's a cycle, it's a.
Speaker 1It's a tire that keeps on rolling well, apparently 30 of people are asm, are ASMR responsive, I guess, is the word.
What did you say?
I don't know, I don't want to hear it anymore.
Okay yeah, I hate that.
I hate that.
I hate myself for doing that.
Could you close your ears?
Speaker 3Yeah, I like sounds of nature and things like that.
Speaker 1Okay, yeah, I wonder if that's considered ASMR.
I don't know.
Speaker 2Yeah, if you're sitting in a field or like a park and you're hearing birds or you hear like little chipmunks chittering or whatever they do, as long as they're not whispering, they're talking about you God.
I wish they would just speak up, or don't.
Speaker 1Just tell them to my face.
Like the birds are keeping secrets from you.
So passive, aggressive, well, apparently skin is ASMR.
It mimics caregiving behavior and it's sensual and even I just hate the word sensual, soft and personal, and so Nourishing wholesome.
Speaker 2Oh God, nurturing is another one that was up there, yeah, I hate all of those words.
Speaker 1So I guess that's maybe why none of us are into the ASMRs.
Speaker 3Yeah, interesting, there's bunny rabbits.
I don't know what it is, I don't mind listening to like a bunny rabbit eat.
Speaker 1Yeah, oh, you hear, like the animals, it's cute.
Yeah, that's considered ASMR.
Speaker 3Oh, is it?
Mm-hmm?
Okay, well, maybe as long as it's not a human.
Speaker 1Yes.
Speaker 3Yeah that's asmr, can I?
Speaker 1swear sorry, yes, you can.
You asked afterwards oh my god, okay, yeah, that's pretty much all that we had for the asmr.
I did very short podcast.
Speaker 3Uh, topics today no I'm glad to know that other people feel this way, because when I'm scrolling, I I'm be angry, you be angry, yeah, I'm just like well, yeah, I don't want to be assaulted with other people's noises yeah I think that's.
Speaker 1It's too much for me to handle it, it feels like it's forced intimacy and I don't want it yeah how did it start was?
Speaker 2Was it like?
I feel like it started with some guy who just was getting off on some girl whispering and it all springboarded from there into something else.
Speaker 1How did it go into skincare though?
Speaker 2I don't know.
I think it starts somewhere with a guy being the depraved lunatic like they are.
You know what they say about men in a room with two seconds and no one else there.
Yeah, they either create a nuclear weapon or they just you know, they figure out a way to assault somebody.
Yeah, or both, or both, yeah, exactly, oh my god, nuclear weapon nuclear, uh, asmr, oh yeah, you know like little, like tiny little mushroom clouds, I don't know why I'm saying no mushroom.
Speaker 1Mushrooms definitely need to be involved in that, though yes, absolutely, I feel like I'm gonna burp.
Is that considered asmr?
Speaker 3if you do it, if you whisper it, okay, actually I think it is I didn't mind that you didn't mind that maybe it's people I don't know doing oh, okay, maybe people.
I know maybe I like it.
It's so funny like a specific niche of like Maybe it's people I know, maybe I like it.
It's so funny Like a specific niche.
Speaker 2I'm like it's like it's people that I know that are doing something and then, yeah, I guess it has to be.
Maybe it's like a if it's somebody and I see their face and they're going and I'm like, all right, what do you?
It's too much.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2But there's certain things I guess yeah, maybe like yeah, I'm never going to if I hear leaves crunching.
Speaker 1I think that would be good.
No, that's different, that's nice.
Yeah, right yeah.
Speaker 2So what exactly do you mean?
Like what do you say?
It's like the facial, like the fetish of it.
Basically, in a sense of like kind of making it like a making it like a thing.
Where it's like, it becomes like a ritual.
Speaker 1It's either.
It's either something that's a turn on to them or it's something that's soothing.
Oh, okay, okay so things like hearing, things like scratching, you know like I don't know if you can hear that.
Speaker 2Oh, okay.
Speaker 1So when you would do that thing, like, like because I do facial massage like snap your fingers against the thing.
Speaker 2So that would that feeling like having you do that and then also feel us hearing it is kind of is very soothing it feels like you're getting something done, like you're actually something's happening to you yeah like, oh my god, this person's snapping their fingers.
You know they're really working.
I have to give you a facial sometime by the way I love that.
Yeah, that's awesome yeah and then I never had one.
And then asmr facial or just for me.
Speaker 1Well, both okay.
Speaker 3You've never had a facial in your life no, oh my god, I've had just like massage, where they do so they yeah, like, like a lymphatic drainage massage or just like relax, just to relax.
Okay, because I do lymphatic drainage massage.
Speaker 1We got to okay, um and uh, so it like de-puffs not that you need it, um, but also like uh, yeah, it helps to lift and tone the facial muscles and go inside your jaw.
Yeah, I have a feeling that you probably get in my jaw.
Speaker 3Yeah, not avoiding now?
Speaker 2not avoiding now.
Yeah, yeah, that's a.
That's a huge spot that I had tons of like.
Speaker 1Yeah yeah, all of your emotion is so much emotion is stored in your jaw.
Everything you don't say yeah, I feel like more women than men generally have it.
Speaker 2Um, but sandra has the tightest jaw of any person I've ever felt which was shocking to me I don't think that I've ever like woken up with like my mouth being sore or anything like that, or my, my, I don't grind my teeth, but I'm guessing well, during the day without realizing it.
Nikki's like are you tense?
Speaker 1I'm like no Cause, and then she's like I can see like the little pulsation in his jaw Like I guess subconsciously or just unconsciously, I just yeah, but then you say, no, I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine.
Speaker 3He's not fine, then he's doing ASMR behind your back.
Exactly.
Speaker 2So, cheating and then, like I watch you while you walk in the room and it's a guy going he's just grunting with his teeth.
It's like, why do you listen?
That's like the terrible ASMR Somebody just growling into the microphone.
Speaker 1Disgusting.
Speaker 2It is disgusting.
I don't go on youtube ever, except to watch videos um, so you've never.
Speaker 1I still can't believe you've never had a facial.
Yeah, you have such beautiful skin.
If you're listening and not watching, pamela, you have like.
Your skin is perfect.
Speaker 3Thank you, it's mine, it's mine, I grew it all yours.
Speaker 2I did grow it.
Yeah, people outsource their skin and I'm glad to know that some people don't.
People are keeping it in-house.
Speaker 3I like it, american made, yeah, union made, oh my.
Speaker 1God, you're such a patriot and I love that about you, yeah.
Speaker 2People are spending all this tariff money on new skin.
Speaker 1Yeah, on her chin.
I just pointed to my jaw that the chin is over here if you're listening and not looking, uh, good for you.
Speaker 2Nikki knows exactly where every part of her face is she does know, um, well, what so?
Speaker 1anything happening that you want to tell us about, since we ran out of asmr topics?
Um, what are you doing lately?
What am I doing?
Yeah, where were you at 9-11?
Speaker 3yeah, I can't talk about that without a lawyer.
Speaker 1President see, that's good I wasn't born yet oh my god, that's right, I forgot.
Yes, see, that's good, that's that's that's the best response.
Speaker 2All right, that checks out pre-fetal.
Speaker 1It's pre-fetal.
Did you say?
I like that?
Yeah, yeah, is that what pf chang stands for?
I think it's pre-fetal.
Pre-fetal, did you say?
I like that?
Yeah, is that what pf chang stands for?
Speaker 2I think it's pre-fetal, pre-fetal chang.
He's not even born yet.
No, wow, I think it says something diarrhea, but there's no d in there because it's pf chang.
That's why I said diarrhea how we get to diarrhea.
Speaker 1Every fourth podcast, I think.
Well, it used to be every podcast.
Speaker 2It's just the movement, it's just okay, anyways so we'll be right back, yeah pamela, last time I talked to you you were uh.
Were you half and half living, or are you going back and forth in a desert?
Was that last time I talked to pam she looked half dead and I love that.
Are you half and half living?
It's like no, I just wanted creamer she's living on half and half.
Speaker 1Wait, you were in the desert part of the time.
Tell me more and what was the?
Speaker 2so you were going back and forth to the, to the desert.
Speaker 3Okay, I'm still thinking the question.
Speaker 2The question ASMR the question was am I I'm gonna vomit?
Speaker 1I know, try keeping it in there um if I was half.
Speaker 3I'm still thinking.
The question is am I half living?
I'm trying to come up with an answer.
Um oh no, I well, I was just going to the desert.
A lot gotcha yeah, gotcha.
Speaker 2Yeah, you're out there, aren't you?
Yeah, we're actually, we're both out there now.
Um, oh no, I well, I was just going to the desert a lot.
Oh, okay, gotcha, yeah, gotcha yeah.
Speaker 3You're out there, aren't you?
Speaker 2Yeah, we're actually we're, we're both out there now, oh cool.
And that's the thing Cause I was thinking about like cause that's the place where you said like the ASMR and like kind of in nature when you're out in those places, like that's not even deliberate, it's not like you know somebody's slowing, it's like you know animals just slowly shuffling around you slowly, so then you're like they're just doing their thing.
But even that silence and then maybe the wind hitting up there's like a certain um calm, it's soothing.
I don't think it would turn me on, but I think it's soothing.
So it's not like a facial fetish, no, but it definitely has like a very soothingness to it.
So I think it is definitely asmr that was the question right.
Speaker 3I, like you, know what I'm realizing.
I think like in the desert.
Maybe I would be okay with ams, or maybe it's like a hyper vigilance city living thing where my nervous system, everything's a threat, like there's so many sounds that we don't have any choice but to hear them because of the city, because you're absolutely.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's true, it's forced on you, yeah, I just came back.
Speaker 1We have a house.
Not, it's hot.
Okay.
Speaker 2Well, in the desert we're just doing what I want to say online, because you know Saunders is going to get stalkers well, if I is the thing, if I, if I, if I say the city, then I have to give the parcel number and I'm not doing that, so it's not gonna happen but the difference between the night there and the night.
Speaker 1It's like when I came back here um last, was it last night I think so I feel so surreal, it's so quiet, and then I come here and it's like I can hear everybody's conversation yeah like you know the police, the helicopters, you know it's just, it's, it's so different and I'm sure you've experienced the same thing, oh yeah, and I come back, like I just went to Taos and I came back.
Speaker 3Yeah, I came back and I was like I just meditated and did you know, just did stuff like that all day and I was so calm and so centered.
And then within a day I was like I'm going to fucking stab you.
Speaker 1You're the person I was hearing outside my window.
I think murdering somebody yeah, my free time yeah I like it as long as you make time, yeah that's true well, yeah, but I like that about, I've always liked that about you is that you?
I can tell that you have that inside of you and I and you seem like the kind of person somewhat like myself where, like, there's just too much stimulation.
Speaker 3Yeah city.
Speaker 1Why did you choose?
Just because of like comedy and acting and stuff like that torture myself, so I know I'm alive.
Speaker 3Yeah um, I don't know why I chose here and I used to think la was mellow.
And finally I'm like, oh yeah, no, there's like just this constant level of stress yeah, it's just undercurrent of stress, always and everybody else is smiling and breathing.
Speaker 2You know, doing it was still, it was still sold I felt like it was still being sold as like this like pot town, not a drinking town yeah, but like hey man, yeah, hey man, get the fuck out of my way, dude.
Hey man, just chill out, you're in my fucking way, like that kind of like.
Yeah, I felt kind of like.
Both sides it's definitely bizarre.
Speaker 1Yeah, it's an asmr I don't want to be a part of no, do you have a place out there too, or do you just go and hang out, just your guys?
Speaker 2yeah, we definitely want to have you out we have.
Speaker 1Our house has an extra bedroom as soon as we get a free bed.
Speaker 3Yeah, as soon as facebook marketplace, I show up at your door with my bed.
Oh my god, please, do, please, that would be amazing.
Carry a full size on your back no, I, um, I don't have a place out there.
I'd love to.
I mean, I think I, if I think, if I did, I'd actually probably spend more time out there than here at this point, like I don't know if it's like I'm, I don't know, I'm very, very young, but I have started listening to jazz and I enjoy quiet.
Speaker 1So you know, I don't know, You're going to tipping to the other side now Tipping to the other side.
Speaker 3I like that.
Yeah, getting ready.
Speaker 2I like jazz too, because it is more rock and roll than you think, because they don't even know what they're going to do.
It's good to listen to.
Exactly Even the recorded tracks.
It's like what's gonna happen here?
Yeah, it's you know we didn't be sure.
Absolutely, jazz is like the best yeah, because it has that, it's calming, and then it has the highs um all right, we're giving, we're getting a uh signal that we got a two minute uh warning here.
Speaker 1Yeah, they have to.
Speaker 2They're, they're, I think they're.
Was it?
Uh, flea weasels, what they're they're, I think they're.
They're smoking the building for flea weasels.
I'm not really sure they have to get us out of here.
I think it's weasel fleas, weasel fleas.
Yeah, pam Pamela, oh yeah, where do we find?
Speaker 1you.
Speaker 3Take two yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2Where can people find you on the socials?
Speaker 3There's so many underscores.
Speaker 1I don't know why I did this.
You have a minutes, so go for it.
It's like the Gettysburg.
Speaker 3Address, all underscore Gettysburg Address.
You can't read this thing.
It's house underscore of underscore pancakes that's easy, though that's not so hard it's a lot, though, like after shows, and people are like I want to follow you and I'm like, okay, buckle up.
Speaker 1I'm like are you sure?
Because I'm so tired I don't want to have to tell you yeah.
So House of Pam Cakes.
Definitely follow Pam what else you got?
He's usually the one that wraps us up.
Speaker 2I usually wrap it up no, thank you so much for being here it's so good to see you.
Speaker 1we want to hang out with you.
Yeah, it's always good to see you.
It's always good to see you.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah, it's like always like.
It's like we don't see each other.
It's like once people are like friends.
We don't see each other as often, but when you do it's just like right back to like.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, you remember that open mic I hated.
Speaker 3Santa Monica.
Speaker 1Did you host one there on Santa Monica, like near that?
It was, sal's was on Santa Monica for the longest time that was on Melrose.
Yeah, no different.
Speaker 2Yeah, that was.
Oh, that's right, that was Melrose.
What was Santa Monica's Mike?
Speaker 1I don't remember.
It's near a restaurant.
Speaker 3Oh, I do remember that wine place.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2Oh, the Vinador, Is that the one?
Speaker 1I'm thinking of yeah, next to the Russian restaurant.
Speaker 3You are sponsored by them, right?
Yeah?
Speaker 2Thank you so much.
Please come back.
Speaker 1Please don't leave.
Thank you so much We'll see you guys next week Bye.