Milk and Cookies (w/ Helena Riley)
Exploration: LIVE!
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4.8 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2025
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
Ideas Covered:
- Cherry balance
- Milk and cookies
- Paint my toes headphones on
- Get more people into nursing - there is a nursing shortage - by having a reality show that's like who is the best nurse
- Dakota Johnson
Guest: Helena Riley
Exploration: LIVE! is a weekly podcast in which Brooklyn comedians Charlie Bardey and Natalie Rotter-Laitman explore some of the most (and least) pressing ideas, theories, axioms and concepts out there.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a headgum podcast. |
| 0:07.6 | Life gets pretty boring when every day's the same. |
| 0:15.0 | Take me on a rocket ship to see the earth from space. |
| 0:35.6 | I'm an Hi, everyone. |
| 0:36.6 | Hey. Hey, you guys. This this is Charlie and Natalie coming to you live. Live, not really. Not really. We run into it. When I said live just now, I meant it. I wasn't doing it as a joke of it's funny that we're not live. I really thought that what I was saying was true. |
| 0:54.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:55.1 | And it's only when you said, |
| 0:56.4 | not really, that I really checked and I realized it's not true. |
| 0:57.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:58.2 | Well, coming to you live |
| 1:00.2 | just means coming to you. |
| 1:02.5 | Right. |
| 1:03.2 | Well, no. |
| 1:04.9 | There's an element that means live. |
| 1:06.9 | Something different. |
| 1:07.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:08.1 | But we've obviously played with the idea of live. |
| 1:29.1 | Yes. Yeah. But we've obviously played with the idea of live as a name. Okay. Right. I have had the craziest hiccups all day that are making me do basically a chest. What's that called? It really made when you did it earlier, it really made me laugh. Yeah. Your impression of the chest kind of. The dance move. It was like a hip-hop kind of dance, like a chest pop. like a chest pop bump yeah I'm popping my chest but that has been true and it begs the question that first of all no one has anything to say |
| 1:36.2 | when you hiccup right god bless you know excuse me I say excuse me, but... |
| 1:44.3 | I think that's probably right. |
| 1:45.5 | Yeah, it's right for me. |
| 1:46.5 | It shows that you're kind of earthy and in touch with the idea of excuse me. It's not just like a thing you say. Yeah. You're like, I get why. Like, I get the origin of excuse me. It's like, because I'm disrupting. So I'm asking to be excused |
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