Sasheer Loves Yuzu (w/ Owen Thiele)

Best Friends with Nicole Byer and Sasheer Zamata

Headgum

Comedy

4.9 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Nicole and Sasheer have a very special friend joining them today - the wonderful Owen Thiele (Adults, Overcompensating, Theater Camp)! The trio gets into an exciting brand new segment called "Why Were You Late?", different confrontational strategies depending on if you are a) in or b) out of your car, and what it means to be a friend collector vs friend recycler.

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0:00.0	This is a headgum podcast.
0:03.6	Hi, Cushir.
0:18.2	We have a guest today.
0:19.6	We do.
0:20.4	Is that fun?
0:21.6	You're better at introducing guests or not yet.
0:25.6	I don't know why you're waiting.
0:27.6	I'm not good at that.
0:28.6	I can do it.
0:29.6	Just look like you were prepping.
0:31.6	Okay, today we have a new friend.
0:33.6	His name is Owen Thiel, an LA-born actor, writer, most recently known for starring
0:38.6	at FX Adults. You were so funny on it. Thanks. So deeply funny. Thanks. Thank you.
0:43.8	And primes overcompensating, which I also love. And it has appeared in hit shows like hacks,
0:49.1	dollface, and I think you should leave. It's Owen Thiel. Wait, I love that bio. Do you guys write that?
0:55.0	We didn't write anything. Allie wrote it. Absolutely gorgeous. It makes me sound so, it's like hacks I was in one second of. Literally. It counts. It counts. It counts. It counts on your IMDV too. I will tell you, my friend worked at Ha! at Ha, comedy club and Times Square.
0:52.1	And one of the comics was introduced from,
0:54.3	you know him from Talladega Nights.
0:56.7	We won't. my friend worked at Ha! Comedy Club in Times Square and one of the comics was introduced from, you know him from Talladega Nights. We watched Talladega Nights three times trying to find this man. He was in the background of the fair scene. By the way, that counts. It counts. I don't know. I don't know. He didn't have a line. It was a drone shot. I don't know if it counted. Famously from Talitagan Nights. It's like weird. That's hilarious. No, my somebody looked up, my family friend just looked up my IMDB. And she texted me like so many times in a row being like, you were in hacks, I've watched it all.
1:45.2	You were and I think you should leave, I've watched it all. Like, and I was like, you should go back. I've in one second of it. But it does count on IMDB. Yeah. Then a star meter goes a little up because of those things. Just a little up, just a little touch. No, I think it goes down. Does it go down? Why?
1:41.0	No, I think the lower your rating, the better you are.
1:44.2	You're right.
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