Sasheer Respects the Rules of the Road
Best Friends with Nicole Byer and Sasheer Zamata
Headgum
4.9 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
We're back! Sasheer just returned from a gorgeous trip to Japan and is ready to fill us in on all of her fun travel stories. She also has a special souvenir for Nicole that (spoiler!) Nicole goes nuts for. Also discussed: the why? of wearing thongs, chicken breasts vs thighs, and the age old question of "Where's the beef?"
Watch this full video on YouTube and follow below!
Follow Nicole: Twitter, Instagram, TikTok
Follow Sasheer: Instagram, TikTok
Like the show? Rate Best Friends 5 stars on Spotify and Apple Podcasts!
Have a friendship question for Nicole and Sasheer to solve? Leave us a voicemail at (323) 238-6554 or write in at [email protected].
Best Friends is a production of Headgum Studios. Our producer is Allie Kahan. Our executive producer is Anya Kanevskaya. The show is edited, mixed, and engineered by Casey Donahue.
This is a Headgum podcast. Follow Headgum on Twitter, Instagram, and Tiktok. Advertise on Best Friends via Gumball.fm.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Summer break is always a fun time of year for kids, but during this time off school, many can |
| 0:05.3 | lose reading proficiency and struggle with their mental well-being too. That's why Macy's is partnering |
| 0:10.7 | with reading is fundamental and NAMI, in their mission to keep kids reading over the summer |
| 0:19.3 | and to help young adults find the mental health resources they need. |
| 0:23.6 | When you shop at Macy's, you can donate at checkout, in store, or online. |
| 0:27.7 | It's super easy. How awesome is that? |
| 0:30.0 | And this will be happening through September 14th, Macy's.com slash purpose. |
| 0:36.6 | Music 13th. Macy's.com slash purpose. |
| 0:47.8 | Hi, Sashir. Hi, Nicole. |
| 0:48.7 | How are you? |
| 0:49.7 | I'm good. |
| 0:50.2 | I just got back from Japan. |
| 0:52.1 | Oh, you do seem fresh from overseas. She had a trip. Did you eat a lot of sushi? I ate so much sushi. Man, that's nice. Yeah, a lot of sushi, a lot of ramen, a lot of beef. Yeah, it was good. A lot of beef. It was a lot of beef. A lot of random beef. There was a lot of beef around. |
| 1:27.8 | Interesting. Yeah. Japan to me is not like, I don't think of Japan and then beef. Yeah. No. Lots of beef. But mostly sushi, I think. Yeah, it was great. Do you remember when like big food had commercials, like big milk had got milk? and then it was like, beef, it's what's for dinner. |
| 1:29.9 | Yes. |
| 1:30.9 | And then there was an old 80s commercial, |
| 1:32.8 | I was like, where's the beef? |
| 1:34.3 | Yes! |
| 1:35.3 | We were looking for the beef. |
| 1:37.5 | That's how much we wanted the beef. |
| 1:39.5 | But also it's like, were people not consuming enough beef? |
| 1:43.6 | Oh, maybe that was for like Burger King or like some fast food restaurant where they were like, look. |
... |
Transcript will be available on the free plan in 23 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Headgum, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Headgum and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.