Carrie Brownstein Rates Crowd Surfing, Cowboy Hats, and Sheet Masks

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[sighs] It is definitely overrated.

I was reading an article about something

called being sober curious,

or like flexitarian,

these kind of neologisms that basically say,

I'm not this but wanna be, is very frustrating to me.

I think if you're a freegan, you're not vegan,

and that's okay.

You're not vegan.

People need to brand every experience.

Freeganism is an old term, I mean,

they've been using that since

the Norman Conquest or whatever.

I don't know, I think let's move on from it.

I think it's very, very overrated.

Veganism is great.

Freeganism is just dumpster diving.

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Those are underrated.

A person that can pull off a cowboy hat

is really someone with some confidence.

I mean, people that work around horses,

children on Halloween, ranchers,

politicians trying to keep it real.

It takes a certain kind of, I don't know, just stature,

and I'm talking about sort of an internal

kind of backbone to pull off a cowboy hat.

When I think they're underrated

is the people that actually just,

you don't think that they're gonna be in a cowboy hat

and then they show up in one.

That's a big move.

That's a big move.

You show up to a funeral or a job interview in a cowboy hat,

and you know what?

That's a big day for you, and you're not gonna get that job.

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Overrated. [laughs]

It's not that I'm against crowd surfing, but I've done it.

Okay, the first time I crowd surfed,

I was at a concert called Endfest in Seattle.

The lineup was Pearl Jam, L7.

And when L7 started, I was like, that's it, gettin' up.

First of all, it's a little humbling.

You have to ask someone,

hey, would anyone like to lift me up right now?

I'm not a child, I'm not three,

I'm an adult asking for somebody to hoist me.

That just takes a little humility.

And then it's just people figuring out,

are you gonna do it are you gonna do it.

Fine, you know, and then someone reaches down.

You step with a foot that's been on a grassy field,

probably covered in manure or urine.

They're touching that shoe with a bare hand.

They life you up.

And then it's basically you just kicking

and pummeling people all over their face and body

for .5 seconds.

Then you fall to the ground, and you try to get up again.

Looks really cool in footage and stuff,

and if you're looking down on a crowd,

you see someone crowd surfing, it looks exciting.

But trust me, that everyone that's passing your body around

is really mad at you in that moment.

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Those are really overrated.

Get your hand down there in a plastic bag

and pick it up yourself.

Owning an animal is a responsibility

and it's also, it's a job.

Well, for most people it's not a full-time job,

but it's a least, it's a fun job.

I'm not saying picking up poop is fun for me,

but I think a pooper scooper,

someone is making a lot of money over something

that could just easily be done with a hand in a bag.

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I mean, they're actually underrated.

They're fun to buy.

They're fun to use.

They're communal, I mean, don't share them,

but you can do the mask with your friends.

They kinda feel good.

I don't know if they're doing anything,

but, you know, it's fun to scare your dog

by putting them on your face.

You can't put a price on that.

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Oat milk is overrated for sure, but I love it.

It's having a moment, the moment feels too big,

considering it's just an oat.

We were eating oatmeal for years.

No one cared.

Sure, it's good to lower your cholesterol,

but no one was making a big deal about it.

No one was pouring oatmeal into coffee

and calling it a new invention.

And it's everywhere.

I ordered an oatmeal cappuccino the other day,

and they're like, Oh, an oat cap?

The oat milk lobby is so mad right now.

But it's true, oat milk is overrated.

It's taking up a lot of energy and space,

and even the fact that I'm talking about it right now

and I'm gonna make this my longest answer,

means that it's overrated, but I also love it.

But I'm willing to embrace something that's overrated,

and I'll drink every day for the rest of my life.

Oatly, please send me free oat milk.

Here's my address.

It's one.

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That's underrated because I'm pigeon-toed. [laughs]

Okay, so when I was a kid,

I had to wear leg braces.

I'm sure this doesn't exist anymore, I was born in 1910.

Your feet are like this, and they put braces on.

For a while I couldn't walk.

I just pulled myself around with my upper body.

I have great upper body strength.

I mean, you should see these guns.

But after that I had to wear a shoe with a bar in it.

Now, these are not attractive shoes.

A lot of people, when you have a shoe,

you don't want anything in between except the ground,

but I had a bar.

But it's underrated because look at me now.

Pigeon-toed and proud of it, okay.

Let's embrace it.

I don't need a hashtag.

I just need some respect.

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