We Needed This

We Needed This

By Naj Pie and Josh PickarComedySociety & Culture
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We Needed This episodes

  • Rickshaw to Ronkonkoma

    In this (on this?) episode, the boys (and the A/C in the background) discuss… go-go dancers doing voice-to-text and journaling. Taking a rickshaw to Ronkonkoma. Jurassic Park in filthy 4DX. Let's Get Departed. Louisana. Provincetown. Janitorial engineers. Gift card fraud. Schemartism. Legal Seafood. Corked oysters. Crusty bread. Slurpin'. Christie Bread. Daughter and coin. Coney Island. Paul's Daughter. …And Just Like That being total beef garbaggio. Najy's confuses the Red Roof Inn for Sal's in Provincetown - who can relate? C'est La Sea. The top low tides. Graduating from cheese school. Vyvanse shortage. Pears in a basket. And finally, what we needed this week.

    50 min
  • Bootsism

    On this week's episode, the boys say something. Also: Freedom, friends, party, and maiming. Josh leaving for Clown School. The French constantly striking and our needing to emulate their book de play. Being a buffone. Next Gen NYC. Meredith Marks DJing in Times Square. Turning tables and rewriting history. Hannukah Party. Banana Republic's Ruth Bader Ginsburg collection. Some of the yelluh. Pockets for the cargo and cream for the coffee. Ardor comes up. $10,000 sofas. Limb length discrepancy. The problem with the Bell House. Chosen Family. Being 100% in three different lanes. Pride Parade. Mulholland Drive being downright Lynchian. Fireworks. Feeling lived in. Crucial segments. Renaissance reminding one of Lithuania. And finally, what we needed this week.

    53 min
  • I Smell Burnt Toast, I Taste Metal, and I'm an American

    On this episode, the boys discuss cross-eyed nipples. Adolphus. Getting drag pilled. Having tenement museum at home. Con Body being NOT okay! Having a short block. Best In Show. 16 Handles. Miss Incontinental. Getting your hand re-juved. Addison Rae on top, crypt keeper on the bottom. Tater Tots. F1 starring Tarn Pitt. The perfect time of day. Post-crabmeat, Pre-Covid. Corbin-19. The Comeback. Pre-ordering a book and the surprise that ensues. Losing your sparkle. Smelling burnt toast and tasting metal. Kate Berlant heading up the department of good energy. NYC mayoral primary. And finally, the boys forget to do their one and only segment. That Bull Mastiff Paul Malouf.

    47 min
  • Her/Them Cain

    This week, the boys discuss being spread eagle and its impact on the numbers. Also covered: $3 coffee. A dish worth driving to. A cart of boxes of joe. Being a bit light in the wallet (and the loafers.) Matto v. Latto and Latto being the new Weird Al Yankovic. Creative container studio. Top 5 chocolates. No product placement in Mission Impossible. The new Sex and the City. An amazing set of bread. Catering. Saying it to my front. Paintballing. Birthdays coinciding with major holidays. Kim MPoxxible. Early release! Fully motion sensor bathroom. Crabmeat MRI. Crutches as a crutch. The rent being too damn high. In a major public faux pas the boys mistake Jimmy McMillan for Herman Cain, but that doesn't seem to slow thing down. They continue to discuss Raising Her/Them Cain's Pizza as well as The Saddam effect. Annunciation being out for 2025. Nightmares about Zoe Kravitz. Hey Paula. Najee being related to Anderson Cooper. The Rachel Zoe Project to RHOBH pipeline. Oh, Mary! And finally, we forget to do our only segment, what we needed this week.

    49 min
  • Cool Beanis

    On this week's episode, we discuss cool beanis. Followed by: The world's biggest bean. Biden's diagnosis. Shakespeare genderf*ck. Wheelchair robberies. Rhodes scholarship. Summer blockbusters (again). Unlimited popcorn. Teen summer. Sin 'em. Ambulance. Plastic on teeth on plastic. Podcast topics such as Airports. Legumes. Peanits the dog. Sharpei you stay. P and B needing to individuate. The ideal ratio of doing stuff to being alone. The impossibility of organizing a 6 person dinner. Being an indoor boyfriend. Leo's cusp. Crabs going after your feet and straight up pincing them. Karen Pince. My 3 dogs Prince, Pince, and Peanits. And finally, what we needed this week.

    41 min
  • Post-Crab, Pre-Clown

    In the Season 2 premier, Josh has crabs. The b*ys also discuss: Lancome. Sea monkeys. Lovin' that mons pubis. Getting equine. Clipping it. Being on appeal (for legal reasons). Tongue popping with TMJ. Gaunt girl. "Going there." Algo bait. The topic of Christmas. Asking how your you is doing. The royal "toys." Josh going to clown school. Delia Delia. Bouffantism. Being haunted boots. Upcoming remote podcast recording sessions. Clown horn. Homeless not clownless (for comedy reasons). Being polygluttonous. Les grands jugs qui sont pleins de lait vis a vis Land O'Lakes. Governor's school. French tourists. Salmon almondine. Pink. Qelbree y Los divas con ADHD. Najee's pilot and children's book. And finally, what we needed this week.

    47 min
  • Clap in My Junction

    In the WE NEEDED THIS season 1 finale, Josh and Najee discuss the clap. Najee's new top. The Junction. Accent mode. Tennis elbow. Shoe size. Club Foot and the shores of triple E. Does the Carthage match the drapes? Gettin' Qaddafi. Muslim burials. So fly like a G7. Seal Team G6 and feeling slizzard. Movies going in one eye and out the other. Josh's year and a half long interview process with the national cl*ndestine s*rvice. Threatening to out people for sport. Knee scooters. Going out once a month max. Immaculate apartments. The 3 lost episodes of the pod. Teeth grinding. Depersonalization because of Vyvanse and how it steers you off your path. Reading a novel aloud to yourself so it really sinks in. Books being more than 6 pages. Reading the facts. Threatening lawsuits. Writing demand letters (for sport). Living a full life as a legalese. Cop speak. WHEREAS, WHEREAS, WHEREAS. Speaking plainly (for sport). Goin' tuna fishing in the Gulf of America. An amazing drag name. Najee's list of drag names. Getting scurvy at The Junction. Improv… and this summer being incredible. Early seasons of RHONY. The Countess Cabaret. Getting a foot infection in Fire Island because you went barefoot on the boardwalk! Cruciferous vegetables. MTV beachhouse. And lastly, Laguna Beach.

    52 min
  • Stimming with High Arches

    Stimming with high arches. Spinning in place. Scalding hot sips. Parker Posey. Eating an egg-based dish. Najee's dead mom. Sutton Stracke. Amazon Echo and the imposition of structure on the pod. Being on time for once. Deviated septum and breathing problems. The "modern orthodox" accent. Looking for a stamp in your own home and the reasures that may bring. Najee's handwriting. The paper from elementary school with the dotted line in the middle. Dragging teeth across a spoon. Najee's photo with Aaron Carter, mere decades before he met his fate. Dreamstreet featuring Christopher Trousdale. BTS. Najee's *NSYNC fanzine writing career. Getting Chris Kirkpatrick's brother's email. Justin Timberlake and Trace Alaya's jean bedazzling business. Karen Pence's towel charm business, which has gone belly up due to the tariffs. Immigrating from the bed to the couch. Najee getting catfished by an older woman he trusted. And so much more.

    47 min
  • Cord Forward

    Najee forgets how to do podcast. Being cord-forward. We address the couch in the room. Doja Cat's recent performance at the 2025 Academy Awards. Working a mantra to the very bone. Shopping with the intention of buying something. Telling a story with pillows. Ardor (once again). Labels out for the boys. Harassing a small business. Seeing Rebecca Black in a spread. Tonic colonics that hit harder than Ardor. Have you met my children, Leanne, Busta, and Slant Rhymes? Gay Ski Week 2026. J'Inclusive vacations. Trillotrichomania. Trypophobia. Unwanted Thoughts Syndrome. Bodily injury, comma fear of. Nose jobs. Sprained ankles (multiple) and Russian immersion. Eczema and the itchy community. Tube tops and Najee's drag king name. Teeth whitening. Ebenezer Eyelash. Eyelashes that look like accountant visors. Pin the tail on the donkey, more eczema talk, and some creative party tricks. Lotioning with hairy legs. Container Store orgies. And so on and so forth.

    47 min
  • Biden Bacchanal

    CoStar (the app). Ardor. Josh being difficult to schedule with, his being a lying snake, his many homes and their decor. Heated mugs, heated toilet seats, and Najee's travel chisel. Cake, cake, cake, cake, cake! DJ Podcast B2B DJ Chelsea Manning. Biden Bacchanal and Monica Lewinsky's comeback story. "Astro Pizza." Najee's stroke scare. Reading Braille with your cl*t. Tuck the Dog and animals having the same star sign as their owners. Open relationships. Airport novels. Najee's abduction story. Constipation, diarrhea, IBS, SPH, and CBT (not that one, the other one.) Deviated septum and hypoxia. Consol vs. console. And so much more.

    45 min

About We Needed This

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We're here, we're queer, and we can't shut up. Whether you need to be pepped up or read down, "We Needed This" is here to fill your ears with the white-and-brown noise you need to make it in this…