Asher Perlman Drinks Salt Everyday
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What do Asher and Caleb talk about when they first meet on the show?
Maybe it's Maybelline. Wave. Wave.
Yeah, I don't think bad. I don't think bad. That doesn't make any sense to me. I don't think
bad either.
No bad. Maybe good.
Maybe good. Are you getting stressed out talking about this? No. I was thinking about it the whole time anyways, so now that you brought it up...
Asher.
Caleb. What's going on, brother? Nothing much. How you feeling? I'm feeling good. You know what's so funny? I was trying to... On the way over here, I was trying to remember... when we met, if it was in Chicago or New York for the first time, and I remembered my first memory of you, but
I don't know. This better be nice. It can be mean. It's
super mean. Is it really? No, but I don't remember if we met or if I just, do you remember? No. You don't remember? No. I'm bad at this though. It's
not. I
am too. And so this could be like fully the fourth time that we had encountered each other. But I was walking through IO and you were sitting in one of the tables with some friends. Okay. And I was walking with someone and he said, that's Caleb. He's with Future.
Who
said that?
I think it was John Sabine. I'm going to send him a check.
Drawing your checks in the mail. He called it. That's really funny.
I think it was He's the Future. It was something like that. I was like, damn, yeah, okay, that's cool. And then, I mean... Tough look for the future. If
this is what we've got to look forward to... I feel great. If
this is the future, I feel good about
it. If
this is what we've got to look forward to... I feel good about this.
That's really funny. I fucking loved hanging out at I.O. Every day hanging out at I.O. to me felt like... I mean, I moved there right after college, and I just felt like everybody was so brilliant and fun. I didn't feel any of the, like... I don't know. I think there were people whose experience, and I want to know what yours was. I think there were people whose experience at IO was like, oh, everyone's getting spots and I'm not. And I was just like, I think this is so fucking fun.
I loved it. I also think that half of your listeners just turned it off. They were like, oh, they're going to talk about
improv. They're going to be
comparing their experiences at
one of the improv theaters in Chicago. But I loved it. Asher, they turned the episode off when they saw that you were a straight man. Honestly, fair. I'll tell you that right now. That's totally fair. They saw the thumbnail and said, ah, pass.
They knew it from the thumbnail.
Do you think you present as gay in any way or shape or form? Well, I'm not gonna, I don't know. You have good style. You have nice glasses, but there's an energy that radiates from your eyes that says this is a heterosexual ally.
And you think the energy reads in a thumbnail? Oh, it's gonna read in the thumbnail. The thumbnail, they're like, they see, wow.
They're gonna see the thumbnail and they're gonna go, oh, God, a straight guy again? I hate when Kilo does this. It's probably all about football. Worse, it's about improv.
Ha ha ha!
But we get really into who played on what team, when different Herald teams got cut,
where people got placed. Let's do it. Well, you know the only drama I experienced at IO, Asher, was that I didn't get placed on the Herald team made out of my class.
I mean, this is obviously... On them. Like, this is like whoever was on the Herald Commission at that time.
Well, there turned out to be a reason for it, but they didn't, you know, they play little games. They didn't tell me that they were, there was someone leaving a veteran team and they wanted to put me on there. Oh. But he didn't know when he was leaving town. Oh. So for like seven months with no explanation, I just wasn't on the Herald team. And I will say, I was not cool or mature. I was very pissed. I was very pissed. Yeah. I was like, everything I've done for this fucking theater. I had a weekly show. I was pissed. I was like, what the fuck are you talking about? How did you
find out? Was it months later?
It was eventually. I think I was so mean about it. I was so mad. I think eventually somebody from the Herald Commission took me to lunch and was like, hey, we have a plan.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What do Asher and Caleb talk about when they first meet on the show?
0:00–9:16
2
How do they transition into a discussion about power, responsibility, and feeling in control?
9:16–19:41
3
Why do they spend so much time debating the effects of Celsius and other energy drinks?
19:41–40:55
4
How does the conversation shift to city biking, mortality, and personal fears?
40:55–41:22
5
What sponsor messages are featured at the beginning of this episode?
41:22–42:21
6
How do Caleb and Asher explore their fear of death and belief in God?
42:21–45:17
7
What medical stories do they share about tilt‑table tests, tonsillectomies, and other surgeries?
45:17–50:49
8
How does the true‑or‑false game work and what were some of the surprising facts?
50:49–1:18:51