If I Were You - 235: Tobacco (w/George Basil!)
Episode Date: September 26, 2016The friend, the myth, the legend George Basil joins us to dispense wisdom on mentors, soulmates, and cigarettes.This episode is brought to you by Harrys, FrameBridge, and SquarespaceSee omny.fm/listen...er for privacy information.
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It's time for you
It's time for you
It's time for you
It's time for you
Welcome to the chillest advice hour on the internet
I'm George Basil, who are you?
I'm Mary Tyler Moore
Holy shit awesome
I'm also Mary Tyler Moore
Holy shit, two Mary Tyler Moors and one George Basil in the house
That's an orgy
That song, I think it was a song
Would you say it was a song?
Yeah, I love that
It was written by a Luxembourger named Luca, whose song we've used before
Not this specific song, who's made another song for us
And his email said, by the way, you were pronouncing my name and my buddy's name, Manu, completely wrong
How are you pronouncing it?
I think Luca and Manu, so I'm probably doing it again
He didn't clarify how to do it
Manu?
Maybe it's Manu and Manu
Manu is a good guess
Interesting facts about Luxembourg
That's fine, we're good
You're saying Luxembourg wrong
Luxembourg
I'm pronouncing B-O-U-R-G
Luxembourg?
Luxembourg
We have a duke and our own language
Luxembourgese?
That's not that interesting
I wouldn't think they have that
Interesting, I mean that they have a duke
Yeah, but fuck dukes
Fuck dukes, dude
I like that song a lot
Really, that's why I sort of chose it because it had your vibe, your aura
I was playing out of your car when you rolled up
This is your first episode since, gosh, who knows, who knows when you were with us before
Man, that was my 2005
It was during when we lived at that house we recorded at
The cabin
Yeah, the cabin house
That was the cabin house, your sister was inside watching this
And I was just like, I was just watching her wash dishes the whole time
You will never forget that
I will never in my life forget that
Last thing you see when you die
I know, how comfortable does it make you Jake when I talk about it?
When you think of my sister washing dishes?
Not uncomfortable at all
I would kill for you to be my brother-in-law
Oh my god, if we were bros
Yeah, are you kidding me?
Yeah, that was
Even in law
That still counts
Just by law
I would love to come to family functions
Oh man, that'd be great
Yeah
We would have so much fun
Yeah, maybe I'll just start
Just start what?
Just start
Just start what?
I'll go, maybe I'll go
I'll start
Yeah
Soon
What's your next family thing?
Russian shana on Amy's house
Russian shana?
Russian shana
You're in, dude
Russian shana, hot baths, just me and my aunt
Just what you wish my family functions were
Russian shana
You mean the girl I saw washing dishes?
We're all going to a Russian shana?
Alright, never mind
You're not invited, George
But we will see you at the Yom Kippur Breakfast
Yeah, I will come
That's gonna take place also at a Russian shana
I found it, March 8th, 2015
Wow, what's today?
March 8th, 2000?
No, time doesn't work that way
Okay
You don't just get to guess
Wow
Today while recording is September 21st
I want to say it comes out Monday, September 26th, 2016
So about a year and a half
Geez, a year and a half is not a long time
I don't feel any more dead
But you're much more successful, I would say
In the last 18 months
Oh, yeah
You're on TVs and stuff
Yeah, 18 months ago we were embarrassed
To even be seen with you
And now it's like an honor that you're here
Yeah, it's like
Well, that'll change back
Oh, when you lose the jobs
Yeah
Or even just like the jobs stay intact
Did you have any of these TV gigs in March 8th?
Like, yeah
I think all I'd done is shot the pilot for Wrecked at that point
But it hadn't been picked up
So Wrecked got picked up, now it's a TV show
There's gonna be two seasons
It's going into the second season
Okay, Flaked, which is a show on Netflix that you're on with Will Arnett
That starts October 3rd, second season
Crashing, a pilot you shot for HBO
Got picked up to a full season with Pete Holmes
Shot that first season
That second season is like
That's already 3 for 3 on Pilots to Series
It's kind of a long shot
Yeah, it's like the Basil Bump
It's the Basil Bump
And then didn't she just...
You were just also in Vancouver shooting something else
Vancouver for a CW show that my buddies wrote
Called No Tomorrow, which is awesome
Yeah
Cast and everybody in Vancouver was cool as shit
When you walk into an audition room now
You're just like, come on, let's get over there
Oh, yes!
Basil's offer only
You think he auditioned?
Oh, dude
They don't offer me shit either
Oh, hell yeah
I think it's actually kind of...
I'm so busy, I guess, that TV's kind of out
I can't do anything else
You're locked up
Luckily, the way that all those shows that you mentioned
Lined up
Yeah
Just by sheer chance
They all worked in a calendar year
Seasonally
This is done
And then, for whatever reason, now Rekt is shooting
Wherever
You're in some travels
Because Pete Holmes' show, you shot in New York
Right?
So you're getting to shoot a show in New York
One in Puerto Rico, one in Vancouver
And then one in here
One in Venice Beach
It's ridiculous
It's incredible
It is, it really is
I don't know what to do
And to think it should be me
Oh
What?
It's not...
It's mean and it's not true
It's small-minded and incorrect
And it could be
It would be better if it were me as you
As your characters
For it to be I instead of George
Do you think that makes the shows better?
Or do you think that makes your life better?
Me better
All right
Shows worse, me better
Who cares?
George better
George better
George dead
George Brent
If George was just dead, I would get all of his roles
I'm the number two
Look at this, man
This office is amazing
Yeah, we have an office
It's super profesh and
Luxesh
Yeah, we couldn't book any fucking parts
So we decided to just make an office
Now we're fucking nine to five losers
We build our own shit
We're not artists anymore, dude
We're fucking business owners
We have computers everywhere
Look at this
There's like three computers in here alone
You guys can hold auditions here
Thanks, man
And we should
And we should for parts that don't exist
So we can reject everyone
Just like everyone rejected us
Some sort of weird, very low stakes revenge movie
We could tell everyone in the room
Hard facts
No, sweetheart
I don't think so, sir
Try again
Better
You're all wrong for this
Why'd you call me in?
I don't know
But this is not a web series
This is an advice podcast
It's actually the only advice podcast on the internet
Hosted by us
I'm Amir
And that's Jake
And we're with George today
Hello
I thought it was Mary Tyler Moore
But no
Right now
You've done the program before
You get the rules
People will email us
They're in sticky situations
They're seeking our advice
They think me and Jake are wise
Wait till they get some of the basal wisdom
Holy shit
These people are lucky
Because we're dispensing
I would say another hundred percent
Free wisdom
From the wisest person
Oh, that's very nice
Hopefully
This is
This first email comes from a lady
A lady named
George, you want to name her?
Because we can't use her real name
Yeah, Martilda
What's that?
Martilda
Oh, that actually is her real name
Shit, Martilda
I guess again
I just spilled
Does Martilda have a last name?
Yeah, Swind
That's amazing
Martilla Swint
I already pronounced it incorrectly
Hey, guys
I'm having some troubles
Relationship-wise
And thought you guys could help
Whenever I'm able to find a boyfriend
Everything goes really well
For about a month or so
But then I get bored
I get bored of current relationships
Way too easily
As my focus quickly shifts to other things
And other people
This usually hurts my current boyfriend's feelings
And puts an end to the relationship
They think I don't like them anymore
Which usually isn't true
I just have a hard time keeping up a relationship
Once the new and exciting factor wears off
And I find something else that's new and exciting
I want to believe that I can find someone
That I can have a long-term relationship with
But it's gotten to the point
Where I'm not wanting to date anyone anymore
Because I feel like our chemistry
Will inevitably fizzle out
Any advice for keeping a relationship going
Once you hit that point of getting bored
Thanks, love the show
Love Martilda Swind
Martilda
Grazie Marti
Tilda Swinton's Hispanic cousin
Hispanic nephew
Okay
George, how long does it take you to get bored usually?
Yeah, right away
Oh, instantly, first day
Yeah, pretty much
It's like, what's your name?
Yeah, mine too
Adios
You're not even intrigued that you met a girl named George
Never
It takes like, I think I have about a year threshold
I can do it a long time
I fall pretty deep and then it goes pretty long and hard
Oh, you're in it
Yeah
And you get more into it
I get really into it
Second date, third date, more into it, more into it
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Two months
See, that's, I've had that same problem too
Cause like girls, in my experience
Have like understood the real quick
Phasing out like, oh yeah, we went on three dates
And he wasn't interested
People are conditioned
Like that's normal
What's not normal is like two years of head over heels
Like, I want to share the world with you
Be with me, be with me, we are one
And then after two years you're just like
Fuck it
Wait a second
Why didn't you get bored earlier?
You would have saved us time
Yeah
You dove headlong into this
Swam out into the middle of the ocean
And immediately hopped on a speedboat
And went away
Yeah, you should have just broken up to me
When I was close enough to shore to swim back
Yeah
Do you get bored after a long time
Or quicker than that?
I guess both
Whenever I've been bored in every long term relationship
I've ever been on
I've gotten bored
And then
There were stretches when I was single
And I would start to anticipate the boredom
Before it would even actually happen
So that's like what you were saying before
I would like go out with somebody
And like, even if I was attracted to them
In that same like dinner
I would, or never dinner, drinks
Those same drinks
I would like
Not even a lunch
I'd go through everything in my head
Be like, our falling in love
Our courtship
Our wedding
Our marriage
Our children
And then our inevitable divorce
So by the end I'm like
Alright, this was fun
I never have to see you again
I'm divorced from you
Let me nip it in the bud right now
I think Louis C.K. has a joke where it's like
Why get married where the best possible outcome
Is seeing your best friend die
Like either you die
Or you see your best friend die
Like why not just not do that at all
Then you get to
Then you live a whole entire life without a best friend
Well that's what, yeah
That's what she's starting to feel like
With your threshold
I'm, as I get older
I get quicker to cut off
That girl's great
We should probably break up
I'm not gonna marry her
You've only been out with her twice
I'm like, yeah, but I'm not
What, am I gonna have kids with this person?
No, that's not gonna happen
I'm not even enjoying the moment
Because I'm like
If it's not gonna happen
I would have decided to marry her by now
What do you think that is?
Is it like, it's a psychological partnership
Well, in my mind
It's like the ladies that I find myself
Instantly attracted to
Are also not the ones that I like
Romanticize building a life together with
So those are two different ladies entirely
So do you spend any time
Trying to pursue ladies you want to build a life with?
Or do you think that's like
Just not in the cards for you?
I think I'm so picky in particular
That it's hard for me to find that
Magical one in a million person
That in the meantime
I'm like, oh, I'm attracted to this person
I might as well go on a date with her
Alright, I'm attracted to her
You let the distractions come in
Yeah, let the distractions come in
And then see if maybe it leads to something
I don't know, there's
A lot of people are like, you know right away
When I knew, when I found her I knew
And it was instant and I got it
And then some people are like
Yeah, you know, it's fine for a little bit
And then we like built up to
The partnership of like
The idea of living together
And moving in and starting a family
Like you don't have to be sexually charged
And new and exciting and chemistry
For the rest of your life
At a certain point that person has to turn into like
Okay, now we're partners in life
Make a family and like
We both rule over this mini kingdom together
Right, but there has to be like leading up
You can't just like meet somebody
And say like, okay, you're my life partner
I respect you and I want to build a mini
Kingdom with you
You have to like let the
Let the excitement wear off
Yeah, I think in the ideal relationship
The adrenaline, the excitement
That like I want to share things with you
Fades just as your like loyalty kicks in
Yeah, it's a crossfade
Instead of a cut off and then a restart
Right, but sometimes this goes down
This goes up
Sometimes they don't mix
Sometimes they don't overlap
And you can't like
You can't run that like the distance in between
To get to the
The next phase
And you have to keep your finger on that dial
For the rest of your life
Which dial?
That like excitement versus
Loyalty versus
Commitment versus all of it
Like you have to
I am in a trance
Yeah, well then that's really true
Because like how many clubs do you go to
Where like the DJ sort of sucks at doing that
And you leave
All the clubs I go to
But there's like some, that's why like
It's so rare
There's some really great DJs
That will keep you dancing the entire night
And then some people get married
During the intense excitement phase
And then that wears off and they're married
I do that
Oh no, you did that
I do that all the time
I do that every time
I've been married 70 times
You have been married
I have
Yeah, yeah, yeah
You joke but not too much of a joke
No, yeah, you've been married
To get back, oh fuck yeah
To get back to
To get back to her question though
She said that
Martilda said
That she feels like she should be single for a while
And I'd probably agree
If you're losing that sensation
Of excitement and like that falling in love
Thing
Within a month
With everyone
Or with anyone
Then there's a good chance that whatever
Is going on should be like introspective
And you should probably just be figuring your own shit out
I completely agree
But is being single also dating people
Or are you talking about not even dating anybody
Yeah, I'd say probably date
I don't know, I'm kind of
I'm in that position now where
I've been single now for a while
For like the first and longest period in my life
How long?
21 years
21 years
21 years
21 years
21 years
When you were 7
Ever since I started working in television
I've been single
It's been a while
Yeah
Yeah, it's been a bit
And it's great
And there have been dates
And there have been close encounters
And it's like
Of the third base
Third base
Third base
Just so you know
First date, third base
First date, third base
But there's still so much to unpack
Like there's still so much shit that
You know, I'm not ready to do
Like you're saying like
Like it's, I'm that person
That you run through that list of
Like criteria
Yeah
How they're going to fit into your family
That's heavy shit
Right, that's like
Okay, so I have to be sexually attracted to this person
And also they have to get along well
With my mother at Seder
And also they want to raise a family in Los Angeles
And also they want to yada yada yada
Yeah, absolutely
What if instead of a marathon
The same girl shifting in and out of this
Excitement and loyalty
So I'll date someone for three years
She'll pass the baton to somebody who's
Now more well equipped
To satisfy that next phase of my life
My life
I do believe that relationship
Or marriages should be three-year contracts
You should be able to go to the table
Every single, like every three years
Be like, hey are we still good
We still doing what you're option in or not
Yeah
Like you should be able to have a marriage check-in
Every three years
And the default should be break up
Right
And unless you like really discuss it
You're like, hey let's do three years
Let's do three more years
Yeah, that's a good idea
Let's extend just one more years
I mean the NBA limits it at four or five years
And marriage is so much more important than that
Who would want to sign a 39-year-old
To a lifetime contract?
That's insane
For no millions?
Okay
About Martilda, I agree that she
She's not ready for a relationship
That's why it's not clicking
But I think the attitude of being like
People bore me is defeatist
She should have the attitude of like
I haven't found the right person
And I'm not going to settle
Yeah, I know a lot of people are like
I don't actually feel that with anybody
And then they met somebody that was like
She or he changed all that
I was always bored
But then that person made it better
So that's what dating is
You date them and then maybe one day
You'll find the person that does give you the same
And even the people that you were talking about
That you like build towards something with
That you're like, oh, you know, there wasn't like
A whirlwind romance
It was like a logical build-up
There's still a time, even in those relationships
Where something clicks
And you feel like they're the person
I don't envy those at all, man
The Grinder relationships
Like the ones that are just like
We met and worked together
And then it started to happen after
It's like, fuck, you just like
Let yourself grow around this weed
So it's like water
It was by accident
We were around so often
It had to have happened
But I mean, one of those people
In that couple, typically, too
Is the one that was like
I kept going after it, man
I kept getting after it
And then she finally said it
But that's like, you hear that at weddings
And it's like romantic and cute
It's like, I just wore her down
Cheers to Sally and John
Sally's dead inside
Yeah, I mean, but that's how
A lot of people live
Concessions
Yeah, I mean, we live in a business
Where we're traveling and like
Burst of work, burst of nothing
Can you imagine living in the same place
Working in the same city
Nine to five every night
You come home at five
You don't have to do any work
From five to midnight
You like have that stability and security
I feel like that's a completely different
Like way to start, a starting point
Than like what you do specifically
You're gonna be in New York for three months
Okay, so like what is your girlfriend in LA
Say about that
And what if she's also an actress
And she's gonna be in Hawaii
For the two months after that
Or shooting a movie in London for like
You know, real quick, I have a theory
I think Netflix is gonna be the reason
A lot of couples stay together
I think millennial couples
Are gonna have a better marriage success rate
Than our parents
And I think it's because of Netflix
Netflix and marriage
Because I chill so hard
Because now you like
Everybody has like these great shows to watch
It's like the best thing you can do
With your significant other
You come home from work
You cook dinner and you're like
I'll watch three hours of Narcos right now
And like I want to stay with you forever
I did watch a good media
I did watch a lot of more TV
When I was in a relationship than when I was out
Like because when I'm alone at home
Like I don't feel like the need to just like
Binge watch on a Netflix show
Yeah
But like if I'm with somebody else in the room
And I've seen that person day in day out
Whatever long
You don't want to talk to them
Yeah how much can we catch up
How much can we get to know each other
We've already been texting all day
Now let's sit down and watch
Making a murder or whatever the show is called
Making a murder
Do you want to answer another question?
Yeah
Oh this one's from another lady
A 21 year old female named
Hwetney
Hwetney?
Hwetney
W-H-E-T-N-E-H-Y
I hate that name
That's my, that's the worst name
I think anyone's ever said on the show
Hwetney
Hwetney
Oh it's so
It makes you shudder
Yeah
There's like Santa
You know there's like some words like moist and panties
That people like fucking can't hear
Mine is whetney
Oh I've never ever experienced that
So it's sort of sound making your skin crawl
Oh good lord
What's the worst last name you could give her?
Ugh Cummins
Hwetney Cummins
I hate it
I love the show writes Hwetney
I'm a 21 year old female in need of some guidance
My boyfriend of four years has been chewing tobacco
Off and on for the past couple years
My man
The other day I found a glass of tobacco spit under the bed
Gag
I was not snooping I was just looking for my underwear
It was in the glass
Oh moist panties in the glass
Hwetney
And when I confronted him about it
He admitted to be doing it for the past month
He claims he is sorry but he can't promise to stop
Because quote that is what addiction is
He wants me to help him by asking him every day if he's done it
And by going through his stuff
I really don't want to be his mom and become a naggy girlfriend
Is this normal? Is he just making excuses?
What do I do?
P.S. with this truth bomb
He also confessed to have a crush on a girl in one of his classes
That is cute
What the fuck should I be concerned?
Always be concerned Hwetney
You should always be concerned as a rule
Let's tackle the first issue first
Chewing tobacco
That seems like something you would do
I do
I do
You do or you did or you don't?
Did, don't and done
Really?
Yeah
I mean now I chew this nicorette gum
Which is less disgusting because
You don't have to spit it out
What's your history with tobacco?
Smoked cigarettes
An addict since I was 15
15 smoked cigarettes
You still smoke?
Over 20 years
I still smoke if she's pretty
I'll walk up and bum a cigarette if she's pretty
Yeah
My dad is a lifelong smoker
And now for the last 20 years he's been a tobacco chur
So he dips
It's like a little pot of shit
What's the difference between nicorette and the dip?
Nicorette is like a chewing gum
It's just nicotine
Yeah and for some reason
It's in a form where you just chew the gum
You park it in your
You guys want to try some?
I have some in my pocket
No
Instantly no
The chewing tobacco is that
Is it real that there's like glass in it
And it cuts your lips a little
Yes I think some of them like skull
Or one of them has like a fiberglass in it
Because the point is to
To have small abrasions on your gums
Insane
So that the tobacco can leech through
Insane
Yeah
My dad will have cups of coffee
Dunkin Donuts cups
He drinks it
And then he spits in it
So he's querying around a cup of coffee
All day long
And last summer they visited from Greece
And I'm driving the family in a big van that we rented
And there's a cup of coffee in the coffee holder
And I pick that
Oh no
And I take a swill
And I almost killed six people
All of us almost died
You drank his tobacco spit
I took a big old swill of his tobacco spit
Oh
And what was it
That's how you become close to your mother
Yeah
Disgusting
The most disgusting
I watched my mom do it once
And there's nothing you can do but laugh at the person
That's the terrifying thing
It's like the whole van lit up with laughter
That's when you almost killed them
Yeah
I was just like
I didn't think this was funny
I'm driving the car on a fucking bridge
It was horrible
It's disgusting
It's a disgusting habit
But as a tobacco
And you have to spit it
You don't swallow anything, right?
The gum
Yeah, the gum you can swallow
The dip you spit
The tobacco chaw
You spit
The snoozes
You can actually swallow
The snoozes you looses
The chaw you bob
The looses you looses
And the skull you bowl
The snoozes are elusive
That stuff you can kind of like
It doesn't create a lot of saliva
It doesn't like hit those
Okay
So you understand
I'm kind of skeptical and cynical when it comes to addiction
Like a lot of my friends are like
Listen, I wish I could quit but I'm addicted
And I'm like, yeah, people are, it's hard
Like if I also wanted to quit something I loved
It would be hard
But if it didn't kill me, I would quit
And people do quit so I know it's possible
But it's not something that you just love
No heroin addict is like
Sorry
I'm addicted
Yeah
Like okay
Hey
I didn't realize
That's the problem
Keep on
I'm being addicted to coffee is sort of like one thing
Because nobody's like
Nobody's gonna like force you to quit that
But smoking
You've never had a chemical
I've never like been addicted to a chemical
So I don't understand like
An addiction on like a chemical level
I understand like
Yeah, it would be hard for me to give up
Sandwiches
Because I really like sandwiches
I wouldn't have a sandwich
Yeah
That's as far as I can empathize
Bad news
Sandwiches giving you cancers
No
No
Not my baloney on rye
You've had a cigarette
I think I've had cigarettes with you
Yeah, yeah
I definitely have like
I've never been addicted to cigarettes
But I smoke them pretty regularly
Yeah, like two packs a day
But I'm not addicted
But if I'm drunk and hanging out with people that do smoke
I'll probably have a couple cigarettes
On like a Friday or something
Have you ever quit for a lady?
Yes
You have
That was the, yeah
Like in a relationship you can't be
Successfully respectable
Respectful
What does that mean?
Well, you can't, you know
Like if your lady doesn't smoke
She doesn't want to kiss an ashtray
Right
I'm opening a nigger at her
Yeah
Because you're feeling it
I've been in relationships with people who
Like used to be smokers
Then like a year in the relationship
Just started smoking again
And you feel so helpless
You're like, wait a second
Yeah
I didn't sign up for this
And it's like so
You can't really just break up with someone
Because they're a smoker
It sort of feels like a
Like a
Just a nuisance
Something they can't help
But then it's like at the same time
You're like, this is disgusting
And I don't want to watch you do it
Yeah, it's kind of weird
Because like you don't want to be like
I forbid you to do it
But at the same time you want to be like
I will break up with you if you don't do it
So it is kind of like you putting your foot down
It is gross
But it's also for their own benefit
So you can't be that bad
A jar under the bed
That's a little too close to where you're fucking
You just hear the jar hitting the bottom of the bed
Clink, clink, clink
And all he's thinking about is his saliva juice
He starts fucking the jar
And this dude also wants her to
Like her to be the
He wants her to quit
He wants to like be grilled by her every single day
He wants her snooping through his stuff
So he doesn't lie
Yeah
It's sort of on you at a certain point, buddy
Yeah, but then it's tough because she's been with him
For four years
What is it?
Maybe that's her threshold
Maybe now's the time
Oh, pull the plug
Cut him loose, whetney
Cut him loose, whetney
Spitting tobacco
And then the PS is like a huge bomb, man
That PS is huge
The PS is kind of weird
You don't confess to your girlfriend
That you have a crush on someone
You're allowed to have crushes on people
But don't tell your girlfriend or boyfriend about the crushes
You can't stop your thinkings
But you can't stop your talkings
And your spittics and your smokings
I'm so sorry about that
I really don't want to become his mom and naggy girlfriend
Is that normal?
I think it's normal not to want to become his naggy girlfriend mom
Yeah
Is he just making excuses?
No, I think you're probably
He's probably prolonging the situation
You're giving yourself time by victimizing yourself
You just have to stay on me
You have to tell me when I talk about it
You have to tell me when I do it
I don't even think about when I'm doing it
It's like, yeah, okay, dude
There's some responsibility, man
I got my shit to do
I'll quit next week if you remind me not to have it anymore
What do I do? What should she do?
What would you do?
I think I could put my foot down for smoking
And I don't feel like a bad guy
Because it's actually killing them
I would tell all my friends to stop smoking
Yeah, but what if they're addicted and they don't
And you have to be like, what, vigilant and make sure that they stop?
I don't understand, like, I'm addicted so I'm addicted
I understand I'm addicted so it's hard
It doesn't even matter if you understand it or not
Say you're in a relationship with someone, she's smoking
And you say, you have to stop smoking
She's like, okay, I will
But then she just goes out and keeps on smoking
What do you do? Break up with her?
Yeah, I think you'd be like, you're not doing what I'm asking you to do
It would change a lot
Well, is she still smoking two packs a day?
Or is she like, oh, I had a cigarette this week
She's trying
You have no idea, you're finding cigarette butts in the water
Under the bed, in a jar
In tweezers
There's lipstick on this one
It's this job that you didn't want where you have to be like sort of a detective
But it's not like you're catching anyone cheat on you or something
It's like this very tiny little micro problem
That's recurring
For me, smoking is one of the biggest things
Well, you wouldn't get into a relationship with a smoker
But what if somebody you were already in love with just was smoking
And then never gave up?
I guess it depends on how deep I was in the relationship
If this was like ten years in, we have kids
It's like, all right, now I have to fucking deal with this issue
I'm not gonna divorce her
Four years in, this is the exact scenario
Four years is very long
You gotta make a decision either way
Whether it's smoking or not
Four years is like, you know who this guy is
You're gonna marry him, marry the smoker, go for it, deal with it
Or get out now
You spent four years growing, having a good time and a life with this guy
But if you're not gonna marry him, get out
Also, he's confessing about a cute girl in his class
What's her email address?
I'd love to figure that out
Yeah, it sounds like he's loading on the back door exits
Yeah
He's just like, I can't stop
Also, I love this girl
Maybe his dude doesn't want to be in a relationship
He's being a little destructive
All right, let's take a break
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Let me come to Toronto
Dude, are you in any of these cities?
You can come by
Do the show with us
I'm in Fiji next
Okay, so that's, I don't know
11,000 miles away
Do a show in Fiji
You guys did Australia, right?
Yeah, that was close
Fiji, yeah
If only we were in Australia when you were in Fiji
That would be much more doable
Duble
When do you go to Fiji?
I think like January
Oh, that's great
For my birthday
And your birthday
For our birthdays
Hell yeah, dude
How close is your birthday to mine?
Yours is the 7th?
No
8th?
9th
Oh, 4th?
Yeah
January 4th?
Yeah, July, January 4th
Exactly two weeks after
Oh, July 1985
That's right
That is correct
Hmm, I'm a January 18th, baby
January 18th, when's yours?
August 5th
Well, hey
Nobody's birthday
You tried
August 5th is a great birthday, guys
Oh, yeah, that's big time
A lot of historical relevance to that one
Neil Armstrong
Neil Armstrong died
Your parents might have fucked on George's birthday
Oh, yeah
Interesting
And that was the only time
You were a very premature baby
Jake was born
Right after they fucked, yeah
Jake was born 9 months too early
He came out the size of a poppy seed
I just wanted to see my mommy
I couldn't wait
He just like a poppy seed hanging out on her breast
A tiny little poppy
And I could talk right away too
And I had a very small voice
Mommy
So this is our adult swim pilot pitch to you
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Why are you going to Fiji?
For wrecked
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Got it
Let's get season 2s of everything
And run it back basically
You got your shows
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That's fun
Yeah that would be great
Come where you guys where where those shows again Minneapolis Minneapolis Detroit, Chicago in Toronto
Yeah, but I'm on Chicago Toronto Toronto Toronto's coming up Toronto's next week
Yeah, if you're listening to this actually your listeners on Monday our show in Toronto is this week. Oh, it's like tomorrow
Yeah, go to our show god damn it. Whoa. This is happening. So you're already at your show. Yeah
Our show is tomorrow in Toronto. Yeah, or if you're listening to on Tuesday or Wednesday our show is happening now
Wait is what's show is on Tuesday is the stand-up show or the
Podcast I think our podcast is second, but why don't you guys talk while I look that up?
I'll give you a topic. Let's say George hasn't cut his hair in a while. Yeah, when is the last time you cut your hair?
Well, I was married and
You're Samson
All your divorce power is in your hair man. Canada is
Mine
Amazing. Yeah, do you got a trim on that hair on that main or do you just like not even cut it? No, no
I don't touch it. I mean I touch it, but I don't work it zero nothing
Yeah, I should probably comb it more than I do, but I definitely keep it clean with like washing it and conditioning it
But it just stays under a hat. Do you like it? I love it. You do. Yeah, you too can have one really I wish
What do you mean? I can't grow that hair. What would you would you're currently growing at your hair?
Yeah, you're working on it right now
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Do you want to answer some more questions? Yeah
Okay, great
Finally a question about from a dude like let's let's help out the fellas a question about that's why we started this podcast
Yeah, I don't know we could talk to guys
Hey, if you're a girl and you're listening turn it off or turn it up because we're about to get real
So I don't want you listening or I want you listening extra hard or just change
You cannot please have it you're playing you're trying you are trying to please the alt-right and feminist
You're a Trump supporter or a Gary Johnson fan
I want you to fucking turn this shit down, but not all the way
Because this one this one is just for you, but remember ladies. I'm with her. All right here
stand up and
vice-a-versa
Yeah, you gotta just pick a side
You're not gonna get them all this is you talking to Jimmy Fallon. Oh come on. Let's talk about it. It's topical guys
Do you have a guy's name a guy's name? Yeah, Taird. That's a
TRD yeah, T E I R D a T. E I R D. Yeah, last name feature
Taird Vigin
writes
Hey guys, I'm just gonna jump into it
I moved away to college this year and in doing so broke up with my old lady
But since we since I've been here we've been having Skype sex and when she says she loves me after
I feel obligated to stay to say the same
But I moved away so I can have a fresh start and I feel like if I do that I could really hurt her badly
So I don't want to what should I do?
Cut your throat
Cool guy
I love that voice. Yeah. Hey, dude got broke up with my old lady because I needed a fresh start still hook up with her on
Skype I feel bad not saying I love you. I don't want to hurt her. What should I do?
Remember to hang loose buddies
I said cut the cord get me the fuck out, but now I feel bad that I'm hurting her feelings
So I will say I love you giggity giggity locals only
All right, it seems like he
Sort of soft broke up with her. Hmm. Maybe this is his first breakup and he's like
I don't want to just drop her off cliff. I'll slowly gently let her down
Right, I'll say we'll break up and then we'll have Skype thing that he needs to remember is that he's not
Being nice to her. He's deluded himself into thinking that having Skype sex with her and lying to her about loving her
Is the nice thing to do right because love is nice and sorry friend
You're doing the mean thing
Because you're taking advantage of her love for you
So you can still jerk off on Skype and come and then you say I love you because you don't want to feel guilty for
Exploiting her and then you want to go out and seize your cheese
But you you can't have it all just like you can't have the trump supporters the gary johnson supporters
The jill science supporters and the hillary supporters
You have to choose one actually I I skipped a parenthetical that question specifically even more messed up is
Uh, I kind of want a fresh start and I feel like if I do that for example start talking to other girls
I could really hurt her badly and I don't want to oh
He wants to break up. He wants a fresh start
But he thinks that'll hurt his ex-girlfriend's feelings. So he doesn't want to do that
It'll probably hurt wet knees feelings. Oh, you think this guy's
Teared and wet
He's chewing chalk
He's scolding bowling and coaling. Yeah, I mean you can't like jake said you can't can't have it you got I mean
You know break up to have to do you got to got to take the pain you have to say and you can't be the one that
Uh consoles
Yeah, breaking up breaking up hurts. But the thing that hurts worse is the half breakup. Yeah is the is like the
You know
Straddling both sides and like being hurt being free being hurt being free like what the fuck do I do?
I'm hurting somebody
He you need to cut her off
You need no cutter. You need to end this completely. No more skype sex
Understandably difficult when you're talking about like the half breakup, but you're still fully fucking
Right like the comfort of a of a partner ex-partner or whatever
That you no longer see regularly so you're not tired of them or like in the routine that you funked up
But instead you're like you miss them you love them still and then you get to have sex with them
I get that. Yeah, that way you can have it all then you eat it all you're single and still fucking her
Fuck pain
What about gain but
The skype thing is that's for me at least that's one degree to removed. I would just like it's over
I don't I don't need to see your vagina. I have one. All right skype is like you don't
Oh, I'm so nice. All right. Oh, yeah, I don't I don't have it. No. No, I don't
That's how George breaks up with everyone. Have one. I don't need your vagina anymore. I have one of my own
So you do not have it. No, I do not have one. Okay, because you're nodding. Yes. No, no, no
Not a vagina
But now you're just making your head in circles pussy. I see it. I see your vagina. You have a vagina. Wow. Awesome. It's a can. It's a can of
Leroy
The pussy can it's um, yeah, I I get the half the half stepping on the way out the door is like
classic, but a lot of people confuse being nice with uh, being
Doing what's easy the easy thing for this guy is to like
Not have this tough conversation with this girlfriend and he's able to say
Oh, I'm being nice. I'm not hurting her
But you're not you're not hurting her like directly
You're not watching her cry because you're lying to her
But that's more painful like this breakup the one that he has to have is going to be more painful than if he had
Just broken up before he went to school. Totally 100 percent. Oh, I don't want to be nice. It's hard to be nice
It's easy to be me easy
and meansy
so
I'm gonna suggest keep fucking her on skype. Keep saying. I love you. Yeah, that's fine
Okay, say I've been thinking about you more and more while you're still dating other girls that way. She's happy
You're happy and then you kill yourself in december that way
Issues go away. Anyway, your brain's on the fucking wall. Merry christmas skype
Please follow my advice. Hey, listen, there's no wrong way to eat a Reese's that what you said is the worst
You advised this guy to kill himself. I'm just throwing a skype. It's subjective. There's no wrong way to eat a racist
There is no wrong way to eat a racist
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Can we answer one more question really quickly? Oh, god, that was my bond. We'll do a quick sesh. Yeah, dude
One last girl I can't believe it who three ladies three girls
Can you imagine Taylor Taylor tinky tinky taylor tinky taylor and stein
Taylor tinky and stein is like a it's a law firm where one of the lawyers sucks. Can you imagine which one it is?
I'm tinky
Hey, john taylor
truly stein and i'm crack tinky
Crack tinky crack tinky
Crack tinky writes one of my closest friends is three years younger than me and I've always always seen her as a
Younger sister her family has told me that I've been like a mentor to her
I've given her advice on pretty much every life topic for five years now
Her brother and I are on this at the same college
We started out as fuck buddies three years ago
But at some point we became form a formal couple and we're now thinking about moving in together
Not only are we great together, but it'll be cost effective and I would really like to give it a try
That being said my baby sister from another mister has no idea
I'm dating her brother
It killed me to hide it from her, but I didn't want to be a bad example to her
Mentors don't just have sex with the siblings of their mentees
I feel like if I move in with him, I would have to tell her that I've been low-key fucking her brother for multiple years now
I don't want to do this for many reasons. So what should I tell her?
love
tinky
Taylor tinky I'm tinky
You know the rule of mentors don't have sex with the siblings of their mentees. Yeah, the mentees go back to fuck buddies
Have you ever had a secret or like a relationship where you had to hide it from someone? Yeah, what's the deal with that all of them?
They're all secrets. It's called shame blooming felt some people feel it constantly and I'm embarrassed ghosts
No, it seems like the mentee would understand that you know as long as you're still a good mentor
She's like, oh and my brother
What are you teaching him and then you could have like a weird family three way the real brother?
This is like a potentially beautiful thing. Remember in friends when uh ross finds out that
Oh, yeah, my sister my best friend. It's like my best friend and my sister and then he just softens
He's like my best friend my sister and he hugs them. That's like that's what will happen
That's what maybe it might take a little time. It might be tough. It might take a little time, but nobody
I don't think she's gonna stay mad forever, especially if your relationship is like
Real it's one thing if you're like, oh, I've been fucking your brother and you know
I heard his feelings and now we're not together anymore. Now it's gonna be weird. I can't come over the house
Yeah, but it's another thing to be like. Hey, I fell in love with your brother. I'm gonna move in with him
I'm gonna be a bigger part of your family. I
Still love you. Is it all that shit? That's it. Is it public and safe to say that you've been in this place of this mentee?
um
Where oh where somebody was fucking my sister
I don't know about fucking but dating game with her wanted to be with her and was afraid to tell you
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that did happen and how did you react? I was pissed
I was pissed for um
For a while, but then I got over it and it was it was beautiful. It was really nice. Is it me? It was you and the dish
earlier
Uh, I think the only claim she'll have it being quote unquote mad is the
Lying about it for three years. I guess you shouldn't have lied about it for three years. That's a little weird
But I think she'll get over it and she'll be nice if she actually looks up to you and you're dating her brother
She she might be pissed at first
But you should still as long as she loves her brother. That's what I was gonna say
I hope she has a good relationship with the brother. What if like the brother was the source of a lot of the problems?
I need a mentor because my brother is an abusive asshole
You're the reason I'm a mentee. Yeah. Oh, I'm gonna help you. Oh my god. That abusive asshole is hot
I wish I had I wish I was a mentee. Will you be my mentor? Are you be my mentee?
You retract. All right, never mind. I'll just do it. Sorry Tinky. Uh, you're not a good mentor
I'm the mentee. Great. Fuck buddy though. Great. Fuck buddy. How'd that happen to you? Uh, me? Yeah. No, I've never
I don't know. I don't I don't like the I don't even like like dating friends of friends
I feel a little weird about that. Yeah, my perfect girl's like, oh, nobody knows her
Let me introduce you to this nurse from torrents that I discovered
Not like, oh, yeah, I know that girl my buddy dated her and like she fucked this other guy and like three years ago
And I tried to hook up with her once
Who's that asshole friend that as soon as he finds out your girlfriend he tells you the lot like the list of people
She's fucked. Oh, it's like it's so if I'm like, oh, I'm dating this girl when you be like, oh shit
Fucking Dave Rosenberg did something to her. I wouldn't say that no Rosie. Well, who's a girl that Dave Rosenberg has been with?
Which Brit like Shakira
Shouldn't out them he ruined Shakira. Oh, I'm dating this new girl. It's this girl. You would be like, uh, cool
You wouldn't be like wait a second. I think yeah, I would just be like that plowder at the bagel smith at 5 a.m
Yeah, I would I wouldn't say anything but I would know that it would get back to you
But I would just you know, it doesn't it doesn't matter. Yeah, it doesn't matter
I just I seek to avoid that kind of stuff, but it's sometimes unavoidable. It's unavoidable. We live in a small community
Yeah, we're all funny peoples
Even a nurse from torrents. She's the funniest of all George married her
My 13th new wife
Uh
All right, cool George. Yeah, this is always hey man. How'd I do I would do this every single wednesday
It's not great to me. Yeah, we could do it from fiji. Actually, we could come visit in fiji
Okay, and then we could we just we just need three microphones. I want to come to a show
You should come to a show. Yeah, let's figure it out. Maybe the toronto. Do you have anything to plug?
I'm not a damn thing, but thanks for having me. Hell yeah, dude
That's the cool shit, dude
That's the fucking guy
I love that shit
Uh, it's it's a shame because he did promise his sister. He'd plug her charity. Oh, yeah, that's right. She's not doing so well
But hey, anyway, thanks for having me guys
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