If I Were You - 339: Bald Spot (w/Murph and Emily!)
Episode Date: July 16, 2018Friends and fellow HeadGum Podcasters join us to discuss British Accents, Amir's D&D Character, and an intense game of Mafia.See omny.fm/listener for privacy information....
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Help me, Jakey, I'm in the womb
Got me so bad, help me
Save me if I'm real
Tell me what the fork did do
Tell me, tell me, tell me
Headgum, if I were you
Show me if I'm real
Tell me what the fork did do
Tell me, tell me, tell me
Tell me, tell me, tell me
Fuck you, John
One time I saw John
Shova bystander
An innocent bystander
Whoa, Kay, Weezer parody
Masha
By Jackson, Murph and Emily, what are your thoughts?
I really liked all the chatting up top and I wish that I had continued
Yeah, that's like the
No music, all just the remix of us talking over each other
I mean, a sweater song parody where it's just the chatter at the party for four minutes
It's just getting a ride
It is crazy that that song is good, right?
That the sweater song is good
It's just chatting
Well, that's how it starts
That's how it starts
The verses are chatting
All the verses are that, or like leading it to
Oh, baby, goddamn, you mean that part?
No, but then after the verse chorus, they chat again
Oh, yeah, the chatting is sort of like the background music
The chatting is the verse
The chatting is the meat, my point is that there should be more chatting in songs
Wait, isn't that the chorus?
I hit the part about the sweater
It's getting in the way
I was in this conversation, you took me out of it, I want to get back
They're getting a ride to the party, but what's the root?
Where Weezer went wrong was no all chat sweater song
That was written by some guy named Jackson
whose name on Instagram is Jax1
and then an underscore at the end, which is very rare
You rarely see the ending underscore of a username
Yeah, unless it's someone who's creating a new username to harass you
You really got to experiment with where you put underscores
to once they keep getting banned and they make me one
If you're just trying to troll somebody, you're not like
this username is taken, you're not going backspace, backspace
I'll come up with a new one, you're just like, alright, fine
You're not like, what am I interested in?
Okay, so I harassed them using my birth year, 85
Maybe I'll do 87, that's when my sister was born
I'm pretty anti-underscore in general
I never want to say underscore as part of somebody's username
I hate it when you upload a file and there's spaces in it
and then it just gives you a bunch of underscores
and you're like, that's not what I called this file
but that's what you're calling this file
It seems like underscore wasn't invented for computers
What was an underscore?
It's kind of a way to spice up your username
or change it without changing it too much
It's the underlying to blank
But I guess for whatever reason you can't have a blank
Do you guys think that there are any children who have been born
that have an underscore in their birth name?
That's cool because then you give your kid the honor
of having their true Gmail name
Why?
Because nobody's going to have like mic but m underscore i underscore k underscore e
Why not just give them a weird name?
Because you want to call them mic
With four underscores?
You can't even take an SAT because there's no bubble for it
Yeah, birth certificates are like a government thing
You need to have letters in your name
What about at?
At is a good question because it's like at Emily
Could that be your name at this point?
Your Twitter handle can't be your name
Or it would be awesome if your name was like
Oh, I gotta think of it
If it was like Risa
It was an R but then like an exclamation point
And then a dollar sign and then an at sign
Yeah, like catch up it with a dollar sign
Can you do that?
So you were thinking of a word that had an S in it
And the name was Risa
Can your legal name have a number and a character in it?
No
Why not?
Because you already can
Alright, what about your Gmail password?
Can your Gmail password have done it?
Did you have a password?
But your name can't?
How is that fair?
Can we all reveal our Gmail passwords on today's show?
Is that crazy?
6969333
At Risa.com
Murph and Emily, you guys haven't been on the show since you
Made your D&D podcast with Jake
We think
Yeah, we were hyping it perhaps last year
Yeah, I remember Murph trying to convince Jake to get into D&D on our show
And I thought you guys came on to talk about the show
I think we came on to get hyped about it
Because we were all pumped
And I remember looking at a mirror and feeling bad for it
Which is normal
That could have been any episode though
That was actually five years ago
You guys were basically
We were recording a podcast
Murph is like a nerd zombie and he infected you
And now you love D&D ever since Murph came around
No, no, no
Murph is a bad influence
It was in Jake all along, I think is the problem
Oh, and Murph just released it
Yeah
Murph like planted the seed that grew and overtook me
And now you're so into it, you love it the most
I am super into it
I love D&D wholeheartedly
You guys play for hours
I think what allows you to get nerdy about it
Is that you can play a character who is super cool and buff and great
So it's nerdy, but it's an appreciation of coolness
He's a bully, basically
I've heard of this, right?
I feel so immune to people teasing me about D&D
Because like, yeah, Hard One Surefoot is six foot six
Rippling muscles, amazing hair, awesome beard
He carries three axes and a pickaxe
And he like chops people's heads off
Keep making fun of me, and he'll actually come after you
Make fun of me all you want, Hard One's awesome
Isn't that what nerds are doing in the 80s?
Or is like, let's fucking get home and play
And become these awesome people that we're not in real life
It's literal fantasy
The cool thing about D&D is that people's characters end up being distillations into what they think is cool
We're not playing around and everybody is six foot six and ripped
I am 34 triple D
Just whatever you want to be
Caldwell is what?
Caldwell's like a boy scout
Caldwell's character is basically a boy scout
Caldwell's very into like anime and stuff
And his character is very much like, I will do best by my family
Got it
That kind of thing
So it's not necessarily who you want to be
But it might be what you think is funny or like what, you know
Some sense of yourself is in there
Merph is like a 200 year old elf that sounds like Hulk Hogan
Or Randy Savage
I can't even like, because whenever we do live shows
People are always telling me to be on the D&D podcast for a couple episodes
I'm like, what's my version of like the fantasy version of myself?
What do I have? What do I need?
Sometimes you just take something that you want more of in your life
For example, I would love to have huge tits and I love mushrooms
So I play
Guys, knock it off
Emily's telling me something serious
A really fertile elf who can become a mushroom and shit like that
Got it
I think of something that you're like, oh, like some of it is like, some of it is like aspirational
But then some of it is also like, like just something that you really like and want to like get into
Yeah
But do you have any superheroes you like or anything like, let's fucking scratch
Mine are like, mine are like, my superheroes are like professional basketball players
But that wouldn't exist in like Bahumia would it?
Well, you could be like a real athletic type
But isn't that like a hard one?
You could be different
You could be different
You could be more of a
You'd have to be different
Actually, can I just be hard one's ugly twin?
No
Hard one has no family
Yeah
No, hey, you forgot about me
I'm Roger Sherfoot
Wow, you actually had a really good childhood
Yeah, no, we were fine
No, I'm the bastard of the mountain
You were lying about everything
Who, hard one?
No, it's all steroids
He was five foot two
Jesus, man
Yeah, I mean LeBron James is kind of your, no, Kobe is your hero
Yeah, Kobe Bryant
But what is he like a
You could be like a sharpshooter
Yeah
Oh, yeah
Did you ever see that there was a cartoon like back in the like 80s or 90s
Well, there were a million of them where they were like video games come to life
But there was one where like
There was one where there was a basketball player who had like a magic basketball
But there was also that sports all-star show with like Wayne Gretzky and Michael Jordan and stuff
And Bo Jackson, yeah
Yeah, and Michael Jordan, I believe, had a magic basketball
You could do something like could he invent like a sport that they play up in the north of Bohemia
Absolutely
And like you are the star of this sport
Yeah, because you could use your magic basketball like a ranged weapon
So basically Murph would take like a bow and arrow but then like turn it into a basketball
But is there basketball in Bohemia or is it like
Not basketball proper but it would be a sport like
Like we could figure out essentially a way to make like Quidditch but less nerdy
Because you'd want it to be more like basketball
So you'd want it to be a little bit more
There's what?
There's shovel ball
It feels like Bohemia would have
Oh, it feels like there would be some sort of like
Like a rugby type thing, yeah
Or can I go to the complete opposite and be like the Albert Einstein
That's what I was thinking for you is I was thinking if you were some kind of like wizard
Yeah, like a Jewish wizard
Yeah
Adam Conover was on the show and his character was essentially Orc Frazier
It was just a very smart Orc
Oh, that's pretty good
He was a very smart Orc who we like went back to his apartment and he had like jazz playing
Orc, can I be like a dumbass? Like can I be Homer Simpson?
Yeah, you can literally have like five intelligence and be like much stupider than a normal person
What if you were just like a really, really lucky person who was a huge fucking idiot but like was so...
That is very Homer, yeah
You're not even talking about my character anymore, you're just talking about me
I like that we are scratching the itch though
Yeah, there's something there
Homer with basketball
Yeah, cause even...
Einstein
I think like following sort of the Adam Conover route of doing like an Orc Frazier
I think like finding a kind of a character trope or a character that you like and then like making a fantasy version of that
I almost have to do the voice first because I'm very limited in the voices I can do
So like I don't want to choose
That was just kind of an afterthought though
So are you guys putting on is it like completely different voice or is it just like...
Emily's voice feels like you almost have like this other accent
I like slip in and out of it
But no, like when we're recording I'll like really like I'll just start talking like that a little more
Are you from the south at all?
No, I'm from upstate New York
You do have like a little country in your accent
Everyone thinks I'm from the Midwest though
I think there was something about upstate New York that sounds like Midwest
Right
So like Moonshine's voice has like a twang
Yeah
And Hard One's voice is just my voice except deeper
And Beverly is Caldwell's voice except higher basically
Yeah
Yeah it's just like slight changes
And I just do like tough guy voice
Yeah
Or like...
Nerdy
Not tough guy voice
Nice guy
Tough guy and nice guy
Alright we'll keep thinking about it
And if Merff's lady voices are like whisper
Yeah I just talk, I don't know, like this
Yeah
Just like all women do
Murph but whispering
But what is this? This is an advice podcast
It's called If I Were You
It's an advice show
Me and Jake host it
Murph and Emily are on it
And we're just having fun
We're just hanging out and having fun
You guys want to try to answer some questions since we're already here
Yes
Do you have a good one that you found Jake that you definitely want me to answer?
Um
He sent these to me earlier today
Give me the title of the second one that I sent you
She's always right
Right?
I don't remember that one
Should I tell my friend he's bald?
Oh yeah let's go there
Alright
This is a British ladies name
So Emily do you have a British ladies name?
Oh
Skahoofin
Wow
Speaking of come up with names
That's another fun part of D&D
You could play Skahoofin
Or Risa
Skahoofin
Did you guys have it planned already
Or you came up with it like via improv
And then it just has to stick for years
The names?
Yeah
The names came up with that
I put a ton of thought into mine
When I
I wanted to do Surefoot
Cause I wanted a guy that had like really good feet
That didn't hurt
Cause my feet are
Close
But when I first came up with Surefoot
I wanted him to be
Like a life
Small like really fast
Like
Like a triathlete or something
Yeah
Like an Iron Man guy
And then I think when I came up with the name Hardware
I was like no he's going to be huge
Yeah mine are always like
Mine are always like I like to still like to
I feel like you name it
And you like kind of come up with like
The character more from the name
Like I knew I wanted to be into mushrooms
And I knew I wanted to be
Like a Southern girl
So it became Moonshine Saibin
Yeah
But also cause like I wanted to name her
Sweetie something
And Murph was like
No that's like that's a joke name
And I was like I think Sweetie's a good name
Sweetie is
Too silly
Sweetie is good
But Moonshine is
Moonshine is so good
Okay so Scoobin
Do you guys
Do you do a good British accent by any chance?
I didn't
I do an awful one
I was just hoping
I can give it a shot though
You want to give it a shot
British lady writing this email
To read this in a British accent
Yeah I'll give it a shot
Alright
That's a big failure
What do British people sound like?
That's always a good thing to tell yourself
Right before doing it
As you take the laptop
You grant
Okay
It starts with a howdy
How the heck do you say howdy?
Howdy
Nice
Wait on me this my homies
I'm bought a simple UK lass
Who enjoys saying things like
Howdy
Is that cultural appropriation?
I guess that's a question for another day
Not recently I went up on a hike
With our friendly Welsh neighbor Snowden
It's a goddamn mountain
We're hardcore
Now on the way up
My partner in crime
Would find himself gasping for breath
Spraying out sweet and generally
At
Spraying out sweat
Sorry
Classic
Spraying out sweat
And generally making a sickening mess of himself
At one point he had to get down on the floor
And rest
What a wimp
However
This was when I noticed
He seems to be balding slightly
At the crown of his head
We're both 27
But we are also both people
Who are quite terrified of aging
And still huge kids at heart
I know that when people
Have commented before on him looking older
He's found this quite upsetting
If you were this jabroni
Would you rather be told
About this bald spot now
So you can catch this
So you can catch things early on
With creams and shit
That keep your hair on
He might be shocked
And a little upset initially
But might be happier in the long run
If he can treat it now
Or would you rather not know
And only find out when it's really noticeable
At which point you're further down the line
Of looking like Larry David
And need to do something
And need to do more to look like
A wispy Johnny Bravo
Should I maybe comment to his girlfriend
And ask her to bring it up
Or should I perhaps just kill him
Before he has a chance
To get bald
As a side note
I know you divas are always thinking
Of something sexual and everything
You damn sexy pervert
But I'm engaged to my fiancé
That's how engagements stand to work
Admittedly
And me and her are happiest balls
Much love
Aspreth McF-
Aspreth McFuckface
P.S. you guys used one of my songs
In the past which was
A circle of life parody
Thank you for that
It made my week
My artist name is
Danny Steele
And who gave me a shout out
And I admittedly got a little star stuck
Also, in case you really listen to this song
My voice is in
My voice is deep
In it because I'm
Okay, my voice is deep in it
Because I'm a damn pround
Damn proud trans motherfucker
I just didn't know it at the time
Whoa
A lot of twists and turns in the P.S.
I did not read that far down
Actually
It's like I was on a hike with a guy
By the way
He is a girlfriend
By the way
I'm engaged
By the way
I'm trans
And didn't know it at the time
Anyway, should I tell him he's balding?
Yeah
Wow
This is, I think that
I think, well
My first reaction is like
He's so scared of aging
Like that's
You don't need to be scared of aging
Right
Yes, that's true
Well, you don't need to be scared of anything
You just are scared
Well, you kind of like
Need to be scared of something
Taxes
There's like
There's survival in being
Afraid of stuff
Yeah, but aging
You're saying it's not necessary
I guess like the visual aging
Like don't be scared of that
Be scared of your organs shutting down
Be scared of the slow degradation
Of the processes that keep you alive
At first I was definitely like
No, don't say anything
It's crazy to want to say anything
But you can
I do have friends who
Have used creams and shit
And it helps
And it does help
Wait, does it grow back
Or does it just stop
What is the
I have a friend who uses it
And he used one that started with a P
It was like
Pretty
Pretty
And it's a cream stuff
It's like a cream stuff
Yes, it was propitia
But that's a pill, right?
Propitia is a pill
But he didn't like the night
The side effects of it
Which is why
So now it made him pee a lot
In the middle of the night
Okay
Pee on his head
Which made it grow
That's amazing
Watering the garden
But then
Now he just does creams
And the creams help?
Yeah
Different stuff
Effects people's hair differently
Like there's some people that are like
I did propitia and my hair
Like grew back
And then some people
Grew back
Yeah, there's like rare cases
Where it actually grows back
You go to a Reddit
R slash Trestless
R
It's a real treasure trove of people
Fighting baldness
Wow
I think if you have just like
A little bald spot too
Which it sounds like
Is what this guy has
That it could be
You could defeat it
I think there's a bigger question though
You could beat it
I think there's a bigger question
Would this guy look good bald
Because that is the best way to be
There is a power in the shaved head
Yeah
Just to embrace it
There's some people
For reality to it
It's like not everyone's
Going to look great with it
So there are people who should
Fight it
But like some people
Just fucking do it
Here's my thought on this
Is I feel like this guy knows
Yeah
Like although if it's the bald spot one
Versus like the receding one
You don't see it as much
Yeah, I don't think I would know
I mean I guess maybe you could feel it
If he has a girlfriend then
Yeah, you'd see it
Yeah, tell the girlfriend
I think that's the thing
That was
Bring it up with the girlfriend
That was their suggestion
Yeah
And I was saying
I would say don't bring it up to him
Directly
Cause then like he knows that his friends
Are noticing and that
That probably would make it feel worse
Especially after like
Hacking his way up a mountain
Like almost time they
Hey by the way you're bald
Really
It's very funny that
What was the name that
You gave this person
Scahuvin
Scahuvin
Scahuvin's like four paragraph long
Ball busting email
Actually
Their own like
Solution was pretty good
Which was to tell the girlfriend
Yeah, tell the girlfriend
Which I think is probably
A way to go about it
That's almost meaner
It's like by the way I told your girlfriend
That you're bald
Well you tell him
I still think with
Even though it's on the crown of his head
I still think he knows
I think he might know
There's no way that you don't know
Yeah
I would err on the side
Of not telling anybody
Yeah, because you can't get in trouble
For not saying it
You can't get in trouble
No one will be like
Why did you tell me
Like you should have told me
When you started
Yeah, I think he knows
But couldn't you
You've never like
Denied
Like I've gained
You know 25 pounds at a time
Just like thinking that
Like fat macking myself
Like for always sunny style
Like getting fat
Thinking I was getting buff
And you can be in such deep
Such deep denial
That you don't realize it's happening
But I think weight gain is something
You can look in the mirror
And be like
I think I look the same
Whereas a bald spot
You
But you could just be like
Maybe that's how it feels
On the back of my head
I don't know
I mean
I thought that she was just
Going to like tell him
And be like
Haha, you're bald
But like if she's going to
Suggest creams and shit
Yeah
Creams and shit
Creams work
Creams work
They are noble intentions
Like I want to tell him
So he can arrest
Right
The male pattern
The level of bald musting
Made me be like
You should not say anything
To this guy
You are just going to
Razz him
But when she was saying
That she wanted to
Talk to the girlfriend
I think
I guess it depends how you do it
Yeah
Option C
Okay
She just leaves
Some creams and shit
In the bathroom
No one will
He won't know where
Where it came from
But it will cause him
To have some introspection
Oh
Am I going bald?
Wait, so sneaky
Touch touch touch touch
I am going bald
You are going bald
Or just like
In the bathroom
Hang another mirror
Pretend to take
Like have some reason
That you need to take a picture
From overhead
So he can notice it himself
That's cool
And if he's like
Don't take the picture
Or like really
Like moves his head
Yeah
And you'll know that he knows
Yeah be like
Let's get
I think it would be funny
To get a picture
Where it's like
From behind us
Looking at this
Like a back selfie
Birds eye view
Birds eye view
Crowns eye down
Here's what you do
I know what you do
In OTS
Over the shoulder
Shot of us
I know how you do it
You set up an insane
Sharkootery
And then give it to him
Meat platter
And then you're like
Oh my god this looks so good
I need to get a picture
And over the head
Of the wood board
And over the head
Of the sharkootery
And I'm going to put you in it
I want all of your solutions
To start with
You set up an insane
Sharkootery
You always answer by saying
We should get ham
It could be any food
We should
Honestly we should probably
Follow up with
Because she's going to write back
And say
Okay but what is
I now need advice
On the insane
Sharkootery
You need little pickles
You need
You need
Tiny pickles
And cheese
With the little grater
That slices it
Shark
Oh a honeycomb
Is kind of necessary
Oh that's cool
That's really cool
That's tasteful
A little bowl of nuts
Live wood
It really should be live wood
And we haven't even
Got into the meat
What?
In ham
Prisciado
Prisciado
A little tofu
I don't know where he stands
Yeah
The kind where it's like
A creamy brown
You don't know if it's liver
Or what?
Oh a pate
Yeah pate
Oh yeah
Pate with a little knife
Yeah
The little green circles in it
You gotta have an assortment
Of little knives
Find out his favorite meats
So he's leaning in deep
To eat them
So that when you catch
That sharkootery word
You put the cream on the cracker
A little cream on the cracker
Yeah
And maybe like a little
A little bowl of olive oil
So he has to lean in
Oh
Any
Anything tiny
Will help
Yeah a little ramekin
A ramekin with propitian
Yeah
It's like just
One or two of them
Oh that's good
So you take the picture
Yeah
Then before you show it to him
He takes a tiny knife
Dips it in the ramekin
Of propitia
He says
Ew
What is this
And then you say
Okay I think you're
Ready to see this photo
And it's the bald spot
But don't worry
Because you're working
Against it right now
And when you show the picture
Don't comment on the bald spot
You comment on the meats
Yeah
Or the cheeses
You say wow
You really got in on those meats
Look at you
Hovering over this board
Look at the rind
On the pepperoni here
Oh yeah
You could be like
Oh all those meats
I hope there's not hormones in it
Because hormones can have
Leads a higher testosterone
Which a higher testosterone
Is linked to male pattern baldness
Is that true
I think so
I would have thought
The exact opposite
Hence statham
Hence rock
And diesel
Enter diesel
Oh wait
One more option
One more option
You just sit down
For like a triple X
Fast and a furious
With the rock in it
A crank
Is that the Jason Statham thing
Sit down for a marathon of those
And then at the end
You're just kind of like
What do you think about men
Who are bald
Because you're
I know I think they're hot
And I'm trans
You're like
You're like empowering them
Like before then
Yeah
But I think that's like last
That's like the last option
Because like that's after
That's after all the cringe and shit
Didn't work
If nothing worked
If nothing worked
And like his baldness
Is like really starting to speed up
That's when you like make him
Okay with being bald
Right
Side note
I would love for everyone to send me pictures
Of their charcuterie
Hashtag Emily's charcuterie
And they're hairlines
Preferably with people's bald spots in them
Some plus
Just a bald man eating a charcuterie
Is just kind of like my
What do you call my brand?
Yeah
That's my D&D character
Alright let's take a break
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And answers with Murph and Emily
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Oh that's cool
So you take a photo of anything
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Yeah
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Really nice
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This was actually a really sweet moment
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And you're trying to make a joke of it
I was just being goofy a little bit
Like
This is how I told my grandma
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Yeah
Kind of like she misheard it
Or something like that
Or the way you said it was kind of like
Could go either way
By the way
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Oh my god
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Hey, Murph
And or Emily
Do you guys have any?
Oh, it's a leather device
Apologies for that
The question is
Do you have any advice that people
Didn't necessarily ask for
But you think would help a lot of people out
I think it would help people out
There's probably a lot of people at home
Who start watching Frasier
And they think like
This is a good show
But there's too much Frasier in it
And my advice is
You can always scrub ahead
And see when the next Nile scene is
How?
You take your cursor
You take your little cursor
And then you can look at scenes
That are coming up
So you can scrub ahead
And then find out when the next Nile scene is
And just skip to that
So my question is
Have you started skipping the Frasier scenes?
No, not yet
I wouldn't have the audacity
Because what if he got a phone call from Niles?
I wouldn't miss it
I would miss out some Niles content
How would you describe the difference
Between Frasier and Niles?
Because it's always like
When you're creating a show
You want the characters to be so different
And I always thought Frasier and Niles
Were so subtly different
But like part to tell apart
One is a frog and one is a tadpole
Right, so you're saying Niles
Is sort of an immature Frasier
It's not immature
He's like even sleighter
And even dandier
Mmm
He's dandier maybe
That's what I like about him
But can you imagine pitching that show
Where it's like
Frasier is this, this, this and this
And also there's this brother
Who's pretty much the same thing
But dandier
That show was a spin-off
So you didn't really have to pitch Frasier
Yeah
You did have to pitch Niles though
Niles was not on Cheers
But then you're just like
Here's how you pitch Niles
You're like you know what's funny about Frasier
Let's amp it up to eleven
Yeah, crank it
From ten and a half to eleven
Wow, Niles is the Frasier of Frasier
In a way
Think about it
What Frasier was to Cheers
Niles is to Frasier
Imagine a new show
It's called Niles
More Frasier than Niles
Or then Frasier
Could there be a character on the Niles spin-off
That's more Niles
Emily
Oh my gosh
We were watching
It's my dream to play Marys
God damn it
Emily very suddenly just got into Frasier
And we've been watching Frasier
But she does not like Frasier very much
But she was like
She was like
Is there a Niles spin-off?
And I'm like
No, Frasier was on for like twelve years
There's no time for Niles
How old is David Hyde Pierce now?
Ooh, I'll guess fifty-nine
Really? I'll go fifty-six
He's ages because he lives on my TV
That's correct
Do you guys have guesses? Age?
I'm gonna look it up
I'm gonna say
I'll say
Oh, he was in Wet Hot American Summer
Oh, here we go
Here we go
I'm just gonna say
The fucking age, man
Alright, fifty-five
Good
Emily?
Forty-two
Wow
So Emily is by far the worst guesser
I was correct
He's still Frasier
Yeah, you saw him in 1993
I saw him like the other day
On my TV
And he looks like forty-two
So when Frasier was on
He was forty-two
But now he is fifty-nine
Fifty-nine
Yeah
Very close to sixty
Here's an interesting fact
People who are fifty-nine
Were born in nineteen fifty-nine
Huh!
It's kind of weird that way
That's satisfying
Anyway, that's...
That'll be my D&D character
He's filled with mundane trivia like that
It's interesting to him
There could totally be like a lame wizard
That doesn't know like actual magic
But just like shows you math
That runs with trivia night at a tavern
Oh, no, I know who you should be
Okay
Oh my god, you should be...
Did you guys have in college the magic kid?
Just like a magician?
Yeah, like the kid who learned magic
To try to make friends
Oh, I had a Rubik's cube kid
You were the Rubik's cube kid?
No, but not in college
This kid was really good at the Rubik's cube
I was a shitty Rubik's cube kid
That was a bad version of that
Oh, you want me to be like a poor magician
No, like a stage magician
Oh, it's a pretty good magician
Like a wannabe...
But not good
Like you're like really good at sleight of hand
And stuff that people aren't that impressed by
So like not a wizard
Like in a world where people can throw fireballs
You can do awesome card tricks
Yeah
But it's the kind where it's like more of a math trick
So like put the cards down in three rows of seven
Yeah
Alright, now choose a column
Alright, hold on one second
And it's always really particular
You're like no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
One of the front columns
Think of a number
Don't grab it, point to it
If you divide all five numbers or add them
You get the same total
Isn't that hilarious?
Think of a number between seven and ten
The card one swings his axe
Oh
Wow, it's the first time we've ever killed a guest
Within eight minutes of being on the show
I'm sorry, I've got another hour and a half
You can just sit quietly
Has that ever happened on the show?
The guests get killed?
The guests dies?
No
It came close with Jonathan
Oh, Jonathan did almost fall
Nathan Yaffe almost fell off a giant totem pole, essentially
Yeah
Can you choose to die?
Like if I came on and I wanted to die within two hours
Can you force that to happen?
Yeah, you could
Honestly, you could just
He just behaved recklessly
Yeah
Oh, I can make it
We're all trying not to die and we come close all the time
Yeah, you're just like
If they have like a ship that goes through the air
You could just be like
I jump off the airship
Really?
Yeah, okay
You fall and you die
You could also be such a piece of shit
That none of us want to heal you
Did I?
I think I told you this story
I told you this story
But I recently played Mafia with a group of
Not my friends, but my girlfriend's friends
Oh yeah, I did not hear the story
You told me to tell you
This is great
So have you guys played Mafia?
Yeah
So in Mafia, for those of you listening at home
It's like a game where like 10 people are playing
And they all close their eyes
And one person is secretly like killing everyone else off
So when everyone's eyes are closed
His eyes are open
And he's pointing to someone saying
Like kill that person
And then everyone opens their eyes
And there's a general discussion to try to see
Who's the Mafia
Who's the one who's actually killing people
And the point of the game is to lie
So everyone says I'm not Mafia, I'm not Mafia
And then the guy who's actually Mafia
Also says I'm not Mafia
And then people are like
Oh, I think he's lying
And let's put him on the trial
And let's execute him or stuff like that
Yeah
It's like a witch hunt
A lot of like guessing and stuff
So
It gets heated
Did I say this already?
Within 20 minutes
Everyone was yelling at me
That I was ruining the game for everyone
Screaming at me to go
To leave
To leave the house
What?
Like the only reason
You made your girlfriend think
Was she just like
What the fuck are you doing?
You was half mad at me
Half in
Create like
Confused as to why this guy
Was genuinely yelling at me
And then half like
Loving the fact that everyone was yelling at me
What did you do?
Someone was genuinely yelling at me
Yes
No, more than one person
Like
Why would you fucking do that?
Why would you fucking do that?
The only reason you do that
Is to ruin the game
And then his fiance
He's trying to ruin the game
He's trying to ruin the game
Everyone's staring at me
And yelling at me
After the game had ended
What did you do?
Okay, wait
What did you do?
So this is what I did
Sometimes I tell people that
Can I guess what you did?
No, sure
Did you
Just
Did you say that you were mafia?
No
Kind of
So no, no, no, I didn't
No, that would be ruining the game
I didn't even do that back
Sometimes I tell people this story
And they're like
Yes, you did ruin the game
I agree with the person
Sometimes they're like
This guy overreacted
So this is what I did
No matter what he overreacted
Yeah, because it was a game after all
So
Some guy
Like you vote to kill someone off
And then it's like
If you get three votes
Then you kill that person off
And I saw this guy raise his hand
And as soon as there was three votes
He like lowered it
So I'm like
Oh, I feel like this guy's mafia
He did something shady
Where he was trying to like save somebody
So then
When it was time for a general discussion
I'm like
This guy raised his hand
And as soon as this person
Had enough votes to kill him
He lowered it
I think he's trying to disguise
The fact that he's actually the killer
And we should kill him off
And he said
I'm actually not the killer
Because
And I'll tell you why
I'm the doctor
So in like advanced levels of mafia
Oh yeah
There's the doctor
Who's allowed to save someone
They're only allowed to save one person
In the whole game
Exactly
So like they're like considered
Like super sacred
And he's like
I'm actually the doctor
So you guys shouldn't kill me
And then I'm like
Well, you're just lying
You're just saying you're the doctor
Because everyone lies
And that's what you're saying
You're saying
I'm the doctor
But you're not the doctor
And he's like
Yes, I am the doctor
Why would I say I'm the doctor
If I'm not the doctor
I'm like
Because everyone fucking lies in this game
I can say
Like it's too risky to say you're the doctor
Because then someone else would say
I'm the doctor
And he's lying
And that would out me as lying
And I'm like
That's not actually true
Because you said I'm the doctor
And everyone was just waiting to hear
What you were saying
And the real doctor
AKA me
Didn't want to interrupt you
And everyone was like
Oh
I'm like that's right
I'm the doctor
And I didn't know what the hell you were doing
So I didn't want to like say anything
Until you were done talking
And now that you're done talking
I want to let everyone know
That I'm the doctor
And he's lying
Meanwhile, I'm not the doctor
I just think he's lying
And you're not a mafia either
Yeah
No
And he
He's like
No, you're not the doctor
Don't say you're the doctor
If you're not the doctor
Like that
Back and forth
And I'm like
I am the doctor
You're lying
Is this the guy who ended up yelling at you?
Yes
He was the host of the game
I'm currently on your side
Okay
So everyone's like
This is so fucking weird
I don't know why they're both saying
They're the doctor
Let's kill them both off
They kill me
And then the next round
They kill him
And then the mafia wins
Because they have like
The mafia ended up killing two townspeople
After they kill him
The game ended
And he's like
There's no fucking reason you should say
You're the doctor
If you're not the doctor
A hundred times out of a hundred
You will lose that game
No, I'm not
I'm just
I'm not
I'm not mad
I'm just fucking explaining to you
That like the only reason you would do that
Is to ruin the fucking game
Like that
Like seriously yelling
Wait, was he the doctor?
Yes, he was the doctor
He was the doctor the whole time
I'm still on your side though
He's the doctor is ruining the game
No, that was after the game was over
Yeah, but like during the game
He said he was the doctor
He said it to save his life
Like by the way, don't kill me
I'm the doctor
Yeah, but like
Hang on, hang on
Here's the important thing
Amir, were you mafia?
No, I was a townspeople
Why were you lying?
Because he believed that
He was that
I understand
I was saying I'm the doctor
Because I thought he was lying
So I was lying to prove that he was lying
I'm done shit like that
There's so much lying to happen
But you were trying to ruin the game
You were trying to kill him
Because you thought he was mafia
But he's like
You don't know that I'm mafia
Amir was playing
I was playing the game
I was playing the lying game
I'm all in on your side
You're just gonna be that player
I don't think you ruined the game on purpose
But I don't see what
I would have done the same
All right, that's just
His logic is
You operate on a hunch
His logic is sound, though
Yes, I mean his logic was sound
Who is this motherfucker?
And he is logic was sound
He sounds like such a loser
to be like
I'm about to get killed
And then he's like
I'll reveal that I'm the doctor
You don't do that
He says that's a professional
He said that's a professional
expert strategy
And he's played a lot
So he's like
To me
It doesn't fucking matter
How much you've played
To him he's like
You shouldn't do that
And the only reason you did that
Is because you're trying to
Actively ruin the game
So there's two levels
One, calling me a bad player
Which is fine
I'll accept that
Even though I don't agree with it
But two
Then taking it to the next level
Is like
I'm so good at the game
That I did it anyway
To try to ruin the game
And then other people
Joined in with him
And we're yelling at me
Everyone
Did anyone take your side?
A lot of people
Let's say there were eight people
Ten people playing
Four of them were screaming at me
And four of them were like
This is really fucking weird
I think it's so fucking weird
It is
Really weird
I've played so much mafia
And I've gotten into
Like
Heated, right?
It gets heated
Yeah, I've had like
The room get weird and tense
But I've never had anyone
Like yell at someone
And also I would have done
What you did
Because it's like
It's like
You think he's
You genuinely believe he's lying
Yeah
And you're like
Let me call him out
You're lying
I mean
The whole game is lying
I have to tell you
The whole game
The whole game
You've never
Have you ever played mafia?
I have played
I have played mafia
You don't sound like
You're good at it
You don't lie
Wait, no
But why would you
You're a townsperson
Why would you lie
As a townsperson
Because I'm operating on a hunch
If I was another
This is how I would call you out
Laughing and being like
Why would you do that?
Yes
The real doctor
Might want to be quiet
Because if that
Exactly
The real doctor
Would not want to be killed
If I
If I
Because he thinks the real doctor
Is
The guy
Was the doctor
Yeah, but he could
Easily have been lying
He could easily have been lying
And the real doctor is like
I don't want to say anything
Because then I'll be targeted
By the mafia
Next round
Sure
The doctor
Just to get this guy to divulge
Like
Or just to like
So doubt among everybody
And have them be willing to kill
It's smart
I think it's smart
If I were playing
I would have also jumped in
And said
No, I'm the doctor
Three doctors
That's right
Let's all fucking write
What usually happens
In these games
One person gets a little heated
Like
But then
And they like
Instantly cool down
Like
Oh, you killed me
Like
Fuck this
And they're like mad
And then they like
Make another drink
But everybody else is like
Hover around
Like acting
Like they're not interested
But still watching
Like one person max
Is allowed to be
Like
Like real wound up
And then everybody else
Sort of like
It was so wound up
That like
Half an hour later
We were just sitting around
Like
Cooler heads had prevailed
He tied his head
Like apologizing to me
Like it's fine
You'll like hang out with him
Again
I would be fine too
I'm not eager to
Because
You know, he takes it
Very seriously
Everyone was like
Apologizing to me
I'm like
This is more fun
Than like playing a boring game
To me
It's like the fact that
We were all yelling at me
Like I like that kind of stuff
Because it's like
I have a fun story out of it
This is why
I don't want to play D&D with you
Either
Like I feel like
That would be better
Than nothing happening
So like
People apologizing to me
Like a fun story
I think freaking out
Freaking out is crazy
Especially as adults
Especially at a game
Like
Accusing me of trying to
Ruin the game
Like even at work
He was acting
Yelling at me like
He caught me slashing his tires
I also think
You're like way more
Like fine to yell at you
For ruining the game
If you had killed
Like a bunch of other people
Yeah
But like the fact that
You just got his character killed
And he's like
You're trying to ruin it
Yeah
He's such a bad sport
Such a bad look
It was really fun
That is really quite good
That was a good story
Way in
Let me know if you think
I won didn't do good
To ruin the game
Or three
You think this guy
Is a little bit crazy
And I'll name his name
On your Patreon
Awesome
Yeah
We're actually out of time
Unfortunately
But we got some good stories
And laughs out of it
Even if we only answered
One question
What's the name of your podcast?
I think we helped a lot of people
At the very least one
We helped him
Your work through
His mafia time
Say your podcast again
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Oh, hello
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Janes isn't that normal
That's a good name
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Call me Ginny
Opening theme song
Was written by Jackson
And this closing one
Is by Lahiru
Pronounced to kind of rhyme
With Amir
So I don't know how you pronounce it
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