If I Were You - 371: Power Move
Episode Date: February 25, 2019In this episode we discuss Jake's European Vacation, Amir's potential monovision, and whether its cooler to block or unfollow somebody on social media.See omny.fm/listener for privacy information....
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Wow, how do you like that Bubley shit?
Risky move covering a Bubley song because he's got a voice, you know.
Yeah, it's so cool to see Bubley blow up like that.
We went to junior high together.
We did like bar mitzvah classes together.
You and Michael Bubley did?
Yeah, we used to call him BuBee BuBlay.
BuBee BuBlay.
Little BuBee BuBlay.
You went to high school with him?
Yeah, no, we went to junior high.
We did bar mitzvah singing classes together.
I'm just going to quickly look up his Wikipedia.
Oh, no, no, no.
Where he grew up.
He's from British Columbia.
He grew up in Canada and he's 43.
He's 43, yes he is.
How old are you?
35 or 36?
You obviously didn't overlap at all in junior high.
It's like two or three years.
I feel like I'm on trial here.
You're not on trial.
BuBee BuBlay.
Oh, no, that's an evil sin.
I would call this a mistrial.
This wouldn't seek court.
You're so clearly lying.
Okay, okay, all right, all right.
I promise not to say anything wrong going forward, your honor.
Well, not wrong.
You lied, so let me see.
I won't mispronounce anything either.
It looks like he was Croatian,
which would mean that you were probably lying about doing bar mitzvah stuff together.
No, yeah, it was all a ruse.
I'm actually, I really am sorry about that.
Okay, yeah.
So that was a fuck.
Sorry, I shouldn't have even tried to pass that off.
I didn't even have to do that.
I'm just like this pathological.
It was weird.
I guess you made it about you because there was a song that we usually give somebody credit for where you're like,
oh, good job.
Here's your SoundCloud page or whatever.
I wanted to be that.
You tried to seize the glory.
So here, back to reality, he said,
this is a theme song submission of the parody of I Haven't Met You Yet by Michael Buble.
I don't have anything to plug, but give a shout out to my beautiful girlfriend, Jordana.
She doesn't listen to any headgum podcast, but I can change that.
Also, come to St. Louis.
I'm from Long Island, but I go to school in St. Louis, so I always miss your shows.
David Steinberger.
All right, thanks, Dave.
David Steinberger.
So we appreciate that.
You're back.
You are back from your voyage to Paris and Copenhagen.
Yeah, dude.
Gay Paris and gay Copenhagen.
You had a croque madame with your madame,
and then again,
you got Haigie and Haifi with the wifey
in Danish country.
Yeah.
You had a Danish in Daneland,
and you had a croque monseur
Yeah, and you know what,
I had a great European vacay
from Scandinavia
to Southern Europe.
And you just got back yesterday,
so I didn't even hear anything about it.
Yeah, so one interesting
thing that happened to me
is that I got food poisoning in Paris.
Okay, that's a good one.
And compared to the food poisoning,
you got the last time you left the country,
which was about two months ago
in Mexico City with me and Marty.
This was probably
five to ten times worse.
Worse, which is weird
because when you got food poisoning in Mexico City,
you puked at a bar,
then went home and had diarrhea
and puke at the same time,
and you said, if this is how I die,
then so be it.
And you're saying the one you got in Paris
was ten times worse.
Maybe five.
It was the sickest
I've ever been in my whole life.
And that includes the time that I got food poisoning
when I was like 25,
like seven years ago.
Which until
this week was the sickest I'd ever felt.
I'm trying to re-watch
Instagram stories and try to decide
which one of you were you
recovering, which one were you not quite sick yet,
because I do see yours
and Jill's Instagram stories, and it seemed like
you had a beautiful Parisian vacation.
So where in that
did you get such ill food poisoning?
First of all,
we had a beautiful
Parisian vacation.
That much was accurate.
But
on Saturday night,
late, late Saturday night,
we got there
Thursday,
so that's like
some Eiffel Tower pics, some croissants,
we had
basically had half of our vacation,
maybe.
Saturday night, starting at
4am, and then all day
Sunday, I didn't, I left
the hotel room for maybe 30 minutes just to
see if I could take a walk at like
sunset on Sunday.
Which was the nice, it was 63
degrees and sunny, just like a perfect,
utterly perfect day
where I was
violently puking the entire
time. And do you know what
caused it and where? I've got a theory,
because
I don't know anything
because, you know, you can't really
know, but there is something
that grosses me out beyond
everything that I ate, so that's just
what I think it was.
Yeah, you're blaming, you're scapegoating.
The goat crepe that you had,
you got a goat crepe,
medium rare. It was the greatest crepe
of all time, and it was goat meat,
and it was goat milk.
The goat, the greatest
crepe of all time. We went to this
restaurant called Clown Bar.
Fuck it, I'll call them out.
Because even if they didn't give me food poisoning,
they did have terrible service,
and I thought they were bad people.
Okay. So,
I'll call them out for that alone.
And I believe that their duck pie
made me almost die.
Their pie made me die.
Duck
pie. And what are we working with there?
It's sort of like, I guess it
kind of looks like a mincemeat pie
or something, or like...
Australian style.
Like a chicken pot pie maybe? Yeah.
But there wasn't really
there wasn't like bread
it wasn't really breaded on the top,
or like crusted on the top. It was
it looked just like a bloody
red
meat thing. And most
people split it. I took one straight
to the dome, straight to the face,
just me alone with the pie.
This is Saturday night.
This is Saturday night.
And like, meanwhile,
I was feeling very hail and hearty,
like all week. I was trying very
adventurous things. I ate
calf brain, I ate sweet bread,
I ate like such disc, like
just like three days of really adventurous,
kind of disgusting, very, very
rich French food. You had snails,
you had butter, you had
frogs, you had nutters.
It's true. So many
things that like just
make me start sweating
a little bit now. And we also
stayed out until like three or four in the morning, like drinking.
Okay. And then I got a crepe
on the street, on the way home.
The end. Okay. The beginning.
Right, right. The beginning.
But end, yeah, end of stage one.
I guess at like
5.30 in the morning, I woke up and I was
like, I feel gross and I threw
up and I sort of chalked that up to
mostly getting a crepe
at 4am. I was like, my stomach was
too full. This was like resting at the top.
I had to clear it out. Now
I'm going to go back to bed.
Crawl back into bed.
An hour or so later, I wake up and I throw up
again. Like, oh man, maybe I drank too much.
So are you hungover too?
Or are you drunk? Are you completely sober?
I'm sort of like out of it at this point.
I'm like, man, I can't believe I have to throw up again.
I like, I hope I can get enough sleep because
tomorrow we have a big day of going to museums
and stuff.
This is you on a toilet while
diary-ing. So like, I'm sort of
like throwing up
being like, still like
calculating like, how
much, I was like, okay, I got like 6
or 7 more hours to sleep. I won't be that hungover.
I'm glad I threw up a second
time. This is actually good.
And then the third time I'm throwing up, I'm like,
I feel pretty
queasy. This is it.
I feel like I'm
sweating and pale right now.
I think I've thrown up sufficiently
just if this is like, you know,
too much to eat or drink.
And then it started
just happening every 15 or 20 minutes.
I would wake up and I'd like
need to rush to the bathroom.
Meanwhile, I have thrown up
all of the food that I've eaten. So I'm
just like, dry heaving,
spitting up little shards
of duck pie. Jesus
Christ. And then
like, it got to the point. This is
maybe at like 10 or 11.
Jill, Jill is like
trying to sleep with her, with ear buds
in, listening to music so she doesn't
have to hear me fucking wretch
heaving in the, yeah.
And there was nothing coming out. So I like
couldn't even breathe. I was just like
That was the sound I was making. Like
my stomach in the bedroom.
Jill is listening to Michael Buble
peacefully.
It's not true yet.
It felt like my stomach was like vibrating
trying to shake every
last thing out of me. And like
there, it would, it would
I would
be throw like scream, throw uping
for so long that I felt like I wasn't
going to be able to breathe. I was like, I could
pass out from exertion. Jesus
like your abs felt sore. Yeah.
Like it was taking
too much to even
kneel next to the toilet.
I was like
I was sort of like cradling
the toilet like head against
the back of it
near fetal position
hugging the toilet like a teddy bear
just Jesus. I wasn't crying
but like there were
I felt so frustrated
and sick and there were like
tears in my eyes but not like
sad tears more like what is
happening tears, you know.
Am I dead for this? Did you die
as well? No, that was the crazy thing. There was
no no shitting and I was like
in Mexico it was like maybe
two pukes and mostly shit which is like
not fun but shitting is a
feeling that you're really used to. Throwing up is
like I'd wake up and be like
maybe five minutes
of just like apprehension and be like, oh my
god, I can't believe I'm gonna have to throw up again.
Maybe I don't have to. Maybe I don't have to.
No, I think I do but like I didn't eat
anything. There's nothing left. It's gonna hurt
it's gonna hurt and I'd be like, oh fuck and then
I'd walk over and I would throw up and
it would hurt and nothing would come out and I
would just like
so how did it end? Probably around
like three or four I was like
I knew that I wasn't gonna throw up
anymore and then I started thinking about drinking
water and I was like I think I can drink water
and I started drinking water
um that was also
when I was like able to sort of like sit
up and use my
phone and like
open my eyes for the first time
I thought I maybe should take a walk but I walked
like a quarter mile and I had to sit down on a bench
because you were empty and weakened.
It was so empty and then I had my first
craving I ate half of
half a banana around like six p.m.
I ate half of a duck pie and
uh this
salmon monsoor which is like
raw tuna, avocado
an egg
salmon monsoor
I had a frog brain at
10 just to see if I was
feeling fine
uh yeah and then I
I went to bed I slept I was like
I don't know if I'll be able to sleep I slept for like 18 hours
and I slept for another 12
and I woke up at 11
and then what's
your first meal back like how do you like
hit the road again? I got
two croissants
started puking
my brains out on the Champs-Élysées
I woke up and I felt so good
I was like I am
100% better and I went
and I got two croissants and then we like went
on a walk through a neighborhood but my battery
depleted so fast that everybody
was like let's go get some wine I was like I have to go
to a park and sleep on a bench now
you slept outside? I slept outside
on Sunday everybody like everybody
was so worried about me I was like no no it's cool
it's cool I'm just gonna like go chill in the park
for a little bit and I
just fully
slept on a bench and slept like I didn't have a home
for another 18 spot? Yeah it was quick
it was straight up was an hour nap
and I like then
and every time I like would see everybody I would be like
bonsoir bitches
puke dribbling down your chin
yeah
and that was
Paris
what was your first drink after all that?
ooh I did not drink
the next
the next night people like went out to dinner
and I went to dinner it was like a Mediterranean
place and I just had hummus and pita
I like haven't
I still like haven't really had food cravings
my stomach feels like it's the size
of a peanut
like even when things look good to me I can eat like
3 bites and then I start
I guess this has been a week now so are you like
fully recovered or still not? Yeah
I feel fine but I just like
I am not getting hungry
I have no appetite
still
yeah in Copenhagen I was like
she'll be like what do you want to eat
and I was like I have no idea
and we went to a bunch of nice restaurants
and I would like try the good food
but then I would just like mostly eat bread
Jesus you basically got like
a lap band surgery half of your stomach
just descended and now you
get hungry off or you get full off a few bites
which is kind of nice in a way
like who can go to
Paris and come back weighing less
you know
anything I prefer what happened to me
I
that's my unsolicited advice this week
is get food poisoning abroad
yeah also I've been drinking
a lot less which has been good for my
skin because
the poison really hurts my stomach
yeah last night it was probably the first time
I drank I mean I had
I had a drink in Copenhagen
I think I had
there were two nights where I got a beer
oh my god that is a good story
I'm sad that you got sick
but I'm glad that we at least heard a good story
oh also it was like
kind of scary because we were with a group of like
eight people
and one other person got food poisoning
and it just like felt like oh my god
we could all start dropping like flies
but luckily no one else did
was it also from the duck pie?
I think they thought it was from something else from
like a different meal
like the night before maybe like a calf brain
or a sweet bread or something
adventurous but I've been like
puking is one thing and then like
twelve hours of feeling like you might
just die any second is
yeah a week long weakness
and Copenhagen was lovely or
Copenhagen was dope
I loved it I think
have you ever been there?
I was there like when I was like
six on like a day or two
on the way to Israel but I don't really remember anything
I mean it sort of reminded me
of Reykjavik
and
but like with even more like
civilization?
yeah well there's I think there's like
800,000 people that lived there
or something or maybe I'm thinking of Denmark total
but I don't know that's I think that's
that's right so it's a bigger city
it's
like I love
Danish like design and stuff
so there's like just like really
everything is beautiful
it's a there's like
a sweet little harbor
it's just it's really clean
everyone speaks
not that this really matters but like
everybody speaks English
it's
so convenient like people even like
have they like put on an American accent
when they talk to you like well you sort of demanded
that you said I appreciate the
English but can you at least speak with a good accent too?
yeah it's true I was like
I can't understand I can't
understand what the accent like they're like sir
I'm I'm British and I was like I know
but can you speak at the very least in a
Canadian way so I can make heads
or tails of what you're trying to tell me
sorry about that
alright let me try to get one question in before
the break this one is about traveling abroad
so it's still within the same theme
yeah I totally forgot we had I forgot we
were recording a podcast yeah yeah
do you know
do you know what Erasmus is?
no I do not
it's a European study abroad
thing where you're where European study
in Germany maybe for free
but maybe just like as a
college
excursion so this
British
lad who will call
Prince Charles writes
my girlfriend and I are on Erasmus
for the next six months in Germany
we've been together for two years
we were in Germany for two weeks when she said
that she would like to quote pretend we're single
for the next six months
and I was curious if any of the other
studio uh sorry
pretend we're single for the next six months
they are together on Erasmus
and she wants to pretend that they're single
for six months
and was curious if any of the other
students would work it out for themselves
a friend that went on
Erasmus with us called her out
and says something like that's not okay
and it would make me worried which it
didn't until our friend said
it should my girlfriend
said she really wants to make friends
and thinks people won't be friends
with us if they know we're dating
just there she told me that
I should remove a photo of her dad
that he tagged me in on my
Facebook timeline because quote her dad
is embarrassing and anyone
that added me would know that we're dating
what's going on is this
okay
it's uh it's
it's not good
what is it okay
I guess it's okay
in the sense that
on Erasmus anything goes
yes this is Erasmus after all
is this
this is okay for her
bad for him
I would call this grounds
for breakup
it seems like she has a thing
she has a mental
hang up about telling people that she's in a relationship
yeah and
I think that is
I mean it sounds to me like
she just doesn't want to be in a relationship
right I mean it is
Erasmus after all she is
basically not comfortable
and that's okay saying that she's in a relationship
but it's also okay for you to say
that I'm not comfortable being in a relationship
that's also okay
yeah you could sort of just discuss
comfort here she says I
but it's not even really about comfort
she's like has this
kind of a weird viewpoint
that she won't be able to make friends
unless she's single which I don't think is true
yeah I think she means
another boyfriend
she can't get another boyfriend
unless they think that she's single
yeah so
I would call her on that I'd be like
so if you want to be single
if you want to be single to make friends
and have all your friends think you're single
then you should be single
whoa well I didn't want that I just want you to
delete every photo of me or my father
off your Facebook
I will and we'll also not be together
so peace out
woo I'm just worried about
Erasmus here
Erasmus is
disastrous it's Christmas and
Rum Springer
Christmas yeah
it's a great name Erasmus alright so
it's okay but it's also okay for
you not to want to do it I would say it's
not okay I'll go ahead and say it's not
okay if somebody is like let's pretend
like
let's pretend that we're single you don't
you're not actually
you can't let anybody know
that you're with me like
what are you doing then what's
what a weird sad secret
to have the most
shameful secret of all is that you're playing along
that you're doing it
I think it's okay in the sense that
it's legal like she can tell you what
she's uncomfortable with but then it's also
okay for you to say you're uncomfortable yeah
and I think that there are I think that
it's I would actually
go one step further and say that it's illegal
it's illegal in a relationship
if you're like we are boyfriend and girlfriend
but
on Erasmus we are single
and we can we have to pretend
to be single to everybody I will be like
that's that's illegal
to the relationship that's
and I'm throwing you
in a relationship jail
that's to such detriment
that it's that we might as well not be in a relationship
that's that's deal breaking
game breaking
relationship ender
alright so Jake says it's not okay I
say it is okay maybe your answer
somewhere in between let us know what happens
I'm very curious as to whether or not
I guess if you say yes to this
she's just gonna be able to do anything she wants
at this point yeah it's
I mean it's sort of like
pretending to be single
let's let's everybody
test
the waters to see if they can get a better
boyfriend or girlfriend and then like
and with the safety
of like if it doesn't work out they'll
be able to go back to the
the one they have on the back burner
and I think that's that's cheating
Prince Charles is gonna be like hey I
saw you making out with somebody else at a party
and she's like I was making out but that was
just to continue selling this facade
that we're seeing
they were on to us Prince
don't you get it
they just started to suspect that we were together
you didn't delete the photo of my dad
fast enough so I had to French some
stranger on Erasmus
I know we're on Erasmus
I'm on Erasmus too
I'm on Erasmus
nice thank you
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oh that's cool so you take a photo of anything
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asshole this was actually a really sweet
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I was just being goofy a little bit
like this is how I told
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kind of like she misheard it
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oh my god Jill's grandma is 90
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we're back Jake do you have any
thoughts?
let's do it
oh I'm coming
gross
yes I do
bro want to hear it
is it to avoid the duck pie
at clown bar that is
one and actually yeah
I would fully fully endorse
everybody to never ever go to that
bar because their service was bad
in addition to
poisoning me they were
rude okay and
my unsolicited advice
is to unfollow
the people that you hate
follow do you have anybody on your
Instagram feed who you sort of like
just you can't stop
looking at and they and it irks you
and you're like oh my god what is wrong with this
person yeah well
on Twitter I do yeah
I've had that on Instagram
like maybe
maybe as recently as like a month or two
ago and then I just like
clenched and I unfollowed all
of them and
my social media it like
it's so much better
and now if I even like start to get annoyed
at somebody I'll hide their story
like there's no reason
to look at something because it makes
you mad hide their story
you can hide you can mute people's stories
and that's funny because it's basically like
I don't even want to be tempted
yeah and you will because like sometimes
you got a long day and you have like
you're distracted and you'll
get to the end of your Instagram stories you will
find it oh yeah it'll just show it to you
sometimes I'll like fuck with my
I'll try to fuck with my algorithm and I'll just be like
why do you keep on showing me this person's story
first so I'll skip and I'll like just watch
ones after them to get them to go
further back and then I
I just realized that like
your quality of life will
be better if you cut
out social media that
makes you annoyed
I'll bleep it out but can you
just start naming people do I know them
and then I'll just bleep it out as you say
that you've unfollowed them
okay so you'll you'll bleep it out but I'll
yeah just okay so
I'm just curious
right so Dave Rosenberg
okay Jeff
Jeff Rosenberg
Avital your your girlfriend
obviously
already Marika
yeah
oh Marissa and Jeffrey a little bit
so yeah I just
bleep all that stuff out because I don't want anybody
Riley yeah
I had to I had to I was
hate following Riley for a long time so I had to
just just mute it up all right
I have to figure out how to bleep again because I got
this new premiere thing but I'll figure it out
it shouldn't be hard you like
even if you can't bleep it why don't you just
just get tired
don't get that time
because you still have to edit the show you will figure it out
but if you can't bleep it I'm just saying
edit it out because you don't even have to have
I think I'll bleep it what are you talking about I think
I already said their names dude I know I already said
the names I know why are you thinking
you're gonna bleep you have to bleep it
I will bleep it you have to
I'll bleep it the very like I'll get through
most of them before I run out of time
I'll just upload the show
it has to be uploaded on time
okay I was kidding I was like actually
I was joking about everything dude
I feel like you're not gonna break it bleep it
I was joking right Riley
you're drooling you're puking again
you're eating a duck pie
I'll sabotage this audio somehow
when do you think the next time is you're gonna have a chicken pot pie
I don't think I'll have
up like any type of meat pie
ever again I still can't
even eat
red meat
like at all and I was like I ate such
gross stuff and like at the time
it didn't gross me out but I had like I
ate pigeon yeah I think
that's what got you I saw that
Instagram story of you chasing a pigeon
and biting its wing off
I dove into the scent to try
to take out a bird that had to have been it
it must have been
I think it might have been that I still think it was clown bar
but I did eat a raw pigeon
in the river
alright solid solid
solid on sensitive device
what about you do you have anything
I'm on the cusp of one and I'll tell you what it is
I'm not really willing to fully
to fully endorse it yet
but I recently found out about
something that sounds incredibly intriguing
I like finding out about new things
that are like you know
kind of life
changing that when
you search online a lot of people are doing it but
then when I ask personally
a lot of people don't know about it
so I'm going to ask you
have you heard of mono
vision no
mono vision
no okay so
here's the full story I
got a optometry
appointment to just check to see if I'm
available if I'm eligible to get
lay sick and
I'm a candidate
wow so that's one big
step I don't know if I'm
going to do it I don't know when I'm going to do it but just know that I can
I'm eligible
alright now I can really put the pressure on you
okay and then
you learned about mono vision yes so
while my optometrist was
explaining to me lay sick which seems
I was googling other shit on my phone
he was like
what I like to do sometimes
is leave
your dominant eye
strong as it would
be in regular lay sick and
your non-dominant eye a little bit
blurry at a distance
and I said okay
why is that and he said
well everybody will need
reading glasses as you get older your eyes
harden and they stop being able
to read close up for example
when I'm reading a book I take
my glasses off okay
and he's like but now imagine
you can't take those glasses off
because we're going to laser your eyes
to basically have the glasses right I was
like oh that's interesting and he said
unless
what we've been doing recently
is making your dominant eye which
I didn't know there was a dominant eye
sharp as though you had glasses on
and your non-dominant eye a little bit sharper for
reading and that gives you
pretty much perfect vision at a
distance while also not
not necessitating
reading glasses because you're a little bit
blurry eye does the heavy lifting
on the reading while your dominant eye
does the heavy lifting on the distance
interesting wait so are you saying that
like when I read a book because I have
perfect vision it's like harder
for me to read a book
when I'm holding it up close or it's like
it's going to get harder as I get older
it's it's going to get
harder as you get older like
when you see like you know 50
60 70 year olds they use
reading glasses when they're reading otherwise
they have to hold the book further and further away
that space near your from your like
nose to like 12 inches
out will get blurry and then 24 inches
out will get blurry and he's saying
if I make one of your eyes a little
weaker from a distance
which will hopefully be imperceptible to you
that'll make it so that
the field of focus that are
like the 12 inch to 24 inch
will be delayed and you won't need
reading glasses as fast as you think
interesting and I'm like is this a new
thing in
optometry he's like fairly new
a lot of people do Lasik just for mono
vision but since you're already getting
Lasik I can add
mono vision into it so there
are people with perfect vision that are like
make my eye a little blurrier exactly
as they get older because they don't
want reading glasses
yes they don't want reading glasses very
very intriguing
so I started
you know Google searching reddit searching
Twitter searching mono vision and some people love
it and some people are it
which is what I thought would happen is just give
you like kind of a headache feeling because like
one of your eyes is blurrier than the other
yeah it seems too risky it seems
like you could just get
I mean what kind of procedure is
mono vision later is it
like as intense as Lasik it is
Lasik it's the same thing it's Lasik but it's
making one of your eyes a little softer from a distance
it makes your non-dominant eye it basically
is Lasik on your reading eye only
yeah I don't know I don't
I don't like it I don't like it at all
dude well so he's like
I'm like how can you tell if you're going to be one
of those people that find it dizzying
and
he said for
come back on Monday so this was yesterday
we're recording on Saturday
and on Monday I'm going to go back there and he's like
I'll give you contact lenses one that'll
show you what will be like with your
perfect vision and one that'll have
mono vision baked into the contact lenses
so you can see if it's like for
some people it's like imperceptible it's completely
fine it feels just as great as regular
Lasik but it'll delay needing reading glasses
and for some people it'll be like dizzying
for half an hour and then you're like okay
it's not worth it for me to assume I'll get
acclimated interesting okay so you're
going to on Monday you'll
you'll know more on Monday
I'll know more and
just generally look up mono
vision because it's kind of a unique interesting
thing I feel like
if you if you like the mono
vision you're more you're going to be more
likely to get Lasik if you like
mono vision because that's like
a little bit of an interesting twist
you know your future proofing
yourself like if you like mono vision
I'll I'll say there's like a 90% chance
you get it and if you don't
then I feel like it's we're back to like
5050 yeah because
it's like two for one it's like I'm going
to give you the perfect vision and the mono
vision you get the
you get the 2020
you get the mono
you get it all
and you just can't swim
for a week oh yeah
you can't I'm dude I'm so excited
for you to have
if I get it if I will
you'll get it dude
thanks man I needed to hear that yeah
that'll be cool
all right but I'm not well I'm not ready
to commit to that being my
unsolicited device though I will say I've never
even worked contact so Monday is going to be a
monumental day regardless yeah oh my
I want to be there when you put the contacts
in for the first time it's good like I just want
to watch you do it I assume they'll do it
for me I guess that's true but like you'll have
to oh I figured they were
gonna like let you have it for the day or something
you got to take them for a real test no it's
really just like 20 minutes because if
it's if it's fine right away then it'll
you'll only get better wow
the only reason if it like it's dizzying
or headache he's like you'll probably
get used to it but a lot of people are like they
don't want to risk it what if you just love the
contacts you're like this works I don't need
to use or Lasik yeah that was really easy
actually I don't know why I was afraid of
contacts alright here's a question
to get us back on the questions I would
say we should endorse the
the live shows but we're sold out hell
yes New York City and DC
let's let's endorse
figuring out where to go next
Jeffrey's been begging us to do a show in Cleveland
since we've known him so maybe we should do that
in the summer or something yeah a little midwestern run
yeah that'd be fun
a little Chicago action
love that here's a question from
an American lady she calls
Instagram story power
move reminds me of your
Instagram story blocking idea
that's right all right let's hear it
so once again we'll call
this lady Riley for now because you blocked her
on Instagram but well
just remember to all right because I don't
want you to yeah just remember to bleep
bleep out Riley's name because otherwise
the first time I will definitely do it
well it's doesn't
it won't make a difference if you do it the first
time if you don't do it the second and I just said her name
again so yeah let's try not
to say her name so like just all right
because it gets like it gets harder
to spot I'll give you the okay the
timecode is 30 at the
39 minute mark so just remember I won't
remember that all right I'll call you after so
let me get into let hold on Riley right
don't say the name anymore
says Riley at the end of
the last year Riley started
seeing a co-worker wait a second
this is Fox
at the end of last year I started seeing a
co-worker and things have been going great
we were so close to making official
when through a series of alcohol
late in holiday party incidents we
found out that we were the center of
office gossip we mutually
decided to end things because we didn't want
it to interfere with our professional come
upence for lack of a better term
however it was really it was
very friendly and we both expressed interest
in revisiting the relationship if we
are no longer co-workers we've been
cordial with one another since then
but have tapered off communications
significantly it's been
about two months and while I'm quote over
it he's been posting screenshots
of conversations he's having on dating
apps on his Instagram
close friends story
don't get me wrong I'm all over dating
apps too but isn't it in poor taste to
screenshot these interactions
up to social media even in general
if he's only posting it for his hat
quote close friends a curated
list that I'm assuming he knows I'm on
is this some kind of power move
maybe just a dick move
maybe I'm the one reading too much into it
anyway I've muted his stories
but is there any scenario where I can
ask to be removed from his close friends
lol I still
like seeing his other stories
but the little green circle is just too
tempting sometimes please validate
my feelings thank you
love Riley
hmm that's tough
I'm with her on it
like that's
that's definitely in poor taste to put it
on Instagram I don't know that seems
like a lot what are your thoughts on close
friends this might be our first close
friend story or sorry close friends
question I don't use
it and I don't
really fully understand
it but
oh yeah
no I don't use it I could
imagine using it for like my family
or something yeah how do you
see it do you see the green circle I do
there's some
there's some people that I follow that
that include me in their close friends
and I see that yeah
I wonder why that is yeah
I'm not interested
in it I feel like
Instagram's like done enough for
me at this point like doing new stuff
with Instagram I'm like generally
weary of
cause I feel like it takes up enough
time so when there's like a new feature
that I should use I'm like I don't know
if I want to get into that really
yeah
I think it would be an equal power move
for Riley
or sorry believe that for her
to say
to be like
you can remove me from
the close friends for stuff like this
thanks LOL or like
smiley face I don't know
yeah or can't she just block him
like isn't it more of a power move
to be in the close friends
and not view it
yeah but it's kind of tough cause like
he'll never know that
you
that you don't view it or that you blocked him
unless maybe he's
looking at that I feel like
I think you look if there's only like
you know like 83 people that view your
stories you'll see if your ex-girlfriend
is one of them oh believe that
right what do you like do you think
why do you think he's doing that do you think
that he's doing it on purpose so she
sees
yes I think so
I think part of him is like hey check
it out look at these silly
dating apps thing and then it's like oh
the byproduct is oh
I'm on dating apps
oops I guess you know now
so I guess it's not really like I don't
know if it's a full power move if she
just blocks him is like
that's just more of a
a self-preservation thing or it's
like or it's maybe just like
healthier to not give a shit
but I feel like if you
a power move usually has to be something
that the other person sees and feels
oh you can't fake a power move then it
becomes less powerful I don't know
I guess I I guess I just think
so I think I would
I guess if I were you if
I were you I would block and then
he'll notice that you
aren't even watching his
close friend story you think
he will notice if she's not
viewing yes then that's
that's a decent power
move that's a pretty
good power move yeah
well because saying remove me from this
isn't a power move that's
like
it's it's snide and hopefully
hurtful to him
but it's not really like it is it's
definitely like a little petty
yeah it's a little Tom petty
and the heartbreakers nice
so what would you do if you were her
I would and
and you know that I would because I just
talked about this on the unsolicited advice
I would try mute or block
you know what
I think the ultimate power move
unfollow actually unfollow
wow unfollow wow
wow that's the wow
that's the move you gotta
unfollow fuck yeah
glad we got their final answer
unfollow the good thing about
unfollowing is that
you'll only quote get in trouble
if he calls you out which means he admits
that he saw that you unfollowed him
so yeah it's like it's almost like
forcing the other guy to know
notice something that's kind of embarrassing
to notice right and then he will be like
oh shit this didn't have the desired effect
of making her
jealous and come back to me yeah
it only had
it made me repulsive to her
so
you say unfollow more than
mute or block
and I'll say
I wish you could unfollow with a door slam
you remember on AOL when you would like get into
an argument with somebody that you were dating
and they would like sign off and it would
actually like the door would slam oh yeah
yeah like when you could sign off
in somebody's face that was like
that was a power move
you can't have that anymore you can't sign out
of a text you know
you can't leave
that used to be something you could do
like alright I'm done
talking to you online
and then you're out and now you can't
you're like I'm online all the time
I'm never not reachable
if your buddy wasn't on aim
you couldn't message them and they would get it
when they sign in right
no they'd have to have an away message
but a way message still meant I'm logged in
yeah no you had to be logged in to get a message
that's really funny so it's like
I'm not even logged in you can't message me
there's no like answering machine for AOL
good old days
yeah and then the away messages was only
like when I went to college and like internet
was just fast and free for 24-7
like I couldn't just stay on AOL
throughout middle school
no no not at all
and like also I had I had
I was in like high school when I was using
away messages but like
my sisters would be like I want to go on
I want to go on aim and be like
no no I haven't away message up
I'm collecting messages right now
are you insane
that's like a really fucking
that's a choice dashboard quote okay
we can't just sign out alright
we can't just sign out
did it save messages like if somebody else signed you out
are those messages gone forever
oh they're gone baby gone
words in the wind
god that's awesome
we're going back an AOL type chat
where you have to be online to get it
and if you're not you doesn't even send
and once you go away it's gone forever
I guess it's kind of like snapchat
but snapchat you're always on
what we should really do is like make
make a movie or a short film
about this era of like
I guess 2004
I gotta tell you I've been watching
Pen 15 and that is that show
no oh yeah
I mean that's great and also too bad
it's really funny it's these two 30 year old
comedians who play themselves
at age 13 so it's like
everybody is a seventh grader
except for them and they're playing
like seventh graders and it's
all this stuff that's such
a good idea and it makes me so sad
even watching
it makes me sad
we should have thought about that
that should have been our idea
let's pitch pen 16
cool anyway it's on Hulu
the squeak will
it's more unsolicited advice
alright that's it that's our episode
two questions but we learned a lot about
your gastrointestinal
situation that's right and about
mono vision mono vision
look it up folks it sounds
80s and boring but I assure you it is
the future or maybe not
I have to do more research and you should too
I'll know more when this podcast comes out
a lot of people also wear one contact
to create
mono vision if they don't want to go to the
lacy group let me give you a contact
monocle the monocle is back
and it is mono vision
excellent excellent
opening theme song was written one more
time by David
Steinberger yes Steinberger
and then this one is a quite
a long pixies cover that I'm
going to save to the end because it'll be
a good outro song Alexander
Stoykowski
a pixies cover
ps I've been loving you since my
younger days I'm now a full grown
baby that's right I have benjamin
button disease so you better not be mean
to me okay we won't be mean to you
we like the song
thank you alexander thanks to you guys
for listening we'll be in
New York and DC soon maybe you can
maybe we'll see you there
and we'll be back next week
as always ciao everybody
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