If I Were You - 401: The Godfather
Episode Date: September 23, 2019In this episode we discuss flirtatious dads and depressed teens. We also debut a new potential segment!For more advice, check out our Patreon for bonus Thursday video episodes.See omny.fm/listener for... privacy information.
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I think I'm doing okay but I want your advice
Am I a dick? Am I a dick or am I right?
I can't pretend I don't care I need to know what to do
Do you think I deserve this? I'd like to seize the cheese
Now I need you to juice I'm trying to decide it
Am I right or am I wrong? When you read this call me Crandis
In my Coy Diva song If you praise me
I'll be chuffed, I'll be chased If you hate me
I'll burn my me and ease
Dora, Dora, Dora, Dora, Dora, Dora, Dora
The music came from something else and then he kind of tweaked the language
to the verbiage basically to be about our show, kind of
You're being such an asshole that you tweaked it so, so much
It was full of inside jokes
What did he say? Crandis?
Yeah, that's not in the original
What are you talking about?
Yeah, no, it's not in the original
I'm a dick, dude, that part is the same, right?
I'm a dick or am I right?
Yeah
It's different, it's fully different
What does the email say? Why don't we see like
Yeah, the email was like, I kind of changed the song but not really
No way, no fucking way he said that
You're twisting it to your purpose
You want it verbatim?
Yeah
My name is Nick Goldston
and I'd like to give a huge shout out to Jake for being so good looking
and honestly pretty chill
He deserves every golden mic he's ever won
Oh, so I see
So you're being an asshole to him
You're like, you're projecting, you're feeling insecure
and now you're trying to belittle him by saying the song wasn't that good
but the song was really good, it was objectively great
Day one earned big fan
Okay, so that's really nice
Of what?
Well, I guess he said that I was really good looking
so I suppose he's a really big fan of me
and I mean our show, so by proxy in a way he's a fan of you
even though
Let's start from the top and I'll choose a different song
It's not gonna
because people will be like, they just played a real song
We don't have a lot of time, we heard a song
we should just jump into the episode or something
But this is the beginning of the next 400 episode chunk
Ever to start off in this weird sour note
because of whatever, Dick Goldstein
What do you mean start up?
You've been sour for years and years
It's not like we've had it perfect
and then episode 400 you turn into a little bit of a needling
Yeah, a diva
Dickling ass, man
I'm thinking of being a little more of a
A roto boy
I think this is gonna be my diva century
Right, I mean you've always been a diva
But now I'm sort of embracing my freak flag
Diva
Yeah, I want my diva flag to flow for like the next hundred spots
I want your diva flag to fly limp
It's half masked
And half cocked
Half hard
This is a fire you, the only advice podcast on the web
Hosted by us, I'm Amir
Dick, you know 400 episodes and Head Gum is four
Wow
It's kind of interesting
We had our four year anniversary party last night
Last night?
Yeah, so this is the beginning of Head Gum's fifth year
and the beginning of our 500th episode
Which is kind of a coincidence
We don't do 100 episodes a year
Right, that's a beautiful coincidence
that overtakes me with nostalgia and melancholy in a way
I'm sorry to hear that
It's a powerful realization
Why?
That makes me feel small in its presence
How many episodes of D&D?
That's a good question
I think like 80, 79 or 80
But those 79 episodes have more hours than if I were you
Because every episode is four and a half hours long, right?
We do do a lot of like over two hour episodes
There we go, so it's like double
Yeah, still not quite 400
Not quite 400
We got a bunch of segment ideas
In our last episode we were talking about how this podcast even came to be
And then started brainstorming possible segment ideas
So we wanted to pilot some out today
Yeah, well we got some good ones actually
I don't know if we do it now or like we save it till later
Let's do it after the break
But let's do the bibliography
Okay, so the bibliography is some questions obviously
One or two
Then we are going to take a break
Come back segment idea
So instead of unsolicited advice
It's a nice soothing way to like
If you're on your commute, if you're washing dishes
This is what's going to happen on the podcast
Okay
Don't fall asleep at the wheel
But this should lull you into a stupor
Where you sort of zone out not of a commute
Okay
So we'll be answering two questions that have to do with
Dads
Dads
Two dad related questions
And then we'll be taking a quick break
Thinking some sponsors
Okay
Coming back
Yeah, I already said this part
You don't have to like
Now we're rehashing my rehash
I want to like do the set up the scene
Content
Okay
You called it a bibliography earlier
Which I don't think is correct
That goes at the end of the episode
It's like work cited
Right, yeah
No, it's a table of contents
So let's
Obviously that'll all be edited out
Hold on
On the day
Every mistake is kept in
On the day
Alright, so like just to recap
The table of contents
To recap what
I'm going to try to say what we'll be discussing today
And you keep on interrupting me
Being like
Alright
It's not called the table of contents
And actually it is called the table of contents
I said it's not called the bibliography
You said it was a bibliography
No, I did not say it was a bibliography
You're going to have to edit that bibliography
You should probably edit that out
I'm not editing anything out
It's all staying in
Everything is in
We'll be answering two dad related questions
Yeah, we already said that
Going to a quick
Yes, we know the break
And it'll come back
And we'll do a segment
But then we'll come back
By the way, we're running out of time
I don't know if we'll be able to do this stuff
We'll come back
We'll do unsub
Because you keep saying table of contents
Can I get through this without being interrupted?
Yeah
We're going to answer two
Don't start with the dad questions
Do not start with the dad questions
Okay
I just want to get through without being interrupted
Is it the only thing?
Yes
We'll be starting with two dad related questions
Then we'll be going to a commercial break
Where we'll thank a sponsor
You're staring daggers at me
It's like the same as interrupting
Okay
Alright
Take it from where you thought
I was staring daggers at you
From the fucking jump
We'll be answering two dad questions
We're going to answer two fucking dad questions
We're going to take a break
Maybe
We have to go to break now, actually
Yeah
Obviously
And no more segment ideas
Oh
You don't remember my microphone just broke
That's okay
Yep
That's alright
Head gum has fallen apart at the seams at four
That's okay
We weren't built to last
Four years old
The time at which most businesses crumble
Alright, here's a fun one
This guy moved from Florida to Wisconsin
So we'll call him Aaron Rodgers
Nice
Is Aaron Rodgers from Florida?
No, he's from California, actually
Cool
One time to cold, though
Yeah
I need your help on this one
I've been listening and watching you guys
Since the Jake and Amir days
I was only 11 back then
Holy shit
Wow
Anyway
I moved from Florida to Wisconsin
So I can be reunited with my girlfriend
And get a job as a sous chef
That I've been trying to get
Anywho, long story short
My former employee and I
Are still pretty good friends
And text very often
She's pretty chill
And always talks to me
About her relations shits
She has a pretty bad taste
In men to date, though
So I'm rooting for her
To find someone good one day
She sent me a text just now
Saying that my dad
Was totally hitting on her
And was trying to get it in
I don't believe her
And I still kinda don't
But maybe she's right
Maybe I'm wrong
I don't know
Please help
And then he sends the text messages
That this girl, ex-friend
Sent to him
So the girl writes
So your dad
Totally hit on me yesterday
And he goes
No, he didn't
And then the face
That's the eyes are a dash
And then the mouth is one long dash
So it looks like three lines
And she goes
I swear
He asked if I had a boyfriend
And why I didn't
And in that
If I was ever in Jacksonville
To let him know
And the guy responds
My dad's married
And has a super conservative Christian
And then a gif
Of Megan Mulally cracking up
Because he searched
L-M-A-O dead
As a gif search
And then she goes
Ha ha ha
Well, maybe not anymore
And the guy writes
I don't believe you
L-M-F-A-O
Oh, it's so sad
And she goes
You should
I swear
He said he's got a one bedroom
In Jacksonville
The ground he's standing on
Is crumbling at this moment
And the guy goes
So if I ask him tomorrow
He will tell me the truth
L-M-A-O
And the lady says
I mean, I don't know
LOL
He supposedly isn't going
With his wife
Ha ha
The kid says
I can't stand his wife though
LOL
She's annoying
So I guess the dad remarried
Interesting
She goes
Well, she won't be around
LOL
And the guy says
I'll keep my ears posted
LOL
And then she says
LOL
I mean, I told him
I talked to you
So IDK
Why he would think
I wouldn't tell you
And then the guy
He's speaking emojis
And says
That's funny AF though
LOL
And she says
Yeah, awkward
And he says
I still mildly
Don't believe you
But at the same time
Low-key will die
Laughing if true
Ha ha
Ha ha
And she says
Better start dying
Mild
Wait, he said
Mild don't believe you
Yeah
Mildly don't believe you
But at the same time
Low-key will die
Laughing if true
Low-key will die
Laughing
I swear if my dad
Cheats on his wife with you
I will low-key crack up to death
Like, everything I know
Is about him being conservative
And Christian LOL
Feeling mild and low-key
Like, everything I know
To be true is wrong
Raffle, I think
LMAO
Ha ha
Yeah, he said
He wanted to fuck me
I'm dying
If that's true
You've shaken me to my core
Megan Mulally gift
Are you for real though?
Because it's kind of like
The conservative Christian thing
Is still a real big sticking point
For me
SMH LOL
I'm fucking shaking my head right now
Do you think the dad actually did that?
Um, I don't know
I guess I do
Like, she
It's a weird thing for her to make up
Right
So, and there's not like any
Ambiguity between them
About like, are you sure it was my dad?
So like, they must know
She's like, I know your dad
Yeah
And he said
It's so specific
He said, do you have a boyfriend?
Why not?
I've got a one bedroom in Jacksonville
Yeah
Do you have a boyfriend?
Why not?
It's like
That seems like it can definitely be like
Just a parent
Pressing a weird boundary
Even though they have like good intentions
Yeah
Like, just waiting too far into your business
It could be like a compliment
The one bedroom
In Jacksonville is
High-key creepy
And I'll be mildly sketched out if true
LOL
So many LOLs
Every single message had one at the top or bottom
For about seven texts in a row
How's that for insecurity?
LOL
No, I'm not taking any of this seriously
LOL
Do you ask your dad?
Would you ask your dad?
Yeah, I would
It's so embarrassing
No, but like
Regardless of if it's true
Yeah
I think
Here's my question
Would you tell someone
If someone's mom was hitting on me
I would not go to them and be like
Your mom was hitting on me
Yeah
Like, because you're not going to do anything about it
It is just like
And it's like
He crosses a line
And you're like, you have to tell him to stop
Right
It doesn't seem
If she's like, no, this was funny, it was awkward
Then I think it makes it more awkward to tell somebody
And also, she hasn't denied wanting to do anything about it either
Yeah, it's awkward
It's so random
He really did it
And he mentioned that she has bad taste in men
And her liking this guy's dad would be
An example of said bad taste, I imagine
Yeah, would this guy be pissed if this girl acted on it?
Would this girl ever act on it?
I wonder
Maybe you asked the dad questions around that
But not specifically that
Oh, you could say like, I heard you ran into
X
Yeah, I heard you ran into Aaron Rodgers
Yeah
Or whatever
My friend
I heard you ran into my friend and then see what he gives you
Yeah, I tried to fuck her
But maybe he'll be like, no I didn't, I wasn't there
And then he'll be like, that wasn't my dad
It wasn't my dad!
I swear he's a conservative Christian
Or if the dad says, no I didn't
And then she's like, yes he did, he was there
The plot will thick
Yeah, the plot thicks
I wonder if we'll get a follow-up up from this situation
Yeah, I would ask
I would just be like, I heard you ran into so-and-so
See what he says, see how he behaves
And then you press it a little more
She said you were flirting with her
Flirting with her is a fun way
Because hitting on her sounds like
You wouldn't take the bait on that
She said you guys were flirting
Then you almost want to fess up
Because it sounds like you did well
Oh yeah, we know we flirted, but it was harmless
Harmless flirting, but there's no harmless hitting on her
And that opens the door to him admitting that
There was a flirtation or him hitting on her
And then after that, you really hammer at home
She's like, oh yeah, she said you guys flirted
It was innocent, but we flirted a little bit
She said you told her you had a one bedroom apartment
In Jacksonville, and then he's caught
And at that point, you show up to the one bedroom
You have her say, yeah, I'll meet you there
Oh, you could do a staying operation
Then you show up with not only your mother
But the current lady and his friend
And your priest, your reverend, your chaplain
Is this considered a conservative Christian being here
And make America great again
Yeah, why don't you be more like our leader
Our fearless leader who actually loves the Bible
More than anyone, I think
He reads it a lot
Do you see that video recently where somebody asked him
What his favorite verse was
And he's like, oh, I can't answer that
He's like, well, what's just like name
What's your favorite part?
Like Old Testament, New Testament
He's like, I like them both equally
He's like, set them up with such a softball question
Be like the older new more, both
Yeah, you really have to know jack shit
To like not be able to make a choice on older new
Just say new, easy
All right, next question also about it, dad
This guy's pronouns
I guess it's not at this guy
He says my pronouns are they, them
All right, what is a pronoun
If the person is they, them
So I say their pronoun
Their pronoun
Is they, them
Cool
So we'll call they, them, Theodore
Nice
writes
Hi, Jake and Amir and Kobe
I'm 24 and I moved back in with my parents
After graduating college two and a half years ago
I'm finally moving out or trying to anyway
I've had the keys to my new house for two weeks
And I still haven't gotten to unpack anything
Because my dad keeps coming over when I'm not home
And quote fixing things around the house
Everything he's doing is stuff I don't need done
Today he went over to unpack my kitchen stuff
And discovered that he's, that he added a fake wall
A new shelf and added molding to my bookcase
He already suggested adding a fake wall
To two of my rooms
I told him I didn't want them
But every time I say I don't want something
He seems to hear
I can't visualize how awesome this is
Please do it when I'm not there
So I can see how awesome it'll be
I took down the fake wall
And now I have to spackle and repaint the actual wall
Jesus
And sand and peel putty off my bookcase
I'm nervous to remove the molding
Because it might be more work to undo everything
Every time he helps
It makes even more work undoing the things
And some stuff is just permanently ruined
How do I get him to stop working on my house?
Do I take my key back?
Talking to him about it hasn't helped
Because he gets defensive
And how he means well
And it won't acknowledge anything that he's refusing to listen to me
Is it possible that he's just trying to sabotage me
For moving out?
I want to be excited about finally leaving home
But this whole mess is leaving me
With nothing but anxiety and frustration
Please help
Did they buy this house?
I might have missed that part
Uh, no
They just moved out
They just moved out
Yeah, just the child moved out
Got it
The child moved away from his parents
And the dad is like
Their parents
I'll build a, that's right
Their parents
Get with it
The dad is like
He's fucking pence
A little pence bitch
Whoa, you can't say bitch
Shit
Even with somebody's being a pence bitch
Yeah, especially that
And then the dad keeps coming over
And it's like, I'll build a wall
Now you have to build a wall
All right, I'll re-spackle
All right, I'll create molding
I wonder, like, if
If they're paying rent
They could just kind of tell the landlord
Oh, look, hey, this guy
Keeps fucking coming over
Well, you would say it's my debt
I don't know who this fucking creep is
The landlord shoots him
I think you can
You can, like, ask your dad
I mean, that's just if you're paying rent
You could ask your dad to stop
And be like
It's not just me
Like, the landlord
Does not want to make any more changes
That's good, you blame somebody else
I was gonna say ask your mom
To talk to your dad
That way, it's not coming directly from you
That's true
But not everybody's mom's around
All right, you ask a surrogate
To talk to your dad
You find a new mom
That's okay
So, step one
You need a mom
Right
Okay
Which this person might have
Might have, totally
But if not, we get a mom
Okay
It can be any mom
To talk to your dad
A stranger
A stranger's mother
From a mom to a dad
Means a lot
You're crying
It's just so cool to be a mother
And a dad
You're neither
What?
You're neither
You're not even a fucking uncle
You know how sad that is
I'm not even a friend's
Have that as kids' uncle
A godfather?
Why can't I be a fucking godfather?
Who would want to know that, kids?
That didn't make me a fucking godfather
Lots of people
Streeters, you know
Give me a fucking godfather
Of course not
Are you the godfather?
Such a cute responsibility
You're a godfather, right?
I'm not a godfather
But I'm an uncle
I'm a funcular
If anybody listening is having a baby
And they want me to be the godfather
Hit me up
And then you'll just take care of the baby
Should something happen to the parents
I mean, it's all more like
I think it's more like a title
And that kind of thing
Yeah, this is after the parents die
All right, so you have to take care
Honestly, the godfather thing
Was a bit slash joke
And I don't know
This kid's nine now
It's way past its prime
It's not adorable at all anymore
No offense, Billy
But you're toothless
And the ones that are growing in
Are growing in fucking crooked
Like, what do you want me to pay
For fucking braces?
Yeah, I'm not going to do
An orthodontist thing
I just want it to be your godfather
That's an expense I can't bear, Billy
You get that
And as your godfather
I'm going to put you up for
Let's say adoption, I think
A godchen
Nice
Not really
You adopted godfather
All right
So you just pawn them off
On another godfather
Oh, if I become
So if a godfather becomes the father
Like, if I'm a godfather
And something happens to the parents
I get the baby, I'm the godfather
I have to name a new godfather
And if something happened to me
That godfather would be the new father
And like this thing that happened to me
Could just be that
Like I didn't want to take care of the kid
Yeah
This is why you're not going to be a godfather
You're already trying to get out of it
I'm just saying I'm not trying to get out of it
But like if it comes to
If like the hens come home to roost
Yeah
And I actually have to take care of the thing
I'm not interested
The thing, yeah
A little monster
The devil that's come to ruin my life
Nobody make me a godfather
Not even as a joke
I can't even keep a fucking succulent alive
They don't even need water
I think what I would do
In this situation is
It's
This is
I feel like he's not going to stop
You know
So it's almost like
If you meet your dad
Where he is
If like
You're starting from one end of the spectrum
I want you to not touch my house
Yeah
And he's starting from the other end of the spectrum
I really want to help
With the house
You might be able to
Have him help with the stuff that you need help with
You're like
I don't want walls
But I have a leaky sink
Or I want to change the shower head
On my shower
Yeah I see
I feel like the dad is using this to process
His kid moving away
Yeah like I'm still involved
Right
And I don't think he's going to
It's going to be like an ongoing thing
Like where he changes your house
Every single day that you're gone
There's only so many walls you can build up
Yeah
High emotional walls
Yeah
I think that you like
I understand they want the need to be like independent
But you're also
You are being independent
You've moved out
And that's pretty solid
And your dad is just like
Processing it in this weird way
And you might not be able to get him to fully stop
But you can kind of direct and coach him
By knowing that
He's hell bent on helping you somehow
Just not in the way that he wants to
Right
But so if you're like
He doesn't know where to put his energy
And his anxiety
So help him direct it in a way
That's useful for the both of you guys
Alright
There you have it
Two dad questions
And now
A break
Thanks to sponsors
And then we'll come back
With a potential segment
And
No
First unsolicited advice
Oh we're still doing unsolicited
Oh are we retiring unsolicited advice
Not really retiring
But I figured this segment would take its place
Unless you have one
I don't know we might
I have to redo the table of contents
If this is the situation
Never mind
Alright well we'll fucking keep it
It's fine
We'll be back
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Wow
That's correct
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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
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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
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Jake, do you have any
Oh, it's a lift
I'm coming
Gross
Going on a long drive
Or a short drive
You can bring a Gatorade bottle
And you can pee in it
On the road
Thanks everybody
For a short drive
Sometimes
I like to have a Gatorade bottle by my
Well, if it's in my car
There's always a Gatorade bottle
For me to pee in too
Should it become an emergency
Okay, so you're in LA
You're just visiting
So you rented a car
Rented a car
And then do you buy Gatorade anywhere
Or you get Gatorade knowing
That you'll have to take a piss in a car
If I have an hour-long car ride
I bring a Gatorade bottle
An hour
Yeah
Can't quite make it through
The hour-long car
No fucking chance
I mean, sometimes I can
But
You talk about it like sometimes
Like in an off chance
And then off chance
I won't have to piss in a Gatorade bottle
I mean, sure, it's a possibility
I'll always have to pee
When you leave
I pee
You pee when you leave
And then you take an hour-long car ride
And you have to pee during the ride
And then I pee as soon as I get to a place too
Got it
So
Have you ever done it with somebody else in the car?
Peed into a Gatorade bottle?
Yeah
Yeah, all the time
Have I done it with you in the car?
I don't know if I remember that
I think I did it with you in the car before
On a drive from the office to our old house
Your seat
So on Lafayette too
So it was really close
It was 20 minutes
Do you ever do it as a passenger
Or just as a driver?
I do it as a passenger
I did it on my road trip in Alaska a bunch
If I'm on a road trip with my brother
And then
I've done it with Jillian in the car
Have you ever pissed into a piss bottle?
What do you mean a piss bottle?
Don't get offended, by the way
I was talking about
Shitting into a fucking glass
I'm genuinely curious
Have you ever used a bottle that's already
Half filled with piss
Or is it only for empties?
Oh, no
I've never peed into one that I had already
I usually dump it out after I pee into it
Dump it out on the ground
Yeah
And then
How far deep does your dick go?
Are you hovering over the opening?
Or are you completely fucking this bottle?
I put my dick fully into the bottle
Fully in
So that's
Fully in
Lid touching your mouth
So that's an inch and a half
Nice
No, I put just the head into the bottle
Oh, just the head
Yeah
And this is while you're driving
Yeah
Kind of dangerous a little bit
It's really dangerous
The fastest I've ever gone
Like when I was on a road trip across the country
By myself
I did it like going 65 miles per hour
But it was like
Dead of night, no traffic
So you pee
But then you have to hold onto the steering wheel
And you do it
So one hand on the bottle
One hand on the steering wheel
Yeah
I sort of like lean back in my seat
Yeah
It's almost like standing
And I raise my butt up just a little bit
Supporting myself kind of like on the back of my thighs
Yeah
Put the bottle on the seat
Angle towards me
Pee into the bottle
There's got to be some splashing going on
Because it's like plastic stream hitting
The bottle itself is not very big
No, it's pretty contained
I mean the thing that sometimes will happen
Is like your dick is sort of like
At an angle to pee into the bottle
And like you think it all comes out
But then you like put it back in your pants
And you get like a little spurt
Yeah
A little last minute
There was one time where I like
Thought I was peeing
I was peeing into a water bottle
This is before
This is why my unsolicited advice is
The Gatorade bottle
The wider mouth
The wider mouth is the right size
It's peeing into like a Poland spring bottle
Oh, that's a small hole
And I was sure that I was like good
And just like
And I started peeing
And the next day I just felt like
My ass was like so warm and wet
And I was like, oh my god
I peed just straight onto the seat
Straight onto the seat
You pissed yourself
You pissed yourself that day
Don't say you missed the bottle
Well, my dick was out of my pants
So I didn't piss in my pants
I pissed on my pants
Yeah, but onto the seat
Sliding down through your ass crevice
Slightly worse, yeah
Yeah, totally
So you arrived to where you need to be
Well, that day I drove straight to like a CVS
And I got some resolve so I could clean my car
Yeah
But yeah, no, I mean it's
It's embarrassing for sure
I have a small bladder
Have you ever looked into it medically?
No, because I'm not interested in like take
I guess maybe I should
But I feel like it would be the kind of thing
Where I like had to take a pill every day or something
Yeah, you wouldn't do one pill every day
To just pee four times a day
No, that's just like
You'd rather piss into the bottle
It seems like a whole thing
Unlike going to a gas station
Just to get a Gatorade bottle so I can piss in it
Do you drink the Gatorade?
Does that mean you're drinking more Gatorade now?
No, it depends
I mean, if it's my car at home
I, you know, it's been the same bottle for months
Oh, you reuse it
Yeah, I keep that bottle on the seat
You just dump it out
I think we talked about this on the toilet
You've been lambasted by it before
You have a portable toilet in your car
Yeah
Have you ever taken a dump in a soylent bottle?
A log into a coffee
A mocha coffeeist
And a fucking diarrhea
I could turn any soylent into a mocha coffeeist
There's gotta be a point in time
Where you're gonna like accidentally drink piss
Yeah, I could
Or somebody else
Someone else is more likely
I mean, I know every time that there's a Gatorade bottle
That it's for piss
Yeah, do you get yellow Gatorade?
Yeah, I do
Oh
Cause that also is like, that saves me when I'm like
When I'm driving and need to dump it out
It just kind of looks like I'm getting rid of warm Gatorade
But that'll do that regardless of what color Gatorade you get
Oh, that's actually very true
Sorry, yeah, no, you're right
It's not like, whoa, that was yellow Gatorade
Let me see your fucking receipt
Or I'll think it's piss
Yeah, this was blue Gatorade
You're under arrest
What?
Dog's piss on the ground, officer
How is that any fucking different?
Cause you dumped out your urine in a library
Oh, I get that
Sue me
I will
Really?
Yeah
I don't have a lot of cash to my name
Of course, you're a homeless person
That pisses into Gatorade bottles
Been sued before is all
All right, new segment idea
Taken from, let me find this guy
This guy actually provided us with a bunch of segment ideas
Great
Grayson Miller writes
Ideas for segment pitches
It broke it into easy, medium and hard
Easy, steal from game shows
Price's right style, Amir is really good at math
The newlywed game, how well do you know each other?
Another easy one that I want to do
Steal for morning radio talk shows
AKA pick a weird recent study and neg on it
You know, those studies that's like best city to move to
I never really thought of it, but I do often hear
Like morning radio shows, like a recent study suggests
And so I was like, how do people find those studies?
Or like, are they made just as like TV and radio fodder?
So I did a Twitter search
For recent studies?
Yeah, I did a recent study suggests
And there's a bunch of them that people tweet about
Very interesting
Here's one that's the most apropos
According to
kcrg.com
High school students who don't date
Are less depressed than their counterparts who do
That's right
A recent study published in the Journal of School of Health
Reveals that adolescents who choose not to date
Fair as well as or even better than
Their coupled counterparts in social and leadership skills
They're also less depressed
That does make sense
You dated in high school and I did not
But would you say you were at times depressed
Over your dating situation?
Yeah, but I mean
I guess in high school I was dating someone
I dated somebody in high school
That like
I don't know
It's sort of like sometimes when you're dating in high school
Because everyone's so close
It will cause a rift with your friend group
I dated someone in high school that caused a rift
With my friend group
Because it was like taking somebody else's ex-girlfriend
Or something
And it's like
I guess it's hard to be happy when
Half of your friends hate you
Yeah, that's not a good situation
I guess you're also
I feel like you tend to be more codependent
In your relationship in high school
As you get older
You can be in healthy relationships
Where you have your independence still
You know who you are
I haven't met a lot of people in high school relationships
That are like, yeah
And we each have our independence
We're our own person
When you're 17
You're like all in or all out
You lost against the world
Everyone put us in
All our friends hate you
Just the way I wanted it
And then when there's a breakup
It's like, how am I supposed to deal with that
Plus studying
Right, it's the end of the world
And now I have to fucking learn calculus
I don't think so
My heart's in a wrench
Your first relationship was not till college?
Yeah, it was like
End of high school into college
I think that was when my first relationship was too
Oh no, wait
Yeah, I'm trying to think
I don't think I had a girlfriend
During high school
During high school
It seems like a hard thing to do
Yeah
No, I definitely did not have a girlfriend during high school
I had one in eighth grade and one senior year
So always at the end of your schools
Right, when I was the king
Yeah
Anyway, so if you don't have a girlfriend
Or you're not dating in high school
Maybe you're lucky
Yeah
Unless you're depressed
And then you're just not one of the lucky ones in the study
Yeah, of course these studies can sort of
Validate any claim
People can say, oh yeah, recent studies suggest the opposite too
It's also, didn't the study, the quote was
They are as happy or happier
Yeah
So it's just like they're not less depressed
But some of them are the same
Equal
Yeah
Excuse me
Researchers collected self-reports from 10th graders
Along with teacher surveys on their dating habits
And emotional behavior information
Funny that they talked to teachers
Did the teachers know who's dating who?
Like are they clued in?
They must watch high school
Kind of like a reality show
Yeah, no, yeah, they definitely know
And they talk about it
Like did you see Steve like broke up with Cheryl?
Yeah, that's gotta be
That's probably one of the fun parts of being a teacher
Right, I wonder if it's like
If they're looking at it like, oh god, these kids are idiots
Or if they're looking at it like, this is really interesting
That's funny, they're following it like it's a reality show
Game of Thrones style
And then like
But the teachers can't ask
So they just always have to be around, overhearing
And then they share information
Right, they're kind of like Varys in Game of Thrones
Yeah, they just like to linger
Did you hear what happened?
And then maybe they start causing the
Oh Steve, I hear you're single
That's not true, really, that's not what I heard
That's right, Sharon just told her best friend
That she's thinking of breaking up with you
Mr. Blumenfeld, you're a chemistry teacher
Get the fuck away from me
She's getting lunch with Luke
Yeah, I'm gonna tell on you
You're gonna get fired for this
They slit your throat in the cafeteria
Like Littlefinger
Now I'm part of the story too
Sansa, please
Alright, solid segment
Recent studies suggest
Recent studies
That's good
Cool, and one final question
Let's do it
Oh, this one might be a mini one
But might turn into a real one
This is from
You know what, it's not even embarrassing
So I'm gonna use this fucking guy's real name
Whoa
I'm gonna give a shit
It's Tom
Should I get AirPods?
Pros, wireless, cool, rich
Con, expensive
Thanks for the help, love Tom
So, if one of the cons is that they're expensive
And the pros is that you're rich
A pro is that I'm rich
And I can have them
And a con is that they're too expensive
For me to afford
It seems like AirPods have taken that classic Apple
180 of like it came out and was like
The fuck is this? This is stupid
I remember when iPads
No one needs an iPad
Just get a phone or a computer
And then like two years later
Everyone loves AirPods
Like when did that reversal happen?
Yeah, I think that first people to use them
Were just like, wow, they don't fall out of your ears
Not having a cord is great
Yeah
They do kind of look like cigarettes
That come out of your ears
Yeah, they don't look like super cool
I mean, I think wireless
Your buds, they don't have to be AirPods, right?
Like they'll work
Your phone will work with anything
It's just Bluetooth
I wonder, like there's definitely a cooler look
Than the AirPods
But you have AirPods
You know what's funny?
When I was in Atlanta on the D&D tour
Which we didn't really talk about
And you didn't ask me at all, so
But it was fun, it was nice
Yeah, I talked to you about it last week
And then also before we recorded
And I think on camera, on microphone
I asked you, oh
Yeah, all right, cool
Oh, I'm sorry
Whatever, whatever, I'm sorry
You just accused me
And now you're just sort of brushing it off
I went on a run in Atlanta
Uh-huh
And it was really hot
And my plan was to like run around
Like near the hotel
And then get back and jump on the pool
And I did just that
And I left my AirPods in
Did you say that's a con?
That's a con
Well, it's a con for me
That my AirPods are broken now
Oh, that's it
A little bit of water, it's over, game over
It's not like an iPhone
Yeah, I definitely like
Swam around for a bit
So it wasn't like a little stunk
Oh shit, they're wet, no, like they were
They were in you, yeah
Submerged
But yeah, I would think
Like you can put the iPhone in
Yeah, also like the AirPods come in that case
That looks like dental floss
That seems like it would be waterproof
Oh, I had them in loose
Yeah, loose, they were in my pocket
Yeah
Tape to your thigh
And then one of them just sank to the bottom
And I stepped on it
You found it in the filter
Yeah, of course
So, but one of them still worked
I just the right one worked for a little while
And now it doesn't work anymore
And I was actually contemplating
Just like this guy, like
Do I replace, they're expensive
Yeah, how much are they?
I think they're like 200 bucks
Yeah
And when I say I think I know
Because I went and I looked
And you almost purchased them
I almost purchased them
But I was like, I just, I can't
The right one still works sometimes
Oh, I see, you don't want to pull the trigger yet
But now, now that I'm thinking about it
I am going to check out, like just wireless
Uh, your like, what are they called?
Well, not ear buds
Ear buds
Not pods
God, fucking pods
Buds
Why does everything have to be a god damn pod with Apple?
Yeah, I don't know
The podcast, the iPod
It's an air pod
They want to like keep it consistent
Fuck those guys
Well, you have all of those things
I love their products
Yeah
You did already order a new iPhone
Yes, I did
And that's what I was thinking about getting the air pods
But now I'm going to search and see if there's anything that is just like
Looks cool and isn't an air pod
Because black would be better
Black would be better
And like, they have like, you know, a little more support in the metis
Yeah
My metis I think is too big
Your metis is too big
Whenever I have to use ear pods, buds
They fall out of my metis
I don't know if I'm not using the metis correctly
You're wearing cans right now so I can't see your metis
Yeah, right here
Yeah, turn your head
That's it
It's cavernous
You think it's too deep?
I don't know if it's like
They fall out like
Like there's too much
Yeah, like there's too much space around them
Like they jiggle, they're loose
Yeah, like when I wear the regular ones with wires, they'll fall out if I'm running
If I was playing beat saber yesterday, mine kept falling out
That's so crazy
And I'm like shoving it in tight
I'm like, I don't think I should even be shoving it in this tight
Maybe I have a greasy metis
You know, there's a
Is it possible I have a waxy oily metis?
Yeah, your metis might, it might not be like the size
It might just be like
The shape or the oil of it
It's frictionless
I think like you have like secretion
And oil, yeah
And like your metis secretion
It's a slick metis
Yeah, I was gonna say it's a slick and slippery metis
Yeah
There's a sheen to your metis
I think
I bought some like
Some exercise headphones that were like
They're connected by a wire
But they're like
Yeah
But they're behind your head
They're Bluetooth, yeah
But that was like a year ago now
And anyway, they came with like three different sizes
For like the pod itself
I see
Like you could, and it was this little rubber thing
So you could have the small one, the medium one, or the large one
I would opt for the large one, the metis to be
As airtight as possible
Well, the other possibility though
Is that you have a really tiny metis
So you can't get it past
Like the little area where it needs to lodge
Oh, interesting, yeah
I envision mine as just an open hole
I didn't know that there was like a thin part
And then it's wider behind it
That sort of locks it
You have to like dock it
It's a lock, it's a dock and a lock
Interesting
Were you playing Beat Saber yesterday?
I did play Beat Saber
And did the air buds of it all stick in there
Or were they...
I think I was playing it during the party
So there was
No air buds part of it
It was just ambient noise
Everybody was...
Maybe I put them in
I mean, I definitely didn't notice
I don't have the problem where they fall out
That's cool
That's just you, man
So you pro air pods or not?
Uh, yeah
I think if you think that they're...
The pros were all of the...
What was it?
Was cool, rich
Wireless
Cool wireless and rich
Yeah
I'm for you getting them
I also think that it's worth every once in a while
Splurging on yourself
For something that you think about a lot
Because you'll feel great every time you use them
And you use your phones a lot
Did you like using them when you did have them?
Yes, I loved them
You can run with them and they didn't jostle
I would do like high intensity workouts with them
They never jostle
They're so slick, it's like plastic
I don't know, I feel like the other ones are like
Wrap around your ear
Or they're like a little more matte
Where they stick better
These things totally worked for me
I went on like trail runs with them
Then it fell out
But I mean, if it's just straight up
For like walking to work and stuff
It's great
It's also really nice for like
Just actually sitting at your desk and working
Because like you can...
If you need to get up
You just get right up
You don't have to like unplug yourself
It's kind of nice
Yeah, it's a cool system
Do you ever just like keep them in all day
And you're like, I'm not even using them
I just realized
Yeah, hopping a pool
Yeah
Right, that's how they got ruined
Runed indeed
I like my wireless headphones
Like my whatever, Bose
Yeah, well because you have a strange metis
Yeah, and then they just cup my entire skull
Wireless is definitely good
My problem with wireless
Is that it's not everywhere yet
And you have to charge it
Yeah
It feels weird to have to charge your headphones
Right, because you have these like
A nice little minimal wireless thing
But like actually there's more wires
Because you have to charge them
And it also of course comes with a wireless case
It has to be wired eventually
Right
You're not completely ditching the wires
God, if planes could do Bluetooth
I mean that's got to be so far away
They must just not even care
Oh yeah, why don't they?
They have Wi-Fi
But then you still need to plug in to watch the TV
Yeah
That's an annoying thing
Yeah, and if I didn't have to do that
I still have wired headphones
Because I'm like, I only use them when I fly
Right
Alright
So get the AirPods
Or do some research and see if you
There's another kind of earbud that would work for you
But do go wireless
Why don't they make the AirPods different colors?
Like why is it just white?
It's insane that it's only white
Like everything is a variety of colors
All their products are product colors
They should absolutely make different colors
If they did like an olive green one
I would get it right now
What kind of phone did you get?
I got the Space Gray
Oh really?
I don't do color phones
Because I put a case on it anyway
Right, but it's nice to have that like
Because there's going to be three cameras on your phone now
So that little bit of colored plastic will peek out
Right, that's interesting
But yeah, I like the classic
Alright
Alright, that's it
The end
Table of contents over
Episode done
Now it's time for the bibliography
We're excited
The study we referenced today was
KCRG
Didn't the podcast get in trouble for plagiarizing?
Oh
Thank you to the Journal of School Health
For doing that study just for us
Appreciate it
Thanks to you guys for writing in
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Alright, I'll admit it was good
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If I emailed these two Jews
With all my problems to solve
They'll let me know what to do
Who knew that I'd be writing an advice show
The freak of these comedic guys know
I'm feeling like rolling the dice though
Holy guac here suddenly before me
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Maybe this'll be the one where they implore me
Fun shit again
No, I bet my email's still in their inbox
Unopened screw you
I'm finding another show
It's been three years and no word
I'll match this, this, this silent treatment with my own
I don't deserve this, this silent treatment
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