If I Were You - 439: Song Titles
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If I were you
If I were you
If I were you
That's off their self title, it was a single
Real fans will know what song that was
That's from Cheshire Cat
Is that I Miss You? Is that what it is?
Yeah, of course it's I Miss You
Of course it's I Miss You
Did they have like a bunch of cryptically titled song?
Cause I know like Dammit is the song of
Dammit doesn't have the word Dammit in it
It's like that song that I guess this is growing up, right?
Yeah, that's Dammit
Yeah, but this song is I Miss You
Is I Miss You in it or is that another like weird
Interesting alt title?
No, they repeat I Miss You incessantly in that song
Cause I thought the song was called
Don't Waste Your Time or something
Voice Inside My Head
Yeah, it could be, but I mean Mark
Senior Hopis is in the background saying
I Miss You over and over again
I don't know if they do have a lot of songs like that
Yeah, no, I mean Girl at the Rock Show
That's all the small things
That's the first, you know
What's My Age Again or say that a lot?
Yeah, okay, I was trying to create
Some sort of deep, interesting, philosophical
There's A Road, A Thesis
Okay, Peggy Sue going away to college
Those are things that they don't say in the song
But it's the vibe of the song
I think they go half and half
Yeah
I mean, they're a fascinating band
Right
What about like top ten songs that are titled
After words that are not in the song at all
It seems like you gotta go
Words in the song, otherwise
Yeah
I guess movies are the same way
Sometimes they say the line
The titular line
I guess we were all a few good men
They never say that
Right
I feel like movies, it happens less
The Jurassic Park is welcome to Jurassic Park
Oh yeah, alright
But songs, I feel like it happens a lot
Like what's the most famous song where they don't say the words
The title of the song
Yeah, I'm struggling to think of any
It's really hard to think of
Hey Jude, they don't say Hey Jude
Oh no, they do right up top
Yeah, it's the first two words
They sing it a lot in the chorus, yeah
I bet, yeah
If you know it, you're thinking about it
And you're shouting it into your iPhone
Or Android device
Yeah, and you're adding me
Can we think of one more?
We gotta think of at least one
It's just gonna be this itch that I can't scratch the entire show
What's a song titled?
Oh, no, never mind
I was thinking of that Simon and Garfunkel song
You know where it's like
It's a full song
I sound very stoned right now
It's a full song
And then there's also the second
Like the last minute of it feels like a different song
And then like bookends
Is it called bookends?
They have a song called bookends I think
I don't know that song
Is that the old friends song?
It's like bookends and then in parenthesis old friends
A time of innocence
A time of...
Bookends, I don't know
That's Simon and Garfunkel?
Yeah
It's interesting that you and I
Have the exact same level of
Zero music knowledge
Like very very limited music knowledge
Surface
Like we have to Google a famous Simon and Garfunkel song right now
Yeah, it's called old friends
But then if you... I don't know
I wish I knew more
I'll do research
I promise you guys
Old friends and bookends
Where it's like a song
I can't think of a single song that doesn't say the thing
And now I can't even...
Alright, who's the...
Okay, so let's go
Wait, this is crazy
I can't even think of a song
I really can't think of an artist right now
Who's someone that sings a song?
What?
Okay, the Beatles
They've got... let's go through their catalog
They...
I feel like they're classically naming
The song off of the things that they sing
Let it be
That one's in there
Okay
We're just gonna go song by song
God damn it
Yeah, what about newer modern songs?
Brick by Ben Folds
You know that modern song from 1998
That's in the chorus
Brick a lot
We're gonna get into...
We're gonna have that thing
Where it's just ruminating thoughts
Only thinking about songs
That have the title in the chorus
That's what's gonna keep on happening now
The opposite
I think he says one hit late at night
Yeah
Usually both songs they do
Yeah, it's the words that you repeat the most
It's the chorus
Yeah, it's all named after the chorus
The hook
Oh, no, that's in it
The hook brings you back
Of course, run around
Yes, run around
That's, again, the whole point
The crux of the song
Slash short
The crux of the song
I mean, you feel like the Beethoven's fifth
They don't say...
They never say Beethoven's fifth in that song
It's all fucking like...
I think they do
Because Beethoven's fifth
Really?
Beethoven's fifth
Beethoven's fifth
I didn't realize that
I'd only been listening to the karaoke version, I think
When you touch me like this
All coming back to me, yeah
That's the chorus as well
It appears as though
Dammit is the only song like that
Really?
Unless we want to look up specifically
I bet it's already been like a bus feed list
I've got it
I've got it
Did you look, did you cheat or did you think of it?
I've got it and I looked it up
So you cheated, you looked it up
You didn't got it
Got it means you got it
Well, I didn't find it
I didn't look up famous songs that don't say the word
I didn't look up that
I searched most famous song
And there's a list
And some of them, I'm like, oh, they don't say that
What do you got? What's the most famous song?
Well, I mean, this is only according to an eonline.com list
Most iconic songs, but it smells like Teen Spirit
That's pretty good
Yeah
And he doesn't say it
Another one on this list
Yeah, that song should be called
Entertain Us
Yeah, exactly
Bohemian Rhapsody
That's good
That's really good
God, I wish we thought of it
It would have been so fucking satisfying
Me saying, here, let me cut this part out
What about Bohemian Rhapsody? That's like, damn it
Smells like Teen Spirit is another one
Yeah
Just try to think
I actually could have had this moment if you didn't say that I looked it up
Like, I was gonna be like, I got it and then say it
Like, that would have been perfect
And I could have gotten away with it too
It's hard because there's no easy way to search your brain for it
Like, I have to stop doing everything else in my brain
Like, I stop breathing to think about
You gotta think about the song first
Then the title
And then go even deeper in a Rolodex in your mind
To find every fucking word in that title
Yeah, and the problem really comes when you just like
Your brain wants you to fuck up
So your brain will just like
Keep on yelling brick by bed vault
And you're like, it's not that one
And I can't move on until I say it out loud
Now I'm on rollingstone.com's 500 greatest songs of all time
And we have to record a podcast
So I just need to, I need to get off of the internet
Alright, let's get one more, you can cheat
Anything else from that list
Well, now I just closed the tab
Hang on one second, I got you
The problem with the list
The problem with the list here is that it starts at number 500
And we don't know those songs
Yeah, these aren't like, oh here we go
Now we're getting somewhere
Hang on, now we're fucking, now we're scrolling
Yeah, while you do that I'm just
I'm scrolling through Weezer's blue album
And they all seem to, between Buddy Holly, Sweater Song, Holiday
They all have it, it's all in there
My name is Jonas, of course
My name is Jonas, that one says it, yeah
Right off the bat
A lot of them say, a lot of them, it's the first thing they say
That's confusing
Yeah, it's either the first thing or the chorus thing
And then occasionally they just title a song
Like you're naming a child
It's not necessarily in the actual lyrics
Oh yeah, when they name just like the song after
Now I'm thinking Layla, and it's obviously not Layla
Yeah, because that's, yeah after a woman or a man
That's the infatuation
But then they would save the name of that person in the song
I was also about to say don't stand so close to me
It's really embarrassing because like
Often it's the thing, they say it so much
We're gonna get like hundreds of tweets being like
This is the really popular song, we should have thought of that
This is another popular song, we should have thought of that
And it's also, I bet there's like a list of exactly what we're talking about somewhere
Someone's done it better than us
And we tried to do it just willy nilly on the podcast
Live on the day
Oh, hallelujah, that's a good one that says it a lot
Now I'm just looking at great songs
Yeah
Hang on one second, I'm scrolling past 200 here
So now we're gonna start getting into some real bangers
Okay
Oh, how about Johnny Cash, Folsom Prison Blues
Oh, that's yeah, I don't think he ever says Folsom
But I also don't really know how that song goes
Is that the I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die
Oh, well there you go
That counts, that counts as the third song
And now 13 minutes deep we can finally put this off hand question to bed
Yeah
We've failed
How about Brown Eyed Girl, does he say Brown Eyed Girl ever?
Yeah, he says it like 30 times in the song
Alright
Second share
I think after damn it we couldn't think of any
Then you looked at a few listicles and we scrounged up three more
At the end of the day
I couldn't even do the list thing very good
Because this is, because Rolling Stones websites are bad
So
It's been a long, it's been a long week basically
I mean, we're recording this on Monday morning to release right away Monday, June 15th
That's right
Just to place things on the calendar for everybody, the Ides of June
We're not even halfway done with 2020
Are we not?
Yeah
Where that would be at the end of June, would be halfway home
I think, do you feel like June is, I feel like June, or I feel like 2020 is ending in November
That's like Groundhog's Day
Yeah, it's either like, I feel like on election day we find out if 2020 has an end or if 2020 ends in 2024
So we'll get to see, is there two more months or four more years?
Yeah
Like, I don't care about the calendar year anymore
The election cycle, it's not even a year
Alright, this is If I Were You, an advice show I guess
Hosted by us, the only one hosted by us, I'm Amir
I am Jake
I'm in Los Angeles, Jake's in Connecticut it looks like
That's correct, that is correct
That's your brother's old room
Yeah, I'm chilling in Micah's room
I got the Fender Strat right behind me
That's a really nice axe
Yeah, it's the Fender Stratocaster
Do you have an amp or a Wawa pedal?
I would love to jam with you sometimes
I do have an amp, but it's in the shed
I don't think we have the chord
Let's get the amp, I think
I have an idea
We've already derailed the podcast so much
I want to come up with a song that doesn't have the words in it as the title
That's not a bad idea
Untitled is what the name of the song is
Blink 182 has a song called Untitled
It goes Untitled and I'm so mighty
Untitled in the way that I go wide
I really want to titled
So he says it a lot
That's actually exactly how it goes
Don't waste
Here's a question for you that we received just this week
Just because the world is having an awesome glow up right now
doesn't mean people don't have any questions of it
Everything is going splendidly for us, sure
But some people are actually in a predicament
Good, at least it makes sense that we still have the show then
Yeah
How?
This one is from a 20 year old English male at university
I'll call him Hugh Grant
Who's on the cusp of his second year at university
My best friend for many years is deciding between moving to a city with his girlfriend this September
Or staying with her
Sorry, and staying with her
Or moving to the same city as me and breaking up with her
He says he kind of wants to break up for a fresh start
But I don't really want him coming with me
Because although I love him, he doesn't really gel with my new friends
And always makes me feel guilty when I spend loads of time with him
Making me think that he might be too much of a drain on my personal resources
But he's got a lot of other things to do
I don't want to disappoint him either if he moves to the city that I'm in
And I can't spend that much time with him even though he's partly moving for me
How do I convince him to stay with his girlfriend and not move to the same city as me
While still keeping him as a friend
That's not where I expected this question to go
That is not where I expected this to go
This question jumped out to me because it was like a reverse saving Silverman situation
It's like my friend's girlfriend sucks
We gotta break up, get the band back together if I can hang out with my single friend
And this guy's like, how do I get him to leave me alone and stay in this relationship
We're gonna team up everybody and fight to get him staying in a relationship
And not moving to the city that I'm in as a single man
What would you do?
Well, this is the movie that I want to pitch you
Saving Silverman was the famous one about trying to break up a friend
So this one is called Protecting Goldman
And this guy's name is Goldman
Yeah, so it's the 2020 version
Everything is gritty rebooted style
Everything is different and changed now
We're telling this story from a different point of view
Two guys team up in a silly caper to get this guy to marry his girlfriend
Even though it's wrong
Get new friends, but lose the old
Because you are Silver and I am Gold
That is the tactic
You're begging and pleading this guy to settle down so he leaves you the fuck alone
I think you could tell him be like, you know, if you do move here
I just don't imagine us having a lot of time to spend together
Because I'm at uni and I'm gonna be hanging out with some new uni friends
And this guy should be so offended
He'll be like, you know what, fine
I'm just gonna go and move in with my girlfriend
And that'll show you thinking that he'll be like jealous
But instead this guy'll be like, yeah, that's what I wanted all along
Right, I mean, I think this happens sometimes in relationships
I feel like too, you know, when like somebody gets into college
And the boyfriend or girlfriend is gonna go to the same college
And they're like, well, you can do that, but do it for you
Don't do it to be with me
It's like people just don't like that kind of pressure
It's an expectation fulfillment thing
So I think you could be like
And it's like he shouldn't break up with the girlfriend for this other guy
For a friend, he should break up with a girlfriend for himself if he doesn't like the girlfriend
Yeah, so it seems like you don't have to manipulate him
You can just straight up tell him the truth
Worst case scenario, you lose him as a friend
Which seems like kind of better than having him break up with his girlfriend
Move towards your city, slash in your city
And then wanna hang out all the time
The tough thing here is like, a lot of the time the truth is like something that's hard
But ultimately good
This truth is like hard and ultimately sad
Like, yeah
It's just, it's like
Truth is, you make your weird around my friends
And I don't like you
So I don't want you to move here
God, glad I got that off my chest
Things will be better for that
They will be better for you, but it kind of will ruin your friend's life a little bit
But maybe that needs to happen
Just because you were friends with someone when you were 11 doesn't mean that you should get along at age 20
You're kind of a different human at that point
Yeah, I still wonder if you don't tell the truth, but you just sort of, like, you say
You should break up with your girlfriend if you want, and if you wanted to live in the city, that'd be cool
But I'm, I don't know
Just like, temper his expectations
Unless you really want a clean break, in which case, just say, I don't want to hang out with you
But you can always do that over time
Like, it seems weird to be like, give your friend advice on staying together with someone he doesn't want to be with or not
Like, he should definitely just do whatever he wants to do
You just have to remove yourself from the situation
Yeah
Tell the truth, worst case scenario, this guy doesn't hang out with you
But it's still better than the alternative of him breaking up with his girlfriend to be with you
He definitely won't hang out with you if you tell him the truth
That's for sure
The truth is that you think he, he doesn't get, he doesn't gel with your friends and you don't want to spend time with him
That's right
Yeah
So worst case scenario will 100% happen there
He will hate you
He won't be upset and he won't be your friend anymore
But maybe that's fine for you
I guess to me, to me worst case scenario is him moving in with you
This is second worst case scenario
Yeah, I guess you're right
This guy, he says he has a podcast called Don't Read On Podcast
And he's been a big fan of ours
So we're gonna give his podcast a shout out, but don't read on podcast
Alright, and now his friend, if he, now his friend's gonna know
Yeah, that's great, you don't have to tell him at all
Don't worry, we did
We outed you, we know exactly who you are, he'll find out, I'm sure
Whether he listens to this show, he either listens to it or he has a friend that does
Like that's how many people fucking listen to this thing
Like you, everybody on earth is one degree away
I'm sorry, I know it sounds like I'm self fucking
He obviously has a friend who listened to it, right?
Because his friend wrote in
That's right
So he'd be like, dude, I think this is about you
And he'd be like, yeah, it's about, it's you who wrote in
Yeah, I guess so, this is fucking bizarre
Don't move here
And don't waste your time on me
Okay
You're all ready
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And we are back, Jake, do you have any?
Oh, it's a lift to the fire
Mom, I'm coming
Gross
No, no I don't
But just before we came back from the break, you told me that you did and I said great
First of all, there's a Dave Matthews song called number 41, right?
Yes
He doesn't say that in it, right?
Right, correct
Yeah, and that blur song where it's like, I got my head shaved is like track two or song number two
Yes, that is correct
Yes
Titles where they haven't updated them from the place of their track title
That's right
There's also the
That's not my unsolicited
The Green Day song, American Idiot
Don't want to be an American Idiot's outster
Oh, is that what he says in the chorus? I hadn't heard this song
Wait, is it dookie?
Basket case?
Yeah, I don't think he says basket case
Don't
I think I'm cracking up
Or am I just basket case? Am I just case?
Yeah
And when I come around, he says, you know, you know what I'm saying?
Don't, don't, don't
So some of them you're getting, right?
The fact that you keep bringing up
When I come over there
You don't know the game, I don't think
I think you're just guessing
Sometimes correctly
Sometimes not
But I got basket case, that's solid
Basket case is good
That was like the first organic one we've come up with
30 minutes into this show
The song too was pretty solid
Growing herbs
Growing herbs from seeds is how I've been spending some of my free time recently
And it's been both difficult
And I've lost some stuff
And some stuff has been fruitful
And the fact that I don't have 100% success rate
I'm learning how to do this stuff
And it makes the, like
I'm looking at this basil plant that I've cultivated
From literally a piece of dirt with some seeds in it
To like a plant with like 21 leaves on it
Like I'm looking at this thing like, wow, look what I've done
This thing that I usually wouldn't even care about at all
The problem is, I mean
I guess it's not really a problem
It's a fun way to pass the time
You can see this thing grow
And it takes a couple weeks to a couple months to do
So there's a nice long timeline
But you don't have to wait years
Like it's a tree or something
And I'm having problems with some of my herbs that I'm trying to grow
Like the basil's doing great
But my sage is struggling
So I'm learning
I saw you took, yeah, you took to Twitter and asked for some sage advice
Ah, it was a shit show
And everybody was saying
Everyone was saying one thing
And I was so certain that that wasn't the case
Like, and I look it up
And it's that same old problem of like brown tips
It means you're either over-watering or under-watering
So treat it by adjusting
So it's like, okay, great
So I'm either doing one thing or the exact opposite
And if I do the exact opposite to help
That's either going to save the plants live or kill it completely
I transferred this
Everyone said I was over-watering it
So I transferred from the starter bed that I did
Which was only an inch of soil to a deeper pot
And then when I transferred it, the roots were like so like dried out
I'm like, there's no way I'm over-watering this thing
But I put it in this new plant and I let it dry out
And then it started getting even more brown
I'm like, I think it's just too dry
I'm going to water it more
And a lot of the little sage leaves died out
And now I'm like holding on to like two last stalks
That haven't died yet
And I don't know if these...
And you're watering it
I'm watering it, but maybe the roots aren't taking the water
So like I'm watering a lot
So the soil looks over-watered
But the actual plant itself is under-watered
And then I found a fucking caterpillar on it
Like a little inchworm that was eating the leaves
I'm like, I only have like eight leaves left
And these critters are starting to eat the leaves
So I buy the neem oil
I mean, I'm learning about all this little shit
It feels like a little video game
Like Animal Crossing, like a slow burn
But at the end of the day, I might have
That's really nice
Basil to put on something
And you're using it
You're putting the basil and some pasta
God, no, no, I have not
I'm too scared to
You're hoarding it
Like I'm just, I'm worried about growing it right now
Like the idea of actually using this sage
And some sort of pasta sauce seems so foreign to me
So you're keeping it in a little pot by the window
No, I leave it outside
So to cultivate it from like seeds to sapling
You do it inside and like cover it with saran wrap
To create this like
And that part's over
Kind of steam room
You've done that part
Yeah, and then you
Yeah, and then you take it outside
And you like water it
To try to get it to grow in there
It's backyard?
Backyard style
You gotta get some planters
Do you have planters back there?
That's the next step
Because, you know, some people are years ahead of me
They got planters with tomatoes and peppers
And they're growing food that they're picking off
And they're eating straight off the vine
That looks exciting
Yeah, that's Los Angeles for you, baby
You should talk to my sister
My sister Sarah grows that shit
Yeah, but she does it on like rooftops, right?
Well, she's an herb farmer in North Carolina now
So can she look at my sage
And tell me what the hell's wrong with it?
I'm quite certain she could
Jesus Christ, why are you hiding that information from me?
I'll call her in
You saw the tweet
Well, it's FaceTime
Yeah, I did
You knew what was going on
I should have showed it to her, honestly
I'll show it to her after this
But I have
After this is too late
The leaves are yellowing
She thinks, yeah
You over-watered it
It's time to dry it out
Take a hair dryer to that thing, actually
That's what Sarah said
She just texted me
Yeah
The hard part is you have to stick the hair dryer underneath the soil
And blow it from the inside out
So hold on a second
So I have a peach tree
And an apple tree
A cherry tree
And an orange tree
Wow
Peach, apple, yeah
That's massive
You have an orchard
It sounds like you have
I do have an orchard
A little farm going on
I have several
And where's that?
Where are all these trees?
This is in the forest
It's on my island
So I have
Okay
So I don't know if we talked about your island
I should say that you recently either came into
Or purchased an island
Well, I didn't
I guess I per-
Yeah
Because it started out as just a vacation island
And then I ended up having to buy the island
So I ended up
So I purchased the island from a raccoon
It was
I mean, I don't own the island
I think Tom Nook owns the island
I just
I own the house on the island
Got it
So you're talking about animals
Yeah
This is a game
Yeah
Animal crossing
These are not real
It's more than a
These are virtual fruits
Yeah
It isn't a game though
They're pretty real to me
I agree with that
I sell them
I sell them for real money
Well, bells
I sell them for real bells
And I can
Got it
I use that money to buy goods
And services
So this is not
This is not what I was talking about
I was talking about actual
Actual
This is actual
Actual great food
It's
So this is that
Seemingly scratch
This is actual
Yeah
Yeah
How far are you
How far have you gotten on your island
It's not about getting far
It's just about
It's just about doing
Doing the work
Day to day
You know
You gotta
You gotta just plug away
I haven't gotten far
But I
That's
It's a lifestyle
It's not like a game
If that's what you're trying to imply
Like you don't beat it
I have added an extra room
Didn't you buy a game
In addition to Animal Crossing
You purchased a game recently, right
Oh yeah
Well, I bought
I bought the Witcher
But I didn't have enough space to download it
So I don't
So I haven't been able to play it yet
But I haven't
Probably an enormous game
Cause I have five games on my Switch
And I've downloaded them all
You only have Animal Crossing
And you seem like
You can't download the Witcher
Yeah
Witcher is like
It's like 33 gigs or something
Jesus Christ
It's huge
It's really big
So I need to get like a special card
And I haven't been able to do that
Because I'm still working on the island
You know
There's just
There's stuff to be done
Cultivating
You could delete
Animal Crossing
A natural ramp is what I was saying
I was raising money for a ramp
If you delete Animal Crossing
You might free up enough space
For the other game you want to get
If I deleted Animal Crossing
Then like Timmy and Tommy wouldn't be able
To open up their store
Antonio wouldn't have anywhere to live
It's not like a real thing anyway
I guess they would live in other people's systems
Or whatever
It's pretty real to me
I've been playing Super Nintendo's Zelda
Zelda Link to the Past
Because Ben was telling me
That it's like an amazing game
And I never played Zelda's growing up
So I'm like alright I'll give this a shot
Yeah
I've been playing for over a week
Thinking that I'm like getting close to the end
Finally defeated this big boss man
And it was like awesome congratulations
I'm like this is great
Zelda's here
And like you have one of the nine crystals
You need to take
You need to like actually save Zelda
I'm like excuse me
I thought I was done
And you're telling me that like
This is actually
I'm 11% of the way through this game
Wow
I've been playing for like several hours a day
For a fucking week and a half
To get to like this point
So isn't that good
This game is made for 11 year olds
Aren't you happy though
That you have more game to play
Or would you rather have beaten it
I would rather have beaten it
Because I want to be like
Okay that was tough
But I spent 20 fucking hours on this thing
And I finally figured out how to beat it
And then it was like
Like what's hard about it
You're not actually close
Is it like puzzles that you need to solve
Or is it like combinations of buttons
That are like
I just can't imagine
It's a big combo of both
Okay
Yeah
So I've never played Zelda
I was more of a Mario guy
Which is very simple
It's like you're on one side of the screen
Get to the other
Beat the bad guys and get there
With Zelda it's more open
It like throws you onto this map
And it's like try to find the princess here
And so like you're walking around
There's no like sense of urgency or time
It's just like walk around
Talk to people
Find out where she is
And then like invariably
This one person will be like
Yeah she's in this place
But you need to get this thing
To get to that place
So find the key
Move a rock
Put a bomb
Go into a cave
So there's little
Games within the games
Within the games
To get further along
Interesting
So it's a little more loosey-goosey
So I've been enjoying that aspect of it
Where it's like
Are the graphics updated?
Like does it look nice?
Or does it look like 8-bit
Kind of like old-school video game?
It looks like a Super Nintendo game
So it kind of looks like Super Mario World
So it's like a little bit above
Like Nintendo graphics 8-bit
Yeah it looks like Genesis Super Nintendo
It was made in like 1992
I see
But I can't imagine
Did they just re-release it?
For some reason I thought they like
Re-released it and it like
Is supposed to be beautiful
Or is that a newer Zelda
That you aren't playing?
Yeah every console
Has like the newer version of Mario
And the newest version of Zelda
And everyone is loving
Zelda Breath of the Wild on Switch
Which is like what I'm playing
But with even more insane graphics
And like an expanded universe
I can't imagine playing that
Cause like I'm struggling right now
With this 1992 version of the game
The idea of like that times
Whatever they can do now
Feels like way too much
Yeah I'm like
Dangerously close to
Playing more on my Switch
But like not being able to download this
This game just
Like it was a bridge too far
I was like okay so now I need a mini SD card
Like I don't
I don't know
I don't know
I don't know if I want to do that
So I just like put it down
And start reading my book again
You should do these
The Nintendo Super Nintendo
Online thing
Cause it's like the games
That you're used to growing up
Keeps you entertained without like the
Barrier to entry of
And learning how to play one of these new games
Right
That's another bit of unsolicited advice
So it's that and
Makes fucking
I don't know
Rosemary
Solid
I mean growing your own herbs
Jill was doing this thing
Do you know you could like
Regrow scallions
Yeah like some vegetables
You just put in water
And it like becomes that
Full vegetable again
Yeah and that's one of
That's like scallions so you
We would like chop up scallions
Put it in this water
And then a week or two later
It would just be like
You could have more scallions
It regenerates
Yeah it's pretty cool
But like some of it is like
Regenerated and delicious
And some of it is like poison
So you have to really do your research
About what you can eat
And what you can't
Yeah so that's the unsolicited
There's a good master class
With Ron Finley
Who's an urban gangster gardener
Who like teaches you all about
Gardening in an urban setting
It's called the gangster gardener
Master class
That's very educational
And fun to watch
Have you ever done a master class
They're actually pretty cool
I have not
No
Have you done
Are you doing the food growing one
We're watching it
Avital and I
We're not like taking notes
And like studying
And like doing like homework
But they've been
I've watched a few
And watched a few over
Avital's shoulder
And they're all very entertaining
And digestible information
I feel like I remember when
Master class was coming out
We like thought everyone was like
Making fun of it
Yeah exactly
And then it's like oh shit
It's actually
Are you talking about basketball
Yeah I guess I'll watch this
Or Aaron Sorkin
Talking about movie writing
At the very least it's like
Interesting to see how these people
Who have succeeded
Have done what they've done
That's definitely true
Alright let's try to get to one
One last question
Another piece of unsolicited advice
Yeah it's too much unsolicited
Here's one more
One last piece of so-licited advice
I'm a 23 year old male from California
So we'll call him Mark Hoppus
But I went to college in Texas
For four years
While there I met my girlfriend of two years
But we recently broke up
Because the distance was too hard for her
We've communicated very little
For about four months
Then we started talking again
And I flew out there to Texas this week
And we discussed the possibility
Of me moving back
I believe this woman is the love of my life
And honestly I like the idea
Of moving out there to be with her
She likes the idea too
But says we should just be friends
And not dating for the first couple months
It would take for me to move out there
As well as for the time for us
To really reconnect in our relationship
So my question is this
Is she too under enthusiastic about the idea
She says if I move there
We should definitely try our best
At dating again
But as her lack of response a red flag
I love this woman
But my confidence in moving
Is lowered by her reaction
To help this hopeless romantic out
This feels like it's coming from the other guy
In the situation that we talked about before
Like it's the expectations that are too much
Like if you want to move out there
I think you got to want to move out there
Without having any expectation from her
Like you can move out there
With the hope in your heart
That you guys will get back together
And knowing that she thinks it's a good idea
But you can't move out there with a guarantee
You just can't
Yeah but it's the fact that she's like
Yeah move out here and we'll see
Are you like
Then I won't do that
I don't want to do that on a fucking 50-50 shot
I'm not moving there to flip a coin baby
Yeah so like there
I mean if you can't get over that
Then I wouldn't move out
If you're like I'm not moving out there
For the chance
Or like I need it to be more of a short thing
Then maybe you shouldn't move out
Because it can't be more of a short thing
You could also just think about
Like all the other things that Texas has going for it
Where you're planning on moving
Like if you like the land
You like the restaurants
You like Texas
You like certain things about it
That will be nice regardless of if you have a heart
Your heart broken or if you're with your dream person
Yeah some people are like wired in a way
Where it's like I don't care if you like
Say anything or guarantee anything
I just want to be with you
I'm going to fight to win you over
And then some people I think I'm more like me
Where it's like if you aren't into it
Then I'm not going to try very hard myself
Like I need to buy in as well
I'm not going to move there
And try to convince you to be with me
Yeah but I think that like
You also have to look at where it's coming from
Like her saying that she isn't 100% sure
Isn't necessarily a reflection on you
Or anything could just be like
You know she doesn't want to live up to that pressure
Like it might be something that
That she's struggling with
It's not a knock on you
Or on her but it's just something that like
I don't know
That it's something you shouldn't take personally
Right it's not
I don't know it feels like
That's her truth and your truth is different
And if it jives then go for it
And if not then don't
But don't try to convince her
I guess it's nice that she was honest with you
And being like yeah we'll see about it
That way you can make an informed decision
Rather than you moving out there
And then her changing her mind
Or telling you the full truth
And sometimes pressure makes things go awry
Like if she's like yeah come out here
And we'll be together
And you're like great I'll come out there
And we'll be together
And then you go and you move in together
And if it's not perfect everybody freaks out
And it blows up
Let it like be a little more organic
And grow
Much like your sage
Don't over water this relationship
You have to dry it out
Or under water it
That'll kill it also in a very similar way
Just watch a master class
You'll figure it out
I actually don't trust plants that you can over water
Like I'm just gonna give you a shit ton of water
And drink responsibly I guess
Like figure it out sage
If it's too much stop fucking sipping on it
And if it's not enough then I'll give you more
You can over water a human too
The best is like I'm like carefully like pruning delicately
Like making sure the pH level of this and that
And the water is fine
And then I like go for a walk
And I just see this fucking cactus
That's 38 feet high
That like grew in the middle of a sidewalk
Like so where did that come from
Like this one is accidentally getting just rain water
Once every fucking year
Yeah how is that
This is random shit growing out in the middle of nowhere
That's enough
Meanwhile I'm like
Well you could probably
You could grow the
You could grow the hell out of a cactus in your backyard
All it needs is sun
Yeah
Yeah cactuses are easy
It's the herbs
The food that need extra love and attention
You know what they're making me earn it
That's right
If you could just garnish your pasta
With a little fresh cactus
That would be perfect
The best is when this sage is completely dead
And I like prune these like
Dry small brown leaves
Like let's make some butter sauce with this
Babe
We get poisoned
Won't have to go to Whole Foods also
Yeah this is all just a fucking
Make a plant that costs like
99 cents that
On Amazon
It's the feeling that you want
Doing it myself
God it's gonna be so good I can't wait
Alright
Where can people donate this week
There's so many places I feel
It's not like we're gonna shout URLs at people
And have them write it down
But a light Twitter or Google search
Will yield many results
That's right
So don't forget
Keep that foot on the gas pedal everybody
Keep the foot on the gas
And also definitely do a little bit of research
Because a lot of places have
They're redirecting their donations now
So there's plenty of places that
Don't have enough money yet
Other places that are overfunded
So
Dive in
Dive in
Don't be afraid
That's a very unique and new
Exciting problems like
We've gotten too many donations
People are so upset
That they are donating so much money
More money than these nonprofits
Know what to do with
And they're like
Literally asking people to
To donate elsewhere
Spread the love around
Yeah
And this is all in the middle of like
Coronavirus
Or like
This is a tightening of the purse strings
Society
And they're still giving too much money
Indeed
Good job on everybody
And good job for you guys
For listening and writing in
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Opening one
Was the
I Miss You cover
Did we shout the guy out?
Yeah I think so
He had a
Oh maybe we didn't
I don't remember
The
Yeah
Tommy Dowdy
I don't think we did
I have a YouTube channel
Where I post music
And starting a series of animations
Animatrium Studio
Animatrium Studio
Anyone should go
Because I bet this guy listened to the episode
And was a little stressed out
That we never
Never ever thanked him
Yeah
Instead we just spent
17 minutes
Thinking of song titles
That didn't have the title
In the song
Sorry about that
So we had to listen to that whole thing
Waiting for a shout out
That never came
Sorry Tommy
And Animatrium Studio
And this closing one
Is another cover
Of a song
That I didn't quite recognize
But maybe you will
Everything's tragic
Everything
Oh it's a
Oh alright
Yeah dude
I fucking love this song
Sorry it's
Everything's magic
Then everything's magic cover
Yeah
Everything's magic
Called Everything's Tragic
And his
This guy is
Zach
Rutiman
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Later
Do you ever lie away at night
Wondering how you could stand up
That time
Cause I can say that I have
Yeah I can say that I have
So hear this please
I really need some help
To seize the trees
And what do I do
When she's going down
I really like this girl
But she's been around
My life
My life is tragic
Jake and Amir please
I need advice
Do I need to tell her
If my cute have lies
When she looked at me
I ejaculated twice
My life
My life is tragic
Thank you