If I Were You - 441: Streamin' and Dreamin'
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This is a headgum podcast.
Let's learn some chords.
This is E sus 4.
This is B7 sus 4.
Okay, you now know enough guitar to get you laid.
I've been working from home with somebody tonight Can't get my go-kart feeling cause I can't connect
I need some help, my girlfriend doesn't wear a mask
I know just the right to do is for me to ask
If I were you, here's what I'd do
Take some advice from a chip on Canada's Chateau
If I were you, here's what they'd do
Thank God for life was saved by these two Jews
Not all heroes wear grapes, yeah, I swear it's gold
Give this man a gold in mind before I get old
Some unsolicited advice, now I'll be prompt
But you're gonna want to buy some cookies from Jake's mom
If I were you, here's what they'd do
If I were you, show at your mill to get a cue
I don't know
That was free-falling, I think
Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba
You got a...
Yeah, that was me 11 years ago
Oh wow, I thought that was you
Alright, sorry I go
I thought you were actually just saying that at the end of the song
Which would have been a solid bit
Yeah, does your voice change?
I guess I sound the same between the ages of 25 and 37, right?
My voice shouldn't change that much
I would think so
Yeah, I think you do
I think nothing's changed
Maybe a tiny bit, a little bit of gravel
A little bit of wear and tear, some age
Like the fire, the passion is gone
You just sort of sound like you're phoning in all the time
That kind of vibe
But I think, yeah, no
If you heard a 60 year old talking, would it be like that guy could be 30?
I don't think so
But maybe
I do feel like I could tell when I'm on the phone with people if they're old or not
But maybe I can't
Right
Or does it just like happen one day?
Or is it a gradual, such subtle shift that over the course of 30 years
You can't really tell the difference
Maybe it's gradual, but it feels like after 75
Like my grandfather had the oldest voice you could imagine
Alright, when did that start?
When he was 40, I think
He turned into a grandfather
As soon as you're child as a child, you become an old man voiced man
I wonder, maybe, because it's sort of like the voice you choose to adopt to talk to your grandchild then
Yeah
Like there's baby talk, but then there's like grandma and grandpa talk
Yeah, the grand baby talk, that's what they call it
That's right
Kelly picked up a guitar in 2009 shortly after watching a college humor video
Was it coincidence or an inspiration?
Who's to say?
Wow
And then the shout out is that he makes music as eponymous postman on band camp
But it sounds nothing like this
So save the energy and donate to your local Black Lives Matter movements instead is what he says
I love this guy already
So someone support his art, that's awesome
So maybe you can do both
Maybe you can check out eponymous postman and then also a local Black Lives Matter movement
So there's time for both
Definitely
Alright, that was a long theme song to get us here
But you know what, we're recording a little late today, Monday, June 29th
Gonna just record, upload right away one of those quick turnaround episodes
I love it
It's pretty exciting to you because you're now not only doing a podcast with me as like a entertainer of sorts
But I'm also a gamer now which is kind of, I don't know, nice for you to have it that way for me to be like a...
Don't share news
Don't share news this way
It's like you're so self-dawn for you
Because you have this kinship with somebody who not only has a switch
Super insecure
But has a twitch
You're insecure, you know, like that's why you share news this way
That's why you tell me it's good for me
This way is awesome
You can't just give me an update and I decide if it's good or not
It's great, it's great or not
And it is
It's actually good or great
I don't even, I don't love the premise because the premise is that I'm a gamer slash twitcher slash streamer
Actually that was the upshot
The premise was that I already have a great job doing a podcast with you because you're a star and a celebrity
That was the premise
Which I reject on its face
The starting point was that I have respect for you and your craft
Yeah, you want to sort of have as many pots on the kettle going as they say
So I am a wordsmith, the songstress, a seamster, a teamster, a twitcher, a switcher, and a candlestick streamer
So you're streaming now, you have a twitch
In a way
In a way I am
Yeah, I started a twitch
First just for fun and now it's sort of a passion project meets
A peach pit of sorts
So I'll eat this stone fruit and play Mario Kart
Okay
And by the end of the hour I've made friends with new fans and they're watching me play and I'm playing along with them
If that makes sense
How does it work?
Stone fruit aside, you do what?
Why does anybody give a shit about-
Jesus Christ, what's with the third degree?
Human-filled
I'm just chatting, I'm just asking
I'm really like, I'm taking a back by it, the questions
Like just say that's an awesome new exciting thing and I'm honored to be in your presence
You don't have to be like, how does it work?
You have like a script for exactly how you wanted this to-
I feel like it's supportive to ask these questions and to learn more
It is supportive and it's nice but I feel like you're putting on airs
Like you don't sincerely think that it's an amazing thing for me to do it this way, the twitch
Well maybe I don't, like I don't feel like I should have to think it's amazing right from the jump
Like I'm allowed to ask questions and then decide later on down the road
Like right now I'm like, oh this sounds intriguing
I want to hear, look at, you're getting so-
You should have to win me over
Why use-
I should-
You should be begging me to be a fan of me
And I have to consider it at the end of the conversation
And honestly I'm leaning very heavily towards, I don't think so
So I don't even get to ask like how twitch works
I need to like grovel for your love and support
I need to beg you to be a fan of you and you might say no
You need to grovel
Like I don't even know if I could be a fan of you on twitch
Like if there's a follow, there's a like
But you don't, you're against me even asking questions
Like maybe, honestly you'd maybe want to share the URL for people
But you don't want me to ask what it is
You just want me to say, oh that's great
You're amazing and move on
No, not move on anymore
Cause I don't think I even want to accept that
Let's just get right into the show
Wait
Cause now we're glossing over it
And I want to spend at least an hour
Promoting, self promoting
Waxing promotional
You should not only be groveling
You should be graveling
As in take two knees on a hot cement day
And beg me to be a fan of me
Just tell me what it is
I don't even know what it is yet
You said you eat a stone fruit and play Mario Kart
And I have to beg to be a fan
I'll have a plum and play as Peach if that makes sense
Well I got a capture card of course
It allows me to play these games
While also streaming that game live
To whoever wants to watch it on my twitch channel
Which is twitch.tv
Slash Amir Blumenfeld
If I went to it right now
Do you have like a twitch.tv
Slash Amir Blumenfeld
So far I've done two streams
Which is pretty prolific for a couple weeks
One of them is me playing Zelda
Super Nintendo Zelda while Ben
The other one is titled Carton and Farton
The other one was Carton and Farton
In which I was trying to finish
First place in a Mario race
And it took a little over two hours
Which seems like a long time
And it was as I slowly went insane
And the people were sort of trolling me
In the chat, on the stream, in the twitch
On the day, in a way
Wish you could have been there
Yeah I wish so too
If it's like a thing that I get to just
Yeah a two hour stream yesterday
I can just log on and troll you
That sounds kind of good
I was supposed to take ten minutes
Every race takes two minutes
And I thought I would do it within like five or six races
And it took like thirty to forty
And I was streaming for two hours
Were you coming in second a lot?
You know, I wasn't
I actually didn't even get very close very often
So I would finish seventh, twelfth, eighth, sixth
And not really sniff the final two for a little bit
Do the people that you're racing know that you're streaming
Like do they know that they're part of a twitch stream
Or is it just sort of like they're just racing for their own
That's right, they're having fun at home
And they don't realize that they're actually the enemies
And the story, the web that I'm like spinning
And they might be twitching
They might be streaming and twitching you also
Yeah, that's possible
Nobody's signing a release because I can't really
I mean I guess I see their usernames
There was this one guy who was in there for an hour
Called Ryan who kept beating me
And I sort of started creating stories with Ryan
And how like I really needed to beat Ryan
And my goal in life was to beat Ryan
And Ryan kept on beating me
And then he finally finished first and just left
So Ryan sort of, without knowing, ruined my stream
And then once he left, a lot of people left
Because people were more interested in Ryan than in me racing
Ryan's awesome
So Ryan was sort of the man slash the B story of the stream
And still is
And if he's listening, Ryan hit me up
Because I want to give you this podcast as a token of my esteem
I would love to host this thing with Ryan
He probably would be like a little
Who's good, yeah
I don't know
Just better
I was going to say a couple specific ways
But I guess better
Just better generally
Yeah, he's better racing and all that stuff
Yeah, he's better
I mean the last goes for that saying
Because he was kicking your ass on the twitch
But I feel like he's just more humble, smarter, better lover
He seemed like a good guy
Listener, better companion
Ryan
And his name was just Ryan
Nickname or like, you know, your handle
But not Ryan
Ryan was just like, I'm going to put my name
You don't need a handle
When your name is Ryan, that's all you need
Jack Ryan
So wait, people can hear you
Can you hear them?
Are there people talking like on these streams?
Or is it just you?
If I'm tuning in, what's my sensory?
Yeah, yeah, like, you know, what's pinging?
What are you getting?
Well, it's a video on me
And then the video of the screen of the game
And then people can, like my friends can sign into the audio channel chat that I'm having
So like, a couple days ago I played Zelda
While Ben was sort of guiding me through the level
So you can hear Ben, you can see me and see the game
Cool
With Mario Kart
And like people's comments and stuff
Are you reading comments as all of this is happening?
Are you sort of like, your eyes are on the game and talking to Ben
And the comments are flying by
And that's not really like what you're there for
That's right, I can't pay attention while I'm racing to the comments
But like in between races, I'll read the comments
So like, I'll finish in 12th
And then I'll look at the comments
And people start weighing in telling me how shitty I raced
And then I'm back in the race
And I go silent
So it's not like a straight up like live stream
Like we used to do it where we would just like sit there and read the comments
And be like, oh, it's Claire's birthday
Yeah
Cool
More University of Michigan
Right, I'm like interacting with the game
While the chat's going on in the background
Rather than me just trying to chat
And the chat's interacting with, okay
Cool
So I've streamed a couple times on Twitch as well
Right
So you get it
For D&D, but never video games
We're just streaming like
I'm like basically just streaming a Zoom call
So I'm not like looking at the Twitch either
So that makes sense
I kind of like that
It's not necessarily there for the people that are watching the stream
But it's not necessarily there for the streamer
Because I feel like that always just devolves into just like
Someone rattling off shout outs
Yeah
Or like what else, what else
Reading comments occasionally
Mm-hmm
Yeah
Have you been playing any new games recently?
I saw that you had finally downloaded
Witcher?
Yeah, where did you see that?
How did you know?
Like it appears in my friends list
Like what games my friends are playing
That's so invasive
I wish it wouldn't do that
Oh yeah
Right here
It says you logged 17 hours yesterday on Animal Crossing
And 2 on Witcher
And then
Whoa, this is weird
It usually doesn't say such details
It says you rage quit
So like
That's cool
It uploaded an audio of you
I think I might have
I feel like I checked a box
Whoa, that's cool
I guess when you like reached that
So I checked
I checked a box that I meant to leave unchecked
I didn't know that they could record me
And share that with friends
Hold on
Here's you mashing the button
Sort of mouth breathing while you play
This is cool
It's like a really high quality wave file
That it uploaded to my page
So it's only a wave file
They didn't
I was
I'm just hoping there's no way they could like
Capture video
HD video
I don't know how this happened
Yeah
Do they send you like a DSLR
That you set up or something?
I don't know if I checked it
Or left it unchecked
Like am I supposed to check
This is a really unflattering
I guess
Yeah, this game is a surveillance of sorts
Awesome
I'll upload this to my Twitch later
Please don't
Yeah, I did download the Witcher
It took me a long time
Because it's so big
That I couldn't just download it
On the switch that I had
I had to like go get a tiny little
Mini SD card
Wow
Which took me a little while
Because it wasn't a high priority
Next level
But then I finally did
I have it
And it is awesome
I really love it
That's cool
It's not too difficult
So far the hardest thing
Was actually getting the game to start
Yeah
Downloading the game
And getting the SD card was super hard
I'm also playing on like
The first level above story mode
So I'm not like
It's not hard
So much of it is just like
Really
Awesomely animated cutscenes
It feels almost like
I'm just watching like
A really high quality fantasy cartoon
Of the Witcher
Right
And then
Like there are times when
I'm like just watching the story unfold
And then all of a sudden
It's like
Oh gameplay now
I'm like
Aw dammit
I have to like
Move this horse to a tavern
Alright one second
And then I'll get to the fucking good shit
Let me just beat this bad guy
So the story can continue
Yeah
I think the game
I mean the game is like
Huge
In a way that's like
A little intimidating
There's all these side quests and stuff
And I kind of
I have like OCD
About finishing everything
But I also don't want to get like
Bogged down with like
I don't know
Just hunting it
Or like
Gathering
Gathering food for a village or something
You know
I want to just like
Fight the big bad guy
That's it
Yeah get me to the end as fast as possible
Basically it's an audio book
With visuals
And then occasionally
You're slaying a monster
Yeah that's really
That's basically it
But like the voice acting is amazing
It's really
It's great to watch
Are you playing on the handheld style
Or up on a big TV
Handheld still
I have not played
This is something I would maybe play on the TV
I would definitely do that
But I haven't done it yet
Animal
Like I was only playing Animal Crossing before
And there's really no reason for me to play that on television
Yeah if anything
It's more shameful to see this
Giant animated pig that you're controlling
You're watching basically
A children's story
I know
And like it was barely worth playing on the switch
Just handheld
Are you off crossing entirely?
I haven't picked it up in a pretty long time
Yeah I think it's been a couple weeks
I feel like
The world would have to feel way more normal
Or better
Or good for the first time ever
For me to feel like
Okay I'm gonna go back to 69 land
And plant some apples
At least you got a good user name
I don't know why I feel like I can do that with the Witcher
But yeah
Every time I play Animal Crossing now
It just feels like very quaint
Is your nickname
Or your screen name on Animal Crossing was Yak
Y-A-K right?
Yeah
Is that the same as Witcher in other games
Or was that just an Animal Crossing name?
I think that was just an Animal Crossing
Or maybe it's that in Mario Kart 2
It's just when I have to choose a name
But in the Witcher I'm Geralt of Rivia
So I can't really call him Yak
And I would want to
Geralt
Like Geralt with a G?
Well it's like Geralt with a T
And then a G
Geralt
Did you choose that or is that the name of the guy in the game?
It's the guy, it's the guy
That's the only guy that it can be
The name is Geralt
Call me Gary
Please don't actually
Geralt is, Geralt
All of the names in it are super weird
But I think it's like Norwegian
Or some kind of like Slavic thing
Interesting
Maybe that's why
Here's a question we got from a guy named Geralt
Ready?
Well snuck that one in
That was interesting, I like that
Geralt
That's a fun little hosting mechanism
Thanks, yeah I've been practicing via my stream
Geralt writes, I'll keep this short
How far are you willing to let your beards grow
During quarantine
I feel like the country's standards for physical appearance
Has collectively dropped thanks to COVID
And the lack of physical interaction
Any hankerings for facial hair experimentation
Thanks, love, Geralt
I've mostly been shaving my beard
Yeah
I had a mustache when quarantine first started
And then I shaved it
Then I grew kind of a beard
Then I've just been kind of shaving
Like have you ever like
In the last three months like
Showered, put on a nice shirt
Tucked in nice pants
And presented yourself physically
Like I haven't gotten ready for something important
Since February it feels like
I've just been wearing like sweats and shorts
For the last five months
I definitely
Early on was like
I can't wear sweats all the time
So I like will shower and put
A product in my hair and pull it
And not like wear
Like a nice button down shirt and shoes
But like I'll wear things that aren't sweats
Like nicer T-shirt or something
And that's just like for yourself
To feel like you're doing a productive part of society
Yeah, I feel like there have been a couple of times
Where there was like a zoom birthday party
Or a zoom happy hour that I like
Put on a colored shirt for and I showered for
It felt nice. I also straight up put on
A tuxedo for the Dungeons & Dragons finale
Livestream and AdPod finale
How did that feel?
And that was fun
A tuxedo
It felt great
Yeah
I don't think I've buttoned a button in a while
Yeah, and I like put on like the legit
Like tuxedo shirt with like the stud buttons
Wow
And my cuff links
I also wore a lot of jewelry underneath it
Just felt like I got really dressed up
Two necklaces on and a ring
Wow, I didn't realize you have a ring
Just for exciting important days of your life
Well, somebody sent...
It was like an AdPod present
Like somebody made a hard-won-sure-foot ring
Out of like sterling silver or pewter or something
Yeah, I was gonna say
Some hammered metal
It looked pewter from here
I could see that
It was pewter
Yeah, it would have been pewter
It was a pewter ring
But yeah, I feel like beard-wise
You've had a bigger beard in regular life
That's almost you showing effort
It's the mask
Like
It's so uncomfortable to wear a mask with a beard
And to sweat
Like my face just gets too hot
Yeah, is it hot and sweltering and NYC still?
Oh man, yeah, it's fucking...
It's brutal
But I kind of love it
I miss...
I love the New York City summer
I love getting drenched and sweat when I go outside
As long as I'm prepared for it mentally
Yeah, are people still wearing a mask despite the humidity?
Or have masks rates dropped?
In the parks that I...
I mostly run or bike
Or work out in the parks when I'm going outside
If I'm outside, it's to exercise
But mostly I see people doing everything in masks
Yesterday I was like 90 degrees and I ran the bridge
And most of the people I saw were wearing masks
Holy shit, running in that heat
Wearing a mask additionally?
Holy crap
Yeah
Like when I'm running, I mostly keep my mask at my chin
And then when I'm passing people, I pull it up
I see
So it's not like there all the time
And when I put it up, it's very hard
But I don't have to run for very long
It's like 10 seconds when I see someone
Until when I pass them
And then I pull it down
Holy shit
It seems intense
I feel like the more than beards were growing out her hair
Yeah, that's the last thing I haven't touched
Since quarantine started
I think my last haircut was in February
So in July it'll be five months
August, half a year
That's crazy
Do you want a haircut?
Or are you kind of digging the...
I mean, you got headbands
Yeah, I sort of do want a haircut
Just to see what this looks like cleaned up
But then at the same time
I'm like, let's see what happens if I continue this
Although it's just getting worse and worse and worse
I sort of know what's happening
It's just getting bushier and bushier
Like turning into like a helmet of fuzzy, ratty, dry ass hair
I think it looks awesome
I mean, eventually it's going to start to fall
And then it's going to be like shoulder length
Fucking hair like Geralt of Rivia
Tie it back in a fucking half bun
That's cool
A man bun
Or he does like a half pony actually
That's what he does
I kind of want the sides to be shorter
Because it's like covering my ears
And getting little uncouth, ratty, straggly hairs
Yeah, I understand
I understand
Alright, let's take a break
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That's correct
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Yeah
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Mm-hmm
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Yeah
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Yeah
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Oh wow
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Oh, that's cool
So you take a photo of anything, perhaps a baby
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Yeah
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And you're trying to make a joke of it
I was just being goofy a little bit
Like this is how I told my grandma
She was pregnant
Yeah
Yeah, kind of like she misheard it
Or something like that
Or the way you said it was kind of like
Could go either way
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Oh my god
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Jake, do you have any?
Oh, it's a letter to the fire
Mom, I'm coming
Gross
I don't think I do
But I think you do
Yeah, I bought recently a portable projector
Again, I don't want to say any brand names
They're not paying us for this endorsement
But there are many options
For basically soda can sized projectors
That you just plop down and can shoot an image
Up to 100 inches of streaming content
You can put Netflix on the thing
Shoot it against your wall, indoors or outdoors
Perfect for outdoor movie nights
Yeah, that's a fun way to spend the summer
I'm into it
Yeah, I'm into that
I tried it last week and it worked out
I was projecting it against this pretty dark
Exterior wall of my house
So I'm wondering if I should shoot it
Into like a whiter screen
Like I have to get a light screen now
To watch the videos, the movies
I feel like I heard that like
Just a bed sheet will work
That's right, yeah, yeah
In fact, if I actually staple my mattress
Over my door
Kind of like zombie apocalypse style
Then I can just plop the projector down there
And use it that way
You could watch
Like a zombie
Welcome to Zombieland
Zombieland, is that a movie?
Yeah, Zombieland
Zombieland is for sure
Zombieland, you could watch that
Yeah, you could watch that as a movie
On the mattress
On the house
Pull on zombie style
Yeah, on the day
That's cool
So yeah, that's my unsolicited advice
Get yourself a portable projector
I always thought projectors were like
Big old things in high school classes
That had to be hardwired
And I think the nice ones do
Right, I remember I had a projector
Instead of a TV in my apartment once
Yeah, and it was really cool
But it was not like
You could never just like
Casually like flip something on
It was an endeavor
Yeah, and it was
It's awesome
It's hard to watch during the day
Because it's already very bright in there
Right
So did you watch
You had like an outdoor movie night
With Avi Tal
Yeah, we had my buddies
Sean and Christina over
So we had four of us
Distanced, masked, outdoors
Watching Ace Ventura, pet detective
That's a fun little time
Yeah
That's really nice
That movie
Was it a good movie?
It's so silly
I haven't watched it in a while
Obviously I loved it like as a nine-year-old
But watching it as like a
37-year-old was like
Wow, this movie is like
Basically like an hour and ten minutes long
Of just Jim Carrey being insane
And then it ends
It almost could be like a TV show
It's like such a short, crazy movie
It's kind of funny
Like I can't imagine
I feel like when we talk about
Writing comedy movies now
We're like talking about
Writing them for like
Our peers to think they're funny
But like do you think anybody
That wrote Jim Carrey was like
Okay, good
Like all of my comedy colleagues
Are also gonna love this
Or are they just like
Yeah, like 12-year-olds will think
This is amazing
Yeah, I don't know
And I don't even know if like
Did Jim Carrey write it
Or are they just like
Outlined it and threw it at Jim Carrey
And they're like
All right, Jim, you do the rest
Because like so much
Just do a bunch of stuff here
Yeah, like
When he's talking out of his ass
For three and a half minutes
Or like pretending to be like this
Football player in a 2-2
At an insane asylum
Did they script that part
Or they just like
Pointed the camera at Jim
And told him to be funny
That's really weird
Maybe we should stop
Thinking about being writers
And just sort of think about
Like coming up with a character
For someone like Jim Carrey
Yeah, first I guess first
You just have to find someone
Who's so funny that like
You don't really have to write anything
You just say like
Be funny
And then a Jim Carrey type would do it
The world will never have another Jim Carrey
He's still doing it
I saw the Sonic movie
He's still hilarious in that
Like 30 years later
So there's still time
And yeah, that's what I'm saying
If we write Sonic 2
Starring our friend Ben Schwartz
And Jim Carrey
Like that's easy
We have a line into the guy
That's right
Like Ben
I'm actually kind of pissed
Because like I feel like
Ben hasn't like mentioned us to him
To Jim
Yeah, I don't think he would
Because I mean they
Didn't necessarily even shoot together
It was just Ben's voice
So I don't know how it would happen
Yeah, but they did like
Press tour together
So just be
It'd just be interesting
If Ben would have like
Brought us up to be like
You should work with these guys
I think that would be
I mean I'd appreciate that
I don't know if you'd give a shit
But I think that'd be pretty cool
Even if he did do that
And he definitely did not
What would that like
What do you think Jim would be like?
Yeah, thanks for letting me know
About these two fucking dudes
These two podcasters
That you think I should work with
That's cool
He knows we have a podcast
Okay, Mr. Carrey
If you're listening
I have an idea for an Ace Ventura
Three or four
Yeah
And a hilarious thing
That didn't age well in Ace Ventura
I don't know if you remember
You probably remember this part
But forget how trans slash homophobic
It was when he finds out
That the person he kissed
Was actually a guy
Proceeds to like puke, shower, cry
Brush his tongue
And he's like
Oh my god
I can't believe I fight
They didn't even have sex
I can't believe I kissed a guy
And then at the end
They see her dick
And every police person
They start vomiting
Yeah
Jesus Christ
That's definitely not good
So okay
Nevermind
Maybe we shouldn't have anything
To do with the franchise
It was problematic for sure
But the parts that weren't were very silly
And entertaining still
So shout out to Jim Carrey
For spending an evening with us
And get yourself a portable projector if possible
That's right
That's right
Alright
Next questions
Yes
Oh, we actually got a follow-up pub
From last week's episode
Remember
Oh
The dude who was writing in about his lady
Getting potentially sugar-daddied
By a guy in Texas
Yes, I do
So this sugar-daddy figure
Wanted to send this dude's girlfriend
Cash just to chat with him
And we told him that
You can't necessarily put your foot down
And tell your girlfriend what not to do
But you can let her know that
It makes you feel uncomfortable
And make her make her own decision
And hopefully it lines with yours
So this is what happened
Right
This man writes
Of course
Yeah, because it wasn't illegal what they did
Yeah, just very inconvenient for him
Yeah
But ultimately he can't be like
Hey, I was fucking sugar-daddying
Up this 17-year-old, 18-year-old on
Instagram and she lied to me
You can't complain about that
Yeah
So that's, I guess you guys
It's sort of weird to me that they just blocked him
Like, don't you want to see how the prank unfolds?
I guess they didn't want to see the part where
He says, what the fuck is your problem?
He got sad
I'm going to yell at you
Or do something mean
Or say something bad about it
Yeah, I mean, I would imagine
That he gets sad instead of angry
But we'll never know
No, nor should we
Alright, here's a real question
From a British bloke
What's another character from The Witcher?
Um, Yennefer
It's a woman, but that'll work
Alright, we'll call this guy Yens
I'm a 25-year-old Brit
And have spent the majority of lockdown
Hunkered with my nightmare housemate
This guy moved in a few days before lockdown began
And initially seemed nice and quiet
Uh, all the good ones do at first, I guess
Uh, the issue is I frequently walked into the kitchen
To find him doing something foul
Including eating a bowl full of pure minced beef
Drinking a pint of full fat milk
Eating yogurt with his hands
Or pouring bacon fat
Directly down the kitchen sink
Leading to a two-day blockage
Oh, dear
Um, no
Not only-
Two-day blockage
Not only this, but he appears to buy bags
Of full meat on clearance
And then leaves them out on the counter for days
Since there's no room left in the fridge
This results in him throwing away a small garbage bag
Or two full of rotten meat
That then sits in the garden until collected
Several times now, this has led to
Riding piles of maggots appearing
And aside from him slowly killing himself with his diet
It's gotten to the point where I feel physically disgusted
To be in the kitchen while he's eating
What would you do in this situation?
He's 24 and by now should have learned to feed himself
Uh, or how to be a courteous housemate
I've considered talking to him about it
But this feels too much to try to explain to him all at once
Should I speak up or just ride it out
At the end of a lockdown
Thanks, love
Yens
Okay
Yens
The meat on the counter
The slowly rotting countermeat
This guy's like a zombie or something
Or an alien in a men in black movie
What is he doing?
Yeah
I mean, there's parts-
I feel like it's-
It's all like case by case
Cause there's some stuff-
Like him eating yogurt with his hands
Is super foul
But you shouldn't necessarily go to your roommate
Be like, hey, you have to use a spoon
Cause I'm like feeling grossed out
But you can be like, hey
You're leaving meat
To rot on the counter
Or you're wrecking the plumbing
Of our ancient British house
You-
You can say stuff about
It sounds like half the stuff that he's doing
Yeah
It seems like you have to draw the line
At something Dave Rosenberg would or would not do
Like, what can you imagine him doing of this stuff
And what can you imagine it being
Even too much for Dave
Oh
God, Dave would do all of this stuff
Including the rotten meat
Alright, no, I think Dave might-
Dave cooks a lot of bacon
I think he would not-
He would not pour the bacon grease right down
He knows not to do that
And I don't think he'd leave
Meat to rot on the counter
But-
I think he wouldn't do those things
You basically-
With his hands he would- Dave would do
Yeah, Dave would do that
Drinking the milk
He would definitely do that
Yeah, he'd do everything else
So I think you could say, listen man
Like, yogurt with your hands
Like you said, that's fine
But as soon as it starts encroaching
On my ability to stay healthy
You can have that conversation
Liquid
Rotten meat juice
On the counter is bad for your health
It's not just like a gross thing
To see or deal with in the apartment
Exactly
It's dangerous, it's a risk
It's a hazard
Like the drains getting fucked up
That's your security deposit
But that's cash, that's money
Your pocket that he's taken from you
And I like to-
During these things I like to sort of
Passive aggressively start it with like
I have this weird thing
Where I'm like super sensitive
To bags of rotten fucking beef everywhere
On the maggots
I am a weirdo like that
That's just me
Sensitive flour
So that way you can be like, no, you're right
That is crazy, I'd be like, yeah, alright
You're a sensitive guy, but I'll do it for you
Yeah, I don't know what I would do
I feel like I'm so passive that I would just be like
Hey, do you want me to throw out that meat
I don't think so, I'll take a look at it later
Are the maggots on it yet?
Meat can keep at room temperature
For 48 hours
Head spinning
Mucus coming out of every pore of his face
Yeah, you could be like, hey
Do you think I should order more spoons
Because I noticed that you didn't have one the other day
For your yogurt
I prefer to lick it off my fucking
Salty ass
Sweat palms
And I'm going to be drinking
Baking grease
Out of the drain
Don't move it, because I sort of spoon it
Out of the drain after it solidifies
And I eat it like a pudding
Alright, let us know what he says, how it goes
Yeah, yeah, please keep us posted
One last mini question
That sort of follow up pump in my life
Interesting
A guy named Tom, let's just call him Tom
Because whatever, this is not a shameful question
What can I do for my weak
Little sage plant
It's so small
Then he attached a photo
Of his sage plant, which is
Reminiscent
You said it wasn't an embarrassing question
Yeah, well, it's not really
Super lame
It's about fucking growing herbs
He is a herb for growing herbs
This sage is indeed
Weak and still
10 times stronger than the one I'm trying to salvage
I don't know if I've given
A follow up, but I was able to save
Just one of my sage stocks
With the help of your sister Sarah
The professional herbologist
Of my life
Wait, so what did Sarah tell you to do that worked?
For my basil, it looked dry
So water it and keep it in the shade
Until it starts looking healthy
Again, which is true, it has been
And then for the sage, she said
Replant one of them
And keep it watered
Not too watered, watered deeply
But not often
That it likes dry atmosphere
And keep an eye on
See if there's new growth
When you replant it
Plant it all the way up to the first leaf
So that helped me
And that worked?
Well, worked is subjective
I definitely have one sage stock
With four leaves on it
Four now
I had one stock with two leaves on it
And I've grown two extra leaves
So the plant itself
I wouldn't say plant because it's one like little stock
But it's still alive
So I'm considering that a victory so far
And what happened to the ones you tried to replant
That you put in the water?
The one in the water died, didn't grow roots
I don't know where that information came from
Because I tried that with the basil now
And the basil one, again, not growing roots
This idea of propagation from clipping
Or you clip it off
And put two inches of the stock in water
And pour out of it after a couple weeks
Yeah, it seems magic
And maybe it works sometimes
I don't know if I did something wrong
Sometimes it works, sometimes it don't
We just don't know
Is your goal eventually to have a big healthy
Sage plant that you're picking leaves from
Once a week
For dinner? That's the goal?
That is the ultimate goal
But I think I need to call this
Current iteration of sage
Which I started with 10 seeds
And I'm now down to one stock
And the basil, I think I have to call this
A preamble, a forward
A practice round
Because what I need to do is buy
Healthy plants, put them in
Nice, loamy, damp
Soil in a big fucking bed
And start from there
I don't want to be able to
Take it from seed and cultivated
And grow it from there
I think I have to just start a little further on
Knowing what I know now
To keep a relatively small plant
Alive and grow it from there
It seems like it's just not worth the trouble
To start from seed when like
You can buy these, like how expensive
Are the plants at a nursery? No, not expensive at all
Couple bucks
So it's more just like a, it's like a passion project thing
Yeah, it's like a pride thing
It's like I didn't have to fucking skip
A level, I didn't use a warp whistle
I took this from literally like
Little fucking seeds
That are the size of like little poppy seeds
Look at this bush, isn't that incredible?
I'm not playing the Witcher on story mode
Yeah, exactly
I get it, yeah I see
And having failed at that, I'm now ready to use the warp whistle
I've earned, I think
My way because I've kept two plants
Half alive for this long
So now I'm ready to just be like, alright let me fast forward
And see if I can keep full on
It wasn't a completely failed experiment
It was just a
You got like a C minus or a D
Yeah, I passed so I'm ready to move on
To like herbs 201
Which I think I'll be better at
Having struggled with the first phase
Yeah
I also think I'm putting too much stock in these two
Like when you have plants
And when you have like an herb garden
You just fucking, you grow a shit ton of stuff
And some stuff dies and you prune and you cut
And you use the good stuff and you discard the bad
Right now I'm like counting every leaf
And be like, oh I'm losing one leaf
Oh god, which is like nice to have
In the beginning but like I think I'm putting too much
Pressure on these small amounts
Right, you better if you were an herb man
Yeah, I have to just fucking
So you're gonna build beds in the, in your backyard
That's what you gotta do
Yeah, I don't know about building beds but yeah
I can buy a bed, put some nice soil in there
And like buy like smaller plants
Skip a level, buy the bed
Buy it all
And then use the bed to project as a screen
To project the movies
But I watched a full master class
Without be tall about gardening
Do you think you want to be a gardener?
Like what if quarantine just got lifted tomorrow
And you were allowed to go back to the office if you wanted
Would you be like, oh good
Or would you be like, hmm
I kind of want to work from home and be a gardener though
I would instantly break these plants
I would use them as shoes
And I would destroy them with my feet on my way to my car
To go to an office
Yeah, and I can get breakfast at Duncan
I don't need herbs
I'll buy a fucking bag of frozen basil
At amazon.com
Whole Foods 365
On the way to a board meeting
And I'll let it fucking spoil
And I won't think twice about throwing it away
And my compost
I'll fucking shove it down the hill
Did I tell you we bought a compost
And we're trying to do that as well
To create soil?
Wow, this is coming full circle
When we first moved to LA
I bought a compost five whole years ago
Six years ago
It didn't really work, right?
I mean, it
It worked a little bit
It never turned into like full on soil
It was like still doing that
When we moved
But I mean like the point of it is that it gets like
Full of like flies and
Worms and shit
So moving from one house to another
We were just like let's leave the compost
But it had started to work
That's good
Yeah, I'm kind of a compost skeptic
I'm like how is this fucking rotten mound
That leaves going to turn into soil
But I guess it does
Yeah, I mean it is nasty
I remember every time I like took anything out
To the compost I was like afraid to open it
Because I just knew that like
There were fucking maggots crawling around in it
That's right and pretty soon if all goes well
I'll be, I think like
To answer your question truthfully
It's like this gardening thing could be like
A fun hobby of mine
So I'm not putting so much pressure into these like two plants
I'm just like you know I have this like
It's not outside that we can help cultivate
Yeah, Los Angeles is a great place for a garden
You guys could grow stuff year round
That's what the gangster gardener said
On the master class is like
You have to know your
Climate is like if you're on the east coast
You have to like time things out to be like
After the first frost and before the fall comes
If you're in LA you can do whatever you want
All the time so
Yeah, that's awesome
I think there was like a
There was a print that Jillian had
That like it was just
It was really beautiful but it like
Basically had like the month
And then the
Fruits and vegetables that were in season
In every single month Oh really?
Yeah, because I think that like
You can grow year round but there's still like
Things that have growing seasons in LA
There's some crazy things that he was doing
On this master class he's like
I like growing sweet potato I take this burlap
Sack from a coffee place
It's like this huge fucking potato sack
I put
These like sweet potato
Like clumps in there
In this soil and then four months later
I slice the bottom of the bag open
And a bunch of sweet potatoes come out
I'm like is that fucking possible? What?
How is that? He like takes
The knots from existing sweet potatoes
And slices them up and like one sweet potato
Becomes twelve after four months
Of like living in a fucking bag of old
Soil I guess that works
That's awesome, yeah
I have myself a burlap sack I have a feeling
I'm going to slice it out like one moldy
Peach will come down
You'll have to eat it
It's so good
Because I made it from seed
While you're watching the mask
In your backyard For the fifteenth time
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