If I Were You - 516: Thanksgiving Lightning Round
Episode Date: November 29, 2021We are answering as many questions as possible in this Holiday Lightning Round Q&A Edition of our podcast.See omny.fm/listener for privacy information....
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I'm the guy who goes by Josh The Pinch
If I were you
Liquid nice, be my love
True, we'll meet me under the covers
And teach me rule 69 at a rate oh yeah
I need help with these feelings
In need of some advice you can say
It's a email if I will use your Gmail today
Amazing
Harrah, do you know what that was?
No, it was like a Ramblin Man theme song though
And I
That was set to the tune of quote my favorite song from a few episodes ago
Kodachrome by Paul Simon
Oh, interesting, very interesting
I do like Paul Simon
Sounded familiar, that's why
It didn't to me
Big man Billy here from England
Amir mentioned a while ago that Kodachrome by Paul Simon is his favorite song
So I put together this little ditty, nothing to plug
I just hope my neighbors didn't hear me recording this
Nice
That was pretty good Billy, why are you, don't be shy
Right, well maybe the neighbors should hear the finished version
But like recording it does probably seem a little weird
Because you know you're just yelling into a microphone while you're hearing the music
I thought he was like playing and singing at the same time
Maybe I'm wrong though
Yeah, I don't know
I don't know how he recorded
Billy let us know, I'd love to see the behind the music style doc
We want to see how the sausage was made
And grabbing his thigh
And that's not the only sausage I'm talking about
Lighten up pal, cheers from England is all
Let's go hammers
This is Thanksgiving week, but there's no Thanksgiving in England, you know why?
Why?
Because they didn't have the first meal with the Native Americans
That's right, the pilgrims didn't have the meal with the Indians and the turkeys there
They actually fled England
So it's actually a day of mourning over there
They lost their like hundred best pilgrims
Thanksgiving is a big ol' fuck you
It's the second fucking 4th of July to those Brits
That's right
Every American holiday is essentially flipping off the queen
Because it's like we did our own shit over here
Not necessarily
We actually destroyed the Native Americans culture over here
Yeah
So don't take credit for that
So does that mean the pilgrims had British accents?
I don't know, Govna, you tell me
That's really cool
What was that?
My impression of a pilgrim mate
That's really good
Yeah
So like for the first hundred years
Americans should have had British accents really
Yeah, but also what was a British accent hundreds of years ago
I bet it was
It was kind of like a Boston accent back then
That's cool
So like people in England just talked like Americans
And then they became British after the Americans left
Or maybe everyone that talks like an American left
That's why they're like, we gotta get out of here
Everyone is like, oh, how do you do?
How do you do?
We gotta fucking leave
We should be fucking historians
I feel like we have theories that we could go to bat
And try to prove if we could be
If we had access to like books on tape
Access to accents of books on tape
That the historians are obviously hoarding to themselves
Yeah
The problem is you can't really describe an accent
And there wasn't any like audio before like 19, whatever
04 or some shit
That like fucking Mozart shit
This is me at my, defending my dissertation
Defending the fact that you didn't make a dissertation
The best we could do is this letter that a pilgrim wrote
That said, people here talk funny
This can only assume what that means
Yeah
Unless the bin so sucks, sucks to be on the fucking Mayflower
It's cold, the food is not great
So much so that you look forward to eating a turkey
And then when you land, everyone talks different
Like, what do you have to be thankful for if that's your life?
You know what I mean?
I don't know, man
How'd you get to there from like, did pilgrims have accents?
I feel like, I love pumpkin pie
What's your favorite side?
Do you have marshmallows on sweet potato casserole?
Build your favorite Thanksgiving plate
White meat gotta go
You know what I mean?
Right, the food is not right in Thanksgiving
Grandberry sauce is not
As in like, I don't need that tart sort of sour gummy on my dry ass tummy
I would rather eat a ham
What do you mean it is gnaws?
In terms like, you said it is gnaws
Which then you said means that you don't need it on your gums or tummy
I didn't think you would
You said cranberry sauce is gnaws
Meaning I...
That's not the meaning of gnaws
No, yeah
For whatever reason I felt like I could
Mander my way through that sentence and stick the landing
Well, you could have said cranberry sauce makes me gnaw
And don't forget the gnaw
Cranberry sauce is not much of a gnaw
That's kind of like, yeah, that's another one
You did a goat show episode for the greatest
Was it Thanksgiving side or Thanksgiving food of all time?
I guess we did side
I think we did do side
And I don't even remember what we said
Because I think we just went in on Thanksgiving not being that good
As a holiday or as a food holiday?
As a food holiday
As a holiday, I think it's fine
It's still not perfect
I like Thanksgiving more than Christmas
One, because Jews get to celebrate
So it's like a fully American thing
And two, there's no religious implication whatsoever
It's literally just a big meal and then football on in the background
Which is how I like to spend my Thursdays anyway
Interesting, yeah, I guess that is nice
But to me, Thanksgiving, it's so much about the meal
And the prep and the cleaning
It's a lot of job to be had
Christmas is nice because it's like so much of the work is done pre-Christmas
And then the day is just like open presents and chill
But what I don't like about Christmas
Is that it comes sort of towards the end of this holiday season
Where I feel like I'm holidayed out
Like various days have come and gone
The weather is now much, much colder
Thanksgiving sort of kicks it off
So I'm not quite sick of my family yet
I suppose, yeah, that's fair
That makes sense
By Christmas time, I'm excited for Christmas to be over
And then it's like still another week for New Year's
Really, Christmas should be December 30th or something
There's no need to have like a December 28th
What's going on on the 28th of December?
Let alone the 29th
I like that people just give you kind of...
I mean, not everyone gets that
That's just something that we used to always get at like
College humor because we followed a school schedule
It's like school's not in session
So you guys don't really have to come into work from Christmas
Like basically when you get off on the 20th until the 4th
Yeah, it was great
Oh, you're saying other people have real jobs or something?
Yeah, I think other people get like the 24th off
And then go back to work on the 26th
And then they get the first job
But that's my mom's birthday
I can't work on that day
And then on the 29th are they working?
Yeah, we have an amazing schedule
Because we carried that college humor schedule over to head gum
So we just don't have to do it
And we're also sort of on the holiday schedule
So like at a certain point
The town shuts down on Halloween
And opens up after President's Day
Like no one is reading your script in November
No one's reading your script kind of regardless
I would say
Yeah, because of who we are and what we've done
Yeah, we're cool
Yeah, like a lot of people have heat in this business
Yeah
We emanate cool energy
We're cold
We're ice-cold actually
We're a black hole
A black hole
That's funny
Alright, so we asked people
Are you sad?
No, I'm okay
I thought there would be more than this at this point
Almost 40
Yeah
Let's do our fucking podcast
This is
I can't believe I'm saying this for over 500 times
This is a fire review
Yeah, the advice radio show
That has people literally can't prevent us from recording
This is the one thing they can't take away from us
Because we can just do it
I can press a button and
Oh my God, are you kidding me?
I just got an email from Fox
That says, don't record your podcast
They passed
That's tacky
They passed on my pod
On the Zoom
They're not even paying for it
In the Zoom
They said that they would have to talk about it
Yeah
And that was ultimately not a fit
Who cares?
I just got one from fucking Adult Swim
I really just got an email from Adult Swim
That said they're also passing on the podcast
I didn't even get to them
Not even like, punting?
Not even just saying like
They don't even want us to rewrite it
No
Wow
They ultimately made a decision
And their decision is to not go forward with the project
Not moving forward
And they didn't give a reason
Or did they say
No, no reason
And they didn't even do the polite like
But they loved the guys
They didn't even love the guys
Love the guys
But this is the wrong time
But we have something similar
Yeah
They don't have anything similar
The fucked up part
A pass
A hard pass
Closing the door
It's a hard pass
And it's hard to hear
It's hard to hear it
But yeah
This is a fire year
The only advice pod on the web
Hosted by us
They can't take that away from us
Even though they're trying
We asked for lightning round questions
We're recording this
On Thanksgiving during the dinner
There's a full meal happening right behind us
And we're ignoring the cameras
I'll help clean in a moment
Aunt
Are your Thanksgiving dinners
Trending earlier and earlier
To the point where it's like
Let's just call it a lunch
It's 2.15
You invited us to
Yeah, we're going
We're meeting at 3
At 3 tomorrow
But it's always been around 3 or 4
It's always been on the earlier side
For my family
I feel like I've gone from
Like 5-ish dinners
To 4-ish to 3
And it's like
Okay, literally one more minute
We're calling this a lunch
Let's just call it what it is
It's a lunch
I don't know what to tell you
It is a lunch
It's a lunch into dinner
But then are you there until
7.30, 8.00, 9.00 p.m.
Yeah, usually
I'll be there until like
8.00 or 9.00, for sure
At least
At least
With a lion's game on the tube
And a pie in my thigh
Mm-hmm
Yeah, with Jill's family
Jill's family eats all day
Like they cook a lot
There's appetizers
There's dinner
There's dessert
There's coffee
There's like
It's
There's always something happening
My family was like
Show up at 1
All the food is out
At 2
All the food is gone
At 3.30
There's dessert
That is out during dinner
And you can pick at that
But it's like
And it's still like
Everyone's
Yeah, people are going home
4, 5
Which I kind of dig
That's kind of nice
You know
You get your day back
And then you get your
Black Friday specials
On the following day
I think maybe that's my other
Problem with Thanksgiving
It's like
It's a day for extended family
And friends
Which is good
Which is good
But it becomes a lot of
Small talk
And a lot of mingling
Christmas is like
That's your immediate family dog
That's whoever you wake up
In the house with
That's what you're just
Hanging out with all day
It's not the same humans
Just close buddies
You could
I mean
I guess you could do like
A Christmas Eve thing
With family
But I feel like
That's a lot more of a party
That's like an evening time thing
You're drinking
You're singing carols
It's a lot more merry
Thanksgiving is a daytime party
It's a brisk with a turkey
You're cutting off a turkey's dick
So to speak
And then this year
Thanksgiving goes straight into
Hanukkah
Zero time off
Yeah
Thursday
Thanksgiving Sunday
Hanukkah
For eight days
I was thinking about
Getting Gillian
The gift of me having a haircut
For Hanukkah
What do you think about it?
Oh wow
So you arrive on a Sunday
Having had a snip snip
That's correct
A real life snip
Or like
You can't tell
It sort of trimmed the edges
No like a full on
A full on full on
Like
Short
Rewind it back to pre-pandemic
Wow
Wow
A March 2020 look
Yeah
Are you ready for it?
Does she want it?
Um
She doesn't ever pressure me
To change anything about my appearance
You know
Like when I have a huge beard
She's not like
You should shave
But like
She can think it
Yeah
And I can sense it
We have that kind of connection
She wants me to get the haircut
Cause
Sometimes
I don't know
There's just like
Times when it comes up
Where I like mention haircut
Or she sees an old photo
Of me with shorter hair
And she's kind of more enamored
With that
Like I say something about
Maybe I'll get a haircut
And her eyes brighten
So I know
Interesting
I know she wants it
But you have to have a haircut
That fits your new physique
Cause now you have sort of like
A thicker body
That matches your longer hair
Really?
Like you can't have just like
A haircut
And then also just a thicker body
Cause last time you had a haircut
You were a skinnier guy
Do you think that I'm thicker
As in like
I'm more yoked?
I think you have like
More like beef strength
Now than you did
Like pre-pandemic
Mass
You think I got gains
During the pandemic
Yeah
I would say you gained
10 to 15 pounds
I don't know if that's true though
It is true since
I mean I don't know if it was all
During the pandemic
I went down to a very lean 158
Less than me
Less
Yeah
That was for the
But that was for my wedding
And then I think I went up to like
165
Maybe I'm a 174 now
Oh wow
Interesting
So maybe it is 20 pounds
Yeah
So you're getting a haircut
That you had when you were 158-ish
And now you're like 178-ish
Right
So maybe I should just leave the
I should just leave that long hair
Okay I didn't try to
I'll get her a fucking bracelet
You ruined Jill's Hanukkah
I'll get her a fucking latke
A fucking potato pancake
A latke-lake
Or you can
Shed the weight
And get the haircut
Be the wedding man
You always promise to her
That you'd be going forward
The weight is good
I like having the weight
You like being thicker
Yeah
I want the beef
Okay, speaking of beef
One of our first questions
That we received on Twitter
Was from Shane My Sweeney
Do you like
Brie?
Yes
Do you like
Brie?
Yeah, I do
Sweaty, sweaty cheese
The sort of center piece
Of every charcuterie is this
Chalky wheel
That's melting before our very eyes
With a knife
That you don't see anywhere
Cracker with some structure on it
And that's all you need for the Brie
There's no head gum
This is cheese gum
It's a sour, creamy gum gum
It's a great cheese
I usually like
It's a little bit of a mild cheese
I like a more pungent cheese
I like a stronger cheese
But you really
No cheese is bad in my eyes
I'm pretty discerning with my cheese
I don't love a lot of cheeses
You don't like most cheese
If you see a cheese board
Are you excited
Or does that do nothing for you?
It does very little for me
I'm into the meat
And I'm mostly into the bread
And then I'll add cheese to that
But I'm not grabbing a piece of cheese
Just eating the cheese
Cool
Yeah, I love cheese
Do you like cottage cheese?
Would you eat a bowl of cottage cheese?
I don't think so
I don't think I would do that
I guess it depends what was in it
But I don't think I've ever had
A bowl of cottage
No, I have not
I actually think I might dislike it
I'm not big on the mushy lumpy texture stuff
Yeah
Oatmeal
You're into oatmeal though
I do like oatmeal
Okay, what about this?
Have you ever purchased brie?
Yes
Like you go out of your way to seek out brie
You're not just
Oh, if it's at a party, I'll have some
No, I think if I'm like
I see a sandwich with brie on it
I'm not opposed to it
I feel like I've sought that out
Or seen a sandwich with that as an ingredient
And been like, that'll be good
And I've definitely bought brie
In an effort to build a good cheese board
But I don't think I've like gone
I've never opened my eyes and been like
You know what?
I need some fucking brie today
To have some brie day
I'm feeling briezy
Brie today
Gone tomorrow
I've gone out and got brie
I don't think I really do that with any cheese though
Yeah, I'm fine on brie
I mean, just like any other cheese
I'd say the only cheese I like on a cheese board
Is cheese that tastes like meat
Like a smoked gouda
Where it's like salty meaty
Almost a salami
But it's a cheese
Yeah
What about a crispy parmesan?
No, not into it
Dane Thompson asks
Jake, how are you going to compete this Thanksgiving
When your sister just appeared on the best show on television
Joe Parra talks with you
Wow, yeah, that's true
That is true
What's the story there?
Liza was...
Liza did it
My sister Liza
Liza hurt with his comedian
You should check her out of New York City
Because she's great
I go to all of her shows
And she was on the latest episode of Joe Parra Talks With You
A show on adult swim
She played a magician
Wow
Wow
Is she like auditioning for that stuff
Or is it like the comedy scene just scooped her up
Because they knew about her
And wanted her to be on the show
Yeah, I think she's like
She knows a bunch of people on that show
I believe they like wrote the part
And asked her to do it
Because she's like on shows
With all of the alt comedians in that world
Right
The Joe Firestones
The Joe Parras
I see
I see
So if you're funny enough, IRL
They'll give you the job
They'll give you the role
Right, imagine if like
Gabriel wrote a TV show
And he didn't hate you
He would just be like
Oh, I wrote this part that's perfect for you
Yeah
Well, it would probably be the other way around
Like how we put him in Lonely and Horny
Yeah, exactly
Exactly
It was exactly like that
That's cool
So are you gonna bring up
What like NADPOD or live shows
Thanksgiving
Like how's your podcast doing?
I don't know
I think
Yeah, I could bring up the fact that
I paint little minis to my dad
And he might be happy with that
But I feel like it'd be
Probably ultimately better for me
To just shit on Joe Parra
Or like complain about the show
And say that it wasn't that good
Yada yada
So I'll sort of just like
I'll detract
Because when I make people feel small
I am tall
I stand on their shoulders
They are lesser than
I am greater than
So that's kind of the vibe
I also do that when it comes to like
Cooking because like I'll just say
The meal is bad
I'll complain
I'll say
My bed's uncomfortable
I'll just make everyone feel
Low
So I feel
So high
So low
Low
Feel low
Low
I don't like your show
I can't complete your first
I watched the episode
It was great
And she did great
Everyone should check it out
I wanna see that
I have a question from Sansa
Sansa K
Do either of you think
That you could beat Dwayne The Rock Johnson
In a fight on your own
Under these conditions
His arms are tied
In front of his back
You are equipped
With your toothbrush of choice
And the setting is
Amir's house
Interesting
So it's sort of the rock kicking us
Or trying to
And we can sort of stab his thighs
With a toothbrush if necessary
Yeah
So he's got his arms tied
They said in front of his back though
Do you think that means
Like
In front of his
Okay
That means behind
Arms behind his back
Cause if they're in front of his back
I mean game over
He can fucking
Single arm
Yeah
Raise it above
So
He basically can't use his arms
Yep
Does he definitely
Does he skip leg day?
I feel like he's not
That thick down there
They look like fucking stallion legs
He looks like he's built like a force
He's like thick
He is big
He has good ass
One of his quads
Is bigger than your waist
Absolutely
But like
He has a size 32 quad
Like could he
Lunge
Or like is he more like
A guy that skips leg day
He could lunge
He doesn't skip leg day
You follow him on Instagram
He fucking like
Yeah
I see a lot of his cheat day posts
And it makes you think like
Maybe if like
You want it
Like my cheat meal
Is not even like anything
Cause like
He doesn't bring an elliptical
To Japan
When he goes there
He like
Flies a gym into his hotel room
That's how hard he trains
He wakes up at three
And I think he does lunges
I think he does squats
I play tennis today
You play tennis once a week
You play tennis one time a week
You actually have a pretty bad diet
And a bad attitude
And you don't own a toothbrush
So I don't even know
What you're going to use
I have a floss
Yeah
I mean he could even with
I mean if he has his legs
It's still game over
Cause he's like six foot five
He has more reach with his legs
Than we do with our arms
I think if it's two on one
We could probably tackle him
If it's just me versus him
I don't like my chances
Obviously unless he skipped leg day
He didn't skip leg day
Stop thinking he might have
Skipped leg day
He would kick you in the throat
Even if he didn't kick you
Even if he didn't kick you
If he just ran at you
In full force
He could mow you down
Imagine you take a step
Towards the rock
You take a one step toward
Dwayne Johnson
With a toothbrush
With a toothbrush
Like vibrating
With your little quip
Alright Dwayne
You're off
You're in for it now
Oh no
Oh no
You're charging me
He's the Brahma bull baby
I don't think you fucking
Stand up to that
But the setting is my house
Right
What does that do
That he's going to destroy
Your house afterwards
A familiar like
I don't think we could be
Dwayne
Even if he had his arms behind
His back
And we had a baseball bat
I think he would still mow us down
No
I think he would still mow us down
We could hit him with a baseball bat
I think he would kick
He would dodge us
If it was two of us though
Like he'd kick the shit out of one of us
Break our rib cage
And then the other one would be like
Swinging as hard as it could
At his head with a baseball bat
Right
But if you hesitate
Even for a second
So like
If we have
Say if we have two of us
We each have a bat
You take one step towards him
Holding the bat
He just charges at you
You're not ready for that
You thought that he would
Maybe cower
Or hesitate
But he doesn't do that
He's decisive
He has decisive action
He just runs
And it didn't skip like that
You trip over your coffee table
You fall back
The bat falls out of your hand
He just stomps you in the head
With one swift motion
I'm trying to swing
I maybe get one fucking swing
And I hit him in the back
I hit him in the head
But he has
His adrenaline is pumping
He turns
He looks at me
He raises the people's eyebrow
And I just shake my head
Like I didn't mean to hit you
I didn't mean to hit you Dwayne
And then he just fucking
Kicks me in the teeth
And it's over
I don't think
It'd be funny to like
Have us plan for 30 minutes
About like
How do we attack him from
Opposite sides
And like what our strategy is
You get hit
I'm the one hitting with a baseball
And then it's like
Alright go
And then he just fucking
One of us to death instantly
No
Aw shit
Now it's one on one right away
Two of us together
Could maybe do it
If it all went perfect
But I think he
I trust his planning more
He takes one of us out instantly
Game over
Game over for the other one
Okay so let's add a third person
Me, you
It would have to be Billy
Okay you think
Three of us can take him with his arms
I mean at a certain point
If he could just kick us
To be
Almost dead
If not broken
Then he could just do that
One at a time
It almost doesn't matter
How many of us there are
Well I think
But I think three actually does it
Because three
He
Say he just
Kicks me in the stomach
Really fast
Takes me out
But as soon as
He does that
He's got two guys on him with bats
Do we have
Oh we each have a bat
We don't have one bat for three people
I think you have to
Because otherwise
He'll take the guy with the bat out
The other two guys are done
You need to have the bats
Okay
I have a bat
Billy has a bat
You have a fucking toothbrush
Right
So he would actually
So I might survive
Because he would take you out
Because you're a bigger threat
We should really take Billy out first
Yeah he should save his strength
Right
Like when he's weaker
He should take us
Yeah that's true
And we would be fucked
If he took Billy out first
And actually knowing Dwayne
That's probably what he would do
He would take the Billy out the strongest
Because I do think he beats Billy
One on one
Even with Billy having a bat
And the Rock's hands are tied behind his back
And it's at your house
I think he takes out Billy
And then if we only have a bat
And a toothbrush
Then we're fucked
Because he can definitely take us out
One at a time
Have you seen Red Notice
No
Okay
I think I haven't seen it either
But it's always funny to me
When he's like
I have some amazing news
To share with you guys
It's the number one movie on Netflix
And I'm like
Yeah the Rock
Obviously it's fucking you
It's cool for you
Because you're him
But I mean I always expected it
To be the number one movie
That's why Netflix gave it to you
You don't have to be
You don't have to express gratitude
For that Rock
To save your mana
Like you're the biggest movie star
In the world
It's also not an honor
That you're the sexiest person
Like I also sort of expected that
To the Rock
No success you have is a surprise
To me
Exactly
Until you run for president
And don't win
I won't be surprised
Alright
Let's take a break
Answer some more questions
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Yo yo
Alright no time for unsolicited advice
We have too many questions to get through
Yeah we have not gotten through very many
We've spent a lot of time talking about the rock
Yes I still think
Three of us could take him down
With two baseball bats
And a pool cue
And a toothbrush
Yeah as long as he doesn't attack Billy first
As long as he skips leg day
What succession character
Are you both most like
Says and a van
Oh
Roman probably
That's tough
Yeah Roman is the biggest sort of like
Sarcastic turd troll
Yeah
So I'll give me Roman
And you can be
I don't know
Fucking
Logan's
Assistant
That's probably blowing him
That's not bad
I wanted to talk to you about something
Because I still like succession
But I think
The last
Two
I actually have a problem with the last three episodes
If I could be quite frank
Okay
I'm caught up
Including
On the character Frank
Okay good
And I love every episode
So what's your beef
Okay well my big beef
With
The episode from three weeks ago
That would be the episode where all of the kids
Gather in Kendall's place to talk about
Who's gonna join him
Okay succession
Spoilers abound ahead
It's fine
But like you really gotta watch
You can skip ahead but you might as well
Turn off this week's episode
Cause I feel like I'm gonna be talking about this for a long time
Okay
So that episode
And then also the episode with the
With like the address
Like Keynote
The
Oh the one where he has a UTI
And he's going kinda crazy
Yeah
So I've
The same gripe with both of those two episodes
And that gripe is that
Nothing happens the entire time
Everyone ends up the exact same place
That the episode started
It spins its wheels for an hour
The end is
You end up at the same place
But I would still say things happened
I think things happened but it didn't
It was
It did not need to be an entire episode
I think that it's like
It basically what is happening to succession now
Is it feels like
Executives at HBO said this show needs to last for 10 years
And the writers were like
Okay so whatever we thought was gonna happen
In the middle of season 3
Needs to now happen at the end of season 3
Like what we thought season 3 was gonna be about
Actually has to be what season 3
And 4
Is about now
That's my theory
Right
It feels like they're vamping
It just feels like they're making it stretch
Yeah
Which is what they had to do during that
Big keynote address
Where they're waiting for things to get done
That was just the same joke over and over
It was just like
Someone's talking but they have to vamp
It happened to Frank three times
Then Jerry had to do it
I'll show the video
Yeah
It just kept on being the same
The same joke and it was always like
Are they
Are they gonna
Can we get a deal
Or are we going to a vote
And it just goes back and forth
Deal vote
Deal vote
No deal vote
Whatever
But there were things happening
The background that were changing
Like the president is no longer
Gonna be president
Then they had to choose a new president
They had a new candidate
Now there's a new candidate
So there is some forward story movement
Yeah
But I think all of that stuff
Could have happened
And so it's really stretched to be an hour
While doing the same thing over and over
The fact that that whole entire thing
Took place throughout
Basically real time at that conference
Yeah
I thought was a little much
I still love the show
I still loved it
It's fun to watch
Even if the killing time is good
Yeah
And the writing is fun
It's like Game of Thrones to me a little bit
I'm starting to see how the
I feel like I see the puppet strings
A little bit
Right
Lastly
This is my bigger gripe
Because I think it's gonna be
A season long thing
Okay
I feel like the show is unique
And creative enough
That they don't need to make
This new presidential candidate
That they're gonna back Trump
Because that's just what it is
Well he's not quite Trump
Because he's like young and sexy and funny
Okay
I think that it's
The idea is that it's the same
It's like this guy is a bad guy
That we're
That he's an autocrat
Who we don't know if we should back
But everybody's like
Oh no he's not gonna win
Let's just back him
And it's like I can see
I just couldn't see what their intent is
I just don't want
Succession's too good to make it about Trump
Yeah
And I think Trump is almost the guy
That's in power now
The one that's like leaving
And then this new guy is sort of
Younger and funnier and hipper
And kind of like an edge
He's like a Republican
Beto O'Rourke or something
Where he's young and hip and also conservative
I hope you're right
But it definitely feels like
The theme of it is
This guy's actually gonna be
A really bad fucked up president
And we're gonna help put him in office
And I think that's like what the
What the vibe was with Fox and Trump
Yeah
Well that's why I think like
The whole show started at the beginning
Of the Trump right
Like that was like four or five years ago
Now this is theoretically the next president
Maybe
I just wanted to do its own thing
I don't like when succession is like
A reflection of something that I already know
Is going on
Yeah
But it's always been kind of the Fox news
Of the fictional world
Yeah but it was more fun when it was just about
Who's gonna take over the company
Not about like
Oh what if we back a president
Who's actually bad for the world
I don't care
Right
I just don't care about that
Yeah
That's definitely gonna be a big part of the
End of the
I mean we're already on like an episode
Six or seven of the third season right
Yeah
Yeah
But there's also this lawsuit that's happening
And like will Tom go to jail
Yeah I love that stuff
Will Greg be in trouble
That's the kind of thing that I want to see
I want this stuff to happen
I mean Tom's journey is pretty insane too
Like
Him agreeing to take on all these crimes
And meeting with Kendall
And talking to his wife
And breaking down
His journey has been very unique
And forward moving
Yeah
And not apolitical
Love Tom
I love Tom
He's great
Yeah
So there's enough for everybody
Yeah I mean I still love the show
I just have a gripe with the last three episodes
But it clearly can do no wrong for you
And that's
Oh yeah I know
It's still batting a thousand in my eyes of course
Although every TV show you know
Has those episodes where
Not a lot happened
Because they had to make ten episodes that season
Yeah
It just feels like it's been three episodes in a row
For this show
Yeah
Hopefully they kick it up a notch
Usually towards the end of the season
That's when it's like shit starts to get real
Yeah
You're right about that
Let's see here
So we're both Roman
Is that what you're saying
I think so
I think it would
Yeah
I would have to
Have to say so
Here's a question about
Secret Santa
And if one of us got Jeff
What would we get him
That was from Chili
Chilton from Canada
Jeff would be a very easy person
To shop for
Cause I feel like I know everything he likes
And you could get him a very good
Gag gift pretty easily
Yeah would you go gag or would you go norm
Gag
I would 100% go gag
I think I'd get him a really
Like a really stupid watch
Or something for
Something to sell in Rodney's closet
Or something gag
But in the world of
Of him
Of Jeff
Yeah
In Jeff's world
Also he's going to be living in New York City
For two months
So maybe I could get him something
Something there
Right
So you get him a silly hat
Not like a car heart beanie
Or something
Exactly I'd get him a silly hat
Well don't take my fucking gift idea
Cause I thought of silly hat
What are you going to get him
Cause I already got him the silly hat
Well he delivers food to my door
That I often just
Don't realize is there
In rots overnight
So maybe I'll get him like a trash can
So next time he orders me food
He could just order directly to a trash can
And not like
That's sitting on my stool
He got you a yoshinoya beef bowl
Is that what he got you
Yeah most recently he ordered me a
Not Guy Fieri
Some sponsored postmates
Maybe it was Guy Fieri
Like wings at wing stop with fries
And it just stood on my
Outside of my door
While you were in New York
18 hours
No it was while I was home
But they didn't ring the doorbell
So they just left it on my stoop
Just stayed there
Overnight rotted
Animals got into it
I wake up and there's just garbage all over my front
Stair area
I'm so glad he
I guess he knows my address now actually
He's been over it
He hasn't attacked me in that way
So he'll get him a silly hat
And I'd give him a garbage can
Okay Jenna asks
Do you miss living close to each other
Are you happier in your retrospective locations
I don't even think about where people live
Because I only see people on zoom
Like I see you more often
Than I see my friends that live in Santa Monica
Or something like that
Because we're like zooming every single day
And it's not like I'm going to a lot of bars
On the weekend
Or restaurants or parties
So the pandemic has basically made it
Feel like we're closer than ever
I feel like I definitely see you more
Now
It's interesting because pre-pandemic
We were not living together
And nobody zoomed
I didn't have any face to face
It was hard
You had to fly out to podcasts
Yeah
And like throughout the week
I would just not see you
Like we didn't have company meetings
On video
And then with the whole pandemic
We started doing that
Remember when it was really hard to set up
Like a company meeting
It's like you got to set up this wide camera
And everyone's in frame
And nobody can hear each other
Now everyone's together
But still has to hop on zoom on their laptops
Yeah, it's weird
I think actually I'm going to make a push
An internal company push for
No more zooms ever
What do you think about that?
That's going to be hard
Because we still can't really all be in the same room
Which is ultimately fine
We never did it before
Yeah, but we were working out of the same office
What about that year that I lived in
Actually two years where I lived in New York City
And you lived in Los Angeles
That was two years before the pandemic
And I moved in February of 20
Oh wait, maybe it was 2019 actually
Yeah, it feels fairly recent
Yeah, it was December of 2018
So most of you in New York has been pandemic
No, a year and a half
A year and a half was no pandemic
A year and two months
But now you're coming up on
Almost two year mark
More time in the pandemic
More time in the pandemic than not
Interesting
But yeah, we got it done
Everything was fine
Yeah, did we do phone calls?
How did we interact?
I don't think so
Slack?
I don't remember 2019
Yeah, we maybe did
I think we just did Slack, man
I think we just did Slack
That's why I'm going to make an urge for us
To be off Slack too
We should just do phoneers
Why does everyone have to see my face all the time?
I don't have an office line
And I'm going to get...
Do you have a landline at your house?
No, but I think I would get a lot of work done actually
If I could rather than FaceTime
If I could just like...
If I had an office
I had a speaker phone
I just pressed the button
I was always talking to me on speaker
And I could pontificate, talk out loud
Pace around
Kind of like someone's assistant
Yeah, exactly
Hold my calls style
That's the life I need
Hold my calls
Somebody says, Amir is online too
I say, tell them I'm at lunch
Are you?
They say, they're like
He says it's urgent
And I'm like, God damn it
Alright, put him through
And I say, what is it?
And then we talk
And then we hash it out
We get whatever we need to done
And it's all finished in a 25 minute phone
You've just been watching Mad Men C
Sort of want to live in that world again
I'd also like to be having an affair
Commute to Manhattan
During the weeks
Sometimes you spend a night or two in the city
Because you're working late
And you had clams for lunch
I got trashed at noon
I can't stress how many clams and martinis
I had at 1 p.m. on Tuesday
Don Draper must have constantly had diarrhea
That's a good tweet
If you ever come back
Yeah
C-notes just weighs in
If you guys don't answer every question posed
It'll be another 30 for Blumenfeld
That's actually kind of true
So let's answer some of these
You called for the lightning round Q&A
And you knew we didn't have time
It's a long con on the fans
Our boy Al Jalil asked this to question
Ooh, love Al
What's he say?
He said, would you all ever consider doing dramatic
Or non comedic films?
I would consider it
I'd definitely consider it
Do you consider NADPOD a comedy?
Or is it just fantasy and thus
Because it's so out there and fake
It is funny
Are you guys trying to make jokes?
Yeah, we're making jokes
Most of all you want to serve the story
Above the comedy
I think it's almost
I guess probably story over comedy
But it is a comic story
That has powerful heartfelt moments
There are moments we take seriously
And a lot of the time
We're doing bits
Is all D&D in general
Mostly comedy slanting
Or like there are people who get together for six hours
And they just tell a story without laughter
It's like that was cool, that was powerful
Like crazy shit happened and now we're out of here
I think there's definitely an aspect to it
That is just like it's almost like a video game
You're solving a dungeon puzzle
And people have their abilities
It gets super crunchy
You're playing on a play mat
There's definitely people to take it seriously
And are not having fun
There are even D&D shows
That are pretty dry storytelling
Or not even dry storytelling
But dramatic storytelling
Would you like to do that?
I don't think I would be able to do that
Because I don't think I'm a good enough
Dungeons and Dragons player
Even after two years of practice
Maybe three years at this point
Yeah, better than most people
But I think what I excel at
Is the improv and the character
And the story part of it
I guess if I was just doing
Straight up dramatic role play
I could probably do that
I mean I don't know how to do drama
I don't know how to act dramatically
I don't know what to write dramatically
That's the hard part for me
It's like alright, don't be funny
And tell an interesting story
That's all I know is how to be funny
I'm not going to write an interesting tale
About two friends that occasionally
A joke might pop up
No jokes at all
Yeah
A movie with no jokes
There must be
Moneyball
World where Lee doesn't have any jokes
Can I google search that
What is a movie without any jokes?
Like a movie so sad
There's no jokes
Like is there a joke in Schindler's list?
I don't know
Because you might want people to
Warm to some characters
Kind of levity
In certain moments
Somebody asked on reddit three years ago
Can you name any movie that has no jokes
And is completely serious from beginning to end
Tree of life
And
There's
Some very funny answers here
What do we got?
If I recall correctly
Valhalla
Valhalla Rising
Valhalla
The Passion of the Christ
That I believe
Dunkirk question mark
If possible
Prisoners is pretty dark
All the way through
But there's a few light hearted scenes
A joke or two in the middle
Why even answer?
Why even answer?
Are there any movies with no jokes?
There's a bunch of answers
Prisoners is pretty dark
And it has a few jokes
Somebody recommended The Road
And I just
Just the fucking
The poster for this film
Looks like it's
Offensively devoid of comedy
It's Vigo Mortensen
In a
Hooded jacket
Soaking wet
Covered in dirt
Holding a little boy who's also really sad looking
It's almost in black and white
It's so muted this book
There's no way there's a joke in The Road
I could have
Oh and also Winter's Bone
You're saying
You couldn't write Winter's Bone
Yeah I think
I could direct a non-comedy
I feel like that's essentially what I did
With Lonely and Horny was I took a comedy
And I directed it as if it were
A drama
Or at least a dramedy
Yeah
It really
I can't even begin
To think about what that would be
Writing a movie that's devoid of any joke
Acting in a way
Without being funny at all
Even by accident once
I feel like that would be a failure
If we wrote Winter's Bone
I think I would
Consider myself a failure
I think that won an Oscar
So
That would be a good acceptance
Speech
If Winter's Bone didn't exist
And we wrote Winter's Bone
Do you think anybody would read it
It would ever get made
No fucking chance
No way
No one wants to read our Winter's Bone
Even if it was Winter's Bone
Can we write a movie so
Dramatically good that it would get made
Is another funny question
Can we plagiarize
Winter's Bone
And send it to an executive that hadn't seen it
And would they like it
Yeah
You know the movie
Where the Beatles didn't exist
And some guy was referencing the Beatles
Or something
So we'd do that but with Winter's Bone
So it's just a movie about
Two guys that wake up in a world
Having seen Winter's Bone
But it doesn't exist
We gotta fucking remember
Like we just saw it last night
Let's just write it
Nobody else
Winter's Bone doesn't exist
Me and you find out Winter's Bone doesn't exist
We know we can write it
But you haven't seen it in a long time
And I only saw it once
So we have to
We have to just try to recreate it
We have this very muted secret power
Yeah
Now we're writing a comedy again
That's right
That's right
Comedy by the way with the premise that already existed
With the Beatles movie
Yeah
Alright let's take another break
Come back and we really gotta answer
Some more questions otherwise I'm gonna win a fucking turdy
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Brian Head writes
What's the most intimidating fruit?
It's gotta be pineapple, right?
That's exactly what I was gonna say
It's really dangerous looking on the outside
And once you slice it open and eat it
It burns my tongue
It's uncomfortable to eat
What about a cocoa nut?
A cocoa nut's pretty hard to
That's a very hard wooden nut
You can't get into that
By normal means
A pineapple, it's tough
But you can break that apart
A cocoa nut, that shit
You will not, you need an axe
To get through it
You could really meme yourself breaking into a cocoa nut
And the fruit inside
Is not actually good
It's a bunch of fucking nasty
Water
Do you like coconut water?
No
Do you like coconut flavored
Desserts?
I like the flakes
I will put some
Cocoa nut flakes
You keep saying cocoa nut
It's coconut
It's not cocoa
Coconut
Coconut
Cocoa nut
I feel like I'm going crazy
I'm going cocoa nuts
Talking about it
I like coconut flakes
Ryan asked
How do you manage the stress?
I'm not done
Sure we already had
We had pineapple and then we had a backup
I think the watermelon is a little intimidating
No, the watermelon is easy
It's not easy to cut your own watermelon
And there's a lot left over
So it's a little intimidating because it's unwieldy
And you don't know what to do with all of it
I would posit that watermelon is one of the easiest
Most fun fruits to enjoy
Oranges are harder than that
You gotta fucking really pierce it without breaking the fruit
Let's move on
Ryan asked
Davos DFSMTG
How do you manage the stress and anxiety
In your life?
What a real question
It really is
How do I manage it?
What does anybody do?
They just sort of do it
I don't know
I don't meditate
I guess I go for walks
I don't know is that stress
Management, anxiety management
I think everybody
Or at least I do a lot of different things
There is not one catch all that is like
I'm stressed, I'm gonna do this
I think there's medicine for anxiety
Yeah
If you have like crippling anxiety
Or very severe anxiety, there's like actual medicine
But I get anxious and I get stressed
Remember when I had my panic attack
Yeah
So I think there's
Throughout the day there's different things
That I do to help level any
Like mounting pressure
I think working out in the morning
Runs, bike rides
Things where you can like
Bell or expend energy
Sweat things out
That always feels really good
I also manage my diet a little bit
Because I realize that
One of the triggers for me
Feeling more anxious is like
Being hopped up on caffeine
And not having eaten enough
So I move down to one cup of coffee
And I make sure to eat
Enough throughout the day
So like you would get
Hangry slash anxious
Or anxious for short
Yeah, when I had my panic attack
I had had two cups of coffee
And had not had lunch or breakfast
I hadn't eaten
Wow, so it's like a chemical thing
Your brain is racing, yeah
So I drink water, I eat
At night I get like kind of black out drunk
Or just like
I try to be
Kind of like
A big one
Every night
Yeah
It's so dangerous
It's not you managing your stress
That sounds like your stress is too
It also helps to talk to people
It helps to talk to people
That's what I was gonna say
Yeah, shout out better help
Or any help really
And a bath, shower
Oh, baths are great, yeah
Retail therapy
Sometimes you just buy yourself something
I lose myself in sports
I turn off
My worrying brain
And watch the fucking
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Play the LA Rams
I will watch the thunder
Play the Bucs
It doesn't matter as long as children
Are playing a game
I'm enjoying it
And you have cash riding on it, ideally
Yes, ideally I'd have some scratch
To make it interesting slash
Pinteresting in addition to it
Stress or anti-anxiety medication
That's good
Jordan asked, what do I order at
Bernie's? Is that still your go to?
Yeah, no it
It slowed down because of the disease
Initially, Bernie's was closed for a long time
But it is, it's open
That is, that's my local
I love Bernie's
So what do you get? What should this person get?
What should Jordan get there?
You really can't go wrong
I think their burger is
Incredibly
You want to get the
Modsticks for the table
Don't sleep on their vinegar
Chicken, as it were though
As well
Unfortunate name
What do you mean?
The phrase vinegar chicken
Doesn't inspire confidence in me
Really, it inspires a lot of confidence in me
I love salt and vinegar
I guess it's the word vinegar
That makes me think I won't like it
Well, but if
It sounds like you might not like it
Because
It does have that vinegar tang
That I like and maybe you don't
What do you think is vinegar?
Like, if I were to make it myself
How do you think I'm going about doing that?
It's pronounced vinegar
Really? Yeah
A coconut vinegar
Vinegar is
An extract
Okay
Of
It's the vines
It's vines and rinds
Of the lemon tree
I would say it's like
Distilled
Again, I don't know what that means
But distilled salt water
Salt water left out over time
That becomes almost thick in syrupy
And
Let's look up what it actually is
An aqueous solution
Of acetic acid and trace compounds
That may include flavorings
Okay
Is it man-made?
Or can only gods
Make vinegar
Is vinegar naturally occurring?
I thought vinegar was something like olive oil
Or something
Like you squeeze something and vinegar comes out
I think you just start with water
And you do something to it, I would think
Yeah
Pasteurized vinegar
Vinegar uses, I mean
Vinegar?
Okay, I will do that
How to make
Vinegar, bitch
That's really cool, you don't have to write bitch
Yeah, I actually made the
Results
Super weird
There's a YouTube video
That is six and a half minutes long
That has one of the most disgusting thumbnails
Of how to make vinegar at home
It does look like a bunch of orange rinds
Wow, chlorine or something
Cool
Guys, either making meth
Vinegar or a pool
A homemade vinegar recipe
One and a half cups of dry red wine
Half a cup of raw apple cider vinegar
It sounds like you already have vinegar
Yeah, if one of the ingredients is vinegar
That's cheating
Yeah, definitely
Ingredients
A mother, either store bought or homemade
So how do you make a fucking homemade
Vinegar mother
Now we're just going back to the vinegar
12 fluid ounces of wine or distilled water
Or, okay
Um, yeah
It doesn't seem
Look man, you can't do it
You can't make vinegar
It's not happening
What food cuisine
You haven't tried yet that you would like to try someday
A food cuisine
An entire cuisine
A food cuisine
That I would like to try someday
Yeah, I remember
The food that you eat with your hands, like Ethiopian food
Yeah, Ethiopian, that's good, I love Ethiopian food
That looks good
I think it's funny because it's like basically our vibe
There's no
You know, you just like
Basically get a ball of bread
And dip it in different
Like sauces and goose
It's great
And the bread is good
The bread is uniquely good
It's spongy, what's it called
I think it's called vinegar bread
Really
Yeah, vinegar
Vinegar, yeah
You're right
Interesting
Okay, anyway
That's one, the other one
Yeah, I remember
Looking at
When I was super into
Anthony Bourdain
When I was watching all my Tony shows
He was on the eastern coast of Africa
And they were like cooking
This delicious looking fish
Over a fire, and I would want to eat that
Just east fucking
Classic East African fish cuisine
Fish on a beach, man, that's my shit
Yeah, I feel like
You've had that before
Growing up in Connecticut
Yeah, but it's not the same
You have fished?
Yes, I have fished
Where did you fish?
I fished
I fished a bunch, I mean
I was like into fishing when I was a kid
My parents bought me a fishing rod
I practiced my cast
Out in the yard
You casted with a rod?
Yeah, I went to Brantford
The Long Island Sound
Did you ever grab a fish
And then cook it and eat it right then and there
Um
I've definitely
Done that
Later in life where I like went on a
Fishing trip with like
My friends or my brothers friends or my cousins
I'm gonna get you
A fishing rod
For Thanksgiving
And I want you to go deep sea
The kind where it's just you alone
In that wooden house
I'm not super into fishing now
So I want to create
A hobby for you where you would go to the house
The cold house
I don't want you to create
It's weird, right?
That you would create a hobby for me
It's this weird form of control
That you seem to be into
That I'm actually against
I want you to owe me one
Yeah
I want you to change your life
I don't want you to think about my free time
Okay
Okay
Just picture me always busy
How's that?
Don't worry about me
Picture me busy
Slash
Rolling
Um
Alright a few last questions
What's your phone wallpaper asked Eric Arman
It's pretty funny
It's been the same one for a very long time actually
It's just a picture of Half Dome
From when I went to Yosemite
It was in 2016
It's actually basically always been
A nature picture of
Yosemite
That's cool
It was one that I took on a trip with my brother
Back in like 2011
And then I went there again with Jillian
And I replaced it with another
Newer photo
Mine is Pam Anderson holding
Cash to her tits
And on the bottom it reads
Be the man
Because you are the man
And she's straddling
A Lamborghini
Slash Ferrari
And in the background
Straddling it?
Her legs I think are broken
And in the background
Is a fucking volcano
And an eagle is fucking it
And at the top it says
Are you the man yet?
Say you are
It's a lot of text
Also weird because if it's at the top
It says are you the man yet?
Say that you are
And then later
As your eyes scroll down you see Pam
Then it says be the man
Actually mine is this
Picture of
Avital and Marty playing basketball
At Head Gum
That's a much better background than it was
Before because it was just
A photo of your front door
My joke
That it was your home screen
That's right my home screen
Was my home screen
Which actually doesn't work
Because it was your lock screen
Which is why I changed it to
A picture of a lock
And I made my home screen
What is your unlock screen
That's what it's really all about
It's just the bank of America logo
To remind me that
That you owe
Tens of thousands of dollars
On a bad parlay
It's a
It's a mortgage payment
Late due and it's sort of a reminder for me
Actually I was thinking of funny
A lock screen
Is your vaccination pass
So if anybody ever asks you just sort of
Lift up your phone and it's there
It's kind of sad to see but it's convenient
I added mine to my wallet
Yeah I was able to do that
If you add it to the wallet it's just a double tap
So that's pretty streamlined
Double tap is nice but what if it was
Yeah just a straight up lock screen
But then you'd have to clear off all your notifications
Imagine you go to a bar
You walk there they ask
Show me your Vax and then you hold up your phone
And you just like
Show all of your like
Badge alerts
You don't want to see that you have to clear
It's actually less convenient
Than the double tap
My alerts are pretty embarrassing too
Yeah
Overdue
All of them showing up over the
Be the man
Are you the man yet?
Do you want to buy a new Nintendo
Fucking wall mount
Like just weird fucking things that I signed up for
Months ago coming back to
Hot my ass
Blocking Pam
A block chain notification
Lift
I don't even use lift that much anymore
But there's sort of somebody sign me up to be a
Driver so I get like
Pings that like
You can get signed up to be a driver
That's awesome
All right do you have any final questions that you see
First international place you'll visit
Post COVID
I think we answered that one before XO Jupiter
Yeah I don't know
I think I said Iceland
I've been craving Iceland but also
I kind of want to go to Italy so maybe there
But now COVID is fucking
Worse in Europe than it's ever been
What the hell is going on? How is that possible?
I don't know
But are they should be coming here?
Are the cases big or are the hospitalizations big?
Because that's really what it's all about
If the vaccines are working the cases can go up
As long as everyone's
Doesn't die
I think the cases are record like
Highest it's ever been but then
Places that have been vaccinated is like
The hospitalizations
And the cases have uncoupled but then there are some
Countries that are like us where
It's not enough
Unfortunately
That's why I'm going to Orlando
Post COVID
Bring a bunch of doses
See if you can just jab people while you're there
You must be this vax to get on the rides
Last question do you have anything?
Yes when are you releasing your own crypto
And NFTs
Oh god way never
Maybe never I don't know it seems like a really hard
Slash dangerous
And
Controversial thing to get into
Is like creating your own NFT and crypto
We joked about doing it
When we got the rights to Jake and Amir back
Because there really wouldn't be anything funnier
To me than making
One almond
A
NFT that is actually worth
Something
One of one
Maybe we'll do a single one almond
NFT that somebody could buy
Sell if necessary
That's what I want to see
Alright that's it
What was it
27 questions up 27 down
The perfect game
Congratulations
Happy Thanksgiving
To those who celebrated happy holidays
They're coming up happy December
We fucking made it the end of 2021
I had to think about what year
Is it 2021
That seems kind of weird that it's going to be
2022 soon
Yeah I think it's weird
Because like a lot of people
You know you think that not a lot happened
But a lot actually did happen
We just have a weird way of processing
Things because of all of this
Like it's like pandemic and election
Are the two big benchmarks and everything else
In between is like sort of
Amorphous blob
If we all sat down and like made a list
You'd realize that a lot of shit happened
And 2021 might have even been a nice year
For you
Remember to do that
Right down the good stuff that happened
And honestly I think 2022
That's going to be the year
Everyone was hoping that 2021 would be the year
But like 2022 is definitely going to be the year
Every year is going to be ups and downs
2020 had more
Downs than ups for sure
To be sure
Let's just hope for the normal downs and ups in 2022
Doesn't have to be great
Just has to be fine
I'll take fine
I'll take fine in a heartbeat
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Which was the Kodachrome parody
I know you did, it's a great song
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Big man Billy from England
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