If I Were You - 536: Private Chef
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This is a headgum original.
This is a headgum original.
This is a headgum original.
This is a headgum original.
This is a headgum original.
This is a headgum original.
Looking back, I could so be point you.
Can't see what you've become.
Every dream I could see right in front of me.
Think you're close but you got so far.
Why is everything you wanted
just on the other side of heart?
Whoa!
Huge!
We wrote that!
Not really.
I feel like you stole the other side of hard thing
from Greg Popovich or something.
Yeah, Marty Williams.
And then somebody else wrote and performed
the rest.
I feel like I'm more of a producer then.
I'm matching who is the guy that got in trouble.
You're definitely an ideas man for sure.
But I wouldn't say it was necessarily an original idea
because you took a quote.
I don't want to turn this into a negative thing.
I think it's really cool.
That ship has sailed.
Now I want to dig deep into what you think I am as a man.
A fraud, a phony, a plagiarist.
You only know about the bad music producers.
There's that guy that killed his wife
and the guy that molested the boy bands.
I don't know a lot about really nice,
good, normal musician producers.
You just hear about the evil ones I guess.
Which I guess is like most things I suppose.
That's why people will know your name
because you plagiarized coach speeches
and outsourced the work.
And then tried to capitalize on it as your own.
But maybe that's just in line with all music producers too.
Right.
Is that what Dr. Luke and those Swedish people are doing?
They're just coming up with phrases.
Maybe they've heard it before.
But you can't copyright a motto.
I believe Dr. Luke is a bad guy.
That's why we know his name.
I believe he is.
But I can't actually be sure.
We're going to be good music producers
and give this guy a shout out.
His name is Dustin.
Look at this.
Jake and Amir own the entire copyright for the song.
I'm only a vessel.
They wrote it.
I took some liberties with the chorus though.
This is in writing.
The best part, yeah.
Took some liberties with the actual best part of the song for sure.
Is this what Southern country music sounds like?
What was that?
It's really mixed because I feel like on the other side of hard
is like way too much of a country.
Like that's a turn of phrase that is would definitely belong in a
country song.
And we even kind of like made it into a country song when we
improvised the song that we sang.
Yeah.
But like the acoustic pop punk element of the song was there
basically right up until he sang the other side of hard,
which you really can't say without making it seem a little
Southern.
Right.
It was almost Southern by accident or something country by
accident.
But that like looking back on what you are, whatever,
or whatever that part was that part was punky.
And I liked that a lot.
And I, again, I think that you and I should be writing
earnest pop punk acoustic ballads.
We could theoretically work with this guy.
I'll write the lyrics.
I will write the lyrics.
So what do I do?
I don't just be around.
Just be around because I, I like, we are good working together,
but you don't have to tell you what, if you, you'll be the
producer, you facilitate getting my lyrics to this guy.
Saw like email him.
Email him say, Hey, if Jake writes a pop punk song,
full song, I'll write all of the lyrics.
I will write music part.
Or is it just a, yeah, I will kind of, I'll give him a riff
and I'll give him some chords for sure.
But then he'll sort of have to take off.
Yeah.
He'll have to produce it.
I'll write the pop punk song.
I would like if he took some liberties with the actual,
you know, music though, because that part I'm, I'll get it done,
but it's not going to be as good as he could do.
So I will write, I will write, no, listen, listen,
I'll write the verse.
I'll write the pre chorus.
I'll write the chorus.
I'll write the second verse.
The pre chorus is kind of the thing that leads into the chorus,
but not the verse.
Yeah.
The verse, the verse changes every single time.
The pre chorus can actually stay the same before you hit them
with the chorus.
Right.
Like, you know, and the Jay-Z song was on.
Yeah.
And the Jay-Z song was on.
So I put my hit, but it's like the Jay-Z song was on.
Like that part is kind of the pre chorus.
I see.
It's a little, it's sort of part of the chorus, but not necessarily.
Yeah.
Yeah.
In the musical nomenclature of which I'm kind of an expert and
you're kind of a dunce, novice amateur.
The pre chorus is, you know, it's an official term used for,
you know, leading into the chorus, but I should.
Okay.
I'm actually done to explain myself.
What song are you going to do?
Do you know what your song is going to be about?
Or is that what you need my help with?
It's going to, it'll be about a girl.
Every single good pop punk song is about a girl, except for the
case of Avril Lavigne, which it was about a boy.
Why did I have to go and make things so complicated?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I know you're going to say Skater Boy, but yeah.
Skater Boy is also good.
Yeah.
That one's about a boy too, for sure.
Okay.
But you don't know what it's going to be about.
You're just going to pick up a guitar and sort of improvise
slash get there on your own.
I'm going to, when I'm done with this recording, I'm going to
sit there and I'm going to write some real fucking heartfelt
lyrics that are going to be about.
Start with the lyrics.
Right.
Wanting a girl you can't have.
That classic, classic pop punk.
Yeah.
That's word confessional.
Tom DeLong.
Boxcar racer type shit that I'm trying to do.
There's like a junior and you're a freshman and there's like no
way it'll happen because it's two years apart.
There you go.
Perfect.
Yeah.
Or, you know, we could even be two sophomores, but she is dating
a senior.
Oh yeah, that's good.
Her boyfriend is actually going away to college.
Oh, forget about it.
And I'm talking about, like, he's going to forget about you,
but I'm right here.
We still have.
That's good.
Oh, what about, we're juniors.
He's a senior.
Yeah.
Just graduated.
She's a sophomore, but is taking like junior classes because
she's hoping to skip a grade.
So she can get to college faster.
He's on like the west side of the school in like the senior hall,
but it shouldn't be a junior, but it's close to my home room,
which is what I'm trying to stay.
And I actually get to leave campus for lunch as a senior.
So I'm telling her, we've got a friend.
I thought her boyfriend was a senior.
I thought her boyfriend was a senior.
Here's what the song is.
Her boyfriend, senior, it's summertime.
He's going away to college, but her and I,
we still have a senior year.
And I'm trying to say that we can,
we can run this school together.
The power couple.
You know, I'm like, we're still here.
We still matter.
That's pretty good.
We're still here.
We still matter.
Don't let your heart break.
I don't want to see it shatter something along these lines is,
is maybe it's could be verse, but it could also be pre chorus.
Yeah.
So it's like,
it's like about senior year and how this guy is now technically a freshman,
which is like a lame thing to be, but like, you know, in college.
So yeah.
I love that.
All right.
Cool.
Two states away and we're still here to play or something like that.
Something like that.
There you go.
What about punky Brewster for the name of our like music collective?
That's not bad.
That's not bad.
Sometimes, because sometimes they have these quasi legal names or like,
how is that band called like Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.
and it just seems to work out in the end, but that's,
we should be called punky juicer because interesting.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. is kind of a, you know, it's an extension.
Punky Brewster is just a person and it's kind of a play on the genre of our thing.
Right.
But punky juicer is two Jewish punk rocker guys.
And that's definitely legal.
Yeah.
That seems fine.
It's a little anti-Semitic, but that's okay.
That's in play for us.
We can do that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Because we can do that because we're both punky and juicers.
Yeah.
That's right.
Okay.
Let's get started.
This is if I were you.
This is an advice show.
After all, the only advice pod on the web hosted by us.
I'm juicer.
And I'm punky.
Hell yeah.
And we are punky juicer.
We wouldn't be the musicians.
We're just sort of like the behind the scenes.
I would like to do kind of an Ashley Simpson type thing where I lip sync our songs.
Interesting.
For sure.
I do think.
So you still want to be the music producer behind the scenes and then every once in a
while, somebody famous.
I'd like to look.
Actually, let me be on stage during it.
Yeah.
I'd like the glory.
I would like the glory.
I also, I mean, frankly, if it's possible, I'd like to sing and just be auto-tuned.
I want to be involved.
I just don't have the.
I can already tell you sort of trying to like grab more of the spotlight from whoever.
Like we have to we have to be the behind the scenes.
Okay.
You can't like have those aspirations because I could play rhythm guitar and backup vocals.
But if I can set my mic and guitar up in the center of the stage, that's all I need.
That's the most of it.
Just set you up.
Yeah.
There's no more than that.
That's the maximum amount of spotlight you can have.
Right.
There's the, you know, the bass, the lead, the drums and the me right in the center.
This is a good time to let people know that they can watch this podcast because Jake's
doing some sort of claw hand thing.
And of course you can listen to the show as you always do, but we're also uploading the
video to our YouTube channel.
That is correct.
Actually, today we might be only uploading the video because for the first 10 minutes
Jake forgot to hit record on the zoom.
So if he's noticed a shift in audio quality, that's what it was.
I didn't forget to hit record.
I actually hit record, but I, well, I hit the zoom and I don't think I hit the button
or I double hit the button.
Yeah.
If anything, you hit it twice, which is like even more definitely than hitting it.
It could have been a zoom issue.
Yeah.
But like, I didn't forget to, I didn't, I just take, I take issue with the fact that
you said I forgot to hit record, which I did not.
I remembered twice.
I remembered it just didn't work out the way I thought it might.
Right.
I didn't get all the way there for one reason or another.
It could have been human error.
It could have been a technical issue.
It could have been on the zoom end.
Did we even say who did perform that song?
Probably not.
We're still in credit already.
His name is Dustin.
Nice.
That's really cool.
Yeah.
I don't know when parents decide to go the Dustin versus the Justin route, but this
guy seems to be more of a Dustin than a Justin anyway.
If you had to choose between those two for your child, Dustin and Justin.
Dustin and Justin.
I guess Dustin, because I think there already is a Justin Hurwitz.
Really?
Oh, the guy that made La La Land?
Yeah.
Who came up recently before.
We were doing Justin Bieber and Justin Hurwitz and Chase Bieber.
He sent us an email.
Really?
Justin sent us an email.
I said, stop talking about me so much on the pocket.
Keep my wife's name out your fucking mouth.
That's what his wife emailed us to say.
Keep Justin's name off your freaking show.
It seems like you're trying to just suck fame off of the wind in his sails.
Which makes sense.
And he doesn't want you to keep invoking his name in vain.
And it is true.
But I think Dustin, you know, the nickname of Dusty is pretty fun.
I like the Dusty.
I like Dustin more than Justin, but I'd be fearful that whenever he said Dustin, people
would say Justin.
And that would just like set him up to correct people.
Dustin or Justin?
Yeah, I guess it's a little close.
But I do feel like, you know, you hit that, I would just call him Dusty though.
And nobody would ever be like, Justy?
No.
That doesn't happen.
Yeah.
Dusty is good, but it's also a bad thing to be.
Right.
That's true.
Or it's a good thing to be, depending if you like Dust.
I think some people, you know.
Nobody.
There's universally low Q rating for Dust.
There's nobody who throws Dust.
For bad climbers with their gear in the back, just hofing it through the mammoth lakes.
Yeah.
I think they like Dust.
They live for Dust.
They like it.
Yeah.
They want it to be Dusty in a way.
About Gold Dust.
All right.
Let's take a break.
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all right no unsolicited advice today because we got to get straight into
these questions and answers yeah yeah yeah yeah why have unsolicited advice when
we can do so listed advice very good very good look up actually this guy might
require some promotion so let's use his real name Brad Dunn okay let's do it
done up another kind of dusty style Southerner because he's an unemployed
chef in Austin right now oh very nice he worked his way all the way up to Sue
chef at a well-known fine dining restaurant for the past five years and
through COVID but working 80 to 90 hours a week very little money and
disappearing on everyone in my life made me want us to take a step back and
reevaluate my relationship with work during this hiatus my dog partially
tore her ECL and needed $3100 knee surgery I've been living frugally to
help with the to help with the help of odd jobs my parents and partner but since
I've got the time I started advertising private dinners to help raise money for
the operation people have been responding incredibly positively to it I
think most people would not ordinarily be able to justify the indulgence of
hiring a private chef but the combination of my legitimate experience and the
charitable aspect of helping a dog has created the perfect storm of people
splurging on the service and getting me to cater events in their home the last
event cost me about $200 in groceries and I charged $800 for a dinner of six
the people loved it they blew me up on Instagram and I gave them good value but
after like four of these things I'll have the surgery paid off and I've had
more offers than I need to cover the cost of the surgery at this point so my
question is trying to make a living off of private shuffling is not unappealing
to me right now and actually seems pretty lucrative and would allow me to set my
own schedule in hours but I suspect business would slow down quite a bit
once the element of helping my dog is removed from the equation is there a way
to smoothly rebrand and still get hired y'all seem like approximately the
demographic that I would have to be catering to do you have any ideas about
how to keep work going once it's no longer a charitably charged venture and
can y'all ever imagine hiring a private chef just for one special evening you
know this is Jill's mom like actually does this in she's like retired now but
she loves cooking she started doing like private dinners just like cooking for
people in their house in Palm Springs and wow she gets booked all the time
that I'm trying to think like what the website is called but it's like there's
there's a website where it's basically like Airbnb for chefs and so use so she's
signed up for it and has been cooking for people yeah yeah exactly so like you
know an Airbnb you list your house or whatever on this private chef thing you
you're like I'm available to deliver it or you know cook you and your family or
whatever a delicious home cooked meal and she's like done a bachelorette party
she's done like a group while hanging out and I think Austin is a great place
to do it in because there's so many people that go and visit and stay in an
Airbnb or whatever and right you can absolutely you know give them the
experience of cooking a delicious meal I think they're the transition from being
like my friends are hiring me because it's basically it's like it's almost the
equivalent of a go fund me except you're actually providing a service yeah but
yeah you can't necessarily sustain that week to week you have like all of your
friends supporting you which is nice but you want to you want to make the move
into private chef yeah well do you have to say when the dog surgery is paid for
like it was all for the dog you know help me out dog and now the dogs happens to
be fine and oops I forgot to remove the that part out of help my doggy catering
company that you created to help doggies what if okay what if you switch it up
it's like okay I'm gonna donate 10% of my protein proceeds to animals that need
it then it's like you're still helping animals your dog surgery is paid for but
it's still like got that charitable slant that edge yeah so what was the first
thing you said lie about the dogs sir and the second thing was nice it was like
yeah 10% of the proceeds go to help animals but the first one you even not
yeah cuz they never follow up on where the cash goes you can okay so they're
both bad yeah I see in fact like even if you were to tear your dog they seal
again that would be like gold mine no what it not nothing life-threatening
obviously it's I think it's like it's debilitating it's not like it's
debilitating the business is booming if you tore it if you tore the ACL again
then you it's another $3,100 surgery right so it's not necessarily good for
business to actually tear the ACL it's good for opa that's just what does opa
want from naming wants to lead a Gangnam style charitable venture I guess he
wants to be at the head of this oh and it like and when you make food for other
people you can come with little dog food too it's like oh I also made food for
your mutt or whatever yeah opa wants to participate in animal cruelty it sounds
like because opa wanted to slice a dog's ACL and then oh not slice
tear set it up to sort of you know give it a little play fest show really like
yes spray your grass with a bunch of water and then go play fetch on right and
if I happen to make a hard cut a little non-contact injury then that's that's
surgery cash that you need and who's to say if the surgery cost 3131,000 why
don't you just not gonna follow up say that you tore your ACL and then you
could be on crutches and then you don't even have to cook meals you just say
can everyone help me pay for my surgery you start a go fund me you start a
kickstart or whatever they give you the cash for your surgery you will say it
happened you rest for a month and then you're kind of good back to normal but
you you know have the cash for a human surgery which is a lot yeah humans ones
the human ones are the ones that really cost you especially ACL wise I can only
imagine yeah I think this is a good venture besides the charitable part
because when you go out to a fancy dinner it's gonna cost you roughly this
much and then you have to deal with getting there and coming back and maybe
there's like alcohol involved that's always like marked up so like people can
save money have a home-cooked meal which is like you know more COVID safe and
you'll do all the dishes too so they don't have any risk on their part it
seems like a good idea I mean I wouldn't get a $800 dinner for six once a week
but like if it's a birthday party or some sort of special event I can see doing
that for sure yeah definitely I would I would definitely find a way to market
yourself as a private chef for small intimate events or people visiting me
God I never thought of it that way but I'm wondering because I didn't know you're
gonna go on a trial thing chicken you know how to do the salmon you try to hurt
dogs man you try to hurt dogs dog dog dog what if they hire me and I'm like
okay I was tonight's menu is like this I got a ton of pasta and this the frozen
chicken breasts from Costco I'm gonna microwave that to thaw them cuz I forgot
dropping a traitor Joe's pizza fuck I also might do some finger food as fucking
a cup of trail mix I have this frozen bag of fried rice that I usually do from
whole foods do you guys a six pack you guys have a row with two of them
missing yeah one of those what's it fucking called the pan do you have like
a fucking pan I need like this yeah the heating stove area thing now walk it
out walk it out walk it out turn music on too loud there's no microwave here and
I holding a Tupperware with potato in it I was gonna I was gonna do this with
cheese I was gonna nuke this I made this last week oh god it actually smells
kind of right you can nuke the smell off you can nuke the smell off do you guys
mind eating around the mold I forgot to ask in my pre thing this is a good lonely
and horny episode you would have a mold allergy I do private I do private
sheffing for bachelorette parties the stripper doesn't show up and I take it
upon myself to emerge from the bathroom completely naked they mace me instantly
oh my god chase you into the desert chase me naked all I have is a wooden
spatula to my name and I'm ass Nate I'm ass nude and Joshua tree God that's good it
writes itself people yeah and I should say my dog was recently sick so I would
never I would never poo poo the idea of making another animal ill I I know what
that means now and I've I've had a real come to Jesus moment with regards to Luke
that's cough and upper respiratory infection and that's why you had the
maturity to not make the joke about Terry your dog's ACL right joke as a means
of copes nice I say the joke to cope Lee yes I'll make a rib as a fib as a goof
so that I can deal and that's the only reason that I do that indeed anyway
simply put you could probably keep it going it's a good idea and check out
that website that Airbnb for private cheffery mm-hmm I imagine the most
annoying part is doing the dishes for everybody yeah like but you know with
your if you're turning $600 profit you could maybe pay someone like 150 to
just show up in the last hour or even a hundred bucks yeah I don't know what's
that's what I was thinking like they're you getting this you get a you get your
own soup chef at these things right you bring somebody else actually we did
this for like Marty's birthday weekend and Palm Springs instead of going out to
dinner there was a person like that that came by and then they also brought
somebody else to help you know wait so they cook gave out all the food for you
guys cook but oh so there you go that's exactly what this is yeah but they said
you don't expect him to also clean I mean we have to go at least dutch on this
do you mind if I leave it soaking overnight cuz like a lot of the grease
is sort of baked onto the pan right you should advertise that you also do the
dishes but then you say everything needs to soak we got a soak that's the way of
getting out of out of a way of getting out of doing dishes during the night's
like I mean I can't just I can't clean that right now that's the so this has to
so obviously I charred the pan and it needs to so that's a wine glass yeah
the wine needs to soak overnight if you left it outside dry and upside down it's
an air soak and it's sort of yeah it helps I have to leave now fair let us
know a real follow-up pup a pup a follow-up pup about a pup that's right
know how the surgery goes and maybe next time we're in Austin we could do this
we'll go there for some shows we'll have a fucking private dinner situation yeah
who says no to that not me all right let's take another break thanks some
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thanks better help and we've returned hello here's an awkward stitch that this
guy got in with sisters nice absolutely we'll call him Taj Maori the brother of
sister sister nice Tia Tamera yes Taj writes so about a year and a half ago I
slid into a girl's DMs to see if she wanted to get coffee she left me on red
nothing came of it no big deal about six months after that I matched with her
sister on Tinder we chatted for a bit in the midst of quarantine and nothing
really happened either I knew both girls from college and remained on
relatively friendly terms with them both not super close just consistent social
media following and casual chatting now I'm moving to the city and the woman I
matched with on Tinder and I have been chatting about hanging out when I'm all
moved in she's built herself up as a brand up a brand as an expert of the
area and she's the only person I know out there so naturally she was my first
instinct to reach out to I didn't think though however that we have a
pre-established attraction and she's probably take exception to the notion
that I was into her sister and asked her out it's not like I decided well time to
go for the sister I was carelessly swiping through Tinder and it happened
that we connected I'm not even sure she's aware that I was trying to take her
sister out what are the odds she knows already and does it matter this much that
much later it's been six months what would you do thank you Taj okay wait so
he's so six months ago slid into the sister's DM then left her on red right
and then there was the matched with this match with the other sister and now he's
talking to the Tinder sister or the DM sister the Tinder sister the DM sister
never actually still on red okay now Taj you're a smart guy me yeah totally what
are you oh cuz he's the name of the show smart guy I really wanted more I really
wanted more from that that was a really short-running show from like 1998
smart you're the one that called the guy Taj so you knew you knew who Taj you think
he was famous for just being their little brother yeah I thought he was like a
character on the show or like from Full House or something like I don't think he
had his own you can't drop Taj Mowry as being the sit like you know having
sister sister without you know what forget it let's move on let's move on
well this is how popular sister sister was that they just gave us us 51
episodes show to her their little brother cuz that's how fucking famous they
were talking about nepotism I mean come on aren't we talking I want to cancel his
ass I think it was actually cancelled really probably I mean yeah yeah three
seasons right that's a lot not bad so Taj you're a smart guy that's good I think
you can deduce though that sister one is obviously not interested so I think
therefore it neutralizes the whole the threat at the very least like maybe the
sister said that but also you just said let's get coffee and then you matched
with this other one on Tinder you're a single guy and you're asking people out
and you like these two women and they happen to be related but I think you
didn't necessarily do anything wrong and there's nothing that you have to
confess to right now it will eventually come up it will eventually come out what
I you DM'd my sister yeah cuz she's also hot that's how hot you are that your
sister who kind of looks like you as a fucking nine the real issue you're still
a 10 there's some competition and I think I do believe that you're that you're
DM to the sister initially that's gonna it shows your preference and that's
gonna come back and bite you but there's not really anything you can do it must
be even harder with twins like if you're a twin and you're dating someone you know
for a fact they think your identical twin is hot unless it was it's Jeff and
Dave they're so different that you can literally be attracted to one and
repulsed by the other because that's how varied their style is yeah this happened
with the triplets when I was in like high school and when they were in high
school and stuff like I'm pretty sure that one at like one of the triplets
boyfriend and then broke up and then he dated another one of the triplets wow
but they're not even identical they're not but you can still I mean it's not
necessarily about just being identical it's like waiting into the the family
matters of these things it doesn't it doesn't seem healthy for anybody yeah so
you're saying one man smooched two of your three triplet sisters yeah but he's
no longer with us because you don't kiss my sister why it seems like a nice
really moment for their teenagers yeah I was a bit protected as a brother they
wanted to keep one of the locking you're 25 fucking freak I thought he looked at
my sister no and even if he did that's fine you can look at your sister okay
I am sorry about that yeah you're more than sorry you're under arrest it's
assault not right and I do please I plead guilty all right then I plead guilty
love of my sisters guilty of being a protected big brother all right man
slaughter okay murder actually it seems like he ended up dying yes it was
in a medically induced coma all right all right okay one last question yes hey
guys I'm a 25 year old man from Salt Lake City we'll call him Donovan Mitchell
and I've run into a bit of a sticky situation I'm in love with the
childhood best friend of mine we have known each other for close to 12 to 14
years now and do tons of stuff together we go to the gym movies bars we're even
roommates the problem is he isn't gay I'm not gonna try to move make a move on
him so what should I try to do to cope with these feelings thanks guys PS I
want to nominate Amir for the Golden Mike this episode I'm sure that he
deserves it and totally won't be tacky considered denied you joked about
hurting a dog I'll take the Golden Mike for joking about killing the guy that
looked at my sisters and we're moving right along moving on let's keep the
show you joked about going killing somebody I don't pretty casually about a
dog's knee injury let's not easy down in the details all righty you also
forgot to record the first 10 minutes I didn't forget I that's the second time
you said forgot to record and I'll have you know I remembered to record I just
didn't hit the button correctly and there's a pretty big difference that's
worse I think it's worse yeah you hit a button wrong yeah it's hitting a button
that's easier it's thin button the hardest button-to-button what was the
question I'm in love with my best friend should I tell him I mean if he's not
gay I don't think it would necessary I mean it depends what do you what do you
want out of out of telling him if you feel like there's something hanging over
you and you need to like clear the air and you just want to want him to know
then sure but if you are thinking that like I want to tell him because he's
gonna be like you know what I actually love you too then you know I guess I
guess I'm saying just whatever you do don't do it with an expectation of what's
gonna happen yeah and I I I think that there is small enough chance of it being
like exactly what you're hoping for that it might be worth not because it might
also make things so uncomfortable because your roommates yeah yeah I mean what
if he's if it's truly a best friend it can't be that bad it's not like you'd
be like get out of my life forever for that yeah and maybe I mean there's there's
a world where he already knows I think a lot of the time when you like have a
secret love for somebody and you're secretly desperately in love with them
they kind of know so yeah there's there's some there's some instance where
you could kind of just assume that you love him and he actually knows and it's
okay that it goes without saying I'm trying like I remember like one of my
best friends this going back to high school again I was in love with one of
my best friends in high school and another friend of hers wrote her like a
long letter basically confessing his love for her and it made everything
really weird and that was when I resolved to never ever tell her anything
about it and it still eats away at you at no at this day it all worked out we
hooked up 10 years later when she moved to New York so really yeah that's nice
it's probably different when somebody's sexual orientation doesn't match but yeah
I think this is what chasing Amy is about isn't it it's like two friends of a
gay girl and they like either confess their love or don't or something like
that mm-hmm yeah ever see that movie no I didn't I and I have no idea what I've
basically vaguely know the title and that's it yeah so it's it's a Kevin
Smith movie Ben Affleck Jason Lee and Joey Lauren Adams Joey Lauren Adams
that's right I thought you're gonna say Joey Lawrence which would have made me
really want to see the movie whoa whoa a comic book writer stumbles upon the love
of his life only discover that she's gay there you have it there it is and we're
gonna watch this right now and then come back to you I really feel like the end
of this thing probably probably it ends with her realizing that she's straight
and loves Ben Affleck I was gay until I saw Ben freaking Affleck I mean it's a
spectrum so you never you never know you hear about people that are in
heterosexual or heteronormative relationships that you know date people
the same sex all the time so I'm not saying it's impossible that's right
anything is possible just reading the plot right now it appears this though
she sticks to her new girlfriend and then at the end replies oh that was just
some guy I knew so I got you it comes back again somebody that I used to knew
somebody that I used to knew what would you do in this situation I would
probably never say anything for fear of being rejected slash scared of making
things awkward swallow my feelings until I find somebody else to crush on of
course yeah I just don't know if that's the best idea but that's what I would do
right it's what I would do and have done as well but I do think if it's if it's
eating away at you pure heart rule and you have no expectation and you know the
risks IE that it could make him feel weird especially because he lives with
you then go go with God all right thanks for emailing us send all those
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still I guess still in sticky situations even in 2022 I thought everybody
would sort of figure their shit out by now but there's always like new
interesting wrinkles in life that are sort of disturbing and interesting and
kind of a very human way and to dissect them and discuss them are been it's
therapeutic but also kind of interesting slash funny to like have a nice
little peek behind the curtain as to like I would never be able to know what's
nailing a 25 year old in Utah not for this show so thanks for writing it let's
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