If I Were You - 555: Egg Tweet
Episode Date: August 29, 2022In this episode we discuss wet dreams, dry coworkers, and bible study. Advertise on If I Were You via Gumball.fm.See omny.fm/listener for privacy information....
Transcript
Discussion (0)
This is a Hit Gum Original.
It goes on for another minute.
I didn't think you could keep that up.
The energy.
That drained me for the day.
Your fake guitar solo.
I don't know how musicians do it, man.
I really don't get it.
You see someone like Chris Martin from Coldplay in concert
for him to do that night after night.
It doesn't add up.
They have a passion for the music.
I did.
40 seconds of a fucking...
If you're watching a video you saw.
You are a weak minded and bodied individual.
What Chris Martin does is impressive,
but what you did was so unimpressive.
The chasm between the two things is very, very wide.
That was an ever long parody.
Ever wrong.
Born Mints.
He's been submitting some songs that we've been using for the past couple of years.
That was just the most recent sample slash...
Actually, egg sample.
Is sample show for example?
For example.
I never even thought about that.
Example and here's a sample.
Definitely.
I don't think it's from the same root word or something.
Like root word or something.
Ample.
It could actually be short for ample.
Ample is a lot and there's a sample.
We have an ample amount of things.
Here's a sample.
Some of that ample is a sample.
For example, because the first one's about eggs.
Eggs.
Yeah.
An example for example is a sample of eggs.
A sample of ample eggs is an eggs sample.
I got to tweet that.
A sample of...
What was it again?
Because I thought of it.
I thought of it.
What was it?
A sample of ample eggs is an example.
A sample of ample eggs is an egg sandwich.
Making it a little worse, I guess.
I'll write that down just so I don't forget it.
I feel like I borderline don't even know it now.
I also take issue with you saying you came up with it.
A sample of ample eggs is an example.
Egg sandwich is what you said.
What are you thinking for this tweet if I fire it off?
By the way, we are live.
We're doing this in the same studio.
So you can watch this in real time.
Can it be punched up at all?
A sample of ample eggs dot dot dot is an example.
Can we get the tweet on the board so we have a live feed of how it's doing?
Oh, that's interesting.
And then we can set it over under so it can be 31.5 by the end of the episode.
Do you find it to be...
Do you think it'll do better or worse than that?
Yeah, you think 31.5.
That's retweets?
31 likes.
I think it'll do better than 31 likes.
It won't because it doesn't make sense to read it.
Yeah, that's right.
Do you think this formatting is good or...
A sample of ample eggs is an egg...
I thought it...
I don't think that formatting is correct.
Would you write as an egg sample or as an example?
Egg sample, EG.
Oh yeah, EG is for example.
Yes, that's... wait, what?
Oh, EG, yeah.
Right, but I was thinking egg sample was EGGSAMP.
Oh, you wouldn't write example as it is.
I think I would do for example...
For example...
A sample of ample eggs is an egg sample, EG.
We're losing the forest from the eggs.
Casey loves it.
Yeah, because he was here for the whole fucking journey.
Yeah, if you read this blind, it's nothing to have it.
Did you already tweet it?
No, I'm sort of editing it still.
I could put it on the board if you want.
Okay, so once it's posted, you can find it online
and we could put it on the board like a telethon,
but nobody's watching this live,
so we won't be able to encourage feedback.
A sample of ample eggs...
It's not even true.
A sample of ample eggs is not an example.
This sounds like you're saying egg sample.
For example...
But for example is a weird way to start it.
An ample sample of eggs is an eggs sample.
I thought it was a sample of ample eggs.
Okay, a sample...
God, this keyboard is just such a different size.
There might be a typo in this.
Is that fine?
No.
This is a tweet.
You can edit it.
You can cut before posting.
Okay.
For example, a sample of ample eggs is an egg sample.
Spelled like eggs.
I would not even write for example,
because it sort of...
Well, it kind of sets up the cadence.
For example, a sample of ample eggs is an example.
EG at the end?
No.
But EG at the top?
No, EG means for example.
Right, that's why it's funny that it's also an egg!
You tweet this one, I'll tweet my version.
We'll see which one does better.
No, I can't do...
I haven't tweeted in years.
I can't fire off the swimmers' ear.
I don't want to break the internet like that.
Alright, I'm just going to go back to the way it was,
which was sort of...
No, it's terrible.
Yeah, too simple.
You need to make it a little complicated.
A sample of ample eggs is an ex...
I'm not even going to have...
It's just going to be one sentence all the way through.
A sample of ample eggs is an example.
Alright, tweeting it.
Is it example EGG or is it example?
The word example.
I don't like it, we go on.
EG.
That's why it's called EG.
I'll dust off an old Twitter, a burner Twitter.
I will say so far, nothing's brewing.
Right, so you have tweeted it.
Okay, so Casey, can we get it on the board?
If you're watching on YouTube, you can see.
Yeah, do you want it the whole time?
Yeah, we'll just have it up there so we can sort of
occasionally check in on it.
But now, I'm going to go on the under now
because I don't like the way it's worded.
And I think if I had done it my wording,
I would have gone on the over of a hundred.
Well, you would have ended with EG.
We're at two likes.
We got to get it on the board.
It updates live, how exciting.
Well, work on it faster, Casey.
This is the most important thing.
You're working on it.
Well, have it have been worked on, okay?
Holy shit.
Because if it was worked out, you didn't even like the tweet.
You didn't even like the tweet.
Oh, something's happening.
Jake's yelling somehow worked.
Wow, I shouldn't have learned that lesson.
Oh, wow, people can really see how the sausage is made.
EG.
Oh, it's so small here.
I'm working on it.
It's Bob Ross painting on the side.
Live TV of Bob Ross painting.
There it is.
Now it's about to get big.
Nice is an example.
There's no way.
There's no way it does well on the day.
Although Casey's in there.
Oh, did Casey like it?
He must have.
I like it right now.
Wow.
We look forward, people.
Very exciting.
We did get one comment so far.
Casey, if you'll refresh, you'll see it.
It's kind of interesting.
Wake me up.
What?
Question mark.
We're just fair, but we are up to five.
Five likes so far.
All right, good start.
Casey, I don't know what you did.
I think you can get bigger.
Really?
Well, I don't know if it'll work on the TV.
Yeah, it's just working on your TV.
That makes sense.
All right, cool.
This is perfect.
Oh my God, we're big.
We are savage.
Show me eight.
Ten.
It's viral.
It's absolutely viral.
It's totally viral.
Yes.
God, dude, imagine if you'd done my wording.
The correct wording.
An egg salad sample.
For example.
A sample of ample eggs is an egg sample.
It doesn't get...
Oh, shit, you know what?
There was a fucking shooting, so we were all talking about that.
It's ruining the feedback.
All of these... I'm getting ratioed.
Everyone's quote tweeting it and saying,
why would you tweet this
during such a sad moment in human history?
Right.
Now it's hard not to just, you know...
Keep on looking, yeah, keep on looking.
Yeah, but it's important that we sort of
still platformer.
There's still more comedy
to be gleaned, ascertained...
We're in 11!
No, we're not.
Alright, this is a fire you're the only advice pod
on the web, hosted by us.
I'm Amir. I'm Josh.
We're back, baby. We're in the same studio.
In LA. That's correct.
On the day, so you can watch this on our
YouTube channel, or you can just continue
listening as one does.
Do you watch any podcasts as a video?
Or are you mostly still an audio kind of guy?
Yeah, no, I don't.
Just all audio.
Most of my podcast consumption is while
I'm driving or commuting somewhere.
Right, when your hands are busy.
A lot of people like to keep it on and
on their computer in the background.
Yeah, I can't...
My brother does that. I can't...
I can't focus.
You can only do one thing at a time. Words
will get jumbled in my brain.
And you have to treat the podcast with reverence.
Yes. Even cleaning a dish
sort of pulls your focus away from the
joy of the 11 likes.
Amazing.
Let me touch it.
It'd be cool if I can hit this
and Casey hits it at the same time.
Diggy, could you do that, Casey?
Yeah, one second. Let me unlike it.
Alright.
Ready? Oh, I actually like this tweet.
It's a board.
It's a touchscreen board.
Wow, let's see who these 11 likes are.
Everything is big.
Yes, even Pip Azul loved it.
Amazing.
Even Snap the Hap.
Fat Brad.
Wow.
Alright.
First question.
This one's kind of weird.
It's about a shirt.
So we'll call this guy
Seth Hurt.
That's good.
So his initials are S-Hurt.
A few weeks ago, a friend of mine
made it known that he was trying to buy this shirt
from Old Navy, but he couldn't find it
in his size.
There just weren't any mediums to be found
in any Old Navy store in New York or otherwise.
This particular shirt has become
hard to get because of its popularity
in Our Flag Means Death
fans community, which I'm a part of,
due to the fact that there are oranges on it.
It's like a button-up shirt with a bunch
of oranges on it. Alright.
Have you seen that show, Our Flag Means Death, Casey?
I know of it. I haven't seen it.
Okay. I guess oranges are a thing, and somebody
either wears this shirt or talks about it.
Alright.
I decided that I would keep an eye out on the Old Navy's
website for mediums being restocked, cut to
a week or so later after checking on a whim,
and I find the medium shirts have been available
with the warning. Only a few left
on the listing.
I take a screenshot and send it to my friend
and set about ordering the
shirt for myself because I was in a buying
mood and damn it, yeah.
I want the iconic OFMD
Old Navy orange shirt, too.
Oh, there you go.
So it must be an iconic shirt on the show.
Uh-huh.
As I'm placing my order, my friend sees my
messages and tries to get his own, but his phone
has connections issues, and then by the time
he gets there, the mediums are out of stock.
Friends, I think there was only one medium,
and I bought it. The connection issues
were probably just Old Navy updating
the shirt's stock.
It's now a week later, and he's still mentioning
that he's checking the website daily,
and that he has a summer shirt.
And Old Navy is switching their collection
to a fall-focused vibe.
I fear his chances are low.
And now for the conundrum.
I didn't tell him I ordered the shirt.
I let him think it was purely
un-luck on his part that some other
fan must have copped it.
Now I'm racked with guilt not knowing what
to do. Should I just give it to him?
Should I make sure it's never wear it in front
of him? Should I stuff it into my back
closet forever and let it become
a shirt with love to know what you would do?
Best.
Seth Hurt.
And we're at 15 likes. Amazing.
Halfway home.
It's...
I just don't think you can wear that
shirt with a clear conscience.
Like, you won't
have a good time in that shirt.
The shirt is supposed to project
a fun vibe.
You're having a good time.
You're carefree, but you won't be carefree
if you're worried about your friend seeing
the shirt. That's right. The only way
that shirt can exist in a carefree
environment? Yeah, that can't be a shame
shirt. You have to bring it to the camera.
It's a shirt
with oranges as the pattern. A button-up shirt.
It's a pretty good looking shirt. Yeah,
totally cool. I think that
the...
the gift of giving it to your
friend will be really fun.
He'll be very, very happy because he's still
thinking about the shirt. He feels like he missed out.
I mean, that's one option. The other option is
to bury it in your closet and treat it as a
shame shirt so nobody gets to wear it.
That's fine, too.
You guys sort of have the power
of the shirt without wearing the shirt.
Right. But the
friend doesn't get to have the shirt either.
No one gets the shirt. No one gets the shirt. And someday
your friend might find the shirt in your closet.
You'll have to explain what you did.
Which is, bought the shirt and felt so bad
that I hid the shirt. Right. Felt so bad
that you couldn't wear it in front of the friend,
and you also didn't feel bad enough
to give it to the friend. That's right.
I mean, you got a great gift on your hand.
If there's a birthday coming up
or any occasion, really. I think it's a worthwhile gift.
Yeah.
You corner yourself
into a place where you can't wear the shirt.
Yeah. Could they split the shirt?
Two friends, one shirt.
Yeah, you could. I did that
with my friends in high school. We just
were like, what if we
all just could wear each other's clothes?
We would have like, everyone would have bigger...
This was the time when it was like
you needed to wear an Abercrombie and Fitch
shirt at school to be cool.
Like a polo? Yeah.
Not a polo, like a t-shirt, a sweater.
As long as it said Abercrombie
on it, you were good. Or even just an AF.
Right, exactly. So people knew that you were
savage. Precisely.
So I was going to a different school
than my friends, and I was like, well, I only have
three Abercrombie shirts, but you guys have
three Abercrombie shirts, so like
I'll compile these Abercrombie shirts.
They'll think I have like
nine shirts. They'll think
my wardrobe is limitless.
Yeah. Did you have that
anxiety in high school
that you were wearing the same clothes too much?
No, I don't think so.
We had like a uniform up until
pretty late, like a climate school uniform.
Interesting. I rarely
deviated or wore anything special.
I didn't think about fashion at all until...
I didn't think about fashion, but I thought about
if I wore this shirt last week, I can't
wear it again this week.
Right now I wear the same clothes every day all the time.
You do? Well, I basically wear
white t-shirt every single day. Yesterday
you wore a blue shirt. Yeah, that's
rare, but I also wore that shirt the day
before. Interesting. Yeah.
Do you have any red shirts?
Yeah, I do. Do you have a
black shirt?
Yeah, I do. Green?
Yes.
So it seems like
you have more than just white shirts. I don't wear
them all. I wear mostly white shirts.
Mostly. Almost all.
By the way,
your shirt is pretty red and blue right now,
though. Yeah, this one is a little bit of color.
Do you have any
strictly white shirts? No.
I hate wearing white.
All right, so
give your friend the shirt. I think so.
It's a nice Jess shirt to do that.
We're up to 18 likes on the tweet.
Amazing. Is there something with
Jess shirt?
Jess shirt.
Let's delete this tweet. I have an idea.
No way. It's not just a shirt.
You want to get a rival tweet going on.
A gesture of a gesture shirt.
It's a gesture.
For example.
EG. Oh my god, it hopped up
to 20.
What is my life?
Oh my god.
This show takes place in
the 19th century.
Why is somebody wearing an old navy
orange shirt? I don't feel like they're
wearing an old navy shirt in the
show.
It must have something to do with oranges.
Our flag means, maybe
let's take a break.
We'll come back with the answer to this question.
What does this orange shirt have to do with it?
Perfect. 21.
Amazing. Thank you to Helix
Sleep for sponsoring this episode
of our show. Hell, yes.
Thank you for making the sleep
test, the sleep exam
and letting me ace it
and become the
doctor of the mattress.
Yes, sir.
Helix makes a really great
mattress line.
You take a little sleep quiz to see
what mattress is right for you.
Jake's been bragging about
completing this
two-minute
honestly, like, BuzzFeed
light quiz. I know how you sleep
for the better part of the decade.
I don't brag about completing it.
I brag about acing it.
Because you got the mattress and it was great.
Yeah, I got the perfect mattress. Thank god.
Thank god I took that test.
That's right. And if you want the perfect mattress,
you can go to helixsleep.com
if I were you for 20% off
all mattress orders and two free pillows.
Amazing. Free pillows? Come on.
Yes, this is their best offer yet
and no, it won't last long with Helix.
The better sleep starts now.
So regardless of how you sleep, whether you like it
soft, medium or firm, Helix
has 20 unique mattresses
just ready to go
based on how you fill up that sleep
preference and they'll send you the best one
and if you go to helixsleep.com
that's 20% off. Amazing.
Thank you, Helix. Sleep well.
Thank you to Squarespace for sponsoring this episode
of our show. Wow.
Years and years and years we've been ranting
and raving about Squarespace because it's the best
way for dummies like
me and potentially
you that don't necessarily know how to code
or design to create
a professional looking website.
So if you're building an online portfolio for yourself
or a loved one or you
want to sell stuff online, you can do an online
store. They have 24 seven
live customer support
email campaigns
data. You can even purchase a domain
name through Squarespace.
For example, I didn't even look this up
but there's no way you can't
buy a mere Blumenfeld
is a gooddude.com
I bet that's available
and you can have it today and you can buy it through
Squarespace and build an awesome website dedicated
to me or I guess dedicated
to anyone else in your life and maybe you want to give somebody a gift
this season
a summer birthday coming up. Who doesn't want
a website? So
the best way to do that is to go to Squarespace.com
slash if I were you
for a free trial and when you're ready to launch
just use that offer code
if I were you to save 10%
off your first purchase of a website
or domain. Again
Squarespace.com slash if I were you
free trial. Everything looks good. Let's launch it
just use that offer code
if I were you to save 10% off that
first purchase. Thank you
Squarespace.
And we're back. Yes.
The tweets heating up. There's no two ways about it.
The tweet has heat.
It's a heat tweet. Hold on to your seat
because this tweet has heat. Let's go. We have
23 likes and the responses are just
through the roof. Better prepare the SoundCloud
link Amir. Says Ryan
because whenever something goes viral you want to
drop that SoundCloud.
Baseball erectus says good tweet.
Amir's tweets
explain gives a dog
looking quizzically.
Yeah. Somebody created an account
to sort of explain my tweets. This guy is stumped.
Right. That makes sense.
I like this one KJ McFlannell's
Is this an Eminem lyric? That's really nice.
Yeah. Because it does sort of rhyme
within the sentence. And Marshall
does sort of do that occasionally.
Yep. And what about Sammy?
Does not like this tweet. This is
polarizing. Sammy says typically
to something like this I'd say hurry man
it's not too late to delete this
but I'm afraid that's not the case here
and I'm just really fucking worried.
That's pretty good
actually. I like that I've cultivated
24 likes.
Wow. I've cultivated
an environment for the trolls to
feel at home.
Yeah.
That's what you want. Yeah.
I want like one day I'm going to die
and then just thousands of little
cockroaches spilling out of me.
Out of you. What has happened to your shoe?
These are old
old old holes. It's covered in holes.
Yeah. Because the meshes
gets thinner on the day. I play tennis
in these. They get stretched. I see.
At a certain point the structural integrity
of the fabric. You don't have tennis shoes?
You should really have more supportive shoes
than that to play tennis. Well the ultra boosts
are good until they flatten out and wear out
but when I wear like new ultra boosts
when I play tennis it feels very comfortable.
I think there's a little too much
flexibility there. Oh interesting
you want like almost like a basketball shoe.
Yeah. Exactly. You're on hardcore.
Yeah. I don't want it to get
too restricted as well. Right.
There's a happy medium. Don't people
say like tennis shoes and sneakers like
interchangeably? Tennis shoes.
Yeah. But you rarely play tennis
in tennis shoes. I bought a pair of tennis shoes
a long time ago. Like ten years ago.
Yeah. They are. I think they
had a little more structure than a typical
sneaker. Yeah. But yeah
you can play tennis in sneakers.
Really any shoe. Yeah. Pretty much.
Okay. Here's another question. Okay.
25. I mean I really like the 31
and a half over under the
line that I see. You'll definitely hit it.
We're slowing down for sure
but
and zero retweets.
Nobody wanted to signal boost
which I found
odd right. Yeah.
Why wouldn't anybody want to say. So at the end of the day
this actually might be a pretty poor
performing tweet or is this like
yeah. If you tweet something and it's
got 24 25 likes
in this amount of time are you
encouraged or is that just normal.
That's pretty low. Pretty low.
All right. All right.
So you're actually you're happy
that you're going to beat the line that I
you're
only barely
and ultimately it's
yeah. I feel like there's a
joke to be made of that's why they call it
EG.
Yeah. I
could reply
to that.
That's also why it's called
EG. I guess that's why they call
it window pain.
That's why they
call it
EG
apostrophe
for egg sample.
You're constantly trying
to add that.
Egg sample.
That's why they call it E dot G dot.
Isn't that what it is? E dot G dot. I think so.
Lowercase, right? Yeah.
I should
have had that in the original tweet.
Mm-hmm.
I'm going to reply to this tweet with that.
That'll sort of signal boost the original
as the
and you don't want to throw in the egg sample at all.
Egg sample.
That's why they call it E dot G dot
for egg sample.
It means egg sample.
Egg sample.
E dot S.
I
thought the tweet was going to be a sample
of ample eggs is an egg
sample for example.
Oh.
That's really good.
I
have to delete this.
What did we write?
A sample.
Wait, what did you say it was going to be?
A sample of ample eggs
is an egg sample for example.
That is good.
That's why they call it EG.
I'm tweeting that's why they call it EG.
We're up to 28 likes.
I guess that's why they call it
EG
leading eggs.
29 likes.
Sampling eggs
under the covers.
Who sings that song?
What is this episode?
What is this episode?
It's because we just recorded.
It's because this is the
second one we recorded today.
People are going to think
that's why they call it EG was like this
secret little
explainer but like that was just a completely
separate joke that we found later.
That's what they call a tweet ruiner.
You're what my
Twitter coach calls a tweet ruiner.
You never feel be urged
to tweet a one line or ever?
No.
You never come up with jokes that you're like
I wish I had a place for them to be.
From my draft a while ago
do you ever drink pre-workout to jerk off?
I
thought that one was almost
good.
Pre-workout
to jerk off.
So I almost
I don't have
these numbers. I don't have a Twitter
presence.
You don't have the need
to get that off your chest in a way.
I guess that's what this podcast is for.
Feel free to do the
jerk off. It's too blue.
Unfortunately it's not for your brand.
I'm more of a
word play. We're just with poet.
I'm a slant
poet of Harlem.
Here we go.
Pre-G.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes, yes, yes.
Roommate Dilemma.
We already answered this one.
My friend had a sex dream about me.
Hot.
Call this guy
Turtle
Todd.
To Koi Jews
one a golden mic god and the other
a turdy named Todd.
I write to you with a
ridiculous situation. I've been hanging out
with one of my female friends whose boyfriend
moved away lately quite a bit.
Typically always in a group
but a couple of one-on-one hangouts.
I've heard her complain about her boyfriend
here and there to me including one venting
session where she cracked out the
phrase I feel like this could
be the beginning of the end.
Love that. On top of
that I've been getting an occasional
vibe from her that cultivated
in her telling me today that she had
a sex dream involving me.
I don't want to undermine her relationship
but at the same time I feel like
if they broke up we could for sure get
together which would obviously be ideal.
How do I continue
to be cool about the situation
or should I do something
else? Should I stoke the fire
and campaign against my buddy
her boyfriend for selfish intentions?
Oh it's his buddy? I guess so.
Either way in the
coming months
come to a city so nice they named it
Rice on the next live
tour. I guess this person lives near
Rice, Texas.
Near Dallas.
It's a hub. Truly yours.
Turtle Todd.
Turtle Todd, TT.
So
it feels like there's not really
anything you have to. All of this is
happening. It seems like
it's inevitable. For it
to happen just keep on doing
what you're doing which is
hanging out one on one and
her boyfriend doesn't live there.
The
issue
I think you would have
maybe said something to reciprocate
the sex dream.
I had a sex dream about you like wow that's awesome.
I had a sex
I had one about you too.
Let's make our
dreams come true.
I think you could be like I also had
the same kind. What if you were like I had
the same dream. I have the same
dream. And then you send her
a link to the I have a dreams
no I don't know about that. Unrelated.
That's not necessary.
It's actually it's not.
It's in bad taste.
It's in bad form.
I see this trend sometimes
where it's like I didn't cheat
on my girlfriend because we were about to break
up so then I hooked up with this other girl
and that sort of incentivized me
to end this relationship.
It was like the kick in the butt I needed
so there was like a pre-cheat overlapping
situation. How are you already
in a relationship? Oh nothing really happened
until this relationship is ending so
I'll cheat to make it
definitely 100% like now I have
to break up with my boyfriend because I cheated
on him. So she's sort of trending
in that direction where it's like I'm
already emotionally cheating. We're having
one on one calls. I'm complaining
about the boyfriend to this guy to have
a crush on. I mean if you care at all
about your relationship with your buddy
don't
do the cheating thing. The only
way you could even like possibly salvage
the relationship is
for them to break up
and then you can hook up
and then like further on down the line
you can tell your friend that you're dating her
if that's what you want. It's got to be a
distance away. Great distance.
Unfortunately it's got to be greater
than the distance that they were together almost.
Yeah. They're together for three years
and then you start dating her three weeks
later. That's not going to fly.
Does it say three years? No.
But it could be
one of those relationships that have lasted too long.
Yeah.
It's
complicated. Basically
what is he asking for?
Do I continue to just be cool about it
or do I stoke the fire and campaign
against my buddy? But he's asked like
how do I make this happen? Do I be cool
or do I try? Yeah. So I think
either way, I think it's going to happen either way.
He wants it to happen. What I want you to
do is think about if you actually
want it to happen or if you're just kind of turned
on by the whole idea. Yeah. She
breaks up with this guy. Would you be excited
or would you be like, oh, I don't necessarily want
to date you. I just wanted to kiss once.
Yeah. It's going to be messy. It's going to be
messy. At the very least if you guys, I
don't know. So I wouldn't stoke the fire.
Keep it a secret but don't do the cheating
thing. Do it after they break up and keep
it a secret. Don't start dating.
This one is very, we have a very
similar question.
Let's see if this has a very similar answer,
which is
I'm currently interested in this girl I met at
uni. She's funny, sweet, and I feel like
I can really be myself around her. That being
said, she has a boyfriend. Now this may
be me just being lonely and horny
but I see a lot of things she does
as signs like inviting me to go ice skating
or going shopping for clothes with her.
Today we hung out and she started to talk about
maybe breaking up with her boyfriend. This is
crazy. It's almost an identical question.
Any hoot, my question is
do I make her more interested in me romantically
without crossing the line with her
arguably expiring relationship?
And if she does break up, how long should
I wait before making my move? Right.
This one is more fair because you're not friends
with the boyfriend. Yeah, this is just a
random guy. Yeah. If you're
getting invited on the ice skating trips,
if you're going shopping,
that's also trending towards
I don't know what more you could do
to try to break
them and the boyfriend up.
But I do kind of feel like if you want
them to break up, inserting yourself
is not a good idea.
The guy
that's like the other guy
always has the competitive advantage over
the relationship guy because he's just
like the platonic ideal of a guy. You don't
have to ever like food with him. You don't
have to introduce him to your family. He's just like
he could be whatever you want. And the more
your partner pisses you off,
the better that other person seems
because that has none of the baggage.
All right, there's no complaints about this
guy yet. He's just the other guy.
Right. So I think the best thing you can
usually be is
that idealized version of yourself
just existing outside the
relationship rather than being like
let's go ice skating again.
It's like, yeah,
don't be too much. Yeah.
You don't want to be not nothing at all
either. Right. You want to just sort of
show yourself. You just have to be
a source of
yes. Didn't you have positivity and delight?
Didn't you have like a, some like
phrase for this like back in the day?
Oh, passive persistence.
Yeah, you have to be passively there
persistent but not like blatant about it.
Yeah, just kind of like
consistently around available.
You basically, you
can't force anything, but you
can't just wait in the wings
eager.
But be cool about it.
Any updates about
the boys?
Oh, I haven't taken up my ice
skates yet.
I would never be on a dating app.
That would take me off the market just in case
you become suddenly avail.
Oh, but that is interesting. That's playing
a very dangerous game though.
When you start talking about, oh, I'm dating this other girl.
Right. I'm going on a date tonight. Yeah, I wouldn't do that.
I wouldn't do that.
Okay, let's take a break.
Thanks to sponsors. Come back and answer more questions.
38 likes.
We done did it. A sample of ample eggs
is an example. Crazy.
I never thought this would be.
Imagine if we had done it case this way.
We'll never know what that's like
unless I wait 10 years and tweet it
to a completely new set of strangers.
Yeah, wait for everyone who's liked this tweet
to die off.
By then, that will like be the
like a new pledge of allegiance though.
It won't be a true sample.
In our dystopian society.
We're talking up to 84% off USPS
and UPS rates. Holy smokes.
And for 25 years, Stamps.com has been
indispensable for over 1 million businesses.
So if 1 million businesses
can trust Stamps.com,
certainly you can too.
Set your business up for success
with Stamps.com today. Just sign up
with promo code if I were you
for a special offer.
I'll see you next time.
Bye.
Thank you to Aura Frames
for sponsoring this headgum podcast.
You know, Aura Frames is sponsoring
not just this episode, but the entire
headgum podcast.
I'll see you next time.
That's correct.
I mean, this might be
the Goat Father's Day gift.
I think it actually is.
Yeah. Yeah, not just Father's Day,
but if for any not
so tech-savvy family member
that you need a gift for soon,
these digital photo
frames might be the best of all time.
Yeah. For me personally,
these things are perfect.
I'll tell you why. As you know, I am
expecting
my first child. We got one for
Jill's parents. Oh, wow.
We got one for Jill's grandma. Holy smokes.
We got one for my parents.
So there are three of these bad boys
in our family right now,
but they're great.
Really easy way to like stay in touch
with your family. You can upload as many photos
as you want directly into
my parents' kitchen. It's really nice.
Oh, that's cool. So you take a photo
of anything, perhaps a baby, and then it goes
to their digital photo frame.
This is actually how we
told Jill's grandma she was pregnant.
We got her the aura frame.
We plugged it in. Jill's grandma
was pregnant. Really nice
asshole. This was actually a really sweet
moment for me and my wife.
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.
By the way, Jill's grandma is pregnant.
Oh my God. Jill's grandma is 90
and pregnant. It's pretty cool. And you told
me with a digital photo frame? Holy
smokes. And we let her know with an aura.
Yeah.
Thank you. The aura announcement.
So you can
instantly frame photos from any device anywhere
and invite the whole family in on
the fun through the aura app. Add me to your
aura app. I'd love to upload just a picture
of me like at a pool or something. That could
be funny. Yeah, like your banana
or your dog alongside pictures of my daughter.
Yeah.
Yeah, exactly. You deserve that. You can even preload
photos and add a personal video
message that will display as soon
as your dad or anybody connects to the frame.
Yeah, it's a great gift. A really,
really iconic gift. And right now
you can save on the perfect Father's Day gift
and visit auraframes. That's A-U-R-A
frames.com
And our listeners can use
code HEADGUM to get up to $30
off plus free shipping
on the best-selling frames. There it is.
Oh, wow. This is timely. The deal ends
on June 18th. So don't wait.
Terms and conditions apply. That's
auraframes. A-U-R-A
frames.com. Okay. Go get
your parents something. All right. And use
the code HEADGUM for $30
off plus free shipping. Right on.
Thank you, aura. And now back to the
HEADGUM podcast you were listening to.
And we're back. Yeah.
It's crazy to think that we started
this episode without this tweet
and I'm going to leave this studio
and everything will be different.
A changed man. Yeah.
I can never go out to get
eggs anymore. Right, exactly.
I hope you, I hope last time you were
in a supermarket you took a mental
picture and you
locked in that feeling of what
it felt like to be able to wander
through the isles anonymous
and to not have people turning their heads
and saying that's the guy with the tweet
because you can't leave.
Can you hear that outside? No, I can't.
They're throwing a fucking parade for you.
They're throwing eggs. They're throwing eggs
in the studio for you.
Okay. They love you.
You're America's sweet tart.
Yeah.
Meaning.
Like,
like kind of like a breakfast
based thing. No.
A tart. Yeah, a tart.
Yeah.
America's.
I'm going to tweet on America's
sweet tart.
Ruin all the goodwill.
The likes on this one goes all the way down to
28. No.
God damn it.
I lost him.
I was a star.
Now I'm a tar.
All right. Somebody asks us
about Bible study at the office.
Nice.
Interesting. Let's do it.
I'm a civil engineer in Chicago
who will call
Alex Caruso writes,
I've got a little bit of a conundrum.
I recently started coming back into work
and I'm sitting now next to a new hire.
Let's call him Zachariah.
Zachariah is fresh out of college
and very eager to excel as the gears of capitalism
has ground his spirit down yet.
Nice.
He comes in early, stays late.
He works through lunch when he's busy.
The only issue comes from the ladder
one of our project managers
hosts a Bible study in his free time
during his lunch. Weird.
But he grabs his own conference room
when he's in the office and doesn't bother
anyone with it.
Recently he must have invited Zachariah
to attend these Bible studies.
The problem is we have an open office plan
and Zachariah has decided to attend
these Bible studies at his desk
so he can continue to work.
Zachariah isn't just listening
but he's also contributing
to the conversation about
the Lord and what
Christ intended.
I'll be honest, I'm not into the church making
it's way...
I don't like... Sorry.
I'll be honest, I'm not into the church
making it's way into my place of work.
It's just really unprofessional in my opinion.
My question is basically
how do I tell him he shouldn't be doing
his book club at the desk
and should find a room elsewhere
or should I just not say anything
in fact, you guys are both bosses
working with young people fresh out of college
have you ever had to let
anyone know they were being unprofessional?
Thanks in advance
P.S. Go Bills.
We love Casey's Bible study.
Casey has a Bible study.
He's at his desk leading a zoom
for two other people who work in New York.
And the Lord's just with one earpiece
in yelling into an empty office
and Angie worships the devil.
She's a Satanist.
Is that an issue?
It shackles a seventh day
Adventist.
An Adventist.
I never even considered
talking about Bible study
as being unprofessional.
I don't know if you could talk to someone about that.
If somebody came to us
and they were like, oh, we want to use the conference room
for a Bible study.
There's three other employees that want to do this.
During our lunch break.
It'd be weird to say no.
Yeah, you couldn't say no, I don't think.
I can't you?
They can't use your office
for their religious gathering?
Well, it's a conference room.
It's an empty room.
Yeah, but I...
You want to say no?
I think I would say no.
I don't like religion at all.
But if they were like, we want to meet every day
and talk about surfing for an hour over lunch,
you'd be like, that's okay.
Because no one's ever
gone on a crusade
and murdered people who didn't serve.
But if they wanted
to then talk about Jesus,
you would say no point.
Yeah, because I think that makes people uncomfortable.
Namely me.
But I would be like,
yeah, you guys should do your Bible study.
Go out to lunch and do it somewhere.
It doesn't have a place in the office.
But also, I wouldn't say any of this
because I'd be too afraid.
And I would be like, why don't you ask Cohen
if this shouldn't happen?
If this were happening
for me and I was not a boss,
I think I would go to the host
of the study and be like,
this is happening with the new hire.
It's disruptive.
You don't have to say anything about it.
I don't like God.
If this dude were doing anything that loud
in the middle of the office...
They should do it in private.
Like how Jews used to play dreidels.
Someone's coming.
Instead of playing a dreidel.
I think it was the other way.
They invented the dreidel.
Just kidding, we were playing a game.
How it's the opposite.
I'll bet there was a bunch of Jews
who were just playing dreidel and weren't reading.
They weren't actually reading at all.
The dreidel wasn't just a disguise
from the book.
It was also good to gamble.
It's a gambling game.
It's a roulette spitting.
I think I would go to
Zachariah and be like, you have to go to the conference room
but go to the leader of the study and be like,
can you tell the people who are taking
your study from the open office
and contributing that they should come to the study?
Conversations about
quote the Lord
and what Christ intended.
Does that mean he's on a zoom
at his desk?
This dude is hosting
a Bible study
in the conference room and is also
zooming for people who are working from home
and who want to go to it.
Zachariah is like,
I don't want to be up from my desk
because I want to work really hard
but I do want to go to the Bible study
so I'll do it from out here.
Such a specific problem.
It only exists in rice taxes.
Is this one in rice?
No, this one's in Chicago actually.
Pretty liberal city.
It can happen anywhere.
I would.
What if somebody wanted to say grace before lunch?
I think I'd allow grace
before lunch.
I like saying grace
because you're just thanking
the man upstairs.
It's about being present in the moment and being grateful.
I think
maybe if they every single time
were like, and blessed Jesus for what he said.
That's what grace is. It's thanking God.
But then you could go around like,
maybe I'll say grace today and I'll just be like,
thank you for this bounty and these relationships that I have.
And this is to God. God isn't real.
Amen.
So when you say thank you for this bounty,
who are you talking about? Me because I bought it.
Thank you to me
for this bounty that we have.
It's a touchy subject,
but that's why it shouldn't be brought up.
In work, yeah.
I don't know what the legality of it is.
It seems probably legal.
Right, I think they're dealing with this
in the Supreme Court now.
What separation?
There's that thing where like the
football coach wanted
after all of the games for the players
to like take a knee and lead
them in Jesus' prayer.
The Lord's prayer.
But then the Supreme Court was like,
well actually you can do that because you can't like suppresses
right to religion.
But then you can't force it everybody to participate.
Because everybody should just do what they want.
Yeah, do what you want.
But we are privately owned companies
so we do get to decide what the conference rooms
are used for.
They can be used for a surfing discussion
but not a Bible one.
I'm going to write an email to the company now
to sort of try to nip it in the bud
just in case it comes up.
Well this is why I'm the Chief Creative Officer
and not the COO.
This situation is like this.
That's really cool.
I might do the Hamotsi though
before lunch today.
Yeah, you can do that but I'm going to
tattle on you.
Yeah.
It seems like you just want to tattle on people.
You want to be a whistleblower.
Ideally.
You get off to the idea that you're blowing whistles
or some shit like that.
Tweet that.
Alright, thanks for that really
unique curveball.
We never answered a question like that.
That's right.
About whether this guy can sit next to you
discussing the Bible.
How much is there to read into the Bible by the way?
It's like a book club about the same thing
over and over.
That's what the Torah is to you.
You get it.
You figured it out.
We read this book.
What else you got?
They discuss it.
They debate it.
That was for a year.
That already feels like over.
It feels like it's definitely been done.
It's like a book club but you're reading the same book
over and over.
Alright, sweet.
We're done and we're at 44
fucking likes.
How cool is that?
Damn.
That feels like I spoke truth to power.
Damn.
That's cool.
I'm trying not to fucking cry.
You are crying a lot.
I'm really trying not to cry right now.
Yeah, you're failing at that.
Weeping.
It's another thing you can't do in the office.
Don't fucking cry a lot at the office.
Can we say that?
Can we say you can't cry?
At your desk?
Go to the conference room to cry.
Go to the Bible study if you want to cry.
Alright, cool. Thank you for listening.
Thank you for watching.
You can, of course,
still watch us on the YouTube channel.
We're in the same studio so it's going to be a nice
episode for you guys to check out.
We're also still making videos for our Patreon.
Patreon.com.
The opening theme song,
the closing theme song,
is that ever wrong
parody. Ever long parody.
Ever wrong.
By Lorne Mintz.
Lorne Mintz.
We only listened to the first 40 seconds.
This is the full version.
Let's hear it.
Hello
I've been in line so long
To meet you
And now
The moments finally come
To shake both their hands
I'm the biggest fan of yours
Oh no
I went for the handshake
Touched Jake's balls
Quick think
Of something funny to say
Not a Jewish roast
I'm here, must think I'm a joke
A joke
I can't save this
Oh no I think I'm gonna
YARF
I wish that I was anywhere but here now
I just vomited onto Jewish
Podcasters
I feel like I'll be put on blast for this
Somehow a mirror went a-turning for this
This
This
This