If I Were You - 563: Demons
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This is a headgum original.
This is Amir.
You may know me from College Humor.
Or from the third Harold and Kumar.
And now you're listening to my podcast.
I am so gassed
To give advice on all that you've asked
And if at points you think I've been crass
Take it up with me on Thursday last
On Thursday last
This is her wit
Maybe you're thinking that you might kiss
Someone who you think could make a fuss
And then they won't be able to trust you or the feds
Who make us both a part of your plans
You wear us like an old pair of vans
We hope that we've been able to transform or realize
And though this counts as only advice
Maybe he's made some of you think twice
Every email's a road of the dark
Right to assume
We can't promise we'll find the way through
After all we are just who you do
Still it's fun to think what would we do
What would I do if I were you?
Hope it's coming back in with another verse!
We should do one episode that's a 48 minute song
If somebody's willing
I will dance for 48 minutes
That was long and we started it like 30 seconds in
He had an intro
The song had an intro longer than most of our podcasts
You low key almost didn't play it
I waited and waited and waited
And then I'm like I'm out and you're like no
Give it a shot
And now I'm not even going to say who wrote it
Because I don't want to give it that much of a chance
Alright fine I will
Actually not only did I give him a second chance
But his first email didn't include the song
I had to reply and say he didn't attach it
So this guy did a lot for the song
But the bare minimum elsewhere
Yeah I guess that's true
He wrote, Matthew Pope
Heard your call for submissions
Please check out my latest Hope You Like
Sorry the track's so long but I felt the intro was necessary
Yeah I love that
You cut it
I disagree with that
Well the intro was necessary
The greatest song start like instantly
Yeah my girlfriend doesn't that start like
Instantly like second frame one
That's yeah that's really good
My friend's got a girlfriend
Yeah that's a good one too
Instantly a song that's like you hit play
And then it's like I can't think of a third example
But you guys know what I'm talking about
Totally
Yeah I can't think of another example
That's another when you press play and then it's like
There's another offspring song that goes
You press play and it goes
Yeah so maybe offspring just likes that
Right they're just good like that
If you could plug my YouTube channel Matt Pope
On which I post all my music stuff
Including J and A theme tunes
That would be sick
Thank you Matt Pope
Yeah big ups to Pope
A few cool things about this episode
One we're in studio again
So we're in the same room
We're constantly shifting sometimes
It's zoom sometimes it's room
Sometimes it's two different studios
We've yet to do a me and you in the New York studio
That's what I want to do
That'll be my favorite permutation
But this one's my second favorite
We've also never done one outdoors
Oh that's true
The closest we did was the
Dublin
Comedy festival I think
Which was a tent
It was outdoors adjacent
That was one of my favorite shows we've ever done I believe
So if you're listening to this
You can also watch a pretty high quality
If all goes well version of this podcast on our YouTube channel
Right which is
It's like youtube.com
If I were you or if I were you show or something like that
Something like that
It's a Google search away
They got our YouTube search
And then also I don't have my computer
Right now
Because we solicited
Instagram questions
So I can't even access them on the internet
Folks if you're not following
At Jake and Amir
Is it at Jake and Amir
Or is it at jake.amir
And
Dot Amir
Yes it's jake.and.amir
Right Instagram
We couldn't get Jake and Amir just straight up
No it was poached on the day
I hope actually
He stole it
The guy that owns the right
Jake and Amir channel
I think they're holding it hostage though
That makes sense
But we got
Some pretty good questions from y'all
And
Let's try to dive right into it
Lightning rounds not unlike last week
Where we asked for questions on Twitter
This is the Instagram version of if I were you
The only advice pod on the internet
I'm Amir
I'm also about to DM the Instagram user
At Jake and Amir
Which is just
Two very old photos of us
They don't need it
They follow me
They do follow you
You think they're checking that
I'm worried that they're not checking
Probably not
Did you see that I'm trying to
Sell my Instagram
I did see that
I feel like you were
Sincere in that regard
Yeah
A lot of Iranian slash Persian
Fellows just follow me
Because they're friends with Amir
And they just click follow
So I'm thinking what if one of them is
Hella loaded
Hecka loaded actually
And then they offer me big bucks
For the account at Amir
Or maybe there's a company called Amir
We really want that
If you put that in your bio
Sell it in the name
This handle is for sale
I keep changing the price
I think the last one I just said was $20,000
And you would actually do that
Right
Because then I'd have 20 grand and I just wouldn't use Instagram anymore
You wouldn't use Instagram anymore
Or I'd just use the Jake and Amir account
Because Instagram is sort of dying anyway
I feel like now is my time to sell
A little bit higher than it will be
Before it completely becomes just like a tiktok
That's cool
Okay, do we get any questions that you like?
Yeah
Matthew Sente says
Jake, how does it feel constantly having
All that dead weight that is
Amir
Do you want to take that one?
I think he's just sort of trying to separate
Slash antagonize, create a rift in us
But our bond is too strong
There's no way you would ever even justify that
With a response, but let's hear what you have to say
In a goofy fashion
It's
It's waited on me for a long time
It's waited on me for a long time
Oh yeah, I was going to say
Go fuck yourself
Or you can
This is what I think about that
Right
Actually there's two answers
Yeah, for those listening
I'm going to take his dick
Oh god
That's good stuff
Alright
When will Ben join the pod again?
Do we FaceTime him?
Maybe we can get him on like a video
Let's try, he's going to instantly hang up
There is no way he continues it
FaceTime him
He will instantly hang up
He loves a good instant hang up
Yeah, no one
Does an instant hang up better than Ben Schwartz
Alright, here we go
You might not even answer, right?
That's good
So we are, for those at home
We're FaceTiming
You can hear the
Yeah, he's unavailable
Just so you know, we were dangerously closed
Who asked that question?
That's a great question
It was the Jack Thrasher
So know that we're always trying
We are listening to your suggestions
He left us on red
Fair enough
And it made us feel blue
Taylor5413
Can you guys make Cheryl 4?
Interesting
I didn't even know we made Cheryl 3
Did we? I don't think we did
I thought we only did 2
Well this person is thinking ahead
So it's the Allison Williams, Jake and Amir episodes
We definitely made 1 and 2
Yeah, definitely made 1 and 2
I don't think we made 3
I really don't think we're going to make 4 then
We'd have to get Allison for 2
FaceTimer
Just constantly FaceTime people
Who don't pick up
I'm going to see if we made 3
Jake and Amir Cheryl part 3
No, it was only
Yeah, no, we did not do
A part 3
But I love the idea
This is a good question
Modern Base Paul
What did your hometown blockbuster turn into
After they closed?
Interesting fact
My hometown did not have a
Blockbuster, we had a
Like a non-chain
Called Best Video
An incredible store, it is still there today
Wow
VHS DVDs
I think they
Rent
Rare movies and DVDs now
Or things you can't find on streaming
Or maybe just like
Yeah, it's fun
They're also
A travel agency
Which is like another bad pivot
A dying thing on a radio
And a coffee place
And they do like open mics
So I think it's kind of like a little artist hub
All in one
There was also
A Tommy K's video
Which became
Tommy's tanning salon
That's good
That can't go home
You know, you can't just like
Download a tan
So our strip mall next
To our house growing up was
It was a Barnes & Noble
Which is now a CVS
It was a Blockbuster
Which became a Chase Bank
And it was a Gelsens
Which is now an Amazon Fresh
So that's the
Current modern dystopia that really is
This world sucks
No bookstores, actually I just saw Barnes & Noble
Really? I almost had to pop in
That was like a thing before you were like
18 but after
16 when you were driving places
We would just drive to Barnes & Noble
It was like one of the few, you can like look at magazines
And stuff like that
Yeah, Barnes & Noble is a fun place to walk around in
They still haven't been to New York, they're still the one in the union square
Oh really? Yeah, that's great
There's four Barnes & Noble left
Is it wrong
To become Lord of the Dance
Side Winder, Sean
What does that mean? Not sure
Hey Jake, would you let Amir
Wear your hat for the rest of the pod
Says Bon Joffles
Absolutely not
Yeah, no way
A couple different factors
Going into that decision
One, I
Haven't showered since yesterday
I took a shower at the gym
Shout out to Equinox
Shout out to my jacked body
And then I didn't
I didn't like brush or comb the hair
So it's like kind of a little nest
Right now
Sort of what my hair looks like
No, your hair looks fine
I showered recently and I didn't comb it
But I guess you have more
My hair is wavy, so if I don't comb it a certain way
It dries
My hair is stringy because it's turning gray
And I guess gray hair is drier
Interesting, that's fascinating
That's why when you see like gray hair
Dock brown style, you wouldn't see that
Like as a brown hair
Right, you wouldn't see that like falling down
Yeah, exactly
And what's the third reason?
Your hair is greasy, unkempt
You have lice
And maggots
Lice and mice
And everything nice
What is your favorite
M.M. Holler asks
What's your favorite Amir pen name
During the scroll episodes
Top 10 this to whatever by
Maybe Amir
Valery, or no, Amir Rodrigo
Oh
I don't even know if there's an Amir in there
I think it's just Rodrigo
Yeah, okay, then it's that one
Rodrigo
Oh
Amir Valery Bloomingville is also just like
A classic, but I don't know if I can even
Think of the other ones
Amir Valery
Herwits, I was wondering
You go, no, and I go, oh yeah
That's good too
They're all gold to me
I was stolen your name
Rachel Lombok asks
What are you guys being for Halloween this year?
That's a good question
I do need to come up with a costume
I'm thinking about pivoting back to cat
Mmm
A lot of folks know that I was
A black cat for nine years in a row
Yeah
Ended up kind of being a performance art piece
Life as art
Yeah
A cat has nine lives
Then
After that I was a lion
And this year
I don't know what I'm going to be
And I think I might go back to cat
I'm going to go to a party
Are you going to go to a party? No, probably not
Is that more because of like
A COVID thing or because of
Like being an old thing
It's sort of a combination of like
I don't want to go to like a crowded bar party
Mmm
Because of COVID dangers
Plus I wouldn't necessarily have a lot of fun there anymore
Right, you know
Interesting, so it's not worth the risk to you
Risk plus reward
Mmm
It's more risky than a rewardful experience
Interesting
Is your party like a house party at a friend's
Or like, it pays $75
And this place is open bar
House party at a friend's
Bar party
So you need a costume
I do need a costume
That's another barrier to entry
I don't know what I would
You don't need much though for a costume
Just wear your tennis outfit and hold your racket
Your André Agassi
I need a wig
Actually last year or maybe a year before I bought a messy jersey
Oh, that's right
You can do that again
Alright, one more and then we'll take a break
We may have to buy a new jersey now that he's on PSG
It's actually really expensive to buy a
Soccer jersey I found out
Football, yeah
I had to go to a specialty store because they're not even everywhere
And then this one was like $140
You got the official one
Give me the one that doesn't say messy on it
A generic Barça jersey
Here's one that's interesting
Junior Mountie asks, have you seen each other's cocks?
I feel like we've gotten this question before
And I have seen your penis
I believe twice
Maybe thrice
And it is nice
You have a hug
Congratulations
Put it there, pal
Yours is
Different
I saw yours this morning
You were
Doing a quick change
Or that's what you called it but I think the pants got
Stuck in your thighs
I fell over
You were hopping on one leg
You said hold on, hold on
One second, one second
And then you fell on your dick
You showed it to everyone
Is it usually this beat red
I really think I injured it
And we said are you okay
And you said I'm not sure if I am
But if I am okay, the show must go
We got this question today
Given that that happened so recently
Yeah, I can't remember seeing your
D
Dipping in Florida
I gave you the courtesy
The honor of staring at your eyes
And you did me the disservice
Of sort of staring at my
I was surprised you wouldn't have seen my penis
I feel like I peed in the car while you were in it
Yeah, you've done a lot of
Gatorade bottles
But again, I wasn't
You weren't peeping
As a top, as it were
Do you still do that, the Gatorade bottle pee situation
Yeah, yeah, oh my god
Sarah, who I gave her my truck
Where is this going
She was like
I drank all the Gatorade in your trunk
As an honorable thing to do
She was like
I keep your Gatorade bottle in there
Because it reminds me of you
It doesn't smell like piss
And she was like
You peed in that one
She thought that I just had it at the ready for
Just in case a new bottle
And I was like, no, no, no
I pee in it repeatedly and dump it out
So you reuse them
I thought you just peed in them
And threw them away
And got a new Gatorade
That's just the bathroom
And I would eventually throw it out
But not when you're selling the car
I think each one probably held 12 to
24 pisses
You would do it in front of Jill, right
Yeah, I would have to
There's no other option
We would be driving
And I'd have to pee
And Jill would get annoyed that I needed to pull over
And she would always be like
We're always going to be half an hour later than we think
Because you have to pee twice
So then I'm peeing in a Gatorade bottle
And she's just grossed out
Which one do you want
We're not going to leave early
Or I'm not going to piss myself
It's like, yeah, we either have to pull over
Or I have to pee in the car
And I don't know which one you would rather
But it seems like she would rather
Me just be able to hold it
Which is a non-starter
That can't happen though
Although you have been sort of
Hacking your body recently
And checking off things that used to
Ill you, maybe that can be one of the things
Yeah, it's definitely
That would not be a bad thing to look into
I just don't know if I want
If the doctor gives me medicine that I have to take for it
I'm not interested
Or if it's bad news, there's this weird thing on your bladder
We have to amputate your beet red penis
You can't handle that
But you'd rather deal with the
Frequent urination
It's not that big of a deal
To me
Alright, let's take a break
Answer some more questions after these messages
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So many questions this episode
We got to just plow through
Besides you're unsolicited of pissing
And a Gatorade is like
We already kind of did that
It's already been covered
Who's a guest that's been on your shows
That you think forgot they did
If I were you?
Jaymore
Wow, you had that at the ready
100% it's Jaymore
What about Yardley Smith
AKA The Voice of Lisa Simpson
I guess made...
Yeah, I'm pretty positive
That she forgot
But also, I wonder how many podcasts
She does
I know she hosts her own podcast
At that time to promote her show
I see, so she definitely did forget
Dr. Drew
We technically went on his show
But he forgot about us
Shane Dawson
I don't even remember that
I justine
No, she remembers
Cool
Early on
Gabriel
He's done it nine times
I hope you didn't forget
Let me FaceTime him
Everyone's ignoring you
All right, Max Ferg asks
What was the most recent time you cried?
Wow
Probably when my dog was sick and I thought he was going to die
Oh wow, that is really recent
I'm so sorry
It was like maybe three or four months ago
He had a cough for a week
He was basically honking like a goose nonstop
He either has heart failure
Dying
And that's what they told you at the vet?
Not in that plain terms
But yeah, that was basically what it was narrowed down to
So it's like we would take him to get an x-ray
Wow
We're waiting for the results of an x-ray
And that x-ray was going to be like
It's heart failure
Terminal or fine
And that was when you cried
Yeah, that whole week was like
Hunking, stressful, crying
You were crying multiple times throughout that week?
Multiple times like
Distraught and then like one time
Like it surfaced out
Where tears actually flowed out
Like this is the end
And then he just stopped talking
I honestly think he was just probably
Just trying to get me to cry
I'm so freaked out
When was the last time you cried before that?
I don't know
Probably when my dog
Shoked on a pear
I don't know if you ever cry
Yeah, I mean
When people ask this question
There's like different like bars for crying
Like sometimes people get choked up at a movie
And they're like oh I cried at that movie
So there's like that and then there's like
Actual bawling like tears
So
Depends on where your bars set
But the dog was bawling tears
The dog was yeah tears coming out
Was it heaving?
I like to think not
But I browned out
Like lack of sleep due to the honking dog
Yeah, yeah so there's a lot going on
Yeah
Wow
I mean you have a dog now you'll feel it in 10 to 15 years
There have been small
Things that have like crept up
Like sometimes when I just think
About how much I love him
I'm like I can't imagine anything happening
And then like a small
Thought in my head is like people
Outlived their dogs
If all goes well
Yeah that's not good
Fortunately humans live forever
So we'll never have to say goodbye to anything
More important than the dog
Yeah
It's all
So sad
It's all so hopeless but
It's nice to have a dog
The dog is so good that it's worth
Just being distraught
His joy is so pure
He loves fucking
Food and balls
Because I'm the guy that provides those things
I'm the ball god
Yeah I'm treat machine
He knows me as the treat machine
He treats me as such
You're a dispenser to him
Yeah but god damn
Does he love a dispenser
Call me Spencer because I'm a snack dispenser
And don't dispenser
When was the last time you cried
I cry all the time
I was at a wedding
Two weeks ago
Cried during the
Sisters speech
Was at a funeral last week
I cried when my cousin read
A letter to her grandmother
That'll get you
That killed me
Yeah I cried
I believe I cried watching
Doctor
Strange multi-verse
Of matches on my way here
Okay
I will just
Well up at fucking anything
You're emotional
Also I think
I've always been emotional
But I've gotten more
I didn't used to cry at a wedding
And last
Two weeks ago we went to this wedding
I cried multiple times
Multiple times so you're getting more emotional
Not like my eyes are welling up
Not like heaving
The tears rolling down my cheeks
Like Jesus Christ
This is ridiculous
Like rubbing my knee
She read a poem
And I'm just destroyed
Was the poem any good
Yeah
The poem was good
It was a segment of
I guess it was a short story really
But you know E.B. Cummings
This is New York
E.E. Cummings
Yeah it was that
There's tears whether it's joy or sadness
Yeah and they kind of feel the same
Because the joy
The joy tears are because
You're recognizing
How
Beautiful and short life is
And how sad joy is
I'm so happy
And it's so good to be this happy
Because you won't always be
So it's always kind of sad
It's always a little bittersweet
And when you're sad you're like
I'm sad but it's good to cry
Because you're feeling something
Yeah you're not suppressing the emotions
Yeah sometimes I think
There have been times in my life
When I've like wanted to cry
That I knew that crying would like
Help relieve some of like this
Tension and stress
But the tears wouldn't come
So when you do get them
When they start to come
You just gotta let them
I need help naming a cat
He's dumb and looks like a mirror
Shmuel
That's pretty good
Shmuel
Any shmu based cat name works
Do you have nicknames for
Luke? Yes
What do you call him?
Sometimes I call him Ween or Wino
Sometimes I call him Sweeno or Sween
Sometimes I call him Sweeto or
Kono if he's wearing a cone
Sweet O
King Ween
If he's like sitting on top of a lot of pillows
So Ween is kind of loose
I'm not done loose or loosey
It's so funny how many nicknames animals have
They already have a fake name
I call Dingo
Dinger, Dingy, Dingus
That might as well be his name
Yeah you could easily
I never call him Dingo
I guess sometimes when I really want to come
I call him Dingo but lately I've also just been calling him Doodoo
Would you say Dingo was his name
Dingo was his name
Yeah Dingo was his name
Did you name him? Yeah
I told you the story already
I was going to name him Cisco
After one of my favorite beaches in Nantucket
After one of my favorite artists
And then I was on my way home
With him in the car
And I just looked at him and I was like
It's a Dingo
And Jill and I had already said
We were going to name him Cisco
And I got it and I was like
And Jill in the car
And she was like that's better
And then we just started calling him Dingo
How long does it take for you to write a sketch
To buy the time it's on
YouTube
Are they talking about
Jake and Muir? I mean we don't write them at all
Yeah but I guess
From writing to it being online
Uh
Two weeks
Two to four weeks
Although
The turn around is getting faster
Where I think we recorded one the other day
And Jeff like edited it that night
Yeah I think that we can
Basically the workflow is
In an ideal world is we have
Scripts two weeks before we shoot
So we can tweak, give notes, get the final drafts ready
Then we shoot them
And then one comes out two weeks after we shoot
The other one comes out four weeks after we shoot
That's like a nice comfortable
Flow for everybody
But if in a pinch we don't have a video
We can write, shoot, edit, post
In theory in 24 hours
It just kind of sucks for everyone
It's like a day-ish of writing
A day-ish of shooting and a day-ish of editing
Yeah
It's the old three day-ish technique
Yeah but it can be condensed
Riley J. Cohen
Asks the important question
Preferred being
Um
And don't just say
Pinto
Yeah I don't really have
Preferred being
That's smart
Let's say in a burrito
Don't sleep on the garbanzo
A.K.A. the hummus bean
Not in a burrito
I said let's say in a burrito
You would put a hummus, you would put a
Fucking chickpea in a burrito
I guess in a burrito I prefer
I don't really like burritos quite frankly
It's a little too frank for me
It's just
They're often too big
And I can't portion my own favorite bites
It's like I'm getting all beans
Or all meat or all this or all that
It's also very messy
I do think that they should
Make burritos smaller
And just give you two
You know like when they cut a burrito in half
Well that's why I prefer tacos
But that's not good enough either
Because the burrito has all of the stuff inside
I don't like tacos because they're hard to eat
They're messy
They fall apart
And there's not enough stuff in them
It's just like
I want the burrito
But the burrito you could take a bite
And it's all rice
So I'm saying two
Burritos slightly thinner
Basically the size
Each one the size of
A cannoli
An egg roll of sorts
A burrito the size of a big egg roll
Or a twinkie
Are they really small?
A burrito the size of
A hot dog bun
Two hot dog buns
Because they're slender
They're condensed like that
Because you know when you have a big burrito
I think you should be able to bite the whole thing
You should really put the entire hog into your mouth
It shouldn't be like this side
The corner, the piece, the edge
You get a piece that's whole hog
I think each bite should have
I prefer a breakfast burrito
Breakfast burritos are great
I'm not quite done
Because I have a point to make
I think when you take a bite of the burrito
It should have everything you asked for
In each bite
So it's not impossible
Not if you have this slender man's burrito
Then you have to have like a sushi roll
Like one layer of rice
One layer of beans
And it's not that hard
If you make them slender enough
That's never happened before
Don't say that it can't be done
It's never happened before
But it's not that it can't be done
The perfect bite in a burrito
In every slice it
It almost is like a sushi roll
And you can do it when it's more slender
You've got the rice
Excuse me
Don't zone out
You can't
Police my attitude
If I'm gonna have to sit here and listen
You can't tell me
You've got the zone out
I feel you becoming disinterested in the answer
Right
I'm not
I know it's in it
The rice, the beans, the meat
Guacamole, cheese, sour cream
Salsa potentially
Salsa definitely
Don't look at your phone
Where else do you have to be
What else do you have to do besides listen to my burrito idea
My slender burrito idea
Absolutely answer more questions
Let's move on
Excuse me
How does the pinch feel about Blink 182 getting back together
Are you going to a show
We kind of talked about this last week
I'm amped
I hadn't heard their new song Edging
Murph showed it to me last night
He was like have you heard their new song
And I was like no
I think it kind of sucks
He's like don't let me yuck your yum
Don't let me color your attitude on it
And then I listened to it
I just like that they're not necessarily
Trying to do anything
New
It's a throwback
Yeah it is kind of a throwback
The lyrics are really dumb
And yeah
I mean it's just still them
Which I really like
And I will definitely be going
To a show I don't know where yet
I'm hoping that there's like
A NAD pod show in the UK
Around the same time I would love to go to
A show in London
Just send their routing to
Andrew Russell and then
Pick eight spots
And then we'll match them city for city
And then you can't go to the shows
We'd have to stagger it a little bit
They're definitely doing
Bigger venues than me right
I feel like
I don't know if I ever played for 40,000 people
You have not
You don't know of that
I'm saying I would remember that
Because you would have sold 3% of it
And it would have been one of the worst days of your life
Asshole
72 steak roast
Roxy asks
Have you ever been to Lithuania?
No
I don't know that I could
Point out where it is
On a map
It's got to be Europe at least
And is it closer to Finland or Estonia?
I would say
It's closer to Estonia
I would say it's
Where I think Croatia is
Is actually Lithuania
I think it's a little
Eastern Europe
It's near Belarus
Interesting
There are a lot of basketball players
From there
Lithuania
Latvia, Lithuania
Serbia
Slovenia
All of these places
North of the Czech Republic
Definitely north of Africa
And I want to say north of South Africa
And east of America
For Xiisi
South of the North Pole
Let's pull it up on the map
How can we
Gamify this
We're going to have to say
I could find the map and you guys guess
But we have to guess
We need an outline of Europe
An outline of Europe
A map of the outline of Europe
Can you pull up an outline of Europe
On this map with no borders?
No borders
We need to see what outline of the country
Is which was
And we have to say which one is Lithuania
But it won't say the names of the countries
Otherwise it's just like a
Giant mass of land and we just have to
Sort of point and guess
But then we won't even know
A non-labeled European map
A quiz map
Shouldn't be an issue
Until then we just have to vamp
That's easy
Let me talk a little bit more
About this burrito plan
Really
The problem is the name
Sushi burrito is taken by Sushi
But you want the style
Of the sushi
Not necessarily the substance of one
What are your thoughts on hand rolls
When it comes to sushi
I don't like it because I don't think
That the seaweed breaks apart
As cleanly as you need it to
For you to be able to eat that cleanly
I feel like too often
I'm like eating the hand roll
Pulling along a big piece of
Seaweed out also like
Drizzling
Soy sauce through the bottom of the cone
Doesn't have the structural integrity
I feel like what I like about sushi
Is just how clean it is
You can make yourself a perfect bite
It's not really that fun to me to like
Sushi are the tacos which is why I prefer them
To the hand rolls which are the burrito
I don't think that's true
I actually am 100% certain it is
True because if you think about the size
Of the girth of the hand roll
It mirrors very closely the burrito
I think a hand roll actually
Appears more of the size of a taco
And there's not really an equivalent of a burrito in sushi
If anything the sushi
Is more the size
And the style of a
Chip of a nacho
Alright
So we got Portugal, Spain
Obviously
Oh everyone knows that
Yep
Italy with the boot
You got Switzerland
Yeah
Well
There's Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Yeah
You gotta believe that this
Is Germany
The big one
No wait that's Germany
Switzerland
Luxembourg or Belgium or something like that
Yeah
Let's point to the one you think is Lithuania
And I'll do the same
Would you be able to tell us which one is which
Oh you know
Clementine is our super geography producer
She'll be able to let us know
Lithuania
I'm gonna go ahead
And say
This one
Okay that pink one
I have a different guess
But right off the back can we let us know
If that is actually Lithuania or something else
You wanna know if he's wrong or not
Jake is wrong
No no no
Excuse me
You can't fucking
If you hear what that is
It might
She's not gonna tell you what it is
What about after my guess
Let's go
This little pink guy
Right there
So Jake picked
Slovakia and Amir picked Slovenia
Wow
I'm matching
Would you like a hint?
No I don't wanna hint because I actually know which one it is
I was just trying to fuck with you guys
Green country
That's Hungary
I know it's Hungary
And I'm Hungary
I shouldn't have guessed that
This is a crazy guess but I wanna say it's this ocean
There's no way right?
That counts as your guess that joke
Let's
go
It's green
Little greeno
On the water one time
Little greeno is
That's
Wait
Little greeno on the water
Oh yeah that's Serbia and Montenegro
Okay Serbia
I'm in the area though
This is where all the good basketball players come from
Lukas from Slovenia
Jokic is from Serbia
Alright then I'll do
Landlocked country right here
The yellow landlocked
That one is
It says
F-Y-R-O-M
Oh yeah it's Fjarm
I know Fjarm is close to Lithuania
Let's see a different map
That's actually a Lithuanian for Lithuania
What is this one?
This is just a real
Shrimp potpourri
I think that's Greece
No is it?
Okay I'm gonna go
Did we get a confirmation on Fjarm?
Fjarm is
Macedonia
Of course Macedonia
Let's go to the left of Macedonia
That one by the ocean
Macedonia of course
I think our Balkan geography is lacking
What if it's like here
Or just like splitting hairs
Guessing
Unfortunately you guys aren't in the Balkans
Oh we're not even close
Well the Balkans are north
That's Lithuania up here
Holy shit
Which one?
That orange guy
That is Estonia
So we're close
We're like Oregon
We were so far away
It's not labeled on this map
But you know what we're gonna look at another map
And it is
Part of Russia
Unbelievable they've already annexed it
Okay this one final answer
Which one?
That is Lithuania
Yes!
You shouldn't be proud of what just happened
Do you want to know what my hint was gonna be?
What?
That's good
And in real life it's the same color as Sweden
That's how you know it's Lithuania
Wow we were just like all the way here
And it's actually up there
I know you know because Clementine told this
She didn't tell us I guess which one it was
I guess which one it was
You didn't guess which one it was
You guessed
And now I know
I won
Who's the winner?
I didn't actually get to match it
You can't match it
Obviously you can't match it
You got an extra guess
You went first
You went first
You got the extra guess
Oh my god
You're so petty
Of course you got it right
Wasn't a game of skill
I guessed first I guessed right
You got six chances I got five
You honestly weren't close
I was close
You're the one that drew us south
You drew us south
We're lost
We ended up in Albania
Let's play again
Hungary which I already know where it is
You think you can aim all the states?
Yes I do
I think I can stump Jake if we can get a similar USA map
Really?
I think I can stump you
There's a few stumpers in there
There's a few in the middle
that are just squares
I know those ones
You're talking about Colorado
You're talking about Arizona
Actually one of them is technically Lithuania
I hope you guys are watching
because this is a very visual episode
This is riveting stuff
We're pointing at a map
on the screen
I'm a big geography buff
and just that I want to be a geography buff
but I don't actually go through the motions of learning stuff
I'm interested in geography
but I can't really retain any of it
This is perfect
Let's start with the
I already don't know a lot of things
Just an easy one
I'm scared
I know that
that is
obviously it's going to be
Kentucky
That is Kentucky
I mean
there's no way you know that
Amir is pointing to a country
in the dead ass
center
It goes California, Nevada, Utah
whatever this is
and then one more
Utah is
I believe the next one is
Colorado then Kansas
What's above Kansas
Goddamn
It's not going to be
Oh is it
No fuck
It actually might be Kansas
but it might not be too
This is Nebraska
Alright above Nebraska
Above Nebraska is
South Dakota
He's got it so far
What about
Mississippi
That's right
What about
Indiana
That's right
I think it's obvious
that I know all of them now
There's no need
for me to even point to this one
Fuck
That was the one I really didn't want
you to point to
That was the one
that I really didn't want
and I think
It's too above Louisiana
It's
Missouri
This is Missouri
Arkansas
Thank God you told us that
because if you had pointed to that one
I wouldn't have known
I think those are the hard ones
Anything else that's just sort of confusing
Do you know this one
West Virginia
That one kind of looks like a turkey
I mean I fucking
aced this
I know all the other ones now
Point to Wyoming
That's not right
I think that's not fair
But it is
It's
Square guy
You got it folks
Capital Wyoming
Shyam
For the win
Alright one last one
For the cultures
Which one is Vermont and which one is New Hampshire
Okay
I will say that this is changing the game
a little bit
We've got New York
Bordering New York is Vermont
and then touching the ocean
is New Hampshire
The capitals being
Albany
Montpelier
and Concord
That is correct
And I also knew which one was Lithuania
You piece of shit
There's no way you knew which one was Lithuania
I didn't know which one was Lithuania
You pointed to Estonia
I guess Lithuania
You pointed to the ocean
Lay ocean
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How about pulling up a map of Africa
No!
There's no way
There's hundreds of nations in there
I don't know like more than three
Okay
Don't do that
Chad, Liberia
Besides
if I were you
What are your favorite shows
to record?
Just to record
I think
I always have a ton of fun going on
Hollywood Handbook whenever we
What's the other show?
No Flagrant Ones
Flagrant Ones, yeah
When we go on Flagrant Ones
we're with those guys
I think it's incredible
I was going to say the HEADGUM podcast
I actually
I wouldn't know because Jeff is
incapable of scheduling it
more than 24 hours in advance
I haven't been able to do it in months
because I'll just get a frantic text the day before we have to record
You'll be able to tomorrow in two
It's just like no, I can't do that
What about the pit wall?
The F1 podcast
The F1 podcast, that one's great
But I'm trying to give an honest answer
Yeah, no for sure and we appreciate the candor
Jake, now that you're married
how do you deal with your demons?
Did they suddenly disappear?
Says William Cassin
What demons?
Anything that was
taunting slash torturing you
as a single person
I remember
I had a low sense of self-worth
when I was single
I was kind of like a monster
A party animal
Are you less of a party animal now?
I think I still am a little bit of a party animal
I'm like
definitely less
I don't know, I think the demons
I guess I just really, I don't know
I'm trying to think what the real answer is
Hollywood Handbook, right?
Hollywood Handbook?
What do you mean? That's the answer
Hollywood Handbook
I just grew out of them a little bit
It passed
I met somebody that I care about more
And
I started being nicer to myself
Interesting, yeah
You were mean to yourself before?
Yeah, I think
When you drink too much and you wake up
and you're like, I'm never drinking again, I'm such an idiot
Self-loathing?
But it was that every single day
And then when you have that low self-esteem
When you meet somebody, you're like
If they like you, you think that they're dumb
And then you kind of treat that relationship
like it's nothing because you know that it's doomed
So when you think that you're
When you think that you, when you have a better relationship
with yourself, I think
you can expect more from yourself
rather than expecting the bare minimum
or expecting you to self-implode
Do you still have the regret
when you're hungover?
Yeah, I'm not like completely cured of all of my shit
Definitely, but like, I think my
my demons are less intense now
Now it's more just like, oh, I drank too much
not like I drank too much
and tried to hook up with
somebody I shouldn't have
So you've got, we went from
two demons to one on average
Yeah, definitely
Jailandorone
Dones, see like, these names are so hard to pronounce
that's why the Amir name
going for 20K is like, honestly
it's a steal of a deal
What's the last photo you guys sent to each other?
Let's pull it up
We're right here
A very visual episode
Rewarding
Aside from screenshots of this
of the questions
It looks
like
the last one you sent me was
We sent each other a lot of screenshots
Yeah
You sent me a photo of Marty's new car
or a video
Yeah, a video of Marty pulling away
in his new Porsche driving
I got to ride in that car today
It's awesome
We definitely
Oh, I sent you a photo of
I bought a surf watch
a Garmin
And I sent you a photo of that
I finally got the Garmin
If you're watching the new jacun of your episodes
this will make sense
Why do you always bring up the fact
that I lack a Garmin
You'll press the Garmin issue
Alright, one last one
Let's end with a softball
A quick and easy
Alex Dubrae asked
Does anything actually matter in this world
or is value purely subjective?
Huh
Basically the meaning of life
Is it that there's no meaning at all?
I think, I've actually thought about this recently
because I had a deep conversation
with somebody that was kind of like
Armageddon based
Armageddon based?
No, it was like on Carnell's birthday
So kind of like a drug fueled
Really super honest
Let's just like fucking
Let's have a heart to heart for an hour
about the meaning of life
And I think the meaning of life
is balance
So it's not doing anything too extreme
Yeah, it's not like
putting all of your eggs in any one basket
and kind of reverting to the mean
I feel like living your life
the purpose of life is to like live to
the fullest
then you're not actually taking any time to
appreciate downtime
or building the right relationships and stuff like that
So I think there's an ebb and a flow
The person you were talking to disagree with that
or have a different view of life?
Yeah, she said that you have to live every single day
like it's your last
And I think it was maybe just because I
am older that I'm like
You don't have to live every single day
I have a sort of love hate relationship with sleep
because sleep feels great when you're tired
But then it's like
a third of my life is just gone
Should I like set an alarm and wake up earlier every day
or would that just make the waking hours feel worse?
I think you should set an alarm
and wake up earlier
But I don't want to get interrupted sleep
Yeah
There are apps that will wake you up
naturally
Aren't there those apps where you're like
I want to get up at 7
but it can be like a 30 minute grace period
Right
You're out of REM
and it's 7.15 instead of 7
But then you just got to go to sleep early
and then I'm still getting the same amount of sleep
I think
for what it's worth
I can be tired at 6 am when I wake up
and I could be tired at 9 am when I wake up
It's very rare that I feel like
I'm fully rested and I'm ready to get up
So it's like equally morning regardless of when you wake up
Yeah, when I woke up
I had to wake up to walk the pup last week
and I was planning on
You know, he started
wrestling around at 6.30
and I was like, okay, I'm going to take him on a walk
and I'm going to go back into bed
But I went on a walk, I was tired
but I got back and was like, I'm not going to go back to bed now
It's like 6.45 and I can like
start my day
and I actually really love like
doing something for like
going to the gym, going on a bike ride
and then I look at my watch and it's like 9 am still
Like you could have slept
and you got your workout done for the day
Yeah, it feels good
But sleep feels good too
It doesn't feel that good
For me, falling asleep feels great
because like when you're drowsy and it's like
time for bed, it's a great feeling
and I fall asleep very quickly
I'll fall asleep like talking to Abitalik
She was having a conversation with me and I pass out
What time is that usually?
Between 12 and 1
So why don't you start trying to go to bed earlier?
If you're going to bed and you're so tired
and you're falling asleep mid conversation
you could probably get into bed at 11
and have
read a book, relax in bed
then you're going to wake up closer to 7 or 8
I can't
read
Amazing, I'm so sorry to hear that
But I'm working on
brushing and flossing
as much as humanly possible to make up for that
That's that balance that I talk about
which is the meaning of life
It is hard because you have to do
you have to pay your bills and also floss
you have to exercise
and also volunteer
It's almost like there's too much stuff to do
I think that's again where the balance comes in
We don't even have kids
That would completely take
all the time
You have to have that equilibrium
so you have time to do the things that you need to do
so you get to do the stuff that you want to do
and as we get older, there are a lot more things
that we need to do
after 40, your cells die
instead of replenished
so it's like you're living for 40 years
then you slowly die for 40 years
That's amazing, that sucks to know
I also read
I think it was like
maybe like
Yom Kippur sermon or something that Jill sent me
and this rabbi I was just talking about
we all have on average
4,000 weeks to live
and it's like
Don't tell me that
Weeks just fly by
Weeks will go by
Oh this week went by fast
How is it already September?
You have 4,000 weeks and they make a calendar
where you can put in your birthday
it fills in all the bubbles for the weeks that you've already lived
and it shows you how many you have left
Well every 2 years is roughly 100 weeks
So it's probably less than 4,000
Maybe it's how many
It's like 100 years is
2,000?
Again
Our cells are dying at a rate
where we can't really keep track
I'll pull it up after this, but it's something like that
Like it's not in the millions
Yeah, time is
super limited
I guess it could be 4,000, it's like 80 years
Oh that's what it is
It's about right
And we've already done about 2,000
Yeah
What a dark episode this turned out to be
Jesus
I found the website
August 5th 1985
How many weeks old we are?
How many weeks you have left?
August 5th 1985
85
Why don't we just for the sake of me not being sad
put in 2001
Make me 18 again
You will die
in 2,792 weeks
2,792
That's giving you a lot of credit
It's like you're making it way past 80 at that point
Let's go January 18th
1972
January 15th
You should be
I was like
My mouth is not messing
I'm not dead yet
Amir, you will die in 2,659 weeks
Whoa, longer than Jake
I guess they just assume that I'm
I don't know
Yeah, they heard about my demons
Jake has more weeks
That will die first
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Thank you for your answers
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This is Amir
You may know me from College verse
humor
or from the third harill then Kumar
And now you're listening
to my podcast, I am so gassed to give advice on all that you've asked, and if that points
you think I've been crass, take it up with me on Thursday last, on Thursday last.
This is her wits, maybe you're thinking that you might kiss someone who you think could
make a fuss, and then they won't be able to trust you are the fan, who make us both a
part of your plans, you wear us like an old pair of vans, we hope that we've been able
to transform or realize, and though this counts as only advice, maybe he's made some of you
twice, every email's a roll of the dust, right to assume, we can't promise we'll find the
way through, after all we are just two judoos, still it's fun to think, what would we do,
what would I do if I were you?
That was a hit gum original.