If I Were You - 564: Clam Hands
Episode Date: October 31, 2022In this episode we discuss stretching, gifting, and why size doesn't matter. Advertise on If I Were You via Gumball.fm.See omny.fm/listener for privacy information....
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He got went down on the day
Not by his wife, I'm sorry to say
Another girl, what was her name?
Well, it don't matter anyway
He feels guilty, he feels small
Betrayed his lady, dick and all
How they tell her what he's done
How they fight the urge to run
My man's confused on what to do
Maybe he'll write to if I were you
Sure those boys'll know what to say
Maybe just simply I love you babe
She's in the kitchen cleaning plates
Maybe she'll forgive all of his mistakes
Well after all it was only third base
He just needs the perfect phrase
He got went down on the day
He knows for his crimes that he must pay
And soon he'll be a man and say
He got went down on the day
Well, that was eye opening
Yeah, it was a little long, little long, right?
Did it feel a little long to anybody else?
It felt short to me
I guess it's because they wrote a song based on something that you said
I got went down on today is the name of that parody
Based on a line I said not two weeks ago today
Not really a parody though, is it?
Well it is a satire, it's a cover
It's a cover?
Don't you interrupt me boy
He stopped loving her today by George Jones
By many as one of the saddest songs ever written
Oh, I wouldn't say that at all
Matthew Kazakos said my version is not only sadder than the original
But also has worse diction thanks in kind to your fallatio phrasing
From the last episode
That's good, that's a good song
He'd written a few other themes including the ballad of Harbo and Samuelson cover
After which he debated if I was Irish
I'm actually an Aussie living in Brunswick, Melbourne
So hit me up if you ever
Open a headgum branch here
I'm thinking about it, I'm absolutely thinking about it
My comedy travel podcast unpacked on Spotify and iTunes
About people's crazy stories from all over the world
It's really good but the problem is no one listens to it
Yeah, that's probably a lot of podcasts actually
And then they write a lot of good podcasts
Yeah, it's not the cream that rises to the top
It's actually just whoever comes in with the most fans gets the followers
And it's not really a meritocracy today
I went got down on
You said your own wrong line wrong
I went got down
Double went down on got down
Double went down to got not
The double went down to got not
Today's been pretty random
Were those listening at home, catching up
We are in separate studios but studios none the less
We should call it in studios
That's good
Or what about in two-de-os
That's good because it's two studios
But the two-de-os is actually what we call the studio for NADPOD
Because we roll a lot of twos on the 20-sided die
So that is trademarked, that is copy written
You will be getting a cease and desist
You will be hearing from my lawyer
That's crazy, I just said it
You're ruined
I throw a joke, there's no way you can come after me
You can trespass on a trademark
You'd have to make a claim that my joke actually stopped you guys from making money
Oh, there you go, yeah
No, not there you go
That's perfect
We don't go, there we don't go actually
Um, this is if I were you
The only advice pod on the web hosted by us
I'm AB
Oh no
Yeah, I'm just an initial guy now
That is what Billy Scafuri calls you
Oh that's right, AB
He's a huge initial guy
Although J.H. doesn't really work
Billy calls me Jack
So we can go with that
AB and Jack
AB is good because it flows
J.H. is kind of like, is that one letter?
J.H.
It's obviously not one letter
J.H.
It really isn't
It actually is a pretty good
I'm not even trying to be glib
I think that's one of the worst two letters that you could pick
No, those are two strong fucking letters
What's the worst initials?
The worst initials?
How's it going?
It's got to be WV
But actually that looks really cool
But it's hard to say
Never mind, WV is pretty solid
Because it's just, your signature would just be like a fucking, you know
Phone line thing
What about OI?
OI?
How's it going, OI?
OI
Now I'm sounding Australian myself
OI, how's it going?
OI
AB
That's actually, might be the goat too
Now that I think about it
No, no, no, no, it's definitely not
I think, I think duo letters is kind of the goat
J.J.
Yeah, J.J. is pretty solid
J.D.
J.V.
J.V.
Obviously J.
J goes with a lot except for H
J.V. is my wife's initials
And you'll take them out of your fucking mouth
Before I sue you into oblivion
Yeah
Yeah trademark, my wife's initials
I copyrighted my wife's fucking initials
So you can't say this
It already means something
And prevent me from making cash off of them
Yeah
Let's move on
D.H.
T.H. is pretty bad
D.H. is not a designated H
H is good
H is good
I said T.H.
And I resent
Hm?
T.H.
Oh, T.H.
Yeah
No one is calling Tom Hanks that
T.H.
Yeah, they call him Hanks
Yeah, exactly
Yeah
Exactly
Oh, how about
A.C. is not bad
A.C. is pretty good
How about Jeffrey James?
G.J.
That's hard to say
J.G.
And hard to be
G.J.
G.J.
Yeah, that's not ideal
G.N.
How about G.N.
Do you want to see that?
G.N.
Nugent
How's it going?
G.N.
Well, you can say G.N.
as in good night
Yeah
I.Y.
Oh, wow
Actually, I'm thinking of all our producers
John Graham, J.G.
Yeah
You know, not much better than G.J.
So
E.F.
Emma
That's pretty solid
E.F.
But I think K.C.
Donahue
With the C.D.
That's cool
Takes the case
Yeah, takes the case, I should say
That's really good
K.C. does anybody call you C.D.
People have called me C.D.
before
Oh, yeah, he has gotten C.D.
before
Yeah, that's a good nickname
C.D.
Yeah
Okay, what the fuck are we doing with our lives?
All right, answering questions
Yeah
So these are real questions from real people
They send them on down to ifireashowatgmail.com
Parse through them
Find the greatest, the best of the best
Right
Not like podcasting
We actually do read them all
And decide which ones are the goat
Right
Here's one that says
Hands of a clam, make this man a sham
Okay
We should call this guy Poseidon
Because they're of the sea
That's really good
Right
Hello you cowboys, koi boys
I'm in a bit of a sticky naysweaty situation
I'm a 22-year-old female from the west coast
And I often get clammy hands
Okay
My body tends to run at low temperatures
So my somewhat thin hands are often cold
But also moist
Don't ask me why
Cold and moist
I don't know
Either one of these things on its own
Wouldn't bother me much
But the two together make for a pretty revolting combination
I'm starting the new chapter of my life
Post-college
And I don't want people to judge me
I don't want the people I meet to have to handle
What feels like a melting ice cube at the end of my wrist
Help, what can I do to make sure I extend
A warmer, drier greeting to the people I meet
By the way, I've been listening to the podcast off and on
Since 2014
And I'm finally all caught up with a Patreon subscription
To boot, holy smokes, thank you
Gracias
Alright Poseidon
What do you think?
Well, it feels like the pandemic is, like, well timed
Because, like, before it was kind of weird
If you didn't shake someone's hand
Right
And now she can kind of, like, get by
On not wanting to touch other people's hands
Rather than, you know, not wanting people to touch her hands
Or something, like, feeling like
They're gonna be grossed out
She can just be like, I'm grossed out by human contact
So you just start doing the fist bump
I was hoping that, like, the handshake would just sort of go
After the pandemic faded to black
But, like, people are still shaking hands
I missed it
I love shaking hands, I always love shaking hands
Firm handshake
Over a fist bump
It's a connection, yeah, no, I like
I like contact, I like contact
Yeah, I always prefer the fist bump
Or, like, the wave, hello, how do you do?
How's it going?
But, yeah, and then I often feel like I'm sort of
The bow was nice
I do like the bow, really, you know, showing deference
And then, yeah, then my subordinate obviously must bow lower
And thus I am satisfied
Have we talked about your subordinate on the show?
Oh, no, my subordinate, yeah
You totally hired kind of out of the blue
A random subordinate
Yeah, I did
It was so weird
I started getting texts from the subordinate
Instead of you
So he's just sort of
He's like the middle subordinate, basically
So he's like planning everything?
Well, I gave him a phone recently
But he wasn't supposed to text you
What if he, hold on
Gordon, Gordon
Gordon the subordinate?
The subordinate?
A potbelly pig wanders through the door
Oh, yeah, I turned him into a pig the other day for
So I'm talking back to me
Yeah, I think
So I put a spell on him
I got another subordinate to do that, to coordinate
A coordinate, the subordinate
Subordinate often coordinates
Fist bump or bow as a means of avoiding the clammy hand
Yeah, yeah, because I don't think, like
I feel like I've seen people kind of like wipe their hands before they
They shake
And I feel like all that actually does is signal to me
That their hand is going to be wet
Or was dirty or something
So I think you, you know, pre-pandemic
You just lean in and you own the fact that it's wet
But you don't do any wipeage
And post-pandemic, you just defer to the bow
Or the fist bump
The namaste
Yeah, the namaste, a salute
Hearing these questions just makes me realize how many things can be
Off about one's body
Like some people are just dealing with this their whole lives
And other people don't even think about the clammyness of their hands
Wait, did I talk about this show that I've never had a stomach ache?
No
I did, I thought, I didn't
You've talked about how you've never burped
Right
You've talked about getting food poisoning, which feels like a stomach ache
I've never had, no, I've never had a stomach ache
Didn't you also say like
Never hurt
Well, you've puked before
Yeah, I don't, and this is what Jill says to me too
But I don't feel that in my stomach, I feel that in my head
I feel like when I'm nauseous, I think what other people feel is like a rumbly and the tumbling
You know, like cramping and they like
Diarrhea
Yeah
Whenever I'm sick, I feel it in my head
I just feel like lightheaded and a little dizzy
Or I have a headache
Did you also say recently, like when you have a big, when you have pizza recently, you get like heartburn or something like that
Like cheese
That's in the chest, that's in the chest
That's in the chest
Okay
You're sort of skirting by on a technicality
I don't think so
Because you've had diarrhea and you've had vomiting
You've had food poisoning and you've had heartburn
You've had gas that's trapped from not being a heartburn
My stomach's never hurt
It is never hurt
Sometimes when I feel bloated, it's not in the stomach, it's in the chest
It's impossible, but okay, I'll give it to you
Nothing
You're squeezing it right now
It's in a little pain
If I can get my belly button
I have dermatitis
I truly never had a stomach ache
Really?
Yeah
Keep us posted on that
Okay
I don't believe you, but yeah, keep us posted
I'm honest about my other ailments
I have many ailments
But my stomach has never been an issue
When you said there's so many things that can go wrong
Why did you say that?
What was on your mind that's gone wrong with you?
Oh, just like your nose, your lips
Oh, the way your beard is
Oh, your skinny shoulders
The weird teeth, gray hair
My hamstring feels tight
That's it, I was going to give you a hamstring
What's wrong with my teeth?
I actually remember
When we were running one night in New York
And you pulled your hamstring
Yes, we were sprinting
Yeah, we like got into a foot race
And I think you, we were racing to the corner
Yeah, but you beat me
You outstepped me at the last second
Oh, really?
Yeah, then we had to kind of walk
It was worth it
I did that against like
Early on in the college humor days
I also did a foot race against canal
And then my hamstrings felt so tight the next day
I guess because when you're sprinting
You're basically stretching this rubber band
Over and over in a way that you never ever do
Unless you like stretch, which I don't
Right
Oh, actually that reminds me of a good
Unsolicited advice this week
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Do you have any?
Oh, it's a lift, dude
If I-
Mom, I'm coming
Not this week
No, do you?
You said
You fucking set me up to fail
You were like, I have a good one
Let's go to break
We come back
People are finally here
No, I do
Actually, I think I have two
Because one, we're supposed to
Promote a show, right?
That's true
The Head Gum Live show
On November 3rd
At our office
At your office in LA
Yeah
Yeah, headgum.com
Slash live for tickets
Come on by
We'll be here
I'll be hosting
We got a lot of funny comedians
That's right
It's gonna be a fun time
It looked like an awesome time last time
A little party
We're gonna do it in New York
We're gonna do it in New York, too
And my other advice
I downloaded an app
For stretching
Because you'd mentioned your hamstrings
And that you don't stretch
And I also wasn't stretching
My hammies are tight, yeah
And I was kind of trying to like
Add in yoga to my routine
To keep me stretched out in limber
But I kept on kind of skipping it
Because I didn't feel like doing
40 minutes to an hour of yoga
Yeah
It's like at a certain point
You gotta cut yourself off
Yeah, it's just
A lot of people love yoga
And I think yoga is great
If it's for you
But it's just not for me
Like I find a lot of the poses
Too uncomfortable
And I'm...
I don't relax when I'm doing it
I'm sort of constantly wondering
When it's gonna be over
Yeah
But this...
I bet a bunch of yoga heads
Would be like, well then
You're not doing it right
Yeah, exactly
I am not doing it right
I'm doing it wrong
And I've tried to do it for like
You know, 15 years
And I'm not getting it
So I think I'm just gonna stop
Because I like other stuff
But...
But there's an app called
Stretch It that I downloaded
And I'm taking a 90-day platinum
Flexibility course
Wow
You're gonna be able to touch your toes
Is that the goal?
I can already touch my toes
I can touch my toes
Really, without bending your knees?
Yeah, if I'm standing up
Yeah
Let's see it
We're doing this in a studio
We can see it on the YouTube
If you can...
Let's see
I can't...
Okay, so right now
Your hands are dangling
About an inch above your knees
I've never seen someone that stiff before
Oh, that's good
That's pliable
Are you touching your toes?
Are you going full palm on the ground?
I sort of missed it
Were you...
So I'm not like
Full palm on the ground
But I can get
About half my hand under my feet
Like I can touch the soles of my feet
Okay, that's far
And I used to not be able
To touch my toes at all
And I don't credit the platinum
Flexibility course
That just started seven days ago
Got it
But I've been working on stretching
And trying to be a little more flexible
Because, you know, I have tight hip flexors
And tight quads
Yeah
The base of my neck
Sometimes some...
I've never had a stomach ache
But I'll have like a little bit of pain
Here where my shoulders meet the neck
Yeah, soreness and tightness
And nerve pinching sensation
Right
So my buddy Miles and Carnell
Also had this
And Jeff has it now too
There's this app called Stretch It
Where you can just
Take different flexibility challenges
Oh, that's cool
And yeah, Monday 9 of the
90-day platinum flexibility challenge
I think what I have in my hammy
Is like beyond just a source of hammy
I think I looked it up
Because I'm like, it hurts the most
When I'm seated and driving
And somebody was like
That's like some sort of hamstring tendinopathy
Or something like that
Where you like have to sit on a pillow
To have it help
And it's like stretching
Your hamstring is actually not good for that
Interesting
You have to sort of not stretch it
So I'm not really sure entirely
I'm doing that thing where I'm just
Ignoring the problem and hoping that it goes away
Even though it's been like two years at this point
Yeah, look, if you...
If you're hurt when you're seated
Couldn't it be like a tight IT band?
You should be foam rolling
You foam rolling?
No, I don't do anything
I just play sports
And again, hope that I don't get hurt
Do you still take baths?
I do take baths
That should help
And it helps when I'm in my bath, of course
But then after playing tennis and or basketball
It feels tight again
Right
And you don't stretch it all after those activities
No, God no
Not even like a light, like a casual
Grab the toe behind your back
Little quad stretch
Sometimes I'll do like, yeah
Grab my foot and do like the quad
Or the calf stretch
Because that feels good
The hamstring stretch, the groin stretch
Those are the ones that just don't feel good
Even when I'm doing them
Interesting
Alright, well, check out this out
Stretch it
Stretch it, because yeah, every single day
Is a new, in the platinum flexibility challenge
Or the 90-day platinum flexibility course
I should say
You keep saying platinum like you've earned it
You haven't done anything
I've done seven or eight days
Of the platinum flexibility course
Yeah, but again, it's the way you pronounce platinum
I meant to say the 90-day platinum flexibility course
Yeah, that's it
It's just platinum flexibility
Not platinum, platinum
You didn't earn that
Yes, it did
You didn't earn doing it
You just doubted it
Yeah
Of the 90-day platinum flexibility course
Half platinum
You should download it though
Because some days it's like, you know
As little as like six minutes
And some days, yesterday was a 28-minute back session
Which was really nice
That's good
But truly like it's
There are little stretches that I never even considered
Yeah
I should do that
And they're really helpful
Yeah
Preventative, yeah
Okay, here's a question we got from
Let's call them Jack Skellington
Because that sort of reminded me
Of this Christmas time situation
Okay
Even though that's more of a Halloween thing
Right
It was around Christmas time, writes Jack
That I first visited my girlfriend's house
Armed with gifts for the whole family
Determined to make a good impression
Unfortunately, aside from the parentally coerced
Thank you for the present
My girlfriend's older sister didn't speak to me
Once the entire week I visited
Turns out she had resolved beforehand
Not to acknowledge my presence
Until I proved that I was
Quote worthy of her little sister
She didn't even open my gift
Cut to three years later and uh-oh
I still never had a conversation with her
Wow
I see my GF's family several times a year
For weddings, holidays and the like
But her older sister has yet to say hi to me
When I'm hot around
She talks openly about how she has no desire
To get to know me any better than she already does
Which is not to just say not at all
Taking the initial cold shoulder as a hint
And terrified at the prospect of making things
Any worse than they already are
I haven't spoken directly to her either
So I'll just accept 50% of the blame
Either way, the longer this stalemate lasts
The more awkward and stressful it gets
Her super chill boyfriend does talk to
Oh, the sisters
The super super chill boyfriend talks to me
But will not intervene on my behalf
My girlfriend has repeatedly pleaded my case
In private to no avail
At this point, I'm afraid to direct
Convertation is the only path to a resolution
Visiting them again for the holidays
So any advice about how to resolve this silent treatment
Would be greatly appreciated
Should I still get her a Christmas present?
That's weird
Yeah, I don't think you should change
Like, get her the Christmas present
Maybe you gotta find out what her
You find out what the love language is
Right?
Yeah, it's probably just being a cold,
Calculated, angry woman to you
That's her love language
Do you think like fighting fire is fire?
I would not get her a gift
I wouldn't get her a gift
I really wouldn't
I think you can
I don't know
I feel like
I feel like there's a chance that
The
The air just needs to be cleared
You know?
Yes
But for whatever reason she refuses to clear it
I wonder what she has
What's this beef?
Has she ever acted like this to other boyfriends?
Hmm
Yeah, have you considered the fact that maybe
You're not worthy of the girlfriend?
Wow, maybe the sister's right
Yes, that's what I'm saying
Yeah, because he sort of might not even be worthy
Right, at the end of the day
Yeah, but if everyone else is being polite
And he's sort of
It's kind of weird that
The sister likes you
Yeah
The boyfriend of this woman likes you
The parents, if you're going to like
Holiday parties and weddings and stuff
They seem to like you
So it's like just one holdout
That doesn't feel like you're worthy
And
At that point it should
It is a little bit on
On her, not on you
Yeah
Well, we have to take sides
And I for one choose the sister
Who do you got?
I guess it's not
We shouldn't both choose the same side
I would have chosen the sister if you hadn't
Go ahead and do
Chill boyfriend
Who's giving this loser the benefit of the doubt
And I think at the very least
And his email seemed really polite
Nice and
Self-aware at the very least
About what is going on
And he did take 50% of the blame
Which is cool to hear
Yeah
But ultimately I kind of
Think
She's bae
At the end of the day she is bae
Yes
Assault bae to be
Yeah, a salty bae indeed
Well, that could be a funny gift
Is to give her just a salt themed gift
Sort of like a
Or you can give her an umbrella
Because she's always throwing the shade
Oh, that's good
Or like a parka and say
Just because you're ice cold to me
That's
Yeah, I guess
What are you talking about?
We're riffing
When I say something that was so out of line
That it deroked
The shade was already so perfect
It didn't need to have been yes
Anded
And then what you did was like
Throwing shade
This thing where
Like now we're riffing on it
But then people will be like
They did this weird thing
Where like some of the stuff worked
And some of the stuff didn't
And it kind of
Really
Now I want to give you a salty gift
Yeah
You're being salty
You actually deserve an umbrella
For all of the shade that you're throwing at me
That's really good actually
Really do you like that?
Back in your good graces
What if you get her a football jersey
That says she hate me
So it's custom XFL jersey
She hate me
With an umbrella
So you're throwing shade
And a DVD of Salt Bay's new restaurant
That's fun
I think making light of this
Weird dark situation
Is maybe the only path forward
Turn it into a bit
You know
Just always try to
Try to get her to crack
If you can make her smile
Then maybe she'll eventually
Warm up to you
Have you ever dealt with a sibling
That didn't like you that much?
Yeah
Yes I have
Many younger brother
Older sister
What was the situation?
It's happened in
A few different relationships
An older brother
For one
Yeah, protective
What's that?
Yeah, protective
Yeah, I think just didn't trust
My motivations
He didn't
Didn't think that your intentions
Were pure
Yeah
And
I don't think I really won him
Over in any special way
It was just it took time
Everything takes time
But
The weird thing is here
You've given it three years
So something else is amiss
Yeah
There's something else
What about parents?
Parents always like you
Or also
Some could be colder than others
No, parents almost
Parents
There's always a journey
They don't like me at first
And then after like
I really
I think they don't like the
The way I sound
On paper to somebody
But then when I meet them
They like me
What's the like
Back when you were just like
Working at a website
You mean like that?
Yeah, or like before that
When I was just a college dropout
That had an internship
That wasn't like
A good look
What does he do?
He's actually an intern
Yeah
He dropped out of school
But he's an intern, dad
He has an internship
You mean an internist?
My prospects
Didn't sound very good then
Yeah
But these ladies were buying low
Yeah
But now I sound successful
When I tell everybody
I'm a Dungeons & Dragons podcaster
Everyone knows
That I got my life right
I got my boat right
Garrett boat right
Let's go Huskies
Shout out to a Yukon Husky basketball player
Named something boat right
I thought it was Garrett boat right
I thought it was Ryan boat right
Boat right Yukon Husky
It was Ryan boat right
Ryan boat?
What I think was Garrett
Get your boat right
With Ryan boat right
Better get your boat right
Wow, that guy's still playing basketball overseas
Good for him
He got his Croatian league MVP in 2017
Wait, what was he?
He was the Croatian basketball league's MVP in 2017
That's what every NBA player should do, I think
Yeah, would you rather be the 12th man
On an NBA team like the Oklahoma City Thunder
Or just the fucking MVP of a Croatian league
Yeah, it's fun to hang out in Croatia, I bet
Yeah, I guess it depends on the league
Yeah
Some of these leagues sound more fun than others
Right, Croatia sounds sick
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And now back to the HEADGUM podcast you were listening to
And we have returned
Finally
Finally
The rock has come back
Did you see Black Adam?
No, no
Is it good?
Do you plan on it or that's sort of not in your Marvel Cinematic Universe?
I'll see it eventually
I will not
I don't go to the movies anymore
I don't know what could really make me go to a film
Interesting
I go to the movies eventually when I'm on a plane
The best place to view them
You don't romanticize the movie going experience
Every time I go I have a great time
It never occurs to me and whenever anybody else suggests it
It sounds like too much
But if I'm physically dragged there
I will have an awesome time and then say on my way out
Why don't we go to the movies more
We should really go to the movies more
I'm gonna start going to movies and then
The smell of the popcorn
The movies of a ticket being torn
You're sitting down
With a group of friends
The energy is palpable
The trailers come on
The jacket over the seat
The guy is going in front of you
Even in any town USA
You're having an evidence
I'm gonna go pee before the movie starts
I'm gonna go pee before it starts
So I drop the pee during the film
And then scooting by
Scooting by
Oh sorry I stepped on your foot
And on purpose what are you doing sir
What are you doing
Hey you're shoving me
Oh sure
Oh sure
Being accosted
I love the movies
I love the movies
I was trying to talk about like the fun parts of it
I've never
I've never not gotten my ass kicked
When I go to a film
How's that for fucking weird
I'm walking by
Accidentally kick over a 64 ounce
Doctor Pepper
Holy shit I'm so sorry
That got on your ankles
Let me get you some paper towels in the front
I'm not cutting in line I just spilled the drink
I because if I go to the fucking bathroom to get it
All they have are these
They have an air dryer
What am I supposed to do there
Using a stranger's jacket
To mop up the Doctor Pepper
But that's
I've seen this one before
And why are you here
Spoiling the end
Oh yeah
This is the one where the guy ends up being the bad guy at the end
No wonder you hate it
Because it hates you
Right I'm rejected by the movies
Alright here's a question called snap chatting ears
Hmm
So we'll call this gentleman Mickey
Mickey my friend
This may seem like a generic question
But it's something that I genuinely have no idea what to do
I'm a college student
You should come back to Minneapolis by the way
And I've been talking to a girl for two months now
It's all very confusing yet super flirty
And we have gone on a few dates and have had a good time
The issue is that she keeps mentioning how she just got out of a long distance relationship last summer
And does not want to date right now
However she likes me and wants to be more than friends
So she feels bad asking me to wait for her to be ready
This becomes a problem because she rejects hanging out with me most of the time
And when she snapchats me she only sends me pictures of the side of her head
And if I see one more ear I'm going to go crazy
How do I move this process of getting to know her forward when she is resisting everything
Yet still stringing me along by saying she likes me and is flirting with me
You can't really love
Do you think that's an excuse? You just have to wait?
Do you think that's an excuse?
Or is she actually not over somebody slash trying to see this guy?
It sounds like it's, I mean, I've heard that before
It sounds valid enough
I think if she really wasn't interested she'd hopefully have the huevos to tell you
It sounds like at the very least she likes that you like her
And I don't think there's a way you can, you can't move it forward yourself
I think all you can do is elect to be strung on or cut the string
I would cut the string
And I've had it before too
You just say, I understand you're not ready
But I don't like where, I don't like living in this limbo
So I'm out
And if you are ready, feel free to reach out
But you're cutting ties
And then do it
It also, it's better to do it that way than to be the one that's constantly trying to see
And then she sort of gets annoyed in that way
And honestly makes you look better to her also by saying I'm out
I'm not interested
And you're also like, you're kind of taking the situation back under control
Because right now she kind of has everything she theoretically wants
She has a guy that likes her that she can slow play
And then also do her thing without getting into a serious relationship
And she's like, oh yeah, he'll be around when I want him to be
But you just, you know, your move is to say I actually won't be
It's now or never
And then she can decide if she's ready
If you're worth it
Or if she wants to just hang out and do her thing
What do you make of the ears of it all?
I think sometimes people are insecure about certain angles
Or the way that their face will look
So they
I have a weird ear
So I would not send that
Yeah, what episode is that from?
I have a weird ear
I think it's the one where I have a Bluetooth
And I'm like trying to like sort of chew gum and talk on the phone a lot
Yeah, that's a good one
And you're like, just put the fucking Bluetooth in
And I'm like, I have a weird ear
Cauliflower
Yeah, God, that's good
And broccoli ass
My entire fucking person is a salad
That's right
I have asparagus teeth
And a baby carrot cock
Ha
Ha
Ha
That's real funny
What's that supposed to mean?
Like my dick is small?
I mean, yeah
Yeah, that's why it's a baby carrot
Yeah
And not a full fucking thing
Right
Yeah
Oh, that's real
It's not just
Why don't you take that again
But compare it to an actual size
Well, it's also
Orange is what I'm trying to say
It looks like a cheeto
Yes
Okay
But at the very least, it's a little bit of a longer carrot
Or a parsnip
I'll even go so far as to say that it's a parsnip that you cut in half
I think it's a thing
But for you to say baby carrot, it means that the edges are rounded
Ha
Don't get me wrong, the color is spot on
Which is not the case
I think I've asked you this before, but do baby carrots grow like that
Or are they shaved down from bigger carrots?
I think you have asked me that before as well
And I gave you the correct answer then as I will now
They are regular sized carrots that are
Honed down to the baby carrot
That seems inefficient to me
By the way, that is just a guess
But I am going to go out and live and say that's right
But it's not like pureed carrots that are put into that molded shape either, right?
No
It's actually like a piece of wood that's shaved down to that
Right
I'd imagine they're able to get like a few, like four baby carrots out of a single carrot
If it's done right
But there's always going to be like the weird edges that just don't belong in the baby
Right
So yeah, you chop, you take a full carrot, you chop the top, you chop the base
And then you shave, shave, shave
And sculpt
Shave your booty, yeah
What about baby corn?
Baby corn grows like that
You have the same attitude towards the corn
Baby corn is grown like that
Yeah, that's a specific vegetable
Okay
All right
I'm just asking
You're just asking
You don't have to lie
I'm just answering
Yeah
You're the one on edge
You're the one on edge
I'm not on edge
I'm just trying to figure out
You keep on laughing and then stopping on a dime with a new, you're
Yeah, you're having an episode
I'm not
This is an episode of our podcast, but I'm not having one episode
Is there another baby?
There's like baby potatoes or something
Fingerling potatoes, yeah
Yeah
Finger length potatoes
No, it's not finger length potatoes
No, I know
What are they?
Finger length
Finger what?
Potatoes
You said
You said finger length
I said that's wrong
You said no, I know
Yeah
There are finger length, but I know they're called something else
They're called something else
Yes
And what are they?
Dingling
Dingling?
Well, finger length is how big they are
Dingling is the style of potato
Kind of like how you can have a rye bread
That's perfect, yeah
You nailed it, buddy
I did
Yeah
I was honestly trying to talk out of my ass for part
But I really didn't know what they were called
Until you put me on the spot and I stepped up to the plate
And I crushed one out of the park
Blindfolded, homerun, nailed it, first try
I'm batting a thousand today
Your cock is also finger length
What's that supposed to mean?
Like I have a small dick
Exactly
So it's only the size and shape of a finger
Exactly
It's also the color of a Cheez-It
So yeah
There's baby spinach
Oh yeah
And baby
There is baby spinach
There's baby arugula
There is baby arugula, right?
I don't know
Like anything smaller is baby version of that
But I don't know if they're genetically modified to be smaller
Or they just take the smallest ones
Yeah
Baby onion?
Yeah
I don't know if they think it's a baby onion
It's not a baby onion
They make them tiny
They make them really tiny
There's a pearl onion
Or a shallot
Right
Yeah
And instead of a baby cucumber
They just call them Persian cucumbers
So what's that supposed to be?
These are often Persian
I mean every time you walk into an Iranian's family house
All the babies are Persian
That's why they call them Persian cucumbers
Instead of baby
And then you have tomatoes
And instead of baby tomatoes
It's cherry tomatoes
Isn't that fascinating?
Yeah, grape tomatoes
Are those the same thing?
Cherry and grapes?
Because they look like two different
Grape tomatoes
For me
Yeah
What were you going to say?
I was going to say
Cherries and grapes look different to me
But you call the tomato version the same
You fucking dumbass
Right
Tomato tomato
It's actually more like tomato baby tomato
That's really good
When you called my dick small
Was that because you wanted to see me pissed off?
Or do you actually think that I have a situation down there
That could be compared to the size of a pinky?
And we don't even have to keep this part into the show
Let's not
I'm just...
It's both
It's honestly both
Because I know that it riles you up
And there's a reason that it riles you up, right?
Because it's true
Why would you get pissed if it wasn't true?
So I say it
And I know that you're going to...
I would get pissed if...
And it is not true
I would get pissed
And the reason I am pissed is because
It's not true
The rumor now
Is so antithetical to what's actually happening there
And I can never prove the size of my cock
Regardless of how big my car is
You know how they say the bigger your car
The bigger your dick
So I have a Hummer H3 that I can barely afford
And that sort of...
That message that gets sent to the world is that
I'm hung, well hung actually
And then you come on to the show
And you say
You have a baby carrot down there
Which is funny
But kind of goes against
Not that I do or don't
I don't even want to talk about my dick
Frankly
You've commandeered the show to talk about
Your penis
Yeah
I made it
I'll admit that I've made at least two asides about it
Maybe more
Maybe more
But I think I still think you're the one harping on it
I can see that
But ultimately I do
Want to have a grand reveal
And I don't think that is even possible at this point
Let's do our next live show
Actually the head gum
Happy hour
It's not a bad place to do that
Cause that's
There's like a hundred tickets
I'm just worried that I'll get in trouble
Yeah
But maybe it'll be fine, I don't know
Right
I feel like you'd only get in trouble if you confirmed the rumors
And whipped it out
And you've had a tiny little orange dick
Right
Which I don't
So I won't be in trouble basically
So basically if you do it
Then everyone will see
And then you won't be in trouble
But if you don't
Yeah well I might have a COVID actually on the day
So I don't even know if I'll make it to the show
Okay
Right
Okay
Yes
Exactly
Okay
Let's drop it
I might get a respiratory illness
And I'll be able to make it on day
I might have to be intubated
I won't be on stage that night
I won't be on stage left
I won't be on stage right
I'll just be home that night
Having had
A dick the size of a baby
Slash that regular carrot
Just cut to you at home
Eating a tiny
Carving a baby carrot
Whittling it
Got one down at home
Yes that brings us back
To that theme song
Back to the top
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That he stopped loving her today
Parody
Got went down on today
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Bye
You got went down on today
Not by his wife
I'm sorry to say
Another girl
What was her name
It don't matter
Any way
He feels guilty
He feels small
Betrayed his lady
Dick and all
How will he tell her
What he's done
How will he fight the urge to run
My man's confused on what to do
Maybe he'll write to if I were you
Sure those boys'll know what to say
Maybe just simply I love you babe
She's in the kitchen cleaning plates
Maybe she'll forgive all of his mistakes
Well after all it was only third base
He just needs the perfect phrase
He got went down on today
He knows for his crimes that he must pay
And soon he'll be a man and say
He got went down on today
That was a hit gum original