If I Were You - 76: Bowl Cut (with Streeter Seidell)
Episode Date: May 8, 2014Our buddy Streeter joins us to discuss bisexual boyfriends and globetrotting girlfriends.Thanks to OurTunez for sponsoring this BONUS THURSDAY episode! An awesome free way to discover new music, on yo...ur iPhone or computer: http://bit.ly/1fNA7ulSee omny.fm/listener for privacy information.
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Take it in the air
Every now and then I have a really tough question
And I need some free advice
Take it in the air
Every now and then I get a little bit desperate
And then I go on Tinder
Take it in the air
Every now and then I get in a sticky situation
Then I have nowhere to turn
Take it in the air
Every now and then I go into a star box
And I swear I wanna kill myself
Take it in the air
Forever and I
Every now and then I seize the cheese
Take it in the air
Forever and I
Every now and then I seize the cheese
And I need your advice
I fucking need it more than ever
And if you only make fun of me
I swear that I'll hit you forever
And you better swipe me right
Cause if you don't I'll still trail
Wherever you told I'll follow you there
I'm gonna turn off the podcast
Cause I do the Clare
I do the Clare
I don't know what to do
So I'll ask if I will you
I'll take an advice even from a freaking Jew
I really need your advice
Cause this is forever and I
Cause this is forever
And once in a lifetime I was hashtagged up
But now I'm only hashtagged up
There's nothing I can do
A total eclipse of the hand
So long!
So long!
I like that this guy isn't necessarily a good singer
But he just fucking went for like one of the hardest songs to sing
It's like the beginner skier just like
I think I'll try this double black diamond and see what happens
I guess it worked
I admire his bravery
And I admire that he forced his little sister into singing the chorus
That's what you imagine
Get over here, Rachel!
Just stay in cheek in a mirror
Make the fart noise at the end and it will be good
Hey, Streeter's here
Hey, that song was so long
You just made me sit here for two minutes
That's actually just the first half of it
Let's play the second half right now
The second verse
Take a little intermission
Um, yeah
I thought at the very least he went for it
Well, what's his name?
Oh, it's two guys
So we can never talk about it again
Actually, I don't know, there's no girl
Two people came together to make that?
My god
Instead of it's from Colin and Corey
Maybe Corey's a woman?
There was definitely a girl's voice in that chorus
He could have pitch shifted it
Yeah, it was all auto-tuned
I know it was
I can sing that
I can sing that high
If the auto-tune did, it would have been in tune
Bright eyes every night that I see the cheese
He also, like, important to threaten us
If you make fun of us, I'll hate you forever
Because he hates you forever
I'll snail trail your house
He'll follow us to a live show and hurt us
Yeah, that's threatening
If that was Colin or Corey
Who's making those threats
It was Corey
It's more of a Corey move
Colin's a girl's name too, isn't it?
Could be
Could be
You know, nowadays people are so liberal and crazy with their names
It's like anybody can be anything
Hey, buddy
Sorry
Take it easy, I'm a weird neighbor
Liberal and crazy
So wait, are those the same things?
Yeah, those are the same things
Those are the same things too
Crazy liberal
I swear to the god, I saw a woman named Jordan the other day
Jordan
You were wondering why we were losing to China
That's not the reason though
Oh, so what's the reason?
The woman you met named Jordan was Chinese
Jordan Lee
Hey, this is If I Were You, the only advice podcast on the internet hosted by us
I'm Jake
And I'm Amir
Yeah
And I'm Streeter
Yeah
Streeter, are you our first three-time guest?
Really?
Is it your third time?
I think it is
It's either third or fourth
Wow, you've been on so long you don't even remember how many times
Yeah, and I haven't even listened to it ever
That's bold
Is it good?
We've edited each one of your episodes really heavily
Oh really?
Thanks for that
We usually don't even touch them, but when you're on we record for two and a half hours
and cut it down to the best 41 minutes
I say a lot of stuff
We pitch-shifted and make you Alice and Williams
Yeah
Two of the Alice and Williams episodes was Streeter on the autotune
So how does it work?
We get emails from people in difficult places
They email us at IfIWereYouShow at gmail.com with their problems
and we do our best to advise them out of it
Sometimes it's just us too
and sometimes we have our best friend, Streeter on
Oh, am I your best friend?
I guess you're in the circle
Oh wow, I'm in like, do you think I'm top five?
Dual friends
Top five
It's a big ask and you know what?
Don't feel a ton of pressure to say yes
Just because you're not in my top five
Because I did email you my list and you were not on it
Yeah, I got your list
You got my list
Your list technically was your bachelor party that me and Jake weren't invited to
Wow, okay, whoa, whoa, whoa
We're gonna get real, things took a feel
Dude, you know maybe I would have invited you if you ever invited me over to your apartment in New York
You never went to one apartment with this?
Not once, one time I went when he lived with David
In the East Village
In the East Village in 2005
To be fair, that wasn't quite an apartment, it was like a...
That's true
It was a ret
If we had your bachelor party now we'd be invited
Definitely
And you know who wouldn't? Jeff Rubin
Yeah, kicked off, bumped out
Peace out Rubin, hello Jake and Amir
Two people step in to fill his shoes
He does wear, oddly enough, this is a cool Jeff Rubin fact
He wears a size 15 and a half
There are seven sizes too big, but he still wears them
Have you seen him dunk?
Yeah
He enters and wins those like crazy dunk competitions all the time
Yeah, the end one
The end one?
Sure, like semi-professional competition
He goes to New York to West 4th Street, he just balls there
He just balls
He has a 47 inch vertical, it's crazy, they call him the helicopter
He jumped over a Honda Civic as part of a Honda stunt thing
The Blake Griffin of nerds
Guys, can I just say one of my biggest regrets is that I didn't invite you to my bachelor party
Really?
Yeah, just because I brought it up
No, I've always thought that that was a bad move
We were guys in Pat
We were on the cusp
But you know, bachelor parties are hard, you can only invite so many people
My theory is more than six people are impossible to move
More than six?
Yeah, so it's like if you have a group of more than six people just getting places and agreeing on shit to do
becomes super annoying
Especially when you're on mushrooms
Yeah, when you're on a lot of mushrooms
and you're going skydiving, that's like a difficult thing to do with a large group
Skydiving on mushrooms?
No, but the dude, my instructor guy almost dosed me on acid
What?
When we were walking to the plane, he was like, you want a cert? You know, certs, like the mince?
Yeah
And I was like, yeah, sure
And I took one and I was about to put it in my mouth and he was like, whoa, wait a minute, that one has acid on it
On it?
It's not acid, it just drops
And so that would have been interesting
And then he ate it
He would not, he just referred to himself as Batman and he wouldn't
I was like, but what's your name? He's like Batman
My name's Batman
Oh no
Anyway, attach yourself to my body and let's jump out of an airplane
Your life is in my hands
I'm Batman
Do you know how this parachute thing works?
You know what, we'll figure it out
I got a cape just in case
Oops, I ate the acid cert
I would be concerned enough just that he still had certs
The problem is all the skydiving people are so cool, you can't back down ever, you know
You don't want to look like a loser in front of them
In front of Batman
Not in front of a professional skydiver
Exactly
You know all the bad ones have been killed already
So that's why you feel safe, because the good ones have survived long enough
That's not fair, that's just bad parachutes, not bad skydiving
It's sort of Darwinian
There's no such thing as a bad parachute
Only a bad skydive
Only bad humans
Alright, should we get started?
We need some fake names
We're going to give these real emails from real people fake names to preserve their anonymity
Should we do trophy wife characters?
Oh shit
Yeah, straighter rates for trophy wife every Tuesday night
Well, just next Tuesday
And then it's over
Wait, did your episode come out?
Mine was last night
Holy shit
New ratings low
Really?
People actually tuned out when they saw your name in the opening credits
They did
Massive drop off
I do think it was the lowest rated one
Oh really?
I think so
I'm sure it had nothing to do with you
It's always one week delayed, so it had to do with the episode before last
No, no, mine opened with a reading of mine conf
21 minutes
22 solid minutes
It went through the commercial break
Yeah, so can you give us names from trophy wife, the show on ABC that you write for?
Sure
We need a female name
Oh, you need a female name?
Kate is the main lady
What if you couldn't think of it?
Sometimes I just think of the actor's name
Bradley
No
Kate
Kate writes
Hey dudes, so I have been in a steady relationship with my boyfriend for five years now
And recently he has opened up about some things that he wants to try
He wants to have sex with his male friend in college
He says it's strictly for having the experience and that there would be no feelings involved
I feel very uncomfortable about this
We have done anal play with a dildo and had anal sex and I even licked his asshole
But he is still dead set on having this experience with his bisexual friend
How should I feel about this?
What else can I do to shake these urges he's having?
I consider it cheating, but he insists it's not
Please help
Let's start with that last question, is do you think this is cheating?
If I fucked you, would it be cheating on my girlfriend?
Yeah
Yeah, definitely
It would?
It doesn't matter what you think it is, it's how your partner would view it
But that's a dangerous game, because what if your partner is like, I think watching porn is cheating
So is that considered cheating?
I mean, you have to live in their world a little bit
You have to deal with their consequences for what you did
Oh, interesting
That is true
So regardless of how dumb it is
Just by being married is our wisest friend
I can't because I ate some mozzarella cheese last night and I haven't heard the end of it
She is on my ass like stink on shit about the cheese thing
What do you think?
Do you think if you had a girlfriend and she had, well first of all, let's say your wife cheated on you
With another girl
With a girl?
That would be worse
Jesus
Go for it, babe
As long as I can watch
That would be the worst thing if she wouldn't let you watch, it would just be so awful
That would be worse than cheating on you with a guy
Yeah
But I would rather
I wouldn't, I'll tell you what, I wouldn't be into it
You wouldn't be into it or would you mind it less than if she cheated on you with a guy?
Definitely, yeah
There's like a double standard there, I think, and I'm okay with it
Yeah, like she can make out with another girl and that's somewhat fine
Like she has more wiggle room than I do and that's okay with me
Right
I'm fine with that
I would also be less pissed if, one, I had a girlfriend
And two, she hooked up with another girl instead of a guy
You'd be lovely
You'd be less pissed
Does that, what does that make me homophobic or what the opposite is, heterophobic?
Well, it's, you're half open-minded
Yeah
I guess you're
You're such an optimist
It's, it's sort of like, okay, you hooked up with a girl, I guess you maybe have like feelings for women
So there's like something I couldn't offer you there
Right, that's what it is
I think like anything that's, but all, if she did it secretly and you found out, I think that's like, I don't know, that always sucks
You know, at least this guy's being like up front with his girlfriend, he's like, look, I'm having these feelings
I want to explore this
He hasn't cheated on her, he's just like actively asking permission
Well, here's the thing though, this dude's straight lying
Cause he's like, you would not pursue that unless you had emotional feelings leading you in that direction
Yeah
And he's telling her it's just like something he wants to do
I'm just curious man
No one just wants to do that, you know what I mean
I wouldn't feel like, I wouldn't feel like to have my ass pounded by my friend
Man
What's up babe
What the fuck, it's not like feelings are involved, I just want Troy to fucking rail me out
Your dick's not big enough babe
It's just not
Don't get me wrong, I appreciated the rim job, but like, you don't have a dick like Troy and I want to get reamed
Why can't you close your mouth
I don't want to close it
Just in case there's a dick nearby, I want to make sure it's completely elven
I want Troy to give me a fucking pink sock, alright, I want an elephant trunk hanging off the back of my ass
He's lying, this is a bisexual man or maybe a gay man who's like, in transition
Which is probably right, especially because he's in college like experimenting and seeing what's up
Maybe he's like not ready to admit that he's like having gay feelings and he's just like, I'm curious about the experience
Yeah, yeah
No one's curious about that experience unless they're like a little gay, right?
Yeah, well, I guess
Alright, I'm not really on the homophobic
You know what I'm saying, Jake's stuffing a gay kid into a locker right now
You have like, I'm not curious about what it would feel like to have a dude finger my butt
Well, let's just
Well, it feels the same as a girl
This is like not that there's anything wrong with that
Right, yeah, you could be a little gay, we're not saying it's a bad thing, we're just saying that you are a little bit gay
Right, there's like the whole Kinsey scale of like zero to six, you're either a zero or you're not gay at all
Yeah
Which is the best one to be
Totally gay
That's how you guarantee you get into it
It might be the reverse, six is straight and zero is gay
That's why I just go with the three
Yeah, that's what you don't have to worry about
The three, no matter what
I'm smack dab in the middle
I feel like she should maybe, maybe it's time to move on from this fella
Well, her question is how should I be feeling
She's asking permission, if she grants permission then it's not cheating
So she said, how should I be feeling about this, what else can I do to shake these urges he's having
You can't
Nothing
Just break up with him
But if you want to do this, I totally get it, or I don't get it, but I totally, you know, I wish you the best
But I'm not going to be your girlfriend
That's what I would say
Yeah, if you consider it cheating then it is cheating and he shouldn't do it
Right
Or she should be like, alright, I want to hook up with a guy too
Oh, another guy
If you want to explore the benefits and pitfalls of an open relationship, you could do that too
Right
You know what, you just hook up with guys if you want to, I'm going to explore my options as well
Call is bluff
But sometimes that's a little too painful for people and I think it's better to just cut and run
And be like, you know what, go get fucked by your friend at college, I'm just going to race you for my life
I'm just going to say this one thing because I feel like it's important to say, like, they're in college
So it doesn't matter, they can just break up and it's fine
Yeah, college is a wasteland of emotions
College doesn't count
It's true, it's true, yeah, just, you know, just move along
And send them my way, you know, I'll send them straight
I feel like I should, I was talking to you last week when we were in Berkeley
I'm like, I feel like I should be in college now
Like, only now am I emotionally and physically ready to hang out with college kids
Right
When I was in college, I felt like a high schooler trying to act cool
You looked like a high schooler
Yeah, yeah, now that I'm like 31, I finally look like a college kid
And I feel like now I should go back to school
You'd be the king of campus
I think I said this to you in Berkeley that I completely disagree with that statement
Yeah, you said it's better to be peaking now as a 31 year old
Yeah
Than it is to be peaking in college
And that you can still fuck college girls
Right
And I don't have to go to class
Yeah, it's perfect
You don't have to learn anything
Like, you don't have to sit there and fake learn to sleep with these lovely young ones
So you're saying I should just be hanging out on college campuses
No, I also don't think you should be doing that
Well, what the fuck? How am I supposed to get laid, dude?
Tinder
Idiot
He's better in person, Jake
You don't get that
I need to be there
He's not like you, he's not a fucking pretty shell with nothing in it
Alright
Thanks, Street
You heard the crab
You're right
Thanks, Street, I appreciate that I'm pretty
Thanks for letting me sit here, guys
What's the opposite of that?
Gray M&M
I guess, yeah
Yeah, because you're like gross on the outside
Delicious on the inside
Well, not that there's anything wrong with being gray
Not even gross on the outside
I'm not even gross on both PC episodes yet
For any of you guys out there with gray skin
That wasn't meant as a slam on you or anything like that
Is there a Tinder where instead of pictures
You see like funny quips, tweets and stuff like that
And you judge people based on their tweets
Gross
Disgusting
Have you gone on the Tinder date yet?
That one, the same one from like months and months ago
Oh yeah, that's right
I haven't physically met anyone that I met
Or that I met online on Tinder
Wow
I don't know
Very tight
Alright, next question
Yeah
Oh, guys name
Guys name
Go with Burt, Burt's the little kid
The little funny child
That's perfect for this
He's a high schooler in Australia
Hey guys
I'm a high school student in Australia
I'm in a band
The only serious one in my school
And my whole band wants to...
I'm in a band, the only serious one in my school
And my whole band wants to get bowl cuts
My girlfriend of a year
Really doesn't want me to go through with it
Even though I had one when we met
Hope you can help
Is it like a Beatles thing?
Yeah, maybe
Maybe like bowl cuts
Are bowl cuts cool?
Are we back again?
Am I ready to stop putting crap in my hair
And just let it fall forward?
So I guess, yeah
Well, whether or not bowl cuts are cool or not
What do you do when your lady friend
Doesn't want you to do something
That all your guy friends want you to do
You're kind of fucked
Not just your guy friends
You're banned
You're banned
The only serious one in the whole school
I think you just don't do it
You don't?
See, it's basically who do you prioritize
Who do you want to piss off?
Well, who do you spend more time with?
Probably the girlfriend
She's the one that you want to find
You don't care if your bandmates find you attractive
You want the girl that you're with
To find you attractive
But you don't want to seem whipped
That's true
First of all
You have to explore your heart
And be like, what do I want?
Yeah
If he's doing the bowl cut
Just because the band wants him to
And he would rather be like
Having a different haircut
And have his girlfriend find him attractive
Then do that
And if you would rather have a bowl cut
And be one with your band
And tell your girlfriend to get over it
And you can wear a hat around her
Yeah
Then I'll do that
The thing with a bowl cut is
You can just throw some product in there
And style it up
And make it into something else
So it's like
That's not in the spirit of the band
But I'm saying like
Offstage?
I feel like the girlfriend doesn't understand
That that's like the only serious band
In the whole school
Yeah
I'll feel like you don't get it
Okay, mate
I don't know how to do it
I don't know how to do it
If this band did the scoop
I can't do it
I can't
Where's Josh Rubin when you need him?
Let's wait
He's in New York
I'm sure he'll turn up some time
The only serious band in the school
That means
You know what that means?
Yeah
We're so serious we want to get
Matching bowl cuts
We're so serious we don't even play music
Because that's too like carefree
Yeah
A lot of our shit is just
Spoken word poetry
About aborigines
Well here's
Here's what sometimes I do
When it's like girlfriend versus
Other friends
Is you weigh
Like who would be
I usually
Decide to let down the guy friends
Because
When you let down your guy friends
They're not as mad
As when you let down your girlfriend
It doesn't last long
Oh you're not going to get a haircut
Pussy
Alright
What's up
And then girlfriend is like
Okay you got the haircut
It doesn't look that good
And they're like alright sorry
What do you want to do for dinner?
I don't care
Vagina is closed
Fuck
Forever
Now I'm done
Yeah
I'm done with you
I mean I don't blame her
For not wanting him to get a bull cut
Yeah
I don't care if that's
Hey baby do you mind if I'm
Stupid
Do you mind if I'm ugly
For the next six months
Ha
What if I look like a penis
For a little while
It is weird like
When your significant other
Wants to do something
Drastically physical to them
Because it's like
You don't have a right to say
What like
My girlfriend doesn't have
A right to say what I look like
But then it's like
She has to look at it more than I do
And she has to deal with it
More than I do
So it's almost like
She should decide what I look like
Well I think there's also
Some level of you
Or at least there should be
That cares about their opinion
Right
So it's not like
I don't want to piss her off
It's like okay I value
Your viewpoint
You think my hair would look
Way worse as a bull cut
I tend to agree
I think I have a way out
For this guy
Yeah
I think you should make fun
Of his band mates
Relentlessly
For even suggesting
That they all get bull cuts
Like
Just
Aggressively
Make fun of that idea
Yeah
And I think eventually
He'll like
Find the weak link in the band
Like he's honestly
Probably the bass player
Of the drummer
And get
Why do you say that
Get him to flip
Cause they're the non-dominant
Band members
Like that's why I'm so angry
All the time on stage
Like they don't get to
Make any decisions
So if like
He can win one of them
To his side
Then I think he can
Start to sway the
The bull cut idea
The momentum
Yeah just sway it
There's a point to be made
That the bull cut idea
Is very lame
It's very stupid
So let's admit
That right off the bat
Well we don't know
What's going on down there
Man everything is
Topsy-turvy
Bull cuts are cool
Bands are serious
This girlfriend
Might be a crocodile
For all we know
I just feel like
You just see
It's biting off the Beatles
You might as well do
Something original
It is kinda cool to do the Beatles
And even the Beatles
Ditch that bull cut
Pretty quick
Yeah they just
Grew it out
Yeah they were like
Doesn't look that cool
It's cool to come up
With something original
That you all want to do
Yeah
Like all you guys wear
Sunglasses
What about monk haircuts
You know
A tonture
Like a monk haircut
Where you just have
Like a halo of hair
Yeah
That's a good look
Not a lot of people
Are doing that
Yeah
Larry David
So what's this guys ultimate advice
Do what will
Piss off the person
Less is what I say
If your girlfriend
Will be more pissed
Than your band mates
Then
Do what she wants
And if your band
Will be more pissed
Than your girlfriend
Then do what they want
That's bad advice
Do whatever the person
Yeah
Just do whatever will
Make you in the least amount of trouble
No
Do whatever you want
No
No no
That's bad advice
I say anti-bull cut
Do whatever the fuck you want
He doesn't want the bull cut
He doesn't want the bull cut
Don't get the bull cut
Exactly
Get the bull cut
It couldn't matter less
You're in high school
And it's your hair
But you don't understand
Everything's gonna be fun
This matters the most to him
I know
This is the most important thing
In the world right now
Man what a wonderful life this kid leads
Which is why we as 30 year olds
Get to be like
It doesn't matter
We can tell him the truth
We don't have to be like
We don't have to be placating
What would I do in this situation
Whatever the fuck I wanted to
That's it
That's what you do in every situation
Exactly
It worked out pretty damn good
For me didn't it
You have a bull cut
My band's serious
Alright there you have it
Did you guys see Louis last week?
Nah
Okay
Were you on it?
No
Nervous writer
The return of nervous writer
He does this thing where he impersonates
All four Beatles in a row
To make his kids go to sleep
And it's really good
Wow
That's all I gotta say about that
Alright
He does different accents for each one
I feel like I always just do the same accent for him
He says I'm John, I'm George, I'm Paul
Or I'm, is it Paul?
Yeah
I'm Paul I'm Ringo
Oh my god you're such an immigrant
Just like the Beatles
I'm more, I'm as un-American as they are
What is it cheeseburger?
I'd like a cheeseburger please
Yeah
Cheeseburger
Am I saying it right?
Cheeseburger
I know that's saying it right
Oh I'm sorry
You make fun of me
For getting hamburgers instead of cheeseburgers
Yeah
You think cheeseburgers should be the default
I feel like once they invented
Once someone invented a cheeseburger
They should have just stopped making hamburgers
It's such an obvious improvement
So you're saying the cheeseburger should be a hamburger
And a hamburger should be a hamburger without cheese
There should just be no option to get it without cheese
One time Burger King tricked me
Because you have to ask for cheese there
Yeah
And I've never been more angry in my life
And he's never gone back to Burger King
I haven't
Because you said
This is ridiculous
This hamburger has no cheese on it
And they're like sir that's a cheeseburger
And you're like no, no, no, that's a hamburger
Ridiculous
I called my dad
He thought the exact same thing
He was like they got you didn't they?
He's eating it too
The cheese thing
I've been there
I've done that
Oh yeah, oh yeah
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Alright, another lady's name
Ooh, Jackie
Jackie
Boom
Third question from Jackie writes
Hey guys, so here's my dilemma
I'm going to Alaska this summer
To work at a fish processing plant
I went last year and had a great time
Met awesome people and made lots of money
However, this year my girlfriend
Wants to come with me
I love her and spending time with her
But one of the reasons I go up there
Is to get away from the real world for a bit
And I think having her there
Would change that
And it wouldn't be the same experience
How do I tell her that without sounding like a dick
Or does that actually make me a dick
Thanks in advance
Love, what'd you say her name was?
Jackie
Jackie
Is it a girlfriend as in
Wait, what are you talking about?
As in they're a lesbian couple
Or a girlfriend as in her female friend
I think girlfriend is a girlfriend
Like they're a couple
Yeah, you get up and walk away
Excuse me
I'm not into this
Good day, sir
I'm really confused
Why?
Two women
As a couple
She's getting sick over here
Jake's getting sick
Your hair's falling down into a bull cut
More Ben, serious
Yahoo, serious
That's a tough one
Yeah, a vacation to want to get away
And then your girlfriend's like
Oh, I'll come with
And they're like, oh
But I like being away from you
In her hedge
Her girlfriend's like
Oh my god, I'm the sweetest
Like look at me
Going up to stupid Alaska
Rip salmon guts out
Just for you
Right
I feel like that signifies
A fundamental problem in the relationship
Like hey, can I
I'll come with you
Like no, I really like
I really like
Gutting fish by myself
In Alaska
And meeting you
I love your stings
But I want to go to Alaska
And touch dead fish
For a summer
The least appealing thing
You could possibly do
Go to the furthest away
And do the worst thing
And rather do that than you
How about one little ray of sunshine
I'll come along
No, I really like the dead fish
I prefer to be alone with the fish
Actually
I'd like my hand up
In an all-white albacore
Okay
Without you there
I kind of commiserate with this
I haven't quite been able to
Figure out how to
Tell someone
That I'm in a relationship with
That I prefer time apart
Because it seems like
It seems like a slap in the face
But I don't think it necessarily is
Right
Because absence makes the heart grow
Fonder
Yeah
You have to set that shit up
Like early though
Right
Because
I feel like
You have a girlfriend
And she's flying somewhere
And you're like
Oh, I'll drive you to the airport
And that's like
That's like the first three months
Shit
Right
And then like two years later
They're like
Oh, I'm going, I'm flying
And we drive me there
And we're like
Oh, can you fucking take
Cab
Shit
You used to take me to the airport
Yeah
You used to do this
You used to do that
Right
Like obviously the
Used to text me all day
The same first three months
Amir, calm down
That was me on my best behavior
Don't you get that?
I'm leaving a voicemail to your ex-girlfriend
Get off the phone, dude
Amir, we already broke up
You don't have to justify this shit to me anymore
No, but like
No, like understand my motivations here
Because
But do you find yourself being less
You're married
So like do you find yourself
You do less shit
I spent a lot of time away from Vanessa
No, you do
The streeter does real romantic shit
When we were in the Seattle market
You bought her a big box
Of her favorite tea
Right
I thought that was really sweet
That stuff is awesome
But in general do you find yourself doing
Less romantic stuff than you did
Like the first three months
When you're courting her
Maybe
Maybe the frequency is less like
When we first started dating
I was like
Every week it was like
Oh, I gotta do something
I have to like surprise her somehow
And now since we've been married
For a few years it's like
I'll still do that stuff
But it's not as
You know we have life to deal with
Like
I gotta go to work
You guys are contractually obligated
To stay together at this point
Right, yeah
You have no real incentive
To like
Exactly, yeah, yeah, exactly
In the beginning
You have a tabloid agreement
From the son
That's what marriage is?
Contract?
Yeah, yeah, yeah
It's a contract
Cool!
I'll do that
That's what love is
Well it's like
In the beginning relationship
Like you know what's it called
With like a little
The beginning of a fire
Where you're like
Blowing on it
Spark?
No, not a spark
Tinder?
Yeah, tinder
It's just like
You're blowing on like
This little piece of like
Cold that's like
Trying to sustain this thing
And then by the time you're married
It's like a full going fire
You're like
Oh, I mean this thing
Will keep burning on by itself
I don't need one of those
I don't need one of those
Accordian billows things
Would put it the opposite
Of how you put it
Where it starts
It's a raging inferno
And then it
Cools down to a nice
Glowing ember
That's comforting
And warm
Yeah, I guess that's true too
It doesn't make you all hot and sweaty
Right
You know what it is
Like I would never
So since like
I get time away from Vanessa
And we spend time away
It sucks and I miss her
But I would never ever
Then come home
And be like
Hey, I'm going on vacation
With my boys
Right
For a week
Like
You can't do that anymore
Yeah, like when you can
Go away together or whatever
You have to do it
And you should want to do it
And if you don't want to
That's what
Well, what if your life
Was the opposite
What if you were in New York
All the time
You never traveled
And then you had an opportunity
To go on vacation without her
I think it's totally fine
To spend time apart
Like you need time away
From each other
You do
After like three months
Like you said
You need to start being like
Alright, I'm going to
Just like go away for the weekend
With my friends
And like I'll see you after
Right
That's like what keeps you sane
But to go away for a whole summer
Is
That's a lot
That's a big one
Yeah
So why don't we tell her this
She's not a dick
For wanting to go away
But maybe this girlfriend
Can come for only part of the time
Ooh
And you justify that
By telling her like
Oh, I like just being by myself
Not without you
Just by myself
For part of it
So why don't you come for part of it
And then I'm alone for part of it
Especially because
What the fuck is that girl going to do
All summer
While her girlfriend is chilling in
A fish processing plant
Right
Guttin' salmon
Sockeye
We're talking
I guess it's beautiful
You're going high
Line cut
Line cut Sockeye
This sounds kind of dope
I would like to go to Alaska for the summer
You can go
Work on one of those crab boats
Like on Deadliest Catch
I wouldn't mind doing that
I would get like ripped forearms
Such a better life here
I mean like
I really can't stress that enough
But my forearms would be jacked
Your forearms are already jacked
By the way
I wish everyone could see them
I mean my god
We have to do another video episode
Those are just
God damn look at those
Those are his tins
Are you
Is that the Wolverine
Nope
I feel like I'm watching a Wolverine trailer
In HD
Really?
Yeah those forearms look so defined
It's like the definition
It's like a dictionary
I don't even know
Because I live with them every day
Yeah you just get used to it
Yeah
Wow
That's funny
I don't see them grow
Because I see them every day
Yeah
They're like
They're just part of me now I guess
It's just me
Alright
Should we take a little breaky break
A little breather
Just let's calm down
Time
Things are getting a little steamy
In there and I'm sorry
It was
It was heat
It was hot
It was pure heat
Hot hot heat
Any funny stories from the tour?
Karaoke night
Yes
Oh after San Francisco
This tour was way more tame
Right
But you still got very drunk
It was short
Yeah
During the last night I got
Completely shit faced
Because they were
We were like
We were drinking whiskey backstage
Yeah
Then I was drinking vodka redbull backstage
You didn't finish yours
So I drank yours
Yeah
And then during the line
They just kept on like
When people were like coming up to meet us
They just kept on putting shots of whiskey
Oh yeah
Shots of whiskey
That's why that happened
And that's the last
Oh I traded shirts with a random dude
Oh yeah you stole some
Teenager's shirt
Yeah
It's a dope shirt
I actually gave them a really dope shirt though
So I'm kind of
I'm kind of bummed
But
Forgot about that
Then the next memory
And oh wait I have two memories after that
One is watching you guys sing karaoke
Right
Yeah yeah yeah
You two were singing Shaggy
My Angel
Just Angel
Oh yeah sorry
Yeah don't
Wow justify it with a my
You don't have to qualify
You guys were
It was a completely dead karaoke bar
Yeah it was
There's no worse feeling than being drunk
And it's like Sunday night at 11.30
Yeah
Why isn't everyone as drunk and crazy as me
I just want to like go to a crowded place
And yell at strangers
There was just four old people
Not having that song
We but we lit that place up
I actually have a video of it
Do you really?
Yes I have a video of it too
From a phone number that I don't know
You know who it was
It was Garrett
No
Garrett B
Oh
You took video of it
Yeah
Oh dope I want to watch that video
You just wander through it
It's funny your head just like floats in
I also took
After that we went to a diner
Wait do you remember the next
The guy who went after us
Oh yeah he was great too
Yeah what did he say
What did he say a queen song
You were a great one
Yeah
He sang a
Oh yeah he sang
Somebody to love
Yeah which is like karaoke
Like degree of difficulty 9.5 out of 10
And he killed it
Yeah
Slate
It's hard to do Freddie Mercury
Who would have thought
Somebody would do a good
Freddie Mercury
Sing queen
Who would have thought
Then we went to a diner
Because it was the only place
That was open past midnight on a Sunday
And I took a great photo of you
Looking miserable
You turned so quickly
I was really happy for a while
And then in that diner I ordered
Like I ordered
Biscuits and gravy
While we were waiting for
I went to the bathroom for 15 minutes
And puked my brains out
Came back
Fell asleep over your food
Fell asleep over my food
But I also
I think I housed it
It was pretty good
Yeah
Did we go
Did we all go home together
Yeah we all slept
With each other that night
Yeah
Oh wow
We had a loving party
We slept with Dave that night
Did you
We were coming back
We took that weird little hotel
At our weird little hotel
Oh yeah
We mean you went
Because we mean
Streeter on one floor
And you and Dave were on another
Yeah we were walking to the room
And I was just like
Do you want to sleep in my bed
And I was like
Really?
Yeah
And he was like
We just
We slept together all night
It was beautiful
That was a bad hotel
Should we put a hotel on blast
That was the worst
A hotel
A hotel blast
That hotel
Sucked
It was really gross
Sucked
It was very gross
Hotel Union Square
Put them out there on blast now
I felt bad
But you know what
Yeah
The people worked there were nice
Yeah the people worked there
We're not knocking them
They were great
Don't stay there
It's a tenement building
Yeah it looked like
Everybody moved there
In like the 70s
Like when they first get to San Francisco
They get off the bus
And get a room for like
$45
Now we're sounding like assholes
We're like
We got to stay in a hotel
For free on our tour
It was dirty
It was bad
It just looked like
It should be really nice
I think that's what made me so mad
Because it like
Looked really nice
The lobby looked awesome
And I was like
Oh boy
This is a fan
And then you get in the room
And you're like
Oh it's the size of a closet
And there's rats living here
And then a building caught
A fire right next door
Oh yeah
You texted us
You were like
Bomb
Or fire
I thought
Just say fire
You can't assume bomb
I heard an explosion
And I saw smoke
Fillowing up
You heard an explosion
Maybe it was like
A car screeching to a halt
Dude you said bomb
And I swear to God
I thought it was like
9-11
I thought
Well that's what it looked like
It looked like giant
Plumes of smoke
Right next to our hotel
And people were like
Scrambling in the streets
Yeah that's true
But like
Fucking
It really makes me
Feel like we're under attack
It was very scary
I always go for the worst
That way if it's not a bomb
You're relieved
I think it was a grease fire
At a burger king
Yeah within like
50 minutes
Sorry a burger king
Everything was back to normal
You know what it was
Somebody didn't get cheese
On his hand
I went
Yeah
Hey where were you
During that street
Don't worry about it
You were so pissed
That smoke came out of your ears
And that was a fire
You never thought
It was a whopper
Oh I also wanted to mention
Our live podcast
On May 31st
8pm at the Hollywood Improv
Tickets still available
Please come
We're thinking of getting
Some cool special guests
It's not me
That's all we'll say
It's not me
You won't be here on May 31st
I don't think so
You should just move to LA already
Yeah
It's getting kind of annoying
Love to
Although I would say
We probably see you more often
That you visit
Because if you lived here
We could like
We would be like more casual
With how often we saw you
And now that you're
You're staying with us
Every other week
We'd break plans a lot
Yeah
We'd be like
That's cool
You know what
You know what
I'm just like
Nah
I've had a long day
Yeah
I'm busy
Can we push it to 8?
Like actually
You know what
I don't even think I can make it
Oh cool
You see that traffic
And then both of us are just
Like happy
Sitting on our couch
Not seeing each other
That's the best
Malaney joke
Like the most
Real John Malaney
Joke
Is that it's so easy
Not to see
Yeah
He was like
Canceling plans is like
He was like
Gratification
Canceling plans is like
Heroin
That's funny
We had a meeting
Canceled yesterday
We were really happy
Yeah
Just like a two hour
Obligation
Less opportunity
Yeah
It's a meeting with like
A producer who we should
Of course be like
Excited to see
We should be researching
His films
We should be like
Brainstorm and ideas
We should be in there
Pitching ourselves
And instead it's like
We didn't do Jack's
Shit
Meeting
Morning of
They're like
Yeah
We didn't record a podcast
We didn't write anything
We just
You got lunch with your friend
Yeah
With Mike Carnell
We had a day off
Actually
I think we deserved it
Because we had a half day on Monday
Yeah
And it wiped us
And you have a life off
Yeah
Last week in
In San Francisco
We didn't do anything
Yeah
So that was good
We're back from vacation
And now we're sort of
In a different home vacation
We're in the transition
You're in a staycation
We're used to not doing anything
Far away from home
So now we're not going to do
Anything at home
What did you say recently
You're like most people have
Time off
Or their work
And time off
Oh yeah
And then
In there like a third layer
Of like
Extra time off
Or something
And we only have time off
We only have vacation
It's leisure time
It's like
Work
It's work time
Like personal hobby time
And then leisure time
Right
And all we have
Is hobby time
And leisure time
Right
We don't have work time
Yeah
We only have two times
But most people have
40 hour work week
And then in their spare time
They do something still like
Yeah they do something
They're passionate about
Yeah
But it's still work
I'm going to do woodworking
Your rock climbing
Would be
Their free time
Right
So instead we have
A third layer of time
Which is just boredom
Which I deal with
All the time now
Yeah it's absolutely
Nothing time
How can you be bored
Well it's hobby time
You're a writer
Hobby time writing
And then leisure time
Climbing in TV
And then like
I have all this other time
That normally other people
Would be using for their hobbies
And their leisure
Right
But my leisure is already done
And my hobby is already done
You should get a
Yeah by night time
I'm leisureed out
Yeah so then I just
You could be
Got a landscaper dude
Landscaper
You got this big old yard here
You can do some
Skipping out there
That would be cool
I would totally be down for that
But I don't own this place
Look at those plums dude
They're all dead
You gotta
Take care of that shit
There's a trout man
I can't take care of the earth
Alright let's get to the last question
We're already running
Seriously over
I'm such a chatterbox
I'm sorry
People love that shit
They love it
Alright one last question
Give the people what they want
Give the people what they want
Give the people what they
Didn't ask for
Ooh what a girl
Okay that's
Female character
Great news
Trophy wife has
One grown male character
So we got plenty of female options
Let's go with Meg
Meg writes
Here's my situation
I a 20 year old lady
Have recently broken things off
With a 27 year old guy
Who I was only casually dating
For about five months
It turned out that he didn't
Want a serious relationship
And I told him that
If that was the case
Then I couldn't stay around
Fast forward to about three weeks
And here I am
Missing both his company
And the sex
We've talked maybe once
Since we ended things
But I've been debating
Whether or not to try
To talk him into dating me again
However
I'm worried that since
He hasn't really reached out
To me much
That he's lost any
And all interest in me
So what do you guys think
I should do
Should I reach out
Or just leave him be
I would love to hear your opinion
Since he's closer
To your guys' age
Thanks, Meg
Oh, Meg
Meg's 20
Meg would like to renege
Poor little Meg
Poor little Meg
And then her boyfriend
Is 27 or 26
27
They'll do what you was fucking
Casually
Yeah
Oh, it's just a cash
Yeah, well he was like
I wanted to be casual
And she's like
Well, if you're not going to
Treat me seriously
I'm going to leave
And he's like
All right, bye
And then three weeks later
She's like
I'm going to just fuck you
Okay, baby
This is an ultimatum
You got to be serious
About me
Or we're not having sex anymore
All right, we're not going to
Have sex anymore
Okay
Wait
Wait
What
Who are you
Who are you
Well, I've already found
Two other 20-year-olds to fuck
Date me
No
I already said no to that
It's been three weeks
And I'm considering
Asking him to date me again
Yeah, you're already
Asking him to date you
Don't
I don't think
She gets what she wants
Yeah
And neither
No matter what happens
She doesn't get what she wants
No, you don't
Stick to your guns
Exactly
And then at least
At the very least
You will have your self-respect
Because he is
Honey
He's a dickweed
Okay
Let me tell you, sister
He is a dickweed
You could do so much better than him
I don't necessarily think
That he's a dickweed
But he doesn't want anything serious
He told you
And you said
If that's the case
Then I can't be with you
And then you left
And that's it
That's really it
But now she's like
Oh, maybe we can
She told her the truth
Yeah, he was like
Look, I can't give you
What you want
So I'm not going to waste your time
And she's not saying
She wants to
Just fuck
She's saying I'm missing him
And I'm considering
Asking him to date me again
That's what you
Like, you can't go
You
He just didn't talk to you
For three weeks
You can't just go back
And be like
Hey, I actually was really serious
About that offer
Of dating seriously
Right
You can't do that
It's over
It's over
Yeah, I think it's over
I mean, she can try
If she's really broken up
About it
She's no harm in trying
Sounds like she just misses
Boning
No, she doesn't
She's going to miss
You're going to go back
And start boning
And you just get attached
And you're going to feel bad
And then he's going to be like
I get everything I want
I told her I wanted to be casual
And you're like back there
Being like, oh, faux casual
Like, oh, this is so cool
And whatever
I don't care
Can I see you tonight?
Like, no, I'm busy
Oh, yeah, fine
I'll do my thing
Who are you fucking?
If it isn't me, then who?
I thought you'd been through this
You're this 27-year-old
You're the guy
Yes, and don't give me what I want
But it's working
What he's doing is working
Of course it's working
But you have to, as hard as it is
Make it not work
Break the system
You can beat me
I can be vanquished
I'm giving you the fucking road map
And maybe he'll reach out to you one day
What if he reaches out to you
And he's like, hey, can we just have
One casual night?
You think she should say no?
Say no
Definitely say no
Of course not
You think she's going to, though?
No
Yeah, what's that metaphor?
Why buy the cow when you get the milk for free?
Yeah
Why buy the milk when you get the cow for free?
Why drink the cow when you buy the milk for free?
You can take a good look at it
My own cow milk
By sticking your head up a steak's ass
But I'd rather take the cow's worth for it
I want to...
In my head, I imagine this dude
As this nice understanding guy
Who's like, you know what?
Like, I can't make that commitment
And like, I want you to...
You know, I don't want me to stop you
From meeting some great guy
But like, you know in reality
This guy's like a hyper douche
He's just like, whatever
I definitely found another fucking
20-year-old to fuck
So I don't even need you
Like, that's who he really is
The guy that doesn't talk with his mouth closed
I can't close my mouth
I can't close my fucking mouth
And I don't care
Why is it easier for a 27-year-old
To get 20-year-olds than a 20-year-old
To get 20-year-old?
It's almost like age compensates
For attractiveness
It's weird because you can't
As the male in this scenario
It seems like this great deal
But like, you can't be a 25-year-old
Guy going out with a 19-year-old girl
Like, that would suck the worst
For who?
For you!
So you're saying the 19-year-old
It would suck the data 19-year-old?
Yeah, I think it would
But it would not suck
Yeah, me too
But I think girls that age are attracted to older guys
Girls are attracted to older dudes
Yeah
But then I find like, I don't know
When you've hung out with younger girls
Aren't you like, oh god, it's so annoying
I guess it depends on the girl
But yeah, in general
I guess it's better to date someone who's more mature
But what about if you're just interested in boning?
Well, girls are more mature
It doesn't matter
Yeah
Do you subscribe to the Divide Your Age by 2 plus 7 thing?
Like, is 27 and 22, is that too young?
I would say it would be a little
That like, it would just be weird
Because when you're 27, you're in such a different stage in your life
Yeah
You know
I'm 31 and I have to sort of decide
When to cut the age limit off
I would cut yourself off at 27
27, that's high
Maybe 26
You think if I slept with or dated a 25-year-old, that would be weird?
No, I think it would be maybe weird if you dated one for a long time
A 25-year-old?
I don't remember
I feel like if you're out of college, I think 24
That way you're at least out of college for a couple years
I forget the year that my brain turned into an adult brain
But girls are so different
There are girls that are mature at like, 20 and 21, 22
Definitely more mature than I am
Yeah
Sir
And that is why you're on her
I feel that
This is me, this is me like, talking with my hands up
And as a dude, some dad's putting a shotgun at me
She told me she was 16, your honor
That's still too young
Is it?
Oh Christ
I just thought it was hot
Yeah
Can I suggest masturbating to this girl?
That way she's at least having an orgasm and she'll desire him less
Or just like, go out with me
Or does that not work for girls?
I don't know, that's a weird thing, right?
I think that's only a guy thing
Yeah, I think it is
When a guy climaxes, he's like, oh, I don't need sex for the next half hour
Yeah, he's like, oh, my brain will work for one and a half hour
But when a girl orgasms, she might just want another one right away
Yeah, because they can just keep going
It seems like it makes them more awake and guys more tired
Thoughts?
I would agree, 100%
Okay, so take that away, don't masturbate
That's what it is
Remove celibate
Just go out, find another dude that's gonna treat you better
Yeah, do what you need to do, there's so many
Do a 20 year old guy a favor and go do a 20 year old guy
Just don't be with anybody that stresses you out
That's the rule
Also, this guy, whether he sucks or not, he sucks for you
And fucking meet somebody else
Yeah, the best way to get over someone is to find a new person
Boom
Yeah
And Amir is
Single and ready to tingle, I'm actually 27 years old
No
27, I'll straight take you to heaven
27 and 48 months
Alright, that's it, we went long
But you know what, that's gonna happen sometimes
Thank you, Streeter
Thanks for having me, guys
Do you want to plug anything?
I got nothing to plug
What about your TV show?
Well, I guess, oh, when's this come out tomorrow?
Yeah, Thursday
I guess watch the, yeah, the season finale
A trophy wife
If 20 million people watch it, they'll probably bring back
You know what, I think the call will already be made by that point
But, yeah, hopefully there's another season
I have a job, I can move out here, live with you guys
And thanks to Colin and, what was his name?
Corey
Corey and Colin for submitting that theme song
If you have a theme song of your own, or a question of your own
Send it to ifiroyoushowatgmail.com
Where you're just gonna start and end every episode with a
Completely new original theme song
And this last one at the end of this episode
Was written by Rudy
Rudy, I guess it's an adventure time parody, so, yeah
Thanks for listening, everybody
We'll be back on Monday
Peace