If I Were You - 91: Meddling
Episode Date: July 28, 2014In this episode we discuss honesty, honestly.This episode is brought to you by Squarespace.com! The easiest way to create an awesome website.See omny.fm/listener for privacy information....
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Uh-huh, you'll have one last problem after this, girl!
Jake and Amir is gonna help ya, they really wanna help you
That's why they started a podcast that is called
If I were you tell them your problems
And they will solve them with their humor
And a lot of jokes at your expense
The head in the clouds got no weight on my shoulders
Things do just strange as I listen to online
I got one last one last problem
Thanks to Jake and Amir, send your question to
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Peace! I'm outta here!
Well, I mean start the show, that's what I meant
Phillip from Sweden
Very, very, very nice, very Phillip
From Sweden
That was very classic him, wasn't it?
Isn't it good that other countries have to learn our language?
That way they can sing our songs and submit to our podcasts and listen to our shows
You're a bad person, I don't want to
Can you imagine if we had to learn the languages of all of our fans?
That would be a waste of our time
What if our fans in Thailand
You don't deserve to have fans
Let alone worldwide audience
Because you're not happy that you have them, you're just happy that they speak your language
I'm Mr. Worldwide actually
I have lipstick stamps on my passport
I think I need a new one
Because look at all these stamps on it, it's ruined my passport
It's unusable
Plus I'm due for a renewal anyway
Border control doesn't accept this
Lipstick stamps? Where were you?
The Virgin Islands?
Hey, this is If I Were You, the only advice podcast on the internet hosted by us
I'm Jake
And I'm Amir
I like that we swing now
Not talking about the intro, we literally, we swing
Not talking about dancing either
We swing, I'm not talking about a tire on a tree either
Yeah, we actually
We fuck each other
Okay, I was talking about golfing
Oh
We go golfing together
It's golf swing
We fuck each other afterwards
I don't think that's swinging though
That's just something we do
Swinging is if we had wives and we switched it up
Yeah, the opposite of swinging, we just fuck each other
Would you ever swing if you had, if you were married
And things were getting a little stale and then another married couple came over
Maybe if things were getting really, really stale
And I didn't feel threatened by the other dude
You'd imagine a world where you could swing
I'd have to really, really, really, really want to fuck this dude's wife
Yeah, of course
Yeah, I don't know, that's sort of like
If you had a wife and you could fuck Natalie Portman
I would do it, sorry
What was the question?
You had to kill your wife
I would do it
Sorry, what was the other question?
You had to kill your wife in order to fuck Natalie Portman
I would do it
You're a murderer
Fuck it, I'm gonna fuck my wife and hope for the best
I feel like it's gonna lead to the Portman blow
At least
At the very least, we'll go to third base
How about I strangle my wife, she goes into a medically induced coma
And even if nothing happens with me and Portman
You know, I'll go to my grave knowing that I tried
At the very least, I'd like to finger her for a strangle
I'll strangle for a finger
Anybody listening has a line out there
So how does it work?
We get emails from people
And these people are in desperate situations
They email us at a fireyoushow at gmail.com
They ask our advice
And this is the show in which we do it
Interesting, this is the show
I wouldn't say it's better
This is the show in which we give it
This is the show in which we do it
Alright
In which we give said advice
In which we, people email people
Excuse me
You're high
People email us in their questions
Asking for advice
This is the show
Where we do it
Then we have another show
Where we don't do it
That's a different show entirely
Just the one you did with Ben
This is the one that we do
The advice one
It's funny how 90's some odd episodes
And still, still perfecting the explanation
Not quite 100%
I would say it's charming
I think we perfected the art of charming through the intro
Yeah
I mean at the very least we got expensive microphones
That's pretty good
That's an improvement
That's saying something
Yeah, we spent money
We spent cash, honey
The idea, this voice is good
What?
Nothing actually
Dude, let's do the whole entire podcast in that voice
Alright, let's treat me like one of your lovers
Fuck, alright
Fuck, I'm locked into this
Oh no, baby
I don't even know what I'm trying to...
What do you imagine when I do that?
An old drunk lady?
Yeah, I guess an old...
Or like an effeminate younger man?
Yeah, I think I was imagining more of like
An older effeminate man
Yeah, either way I'm smoking a cigarette out of
Like one of those cigarette extenders
Right, definitely
Yeah, bitch
What was that about?
What are those?
Like what's the point?
So I don't get cigarettes in all my fucking fingers
Is it?
No, no, no
Just like a really long e-cigarette though
An e-cigarette extender
What's the point of the cigarette extenders?
Is it so that your fingers don't smell like cigarettes?
Maybe
Maybe it's like just kind of sexy looking
I don't know, I'm not an expert in that
Or in anything
Hey, let's answer some questions
Alright
This guy says he has a quick question
So maybe we should start with that one
That sounds good
Just a quick question
What should we call this dude?
Keep in mind he's English
Let's call him
Let's call him the most famous English person I know
Hugh Laurie
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
Is a close second to Hugh Laurie
Hugh Laurie it is
Hugh Laurie writes
Hey Amir and the pinch
Here's the situation
Here's the situation
Got my Tinder game on point
And I've been talking to this girl who's pretty down to bang
Problem is I'm not sure if I want to
Due to the fact that I don't find her attractive
Should I just hit it and quit it?
She's made it clear she wants a relationship
But I don't feel like she's the one
So am I a diva scumbag for fucking her?
Thanks, Hugh Laurie
Hugh Laurie
Yeah
Mr. Laurie, how's MD himself?
He's hilarious
Wait, he said
He said this girl's down to bang
But I don't find her attractive
She wants a relationship
Is it on Tinder?
Yeah
You don't have to have a...
No, why does she...
He's worried that she wants to have a relationship
He's worried that he shouldn't fuck a girl
That he's not attracted to
Because it's like
Oh, he's leading her on in some way
I think he is attracted to her
Oh
If he wants to fuck her then he's attracted to her
He's just like
Oh, but she's not conventionally attractive
So I wouldn't want to date her
Or bring her around to my friends
But if he's gonna fuck her
He's like
I'm not attracted to her
I fuck ugly people
Yeah, I fuck ugly people all the time
But I'm attracted to them
Would you say
But having you also slept with people
You're not attracted to?
Oh, yeah, definitely
But I'm attracted to them in some way
When you get drunk you get attracted to them
Well, yeah, that's pretty easy
But also like
Even when they're ugly
I'm probably attracted to them
In some like
Deep, dark corner of my body
Yeah
And the deepest, darkest corner of theirs
Just, yeah
Well, yeah, definitely
Right
Our genitals
The deepest, darkest parts
So I guess it's weird
Because it's like
Oh, don't sleep with someone
You're not attracted to
But by definition
If you sleep with them
Are you attracted to them?
Yeah, like
I'm not
Sorry, I'm just like
Really not into you
Oh, my penis is hard
Your vagina's wet
I guess we are
Yeah, anatomically
Our bodies are saying that we are
So I guess I am attracted to you
So you're saying
If you felt
If he feels this way
It's just for a moment
Maybe you could be with someone
Maybe you could like be around someone
Like, oh, this guy's gross
This girl's gross
And then like
Something happens
You're like, whoa, I'm riled up
I'm turned down
And then you do it
And you like come
And then you're like, oh, shit
I wasn't feeling that
As much as I thought it was
Yeah, I feel bad
So maybe he can see that
He can see himself doing that
And he's worried because
He might feel bad
Because she wants more
Right
He's quote unquote
Leading her on, perhaps
Well, it sounds like
They have
They've matched on Tinder
And she wants to bang
And she wants to
A relationship
It doesn't sound like it's that serious
You're probably not like
So maybe this is what he should do
He should say
Hey, I really don't want a relationship
But I'm down to hang out
Right
That means like
Hey, I'm down to sleep with you
But I don't want to see you
Ever again after the fact
Yeah, it's like
Hey, yeah, let's meet up
I just like
If you're worried
You know, I think you would say
Something like
Hey, let's meet up
Just to be totally upfront
I'm not looking for anything serious
But I think it'd be fun
To meet up sometime
Oh, yeah
Then that's like the
That's the vague, polite, socially normal way of saying
I don't want to date you
But I'm down to bone once or twice
Yeah
And if she responds to that
Then you can go for it
You don't have to feel bad
You're not a scumbag
Right
But if she says no
Then it's like
Okay, you don't have to lie to her
And be like
No, never mind
I do want a relationship
And then sleep with her
And then
Yeah, I think you go with this
This is the method
The path of least resistance
Right
Which is the honest truth
Always
Almost always the truth will set you free
Except when it doesn't
In which case the lie sets you free
And I can actually get behind that, bitch
Yeah, it's like American
Or English is not your first language
No, yeah, I learned it like
Club
30 years ago
So how old are you?
48
But I've been 48 for 12 years
You're dead
Yeah
You're an old gay skeleton
That's what that character is
I'm melting
Alright, next question
Yeah
This one's pretty great
What, are we just doing British people?
We're giving these real emails
From real people fake names
To preserve their anonymity
In case y'all were wondering
We're giving these real people British names
To preserve their British anonymity
Yeah
They're completely untraceable in England
But you know who they are everywhere else in the world
Another Englishman
Perhaps an Englishman who went up a mountain
And came down, or went up a hill
And came down a mountain
Huh?
It's a Hugh Grant movie
I was gonna say Sir Edmund Hillary
The guy that climbed Mount Everest
Okay, that works too
You're choosing Sirs and I'm choosing Hugh's
So Hugh Grant writes
Hey guys, help out if you can
I cheated on my GF of three years
Like three weeks ago
With someone I met at work
Got her number and had sex like three hours later
Never saw her again
She was in NY for a week
And she moved back to Oklahoma or whatever
So I felt like she would never find out
Since the girl's not from around here
But she like fell in love with me
And kept texting me
And I was all like
It was a one night stand
Like chill and deleted her number
And my girlfriend read one of her incoming texts
On my phone
Saying I miss your dick or something crazy
And found out that I cheated on her
After talking to this girl who told her everything
I wanna get my GF back
It's been two days
And I explained everything honestly
In emails to her
That I did it like a hundreds of girls
Before that word DTF
And it was a one time thing
And I really do love her
And I fucked up
It's been two days
And this other girl has been sleeping over
At my crib
I've been seeing two
And wants to be with me
Like waiting for me
In my girlfriend to break up
But my question is
How can I get my GF back
After cheating on her
Because I really do love her
And I want to be with her
And is it cool for me to be with this other girl
While me and my ex are on a break
Because, you know, I need that sex
Like question mark, question mark
What?
Love Hugh Grant
Hugh, that guy's probably our coolest fan
Right?
It's funny to say that this guy who's serial
Cheats on his girlfriend is our coolest fan
Yeah
But yeah, he is
Definitely
Yeah
So this girl be like
What?
And then his girlfriend be like
What?
And now he has this other GF
Girl who's over
Can I sleep with her?
I deaded like a hundred girls
Yeah, that's like a
That's a cool
Yeah, it's a cool word
To say I deaded
I gotta dead that girl, man
Imagine being so attractive
That you have to come up with a word
For rejecting the girls that
All want to sleep with you
That is really cool
Yeah
Three years, cheats on her once
With someone that you thought
It was safe because
That girl was leaving town
Yeah, moving to Oklahoma or some shit
I think that doesn't make it
Okay, that almost makes it worse
That you're that careful
And also he's still very cavalier
About it
He's like
Now since we're technically on a break
You know, because she's pissed at me
For cheating on her
Can I sleep with this other girl
While I work to earn
My girlfriend's trust back?
I explained to her everything in email
While this other girl was blowing me
Yeah
It's like
Hey, one out of a hundred snuck through
That's a great rate, babe
If you can't handle that
Maybe we shouldn't be together
That's nice
Put it in that math term for
Yeah, like a one percent
Yeah, you're deading ninety-nine percent
Of possible honeys
Deading ninety-nine percent
But this bitch was one
Yeah, this last one
She is the one percent
This girl who is DTF
They're all DTF
Yeah
You know, this guy's such a pimp
That you can't have a one night stand
Without the girl falling in love
He can't shack up
With some girl just like
On the side without her wanting him
And his girlfriend to break up
Like I got a magic dick
Yeah, he's got that magic dick
I got the magic dick
Whoa, is that what that fucking song's about?
Oh, the magic stick
I just realized that sort of sounds like
A dick and it's a slang for a stick
Oh my god
And when he says, I'm going to the candy shop
Keep going till you hit the spot
Yeah, I'll let you lick the lollipop
What is that?
Yeah
What is he talking about?
I think they're talking about popsicles, bitch
Who is that guy?
Why is he dead?
What's his name?
Theodore
Great
Oh, that's his last name
Oh, what's his first name?
Leslie
Leslie
His name is actually Leslie Alvin Theodore
I also kind of like Theodore Leslie
Theodore Leslie the second
You mean junior?
Honey, if you think that
You got another thing coming
What are you talking about Theodore Leslie?
Theodore Alvin Leslie
Doot doot doot doot doot
Leslie
Guaranteed to brighten your day
Great show
I wonder if you'll ever have the problem of
Three girls trying to fuck you at the same time
You know, I've never dead in a girl
But I've put some in a coma
At the very least, I put a few in a coma
At the very least, I'm talking about my wife
Who I strangled in order to finger Natalie Portman
Put her right in a coma
Medically induced, but still
Yeah
So what should this play up do?
I feel like this player needs to play
I feel like he shouldn't be in a relationship
Even you calling him a player
Yeah, I feel like this dude is my dude
You just brought him down a level
Keep in mind this guy listens to podcasts
Yeah, so how cool could he possibly be?
Yeah
As we say into microphones, we record a podcast
Yeah
That's much longer than listening
We're huge losers and our fans are regular losers
You guys are cooler than us
Yeah, that's a win
Which is a small, small honor
Microscopic
So
I feel like this guy should just let this girlfriend go
And instead of deading girls, just livin' him up
Totally, live your life
Take him off life support
Aren't in love with your girlfriend because you cheated on her
And now you're shacked up with somebody else
Can you cheat on your girlfriend if you're still in love with her?
Or do you have to fall out of love in order to cheat?
I...
You know
Coming from somebody who's never cheated on anyone
Ever
It's really tough
Can you put yourself in the shoes of someone?
How do I do that?
How do I put myself in the shoes of a monster?
My feet wouldn't fit in those shoes
Monsters have large feet, I have regular sized feet
So
I don't have a lot in common with a monster
I don't sleep under the bed, I sleep on top of the bed
I don't hide in the closet
I get my clothes from the closet
I guess
Yeah
I'm not a monster
This is a new thing, like daily affirmations
Yeah, I've been doing daily affirmations
Do you still do this?
Um, no
I haven't really done them since I moved to Los Angeles
I hear they're good
I heard on, I think, another podcast
Maybe a Pete's podcast that he does daily affirmations
And it helps
Yeah
He's like, your subconscious doesn't know the difference between you telling yourself you're awesome and other people
That's pretty cool
And it does make sense
I mean, I don't think, I don't do the daily affirmations the same way I used to
But I do, like, a random, like, daily sentence to yourself
Yeah, to psych myself up
Out loud, but he's talking about out loud into the mirror
Like, you're awesome, people like you, you're very cool, you're funny, you're friendly
I'll whisper it to myself in the car
Oh, is that like
I'll say it out loud in the car
Sometimes I'll give myself a pep talk in the car
But it's always in the car
It's never, like, standing in the mirror being like, you are a do-gooder
Yeah
Go get them today
You're capable of making a positive change in the world
Yeah, wow
No, I'm a piece of shit
I do the opposite
I tell myself I'm a garbage man
And I don't mean the kind that pick up your trash
At least those people are productive members of society
Yeah, I'm less than a garbage man
I'm a garbage can
Yeah
I belong in a garbage can
I belong in a dumpster
And I belong in a landfill
Yeah, call me Oscar because I am a grouch
Yes
I'm grumpy and then with due cause
I have nothing to look forward to
Nothing to be happy about in life
Yep
I am a trash garbage man
And I don't even think people can learn a lesson from my sad tale
Because I'm that stupid that
Everything I do is pretty much common sense
Yeah
So
Can you tell me how to get to Suicide Street?
Where were we with this guy?
I tell him that he wasn't in love with his girlfriend
Yeah
When you cheat on somebody
You
I have no idea
Psychology is not really my strong suit
Yeah
I cheat on people all the time and I think I'm in love
So I'll love somebody and then cheat on them
With somebody else that I'm in love with
Right
But for me love is like
Micro spurts
I'm in love
I'm in love
I'm in love
Like a little burst of micro love
And it sounds like this guy might have parts to that
He's like
Loves this girl for three years but then he's like
Been sort of
You know
Deading a lot of girls until he meets one that's like
Gonna leave town so he's like
Oh I'll see what's up here
To Oklahoma or some shit
Yeah
And now you're like
Oh as soon as this girl's broken up with you
You're like
Alright cool I'm single
I'm gonna fuck somebody else until we get back together
It seems like you're sort of like
Taking advantage of this opportunity
But I think that's okay
You're broken up
Stay broken up
Do your thing
I'm totally with you
We agree
For once
Go hook up with that
Hocla homin' again
Hocla homo
Hocla homo
Hocla homo
Yeah
Johnny
Do it sooners
What?
Do it sooners
Rather than later
Yeah
Yeah cause they're the sooner state
Yeah
Absolutely
Thank you
You said psychology wasn't your strong suit
It is now
What is your strong suit?
Um
Er
Not really a suit
But I'm pretty good at looking up
Looking up pornography
Yeah it's not a suit
Finding clips that get me off
Not really a suit
But I've been pretty into Solitaire lately
An iPhone game
Yeah all my strengths are
Kind of embarrassing
But I know a lot about porn
Yeah
So that's good
Mm-hmm
Porn is like your sports for me
Yeah
Yeah
Just good
It's nice
It's good
It's nice to have something in the bag there
Yeah
You know it's useless how much you know about sports
Exactly
And it's at least you're doing something with your
Your knowledge
It's not like I'm jerking off
To
Like
Kobe's 81 point game
You
I've seen you jerk off to that
On YouTube
No that was his 62 and 3 quarters game
He had 62 after 3 vs Dallas
Your dick's growing right now
I'm like a perverted Pinocchio
A basketball Pinocchio
Um
I'm trying to find the third question
Are you ready for the third question?
Oh yeah
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Ooh, a lady's name
A lady British
A British
A lady Britishman
A lady Britishman
A lady Englishman
A female Englishman
A female Brit
Does that even
Or is it like
British people are men
And then like the girls are like
Is it like the lounge
I think it's a girl Britishman
And a dude Britishman
A male
I think no
Girls
Girls
That's what a Scottish person is
Dame
A Scottish person is
A female British person
Oh, I see
We'll figure this out
Before we get to London
Yeah, you should
On September 8th
We're gonna give her a name
Oh, oh, we're not talking about that
Yeah, yeah
Yeah, let's give her
A female British name
Who is the most noble
British woman of all
Ooh, Kate Beckinsale
I was gonna say
The Queen Jerry Halliwell
Oh, very good
The sporty spice
Who is Kate Beckinsale?
Kate Beckinsale is in serendipity
She's cute
Very hot
Would you kill Natalie Portman
To finger Kate Beckinsale?
Wow
I feel like that's such a common question
Yeah, I think so
Holy shit
I'd love if she got arrested for it
I would never hurt anybody
I would never put my harm
A woman, a man, or a child
Even if they were picking on someone
I loved, I wouldn't fight back
I'm sort of a passive pussy
Oh
So let's say some bully is hitting
Literally abusing physically
A brother of mine
Even my father or mother
I would yell at him
I would say stop it, sir
But I would never physically harm anybody
You're a pacifist
Yeah
Jerry Halliwell writes
Yes
Hey guys, love the show
Back in December, I ended things
With my boyfriend of six years
We went on a while without talking
But over the last few months
We've become friendly again
We do normal things together
Eat lunch, occasionally grab drinks, etc
Nothing serious, totally platonic
There aren't any romantic feelings
From us on either end
My problem is that his new girlfriend
Has no idea we've been spending time together
Or that we've been talking again
She's in Texas
They do the long distance thing currently
Whenever we hang out
He tells her he's with the guys or at work
Do I have any obligation to tell her
What's going on?
I don't want to cause problems for them
Or even be involved in their relationship at all
But if I was in her position
I definitely would want to know
Thanks for any advice you can give me
Love Jerry Halliwell
Jerry
Don't lie to us
Jerry
She lied to us or to herself
She's lying to us
She's like, I don't want to cause any problems
I don't want to tell her that we've been hanging out
It's totally not romantic
Should I tattle?
I don't want to get involved
I know I'd want to know
Maybe I'll mention that he lies to her
And hangs out with me
You know what I should do is
If I just tell her we're hanging out
That's kind of weird and platonic
Maybe I should sort of as a goof
Kiss him in a casual way
As a bit
In doing a silly little goof bit
And then it's like, now I have to tell her
I don't want to get involved
I'm just going to let her know
I'm kissing my ex-boyfriend
And then let's see what happens
Maybe that'll lead to them not being
Cause I'm single
So actually that would be kind of convenient
We live in the same city
And I still love him
I'm still very much in love with him
She said that they only hang out all the time
Platonically
Just dinner, drinks and then he lies to his girlfriend
About who he's hanging out with
That's platonic
And you're at the point where you feel uncomfortable enough
That you're considering telling her
So that sounds platonic
It sounds healthy
It sounds like you're not involved
And it sounds good
I'm happy you guys are over each other
And you're living your best lives
This reminds me of all the ex-girlfriends
That I hang out with on a one-on-one basis
You remember that night that you had dinner
With three of your exes and your current girlfriend
Isabella, Theodora and Kelvina
Yeah, Kelvina especially
Yeah, we had a nice
I had a breakfast, lunch and dinner date
A lot, a date obviously
You went to sushi but you found a way
To order huevos rancheros from
A diner next door
And had it delivered via seamless web
So you are
You are meddling
You do still have feelings for him
Or at the very least he still has feelings for you
And you know about it
Yeah, at the very least he's aware
That it's not good for his relationship
To hang out with you so he's lying to his ex
So you're meddling
If you feel bad
You don't have an obligation to do anything
I don't think because this isn't her relationship
The dude's asking you to hang out
If I were you, I would be like
I don't want to do this
Just because it's stupid
Why do you want to hang out
With your ex-boyfriend as
Friends, you should be out there
Meeting new people
This dude already
Was with you, you guys decided
To work so what are you doing
What if she does like him and she's like
Maybe I want to get him away from his girlfriend
Is that mean
Or is it just like
Opening up the possibility
And then it's his decision
I don't know if it's me, it's unhealthy
Is it mean to try to steal a guy away
From another girl if you're a girl
I feel like it's probably
Like if you don't have malicious intent
And you actually like a guy
And he has a girlfriend that's long distance
Mean to try to break them up
I think it's mean to like
Tear at the fabric of a relationship
And like
Metal with it to the point that it falls apart
And then like you've manipulated it
To a certain point
Where you can insert yourself
I think that's mean spirited, I think that's bad
But I think I can see where you're saying
Like
You come in, pure heart rule
You say would you like to go out sometime
Even if you know that that person has
A significant other
That person sees
You know what, maybe I do want to explore this relationship
Maybe then it's on them
To like
Start moving away from their significant other
If he wants to explore some other relationship
But I think it's, I don't think it's good to be like
Metal, metal, metal, metal
You know like
That passive stuff, the planting seeds
Being weird, being shady
Quote on quote platonically
Yeah, I think that, like to have a long con
But to kind of, but to lay out your
Everything on the table, like
By the way, if you are in a relationship
I think we should date, do with that information what you will
Yeah
That's, that's much better
And also it will be ultimately better on your psyche
Because then you're not like
Stringing out and wondering what's going to happen with
Some platonic friendship
Yeah, but don't even want to give yourself the best chance at that
Like if I barely know a girl
She's not going to want to be with me
But if I'm like, oh maybe if we're hanging out a little bit
She realizes what a better guy I am
Than her current boy
And then I
Want to be with somebody that like
Could be that easily
Wooed away, wouldn't you be worried then that
Well I would think no, because she's only wooed because
I'm perfectly compatible with her
And I'm her perfect mate
Have you done this before? No
But I'm deaf considering that
I'm sort of
I'm trying to find a dating site that like
Has people's sleep
Relationships
Isn't that Ashley Madison? Yeah
But I don't want to cheat
I just want to break up other people's relationships
I think it's a little sleazy
It's a little tacky
It's
More than a lot coy
I don't think I like it very much
But if two people are perfect
Like if that's how your parents met
Wouldn't that be a romantic story
Your mom was dating someone else
But I got in there and she chose me
Like oh yeah your mom was going to prom
With Tom Evans but I
But I said I cut in and I said
May I have this dance and then she danced with me
The rest of the night and I took her home
Like oh you guys are crazy
You little teens
But it's another thing to be like I'm 31
My
Crush is 28
Her boyfriend is 5 years older than her
And they've been together for 4 years
And they're thinking about getting married
But I meddled and meddled and meddled
Destroyed a relationship
But if I can destroy it then maybe it wasn't meant to be
Yeah
Don't you want your relationship to be unmeddlable
Alright
Or is every relationship meddlable
Like if you're an earthquake
There's an earthquake and a building falls down
You're like well that building wasn't structurally sound
It didn't have a good foundation
Yeah but like you don't have to build
Structurally sound buildings everywhere
Because there's not always supposed to be earthquakes
Oh so you're talking about
This only works for couples in San Francisco
Along the San Andreas Falls
It's just like it's not necessarily fair
For somebody to have like a normal
Seemingly healthy relationship
But unfortunately it wasn't built to withstand
This onslaught of you
Being like
You tearing down the walls
Okay
What if the boyfriend is a loser
You didn't say that
Yeah
Then of course
What if it's an asshole and you're like
Oh this guy's kind of a douche
Everybody's kind of a douche all the time
You know a guy that you don't like
If his girlfriend was awesome
And you got along with him
Why are you dating this douche
Wouldn't you try to break them up
I don't know because I don't know what guys are really like
When they're just with their girlfriends
I see people for like
30 seconds
At a time
And if they say one sentence that I don't like
This is shit in my mind
So they're in a relationship
Where they're talking for hours and hours
And he's opening up about his relationship
With his mother and his hopes and dreams
And like maybe he is like
A beautiful person because I don't think there are a lot of people
In the world who are inherently evil
Or a douche loser
All the time
So I don't know
It's a tough one
It would really depend how tight
Or pussy was
No, I really wouldn't want to mess with love
Is what I'm saying
Love is sacred
What do you think
America tweeted us
What do you think? You think it's fine
I think it might be fine
I think if a relationship is
Meddlable
Like if this guy is seeing this girl
Hanging out with this girl
If I was in a great relationship
I wouldn't hang out with my ex-girlfriend
If a relationship is meddlable
He's opening it up to get meddled with
And it deserves to
Have this outside force
Perhaps try to chisel away
At the very fabric of the relationship
If you're
If a relationship is meddlable
I think you at least, this is like perfect world
Because this never happens
You would owe it to the guy
To be like, hey
I'm gonna start pursuing your girlfriend
May the best man win
And he's like, alright good
Game on, I'm gonna start courting her
All over again, buying her flowers
Doing everything that
That's cool for her
Because she gets the benefit of
Two guys trying to woo her
Here's the basketball analogy
There's free agents
Free agents can sign with anybody
But then there's something called
The restricted free agents
Which means
If you're the team that has that person
Anybody can pursue that free agent
But you have the right to match
So what you're wanting is
A restricted free agency where it's like
Any guy can come aboard and make
Their case, but if they offer them
A dollar amount or a love amount
Or a personality, at least
Give me the opportunity to match so that she can choose me
I think that's fair, but that's meddling
What this girl is doing is meddling
What this girl is doing, yes, she's meddling
I think if you are genuinely saying
I don't want to meddle
And I don't want to be involved in their relationship
Then what you should do
Isn't tell the girl
Like you're of course becoming
Involved in the relationship
If you tell her that you're hanging out
If you genuinely don't want to be a part of it
Stop hanging out with him
Make a new friend
Let me say this caveat
Meddling is okay if you want to be in a relationship
If you want to replace that relationship
It's not okay if you're just trying to
Like fuck the other person
And then get rid of her
Cause then it sort of fucks the other person over
Cause then it's like, oh get rid of your relationship
So that I can sleep with you
And then you have nothing
I'm saying it's meddling is okay if you're able to
Provide something better than what you are meddling
That's true, but also like
Then you should be aware
I mean I don't completely agree with you
But you should also be aware of the consequences
When you start meddling
The consequences are they break up
So if you want them to break up
And for this person to be single
Or lover to be heartbroken
And you want to like pick up the pieces
Then
I guess
I think you're stupid but go for it
And that's slightly better than somebody who's like
I'm just going to meddle until they break up
And then I'm going to fuck her and go away
Right, that's bad
I mean I don't think either of them are good
I feel like there are enough single people out there
That
They should, that's
That's the dating pool
But doesn't the pool also involve
People who are just sitting on the edge
Dipping their toes in
Who are in a bad relationship
You know what
The pool's a wacky place
I don't even think it is a dating pool
I think it's a dating beach
Because the waves are rocky
The tide is strong
And there's a couple sexy lifeguards patrolling the area
Don't you think?
I don't know
I sort of got lost in the metaphor
Yeah
What do we do now that we're at
Like near the 40 minute mark
And
We haven't taken our break yet
Do we need to take a break? We could just power through to the fourth question
Or we should just do a break and then
Because breaks are kind of chill
Oh that's nice, well yeah
Do you have anything you want to talk about on this break?
Yeah, let's do a little break you break
Before we have to go
I think
Anything that happened to me in basketball today
I play basketball
With a bunch of... That's cool
Yeah, basketball is cool
With a bunch of 11 year olds
I had an elementary school
And nobody's really good but I'm not really good either
So it works out but everybody's
Like the locals there are all pretty cool
Because you know, they play basketball
And they're cool or whatever
Cool high schoolers, cool college kids
So I'm always trying to be a little bit cooler
Than I am and today
We were playing
5 on 5 and somebody goes
What's the score?
And I said, instead of 1
You're supposed to say 1s if it's 1-1
You say 1s or 1-up
Or 1-0
But instead I yelled
1sies
And nobody said anything
But I felt like such an idiot
The way I talk normally in this place
Because I would just be like 1sies
And that's fine
But for me to yell 1sies
In a like a pick up basketball game
I wanted to run back to my car
Drive off a cliff
No one said anything the entire time
I mean there were... I don't know
I yelled it so people probably heard it
But I don't know if it registered to them that I was a wiener
God to be so funny if as you're getting in your car
Somebody said good game 1sies
I didn't fucking say 1sies
I said 1sies
I said 1sies
Your nickname on the court is 1sies
I show up on the next day
Wearing a 1sie
A wrestling singlet
Oh man that's sad
1sies
As you twist your ankle
You get a ball in the face
Oh my god what happened
Did you twist your ankle?
People snickering
Shut up dude it really freaking kills
Put this packy of ice on it
Oh no
Oh I wanted to say that we're still going to London
In Manchester too
London, Manchester, Berlin
Just for fun
Yeah we decided on where to spend a week after
Our London shows
And it's
This is in Berlin
Oh Berlin ya
You Americans have so much fun
But you can't quite understand
How well we eat
Germany y'all
So that's going to be fun
We're going to be just sort of doing oppressions and shit
On the Champs Ely Boulevard
And if y'all need me
I'll be eating a vener schnitzel
Twice the side of my head
Bitches
Oh no Theodore Leslie's
Coming back
Full sparkle
Theodore Leslie Leslie Theodore
Theodore Leslie and his twin sister
Leslie Theodore
Why do they have different names
I guess because Leslie
So Theodore Leslie
And Leslie's name
Was Leslie Leslie
But she married someone named Theodore
So Theodore Leslie
And Leslie Theodore
Amazing
Both wearing onesies
So come out the shows are still available
And all of them?
Actually Manchester might be sold out by the time this comes out
Don't quote me on that
Don't quote me on that
That's it we're out of, we're over time
We only answered three questions but we delve deep
I actually do want to know if you guys can tweet at us
What you think
About meddling is it okay
I think it's okay
Or is it never a good idea
Or is it never nice
It's not illegal I just think it's fucked
No yeah I don't think it's fucked
I think it's fine
You think it's fine
It definitely exists in the moral gray area
Yeah
But what do you guys think
My Twitter handle is at Jake and Amir
And Jake's is at Jake Hurwitz
That's right
Follow me on Twitter everybody
I need the followers
I'm working up my courage to send out a tweet
Yeah
It's been a while
It's been a couple since uh yeah
But you're big on Instagram you love the Gram
Same name Jake Hurwitz
I appreciate you
Follow Jake on Instagram
And you know what follow Amir on Instagram
His handle is Jake Hurwitz
Yeah dude if you want to follow either of us on Instagram
It's just Jake Hurwitz
Let go of me
Okay that's it that's our time
The first did I say who the first
Oh yeah we did
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Every show starts and ends with an original theme song
We always need more
Please keep sending them
Uh in Sweden
And this last one is from
Marcus and Laura
And they want us to give a shout out to
DJ Penguin
So thanks Marcus and Laura and DJ Penguin
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Or your own theme songs that email address one last time
Is ifirishow at gmail.com
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