The Basement Yard - Other People's Lives
Episode Date: February 27, 2017On this episode, I have my buddy @GregDybec on to talk about our new show Other People's Lives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
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Welcome back to the basement yard. It's Sunday, February 26th. I'm with my
The one and only the one and only my co-host on the other podcast other people's lives. Mr. Greg die back
You say my name so weird. What is it? Die back. Oh back back. I say die back. Why don't you fucking correct me?
I all this time. I've been fucking it up
Except this one I can interrupt our show whatever I can I can do that now because I'm 25 guys
I turned 25 yesterday
Yeah, it was a good time my friends they all
threw a surprise party for me at a bar and
I didn't drink at all because that I had acid reflux like a fucking 90 year old
I don't know what happened to me. It was 4 a.m. The night before my birthday and I woke up and my
Upper chest and throat felt like they had a fever
Like it was on fire and I was like am I about to throw up like what's going on?
So I just stood up and was standing over the sink and I was like, I guess not and then I just went back to bed
I just I actually know I downloaded a doodle jump
Hell's doodle jump. I'm glad you asked if you go to their site. No
You know, you never heard a doodle jump. It's kind of sounds familiar. It's like it's this game
Where it's just like a hop thing, you know, maybe so you
Yeah, okay, okay
No, I didn't throw up I just had where you felt like yeah, I didn't know what it was
Let me download a game instead
I was like, let me distract myself because if I sit there and I just think about the fact that my throat's on fire
Then I'm gonna like get in my head and just be you know
Smart. Yeah, I try not to be a hypochondriac, you know, because but if I think about it, then I become one and then I start getting cold sweats
I don't want to do that. So the next day I woke up and I was like, you know, obviously looking it up
And it said I either had cancer or acid reflux. So I figured it was acid reflux
Because everything was on fucking WebMD. It's like, do you know, I'm not even making this up. There was a time
where
My hand my left hand was like peeling like everywhere like all over my hand like the bottom of my hand
Yeah, the palm of my hand was like peeling. I don't know why Jesus and I was like, what is going on and
No, I mean I'm making it sound like way worse than it is
but then I looked it up and
Like I just found I found AIDS and I was like AIDS. Yeah, so I was like super nervous
I was like do I have AIDS and I thought that the fact that my pop
was fucking
shedding I guess I
Was like I have AIDS, you know
Once you get lost on like WebMD, it's over and I don't you know
I don't do the whole unprotected sex with random people thing at all. So I had nothing really to worry about
But I was still super nervous
Psych like swap blood or something. Yeah, and you know like you go insane
Like I was playing basketball that one time and that yeah, yeah, I sweat hit me in the lip
I don't know what happened and then you start thinking of like wait like what is going on
And then the last girl before that I had sex with before that
Like I don't know what I was looking for but I just went to her Instagram page
And I remember in her profile in her bio
It said something like be positive and I'm like I don't need to see positive
Like I was just you know, whatever but you definitely want to see I'm a psycho pictures of hers her with other guys
Yeah, like I was like
I would have been you know so deep in I don't know was I was expecting like that day she was posting a
SCD tests on her Instagram or some shit, but
Yeah, I'm done like that, but I thought I had acid reflux, but yeah, I'm 25 now. Well, happy birthday. Thank you
How's it feel 25? I don't really
That's an age where a lot of people freak out cuz it's just I don't I mean I don't I mean a 30
I'm going to lose my shit
You're gonna lose it before that probably. I don't think so. These are all middle ages for me. This means nothing
Yeah, but 21 was a thing in your mid 20s and after 25
You're in like your upper 20s. I
Mean, I don't know. It helps that I have friends who are older than me because I'm like, ah, they're you know
They're not doing anything yet. It's like all my friends were like married and had kids and shit
I'd be like, okay. What oh god, you know what I mean? Cuz then it feels like then the next step is kind of you know
Whatever like thankfully I've you know, I've been
People like the fact that I'm an asshole on the internet
So I know what I'm doing until it crashes and burns you've got your thing for now, right?
So I'm not like too worried about that stuff
And I'm moving into my new place on Wednesday. So I mean that's nice as well. You're making moves. No, yeah
Not bad for 25. Yeah, I mean I give it till 27 and then I'm like, you know crash and burn
I hope I could keep this up for another two years. I have to say though. I was partly involved in the
Planning for this surprise party and you made it so difficult
Right for everyone involved because they were all at a bar and I was like, oh, I'm
Greg texted me in the middle of the day and he's like, you know, you want to stop by Joe's garage
Yeah, my job was to get you to the bar for a drink
I was like it would be us but everyone would be there. Yeah, and then and then you come out with acid reflux
Yeah, none of my friends let me live that down yesterday, by the way
I feel like you're not drinking you got acid reflux you fucking fairy. I was like, yeah, man, sorry
But I didn't drink and then the actual day that was the day before my birthday and then my actual birthday
I literally just stayed home watch black mirror, which is a fucking great show great show my god
Whoever writes those episodes
Amazing, I think it's it's one of the it's one of the best written shows I've ever ever seen it's so spot
Not that I know anything about that
Technology society the satire. It's just oh, it's beautiful guys watch black mirror
You might be a little thrown off by the first episode of the first season, but just keep this power through
It's totally fine
But yeah, what else are we talking about here, I don't fucking know but yesterday was was a lot of fun
I've never had a surprise party thrown for me. The best two was when we finally
Somehow got you to the bar with a small group of friends. Oh, yeah, didn't know everyone else was at the bar
So hold on real quick when I showed up to my house
Some of my friends were there like Greg was there and then like four or five other my friends were there
Surprise I was like, oh shit like and one of my friends had lied and my friend Frankie was like, you know
I can't come this weekend. I have shit to do at work blah blah blah. I was like, okay, whatever. It's no big deal
I don't really celebrate my birthday. Anyway, so he shows up and I was like, oh you fucking liar
You told me blah blah blah so there and then Frankie was like listen
I'm not I wasn't lying about working tomorrow like I actually have to go to work
So like can we actually hit a bar and not just sit in your house? All right, so I was like, all right
Yeah, let's go to a bar and then but I wasn't gonna drink
So I just went to the bar and in the car on the way there
I was like, you know, I have a bold prediction
but I'm gonna save it for later and the prediction was that my friends were gonna be in the bar and
When I walked into the bar, no one was in there, right?
None of my I mean, there was a couple of the people but like there was none of my friends were in there
It wasn't like packed or anything either you could see the whole place. So I was like, all right
I guess I was wrong. So I just went into the bathroom and I'm peeing which is perfect
Yeah, you walked right into the bathroom when you got there, right?
so I went to the bathroom I'm peeing and then two of my friends walk in and
They're just kind of talking to me and my friends like did you tell Frankie about blah blah blah?
And so I was telling him a story and then after that was over
I guess they did that to like stall me so like everyone was like outside around the corner and then came in
So when I came out of the bathroom, they were all there. It was literally like 40 people
It was a lot of people and then it was like surprise and I was like, oh fuck
It was awesome. Dude literally like everyone everyone was there. Yeah, that was awesome. It was crazy
Super dope
My friend Ahmed was fucking drunk as hell. It's just dancing the whole time
You know, remember people used to dance and like take their hat off with like their elbow and I was literally doing that shit
Me and Greg ran house and darts. Oh
Any challengers out there?
8 p.m. Every night and then I just got a new dartboard for my birthday. Actually Keith got me a dartboard
So this will probably be the last you hear from us. Yeah, this is the last episode. Sorry darts from now on all darts
And if I get a ping-pong table, you're never gonna see my face again
You got a sick gift too though that all your friends threw in for oh, yeah all my friends
They got me a signed Eli Manning helmet and like a case to put it in amazing
It's for the man cave. Oh
The man cave is my entire place
That's basically my I feel like
I'm trying to be mature with the stuff that I buy because I'm like this just can't be like a frat house looking thing
Definitely not off to a good start. I know I'm not I have a dartboard and a football. Yeah, right
But uh, like as long as my living room kitchen area looks mature
It's got like a nice couch or something. Yeah, I mean I have that couch out there that I have in here
I'm probably gonna keep because you know, whatever. It's a couch. I don't give a shit, but um
Yeah, I bought some other stuff like I hate to buy dumb shit like I was buying lamps
I'm like the fuck am I buying two lamps two lamps 130 dollars
The fuck I'll light a candle
Give me a fucking
What's that called a lantern?
The fuck I need two of these things. Oh god
It's so stupid. The place is amazing though. No, the place is the place is fucking awesome
And there I haven't seen in person yet, but if those were actual photos that you showed me, it's incredible
No, I made them up
No, yeah, it's it's it's huge. It's it's really it's I want to say it's
probably quadruple the size of the place that I have now
um
It's the best part the best part is the roof. I can't wait. There's a there's a private roof
That's you know, pretty big and there's roof furniture. You can lay down you can sit you could barbecue
And there's an outdoor shower up there. Really? Yeah, it's not like in clothes
It's just like at the beach when you're leaving and you press the button
Oh, right. Yeah, it's like that you have to take your showers up there and no, yeah naked just straight
Because like there's not like other roofs next to you. I think like I don't I can't remember like
They're definitely not on the same level as you like you you can't if you fall off your debt
Basically, that's what I'm saying. Just don't slip on the soap. Exactly. So I mean you could tan naked up there straight up
If you wanted to if you could shower naked on your own roof, like you're on top of the world
Yes, that's incredible
Some people could see you but when are you ever going to see these people, you know
Like there's a big city bank building right behind you and it's like, you know
Hundreds stories or whatever it is, but like you do that far away. Give them some excitement during their work
Yeah, we take some binoculars. You're gonna need them
You know water's cold on the roof
Uh luckily, uh my new landlords they had a uh
Like a bed because like they have like an so it's like three floors sort of
It's a walk up and then you're in the living room and there's a master bedroom an office
Stairs and then when you're at the landing of the top of the stairs, there's the bedroom with a bathroom
And that's where I'm going to use it with my bedroom. The roof is like low because it's like an attic
But like I can stand in it, you know, I'm like 5 10
On a great day. Yeah, I was gonna say I am 5 10. Are you 5 10? Yeah, I guess I'm 5 not yeah, whatever
So like it's it's fine for me. I'm not like 6 4 and they're gonna like have to bend over to whatever
Um, and there's a skylight right above my bed, which is fucking sick
um
And then if on those stairs if you continue going up, that's where you get to the roof
So it's fucking it's awesome, but you're gonna actually live there too. Yeah, I'm actually gonna live there
Yeah, I haven't slept one day here. Yeah, not once so this is this is big for you
Oh, yeah, this is like kind of like your first apartment. Yeah, I got your own right it is
Congrats, and it's not like walking distance. I'm not really nervous. The only thing I'm nervous about is my dog
Uh
Just because like I don't know man
I feel I'll feel bad for him. He you know, he stays with my other dog all the time
And we have a front yard that they go and they can see people walking by and they're entertained like that
Here he's kind of you know, we're on the third floor
And there's not really I mean there's a view like whatever, but it's just me in there
So I feel bad in that aspect. Should just build a giant fence around the roof and like let him chill up there
No, yeah, which is what there's there's fences. There's
Uh
Guard rails or whatever that he definitely can't like jump off of unless he's like
Crazy suicidals. You have to like go for it. You know
My mom was like, what if he sees a bird? I'm like, what?
It's like if I throw a tennis ball two feet in the air, he can't see that
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Yo, I swear to god, that's a lovely question
But I I don't know exactly but I was pretty young
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Oh, it's a it's a big moment for guys. I don't know if people realize that. No, it's huge
I thought I it's like you remember when you're kidding you got new sneakers
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I was pretentious because I had boxers. I'm like, dude, I can't even like hang out with you
Like you're immature. Some people are late bloomers
It's like it's weird because as a kid you have to find out
Like on your own that oh wait, not everyone out there is wearing
Really constricting right white like almost see through like what are these things and then you see boxers
And then you have to like approach your mom or something. It's like, yeah, you're like, yo, I need
Yeah, is that what it's like when you like trying to buy a period for the first time or like buying a bra for the first
Yeah, that's a good example
But yeah, it's like, uh
Yeah, there's something else out there. Yeah, it's I don't know. I remember I remember though specifically
I remember where I was wearing they weren't even mine. They were my older brother's boxers
And they didn't even like fit me. I just wore them because I was like, yo, what's good, you know
So my neighbor next door
I forgot what he said, but he said something and I was like, yo, you don't even wear boxers
I remember specifically saying that and I was under the age of 10. I know that
No, you you feel good in your first pair of boxers. Yeah, but now I'm over boxers. I'm straight up briefs
I don't think to be tight
I can't if I wear a pair of box, you know when it starts to like fold out the top like a fucking
Like a bathing suit or something. Yeah, the fuck is this flopping around
Yeah, I don't like anything constricting my thighs. Like I never wore
Cups in baseball or football or anything because I was like this this fucking hurts
You know, I'm I can't fuck with it. I'll take the dick hit
Safety, I never really got hit in the dick, which is nice, you know, I was good on the field. I was like Ray Ardonius
I could hit. I mean, I can't hit but I could field
Just like just like Ray
Um
But yeah, tiny whiteies are just like a disaster
They're not good. Why do they exist? I don't know and then my dad like I think he still wears them
So like growing up if I ever
For some reason saw my dad in his underwear, which happens. You see you see that like my dad
Majority of the time war is underwear. Yeah, that's it. So so it's like you just think you go through your whole life
Like, oh, I'm gonna be an adult one day still wearing this shit diapers. Yeah. Yeah, dude
And you know, it's you know what else I don't get first of all white
Why why like just asking for dude, we have it's like a sick joke whoever made tiny ways like ha ha everyone's wearing these
Like dude, I have a man ass like sometimes
things
You know
I'm dying to buy a pair of tiny whiteies just to see myself in them. No, I I don't want to like yo like
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Looks like a like a
A dessert like a nightmare like a like a maybe there's like what's a good a tim Burton film. Hmm. That's what they look like
It's bad from like Lord of the Rings or whatever. If you watch porn, that's not real guys asses don't look like that
Tanned and clean and shit. No
Dude, if I scratch my ass
There's there's marks. There's something in my underwear. I'm telling you right now
What does that mean?
What does that even mean?
I've been like skid marks, you know, okay, it happens, bro
I'll be honest. I think I'm the most average wiper in the world. I don't think I'm great
I don't think I'm great
I like baby wipes
You know, I don't fuck with the paper. Yeah, baby. I never think to buy baby wipes
I know, but if you're at someone's place and they have baby wipes, it's like it's like you're on vacation
Yeah, it's like, oh god, I'm not leaving. I'm staying five stars. I'm like, I'm not going home now
I got paper there. And then in school you had that brown paper. It's like, yeah, I'll just wipe my ass with card
Fucking sandpaper. Why don't I?
But anyway, by the way, I just want to quickly address this bathing suits
Okay
I'm talking to all bathing suits right now. I hope you're listening bathing suits. Stop putting nets in your shit
What is that?
What is the nets? I cut all the nets out
What is the point of that?
You're constricting my thighs
and and and uh
Making the tip chafe
Yeah, I would get a rash all the time. That's why I still don't like the beach and then sand gets in the net
Oh, and it's like it's like a torture device. Yeah. God forbid a like a fish got it
Whoever invented tidy whitey's definitely invented the net bathing suit. The net bathing suit is so dumb and they're just fucking with everyone
Yeah, like oh god
It's dumb. It's not easy being a guy
I'm kidding
Oh, I had this conversation the other day. I was like if I had to pick
Every year what I wanted to be at the end of the year guy every time 100%
Every like it's without a doubt
Anyway, um
yeah, so
For those of you who don't know me and Greg have this podcast called other people's lives
and I guess it kind of
started
I mean it was your your idea in the beginning and then we kind of morphed
it together
But what was the original idea?
I think the original idea
I was just I think I mentioned it to you one day
Where I'm just like obsessed with finding ways to learn stories
From strangers and like how like how can I talk to more strangers and the name kind of comes from
In my book. There's a chapter called the art of living other people's lives
Where I just eavesdrop on everyone. I've been doing that for like
Five years
So I collected all these amazing quotes from people that I just heard like walking past them in the street and I'd always write them down
So I think it kind of started there and then I just kept thinking like what other format can this exist in or how?
Can we just reach out to strangers even if they're anonymous and
We were going back and forth. It's hard to do that
Like we had some bad ideas like let's just call random numbers and see who picks up
Yeah, just meet people on the street and ask them to get on the phone with us
Yeah, and that wasn't realistic and then I think as we talked about it more
Kind of the light bulb went off in both our heads like uh the internet exists. Yeah, we should just use that
Yeah, um, so basically, I mean if you haven't seen unlike my
Social media or you have seen it and went fuck that shit. I don't need another fucking show from this piece of garbage
Understandable totally get it but for those of you who are interested
um
On the show we just basically we've been scouring craigslist
I mean craigslist mainly craigslist where where we just look for the most interesting things like
We've had you know the first episode was about a guy who wants to platonically cuddle naked with another man
Right, so he put a craigslist ad up just saying like i'm searching for a guy who will come to my apartment
Get naked
With me and just cuddle and no not a sexual thing. No strictly platonic right just want to cuddle
So we see an ad like that and we're like dude. We gotta fucking talk to this guy. Yeah
So we we literally we email them beforehand and we tell them like hey listen like we have this podcast
We're gonna be recording you
But you know, whatever and then we don't that's it and then we call them on air
And then we just ask them like dude. What's good with you and cuddling other dudes with their dicks out
And you know, they give us these answers and it's all
Here's the thing. So I know how I am
Everybody hears this and goes. Oh, yeah, Joey's shitting on these people
But no, I'm not trying to do that with this. I'm trying to like do like a completely different thing
Where it's just I want to know why people are
Are doing this, you know, I'm not saying like they're wrong or
They're fucking nuts. I'm just saying like
It's interesting to know why people act a certain way
You know this guy actually give you know, just because they believe something. I don't believe I'm not gonna go
I have fucking idiot. Like, you know, I'm you know, I'm a logical person. This is a more serious thing
Exactly when I'm on the internet doing, you know, the other crazy
Shit and people listen if a guy wants to jerk off in a tornado, which one guy did
Uh, in one of my in my craigslist video. So he was like, can you come over and if there's a tornado
We'll go outside. We'll drop off in the tornado
That is a little over the top. But but again, like the videos are me
You know making fun of these people or just kind of like having fun with the idea
But with the podcast we're really diving deep into their
Psyche and just saying like dude. All right. Why why are you doing this? I feel like a lot of people have
Legit answers as to why yeah, and they're they have interest or
Whether it's a fetish or a lifestyle or the way that they were raised
Which is kind of like alternate or they they can't walk around openly and talk about this, you know, this guy can't go to work and say
Hey
Co-workers who wants to cut it with me naked or like, oh, I love like busy after work
I love like in my spare time
Like wearing a diaper like I get home from and this is a real thing
There's like a community like I get home from work and I just wear a diaper or
Trying to think of some others you've seen like
There's adult breastfeeding adult breastfeeding the one who was into
Just come over and spit my mouth. Yeah, that was an interesting one, which we have to reach out to. Yeah, we're trying
Yeah, we've recorded a couple episodes. So we have some in the bank and there's some interesting stuff
um
this
This thursday you guys should go follow the uh the the the soundcloud page
I'm getting it up on itunes
But you could just search other people's lives or on twitter
It's at opl show and then all the episodes were dropped there or if you follow at san agaos. Jesus. I have so many fucking platforms
I'm such an asshole
You follow at san agaos studios. It'll all be there, but um
Yeah, there's just so many things. Yeah, well, we have a couple of people the the um
The one you sent me the other day was really good
Which one is that uh the platonic spanker spanker. Yes another one where it's not
Not sexual. I think he's gay, but he wants to be spanked
By a straight man so that there's no sexual tension that says uh-huh, but yeah spanking and it's like what
Okay, like why spanking like same with cuddling and you know when you listen to that episode
He gave a really profound answer and kind of walked us through
His life up to this point and why it makes perfect sense. So I think like spanking would be interesting too
It's not necessarily a sexual fetish for someone and I think what's cool is
Like this show can become a platform
To hopefully reach other people who have similar interests and that's the thing like these these ads are all over craigslist
They're on the internet places where people can remain anonymous
But there are so many people out there with like these same interests habits fetishes
But they don't get to talk about it openly
So we're just trying to reach out to these people and just
You know learn why and just have a conversation with them
yeah, and I know I make fun of people a lot, but like
I do have an extremely open mind
and
You know, I'm all for it learning why people do certain things at the end of the day
Anyone could do what they want and I'm not going to be like that's wrong. That's dumb. That's whatever
I might say that as a joke, but at the end of the day what I truly believe
I'm just like dude do your thing. You know what I mean? Like you're not bothering anyone
All right, you know unless you're showing up to my house and you're forcing me to spank you
I don't like at that point. I'm like get the fuck off my lawn
But yeah, these are people pushing their beliefs on yeah, no one's doing that
If anything we're trying to get them to tell us, you know, we're begging. Please tell us more about your thing
um
Yeah, it's just it's it's super interesting and and when Greg approached me at the idea. I'm like, dude totally
I'm totally down to do this because there are there are so many
weird things that people are into
Uh, but they they never really say like everyone has weird things about them
I had this conversation once and I was blown away by some of the weird things people have but
I don't know if you have anything like this, but like I have weird
I don't know if they're ocd or if they're just weird things and this is kind of completely unrelated to this
Not completely, but it's just a weird thing that I don't know if anyone is anyone else does but
Listen to how weird this is and this is 100% true. I can't wait to when I am driving my car
And I'm headed towards
a
traffic light
If it's a green light
I'm thinking in my head if I see a yellow light
As I'm passing through this
I'm gonna have a bad day
Really? Yeah
And I don't even know if I believe it, but I will go out of my way to look for a yellow light
Like if I'm driving towards a green light, right?
Like if this turns yellow before I pass through it
It's gonna be a bad day
And even if I pass through it and it's still green I'll look at my review to see when it changes
I swear to god
I do that if you do see it or you don't see a yellow if I know if I don't if I don't see a yellow good day
Okay, but if I do say yellow
Not that it's gonna be a bad day, but it's just like
It's kind of like a game. I guess like I just lost or some shit. You know what I mean?
Like I do that constantly. Yeah, that's I have this thing. I think we're just talking like
OCD tendencies. I guess just like weird. Yeah, I have this thing where like when I take my shoes off
I can't have like one of the shoes like on its side like both shoes always have to be on the ground
And if I see like someone else's I like sometimes I have to stop myself from like fixing a random person's shoe
Yeah, dude. I have so many
just like
Weird things, you know what I do sometimes also a dude. I can't believe like
It's so funny to say these things out loud because you realize how
I guess you feel crazy because you're like no one does this
But maybe people do right, but when I'm taking a shower
I have a glass shower like whatever
and the windows fog
If I
Don't like something in my life
I will write it and then and then wipe it away on the fucking glass
I swear to god. I like that actually. I don't know why I started doing that, but I do that all the time. Wow
Yeah, dude, it's just like
very
Specific things and that's what I think, you know the goal of this podcast is is that we want to find people who have these very specific
and interesting things
because
You know, I was when I was trying to explain this to my mom before we started this whole thing. It was like
Okay, so this guy the naked cutler, right, which is what we call him. I don't even know his real name honestly
But no, I mean most of people remain anonymous, right? So he's the naked cutler to me
So the naked cutler I feel like I love how we give him like superhero names
So the naked cutler, right?
This guy likes to cuddle naked dudes. I am definitely I know
You know, I'm completely comfortable in my sexuality, but I know for a fact that's definitely not something I'm interested in
What I am interested in
Is why he wants to do that. Why?
Are you interested in that? What does it do for you? How does it start?
Whatever, right? His reasoning behind why
He likes to do that or goes out of his way to do that
Could relate to me in other aspects of my life and help me understand that because you get a lot of validation when people
are able to
What's the word
They I don't know
They have like the correct verbiage for your like articulate articulate. That's the word. Wow
It's what I'm here for. Thank you. You wrote a book. I didn't do anything. I went to college for five minutes, but whatever
So they're able to articulate your thoughts and it feels validating when someone's able to explain it
Where someone says something you go, dude, I've been thinking that and like thank you for saying it because now I know how to
You know
Tell other people about it
But that is the whole purpose of it and I love learning about people
I feel like I've been people watching my entire life
like I went to a predominantly Spanish and black middle school and
My public school is in queens the most diverse place in the world
And then my high school was like a catholic high school with it's like straight up white people
It was like a company, you know what I mean? So I was like, I've been around every type of person and I still live in queens
Like it's still the most diverse place. Isn't that crazy. It is the most diverse county in the world
I've heard in the whole world. That's incredible. Uh, so, you know, I I know people of every ethnic background and it's like
I
What a blessing to be able to do that, you know, just like the people who have
Who live wherever and they go to a new place and they see out like a
Spanish person for the first time and like, whoa
Yeah, no, it's such a privilege
Yeah, you're like what diversity in your life
But yeah, I feel like that that also
Has helped me have an open mind because I have been around so many
Different people my entire life and that's why I'm super interested in this podcast and just doing it is so fun
And it's yeah, well because we truly never know what the conversation is going to be. I mean with the second episode that's up
we
Assume this ad for it was like a guy who wants to create a family for lonely men
And we're like, are you alone or lonely need a family? That was the title
So it's like what is this gonna be? Is this just gonna be some weird
Sex thing. Yeah, and I mean like when he started talking about what it actually was
Which didn't come across in the ad like I just remember looking at each other like we were like, oh, what?
Yeah, we were like, oh, okay, uh, I'm an asshole
But yeah, and that it also helps you
you know
Have an open mind when I mean with us doing it
It helps you not judge people in a way because you can read an ad and see this
And take it for face value and just make up your opinions opinions about it
The same way we do when we see people that we cast but may never get to know or you heard something about them
And you go, oh, yeah, fucking that guy is whatever and it's not your opinion
It's someone else's opinion that you just chose to take right and I pride myself on never doing that ever
That's why I like I wear I mean I do it
as a joke, but I I never really
Like I know people talk about shit about celebrities all the time. I never really do that
I always give people benefit benefit of the doubt because I don't know them. I haven't met them
I only see what they what happens on fucking TMZ. Do people follow me around cameras? I'd be a fucking asshole, too
you know what I mean, so
but um
It's cool, and it makes you think that just how
Many strangers we pass throughout the day. I mean, we're in new york city. So it's like
Even just riding the subway or like I always used to think
It's like oh
Like is someone on this train a serial killer like we'd never know
But beyond that it's like who who is going home and putting on a diaper or cuddling naked or has a fetish or
Whatever it may be like you're just never gonna know and it's interesting
to then go out into the world and
Like look at people and think like wow like I have no idea. I think it's also kind of comforting too to know that
You know because I think
You know one of the main insecurities that most people have is that they don't have their shit together and they
uh have
This weird thing that they're interested in and no one else is really interested in it
And I guess that's kind of it makes you feel insecure in a way
But when you find out that people are into a bunch of weird shit, you know what I mean?
It's just no one talks about it because it's not necessarily
Accepted or whatever and hopefully this podcast, you know once we have built a catalog of episodes
It's like now. Here's a ton of stuff
That people that you can hear about people doing like all the weird stuff that they do when they get home
And it's only weird because like it's been labeled weird. Why weird meaning, you know
Out of the norm, right?
And which by the way understand that too, you know completely which by the way the other day I was talking about this
I forgot who was talking to it too, but
I was saying like if you aren't weird like I don't want to talk to you like if you're just going to tell me
Like normal shit all day like the mold of what do something different
You know what I mean? Like do something
Like have a thing like are you that's like at least these people who do quote-unquote weird things are brave enough to actually do them
But to be a person and just go through life and feel like that's weird
I'm not going to do that even though I really want to like how much of a bitch and a boring piece of shit
Can you be like if you're not going to tell me something new don't tell me anything
Like I don't want to like how boring can your life be
And isn't it cool that all the conversations we've had so far? I feel like we walk away like that person was awesome
Or that was a great conversation or like I feel like I would there's been like one where I was kind of like I mean I wouldn't hang out
There's going to be those yeah, I mean but for the most part everyone's like yeah, they have this weird thing
But they're a totally normal person who just have this thing that they like
You know, yeah, and they're just trying to meet like-minded people and
Yeah, it's cool. I mean the people who have agreed and
It's awesome when they do agree to be on the show because I think that does take a lot of courage
Oh to put themselves out there, you know even remaining anonymous
It's their hope that they can talk openly about these things that you know are taboo or stigmatized and
maybe reach other people and help them kind of come out of their shell or
You know understand that it's it's okay to
Be into what you're into or think what you think. Yeah, and I you know, I struggle with like
Because I know this sounds crazy coming from me out of all people because I mean I'm the kid that makes the craigslist videos
the idiots of the internet and
Fucking people of walmart. I just see what they look like and make fun of them like but that that's a different
That's comedy. That's a different thing
right if you want to if you want to say like you want to get on a deep level and like meaning of life and
Uh, you know my real real real opinions
Of course, I would never go up to these people in walmart and be like, huh
Wow, you're a fat slob, huh? Like I am not that person obviously
But as a joke, of course
You know i'm all for that and i'm all for people making jokes about me
I love it. I think it's great. Yeah. No, I mean obviously
Like I I know you
Outside of just your videos and everything too like I knew that this was an idea
I could bring to you to help shape it and create it without worry that
It was going to be like a judgmental thing or making fun of people not at all
I'm super interested in in everything like I I want to know and I think that's the only reason why I'm able to
To make these jokes because for some reason
I I make
With my videos people know that I'm making jokes, but I think for the most part
people who
Watch me for a long time know that
I'm not a like a bad guy and I'm I'm not like
Trying to offend anyone because if anyone who I made fun of like I mean in the beginning
I wasn't really blurring out anyone's face, but I started doing that
Because like I don't want to run into that problem, but if someone hit me up
I'm being like, you know
They they were hurt by what I said in my videos. I would be crushed
I'd be so upset. You know what I mean? Like
Like that is not my intention at all
Like I'm not trying to do that and like people like will send me
Messages all the time like dude. She's fucking shit on this guy's life. I'm like, dude relax. My god
Definitely not the point. Yeah. I like, you know, we're just we're just having fun. Yeah. Well, that's a great thing about comedy
It lets you push those limits because there's I think an understanding that like this is performance
This is comedy. Yeah, it's just it's funny. You know what I mean? And like I'm that's I made a video making fun of myself
It was called on the worst
It's fucking I do it all the time constantly
But you know when I say I'm a piece of shit. I don't go home like I'm I'm a piece of shit
You know what I mean? It's a fucking joke
Yeah, this is uh, is this a
A new side of joe people get to see I hope so
Journalist joe journalist joe. Well, I mean you still get you still get joe. It's still funny. I don't want people to think
No, yeah, no, no people. This isn't like cnn like having fun with these people not at all. Yeah, it's it's a lot of fun, but um
Yeah, well, I mean my opinion is still in everything that I do
Uh
You know, especially with this with this pot with this podcast it's straight up like
These are completely real
Things like I'm asking questions because I'm genuinely yeah, I don't fucking know why you want to do this
You know what I mean? Uh, I of course don't frame the questions that way like dude. What the fuck diapers? What's good dog?
I mean, look at look at the last one we did we spoke to
Two people have have basically dedicated their lives to research
For the belief that the earth is flat right like that's not something I would ever consider
Yeah, like you know and I
To me it's like well who gives like who cares what the fucking shape it is. You know like I don't fucking know but uh
One of the guys said that they that the moon was not real and I was like
What do you mean?
He's like it could be a projection and then I was like like Batman like
They shine the light into the clouds and he shows up like that's the moon
So, I mean that's just one of the things I literally said that to him
But that's one of the things that you know that that episode is going to be up this thursday
Um, yeah, that'll be the third episode. Yeah, so
But yeah, man, it's fucking I loved I loved doing that podcast
Especially when we have like a good episode. It's like oh, dude. Yeah, it's fucking awesome
It's also like I feel like even though we're doing it. So I guess we're more in it, but even if you're
Listening to it
Every day or every week rather if you're listening to every week it kind of changes the way
You move around in society, you know what I mean?
You start to or you kind of just like make up stories about people like this
Like the cashier is like this guy, you know
Could be into some weird shit
Sucking on toes platonically doesn't want to have sex just wants to suck someone's toes
Yeah, there's a lot of weird seemingly sexual
Thing platonic things want to be just want to be spanked just want to cuddle naked straight up
So interesting that one guy just wanted to hang out naked in his apartment. Yeah. Yeah, just a nudist looking for friends
Yeah, and there's something about being like so the nudist thing, right?
The nudist thing
I I feel like I get it
You know what I mean? I don't necessarily do it. But like when you're
Like how good does it because then this is what this is how my thought process is, right?
It's easy to hear about someone who just wants people to come over and just hang out naked with him and go
Fucking what?
So it's easy to do that. But when you really think about it, all right
One of my favorite times of the day is when I get out of the shower
And I'm just like laying in my bed straight up naked because you're just like, yo
You know what I mean? You're just naked. You're just chilling
When you have sex, which is the most like intimate part of your
life, I guess you
are naked
Unless you're not which I don't know why you would not be
Uh, but you're naked that like the I don't know because when you think about it in that way you're kind of
And then you think about where the clothes come from. Why did that start wait? Do you do you keep your socks on during sex?
No
Not really. I mean I do if like
It's like a spur of the moment thing because like I'm not gonna like
Take the time to reach down and grab my socks off kills the mood a little bit. Yeah, like I don't got time for that
I'll get the main stuff off
You know
I'm not reaching all the way down there to get my sock
I'll try to scooch them off with like the bed, you know
She won't notice this happening. I know I know people though who like they need to have their socks on
Or they make people put their socks on put y'all. Can you put them back on? I wonder if there's a sock fetish
I'm sure there is dude. There's a fetish for everything
And you know listening you as a sock fetish
People like to be farted on. Yeah
That'd be a good conversation. I we could find a farter for sure. We will we will see these are what people
We're gonna find and also listen
If you are listening to this and you have a thing that you want. What's the email?
Uh, oh, it's at if you go to opl show dot com
There's a contact form on there and then we'll get you fill that out
Submit it and then we'll get it as an email
Right, so if you have a thing that you that you think is like interesting or one of these unique things that we're talking about
Or you just want to share something it doesn't necessarily have to be an episode if you want to just share something
Because that could spark us
To have a conversation with someone else about something
But if you want to do that just definitely hit up opl show dot com and hit the contact form
And send us an email because I mean we could get on the air with you if you want to do it
Yeah, and if you want to remain anonymous, that's totally cool if you want your voice to be
Changed somehow or something like I mean, I don't really want to do that. But if you know, we had to then sure
Uh, but yeah, if you want to remain completely anonymous
We could do that. So I mean just just let us know but
I don't do this podcast. We just recorded the episode with the flat earthers
Yeah, my head's like still spinning from that. It's like, you know, it's not spinning the flat earth that we're on right now
Space is
Dude, like who knows see because
Here's my thing too. I
Was always one of those people and I'm sure there's a lot of people like me that
I always ask why you know what I mean? Like I never
Growing up. I never not that I didn't respect teachers because I do respect teachers
In that I think they should be paid way more. I think they're
Really hard working. They never stop working. I have uh two friends who are teachers and they just
My girlfriend's a kindergarten teacher. I've never seen anyone work harder. It's insane
Right. My whole thing with teachers when I was younger. I was like, why do I have to listen to this person?
I was like
I was always like, there would be like sit down and everyone would sit and I'd be like, why the fuck would I you know what I mean?
Like
To me, I was always asking questions and that's like a bad example
But I was always asking questions. Why are certain things this way?
Two plus two equals four. Why was
What is numbers? What does that even mean? You know what I mean? Like what are numbers?
The fuck is that? You know what I mean? I would ask those questions like the origin of things
um
And
Yeah, and then I completely forgot where I was going with that. I'll be completely honest. I don't know
I was talking about some shit went right off 80 a
Fuck in 80d. Good night. Wow. Hmm
Well, maybe just like fuck general curiosity you're talking about or I don't know
I'm losing it. I'm 25 now. I'm senile. Yeah
Is your acid reflux kicking in? No, I see you need some pep dough or something. First of all, it's tums pep dough is like your
Same. No. First of all, you have a drink pep dough. Yeah, no wonder it helps fucking
Diarrhea, it's like glue. You're drinking glue and it probably just clogged your asshole
Your shit pink
Jesus right into your tidy whiteies
What the fuck man, what was I talking about there? I don't know
This is leading up to something, but it was like I like I mean I was just talking about how I'm always asking questions
Questioning everything and I guess it was four. I guess kind of this is kind of that this podcast where you're kind of like, why
Is everyone doing that? Oh, this is where I was going with it. Oh, finally. I remembered not that senile yet
but um
You know, we have all these beliefs, right? Let's just talk about the flatter thing real quick
And I'm not saying I believe the earth is flat
but I am open to it being different obviously because
We've been I've just been told that for my whole life
So I'm not just going to take it
For face value just because that's what I've been grown up to believe
Or whatever like I learned new things from different people every day that I didn't know
You know, so why wouldn't this just be another thing?
People used to write crazy shit back people used to think that
You had to throw people in fires to make it rain
And then we learned that's not how that shit goes. You know what I mean?
so
Why can't
The earth be a different shape. I mean, I'm not saying it's flat. It could be round. It could be a fucking
Rumbus
For all I give a shit
Doesn't change my trapezoid. It doesn't change anything about my life. Honestly. It doesn't it could be whatever you want
I am totally on board with whatever shape everyone agrees to
That's it
But yeah, that's just kind of like my whole thing. That's why it might I have an open mind because
Yes, I've been
Brought up to believe certain things and I learned things when I was fucking younger and I was a sponge and just took in all this information
But things can change and things can be untrue and we there's can be new findings and stuff like that
Obviously it's happened
From now since you know
The beginning of time things have changed
When we grew up Pluto was a planet now Pluto is not a planet. Yeah, whatever it was like a star
I don't know whatever and these flat earth people are saying it's not even that's a fucking not even thing. Yeah
Whatever, you know, nothing's real that nothing's real. Everything you know is a is a fucking lie
That's what we're saying
Great point
Yeah, no for me. I think it's it's also the idea that
Like I'm coexisting with these people like
Like from the time I was born to whenever this ends like
Like you're there's so many strangers. There's so many people that you're sharing your space with so just a chance to
Get to know strangers. It's just I don't know. I walk away from these conversations and
Like it's almost like a drug. It's like I like you go through your day
Not interacting with people avoiding people half the time and then to just like sit down and talk to someone who you may never meet
Or
Would never have met
Um, it's just it's awesome because it just reminds you like whatever we're into at the end of the day
Like we're still on the same earth whether it's flat or round, you know, we're all still humans
I feel like I think that's important. I feel like people aren't talking to strangers enough
completely against like
What your parents tell you? I mean, obviously if you're fucking seven, I'll talk to a 40 year old dude
He's gonna and don't be listening to this spot. Yeah, but uh
Yeah, I always said to like being a bartender or something
I was super interested in because you get to just sit there and have conversations
I mean not a you know in a bar that's super packed and you're running around or whatever but like
A bar that's like a dive bar
Like you know, you could have conversations with the bartender and stuff and you get to talk to you just catch
And that's how you learn stuff, you know
I was talking to this bartender one time the guy was in a death metal band. They traveled all over the place
He had all these stories. I sat there. I was hammered
But like you know what I mean like I think you know talking to people and getting out there and and and just
Just talking to strangers is like
Important in a way, you know what I mean once you get to a certain age
You know when you're in a social setting like I love going to bars and talking to strangers. I love it
I'm addicted to that like especially after doing this. I'm addicted to it. I go into bars and
I just talk to anyone anyone who's near me. I want to talk to you. I want to know about your shit
It always ends up being interesting. Yeah, or like nine out of ten times
Yeah, and nine and one out of ten times
I'll just lie about who I am just for no reason just to see how good I am in lying
And then but they still you know, you still find out stuff about them
But yeah, I encourage everyone to talk to to fucking strangers
And I also encourage everyone to listen to the podcast because without listening to you go nowhere
Honestly though, if you guys didn't listen to the podcast, I'm still doing it either way. So suck a dick
Like I just love doing it. We'll find someone who likes it. I'd know
I just like doing it. I'll tell all the strangers about it. I just like doing it. It's fucking awesome
It is really fun and it's and you get to see us like get shocked in real time too. Like this isn't
Planned out like yeah, we have no idea what's going on see the ad there might be an email or two back and forth
Just to explain like
When we're gonna call you. Yeah, but we get on the phone and this is the first time we're speaking to these people
We have no idea where the conversation is gonna go. So, you know half the time or all the time
We're just kind of going with the flow winging it asking the questions that pop into our head in real time
Oh god
Yes, go check that out
Anyway, Greg, where can they find you to contact you?
You can find me at greg dieback
Oh, can I I've been waiting for an opportunity. I gotta say thank you to some people
Oh, here we go because you you had me on one baseman yard. You talked about in the vlog
Obviously, if if people do know me as a recurring character in your life now
I wrote a book called the art of living other people's lives
And since you know, you kind of start talking about it and joe's on the cover
Big shout out to him. Let's go mortalized the back cover. The back cover. He's got a little cover though
But yeah, no people have actually gone out they've read it
They've taken the time to reach out to me and it's just been awesome
I love getting into conversations with people who you know, I've read the book or said they could relate to a story
Or have questions about it. So anyone who did end up picking up the book
Through joe. Thank you. You're awesome. And uh, yeah, never hesitates to reach out. I'm always down to
Talk about a good book. I've seen
I've seen some people be like, it's awesome. This is yeah, it's fucking nuts. Dude. You wrote a book like the fuck
Yeah, well
You're still an asshole to me, but like that's cool for other people who don't know you
All right, they still like me. All right, that's it. Thanks for listening your motherfuckers