The Dogg Zzone by 1900HOTDOG - Dogg Zzone 9000 - Episode 3, Godek
Episode Date: October 1, 2020Seanbaby and Brockway need special guest April O'Neil's help to tackle the collected works of Godek: romance author, hobgoblin, pizza fetishist. Don't try to get nasty after this. Your genitals won't ...work for a week.
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I'm Sean baby from the internet.
With me as always is my co-host and
partner Robert Brockway.
Hello.
And our special guest today
is
actress star director
of erotic films
professional romance
which is very relevant to today's topic
April O'Neill
beautiful and charming
April O'Neill from the internet.
Hi.
I was going to do an intro
where I was going to list funny names
of films you've been in
and some of them are pretty funny.
Oh there's some good ones.
Yeah so I was going through
and I realized as I started doing the bit
that one of the ways you can tell
a genius from a normal is
they can tell when a bit's going to be fucking stupid
like before they're finished with it.
So I bailed on the whole thing
but I did see a Ladik
in your list of titles.
I was going to ask like if you had a couple favorites
that you wanted.
Absolutely a Ladik was great.
I don't know movies I think they're great
because
I want to say that I really appreciate
like
I don't know if this is intentional but
it seems like you've done almost
virtuous types of porn movies
like most of your movies are about like
Virtuous porn huh?
Yeah they seem like they're kind of
hot people get together and have sex
which I think is the best genre of porn.
Oh it's like kind of like vanilla sex.
Right like sure
it's not like feeding the homeless.
I do have sort of a
fear that
capitalism and porn has sort of worked together
to just sort of reduce the taboo
of incest like by 4% a year
you know what I mean?
And so I noticed there's like none of your
co-stars were like your brother or your father
or anything I was like that's
it starts with the step dad
the step sister that's your gateway drug
that's your gateway fucking
uh huh
and then you're like throwing your sister in the trunk of a car
and you're like well no no no no no
because sometimes you'll like
you'll see like a porn movie at the end
of it the two people are like sitting on a couch
to like show that you know we're still friends
and I'm like you know if you got to establish
that the stars of your sex movie
like don't really hate each other like no one was
really kidnapped and murdered like maybe
you just shouldn't have made it. There's never really that
after like porn
like the sequel where it's like
the step sisters still have to like family
dinner together
oh man that might be my thing though
we might have just found my thing
like not not so much the porn but like
meeting in the hallway and trying to do that
awkward shuffle past each other and then being like
ohhhh
just like a 20 minute montage of them just like trying
to like live together and forget that that happened
keep it from their parents I guess
oh I would I would I would pay for that
they're watching like family
feud together some like lame game show
and they're like well you two are acting
really funny what is it
kids just got a throbbing
erection mom's like ooh what's that
and you're bo-do-do-bo-jump-pump
watching shit that happens on Game of Thrones
that you actually did together and you have to be like
ohhhh
this is even more awkward than the normal awkward
that this would be
I always uh
I obviously
have no trouble with erotic material
whatsoever but like I do think
the warning should be put on stuff
to not watch it with your folks
I think I wrote that about this in a cracked article
way back in the day that that should be
on the warnings like just don't watch this with your parents
because my mom likes Game of Thrones but if I was
watching the episode where like
God he like sexually assaulted his sister on like
the grave of their child I'm like this is
God I'm so glad my mom is in the room
I feel like that happens at least three times
one of the early seasons
the seventh time they did it
that was more awkward
that was brutal when they actually showed the kid falling out
and they kept going
while we're on the subject
maybe you could take this note to the mayor
of porn or whoever
they know him well
I think they should have someone on the set
who's just very assertive and like
persuasive and it would be their job
to sort of talk them out of this step
they could say like you know I have a note for the script
let's maybe make these two characters
not father and daughter
that's an idea I think the world
would benefit from that
like a similar situation
where I did like a
it was like a mommy and me type thing
and the whole premise
was that like
she like wanted me
to call her mommy even though she was my step
mom and they were like we really want you to
use the word mommy and I was like
I don't think I can do that
so I turned the entire
thing into
instead of saying
like yes mommy it was like
if you really want me to call you
mommy I will
just kind of reframe the words a little bit
right
like in the context of like
a latin sweet talk maybe
like mommy like you'd call
your latina girlfriend
call her mami
get it that whole time
I want you to call me mami
yeah see
if there's a pornography with racism
and incest that's just too far for me
that's 0.6 too many things
too far
no thank you
so today on the
podcast
I asked neither of you to prepare anything
and you're just going to come into this cold
I'm going to just talk to you
about one of my favorite authors
his name is Gregory JP Godek
oh it's the Godek episode
it's the Godek episode
that one's been waiting for
what have I gotten into
I'm super not prepared
you're not prepared
I'm just looking at my google doc I have 42 pages of notes
I was told not to even like look up this person
and I don't even know who he is so I'm very excited
he's uh
okay well let me just get started let me talk about Godek
he got his big break in 1991
he wrote a book called a thousand and one ways to be
romantic and it was
a massive success it sold
millions and millions of copies
I couldn't get the exact figure though that's
a difficult research to just google
but just
as successful as like a little self-help
book could possibly be I had no idea this guy
was ever successful I thought
I thought these were like niche
products that you found on wish or something
no I mean
I think what it
I think people who see these books
just forget about them two seconds later
like when I say a million books sold
that's not like people went home and read them it's like
oh I got to get a present for my grandma
well she is married to grandpa
I should get into this fucking romance
they might like romance
alright
it could be a business marriage
did they have like the crazy like book covers
like the romance type
no they're really really
dry like just like
text on purple like just oh god
there's no fabio like
flowing hair romance nothing enticing on the outside
not at all but
just it's so generic
and square that like I just feel like
it's broad enough to appeal to people
who needed a last minute gift at
borders when those exist
so anyway
the structure of this podcast I'm just going to describe
his unspeakable career feel free to interrupt
with any questions or comments I think
you've seen a podcast before I guess
this is the exact structure of our good friend
Robert Evans this podcast Behind the Bastards
which I think is appropriate because I don't think
he would ever cover this guy because he's
not like a full on bastard but he sort of belongs
alongside Steve Bannon
or Elron Hubbard of like
history's shittiest grifters and monsters
I think well Elron Hubbard was
pretty much a bastard that's putting him up there
yeah
and he did a lot of like crimes against art
and literature in addition to his crimes against humanity
I don't
I can't imagine
I think by the time you always start
there he is
Sean's the leader he doesn't want us to know
they do say come in blind a lot
most of my followers do fuck themselves
to death in the first two weeks like it's that
romantic
I do want to talk about a success before we just
full on make fun of him
so he
like I say this book sold a million copies and
in the 90s when you
were successful at something like this lame
like you were just on every talk show like
Oprah and Jenny Jones and Phil Donahue
they all had this guy on
because if you're going to do like an episode of romance
you like go to your media call us you're like
I don't know we need an expert on romance
oh here's one so
he was on TV kind of all the time
and like
he'd go on Oprah and he would just sort of
recite his book he'll be just like
hey Oprah run a bubble bath
892 right I love you on the driveway
and
like I just watched this video to prepare
this and the Oprah
responded like most people would do by like
motherfucker your husband's gonna come home
and be like who wrote all over the driveway
so like she responds the same way that
like you or I would even though
she's his best potential audience she still
like immediately starts making fun of the dumb
shit that is his life's work
so I'm still just floored that he was on
Oprah yeah and
he will bring it up and if
you look at the clip
it's all comments from like people
who came there for my cracked article so it's not like
oh yeah I remember this book
it's like
it's like a joke I made
20 years later
so
I guess like the point
that I'm trying to make is that
he's just sort of like a folksy
idiot like he says really obvious shit
that seems like wisdom
and maybe
more to the point is kind of impossible not to know
like if he's saying like hey
take care of your lady buy her flowers let her know
you care it's almost like how would you not know
that and so I think this is really comforting
to the stupid
because they like hear this person that's
been declared an expert saying something
that they already knew which makes them feel
like oh you know I must be an expert and
by the same standards of course they are
and so
obviously I think that's why like Oprah liked him
because that's like Oprah's jam is people
saying really obvious shit and
she agrees with it and
pausing for applause
she'll be like that's right you shouldn't murder
people and then crowd goes nuts
oh they're going nuts they love it
there's coupons under your seat
and
so she even
was talking about this book and she says I love this
book because I'll be going through the book and I'll say oh I thought of that
I thought of that
and I love that so much because like
you just see like the hatred brew
in godex eyes he's like you thought
of bubble baths no I invented
bubble baths Oprah I could destroy
you Oprah so
anyway the point is this guy sucks really hard
and he's more successful than 99%
of the most talented people that have ever lived
and that
should bother you
it was like the late
2000s like 2009 2010 I started
writing cracked articles
and one of the things I like writing about is self-help books
and so by the
4th self-help book article I was like
I'm going to do this fucking book I've had
for several years called 1001 ways to be
romantic like this was my discovery of godex
and I just
I couldn't believe it I was like oh wow this is a
jackpot for a dude just making fun of shit
because it's not only
stupid it like repeats itself it's like
poorly edited so like the same entry will
show up again and again sometimes slightly
rewarded sometimes exactly the same wording
the next time I wrote about these books I'm like I got to
do two books by this fucking godex guy
and now at this point
I've demonstrated like the fragility of this
guy's like success because if you
googled godex after that second
article he was like the third
page of fucking results you had
to dig to find out the actual guy
that had been made fun of you've taken
over his life seriously
this is like identity theft
there's no way this guy does it both
know about me and fucking
hate me have you ever experienced
just strange shooting pains when he like
pokes the voodoo doll he must have made with you
he probably
he's probably tried it
he's coming to your house by now I'm sure
he's just
staring at my house every night
well he's driven by it
he's watching my
he's watching my dick game through the window going like
oh that guy doesn't know how to romance
look at that
god damn it I have to put that in the next book though
it's just it's a good move
he's not even making love on a pizza
that's a
you don't know about godex guy
he's got a thing about pizza
I thought that was just a good joke this is the whole thing
I mean it's an elegant joke
but in the context of godex it's a brilliant joke
oh my god
you know more about the pizza
at this point I like I got to just get every
book this fucking guy wrote
and so I went to Amazon
and there literally every single one of them was a penny
and so I got his entire
bibliography for like less than a cab would be
to a bookstore
you could sell something for that little
surprise
well it's like 399 shipping
I'm so bad
I just love
the idea that someone carried around
this fucking terrible romance book for
17-20 years
just waiting the idea of
saying to that guy you know I want to thank you
for your years of service and keeping this book
like clean and safe
and storing it and moving it
you know what I'm going to give you for your trouble
one American penny
I love the duality of it
there's two ways a book can go on Amazon
one is that you'll find
any kind of old book
and it will be $500
for no reason
and all of his are one cent
that should really tell you something
well it's funny you should mention that because
my fiance is
a very sweet woman and very generous with her gift giving
and so she likes to get extravagant gifts
and so she tried to get me like
a book that Godek made in 2014
like his latest culmination of all
he's learned it's called
bring food arrive naked
is it really called that
it is it's called bring food arrive
naked romance with attitude
I'm sorry I'll ride naked
or arrive
like show up at her door
balls ass naked with a fucking
with a bucket of chicken
so basically his whole concept
of romance is just do the naked man
40%
of everything he believes is just
just get naked with food nearby
I like that he used to name
like I have a thousand one tips
and now he's like I have one tip
one tip
I'm boiling all down to this one thing
alright but that would work
she tried to get me this book and it was $500
and so the book gets
theoretically delivered and it's not
and so she goes through this you know whatever interactions
you have with these people where it's just like feels like lies
but just a lot of confusion
so months go by and this lady is sure that she delivered
the book we finally get the refund but
supposedly there's a book out there
called bring food arrive naked
romance with attitude that is worth $500
but the one person who wants
to buy it desperately can't
and so
they did just arrive at some stranger's house
and they're just like ah yes finally
the answer I've been looking for
I mean you really just need to like start
cruising legal notices
for divorces and then going to their garage
sales and I bet you'll find it
the meanest most horrible
ugliest divorces that's where it'll be
just start f**king around your neighborhood
their feelings on
like nakedness and food
just to like you know
just knock on their door during a pandemic hey y'all
y'all eat naked
I'm asking for
comedy purposes
just trying to have something down
that actually sounds creepy don't do that
I like Yoda because he sounds like
Modoc that Marvel Comics
character I was just thinking
it's so nice it's so nice that
your nemesis has a comic
book villain name because if his name was like
John Jones or something
I mean that you'd have the J.J.
thing but right that's not
right it's not as good as Godak it's not
a name to curse as you yell at this guy
right Godak
so I call them genetic
organism designed for erection killing and every
time I did an article about him I actually put his
weird little face in a Modoc
I shouldn't say weird little face he's kind of got
like cabbage patch features but he's sort of
an objectively fine looking
man like you don't look at him and say like
oh gross but like
he looks like a boy wearing
an old man makeup yeah
yeah he's he's got like a boyish
charm he's he's very square
and has like he clearly
thinks of himself as like this sort of love guru so
he's he does like a lot of
yeah he's impish goblin ish maybe
how old was he when he started writing
books I think he was probably
in his late 20s I think he's in his
60s now I
much experience at that young 20
age so we really are mocking a man's
entire life yes
and I think it's fair
because I he's sort of the prototype
for like an entire
decade of books that is just loath
some more people would sort of put down whatever
dumb shit they thought of like they say
I'm gonna write a book called 300 ways to like
you know make your car cool and then
they would just like sit down run out of ideas that
have sit at six or seven and then
293 dumb shit ideas
that was an entire genre of literature
that shouldn't exist that was
like a chicken soup for the soul type
era yes exactly
and it's because they're chasing
the success of like the very few people
like Godek who just sold a million copies
of something literally anyone could fucking write
the secret is just having a lot
of something a big
number and then like you get your money's worth it's
13 bucks for the book that's like
less than a penny per tip
that's 740 things
it's a great deal
take her out to dinner you're like
I wouldn't have thought of that on my own that's a great idea
so I love the idea of watching
his career like sort of crash
as he keeps trying to do the same thing because
like now today he has
95 followers on Twitter as of this
writing
and so and he kind of went for it
like is he what
he's still alive
he is he's still alive and still trying to be
like a professional like love speaker
but I don't think
you can make a living doing this anymore
because in the marketplace
of ideas and I say that in heavy quotes
like say Twitter if you go on Twitter
and say like here's an idea for romance
take her to dinner which is
about 80% of his books
like people on Twitter would
either ignore you or think you were
kidding or make fun of you like it would be
absurd to think that would be a popular tweet
yeah it sounds like a joke
satire like some tiktok
it's gonna
I bet he sees a surge
in followers every time
you do something like he's gonna give
a small surge from this like six people
will follow him and he'll be like oh my
well I'm blowing the fuck up
but like he does like sort of desperate calls for engagement
and then he'll have the saddest Google
oh yeah he'll be like oh cool
a podcast about me oh this is a nice
video
I also think he's
not good at technology given his age
because one of his tweets a recent one
was just a picture of a woman in lingerie
like that he seems like he might have
accidentally retweeted because it has no
context and then
one of them was just a call for
why not
one of them was just
a call for a college student to help promote his book
like he just wanted to I
presume because he's not gonna pay her but like
that's he just made a call to his
95 followers hey are any of you in college
and want to work for free to promote
a book that's 30 years old that's very
stupid and then he'll do shit like hey this
is gonna sound weird let's boycott Valentine's
day with like you know one like
oh he's gotten
to the stage in his career where he turns against
him right as we all knew
was inevitable like a good
selling day for him now we
must destroy love it is turned on me
so
let's go that way
go dick
let's get started on his actual bibliography
now that
you have a good context for who he is and how he
sucks can I ask one more question
if it doesn't ruin the
the place that this is going
I have no flow you can just
disrupt whatever you want do we know
like does he have
a wife and kids like did it go
successfully for him he does
have a wife okay I don't know if he has any
children but um
he makes so many like pizza references in his books
that I started this running gag about how his wife
is fat but but I of course
can find her on the internet I know she's not fat
but I never
his wife is like normal size
she's a presentable woman
but uh not not a
giant fatty like you would presume from
from all the times they fuck on a pizza and
all of the jokes I make
could just have a good metabolism
some people do
and there's a you get
a lot of cardio I think you burn like 70
calories kissing and Godek loves
to kiss so we are gonna
we're gonna
start off with his very first book from
1991 1001
Ways to be Romantic
and we're gonna play Sean baby's
book game so let me hit the theme
song
here's how
Sean baby's book game is
gonna work for this episode you're
each gonna pick a random number between
one in 1001
and your job will be to seduce
me but I'll be playing a character
and for this one
I will be playing poison frontman
and star of VH1's rock of love
Brett Michaels so
you're trying to find an entry
in this book that would seduce Brett
Michaels and you're gonna
seduce Brett Michaels and you're
competing against one another are you
sure there are entries in the book that would
work for Brett Michaels I imagine that's a very
narrow am I supposed to okay
I
Michael's is a is a very public
sex addict is very clear
from his reality show that he'll stick it
at anything if it'll let
him he's the wrong guy right
he's he usually has a do rag on
he's saying talk to me
it's one of his big hits nothing but a
good time I mean it's a bit
before your time of course but I think I know
who we're talking about though he's cute good
he's a very handsome fella
lots of rock star sex appeal
so picture that while
you're gonna really work hard in this game
to get that guy
so if you want to start
picking up between one and a thousand one
we might give us some melagons if you like
hit a bad one like sometimes you'll get
like a Bible quote and like we we're gonna
have to have a couple of
do-overs but I can make
that work
challenge accepted
very sexy Bible quote
you never know
that would be a that would be a uniquely
disturbing porn parody have they done that
if it does Wood Rocket do a
Jesus themed
parody I do think you'd get some
free press people would legitimately get some
notes on the docket
you should be telling porn about this
yeah
alright so one through one thousand
you're going first
I go first
as our guest
well I'm obviously gonna pick 69
nice choice
classic choice obvious choice
I hope it's a Bible verse
the perpetual bouquet trademark
I think it's a joke trademark I don't think
it's a real thing bring home one flower
a day for a week or two or
three you'll create a wonderfully diverse
bouquet day by day it gives
both of you something to look forward to
and you'll have an ever-changing always fresh reminder
of your love
every fucking day
yeah
like a bouquet of half-dead flowers
by the time
we've all seen the flaw
on this immediately
you assume that's the point
is that like you replace the dead ones
with the new ones but like
every day
and I gotta say that by day two Brett Michael's
penis
I'm saying
that'll weigh you down
you've got a big edge here
Brockway if you can beat that
you could win this first round
surely I have to beat that
that's so easily
784
oh
here we go 784
that is
going to be
five minutes devoted to romance
equals one day of harmony
that's
the chapter is called
the mathematics of romance
so there you go that's the conversion rate
for one day of harmony
is five minutes devoted to romance
Brett Michael's isn't gonna like that
I gotta be honest Brett Michael's
fucking hated that
do math instead of fucking
that's not the Brett Michael's
I didn't think the flowers
would win Brett Michael's over but damn
yeah
I think
if we have to go between dead flowers
and math Brett Michael's picks dead flowers
so that's one point
for April zero points for Brockway
but this game will continue as we go through
his bibliography
wait was that the whole game I thought I was gonna have to like
role play like
that's just round one
we're gonna do several more rounds and then
in 45 minutes we'll see who
the greatest romance champion is
and
you think I mean you have a very romantic
themed career but Brockway's a tender
lover
a giving famously
romantic man
alright Brockway prove it
yes I am the prince of seduction
I have that
tattooed across my belly
after he wrote this book and just like
crushed it one year later he wrote
1001 more ways to
be romantic and this was
very literally the exact same book
but he was just
exhausted with from ideas
like he used every idea
he'd ever had in his entire life to get a thousand
ways to be romantic so this next book was just like
Kathy comics and just like
random multi paragraph quotes from
articles and books it's just
nonsense is number
69 just by two flowers a day
I could check
I have it handy
we're not gonna do a book game in all of these books
but we can see what 69 is in this
oh my god
it's he started at 1001
so it'll technically
it's a literal sequel
yeah we pick up the story
it says
think like a married person strategy number three
communicating have you ever noticed that
single people often do a lot of talking without
really communicating much
oh yeah
and then that's just goes on like that for like
two paragraphs so the secret
to romance is communication I don't know
if he invented that
but it seems really
really smart to me well he's just being
judgy now I fucking hate Godek so much
I just hope that comes through
if he started in his
like late 20s and this is book two he's
like 30 and being like these goddamn
kids don't communicate
it's true I did
feel that from 20 to 30 so I kind of
really yeah I
maybe he's on to something I don't know
I just saw one 1353 is
FM shoes
I think he might mean
fuck me shoes
unless they're like
radio shoes
like a radio in it like let's note thing I call
radio shoes
secret to romance the sports illustrated football
phone that's the other thing about
him I should mention he's like really square
but also like super
straight laced and coy like
so he won't say fuck he won't
he barely even said sex he'll like call it
whoopie or you know
nobody's getting anything in the butt
a thousand ways to romance nothing's
going in the butt let's just
get that out of a thousand
you don't even run out of options and be like
alright alright number
998 the but I guess
birthday yeah
I guess I'll put a thing like number three
if it's the Mazda drive
time event I will put a finger in your butt
sweetheart
alright that one got me
in the mid 90s he kept going
with romance 101
in 1993 which was
sort of more of a schoolbook sort of theme to the thing
it wasn't just a random list of nonsense
and then
1994 he did the portable
romantic which was exactly
1001 ways to be romantic like word for word
just cut down to a smaller
book then
he did the lover's bedside companion
a slight variation of the previous book
I mentioned then a year after that
he did loving a journal of our relationship
and it's
just a bunch of blank pages with a couple
of quotes on the side
this is the fastest anybody
has ran of ideas
he's like
he's got like 30 more years doesn't he
yes we have
we are in 1995
and he's writing books like today
oh my god and he's still going
how much does he have like 30
I would say
30 bucks is safe he does a lot of
reissues and he changes the word
the changes the title but
I mean they're published in all these different countries
and so it's hard for me to just go on Amazon
to get every book he's ever written but I think I might have
because I'm sitting by a pile
of at least 25 books so
you are easily and this is the saddest
thing
easily is number one fan
easily without question
so this next book is called
365 ways to be
romantic which
you'll notice it's a smaller number than
1001 and in fact
is more or less taken from that
book so basically this is just a book where he took out
650 of the
options to be romantic so we're actually
going to do another book game for this one
I don't
this one I'm
going to be
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh
so you're going to be trying to seduce
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh
with one of the 365 ways to be romantic
so pick a number between one and 365
Brock while you're
trailing so you go first this time
okay
217
right right square kind of
in the middle alright
the meat of it
oh this is from a chapter called for women
only oh shit
you've already lost
now you can't even read it
you have a good point
it was send him a perfumed love letter
so like let's just that'll be
your mulligan that one doesn't count so
try again please alright
maybe maybe start strong and gets weak
about 42 okay
42
chocolate
this is from a chapter called chocolate
and it says chocolate
there's just something about it isn't there
while I firmly believe that romance
shouldn't be used as a bribe to curry favors
a box of great chocolates
is an incredibly well received gift isn't it
yeah that's why they sell them
unlike Valentine's Day
chocolate is a very appropriate love gift
god damn it codec that's 42
that's 42
and he's like oh shit chocolate
wait this is basically like 1042
also isn't it
there's no way this is gonna work on Brett Kavanaugh
it's not feet stuff
alright April
if you can beat just the generic
idea of chocolate then you'll have a second point
I'm very curious
as to what the
first one is
okay
like what is he starting off with
his next
just the opener the strongest one
like what do you say
to keep me going
do the bun stuff
number one is butt stuff
dive in deep quick
it just says advanced butt stuff
make it basic
it says
make a toast to one another
every time you hold a wine glass
make eye contact
take turns making the toast
whisper it
I gotta be honest
if the other person's already passed out
from drinking
I feel like that's a Brett Kavanaugh thing
I bet you'd be saying this
to an unconscious Brett Kavanaugh
the whisper he would probably appreciate
cause he's sleeping
I think he would also like
you intruding upon his face without his consent
so I think
chocolate and
the creepy whisper
every time she drinks
yeah that's a Kavanaugh move
that's the old D.K.
strong Kavanaugh move
so
that is two points for April O'Neill
and zero points for Robert Brockway
I'm getting schooled again
she's good
she's a winger
I came to point
I'm gonna move on through the late 90s
and
he released a book in 1996
called Loving
a Journal of Our Relationship
again
which is a slight variation of the previous
Loving a Journal of Our Relationship
which was blank
is this the blank one?
okay let me find it
we were gonna do a book game for this one
wait did you write in it?
it says
make doctors phone number
from Under the Bridge Sal
Shawn you're not supposed to share
your journal with us
you asked that's what it says
you're right I'm so sorry
first good tip I've learned today
thank you for sharing your private thoughts with us
it actually says
why be romantic? why bother?
simple it will improve the quality of your life
like he's defending
the very concept of the thing they bought
the book for
if you get any length into this book
you're gonna be like fuck everything about this
you can negate yourself
good business plan
yeah
I didn't actually write in it
it's a completely blank book
I'd say about 30% of the pages
have little quotes on them
it's as close to nothing
as anyone
and it is
$7.95
that's what it reads
I got it for one penny
he really is
the next year he wrote love
the course they forgot to teach you in school
which is very much like
a relationship seminar workbook
so he's taking the stuff he knows
how to clumsily fuck
and trying to turn that into like a
classroom setting
it's very bad
I tried to do an article on it once
and it was just so dry and so stupid
I mean it's almost like it's
fine for space aliens who just landed here
and need to seduce a wife
well maybe that's the science
I guess you could
yeah I do think that's a potential audience
for this
the next year he wrote
your romance books presented
as like a text book as possible
right
because that's fun
everyone loves homework
studying is the best
it's like sweetheart I love you
and I love our passionate lovemaking
but you know what might make this more fun
if we sort of like
had word searches
and homework
first lecture
I do
women love to get lectured before
romance don't they
or just in general
it's just page
37 through 101 it's just a long lecture
you can read to your lover
lay down sweetheart
explain to you the history of love
and chocolate
so the next year he wrote confessions
of a true romantic
which is
basically a relationship seminar workbook
it is
I would say 95% the exact same words
as the previous book
just released under a different name
later that same year
it's kind of like the Taco Bell menu
of romance
exactly he's just hanging in the back
one tube of dog food
one tube of sour cream
I can make 46 things out of this
depends on how I layer them
this is not a taco rito
this is a chile rito junior
let's see
I have completely lost track of where we are talking about Taco Bell
you got me so hungry
later that same year in 1997
he wrote romantic mischief
romantic fantasies and romantic dates
and these are all just
thematic clips from
ways to be romantic it's six years later
and he's still chopping chunks out of that fucking
book and repackaging the exact same words
I was hoping it was an epic trilogy
it is not
in fact some of these
I did an article on
two of these and they have a lot of crossover
like something might count as mischief
and fantasies so he'll just have them in both
he doesn't care and I guess if you want to save
eight bucks though because these I think were 6.95
whereas thousand one ways to be romantic
was 14.95 obviously
if you got them at borders but they're a penny
on Amazon if anyone wants to buy any of these
they're all a penny on Amazon
later that same year he was really busy in 1997
he wrote intimate questions
which is just like stupid shit
you can ask on a first date
I love those
yeah
so you'd appreciate it if a guy was on a date with you
and he had a lot of romantic
questions for you
tell me your dreams
I'm that person that likes to play those games
like
what's the weirdest thing I can ask you
like what's the worst thing you've ever done
in your life or like
what's the last time you got to somebody
like weird little intimate things like that
I always think are fun
maybe not on a date
do you thoroughly check
the backseat of your car every time
see these are really romantic questions
right and I do think
we all see the appeal of
the thing that he
is going for but I don't think
there's a person alive who needs it
like who wouldn't like
you develop that skill all on your own right
like asking questions and
saying I want to learn this information so I'll ask this question
so it feels like it's
for space monsters it's for someone who just
doesn't understand like
well let's hear a question
maybe they're way better than the ones I've got
put you your food in the morning
tell me
up and down but a little side to side
sometimes I like to sit on it
I don't
I just pork it like a duck
did you say pork it like a duck
I said pork it like a duck
just right down my throat
oh pork it
yeah that's hot
so let's see
what's the weirdest one in there
I don't even know if I have that one handy
just find any one
just close your eyes and flip
just flip
I think I might have that book over on the shelf
oh my god they're so bad
I'll read something from the lover's bedside companion
I just realized
that you're probably
in a more comfortable position and not just
sitting on the floor with stacks of books around you
that are his which is how I imagined
it in my head
I thought standing up with like a huge
diagram across a wall and like strings
tracing
he's actually going through a PowerPoint
presentation that we can't see at all
but it's just for him
we keep just fucking derailing it
I'm like running around
happy Syria
alright so I can't find the
I'll buy it later for a penny
we're kind of squatting in a temporary home
before we like buy a new home
post pandemic and so
my office is basically
just a pile of garbage right now
is it mine too
yeah
mine always is
generally I like to have my books really
well organized so I can find them
but now it's like when I sit down and do research for an article
the Godek shelf
yeah there's always a Godek shelf but now
the Godek shelf is just in different piles
of filthy garbage
which is I guess where they belong so
thanks pandemic
later that same year Godek started another thing
that he fucking shouldn't have
and it's called love coupons
so he made
coupons in 1997 and these are like
when you were like a child and you were doing arts and crafts
for your parents yeah I beat him I beat him to that
by like several years
I did that shit when I was 8
yeah these are fucking straight up
like free hug coupons
that like he packaged as like retail
products so love coupons in 1997
and then later that same
year he did I love you dad slash I love to golf
coupons because he
well this took a turn
yeah the other thing about Godek is he
was responsible for the incest
I know
he thought we had a
going here this change quick
yeah one free tiny
handed hand job father like whoa
whoa Godek
but
another thing about Godek
I might cut that out of the
fuck ass
it's really fucking dark
I like
lose my perspective on what's appropriate with Godek
I get fucking red with rage
does quickly destroy
standards of morality in Godek
yeah the thing about Godek
is like this I love to golf because
it's a dad is
is his like um
hardcore adherence to like gender roles
so you have to understand all the context of these
ways to be romantic is not like
find what your partner loves and do that for them
it's your guys
a dude so get him a power drill that
kind of like really insecure
like masculinity
and also I should
mention that Godek seems kind of like a pussy
like he's he's got like that
the fruitiness of this like romance guru
that you wouldn't think would
try so hard to like reinforce all these
like old timey stereotypes but
he does and yet he looks like
a trapped leprechaun
like a leprechaun losing his magic
can I
can I look up at what he looks like
see if we're painting an accurate picture
but I feel like I need to
I'm curious but my keyboard
I'm mechanical keyboard
it's so loud it will sound like I'm firing
a shotgun if I type anything
he's not the plastic surgeon right
he's kind of like got thin lips
and like
not chubby cheeks but like
cherubic
oh man I found his young man headshot
where he's trying to be seductive
oh my god it's just all Sean
it's a good way to find shots of Sean baby
if you need to know what Sean looks like
just go
this guy looks fucking weird
ruggedly handsome
but with strange like
90s era punk rock hair
he looks like a
he kind of looks like Morrissey
I guess I could see that
maybe it's just the hair
kind of like a shrink wrapped Morrissey
yeah definitely
like a shrinky dink Morrissey
that didn't fully develop
Godek is now making love coupons
and I'm sorry real fast
a picture of Mr. T and Sean baby came up
that was like one of the happiest moments
in my life was when I met Mr. T
I was so genuinely excited
yeah and he was
he talks so fast
and he's so excited and he was dancing the whole time
and like I'm trying to be polite
cause you know he's look like he had things to do
and he's like no we should go get some dinner
I got a plate and he pointed to the giant
plate hanging from his necklace
and anyway I
I'm in love with Mr. T
it made me so happy
I saw a solid gold
Hummer when I was living in Portland
I forget who it was one of my friends said
Mr. T lives here I bet that's his and I got so excited
and I learned later it was Anthony Kitas
oh
I know
almost anything's a let down
if you're expecting Mr. T and it's not Mr. T though
yeah
polar opposite of Mr. T
April are you just Google imaging me now
yeah sorry now I'm just
there's a picture of you my friend George
George Oz
he did like a
he writes a book I don't know
I know he like writes a book and does a podcast
but it's one of those like oh that's right
you do stuff
Godak once he had the idea for love coupons in 1997
and I love you dad golf coupons in 1997
he decided in 1998 to branch out
and do I love you coupons
he's just taking a word away each time
yeah it's just moving shit around
talk about then he
released what might be
his greatest
bad book like one of the worst books it's
ever been it's called 10,000 ways
to say I love you
so not qualified for this
he should have known this was
too daunting for his mind
but this is what we're going to do our next
book game in
is
10,000 ways to say
you're trailing so you're going to pick
21 and 10,000
and
you're trying to seduce this time
Godak's actual wife
whatever we imagine Godak's actual wife
to be I picture something
made mostly at a pizza about 600
pounds of pizza
that just
no surrealist absurdity I just picture
a very tired woman
just
just somebody
that has to brace themselves every time
he starts to say something
just stop writing books
I've got to choose
right towards the end
feel like he might
save
the last hundred or so is like I got to finish
strong so like right before
the end
you're using my first strategy
80,000,000,000,000
it's 16
8,500
16
passionate intimacy
without commitment is short lived
is that a tip
I
I think it's just defining
defining
sentence is like unless something
doesn't have a subject
it's just nonsense
this dude fucking thinks that's like
wisdom it's just explaining
what commitment means you know without the commitment
it doesn't last as long Webster's dictionary
defines law I mean his wife probably
likes that
maybe
we'll see if you can top that April
it's out of 10,000 great
out of 10 fucking thousand
okay I'm gonna go
with 6,969
nice
that's gotta be a good one
you'd think
surely
Donna
by Richie Valance
that's just a song
called Donna by Richie Valance
is his wife named Donna please let
his wife named Donna
it's from a subsection called
favorite love songs from 1959
you can't
it's just a fucking name
as love advice
you can't post a
catalog of music
these are the love songs
that came out in 1959
and he got a lot
it starts at 69,67
and it goes until
69,79
and then the next
11 are
love quotes from Shakespeare
and then just random Shakespeare quotes
he's really calling it in isn't he
he was so certain
that people would give up like this is almost
a good strategy to like
start off okay and then
just drive people away
until you can phone it in
what standards would anyone have ever judged this by
like certainly you'd give this to someone as a gift
no one would say like oh I need this book in my life
and what are they gonna call you up
like a few weeks later and say hey read that book you got me
from others day and you know fuck you
that's a piece of shit book
I guess I just
don't know
what the fail condition is for a book like this
because if there was one he would be
obviously I think it's automatic
yeah maybe
because I don't think anyone has 10,000 good ideas to say
I love you without eventually resorting
just you know
Richie Valensong
you know it's a disaster
you know what's crazy though I do think April won
that round too because
Godek's wife would probably prefer a love song
to someone just walking up and explaining what commitment meant
I'm just
his wife's name is Donna
and that just really worked out for me
because like I tried looking it up and I can't figure out her name
so
I'm pretty sure it's pizza
oh yeah
but that's all
good ol Donna pizza
that's her full name
Brockway I will actually give you
a free bonus win if you can get
a pizza entry within three guesses
okay
this is a catch up mechanic I designed into this game
because otherwise
April's just gonna run away with it
300
300
uh no no no 297
297
put a romantic CD in a Walkman
attach a note
play me
how do you attach a note if you put it in the Walkman
like on top and you close it
yeah you just put play me on it
then your husband or wife
just sighing heavily and being like where's
my go-goo doll CD that I used for the run
you know I don't want to listen to this
while I go for a run
right I had plans that's why I picked up
the fucking Walkman
uh fine
that's one miss
4812
4812
give your lover your
undivided attention
damn I thought he was gonna say pizza
give your lover your undivided pizza
God that's awful
that's under a section
16 listening skills for lovers
alright 666
nice
very dangerous
good choice
I'm selling my soul to the devil
discover cozy little
ends
that's your pizza
you can't get a fucking
pizza in a cozy little end that's the opposite
of pizza
you lose another round 3-0
just getting fucking demolished
over here
I'm gonna have to cover up this belly tattoo
do you know how expensive that's gonna be
prance of seduction
prance of sedition
we're
now in the 2000s and Godek is still
9 years after his massive
success writing the same goddamn book
over and over and over
so in 2000 he writes
the lover's companion romantic inspiration
and creative ideas which is
the same book he wrote in 1994
but without the word bedside in it
like word for word the exact same book
but he changed the title
did he remove every instance of bedside
was it just like
that's the problem
it's just like this weird foible
just like an OCD thing
he's like I gotta re-release this book with no bedside
no bedside
that was the problem that's why it wasn't a hit
he then wrote romantic essentials
that same year
a bunch of romance tips without any rhyme
or reason
enchanted evenings the next year called
323 nights out to remember
intimate questions 459 ways
to bring you closer which is again
the same book of just questions from a couple years
ago with a new title
then he wrote the love quotes
coupon books which is again
more free coupon books
but now we're in 2001
and
can you think of anything that happened in 2001
that Godek might have wanted to chime in on
was that the matrix sequel
was it 9-11?
he did
1001 ways to celebrate America
yeah I knew it
he finally branched off
yep he finally branched off
into a
second book idea
and it was to shamelessly cash in
on the patriotic
what's the publishing date on that
let's see
I feel like we can nail down
how long it takes him to write a book
it does not say just 2001
publishing date so I mean he would have had to get it
in right when the
plane hit the tower
as soon as the tower started collapsing
he's at his typewriter
and I don't doubt that that happened
because this is a pretty
even for him this is a pretty thrown together book
so we're gonna do another book game
show baby book game
in 1001 ways to celebrate America
this time
I am macho man Randy Savage
and
you're trying to fuck me
surely this is my time
if I've ever had a time
this could be your comeback
so we'll let April go first
so you can like really prepare
how many are there?
1001
sorry I don't have any information about that
thanks google
set up your google play
google had to get in on dunking on this son of a bitch
hey google pick a number between
one and one thousand and one
now she doesn't want to make me
now she's like I was told to shut up
hey google
1001
we're gonna work again just ducked out
the one upstairs answered
this is fucked up
you got ghosts
hey google
pick a number between one and a thousand
and one
339
339
weird sounds she also made
she gets to use robots this is cheap
these aren't numbered so
I feel like this is gonna help you
go far picking
what do robots know about romance
love is their one weakness
it's the thing that always fries their circuits
these aren't numbered
so you need to pick a number between one and two hundred fifty
and those are the page numbers
god damn it
I'm sorry to disrupt you like that
alright, 69
it's been doing me for me so far
it's been doing good work
remember these are 1001 ways to celebrate America
there's three on this page
start eating more healthfully
start a scrapbook
start each day with a smile
jesus christ
macho man
macho man like the last one
not super impressed
I think you got this one man
alright
between one and one and two fifty
still 112
112
okay this one's great
I think you might win this one
it says party on
then it says tupperware parties
frat parties
dance parties
birthday parties
political parties attend a national political convention
participate in a national
political convention as a delegate
oh you've lost it
you're really so good
yeah macho man
tupperware oh yeah
frat sure sure dance parties
birthday sure
political okay
attend a national political convention
alright well my
my day rate is eight grand to show
when you gotta get my play ticket but sure sure
as a delegate macho man wouldn't mind
being mayor
I think that's a win for Brockway
I think that's a solid
unquestionable role playing
that was beautiful
macho man had to talk himself into it
I want to invite him to a tupperware party
I feel like he'd have a good time
he would but it is it's eight grand
is his
appearance fee
is he gonna bring eight grand worth of tupperware
cause that shit gets expensive
congratulations you would definitely
win that one
finally I mean if there is any scenario
in which I am more qualified
at romance it is only an exclusively
fucking macho man
I love to
it's just a page about parties
and then his fucking brain threw up
parties like
tupperware parties political parties
yeah and then like he just went from there
fourth of july party
fifth of july party
oh my god I could go through the whole book like this
fucking I don't know why Godek sort of
talks like macho man now
they've merged
so now we're in
the late 2000 he took four years off from
writing books as far as I know there might be more that I just
couldn't find but
he wrote romantic questions
264 outrageous sweet and profound questions
if this sounds familiar it's cause he's written
this book three different times with three different titles
then he wrote
201 ways to be romantic which is
just the same fucking book with a different
number instead of a thousand one
again each time it's less
he's whittling it down though really getting the
chaff out of there
so then he wrote
you're not gonna believe this
love coupons in 2006 he wrote
love coupons
so we're gonna do another
we're gonna do another real quick book game
this one doesn't have
numbers on the pages or the coupon so I'm just
gonna flip through and you're gonna have to tell me to stop so
Brockway you're
trailing so you're gonna go first
I'm gonna start flipping now
tell me when to stop
stop
a romantic movie night
oh wait I forgot to tell you we're gonna start over
because I didn't tell you you're trying to seduce
yeah who am I trying to fuck here I always need to know
yes it's very important
this time the two of you
are trying to seduce me the internet's
me the actual
me
it's a good thing for you to do over man
yeah because that one wasn't gonna work on me
so here we go flipping through
stop
no kids no work
just us
you would redeem this coupon for a whole day devoted
to the most important thing
love
no work in all clay will make for a memorable day
sometimes romance just happens
strong
but you love your work
I do love my work
sometimes romance just happens but you have to plan for it
schedule the whole day
until this romance just happens
it ain't today
here's a coupon
that's fun
it just happens
we're tired wife trying to
find space for all these coupons that you can't redeem
Robert I really got a lot to do
can you redeem the coupon a different day
I'm free Sunday
how much anxiety would that induce
I'm like a really busy person
they have this coupon book
any minute you could just have to
do one of these things
the other thing to consider is this is 2006
before like a smart phone
if you gave this coupon today
that would sort of imply
you don't get to fuck around on your phone
this is a romance day
it would legitimately be chemically painful
for a lot of people to try this
that's like the modern day coupon
is a day with me without your phone
or something
in any given day
I'm going to be generous here
and say like four and a half hours of romance
and then I'm just like
I have to poop at some point
so you're going to give me this coupon with a qualification
that you're going to be pooping in four hours
here's a romance coupon but
caveat
see that's the romance coupon I want
you go in the bathroom have a good poop
I will bother you
thank you
I don't feel like that worked on you very well
that's the coupon to beat
I'm going to start flipping
tell me when to stop go
okay now
decadent dessert coupon
redeemable for a heaping helping of your favorite goodies
pick your indulgence
and the coupon giver will make it happen
kiss in unexpected places
well that one
that one's two different things
why did it take
I don't know
they say like there's like a little zinger on all of them
I don't know
was the implication that he's going to like put the dessert somewhere
does the dessert go on you
in you
I guess you're just
like buying the ice cream
or whatever
like that's an actual coupon
I mean at the very least
that's pretty good
that has a monetary value
that's true
you could trade that in for actual money
that's probably worth like
450 bucks
so let's see
the offer on the table is
ice cream and making out
or four hours of non poop
theoretically
unlimited making out
but I'm not allowed to like look at my phone
or work
I gotta
give it to April
I think it's a four to one
she's running away with this game
you can look at your phone while you eat
your dessert I don't fucking care
there better be some I don't know
some fucking golden snitch at the end of this
where I can just like come back
or else I'm just
dying I have to just live out
my death from here to the end of the episode
you got the
like extra points
for the Randy Savage one
because that was like the best one I think
I mean that's the one that's most important to me
I feel like I've
I've fulfilled myself
that was the full game
there will be no more bookies
okay
that's the romantic thing for me to do
you're having this coupon for fly
fucking pity
slap it in the air and storm out
coupon for a free romance
tie
so continuing on
I have no idea how to do transitions
on podcasts so anyway
we're done with that bit where we had some laughs
in 2007
Godek came out with your relationship
report card which is the
exact same book as the other ones that were like
trying to turn love into school
and they know he's actually
putting grades on the line
the most romantic part of school
yeah well I didn't tell you but the other books
did come with a relationship report card
so he was just like you know I gotta
take that part of the book and just make that
its own book but all he did is change
the title of the book
of the book that had a report card in it
do you imagine how much trouble you'd be in
if you gave literally anything below
like a B
honey I'm gonna give you a D on this one
and not the good
not the good kind
so this is
where he's at now he's just
just taking the same thing and then in 2009
I'll give you one guess
what
book he put out it's got two words
in the title just shout it out if you think you know it
the end love coupons
oh god damn it
you wrote a book called love coupons
different from the previous love coupons
final book
but he did later that same year
write how to be mildly
brilliant
the fucking record just scratched
on the entire world
I like that he at least
had the decency to put mildly
he's trying to stay humble
this fucking book
is just a bunch of fables
about a character named simple simon
who like
learns little lessons like a child
might but fables like
already exist so he's writing like
books about how to like learn lessons
that are that there's already fables
based on you know what I mean
so none of these fables
star simple simon the most important
important
and about the author section he says
and I quote
is the world's leading authority on
simplicity
it's an elusive place where simplicity
and complexity intersect to create
brilliant solutions so this guy's been
fucking eating his own shit for so many years
about how like he's smart and wise
but also very very
basic and stupid and so
he's decided that that now is
this folksy wisdom that he walks around with
is now like this fucking
outside of romance really good
and so he's trying to sell
himself as if he's been the leader
of this simplexity movement for many years
and
there's maybe only one person in the world who knows
without question that's
complete and total fucking bullshit and that's
me and I promise it is
most people would pick this up and say like
oh this guy must be a speaker
that speaks about simplexity no he's not
this is a guy who speaks about one thing
and I just made it very clear
by going through all the books he's written he had one fucking idea
and here he is trying to be like
no no no I have a second idea
he doesn't so
but he really it's really the same idea
because he had one book idea
and he took him 45 years to write it
right so that was
simple and complex at the same time
you might have a point
really just saying it takes somebody a bunch
of steps to do something really easy
which is kind of the definition of stupid
yeah I suppose
yeah I mean if this guy isn't stupid
then like we need to just remove that
word from the language like he's
so obviously stupid
but he's not necessarily wrong so it's hard to say
like he's it just took him
a long time to be right
sure I guess
it sounds like a genius to me
he might be history's greatest genius
it is kind of genius
to make up a concept and then insist
you're the world's foremost expert on it
right especially when it's like not impressive
in any way it's like it's like
I am the world's foremost expert on
fucklacity
that's fucking and elasticity
well he's got just a couple
more left he did
in 2011 he wrote I love
you coupons which was a book about
you're not gonna believe this
well
so he was a he wrote one book on this
simplexity thing I don't think it went well
the punctuation of I love you
coupons
I think it's all lower case
yes but like is it is it like
I love you in quotes or is it like
no no I love you
it's like I love you
is it like I love you
he really loves
coupons
I don't think he's speaking to the coupons but
just checking
he might be but the great thing about this
simplexity thing is
the book really made it look like this was a movement
he uses like the
he uses we a lot like our mission
is simplexity and we are all like
he's he's sort of talking about like he's got
this this group of simplexity
people but again he does not so
he gave that up he went back to the love coupons
then he wrote bring food arrive naked
which I don't think he ever released
at this point
this is four years after
like I dominate
his entire google results so at this point
he has to know just one page
just the cover page just a postcard
bring food arrive naked and flip it over
and says that's it that's fucking it
make fun of that Sean baby dick
and then
this is the last book I want to talk about
and this one is fucking fantastic
because he does actually now try
another thing he wrote a book called
a hard days night
a rock n roll erotic romance
this was in 2016
is that like that not the fucking
lamest book
title you've ever heard I love it
I'm just so excited he's gonna write fiction
so he co-wrote it with
a girl named Anastasia
Winters
he had to either he made that
up or she made that up
don't get too far ahead
but I think you're right
so I looked up Anastasia
Winters and all I could find was a pencil
drawing of her and she seems like
like a cute 20 something
right and yeah
like her Amazon
her Amazon
profile is just a pencil drawing
and a long rambling thing about
how she's been like it's like really cute
and she's like I've been like a romance writer
for years but only published once I'm working
with a Gregory Godic he was on
Oprah OMG there's no
yeah there's something about the OMG
where I'm like this shit I called you out
yeah immediately
you immediately busted Godic on this
and then she makes
reference to like Bridges of Madison County
which I think is kind of like before my time
like he she's making references that
are 30 years removed
from her perspective and
it has like a really phony like
teen type of and not even like
impactful references it's not like
something that would rebound down
generations that's something you had
to be there to think exactly
like no one's gonna just fucking come
across that on Amazon Prime
I wouldn't even think to mention that
like you say that oh yeah that movie
happened
and so
she calls herself a reclusive but
naughty girl
and so don't try to find
not real
she has a lot of like deleted blog posts
but every single one of the blog posts
I found them like on the archive.org
and they're all like conversations she has
with Godic where they're both like
so witty and like playing off each other
in the exact same voice
like it couldn't have been more suspicious
so she has a twitter
and she has about
six followers her twitter handle is
really hoping she had more followers than Godic
she does not
and all of her tweets are related
to Godic like hey this books
coming out you should look at this book
hard days night rock and roll erotic romance
and like
nothing about her life or the movies she sees
or like retweets or anything
this feels like a
Garth Brooks Chris Gaines type deal
maybe
but I think he was genuinely
going for this like
I really want to just reach a younger audience
so I'll just invent a person
he thought the only
problem the only reason he wasn't
able to speak to young girls
is that he wasn't a young girl himself
but he can fix that
which is absolutely like the sex criminal
with the power of imagination
anybody can be a young
reclusive but not a girl
so
that is what Godic is like up to
that was four years ago so that's like what he's up to
basically current day is he's pretending to be
a young girl to like the delight of
no one
he's now in a stage of winters
right
really working on that six follower count
should have just
it bumped up to seven today
I'm telling you
best of luck Godic
we'll get to at least ten after this podcast
I just
I wanted to share with you the saga of Godic
and how he went from bestselling author
Oprah guest
frequent media appearances
to just pretending to be a teen girl
and getting no attention
for it and that's like
it's such a dark and scary story
but I also
I do sort of feel
a little guilty about making fun of him so much
like I've written like five articles just about
him and I'm
fucking mean and I just
it's nice to get reassured that this is the biggest
this is why he invented an entirely new identity
he could not stand
being himself anymore with what you've done
to him and now you
found his new identity
he's not even saying
he'll have to burn down his life again
yeah
he just bought so many pencil skirts too
so that's Godic he wrote one book
70 times
and when he tried to write different books he wrote one about
9-11 not about 9-11
but just trying to cash in on 9-11
one about being the world's
leading fable writer
and then one as a teen girl
that has it I mean
that title is straight out of the 50s a hard days night
rock and roll romance that's ridiculous
so
that's it that's what I want to talk about today
that was a long
sad ride but I loved it
I learned something new
we did it
I just want to bring back love coupons
let's try that
I'm gonna get some love coupons out let's go out
reading some of these love coupons
Sean baby love coupons
I would be happy to I think people would really like that
let's see
what is the ultimate bubble bath
coupon how about this one
you're entitled to one luxurious bubble bath
what would be your ideal
love coupon
whew
it would probably be like
I don't want to say anything
it's dark it's like just being left alone for a while
but like that's kind of like
yeah like
I think that's where everybody's mind went
just leave me alone for like 20 fucking minutes
yeah
sex and then leave me alone
that's the love coupon
do not cuddle me after sex
go get the ice cream
yeah yeah
turn the TV back on
this coupon says
don't be fucking awkward
yeah don't be fucking awkward
get out of the room without saying a fucking word
and we both know you have to do that because of the coupon
because that would be awkward
in itself
if I was with a woman and she just ran into the shower
and be like oh god what
is that what she has to say
I do poop a lot during sex
I don't have
the control of Brockway
romance master Brockway
every four hours like clockwork
and I make love for four hours in two minutes
it's nothing that stops me
my one weekend
I feel like I learned so much about you for meeting you
for the first time
yeah this is a really
in-depth discovery
I do think
if two people got together
on a date and read like a go-deck book
and just picked random go-deck quotes
you'd know each other better
after that date than most
you'd know each other very well
but you would be just so turned off the idea
of romance
it would end with a handshake and maybe a little ironic salute
you'd have to use the awkward love coupon
at the end of the night just to get through it
yeah we'll hang out again
but no
we could have some cranky anal in the bathroom
but nothing romantic
only because he never mentioned it
also
I went through your list of films April
I did not see cranky anal in the bathroom once
so congratulations
no I think that's a good thing
no now I really want to make that
actually
I'm telling you these are ideas
they're gonna make cranky
you should re-listen to this episode
and just take notes
thank you
you're welcome
I would really love to co-write
a pornographic film based on 1001 Ways to Be Romantic
where we took his
really square ass tips
and wrote them into a movie
and played them very straight
one guy gives a pizza to the woman
not like in a super erotic way
he's just like sweetheart I got your favorite flavor of pizza
I hate to break a cube but I'm pretty sure
they've done the pizza thing before
but in a lewd way
I'm saying
very original
hey
extra sausage on your pizza
if she should
roll her eyes at this point if a guy tries that
I'm saying
here's a heartfelt pizza
a lot of Godek
tips are to get her a pizza with her
choice of toppings like that's one of my favorite ones
that gets repeated
that's the ultimate sacrifice
she's always like
here and she has to use a special coupon
to pick a topping
love coupon number 54
I get to pick the pizza toppings
if you use that coupon or you feel the need
to use that coupon you have a black eye
guaranteed
that controlling man
love coupon number 72
you get to watch the commercials from your favorite shop
oh sweetheart
you spoil me
alright
I think this is more Godek than anyone should
ever listen to
but I want to thank you April for being on our podcast
thank you for asking me
of course you're a dear friend
and I treasure our time together
do you have anything you'd like to plug before you go
you could just visit
apriloneal.com
and that's got all the
follow her on twitter
your tag is
undo
un d e u x
damn that is a succinct plug
we should do that
visit 1900hotdog.com
the end
good luck
good day sir
thanks dude
come on
you know the number
1900
1900 hotdog
1900
1900 hotdog
1900
1900 hotdog
1900
zero
yeah not thousand
Nick Rolston
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