The Headgum Podcast - 236: Joel's Wow

Episode Date: January 3, 2025

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This is a head gum original. Previously on the Head Gum Podcast. Oh no. Is this the ring or something? I actually don't know what movie this is. This one's at least well lit. Ma'am? Do you think it's scary to shoot these scenes? Or they're not kind of laughing?

No. This fucking kid. You guys are doing way better than I thought you would. Because these kids aren't that scary. Oh no, I know this one. Fuck this. This, I remember seeing this. This is insidious.

I remember seeing this movie and this image that's gonna come up. It is insidious because I couldn't sleep for weeks. It was so- No, that's the problem that I have. It was so fucking scary. Podcast, but outside, right? Nice. Uh...

Do you guys remember that scene in Big Fat Liar where Frankie Munoz is like... He's like hopped up on Coca-Cola and he's like in the prop warehouse and he's like going like this with like one of those like ping pong things with the ping pong ball attached to string and he's like, I'm at the beach! I'm at the beach! That's you right now? Ping-pong ball attached to string and he's like I'm at the beach. I'm at the beach That's right now it's a wax episode I Thought this was that I'm on Eastern I'm on Eastern time and I thought this was at 3 p.m Even though you guys are also at on Eastern time I've been falling apart at the seams this week because I'm home with my family for Christmas. That's why I'm in a nondescript basement with fluorescent lighting.

And I just don't look as like svelte as I usually do in the studio. Do you know what I mean? So I got to, I got to change things up. Maybe I'm in Alaska. I honestly thought you were in like one of the Head Gum conference rooms. Like that's what's kind of a of an indictment against my parents basement, but Cuz it's very like it's very like canonically uncool to be in your parents basement. Yeah It's kind of a sign of failure Yeah, I was gonna say because this is also like nobody's home for the holidays yet that everybody's doing that next week

Yeah, agree you said you've been home all week Cause this is also like, nobody's home for the holidays yet. Everybody's doing that next week. Yeah. Agreed. You said you've been home all week. Yeah, cause I'm going here for a week and then I'm going to my girlfriend's family's house in Kansas for a week. Sure. That's way too long to be away for the holidays. I don't know how this happened. Yeah, that's a lot. It's hard for me to disappoint people, especially my family. And hers.

It does seem like you're falling apart at the seams. I'm not doing well this week. That's why it's a wax episode. And it is what it is. My tinnitus is flaring up. I'm trying like hell to reverse it. OK, so OK. Have you heard of this audio remodulation therapy?

You've done it on this podcast while I was talking before. So imagine that. I mean, no, they say that if you do it for four to six hours a day for six months, you can reverse your tinnitus, maybe. So I'm going to actually try this shit while I'm sleeping. Starting tonight. Yes, I'm going to start tonight. Yes. Nice.

So I don't think it would help. Mine. Mine, mine I think is. I'm as small as a blade of grass. Emma, it's okay to enjoy the bits. It's not real. It's not real. He didn't actually get shrunk Emma, don't worry. That was why I was laughing.

Everywhere you look, everywhere is a place that Robin Williams used to live at. His tunnel. That was why I was laughing. Everywhere you look, everywhere is a place that Robin Williams used to live at. His tunnel, no less. He has a tunnel or he has tinnitus. Where is it? In San Francisco? I believe we're looking at it. That's a bridge. Somewhere over there.

Like past the bridge or? Not just past a bridge. Somewhere over there. Like past the bridge or? Not just past the bridge. There's the Robin Williams tunnel. Under the water. I mean, look, we have enough to get to that we might be able to make this one of those milquetoast end of year episodes. Next week's episode should be pretty fun. It's going to be with Miles Bonsignore and Riley Anspaw.

We're kind of reprising Santa bitch. But for this week, we have some of the dregs of the New York Studio. So please welcome to the show, Marika Brownlee. Yeah. Emma Foley. Such a mean intro. And Joel Dunoff. When was the last time you guys were on the show?

It's been a while, I feel like. Yeah. I feel like the live show. I can't remember the last time that I was on the show? It's been a while, I feel like. Yeah. I feel like the live show. I can't remember the last time that I was like in one of these chairs and not engineering. That's cool.

Yeah, it had to have been the live show. Or the episode that we recorded after the live show. The kind of post-mortem on that. Let me ask you this. So I texted Marika, I said, what are our actual numbers these days? Do you want to say I'm on live slash? No, and I our actual numbers these days? Do you wanna say I'm on live? Slash.

No, and I didn't wanna say them to you, which is why I didn't answer you. So they're not doing well. I just feel like every year at the end of the year, you ask me this question and I tell you, and then you're like, I'm gonna do a lot to get us up to X amount, and then you don't. And sometimes you send episodes late and all kinds of stuff.

And instead you beg for a live show. Yeah. That's true, but I genuinely had that intent last year, but then I had multiple head injuries that I'm still dealing with. So I'm wondering, this year maybe with that absent from the picture, we're gonna get to like Kylie Kelsey level That'd be fun. Yeah, I know I didn't know she's the only one who got that reference Apparently it's big

I'm great. I mean our podcasters can see their stats. Do we not give Jeff? No, he has full access Just like everything that you have a login to, you could use to. Well, I know what the things are on the YouTube, but I know that that's not, that doesn't tell the full story, right? Just like my deposition. Yeah, right?

Um, I'd say that we're like pretty the same. Okay. But there's other stuff that we I think we should start doing oh so we've gone down we've gone down a little bit like eight you know impressions wise like eight eight eight eight but maybe those eight people died so you can expect them to be born this year that's true yeah there's gonna be some babies who are really interested in us hawking chime. Turnover.

That's cool. What's that? Um, Marika, have you thought any more about my pitch to you that we kind of start our own rival network and this could be the flagship show? It could be the Sonder podcast network. Um, I guess this is the first I'm hearing of that pitch. Oh, and what would the flagship show be? The Headgum podcast? The Headgum podcast would move to the Sonder network, yeah. Kind of one of the few shows that Headgum fully owns.

That's true, yeah. You guys fucked me on that deal, by the way. Did you just... Sorry, did you just say rooting? No. Well, that's the word of the day. How do you spell it? R-O-O-T-I-N-G. Oh, like rooting the word of the day. How do you spell it? R-O-O-T-I-N-G. Oh, like rooting hormone.

Like rooting through something? Yeah, exactly right. Or like a rooter and plumber. Never heard of that, but... Like when someone's like fucking... Like a roofer and a plumber? No, no, no, no. Wait, oh no. Rooter, there was a place in some where that I live called Roto-Rooter.

And their jingle was like, Roto-Rooter, that's the name and we'll bring those troubles down the drain. Yeah, drains I guess. To plum is to make the pipes just so. Do you guys understand this idea? I agree. I didn't know that until 2020 when I installed a sink in my old apartment and I realized, oh plumbing is just making sure the pipes fit. It's not like it's also the idea of pipes, but I really only just thought of it usually as the idea of pipes and not like it as a verb. Like you are like

to plum is to make the pipes just so they fit in a way. Yeah. I don't think anyone's disagreeing with you here. No, I just, I can tell Emma's like by chomping at the bit. Sorry. Champing at the bit, which I realized is like the actual correct. I mean, plum is also like the converse of flush.

Sure. Which I guess maybe factors into the idea of it all. I just didn't really explore the idea of plum. I mostly thought when you know you hear the word plum, I think of the fruit, right? I didn't think adding a B to the end and making it a verb. What's that? Yeah, I mean, that's a big discovery for you My bond of the week is Pennywise the clown looks good

Pennywise aka it Yeah, I'm timely. I would wait how so In that it's not at all. Okay. Claws are finally coming out. Emma got my ass. There is a new it series coming out.

Really? It's the clients Pennywise. I want to see how much clearer could we be, Joel? I want to see if this fool has range dude. Yeah okay, he can intimidate tykes, but can he shoot perps? I have to imagine. I don't know if he has the gunmanship. Wait, is he a clown?

He is a clown. He's a fucking fool. Pennywise is the clown. If that's what you mean. Is the antagonist in the Stephen King book, It, which was turned into a movie. And then there was It 2, and now there's a prequel series, I think. It's Zero. Describing his childhood trauma or what?

I've not seen any of these. What's that Spielberg movie about his fine childhood? I feel like clown school would actually be like, it's quite a versatile training. I think your gunmanship would improve after going to clown school. I don't think he had training, he's from the sewers. Did he have draining though? Because I want to know if rooting has an issue with it. Because Pennywise emerges from the fucking sewer Yeah, I wonder if he was actually a router and plumber

Sounds like you're really subverting the cannon here Jeff Imagine Pennywise the clown with a plumber's crack and he's kind of cuckolding the husband who's a ways at work I don't really want to he also So imagine Loomers like the oh my god, there's a lot of cinching with bloomers. You're not so much gonna have I thought bloomers were like just normal panties No, okay. So bloomers are like boxer shorts, but for old grandma cinched at those thighs Or people of all ages Jeff Okay, have you guys ever donned bloomers?

No question that I shouldn't ask I've looked at purchasing them. Yeah, it's not necessarily an undergarment. Okay. It's an over garment. I was gonna ask Yeah, actually Sonder house. I think sells bloomers So yes We talked about this Marika because you were the one that brought up Sonder house And I was like what if we came up with a one podcast network called the Sonder E network Which is like wonder E but kind of worse, but this is our house. It's I'm so glad you asked out brand Like I'm a little brown Jordan, right?

This is kind of a hotel offshoot of Brown Jordan. Why won't you die? Who are you guys' Bonds of the Week? Mine was Pennywise, we got all the way from Pennywise to Bloomers, gunmanship of clowns and fools. Those are definitely Bloomers. But yeah, Pennywise wears them out of the house. I think it's kind of like-

Well, the source. As do I. I think we have salter house. What is salt? Or salt or house? And I also have a similar vibe. Yeah. Is salt or house a hotel chain from the chefs at salt air?

Okay. The chef, salt air is a brand of like creams and body wash. So well bonds of the week. Now that we've come to a dead end, I'll go with the Baba Duke. Body wash. So. Well, Bonds of the Week, now that we've come to a dead end. I guess I'll go with the Bob-a-Duke. If you're going Pennywise. Kind of stealing my idea, but let's hear why. It's time for a queer icon bond. So it should have been Daniel Craig, right?

Fair, fair. In light of recent news, maybe. Is Daniel Craig gay? No, but there were tweets going around last week that someone was like, my friend's been invited to sex parties at Daniel Craig and Rachel Weiss's house, and they're both pansexual. Nice. Which...

He's also in the... wait is he in the new movie Queer? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. That was all I was referencing so now we have some tea. Yeah I mean it's not... Emma, who do you got for Bondo? Sorry. He's not confirmed, it's someone on Twitter but... Yeah. He also wasn't confirmed to the church I want to say. I don't think he's Catholic as well Yeah, I don't think so. Were you guys confirmed any of you guys confirmed? I know obviously not Joel obviously Emma you were no What was your patron saint or whatever the hell you have to? Cecilia and what was she the pit the saint of of music and it's also my

of music. And it's also my grandmother's name. Okay, it's your grandmother's name. Music, sorry. Now I did it for my grandmother. And then the music's just a nice bonus. Well, we should say you play the French horn. A fan. Yes.

Marika, were you confirmed in the Catholic Church? No. I was. Really? Yeah, my dad's really Catholic. That's why my last name is from the Catholic. His ancestors, my ancestors are from the Catholic part of South India. That's why people will often ask the racist question like,

Oh, if you're so brown, why is your last name James? I'm like, actually, if you knew your shit, you know that there's like a Catholic cohort in the Southern Tis. Yeah, I didn't know about this. Well, you liked learning your shit. Do people have anyone ever said to you, you're probably going to end up telling someone else like you. You're so brown, why is your last name James? Well not in as many words, but

it is like a microaggression where people are like wait your dad's the brown one, why is your last name James? You're so brown, why is your last name Jordan? See now someone said it, although he kind of did his own spin on it. I would advise you to stick to the script. But I was confirmed in the Catholic Church, I was forced to go Someone said it although you know he kind of did his own spin on it. I would advise you to stick to the script, but No, I was I was confirmed in the Catholic Church. I was forced to go to Catholic Church every Sunday growing up. It was awful. I

Felt such guilt after what would you say in confession? I I felt I confessed that I had my first kiss and they were they made me like repent over the shit I mean, I should have known better. This was like while I was studying for my SATs, but still that's not funny enough. It should have been when I was like 30. It's not funny enough. Yeah, because some people do have their kids first kiss when they're 17. No, I, I, I, you know. You were overwhelmed studying.

You needed to get your nerves out somehow. So yeah, the rest is history. Which there's no shame in that. I'm going to end up cutting that out. Yeah, definitely. You're going to cut that out. Either that or I'm going to run it through like a Joel AI voice generator. I have been working on that for a while.

I don't know. Definitely my first kiss I remember just feeling shame about that, which is insane. Even before you made it to confession. I don't think I actually said that in confession. I think I just felt bad in church the day after a Benet Mitzvah that I went to and had my first kiss on a squash court at a club.

Yeah. That's awesome. Harsh fluorescent lights coming down from a 30 foot tall ceiling. She used a lot of tongue and now she's a Trump supporter. Anywho. Uh. Girl, do you have a bond of the week

or do you want to move on? Uh, let's just go back to the well that keeps on giving Reeve Carney yet again. Which is in line, I would say, because Pennywise is a Carney. Val. I don't know if he's a carny. Reeve carny going back to London to do Hadestown. So. Do you guys know how long we've been going for? Not a clue.

I have some more to get to. I just want to know if we should take a break. Maybe we just take the break just in case. Sorry, let's see you go. Thanks some of our sponsors. I do think we have a sponsor on this episode actually that's coming out. Yeah, 27. Shout out.

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Thanks guys. Welcome back to the segment. Guys, I have an ad right now on my on my soundboard website. It says it's a shirt for a kid and it says I've got my daddy's temper and my mama's well now I've clicked on it. Sonder. I got my mama's Sonder. No, I did want to bring it into our next segment. Here we go. Full steam ahead. We're bringing it into Joel's wow. All right. So we've done Casey's dimes. We've done Grace's

purloins. Now we're doing Joel's wow. Basically this is a quantitative instead of qualitative segment. How much wow does Joel have? Is Joel answering or are we answering? We can all answer, maybe we start without, let's start and end with Joel so that we can kind of get the right answer

because I think he's the only one who knows Sometimes or as Wow Like that And what is he staring at when he says that kind of into the distance I think it's a true wow Wow The purest form of Wow The purest form of wow. Joel is the that's like a movie poster that says Joel Dunoff is the purest form of wow. Marika, how much wow do you think Joel has? Maybe like a bucket's worth.

That's not a lot. I don't know how much is a lot. It could be a lot. Could also be a little. I don't know how much is a lot. It could be a lot. Could also be a little. I feel like you're not actually plus that a lot, though. Like, I don't like when Joel really cracks up, I feel

like he exhibits a lot of wow and joy. I know it's not we're not doing Joel's joy, which would have probably been a better segment. But I'm just saying save it for next year. I don't see you get wowed because I feel like you you know a lot of trivia facts, you pride yourself on your intelligence,

which is quite clear. None of this is true. I'm like, you know, I don't think you get wowed by a lot, because I don't think you learn often. I mean, you absolutely floored me with the Catholic section of Southern India. Yeah. I know, but that was the first, maybe the first time I've ever seen you wowed.

So I'm gonna say... That was the first time you told me about your family's history. I'll agree with Marika that it's a bucket's worth, which is not a lot of wow. It's not a lot of wow. Uh... Joel, what's your answer? You know best of all, let's say. I was actually thinking when you were doing all your fun backgrounds earlier,

I feel like a photo booth thing in, like, middle school was, like, the, like, wow thing. Yeah. I've never seen that. Mom. Yeah. And is that your answer to how much wow you have? Yeah. Okay. That was easy.

All right, guys, while I was in New York, I obviously was like talking a lot about writing. I didn't really get to it much. I'm still trying to come up with the perfect novel title to write. Once I have it, I feel like it will write itself right this week. I'm going to pitch you guys on Wreck--Mass. Like Wreck-It Ralph? Yeah but it's about Sam Shackel. Why? Why Mass? Because her last name is Mass. Wreck-It-Mass also works. I thought it was like what you did to the church service when you came back having had your first kiss. I was thinking it was like what you did to the church service when you came back having had your first kiss.

I was thinking it was like something to do with Massachusetts, like the state of Massachusetts. Well, Casey Affleck would play shackle, we should say. Oh. Casey Affleck is shackle. I actually feel like a tween disrupting church services with their like promiscuity could be a good plot. Wait, what?

You're interested in tween-age promiscuity? Just like, no, more like a commentary on the church. Oh, of the book. Did you guys have a New York headgum holiday party? If not, wow. We had dinner. Yeah, we had dinner. Six of us just went to dinner.

Where'd you go to dinner? And is it Gramercy Tavern, and if not, wow? Stop wowing us. No, we went to Illili, which is a Lebanese restaurant. Okay. Ish, the office. It was fire. It was really good. You guys never go to the fancy spots in Manhattan.

I feel like what's worth it about working in Manhattan? Yeah, but it's not like American food. I mean, how fancy could... What was that cocktail you had? Uh, which one? Oh, the passion fruit one? Yeah, that show was fancy. I don't think that was fancy, but it was large.

It was, yeah, it was like a goblet. Jeff, we got a brick of raw meat. It was so good. A steak? No. A steak and brick of raw meat. Kibbe, he means exactly that. Like a tartare, but in brick form.

That sounds terrible. The best part of tartare is that it's kind of pushed down onto the plate with a fork. Well, that happened right in front of our eyes. Okay, so it was table-side Tartar. Tarble-side service. You could say that. Why did you guys not go to Gramercy Tavern? Because I feel like Sage was trying to get you to take her to Gramercy. I mean, that's true. Sage isn't here anymore. I know, but that's what I'm saying. Like, even while she was there and you had someone really actively pushing for it

You guys never really worked up the huevos to get the the exit grammar seat I'm wondering if you guys ever go to Keen's before it gets taken over by the owner of housed in steakhouse Have you guys not heard Shoe brand it's like No, what the hell is Keens? Keens is one of the oldest steak houses. Isn't it like that shoe brand? It's like the little kids. That's absolutely true. That's true, that's true. It's shrewd.

Keens is a steakhouse in midtown. It's like those shoes you get that are like unbelievably versatile for walking in water, but make you look like the way Jeff sounded when he said he's staying in his parents house. His parents' house. Yeah.

All right, Joel. Joel's kind of on fire today. I didn't want to say anything, but I have to give him his chops, but I will have to say that, you know. You've reached your limit on talking. Because you're starting to make me look bad, right? Shut the fuck up.

No, Keens is one of the oldest steak houses in New York. It used to be like a Broadway theater club. I can't believe Marika doesn't know about this shit. People would smoke pipe tobacco. And so there's all these like they would keep their their pipes at the club. And so you go into you eat there. It's no longer a pipe tobacco place. But all the pipes are lining the the hallowed halls and the it's like a team clubhouse where you walk in and you've instead of keeping your cleats in your baseball that you pull out. Yeah pull out and go to work. That's exactly right. So it was kind of a hub of cancer in midtown for a while. But

now it's sort of a place where you can get a fine steak. It is getting it got purchased by the guy who owns not Delmonico's One of those chain steak houses. The nice chain steak house. Morton Williams? Morton's. Yeah, I think it's Morton's. Is it on like, 35th or something? Yeah. I think it's 38th or something. But it's near, it's like, it's near 42nd, but it's south.

Where do you get your restaurant news, by the way? I look up oldest restaurants in whatever city I'm in because I feel like I'm continuing the history. How? By eating there. That's all that I need to do to further it. Did you ever go to Francis Tavern? I'd love to go to Francis.

I just think the food isn't as good as Keen's and it's as expensive from what I read, but I'd like to go to Francis because because they have a they have it's like it's like a pub though but with the price of a steakhouse because they have like pretzels and shit but it's still like you know expensive as heck also like when am I in FI die other than when I'm being deposed I'm just saying you like wanted you said you make a point to look up the oldest restaurants and you didn't go. It's on my list. To Francis. All right, happy now.

What's the oldest restaurant in your parents' neighborhood in Ohio? I don't think they stay open very often, but I can get a numbers crunch on that right now. Oldest restaurant, I'll just say Cleveland because Sugar and Falls is too small. Guarino's, it's an Italian restaurant, which we don't have a shortage of here. There's

a lot of terrible red sauce Italian in Ohio. Like it's a lot of people who like came from New York came from New Jersey and like, I don't know what happened to the family recipes, but they just, I guess just every passing grandmother just like, I guess soured it by adding like a cup of sugar to the sauce. It's like disgusting. It's like overcooked noodles in red sauce that tastes like it's been made out of candy jams. You're getting so angry. I'm really sorry that happened. Well, I grew up thinking I hated Italian food and then people would be like, what are you talking about?

Italian food is amazing. I'm like, no, it's not. And then I tried some like not Ohio Italian food and then people would be like what are you talking about Italian foods amazing? I'm like no, it's not and then I tried some like not Ohio Italian food, and I was like oh, yeah This is pretty good actually I Get what you mean. Yeah, I feel like I will say shout out Mama Santa's that's the only good Italian restaurant in Ohio. I Don't think we had or I never went to like small Italian restaurants in my hometown and you're worried you'd run into Billy Joel No, I'm not in Savannah, Georgia I grew up you can see Billy Joel's house across the water from where I live

You all across the water right so to get there you'd have to drive like seven hours Or on a boat Jeff did you have the those restaurants? Carabas that always had plants on the roof No, I didn't but I know what you're talking about and I've seen them more in adulthood Did you have for two cheese? No, I didn't well in Boston? Yeah, we had We had we had a place called max and Irma's I don't know if that was a regional chain or a or a National chain, but that place was fucking great we and

Bob Evans, which is a regional chain for sure we used to Bob Evans. I think I got hair in my egg to Bob Evans. Isn't Bob Evans like a breakfast place? Sorry, can you say there's a hair in my soup? Well, he asked for it on the side. Just as an experiment. Can you... Yeah, sorry. I didn't... Can you say there's a hair in my soup, but to the, like, in the voice of Woody from Toy Story?

I don't know. I don't know what you're gonna do with this audio. Marika, can you do it? You know the reference I'm talking about. Instead of there's a snake in my boot, there's a hare in my soup. Oh, I didn't know the reference. All right, this sucks.

Sorry. No, it's sorry. Yeah, you should do it. There's a hare in my soup! Oh, now I think I know what you're talking about. But it was eggs. If in fact it's the place of the day. Uh, guys, we did this last week, but with a different slew of guests.

I wanted to talk to you guys about Thanksgiving regrets, right? Nobody really gets to all the things that they should be grateful for on Thanksgiving. I know it's been almost a month, but what did you guys mean to be thankful for on the day, and you didn't quite make it to there? Um... I guess I meant to be thankful for... having friends over and then they kind of pissed me off. So you didn't forget that.

What happened? So you didn't forget that. What happened? No, it was fine. I just, I realize that I am kind of like a, yeah. I'm a problem. I'm a real like backseat chef. And I asked my friends to do some things to help. Was it a potluck?

No, it was like, I really want to make all the food and you can bring ingredients or like a small thing. And I asked them to grate potatoes. And I was like, you guys are in charge of making a lot because I'm sending someone the recipe, you figure it out. And they really did not. What did they come out like? A long time. They came out fine. They weren't fried as well as I would have liked them to be.

Um, and I didn't do the frying, but they were ultimately like, okay, it just took, I think two times longer than it should have. And that really set a tone for myself for the rest of the evening. Did other people notice you're weary or did they like move on business as usual and they had a great time which kind of furthered your anger? Or did the duration of the latke making ruin their Thanksgiving too? No, they were fine. I'd say it was more that like they did notice my weary because I was like, why is this taking so long?

And then, and then we got over it. And I do feel like hosting Thanksgiving is stressful. There's no, it's stressful and it's hard when people are kind of like hovering over you, but like not doing anything. Well, people show up and they start drinking and they hover and they try to talk to you while you're trying to like make sure that the potatoes au gratin are getting that crisp glaze on top while remaining soft as a baby's rump on in the middle. And that's tough for, for, for Unc.

For you, that's what you made for Thanksgiving? No, um, my mom made that. I was one of the hovers, actually, if you can fucking believe it. Yeah. Look, I don't want to sugar coat it, and I'm not one to. But that was all we had for the day. And I'm wondering if you guys have anything you want to do. Actually, the first lap with me, they didn't. Which is always they didn't answer their Thanksgiving regrets.

How do you play it? Oh, yeah. What do you guys have Thanksgiving regrets over? God damn it. You don't want to hear. No, I'd love to hear hear, sorry I'm really interested. Um. I don't know. Are these just like regrets for the year?

In general? No. Or is it specifically things I forgot to be thankful for? Thank you Emma. There's an adult in the room Holy shit He's an asshole I Don't know Joel you go. I don't think I was thankful enough for Cryptocurrency Okay, there's a lot of day trading happening at my Thanksgiving There's a lot of day trading happening at my Thanksgiving. I met your parents after the live show.

They seemed normal and great. I don't know how you turned out the way you did. My parents weren't the ones day trading. Who was? I don't want to talk about it. Your funkel, your drunkel, your gunkle. I'm the funkel. You have a net... You have a nibbling?

Yeah. Who? I can't say his name on the internet well, that's true or it could be one of our new fans to juice The numbers back. There you go. He could be one of the eight. Yeah Thousand we should add some baby sized merch to the headband store. I don't even mind that. Yeah, I would love that if it was possible. You'd love baby sized merch?

Yeah, like, I don't know onesies. I don't think we need to cater to babies. I think we do because that's how we get them to be the next generation because then you get a fan for life. They don't need to listen while they're like 18 months. But once they're like 18 years, they look back at baby photos and they're like, what is what's this? What you know onesie that says grace is purloins mean? And then the parents like, oh, yeah, that's that podcast,

the headgun podcast, the one that's been long standing for 21 years. And then they're like, oh, I guess I should listen to that. And then they do. And suddenly the numbers spike in like 2051. What's the long game? I think we really need to be I guess we need to be targeting like new parents really. That was one of the funniest things Emma's ever said and nobody laughed. Her leaned back all relaxed. That's the long game. On the show. with a shit eating schesher grin just be like well that's a long game why do you love it you would

never understand the long game yeah sorry that was the subtext what's that and then I guess my Thanksgiving regret would be I didn't give thanks for the fact that I Have a really reliable car. Oh That's great. It's like a well-designed Mid-2000s Toyota engine, and I just feel like I never really have to worry about breaking down or breaking through

Did someone break into your car recently? No, someone broke into my girlfriend's car. But that's not, I think, what you were thinking of, because I definitely didn't talk to you about that. Oh, no, but something had bad happened to your car when you were moving. Yeah. That's what we're thinking of.

Did it get towed? I thought someone stole the bit, but it turned out that I just forgot where I parked it. You forgot to move that head just forgot where I parked it. You forgot that had gum. I almost filed a police report. They would have arrested Marty too. That's true, that's shoo.

That's the long game. No, I was sad. I was like, I love that thing. I don't even want to replace it with the exact same truck because it's not going to be the same one Turned out Everything was more than fine. That was also the day I moved Not your cars a massage We really have to wrap it up before we expound on anything Emma just said what do you guys have going on?

What do you want to point the people towards? Happy holidays, happy Honda days to you and yours for the holidays of today and yore. Let's start with Marika. Listen to all of the new Headgum shows that have come out. Can we not encourage people? Cause I feel like they're going to be like, oh, this is just a better version of the Headgum podcast.

Like let's keep these listeners where they are. Those shows will be fine, because they're helmed by celebrities and people who have a huge following. Just because someone's going to listen to another show doesn't necessarily mean they're leaving this one. And I feel like a lot of our fans say that this show particularly kind of like holds them hostage

to each week. So I think they're kind of beholden to us. Yeah, but I have a scarcity of mindset as well. It's kind of hard sometimes. I would also say, if nothing else, you offer something really, really specific. I'm in my own lane and I do appreciate you acknowledging that, but I just kind of want to be the only lane.

Does that make sense? Yeah, for sure, for sure. Follow me, at Marie Galon on Twitter, still shadow banned on Blue Sky. No one's on Blue Sky. Letterboxed, et cetera. I've been locked out of my letterboxed forever more. Why?

Content? I don't know. For content you posted? Yeah, probably. All my NSFW reviews. It's all cute. You gotta get back on there, Emma. QAnon theories that are inciting violence.

We've got to get you back into your letterbox. We'll work on that. That can be a goal for 2025. Getting back into my letterbox account. Otherwise, you can follow me at emerozefolie on Instagram. I feel like Rose is a really good middle name. I kind of wish that that was mine. And it's not too late. It could be Jeffery Rose James. Jeffery Rose James a really good middle name. I kind of wish that that was mine, and it's not too late It could be Jeffrey Rose James At the very least that's a funny Instagram handle

And I rise up next to you yeah Joel what do you got? I feel like with your name it sounds like a noun but with Jeff's name it sounds like a verb a slur Yeah I feel like with your name it sounds like a noun, but with Jeff's name it sounds like a verb. A slur, yeah. Jeff Frost. Uh... I don't know why. Let's... Everyone should check out Micah's brand, Ametona. Very kind of you, very kind of you, but you don't need to do that. I bought a bag yesterday.

It was a mixed bag. Nice. First day out with it. But ultimately I'm glad to have it. You can follow me on Instagram at Joelman Dunoff. As always, it's a private account, so you'll be accepted or declined on a case by case basis. At JeffreyRoseFolly on Instagram,

and we'll see you guys again next week. Have a happy Honda days, have fun. All right, RoseFolly just kind of roses off roses off the tongue at Jeffrey Rose James on Instagram We'll see you guys again next week watching soccer and we appreciate your patronage tell your friends, I don't know how but at least try and Namaste. That was a Hid Gum Original.