Hollywood Handbook - Amir Blumenfeld, Our Headgum Friend

Episode Date: May 23, 2023

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this is a head gum podcast headphones here you're asking if we do headphones do you not know what goes on here of course i know i can't hear any idea of what we've been subjected to. The level of shaming that was imposed on us for asking for headphones our first day in the podcast studio was so severe that I'm like fully traumatized. From who? From your whole fucking staff. Yeah. And I don't want to name any specific names, but it was every single person. I don't want to name any specific names but it was every single yeah i don't need to name any specific lined up if they have paddle basically if they have a little

swipe card for the outside of the office which i don't by the way i'm wondering what the eta is he said he would talk to someone about that is he twice now has that made it up to you yet is that to you would you come here without anybody else here why do you why do you seems like that's the only uh there's barely anyone here when we're supposed to Why do you need me? Seems like that's the only... There's barely anyone here when we're supposed to be here. Look how dark it is out there. Fridays are dark. I guess I would come here when other people are here

and I would walk in without having to wait for a while. Got it. I would not be knocking and signaling. Yeah, that's a little embarrassing. Because we're fully exposed out there while we're waiting like okay so it's this advanced security apparatus which does correctly assess the threat that we face so i appreciate that no i'm glad that people can't just wander in because there are people who want a piece of what we've got going on yes okay and take a big chunk out of me the issue is that it doesn't protect us it leaves us

extremely vulnerable more exposed yes yes how is it oh because you don't have access because i can't fucking get in the fucking door dude yeah there's a there's a pre-gate to the door do you guys know the gate code no okay sometimes people sure i don't know the gate code? No. Okay. Sometimes people are sure. I don't know the gate code. No. I've been trapped in the parking lot before. And also sometimes I like knock on the door and someone who works here will see me and wave like, hi. Like you're just a fan.

Yeah. Yeah. Hi. Yeah. Like, and now there's a second step. Yeah. I say, but they can't hear me because i'm on the other side of this bulletproof glass that you have it is bulletproof okay again just called it bulletproof

yeah no i'm saying that's good that's a good thing okay but it's not good for me when i do eventually need to shoot my way in which i wish yes like we're just going to be the only option that doesn't help me at all i can get you you a key card. We got extra key cards. Okay, so it takes a threat of using a gun. That's good to know. Not extra, but we can make some for sure. Okay, this isn't holding up. Why?

I'm saying I can get you a key card. I'm saying we have extra key cards down at the factory. Down at the key card making factory. The extra key cards are like the mold that you use to make the key cards and the extra key material that you have no they're like little credit cards that um so you have them so they're made i have one they have been made we don't you don't even come here really so like i'm coming here. I'm here, buddy. Why don't you just give us yours? You're here as a guest on the show. I let Kevin in today.

This is helpful. We've had other guests on the show that's not like their company. They're not like here. It's not like their company that they're supposed to be here at. Yeah, but I was here. I got here. I swiped people in. Yeah, I know.

Kevin actually let me in. What happened? He's let me in and i let him in right but so you i don't even know if you swept people in i think you i think there's almost heaven here okay so that's that's just one person right already you're lying from there it flowed out to everybody else you're you are no here yes i thought you weren't here what is that what i mean like when i came in there was no evidence of you being yes you walked in and i had that in less than five seconds i think we missed but you still saw me i saw you and i had to put out the handshake you were like

and people i if you have you're already moving the goalposts because you said I wasn't here when you got here. And then I said, yes, we shook hands. No, I said I couldn't tell that you were here. I couldn't tell that you were here. And here's what else I'll say about your presence. Yeah. When I arrived, and I mentioned this on the pro version the other day, which was like I think the first time I had ever seen you in on the premises at all that was on monday yeah that i came in and people can see this now if you

have the video tier if you don't it's worth upgrading they'll understand now what i was saying which is like you're not in a bathrobe but it's big bathrobe vibes like the energy is bathrobe energy from you when you're here where you're sort of like what what is that puttering around the house because because i saw you in the house shoes why am i in a bathroom why aren't you in a bathrobe because i have access to this place i barely feel like i'm allowed to be here i'm coming to work i am clocking in yeah you need access and a punch card you're basically swiping in punching in

punching out i got my hard hat and my lunch pail and i am here to fucking keep the lights on and there's a lot of them they make me take a covid test i don't wake up in the morning and like they may take a covid test, here's another thing. It was like, you're going to have to take a COVID test every time you come in here. And then like, so I come in going like, okay, I'm going to come like, give yourself a couple extra minutes because you're going to have to take COVID test.

And then I walk in and like the first three times, it was like, hey, hey, hey, like take your COVID test. And then like the past three times, it's like, nobody's there. then like the past three times it's like nobody's there there's no test available it's like do i have to bring it like am i supposed to bring it that's that's an email i need to get if i have to bring the covet that i'm required to take because they're not fucking here man the first time the first time we came here this started off so hot i feel like we never have you like all of it has to get settled now because i don't know when i'll see you again

no people don't even know who i am because while the song was it went straight into we don't get headphones amir while the song was playing yes you asked if we were going to put on headphones like you thought we should yeah so that was the intro comment yeah if you wanted an intro yeah you should have kept your fucking mouth shut during this song now i wish because they told us when we said we wanted headphones yeah they all were like oh okay i get do we have those oh i guess we can get you so for next time i guess we can have that set up for you and it'll be available if you're like weak i guess and then they very patronizingly like hang the headphones right here like oh they're always gonna be here when you're here

yeah usually there's headphones i feel like there are right well no since we stopped using them because they made us feel like they flew out fucking dog shit for like for for asking the first time now they've taken them out no i'm not a baby put notebooks right there to make us feel nice and like it was starting to make a lot of very professional shows use headphones we were basically told no one uses headphones like when we came here we're like oh we didn't know people still did that like podcasting is now advanced beyond headphones right well you don't need it if it's just two people in a room but like if we're like listening for audio cues or when it's three people in a room yeah or like talking to somebody over zoom were you unable to hear the

theme song i couldn't quite hear the theme song yeah you want people to know who he is it's freaking head cum head gum license plate head cum that's what it should be it should be called head gun why because that's how i feel when i'm in here is that what you meant yeah that's the feeling should be head gun i mean that's what you should call it no way that's completely the first time they had us do a covid test i took mine and then sean came and then put his swab in my test that had already been done that's true and then i think also then just threw that one away yeah okay and then they start and so and then they stopped asking us the implication is that we like did a bad job or something taking the test yes because sean these guys have headphones they're the only ones who are allowed to have headphones and they're the only ones who are not allowed to take a covet test like that's

the sort of area that we've carved out for ourselves here i i don't know i mean yeah i guess i made some errors with the test i actually thought because of the setup i walked in and saw that it had been like set up for me like here's your test Like, swab and then run it in here. But it was not the case. There just were three set out because, like, so many people had come in. And then I was supposed to, I guess, like, open the box and, like, find it. They made us open the box ourselves.

Yes. And instead of here's your test, it ended up being more like here's your sign. It was like here's your sign. It was like here's your sign. Sign? Yeah, here's your sign. You don't know about here's your sign? Wait a minute.

You run a podcast company and you don't know about here's your sign? Here's your sign and it involves opening a box? here's your sign and it involves opening a box my my license plate is h-r-y-r-s-g-n what is that here's your side needs here's your side what that's how iconic i mean i don't like this you ostensibly do comedy here. Yeah. Here it's. You work here. Yeah. Here's what? Here's your gun.

Meaning? Here's your head gun. And you're here. That's what it feels like. So look, we're excited to be here. We want to get this off. I think it's I think it is a good time for a reset okay

this is a great time in the show for a reset and in just like in our relationship with this network I think we just like hit the button which has been going what I'll say is I've had some complaints but I think it's been going really well

10 minutes of just vitriol and now you guys want to hit the reset button and it's like if we could if we had you actually out there in your office which is bigger than the one recording studio in this building i don't have an office i would i would you don't have an office i don't have an office okay when i use that big ass room can you turn that giant empty room into a recording studio? No. Okay. It's just this for good. We're just doing this. There's two bathrooms.

How many offices? Can I just go over the numbers? How many offices are there? There's like four rooms along the back wall. Two of them are offices and two of them are like, you know, swing conference room podcast, like extra rooms. But excuse me. Yeah. Podcast extra rooms but excuse me yeah podcast extra rooms are they called podcast extra rooms because someone can record a podcast inside of them you can like

no right no well i was answering okay okay yeah okay you could like there are there's like a microphone set up in there and i've done like zoom recordings in there and like quick like ads, pickups. You've been a, okay. Yeah. And so the offices are, so I had heard this, the offices are along the back wall. So when you have a meeting, you can say you're going to go hit the back walls. Nope, never said that. That's completely made up. Really?

I've heard it in passing. There's no way. Not understood exactly what we were talking about and now yeah it's connecting for me so one so maybe one of the two swing conference room podcast rooms yeah could become let's drop the swing just podcast room And I would even call it a podcast studio. Yeah. Well, this is the studio. This is like the main studio.

It would be great if this could be a studio. And there would be another studio that's maybe larger. Are we having multiple simultaneous conferences happening where we're like, good thing we have this second conference room? Look at how squished I am. He fine he seems fine right i'm i'm i'm so uncomfortable he is so brave every time he comes in here and he squishes himself up on the couch i can't sit on the couch you can see in like in old episodes i started like hugging this pillow like yeah i'm i'm like very nervous he's really really feeling unsafe because the structure

of the room yeah is not conducive so warm and inviting compared to like sitting at a desk squinched up and like it's compared to sitting at a desk why are we comparing it to sitting at a desk like that's how other like podcast studios have it like you're at like a table they don't yeah well a table yeah yeah okay they don't. Well, a table. Say that. Say that or say less. What do you think the difference is? I would love to just hit the button. What do I think the difference is?

Between a table and a desk? I think we could go to Merriam-Webster and find out. I bet that there is actually a definitive difference between the two. I want to know. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. What would you guess?

Well, I think one thing when you say sitting at a desk, that a desk is generally regarded as sort of a solo piece of furniture where one is by themselves, often know not exclusively but often it's sort of like a closed off feeling to the desk a table is communal a table is for and yet i look with friends and yet i look outside and i see that they have a bunch of computers on the on the table out there so this is he this bitch actually doesn't know he really doesn't yes he really doesn't okay i thought he was like i thought this was like a gotcha thing he's actually expressing that he needs a sign here's your side i don't yeah

let's do the reset thing he's requesting yet again yeah yeah to be given a sign um okay the sign says you're an idiot on it the sign is yeah the sign is not a positive sign clearly yeah clearly i uh i i know we just hit reset again i guess you guys are using that as like you can say whatever you want about me for like 15 minutes well so then let's move on let's just have the casey conversation and just like get it out of the way yeah uh i know he is your most like trusted little like soldier in here i don't know exactly what he produced for you like acquires for you like i don't know what this sort of relationship started as before it became this um and whatever marshalling of support internally you needed to do to make the move on Jake. Again, I don't want to talk,

like I don't like talking about that on this show. What do you mean to make the move on Jake? It's really not the place of this show. Thank you, fine, that's fine. If you don't want us to talk about it, we don't have to talk about it. Let's keep that where it is, which is we just don't really discuss it in any detail.

But when Rochelle talks about being a freelance contractor, when Rochelle talks about being a freelance contractor, we know what that means, what kind of work that means. We are aware of her outside the studio responsibilities and why she cannot be on the books for you guys. So, you know, we know. Yeah. I don't even know, but sure. You were talking about Casey, though. I was talking about Casey, who I know has plausible deniability

because he delivers Rochelle her orders. Yep. He's the one who found Rochelle. Yes. She got the job through Casey. And he doesn't open the envelope. So it wasn't through you. You put the name in the envelope.

Your hands are clean. He gives it to Casey. You know Casey won't open it. He gives it to Rochelle. You put the name in the envelope. Your hands are clean. You know Casey won't open it. He gives it to Rochelle. Rochelle exterminates the threat. His envelope.

Little slip of paper with the name. $5,000. Casey removes $1,000 for the task of delivering the rest of it to rochelle she reads the name no questions asked okay and then the person moves to new york so you think jake moved to new york or potentially we don't see him in this welcome to head gum episode yeah that we're doing yeah yeah he's on paternity leave he's he is so good yet another euphemism i just keep hearing

i just keep hearing yeah for what for a baby for what for what yeah i don't know what happens after either man yeah i can't answer that you think we whatever makes you feel good you think jake's dead and don't answer to me for four thousand dollars and casey was paid a thousand dollars to for me to pay rochelle keep your hands clean casey's a goddamn bar of soap over there all i know is he's not here to do engineering capacities and that was what first raised questions for me from the first record i was like okay then then it's not here to do engineering capacities. And that was what first raised questions for me. From the first record, I was like, okay, then it's not this.

So what's his job here? Yeah. When you've been in the game as long as I have, you can kind of smell whether someone is an engineer or whether they are an engineer. Yes. Engineers we're used to are blowing their nose during the record. They're covered in scabs, rashes, sores. They are listening to a different show on their headphones.

They know how headphones work. They assume you need headphones because they're going to need their headphones to edit the Sklar Brothers podcast. It seems like you're talking about a very specific person. It's an amalgam. This is a composite. They're playing their experimental music to you.

You know what I mean? They're talking so much. they're talking so much they're talking so much they're talking about other shows they do they're talking about space sound effects they have they're having just like a side conversation over there yeah and casey's not doing that he doesn't do any of it they're lying they're lying about what's their motorcycle breaking down they're saying their motorcycle broke down but really they just like didn't want to come so they're there we know what an engineer does sean i think i lost your your mic for a second i need to take a look at it sorry so sorry this is so okay let's see what happens he comes over here takes a look at the mic okay you you can see that just give him a

little shot to the solar plexus he blocks the camera and just gives him just a little rabbit punch wow and we'll see later how how much of my talking was eliminated from the episode because of the lost mic i wonder if it'll be just the section where I talked about Casey not really being an engineer. I wonder. Mysteriously, I wonder if that part won't make the final edit. We'll have to wait and see, won't we, Amir? I guess, yeah. We silence people here.

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Ben Stiller was the guest of the episode I think it was the Sean and Hayes episode Sean and Hayes 500th episode featuring Ben Stiller and we were I think let's be honest doing most of the work. Yeah. We're being really funny. Achieved talent on the show that if you even dreamt about it.

He's a big name. You even had a daydream about it. Yeah. He was awesome. Just the level of a mission, the shot that you would experience from having that dream would send you to the hospital for life. It was great. It was a really good episode.

Who's the most famous person you've ever had on? Most famous? Prior to? Not Doughboys. Not including Doughboys. Oh, like on any podcast we've done? Well, yeah, sure. The Dead Eyes with Tom Hanks was pretty kind of a big deal. boys oh like on any podcast we've done well i guess yeah sure or you're dead eyes with tom

hanks was pretty kind of a big deal you guys okay i guess if we dedicated an entire show that's interesting yeah it's never mentioned as like a head gum show oh really yeah i think it is because it has the head gum stingers at the top and bottom. No, I'm just saying, I've seen... It has not been difficult to find promotion for the show. It is being advertised. You and the company are not foregrounded in the promotion that I've seen. And it may just be where I look,

which is basically anywhere. Yeah. We don't want to take credit for it, but yeah, we are in the episodes. You're in the episode? You get in there? Sometimes, yeah. So that's where you are?

I'm referenced. What do you say when you're in there? It depends on the episode. So the Tom Hanks episode, they talk about how they get to Hanks and verifying his email address and all that stuff. I'm referenced in it. Oh, yeah.

I asked what you say, but we've gotten nowhere close to any single sentence spoken by you. I don't remember. Yeah. Okay, so you... I was just answering your question. You produced an entire show

and sunk like tens of millions of dollars into getting Tom Hanks one time. It took like a thousand episodes of just talking about that forever. And then you finally got him. So congratulations. That's really cool. Yeah. I guess i'm so proud of you we actually were just talking about other shit that we thought was interesting and then like ben slow was like yo let me get in on this oh can i get in on this he reached out to you guys he was like he was like yo this actually looks fun man in. In the episode, you talk about how a mutual friend asked him for you guys.

The episode is, first of all, the episode is fake. A lot of what we do, like us like busting your chops right now like we're actually really good friends me and you yeah or you and hayes dude take your pick you know like it's all it's a big family like you think we're friends yeah we're really good friends yeah okay and then it's like yeah there's a little bit of chop busting going down like who gives a shit like just because i like never know where you are you don't want to see me and that's not true when i do see you in the office you're like basically running away we've i've seen you in the office once and we yeah we exchanged cordials. It was like Doppler

as you're going by. You know how that works? Oh yeah, like how when you're far away and then the noise gets louder. Hey man, what's up? Good to see you. Okay, so you got Tom Hanks one time. I didn't. I should specify.

You had absolutely nothing to do with it. Yeah. No. Weird Al. Weird Al did to do with it. Yeah. No. Cool. Weird Al. Weird Al did an episode about him. We've had him punch up the game. 10,000 years ago. Yeah.

Stephen Colbert. What show did he do? He did A Good Cry, which is a headroom show about grief, losing somebody. I got a text from Ben Stiller. Oh, really? Just now? You know, relatively recently. Okay.

What did he say? I listened to the pod. It made me laugh. Tom Hanks follow up to say whether he listened and enjoyed? Yeah, I think so. Did he listen to his own episode?

I'm not sure. And it's like, he knows what he said on the episode i wonder who was making him laugh crazy i liked the episode i also liked the episode yeah yeah made you laugh yes i guess you're like ben i guess a little bit of ben in that way so this is is this our first like HeadGum episode, Kevin? Yes. Okay, good. So that aligns with Ben's desire.

The stiller was pre-HG, as it were. I wonder if we can pop it back in. Go back in retroactively. Yeah, add the little intro. No, then he would need to be removed yeah like he we could do it we'd have to edit out every time he speaks per his request yeah that he would like to be associated with the hollywood handbook brand yeah yeah uh but he doesn't want to be associated with some of the stuff that you guys are doing yeah your sign stuff head gum yeah just like not really his vibe some of the stuff you talk about

funny podcast that's not his vibe your obsession with sex and fucking no way the fucking porno like rarely comes up the the stuff that you do where it's like... I mean, you know. So people, I guess, some people will know, right, that Amir has what he calls a private podcast. That's untrue.

That gets sent out only to employees. There's no way. It's called Nympho Dude. And the episodes are indistinguishable from one another because it's basically like just him saying and this is not like this is not i i don't think this is on its face it's not that inappropriate it's like it sounds awful because for me to record podcasts just for the 24 employees i don't yeah i don't know why it's only employees because it's not that controversial what you're saying which is just that sex can feel so good. That's what I'm saying verbatim? Yes.

Like, it can actually feel really good. Right. When you're in love. Okay. And that's the podcast. Every episode is me saying that, getting sent to the Hedgum employees. You know, yeah.

I mean, I was surprised, like, when I got added to the roster. Oh, it's to any head gun podcast or two that I was not going to be included because like some of the employees that we had, we had had, I'd been to some listening parties and stuff where people put it on and I was like aware of it. And I was kind of like,

Oh, well I guess at least I'll be kind of included in the inner circle of people who received the nympho dude podcast not a real podcast and the fact that that's why Rochelle has been kept as a freelance contractor because you're worried

that if she hears the nympho dude podcast and learns about love that she will lose her ability to kill. Yes. That her moral flexibility is directly related to the fact

that she hasn't experienced the kind of human connection you have and that she will start to see people as more than just targets. If she hears the Nympho Dude podcast, that the Nympho Dude podcast would teach her about love and that she would grow a conscience. It's like, it's rather egotistical, Amir.

It seems like my work with Rochelle is done, according to you guys. She killed Jake and that's that. What do I care if she learns how to love again? Then she killed Anya! She killed Anya. She killed Anya right afterwards. It was so nice.

Really nice. Yeah, very weird. Anya's great. Some of the headphone and test stuff that happened with her. Was at the center of the headphone issue? Anya's back home, I think. Again. Yeah.

Okay. That's what we're calling that. I guess that's one sense. From the earth. We are born from the earth. Yeah, I guess we're all hurtling back towards home when you think about it. Yeah, I mean, you'll see her like next week. Okay.

That I understand. That's not a threat. That I understand. That's not a threat. That's not a threat that's not a threat that's not a message received let's move on might be time for a reset yeah definitely reset halfway home heard what you're saying i we were told we could discuss whatever we wanted on the show um we can't but uh well uh yes but i guess what was unspoken was if you discuss certain aspects of the business model um there will be consequences up to and including me being murdered by rasha so uh let's talk metrics let's um kevin what kind of uh number what kind of weight are we pushing on the Stiller episode? We're on day four and we're at $1,000 right now.

Let's cut that. Let's cut that. Let's cut that. Let's just bleep the number. What were you expecting? That feels very small. That doesn't make me feel good at all. He must have not promoted it.

Suddenly I'm feeling like I need to listen to the Nympho Duke podcast. No way. That might be just what the doctor ordered for me. Is that normal for us? It's doing great. So that's above average? For day four, yeah. For day day four so day five is really the one where people are like that's when people get on board okay okay okay okay well this is just

the beginning uh we have a a plan you've invested in us it is going to pay off so good what we have lined up so this is episode 501 obviously okay right the shit we have lined up dude is it just a coincidence that we're starting head gum at 501 exactly that it's what that it's like no i said you know we're starting with one yeah yeah 501 right right did it just time out that way, or was that on purpose? Episode number one. Yeah, Ben Stiller saying, keep me 10,000 miles away from that man. And who was he talking about? The info dude himself.

That's amazing that he knows me personally. So personally. Reputationally. And the brand he has he has created that is the word that he used to describe it was sucky

it's still awesome that he knows us yeah he knows me too yeah he did the show he's my friend I said that he knows us he's loving my shit yeah he texted sean pretty recently yeah not just now but within how long within the past few days um you know we're just like we're just getting on the chairlift right now well it's you know i and hayes and i had a big talk last night before we did this and it was just

chop wood carry water what does the podcaster do before he has bent stiller chop wood carry water yeah what does he do after chop wood carry water and you put your head down and you go to work you're gonna have high highs you're gonna have ben stiller on the show yes you're gonna do episode 501 as well. But like it's building off that. It's like, what do we have coming next to like take? Like, how do we up our game from Ben Stiller? Keep like ascending, ascending, ascending on the chairlift.

We don't want to be like pathetic to like talking about like the one big guest we've had for like. Yeah. No. So like we have to like we have to top it so like for our next few episodes our next episode we have someone named todd coffee who's that todd loves going to disney world yeah okay he has all this like information about like tips and tricks yes so he's just like a traveler for how to like no no no no it's way more specific than that like a disney less useful actually yeah yeah um i would say adult doesn't quite capture his age. How old is he?

He. Do you know how old he is? I don't have a number for it. Yeah. But a range. I know how old he feels. He's young at heart. Yes.

Yeah. But he does get a pretty hefty discount. Just kind of when they see him at the gate. They're just kind of like. Just. Just. Yeah. Just like kind of come on come on here sorry can you just just go through this is guest five for 502 this is 502 yeah we hope yeah we don't have the time set but and he has all this all these tricks about like where they leave food. He sounds like... Where you could just go get it.

If you go around the back of certain places, they just have food sitting out there. 502 will be Disney Hacks with Todd Coffey, who's kind of like this vagrant character in Orlando or something. How did you guys ever even meet this guy? How do you know Todd Coffey? Is he like a famous thing my understanding was that

we had gotten him through you there's no way there's no way kevin handles most of our book he does most of the booking got it yeah it seemed like stiller was awesome a great get yeah i don't want yeah but this is like disney's like the biggest thing like disney's there is massive huge okay what about bob eiger for 503 no i'm saying like disney like i see so yeah there are famous people at disney i'm just wondering if todd coffee is one of them remember his name jay peck was J. Peck was in charge? You remember Bob J. Peck? You don't remember that?

Uh-oh. Okay, so the guy who was CEO before Bob Iger, after and then before, was named Bob J. Peck. Okay. Okay? Mm-hmm. All right.

And then I would say, sometimes we had people, well,ney's got a lot of arms so like a lot of people work for disney some people work for disney but other people even you got a show on hulu you know something like that yeah uh i would say uh what sounds like bob chapek is signing your bob paycheck and so that was something we were doing for a while that was like really we felt like had potential to like go beyond it's dead eyes ask because ultimately that could have gotten back to him now he has been removed uh yes and so this is part of the issue over cleveland

when we were seeking guests todd coffee sort of took a while to like for us to find a time what was that what was that what was that he's just saying like you're just what was that he's just like gently he wasn't gentle i'm just we're still here oh it was so unnatural he's just trying to like make a connection with you got it also it's like impossible not to do it's like so fucking squished up in here not that squished he had to lean just because the mic exactly god we got rid of headphones when are we gonna fucking really step our game up get rid of the mics then we could stop recording and stop broadcasting it so the todd coffee episode was

gonna kind of be where we were taking the bob paycheck idea like big yeah but without without bob chay back there anymore i'm trying to figure out Bob Iger is basically if you move it around, move the spacing around a little bit, he's almost like Bo Biggert. Interesting. If we get him and Bo Burnham,

that could be cool because we got Bo Burnham and we got Bo Biggert. Bo Burnham is huge. I was going to say that would be a great get for you or you know him have you ever had him on a show before yeah he's done it our podcast before he did your podcast yours when how long ago maybe like 2019 okay so that was kind of before he like really yeah like really hit the glow up is real and since then he's been like not answering the phone uh i think we emailed him but yeah not so it's kind of that okay so

no phone number anymore active got it kevin how what was the the todd coffee yeah like what like what how did we end up getting him um he dm'd every social media account we have saying check the other one okay and then finally on tiktok it said well you found me here's oh wow so he left little clues. Little clues. Little breadcrumbs. He said, the full message said, well, you found the elusive Todd coffee. These are my avails. Y'all ever watch TV on this? No.

I think sometimes we do Zoom meetings and stuff, live streams, but we don't ever use it as a television. Just sit down and just pound, just pound ridiculousness? Yeah. I think I already answered. Chanel West Coast, like, laughing down. Just jack in. This does get chive TV. A rock block of ridiculousness. It gets chive TV.

Okay. Yeah. I know a former engineer who would have he would have really loved that really enjoyed that form oh like having to have be sitting over there and just be able to watch chive tv on the screen while we're recording wow yeah i'm thinking now if that if that technology had existed for him, it would have been a totally different experience, some of those early shows,

seeing all the cool Frisbee tricks they were pulling off on Chive TV. So yeah, you know, chop wood, carry water. I do want to say thank you and say how grateful we are to be a part of something I think we were kind of out there lost for a little while mommy and daddy

kind of kicked us out and we we act tough yeah we act like it doesn't get to us when we don't need anybody you know we put we act like it doesn't like get to us when we don't need anybody yeah you know um other networks are like hey this isn't working we're like good yeah exactly yeah we were we did it on purpose yeah we were trying to have only a thousand you know um is high it is that's what

kevin was saying that it's about oh for us you mean yeah okay yeah well for day four but we're um i guess we're human it's obvious right but um you know i think people see us as these like impenetrable you know super heroes yeah these like big strong you know tough freaking the rock and jason statham over here you know just like they do ass kicking just like fuck my sheets just like nympho dudes and then like you know i think something important to do when you start a new relationship uh is to just get vulnerable and be honest and say like, I'm just a guy and I'm scared of me. I'm really, really, really scared. You don't have to be.

You guys are doing great. Help. What's that? We need help. What do you need? We need your help. Anything. I don't know.

We don't know what we need. I mean, that's so much of what this is. it's just like we do not know what we need we don't know what and we see the dope boys they're like oh you have to do the show again it's like okay okay like great yes please we've been asking we ask you all the time can we please do the show again they're like oh we gotta get you back on and we go stop, stop. Like, stop fucking with me. Like, don't fucking say anything. Like, just, like, punch me in the face. Like, that would be more honest.

Like, just, like, let's have it out because this is torture. It is torture. You're talking, like, to Weiger? Yes. And Mitch, I guess. Mitch is the one who's always like, yeah, I guess it's like part of probably what happens is Mitch goes,

we got to get you back on. And Weiger pulls him into the back room and is like, don't ever fucking say that. Yeah. Or I think Weiger just thinks like, you know, Mitch has no fucking idea what's going on behind the scenes of the show, you know?

And so like, he, he just, you just sit him down and wind him up you know explain to him again yeah it's not even worth the conversation hard tricks to a dog you know what i mean um i mean yeah we have lots of shows you can guest on for cross promo purposes if that's what you're talking about what can we do what are we looking at it's What are you talking about? What can we do? What are we looking at? It's not just the Doughboys. What else can we do? Okay.

Nympho Dudes. Nympho Dudes. I mean, you can't be on Nympho Dudes. Shh, stop. It's not a real podcast. What other show? Yeah. What show?

We're bringing back Newcomers, it looks like, for another season. So that would be a fun episode if you guys wanted to talk to them. I don't really like talking about like... You don't even know what they're talking about. You don't even know what they're talking about you don't even know it's gonna be some like kind of basic movies and shit like i kind of like i don't know i watch shit for grown-ups okay um yeah i like it it's just like it's just not the kind of like movies and stuff that i like i like movies like yeah high movies. Have you guys done Gaber's show in a minute?

It's been a decade or so. It's been hundreds of thousands of minutes. Todd just messaged he's only going to do this show if he gets a key card too. Is that okay? Yeah. I don't want to give every guest

access to the studio. We'm asking you to give every guest we're asking you to give todd coffee one who's gonna possibly get us to bob eiger which i did see uh i i can't credit it but i did see a tweet the other day that said bob eiger but it's pronounced like bony bear bobby gare bobby gare. Bobby Gare. Bobby Gare, maybe. Bobby Gare. That's sorry. So someone else said that? Somebody tweeted it, yeah. Okay, yeah. Any idea who?

Jesus, I don't know. I could search for it. I'm a little worried. Like, yeah, even if you know, I think you might have him take our spot or something. You know what? It was me. Can you drink a little differently?

I think I'm drinking fine. It's hard sometimes to drink with these arms here, you know? Moving it up and around, I guess. Here's a clip of Sean that someone saw trying to drink his water, but he put his arm outside of the the the mic and the the mic arm was like causing sort of a problem for him sort of like doing like the romantic but with the yeah and went viral really that was big that's gonna actually translate to some new listeners come and check the numbers again here's the main character that's the main

character on reddit that day oh you guys should do the head gum podcast we have like an internal podcast keep saying that too yeah yeah we're just getting brought up yeah oh so that okay internal podcast okay but not that's what you're calling that's when the host so you've rebranded no we broadcasted out info dude podcast it's not the name as the've rebranded No we Broadcasted out Did the Nympho Dude podcast No It's not the Nympho Dude podcast As the HeadGum podcast We do have a HeadGum podcast

Which is like Employees coming in and on And you know Guests of the network And friends of the network It's sort of Are you in love currently? We can stop So next time we can do that next time okay bye that was a hate gun podcast