Hollywood Handbook - Nick Wiger and Mike Mitchell, Our Patreon Partners

Episode Date: February 2, 2021

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this is a head gum podcast beef jerky furniture so it's me it's dominicchin and it is um a couple of my other friends bill nye was there not the science guy okay bill nye the other guy bill nye the other guy bill nye the friend guy of mine to me he's just a friend bill nye the beef jerky furniture guy in this scenario now now he is so we realized how close you know people want leather couches leather couches leather yes okay great yes good but here's the thing they're expensive as hell they take forever to make really what is leather other than dried up cow okay well i can get dried up cow at the fucking gas station counter for like 79 cents now i'm taping that together i'm covering

like an old cushion with that this is better than leather because also if you're sitting there watching tv and you forgot to bring a snack to the couch guess what grinding on the dang couch on your own seat and then you say oh well my problem is leather couch kitty cat is coming over and scratching up my nice couch okay well now kitty cat is licking the couch eating the the couch with you. And that is family. You know, we used to all gather around the dinner table and you would talk about your day and you would say what happened at school. And all of that has deteriorated.

The American nuclear family is in shambles because we now eat on the go and we're in front of our screen and we're looking at this and that. Well, what if I told you you can be in front of your screen, you can be a couch potato, but you also can be sharing food with your loved ones and connecting. And that includes your cats. So Beef Jerky Furniture, it was me, it was Bill Nye the regular guy it was dominic swain it was giselle and we were making this and we are almost finished now stretching it out tanning it

tanning the shit out of it it's so tan it's like tan mom it's like tan mom tan mom but for furniture covering and for jerky so uh anyway this is just this is just I've been going on forever now. But you asked how my morning was. That was my morning. And Mitch, I don't know if you're leaning back, like getting ready to just settle in and watch. We would love it if you would really participate. So often, Mitch, you've canceled the day before the show and things of this nature.

And for me, now that you're here, I'm really hoping to kind of get my money's worth. So often? It's happened twice. It's happened twice where I've done the show alone where we're supposed to be the both of us. What was I doing? Was I on another podcast or you're at the super bowl you were at the super bowl oh supporting supporting president trump i did not proxy 40 000 to have one of the worst days of your life

it was oh was it the one we lost that i went to when i canceled on you guys look it was a mistake which which super bowl was that oh man which are you a patriots fan and this is why they don't show the patreon numbers and this is what we want to get into right now we are opening the books today we have the doughboys Doughboys. It's been a long time since we've had the Doughboys on the show, but we are now peers. We both have Patreons. Top 50 Graftreon podcast chart. Uh-huh.

And that is the tea. and we have to spill it if you sit on the tea you burn your ass so we don't sit on none of the tea we go ahead and we spill it to our listeners and we let them all know yep we crack top 50 of graph treon of the podcast specifically and that is tea the corny man is here the mitch man is here wow we are laying it down guys it's so goddamn fucking good to see you it's good to be back what a treat what a joy happy to be here you and i could use some of that tea he was talking about huh nick you mean because we're low tea? Yes. We could. Is this something I haven't checked it?

Look, you know I'm a huge fan. I haven't checked it in a little while. You guys have talked about it on the show, how you both discovered that you're low tea? Yeah. I mean, you know, it's a thing we're working with i got actually got a i had a possible ancestor from norway dm'd me on twitter yesterday an ancestor relative about an ancestor um this guy eric weiger and he sent me a picture of eric weiger who died in 1940 why can you share that picture with us okay i'll try to find i'll try to find the picture and share it but he looks like putting out a call you need someone from your own bloodline

to do a t transplant basically yes but one of his big mads all right i gotta get my tooth in your bag you'll'll both of your stay in there they need to you need all three do those those dissolve right I'm guessing I'm in the coffin I'm guessing that they of course you become a skeleton in the coffin yeah Nick why don't you

share the picture quickly Mitch answered his own questions he was like hey why aren't they addressing Mitch's question he actually worked it out on his own it so then he was like hey why aren't they addressing Mitch's question he actually worked it out on his own it was pretty impressive to see in real time they either dissolve they're definitely not on there when you're a skeleton

I've seen skeletons the first thing I check is like what are we packing downstairs and usually what I see is pretty disappointing so all right here's the guy yeah this big old yeah big old ted kennedy head on this guy my question is i see it he was he was from germany wags what was his deal he was uh no he's my uh my family is from estonia um he's from... This guy who DM'd me is from Norway.

Oh, like the Encino man. Well... Wasn't the Encino man from Estonia? Do you mean the Stone Age? Link from Estonia? Wasn't the Encino man's cover story that he was in exchange for from Estonia? Wait, was he?

Yes, Wags. I haven't seen it. You haven't seen the encino man you haven't encino man it i don't know there's something there ackerman would be able to do it i can't do it but you would be like it would be like you haven't and seen it man you haven't seen it man it's pretty good we'll get back we'll get my family's from my family's from eastern europe slash you know the uh scandinavia and weiger or veiger with the the original spelling um is a is from somewhere in that region so this guy my family's from estonia this guy is from norway we possibly have a mutual ancestor from sweden eric tiger like the root

for our word vigor and it's what you're so full of him and vigor you're just mr mr energy mr personality and and and it's genetic i always thought how did he acquire this this skill but in fact it's just in your bones it's a you know i do have a very my brother my older brother nate is kind of who mitch has met and spent some time with he rules he's kind of a very cool charismatic kind of alpha version of me i hung out with weiger and his family and nick left before i did he was He was like, where were you? We were at a bar in San Diego. His parents came out.

All his family came out to see him in a live show. And about 15 minutes after the show, Nick said, we're going to take off to his family. And they are all like, why? They were all sad that he was taking off. I had to drive home and his brother was like stay and have a beer and i i stuck with his brother we had we had a drink we hung out i found out with his family they were all they were all they all liked to enjoy themselves more than nick did i guess is what i'm trying to say yeah they're personable they're friendly people very convivial yeah you

gotta find a way to stand out in a family like that how do you make your mark you know what i mean nick's version of rebellion was to have a very corny personality so you guys both have low t how many like late night sort of fox news commercials would you say are targeted at you these days because i know you both have sort of a collection of ailments right they're generally associated with like the over 65 crowd i saw a billboard i don't know if you guys have seen this billboard in in your neighborhoods but there's one that's like it just says got wounds and it's just like it's like an older person and it's just like if you have like ongoing wounds and i was

like an open weeping your skin just opens up of its own accord but i was kind of like i do have wounds i maybe i tend to get a lot of like you know i'll i'll nick myself with a blade in the kitchen and that'll just stay open for a while it's it's not specifically targeted at me but it's it kind of applies now when you say nick yourself open with a blade in the kitchen what exactly are we talking about here wags what do you mean like not like i'm like on purpose not like self-harm okay so what so what so what is happening in this scenario get in there with i Get in there with a big blade and just nick myself. I mean, you're going to have to change the wording too because of you, nicking yourself has a new connotation now.

It's something people do. It's something different. I'd love to pick on you about this nick i do i am going to show you guys now see this like cut that's right on my knuckle looks like maybe it's like from being tough like oh maybe this guy like kicked someone's ass in fact i was scooping a litter box and just reached in too fast sort of scraped against the side of the opening because it had a little you know it's got a um like little walls to it and just immediately like i think because my hands are dry from all the washing and uh and um antibacterialing it just ripped the skin off my hands this was a week ago so i was like oh that's good

uh the basically bathroom the toilet for my cats has now uh gotten into my bloodstream very directly and here i am thinking oh it's odd that nick nicked himself with a blade at least he's cutting himself with a with a knife which is traditional and not the wall of a cat toilet sean you know i cleaned out my cat litter box today myself um i have the omega paw rock and roller which is a contraption where you you you roll the litter to the side, and it sifts out all the clumps of waste. The clumps, right? Hercules.

I would never want to get rid of those clumps, but it catches the clumps, and then it rolls over, and it puts it in a nice tray. But you should check it out. The Megapaw rock and roller. You'll never have that issue that you had again. It starts with as the clumps. And by the time the rock and rollers done with it, it's buddy love, right? That's exactly right.

Basically, buddy love was he was funny. that's exactly right basically buddy love was he was funny i don't want to just like talk about like what i just feel like the plan is the two of them is like we talk about all this like stupid shit on our show and then we're doing their show right after this and then we'll do like the really good stuff and i want to like i want to sort of like get into some of the stuff that we really want to talk about like you know i i don't want this the fact that we're now in like a theoretically competitive situation right where like who is going to subscribe to both of our shows would cost them like a thousand dollars a year makes no sense but i don't want this to be like we are competing i think we can actually help each other sure in a lot of different i agree ways

yeah and so one thing i think like one partnership that we could sort of form is you all probably have like 500 700 subscribers that like you don't want that are like a huge problem for you right not and you're thinking of like certain like a huge huge groups of people they're just like flooding into your head you're like oh yeah like they're the way they communicate with us is horrible right there's some addition by subtraction to be done i i think you know it's um There's some addition by subtraction to be done. I think it's like a farming technique, right? Don't they burn off some of the bad stuff? It's calling the herd, I think it's called.

Yes, perfect. But you can use the pieces. They don't just call the herd and just like like roll it down the hill they send it to another business they can use the pieces use defective stuff yes exactly and so patreon has a thing where you can do this where you can just do like a select all thing you can split up your patrons by like tier and like they're basically doing it for you you can take anyone who's ever sent you like a patreon message right and basically just like check them and be like okay see like good luck to you over here i hope you're very happy you know your new home

because i like these guys i actually like the way they think a lot of the time and i think they might not be understood by more like mainstream elements of society but i think they're they actually have a lot to offer and are really smart i've got our messages up here i'll keep this name anonymous but here's here's one we got uh merry christmas weiger uh this has been a huge outlet for me this year i really don't know if i could have gotten through 2020 without it. Thanks so much for it. Merry Christmas. Happy New Year. And this guy's fucking...

Awesome. Thank you so much for writing. And I hope you have a wonderful experience. And it's just framing. It's just congratulations on, you know, sort of graduating to this next adventure. And best of luck on your way. And please, you know sort of graduating to this next uh adventure and best of luck on your way and please right you know let someone know if there's anything ever that someone else can do for you

don't contact me it's speaking of speaking of an outlet you can say get into this shoot that will send you over to the hollywood handbook flagr ones patreon come on i would like can can we get back to buddy love for a minute sure it's you were right haze i can you just like i i want to see your face you're so does he do this on your show too weiger 100 he's so far away. This is like his normal posture. I believe he is sitting in Cherry, the chair from Pee-Wee's Playhouse, and actually being devoured by this monster chair that has begun eating Mitch from the butt up.

His lower half has completely disappeared. His head is sinking down further and further in the frame and i'm scared for my friend i don't know what happens when cherry eats you i know what happened here's the deal beef jerky furniture you feel great and you actually are funding a business that does a lot for a lot of people we're looking to give some of the profits to charity but i know that really that really hit it close to home with me the cats with leather is is a it's a hard uh it's hard to to handle the two wally and irma are back with are back with me in quincy here they they travel with me to quincy i'm in i'm in the basement of my

mom's house in quincy right now why did you bring up buddy love oh um because buddy love is interesting because he's a bad guy but then he really hands it to dave chappelle in that scene and kind of stands up for sherman i mean that entire scene is is really a commercial for having high tea like what you're sweet literally what the movie is about is about going from low T to high T. It's true. It's a tightrope act because obviously if you have too much T, you wind up in a situation like Buddy Love did

where he's overly aggressive and he's kind of alienating himself from the people he cares about. But if you're Sherman Clump and your T is so low and you're sort of like a weiger bitch scenario where you you just can't get jack shit going for yourself right it's like we all need a little buddy love sometimes at us we need a little eric weiger in us wags would you drink the buddy love formula would you to would you drink the formula i i mean

knowing its effects or am i just being handed a vial and like hey drink this potion you're you're being handed a vial saying here drink this potion i don't think i would i think you would i would yeah yeah i yeah i you you drank drank. Someone sent us a bottle that was wrapped in paper with a question mark on it. And you were like, we should drink this on the show. And I said, no. That's true. Did you unwrap it at all? Did you smell it?

We didn't even. Okay. Well, because it was sealed off. I didn't open it until. And then Wiger just said, we shouldn't drink it. And so I decided to pour down the drain. But I was upset i thought we could have drank i didn't think anyone was sending us anything bad this is this is the kind

of thing honestly when your fans send you poison or just like a year's accumulation of nut which is probably what that was just be like send a letter like return address to just be like hey what's up thank you so much for the gift uh from now on you will be a patreon of uh sean hayes hollywood handbook podcast we signed you up for the highest tier and we will get we'll get into these with these guys we'll drink whatever i'll put that shit in a syringe and i'll yes straight into my butt live on the show because because i i i need this you know that's the issue is you guys i love what you do but it's gotten a little stale because you just don't you don't have that fire anymore yeah these guys so i mean let me tell you little, just like a parable. The two guys, there's these two guys who are like going to sleep every night, and they're praying to God and saying like,

God, please do something about my low T. And meanwhile, they're getting sent all these bottles with question marks in the mail. It happens three times. And they die from their T being so low. And they're like, God, why didn't you help me? I prayed to you. And he's like, I sent you this extra bottle with a question mark on it i sent you a loose pill i sent you somebody who wanted you to come and meet them in st louis and sent you i was going to bring up the fact that

but you are bringing it up whatever it is you are doing it and nutty professors in the clumps and nutty professor to if you guys remember at the end he drinks a fountain of youth formula turns to a little baby and then he turns into basically

a nut he turns into like a he turns into a nut and then he turns into basically a nut. He turns into a nut, and then he goes into a water fountain. Into baby nuts? He turns into a baby nut, and then he falls into, and then he goes into a water fountain, and then Sherman drinks it. Do you remember this? Is this true? Yes.

Sherman did that? Buddy Love turned into... My Sherman? It certainly doesn't sound like something he would do buddy love turns into a baby and then he turns into a nut like he turns into like a liquid a little pile of liquid this is true and he falls into a fountain and he falls into a fountain and then sherman drinks from the fountain and he gets smart again because like one of the backstories is that sherman has lost his his smarts with the with the buddy from buddy love he's like losing his smarts so i guess that would show you to not drink

the the question mark bottle you would lose your you could lose your smarts or the things that people love about you you know what i mean right yeah okay mitch you i know what you want me to say yes and i'm not gonna do it okay i'm not gonna address whether or not you're in danger of losing any significant amount of smarts from drinking a question mark bottle that's not an area i'm even going to wade into what i'm gonna do is get us back on track and talk about the fact that if you listen to either of our shows on their own you can kind of talk yourself into this is okay to do this is a good investment but if you do listen to both of them you realize how stupid and pointless existence itself is right and you're forced to unsubscribe from everything and i don't just mean

patreons i mean like you fully unsubscribe did you guys just society did your patreon just start recently yeah that's the whole thing we actually poured some some gas on the fire i mean obviously yes the patreon was running but we did put it NOS mode and we hit the turbo boosters and we found it to be very effective. This is very Gift of the Magi, but I just have subscribed to Stitcher Plus just recently. Wow. You subscribe to Stitcher Plus. Interesting decision. What shows are on there?

Yeah. How is it different from Stitcher Premium? How many times have you listened to wolverine the long night i find i find something else every time i go through it i'm i'm i'm happy giving our our undesirables sending them your way can you read another message wiger and we'll just we'll just take the we'll just like bring them in one by one okay was that was the window that that last message okay what it just seems suspect something about it's a little sus it's somewhat sus it's a little sus to tell this person you admire that they helped you get through a really hard year yeah yeah um okay here we go here's one hey uh this is just an earnest heartfelt thanks to both

you and mitch um it's really really meaningful that you guys bring us so much in such a difficult time and it would have been so hard to get through my divorce without you guys yeah and so you just write back thank you so much this is just an earnest heartfelt deuces right okay and uh go ahead and kick some earnest heartfelt rocks yeah yeah and i invite you to tell your story walking over to and should i just like should i just link your patreon is that the best way to do that it's like a two-click prize like uh we can call you have their card information usually contact now that oh okay because they have subscribed you have their card information usually contact now that oh okay because they have subscribed you have their card information because they have to use it to sign

up so what you just do is actually go in and enter that information into our site so that they don't have to go through the whole like finding it and send it doing the thing got it cool i mean we can do that off the air because that might be just a little it's probably like you guys walk me through it once and then i could just kind of do it in a batch for for all these and patreon also does well like maybe just do it on their own they do this thing where like once you they have your credit card information they'll just sign you up for like a lot of stuff and just hope that you don't notice yeah i i it's uh i've noticed that actually like i've gotten on because i didn't happen yeah well no i've i've noticed that for like I've gotten on yeah well no I've

noticed that for my own like because I subscribe to some patreons what are we getting into let's do get up on this let's go get me up on something well you know speaking of which I am on the carp patreon so that's one

of them and then after I got on the carps red robin yum tier uh which is their higher tier then i noticed i started getting on a bunch of other patreons yeah and let's just kind of go through what i got here uh let's see it looks like i'm on some fan art Patreon. Like this is a yeah this is like just a yaoi fan art which is like specifically guy on guy like hentai

but kind of tender. I'm on a bunch of those actually. You know what I'm realizing this I might be reversing. Just art that you're a fan of. I think I started with those. I think that was first. Art that makes you have to kind of fan yourself yeah did you subscribe through the doughboys patreon to these yeah i mean i

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Hollywood handbook. Sean, I want to say something, and I don't know if I can. Dude, I can't. I hope you don't then. Is it popcorn i just wanted to say the phrase popcorn thing you think about that mitch you think about the thing that you want to say i want to know and this is probably weiger people just know when they write in that mitch will never see it and that it's then that they're writing specifically to you weiger is that right yeah

they don't even bother including mitch as as if he's in the conversation at all yeah sometimes even if they're emailing mitch directly they will just assume he's not reading it who was the person who recently went through it was a the person who's going through the divorce was it someone i was just wondering if it was like a oh no yeah who is that can we get a Who was the person who recently went through it? Was it the person who was going through the divorce? Was it someone... I was just wondering if it was like a... Oh, no. Yeah, who is that? Can we get a full name?

It's just weird to just say that and not give their full name. I was wondering if it was some sort of celebrity or something. Okay, I'm guessing this. The username is Hbaldwin? Oh, wow. So I don't know who that could be. i i wrote my thought i wrote my thought on a phone okay mitch you could bring up that i'm in quincy uh i don't know if that will give us anything for the show uh yeah what was the like what was the just be a location so i was gonna say sean's in quincy i could drive to him right now nick wow

say hi from outside i could if i if if we actually haven't seen each other no i refuse yeah it's covid it's crazy yeah have you enjoyed the city of quincy um should i say this should i say this for doughboys it definitely isn't good like it's not it's not something i would normally want on the show i you could you could put it on doughboys i also would not want it to be a part of that like i know that's your show but it will be my episode of your show and i'd like to have some standard of what we're discussing there it should be about the snacks you're just in my old stopping grounds i was excited by that i not old just permanent always yeah you're there now yeah you'll always

be there there for you always have been you always will I'm gonna come back at some point at some point but in a box it's true what they say you can't stay home again and Aquaman would have

handled this like nobody's business this is my question so you all have been at this subscriber thing for like a little longer than we have you guys got to like episode three and then you were like guess what we're doing the freaking photo show but for us we've just we've you know since we just started doing this it has been just like nos mode uh rocket boost like the entire time i want to know what to expect in terms of like what you've done that has hurt your numbers that you do not disclose so that if you could just like allude to like what has helped and hurt in terms of

so now Hayes is sounding like Ackerman about the numbers we don't disclose I if I sound like him it's because he stole that bit from me I invented it I am the original

doughboys dough's show numbers guy. Hey, Netflix doesn't do it. You know what I mean? It's true. And people love that. Yeah, who better to model yourself after than Netflix? People love that about Netflix. I will answer your question, which is that

answering it earnestly, it does not seem like what we do makes any sort of difference. It is steady growth as long as we have an episode out each week. People are going to do what they're going to do. Can I ask you guys a question? Was there ever thoughts of ending the show after when you were coming off coming out of earwolf ending your show we've thought about it we've definitely gone we've gone through a couple different blueprints of how we throw that idea around yeah absolutely no it's a fair question it's a fair question and you think about a lot

of different like paths you could take but yeah Nick and I have said this is the last two years of our show we haven't committed to that we talked about this privately and then you took it public so it seems like we're semi committed now can't you sort of feel like your listeners when you announce that

being kind of like oh okay alright yeah right it's a really long time Being kind of like, oh, okay. All right. Yeah. Right. It's a really long time. Yeah. We've pretended to end the show a couple times and faked it. And the degree to which people were able to move on was really impressive,

even with it being fake, where before it even had, they said, well, you know, sad to see it go, but they had a good run. Obviously, creatively, they were completely tapped out for the last year and a half. This was obviously coming for a long time. I'm excited, but I really can't say I'm surprised. Not going to say I'm excited to see what they do next,

but I'm excited to see if they do something next not gonna say i'm excited to see what they do next but i'm excited to see if they do something next and then like years later we see people talking about it just like it coming up on social media or something and people being like oh i thought that show ended but clearly in a way that like they're not gonna like pick it back up yeah like just somehow very obvious that they thought the show ended but this news will not change their behavior at all now i look at the earwolf reddit and i just know that you guys got a strong army of supporters out there that that are yeah they they they're supporting they're commenting on your shows all right like freaking world war z they're they're commenting on your shows they're showing you support do you guys look at the earwolf sub because i don't do it mitch looks at it and to me it feels like self-flagellation

because he zeroes in on every negative comment and he just he just obsesses over that let's talk about let's get into it, Mitch. Do you want to read one? Yeah, you want to say, is there a comment that's been sticking with you that we can sort of... I mean, you know, we did an episode, very famous episode,

called The Comment Hunter, where Hayes went out and confronted some of these commenters and destroyed their asses. Yeah. So if you want us to do that for you. The bomber jets. You know, you're giving us all these subscribers.

There's not one off the top of my head. I can remember one specifically. May I search for it? Yes, Mitch. You may search. All right. I'll get back to you. Wags, you can take over for discussion doesn't matter what they do they whoa whoa we're gonna have to talk to just wiger

mitch is going to stop mitch is going to stop bearing the burden of keeping the conversation going during this show hang on oh when he gave you permission to search, I assumed you'd be able to do both. You're telling me you don't have the bandwidth to bring all of the amazing observations that you've been bringing to the show and search for the comment? I don't know.

This is a bad deal, Hayes. You might have jumped the gun on this. Can we go back to Buddy Love? He won't be able to stay away never mind mitch we don't need you what is it wags it's you know so he kind of represents the id i would say to your low yes yes point he's kind of the id and and sherman is kind of the super ego yes and i guess the movie is kind of you know, it's thesis is where we're trying to say that you need to find that balance, that ego, if you will. Like that's like when you're going to be your best self.

That your ego is your amigo, you know, according to the premise of the film. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. And I mean, it is kind of cool to see a theme like that in a mainstream comedy. Yeah. It's a little highbrow no that's actually that's kind of fucking me up actually yeah damn wags you just doggy yes like in a in a mainstream comedy to be like dropping like freud shit on my ass like doggy yes that's fucking me up but like in a good way holy shit that's smart shit man

dude have you seen tenant not yet anyone for tenant okay i'm back uh i could not i couldn't find the comment am i am i not a good conversationalist is that an issue you're great at it thanks you're rich over it you've got it you've got your own unique style and thank you sean and i think that's really cool. Doggy? Sean, you and I. Yes. You and I what? I'm sorry.

I interrupted you. That's my unique style. I never should have. You and I, we've rapped. We've talked. I've hung out at your house with your cats, and we've watched a Celtics game before. We've gotten deep as hell, man.

Yeah. Think of how different that team is. I know this isn't the other pod, your cats and we've watched a celtics game before we've gotten deep as hell man yeah think how how different that team is than i i know this isn't the other pod but that's it that was a quite a different team back then when we watched the game together how about that peyton pritchard love fast pp is it rabbit wasn't wasn't kendragans trying to push rabbit be rabbit yeah yep that's pretty good too yeah i don't know i don't think it's quite as good as fast

pp i mean he you know he chose the twitter handle fast pp so like obviously that's the name he prefers i'm choosing to honor that and only refer to this man as fast pp for the rest of his life nick and mitch did you guys watch the led zeppelin dvds i gave you last year fast peepee for the rest of his life. Nick and Mitch, did you guys watch the Led Zeppelin DVDs I gave you last year?

They're still in my apartment, Chef Kevin. That's a yes. Okay, Kevin. All right. And I'm vibing to this. You were worried about this. That's really nice, Kevin. Chef Kevin, can I bring up something potentially awkward? Oh, yeah. I live about this. Yeah. That's really nice, Kevin. Chef Kevin, can I bring up something potentially awkward?

Oh, yeah. I live for this. Everything cool with you and you song? Absolutely. Yeah. We talked today. Absolutely. Absolutely.

Oh, yeah. Everything's great. Yeah. We're fine. We had a perfectly normal conversation today. I just want to make sure I just was checking. That's all. No, we're great.

We talk. What have you been hearing, Mitch? I've been hearing a lot different. Yeah. Like what? Just a lot of anger. Maybe I shouldn't bring it up. It's probably just you song cited.

No, I was worried we talked with you song. That's right. He was kind of doing his own thing now. Yes, he's doing his own thing now. Yeah, I heard people move on. That's life. Okay. What's crazy is you guys are both cold.

This is going to be me. I like you guys. I'm looking into my future. You're both nice, quiet guys. What I know from this reaction is that underneath the split is one of the darkest, most fucked up stories that I would never hear. Like, what happened? What went into that falling out? I don't even want to peer at that side of humanity i'd rather just you seem cool i'm cool with that yuzang's doing his own thing people

move on but jesus christ the stuff i'm imagining is very bad it'll be like eight millimeter just wandering you're like glad i saw it but don't want to watch it again It'd be like eight millimeter. Just wandering into a world. Glad I saw it, but don't want to watch it again. Well, I love the both of you. I think you're both great. You got to go? Yeah. All right.

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