If I Were You - 124: Racism
Episode Date: January 5, 2015In this episode we discuss our new years resolutions and where to have sex.This episode is brought to you by TheBouqs.com and DraftKings.com!See omny.fm/listener for privacy information....
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And you see a goddamn Tencent piece
You must seize that cheese
Or they'll put you on blast
So ditch that brood
Find yourself a nude
You gotta earn that booty
So raise up your glass
To if I were you
These two hashtag dope guys
Get swiped right every time
Tonight email them in
Would be totally a crime
When we can't YouTube that shit
Or get a handjob on a bus
Then Jake and Amir will make fun of us
Or tell us to kill ourselves in Sturmbot
Sturmbot
So the...
Oh the rooms are switched
It is a...
Hey dude, don't mind if I brew
Nice
Just fucking sit down
Just sit down
It's already late
10.56
The latest
Oh no, you're spilling
The latest
The greatest
Usually the podcast is already online at this point
Right
Yeah and right now it's just in our brains
I apologize
What's been Gucci?
How are you?
I'm good
Haven't seen you since what? December?
December 11th
I believe
And it's January 5th
I haven't spoken to you
We haven't exchanged a word
I texted you December 23rd
I said, hey, happy holidays bro
Thinking about you, missing you
Reach out if you need anything
And I didn't...
You said nothing
Then...
I didn't need anything
December 25th
I'm just shuffling through my text message
Just with you now
Hey, Merry Christmas bud
Celebrate this holiday but it would be fun to hear from you
Nothing
Wow, yeah
It would be fun to hear from you
I didn't feel like it was a...
January 1st
An impending sense of...
You okay dude?
Texting your brother, your sister and your mom
They all say you're there, you're happy and you're healthy
I'm glad to hear it bud
So you knew
I did but I had to hear from them
January 5th, are you coming home today?
We have to record
And you finally respond, yep
I asked you to pick me up
From the airport
You're my boy, right?
You only are nice to me when you need me
If you were really my boy, you'd pick me up
And then I went to pick you up and you said
Hey, getting off the freeway now, didn't actually need the ride
And then I asked you to split the Uber with me
You requested Uber split fares with me for the entire month and I've done it
Finally split it, then I asked you to Venmo me the remaining half
You said a split is only fair when you're paying for the entire thing
Which I didn't quite understand
So I also had to pay for the split charge
Why not just ask me to Venmo you the entire...
It's late, let's just...
What's the podcast about again?
We're not gonna listen to the theme song together
So I wanted to say it was by Eric Dale
You missed it
It was good
It was a deathcap for Cutie
Come on, let me hear it
I'll play it for you after
Okay
That's fair
Thanks
How was your break?
It was really nice
Did you have too much family time?
You know, I had not quite enough
Was it split between family and friends?
It was split between family and friends
It was really nice, got to see my loved ones
My brother, my sisters, my mom
Did you meet Dave's girlfriend?
Yes, I did
Oh, we didn't even...
Oh, yeah
I spent...
We spent like two days together over New Years
And?
Dave...
I can't tell if Dave has a girlfriend or a puppy
She's that hot
Just the way he treats...
I commented on it on the weekend
So I'm not talking shit behind his back
But I never saw him without both of his hands on her
As if he was leading her somewhere
It was like a contest where if he let go
Somebody else got to have her
He was just pulling her everywhere
And like pushing her into rooms
I also have one really funny picture
Pushing and pulling her into and out of rooms
At one point they were like...
We stayed in a big house with a bunch of people
And they didn't get a private bedroom
So as I was going up to bed on New Years
I saw them bringing a bunch of blankets and pillows
Into a pantry and locking the door
And Dave says, we got to have somewhere to fuck
And then she said, sleep
And he said, oh, okay
For them it's the same thing
I also have a really funny picture of just the two of them
Out on a porch, it's like 30 degrees out
So pretty cold
Dave has a blanket over his lap
She's like curled up with a blanket on a jacket
Looking at him and he's just cigarette in his mouth
And his eyes on his phone
You did send me a photo at one point saying
This is Dave's phone Mophie
Which is an external iPhone charger
And then he had a Mophie charger
Yeah, he had something called...
I don't know what it is
But it's a Mophie booster
So it's a thing that charges your battery
For up to six hours and two minutes or whatever
It's just this brick of power
That you just plug the phone into
Energy
It takes a year to charge it
But once you do it, it can charge your phone
In a second and a half
It melts your phone
And then his phone was also at 19% battery
Yeah, his phone was almost dead
He had every single charger
So many extra chargers, so many Mophies
There was also one day where he had all those in his pocket
And then his phone was dead
Were those things drained?
Or did he just not use them?
They were drained few, I guess
I don't know if he charges them or if he likes carrying them around
We made a joke once in our videos that
You're like, I've never seen your phone above 7% battery
Which is actually how Dave lives his life
Oh, God
Oh, no
Oh, my God
Alright, that's okay
Peer up my nose
Well, I guess let's actually start the show
Well, we can talk about it throughout
Or you want to just go through the whole thing right now
No, you're right
We can just get into a question
Interweave it, yeah
This is, if I were you, the only advice
Oh, okay, he's back
How are you doing?
You breathed a beer
Yeah, when we were talking about Dave's phone
It sounds like you're getting choked up
Yeah
I just love honest so much
If I were you, the only advice podcast on the internet
Husted by us, I'm Amir
And I'm Jake
We recorded all these podcasts before you left
That's how we were able to do that
Now that you're back, we gotta really hit the ground running
We get emails from people in sticky situations
They need our advice and we do our best to answer it on the show
The first question, actually, I have a good one
It sort of reminds, it's a jumping off point
From the story that you said about Dave
Oh, perfect
What should we call this person?
It's a male
It's a male, I'll just go with people
Who are at our New Year's retreat
Oh, that's good
Vinny
Dear Jake and Amir, I have a problem
My girlfriend and I have nowhere to bone
The last few times we've done it in our car
But we both want to do it somewhere else
Both of our parents are home
All the time, so that eliminates that
Do you guys have any suggestions of places
We can do it and have more space to move around?
Sincerely, Vinny
This is a hashtag cool person problem
What do you mean?
That cool, live with your parents
Oh, I just assumed they were in high school
Yeah
I guess if they're over the age of 25, it's less cool
But if they're like cool high schoolers
And we don't know where to fuck
That's a cool, I didn't have that problem
Right, there's something so creepy about you
As a 30-year-old saying
Like to a 16-year-old
This is so cool
Son
Son
Where do you high schoolers have sex?
They just do it when their parents are at home
Or when your parents are at home and you just like sleep
Wait, sneak into the house?
Yeah, you would sneak into the house
Oh, and then you have to be really quiet
Right, well like
For instance, I might
Have had sex in my basement
When I was in high school
Right, which is sort of like
It's like your several floors removed
Yeah, your parents are on the third
Oh, I don't know where this guy lives
I lived in a McMansion
A real McMansion
My parents were on the turret
In the fourth floor
It was a Sears, what's it called?
The kind of houses that were
Purchased after World War II from Sears
Catalogs
Prefab
Those are like kind of cute
Like a prefab bungalow
Yeah, yours is a prefab McMansion
Mine's a model home
Your dad pieced together an entire house
From an Ikea catalog
It's mostly a rector
But yeah, you could like
You sneak into your basement and have sex
So the furthest room from your parents
I feel like your parents aren't always home
Both sets, always, all the time
I feel like I have a memory though
I've never had sex in high school of getting a hotel
Yeah, people could do that
I mean, if you're
I have to be a really cheap hotel
Because if you're in high school, you might not have a lot of money
I did that to masturbate
So I would check into like a four seasons
And I would J.O.
And then I would take a shower
I can't come unless I'm spending $300
At least on the room
Not to mention the robe that I would steal
That's how you did it
So you're saying sneak into your parents' house
But do it while they're asleep in a different room
Yeah, I think
It is a really unique problem to have
So like
Sad
You want to have sex
And you have to do it in a car
It's interesting that it's a scene
It's like a one novelty place that you want to do it like
Once or something
Every single time I want to make love
With this girl that I'm seeing
You think if he told her
It's not bad to have sex
It's not like drugs
It's just parents
If you're in high school
You're too young to have sex
I mean I don't actually
I wonder what
I think the law is that if you're both under 18
Then
It's fine
I wonder what it is
I think it's different all the time
But for some reason I thought I remembered
That in Connecticut it was like legal for two 16 year olds
To have sex
I'm sure I'm wrong
I just say I'm wrong now
So jokes on you
I don't want to see the fucking reddit
And the tweets and being like actually Jake
It's illegal you're under arrest
Just relax I was kidding
Wow
You're cynical in your
The new year
2015 is off to a rough start
I've been called out twice
I snorted beer
Alright
So your advice is to do it in
A secret room of your house
Sneak it
It's still not ideal
Because you want to just be able to
Lay down with your girlfriend
Be loud
Have the freedom to just really
That's why I suggest cheap hotel
There's got to be cheap hotels
And you don't care about how shitty hotels are
When you're 17
Don't you have to be like 18 to rent a hotel room?
I thought I remembered that
That's another law that you're making up
I definitely remember being afraid to
Rent a hotel room
And like afraid they'd ask for RIDs and stuff
A hotel?
Why would there be an age minimum to rent a hotel?
Should I even look this up?
I guess so
I guess I'm curious
Why are you added to the under 18 and connected thing?
That one will be a really deep search
Hotel room
Age minimum
Minimum age requirement for renting hotel rooms
Young adults, particularly those at 18 to 21
Sometimes run into difficulty with traveling
In the United States booking a hotel room may be particularly challenging
Since many hotels set a minimum age requirement
For guests
Wow
If you're under 18
It's virtually impossible to rent
A hotel room in the United States if you're under 18
The legal age of majority of all
In all states
Why is that? I don't know
There were hotels in our town that didn't card
And then by the time we were seniors
There were some of our friends who were 18
I guess they just don't want to be responsible
Because the only thing that would happen in these rooms
Are things that parents wouldn't allow you to do
I remember like in high school throwing hotel parties
Oh yeah
Did you go to those two? No
Of course not
But I'm cool so I go to them now
I sort of raid them
I will pound on hotel room doors
Saying you're under arrest
Even if it's just like a couple of fast asleep
That's a global thing to do
Yeah yeah
John Wolf
Oh you do have a story?
From the new year?
Yeah I heard an interesting global story
She exists
Over Christmas actually
That happened over Christmas?
Yeah this Christmas and
As I understand previous Christmas
Oh my gosh
This is John Wolf
Global
He'll go to Toys for Tots
That's a good charity
They donate toys to children
And he'll go as far as to dress up as Santa
Oh my gosh
Which is like
Oh no
You already hate it
Because you can see where it's going maybe
And I don't want to drag it out
So I'll just spit it out
He hands out empty boxes
He hands out empty boxes to these kids
Not even Cole
Just an empty
The other thing is
He puts the ribbons on really really well
They'll struggle with the tape and the ribbons
For maybe 10 to 20 minutes
He also
Which is also very subtle
Has a black beard for santo
Which is fine I guess
But also kind of lame
It's just bad
It's just annoying
He shows up with a black beard
As Santa
It's like what are you going to call him out
I guess he should but maybe not
He brought presents so it's a
It's a dickling thing to do
To be sure
Alright
What else did we miss
From each other
What was your holiday like
What was Hanukkah
Oh it was just a lot of me with my nieces
That was my break
Yeah
I don't want to say their names
But yeah
I'll bleep that out
But yeah
I was an uncle
I was an uncle to two
I was a vuncular this break
And they wear me down
Did you get them any presents
I don't think so
I hung out with them so often that it seemed like it was a gift to them
But I'm sure they didn't imagine it to be
That was the gift
And they annoy you
You guys have to go away
Yeah of course
They're like so cute
It's quite enough
You want to hug me and hang on to me
And it's very cute and it's great
You want to hear me talk
You laugh at what I say
And then you're like okay that's enough
Because I'm looking at my phone
Or like I'm watching TV
Or like I want to watch this football game
And then my niece is just like
She's like how come the lights
On cars are red
I'm like I guess
Red means stop and brake lights means stop
But not all lights are red sometimes the lights
Are white
That was her follow up question
What do you want from me
I don't know everything
I'm your dad's brother
I was not involved
In any decision making process
About bringing you into the world
I shouldn't be here
Yeah and then she like climbs on me
And hugs me and I'm like oh this is cute actually
This is a nice thing
I kind of understand why people like dogs
Because they're like children
We can get a dog
We can get a puppy
You like puppies
I didn't say that I liked it
I started to understand
Because then when I said goodbye to them
I'm going to miss them even though
At the end of the day I was like
Very worn down every day
You were like happy to go to bed
But you weren't happy to see them leave
Yeah I was still sad to see them leave
Fuck man
Speaking of which
This is a great question
In relation to this
The subject is am I racist
Great
So who's another person you spent
New years with
Is it a boy's name or a girl's name
Great
Nick
We all know Tinder is a great app
But I worry it is revealing
My inner racism
When I'm swiping I often find myself
Very quickly skipping past any girl who is not white
I feel terrible doing this
But there's just something stopping me
From finding them attractive
I certainly don't think of myself
As a racist at all
So is it racist to only find your own race
Attractive
Just a little thing
Also on a recent podcast Jake gave the advice
Of trying to start off a Tinder conversation
In Spanish
This is literally the most useful piece of advice
You have ever given on your show
Every damn girl responds to Spanish
Ha
Fuck yeah
I can't believe I'm getting this racist guy
Matches
We should talk about my billboard too
Oh yeah
Oh shit
This is what going away for a month does
It's almost time for the next Super Bowl
But in the last Super Bowl we made a bet
Where
If the Seahawks won you got to design
Any billboard you want using my image
And name
And I had to pay for it
And that happened the Seahawks didn't do
Seahawks won by a lot
That was funny
I also missed that game entirely
I landed and was like I'll check the score
Wow
So the billboard
I put it on my Instagram if you're curious to see it
It's a picture of me
Correct
And then underneath it says my full name
Amir Blumenfeld 31
Which Tinder does not do
Do not say your full name
Because Tinder understands the beauty of
Keeping things slightly private
And then to the right of my picture
Is the phrase
Hipsters of Los Feliz
Which is an area of Los Angeles that we live next to
It's like where actual hipsters do live
It says hipsters of Los Feliz
Swipe me right on Tinder
Right
That's the basic gist
And then the left side is your image
And essentially a screenshot of your Tinder bio
Which reads Amir Blumenfeld
31
What does it say?
Stylish recognizable actor
With athletic build
Parentheses rock climber
And then sushi lover
Funny lonely
Yeah
So it looks like
For real though
I completely forgot that Tinder doesn't have your last name
Yeah
That was an actual blunder
That was not on purpose
But to the untrained eye
To people that don't know that this is a joke
People assume
One, I either took out a billboard to announce
That I live in Los Feliz
A recognizable actor
And that you should swipe me right on Tinder
Or two, it's like a weird Tinder billboard
And I'm the spokesperson
I'm the model that they chose
Either way, it's pretty weird
Either way, it's bad for me
Are you embarrassed by it?
I will say that I ate lunch next to it
It's right next to a restaurant called Alcove
I guess we could say that
And I felt ashamed to stand on
Like next to the billboard
Because what if somebody saw it and saw me
Oh man, that's so fun
Has anybody commented out of the blue
That they had passed it?
Well, Ricky
Sent us the picture at first
But nobody, like no stranger
Has approached me on the street and be like
Are you the guy from the billboard?
Right, but any of our friends have they also seen it?
I guess they've followed you on Instagram
Yeah, I think they've seen it on Instagram
What would you have done for me?
Because I've had a lot of people ask me
What would he have done for you
I don't know
I don't think it would be something similar
I can't imagine it to be
Yeah, it would be something similar
I mean, yelling at people who live in Los Feliz
Saying attention hipsters is pretty bad
Yeah, that's the most embarrassing
And the funny thing is that you gave me that line
Oh yeah
When I told you I was thinking of doing a tinder
Like a tinder billboard
You were like, hipsters of Los Feliz
Put down your pumpkin spice lattes
And swipe me right out of tinder
Which I wanted to do, but there wasn't enough space
Yeah, it is hard to like
Because you can't put a lot of information on a billboard
Right, you just have to
It's got to be like mostly graphic
Graphic
We should say that Garrett Boatman helped design it
The guy that created text to jake.com
Correct
What are we about to say?
I was going to say, should we do another
Should we do a similar bet for this Super Bowl
It's funny because when we did the Super Bowl
I know so much more about football
than you, so I thought it was sort of taking advantage
Of you, because like Denver was favored
Right
And you weren't giving me odds
You basically should have won 1.4 billboards
For every billboard that I bet
But you were just like, I think Seattle will win
Oh, now you're trying to put me on blast
Yeah
You didn't know that you didn't watch the ox games
Yes, you never
You never bet on Russell Wilson
Russell Wilson in the backfield
Do you know that they're not in the playoffs this year?
Yeah, but that's
That's semantics
They actually are in the playoffs this year
Yeah, but that's semantics is what I'm saying
But yeah, I'm down to do another Super Bowl bet
Just because it would be funny to
One extend my billboard
For another month if I lose
Or maybe you can come up with a new one
And two, I'd like to try to figure out
What I would do for you
I'm thinking a bench campaign actually
Oh, bench or bust campaign
Would be really nice
That's how this one started
Can we have two benches and then some guys
Actually, we do have a billboard that just opened up
Two miles from where you live
Yeah, that was perfect
Where was this question even?
Oh, is this guy racist?
Yes, right? I think he is
Well, I looked up the definition of racist
Because I was sort of leaning
Towards a
No, not racist
The way he phrased, I keep on swiping them left
Like, that's pretty racist
Because first I thought that racism was like
You have to
Hate or look down on another race
But the definition that he says is
Or that is in this sounds like
What this guy is going through
Which is a belief that race is the primary determinant
Of human traits
And capacities and that racial differences
Produce an inherent superiority
Of a particular race
There you have it, man, you're racist
But
Can't I say that
Just to play devil's advocate
If I'm only attracted to females
Am I sexist?
You literally are playing the devil's advocate right now
Am I sexist
For only like females?
Am I
Agist for only liking young ladies?
Like
Just because you have a preference doesn't
Mean that you're saying that the other ones
Like you're not like
If you were, if this guy had a friend
That was dating a minority
And he was like completely fine with that
Isn't that less racist?
I guess
Like he's not thinking like, oh, I can't believe anybody would date an Asian woman
Right, but he's also saying like
I don't find a single person that's not white attractive
And I
I guess I would buy
Like
If he's been on Tinder swiping and he's like
Only swiping people he's attracted to
To the right, maybe he hasn't matched
Somebody of another race yet
But he's like
He shouldn't be like discounting them entirely
Like I'm not attracted to black people
I'm not attracted to Asian people
But what if you're white and you only
Are attracted to Asian women
And you only swipe Asian women right?
Is that also racist?
What I'm saying is that at the very least
This guy is not extremely racist
Not extremely racist
But I think he should give other
I don't know
Racism is a shot
Maybe it's not racist, but it's definitely
Weird, I don't like it
I'm not a fan of it
I'm not a fan of it and I think he should
I think
I need to go on record right now
I don't know about you, but I think racism is wrong
I know you haven't said it yet
But I do, I totally don't
Like it
I feel like you're putting
With me on a passive blast
Plast
A pacifist
And a narcissist
But if racism
Is a spectrum
I feel like this guy is a low functioning racist
Right
He's not a threat
He's just like
Swiping in his racist
It's the least he could hate
It's the least he could hate
So give
Other flavors a shot
Just blindly swipe
Some right and see if you connect with them
On a
On a level
On a
Non-light level
Are you attracted to any specific race
Over the other?
Lights, yeah for sure
Next question
I'm attracted to
Everybody, really doesn't matter
I guess if you weren't
You couldn't really say so anyway
Have you ever seen me not hook up with somebody?
No, that's true
You're right
There was that Paula Panesian girl
That uh
Yeah, I hate
I hate people from
French Polynesian
From Easter Island I think
She had a giant stone head
She had a giant stone head
If only we were smarter
Ooh
Shit, how are we doing on time?
We should take a break right now
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Did you kiss?
Did you have a kiss?
At midnight I didn't kiss anybody
It was very funny, we were at home
And we sort of missed it
Somebody checked their phone and was like
Oh, it's after midnight
Did you have a kiss?
A New Year's kiss?
Yeah, I had several New Year's kisses
And in terms of
The midnight one?
It was Vinny
He was also the 1215
The 1245
And I think we Frenched it too
At
315am
We were outside jerking each other off
And I said, hey, it's sort of like the
LA New Year's
Let's try to not at one
You did the math, Ron
Let all the
Be
Oh, Vinny
Do you have a New Year's resolution?
Yeah, to get shredded
That is your
Everyday resolution
Yeah, but I'm making my legit New Year's gold
What was your holidays?
Did you have a fat three weeks?
I was really
On and off
I would go two or three days
Where I was just eating nice
Good normal
Went climbing a couple times
There were a couple nights where I
Raged
And then the morning I would be hung over
And then I would wait until midday
To eat and then I would eat a sandwich
And Annie's macaroni
And just hung over
My body craves this
I just want to give my body the oil
And that would be bad
So I was at
Stasis though
On the plane just now
I ate an enormous sandwich
With bags of chips
So like
I am
Diet starts tomorrow
I don't want to get shredded
How are you going to do anything differently?
Tomorrow I'm not going to
Get a croissant at breakfast
And I'm going to
Go work out in the evening
Oh
I've actually been climbing
I took my nieces climbing a bunch
Yeah
Your brother got you a new climbing shoe
For all Hanukkah
That's really nice
So what are you climbing now?
V3, V4?
Yeah I was doing some V3s
Feeling strong
Feeling confident on the wall
Well it's been a year
Let's go tomorrow
I actually quit
My nieces called me
A dweeb and a turn
And I told them to fuck off
Turns out I took it to heart
I got to the top
And they dared me to cannonball off the wall
I did and I missed the padding
I missed the crash pad
The entire ground is crash pad
I know but what I did was somebody
I guess shoved me
They reverse spotted me
So instead of making sure I landed right
They pushed me
They shoved me
They must have really
Tried to plan that
To such perfection that I don't think I'm allowed back
Insane
It was a lame, lame
14 minutes
My shins killed
I was out
Cold
What is it?
It's to check social media less
Wow that's a really good one
And how is that going so far?
So far so good
I've been checking Instagram once a day at night
Really?
All these photos to look through
That is nice
I just did in 30 seconds
What I've been opening my phone for a lot all day
So what do you do during the day now?
So this is the problem
I'm still
Because it's only day 3
Instinctively when I'm bored
Open my phone
My nicorette
Is still not productive
So I'm still chewing
I'm basically replacing it
By looking at
Our subreddit
Or NBA subreddit
You're wasting time on the internet
But you're not looking at Instagram
So my next step would be
Let's replace
NBA stories with
News stories
So I can't cold turkey
I can't just not look at my phone
Hopefully soon you'll be looking at New York Times articles
Yeah
And Facebook
I'm trying to wean myself off of
Entirely?
Yeah, like I checked it today once
Yeah
The only people Facebook
Keeps me posted about
Are people that post a lot on Facebook
And those are the people I care about the least
Right
Yeah, because those are the people that I don't really care about
It's like somebody from my high school
That I don't talk to anymore
Yeah
I'm a slave to it
It draws me in
And then I'm learning about
A girl that I haven't spoken to in 17 years
Yeah, how dare they
How do they do it?
A girl I haven't spoken to since high school
Who has three children
Who I don't relate to on any level
She posts complaining about the kids
You know so much about her life
Too much
If she had any idea how much I read her
Status
She'd be floored
She'd be so happy
That someone's out there looking
Oh, that would be another
A good bet is
I get to run your Facebook
Like account for a day
That's horrifying
It's more like
It's more privately shameful because it would just be
Broadcasting to your friends and family
You know what I think would be
But I wouldn't do a bet that gave you
Cart Blanche access
I would never
And this is the bet
We each write five different
Comments
And it doesn't matter what like five different comments
Oh, on other people's posts
But like
Literally you see the comments
Right? I'll show them to you
Because it doesn't matter what the actual post is
It has to be Facebook or Instagram or Twitter
I think it should be Instagram because that's probably the
The most prevalent
I would say so
And so as just like scrolling through your feed
To choose which photos get the comment
Oh, so you can like
So you'd go straight to ex-girlfriend
And then you would just riff on that
And I could veto how many of the five
I guess you'd have to veto none
Oh, so what's the point of me seeing the comment
Like why do I have to
Oh, wait
So you are giving me Cart Blanche access
I can write any five comments I want
Well, yeah, alright, yeah
Maybe that's what it should, that's probably better
So it's any five comments you want
But I mean like you can't just be like
Going and
Yeah, no slurs
It has to be intelligent
Well, you would do it so that it would look like
Real
Which is kind of like the billboard
My friend thought it would be like
Oh, I have explosive diarrhea
Which is obviously fake
You would do something like very subtle
A global John Wolf-esque thing to do
He's an inspiration to us all
It really is in a weird fucked up way
Didn't you come up with like some Instagram thing
Where like would you just scroll to like
The fifth post down and like
Who gives a shit
What?
Or maybe it was Ricky that came up with it
But for some reason I thought it was like your
Why the fifth post down and not
I guess just because like
It's more, it makes it more of a game
I think it was Ricky that I heard it from
So if you lose, I can open your thing
You go to the two
Three
You just hope to god it's a public page
It's our friend Sheila
Oh, and you would write who gives a shit
A selfie, yeah
Oh, that would be a bad one I think
Right, and you would write who gives a shit
That would be
She would see that and it would be me
Well, the next layer to the bet would be
Can I
Then tell her it was a bet
Right, never
But I'm sure one day you would
I guess one day you could
24 hours have to go by where she has to think
24 hours, yeah, yeah
It's called the 24 hour 5 picture down
Who gives a shit bet
But we can't be who gives a shit
Because I don't think that's ours, it's Ricky or Ricky's friend
Alright, how about this
Let's do six pictures down
Just so he doesn't fucking sue us
And the comment is
Dot dot dot, okay question mark
That way it's
Why'd you post this
That way it just sort of
Makes them feel bad
You know
Global jumps the subway
Turnstiles on the way out
Yeah, so it's like he's
Sneaking out, it just
Puts people on a weird high alert
I fucking hate that
It means nothing
I guess maybe they're counting
Like in some weird sense this way
Maybe they're not
He wants to fuck with somebody somehow
That makes people feel like what's going on
Right
Is an agent of chaos
Absolutely, on a very small level
Shit, alright
We have time for one more question
And then we have to record ads and I have to post this episode
Because there are people in England right now
Wondering what the fuck is going on
They're awake, it's 9am over there
And they don't know what's going on
What's a good last one
Oh, fuck
These are good, alright
Alright, here we go, one last one
It's from a girl
Were you with a girl on New Years
Or were you just kissing boys
I was mostly kissing boys, but let's call this one
Sarah
Sarah writes
Skype calls can really fill the loneliness
So recently I suggested the idea
Of polyamory
That in the downtime between us
Being able to see each other
We would be free to date other people
He has been
The side piece to couples in the past
So it wasn't completely unfamiliar territory
And a couple of days later
We were working out the finer points
And agreeing to the idea
Now to my question
I've signed up for Tinder
On quite a few dudes
Part of the agreement with my boyfriend
Is that we make sure that our side pieces
Know about us
So at what point should I tell my Tinder dudes
About them
It feels weird saying it through text
So I've been waiting up until I meet someone
In person to bring it up
Yeah
If you were going to meet up with a girl
You met through Tinder, how would you react
To knowing that she was in an open relationship
At what point would you want to know
About Sara
So this girl is in a relationship
With a military dude
She can bone other guys
But she has to tell the guys
That she has a military dude
And that she's in an open relationship
At what point should she tell them
I'd want to know before the date
Because I would want the opportunity
To not be involved at all
But what if it was an attractive girl
And she's like
Military scares me off a little bit
Kick this guy's ass
He punched me through sky
You fucking seal team
Six mother fucker
You're just in a headlock
So what's your advice?
Because I might be different
I think she should tell them before they meet up
I wait until you're setting the terms
For the date saying let's go here
Let's go to this spot
And just to get this out of the way
Before we meet up
I'm in an open relationship
If that doesn't weird you out
Then let's meet up, if it does
I'll find somebody else
Who doesn't give a fuck
I don't think any guy would give a fuck
I think most guys don't care
Most guys just want to have sex
And so they're like
This is what they would hear
I can still have sex with you
And they're like alright
I don't even know what you said after I can still have sex with you
I understand what you're saying
And I agree to an extent
But it's just that this guy's
In the military
And I think a lot of the time
What I hear
When I hear like I'm in an open relationship
With my boyfriend is like
Me and my boyfriend
Have shit we're not telling each other
It is complicated
It is complex
People are gonna get angry and hurt
It's sad
And do you want to be involved with that
And I think
I'd rather know before the date
So I don't show up because if I show up
Then I will fuck her
It's too late the wheels are already in motion
I'm already half of a beer deep
Emotions will become
Termoiled
So if you matched with a hottie on Tinder
And she said that to you
Would you say no thank you
I don't want to meet up
She was like a legit
Three
Fuck
Now I'm hard
Christ I'm coming
No just like a very attractive girl
Very attractive girl
And she has a military boyfriend
It's different for me
Because like
I could take the dude
I don't know if you heard my New Year's resolution
But I'm actually not gonna eat a croissant tomorrow
Which I think
Was the one thing weighing me down
Did you see American Sniper
Yes I did
Did you love it
I despised it
I hated it yeah
I liked it but I thought you'd love it
Interesting
You love Coops
He was incredible
I love Coops
I love Soldiers
I just felt like it was
A movie podcast
It was a movie review
To me it was
Repetitive
It was the same movie four times in a row
Then you thought the first 20 minutes
Was a little too heavy handed
Oh yeah definitely
These are the sheep dog
Fuck off Clint Eastwood
You're not a sheep dog
You know what else is a weird thing about snipers
Doesn't it seem like anybody can do that
I know it's probably hard
In the movies it's just like
Put the face on the cross hairs
And that's what being a sniper is right
Right
Have you ever tried to shoot something
No definitely not
This comes from a place of 100% ignorance
I've only ever tried to shoot BB guns
But it's really tough
It's harder with a handgun because
I don't know I have to aim by closing one eye
Like I'm playing Duck Hunt
The eyesight isn't like a magic thing
That just works and gets your shot
It's not like if the X is on the face
Then he's dead if I press the button
I mean I don't actually know either
But I think you have to like
You have a steady hand
You have the face
Like on that X
And then the person moves
Press the button that kills
The rest of the kill button
This is you as a sergeant
So if the guy moves
You miss
The face is on the X part
So I have to go call my girlfriend
Yeah that's it
You can just call his girlfriend at the drop of a hat
Yeah while he's working
While he's killing people on his cell phone
Hey baby
Yeah you can talk me off
Hold on let me put the face on the X
And ready
And then the most interesting
Part of the story happens
In the epilogue
Yeah well let's not
Come on let's not spoil
Spoilers
So if you follow the news
You should know the end of the movie
You're mad at me
It's not as
It's a spoiler if the Titanic sank right?
No that's a bigger deal
Than what happened
Or it was more news worthy I should say
Cheers and turah
Hurrah
So tell before the date
I mean you're kind of right
I think I would probably still go on the date
And I think most guys will still go on the date
So you might as well tell them early
You might as well tell them early
I don't think you're going to scare anybody off
But I think at the very least
It's going to make the date itself better
That they go into it feeling less pressure
And you don't have to bring up
This weird thing on the date
Yeah
Have you ever heard the word side piece?
I've heard it but
Not from a young person in this country
I've heard it but only in chess
Yeah
You sound like aunt in this
You're an aunt
The biggest insult of all
You sound like a goddamn aunt
I swear you don't sound like my mom
You sound like her brother's wife
You fucking aunt
You're an aunt for that
Alright
Let's stop, let's get this episode online
We'll be back Thursday this week
We've got a whole lot of making up to do
But if you have your own questions
Your own theme songs, please send it to
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Yeah, that's it
The opening theme song was from Eric Dale
And this last one was from someone
A French Canadian I think
Or just a Canadian named Laurent
Sounds French
To me, yeah, Laurent Sparks
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