If I Were You - 139: Get Weird (w/George Basil !)
Episode Date: March 9, 2015Friend/Actor/Comedian George Basil joins us to discuss attraction and parenting.This episode is brought to you by Bombas.com and DollarShaveClub.com!See omny.fm/listener for privacy information....
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I've got a problem, I've got a guy in I know he's been sleeping around now
Jane, if you're listening, I've got assistance
This is what I would do if I were you
I'd call it over, I'd call a lawyer
Cause shit like this don't end too well
If I were you, I'd burn this house down
Maybe not that last one
You know, you always do this
Here I am trying to give advice
Listen, I really don't care
Fine, whatever
Maybe not that last one
It's only if I were you
It was a rap sketch in the middle
How'd you like that, George?
I liked that a lot
That moved freely, flowed greedily
I liked it a lot
Good, we're outside so excuse any helicopter noises you're hearing
Right at the start of the episode
Just to let people know
Excuse the one helicopter that we started out with
Oh my god
It's actually just hovering above us
There's a spotlight
We're underneath the heliopad
Thanks for coming to our heliopad
Yeah, thanks for having me, I'm on the run
You're on the lamb
Yeah, ma'am
Uh, George Basil, let me introduce you to people who don't know
Sure, go ahead
Give it a shot
You do your best
You're putting on a blindfold right now
This is probably my last cigarette
How would our fans know you?
From our videos
Yeah
They know me from everywhere
Everything they've done is pretty much part of me
George is an enigma
I'm the aberration
And that's why we hate you
Yeah, exactly
What's the most I've had a nightmare when you've met me?
You're Freddy Krueger
In sleep worlds
What's your most popular video that you've been in ever?
Goodness, probably Wolverine
Well, no, probably the Google is a guy
Oh, yeah
He's the creepy guy and the Google is a guy, right?
Come on, man
I'm a businessman and Google is a guy
Yeah, you just always think he's the creepy guy and everything
Are you the easiest?
I don't know
I don't remember
In Google is a guy?
I can't remember
There's like three of them
Shouldn't you remember since you did it three times?
You reprised the role
You did not?
Is it three different ones?
Yeah, I was like, first time was a creepy guy
Second time was like a creepy businessman
Third time was like a creepy athlete
So it's always a creepy something
It's just whatever you play, you bring a creepy to it
It's like Halloween costumes
George was in a video that I wrote, The War of 1812
That was the first video I've ever been in
Did you know Jake wrote that?
Yeah, because we met at a bar afterwards
Yeah, and I was really excited because you're really good in it
Yeah, and I didn't know what you were talking about
Yeah, you were really cool
You were wasted, you were on the floor
Everybody was sort of trying to keep you CPR
I was like, you were really good in the video
You were a creepy soldier
Would you say you're an actor or a comedian?
I think I'm an actor now
I used to be a comedian, but I don't laugh anymore
You don't have to laugh to be a comedian
You have to have a laughter in your heart and that's all gone
Holy shit, dude
Nah, it's alright
You're like the opposite of a motivational speaker
You're a demotivational streamer
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that I'm going to be prolific soon
I'm going to start crying a lot of shit
And as soon as I start crying, I think it's going to open me up to awards
You're like Eddie Murphy, the more you act, the less funny you become
Until you're just a good actor who never smiles anymore
You're the way Eddie Murphy
God, I hate him
We used to say that the opening theme song was written by Mike Skrilloff
Pronounced like Skrillex, except less cool
Unless you say it in a Russian accent, then 110% more cool
Thanks, Mike Skrilloff
We love it
Have you ever heard the show before?
No
Let me explain things to you
This is an advice podcast
Oh, you don't even want to know
Just because nothing matters is all
I'll explain it to them and then you can listen
Okay
So if you've never heard the show before, Listener at Home
This is an advice podcast
People write us their questions
They're in seek of guidance
And they write us emails too
If I were your show at gmail.com
And then Jake and I offer our advice
And sometimes just us
And sometimes we have a really close acquaintance
Wait, Eddie Murphy
Wait, Eddie Murphy
Do you guys take...
There was a question
There you had it
You guys take mescaline too?
In addition to me?
No, I got it
Do you guys accept calls?
Is that what you're going to ask?
No, no, no
It had something to do with advice
But then I think I started spelling the word in my head
And I lost track of it every time
Sorry
Do you wear those headphones the whole time?
I wear headphones
Jake does not
And then you can if you want
I'm just making sure that nothing gets cut in and out
And stuff like that
Okay, you're the monitor, yeah
Yeah, I'm like the monitor
Okay, I won't remember my question
Well, let's get started with the question
These are real emails from real people
We're going to give them fake names
Ideally, you're going to give them fake names
To preserve their anonymity
Can you give me a fake name of a lady?
Talc
Huh?
Talc
Last name?
Talc
Talc
Talc
I love that
Talc
Where's she from?
Monrovia
So not that far away, really
No, just a little
Just a little easy
He's a town 80 miles east of Monrovia
All right
Hey guys
I'm Talc Talc, an 18-year-old
In my first year at college
There's this guy in our friend group
Who told me he wants to sleep with me
He's a dime and a smoke show
A 10 out of 10
The only problem is
I think he's a douchebag
His personality is so repulsive
That it almost turns me off
I really want to sleep with him
But I'm having a hard time
Getting over this personality factor
Is it normal to not want to have
A one-night stand or fuck buddy
Because of someone's terrible personality
Oh wow
Thanks for the help
Love Talc Talc
Monrovia
For Monrovia
What jumps out at you, George?
Well, I don't know
Can you be a dime if you're a dick?
That's a really nice
That's a georgism already
Can you be a dime if you're a...
Oh, so you're saying
At least reserve some of those points
For a personality
A couple points
The most attractive you can be is an eight
And then the two is like personality points
Yeah, you can be an eight physically
But then the last two bonus points
Open your mouth and say something
How many times have you guys been
In an environment where it's like
A bar full of beautiful women
And you're looking around and you're like
Yeah, that one's beautiful
That one's beautiful
I don't think that's ever happened
But then you gotta go to Monrovia
But you're not attracted to them
Because they're so, like, unobtainably different
No, no, not at all
No, within my reach
But...
You have the coolest life ever
Because, like, we are...
As you're explaining the scenario
One, I've never been to a cool bar
And two, Amir's attitude is
But the problem is that they'll never like you
We can't
And you're like, no, I'm hot enough to get them
It's not that
Yeah, no, I'm an eight
With four on the back
Oh, very nice
No, but, like, you know what I'm saying
Like, they do something, say something
Or act a certain way where you're just like
Oh, my goodness, that sucks
Your dick just shrivels to nothing
My dick is born triveling
Oh, it's a raisin
Yeah
At rest
That's never happened to me
I could fuck whoever
And then just, like, not anymore
If I don't like their personality
But, like, one time for body and stuff
That's great
Oh, so your default
Your zero is one
You're like, oh, that girl's awful
She'll only fuck her once
And she's especially awful
I feel like I'd want to fuck her a lot
So it's inversely proportional
The worse you are, the more you want to have sex with them
Yeah
Well, there's, like, some sort of threshold
Where, like, if they're just pretty bad
Then I would only want to fuck them once
If they're really bad, I'd want to fuck them all the time
Yeah
And then, but for you, there can be something with their personality
So bad, you don't even begin to be interested
Not even close, yeah
Yeah, the physical stuff
Like, everyone has physical flaws
Even a dime, whatever this dude
Is considered, like, a dime
Yeah
There is a physical flaw somewhere
His assholes cleft
Or his toes are smashed
Or, like, every book
He has a cleft asshole and smashed toes
By the way, as I look down, I see your smashed toes
And I'm 80% certain you have a cleft asshole
Still a dime
Baby
From the waist up
Cleft asshole
There's no way to be, you know, that taken physically
Maybe I'm wrong
Maybe there is, like, a perfect human specimen
That I'm missing, but
Everyone's going to have that one physical flaw
So if there isn't something to back it up
Man, like, say something witty
One thing, one thing
Say a witty thing
Order a drink in a funny way
Yeah, like, that's an old-fashioned way you say what
Old-fashioned, please
That's good you say it in an old-fashioned way
That's all you do
It's simple, but dummies don't know that
Dummy dimes don't know that
So you're saying good personality is sort of sense of humor?
Or that was just an example
Yeah, no, that was, for me, personally
Oh, so you can't date someone that's not funny
Yeah, or interesting or weird
I think there's a high weird factor that I need
Weird
I like them weird
Alright
Can they be too weird?
No
That's me
I'm the too weird
Yeah
Have you ever been the more normal one in a relationship?
No
No, I haven't
That's why I like them too weird
Sounds like they're not too weird
Sounds like you're too weird
Yeah, I'm like, I'm too alone
I've never had anybody be weirder than me
Yeah
And I never will
Rhyme's too easy
I'm also emotionally unavailable
I'm a wacky dude, I'll be alone forever
Alone in a bar in Monrovia, California
So what was her specific...
I'm waiting for someone named Talc to come
Well, you let me know
She said is his personality...
Is it normal to not want to have a one night stand or fuck buddy?
Yeah, but what about you guys?
I think it's normal to not want to have a relationship with this guy
But if she's physically attracted to him
Then maybe she...
You might as well fuck him
It's not like there's anything wrong with it
They're both single
They're both...
He wants to fuck her
She kind of wants to fuck him
So yeah, sure
Yeah
Or you could just make out with him and see if there's any sparks
Then you don't have to fuck
You just like...
Oh yeah, you can go to second or third base
You don't need to go zero to hundred real quick
Yeah
Like she can touch...
He can touch her breasts
That's first or second base
What do you mean first base?
Of course that's second base
What do you think...
First base is what?
So zero is...
Your first base without kissing is just...
Yeah
Breast touch
First base is a joke
I meant like...
First base is like above the...
Above the waist stuff
What's second base then?
Second base is...
This is insane
Binging
Alright, fine
Then what's third?
Oral sex
Nope
Yeah
That's its own league
First base is kissing
Second base is boob stuff
Third base is below the pants stuff
You have to specify if you go down on the person
That's a new game
Yeah
Oh, that's like a...
That's like a ground rule double or something
Or a triple
Yeah
But it's like...
It's an inside the park home run
But it's ruled a triple with an air
A fielder's air
That's perfect
That is perfect
Yeah
Because it is always an air when it happens
Or it's like a berry bonds thing
Where it's like a home run with an asterisk around
Oh yeah, can we talk about that?
I was using the cream and the clear
I swear
Loated up
He really was
Have you seen his forehead?
He's a crow magnate
So the rest of this episode is about fantasy baseball
Good, yeah
Who do you have?
Sammy Sosa
Crow magnate, number two
Alright, I'll say...
I'll agree with Jake
Really?
Well, I mean it is normal to not want to
But you might as well go for it
What's the worst that can happen?
Yeah, I think I have like a physical block
Yeah, but that's fine too
That makes your way as normal
I think most dudes would just
Fuck whoever, I mean
I think I'm not special
That I would fuck anybody
I think that's like most guys
And then there are like good guys who would say
I want to be attracted to the person
Mentally and physically
For me, I don't care
I don't even need to be attracted to them physically
Oh
All they need to do is to be a girl
And I'll want to fuck them
Oh really?
Yeah, just to see what it's like
So sex for you isn't an attraction thing
It's just the equivalent of tossing a ball around
Yeah
No, because I have fun doing it
Well, is it still fun if they're unattractive?
Yes
Sometimes it's more fun
Yeah
Sometimes it's more fun
Wait, now you're against me?
Only for unattractives
You like the unattractives?
Yeah, yeah, yeah
You're weird
The weird one's too weird, too unattractive
There's nothing weirder than being ugly
Have you ever been an attracted...
Sorry, have you ever been attracted to an unattractive person?
Yeah
Totally
You're just into that
Other shit
Yeah
Yeah, I mean, dude, laughing is the best
Oh, so
I guess who's to say who's attractive and not if you are attracted to her
Then she is attractive
Yeah
So I've never been attracted to an unattractive person to myself
By definition
Because once you're attracted to her, she becomes attractive
She becomes attractive
Now, let's discuss the semantics of love
How would you...
Oh, I'm getting a phone call
Are you?
Hello?
Hello?
Who's that person?
It's Jake's sister
Get out of here
What's she doing in there, just being an angel?
Yeah, she's just washing the dishes, she went shopping
And now she's here...
What is she doing here?
She lives here
She's moving to Los Angeles
To here?
To here?
Especially lives right here in the cabin
With you, her brother?
No, I live downstairs on a couch
Oh, yeah?
Does she need a home or...?
Yeah, she does need a home
That's just great
Alright
Next question
She's 26 and single, and it would be my absolute honor
If you would fuck her
On the show
My unattractive sister
Come out, Brumilda
She's weird
You like it too weird, old fashioned
Just washing dishes is the sexiest thing anyone could do
She's as normal as they come, George
So back up
No problem
What are we talking about? The sports again?
What were we talking about?
The semantics of love
What are the semantics of it?
The same as the logistics?
Alright, let's talk about that
It's all the same
How many pieces of advice do you guys give on a typical podcast?
We should get like three or four in
Yeah?
Yeah, questions
Three or four questions
But who's to say how much advice with it?
All your god is going out
Because of that answer?
You're holding a hostage?
What you wanted more or less
It's like you're hearing words for the first time
More or less
What?
Is that a question?
Of course
I agree with it
It's two
It's two questions
I agree with all that
Alright, how do you...
Oh, no
Okay, sticky situation right here
We need a guy's name
Can I see your sunglasses?
No
These are really nice
Are these vintage?
No, those are
Left over from a relationship
Really?
So maybe they're vintage
But she's gone
So yeah, they're vintage
To me
To me
Because they represent a woe-begon era
I wish I could...
I wish I looked cooler in sunglasses
Dude, those make you not look cool
Those are bad on you
It's tough to say that they're bad on you
But they're bad on you
You think so?
Yeah, I think you'd do better
With rectangular glasses
Yeah, the problem is my nose is crooked
What'd you do to it?
Actually, my sister
Down since down there
Broke my nose when we were kids
So how's that normal?
With me?
No
Okay, a sister that can break her brother's nose
Yeah, because I broke my sister's
Did you?
Yeah
Really?
Yeah
I got my ass beat, too
Are you an older sister?
Younger and I wanted a brother
So you punched her in the face?
Yeah
Is that true?
I wanted her to look more like my brother
This is when you guys were in your 20s
Yeah
She was pregnant
I was angry
I had a few drinks and I hit her
Because you wanted a brother
I wanted a brother
Aren't they weird?
I think no
Why aren't you drinking like I am?
I think you're illegal, more than weird
Oh, yeah
Guy's name?
Martin
That's so normal
Tell, tell, then Martin
Martin writes
I'm a 20-year-old sophomore in college
But I'm pretty sh...
But I'm pretty...
I'm a 20-year-old sophomore in college
But I'm very shy
My mother goes as far as to call me antisocial
I don't have very many experiences
In the lady department
I've never had a girlfriend
In fact, I've only had my first kiss a month ago
But that didn't end well
Anyway, I go to my school's rec center
And work out pretty much every day
And I see this really cute girl
Practically every time I go
I just can't make myself try to talk
Or flirt to her in any way
Do you guys have any advice
On what to say specifically
Or how to gather up the balls
In a general to talk to a girl
Or just girls in general?
Thanks
I think you're gonna be really good at this, Jake
I don't know
I don't know
I'm very...
I don't have a lot of confidence
What?
I don't have that, like, go up
You have that
I have craziness
Isn't that confidence?
If I see a girl every single day
I would be so mortified
I wouldn't be able to go up and be like
Can I introduce myself?
I'm Jake
I see you all the time
And, like, that's what you should say
Right, it's so easy
But you won't do it
I think this is what I personally would do
I would...
It's really simple
You just start saying hey
You see her all the time
Smile, say hey
And then...
Contact
Like, if you see her every single day
Just make that first hey
And then two weeks later
Graduate to
How's it going?
Oh
Just slowly
Chip away
I think that's what I would do
Because I'm too...
I mean, what George is going to say
Is what he should do
Which is
You go up to her
You hit her in the face with a barbell
Exactly
Oh no
Then you cut her throat
Whoa
I wish I had a brother
Then you save her
Yeah
Then you save her life
How are you...
You go up
With approaching attractive ladies
Horrible
I won't do it
Yeah, I make fun of them to their face
And then I walk away
Your rejection
But you make...
You can make friends really easily
Yeah
So you could walk up to a stranger
And by the end of the conversation
They would think you were great
Yes
But very seldom is that stranger
A hot girl
You need somebody else to break the ice
Oh
Yeah
Is that true?
Maybe
So who are the type of people
That can walk up to anybody
And say whatever
I think those people are true assholes
Yeah, those are the dying people
I've got a lot of charm and charisma
Dormant inside me
And I need permission for it to come out
You need personal like
Right, I need you to be like
Hey, this is my friend so and so
And then I go in
And then I'm good
I can't go in and be like
I deserve to talk to you
And I'm cool
Here we go
Yeah
I need someone else to say
Impress me
And then I can rise to the occasion
I can't go up to someone
Who doesn't seemingly want me to talk to them
So not to get too therapy oriented
But the first thing that Martin mentioned
In this question is his mom
Oh
Yeah, right
Oh
And he mentioned that his mom is like
Kind of a fucking cunt
No, she says that she doesn't
Yeah
Not to get too therapy oriented with you
But he didn't say anything
Yeah, things are tough with my mom
Yeah, she's been a cunt to you
She sounds like your mom's being a cunt
She's gonna have a face punch it
She just said that she's anti-social
Yeah, so fuck her
And all moms
Yeah, fuck all moms
That's a shitty thing to say to your son
Because if he is
Well, then you're partly responsible for that
If you had any responsibility
Like if you took any
And for those of you guys out there saying
George doesn't have any right to comment like this
He's a mother
I am my mom
Yeah
I am my mom
George has a daughter
This is a real fact
Yeah, you're a parent
So you know
Like this is, we're talking about actually raising kids
Absolutely
You have to give them all the tools
That they need to build that self-confidence
And stuff like that
Oh
Not necessarily
Like not specifically for stuff like
Going up to a girl
Because that
You're gonna have a hurdles with that
No matter what
But the foundation of confidence
Is gonna come from your parents
It's the only place it can come from
Kinda
Yeah, they're the ones that are
Even if it comes from other people
Other relatives
Or other friends
Family
Family group
That family member
Your most immediate family member
Is the one that's like
Introducing you to that
Right
In those situations
You guys have both met Lula
Yeah
Your daughter's awesome
She's great, right
She's got the confidence
She is confident
And she's confident around people that
She may have only met a few times
Because she's developed that
She's like friendly with other kids
Right
But what about kids that are introverted
Are they wrong?
No
I think introversion
Like if I was a shy kid
Is that the same as being the opposite of confident
Or can I be confident and shy?
I think introversion's fine
I think being shy is cool
So long as when someone does try to
Encounter or activate you
Socially that you can do it
Right
If you're crippled by interaction
Even shy people can be confident
I don't want to talk to people
But if somebody talks to me
Then I can be articulate
And charming in my own way
So you always have to just be confident
Like you know what
I'm an introvert and that's okay
I'm shy and that's fine
I'm introverted
Even though you guys think that I'm like
A crazy fuck face that like rolls around
I do fuck with that
You do seem like you're confident
Like you're always a little bit tipsy
Yeah, I'm always a little messed up
But there are parties or events
Or whatever where I'm standing there
And it's like
I'm gonna stand right here
My feet aren't gonna move
And I will not look at anybody
And I will stare down
And everything just goes gray
And I smoke a ton of cigarettes
And I drink a lot
Until it's just like
Well, now I gotta go
I'm gonna be on the lookout for that
Yeah, you should see that guy
We should go out tonight
What are you doing after the table reading?
I wanna go out with George
I wanna go out with Sad George
I can show you that
You mean gorge?
Gorge
Sword
Here comes sword
What would you say to Martin?
Well actually, your sister just said
This is very apropos
I think we could say this
But she was hit on on a run
And this is sort of the same thing
Like if I see a cute girl on a run
I never know what to say after I tackle her
I'm kidding, I'm kidding
Thank you so much
This is a citizen's arrest
And she's like
Yeah, he just came up to me to start talking
I'm like, what did he say?
What can you say?
How did he do it?
And she said
Do you remember what he said?
Yeah, well she said something
Oh, I remember the exact thing that he said
But first of all, they crossed path on this run
Three times
I know it was the first day that he saw her
But like
I don't think she would be into some dude who like
As he was running, just stopped her and was like
Well this guy's seen this girl at the gym multiple times
Right, so he said
Is it weird if I introduce myself?
I think that's perfect
Because it's self-aware
Yeah
But it's also confident
Yeah, is it weird?
And of course it's not
Nobody should be like
Yeah, it's a little weird
Don't do it
Well, it helps that you're a handsome dude
Right
But is he a handsome dude?
He's at least jacked if this dude goes to the gym every day
Really?
You're talking about Mark?
I'm talking about Mark
No, I'm talking about you
Oh, is it my sister?
Yeah, she said he was handsome
I don't know
I'm gonna kick his ass after that
Nobody can have her
I'm gonna be a protective brother into my 50s and 60s
To the point where you're just beating up her loving husband
This is my brother-in-law
They've had three kids
Tell me they're fucking adopted, man
Tell me they're fucking adopted
One more kid comes out of my sister's ear
I'll know
You're done, dude
I'll know
I'll know you booned
I've booned
How many times have you freaking booned, dude?
On your honey booned
Did you have sex with Rhett Boone
Or Aaron Boone, dude?
I swear
Walk off home or bottom of the 11th
You got to be shitting me with that, dude
It would be an honor of boon boon my boon boon
That's what you call your sister, right?
Boon boon
Boon boon
I locked you in my room
So that's my advice
Is to say that line exactly
I like that line a lot
Is it weird if I introduce myself?
Is it weird if I introduce myself?
I think that's perfect
I wonder if this guy's so cool
He came up with that on the spot
Or if he's been using that line
Because that's my line now
I came up with it, I think
Yeah, I also developed that line
I'm very proud of it
We all have that line now
Let's just say it like going up to people
And asking if they're married
Are you married?
Is it weird if I ask you if you're married?
You're married, right?
All the good ones are
No, I'm not
Is it weird if I think you're married?
Hey, are you also married?
Is this weird?
We're going to get a ring
Do you want to know my name?
That's a good line, too
You walk up to a girl
Do you want to know my name?
That's pretty funny
Can I give you something?
My name
Can you just watch my name?
What if you go up to a bar
And you just say to the girl
Will you buy me a drink?
Will you buy me a drink?
That's funny
But it's also kind of like the game
To walk up to a girl
And demand a drink
Stupid glasses
You look like kind of like
A chubby Paris Hilton
Buy me a drink
Back in the compliment
I love it
It's the game, dude
You got to insult her
In a hot way
I'm peacocking by wearing a
A peacock
A pocket watch
A pocket watch and a boa
And then you neg
You re-neg on a promise
That way it shows that
You don't give a shit about her
What's another good example
Of a thing to say
To a girl in public?
Is there something as good
As is it weird
If I introduce myself?
That's self-deprecating
So like if there's a girl
Who wants confidence
Like somebody
You might just want to
Go up and say
Hey, I'm Jaste
Right
Hey, I'm a beast
Hey, I'm beast
Oh, like that's your name
You can totally do that
Your hair is so long
You do look like a lion
I am beast
Give me an old fresher
It's just like the end of Terminator
Where you're turning into
Like seven characters
In molten lava
A beast
I'm impressed with my range
Right off the bat
Yeah, dude
I'm an actor
Not a comedian
I don't laugh
Dude
When you're on TV
Yeah
If you're on TV
Like you are
You don't fucking need to say shit, bro
You don't even have to talk to her
Hi, I'm on MTV's pranked
Motherfucker
That was my show, not yours
Oh, you are?
Yeah, yeah, yeah
That was pranked
Shit
Is that still on?
No
No, no, no, no
Yeah, it's over
Five seasons
That's on True TV
That's on True TV
Five seasons of True TV
I think it was five
You really did it?
You really doing that?
I hosted a prank show with Streeter
Do you know Streeter?
Yeah
And Lustic
And Lustic
Oh, that was a different one
That was a different prank show
He was up punked
He was up punked
He's a punk, dude
That's what I'm saying
Lustic if you're listening
Yeah
And I know you are
Get up
He's not
This is one of the most popular radio shows
Yeah
For actor comedians
Come by right now, this is a live radio
Somebody once asked me
Yeah, I guess they won't listen
Maybe they'll listen
Let's take a break
And I'll tell you guys what this person said
During the break
And then we'll come back with more George Basil
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Yeah, no kidding
Alright
Not a swear in the world
You were on the phone with the doctor
And I just yelled
And we're back
And you're hanging up on him
It's about to give you results
How are you doing in general?
Good
My hair's long
Yeah, hair's long
No beard
No beard
My daughter had a jogathon today
At her art school
So I went to that
Nice
And I gave them money
I live like I'm rich
But you're not
Nope
So you just cut checks
Just like cut and check
Throwing dollars
It doesn't matter
I gave them $100 of cash
Today
In cash
In cash
The crazy thing about Georgia
I think is that
You have a very adult life
You own a house
But I'm a child
Several cars
Yes
You have a daughter
A classic car
I mean let's
Yeah
You live a fine
Wow
You have fatherly life
But I also think that
You're basically the same as us
Oh, worse
Worse
Way worse
Can you guys handle the quiet?
Because I can't
I can't handle the quiet
Or the dark
Or the lone
Or the loud
Or the quiet is bad
Loud is worse
Darkness is awful
Brightness is actually
10 times worse than that
Having a hard time with this earth
But I do have three cars
Proud of each one of them
And a daughter
I'm sort of proud of her
She's alright
She's fine
She's one of the cars
I mean I like the Toyota
I do like that
Fucking pickup
I think overall well
Everything's busy
Things are cool
Busy in our business is like
Never stable
Or
Promised
He shot a pilot of a TV show
I did, yeah
In our business we get busy
For like three weeks
Or a month
And then we wait
For a long time
And we're scared
And then they say
You're gonna be busy for several years
Or never mind
Back to the drawing board
There's nothing in between
You're gonna see you again
Like all these relationships
Like you like the writers
You like the director
Yeah well
They don't buy forever
They're on to the next one
And you are on to nothing
It's true
You have to get so many miracles done
Just to get it
Yeah
Like auditioning is hard
And then getting the part is even harder
And then you have to be on the pilot
And then that has to go
And then that has to do well
Plus after you're on the pilot
Even if the pilot goes
They'll focus test
And everyone's like
This pilot's really funny
We don't like George
They're like
Alright
His character's gone
Yeah
You hear about that
It's like
Oh this show went
But the lead was changed
At the last second
After a table read
Oh that's devastating
Geez
She didn't read it well
At the table
And now she's unemployed
Instead we have her now
She has a job
And will be rich from the show
If she's lucky
And then you
Don't succeed
You just read a blog
About everyone that did
In exactly their place
Like you didn't get the part
But look at everyone
Congratulating this person
He got it
And now he's rich and famous
And you are not
Yeah
But the cool thing is that
He's still miserable
Oh
Right everyone's still sad
Yeah everybody's still really sad
Yeah nobody's actually happy
No
Cause we're always being judged
What is happy
Like you know when you like
Beer, IPA is
Yeah
They're really happy
What are you the most happy
When am I
Yeah
Let's get to the next question
Okay
My most happy
Fake name
Taylor
That was great
I feel happy now
Do you feel like you're happy
And sad throughout the day
Like or do you have good days
And bad days
Yeah both
Yeah there have been
Solid ass days of just like
Down down down down down down
Down down down down
Moment to moment
You're laughing so much like
Yeah he's so cute
I'm sad to cry
I wanna kill myself
And then some days are good
And then some days I'm just like
Some days I wish I wasn't even real
Get lower get lower
Yeah well you have to enjoy it all
Right
You have to
You have to
Isn't that what therapy is about
Getting yourself to enjoy it more
Yeah therapy is a load of shit
But it's fun
You should do it
If you do not
Should do therapy
Yeah maybe
I don't know if I get it covered in my
New non health insurance life
Yeah
Obama
Just call
He'll actually bury
Yeah
He'll take calls
Mr. Obama
I'll do Kaiser Permanente
Sir
Alright let me just check you out
Mr. Obama I'll take one Kaiser
Mr. Obama is a good way to insult the president
Yeah
Wow
Mr. Obama hi
Hey
Well
I guess
Barack how you do
Folks
Did you answer when you're happiest
No
I don't think I did
Is there a specific thing
Yeah
It's probably doing something with
The little one
Little home girl
For the first time that is
Complete
Like we went to a museum
Which we've done a million times
And even this one specifically
I think you and I
Did we go to that
Natural History Museum
I was with you
Yeah so
We went
Maybe a month ago
And she's been fascinated
With Pompey
Your daughter
Yeah
Your daughter
Yeah
This is only mine
I didn't take anybody else's daughter
We didn't assume that
No but I will
It'll happen
Any girls
They
She's fascinated by
Vesuvius and Pompey
And shit which is crazy
Because she's six
It's so cool to be like
God you must just like
Pump your fist
But yes
My daughter's into something
Yeah just like
Nerd it out
Volcano
She likes that
I didn't do it
I tried to get her into shit
And she's just like
Yeah cool soccer
But this she like
Took to herself
But this
Like I think we watched
A couple of videos
Cause she was into mummies
For a while
Like a long time
And she just kept wanting
To watch like
Mummy documentaries
And be like
Weirded out by it
And
And then this
Pompey story
I didn't even really
Elaborate too much
I didn't sell it
I was just like
Yeah it was this thing
And it killed everybody
In this village
And they were all preserved
Because of the ash
And because of all the other stuff
And they actually couldn't even see
Where the city was
Cause it was completely covered
And all this other shit
That I guess
To a kid's brain
Was just like
What
And so we went to
An exhibit
At the space museum
What the fuck is that
The aeronautics or something
It's not the one
That we went to
On exposition
Yeah it's right next to the
Natural history
Science center or some shit
Yeah they're all like
All in that same complex
Yeah
And that was cool
That shit
Like seeing her
Or it was cool for you
She wasn't even there
No she didn't come
It was just me
And I was taking videos of myself
And I was like
This is cool
Sending them to your daughters
Like can you come pick me up at school
Sorry I'm in an IMAX
Does she have a 4D text to you?
No not yet
So how do you get in touch with
You call the house
How do you get in touch with the kid?
Yeah
They're always just wherever you left them
They literally can't go fucking anywhere
On their own
Wait wait wait finish your story
What am I allowed to curse on this?
Great
Let's start from the top
What was so cool and what was so great
Just watching her
Watching the experience of
That sort of fascinated
Learning in a way that
I don't know if that happens in school
I don't remember it happening that much in school
My family never really did any kind of shit
Like we never went camping and stuff
And so everything that I try to do with her
Is a brand new thing for me too
Oh that's cool
So you're like a child with her
Kind of
And you're like actively giving her
A much different childhood than you have
180
Wow
On the complete other side of the spectrum
I remember learning that like
Abusive parents
Or create abusive parents
When I learned that I'm like
Shouldn't it be the opposite
Like if you're abused as a kid
Shouldn't you then be really nice to your kids
Because you know how bad it is
Yeah
But to speak
As an abusive parent
You're actually testing that theory out
Yeah
Let's see what happens in 20 years
It's
You see
Well that goes hand in hand with the whole
From my experience
It goes hand in hand with
You grow up to be your dad
You grow up to be your mom
Like you become them as a parent
And that is
That has that abusive nut in it
Because
Shit that
I had to go through when
You know somebody would yell
Or slap you upside the head
Or like hit you with glass
And then you know
Grind it into your gum
Your cleft ass
I'm weird
Cretch your cleft ass
Stomp your toes
But then you don't want to do that to your daughter
No but you do
Oh you do
Yeah you don't want to
You don't want to
But it's gonna happen
I'm sort of
Out of my control
We got him
We got him on tape admitting it
But you do
You do
Because that's what's learned
That's the grain
That's all you know
Your grain yeah
But then you'll put your own spin on the grain
That's the
The attempt at like
Doing completely different
Shit because we know people
You guys might be one that
Whose parents actively tried
To get you into other things
Like yeah let's go to the museum
Yeah let's go camping
Yeah let's go
Right
To a beach together
And just surf and like
Hang out like we're buddies and shit
And smoke weed together
And just like
Would you smoke weed with your daughter
Stope you're hot
This is him trying to convince me with the smoke
Come on you little pussy
Take a drag
You think Pompey is cool now
Imagine if you're high
Like I'm just thinking about this ash
It's coming down out of the
Holy
Would you get high with your child
Yeah I will
But what age do you think that's appropriate
One or two
Oh no
Oh no
Oh no
Blow the smoke right in your face
Yeah one or two
Just once or twice
Of course
And then at two or three
Two or three
Oh and then what happens at four or five
Lula's fifth birthday was a build your own
Bong party
Oh yeah you're a build a bong
In Monobia
Yeah
I will definitely do it with you
I don't think so
I was born
Because I'm in the opposite
I was born into a family like drugs are bad
Just as a blanket
I've never heard of that
And then like I didn't get high
Or do
Or drink even
And throughout high school
And then when I got to college
I'm like oh I guess I'm a little
More independent
I could try this stuff
Did they never
They never like set you up
With the expectation of like
Look this is going to come up
You might
No
You might want to
There's all under there
I had some friends that their parents were like
You kids got to fail for yourself
And learn
And my parents were like
You're not going to fail
Trust us
Don't go there
Don't go there
Hitting me in like
Being bumpers in a bowling alley
It's like oh at least I didn't
Get a gutter ball
But I don't even know what that's like
Yeah
My parents were constantly like
Shielding me from everything bad
Yeah
Well that's
That's one way to do it
Smoking weed isn't necessarily bad
That's true
That's a strike in another lane
That's what I was going to say
Yeah
Nice dude
Nice bro
Let me get that
But like I guess
That will lead me to a path
Where I don't want to get high
With my children
Right
Because of the same mistakes that your
Parents made
Exactly
That's the abuse
That's the nut
Can you imagine getting high with your
Parents
No
Because my dad is a murderer
And my mother's an immigrant
And my mother's an astronaut
And my mother's on space
She's already high
Yeah I could
It would be
Ridiculous
Because it would be like
Me coming in as a professional
I don't know
It seems like if you get high with your kids
Those kids are going to do harder drugs one day
Like they never just do pot
If they smoke pot with their parents
Yeah no
The gateway drug is alcohol and aspirin
Aspirin
A leave and cherry popsicles
Yeah
Would you get high with your child
I don't think
You're only going to have one
Well I want to have as many as I can
Yeah
Zero
It feels like I
Wouldn't necessarily because
I don't smoke a lot of weed now
So I can't imagine like smoking
It's not really part of my life experience
Where like I would want to
But who else would you rather
Introduce them to this psychotropic
You want to be the first to tell them about weed
Oh yeah I would definitely like
I think I had when I was growing up
My parents weren't like
We're going to smoke with you
But I was made aware of it
And when I got caught smoking it wasn't like
It was like
I came home late from curfew
They weren't like
You can't do this it's really bad
You idiot
Like don't do that
Don't break it into the house
Don't let me find that in your pants
That was
That was what it was
They were more cool with it
I would probably be
I or I hope I would be
Slightly cooler than them
Just to be like
Yeah smoking weed's not that bad
You can do that
Don't come home high
To dinner when you're growing up
I don't know exactly how I'd handle it
But I probably would be like pretty lenient
But not necessarily wanting to
Not introductory with them
You wouldn't be the one that was
I wouldn't be the one that like
I'm not talking about giving them weed
And sending them off to like sell it
Right
I also don't think
I had a little warrior for you then
Didn't you also have friends
Whose parents were like
If you're going to drink
I want you to do it at our house
And those parents seem like weirdos
Yeah like
I want to see y'all drunk
I'm 100% cool with my kids go
I want some
I want to have friends
Who are those parents
So I can like send my kid
To a safe place to drink
But I definitely don't want to be the parent
That's like alright
I got beer for everyone
As long as everyone stays in my basement
Ma'am there's 31 drunk teenagers
I know but they're in my basement
Well not all of them
Some of them got out
Yeah
One of them died
How did they now
Okay well that was part of the plan
We found a couple in a root cell
Or that it looks like you tied up
Alright
Give me one minute
I just got a hop in my car
You guys know about Pompey
A lot of cops
Smoke a little of this
Wacky tobacco and relax
Well what if your daughter learns
That she goes to school
And at age 12 she's like
They taught me that drugs are bad
And marijuana is bad
Are you gonna be like set her straight
Like are you gonna go above the school
Fuck yeah
Fuck school man
Fuck cops, fuck school
That's what I'm saying dude
Fuck the police, fuck school
Yeah fuck outdoors
Suns, sunshine
Fuck windows
Yeah it'd be funny like
Send them to school and be like
Just pay attention in math
Everything else
Like I don't know the math part
So you can learn that there
But like the social issues team
Like I know all about that other shit
Bring the math home
Leave everything else there
Math and science
You got that kid
Don't eat their food
You never eat their food
I'm dude I'll supersede any
Stupid ass like
Public school
Or private school
Either school
Any school dude
Any school
You're teaching that many kids
That much information
Like that shit is bound to be
False standardized and gross
No not false but
Generally
Lowest common denominator
Like hey little Ricky in the back
Gotta understand it
So now we're gonna dumb it down
To the little Lula
That's not fair
Fuck Ricky
That's what I'm saying
Get that motherfucker out of school
Well aren't there like super liberal schools
That you'd be down with
She's in one
Oh
She's in a super liberal
Charter school
Tightrope walking school
Columbus day
It's called murderers day
Shit like that
Yeah
It's called invader day
Successful invasion day
She goes around accusing other kids
Of supporting this mass murderer
And then in high school and stuff
You're just gonna continue sending her
To the liberal schools
Yeah as a teenager
Going to like elementary school classes
I want her to stay
Keep it real
Keep it basic
You're gonna send your 15 year old to first grade
Like Billy Madison
Yeah
Alright Lula you're gonna do
Every single grade in two weeks
Motherfucker
Your daughter's a social experiment
She kind of is
Remember when I was getting that
I was trying to get a dog
Trying to like foster a dog
And they had to call
They emailed a mirror
Or they had to call him to like
Interview him to see if I was a normal dude
And you were like oh yeah
Get Jake a dog
This is gonna be so fun
That's like what it seems like to George
To have a kid
George could have a kid
Aw that's so funny
Think about it
She'll like
What would he do wrong
Did you ever lie to your kid just for fun
No
You could
Yeah yeah yeah
No I could lie to her about all kinds of stuff
You can just call names differently
What about Santa
Yeah
I lie about Santa
Oh you do lie about Santa
Yeah
I mean those things
Right that's like normal parent lies
You're not like saying
Let it live as long as
When she comes
The first time she comes to me
I will never argue the case
For Santa's existence
The first time she comes
And she's just like
Someone said Santa's not real
They're like no shit
Oh really
You're seven
Wow
Happy birthday
You idiot
Her birthday is Christmas
I forgot
This is you in a Santa suit
I can take this off cool
Thank God
As soon as she finds out
That's when she stops getting presents
Right
Yeah that's why it's like
A little easier on dad
I'm gonna believe in Santa
Tell him 18
It is so sweet
Like I'm always like
Saying like
Oh my kids are gonna believe in that shit
And then like
I walked in on my niece
Six years old
Writing a letter to the tooth fairy
I'm like oh
Who am I to take that away
But I did
I said
You know the tooth fairy is not real
How would that work logistically
And she's like
What do you mean
Like do you believe in fairies in general
She's like
I don't know
I guess I have a story about it
So you think that
Every time you lose a tooth
She gives you cash
And then
How does that work out really
There wouldn't be like a fairy
Of any other thing
Just for teeth
Just a winged lady
That likes teeth
And she collects them
Of all the boys
Little boys and girls
Can you imagine how creepy her palace would be
The tooth palace
That is funny
Just imagining the tooth fairy at home
Just like at the end of the day
Throwing a bag of loose baby teeth
It's a living
Actually it's not tooth fairy
Because you pay for all the teeth
Yeah but I'll get it back in the long run
This is investment
This is enamel futures
You can trade that
You can trade it anywhere
We're out of time
I don't know what to tell you dude
Come on
There are no other letters from strangers
Let's do one rapid fire
One last real quick rapid fire
A quickie
We'll just try to do it as quick as possible
I gotta get out of here
No dude
I'll come back
Okay right now
15 minutes
Wanna go on a run
You guys be here
Rapid fire takes a while doesn't it
Alright
This is a funny question
But we'll do it
This is short
Give me your name
Your sister staring at me
Dude tell her to stop
I thought it would relax
Just tell her to fucking cool it
It's weird to introduce myself
From out here
It's weird for my daughter to introduce me for me
Has Lule ever seen you hit on somebody?
I've never hit on anybody
How could she see something that's never happened
How could she see something
That would be the Santa Claus
That would be the tooth fairy
Yes
She does not believe in that
Which does not exist
Alright
This is just a funny question
But maybe we can answer it quickly
Give me a guy's name
Alex
writes
Hey bitches
I got more than a sticky situation on my hands
What the fuck is this guy
Sorry go ahead
Actually my private school
Is going to a tropical country next month
Only a handful of kids and a couple teachers are going
Most of the female teachers at my school
Are hot as absolute heck
And fresh out of college
And I love them for it
Every guy going on the trip has a crush
On a certain teacher who is also going
I'm done with school shortly after
We come home from this vacation
All the guys at school
Are constantly hitting on the teachers
The teachers are insanely flirtatious also
So it's kind of hard not to hit on them
Obviously we never try to make a move
Also the student-teacher relationship
At my school is ace
We curse at each other
And flirt with each other
We're comfortable talking about any given subject
We're more like friends than students
Given this knowledge
What do you think I should do when I'm on this vacation
Would it be really fucking stupid
To try fucking my teacher
I'm sure Jake will say yes
But I really want y'all to imagine
Being in my shoes for this one
If you were a horny senior in high school
Going to a tropical country with a hot young teacher
Would you really not try to fuck her
If you do think I should make an attempt at this
How should I go about doing this
I want to do it in such a way that
Even if I realize there's no chance in France
At fucking her
It won't damage my relationship with her
Also I don't want to get expelled or some shit
Yours truly Alex
I like Alex
What kind of fucking porn school is he at
The teachers are hot
And we flirt and talk
And all the guys are hot too
And then we go to Hawaii
That's not a school
This is how rich people actually live
If you're rich and hot
He is Laguna Beach
All my teachers are 23
And I'm 19
We're all hot
My life is already paradise
And then we're going to actually go to paradise
She was a senior last year
She's my teacher this year
Shouldn't I
Hair's long
You're always trying to fuck them right
There's no like
If I'm talking to a girl
That I'm trying to fuck her
There's no turning it on or off
I'm going to be chill and then
And then I'm going to try it
Just always try and then maybe you will
Or, hey, or
Don't try
And then you will
And then you definitely will
So the less you try the more attractive you are
Exactly, by a journal
By a journal
Just right on a journal on the beach
That's maybe true
But there are guys that are really good at trying
And acting like they're not trying
I'm always trying but I'm good at hiding it
That sounds like magic
It's a tough thing to pull off
But that's what I suggest here
It's a tight rope walk to be sure
So try to fuck the teachers
But sort of be a little bit passive about it
Don't say, hey, come back to my room
Because then it's going to be really weird
But just try to float it out there
Charming, stay up late
You are directing another porn
Yes
We shouldn't be doing this porn
This is it
Somebody bought that
Jake talked about his favorite idea for a porn
Website series
Just sort of a style of porn
Finally you have sex and then you kill them
Jesus Christ
That's a completely different genre
But it would probably be just as lucrative
And we called it fuck me finally
And then within 12 hours somebody
Purchased fuck me finally dot com
Get the fuck out
It's actually pretty funny
You guys can check it out here
Let me load it for you George
You guys didn't even have to do it
No, I just
URL
No, I got it
Not found
Hold on, I want to just turn it around
To show it to you
Oh my god
Dude
That's amazing
That's milk on your head
What?
God I wish
We should come for milk
Chummy mug
Yeah, I don't know
That's it, go for it, why not
That's yours, go for it
Mine's like get a journal man
Learn how to surf dude
Read a fucking book
You don't have sex with anybody you want
Including no one
It seems like there's no rules at this beach
They're at Temptation Island
You told Lula she's not allowed to have a journal right
For that very reason
What kind of dad are you going to be with
Boyfriends like 8 years from now
I'm going to slap the shit out of them
I'm a protective brother
Right
Get your hands off my love
Sister
You're fucking my sister
You piece of shit
Who do I love
I'm a protective brother
I've always been that
And so this falls hand in hand
It's just like I mean I'm sure
Dude what time is she going to date
At 3 o'clock, 4 o'clock
I'll slap this shit out of anybody
At any time of the day
The worst part is the first boyfriend she has
Will be the ugliest person alive
A teenage boy
Half-formed weirdos
And then they're going to bring one both
What the hell does she
You slapped him right
But he knocked her down in a bouncy house one time
And I gave him a look like
I'll beat the shit out of your dad
I'll beat the shit out of your dad
I'll slap that full executive ass
This is like that show The Slap
You're going to slap a kid
And it's going to create an 8 part mini series
About NBC starring you
I'm serious people let's talk about it
You're going to be the third man in that
Yeah she's cool
Anything you want to plug?
No
I was never here
You won't be turning around in these guys
George Basil
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And the closing theme song
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No guess
No guess
No guess
All right now
My girlfriend is a gosh damn smoke show
In the club like J Whits and a Fidodo
Calling Jake out on a Thursday
Bless that sweet booty be going
Clap clap clap
You better seize the cheese
Strap on your pair of me undies
They'll give you advice
There's no need to say
Please all right now when I say
Swipe you say right
Swipe
When I say swipe
You say right
Swipe
Say
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