If I Were You - 199: Homework (w/Brian Murphy!)
Episode Date: February 11, 2016Murph is back! And he joins us to discuss being a 90's kid and songs that will pump you up.This episode is brought to you by TIDAL, and NatureBox.com!See omny.fm/listener for privacy information....
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with just breath and preach and tune in for free, meanwhile they're protecting your identity
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Well I'll tell you what, don't, don't, I'll woof and duck and shut the fuck up, bitch
I'll run your neck so fucking fast, it'll feel like an undeserved sundae but last, and
you know that I'm a beast in every single regard, cause rapping in this voice is so fucking
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Turn the podcast off, but really you my bitch, wash a dish, leave it on, now I really gotta
bounce, but before I do, let me give a shout out to that Ben Schwartz fool, and all my
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that's yo yo yo
Oh mercy
Wow
Damn, that was really chocolate
That was dense
That was an encyclopedia
Yeah, that was uh, you guys have come a long way
I don't even get half the references
Really, yeah
That was all of D12, right?
The wha- I recognize
I'm gonna bring her up my band
The one guy, the main guy, sounded like he was recording, but didn't want somebody else
to hear him rapping in the other room
I was gonna say the exact- I sounded like he recorded that while his mom was home
Yeah
These two Jews, I'll go and stop with you when I'm out with you
Teddy?
Nothing to do
I'm not trying, I'm not trying to do something artistic
That's really
Cause you have a roommate or something and you don't want them to hear the punks on
you recording on your acoustic guitar
I'm barely even gonna try
Murph, what are you doing in there?
Nothing dude, I'm fricking on the computer man
That's so funny
I'm not trying
I'm not trying to do art
I'm not putting effort into-
I'm not making something
I'm not trying to sing, why would I do that?
I can't sing
Why would I try to do that?
Effort was so not cool for like 14 years
I promise you, I'm not even trying
I'm not recording something cause I would suck at you
Yeah, why would I fricking practice and try to get better?
Why would I do that?
There's nothing lame-er than effort
I'm aged 10
Instead of saying you do something, it's like, oh you try?
No
Did you try to sing?
No
No
You were either good at singing or you're not
There is no try, which is why I don't try
Which is why I'm not a singer
I just cry
If everybody stuck it out with their high school punk bands, we'd all be amazing singers
Yeah, that's probably true
I really should have never quit
No, I'm sure some people would just not get better
Well Tom DeLonge didn't necessarily get better, but he got a lot more successful
He did try
Yeah, there's a curve of how cool effort is
And like starting at age 9, it starts to get less and less
And it peaks at minimum at like 16, I think
That's when effort is the worst
Yeah, right
And then it starts to get better
And then you really power through
And you power through when you are like full of effort at 18
When everyone thinks you're a fucking loser
Then in your 20s, you're like, oh wow, he's an artist now
Yeah
Wow
It's the same thing as like being a nerd in high school
You're just like, no matter what you do in high school, you're a loser
Unless you're like playing sports, right?
Right
Or in a band
Bands were cool
That's true, yeah
But you have to be like relatively good
You also have to kind of already be a cool kid
And then have a band
Like there were so many bad bands in my high school that had followings
Just because it was, you know
The cool kid's band
The cool kid grew his hair out
And now he's an emo kid, you know what I mean?
Yeah dude, that's the coolest kid
They're not real, they're fucking sell house
I'm the real deal
Not like me quietly recording in my room so that my dad doesn't hear
This is punk
This is punk
This is punk, dammit
Just plug the pedal right into the computer
So nobody hears it
I'm wearing headphones
So that literally nobody can understand or hear you
Episode 199
Episode 200
No
We did it boys
200 episodes
Congratulations
It's been a long road
But you know, we got here
199
200
Yeah, the countdown won't continue until the next episode
Until what?
The next episode
This isn't the benchmark episode
This is a throw away is what we call it in the podcasting biz
But we're happy that Brian Murphy is here
Is back in the house
Hey
First episode since number 99
Yeah, I believe so
So you did episode 99, you missed 100 through 198 and now you're back baby
I'm back
Yeah dude
Back in the game
By the way you did, I don't think you said who recorded that song
You're right
I didn't
Eric Dale
Eric Dale
It does sound like a guy who's not allowed to do rapping
Eric
Eric
Yes, Mr. Dale
What are you doing in there?
Are you trying?
Actually his email
We don't try in this family
His email kinda sounds like that
Hey guys, this is my second theme song submission
My first attempt at writing or performing a rap ever
Hope the flow passes the muster
I feel like I should give credit to the random YouTuber I got the beat from
I literally googled basic rap beat
Feel free to shout them out or not, I don't care
I don't have any channels and whatnot of my own to shout out
But you can credit me as Eric Dale
Oh Eric Dale, you're good man, you're good enough
You should keep at it
Sing louder
Sing louder dude
Sing louder
Rap harder, rap faster, rap battered
Yours like fucking commit man
The flow's tight, the lyrics were all great
It was good
We just railed into it for four minutes and I was like
And I was fine
Once he became a human being we're like oh fuck
As soon as he said himself that he wasn't sure of himself
Then now I wanna build him up, before I wanted to break him down
Isn't it weird how fucking shit works like that
How you felt bad
How you like wanna tear people down until they tear themselves down
And you're like oh come on, no you're cool man
I'm an M and M and 8 mile thing, like I did this
I went to this school, I'm an idiot
Now tell them what they don't know about me
And he's like oh shit I can't tear him down
Cause he already did it to himself
Yeah, and then he shows the whole crowd his white ass
Yeah
I mean you rabbit
Have you seen 8 Mile?
Uh, I've seen bits and pieces on TNT on Stars
You've never seen 8 Mile?
I don't think so
They uh, him and Brittany Murphy have sex in a factory or something
Yeah
That happens right?
Yeah dude, that's cool
You never thought Murphy was the one to go
That's your last name too
Oh yeah that is my
Are you guys related?
Yeah, she was my sister
Holy shit, I'm sorry
I can't believe you called her Brittany Murphy
Yeah, I was trying to you know
I can't believe you didn't see her sisters
You guys made it real dark and personal
You didn't see her sisters movie and then when you did you said
Oh I think I saw when Brittany Murphy fucked M and M in a factory, right?
I didn't fully think out the joke
You're also cousins with Marshall Nathers
Yeah, which is weird so it's all in the family
Mackay Pfeiffer's your father
Yeah
Wow
Uh, so what is this?
This is an advice podcast
For those of you listening for the first time
It's called If I Were You
It's actually the only advice podcast on the internet
Hosted by me and Jake
Sometimes we're alone
Sometimes we have friends
Every hundred or so episodes exactly
Murphy joins us
Uh, an old friend, colleague
A acquaintance
Yeah, acquaintance
A acquaintance turned friend turned colleague turned stranger
Uh
Back to acquaintance
Yeah, full circle
Yeah, we're back to uh, we might not at each other
If we saw each other on the street
Oh yeah
We take out one earbud as I walk by you
Hey what's up dude
Are we gonna stop and talk?
No
Alright
Alright
A single earbud friend
See you in a hundred episodes
Uh
You've done this before
This is old hat dude
You get it
Um, we're gonna be answering real emails
From real people
Gonna give them fake names to preserve their anonymity
Actually have one
That's sort of uh, appropriate
With what we've been talking about so far
So why don't you give me a female's name
Uh
Jessama
Nice
Another one
Oh come on dude
We can edit that out
That's not your best foot forward man
Come on
Cheryl
That's Cheryl
Jessama Cheryl writes
I have a big picture question
That as an avid day one listener
Is certain you haven't addressed
Great start
I'm a 20 year old junior in college
And I am terminally disillusioned
With my garbage social media driven
Self indulgent narcissistic generation
Of course I'm a bit of a hypocrite
Since I listened to your dope podcast
On my smart phone
However I deleted all my social media accounts
And I refuse to be one of those divas
Texting constantly
Scrolling through insta
While in a goddamn conversation
And taking pics
Slash selfies
I feel like life has become about
Documenting shit you do
And desperately trying to prove to the world
That your life is cool
And exciting
Instead of actually living in
And truly enjoying the moment
There's not a day that goes by
Where I don't fantasize about
Living in another generation
Preferably the 60s
But honestly
I'd be happy if I was a teenager
In the 90s
So I wouldn't have to grow up with this BS
I'm curious about your guys' perspective on this
Since you were adolescents
Before the onslaught of technology
Yet participate actively
In social media as 30 year olds
Was growing up without it better
Should I just accept my generation
For what it is?
Am I being a curmudgeonly
Grandmotherly youth?
Thank you
Love
Jessimo Cheryl
Jessima
Jessima
Cheryl
Carol with a chair
Are you 30 Mer?
I am 30
You're 30
You're 30 in October
Jake's 30
I'm 33
Teenagers in the 90s
I also like that she said
That she wanted to grow up in the 60s
Yeah, fuck it, I'll even take the 90s
Vietnam rolled
Imagine if like your brother got drafted
I'd rather be in this shit
That would be
I'd rather be fucking knee deep
In the mud here in
Viet Cong
Getting shot at enough
To listen to one other person
Snapchat their brunch
Then she could have gone to Woodstock
The 60s probably were pretty chill
The 60s were chill, I assume
The 90s were definitely a simpler time
I will say though
You always say it was a simpler time
When you were a kid
I would advise her to be
A little less curmudgeonly
Because I think that when we grew up
And stuff
I mean, didn't you guys sit around
With your friends in AOL chat rooms and shit
I was just
Yeah, that's what I was thinking
During this question
Like there was still dumb shit
That I did to distract myself
Like I would come right home from school
And like get onto the computer
Be on AOL for like an hour
Then watch TV
And before that I was like
I would come right home and watch TV
And now my phone like distracts me
From TV a little bit
Yeah, you don't have to TV as much
Yeah, I don't know
I guess like I'm with her a little bit
Like I definitely notice
When people have their phones out
Yes
A ton
Yeah, like at concerts
When all the phones go up
Yeah
That's a thing
I had like a nervous breakdown
I was like super stoned at governor's ball
Sick
Yeah dude, it was fucking ridiculous
And I was just watching Kanye, right?
Sick
Yeah
And all I could see in front of me
Was like just
I mean it's a sea of phones
But I kept on looking at this
One person's phone
And all they were doing was
Just like
They were like holding the phone
And then zooming in
Zooming in
And trying to like
Take a picture of Kanye
Like
Yeah
Fully zoomed in
Like kind of green
And they would like tap it
And try to take a picture
But it would come out of focus
And they would tap it again
And they would zoom in zoom out
And I was just like
I just wanted to tell them
Yeah
That it does
You don't have to zoom in
You can zoom in afterwards
Just buy it on Getty Images
There are better pictures of Kanye out there, right?
You're not going to take the perfect one
And like
There are people taking like
Full five minute videos of his performance
Like that's just filling up your phone
Yeah
What are you going to do?
Watch that later?
Man and it's
So I definitely understand
And sometimes when I'm talking to somebody
And they're on their phone
I just want to
Just like
Catch a little glimpse of what they're doing
Just
And I'm like
If they're emailing
If they're texting
That's okay
And if it's
If it's scrolling through Instagram
I'm like
Fuck you
So I do get it
I do get it a little bit
And now that I'm snapchatting
I've discovered a new sad thing
Do you snapchat?
No
So snapchat
You turn it on
And it's your camera instantly
And sometimes it's facing out
Which is fine
And sometimes it's facing back at me
So like
Turn it on
And I just see my
Sad board complacent
Resting face
Just like my fat on the toilet
Like
And that's like
The first thing you see
When you turn on snapchat
Which is like
A perfect logo
Of what your life has become
When you're on snapchat
It's like
My mouth open
Drooping down
Greasy forehead
Like swiping through stuff
And the fact that you can like
Sometimes see it
Staring right back at you
When you open the app
I highly recommend
Switching that default
To the outwardly facing one
That way you don't have
To stare yourself into the soul
Before seeing
What somebody you don't know
Added to their snap story
Which is a whole other
Piece of social media obligation
That I've added to my life
For seemingly no reason
I used to like
Oh shit
I gotta scroll through these Instagrams
Like
What if I have an unseen Instagram
I gotta clear this feed
Yeah
But I don't remember
Any Instagrams ever
Like I'm spending
At least 15 minutes a day
Looking at the photos
But I can't tell you one
But also life isn't so good
That you like
Shouldn't be distracted from it ever
Like
Yeah most of
All of these times
That you'd be sitting on
You're sitting on the toilet
And looking at yourself
And you look like a shrub
Yeah
Most of life is just
Shrubby stuff
It's just
Trying to get into a
Parking space
Cleaning the dishes
Taking shits
It's just real dumb
Most of the time
Yeah
Toilet is fun
I think toilet
Smartphone use is good
I feel bad about myself
When I'm using it
While I'm talking to people
Like if I get an email
While I'm talking to someone
Sometimes I'll check it
Which is bad
I'll look at my phone
While I'm watching
Other
Something on TV
So I'm staring at two screens
At once
Yeah
And then I'll shut off
My computer
And take out my phone
And go to a website
I was just on
So why did I
Even use my computer
The worst is
When you're getting an
Like answering email
Then you have to pee
You get up to go to the bathroom
And on my walk to the bathroom
I will look at my phone
Check my email
That I was just on
It's crazy
It's true
It's fucking crazy
But if you look at
Older generations
I mean
Have you ever gone to visit
An aunt or an uncle
Or something
And they just have
Local news on all day
Yeah
Like
My 24 hour news cycle
Is for like older generations
Just so they can have
White noise
That's their twitter feed
Yeah
Exactly
If anything happens
I want to be the first to know
Yeah
Right
If anything
I think you could be
A little thankful
That we live in a time
Where the stuff we consume
And do can be so curated
By like
You get to choose
Who you're following
On your phone
Or on your email
That's like
Kinda nice
And also
I mean
I know
I would have lost touch with
In high school or whatever
That I've reunited with
Over the years
Because of Facebook
Or something
Because it would just be like
You know
You see somebody on messenger
That you haven't seen in a while
And you're like
Oh hey
Are you going home for
Thanksgiving or whatever
Like while you're in college
And you stay friends
With that person
Or whatever
Yeah
I think the key for her
Is to find the
Joy the good parts of it
Right
Which is like
Maybe you follow news stuff
On twitter
So you have a twitter account
And you follow news feeds
Suddenly you're becoming
Friends
I can't recommend this app
The New York Times
Now this app
It's great
Great for
Sort of meaningful
News
And it's like
You want to read it
So
It scratches the itch
Of Instagram
While reading news
Yeah
Exactly
And you're right
To say that you should
Find the joy
In social media
And all that stuff
Because it's not going
Anywhere
Yeah
It's not going to make
Her any happier
To be mad
At her generation
Right
And you can just
Find Instagram
And follow
Just like
Any Instagram
That makes her happy
Like
Like outdoors the
Instagrams
It's a nice way to
Find places
You want to visit
Yeah
You can use it
For good
The douchebags
Have been around forever
Like the people
She's talking about
Are just
The assholes her age
Right
The percentage of people
That are just out in the world
That you're going to
Become friends with
And really connect with
Is very small
Yeah
These people
That she's talking about
Are just people
Who aren't her friends
Right
But she's only 20
What if when
What if the pool of
I feel like us being 30
There's a bigger pool
Of non douchebags
Maybe when you're younger
Now they're mostly
They're mostly douchebags
I can't imagine
Going to high school
And college
While having all these distractions
I feel like I would
Get a lot less done
Like having to
Now I have to do real work
But if I had to do
Like something boring
Like school work
And then also have
All this stuff
Like staring at me
Or like I'm on my computer
Trying to like
Learn
While Facebook, Instagram,
Twitter, whatever
Is happening
I feel like it would be
So much more distracted
We kind of had that stuff
With instant messenger though
Right
Yeah, we had one thing
Like I am
Or gchat
We had the whole
Like the whole internet
When you were
At your computer
During high school
Yeah, but there was no
I didn't have Facebook
When I was in high school
I didn't have Twitter
These are the social aspects
Yeah, no social media
So it is harder
I would imagine
But at the same time
Am I growing
Is growing up without it better
Is her first question
We don't know anything else
But I don't know
I don't think it is better
Like I remember
Going outside a bunch
As a kid
But then I also
Sat around and watched TV
There were times
When I just like
Lie upside down on the couch
And be like
This is so fucking boring
Yeah, do you remember
What am I doing today
Being in high school
Or something
And not having a cell phone
And not having any way to
Talk to people
Except for
The landline
And just sitting around
And waiting for somebody
To call you
So you can leave
Your fucking house
It was so
Life was so boring
It was so boring
Yeah, imagine having nothing to do
Like even right now
There's always stuff I can do
Even if it's as small as like
Tweeting something
Trying to stay socially relevant
But there was a time in my life
Where I just woke up
And I'm like
I have nothing
It's summer
I really don't have anything to do
Until school starts
I have zero
Yeah
I'll what
Read an encyclopedia I guess
Isn't that kind of nice
If you're 19 years old
And you just wake up on a Saturday
And you don't have a soccer game
That day or something
What do you do?
You're not sitting there
And you know
Writing a screenplay or something
You could be
That would be great
But you're either
Scrolling through your phone
Or you're just sitting there
Being like
Oh my God
That's why I a little bit
Miss school
Because none of my stuff
Is currently being graded
Like I'm creating stuff
And it's like
I don't know if I passed or failed
It just exists
I need somebody to judge me
Nobody is judging me
And I feel like I missed that
People judge you
You have ratings on your podcast
You guys
You guys are just more complicated
The grades are from fans
Not like teachers
Yeah, I need a B
Or a C
Like I need somebody to be like
That podcast episode
Was actually a B minus
Oh God
I would hate the grading system
Because you didn't get good grades
I got great grades
Did you?
They were all over the place
Sometimes I got really great grades
And sometimes I got really bad grades
What was your GPA in high school?
I think I...
Three
Three point something
Is that like
A's B's and a little bit of C's?
B
Did you guys do a GPA in high school?
Or was it just like A, B, C's for you guys?
Well, GPA is an average of the A's, B's and C's
Right
But I mean, did they actually give you a GPA
Yeah
On your report card?
Yeah
They did not
They didn't
I think they did
I think they did for us
No, yeah, they did
I don't remember what it was
I think it was a three-something
You have to submit that number to colleges, didn't you?
I went to a...
I was in New Jersey
Homeschooled and...
I didn't do homework in high school
What?
I just didn't do it
Wait, like it was a sign that you didn't complete it?
I would try to scramble to do it right before I go to class
Like at my locker in the morning
Or copy somebody else's homework or something
Just real quick or do it on the bus or something
Right
You had to just show something
But I remember there would be times like...
For math, you didn't even necessarily have to have all the answers right
It just needed to be done
And there were days where I was so lazy
That I wouldn't even like...
I would just show the teacher
You'd be like, go around checking homework
And I would show her the blank piece of paper
And I'd be like, I'm sorry, I didn't do it
Yeah, he too
What do you do with the teacher?
You're like, okay
I had such a...
Fuck you
I had such a bad reputation eventually
That those teachers would start spending whole minutes
Looking over mine while they kind of glazed over everybody else's
And they would be like
Okay, you clearly copied this answer
Because all of this work leads nowhere
This is nothing, you just wrote numbers
That's really funny
They know more than you
When you're like, all out smart them
They're just the teacher
What do they know?
How do you get away with that for years, though?
If you show a lot of work
And then you have like a...
And you can genuinely earnestly say
Like, I tried, I just didn't really understand this
And it's like, okay, well, I see that you put in the effort
And they wouldn't like deduct you for missing homework
But yeah, then...
But I did my homework
I did my homework probably half the time
To not be hyperbolic
But like half the time, I actually did
So did you just get C's in high school?
I got B's and C's and a couple A's here and there
Did your parents know that you didn't do your homework?
Yeah
Probably
Did your teachers like you?
Yeah, because I was nice
I was a good kid
I was apologetic
I've been like, my teachers always...
I was funny and I was nice
And I would make jokes that weren't like
At the teacher's expense
I would make jokes like for the teachers
So they liked me
And I didn't ever get really bad grades
Yeah, I was a loud kid
Who wasn't like a criminal
Right, not disruptive
Positive jokes
Yeah
Like kids in my school would just be like
This dude just sat on his desk
And wouldn't get down
Even though the teacher begged him to
So the principal had to come in and wrestle
And just, what is, why?
Just weird acts of defiance
That weren't funny or anything
So the fact that you only did homework half the time
Is like, oh, you're still pretty good
Yeah
Yeah, it's like, oh, you should have done your homework
But damn it, Brian, we like you
At least you didn't sit on your desk
I guess that was a pretty low-stakes example
A high bar
All I have to do is not protest
Did you guys have any kids expelled from your school?
I think so
I can't totally remember
It wasn't like an incident
We had a couple like drugs on retreats
Kids getting expelled situations
Yeah, we did
What, really?
Yeah
I mean like weed
Nothing beyond weed, but like
Kids would show up
We had like academic probation
If you got in trouble when you're on probation
You got expelled
My school was kind of strict about it, I guess
Did you have any friends that were expelled?
Uh, yeah
I had like two friends that got expelled
Damn
That's baller, dude
Yeah, dude, it was kind of sick
Yeah
What'd they do?
One, they smoked weed in math
With the teacher
I think they like cut class and smoked weed
At the athletic fields or something
And they got caught
Damn
Yeah, it's pretty cool
Are those kids good people now?
Or did they turn out to be bad people?
I lost that with one of them
But the other person is a good person
Oh yeah
She's doing well
Yeah
I wonder how expelled kids end up turning out
Is it just like a 50-50 shot still
Or is it like mostly bad seeds?
Probably 50-50
Because I feel like some kids take that as a turning point
You're like, okay, you got expelled from your last school
This is your last shot
And then they do better
And sometimes they're acting out at school
Because that's not the right fit for them
Yeah, they're like smart
That's the coolest cool to be
Is like, I'm smarter than school
Right
And then some got bad grades
But a great SAT score without studying
Some of them have like problems with addiction
And then that's not necessarily gonna...
That's even cooler, man
Yeah, dude
That's the coolest you could be
One's a doctor and one's dead
So 50-40
That's why I lost touch with them
I'm the doctor
I still talk to the dead one every fucking day
I ride on his face big wall
Every year
Mercy
Speaking of social media
Thank you
Let's take a break real quick
And then we'll come back with more questions and answers
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Murph
What have you done for the last 100 fucking episodes?
Where the hell have you been, dude?
Where have I been?
You don't call you don't write?
I'm sorry
I was working on a show for MTV
Called the middle of the night show
That's done now
Alright
Alright
It's funny that came and went
In between those hundred up
Between 99 and 199
Like a shooting star
That no one saw
And then exploded into the night
Yeah
No, it was a great experience
RIP
Yeah, it was really fun
And now I'm working on a pilot
For two TV with
My wife Emily
Emily Axford
Emily Axford
Another if I were you
Guest favorite
Yeah
What is that?
What's the call?
It's called No Dumb Questions
And I'm not sure exactly how much
I'm allowed to talk about it
But it's a really fun show
And hopefully it'll
And it will
Become a TV show
You actually just got in trouble
Oh god
I'm not allowed to mention
You're canceling the pilot
Yeah
That's exciting
Yeah
We asked you to do a podcast for headgum
Yeah
And we're totally going to do a podcast
We uh
We actually have a contract
Right here
Yeah, it's very strict
You guys
You guys own us
I should have read it
We're actually not
Here's a knife because you sign in blood
We're not letting you leave
Until you start it
Ooh
Yeah
Right now
Hey
Hey
Welcome to the first episode
Of uh
Murph at Jagan Amir's house
But you know
Do you
You don't have an idea for a podcast yet
Right
No we have
We have an idea
We
So we had one originally
That was
Kind of
Very pop-cultury
But uh
We're not
Pop-culture nerds in that way
So it came off kind of weird
Like we watch
We watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer together
And it just ended up
Us both being like
Buffy was good
I think I'm on
Team Angel and
Buffy
I like them together
You like it
We don't know
Who wrote it
Or what they really went on to do
Yeah
So I
I think something
Stupid
Or maybe like
That'll get us a little bit more
Passionate
Would be a better idea
We talked about doing something
Where
We might call it like
Trouble and Paradise
Or something
Where we both bring
Something
To make the other person angry
Like just like
A statement
That's not
It's not personal
But it's just like
This movie
That you always talk about
I actually hate it
Right
Here's why it's bad
Or something like that
Are you gonna blindside her
About it?
Or is it like
Stupid Party
They both
Emily hates the blindside
Yeah
So Emily could
You know
Come in and be like
I actually
Hate pro wrestling
And this is why it's dumb
And this is why
And I would be crushed
That's really
And all the stuff you've been
Polite about
It's almost like
Empowering
It's bragging about
How strong your relationship is
Yeah
Well it's not
It would be about
Dumb things like that
Where we could
Get into arguments about
You know
Why the ultimate warrior
Is cool or something
Instead of
We're not gonna be like
You know
Oh this
Serious relationship thing
Yeah
I didn't like
Going to your house
For things to do
Yeah
Your mother's weird
Around me
You welcome
Oh that one's
Really gut wrenchingly real
Cut
Well
People are fucking
I'm waiting for it
I can't wait
Yeah
Just announce a date right now
Let's get it set in stone
Premiering
What sound
When does this come out
This will come out
Let's see it's
Wednesday, February 10
This will be online
In 7 hours
Alright so this will be
Our podcast will be out
In 3 hours
Oh my god
If
You have to run home
Jake and Amir promise
This will be up there
Episode 199
Of our show
Is episode 1
Of your show
It's a crossover
So cool
Let's answer some more questions
Cause I feel like we only got to one
It was
That one was more of like
An overarching thesis
She was just like
What is society right now
That's another good idea
For a podcast
That's like
One big question
It's almost people suggest
A theme for
Yeah
One big question
That's a good
Title too
Shit
That's what
You want to outsource that
To Murph and Emily
Yeah take it
One big question
I love that
Oh that would be another funny idea
For a podcast
Is outsourcing it
So you just get like
Four Indians in a room
Somewhere in India
And be like
Hey yeah
Your assignment is to
Make a podcast
You don't have to do telemarketing
Or
Data analysis
Or entry
Just make a podcast
That would be really cool
Let's do that
Seems a little
Outsourced podcast
Seems a little racist right
Like a little vaguely
That's what the first episode covers
Is this podcast racist
And this
My following impersonation
Will be why it is racist
Okay so ask me
Is this racist
I'm gonna ask you
Not to do that
Cause you did just
You put on a
Turban really quickly
Can you not
Can you do impressions of people
Without it being racist
I don't know
There's
I feel like it's not like
Cut and dry right
There's
There's some sort of
Gray area where you could do
An impression
That's not racist
And you could do
Well you can't impersonate
A people right
I don't know dude
You can impersonate southern people
Like nobody
If I did like
A twangy southern accent
Nobody would be like
Hey Jake
That's really racist
And if they did
I could probably be like
No big deal
But then if I did
A really offensive
And I'm already
Calling it really offensive
I just did
An Asian accent
What if it actually
Sounds like them
I don't know
I think it's just
Like the way
It makes people feel
And if it makes enough
People feel like
Uncomfortable
Then hey
It's racist
Let's get to an actual question
Do you have a guy's name?
Murphy
Yeah
Bucket
Alright
Bucket right
Don't dude
Hey guys
Currently preparing
Great nickname
Hey guys
Currently preparing
For a bodybuilding show
Which consists of me
Doing my thing up on stage
For one minute
The only problem is
That I can't think of a song
That would be unique
And powerful
Do you guys
Have any ideas
To help me beast this
I'm just going to
Do a bunch of words
At the bottom here
In case you do
A word search thing
Watermelon, pineapple, almond, tree bark
Tits of mackerel fish
Thanks
Love
Bucket
All good
Words to search
When I
Knowing that he needs a song
To pump him up
For a bodybuilding competition
Made me like
Do this silent laugh
That almost made me cry
Instantly
Like I was so excited
To pump him up
I think this is
Stage shit
Yeah, I know
That's why I'm
Psyched
This is amazing
What an amazing opportunity
To help a specimen
Reach his true potential
Yeah, he's got a
Tweet a picture at us, right?
I want to see how beefy he is
Yeah, Tweet a pic
At chmerf
Yeah
Are you still lifting
Doing all that?
You're out of that?
You're out of the game?
Yeah, I do jujitsu now
I do jujitsu
Oh, still?
Yeah
Oh, cool
So I'm digging that
Yeah, let's actually
What's a good song for this, dude?
It's gotta be epic, right?
Yeah, I've got one
That I think is really
It's a little subversive
But I think it's pretty neat
I believe in the rhythm of the night
Dancing to the morning light
Not that
Oh, not that
My suggestion?
Yeah
I gotta go first?
Sure
I feel pretty
Oh, so pretty
So it's sort of like
Playful
A little coy
A little saying like
It's almost like
I don't need the song to be huge
And masculine
Because I am huge and masculine
And I am pretty
And I feel gay
I feel pretty and witty and gay
Yeah, dude
It's fucking owning that shit
That's my suggestion
All right
Murph, you got one?
I gotta think long and hard about this
Yeah
Yeah, the first thing I think of are like
Just when I hear that beast song
I think of like
What's that band that goes
Like up
Like up
Like up
But that's what everyone's gonna be doing
Let the bodies hit the floor
Click, click, boom
Like all that shit
Don't do that
Don't buy into it
I'm saying
I feel pretty
That's too far in the other direction
I think
Yeah
They're subversive and there's just wrong
What about Rocky like a hurricane?
Oh, here I am
Yeah
That's good
He swagger's over to the front of his day
Rocky like it
And then he strikes perfect lat pose in the back
Are you ready for the weather?
Then he turns around
Perfect abs
Pops the back on the left
Pops the back on the right
You know all the moves
Yeah, dude
I mean there's also something to like a mashup or something
Oh yeah, so it starts with that
Yeah, like
Or a
Or a remix
Or just straight up Bangorang by Rufio
How's that one go?
In the beginning it's like
Bangorang
I think if he came out at Bangorang
And then started to really bust moves
Yeah
I think that'd be pretty sick
I also like the new Missy Elliott song
Like
It's
The dance that you do when it's dumb
Oh wait, wait, guys, got it
We're actually out of time
No, no
Power by Kanye West
Oh
Oh
That is cool
Yeah
A lot of Kanye's songs would be good
Also like the one that goes
Oh yeah
Yeah, I like power though
Because it's a little lesser
Because no one man should have all that power
Referring to his body
No one should be this shredded
That is cool
So it starts with I feel pretty
Oh so pretty
And I pity
A girl that isn't me to
Yeah, bash up, come on, I love it
We can get girl Tosh to do it
Yeah, that's perfect
Tweet us a picture of your body, bro
More than anything else
Alright, let's answer one more question
Before we have to go
Is that okay?
Are you in a rush?
Anybody?
Nope
I feel bad we only got to three questions
Is this the lowest question?
No
There was Ben did an episode where we didn't answer a question
Yeah, we didn't get the one
So zero is the record
And you guys have him on the 200th episode
We don't know yet
It's all a surprise
No, but everyone's fucking speculating
Like the Twitter sphere is a buzz with this shit
Who's gonna be?
To episode 200, we don't know
So you guys are fucked
Like you have no idea
Yeah, we actually have no idea
We have no bullshit for ambly
Ben's not answering your texts
Thomas is too
I'm actually just gonna
Give you back on for 200%
Does Thomas still talk to you?
Just me
Not to us
But he'll tweet and I assume it's to me
Alright
Another females question
Alright
Ladies' choice
Let's see
Ladies' choice?
Cause this is a ladies voice
And it's the latest
Basket
Bucket in basket
My two twins
I dated this guy for like a month
We snapped, we laughed
We had sex
We talked every day for a month
Then one day he stopped
I reached out a week later to say hi
And you can tell that he wanted to pull a classic fade away
Now it's been like two months since we last talked
And here's the question
I wanna know what happened
And why he did the fade away
How it would be an appropriate way
And a smooth way to ask that
Without seeming desperate
Note for the pod
You should do an episode where you talk about yourselves
How did you guys meet
And moments you guys have had together
Alright
Now let's do that
Moments we have had together
That is nice
We'll do it
We'll do an all
Us asking each other questions episode
That one's good
Alright
The fade away
Have you ever been faded away?
No
Have you ever faded away?
No
I've mostly just consistently been in relationships
So you've gotten closure as to why it ended
Why?
Like you never were left
Yeah, absolutely
Wait a minute, what happened?
Yeah, totally
Jacob?
I have faded away on several people
And they
Almost everyone I've ever dated
Do they ever reach out and be like why
Or is it like understood?
No
No
They don't nobody
I don't think anybody's ever reached out
There's been times like when
I fade away from somebody
Then we like
We'll meet up again
Like at a bar
Maybe like
You know
A month or two later
You'll just meet up and have sex
Or something one last time
And they'll talk about like you don't
Yeah
You stopped calling me
And I was like
You never call me on my cell phone
Do you know hotline bling?
Yeah
That would be another
Hotline bling
That would be a bad one for the
Workout one
Yeah
For sure
Don't do that one
Don't do it
How about you?
I try not to ghost
Like to leave confusion
I try to like give an explanation
But I have been like
I've had like certain things
Ended and I'm like
I wonder why it ended
And I was too proud to ask
And then I realized
Why ask?
Because the answer is always the same
I didn't like you enough
To want to see you
Yeah
And it's never like
It's because you did this specifically
I don't think there's this
Generally
There's not a satisfying answer
That this guy will provide
Because no matter what it is
He probably won't be 100% candid
Which is
I just didn't like you enough
To keep on seeing you
Yeah
Or he'll be like
Oh I met somebody else
Or he'll say
You're really busy
Or something like that
Yeah
He'll just
He doesn't want to see you anymore
He didn't necessarily do it
In a great way
But I don't think there's an answer
That sheds any worthwhile light
On why you got ghosted
Yeah
And without seeming desperate
Thing
There's no way to like
Reach out after two months
And be like
I was just thinking
You know
What happened to us?
That's not
There's no smooth way to do it
Yeah
I feel like if you were going to ask
It should have been right away
Like hey
Just that curiosity
Why not now
Sure
And it's kind of irrelevant right
I mean it would be easier for her
To just cut this dude out of her life
And just be done with it
Yeah
Because there's no
There's no good answer
That comes from this
She doesn't have a future with this guy
Nobody that's actually
Worth your time
Would just stop talking to you
Right
So that's like
What do you glean from this
From his response
There's
There's no
Answer
That like
Gives you new information
Going forward
Into a different relationship
Like okay
So this next one
I'll just
I won't do whatever
I did last time
Right
You didn't do anything last time
He just
Stopped talking to you
Yeah
You guys just aren't
Right for each other
What was I going to say
Fuck
No
Wait
Come back
This is me
Like on a raft
This is you
Drifting away from an island
Oh a lot of
Okay I got it
A lot of the times
You reach out again
Because you're hoping
That it leads to
More
Like a second chance
Like
Oh hey
I was just wondering
What happened
And then it's like
Oh we're talking again
Oh hopefully
We can hook up again
So maybe
You don't actually want an answer
You just want to be with him again
Which is probably
Not going to happen
Right
You're just putting off
Getting over it
You're like I can't get over it
Until I have an answer
I need closure
But really any end of a relationship
Is the closure
That you need to move on
Right
And a meaningful relationship
You can always ask somebody
Like
I feel like you're
People are a lot more
Open with each other
In a really meaningful relationship
Then you actually get
Some good information
Like
You were too jealous
And that weighed on me
Or like you were too dependent
Or you weren't available
That kind of thing
Yeah
But on a
After I've been with someone
For a month
They asked like
Why I didn't want to be with them
And it's because
I thought their voice was annoying
I would probably just be like
I got really busy with work
I'm sorry
Are you sure that's why?
Is there anything about me
I can change
Can you change your voice?
Is that like a
Yeah
Surgery you can have
Yeah
Whoa dude
Wait
Bucket
Hey
You guys know that bucket
I know that can you
A song
Blended on a
Pop and a few pecs to that bad boy
I feel pretty
I'm so pretty
I feel witty and gay
Murph
Thanks for coming on the show
Yeah thanks for
Thanks for having me on the 200th episode
It's a true honor
I've been having some dark thoughts lately
But you know it
It means everything to know that
You guys
Will even me as a friend
And a colleague
To have me on the 200th episode
Let's Def Schedule 299
Just looking at my calendar
What is your
April of 2017 like
April of 2017
I will still be middling
Of the night show
Season 2 baby
We're back VH1 Classic
What's up
I'm 39 somehow
How did that happen in one year
You aged nine years
In one year
You look like you were president for two terms
You look so sick
You look like Obama at age 58
If you have your own questions
Or your own theme song submissions
The email address for all that stuff
Is if I were you show at gmail.com
The opening theme song
Rap song was written by Eric Dale
And this closing one
Great name too
Johnny Ottawa
Thoughts?
Love it
Love the name
Let's hear the song
Murph C in 100 episodes
And we'll be back on
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I'll see you guys
Oh man
We'll be back soon
Bye
I know what to do
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