If I Were You - 205: Special Announcement

Episode Date: March 10, 2016

No sponsors, no questions, no answers. Just a special message about our new project!See omny.fm/listener for privacy information.

This is a headgum podcast. Hey everybody, this week's episode is brought to you by us. 45 minutes of silence. Then I fart. Perfect. And the announcement is complete. Are we, is this it? Are we making an announcement?

Yeah, this is it, this is it. This is happening. There is, like Jake said, no ad this week, no sponsor. Yes. This episode, I should say, it's a Thursday. It's a bonus Thursday episode. Yeah, no sponsor for this episode. No theme song for this episode.

This one's just from us to you. For us. By you. With us. With us. From us to you. To love. There's, I also don't think we should answer any questions.

Yeah, let's just, we'll ask each other questions. That's lovely. Yeah. So, how, I feel like the nervousness of like breaking up with somebody. Yeah, except more positive, like asking someone to marry you. But we've never done that one. I don't know what that feels like. It's like, yeah, it's like the nervousness, but where the outcome might be good.

Well, I guess when you're breaking up with somebody, the outcome is ultimately positive because you'll be out of a bad relationship. Focus. Focus. Focus. Guys, we've hinted at it a little before the past few weeks. Yeah. Saying we had a special announcement.

Something to say. A project we've been working on. We haven't been able to talk about until right this minute. Yes. And now we can talk about said project. Now we can tell you, I think literally everything. I think so too. We were waiting for a press release that I believe was released.

Hopefully, if all goes well, that press release is already out. So now we can mention exactly with great detail what the hell we've been doing, why we've been doing it and when it is and what it is. And what it is. So, now I'm getting nervous. We ended our web series, Jake and Amir. Essentially a year ago, just about. Yeah.

On April 7th, it'll have been a year since Jake and Amir ended. We made a Jake and Amir pilot, which as you all know, didn't get picked up by True TV. Everyone's saying, well, guys, what the hell do you do all day? Is it just podcasting? And the answer is mostly yes. But also, we made a new web series. That's right. We made a new one.

We focused our energy efforts, comedic intensity to create a new web series that's bigger than Jake and Amir. Better is an opinion that we have. It's definitely an evolution. Yeah. It's a step forward. The next iteration, it's different. Yeah.

It's more ambitious. Ambitious. Correct. It's bolder. I would say it's bolder. And it looks better. And it definitely looks better. And it's on Vimeo.

That's right. Which is actually not a departure, but a return home. Vimeo is where we first put Jake and Amir. Yeah. In 2007, we started with Vimeo. We eventually went to College Humor in YouTube. And when we had an idea for our own show, our own new show, what's, now that Jake and Amir's over, the question was what next?

Right. Where does it go? And the first place we wanted to do it was Vimeo. Because Vimeo is starting to pay for quote, unquote, premium content. We said, you know, we can do premium. We're premium. I'm a premium. Don't look at our old videos, the ones that we used to put on Vimeo.

That's not an example of what we're capable of now. Oh yeah. Here's one of you shitting in your pants. That's an example of how we got to where we are. So the web series idea was, first of all, that's what it's called. It's called Lonely and Horny. That's correct. Which is what we boiled down the existence of all humans too.

Yeah. It was sort of using what we've learned with our podcast, becoming experts in insecurity and in what makes some humans tick. Yeah, what's at the raw nerve of all people? Yeah, what's that tiny little kernel deep inside all of us? We are all lonely. We are all lonely and we are all horny. That's right.

And so we had an idea, maybe this web series isn't about me and Jake together. We've explored that dynamic. Right. Maybe it's just about one character. Yeah. Which is the character that I play. Correct. Amir plays the character.

We named him aptly. We named him Ruby Jade. Which makes sense. Because why wouldn't you name him Ruby Jade? So this web series, it follows Chronicles really, the struggling love life of one Ruby Jade. He is the loneliest and the horniest. And he's really just like an extension or like a sidestep from the Amir character, which is like a little less. What is the character of Amir?

He's just like a needy, insecure, angry, loser. Yeah. And Ruby Jade has a couple of those traits, those I wouldn't call them qualities. Right. Because they are lack there's of. Yeah. But Ruby is smart. That's maybe the big difference.

Yeah. Ruby is smart. He has his shit together for sure. Yeah. He still can't quite conquer, figure out inter human relationships. Dating in our 21st century. Yeah. Dating in 2016.

He has the apps. He takes the classes. Yeah. So I'm in it. I'm not. Yeah. Not in it. Jake is in it.

I'm in it. Jake plays the teacher of said class, this hooking up class that Ruby takes. Jake plays Josh. Josh R. Yeah. And he. He's the, he's sort of the voice of reason. We should also mention that the trailer for this is now online.

Yeah. So if like you don't want to hear us talk about it right now. Right. You could just go watch the trailer. Yeah. And then come back if you're into it. Yeah. Why don't you spend two minutes going to Vimeo.com slash Lonely and Horny.

Yeah. And if all goes well, that website does work and the trailer is there. Yeah. Vimeo.com. Vimeo.com slash Lonely and Horny. The trailer is up and for the next four weeks is it? Cause the video, there's so much to say. Yeah.

The web series isn't like Jake and Amir. It's not. Sorry. Unlike Jake and Amir. It's not indefinite. Right. We only shot 10. We shot 10 episodes.

We wrote 10. We shot 10. But 10. 10 episodes will be coming out in April. But these are long episodes. They're not. They're not. Yeah.

They're like eight to 10 minutes each. There's a roughly 90 minutes, a movie's worth of content. Yeah. We essentially made a movie. So there's these 10 long episodes of this idea that we had even before the Jake and Amir pilot. You know when this idea was born was the Jake and Amir episode where you are on a date with Hannah.

Yeah. Amir discovers the harsh realities of dating. I think it's the name of it. Right. For some reason we titled it. That's sort of like the spiritual prequel. Right. To what later became lonely and horny.

That was when we realized how funny it was to watch you interact with people on dates. Yeah. And then we started having all these ideas that we couldn't make Jake in a mirror because it wasn't right. It was a date. It was like, it was a love thing. Right. A bro thing.

Yeah. And then Amir was a little bit different than what we could do with Jake and Amir. Yeah. It's almost like with Jake and Amir it was guy on guy friendship love and lonely and horny is relationship love or at least you looking for relationship love. Right. So these are 10 supersized episodes that we shot on super nice cameras with super nice lenses with a team of extremely talented individuals helping us create and curate every

step of the way. We have so many people to thank. These names will mean absolutely nothing to you but our producing partners, Julian and Alex. Yep. Our DP, Bobby Lam. Yeah. Leo.

Who else was there involved in? Leo first AD, Kristen second AD. I mean the... Anderson. Anderson. Grip. The key grip. The light crew.

Theo. The boy. A bunch of people came together. Jake and Amir was mostly... It was me and you. John and John Carlo. Yeah. And then sort of a rotating team of producers, one of whom was Julian who produced this.

This one was more of a bigger effort and when you see the trailer and hopefully you do see the trailer or watch the videos you'll see that it took us roughly 10 years to understand how to make something that looks this good and hopefully is just as funny as Jake and Amir was to you guys. I think it's as funny. The goal always was to make something that looked like a movie but was still as goofy and silly as Jake and Amir. But with a little bit more depth and a little bit more heart.

This one is a little darker. It's more bittersweet. Right. The tears sometimes are real. We're trying to make you feel something here. Yeah. Kind of like the last episode of Jake and Amir. It was a little darker at the end.

It made people feel things. They're like, wait, what's going on? I would hope that's like an evolution of us as writers. Right. Because we're slightly more mature. Anybody could write jokes. The question is, can you write a story that makes you invested enough to feel more than laughter?

A compelling story. So you guys be the judge of that. So we had this idea. We had so many ideas for episodes and we ended up choosing our favorite 10 to create flesh out and shoot. And Jake and Amir videos were written pretty haphazardly, like two to three pages of jokes. Right. They're like almost like Twitter videos.

Yeah. Which lended to very silly, crazy, spastic comedy. These were written, I guess we had more time to write these. Right. Because we had basically months to try to fine tune and create not only like individual funny episodes, but a story, story arc that took you from the beginning of the season to the end of it. Right.

It's definitely an arc. And there's also, it's filled with really funny familiar faces like Milana is in it. Yeah. George Basil is in it. I'm a lot of Vayne True, I should say. Sure. Arianna Maddox. Arianna Maddox is in there.

Gaboris. Gaboris is in there. Billy Scafuri is in there. Yeah. A lot of familiar faces. Definitely. A lot of people have been on the podcast. That up also in this web series.

That come in contact with Ruby's life. Once again, the character is named Ruby Jade. I can't stress that enough. We're extremely proud of the project because it's officially coming together to the point where we've seen maybe all 10 episodes at this point. Yeah. And this, I mean, we put a lot of effort into Jake and Amir, but it was like we had to churn them out.

Yeah. This is something that we like got to spend a lot of time with. Right. We've like spent multiple days editing single episodes. We almost put more effort into Lonely and Horny than we did the pilot. I wonder if that's why the pilot didn't do that. Well, the pilot we had, with TV, you have to stick to rules. That's why Lonely and Horny is a little bit more exciting to me.

Right. Because the episodes don't have to be a specific second length. You don't have to shave or add time. If people are worried at all about this thing like not being our voice, we got literally no notes from Vimeo. We were allowed to like execute our exact creative vision. So if you... Which is why I never want to leave the internet again.

If you don't like it, it is entirely our fault. I can't blame a true TV executive. We... But that is what happens with TV shows. Like things are just out of your hands. Like you argue for a second. You're like, I think we should keep it like this. And then nine other people say it can't be like that.

And you're like, okay. There's also rules. There's rules on TV, things that you can't do. There's stuff in this web series that there's no way we could have ever gotten away with on TV. Yeah. Very... I don't want to give plot points away, but things happened that we couldn't have done

on true TV. We're going to have to blur some stuff out just because I felt uncomfortable. But Vimeo didn't necessarily ask us to do that. Correct. So Vimeo has been an amazing like producing partner and all this, which brings us to the next big point that this web series, unlike Jake and Amir, which was, you know, two to three minutes every week forever. It seems.

Yeah. 800-ish of them. This is one season of 10 episodes and it's not free. You can't just have it. Whoa. Put that down. Oh, they're attacking us. It's not free.

This is... And why? Straight up. It's just not... You can't have it for free because it costs a lot of money. I'll be the audience, Rhett and you be the rational Jew man that you are. Why on earth do you think I would pay for this for lonely and what did you say it was? Horny.

Okay. Lonely and horny. Good question. You're paying not only for the content, for the web series that you hopefully want to consume, but you're paying to support not only us in making, allowing us to hopefully make more, but Vimeo in believing in this project so much that they paid us up front to create our vision uninterrupted, unfiltered and undeterred. I'm not convinced.

Okay. Is Jake and Meir Monopoly still online for free? Every Jake and Meir video is still online for free. Can't stress that enough. And there's gonna... And you guys can go watch them on YouTube, but there's gonna be pre-rolls. Yeah. And tell you what.

Horny is a piece of premium content. That's the whole point. Right. There's no ads in it because Vimeo paid for the whole thing. And their business model is we give money to artists, artists give us their product, and then we sell it to their audience directly. So you guys, this is how Me and Amir don't actually do anything for free. You guys got content for free from CollegeHumor and you get content for free from the podcast

because we have advertising. Right. So there's a couple of different ways we could have made Lonely and Horny, correct? We could have attached it to a sponsor and it would have been like Axe Body Spray, brings you Lonely and Horny. Oh, shit, we should do that for season two. And then we would have had to deal with Axe every time we wrote a joke and they would be like, well, it really shouldn't be this because we can't have Axe associated with

that. Also, can we have Ruby wake up and spritz himself twice? That's how he finally gets laid if he just wears Axe. So we obviously didn't want to do that. Number two, we funded ourselves. We obviously didn't want to do that. We don't have enough money, it cost a lot of money. Okay.

It cost more money than we had. And the other option is we could have done like a Kickstarter. That's us asking you to believe in us and then we go out and take your money and make something and give it out for free. Yeah. But we didn't really feel that comfortable asking y'all for cash. We felt more comfortable asking somebody established and who believes in artists like Vimeo. And plus, it was so fun to go back to where we started from.

So how much does it cost? Oh, wait, no, that's your question. Oh, yeah. Well, they already looked it up. Everybody's listening has already been to this site. They know it's, how much? $15? Yeah.

$15. But if you buy before all these episodes, I think are starting to release on April 8th. I think the plan is to do two a week. There are 10 episodes. They are going to be starting to be released on April 8th, which is funny because it's like a year to the day after we stopped Jake and Amir. Pretty awesome. It's kind of poetic.

Kind of beautiful. And then... But that's when they cost $15. But good news, you can get the special pre-sale discount. You can't watch them right now, but if you buy them right now, you get 15% off. That's right. And I think the coupon code is on the page, but I believe it's horny. Yes.

The coupon code is horny. So if you would like to buy it right away, help us make a big splash, you'll get 50% off that purchase price. Right. And this is the telethon version of the show, or I guess the whole thing's been a telethon. But creating that initial push, if you really like stuff that we do, if you're one of the people that is listening, I know you guys exist who like go to me undies and go to Nature Box and use Squarespace and all that stuff, and you guys are killing it, what would be

the most helpful thing in the world is if you bought it right now, bought this on pre-sale. Right. That's because I think Vimeo has a lot of faith in us, but let's just say they'd be very pleasantly surprised if we sold a lot of lonely and horny before the actual product drops. Yeah. That's the other thing that we've used before because our fans are so like incredibly powerful. Yeah.

Like remember when TBS didn't want our pilot, so everybody started doing the hashtag Green Light, Jake and Amir. Yeah. And that was an amazing swell of momentum that saved our show when true TV saw it. So let's use that. Grass roots, feel the burn type shit. Not. Yeah.

To drum up some buzz about lonely and horny. Not a lot of web series do pre-sale, let alone do pre-sale successfully. So it would definitely, if you're interested, ever wondered in a way how to support the stuff we make, this would be such a huge honor and thrill. And if you do buy it, please do use the coupon code horny. If you do buy it, let us know, tweet at us, send us a Facebook message, a Snapchat. We want to personally thank you. Now let's do a little, since this has all been a plug up until this point, why don't

we at least give a, I'll interview you, we'll interview each other just about sort of the experience of lonely and horny. Okay. Well yeah, that's great. That's more stuff we haven't talked about. Yeah. What was the highlight for you? The highlight for me was trying to, I've never had to be on camera as much as I have.

So I've never, I've co-starred with you, but I've never done solo acting so much. So it was fun to like see what I was able to do like, all right, in this scene I'm alone on a couch on Instagram. All right, done. Go into the pool and do this thing. All right, next, go to this restaurant and be on a date. Next, go to this classroom and be disruptive. Yeah.

So it was like a real character study of you. Yeah. It was like a comedy obstacle course that I was looking forward to every day, something different. Yeah. It really killed a lot of these performances. We just watched episode 10 today. Yeah.

And some of them were intense, some of them weren't even comedic. No, there was like some real fucking acting in some of these. What was your favorite part of the process? I guess. That was pretty good. Another thing. Right. We had lunch one day.

I liked tender greens. I think, I mean, I was behind the camera most of the time. You, well, we haven't talked about the fact that Jake directed this entire thing. Yeah. This is my directing debut. Right. I was directing Jake and Amir's, which we sort of did for all of them, which was more of a team effort.

Yeah. And that was also sort of like, hold the camera here, get a little tighter on my face. Yeah. Now just press record three times. Yeah. I mean, not to undersell it, but a lot of it was just shot, reverse, shot, shot, reverse, shot. Yeah.

And there was always some like interesting stuff and John and John Karla were like incredibly talented shooters. But I definitely had never taken on such a major thing as I had no idea what this, that this was going to entail so much. Yeah. Like I realized on day one, I was like, oh, I can't go on my phone. I remember acting, even when we're in the pilot, like when you're done, when they say cut, unless someone's talking, like talking to you, I could just be on my phone.

That's your downtime. Yeah. And like we would, I'd yell cut and nine different people had to ask me a question. Like the props person is like, is this okay there? Is this okay there? Then the script supervisor is like, she raised her hand in this one and she did it in that one. Do you want it to match on them?

Right. And then like the first 80s in my year single, we have to move on. We didn't like, we need to move on. But we didn't get, oh shit, there's nine different things happening. So being like so present and having to like conduct this orchestra, which I wouldn't have been able to do if it weren't for Bobby, the DP, who knew everything about lenses when I did not know anything. Yeah.

It was sort of like you guys were the one to punch. Yeah. Cause I had like, we just spoke the same language at some points cause I could just say, I wanted to feel like this and Bobby would be like, okay, so you wanted it on the 35. Then I'd be like, show it to me. And he had this app on his phone, we can show you what a 35 would look like. And I was like, perfect. But it was actually pretty convenient because a lot of it was you caring about stuff that

I usually don't care about. And like a lot of it was that now you can view my performance through the lens and you can be like, oh, do this, oh, do that, oh, say it this way. Whereas like if we're acting in it, it's kind of hard to like take a step back and be like, how should I have done it differently? Yeah. There's a lot of just, I mean, we improvise so much. And like, I also, since we've performed together so often and like we're almost the same person,

the difference between a like, what's, I'm trying to think of an example of something you say in this series. Give me a line that Ruby says. Just in general. You say, why do you think things have to be fair to you? And I yell, cause I'm the only one that I am, dude. Right. Cause I'm the only one, I just know like your exact intonation.

When we write that line, I know exactly how you'll say it. And when we're shooting it, if you say it differently, and I'm like, that's not how I pictured it. And I don't know if that's directing or just being a real nitpicky asshole. I guess there's a fine line between the two. And I remember stopping and like, I would tell you to say something some way and then we would do it and you wouldn't. And I was like, wait, let's pause at me or say it like this and you're like, how did

I just say it? Yeah, I don't know what I, he's like, say it differently. I don't remember how I said it. I just say it and I become that human. And then I come out and I'm like, what happened? It's like waking up and be like, did I snore? I don't remember. Yeah.

There, I remember the, maybe, I don't even know if this is a low light. It's just a funny story from the set is when we're in the classroom when we were shooting, there was a senior shooting with Jake Nordwind, who's in it. He plays with Guy Yvonne, he's so funny. And there was, there's this shot and so much is like happening in the shot. It was like a tracking shot where there's somebody walking with like a bounce board and every time, if he like fucks up even a little bit, it casts a shadow on your face and then there's like the boom, like just trying to not dip into frame and just so much

is happening. A fragile situation. Like even a bump, we have to restart because it's all one take and you started laughing every time. You and Jake both just started fucking dying. Could not, could not stop laughing. It was, I basically have to deliver the speech to Jake and I couldn't get through like one of the 15 sentences.

Right. Cause you, I mean, and, and everyone is like pushing in, everyone's like trying super hard just to like keep it together and then like you'll, you would break. And also we were just about over time at this place and we did not have the money or the resources to go over. So it was like coming down to like, we are not going to get this shot. And I was like, I thought it was the funniest thing in the world and I was just like dying behind the monitor.

Yeah. But then I had to go out and talk to you and be like super serious and stern because I was like, and it was the worst I felt because you two are having so much fun and like, it's not funny. It's really not fun. Yeah. We have to get this done. We should release some of that because I assembled that scene together and like throughout

the entire like process you hear people like, do you think that, and I'm like, at one point I'm like trying to get over it. I'm like, I stare at Jake, uh, Nordman. I'm like, do you think it's funny? Cause I don't think it's funny anymore. Like trying to like get myself psyched up just like get people out. And somebody at one point you were kind of doing a good job, like you were getting through it and they were cleaning, um, behind the walls because we like had to get the fuck

out of there. Yeah. And someone dropped something and I remember Bobby was like, are you fucking kidding me? Knock it off. And then he told me afterwards that he didn't care at all. He's just like, but this is everybody just sort of trying to be a loud asshole to like shake the laughs out of everybody. Yeah.

There were so many parts, so many takes that we couldn't keep it together, which probably is a great sign. Uh, and there's so many people in it that were so funny and we got to just like experiment with them for a day. Yeah. Uh, and as excited as we are about season one, like I'm already thinking ahead to like, Oh, season two, we got to do this. We got to do this.

That's what makes me feel like super positive about this because that's how Jake and Amir started. Right. Like we made a dozen episodes and then we just kept on emailing each other and by the end, like we still had like hundreds of ideas in the Jake and Amir idea thread. Right. And like I can see already that happening with Ruby Jade cause like we'll still text each other now and be like lonely and hoarding season two idea.

So fucking, I really hope we get to make this. Like we go bowling. We're like, there's an idea right there. Right. And it, uh, yeah, I mean, yeah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You guys should watch it. I really think you'd like it is the main thing here. We really, really, really, one, we're really, really excited about it.

We made something that I think we, we know we love it and we really, really think you will too. Yeah. Because this is something that we made completely on our own without like network executives who don't know anything of, I mean, how many Jake and Amir videos do you think some TV network executives will have seen if we made something over there? Yeah. Like we got to just go from this, from the last web series, which was a magical thing

that had no oversight at all to another web series has no oversight at all. But yeah, it was basically a comedy dream job. It's like write your funniest 10 episodes of something, uh, and you get to make it. Here's a check to make it. Yeah. Uh, and we really, really want to make more. And we really think you would like these, uh, at the very least go check out the trailer, uh, to give you a taste of the scope of the project.

You can see how much better it looks than anything we've ever done. And if you like the trailer, just, just buy it for 50% off because you'll prop, we're going to do this again. Yeah. We're going to wear you down and you'll end up buying it for $15. That's right. So buy it now for 12 or whatever it is. Yeah.

15% off 15. Uh, what was I going to say? The, the, the, the, right. We didn't want it, uh, the pricing. We didn't want it to be so expensive. Like we needed it to cost less than a Jake and Amir t-shirt or a Jake and Amir live show. Right. Uh, $15 is a lot to some people, uh, which is why we were able to hopefully make it a

little more affordable with the 15% presale coupon. Uh, and, uh, we didn't want it to be so prohibitively expensive that you're like, you had to think twice. Uh, and I think you might be able to buy individual episodes to taste it later on. Yeah. But, uh, don't do that, but the, the best deal will be buying them in bulk and the best deal will be buying them before it comes out on April 8th. Uh, so that's also like, if you're one of our day ones, you're, this is day zero of

lonely and horny. Yeah. Get it while it's very, very, very hot. Uh, not only will you get to watch the web series, but it's such a huge token of support that's why I'm saying if you do buy it, let us know so we can personally thank you. Yeah. I feel like we could almost track who buys it and just write the first hundred people who do a personal thank you.

Yeah. If that's possible, we will do that. Yeah. Uh, and another way to help it is this is the day that we're going to, one, release this podcast to Twitter. It'll be on Facebook and, uh, most importantly, maybe Reddit. Uh, so if you're part of our sub Reddit, uh, if you can upvote the link to that, if we can get this on the front page and we can get it in front of people who are not just

Jake and Amir fans, that's like a really, really, really huge deal, uh, not only for us, but for Vimeo. This one's got crossover appeal. Maybe. Yeah. We sure hope so. Uh, at the very least the trailer is interesting and fun to look at. Yeah.

Uh, we said we were going to talk for 10 to 15 minutes an hour, over half an hour. Is there anything we haven't mentioned? Is it, have we adequately expressed how excited we are about this? I think we have. It's tough to just constantly gush over a thing that we made and we promise not to do it too much. So, uh, we'll mention it here and there just because we want people to see it and we're proud of it.

Even NPR does that like two week telethon thing. Yeah. You know? Please. We're not asking for free. We're not asking for donations for nothing. We have, we made this thing and Vimeo helped us make it, make it and Vimeo needs to sell it.

Uh, and that's just how I guess business works. That's how the world works. Uh, but the best deal once again is to buy all the episodes before April 8th because you'll be able to get all 10 episodes for, God, what is 15% off $15, uh, 225 off $15. Cool. It's $12.75-ish. And we're saying all these monies, prices in, um, we're saying all these prices in, um, we're saying all these prices in US dollars.

Yeah. But it's available everywhere. Yeah. It's available in Australia. It's available in England. We wanted something that, uh, everybody of every age of every gender, uh, would be able to watch anywhere in the world and Vimeo allows you to do that. Yeah.

I mean, if you miss watching us on video, it just, that just hasn't, it's very rare now. Um, yeah. 12.75. Wow. Nailed it dude. That's it. I don't know.

If you have any questions, I think we're on an airplane to Austin right now, uh, depending on when you listen to this. Yeah. There's a chance you're listening to this after April 8th, uh, which case you should still enjoy the web series despite not having the coupon. There's a chance you're listening to it in a dystopian future where Jake and I are no longer alive. But only in horny is just playing on a screen in Times Square and watch it there to support

the new, uh, regime. Um, but if you are listening to this, uh, I think 50 to 80% of our listeners come within the first week basically, uh, so your odds are you're listening to this before lonely and horny comes out, uh, but do check it out. Oh shit. Here's a huge thing we forgot to mention, the soundtrack. Oh yeah. That is really big.

Uh, we'll be back next Thursday. We needed songs, music, uh, that fit so well. And so our first plan was to send composers and musicians a bunch of songs from one of our favorite bands and be like, how close can you get to this? Right. So I, when we were like, what's this like, what is this web series signature sound? Cause we really wanted to have, like give it a style. Yeah.

And we sent over a Lucius track. Lucius is the band. Lucius is the band. Lucius, C-I-U-S. Yeah. Um, people, I bet people have heard of them. They're great. And then we realized that you sort of know that band.

Yeah. I know, uh, Jess, who's in the band. And we were like, maybe we can ask her to just do it. What are the odds that we can actually use the music that we hope we can get someone close to imitate it? To copy. Yeah. This would be so fucking huge.

If we could just get this one song, can we use this song? And then as we started talking to them, we realized we could just use their entire album. They were so down to lend us any song, uh, of their old album, Wilda Woman, and a song off their new album. Do you know what their new album is called? Hmm. It's called... I'll look it up while you keep talking because it's worth mentioning.

Yeah. Uh, but anyway, it, I mean, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, I mean, it feels like this album was written for the web series. It's such a perfect, perfect fit, uh, and every single song, like, that we put and we're like, oh my God, that's, that's perfect, like, what are we going to do? Oh, it's a new album. It's called Good Grief. Yeah.

Good Grief. And not only that, if you're talking about, like, fate, their new album comes out today. No shit. Uh, or, like, this week, maybe tomorrow. So they're on, uh, they're on tour right now. They're on, like, uh, Late Show with Stephen Colbert. They're like... Damn.

They're big time. Uh, so the fact that they let us use all their songs, uh, off their last album and, uh, Teen Heartbeat Teen? Heartbeat Teen, yeah. Uh, off their heartbeat album, um, uh, was huge for us. Um, I want to say that. Yeah. Go on, like, find their music and just listen to that too.

Good Grief comes out March 11th, 2016, which is the, yeah, the day, uh, tomorrow. Basically, if you're listening to this on Thursday, uh, and Will the Woman is the album that we got all these songs from. Um, and our web series wouldn't be the same. Two of the songs in the, uh, Born Again Teen is what it's called. Not Heartbeat Teen. Uh, two of the songs in the trailer. Every song you listen to will be a luscious song, but two of the songs in the trailer

are, uh, luscious songs. So it gives you an example of, uh, what they sound like. Correct. Uh, so not only could we not have done it with all the people that are helping us put it together and produce it with us, but, um, we could have done it without luscious, um, graciously allowing us to use their music exclusively, uh, on Lonely and Horny, exclusively on Vimeo, exclusively from me and Jake. Yeah.

Very exclusive. Join the exclusive club by buying our new web series. Yeah. Uh, all right. You guys get it. You guys get the drift. 40 minutes of us talking about it. That's true.

If you still have questions, I'm sure we'll be around to talk about it, uh, on any form of social media. Uh, we're going to try to let as many people know as possible. If you guys can help, that would be huge. The Reddit thing, I think, is the big one. Yeah. Reddit's big. We're going to post this on Reddit.

If you're a part of our subreddit circle jerking divas out there, we know there's 11,000 of you. If we can just get all 11,000 of you to upvote it, uh, that'll go a long, long way. Oh. Oh. Oh. Yup. All right.

Got some, got some feedback. Sorry about that, buddy. I thought we were wrapping up. Uh, yeah. I don't know. Is there anything else we haven't said yet? Probably. Probably a lot.

But, but you know everything you need to know for now. Yeah. That it's the website, vimeo.com, slash lonely and horny coupon code horny gets you 15% off. We're very proud. We basically spent a year making it in some various forms between writing, pre-production, production, post-production. Meetings.

Yeah. And vimeo was the first place we went to and the first place that said, yes, here you go. Uh, so. Support them supporting us. That's real. That's the real shit. Thank you to vimeo for making this happen, for letting us go back home.

All right. Go enjoy the trailer. Go enjoy, um, the rest of your lives, really. Yeah. Try it and send us the receipt and we will personally buy you dinner. Ah, steak dinner. Uh, no. We're losing money on the whole deal.

Uh, honestly, thank you guys for, uh, just listening to this. Not a lot of comedians have an audience like you guys. Yeah. Uh, and the reason we've been able to do all this stuff, like the TV show and like this web series, is because we can point to the army of, uh, fans that we have that are super dedicated that we can be like, you know, it's not just us. We also got like these people with us. Yeah.

So we hope we don't, do we call them anything like that? Oh, like the Jake and Amir squad, the day ones. Oh, we do call them the Jake and Amir squad. Really? Yeah. Nice. I like them a lot. But only to ourselves and never out loud.

Uh, but we hope you, we did you proud with this. We, we, we, we like it and we hope you will too. Yeah. All right. A real, a real, if I were you, none of this bullshit anymore, a real episode of if I were you, uh, back on Monday, uh, we're probably still going to be talking about this from time to time. Oh yeah.

For sure. And we are, uh, we are in Austin. If you're listening on Thursday or Friday, we're in Austin today, tonight with Ben. Yeah. Yeah. Schwartzi. Tickets are still available for that show somehow. Uh, so if I were you, show.com, if you're in Austin or near Austin, you want to come

to the show. Let's talk about it. So we'll show the trailer at, uh, one of these shows. Maybe we can even show a fucking episode. Episodes are starting to come together. It's going to be really exciting. We can't wait for you guys to see it. Thanks for listening.

Uh, let's go straight to Rose with the Outro. No theme song. Really? Yeah. Peace. That was a hate gum podcast.