If I Were You - 21: The Weiner Game
Episode Date: September 16, 2013In this episode we discuss blackmail, breaking the ice, and believing in yourself. The big three.This episode is brought to you by Squarespace -- the easiest way to create a website. Go to Squarespace....com/ifiwereyou and use coupon code "Amir" for 20% off. Offer expires at the end of September.See omny.fm/listener for privacy information.
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Hey, no, I'm sorry
This isn't going to be a short episode
It's going to be a long episode
You know what we've been saying
Every episode should be 30 minutes long
And we never even, we never do that
It would always go quote unquote long
So maybe we should just start calling them
40 minute episodes
I don't like that one bit
No, because then we start
Then we start getting long
I think we always say we're 30 minutes late
And then we run 10 minutes late
Yeah, yeah, yeah
People always, we get a lot of emails
Like why you, why do you cap it at 30
Who's complaining
Nobody's complaining
We just aren't funny enough
To talk for an hour straight
I get exhausted, I get tired
Sometimes I'm not funny enough
To talk for five minutes straight
Right
It's, it is weird that it's
Slightly athletic in that regard
Like it just feels like we're just
Gabbing, but it really is
You're drained afterwards
Yeah, why?
What are we doing?
We're not, we're not
We're not athletes
Yes, we are
In some regard
If anything, podcast is like
The hardest sport
Yeah
So I would say I'm
I'm good at soccer now
For some reason, I think
Sorry, Jeter
Oh, Captain My Captain
No
Oh, Captain My Me
I have more endurance than you do
Because I can speak for
38 minutes in a row
With trying to be funny
The whole time
I don't necessarily see
The all-time hit record
I think the next supercut
Will be us saying, how's that?
Yeah
We have a
How is that fair?
Yeah, how is that fair?
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Right
And it's also nice to have
A nice support
But I'm saying if we don't
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Supportive fans
We won't make as much money
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Then the touring agents
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Yeah
Oh, we should send these guys out
On an actual tour
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And make even more money
You're so fucking smart
Oh, small
You petty asshole
I'm pretty
Tell you what
I quit
How much money do you have now?
Um, God
Why did you
Wow, I'm so sorry
You scolded me
You made me feel small of myself
And I don't appreciate that actually
It has nothing to do with money
If you quit
Will you
Will you
You little Jew
You can say that
Because your father's Jewish
But your mother's not Jewish
I think my father being Jewish
He would be mortified if he
Would be calling you that
Luckily he supports me so little
He'll never hear this
Or any other endeavor that I accomplish
How's that dad?
You think Jew?
No, I'm just joking
We obviously have enough money as is
We don't need money
But it would be fun to
To have money
Yeah, to have money
I'm never gonna be genuine
I just want that cash
I want that green, that nasty, that gushy stuff
Do we actually make money from this show?
Oh, God
We'll talk about it after
It's not worth even getting it to right now
I would love some
Should we explain how this show works?
What's the point, right?
We might as well dive right into it
Sure
Okay, here we go
Question number one
Ah, it feels weird
How the show works is
People in sticky situations
Email us their problems
And Amir and I do our best
To try and solve them, though
Oftentimes we fail and just
Succeed at making the person feel like
A jerk forever reaching out to us
But that doesn't mean you
Should not reach out to us
Because if you're in a very
Difficult place in your life
We want to help you out
So that email address is
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We get tens of 50s submissions a day
We comb through literally half of them
Find the first five and answer them in order
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Alright, so we got some five
Really good emails to get there
We're gonna give them fake names
But these emails I assure you
Are 100% accurate
This one comes from someone we'll call
Carl
Carl
Carl writes
Hey guys, I got a big problem
At our school there's a game where you
Pull out your wiener and slam it onto a desk
Almost every guy does it
And it has become something of a tradition
I was in the lead
But then some weirdo pervert
Snapped a pic of my dick and now he blackmails me
I can't talk to my parents or teachers about it
And all my friends won't help me
Because they think it's funny
What should I do to stop it?
I really don't want anyone to see the picture
You're my last hope
Love Carl
Oh no, Carl
There's a game where you pull out your wiener
And slam it onto a desk
Calling it a sort of a tradition
Really glorifies it to an extent
That it does not deserve
He's the only one that plays the game
So far I'm in the lead
83 to love
And no one else has even come close
But I guess somebody snapped a pic
Because he was so honored
To see the little Michael Jordan that I whip out
That's dominating this game
The goddamn Will Chamberlain, the Pete Rose
And the Michael Jordan all rolled into one
He wanted an autograph and a selfie with it
Snapped a gram, put it online
And suddenly I feel like a diva and an asshole about it
I don't want to tell my parents
I'm supposed to be a hero
I'm supposed to be the goddamn leader
Of this game
Nobody's snapping pics of me
A lot of penises around school look up to me
The lesser known B grade penises
Look up to my cock
What a stupid game
And calling somebody else a pervert
When you're the one whipping at your penis
And putting it on a fucking public desk
Where people take tests
You sick fuck
He probably has an SDD
If you think about it, you should get tested sir
I mean you haven't boned anything
But you've at least grinded the head of your dick
Against some pretty compromising surfaces
I would say
Get some bacteria
You could get some bacteria in there
What are you talking about?
You could get some bacteria in there
You'd probably be careful actually
What's going on with you?
Get some drug-resistant strains of diarrhea
Going around at this point
I'm sorry
Why are you talking like that?
I think this is my syphilis
And what?
I have syphilis
So that makes you talk like a deep voice person
This episode's coming out on Monday right?
Yeah, Monday September
Don't tell me
16th
So at this point
When I'm listening to this episode
I will have possibly gotten the results
Of my STD test back
But you don't know what they are now
How long does it take to get results
Of an STD test?
I'm not sure
I haven't been tested in a very long time
There should be an app
That makes it instant
I would feel like
With the new iPhones
You know how you can get your little thumbprint
I feel like you should be able to
Touch the tip of your dick
Against your phone
And it would tell you if you had an STD or not
I sure would like to know
I really would buy that app
I really would buy that app
Or get like a free app
Because I don't have an STD
Because the only person that touches your dick is you
Very funny
Not a joke
Yeah, not a joke
I am the joke
I'm always the joke
Why are we talking about dicks?
Why are we talking about dicks?
Well, I'm the butt
The butt of every joke
So where were we?
We were trying to help this guy
Well, we haven't tried to help him yet
Yeah, his friends are trying to blackmail him
Because he took out his hog
And someone...
I will say
I think you can come out ahead of this
Depending on how your dick looks
I mean, the thing is
The guy that took the picture of your dick
Is sort of a pervert
And I think you could
Actually go to your parents
Or go to your teachers
And be like
Or at least go to your friends
And just be like
Hey, this fucking weirdo
Took a picture of my penis
And has a picture of my penis on his phone
Well, you know the game that we play
The old touch the dick to the table game
You know, it's a tradition
Dad, you went to my school
Oh, you started the game, did you?
Okay, so I'm just living in your footsteps
Your dick steps
Your condom steps
I really think you could like
Number one, tell people
Tell enough people
And make this guy feel like a weirdo
For having a dick pic on his phone of you
Which he should feel pretty strange about
Two, catch him like
You know, not in front of your friends
Where it's funny
And just have a genuine heart to heart with him
And be like
Hey, I really am uncomfortable with you
Having that picture
Three, snatch his phone
And break it in half
Which is probably what I would do
That's what you do after the heart felt like
Listen, man, I know it's funny to be like
Oh, I got a dick pic of me
But I really think that'll make me
Like compromise it
Okay, nah, here you go
You're right, absolutely
Give me your phone
Go!
I snapped it
That was a 5S!
Ass, you ass!
It's already on
It's already online
You did nothing but break the hardware
Or like do your absolute best
To get a picture of your other friends, dicks
And now everybody's on the same fucking page
Yeah, hopefully everyone is still playing this game
This perverted game
The old dick on the table
What a weird game to invent
Yeah, my ultimate advice is just stop playing this game
You weirdo
Yeah, maybe like take up katana or some shit
Yeah, it is
Like war or blackjack or poker or something
Something where you don't take your dick out
We're volunteer
Yeah, or play games
Yeah, stop playing games and I guess help
Go to a soup kitchen
Our advice is to go to a soup kitchen
Actually, everybody's for everyone
Stop your dick down on a metal fucking shelf
Next to a...
Next to a Vata soup
A five quarter of pea soup
Say you need a ladle
Yeah
Here's a straw
Here's a straddle
Straw
Sort of what a dick is
You think you can cut a dick off at the base
And use it as a straw?
Oh my god
Is that how your...
That really ruined my day
That you're eating pea soup right now
Oh, that fucking seriously
I hate that image so much
Why?
I'm actually depressed right now
What would you use as the tip?
Oh, stop it, oh my god
The disembodied base or the tip?
Yeah
What would you suck on if necessary?
What?
I assume that your ether goes all the way down, right?
I mean, it wouldn't stop
I don't think I'm really gonna throw up
Oh my god, he's doing it
Imagine, yeah, yeah, just sucking on it
And there's like blood and veins and everything
There's also like, it's like lukewarm pea soup
It's not even good
Oh please, don't, we're gonna do this right now
You know I hate pea soup, man
Holy shit, you look nauseous of yourself
You're gonna have to move on
You're queasy?
You're homophobic then
If that makes you queasy
Then I think I don't want to be your friend anymore
Well, answer this question
What's question number two?
What would the burner in you say to be like
Oh, that would make me queasy to touch a dick
That's not what I said
How dare you
You were talking about a disembodied chopped in half dick
No, no, no, don't turn it into that
The thought of you touching another guy's phallus
Makes you sick to your stomach
I'll grab your dick right now to show you I don't mind that
Oh, he's not doing it, but imagine if you were
Sorry, advice to this guy?
Three pronged advice
Each prong less useful than the last
I think you can go to your teachers
I think you could say
Hey, this sick bastard took a picture of my penis
It's this game that all of us play
It's very responsible
Or just threaten him with that
Be like, I'm gonna tell on you if you don't leave the photo
He will be mortified if you're like
You know what, I'm actually just gonna tell the teacher
As embarrassed as I am to tell the teacher
I'll be more embarrassed if a picture of my penis
Gets leaked to the whole school
So I'm gonna tell the teacher
That you took a picture of my penis
That's actually illegal what he did
What you did was less illegal than what he did
He can get expelled
So if you want to, I would blackmail him with that
You can blackmail him right back
Take a picture of him taking a picture of your dick
That's the one that's the most incriminating photo
This is a big problem at schools right now
So your school's gonna really come down on him pretty hard
And the second pronged advice is to break his phone
And the third is to volunteer to soup kitchen
Yeah, always
The third piece of my advice always is
Volunteer at your local soup kitchen
That's it, at least we're making a positive difference
This is literally the least we can do
Yeah, I'll never go to a fucking soup kitchen
Will you give me $30 a week to tell people to go to a soup kitchen?
Will you pay me to fill up a room with people
That I'll tell them to go to a soup kitchen?
I really, really don't want to go to a soup kitchen myself
But I would like to help as long as you'll give me money
Let's put a donate button on this podcast
Where it's like if you don't want to work at a soup kitchen
You can always just give me cash
Yeah, that's a cool idea
Alright, next question
Real email, fake name, we're gonna go with
Urkel
Urkel
Steve Urkel
Steve Urkel writes
I just started a new school with people I don't know
Except for one girl
She chatted me on Facebook a few weeks ago
Before school started
And she told me that she was also going to the same school as me
I had never met her before she chatted me
We ended up Facebook chatting for a long time
And the day school started
She made no contact with me
Even though we had several classes with her
She keeps chatting me on Facebook and text
But won't talk to me in real life
What should I do?
Should I make the first move?
Or is it because me or she is too awkward?
Thanks guys
Yeah, it sounds like both of you guys are too awkward
You haven't talked to her yet
And you just emailed us to ask if you should talk to her
That's sort of the phenomenon of this generation
Which is like people are texting and Facebook messaging
I aming
When you're on a computer you're very easy
And like, you know, easygoing and natural
And outgoing
But then when you actually see the person
That you've been chatting with
I've shared a lot of myself with you
Yeah, but you don't want to actually look
And now we have to have the first conversation of our lives
Do I have to shake your hand?
I just sort of really poured my soul last night to you
It's so weird because like
You'll talk to somebody over like using technology
Really get to know them
And then when you see them
I mean this happens to me when I go on Tinder dates
Yeah, well this is why online dating is so successful
Because when you're on Tinder
It's so easy to be charming and witty
And then when you're at a bar
It's impossible to just walk up to a stranger
And tell them that they look attractive to you
But it's also weird like when you finally go on that date
Where you've been talking to somebody for a week
You know, you got to know them over the app
Then you move over to text
You're like planning a date, making jokes
Making small talk
And then it's like go out and meet them
And then you do
And it's like, do I say hi?
My name is Jake
Haven't we gotten past this?
It's so weird, yeah
This sort of phenomenon happened
Even in our slightly older generation
With like AIM
Yeah, I remember
I'd have like really like long intimate conversations
Late at night chatting
4 AM
4 AM
AIM conversations
Things get really real
And then the next day
It's also like a time of day thing
Where like late at night
You're very open
Like how open and easy going you are
At the end of a party
Versus 9 AM the next morning at school
You're like you can't really put yourself in that mind state
Right, you're like trying to finish your homework
Before class
I don't want to just like
No, no, no
The conversation is over
We don't know each other here
I don't want to know who you have a crush on now
I will say
I will say that you should probably talk to her
Because you know
It's hard when either person wants to make the first move
But I think she's waiting for you to do it
Just like you're waiting for her to do it
But I would say there's like a
There's like a thick layer of ice
That's hard to break through
But once you penetrate it
And you get to the frozen water underneath
And like you start referencing those old conversations
Then it's like the floodgates are open
So I don't think the ice is hard to break through
I think there's just like
You know, take one swing
And it's gonna shatter
But there's just like
It's just hello
The first three to five minutes is a little weird
Because you don't know what to reference
Right, but just work through it
But then once you get to like the point
Where you guys are as comfortable as you are
Online
That's like the great zone
Because you're having like cool intimate conversations
But you're also in person about it
Have we been mean to this kid yet?
You know what?
Not yet
I'm gonna ask for a picture of him
Maybe he has some sort of physical
Dysformity we can make fun of
Or an emotional like a stigma about him
That we can exploit
Because as of right now
We are being a little bit too friendly
You did call him Urkel
That's right
The nerdiest person you can be
Urkel
A lot of our fans weren't even born
When Urkel was invented
Right, they think we just made that name up
Which we did
So if anyone's listening
Me and Jake invented Family Matters
There we go
Question number three
Let's do it
Moving right along
Speed, this is a speed podcast
What do you mean?
Sorry, just speed podcast
We're in a speed podcast together
We should get shirts that say like
We're a speed podcast
You're wetting your pants
I'm just excited as shit about this speed idea
That we have
Hey, Rec Room
He's wetting the chair
The speed brothers are together again
I feel like or something, right?
We forgot to say we're recording at Rec Room again
I think people can just hear
Hear the difference
You can tell we're not in the towel cave right now
Yeah, they can just feel it
They feel
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They know
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Alright
Here we go
These are all very unique questions
This is the third one
From someone we'll call
Stefan or Kel
Alright
So a different person
But sort of similar to the first one
Just sort of like an alter
An alter ego of sorts
Hey guys
I'm in a band here in London
We're not great
But we're okay
Our drummer however
Is really bad
He's never played the drums before
And the only practice he gets
Is at band rehearsals
We recently found a new drummer
Who is infinitely better
Than our first one
We don't want to kick
The drummer number one
Out of the band
Because he's a really good friend
Of ours
And we don't want to hurt his feelings
But he can't actually
Play anything or sing
I'm not entirely sure
How he got into the band
In the first place
But here we are
Any advice on how to deal
With the situation
Would be hashtag dope
Cheers Stefan or Kel
Man that is tough
I do have that question
I also don't know
How he got into the band
To begin with
He doesn't know
How to play the drums
Or know how to sing
And you invited him
To join your band
And you guys are pretty good
Or you guys are okay
You guys are okay
But only because he's
Bringing them down so much
Imagine how amazing
They would have to be
Like how great of a band
They would be
For a guy who's never drummed
Before to be their drummer
And they're still just okay
Yeah
To bring down their GPA
To a 3.0
He hits a cowbell
Every nine beats I think
They must have gotten
So many other A's for this F
To only bring them down
To a GPA of okay
So this guy was at
This email comes to us
From John Lennon in 1963
Or some shit
You guys are the Beatles
Right
Yeah, abandoned London
With a drummer
That they want to kick out
Pete Best I think
Was his name
We've gone through
Some sort of time set
Time warp
We looked up Pete Best
Because we were like
We were familiar
And we found out
Why Pete Best was kicked
Out of the band
Which is actually
An incredibly sad story
I mean there's people
There's like Beatles
Biographers
Like Streeter would be
Great at explaining this to us
But here we are
Reading a Wikipedia page
Skimming a Wikipedia page
And paraphrasing it
Well what we found out
Is that it just seemed like
Pete Best didn't vibe
With the rest of the band
Right
But the subsection was like
Clothes, drugs and hairstyle
So I thought like
Oh Pete Best wore weird clothes
Had a bad drug problem
And it didn't like
Had a weird haircut
When an actuality was the opposite
The rest of the band
Wore weird clothes
Had drugs
Had drug problems
And weird haircuts
And Pete Best didn't want to conform
It was a weird haircut
It was they all
They all played in like suits
They had like a style
A specific style
For the band
And he didn't want to conform
Right
So they kicked him out
Which is weird
Because that does sound like
He's just a cool guy
Like oh no I want to wear
My hair the way I want to do it
I do you
Okay then
And I'd like to
Wear outfits
I like you know
I'm sort of
Sure sure
You're self expressive
No absolutely
We totally agree
Yeah
You're fired I think
You're stoned
And I'm actually
Just
I'm a good drummer
Picture yourself on a boat
On a river
Getting the fuck away
From our band
Cause we want Ringo's star
To be in our
In our little hoopla now
So this
Yeah reading that
Wikipedia made me
Just
Really dislike the Beatles
I think their music
Is bad now
Holy shit
That's an unpopular
Opinion
Suddenly I like Oasis
More
Uh oh
I'm a Rolling Stones fan now
Someday you will find me
Uh
It's the second time I stand on that song
On the podcast right
And it's somehow getting worse
So
What's worse
This guy's drumming
Or
My English accent
That I did earlier
Like three minutes ago
I think
I mean wait
They said he's like
Only available for band practice
He says he's never played
The drums before
And only
The only practice he gets
Is that band rehearsal
We don't want to kick our drummer out
Because
He's a really good friend of ours
And we don't want to hurt his feelings
I mean I think you just
Be honest with him
And just be like
Hey you don't know how to play the drums
And we found someone that does
Yeah this is a band
He probably knows that he doesn't know
How to play the drums
Give him something else to do
Make him like your videographer
Or like manager
Or like manager
Yeah
Find one of his other
Strong suits
And try to use that
Yeah your first
Your first role
Uh old drummers
To find your replacement
You know
Someone who's not a complete moron
When it comes to drums
And then fire us
Because we were actually in charge
Of forming a band
And we hired you
You don't know how to play the drums
So clearly you know how to do
A better job at forming a band
Why don't you guys all just
Become accountants
Why don't you join his soup kitchen
Okay the Beatles already happened
There's not going to be another
Popular British band
Sorry guys
That's not how shit works
It's not cyclical
It's like a one and done thing
Well it's a little cyclical
But there's already one direction
So you're good
Every 35 years
You're good
One new band
You're out
Talk to us in 2048
Or whatever the fuck
Alright so what's our actual
Advice for this guy
Alright
Be a man
Kick your friend out
It's like a break up
It's hard at first
But he'll hopefully understand
It's not like he's a
He prides himself on drums
I mean he doesn't know how to drum
Right and this happens to
In a lot of bands
There's a lot of like
Rotating band members
This is
You guys are not the first person
To have to kick somebody out of a band
Yeah and odds are
You won't become successful
So this won't even be an issue
That he'll be successful
What he won't be like
Oh this band went off
And achieved greatness without me
I really hope one day
You guys email us
And say that you're really successful
That'd be amazing
Actually you should send us
A theme song more than anything else
It's true with your current drummer
And with your new drummer
We'll play one in the beginning
And one in the end
Oh that'll be fun
And then we can compare and contrast
So yeah tell you what
Let us kick your drummer out
We're gonna send us two songs
One with the current drummer
One with the new one
And we'll all like
Just take a vote alright
Here's a boring question
Why do you say compare and contrast
When you're contrasting
Aren't you just comparing?
I honestly
Holy shit you fell asleep
I hate you
You would hate my twitter account
And my stand up career
Cause it's all that fucking gold
And if you don't like that
Then you really are done to me
Compare and contrast
Hey why do we say compare and contrast
Oh a tomato
Compare and contrast this to an apple
What is this?
Asshole
Do you want to take your little mid show break
I'd love to
I love the little break
Yeah we're almost at the 30 minute mark
Which once is what we say
Is the end of the show
But not really
So we can take that little break
And then come back for one last question
Good
Any more Burning Man stories
You want to regale us with?
I mean there really just weren't any
There's no one story
Yeah because Burning Man in itself
Is a tale alright
It's not like little
Little Voltrons that you add up
To create this mega complex
It just
It all just is man
It really is a 7 day experience
That's sort of like net effect is
Just positivity and
I really felt like
I mean I was wandering around the entire time
Just being like this is crazy
This is crazy
Do you want to go back
Yes I do want to go back
Did you cry
I wept openly in the temple
Which is
The temple is
How long is this break going to be
Are you talking about the temple
For a fucking week
So there's the man
Which is the structure of
You know that's like the iconic
The man that they burned
But there's also
The temple which is
I don't know how they do it every year
But this year they did it
Without like using any nails
It was just like a giant pyramid
It was I mean gorgeous
And on the inside people
Write things
That they're trying to let go of
They say goodbye to loved ones
So they'll be like
Letters to somebody's past away mom
And like
You went to the wailing wall in Israel
Which is one of the most emotionally powerful
Real things in the world
And you just
You started taking the letters out of the walls
The prayers
You were reading them one by one
And cracking up
I couldn't understand it
It was all gibberish
But the thing is
That's like
I'm not religious
I mean I don't believe in God
So like to see the wailing wall
Mom, turn it up
Turn it up for once
My parents don't know my religious beliefs
So I mean it's really cool to see people
Dealing with loss in a way that like
Really connected with me
And made a lot of sense in my eyes
So more spiritual than religious
Yeah yeah definitely
There was not a single
Or maybe there were
But I didn't see any of
Messages on there that's like
I'll see you in the next life
Although burning a statue
At the end of the festival
Sounds like someone's destroying an idol
Which is very biblical
If you think about it
It's true
And Moses did come
At the end of Burning Man
And he threw this two stone tablets down
And all of us died
So there's that
Yep, Moses broke the Ten Commandments
Here's a really quick story
That I want you to tell
Is just the guy who hugged you
There was a man who hugged you
Yeah, I was walking to the bathroom one night
And it was
Some dude just in a
He's wearing like some glow in the dark
Shit with a headlamp
And he was like
Hey
Can I hug you?
And he was just smiling
I don't know what he was on
And I was
He was on Burning Man
I was dead sober
And I was just like
Yeah
We
Embraced
Full embraced
For I think a full minute
Which is longer than you've ever hugged
Anybody maybe
Yeah, eyes shut
Fucking feeling each other's heart beats
He
Pulled me back
Just smiling ear to ear
And then when you looked around
He was gone
That was Jesus Christ
I think that was the man that we burned
You know what, I wasn't bone sober
I was actually rolling on Molly
Moon rocks and mushrooms
The triple M combination
Turned out instead of eating cliff bars
I had just been eating moon rocks all week
Moon rocks is the name of an actual drug
You ate, right?
Yeah, well moon rocks is
Yes
Alright
Alright, back to the show
Don't eat drugs kids
Don't eat drugs
Friends don't let friends eat drugs
Mercy
You did it, you gave in
Alright, question number four
This one comes from a lady
We'll call her Laura
Laura Winslow
My friend just lost her virginity
On a first date with a guy she met
On Tinder in his car
Now my girlfriend is jealous
That we friends has already had sex
And we still haven't
We both want to
But can't ever find a special secret place
Where should we go for our first time?
So now, where should we go to get
Private time to have sex?
What should my friend do with her Tinder boy?
Any advice about first times at all?
Thanks, Laura
So, we both want to
But we can't find that special secret place
I assume she means her vagina?
No, this is so bad
You did this
You guys, if you're this dumb
Don't use Tinder
Although now that I'm thinking about it
English just might not be their first language
Okay, so what's happened?
Which is what I call dumb people
If you were smart enough to be born in America
You wouldn't have this problem
How's that for a burning man?
One of their friends used Tinder
Yep
Lost her virginity on the first day in a car
That's right
Which sucks
Why?
That's not where you want to lose your virginity
It should be at least a SUV
Even if it's a car
At least make it with somebody you care about
No Tinder
I mean, I feel awful that this is some way
Connected to me suggesting people
Some way
Every way connected to you
I totally advocate using Tinder to get fucked
Because getting fucked feels good
But doing fucking feels good
But you know what?
Sex number two through four hundred
Don't, ah shit
Your virginity is important
I lost my virginity in a nice way
Did you?
No
You lost it in a terrible way
Yeah, we're not talking about that on the podcast
You don't feel too comfortable talking about that
I'm comfortable talking about a lot of shit on the podcast
Let's leave my virginity out of it
That'll be episode 100
When we finally run out of shit to say
Finally don't get any more emails
The only way we really do appreciate the emails
And that email address again
Is if I were you show at gmail.com
And if you can imagine
I think I actually lost my virginity in a worse way
Than this girl did in the car
On her first date with the Tinder guy
Yeah, I would say so
Just knowing that story
But I think, I guess like
My advice to you guys where your question is
How do we find a private place
To lose out your virginity?
It sounds like you're very young
If you don't already have like
A bedroom where your parents aren't going to come in
Or an apartment or something
Self dependent enough to not have parents around
Or your own place
Then you shouldn't be old enough to have sex
I mean, I don't know
Because people do lose their virginities
In high school
Yeah, I mean if you feel like you're ready
I'm not going to say just
If you feel like you're ready
Odds are you're not
And if you can't find a special secret place
Then odds are you're not old enough
Don't have sex kids
Should I pry more as to
You telling your virginity story
Or are you really not going to tell it?
It's not going to happen
I won't tell it
Regardless of how much I beg
I think I would not do it
Can you at least make something up
So people at least think they heard it
Because otherwise I feel like
We're really blue ballsing them
I don't mind blue ballsing them
Give us one little thing
Just so like we don't feel like
We're teasing something
And it's just never going to happen
One anecdote
One part of it
Honestly, no
Not even where it was
How old you were
The name and age
The social security number of the girl
It was my friend's basement
That's all I'll say
Okay, that's fine
Friend's basement
Kind of sad
Not the saddest detail
But at least you're giving us something
We really appreciate that
All right, good
I'll tell you what though
I'll tell my virginity story
If you tell yours
That's the one way I'll do it
Really?
No, actually, you might do it
No
Because yours is born as shit
I feel like I don't even know yours
But I could imagine it's like
Oh, it's to my college girlfriend
In our freshman dorm room
That is painstakingly accurate
Bullseye
Not even the red bullseye
The green inner bullseye
Holy shit, how'd you do that?
You sniped it
Should we do one more question
Even though we're at the 30 X mark?
Yeah, let's do it
All right, last question
This one comes from...
What's his face?
Waldo Faldo
Waldo Faldo
Yeah, Waldo Faldo
What's up, you two penis connoisseurs?
I've had a thing with this girl
For a little while now
And it's gotten to the point
Where I think the relationship
Was going to be boosted up a notch
She had feelings for me for a while
And I was starting to get
Serious feelings for her
But an ex of hers
Who she still has feelings for
Texted her
Telling her
That he had feelings for her again
And now she's taking time
To decide which guy
She wants to be with
Me or bitch boy over there
My question is
How do I make sure
That she picks me over that bitch tit?
Thanks, fellas
Are you sure you're not the bitch tit, dude?
All these bitch tits use the word bitch tit
Because you did call his penis connoisseurs
And then you called that guy a bitch boy
And a bitch tit
And you just sort of sound like an asshole
So?
What's the answer?
He said feelings so many times
In that email
Yeah, he had feelings for her
Then she had feelings for her ex
Who ended up having feelings for her
And now she has decided who she feels for more
And I kind of feel like
He's a bitch tit
To be honest
If a girl was choosing
Between me and another guy
There's no way I would even stick around
To hear what that decision is
Yeah, I think that makes you a bitch tit
And she's like
I have to decide
And you're like
Okay, cool
I really want it to be me
What can I do?
Yeah, how desperate do you have to be?
Cause then like
What if she does choose you
And it's like
Alright, I've chosen you
And you're like
Alright, cool
I really resent the time that you spent deciding
What were you like weighing out
What was a con that I had
In a pro that he did
For example
Also, why did it take you so long?
I think that like you
No
As soon as she's like
I have to decide
You're like
I can make it really easy
I'm not an option anymore
Choose me
Although now that I think about it
It's not as crazy as it sounds
Like when you are starting to date someone
She in theory
Is making that decision internally
Maybe there is another guy
And she's choosing you over him
Right, but I think it's like
It's rude to let that be known
When you're starting to date someone
You're both deciding
Like I decide I like you
I decide I like you
I'm gonna let go of other things in my life
And you don't have to like
Bring that stuff up
And like publicly weigh it out
Right
Make it turn into like
This weird contest
Right, the fact that it's like
And also
This is like her bringing up
It's a you versus him
It's not like you versus me
And like being single in my career
Or school or something
It's dude versus dude
Right, which makes a lot of sense
I understand people now
Like I don't know if I can get into a relationship
Right now
I'm like really busy with work
I'm like I really like having my freedom
Because I have that
Like those thoughts, you know
Right
You choose non-people over people
Right
But you don't actively choose humans
Over other humans
As soon as you're like
Alright, I'm deciding between two humans
You're like
Oh, actually you're a monster
She is the bitch tit
I don't like this bitch tit one bit bit
I think she's a bitch boy for this
So you're saying if you were her
If you were him
You'd be like
No, you don't have to choose between me and him
It's not happening
Yeah, you make the decision
By removing yourself
Okay, but
Put yourself even more into his shoes
Imagine there's a girl
That you love so much
That you really have a crush on
You've loved for like a year, two years, three years
This isn't putting me in his position
Because he just said he has feelings for her
Okay, so you have feelings
The girl you like
You have feelings for the most right now
Right
She's deciding between you and another guy
And she's like
I really kind of want to be with you
But I also kind of like him
I know
Would you stick around for that decision?
Emotions are like
Really really complicate things
So it's very easy
But that's why it's so easy
To have an advice podcast
Because like
If
Sure, maybe if I were in this situation
I'd really like somebody
I would make an exception
And my advice would be
You know what?
If you really like someone
You make exceptions
But since I
Since I am like
Removed from your situation
Yeah
I will say that like
You'd
She's not the kind of person
That you want to like
If she's going to make you feel like this
This is like in the world of
How it's easy to give advice
Like
Yeah, if you're in a relationship
And one of you is going away to college
Just break up
Right
Which is good advice
But when you're in it
You never think logically
It's incredibly hard
And this guy's not thinking logically
Which is why
I'm going to give advice
That you
Just get out
Find another girl
That's not going to decide between
Two dudes
And you know what?
At least publicly
I'll give you the opposite advice
Just go for it
Buy her gifts
Buy her flowers
Jewelry
Get her a fucking sick watch
Be like
Do you really want to be with a guy
Who can't afford to give you a goddamn watch?
You're a penis connoisseur
You really are
You're a connoisseur
You're a peen
No, I would say that
I would say
Don't
Don't become a contestant
In this fucked up reality show
That she's constructing
Yeah, there's people out there
That will not do this to you
Yeah
Although
This guy seems like kind of
A moron
Right
So maybe he should just
Take what he can get
That's true
And if that's
Even if it's second place
In this bitched-it festival
That's almost good enough
Than a
A silver ribbon
I'd rather finish second
Than get that DQ for
Getting disqualified
For starring too early
Or some shit
So my advice is
Stay in this contest
Because you never know
What'll happen
Terrible
Who's the bitched-it now?
You
Okay
Fair enough
Now we're definitely out of time
We're at that sweet, sweet
Ten-minute pass
The time that we never hit, Mark
Alright
Thanks so much
For listening, everyone
We are still receiving
Theme song submissions
That email again
Is ifireushowatgmail.com
We still have that live
Podcast coming up
On November 6th
You can check it out
At our website
Ifireushow.com
And let's play
One more theme song
To play us out of here
Alright
This one comes from
Felsi
She's back
This is our first double submission
Oh, shoot
Yeah, she already had one before
Felsi, thanks again, girl
Let's play this one
Thanks so much
For listening, everyone
Oh, my God
Oh, yeah
I think I just became depressed
In that one second
Yeah
It's weird that I was able to pinpoint it
Oh, my God, I almost choked out a letter
What happened to your voice?
I don't know
I guess I'm sad
I really am
I'm sad that this is over
And
Oh, my God
I know that every new beginning
Comes from another beginning
Zen
That's a semi-sonic lyric
Playing a song
Coward
You wish to
Oh, they will clue you in
So yo
Do you
And
Seize the cheese and
Hashtag dope
If they were you
They would have made that rhyme
So listen to this awesome shit
If you've got the time