If I Were You - 433: Zoom Flash

Episode Date: May 4, 2020

In this episode we discuss foot injuries, great films, and walks in the park.(This episode is sponsored by NoKidHungry.org -- Millions of kids face hunger all across the United States, in every community. With your help, we can change it.)See omny.fm/listener for privacy information.

If I were you, an advice pot, finally, I'll get my problem solved, I started writing in, but much to my chagrin, they just started roasting me, and that's about the time that I began to say, but they don't take me so seriously, so many people need real advice, what the hell psychology, I'm never writing it again, to if I were you, to if I were you. Oh yeah, very nice. You like that? I loved that. That's actually, yeah, that's Blink 182, it's an acoustic cover of What's My Age Again.

Yeah, I'm like very into sort of like an emotional acoustic cover of a pop punk song. That's like, that's definitely Up My Alley. Have they done that before? I was like, is there like an official Mark Hoppus acoustic cover of that song? Yeah, there was like an acoustic album or something, or like secret acoustic songs on some of their, I'm like one of their albums. I don't know if they did like an acoustic dammit that I remember, like a fucking, like a really mellow acoustic dammit, that would be awesome.

Maybe they have done it. I'll look it up online. When I saw them live, they said, what's my age again, and then at the end they say, where's my Asian friend? That's right. Was that like a common joke that they did in live shows, or did I just catch lightning in a bottle? I think that was a common one at the live show.

Like if you listen to the Mark Tom and Travis show, which is their live album, he says, where's my Asian friend? Well, this actually might have been written by an Asian friend of ours. It's a day oneer shouting out from the 2018 Vancouver live show. Oh, hell yeah. Said he tried to find us afterwards, but his date wanted to leave. I can't imagine why. Yeah.

Maybe it was my virginity story. Nothing really to plug, but if you two can follow me on Instagram, veneet on the beat. That's V-I-N-E-E-T. Wow. Are you going to follow him on Instagram? It feels like that's a lot more to ask than plugging his bandcamp or SoundCloud. Yeah. I've done that a couple of times, like fans are like, follow me.

I'm like, all right. I'll follow a fan. I did an Instagram live the other day, and somebody asked if I would follow him. So I followed him. And now I just occasionally see a photo of a stranger in my feed. It's not that bad, but it's literally the least I can do, I guess. Yeah, but it's sort of like a lot. It's kind of like it'll be a part of your, a small, a small, dickling part of your life

forever. Yeah. It's part of my brain. When we were in Adelaide, do you remember that? It was like this really sweet young kid had like, should not have been at our show. It was like 12 years old. Yeah. And he like participated in some kind of, I don't know, it was in Adelaide.

He was part of the show. We used his name. I think we maybe did trivia when we were there that time with Streeter. I'm not exactly sure what the deal was, but anyway, he came on stage, I think. And I was like, I want to see you grow up. And I followed him on Instagram. Yeah. And I still, and I still see his like stories and stuff.

What's his name? Is it Brady or something? Walter. Shout out to Walter. I think he still is. I hope he does. Otherwise, it's real weird that I follow him on Instagram still. Yeah.

I see on your, the story, you're like DMing him a lot too. I wonder what. Yeah. I shouldn't have said that he was 12. He's old now. I mean, right. I see your, I'm, I'm following your close friend story on Instagram and it's really just me and Walter who can view it, I guess.

How do you, you shouldn't be able to see that. Yeah. I guess that's a bug in the system. I guess. I mean, me and Walter are just weighing in on your close friend story. Let's start the show. Let's start the show before I get very uncomfortable. Actually, speaking of your story, I wanted to ask you something about your Instagram

story. Yesterday, you posted a picture of yourself biking through Manhattan and there's like empty streets, including specifically an empty street in the West Village. Right. Two hours later, I see a viral hit on the internet, which is a photo of a park in the West Village that is literally overflowing with New Yorkers hanging out, not wearing a mask at all. Yeah.

Yeah. So did you see that park and were the streets empty because everybody was at that one park? Yeah. I, well, I think, I think basically the parks are super crowded because people are needing to stay at home, but it's incredibly nice and it's hard to stay in your house and people are like, oh, we're allowed to go on a walk. Oh, the parks are open as long as you maintain social distance. And then next thing you know, you're sort of in there, it's getting really crowded.

And then you see people, the real assholes not wearing the mask. So the parks are really crowded, but the streets, I think, because businesses are closed and maybe because people are, I mean, not very many New Yorkers have cars. So the streets were empty. Yeah. But did you see that park? No. We rode our bikes like up the West Side Highway for a while.

So I was also like near like the Highline Park and like those parks in the West Side Highway and those were super crowded. People weren't like on top of each other though. Like I've definitely been in parks that are like overrun with people where you can like barely find a square for your blanket and everybody was like six feet away. Nobody was like, got close to me when I was in the park. The frustrating thing is, is like seeing people without masks running by you and stuff. Yeah.

Because they're talking, they're spitting, micro coughing and that's just everywhere. In that park, there was like a group of like 10 people all exercising together and not wearing masks. And I was like, do you think that you're being safe? I don't. Yeah. Do they think, do they think that they're being safe or do they think it's like, it's probably fine or like, oh, the worst is behind us.

It's time to fucking let loose. I think it must be a little bit of all of that stuff because I mean, that's like why I wanted to go on a bike ride, but I wore a mask, but you know, it's still like not a hundred percent good. Yeah. People are definitely taking like little baby step towards pushing the boundary a little too much. It's like, oh, I can take a walk.

All right. I'll go to the park. All right. I'm hiking. What's a picnic? I'm already taking a picnic. I was seeing something on like that. I was seeing something on Twitter of like an aerial shot of like the same photo and

people are further apart than it looks like. Oh, it's the vantage point. Since he was on the ground, you can't see how far people are from each other. Right. Exactly. I knew you would take their side. Yeah. I mean, I don't know.

It all, it all sucks so much. And then you do run around and you just like, it puts you in a bad mood because you like, you see people that are, that are putting other people at risk, but then also maybe you're sort of doing a little bit too. Yeah. I read a funny tweet. I forget who wrote it, but it's like, I saw so many people outside today when I was outside today.

Yeah. That's really, that's what it is. It should just be me that's there and I see all these other people there when I'm also there. Yeah. I guess the thing is like, if you're going to go outside, like you're, you got to wear a mask and try your best to stay away from people. And if, if you're doing that, definitely don't go and like see friends and stuff.

I don't know. I don't know. Yeah. I guess it's slightly better. It's slightly better than the protest that's happening in Southern California where people are just fucking creating a mini parade to reopen stores and stuff. Yeah. It's, man, it's also so funny that like people are like, reopen stores, but like you can

just, if you like, you don't have the protest for the stores to be open, you can just, you can be outside. Yeah. I really need the store to be open too. Like what stores do you want? And like food stores are open. Cafes are open. Yes.

But I need a haircut and I need to bowl and I need to golf miniature style. That's right. A putt putt. Yeah. I, I guess, I guess. Concert venues in Missouri are opening on Monday, they said the governor. Yeah. If like, just cause concert venues and just cause bowling alleys open, does that mean

that they'll be crowded again? Like I doubt crowded, but I bet all the people who are protesting are also down to go bowling and those people who are protesting are not like, let's take it easy on the bowling alleys. This is a little bit too far. Yeah. I know I protested for this, but I feel kind of bad. Let's stay distant. I'm glad I don't, I'm glad I don't live there.

I mean, being in New York is weird enough. Oh, Liveware and Huntington Beach. Yeah. And like in any of those places with like the protests and the places that are like going to open bowling, bowling alleys, like I'm glad I'm not there. Yeah. I'm worried about the next time I go bowling. I'm, I'm afraid it's going to start like affecting my game because I was starting to

roll pretty well. Yeah. And you have your own ball. So that's at least a little bit. That's yeah. But it hits the public pins. So like I'm going to have to wear the rubber, the dishwashing gloves to bowl. It's going to be hard for it to slip off your fingers at that point.

Yeah. Like if I have like a 410 split set up and like I'm wearing like a dishwashing glove and a hazmat suit, I'm afraid I'm not going to be able to like grip the ball enough to wear it like a little hit the lane correctly. You know what I mean? You did. You looked up a lot of bowling lingo for this. Yeah.

You need lane. Yeah. And you knew split and you sort of said spare. Which was good. Which was rare. All right. We're recording this on a Sunday, a beautiful Sunday. I assume in New York.

It was a beautiful Sunday. Sunday, May 3rd. This is, this is when the dates start sounding really nice. Sunday, May 3rd, almost Mother's Day, warm out, 78, not too humid yet. Everything was easy when it was March. It was fine when it was April. When it's freaking Cinco de Mayo, when it's 72 and partly cloudy. Yeah.

Telling me I have to make a margarita and zoom with a friend or two. People are outside. They're doing to go cocktails in New York City and people are sitting in the parks and they're drinking their cocktails and they're not wearing their masks. It's over. Okay. They're like kids who were put in detention and now they're just sort of like taking one foot out the door like, oh, I'm not getting in trouble.

All right. I'm going to just go to the kitchen mom. All right. Now I'm outside. I can't hang out with a friend for five minutes. So this is, it's similar to a hookup where you're like, okay, you can come inside, but I'm not going to kiss you. And then you guys start making out.

You're like, all right, you're in a sleepover, but we're not going past first base. And then everyone's fucking. Let me just take my mask off because it's fucking hot under here, babe. I can't kiss you with this thing on. Let me smooch for a second. Everyone's necking in the park now. Uh, and you're recording in your closet. You turn your closet into some sort of mobile futuristic micro office.

That's right. I had, um, I had a little built in, like a built built in cabinets, uh, in this closet, you know, where you can like the, all the shelves are on those, like those, those, uh, hooks that you can like raise and lower. Yeah. So you open the closet and it's like shelves, but now your computer and your printer are in there. And I raised all the shelves that I could like all the way up and then the bottom one

I lowered as much as I could to, so it's desk height. Nice. Yeah. It's, it actually really works. It gives me a lot of joy. What about your chair situation? Is it an office desk or are you just having a regular roller? It's, it's not a roller.

I'm like, I, the reason I like this, it's a, it's an armchair basically. It's just a, it's an accent chair. It's, yeah. It's not meant to like sit out for eight hours a day though. I think, I mean, it, this is like, it looks like an old teacher's chair, like an old office chair, no roller, but it's, it's pretty comfortable. Uh, it's got a nice, it's supportive. It's got a nice firm back.

And uh, I didn't want to go rolling chair because then I would, I'm where, where I set this up is like my dent. This is where I relax at the end of the day. Jill and I watch TV in here and I don't want to see a desk and I don't want to see a rolling chair. I want to leave work behind. So this chair looks nice in this room when it's not at the desk, you know? I see.

So you want to like use it, but then like be able to hide it completely. Yeah. Like let it, let it be part of the room and, and a rolling chair wouldn't, it wouldn't accomplish that. Yeah. I'm debating whether to get a chair cause sofa living, which I've been doing for the last month is starting to catch up with me. The sofa is starting to die.

Yeah. I think that, wait, so you're in your office right now, right? What are you saying? Yeah. This is just black rolling chair, but, you know, it looks nice, but it's not, I'm not at this desk. Yeah. I'm usually on the couch in this room.

This is that room on the couch. That's where you work. Yeah. Yeah. I think, I mean, I spent a month and a half working mostly on a couch and it's, it doesn't make you feel your best. It's not work mode. It's like relaxing mode.

Yeah. Well, we can save this for unsolicited advice actually cause this is, I want to talk more about my chair. Okay. Great. Save it for unsolicited chair advice in the second act. All right. What is this?

This is if I were you, the only advice pod on the wad hosted by odd, I'm God. And I'm Todd. God and Todd. So the world's most powerful creature had also a guy named Todd. Oh yeah. All right. We got some real questions here from real people. A golden God and a trojan and a troll named Rod.

That's right. Shout out. Yeah. I knew someone was going to fucking tweet at me. So I had to say it out loud, beat them to the pod. This one's pretty fun. It's zoom related. So it's sort of Corona adjacent, but mostly zoom related blunder from a guy we'll call

Rod Rod. Last week, a group of guys I normally play video games with decided to try something new and play virtual board games online. Imagine a website that allows you to interact with a virtual tabletop and everyone can participate. We also have a zoom conference running so we can hear each other talk and strategize about the board game. Sounds good to me. Anyways, it was a particularly hot day and my balls were heating up.

So without really thinking about it, I sort of stood up, whipped out my dick and balls and proceeded to air out those toasty boys right in front of the computer. Much to my horror, I heard one of my friends shout, Hey, what the hell's going on over there? Only then do I realize I'm flashing six of my good buds on the zoom call. I played it off as well as I could and mumbled something about forgetting that I was on video. We even finished the rest of the game without any problem, but guys, I'm a little fucked up in the head about this situation.

What do I do? Do I mention this mistake on a group text? Do I apologize? Do I find a way to laugh about it? Or do I pretend this never happened? We're all in our late 20s and everybody is pretty chill, but I'm not sure if I'm obligated to say something and move past it or just let it be. Thanks, love, rod.

I think you're supposed to say something. If you show everyone your dick and balls, you're not supposed to like mumble an excuse. If these guys were really close friends, they'll think you were just kidding, right? I mean, but also, if I was on a zoom call with Mike and Dave and Jeff and Dave showed everyone his balls, it would make sense and we would all be like, you know, that's nothing. But if I was on a zoom call with you and Marty and half of head gum, well, that's a work when I guess, but I mean, I have different friends that are like, I feel like the friends that I grew up with were like more immature because we were teenagers together.

Like yeah, you and I became friends when we were young adults. Like we've never shown each other our balls, so you're saying your ball friends, your genitals friends are the ones that like you went through puberty together. So it's fine to show off your dicks and balls to each other. I mean, I wouldn't say it's fine. But I think it's good. I'm not saying it's looked it's smiled upon instead of frowned upon this kind of behavior is actually smiled.

Yeah. Yeah. Everybody has a friend that's like that's it makes sense that he takes out his D and B, but I'm wondering like I'm playing poker tonight with some high school friends. If I take out my D and B with the reaction be LOLing, I bet some of them would laugh. Nobody would be horrified. I don't think I think the weird thing is like you laugh. There's like some friends where you laugh and you could play it off as like, yeah, like

I was I got you guys. And then there's some friends that you would laugh it off and be like, oh my God, that's embarrassing. That was a mistake. But there's no world where you just like show everyone your penis on zoom. And then and then they're like, what was that? And you're like, oh, sorry, I was to forgot I was on zoom. It's more embarrassing.

It's more embarrassing to like air your balls and dick out. Like I've never been so hot. They're like, I just got to whip out my junk and like sort of dry this swamp that I'm dealing with right now. I think I've I'm not like stood up to do that. I feel like I've like pulled aside the boxers and like tried to get some air into my underwear. Yeah. Maybe like peel off your nutsack against a sticky thigh.

But I'm not taking off my jeans and just like sort of air drying my genitals. I do think it deserves to be addressed. It's trying to like it's such an obvious like thing that everybody notices that everyone registers that you can't just be like, you can't shrug it off. No, no, you can't shrug it off. You need to have some sort of state of the union zoom public apology. Well, no, you know, that's it's weird. And I think just like if there's a way where you can be like next time you guys play like,

hey, maybe this time I won't flash you guys by accident. Let's get started like a little joke to acknowledge, but not like a group text. Be like, hey, everyone, I'd like to apologize for accidentally showing you my penis and balls. I was very hot, as you know, you know, it was hot that day. And it got only hotter when I and then you stand up. Jesus took out my little wiener as such. Or you could just do it every zoom and like now you're the guy that flashes their friends. I would not say that.

Well, then you won't be invited to the game. What did he say? What game it was? It was Strip Poker. I asked him. So that works. Actually, you just jumped the gun. They were playing Strip Catan. Mm hmm. Have you been playing games on zoom with friends?

Yeah, I've done it a couple of times. I played played some Jackbox games. I played we've been playing blank slate. You know, have you ever played blank slate? No. It's you basically have there's. There's two. It's like two word phrases.

So an example would be one of the cards says house blank. And then everyone writes down like what the other word should be, like what the natural word to follow house blank is. And then you all show each other what you wrote down at the same time. And the goal, the ultimate goal is to match with only one other person and no one else. That's worth three points. If you match the Game Boy. Yeah, if you match with a couple of people, it is like the Game Boy.

If you match with a couple of people, it's worth one. And if you don't match with anybody at zero, what would you write? House blank. Arrest. Oh, and I would have said house party, so we wouldn't have matched. I see, but like party might be one that a bunch of people do. Right. And thus you'll get like many points.

But if one person does house arrest, then me and that person. Yes, exactly. And there's also what there's also cards where you have like blank blank house so that, you know, so it's it goes the other way, too. It's always it's always a blank, but sometimes it's the first word. Sometimes it's the second. And you're playing over Zoom. Yeah, it's it works well for Zoom because everyone has the video

and you can see everyone's words and it's kind of nice. Are you writing it down or using your phone? I write it down on my phone because it's easy to write it big and then erase it. That's cool. Yeah, it's really fun. I recommend you play anything. Just the switch, just the Nintendo switch. I would love to be invited to the the because I know you said you're playing with friends or whatever.

Yeah, I'm playing with just like close friends, people you know. Close friends like, yeah, Walter, Walter's there. Yeah, he is there because I was DMing him earlier and he was like, kind of standoffish slash reply. He replied kind of like like I would reply right away and he would reply in like an hour later and he was like, sorry, I'm busy or whatever. He's 15 now. He's 15. He's a little older than that, buddy.

Yeah. Would he do for blank house or let's play a mini round right now? Sure. All right. Yeah. For house, I'll do lonely because I live in a lonely house. What would you have done? Me and Walter would have done brick house and it would have been funny because then we would have a song. We'd be like, she's a brick. Brick. I like that song.

No, that's me and Walter's song. So you wouldn't be able. You wouldn't you said you would have said lonely house. It's a lonely house. She's really lonely. That's why we don't invite you because you do shit like that. That like kind of bumps us out, you know? I befriended a mouse the other day.

Really? Yeah. Tipped mouse. I'm sorry to hear that. So the mouse will bite me. And I'll get a mouse. I would never. That sounds like a fun little like like a fairy tale or something. Yeah. Definitely. Mother Goose style.

Yeah, for sure. I am not one, but I get that. I get where you're coming. You're not a tip mouse. I know I said I'm not a tip mouse. You're not a tip mouse. But you are a chipmunk. All right, let's take a break and thank some sponsors.

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Thanks, BetterHelp. And we have returned. Hola. Jake, do you have any? Yes, I mentioned it when I was talking about the chair, when I was talking about my desk. Yeah. It took me a long time. It took me a very long time because we've been under this shelter at home order for a while.

But I think maybe around two or three weeks ago, I realized that I needed to like, I couldn't just like sit at the kitchen table, couldn't just sit at the couch and do my work. So I started like just establishing my work space, like, you know, lay out a desk, make it nice and neat. And it feels really nice to have to have that set up like a little assignment or a little area to do other assignments or both. Both really, like it feels good to accomplish any small task these days. So setting up a desk was like a fun little task.

It was like a little project that I had to plan out a little bit sick. And then once it was done, it's like it is more Zen place to work where you're not like, you know, you're not just sitting on your couch all day where you, where you maybe eat your breakfast, where you watch TV, where you chill on your phone, but then where you're also trying to work. It's just like, it doesn't work. It doesn't make you very effective. And this is like something that I listened to on a podcast, even before this quarantine,

that like people that work from home, this is the kind of thing that you, that you need to do. People that work from home knew this stuff already. But it does feel really nice to have a workspace that is specifically there to work. It makes you more productive and it makes you feel a little less, a little less list list around the house. Yeah. The problem is that nobody knew how long this was going to last. So it's like week one, you're like, I don't want to start setting shit up because what if we're back in the office in two weeks and then you wait for a month and

you're like, all right, it's already been a month. How much longer can this last? I don't want to get a desk. I don't want to get a chair. Now it's like week nine and like, all right. Maybe for the summer, we won't be all going into an office anytime soon. Unless you live in Missouri and concerts are starting next week, you might have to be working from home for longer than you think.

So you might as well get as comfortable as possible there. Yeah. And I mean, even if it, even if this thing gets lifted next week for, even if it really disappears like Trump promised. He said it would. It'll still be nice to have a really elegant work from home solution for a week. Maybe everybody's already done this too. But it definitely helped me a lot. There's a world though, too, where like, um, there's just like staggered

shelter from home stuff until there's like the vaccine. Yeah. Like we might go into lockdowns again. So having, having something will be helpful, even if, even if we get to go back to work soon. Yeah. I guess even if you're allowed to do something, doesn't mean that people will. Like they might relax the orders a little bit.

People who are still cautious will probably still continue to stay at home and work from home if they can. Yeah. I think, I think like basically people that can work online from home, that's going to be, that's going to be like, we're going to be the last people to return to work because you don't need to, it's a frontline and essential workers now next up, like maybe like the restaurants and the events, but like people that, that rely on, uh, rely on like goods and services.

And then us, us who can pod from home, we're the least essential people in the whole world. I saw somewhere that like podcasting was deemed an essential thing. So on some website, like state funded website or like an official.gov website was like podcasting and radio services are considered essential. Like somebody pulls you over. I wonder why. It's probably because what we say helps influence, uh, the future of not only

COVID response, but evolution going forward. What I do, what I say, what I speak, what I think. Actually influences not only the tens of thousands of listeners we have, but all of their friends so that we're not just, we're not making a difference. We are the difference. One of the things you said earlier in this episode was that you befriended a tip mouse. You're like, I befriended a tip mouse.

Yeah. So like that's something that I said as a throwaway goof. You also talked about showing, showing like a zoom call your little balls. Yeah. Yeah. And like that going forward can really like butterfly effect style. You've been making fun of me for having a young friend. I'm speaking truth to power actually.

I really am speaking truth to power with regards to the tip mouse, with regards to the Walter, with regards to the dick and the ball. The Walter thing, the Walter thing. I will admit that I do deserve to screw me. Actually, if you don't mind, I'd like to take my, my dick out. It's kind of warm in this. Wow, you are a chipmunk. Yeah.

It's so flared. All right. Let's get some more questions and answers under our belt. Okay. Otherwise we're not an essential service at all. That's right. We're not doing shit. Uh, oh, here's one about feet.

Since you're an expert, this is from a lady. Okay. We'll call her Murphy Brown. Nice. The greatest lady of all. Been listening and watching to you guys since high school and I'm a 27 year old female attorney still maintaining the humor of a 13 year old boy. There you have it.

Nice. Thanks for all the laughs. Here's my issue. I've had this fucking foot injury for a year now. I've been to doctors and all that shit and I'm still in the process of figuring out what's wrong. Now with the quarantine, there are definitely no appointments and thus no end in sight.

Jake, you are in a similar situation with your foot for so long. How did you stay positive? How did you stay fit? I miss running and sports and it gets to me sometime. Thank you. And any advice, be truly appreciated here. Love ya. Damn.

Love you too. I feel your pain. Literally. How is your foot by the way? It's great. That's really good. So you don't feel anything anymore. Would you say you're back to a hundred or like at a 90 ish percent that you can deal

with probably 90 is 90 ish percent that I can deal with. It doesn't the pain has it's only really been like better for a month, but it doesn't limit me at all. I'm doing like I'm exercising like doing weighted lunges and skaters and some like burpees, basically stuff that I never would have been able to do. What that would have been way too painful on my foot before. Wow. Are you walking around barefoot or is that still not in the cards?

That's still something that hurts. I think that will like basically always hurt a little bit. But that's okay because you have crocs and or the other crocs that you like. Yeah. Having having slippers at home is something I'd recommend. Even if you don't have foot pain, it's just real cause preventative. And yeah, I've been like running riding my bike. So I'm not limited anymore.

Well, don't rub it in. This lady is still dealing with foot pain. Yes. Sucks to be her. As long as I'm good. Are you good? Oh, I'm cripplingly depressed. And I have joint pain in my shoulder.

I thought I thought the foot thing would actually make me happier. And if anything, it's only gotten me worse. I I would just be proactive. Even if even if stuff's not working, trying to find a solution and not wallowing is helpful, stretching, hot baths, cold compresses, all the good stuff. Foam rolling, get that lacrosse ball. I don't know. Yeah.

Roll out your glutes, do calf races. How do you stay fit off your feet? You can get a pull up bar. Oh, pull up bar, doing push-ups on your knees. There's plenty of stuff. There's I bet you can like search on YouTube, modified workouts for feet injuries, for sure. Yeah, plenty of stuff. You're not the only one with a hurt foot.

There's Jake and a bunch of other people. Bands, for sure, bands. You can you can find a way and do you think just be proactive. Do you think that there is a surgery out there that will fix her? Maybe there was there was one out there to fix me, but it's it's hard now to go into the hospital to like get an MRI or something, you know? Yeah, you probably have to wait till till this clears up. But when it when it does, if your insurance or if you can afford it,

the MRI is what revealed my torn ligaments. So that'll help, too. Oh, MRI versus just X-ray. Yeah, I'd gotten X-rays and nothing was wrong. And stupidly, I didn't get an MRI for like an extra year. And then they were like, it's a torn ligament. All right. So MRI, which might be essential.

Mm hmm. Maybe. Yeah. All right. One last question. Sure. This one's a little lighthearted. What are some happy and funny shows or series you're watching now?

Thank you. Listen, every Monday morning, love. Who was with Murphy Brown? I forget the other characters on that show. Dr. Brown. All right. Caroline in the city.

Thank you. Love Caroline in the city. All right. So are you escaping into the world of TV shows and or podcasts to make yourself feel happy? Yeah, I love, I love escaping into content that was created before Corona time because it's high quality and it's good. And so much content is, is like made for Corona right now that I don't like it all the time. Yeah.

So what's your current, what's on your current rotation? Um, okay. So Jill and I, the, the Michael Jordan documentary. Great. Uh, Westworld, not great, but still fun to watch and it's very beautifully done. Nice. Aaron Paul is awesome this season. Um, there was, what else?

Oh, Devs. And there's one other thing we're watching. Oh, uh, Billions comes back tonight. I fucking, Jill and I shamelessly love billions. It's so over the top. It's so stupid. And I love it so much. Do you watch like when you're binging shows, I'm new to this whole watching TV thing because

I used to just watch sports so much that like I haven't seen these shows. Do you watch them like all of Devs in a row than all of, uh, Billions in a row than all of this in a row? Or like, are you like spacing it out like regular TV programming? Um, it feels like a mix almost. Like we'll, we'll we'll watch like two or three Devs in a row and then be like, and then just like sometimes, you know, like I'm not in the mood tonight. Like I want, I need something that's like a little lighter.

So we do something else. Yeah. Um, so it's not like all of it all at once. And it's not like this tonight, this tomorrow and this the next day. It's just like, it's really whatever we feel like, but I feel like usually it's when we're binging something, it's like you watch two of those shows in a night. Yeah. Not, not too much, but not nothing at all.

Yeah. And you're watching, what was the thing? You're watching Rome. Yeah. Uh, obviously I love Rome. We watched the entire first season. She's seen it like four times. I watched it for the first time.

I have a feeling you'll like it a lot more than me. It was, I said it was like Game of Thrones before Game of Thrones, but like grounded in history. So it's like basically about Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony and Brutus and, you know, all those, the whole Roman Empire. And it looks, it was made in 2005 for HBO, but it looks like it could have been made last year. It's so good and the actors are very good and it's very well written.

And, you know, there's one, there's, I think two seasons and we only watch like the first, which is a self-contained story about like the rise and fall of Julius Caesar. There's only two seasons. Only two seasons. And I guess the first season is better than the second. So I've only seen the first. Oh, I also think I talked about this, but Ozark, Ozarks is great. Yeah.

And I also hear good things about Never Have I Ever and I have a friend on it, Christina Karchner. So watch Never Have I Ever before I do. Yeah. And, you know, Ben and Thomas is special as on Netflix. That's right. The three, gosh, there's so much shit out there. We're never going to catch up, especially for podcasting, like a bunch of dweebs.

Yeah. We should really stop the show so we can binge. You don't watch a lot of comedies. All your stuff is like hour long dramas. Yeah. I don't watch any comedy. Maybe I should start. There was a time when I was like, oh, like I do comedy all day.

So I don't want to do that at night. But now I don't really do comedy all day. Right. Maybe I should use it. Maybe I should. Maybe I need it. Yeah. I heard The Good Place is really good.

Yeah. The Good Place and like Brooklyn Nine-Nine. There's like these these shows that have like 50 to 125 episodes that you can just sort of like plow through because they're all 22 minutes long. The last comedy I watched was Modern Family. And I think that was like six years ago. When I don't know when it first came out, but it was a long time ago. Yeah.

At first came out, I think 10 years ago, and I think it just ended. Yeah. I definitely, I think I watched the first two seasons of it and that was, that's like the last comedy I watched. You're like, this is the pinnacle of comedy. I think I'm out as of this point. Is Devs a comedy? No.

Well, is that half an hour? No, it's an hour. And it's pretty fucking weird. Pretty fucking dark. What about the wire? Is that funny? Uh, yeah, the wire is hilarious. Do you watch Better Call Saul?

Everyone loves that too. No, I couldn't get into it. I don't know why. I heard it's, and I heard it's like amazing, but I watch. There was sometimes these shows that, uh, like torture and kill people. I also can't do, which is weird because I love Game of Thrones so much. But something like, that's why I show like succession is perfect for me. It's like high stakes drama, but it's not like they're just

torturing and killing people. It's all like emotional torture. Yeah. It's also like borderline of comedy. Yeah. I mean, succession is a straight up comedy. And actually, Billions is kind of a straight up comedy too. Those are the two best shows.

And I also watch two and a half men a lot. So I guess that's the last comedy. That's probably the furthest away from a comedy. I've been watching Big Bang Theory. Sheldon doesn't know anything for someone so smart. He's pretty damn clueless. What else? Baby Sheldon.

What else? Young Sheldon. Boss Baby. Boss Sheldon. I've been watching movies. Like I have a, I'm starting to like structure my life as like, oh, on Fridays, uh, me and Avi Tal will watch a movie with Sean and Christina. So it's like, okay, every Friday we have this movie to watch.

And I'm watching movies that are considered like masterpieces that I don't really fully understand. Oh, that's, and do you like FaceTime Sean and Christina? Yeah. We FaceTime them before watch the movie and then discuss it after. Oh, that's really nice. Yeah. I saw, I don't know, I'm, I don't have the attention span for movies anymore.

Now it used to be like three hour movies are too long. Now two hour movies are too long for me. And then like it's gotten to the point where I'm like, God, is this movie almost over? It's been on for an hour and six minutes. There's still another 30. And then what do you, but like, what are you itching to do? What do you, like, I wish this movie was over so I could look

at Twitter now. Exactly. Or I wish this movie was about Michael Jordan because I have an insatiable appetite for that. Yeah. I'll watch six hours of that. That one is still coming out, right? Yeah.

It's two episodes every Sunday for five Sundays in a row. So today's episodes five and six. Are you excited for that? Yes, especially because tonight's episode will be very Kobe centric. So I'm excited to see that. Oh, that is really cool. Yeah. So that, that I can consume that I've like watched twice already.

And yet if it's like a movie that's like in the AFI top 100, like have you heard of Badlands? Yeah. I think that like some of those movies are like the cinematic masterpieces and stuff are top for me to get through also. Right. It's like considered a classic American masterpiece. And I'm just like, this movie isn't good to me.

Am I wrong? I can't be dumb, right? It must be every other film critic that loves it is wrong. I go to Rotten Tomatoes, it has 99%. Yeah, I think those, but those ones, you have to like know a ton about cinema to appreciate, right? I mean, it looked nice and it was made in 1974, which was impressive, but I wouldn't, I don't understand why it's considered good.

Maybe we can start a film review podcast called, why is this considered good? That is so funny. We should definitely do a, why is this considered good podcast? Oh man, we should do that. We could also do a watch along. So I'm like watching a film that's considered good that I don't quite understand. And at the end, I just ask, why is this considered good?

That's a great idea. We should do that. What's the AFI top 100? Citizen Kane is on there. Of course. Right. Another classic movie that I watched recently that like everyone's like, you know, it's so influential and important was repulsion, which was

like a Roman Polanski horror movie in like the sixties or seventies. Why is this considered good? Badlands is a good example. Yeah. And then we would also get to watch like, if we did all 100, we could watch Forest Gump and that was just, that would just be like us being like, I know why this is considered good. This is, I saw it when it came out.

So if I saw it when I was 11, then it's good. But if it came out before I was born, then why is this considered good? Let's start with 100. Ben Hurr made in 1959. We both love it. We're on, we're in tears the whole time. I really think you and I should do this. It would be really funny from a hundred down to one.

What's 99? Toy Story. Right away. Perfect. That's considered good. How many of those films did you think you'd seen already? Number 98 is Yankee Doodle Dandy 1943. Well, that's the thing.

Some of the movies I have watched, I'm like, that was great. Like a singing in the rain, I think was great. And that was made very early on and I thoroughly enjoyed it. And guess who's coming to dinner was really good. I remember seeing that in high school and then some movies are like, what was that and why was this considered good? I can't quite put my finger on why some are good to me and others are not. Maybe we'll learn a little bit about film the way we learned a little bit

about the EPL. Yeah. Should we just watch Swim Fan, though? Is that on the list? We could do like alternating weeks. We're like, sometimes we watch the AFI best movie of all, all timeless. And then we also watch the worst movie of all timeless. So we're like, why is this considered good and why isn't this considered good?

Or why is this considered bad? Freddie Godfinger is hilarious. There's something here. There's something here. All right. Let us know what you think for more questions and answers. Send them all to, I guess, not the answer. It's just the questions, theme songs and questions.

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That's what you really got to do. Just keep your distance. That way, when you faint on someone, you want to make sure that you don't touch their feet. That's why it's like six feet away. So it's like if you collapse completely face plant, you want to make sure that you're not landing on anybody. Yeah, you'll pure ground. Yeah, it's the pure ground rule we're calling it.

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