If I Were You - 453: Telling Time (w/Finn Wolfhard and Billy Bryk!)
Episode Date: September 21, 2020Friends, actors, and Headgum's newest podcasters join us to discuss caricatures, hot dogs, and their show LACKLUSTER VIDEO.Advertise on If I Were You via Gumball.fmSee omny.fm/listener for privac...y information.
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Our finally moving west are losing her to someone with a slightly heavier chest.
I won the golden mic today. There's nothing you can say.
That's one for Ben, one for me, and five hundred for Jake.
Don't waste your time trying to figure it out. Just email these two Jews.
Don't waste your time trying to figure it out. Just email these two Jews.
If I were you.
Wow, so good.
Is there a second verse?
A second verse.
The hell?
Was that six minutes?
Was that all?
I couldn't listen to it forever.
I don't know, it feels longer.
They reunited just for that.
That was Tom, dude.
Tom is back.
Yeah, they made up.
That was cool.
We brought Blink back, guys.
We brought them back.
What do I say?
Congratulations, Blink, you're back.
It actually wasn't them.
It was a 19-year-old musician and Ann Arbor named Seth Dyer.
Seth Dyer in Marcopus and Travis Barker?
That's not Blink at all.
It was pretty good, two out of three.
Tom's not really...
There's a chasm there.
Tom's not coming back.
The new Blink lineup is this fucking guy and Matt Skiba.
Matt Skiba, this fucking guy.
And still Travis.
Travis is still down to do drums, which is good.
Travis Barker in Lil Wayne.
It wasn't them.
Sorry.
It wasn't them.
It was an airwhip?
No, it's not.
So then Tom is there.
He was a 19-year-old musician
currently living in Ann Arbor.
He has an Instagram that's public now.
Dyer Consequences.
How does he know?
I'm sorry, you're going to say that Tom DeLong,
who's a guy who's made music for years,
and just because he's going to hunt aliens,
doesn't mean that he doesn't play guitar in a spare time.
So you don't think that this is maybe a demo?
I don't think this is a demo.
I think this is a fucking fan.
I think this is like an alias
or like it's like a fake name.
Or if it's the real guy that he knows DeLong
because DeLong was maybe playing
his custom strat during that time.
Jake?
Jake, I was going to say the same thing.
Why?
There's no fucking way you would have said that.
That's such a weird thing for Jake to say,
let alone you were going to say that same thing.
Can you even remember what he said?
What were you going to say?
See, you can't.
No, he said something cool.
It was like Mark Hoppus.
Mark Hoppus.
Soul Shakedown Studios
in San Diego run by this guy's friend,
Jacob, who's really taking off.
In San Diego?
That's where Blink formed.
That is where they fucking are.
It didn't even sound like Tom.
Well, his voice has changed over the years.
Yeah, his voice has changed over the years.
Where are you?
For that long and not have some type of
Whoa, Billy, are you fucking?
He's not, you know him.
It's like, it's invasion of the body snatchers,
but it's Tom DeLong.
It's Tom DeLong.
He's the porn person.
Oh my God, Finn and Billy, welcome to the show.
Wow, wow, wow.
Thank you for having us.
Thank you, bravo.
To music critics slash comedian actors.
And now Head Gum Podcasters.
Head Gum's newest podcasters.
Yes, that's right.
Head Gum's newest roster.
Mm-hmm, newest roster.
Billy Brick, Finn Wolfhard.
So what's the deal with your podcast,
lackluster video?
Give me the elevator pitch.
Well, Billy and I
are two film fans.
We pick a movie each week
to talk about.
And then at the very end we play a game
where Billy gets a randomly generated
movie title and two randomly generated actors
and we have to pitch that movie.
So it's kind of slice of life
podcast where we talk about
the movies you like, we talk about stuff in our
own lives, then we play a fun little improv game
at the end of the title. How do you randomly generate
the title? Yeah.
There's a book, it's called Book Title Generator
and I guess it's just for people
that can't come up with a title for their
book, which I feel like is pretty
kind of a red flag for the rest of the book
if you can't even get a title.
That's the shortest thing you have to write is the title.
There's one that's like, I've written the
book already or there's an option that says
I haven't started writing yet.
And it's like, maybe do something else
then, do some research or think about it
or something before you. Maybe start writing.
So I just went to it and I got the title
The Buried Window.
That's actually perfect for the
memoir I wrote. Yeah. I actually
wrote the next great American novel I was
stuck on the title, but like
everything else is pitched perfect.
God, thank you so much. What's it about?
What's that? What is it about?
It's about a fucking
bat.
Huh? It's about a bat.
It's not about a bat,
but it's about a bat in it. You said it was about
it. Alright, so it's about a bat. It's called
The Buried Window. It's called The Buried Window.
Yeah, how does that... It's about...
I feel like I'm putting...
It seems like it's about Barry
Bonds. It's about Barry Bonds.
Why don't you just say, yeah, okay, okay.
So that's what you meant by a bat being in it?
Like his baseball bat? It's about
Bernie Madoff. So Barry
Bonds, The Buried Window, which actually
makes sense because he ends up smashing a window
at Bernie Madoff's house because
did Madoff kill himself in jail? I should
have looked this up before I wrote it. That's
the wrong guy. Wrong guy?
Yeah. Okay. Alright.
Yeah, so with some tweaks, it's basically
about this all-star...
With some tweaks?
Yeah, he basically... What the fuck
was it like before that?
To pivot this book, like
as you're pitching it to us, you're re...
It's not done. You have to go back to the drawing board
because you clearly... I'll change...
You had Madoff killing himself in jail.
And this was the next
great American memoir, is how you
said it. And then you got mad that we asked
what did you mean by that? What is it about?
Yeah, because I feel like I'm being put on the spot.
If I was setting up a pitch for like
Penguin or Random House, I would have been more
prepared. Well, that was...
That's the other thing about when we randomly
generate actors.
It's always people that are either
cancelled or dead. Like always.
It's so rare you get two people that are alive
and you're not cancelled. Every podcast
you hear Billy go, and I can't
say that. And then he has to do it again.
So what list is this? Where are you guys
finding this? That's just a random
randomcelebrity.com
There's a website called randomcelebrity.com.
Yeah, there's a random everything.com.
Yeah, I'm on it.
I'm on it. That's my domain, baby.
Have you ever? One day.
No, no.
I don't think I'm up there yet.
I don't think you're cancelled enough
or dead enough for them to
put you on there.
You're definitely dead enough.
This is why I'm on this podcast.
To get there.
Yeah, Amir has been
editing our podcast.
It's good. It's humbling,
but it's necessary and it feels...
I mean, I don't appreciate the tone in some
of your notes emails, but it's been fun to
sort of go back to the drawing board.
It's necessary?
This is what we're talking about in the email.
This smug attitude.
And that's necessary to fucking talk about.
Sorry about that. I meant that
it's been fun to hear from you guys.
And then I don't necessarily
need to hear from your lawyers.
This is why we haven't asked you on the podcast yet
because sometimes this kind of stuff
like business
and friends ruin it.
And so we had Amir on and it was just a
good night, Amir.
It was a fun episode when I was on it.
No, to have you on would be
a loss.
I don't want anything to happen to our relationship.
It's too important to me at the same time.
Same. Too late, Amir.
That's a bridge too far gone.
Yeah.
We did promise you at Head Gum that you guys
would have your own intern. If Amir's not working out,
you guys can just let us know.
I'm working out. I'm working out.
Yesterday, Finn called me at three in the morning
for a new episode just based on his little
he was sort of laughing while he gave me demands.
Yeah. And then he
fell asleep and then I called him again
and I told him to work out. So he got on the floor
started doing push-ups until he started crying.
I passed out. Eventually he passed out.
I fainted for you.
Finn, I fainted for you. Was that not good enough, sir?
I did faint for you.
How long were you unconscious?
How long were you unconscious?
Like I said, I don't know. I was passed out.
But by the time I came
Billy's nodding along and curious in a way
that makes me think that he told Finn
to call you.
Yeah, I'm not.
The sun was up. Yeah.
Billy's the mastermind behind this all. The sun was up
the morning after you had passed out? No, it was
that night. Why am I fucking...
I already did this. So you passed out for one night
and all of a sudden that you think you're like some type
of martyr? No, I didn't
say that. Actually, that reminds me
of a book that I'm writing called The Martyr.
It's about Marty McFly
killing himself in order to save an entire
region of Libya
because it's like sort of back to the future
Foreign Away, which is a sequel prequel
because it takes place in the 1700s
instead of the 2000s. It's okay. Hold on.
Hold on. Hold on. It's a sequel
prequel
where Marty McFly
kills himself.
Yeah, Martyr McFly. And is this
Michael J. Fox as well?
No, it's Matthew Fox.
Holy shit. Matthew Fox?
From lost?
No, Matthew McFox. Marty McFly's
cousin.
Matthew McFox. He was sort of named after.
Played by who? Played by Scott
Wolf.
Why are you fucking... Written by
Dick
Wolf. By the way, don't get
fucking defensive
when we ask you these questions. This is insane.
Dick Wolf wrote it for Scott. No, we don't.
Matthew McFox was named after
Matt Fox because he was born
the day Matthew Fox was born.
Written by Dick Wolf. Story
by Dick Cheney. Based
on a novel by Two Chains.
Formally known as
Titty Boy. You get it.
Anyway, I'll send it to you guys. It's a
PDF right now on my phone.
Holy shit. The movie
is a PDF? It's gone.
Good. I mean good.
Probably because you saved a video file as
a PDF. That's probably what happened. Mark Zuckerberg
probably freaking... Have you guys seen the
social dilemma yet?
Have you fucking seen it? I watched it last night.
I watched it last night.
Is it everything I'm hearing it is? And I
can't stop hearing it is?
I think I know about it already.
It's what you think. It's pretty weird
of social media. This morning
I woke up to
to get like there was a stove being
delivered to my place so I had to be up really
early and I sent Finn
like 14 minutes
of a video of me talking about the
social dilemma. But you haven't seen it yet.
I haven't seen it. But it was like how
necessary it is for him to watch it.
And then
and then yeah, fell back asleep, woke up
about 25 minutes ago, got a slice
and then now we're doing this. What about the
stove? What happened to the stove?
Fuck if I know dude.
What stove?
Also your apartment didn't come with a stove?
That's like such a built-in amenity.
Well it's not technically like
it's not like a livable apartment
yet. We're like working on it.
It's a bit of a fixer-upper.
So where do you use the bathroom?
Where do you shit and piss?
Well it depends. Like tomorrow
morning I'm waiting for the guy to come in
and install a urinal for me to shit and piss in.
So it depends?
It doesn't depend.
I'm waiting for the bidet guy to come in.
A urinal and a bidet
are the only two you need. Where do you shit and piss now?
Well I haven't shit and pissed in it.
I've only been here for two weeks but I've been kind of holding it in.
What?
And there's a Starbucks across the street but I've been too nervous
to go in there because like we're in a pandemic.
So like
only the necessities right?
Yeah you're probably suffocating yourself.
Shitting is a necessity.
You're drowning yourself in shit and piss I assume.
Do you have the website
loaded? Because
let's answer some questions. This is if I were you
after all the only advice podcast on the internet
hosted by me and Jake and Finn
and Billy really.
We got a question from a lady.
So we're going to give her a fake name to preserve her anonymity
unless you guys want to come up with one.
We can hit that celebrity
name generator.
Oh you want to do a celebrity name generator.
Finn do you want to or okay I'll give you the option
to come up with one Finn. Okay actually you know what
Billy give Finn a celebrity
and Finn you
come up with the name of their assistant
and that's the name of the guy.
Julia Roberts.
Rub Tub Tubber.
Julia Roberts assistant.
Rub Tub Tubber.
Right.
My boyfriend has a caricature
of himself and his ex-girlfriend
on the wall in his hallway.
It's an absurd photo
sorry
portrait of her riding horseback
style on his back
as he is a senator playing the trumpet
in the drawing of course
and I hate it.
It makes me feel vulnerable to have a reminder
of his ex hanging up there.
He says it's just a cartoon
and offered to take it down but never has.
Am I a psychopath if this is still bothering me?
Do I push it or chill out?
How do I even bring it up again?
I live with him so it's difficult to
out of sight out of mind this one.
Thanks in advance for your advice.
Long time fan sincerely
Rub Tub Tubber
Julia Roberts assistant.
Yes.
Come in the office of Miss Roberts.
Break it off.
Really fall over.
Instant break up with him.
I'm sorry this guy sounds fucking insane.
First of all
Sorry honey I'm not
a centaur in real life either.
She's my ex, relax. It's a cartoon.
I don't even play the trumpet.
It's just a cartoon that someone used to love me drew of me.
Yeah fuck this
guy. Also it's
a caricature of himself
hanging up with an ex
girlfriend
in his own house
making her feel uncomfortable.
We went to Rome and I popped the cue
and then we got it fucking drawn of us
like in celebration but dude it's fine
I'm over her.
She said no.
End of story slash discussion
slash relationship.
He's crying in the caricature.
Why did we commission it after she said no?
I want it to lighten the mood
dude.
I think if you live there you have a case
to take it down. This is your place too.
This is part of the interior
deck of decisions you should make as a couple.
Yeah he says I live
with him so it's difficult to out of sight
out of mind this one. This just feels
like some weird power play
like power
move like you see this this is my old
girlfriend like this
it just feels weird. Right so what you
could do is commission
something where
you are a mermaid and
your ex is a merman
and you're blowing his fish dick
in that's opposite.
You hang that up and you're like as long as we're
cool with this type of like
hentai fan fuck art.
And or eating out
mermaid vagina.
Oh two merfolk
69ing and it's you and your ex
and that's that'll go in the bathroom
or the dining room.
If you have a yeah maybe above like a
buffet would be nice.
Maybe a merman
merman to merman 96ing
yeah but to back
to back 96ing
96ing at an underwater
McDonald's. Why is that?
It just says cactus jack sent me.
What? That's cool.
No it's not.
At the underwater at the McDonald's
you can have like submarines
and drive through I just think that'd be like quirky
and kind of fun.
Yeah that's just a little aside that's just a little joke.
I mean I don't just, Jake and I have
before I take a stance on this you guys
does anybody have a caricature of them in their own house
before I
I don't have more.
You had more? Oh from your bar mitzvah?
But that's just hilarious.
I'm like looking around this room to make sure I don't
but of course I don't.
Of course I don't have one.
Shit. Yeah that'd be insane
Oh shit.
My caricature is in frame.
Because what the fuck?
I don't know.
You're an adult I would assume
and like
don't have a caricature on the wall.
13 living with his girlfriend.
Yeah.
It would be different if it was a funny caricature
that he had of himself but it's the fact that it's
with his ex-girlfriend
presumably you're not friends with her anymore
right?
Is it worse or better if they're friends?
I feel like it's worse that they're friends.
If they're friends and he still has the picture of her
hanging out?
If the couple's
friends with her
you know what I mean there could be
a world in which
they were really really close and then
they broke up
but they've remained friends and then the
new girlfriend also is friends with her
it's like a past kind of like oh we used to date
but now we're all friends
but I don't think that's the case.
I think that this guy just has a fucking caricature
of him on us as a centaur
with her writing on his back.
This is the math equation that has to go on.
This is a big deal to you and not a big deal
to him because he said it's only a cartoon
I'll take it down.
End of discussion you just remind him
tell him to take it down big deal to you small deal to him
it's over or he's keeping it up
because it's also a big deal to him
which should make it a bigger deal for you
than like no matter what
this thing has to come to a head.
Also the thing is
you can get a new caricature drawn
of both of them.
If he needs a fucking caricature of him
like he could just get a new one
they're not that expensive
to get done.
I could take it down if you want to
and he just never does.
Did he offer to take it down?
He offered to take it.
He just said he'd take it down.
He offered to take it down but didn't.
I'll take it down.
I think you definitely are well within your right
to just say dude just
yeah take it down
what do you yeah because if it bothers you that much
you should understand that and if he doesn't
fuck him you can find anybody
with a horse's body and a human
horse.
You can find another centaur.
That was not the artistic liberty of the artist
he's actually a centaur.
There's like a million centaurs out there.
There's like okay
fucking Amir, Jesus
like really short sign.
Are you body-shaming centaurs?
No I'm not body-shaming centaurs.
Oh I just refreshed the
slavery generator Amir's on here.
That's weird. I'm cancelled.
What a fart.
This is what never happened to me before you guys came on.
Now you fucking watch your words man
you can't say fuck anymore.
Alright let's take a break.
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do you guys have any?
Oh, it's a lift!
Mom, I'm coming!
Gross.
Sorry about that.
Nice.
Yeah, I did
until I heard that.
Well, yeah, you sort of ignore the
that part's like
Jake said it once. I didn't say that.
One of us said it.
You. Sounded like Tom DeLong.
But I'm not sure.
I'm coming!
Mom, I'm here!
Yeah, I have
like a life hack.
Hot dogs for breakfast.
Tell me less.
I figure I don't even need to explain myself.
But here it goes anyway.
That's not advice.
It's not a life hack.
In what sense?
I'll tell you, when I was in school
in my schooling days, I would show up for lectures
often times late because I would sleep in
and they were in the morning and then I'd be really hungry
and we'd have like a five minute break
and there was a street dog
stand right outside my university
and I would go get
a hot dog and I realized that it's like
a portable breakfast food.
You got pretty much toast, sausage
some onions and pickles
and then, I mean, I'm a mustard man
but if you wanted to put ketchup on it, that's not
like a bad thing to do.
We're not worried about the condiments part of it.
What time of day was it?
9.30 a.m.
9.30 a.m.
Yeah, you'd think that a hot dog
is like a lunch food
or like maybe like a quick dinner
but I just think...
poops, it doesn't.
Is a hot dog...
I don't think a hot dog is a meal at all
I think a hot dog is a snack.
But what is...
Who eats a breakfast meal on the weekdays?
Like if you have to yet to run
it's like a portable snack
It's like...
Yeah, but I would rather a hot dog.
It's hot?
They make it for me there. I'm supporting local businesses.
Sure, it's in the name, right?
A logo...
Yeah, especially in a fucking pandemic.
I would rather a hot dog is a slogan
for a hot dog brand.
Yeah, I don't know what the hot dog stand situation is
as far as the pandemic goes.
But I mean, that's just...
I just ordered a hot dog on Uber Eats.
That's the grossest thing I've ever heard in my entire life.
A hot dog for lunch?
That's a breakfast food.
You fucking swine.
You absolute swine.
You order it for fuck... for lunch?
I don't even think about hot dogs. Where do you order one?
Like what's the restaurant that...
I'm ordering from a place called
Jaffa Dog, which
if you ever come to Vancouver's
a very great tourist
kind of amazing
place. It's like
like a Japanese fusion hot dogs.
I went there
and I ate a hot dog there.
How was it Japanese about it?
It was incredible. It was very good.
And what time of day was it?
What time of day?
It was a dinner.
So much later than breakfast.
But you know, you have breakfast for dinner.
Breakfast for dinner is a thing, guys.
So I did a little breakfast for dinner action
at a hot dog.
What's Japanese about the hot dog there?
What are they doing
that's Japanese about it?
Is it a cucumber roll?
Is it an open-faced cucumber roll?
No, they put
like Japanese ingredients
and yeah, they put ketchup on it.
No, they put
and yeah, they put
stuff on it sometimes
and seaweed.
And it's sushi. It's also sushi.
What do you get on the side of a Jaffa Dog?
Some fries in a Saturday morning cartoon.
You're eating full
fucking baseball stadium fare
at 8 in the morning.
Billy's in the lecture with a footlong
a footlong hot dog.
A footlong Nathan's hot dog
dipped in a honey mustard
with nachos on the side.
And a foam finger.
When you wake up.
And don't get me wrong
the foam finger is fucking delicious too
but you don't hear me writing about it.
And for lunchtime I'll eat frozen yogurt
out of a plastic hat.
That's my diet, like a baseball game.
Fin, can you beat that life hack?
A hot dog for breakfast?
Are we doing life hacks now?
I didn't know that that was a hack.
I didn't know that was a hack.
Yeah, any advice really.
Yeah, I didn't know that was a life hack either.
It's just an idea for breakfast.
Billy started doing this and it's something
I'm kind of still support local
businesses as much as possible
because I remember Billy and I were at
we were at a supermarket
when we were shooting in, or a safeway.
Yeah, a safeway in Calgary.
I wanted to go to the
self-checkout and Billy looked at me
like I had actually murdered someone
and he was like, what?
Why? And I was like, because?
And he was like, you got to
support real people
or else the robots are going to take over
and they're going to take over for the real people.
At this point
Billy was fucking slamming
down wet hot dogs Kobayashi style.
It was 1145
and all bets were off.
Dunking buns in water and shoving them
into his cheeks.
Yeah, don't use self-checkout. That's the better advice.
Yeah, don't
freaking let the robots replace
people. Use real cashiers.
There's so many jobs that will be lost
when that just becomes normal.
We got a question from a dude who's actually
traveling from Pittsburgh
to Georgia. So
Billy, do you have a fake guy's name?
Dune
Inbox
Alright, you're clearly just
in your Gmail or something?
I thought you were going to say Dune Tenet.
He's looking at his tabs.
Dune T. Inbox. The middle name
is Tenet.
Dune Tenet writes,
I just moved to Savannah from Pittsburgh
with my girlfriend because she's going to the Savannah College
of Arts and Design. It was crazy
to move during this time and a lot
was in my head, but driving through other states
with different levels of COVID restriction
was super stressful.
I was wondering if you guys had any advice on what
to do in a new place that I feel like I cannot
even explore yet because there's a global
frigging pandemic going on.
I have mostly been to larger
corporate places for groceries and
of a company-wide restriction and I can't even check
out any cool local businesses yet
wink wink because
everyone is a little more relaxed with the restrictions
here. Also suggestions
for any suggestions
for anyone to check out after things improve.
Would it be cherry?
Thanks, dudes. Has anybody been
to Savannah here?
Savannah-una-na.
Nice. That's Habana.
What?
The hips don't lie and I'm going to Savannah time.
Different song.
That was a weird muppet
of the hips don't lie, I think.
What?
It's Rihanna.
Number one,
order a stove.
They're pretty clutch.
They probably already had a stove.
Yeah, they have that.
And a urinal.
Because if you need to shit, you need to have a urinal
in your place.
I shoot Stranger Things
in Atlanta, Georgia.
But I've never been- Atlanta-una-na.
Nice.
My hips don't lie
and I'm going to Atlanta now.
Sorry, one second.
What are you saying, Finn?
Sorry about that.
I'm going through it.
This is you stepping off the airplane.
It doesn't look like I dance like this.
Sir, you somehow clogged
the airport toilet.
I've never been to Savannah before,
but I know there's a ton of beaches
around there.
I know there might be places to-
That's good.
There might be places to go where there's not a lot of people.
Or, you know-
Moving to Savannah
Gonna visit a lot of beaches
Sweet home
Sweet home
the Savannah
Alabama
Just like go to a baseball game
or something.
Even if it's Little League
I'd say-
Go to like a carnival
run a kissing booth.
The beach was good.
I don't know how Billy derailed it.
We're talking about Frenching a 12 year old
that you don't know.
Six flags over Georgia.
You gotta go there.
It's a fucking blast.
Do not go.
They serve funnel cake.
A lot of people kind of talk really loud
and spit when they talk.
What about like fucking Chicago?
Just like-
Just drive there.
Just talk about shit to do.
Drive to Dallas.
It's a different city.
And if you're down to really travel
if you're down to really go somewhere
I was just gonna say the London Eye
that like big fucking Ferris wheel
in England.
I think the advice I would give is
if you're in Savannah
drive to Houston.
That's cool. Yeah, Houston.
I hear the beaches are beautiful
in Santa Teresa, Costa Rica
this time of year.
People in might be crab season.
What the fuck are you talking about?
There's beaches there. That was great.
Go to the beach. Outdoor.
I hear beaches are very COVID safe
because outdoors it's breezy. It's hard to get safe.
Orica. What's my name?
What's Orica? Where'd you get that?
Where'd you get that? Costa Rica.
What about Dakota?
What's my name?
Because you could go to South Dakota.
It's not super nice, but it's not that hard
to drive like the 28 hours
to get to South Dakota. You guys are getting further
and further away. Beaches was perfect
and then we got to like...
I just spent like a lot of time
kind of the same thing. I was away from home
filming a TV show and they like
I didn't want to fucking
cancel the whole show by getting COVID
so I was just like very cautious of where I could go.
Buy a
PlayStation. Oh, nah, nah.
Or else, yeah.
So don't fucking visit.
I didn't
go anywhere pretty much.
There was a nice, I would walk every day
just to get some fresh air, but I just
stay inside. How long is he there for?
You said like it's a four year program?
Yeah. So you're probably as good to wait it out
I'd say. Yeah.
Vaccine will come around during graduation.
Yeah, graduation and then you're good.
Yeah, sorry, Finn.
I think you may have muted yourself.
Which I think was a good thing
because you clearly sung a song.
You sang a song.
You picked up a PlayStation remote.
It sounded singing.
Can I just take a guess that it was PlayStation
or something like that?
Hello. Alright, last question.
This one's a doozy. We need
a ladies name.
Maybe first name Finn,
last name Billy. Let's see what you guys come up
with. Tag team it.
Go over.
Stravels.
That's beautiful.
You said that too
proud Billy.
Cool.
You were too happy with yourself.
Travelles.
I'm 25
and I don't know how to tell time.
I understand
how clocks work, but I have to
look at it for like a minute to figure out
exactly what it is.
Whenever I ask someone the time, they point
Sorry, you don't understand how clocks work
if you take a full minute.
She goes, I know how
clocks work.
You don't. Just take the opposite of what she said.
Whenever I ask someone the time
and they point at the analog clock,
I can't actually take the time I need to read it
because I'll worry they'll realize my secret.
Growing up, I thought it would just
click someday and I could glance at a clock
and know the time, but at this point
I'm an adult with two degrees that clearly
taught me nothing useful about this
problem and it definitely hasn't clicked.
So what do I do? Do I google
time-telling quizzes designed for
eight-year-olds so I can practice reading clocks
faster? Or do I just make sure I'm
always near a digital clock or
can access my phone clocks surreptitiously
when needed? Thanks.
Love. Gulliver's.
Travelles.
Number one, the quiz for eight-year-olds
would be a start.
That would be... That's step one, I would
imagine, before even...
You know, I'd easily say step one.
You have had that thought
to the point where you wrote it out in this email.
Step... Definitely take those.
Step two, watch Christopher Nolan's movies.
Why? They're a doozy and
listen, you will understand time by the end
of them. You will understand time.
I think you're starting from... That's
on like step 10.
Yeah, that seems like an advantage. No, it's like if you watch the Simpsons
in French, you kind of become fluent.
I guess.
The tenet will teach you how to read a clock.
Duh. What's that?
Duh. What's that?
Oh, honey.
Got it. French Homer.
Oh, honey.
It's really good, actually.
Lou Garteau.
Doom Millhouse.
So, definitely...
Yeah, you should learn how to tell the time, right?
You're an adult.
You know, I'm not judging, but you don't know
how clocks work, obviously.
Don't ask people what time it is.
If you don't know how to tell the time,
don't be near an analog clock
and ask what time it is. Just check your phone
or just get a digital watch clock
or learn how to tell the time.
Like, I don't know...
What degrees?
She has a doctor
and she also studied clocks.
Metaphysics, mathematics, dual degree
and then she's a watch clock maker.
Yeah. Jesus.
So, she's a clock maker. She doesn't know how to tell time.
A tinkerer.
Yes. A tinkerer, if you will.
I mean, that's...
Well, I mean, I guess the first thing...
I got to tell the time.
Shakira, Shakira.
Tell the time.
I think you can do it.
You've gotten two degrees.
You can do...
You can learn...
You seem capable of doing so.
Here's a little trick.
It's not easy to get two degrees.
I would say just sit down and try and do it
and the more you put it off, the worse it's going to be for you.
Here's a little trick.
Ignore the big hand.
Like, that's where people get tripped up.
Like, it's on three. Is that times five?
Fifty? No.
Just look at the small little nub
and then, like, it'll point to the closest
hour it is.
So, like, take everything else away.
I would say, yeah.
Look at the small guy and hope to God it's close to an hour.
Look at the big picture, right? Numbers.
Yeah.
Heather, what do you get?
The time.
Exactly.
That shocked you.
It just clicked.
It just clicked for me.
Or should I say ticked?
Nice.
I can read a sundial, but once the hands get into the equation,
I'm absolutely useless.
I'm kind of the opposite.
I'm super quick with clocks, but then when I look at...
I'd see it says, like, one and then, like,
the snake one and then, colon and then
it turns to, like, the two circles
and I'm like, what?
What is the snake one?
It goes like that, basically.
Oh. Yeah.
Eight and eight.
And eight is not as... Do you think that looks like a snake?
Yeah, it looks like... What's it called when there's two oranges next to each other
but on top?
Eight.
I feel like we're saying the same thing.
I feel like we're not because you said two oranges
stacked on top of each other and we said eight.
Yeah, yeah.
Between the left and the right numbers, there's those two little dots.
A colon?
Okay.
By the way, you said colon.
You said colon and now you're talking...
Yeah, you know what that is.
I'm getting dumber in a weird way, so it's like
straight line,
that, snowman.
Oranges separated.
But then after the oranges that separate them,
there's never, like, an eight or a nine, right?
You'll never see, like, it's eight, 82.
Oh, my God. Jesus Christ.
I don't know what to tell this girl. She seems like...
She has to take it.
I'll do a counterpoint. I think you're good. I think it's fine.
I've rarely been in a situation
where the only resource I had to know the time
was an analog clock and no one would help me.
I think just, like, focus on your degrees.
Do other shit.
You're good. Just, like, let's not even think about it anymore.
You have a phone.
And if anybody is so rude
to be like, if you say what time is it
and they just point to a clock,
you just be like, fuck you.
Yeah, fuck you.
Fuck you for doing that.
Just tell me.
Like, you looked up, saw that it was there,
could've clocked the time and said it out loud,
but instead you wanted to make me feel like an asshole.
They also just don't know how to tell the time.
Yeah.
Yeah, no one knows how.
Do you also think eights are oranges?
I think we're all lying.
We're all lying to each other.
None of us know how to tell the time on clocks.
And she's not the only one that's alone for you.
You just look at the fucking circle.
Yeah, the circle adds up
because there's like the two lines
and then if you subtract the one line
from the other one and then you multiply
by the amount of ticks, which is equivalent
to the amount of hours in a day,
it gives you kind of time.
So, like, I make smoothies, right?
Sorry, you just changed the subject?
Anything else?
No, it's like,
it's like if you make fucking smoothies,
you get to drink it
and you look up at the clock
and kind of ponder.
So the advice here is to
don't raise your arms in triumph
after that.
That wasn't a good metaphor.
My job here is done.
No, it's not. Your job here is dumb.
You said something that was completely unrelated to the answer.
Don't be shocked and now you're casual about it.
Are you annoyed? Are you frustrated?
Are you happy and confident?
Sorry. You're my fucking boss
and you're talking to me like this? You're his boss.
I fainted for you yesterday.
That has to mean something.
Listen, in this day and age,
we don't want to fucking faint for someone.
What kind of loyal guy are you?
Just to recap, learn what it is
or don't based on how comfortable
you want to be or not
when somebody points at a clock.
And get yourself a man who will faint for you.
Get yourself a man who could do both.
And tell time.
How dope is that?
And if he's a centaur, that's just a bonus.
The caricature is halfway done.
Get an Apple Watch.
But also, I think you'll feel better if you just learn how to do it.
Apple Watch is a good idea
because they have the face that can be
the analog clock
and then you can toggle.
Invest in an Apple Watch.
That's our advice here.
And use my coupon code.
They're pretty cool.
Shikirah shikirah.
Hips don't lie, I want to tell the time
for 15% off.
For a code. I mean, it's worth 50% off.
I think that's it.
But try different capitalizations and spaces
because it might be case sensitive.
So you have to try it a bunch of times
in a bunch of different ways, but it'll click eventually.
Giving someone a password or something
and just saying, by the way, it's case sensitive.
I don't really remember what the cases are, but I know the password.
And there's an underscore somewhere.
There's an underscore video.
Finn, Billy, talking about movies that exist
and some that don't.
Sometimes by themselves, sometimes with friends.
I've been on an episode.
I know Jeff and Riley have an episode coming up.
Yeah, sometimes with enemies.
So sometimes not with friends?
Yeah, because sometimes it's important not to have,
because sometimes you don't want to have your best friend on
because I think that's maybe why I haven't been invited.
But that's fine. And I think it's good
because Finn said that he didn't want to mix
business and pleasure, so that makes sense.
Absolutely.
So do you want to be on the show episode?
Is that what you're asking? No, I don't care.
I'm down and I'm free next week and the week after
any time, but I don't care.
It seems like you're giving like to every day.
Jake, we'll give you a spot,
but you just have to tell us what time it is right now.
What time it is?
It's fucking...
It's looking at a digital clock.
Duck? Duck duck goose.
What fucking number looks like a duck?
Like a fucking, like a swan neck
with the duck wrong.
It's 406, so you say
even his descriptions are bad.
I mean, no, thanks for having us on.
Yeah, listen to our podcast, Like Western Video.
Hopefully everyone enjoys.
Hell yeah. Thanks for starting
that show. Thanks for coming on this show, and thanks to you guys
for listening. Thanks for having us.
Of course, if you guys have your own questions or theme songs,
send them all down to IfIWereYouShow at gmail.com.
Opening one was the Blink 182
cover by Seth Dyer.
This one is a Drake cover.
Wow, Jake, all your favorite artists
coming together. Wow.
It took half a decade
for Colin to
summon the gusto to make
this Drake parody.
But he did it for us, so we appreciate it.
Thank you, Colin. Thanks to you guys.
And we'll be back next week.
Thank you.
That was a HitGum podcast.