If I Were You - 528: Failed Projects

Episode Date: February 21, 2022

This week we're answering as many questions as possible about movies we wrote, Wordle's we played, and everything in between.See omny.fm/listener for privacy information.

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A mirror is the loneliest hose that one ought dirty Cause dirty is the worst achievement that you'll ever do Cause dirty is the worst achievement that a man will ever do You can see it on our YouTube channel Shout out to John Grim and Grace for helping us Shout out to the Lawn Boys podcast Did they do that as a collab with Paul and Ringo? He just took the song

All I'm trying to say is that I feel like Beedle knows about this show Knows about you giving yourself a fake trophy every fucking week You don't give a three minutes of telling me to fuck off And then I say you make up a fake award and you're getting more upset than I am Real mature Your skin is rice thin Rice thin, like rice in I want to know when I get my tries in

My buys in, my buys in I mean lots of buys in Super Bowl commercial for I don't know Bison meat or something like that Really good Did you watch the Super Bowl? We didn't make a Super Bowl bet Yeah we didn't but I tried to make a bet and you didn't take it So you could have won cause I wanted the bangles

Well first you wanted the bangles and I wanted the bangles And then you said that stakes should be shaving our head I'll take the bangles, loser shapes their head You said that you also wanted the bangles and your hair And then I said I'll take the Rams, loser shapes their beard Which that'd be really nice bet for you to take cause you've had a beard Basically non-stop for five years right? That's right yeah I haven't bicked it down to the skin

Yeah I mean that's crazy to me I just feel like don't you just wonder aren't you just curious And it'll grow back so fast Yeah well I've gotten short and I didn't like it so I'm like I definitely don't want to go the shortest And I don't I really I've never even used a straight edge on my beard Like I grew up being afraid of the razor so I only did electric And then electric got better and better with the Norelco

Which I don't even have anymore I don't even have a Norelco What do you have? A better just man-scape Gotta be a man-scape but like a straight edge And I have the fucking ball deodorant behind my ears too I'm a fucking I'm a company man through and through But yeah I'm afraid to go all the way down to the skin Yeah yeah I like going down there every once in a while Yeah just to see what's going on and I'm like it's good for your skin too

But were you ready to shave your head? Kind of I would have I would have not been happy about it But I have been thinking about getting my hair is pretty long again It was obvious you remember it was it was really long Yeah double that right? Yeah and then I got a haircut and now it's like medium long again And I kind of I feel like I just

Sorry car drove by I feel like I want to resist the urge of growing it long For the summer again which I'm on the cusp of doing So I need to just I need to cut it cut it back real far Full reset Yeah full reset that's what I need Okay did you like the Super Bowl? Were you excited about the game? Were you rooting for a Sin C or you didn't have a really big deal?

Didn't have a dog in the fight I was rooting for Cincinnati I wanted the Bengals But at the same time I was not like I feel like Los Angeles has enough going for it That I was like I won't be upset if if the Rams won And now that I think about it I'm like oh there's some like you know Matt Stafford Odell Beckham Jr. I feel like there and Aaron Donald I feel like there's older players on that team that I like to see win I like I like people to win before they leave the NFL and it feels like the it feels like Borough still has some shots Oh yeah he's still he's a youngster but yeah the the older statesman won and then Odell Beckham was crying

So I'm like I guess this is nice he really wanted to win and tore his ACL during the Super Bowl So it'd been really sad if he didn't lost in the Super Bowl Definitely so yeah ultimately I'm happy also that um there's a real dirty face max play on the Bengals touchdown Yeah that was pretty blatant you're not supposed to be able to sort of touch the cornerback let alone grab his face mask and pull his yank his head so that he falls to the ground So that would have felt a little weird like if if the Bengals won by three that would have been like well damn I guess they shouldn't have had that score It's also funny that like that guy like celebrates in the end zone he's like woo yeah nobody touched me Yeah you have to otherwise somebody's gonna somebody's like why aren't you celebrating because you know you have someone's face mask You whipped my neck so I fell down yes

Did I then? First score the game for us Go Bengals Six points Go Bengals But even the game was good it was so good that the halftime show was entertaining and the commercials were pretty funny it was like some weird throwback Yeah I don't have any recollection of the commercials I never do I'm sure they were fine but the halftime show put me in such a great mood Just like seeing Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre smile at each other I was like thinking of everything that they've been through together and yeah

How good that must have felt for them to be like you know they were like I don't know they were like everybody tried to shut them up for such a long time They're so controversial and then here they are like they won they're just performing at the halftime show And then 50 Cent and Eminem Mary J Blige and Kendrick Lamar good times had by all Yeah oh my dude Kendrick's segment was so good the dancers that was wild that was so good Yeah the camera work was awesome Yeah I guess this is how 60 year olds feel like when the who is performing at the halftime show and I'm like I don't really know this band but older white people seem to be happy so that's fine Yeah now us middle-aged white people are really happy Did I tell you about my Snoop Dogg bet that I made?

Oh yes you did that he was not going to smoke during the halftime show Right so one of the prop bets on a gambling website said will Snoop Dogg smoke during the halftime show and I thought like it would be heavily skewed towards no Cause like you can't really smoke weed on TV let alone during the halftime show of a Super Bowl But it was even money it was like they're like 50-50 whatever you bet you'll win So I'm like wow this is great like I guess so many people are like yeah Snoop he's gonna have to smoke he's got a smoking That's his whole thing Yeah exactly so like I bet against that I assume he wouldn't smoke even though I understand he likes weed Right you weren't taking the bet cause you forgot that Snoop liked weed

I felt so confident and then he started rapping like I could just see him taking out like a fake whatever a little cigar and start puffing away And then he didn't smoke for the first song and then they like cut back to him and he's on a couch I'm like oh no this is when he's gonna fucking do it now he's on a couch and he's just chilling And then at the end they're like all like on top of the house singing and dancing I'm like okay this is it he's gonna take out a fucking spliff I know it he doesn't give a shit Fortunately Snoop did not smoke during the halftime show but it recently came out that he was smoking seconds before it started There's like shots of him puffing on a joint Oh my god

So how much money did you bet? That was 50k and then I parlayed that with the Rams adjusted line They just had to cover 10 and a half and under 57 and a half that was 150k And then I parlayed all of that with orange Gatorade so I ended up losing everything Too bad It was blue at the end Yeah close though Fuck

They were I think didn't Drake win like $800,000 on Odell Beckham Junior's touchdown Yes I think he bet over a million dollars with Bitcoin that the Rams would win and Odell Beckham would square a touchdown Wow I think he also bet that he was gonna have like some amount of yards that he didn't have But I'm sure Drake did fine I was at a buddy's house and Carnell and our friend River made a bet on the length of the national anthem Yeah you could do that too It was gonna be over a minute and 50 seconds

Uh huh And it ended up being like 152 Wow It was the loudest anyone cheered in the entire All the anticipation of the game and you win the bet in the opening fucking song It was so good You could bet so much stuff that it's like you could bet the national anthem length Then the coin toss and then whether the opening kick will be returned for a touch back or not

So like before the game even starts you could have lost three bets Yeah that's insane It's the super bowl of gambling as they say Right I guess none of us have to shave our heads so I consider myself a winner I do think you should shave your beard in good faith because I proposed that bet What? Because you proposed it?

That means nothing You wanted the Rams I didn't accept the bet You wanted the Rams I wanted the bangles Sorry you wanted the bangles I mean you wanted the bangles I wanted the Rams I proposed the bet

I feel like that the gauntlet is thrown at that stage Okay how about faith? You should shave your beard Or I'll shave my beard if you shave your head Fine But it's gonna be the same length Okay So whatever length you do to your head I'll do to my beard

Okay I'll pick my head Sort of a lose-lose situation Yeah I'm gonna get a straight razor shave on the dome That's right And you have to go to the barber shop that sort of ruined my trip to New York last time Oh my god

Have you been there recently? No I have any I mean I walk by there every once in a while Okay that's good It's nice that they're still in business I thought I was responsible for their fucking demise or some shit I think they are Delusion of grandeur

Okay we asked for lightning round questions This is if I were you The only advice pod on the web hosted by us I am Amir I am Jake Um these are questions that we asked for on Twitter If you can believe it That's right that is correct

You deleted Twitter from your phone Yes I did Is this just so you wouldn't be at a line on a toilet on the subway Yeah Floating it on your phone I wanna live less on my phone Especially in public spaces Especially when I'm out and about in the world

So Yeah Twitter is gone I didn't find that it was fulfilling or a good place for me to be To have To have Yeah It's still on my

My Twitter exists It's on my desktop I'll like look at the mentions every once in a while But I think gone are the days where I would like scroll through forever Right Sometimes I'm like in line at a coffee shop or a whole foods or something like that There's like a line of 10 people and I'm on my phone Then I look up and most people are not on their phone

I'm like what the hell are you guys doing You're just standing in line Interesting I applaud them I don't have that same experience here I mean so many times when I'm in a line everyone's on their phone When people are walking they're just looking at their phones Yeah walking is the last

That's like the real dystopian Like when everyone's just outside and still staring at their phone Staring and walking down Like vaguely bumping into each other But it's all fine because we're too distracted to even realize that's happening Yeah you get hit by a cab but you're too distracted because you're on Twitter Yeah I was just so deep on Twitter Like I think it was especially during like the election cycle

Where I would just be like it was just such a reflex I would look at Twitter Close my phone I was like what was I doing I'd open it Look at Twitter Refresh There's no new tweet

So it just sort of shows you somebody that you You might be interested in a tweet that they tweeted six weeks ago And you're like this isn't I'm not getting anything anymore No god no But are you still just using your phone but with a different app? I definitely I don't know if I use Instagram more

But I use Instagram as much And that was also a big time suck My overall like screen time is down Below like four hours It's like three hours ish a day A lot of that's also navigation based I think it's excuse because of navigation They shouldn't count that

It's not right You should be able to erase navigation from like And you shouldn't count TikTok You shouldn't count TikTok I'm learning shit There is a new trend that I've seen on Instagram Or an old one that has just been getting You know targeted at me

But it's like these kind of like day in the life 50 day challenge Some kind of like little snippet of somebody's Somebody's 24 hours And Oh like day in the life of a 41 year old investment banker in New York or something But it's a little more like aspirational Like it's like it's always like

A dude or a girl that like Wakes up makes their bed Makes a healthy breakfast Does exercise Makes a really nice looking coffee Works And I shut down my phone And I work for three hours

And I go for a run It's quite aspirational And I'm like I don't know I'm enthralled by it Yeah Just a shot of you sort of like Slack-jawed drooling over your phone Watching it

9.15 a.m. because you haven't left I just got home I was in a rush to record this podcast Oil leftover thing of salmon Just ate it cold in my hands In a huge hunk Like the opposite of making A slow cooked egg

An espresso Then I do meditation twice a day It's important for me to unwind Ran upstairs through my jacket On the banister Jumped in and recorded a podcast That'd be funny you do a fake A one like a day in your life

And it's just like everything is Terrible I wake up in a cold sweat at 6.15 And I try to go back to sleep But I have diarrhea It made me think of Like doing one of these for Ruby Jade Where it's like you wake up

Make the bed perfectly Fried egg And a cup of coffee Morning newspaper and then it's just like One cut to you sitting on a stool Perking off with your laptop Just blocking it I did it for the clout

Slash likes Yeah Alright let's try to answer some questions Here's a quickie When was the last time you had a grilled cheese Asks L's giving Or Merle on Twitter

Okay good question Definitely recently Definitely recently I don't I can't remember I don't really like Just a grilled cheese What's the last time you had a grilled jizz A grilled jizz sandwich

That's when your dad Hits you over the head with a skillet I actually don't Have that either It's funny It's a reference from our old web series I thought you'd be interested You wrote it

I'm allergic to jizz you know that And I'm trying to be more gluten free I feel like it was over the holidays Christmas Thanksgiving I feel like I was in Connecticut At my parents house It always smells good

And it tastes good But I never want to make it Whenever there's an option to get a grilled cheese I'll probably get something else It's definitely more of a home cooked Thing for me It's like a comfort food I wouldn't get a lot of joy of

Going out and getting a grilled cheese Do you consider it a snack or a lunch Like do you have a grilled cheese for lunch Or like it's just 4.15 And I'm hungry and it's too early for dinner It's less than a lunch more than a snack It's a real It's a meal replacement I'd say

I feel like you would It's almost like if you I wouldn't be like oh it's lunch time I'll have a grilled cheese But you could be like I had a late breakfast And I didn't have lunch What do I want to tide me over until dinner I'll have a grilled cheese

Or a grilled cheese for that matter I'm not going to have a grilled cheese It's when your dad hits you over the head Back of your head actually One last one before we have to get to break Wow this is funny What is the worst or best bet you've ever made There you go

Right into the Super Bowl Worst bet I ever made I bet on Hillary Clinton That was pretty bad That's unfortunate It sucks to lose a bet That you really wanted to win Aside from the monetary thing

It's like you lost twice You have a bad president And you lost cash I usually don't bet For or against the Lakers because of that I'm already emotionally invested I don't want to root for them to lose I'm already rooting for them to win

Have you ever bet on the Lakers? Yeah Cool I remember You know it was the first time I ever went to Vegas I think it was the first time I went to Vegas Maybe it was this Anyway, I don't remember the specific bet

But I remember Losing $200 Which was a ton of money to me at the time Yeah it's almost like you're Styping for the weekend that you give yourself It's like $200 or $300 Yeah I was like I don't want to lose more than $200 this weekend

That's the max and I was there for I think two or three days So first night very quickly lost $200 And I was like Well I can't just go to bed down $200 I'm going to just get back to even Get it back to even, reset for the weekend It took me

30 seconds To lose another $200 It happens fast It happens so fast You sit down at a blackjack table It's like oh I thought this was $10 bets it's $15 that's okay I'll make you just like lose a bunch of hands

Four or five in a row Double down It's just bye bye So It was something like Something like that and then where I like Tried to get more money out the next day It wouldn't let me I had to call my bank

They said we took out $500 That didn't last Vegas I want to take more Yes mom I'll make it back Good times I love betting I really do it's my favorite vice

I think one of our best bets was One of our best bets was on the Road trip with John and John Carlo We got to New Orleans And we went to a casino Did we put $100 In red or black?

We all put $100 on a single color And it hit And then we went out to Emeril's restaurant We're like we're eating Not for free but very close To it We acted like we all won a million and a half Dollars like jumping around

You won it so bad It feels so good And then there was another time when we did that On the CH on tour road trip We were like Let's pull over here We'll place a bet and we'll get back on there I believe there's a story of it on your Instagram

Or mine And we pull over, go to a random casino In Illinois Walk in Lose the cash, go home We all just pulled over On the side of the road and shredded $100 For no reason

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It was um How many, oh yeah How many movies or TV shows Have you guys written And tried to sell? Meme tour Interesting Wow

What a mean question I feel like it's It reads to me as just curious Cause it's like We've been around for a long time How many? I would guesstimate Two movies and like

Five to ten shows But like Maybe not Wrote the pilot But like Wrote an outline And that took a while Or something like that

Alright I believe I have A folder on my computer Oh wow And it's filled with gold Wow This is so, so funny I have It's nineteen movies

And forty one shows A depressing sum Okay so there's There's one from Two thousand Wow alright 2012 I think is maybe the earliest one

Where we had us We had some kind of Alright This one's This one's unrelated I think But we have Scoops Which I believe we've talked about on here

Which Scoops is a multi-cam Kind of like cheers But about an ice cream store Where some kid inherits it from his dad Yes And that was actually I think the farthest we had ever gotten

We pitched it to a production company The production company was into it We pitched it to the network And we were pitching it to the studio We were like We got very far We wrote the pilot And

Did not get paid for any of it No wait Scoops Never mind Scoops was a different one That was just garbage trash Nobody liked it Home again Home again

Home again That was the one about Five college roommates After they graduate By their original house That they lived in a college And move in together Home again

Which feels like a fine idea still It's a fine idea Yeah And that was the one that got really far At ABC Then we also had The If I Were You

The scripted If I Were You show Right Which was Young Frasier Right Young Frasier it was called About two podcasters Basically like Frasier was about a radio show

Young Frasier Two podcasters Yeah Also feels like a Fine idea A fine idea Yeah We also had the Jake and Amir

Pilot Which we wrote Which we did get paid for And shot So that's So maybe that's I mean that's technically The farthest we got

But it feels like Having one almost go at ABC Is a bigger deal as it Right Yeah We also had Considered by a larger network Rather than shot a pilot

For true TV Back in 2013 We had one called Working from Home Do you recall What That's just What is that

Working from Home Outline Here it is I'll just read you the Logline What happens when your Co-workers are also Your roommates

Yeah I don't know The why This is In April Yahoo's CEO Marissa Mayer Rocked the tech world

With her controversial decision To ban employees From working from home Why was this such a big deal Because more Americans Are working from home Now than any year Since the industrial revolution

Pre-COVID Now when everyone Works from home But it was She's still banning it If you can believe it We had the idea that Like

Friends and roommates Started a company together I guess it was But it was So it was a workplace A workplace comedy Set in someone's apartment That was the vibe

Because I remember When we used to come up With show ideas Our reps would be like It has to be based In either like A New York Times article Like about adults

Moving in together As friends Slash roommates Or like something about Your life Like cause they'll ask you Why are you equipped To write this show

It's never good enough That you just have an idea Right you have to It has to be You know yours For a specific reason Yeah Oh and then the animated show

The animated Oh right which was recent Yeah recent Oh and then Alright so there's the Animated show Which was called Can we say what it's called

I guess we can At this point we're not I still love this idea though If this one's too recent to be For me to like Think it's bad Well I guess I thought The other one's pretty good too

The animated one was called Jake and Amir for All Time And it was a story about how Our ancestors crossed paths In every single era Throughout history So it's like Right it's like Jake and Amir

But as a school house rocker Clone high style Some of it takes place During Abraham Lincoln's time Some during ancient Rome or whatever Right we were One of our ideas was that we were The two guards who let the

Trojan horse into Into Rome It was Rome right Yeah Yeah so that was a great one And then Adultette Our unscripted game show

Yeah So that's what Eight Eight scripts Plus a few movies Each one better than the last Oh and speaking of gambling One of the movies is about

One of us just putting Our life savings on Yeah A fucking roulette spin A roulette spin That's the one that we wrote That one we wrote just you and I But it was like

We wrote it as a Me, you and Ben Schwartz vehicle Yeah It was called All In We wrote that in 2011-2012 Yeah You write these things And it's like

You put your heart and soul And you're like this is really funny This is really good And then like It gets passed on And four years later Like what were we thinking With that piece of garbage

God this is probably so bad But you never I never revisit Never think about these ideas Ever again Yeah I guess I I don't either

But every once in a while I think I'm back I'm like back into the nostalgia Point where I'm like Oh home again That would have been cute That's a fun idea for a show And for whatever reason

Like you're not allowed The system is so messed up Because you're not allowed To like pitch ideas Again It's like This idea that would be fine If I thought of it now

And like pitched it Yeah It was like No ABC passed on it in 2014 So like You really should New idea

And it's always You don't know if it's new It's trying to construct Like Of an ensemble Who hang out And that's it It's like

Yes Okay so they work together They live together They're old friends They're new friends They're like Why do you have to come up With a new scenario

And sometimes the conceit lasts Just the pilot Like You gotta think of something new And exciting Like the new girl Where it's like a girl Moves into a house

It's like okay Now what do they do What's episode two She can't move into a new house again There's just funny people There's some ideas that we had Where we like sent all of them To our agents

And it was like I think it was around the time When they said yes to scoops We were like Jake and Amir work in a bike shop Jake and Amir work at a climbing gym I just remembered a different show That we didn't mention

What The Yosemite one Oh my god That one got really far too That one got very far Yeah What was that one It was called Rangers

And it was just Yes We worked at We worked at Yosemite We worked at Park Rangers We should pitch that one again We should dust that one off And pitch it again

Yeah But we always went through The same problem Which was like We know the Amir character We know the Jake character It's like Who else is in the show

And we're like A neighbor named Paul Who's I don't know Kind of tall And we just couldn't do anything else With anybody else Yeah

And it was always like There's two characters You guys are great Who are the other people And I remember thinking Like Why does it even matter Why does it matter

Plenty of shows are around two people It's okay Yeah But like Network shows have to be like Five Friends And like

Cable shows like Workaholics could be like Two or three Right Or Broad City Yeah I don't know who made that rule But that's one of the rules as well

Yeah So that's another show And can you believe We sold them all Any execs are listening to this Please We're willing to We'll dust off the script

And everyone wants somebody else's Dust off You guys won't even realize I'm not going to rewrite it But I will dust I'll change the date On the title page It's

Don't think of it as reused Think of it as refurbished Because like The characters will be new And they'll occasionally have to zoom And we'll bring up COVID if necessary Twice loved

Yeah Okay Let's take another break And then try to go Lightning round Through the rest of these questions Good Good

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When you're on the pod? You're such a numbers guy It surprises me It doesn't get your chipmunk cheeks going Would you consider playing it seriously? Do you consider D&D A mathy game? I think it's the opposite

Isn't it more of like A fantasy storytelling thing? I don't consider it a math game I think everybody gets Different things out of it There are people that love Like the stats and the odds And min-maxing their characters

And getting crunchy with the rules And stuff I would think that the thing That would appeal to you about it Is the gambling aspect of it Like you roll a dice To see if what you wanted To happen happens

And that seems like Something that's up your alley That's true I do like the gambling aspect of it But I'm just not good Like I never got into Anything fantasy related at all Some people are like

I don't like fantasy But I like Lord of the Rings I don't like fantasy good I like Game of Thrones I don't know any of that stuff So it feels like it's too Rooted in something I'm not familiar with If I were to DM

Like a basketball one-shot Where you play a Jewish teenager In a basketball tournament At the JCC Wow, some real escapism I don't know if I can get there It's just too exciting Or you could play an NBA

Like if you could play in a modern day NBA style thing So it's not swords and stuff It's like just straight up basketball Maybe light magic Would you be into that? Like Magic Johnson maybe? Yeah

He plays for the Orlando Magic Like Urban Yeah Just a little bit of Urban Cast He's on the wizards But he's also a wizard That's good Yeah

It's Daniel Gandolf Instead of Daniel Gafford Yeah, so it'd be like that You play an NBA You're a power forward Playing the Charlotte Hornets But then actually the mascot A powerful forward

Yeah, exactly Then the mascot is It's a real giant hornet And it's attacking you And then you'd be like Okay, I'm gonna fight this thing So like So there would be a little

You know, it's fantastical Sure That's magic And it's role play But it's set in a world that you like more Like do you think the world is What prevents you from doing it? I think the world is what

Prevents me from Yeah, eagerly wanting to do it myself Some time But like It's fun to jump in for an episode for sure Just because it's not anything that I do Otherwise Right

So what if it was like a Succession style world Like because you can set D&D in any Right In any setting It doesn't have to be like It could be boring Your standard fantasy

Yeah, if you want it to Yeah A boring D&D about just a guy At an accounting firm So it's like Role to see if he ends up getting a coffee today Right Ooh too

He opted for matcha Yeah Our role to see the number of dependence His client is claiming On a W2 Role to see if he gets audited Alright You have to do a 9 or above

That could be funny D&D but for boring shit I'll roll it and see if I get audited That's a 19 Okay So you've avoided that You're not going to prison There we go

We're having a great time already Okay, here's another question from The Players Fund Josh Rothkin Why don't you guys play Wordle on hard mode? I read an article that there's like Basically three types of Wordle players It's those who play on hard mode

Those who don't play on hard mode But play on hard mode their own natural way Because it's a strategy And then people that don't adhere To the hard mode rules I play on hard mode without turning hard mode on Because I don't understand Why I would play any other way

I'm trying to get it in the... There's a way Not playing hard mode style Will let you get it in three or four More relatively Frequently Yeah, I used to play not on hard mode Just because I didn't know how to activate it

But I was playing in a way that is hard mode Which is basically for those of you who don't know Hard mode is just the game saying You have to use a yellow or green letter That you've gotten Sometimes if you're stuck on like There's a Y and an N And you're like, I don't know any other words that have that

So I'm just going to guess a completely new word And eliminate five other letters You can't do that on hard mode But I don't play like that anyway So I activated hard mode just to get the haters Off my back recently And that's why you get the little asterisk next to the score I say bringing on the haters

I'm just going to fucking adjust my settings That's right And you can tell if somebody did hard Like if there's a random line of all grays At like line four You know somebody's playing an easy mode Yeah, I don't play like that But the biggest newest controversy

Did you see today's issue with Wordle? No, our Wordle Slack The head gum Wordle Slack Is the most active channel Like more active than Business related things More active than anything else That's right

The Wordle one pops off That's right And I saw people There were like three different articles that were sent And I didn't have time for it today Let me paraphrase Okay The New York Times

Which people were already accusing of giving us harder words already Like, wait, what the hell This is not a word that the pre-New York Times Cynic anyone? Yeah, cynic Like double letters twice Like I had to guess cynic at some point C-I-V-I-C

And like this is that kind of New York Times Wordle shit that I'm not into Is now showing some people Different words than other people Why? The number one rule I don't know if it was a mistake I don't know if it was just them trying to

Like start the process of Splitting up Wordle into a multi Word per day thing But some people Today's word was aroma Which you got aroma? I got aroma Uh, some people got

Oh wow, that's very good I got it in four Some people got the word Agora A-G-O-R-A What? Which I think is not a word But I guess is a popular New York Times Crossword puzzle word

Or something like that Oh, that's fucked That is fucked Yeah So the grand divergence is starting to begin The wordle that we all knew and loved Four weeks is starting to become a different product This is why I need my two so bad

I need my two so bad Because I want out on this shit I want it, I want it done I almost had it the other day too With Robin The two fucking words That was also, I'm like is Robin a word Or is it just a type of bird

And I actually posted to my Instagram story What is this wordle Which got a really good feedback I think a lot of people are upset Like is Blue J a word? Like Robin is not a word, is it? Like it shouldn't be But I, and that's probably why

I guessed Cabin over Robin Right You had those two words And you were like I know that it's B-I-N I know that And I'm going to guess either Robin or Cabin Would you not have guessed Cabin? And would you not have expected?

So the fact that it was Robin That Robin was my two I got it, after three I like knew there was a An R and an N and a B And I'm like it can't be Robin So like I spent like ten minutes just staring I'm like brain, no that doesn't fit Should I guess like a different word?

I'm like I guess I'll just guess Robin And maybe it'll like help me get there And then when it actually was Robin I'm like I don't think this is a word I don't know I'm starting to doubt it And they're saying that they're still using Like the wordle words

That would have been used anyway But I can't believe that Yeah, I don't believe it one bit I have to have a word I have to have a word with wordle I think Because some things The wheels are falling off And now the clones are coming

There's quartal, there's worldle There's nerdle People are coming for the mantle And I have been playing worldle Yeah, you've been really good at worldle I got the worldle in one It was just the outline of a map of the Czech Republic Right?

Yes, and I guessed it And I got it in one And I don't How did you guess like You either know that that's what the Czech Republic looks like Or you don't Like it just looked like a horizontal blob Yeah, and I knew that the Czech Republic

Is blob-ish like that Because I went there and I was like And I remember looking at the map And I basically think that there are There are countries that are vertical There are ones that are horizontal And then there are some that are square And that was the Czech Republic

It's always been in my mind as a blobby Horizontally kind of guy I guessed Russia Couldn't it have been Russia? I guess, yeah Yeah, it could have been And then I was like, actually not Russia is 29-inched kilometers

To the right of this country And that's pretty close Well, that's pretty close Then you kind of know that's like Europe Right I don't know if that was Luxembourg Or what the fuck it was Yeah, the tough one is

Today's was very hard I don't know enough of like The names of countries in South America It was Guyana Yeah, Africa I basically found out that Guyana Was a country today And it was the clue

Another quick wordle question How would you guys react asks Dan Goldstein If a friend got a two and didn't tell you If a friend got a two and didn't tell me That's right And there's somebody that usually tells me Like their score That's right

I would be confused I would be confused But I wouldn't be like that upset I'd be like, why didn't you tell me Like, whoa, why didn't you tell me I'd be happy Abital got a two on Robin It was brand and then straight to Robin

Wow, that's really good That's very good But I guess she didn't have the binge Hers was just an R and an N So Robin was the first word that she thought of That had both of those words in it An R and an N? Yeah, starts with an R and ends with an N

Straight to Robin Yeah, I guess that's fair That's fair Damn, that's fucking awesome I had a very good first guest today Let me pull it up As we said, it was a Roma today At least for me

Oh yeah, my first word was crate C-R-A-T-E So what did that yield? Some greens and some yellows? I guess it wasn't that great It gave me the R in the right place And the A in the wrong place And then my second guess was groan

And that gave me the O in the right place The A in the wrong place But it didn't leave a lot of other spots For the A So then you went straight to a Roma Although if you get it in three I think you could still be proud of that Yeah

Yeah Not bad I haven't gotten it three in a while actually H-S-T-S-D-T-S What's the most perfect flawless TV series or movie you've ever watched? Flawless Without flaw

Damn I mean, Peaky Blinders is one of my all-time favorite shows I love everything about it There's no flaw I mean, it's hard No, I don't think so You have no notes

Yeah, I don't think I do have any notes There's some like performances I don't like But that's not really a note on the series overall Right I think Succession is near perfect as well Yeah Though you thought it dragged a little bit

in season three Yeah Yeah Um Succession for sure for me I really love Breaking Bad I know it's kind of like a hacky answer But

No, it's really A lot of TV nerds or like Sopranos and Wire are much better than Breaking Bad But Breaking Bad did it for me More than, I guess I haven't seen the Sopranos But more than the Wire had of what I've seen of it

Yeah I mean, I think that it's hard Well Breaking Bad is old at this point too I love the Wire but I was watching it like as it was coming out still

So it felt very current and it felt very good and I wonder if it's very it's a slow-moving show Yeah The non-HG shows are hard to tolerate right now Quite Okay, that's it

Let's maybe we can answer some more of these questions Still got a lot good ones coming in but we'll stop right here We definitely should Thanks to you guys for

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And we're still making videos weekly videos on our Patreon Patreon.com slash J.A. Watching Jake and Amir videos reacting to them Kind of like we're watching them for the first time because some of these stuff we haven't seen in 11 years It's wild

Alright, the opening theme song same as the closing theme song it was the one is the loneliest number by Sigmund I believe his name is Oh right, yeah Sigmund Sigmund

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