If I Were You - 532: Playing Hooky

Episode Date: March 21, 2022

In this episode we discuss skipping work, skipping school, and a six letter version of Wordle. Advertise on If I Were You via Gumball.fm.See omny.fm/listener for privacy information.

This is a HitGum Original. I'm not fine but why do I do? Yeah, I know I've been trying But I got problems that I tried denied Yeah, almost there I'm so close that I'm spiraling out of control But there's a podcast for me I'll ask them and they will help me see

My help is right within reach I'm out of ideas so please help me Help me if I were you If I were you Help me if I were you If I were you Cool, did that sound familiar to you at all? Yes, I thought it was a Weezer song

Yeah, it's not Yeah, it became clear to me that it was not But it had that kind of do-do-do type of thing Where I come from is above It also kind of reminded me of At the bottle of every bottle Something's wrong Nickelback, very good

The words in my head But it's not, it's a parody of fallout by Mariana's Trench Mariana's Trench Interesting It's a song about fallout, boy Oh, that's good That's really good Isn't that a band called Mariana's Trench

That's a bad name for a band, I think It's kind of funny Mariana Trench It's like the deepest part of the ocean, right? So they made it a possessive Yeah, so it's like the deepest song we could write Is Mariana's Trench Oh wait, is that the name of the song?

No, the name of the band is Mariana's Trench The name of the song is fallout Good name for a song, not a great name for a band, I don't think It's hard to find The SEO is garbage It's probably like, did you mean Mariana Trench? Showing you results for Mariana Trench Yeah, what if it was like Mariana's Trench or something

And it's like them playing an apostasos But it still might do the did you mean Because it looks like a typo I think so I think it's a good pun, but it's bad to stake your whole claim on something like that What about stake your whole clam And it's like a steak that looks like a clam or something You're grasping at straws

What about grasping at straws for the name of a band? But then what's the pun? There's not even a pun? I meant Yeah, it doesn't have to be a pun, but I guess it could be clasping at straws And it's like five straws, it's like the band And everyone's like in a little clasp or something like that I don't hate that You finally got to a good one

Wow, clasping at straws, everyone in the band has a clasp Yeah, exactly Band names are important, but then also Kings of Leon is a big band And that doesn't mean anything Right, it doesn't But then you search Kings of Leon and you'll just find Kings of Leon You know how to say it, you know how to spell it Yeah

What's the guy, something Lincoln? He's written songs for us before Oh yeah, Dear Lincoln That's a good one But that's another one that wouldn't necessarily come up Would be like, here's a fucking letter that somebody wrote to Lincoln It's not like Kings of Leon is just that There's no other thing that's that

Yeah, what about Nickelback? That's kind of just them, you know That's a football position too, so it's kind of also kind of interesting All right, Blink 182 is perfect That's the right amount, because it means nothing Actually, Kings of Leon is probably the most famous band That I don't know anything about Like, I know the name Kings of Leon And they're really super popular, but I couldn't tell you a song

I don't know who they are, what they look like, who they dated Are they still around when they were popular? I mean, I know a Kings of Leon song, Your Sex is on Fire I know because Dave Rosenberg went to a Kings of Leon concert And was obsessed with them Do you remember this when he wrote a song? Dave wrote a Kings of Leon song I think he was inspired by Kings of Leon

And he wrote a song I think like, I'm not even, I think he wrote a song in earnest Like, earnestly wrote lyrics to a song And he showed them to me, and I was like, so I thought it was so cute, but I couldn't stop laughing Like that, I couldn't stop laughing And I felt really bad, because he was like, you think it's funny But he didn't want me to think it was funny

Yeah, he was vulnerable And he was like, I'm gonna try to pour my heart out I was really only laughing, it was a good song I was only laughing because I knew I shouldn't laugh But also, I went backstage to a Kings of Leon concert Wow At the Hollywood Bowl with Ben Schwartz Because Kings of Leon at the time

Were huge fans of College Humors movie Coffee Town So they invited Ben to a concert And he took you as a plus one He brought me as a plus one, I went backstage I met Chris Martin, and I met Jennifer Lawrence And these are not, I mean, Chris Martin is from Coldplay He's not from Yeah, no, it was just like, this is the clientele

This is the people who were backstage at the Kings of Leon They had sold out Hollywood Bowl It was an insane event Backstage, they were telling Ben how much they loved Coffee Town And why it's such a funny movie And then Chris Martin is there And they're like, oh, this is Chris And then, um, yeah

They all look kind of like hot, blonde, long-haired rocker guys Yeah It's like, it's kind of like Arcade Fire But I know about Arcade Fire Like, I kind of like Arcade Fire Kings of Leon I don't know anything about Yeah, I don't really, I don't know that much about them And when you went to the concert, was it good?

Or were you like, this is, sounds like I'm at a dentist's office waiting room And they're playing easy listening Um, I thought it was, it was like fun to be at Because it was like a Hollywood Bowl concert It's really, it's big, it's flashy, it's loud I think I knew like more songs of theirs than I thought that I would I feel like I knew like three songs

And then the other times, it was fun to be with Ben We were in like a cool box So you can't really have a bad time at that, that type of concert Yeah, if you're in a box Like, that rocks, it doesn't matter what the music is, you know Mm-hmm Yeah, if you're in a box, it rocks Yeah

Even if, even if you're just watching like a White Sox vs Red Sox game in a box And like you have no fucking rooting interest It rocks to be in the box Like it's just a nice VIP treatment to have that day Yeah, and they do give you food, we had bagels and Logs Bagels and cream cheese What a weird food to put in a fucking nighttime concert

It was morning Yeah It was 11.14 a.m. at the Hollywood Bowl Did you say who wrote this song? No, it doesn't matter Oh my god, man We'll just say the Dear Lincoln guy or whatever Alright, cool, I love that

You know, it was actually a guy who's been writing some recent hits for us David Adeyemi Oh, I remember David Adeyemi Yeah, he's sort of pumping out the hits Thank you, David, for writing that for us Yes, yes, yes Alright, we're back on our respective coasts Back in the old setup, for now

For now Mm-hmm Everything is in a state of flux as we build out our offices and studios Thanks for watching Maybe one or two episodes ago, we were able to record together in our new studio Yeah You can watch that on our YouTube Hell yeah

You can watch these on our YouTube too, but you know, it's less exciting Oh, they still should, subscribe Well, subscribe and watch this one so you can kind of like see the difference Yeah I'm getting, I got like reminder emails because it's been exactly two years since like the original OG lockdown My friends being like, hey, we should like on Saturday night get together on Zoom and like catch up on what we've been doing this week Remember that part where it was like so novel to stay at home for two weeks that you set up Zooms just to like see a friend or something Yeah

Yeah, I gotta, I can finally delete those calendar reminders Jesus Christ It was March like 23rd or something, 2020 Wait, and what happened? It's been exactly two years since then Wow, fucking hell Alright, let's try to answer some questions. This is an advice show after all Actually, it's the only advice show on the internet hosted by us. I'm Amir

I am Jake, although maybe I'm Leon And I'm the king of That's pretty cool Okay, these are questions without a theme But ultimately, I feel like we can help these people out We got a few wordle related questions. Let's save that for a little bit while longer because once we start talking wordle, there's no stopping us My wordle is fucked. My situation is fucked Here's a question about playing hooky and it's sort of COVID related

This 31 year old woman, we'll call her Baskin Robbins because she's a 31 year old She's been in the medical field for 10 years and writing to see if I'm wrong or right for playing hooky for more I often have to cover for other people in the office because they don't have daycare that day And to be honest, a lot of people at work have been having COVID scares or straight up getting COVID So I got pretty sick on Sunday and called off work and I went to the doctor on Monday and he said to stay at home until we get the results from the COVID test Well, I was home on Monday, but I actually got that call that the test was negative on Tuesday afternoon Is it wrong to wait until tomorrow Wednesday afternoon to tell them and take one more day? It's paid leave, so I do feel slightly guilty about the extra day. Is it wrong or is it self care?

Do I deserve the turdy? Thanks. Love Baskin. J Robbins Okay. Wow. I mean, I think I've played hooky in way, way worse situations or like situations where I had less of a right to have a cheeky day off And also you're still sick so you could almost convince yourself that you're doing the right thing It's not fun to have like, it sounds like, you know, your Sunday got interrupted by getting sick. That could be your day off Then on Monday you're at the doctor's office. Then on Tuesday you're thinking you have COVID. That's not exactly time off of work It's really just like, give yourself Wednesday. It's a mental health day for sure And then if it's Wednesday, like what are you going to go back to work on Thursday and like, then it's just Friday Take the weekend. You found out on Thursday, but you still symptomatic. You want to play safe. At this point, it's almost Memorial Day

Let's just take the summer. Let's take the summer. That way we're recalibrated. We sort of recenter ourselves as the Rock puts it Anchor yourself. You are the hero. You have to be operating at full health. We want you to take the break And it's just one test. That doesn't really signify anything. It could be a false negative. You can convince yourself that it's a false negative So you can convince yourself that you do need to take another test and it can't be a rapid. Those are not accurate I think that you can and should, you know, like there's it's one thing to rationalize taking a day, which you should we totally can do you deserve it But then it's another thing to remember to tell people what you need and to say, I need some more time off. I've been covering for a lot of people You shouldn't just be like, okay, thank God I'm sick. I'm going to get out of work. I mean, it's a really hard time to be in the medical field, obviously But I think that, you know, they've everybody values the work that you do. Everybody thinks you're doing a great job and say that you need some time for yourself and have folks cover for you just like you've been covering for them

And if you need to feel a little sick, there's nothing that makes you feel sicker than taking a COVID test because they sort of shove a Q tip up your nose and then you start sneezing and then you start coughing and then like the reaction is basically a cold It's like it's giving yourself a temporary cold and then you're sort of nervous about the results. You're feeling like kind of anxious and then also your nose is running and it's like, okay, this is it. I have it Yeah, that's it. We forwarded this email to your supervisor That was easy Nice What's the origin of playing a hooky? A hooky of all things Where do you imagine that beginning? I played hooky. The first person who sort of didn't go to school or work was actually playing a game called hooky and that's why it's called that. I spent all day playing hooky instead of going to this thing and now everything is called playing hooky When I was little, I used to always try to get out of school because I missed my mom and I would try to I would try to go to the nurse and I try to get her to send me home and every single day she'd let me lie down for a little bit and made me go back to class

And then like there was one day where I lost my jacket and I was pretty upset and I went and I wanted to go home so I said I was sick and she said to go back to class and then I started crying And I guess that made her believe that I had to actually be sick so she sent me home. She told my mom that she thought I might get migraines and as a kid I was prone to headaches but I didn't get like crazy migraines or anything It's hard to sort of figure out the difference when you're six Yeah, but I used to always I used to get like some headaches every once in a while But then I got this like get out of jail free card because everyone thought that I was dealing with chronic migraines and I would go home twice a week sometimes Blank fucking paper boy on Nintendo I got a migraine Blank crash bandicoot

Another migraine I must go home to be with mother I wonder if your mom was like flattered or kind of annoyed when I think yeah, I think ultimately annoyed And then I'd get home and I'd try to watch TV and everybody like well I thought you had a migraine so it's the only thing that makes me feel better Watching Jerry Springer Jerry, Jerry Alright, I think I found the origin of hooky It seems like it was in a dictionary of Americanisms in 1848 Because like somebody was on the hook for something and then they didn't show up

So that's the origin of it so it's like oh I'm gonna go do something off the hook or playing hooky or something like that Interesting, interesting It still doesn't make a lot of sense No, god no, but at least we sort of vaguely know why it's called that and when it started And that might be the first thing in 540 episodes that we've learned or wisdom that we've been able to impart on the show I think we've done we've done more than that I don't know It was the time where we sort of joked about Matt Damon for six months but like I don't think that actually taught anything

Nobody learned anything that day We sort of led a two-man crusade against mutual friend John Wolfe to slander his reputation Yeah Right There was the surge dude which was sort of a runner for three years Not rooted in anything factual or actual Yeah I became a godfather to many

Yeah but that was sort of a goop as well Interesting, yeah I mean I do love those kids but yeah They're all 21 now Wanna feel old? Alright let's take a break, think some sponsors come back and let's see if we can get into these wordal cues after these Thank you to Helix Sleep for sponsoring this episode of our show Hell yes, thank you for making the sleep test, the sleep exam and letting me ace it and become the doctor of the mattress

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Gross Yes, yes I do and it's to try surfing Yes we hung ten in Mexico together Yes it was totally tubular Yeah we took a trip It was radical We did some real classic activities We fished, we ATV'd and yes we surfed

We did surf And I'm not just talking about surfing the web Which we mostly did Yes I did that a lot You played Portal on the beach for sure for several hours while I went on It was a hard word swimming I went on a jog I came back

I took a rest in the entire time You were sitting there You were sitting there on your fucking phone Not even on a towel It was a head You don't think of when it does a fucking U-turn like that I had thought of that I had thought of it because it took me two minutes to do it

While we were getting coffee And then you wasted your whole entire day Talk to me about the surfing though Surfing was fucking amazing So I tried surfing once before when I was in Mexico with my brother We rented boards on the beach And took them out to the water to try to figure it out ourselves And it was kind of disastrous

It was like you just get tossed around You have no idea what the hell you are doing And when to do it specifically So I was like surfing is not for me It's not going to take But I had always wanted to give it another shot And then we got actual lessons We got surf instructions

We went out in the water We always had our own instructor Like shoving the board Telling us when to paddle When to stand up I downloaded There was a photographer there Because everybody is trying to get paid

So there is this photographer That was taking photos of us Maybe I can pull them up And discuss the events While we show it Because we are recording this Let's see if I can share my screen That's right

Preview Can you see this? Yeah First photo he took Just me zipping up your Wet suit At first we weren't going to do wet suits And then I said let's just go for it

What if the water is chilly I want to look like a surfer At the very least if I can't get on my board Thank God we did do wet suits Because getting a rash from the board Is a real thing You really rip your skin against it Yes

I was on the board As a boogie board And one of the waves came And you sort of fly up and land on it I felt like a bruised sternum slash rib cage area Yeah So it hurt just to be on the board I have that as well

And then as you can see we hit the water And the board was heavier than we thought You can't just lift it up and drag it You sort of have to hold the nose of it So you lift it up and you drag it And then I mean first we have to learn how to like What the routine of getting on the board was Which is you know roughly is getting on your knees first

And then hopping up at a certain point That's right But we didn't necessarily know how we went to do that And the waves were kind of intense They were strong They weren't necessarily very tall But they were I don't know how to describe it But very strong

Yeah it was a strong current to be sure And they were constantly breaking So like you know you were You couldn't duck under them because you had the board So you kind of had to toss it over Yeah there I am My first wave too afraid to stand He's yelling at me to stand up and I was going so fast

I was like how on earth You can't stand up You're using it as a boogie board but it's attached to your ankle Yeah Which I thought was just kind of like for fun But like no that ankle thing like came in handy Because like a lot of times the surf board would get thrown By the wave

And I would feel my leg get yanked Yeah Cohen got up Cohen got up first He was pretty good at it Yeah Cohen got up The boards are very The boards that they gave us were huge and foam

So like you can really stand on them And they wouldn't tip over very easily Yeah those are the beginner boards Yes but don't worry we figured it out Look at you this is you getting fully up at a certain point Yeah that one The surf board is going back a little too far But the way this looks

It looks like I really like caught a wave Yes exactly this is the best looking photo of you surfing I think For sure and look at the next one That's Yeah that's one and two right there That's a different wave It's a different wave

But yeah that's what most of the day was And it hurts to fall Like it's not like Because the surf board continues The surf board continues You get wrecked by the wave You like hit the The sand is like waist deep there

So sometimes I would like fall and actually hit the bottom Yeah And then by the time you I didn't even do this part where like It takes you all the way to shore And you're just like slowly like walking into shore That seems like an anti-climactic ending That I didn't even get to experience

Right This is the only photo of me sort of getting up Again it looks like I'm fucking carving But I'm either getting up slowly Or falling down fast And we should say that We didn't know how to time these waves So like the guy with the instructor

Who's just like this cool Teenager surfer boy Would just hold our boards And be like paddle paddle paddle And then throw us into the wave At the exact right time The only reason we got any wave Is because we were pushed onto it

And even then whenever I felt I was actually disappointed Or if that's the sort of his sense of humor But either way I felt like I really disappointed him Here's Marty catching some few waves And then You said you went back right You went back

The morning I left you went back to try to surf again That's correct For me this surfing really took I was I was thinking about it the rest of the time I was like I want to get better I like surfing a lot And I went back

To the exact same place I basically just paid for another lesson Okay And yeah The next day that you guys all left I spent another hour out there But with like just me It was like constant

He was like I would surf in Come back out He'd tell me go go go get on again He's giving me a lot of instruction Like even yelling sometimes when I got up He's like more towards the middle of the board Oh interesting Like an intermediate lesson

Yeah almost like It seemed like it was yeah it was like Not intermediate but like lesson number two For sure And it got to the point where I could Basically get up every single time The waves are very very small But you know like the first time

I went If I stood up I was surprised and didn't really know how it happened And the second time I had it myself if I didn't get up Because I knew that I I should be able to get up I think I got up more than I fell the second time

So the question is do you continue the hobby Do you lean into it more Do you get a board Can you time it yourself or do you need more lessons I have already looked into it There's a bunch of like surf schools Out in the rockaways And a lot of people like

Surf their year round You get like a four millimeter Thick wetsuit And shoes And you don't need to do that I'm not going to do it during the winter But I am going to do it I'm doing it in April

Yeah I mean you don't have to do it when it's cold out You can make it a summer sport Why are you braving the cold in any capacity Buying a special wetsuit You know some people love that shit I think I would like it too It's what John Zanussiou did Old programmer at college humor

He would like in the middle of winter Show up to work having gone surfed It's too cold for me to walk to work And you went into the ocean today Yeah I think it's just getting an older thing Because I used to be impressed That he would do it in the cold

But I would even more impressed That he was just getting up at 6 a.m. To surf in Long Island And then get to New York Or get to work by 9 a.m. But now I'm like Oh yeah I go to the gym at 7 sometimes I could wake up

I've gotten up at 5.30 to go on long bike rides I could get up at 5.30 Drive out to Rockaway Surf for an hour Come back, change, still get to work on time That sounds lovely to me I know and that sounds so intense for me It seems like after I had surfed

I'm like that was my activity That's the only thing I want to do that day I feel like bruised and like It's like I went skiing Like that was everything I can't imagine doing that in the winter And then like alright now it's time to work all day Right

After day 2 And if I felt like I still feel sore If I felt the way I do now After the first day I probably wouldn't have gone back But I'm glad because now I love it And I'm in pain So you think you could go You think you could time it yourself now

Or you still need the guy to say Paddle, paddle, paddle at the exact right time I guess If I went back to The same beach that we were at in Mexico I feel like third time there I would be able to Definitely not do it as well

But I could probably make that next step I don't think that I would feel as comfortable Just like grabbing a board Going to a beach that I've never been to And trying it Like I'll definitely do one of these surf schools Yeah, geez But yeah they like rent you

All of the gear too I don't want to buy anything yet And then the next step is Snowboarding I do something like All those cool dudes are like Yeah in the winter I go skiing and surfing in Australia And then I come back up here and I surf

I have snowboarded and skied before And I don't like it at all I don't love cold weather I think the falling in the snow Is like much more painful than anybody lets on And it just doesn't do anything for me I would I'd rather surf in the summer

Surf, climb, bike And then in the winter I just take it all Hibernate Yeah, I'll go inside and I'll do like A trip to Mexico I would definitely do this trip that we did Once a year

Yeah, the weather was perfect in like Late winter It was amazing Alright, cool Two surfers now just chatting about surfing Cause that's sort of who we are I guess in a way Yeah, I'll keep on

But No, ultimately My hair looked bad when it was long So I'm just happy now Actually it might be cool Yeah, I'll grow it out again Not only if you grow it out again But if you like get surf wax

You should at least order some wax I should Yeah, I won't have a board But I'll bring my own wax And you'll be like You don't have to wax this It's a foam board A wash guard and a shin guard

And a mouth guard But I have wax Yeah, you get one of those winter wetsuits But you just do it to like lay on the beach And read a fucking GQ It's also middle of summer So you're burning up in this thing It's four millimeters thick

Like you said, there's a hood I love overheating Surfing is one of the things I've like Always loved the vibe of and not been able to do So now like even the smallest hint Of being able to do it You want one in Yeah, you want the culture

You want a sandy car more than anything Definitely, dude I got the truck for it It's like if I could put a board A bike, climbing shoes I mean, my God, man Do you even have to use those equipment At that point or as long as you have a sandy car

And a bike on top Yeah, that's true Usually I think if you have a sandy enough car You show up anywhere and they'll just give you the gear That's really cool All right, let's take another break Thanks to more sponsors Come back and answer more questions after these massages

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Thanks, BetterHelp And we're returned Yes Somebody sent us He said He heard that I suggested a six letter wordle Could enhance the game I don't remember saying that

But here we are Well now you can try it yourself Because my friend Coleman actually just created A six letter wordle called word ski Oh my god Word ski, yeah I thought I'd give him a shout out So if you want to play this

Yeah, so let's see if we can play word ski Which is at Let's see if I can share my screen Maybe we can get to the bottom of this word ski together Good How was your wordling going by the way I forgot to ask I had an ugly day yesterday

It was an ugly day What was yesterday? Was it Horde? Horde was the word I think I can't remember exactly What my first guess was But it was something like I had like It was maybe

Chart Oh it was chart My first word was chart So that gave me The H and the R were in there The H and the No the The R was green

And the A was green And the H was yellow Wow, that was first guess First guess and it's like You know that there's not a word that ends in A R H So you know it started with an H I knew that it started with an H

And I knew it wasn't Heart Because T had been eliminated with chart Wow, dangerously close to it too Yeah So there was no other thing that it could be Than H at the beginning

And in A R With no T I was like I was very convinced that the word was heard H E A R T And for some reason I didn't even It was all about to meet Like in my head I was just like

This H is either at the beginning or the end And if it's at the beginning Then there's no other word that it can be than heard I was almost thinking of E as like A green in my head I just didn't even consider H O A R D

So when I saw the green H I was like there's my two I got it I finally got the wordal in two And then It was all green except for the E And that was when I realized Horde

And if I had thought of Horde I really do think I would have guessed it Over I think you've played today's already, right? Yes So I guessed By the way, we should also say that Marika guessed Horde as her first word

She said she's never used that word before Just randomly threw out Horde And it was correct Shout out to that Today I did chest as my first one And the word was sweet So it was like S was correct

E was in the right place I was there And so I wrote down I'm like, oh, I think it's sheet And then I was about to hit submit I'm like, wait a minute, it could be sweet That feels like a more wordly word And I switched it to sweet and it hit

And I'm like, I feel like I figured out this game I was about to go one way I'm like, no, this doesn't feel like a wordal word But it could have been the exact opposite It could have just been sheet And I like switched it at the last second To make it the wrong decision That's crazy

But you didn't mix it up And then you just switched it to sweet Which is instant And then you've narrowed it down If it's good enough to like one or two guesses So I got a two in like 35 seconds I'm surprised that you didn't guess like Sweat

Or like It's so Basically if it's a two If there's two of the same letter in a word I don't think I'll ever get it in two Because I just can't make my second guess Have two of the same letters in it Are you seeing this word ski, which is yeah a six-letter wordle? Yes

This is all this is the kind of like breaking my brain because it looks like wordle, but it's six I'm sharing my screen so you can put watch along if you're watching on YouTube. Yeah, okay Can you think of a single six-letter word? Of course, yeah No problem easy Uh Not okay, I'm trying to think of one that only has that doesn't have two letters, you know. Yeah. Yeah, like no doubles breast

That's pretty good What if we get it in one? How hot would that be? I'm breast. I like that. It's a six by six grid I think I've said this before but wordle should be a five by five grid. They should eliminate the sixth guess Hmm. Yeah, because it's not fun to get it in six either. All right. Oh Look at that. Are you a all yellow in the middle? It's not bad Okay. All right. I mean now. This is gonna be very hard. Are you a six-letter word, but not there? Mm-hmm

Fairest no, and I can't even see H. I thought you usually shift everything. So what's a word that's oh, are you a yeah, right? Are about EA. What about a word that starts with CH? Che CH a what about what about the word realm realm? Okay, is that six? No, but we know there's no s. Yeah, but that'll at least help us organize. No, I'm not fucking helping us organize anything I'm trying to get it to you really want this. Okay. Yeah, what if it starts with CH? Okay, look at that. But then yeah, that's but look at the Okay, is that a word carom with a CH? I don't think so

CH a are Oh, no, there's no E. There's no s. Right. I like and think of his five-letter words that end with an S. Charms. Yes, right It's funny when I'm playing word all I can think of is four letter words that ends with Basically whatever we want just pretend we're playing a seven-letter Hair wear it with WH Okay, let me let's Get really hard effect This is insanely difficult to do on the fly C H

a R E C H Oh Create no no the E and the air the same place and so is the R. What are you doing? Of course? What about flared? Flared. Yeah, no F F. Okay, that fits. Yeah, I don't know what they're I don't know what they're Ethoses on using past tense right for yeah, but at the very least this fits Maybe clared, but that that would probably be more All right, ready? Yeah It's not a word. All right. Let's click there. It's glad it's got a clared. Claire is right Not a word. Not a word. Yes. It's it is a word

Glared flared Chared we can't think of a word bear Bear Pharaoh Bear us no Pharaoh tarot. Okay. No, this is this is getting embarrassing. There's no E in that. I Think we got to go with two. No, we don't have to go

No, we absolutely do not I want to do a completely new two-letter two. Oh, I'm not going on easy mode. Yeah We're not going on Yeah, our Plare it there's no T Pailer no Okay DR Dreams no no s no s

And there's in the rea are all in the same place. I won't allow you to do that. I Have to do realms. No, dude, I'm making it up No other option right now. Give me you fucking give me a second. Give me a second. Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna just write something out This broke our brain Okay, oh walrus would be a good first guess RA R-A-G-E

Raged that's five so that's not gonna be right This is insane Nobody understands the pressure of having to do it live only us. Oh Oh That's that's pretty that's pretty excellent. It's a fit charges a fucking fit great. Let's do it All right, I'm locking it in charge so breast give us REA and yellow so we're rearranging them with a six letter word charge Did very little for our morale and this will make it even harder. What about garage? That's I know it doesn't end in GE. So right now we got AR GE all in yellow

Wow This is yeah What gear No, it's it couldn't be gear either Well, this is gonna be extra as long as it took us to come with a second one This third one will be even harder because you won't fucking let us go easy mode and just like do another six letter word For some clues our goal should just be to finish it Right, but I don't want to do that. You want to get it in three

Yeah, I do want to get it in three, but all right. Let's say it starts with G Yeah, okay And then there's probably a vowel because there's no vowel in the three slot. It's like this Gal wait, what about ranged? R-A-N Oh, we yeah, we haven't guessed an N Range oh ranger is is pretty good Pretty good. It's a gosh darn fit. Well, I thought ranged, but yeah range ranger is perfect. Let's do it

We fucking got it in three folks Ranger And you want it to give up you want it to just be like let's put walrus. Maybe we'll figure it out later The goal is to just win Well, that was a really good teamwork because I wanted to do ranged and you saw That it couldn't be ranged you said ranger is more of a fit and

Ultimately, that's what led us to glory. That was kind of fun and it is a lot More difficult when there's six. It's just one extra letter, but it kind of changes the game Yeah, I mean you're looking at a rg and you're just like what we're like There's a lot more places where a yellow one can go now. Yeah I'm wondering how to share it. Let's see uh Maybe if I if I tweet this I wonder if we can charge this guy I don't know we can sort of embargo this

Thing until we get paid for it. Probably not It looks like it's free But if this guy ends up selling to the new york daily news or some shit for half a mil He'd have to take it which could happen actually Actually, why don't we buy it? We'll buy low So we'll have it and then we can do whatever we want with it great and he'll offer him Yeah, a million thousand or no a million is a lot. Yeah, I was gonna say like This is now we just spend the next 20 minutes debating like we did the words

All right, let's offer him 40 thousand dollars. No, no, no, no, it's not gonna fit You thought we were done when we were guessing words whether you see us in a negotiation Let's guess Can we guess 50 000 or is that? Insulting there's no five in it Because we already know that different than wordle All right, thank you. I am colman and who sent that to us. Let's see his it wasn't even colman himself. It was his friend

But it was actually um This guy's smart because You know wordle was named after wordle. So this guy's uh Keeping the url at i am colman dot co smart Sort of self branding. Um That's good Yeah, I am colman dot i o I should say dot i o sammy sent us sammy sent it in thank you to sammy

Thank you All right, send us all wordle related adjacent questions uh games that we can play You know, we can almost start a daily wordle podcast. So we just sort of do wordle together But it's always one one day delayed. So it doesn't spoil anything else for anybody else That is smart. Would I would we both do it together live like base like teaming up No, that would probably be cheating. Maybe we would alternate one day. I'll do it. You help me one day You do it. I help you we sort of did that on live like after I had already solved it. I was sort of

Recording you doing it. Yeah. Yeah, and you were trying to get a read-off me Mm-hmm. I think I got it in three that day. Yeah Threes are good. Are you still gonna quit when you get it too? Yes, cannot wait You've gotten like three twos in the last week It's been a fruitful week. I got two in mexico and one last night and I don't know I feel like Something recently has clicked for me to the point where I am. This is why I want to retire This is why I want to go out. I just want to spend my time surfing man You can't surf and also play wordle like nobody out there is going home and trying to guess wordle

When you're waiting for the when you're waiting for the brakes Pull out my phone and see if I can get a two and whirl doll. Hey guys, wait up for me That's right. I'm halfway through this octortal Don't catch the swell without me Uh, all right, thank you for listening. We'll be back of course next week if you have your own questions theme songs All of it send it to if I were you show at gmail dot com correct Uh, the opening theme song sam is the closing closing theme song is uh, it was uh, mariana's trench mariana mariana

Uh, oh, yeah, david addie me. Uh parody of fallout by mariana's trench Uh, you can watch this episode of course on our youtube and then we're also making weekly videos on our patreon still patreon.com Slash j a watching jacademy our videos Discussing dissecting going down memory lane. So check that out as well. Yeah And uh, thank you to you guys for listening. We'll be back of course next week Chow for now or should we say hang ten slash surfs up for now? Mahalo. Mahalo Aloha That was a hit gum original

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