If I Were You - 56: Business Ideas
Episode Date: January 27, 2014In this episode we discuss climbing and grandmas. Then we make a SuperBowl bet.This episode is brought to you by LegalZoom: Online legal services, made easy! Check out LegalZoom.com and use either cou...pon code "Jake" or "Amir" for a discount -- http://zoo.mn/GPfH89See omny.fm/listener for privacy information.
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You're insecure, don't know what for
If I were you, I wouldn't be like that anymore
Your dad is lame, you are ashamed
You do, you see the cheese clearly shakes the blame
You can't hear all this silver light
You'll make a fool of you
I mean, you light up the world like nobody else
The way the jigslist is here gets me overwhelmed
But when you're down in the dumps it won't just tell
Oh, oh, oh
Listen to the fucking truth
Oh no
He was getting stung by a lobster at the end
What?
Yeah, lobster stung us
Lobsters don't have stings
I know, well that's why that noise came out of him
He was so shocked
I think you were just stung by a lobster
And a scorpion
What the hell was that?
What was my joke or what was that ending?
I guess both
Now I'm doubly confused
I was confused by his noise
And then more so I was confused by you describing that noise
As someone being stung by a lobster
Enough, actually
Alright
You don't have to put two people on blast
Within the first 30 seconds of that fucking episode
You know what?
To be fair, sometimes people deserve to be put on blast
And?
I think it's a justified case of being put on blast
So right now, just to be clear
You're putting not only me on blast
But Rosmarine, Norgi and Christian from Holland
Who submitted that one direction parody
Makes a lot of sense that they're from Holland
Why?
I don't know
Because I just imagine everyone talks like that in Holland
I do love that song
You don't know you're beautiful
Listen to the pikes sure
Is that what he says at the end?
Yeah
Oh, okay, that makes a lot more sense
I think maybe that dude should have let Rosmarine sing the last line of song
Give Norgi a frickin' chance to shine
This is Norgi's hour of power
Especially if Norgi just was stung by a lobster
I think his sister
Enough
I imagine their brother and sister
I also imagine their brother and sister
Did you say anything about that?
No, they're Siamese triplets, he says
Wow, there's just a dead fetus on both of their backs
That's Norgi
Oh, dude, I was thinking about conjoined twins this weekend
To be able to talk to you about this
Hey, this is uh
Excuse me
What?
Oh, can they masturbate?
Yeah
No one's talking about it
Yeah, I know no one's talking about it
No one's talking about it
I think you should take that lead from everyone else and not talk about it either
I'm just curious
Well, would they...
Conjoined twins could be anything
It could be like conjoined at the hand
And then it's mostly two bodies
They could be like a two-headed person
What were you about to say?
A two-headed monster
You son of a bitch
That's what I'm saying though
That's what I'm saying though
If you're like inseparable conjoined twins
Uh huh
Then um
Like do they masturbate?
Yeah, no, I know what you're saying
It was very clear from your first question
And I googled it
And?
I was sure I would find an answer, but nothing
I checked Yahoo Answers and Quora
Nairing an AMA request for a conjoined twin
To be interviewed on Reddit
I think there's never been an AMA of conjoined twins on Reddit
There was an AMA request, I think, actually
But um, nobody...
It was all jokes
Everybody was joking about the masturbating
And no one's trying to find out any real answers
Yeah, I mean, I'm sure there's a lot of more actual
scientific questions about conjoined twins
That you should probably get answered before the whole
I know a lot about conjoined twins
Because I've read a lot about them this weekend
When I was curious
And?
Um, I know that they have sex less than other people
Yeah
In a sense
What with them being two fused humans
Well, a lot of them compare
Being with their conjoined twin
As having found their soulmate
They're like their second part
Oh, like they wouldn't...
Is it like one of those things?
So yeah, they don't necessarily need sex
They're not as sexual as
You know, somebody who's like lonely
And wants to be with somebody
They have someone
Do they prefer to be conjoined?
I mean, it didn't...
Because it's all they know?
Well, yeah, I didn't say anything about that
See, this is why we need that AMA
Yeah
Anyway, this is a five for you
The only advice podcast
We've been halfway done talking about this shit
Holy crap
Sorry, I'll ease it
On the internet, hosted by us
I'm Amir
And I'm Jake
And...
We...
Are out of time
Alright, wow
This is a micro episode
Five minutes and done
Okay
So, how does it work?
People find themselves in difficult places
They email us at
Ifireeshowatgmail.com
We read their questions
And try to give our advice
Perfect
Todah, Todah, robot
Let's get into it
You know, even when I do well
I really don't appreciate
That you're the fucking arbiter
Yeah, that you still...
You're still quietly
Look to me with the end
When you're done talking
I hate that
You know, yeah, that's on you though
That's on you though
I hate that you've trained me
To seek your approval
Sorry, dude
Like some sort of
Sorry, I'm not sorry
Hashtag sorry, not sorry
What an embarrassing thing to say
Worse than being stung by a lobster?
Worse than I'll just leave this here
Oh, yeah
Oh, god, I'll just leave this here
What are some embarrassing things
To write on your own Facebook wall?
Want
This period
This
All of the this
No shits were given that gay
All right, should we get this party started?
Up in here
Up in here
Okay
We are going to be reading real emails
From real people
But we're going to be giving them fake names
To preserve their anonymity
So, you got a fake name for me in this guy?
Chris Sharma
All right
Pretty specific
But here we go
All right
Chris Sharma writes
Hey guys, love the show
I sent you an email a little while back
About a girl who wants to go climbing with me
Who has a boyfriend
The problem was essentially that I'm super into her
Don't know how to handle going on climbing trips with her
Well, now she's coming on a multi-day climbing excursion
With me and some friends
Camping
Spending the whole day together
And I'll be working on projects
So I'll need to be focused on climbing hard
On top of this
She's applying at my work
A rock climbing gear store
So I might have to work with her too
My question is
How should I handle this?
I like this girl a lot
She climbs
She's funny
She's smart
And she's a goddamn dime
Should I play it cool and wade in the wings?
Should we just be friends?
Or should I avoid her
Until she breaks up with her boyfriend?
Some help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks guys
Chris Sharma
This is so funny
Because I'm really imagining Chris Sharma
Wrote that email
Just this lean, handsome man
Chris Sharma, for anybody not
That doesn't know
I don't know why you wouldn't
Chris Sharma is one of the best rock climbers in the world
Yeah, I know why people wouldn't know that
So this guy, Chris Sharma
Now I'm going on a multi-day rock climbing excursion
I work at a gear store
No, you don't, Chris Sharma
You are a gear store
Shit
Will you go rock climbing
Even on rock climbing expeditions?
Yeah
Is it romantic inherently?
Oh my god, yeah
Because it's like
It's physical
It's physical
A lot of shirtless dudes
Just pumping through rock climbing bouldering roots
It's primal, you know
Working your way up the wall
Then you also have people's lives in your hands
If he's doing...
If he's like sport climbing
Yeah
Or trad climbing
Then he's like belaying this girl
Just holding her
Holding her
Feeling her weight
She's belaying him
Yeah
He'd like to belay her
End of the day
You're sitting around the campfire
The sun's going down
It's that magic hour
You crack open a beer
And oh my god
Somebody starts playing acoustic guitar
You gotta go retreat to your tent
Just to J-O, dude
You gotta be J-O in your tent, my man
Why?
Just so you can keep those feelings at bay
Keep those feelings away
J-A
I say
Yeah, this is tough
She's smart, funny, a dime, and she climbs
I want her, motherfucker
Keep her away
Keep her away from me
Look out, boss
Cause I bolder a V2
Which is the second easiest thing
You can bolder
The third easiest
There's a V0 and a V1
You son of a bitch
Thank you not to bring it up
Yeah, alright, easy does it
But climbers love other climbers, right?
Like how well you can climb is a huge thing
Amongst the climbing community
Like a girl who's not that attractive
Would be extra attractive if she was an awesome climber
Yeah, definitely she would be extra attractive
If she was a great climber
Though I'm not sure that like
How good you climb is super important
I feel like there's how much you love it
Is what's important
Rock climbers are like a very, very cool group of people
They're a little more chill
It's not about like, oh what can you climb
It's more about like, do you love it, you know?
Yeah
You have chalk all over your hands
All over the microphone
It's funny that you love
Chalk your hands in a full heart
You have this split personality
Where it's like half of you loves rock climbing
And then the other half of you would like
Also loves getting wasted
And going to like clubs in Vegas
Right, the two powders I love
Are ground up moon rocks
Just snorting a line off of my kitchen counter
Rolling my face off and going to Brooklyn Bowl
Or
Waking up at the crack of dawn, trying to
Chalk up my hands and hiking into Red Rocks
This past weekend when I was in Vegas
It was like the two, both of my personalities
Like during the day I was climbing
And at night I was just like in a club with my brother
Yeah, that was your happy zone
Yeah, I don't know, I think since I've been here
I've been way more into
The day
Yeah, climbing, exercising, being healthy
It's the LA lifestyle
I think it's half LA lifestyle
And also half living at your parents' house lifestyle
My mom is pretty epic task master
What did you say, lights out at 10?
Yeah, well I don't have to be
I don't have to be asleep at 10
I just have to be in my room with the lights off at 10
I don't actually have a bedtime
That's when she tucks you in
Yeah, and then like I really should be asleep
By 10.30 or 11 when she comes to check in on me
But sometimes I can fake it
Unless she listens to my breathing and she's like
I can tell you're not really asleep
This is fake, fake breath
And then she like, she moves the down comforter away from you
And she sees that you're actually like holding a bite-sized snicker
And you're like, ooh it's okay because I haven't brushed my teeth yet
And she's like, well dessert was at 8
Now the sugar is gonna make it so you're up until 11
Yeah, and the other night she slapped me across the face
Backhanded
I said, I left my room at 11.15
I said, I'm actually a bit thirsty
Can I have a spot of water?
She actually wound up
There was like a backswing on this
And she borderline punched me in the face
She said she slapped the thirst out of you
Except if you're hungry for more I got one more coming
If you really need something else
Which wasn't even true because I started weeping
And it made me feel very dehydrated
Yeah, you were losing a lot of that salt water, that sodium
Yeah
This dude
What do you do?
Climbing aside, we'll talk about climbing all day
You started rock climbing too
Yeah, I really like it
Do you enjoy it?
Mm-hmm
What's your favorite part about it?
I think getting to the top
Getting to the top
Getting to the top of a root feels good
Yeah
Yeah, and leaving feels good
Like putting moisturizer on your blistered ass hands
So your two favorite things about climbing
Both don't necessarily involve the actual climbing
Oh no, climbing is the worst part
Being at the top and then not putting the lotion on it
Yeah, resting and leaving and lotion
You know what?
I think I'm just gonna buy a ladder and a lotion
Yeah, if you just take a ladder to the top of the wall
And there's lotion up there
That's all you really need
That would be ideal
That would be Ikeel
Ikeels
So the real question is how into this boyfriend or she
If it's a new relationship I'd say maybe it's worth trying to
So some seeds of doubt
If it's like a
If it's been going on for a really long time
You can wait it out because it might be almost over
But if it's in like the lovey-dovey
Super intense hardcore period
This guy's got nothing to do but wait
Right, I also feel like
Sowing seeds of doubt sounds um
Borderline illegal
There ain't nothing illegal about it
Right, just like chipping away
But I think that
He also has a better chance of this other guy's not a climber
And he is
Oh yeah, that's
I mean that's it, game over
If you just start climbing harder than that dude does
Even if he does climb
You become the best
Yeah, if he's a better climber than you
We suggest doing nothing
Yeah, we suggest you lose
Yeah, quit the gear store
Pick up a different hobby boss
Tip your king over
This is checkmate, he's got you beat
I don't think that they're like
Sowing the seeds of doubt as you say
Isn't necessarily
You can't do it by being like your boyfriend
The right way to do it is just by being yourself
Be great
Yeah, be great in her presence
Yeah, that's all it is
And then she'll realize that
There's somebody better than her boyfriend
And then you express interest in her
And she's like, wow, the guy that's better than my boyfriend
Likes me
I'm gonna jump ship
That is if you are better than her boyfriend
Right, so first step
Be better
Find out if you're better than her boyfriend
If you are, great
If you're not, be better
If you become better
Then make the move
And if you can't become better
Peace out
Those are your options, Chris Sharma
But I wouldn't ignore
Just be your friend, be there for her, be cool
Be good in her presence
Which you should be doing anyway
Even if you didn't like her
You should just be good
Yeah
So do that
You can always be thinner, look better
That's not what I meant by be good
But it is correct
Alright, we need another name
Because we're gonna answer another question
Alex Honnold
Alex Honnold writes
Hey guys
I got accepted to a scientific PhD scholarship
Which will start soon
The workplace is very nice
Good weather, no stress or traffic
And the work environment is friendly
The problem is
That I cannot get out of my mind
Some business ideas I have
So I'm really not focused or motivated
For the PhD
But the scholarship will get me
A steady income for some years
In contrast with the serious risk of starting a business
In the middle of an economic crisis
Should I throw myself to the sea
And find out if I drown or swim?
Love the show, wish the best for you
Alex Honnold
Wow
Hmm
Honnold
Sticky, sticky, sticky situation
Always got business ideas
Well yeah
I've got some business ideas actually
I'd be down to become a doctor
But on the other hand
I have an idea for a business
I actually have a couple ideas
For different businesses
One of the business ideas is actually pretty dope
Yeah
So I'm considering doing that
Instead of becoming a doctor
With a steady income with good weather
In a friendly work environment
And last time I checked
Some businesses actually do pretty damn well
Have you ever heard of a little business called Nike?
Yeah
How about Starbucks?
How it works is people buy shoes and coffee
And you get a cut
Yeah
Yeah
So businesses don't seem to be
Too bad of an idea
Do they now?
In fact, I can't think of a single business
That's failed between Nike, Starbucks
Just glancing over this New York Stock Exchange app
That I have
These are all seemingly pretty profitable ideas
GE?
That's a good one
Right, okay, right off the bat
This one, Universal
They seem to make real bang
And actually, Clear Channel
Clear Channel actually has a pretty sizeable
Sizeable net worth
Yeah, and I'm looking at a steady revenue stream
And I can imagine these Warner Brothers
That started Warner Brothers are
Pretty loaded, I think
I bet they're well off
And to be perfectly honest
My business idea isn't much different than theirs
Yeah, in fact, it's the exact same
I'm gonna finance some big picture blockbusters
Business is risky
Okay, buddy
Being a doctor with a PhD
Nice weather, no traffic
In a friendly work environment
That's all reward, no risk
But the heart wants what the heart wants
I think you can look at the list
And see the pros
Which is for your PhD program
Only pros
One con being you don't get to work
On your business ideas
And then you look at your business ideas list
And it's all cons
Risky financial crisis
Startup money
You know, likelihood of failing
And they're all cons in one pro
Which is you get to do what you want
But is that one pro worth the cons?
Here's the thing
That one con you were talking about
Not being able to...
Well, excuse me
You were just stung by a lobster
There's actually a lobster nest up there
They've been buzzing about
These little red bastards
Yeah, there's a little hive
Over the corner
A lobsters
You should try lobster honey
Shit will change the way you think about
Lobsters and honey
Shit will check your ego
What was I saying?
The one con of going to PhD
That you said which was
Not having time to start your business
Might not even be true
He might be able to start his business
While in the PhD program
Just like a small bare bone skeleton
Version of the business
Just to see if it'll succeed
And then as it starts to succeed
Then you can start failing at a school
Because you've brought that lifeboat
Closer to the ship
Yeah, why don't you not get rid of your safety net
Just do the PhD
Work on the business as a side
And when it becomes mostly business
And then the PhD is taking a back seat
Then it's time to do all business
Although it is ironic that
We are addressing Alex Honnold here
Because he's a very risky guy
He does a lot of solo climbing
Without a safety net
Free soloing
And the cons there are
You're going to die
And you know what, he still goes for it
That's right
Because it's what he wants
Fuck it, you know what man?
Go for it
What Honnold does is beautiful
And I think you should try to
Climb half dome without any gear
Yeah, I don't know
It's almost like
If you really wanted to do it
You would have done it
Well, yeah
I think the two piece of advice are
No matter what
If you really feel in your heart of hearts
That you've got these great business ideas
Then you know what, you should just go for it
And try to achieve your goals
But there's no reason you have to do it
While sacrificing the PhD
But if you really feel like
You need to do this like all or nothing
Then fuck it, fuck the PhD
Although this show is called
If I Were You
What would you do if you were this guy?
I would clearly just do the PhD program
Right, and I would not
You would not
That's what happened
I was in college
You wouldn't have gotten in
Oh yeah
Imagine you're smart enough
To get into a PhD program
Well, alright
First of all, fuck you
Second of all, let me
Yup, fuck you
I want to take this and apply it to myself
Where college humor was my business idea
When I was an intern at college humor
Not really your idea
But sure
That's like the equivalent of a risky
I have no idea what this means
This internship could last one semester
Or it could last a year
Or it could turn into a job
Whatever
No idea, but I knew I liked it
And then on the other side
I was getting a degree in creative writing
Which isn't necessarily a PhD
Yeah, not necessarily
Or at all, actually
Right, but I was getting a college degree
Which people say that you should be doing
Yeah, as a quote unquote safety net
Something to fall back on
So I was in college
And I had an internship
And I was like, which one do I do?
My boss said, you get to
You can come in and work as many hours
As you want whenever you're not in classes
So I said, fuck it
I dropped out of college
And I came into college humor all the time
And look at me now, motherfucker
I got a podcast
The hardest thing to get
Podcasts and Academy Awards
Are the two trophies you get
For being in show business for as long as you have
This like stand that I'm holding right now
Is the trophy
If I close my eyes and squeeze hard enough
It's a Grammy
But I think that's why I think both
Well, I guess maybe not necessarily
But you stayed in college
Got a business degree
And then also went and worked a college humor
Right, so I guess it is true
If I were you, I would stay in school
And if I were you, I'd drop the fuck out
There you have it
The little angel and devil
Sitting on your shoulder
Which one's which?
I'm the angel
Why do you think that it's so good
To go to college?
How dare you
Question my morality on this show
Yeah, you think you're angelic
Because you went to college?
No, I just think you're a devil
You're a bigot
You think I'm a degenerate
Because I dropped out
You're the one who thinks lobster is sting people
That's you
You didn't learn that in your four years
Of fucking public education
Excuse you
Alright, next question
Yeah
We need, I think
Trying to remember if this is a lady
Or a dude
I think it's a guy
So give me a guy's
Adam Ondra
Adam Ondra?
Adam Ondra
Adam Ondra
writes
About three weeks ago
My nana moved in with my mum
And they don't know each other a great deal
It cost my mum thousands of dollars
To move my nana
Because she wanted to do it
In the easiest possible way for my nana
My nana is depressed and shiz
And cries half of her
Oh my god, I feel bad
My nana is depressed and shiz
And cries half of a normal day
And tells my mum that she, nana
Is a burden and not wanted
Which makes my mum sad
And makes her house a hostile place to live
I can't act out at my nana
Because she is my blood
But nobody is allowed to make my mum sad
What would you do if I were you?
Thanks, mama's boy
Oh no
So this guy's mama took in his nana
And his nana is acting mean to his mama
And he doesn't know whether to act
Uh, yell at his nana
What a hard situation
This is a real situation
Yeah
This shit's hard
But you are handling it the absolute wrong way
Why?
Because he's getting pissed at his nana
You have to look at this from your nana's perspective
Well, wouldn't she be pissed at your nana
If she was yelling at your mama?
I think I, well
I'd feel bad for everyone
I don't get pissed
I wouldn't be like
Hey
Grandma
Yo
Man up, motherfucker
Yo nana
Nana, you gotta nut up
If you're gonna live in my mama's house
You check yourself right now
Nobody makes my mum sad
Nana, you gotta man up
Yeah, man up
Nana, nana
Nana, you got no manners, nana
Motherfucker
Motherfucking never allowed us
Get some manners, nana
And while you're at the store, get me a banana, nana
I ain't a fan of my nana
In fact, I'd like a fanta and a flana, nana
And a bandana, nana
Go make me a flana
A fontana and a bandana, nana
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Then we could listen to Shenana
And Arthur Fonzarelli
He converted
The Hanukkah song
Bringing a full circle
It's about time
I just think you can't yell at your grandma
You're right in your...
He says I can't act out at my nana
Because she's my blood
True
Yes, it's good
But I think you're harboring too much hate
And resentment in your heart
And you're turning it into a hostile place
To live
Right now it's a sad place to live
So what you need to do is
Recognize the core root of the problem
Which it sounds like you did, but you maybe didn't
Maybe it went over your head
Your nana feels like a burden
To your mother and to you
So why don't you do your best
To make her not feel like a burden
Which will in turn make her stop crying
Which will make your mom happy
Which will make your nana happy
Which will make you happy
You're so selfish
All this is to make you happy
Well, it makes...
Alright
You small little Jew
You leprechaun Jew
You're more Jewish than me
I identify very strongly with
My mother's side of the family
My Christian faith actually guides me
I'm quite Protestant
Now that I think about it
And I'm tall
No, that's good advice
I mean, my advice is not really for him
But for everyone else listening to this podcast
You think you're in like a shitty place
You're kind of bored
You're not really doing anything in your life
Think about how much worse it can be
Let's take this person
And treat him as an inspiration
At least you're not living at home
With a mean nana
Who's acting mean to your mama
That's an inescapable situation
Well, not fucking inescapable
You want to know what the real inescapable is
Imagine you're an old nana
Living at home as a burden to your daughter
And some resentful prick of a grandson
Everybody hates you
You feel like a burden
And uh oh, you are
And you're like, holy shit
Die, no one's nice to me
Jesus
Well, at least this kid can fucking move out
That's true
Alright
So, yeah
What would you do if you were him?
What you have to do is
Be nice to your elders
They're the ones that have been alive for a long time
They've seen a lot of shit
Their whole body is hurt
And they have to deal with being dead very soon
So you just have to be nice to old people all the time
You should definitely be nice to an old person
Who is your grandmother
Who's loved you unconditionally
Since the day you were born
And I understand you want to protect your mother
But the best way to do that
Is by making your grandmother happy
Not by telling her to fuck off
I totally agree
You were asleep that entire time
I could, yeah, I
It's one of those rare occasions
Where me and Jake pretty much said the same thing
You, but in a different way
I miss now
I watched your penis grow and ejaculate
In your jeans
Did we ever look up time-lapse photography
Of a man having a wet dream
No, we have two
We have two things we need to learn more about
Time-lapse photography of guys having
Wet dreams and conjoined
Twins masturbating
Would that not be an amazing visual art
Work of
Guys sleeping in a bed on his back
Naked
And then the camera
Is facing down, bird's eye view
This guy looks like Jesus on a goddamn cross
All of a sudden
Seemingly out of nowhere, his eyes start convulsing
His dick gets hard
And it just starts ejaculating
I would volunteer for that
I would volunteer to
Be part of a study that I just
If anybody has access to some kind of laboratory
I want to sleep naked
Just give me a third
What are those
Thermopad mattresses, what are those things
Tempur-pedic
Give me a temper-pedic mattress
And make the room a nice balmy 74 degrees
I'll sleep naked for two weeks
Won't jerk off
And I will have a wet dream on camera
Guaranteed wet dream
On camera
I want it, I love thinking about it
I want it
I really want it, I want that
I don't know what I think about it, I want it
All I want
My birthday is a wet dream on camera
And then if they're out of that
A big booty hoe will suffice
When I die, bury me beneath the corner stout
All right, it's break time
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We got some live shows coming up
We have a live podcast
At the UCB Theater in LA
On January 30th
Advanced tickets are sold out, but if you wait in the standby line
They let a lot of people in
A lot of people in
Like at least three
Oh yeah, like 70
So come to the standby line
Come one, come all
Then we also have shows
In Nashville on Monday, February 17th
And in Charlotte on Tuesday, February 18th
And then
At Syracuse University
On Wednesday, February 19th
I always wanted to visit Syracuse in February
It'll be fun
It's supposedly a lovely, lovely place
9 feet of snow on the ground
Maybe 3 feet of ice under that
It's gonna be cold, I heard those kids rage man
Lake effect snow
Just a real blizzard like environment
You care so much about weather
I'm more than anybody I've ever met
You just like
That's all I think about
You care a lot about weather
I don't know, I don't get it
I've never ever looked at a forecast
You never looked at a forecast
If you're traveling somewhere next week
You would not look at the forecast
I think I've looked at
Maybe I've looked at a forecast
Like four or five times in my whole life
I looked at the forecast 30 times today
And the weather in LA is identical
Every day of the week
There's no need for me to
76 partly cloudy
That's what you must hate living here in LA
You never have to think about the weather
No, because what I do is I sort of get off
To looking at other cities' weathers
I've checked out fucking Anchorage this week
Holy shit
I nut it on camera
It's fun to just look at the range
Like it's a high of 61 day and then a low of 8 in the next
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Um
Yeah, I don't know
Um
Those are just the three shows that we have lined up
Yeah, well four, right, because there's three
There's Charlotte, Nashville, Syracuse
And then the one in LA
The big four
You guys gotta come, please
Even if you don't live near Charlotte
I promise them more than a cell out
Yeah, you gotta understand if you live in Raleigh
You live in Chapel Hill
You're like, oh, I'll wait till they come
Till they come to my town
That might not ever happen
So you got the chance to see us in North Carolina
The best city
Or the best state in the fucking union
North Carolina
It's in the union?
Yeah, in America
Um, also our billboard is still up
That's an exciting little news
Go check out our billboard
Please, if you live in LA, Highland and Santa Monica
Could not get enough pictures of this billboard
That's right
We were talking about what else we can do
Once this billboard goes down
And we have access to billboards for several hundred dollars
Do we have continued access to these billboards?
I think a big thing has to drop out
And then they have to get rid of these billboards
At super discount prices
But
We know the guy, we're in the loop
We're in the billboard loop
There's an inner billboard circle
If you have any funny ideas for a billboard
Like, I don't know, it could be a prank
Like just a picture of a streeter
If we can find a funny picture of a streeter
And make that a billboard, that could be a funny thing
Yeah, that'd be great
Or somebody's phone number
I want to just have a picture of me on the billboard
With a sign that says, I love my mom
That way she knows
Did you say
You wanted to put your Tinder profile picture up there or something?
Yeah
My Tinder profile picture
With my zip code
And swipe right ladies
That would be something I could do to you
To embarrass you
Yeah, that would be awful
We should have a bet where the loser has to do
Embarrassing billboard of the other person's choosing
Oh, that's great
Now to think about the stakes
The stakes are here
Now to think about the actual bet
Super Bowl
The Seahawks are going to win it all
I think Denver will
Loser has to get a billboard of the other person's choosing
All right, done
All right
The loser has to pay for it too
Okay
$380 plus an embarrassing billboard
And I'm rooting for Denver
And you're rooting for Seattle
Can't wait
Is this podcast coming out before the Super Bowl?
Yeah
Now you guys know who to root for
Now there's no taking it back
Yeah
Which one does Manning play for?
You truly are the Richard Sherman of billboards
That's what happens
When you mess with greatness
Don't come at me with a sorry ass bet
All right, last question
Yeah
Yep, need another
Male climbers name
Jeez, Louise, man
Well-dominated industry
No, we have to say at least one female climber
All right, female climber, but this is a male writer
Sasha DeJulian
Sasha DeJulian
The male writes
I'm a university student
And I've always been taking my class notes on my laptop
This past week, for midterms
I began writing my review notes on a legal pad
And highlighting them for review
Which worked very well
My friends keep referring to my notes as pretty now
And I can't help but be bothered by that
Is it effeminate to highlight notes?
Should I go back to my laptop and not do as well?
Thanks
Sasha
Oh, he's going to be really pissed that we gave him a woman's name
No!
We hate to break it to you, bud
It's very effeminate what you're doing
Yeah, I mean your friends called it pretty
It's borderline
Womanly
I don't care if it works
If it gives you a better grade and you succeed more in life
You don't want to be that guy
That guy
That girl
Just go back to the fucking laptop
Dude
I can't believe you even wrote us in with this trash
There's no brainer
Obviously take the C plus
But at the very least, your notes are doodly
Did you want to ask
What to do with the effeminate
Highlighter notes?
Because I suggest burning them
So no one ever sees them
Your friends called them pretty
But you obviously have to kill them
Nobody can know
Nobody can know you did something pretty
These friends aren't even insulting him
If they were insulting them
I can see at least understand
His point of view
That he doesn't want to get ridiculed
But all they're saying is that his notes are pretty
And he took it
I guess this guy is a closet homosexual
Who's so afraid of being outed
That he's trying to overcompensate
This much
That calling his notes pretty
Is making him seriously reconsider his
What he called
Sexual identity
I think you don't
As long as you
Do better, you're doing better
So that's great
You never apologize for something that makes you better
That's beautiful
Thank you
Never apologize for something that makes you better
Yeah
You make me better
I'll never apologize for you
Thank you
You're my best friend
My brother in arms
My soulmate
And my wife
And I won't apologize to anyone for that
Apologize for the wife part
I think it's an affront to
Wives that you call me that
I love you
I'm head over heels
Inamored, infatuated
Obsessed
In love
With you
That's quite
And I wrote you a song
I'm head over heels
In love with you
I'm head over heels
Obsessed with you too
I love you so much
Bad song
Do you love me
I don't
I love you so much
Please say you love me
Please say you love me
Bad
It's obviously a work in progress
It's obviously a work in progress
But that was 99% done
But that was 99% done
I think I might add a string accompaniment
So it's not a work in progress
I'm head over heels
I'm head over heels
I don't know a cello or something
I haven't quite nailed it down
I haven't quite nailed it down
But it's going to be not pretty
I'll tell you that
I'm pretty good at guitar
But my friend called my last song pretty
Should I break my guitar
And take up a more manly instrument
I'm actually pretty upset about it
But then I don't want to be pretty upset
Because then the word pretty is in it
And I start freaking out even more
I hate the word pretty
Oh, Merce, get over it
Do good
All right, that's enough
That's our show
Thanks for everybody who's written in so far
The email address again is ifireashow
At gmail.com
If you need advice about something
We will do our best to guide you out of it
We're also still accepting theme song submissions
Every episode starts and ends
With an original theme song
Written by and performed by
And recorded by our talented
Talented fans
That's right, we do nothing
That first one was written by
Rosmarin, Nortji, and Christian
From Holland
Can I suggest a band name for them?
Holland Oates
Holland Oates
Nice
Especially if you guys love Oates
And this last one is written by
A dude named Matt
Whose band is called Something Noble
We'll be back once again
On Thursday
Thanks for listening everybody, peace
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