Sad Boyz - Hey

Episode Date: May 23, 2020

the boyz are back

hey hey all right here we go i'm gonna do a little i haven't looked at this or said this in a long time but i think think I got it. You ready? Yeah. Welcome to Sad Boys, a podcast about feelings and other things also. I'm Jarvis. I can't believe you got that on the first try. That's nuts. I'm Jordan.

Oh my gosh. This is a podcast. I can't stop smiling. This is a podcast that we once did in the past and now i mean that's every podcast what is your recollection of sad boys what is sad boys hey a quick follow-up cut this out but what the fuck is this show my man um so So, boy, how to get into it. This podcast, and I came up with this independently. This podcast is a podcast about feelings hosted by two morose lads.

Yeah, we're the hostess with the morosest. The baddest boys with the saddest souls. The saddest boys with the raddest noise. The saddest boys with the raddest noise. Yeah. It's like a guitar solo play. Whoa, weird guitar. Oh, yeah, fun. It's got a face.

Oh, it's my mouth, but movie magic. Wow, yeah. This is really peculiar, but I like it a lot. Yeah. I just checked the date-ish. Was it June of 2018, the year of our lord that is true yeah so it's been what like nearly hold on are we coming up on two years yeah it'll be two years because it was vidcon right oh yeah it was wow a lot has transpired yeah a birthday soon baby oh my god

we're old now yeah that's weird uh well this is just this is like episode zero two you know what i mean we're giving the whole show another swing deleting all the odd episodes yeah yeah yeah or i mean like i think that uh yeah i i don't think this shit needs any explanation not at all um so i thought you know you know it's been it's been nearly two years and jordan and i have just been sitting in a dark room yeah we i mean we've been recording the show Oh yeah but not Well we've been performing the show We haven't really we lost our microphones

Yeah absolutely Thanks for the soapbox man People these days they need everything digital More like anti-social media Right Come see us live More like analog cast Fucking boomers Zoomers what is this show um so

in the past sad boys was once a television program no that's that's not right yep six seasons uh no uh sad boys um is a podcast where jordan and i talk talk essentially about emotional vulnerability, but also our lives, because I mean, those two things are inextricable, some might say. And, you know, we took some emails from listeners. We offered advice from time to time. We offered a little bit of a personal anecdote, if you will. Maybe a couple of hot takes, like that thing I said about anti-social media. Did you hear that? No, that was really, the FDA does not approve.

And the FCC won't let you be. Well, let me be me. Oh, well, let me see. All of those things are what the podcast was in June, question mark, of 2018, which was the last time we recorded it. The pre-apocalypse. After VidCon, before the end times where we are currently residing. I am coming to you live from a dark cave in Los Angeles, California.

And Jordan, where are you reporting from? I'm coming to you from a bright little cave in Newcastle, England because your boy got kicked out of the country a little bit. I know. People were like, what happened to Sad Boys? Okay, so, okay. Here's the thing. We're finally getting into it. We were doing the show. It was cool.

Jordan and I, Jordan worked at Patreon. I also worked at Patreon. Jordan worked in creator partnerships. Is that fair to say, Jordan worked at Patreon. I also worked at Patreon. Jordan worked in creator partnerships. Is that fair to say, Jordan? Yeah, and you were a gamer. And I was just a fucking straight up frame zero, tick zero. Yeah, baby, 80%. I was an 80% speed runner on a career, on a software engineering career.

Career mode. You're a Tonyony hawk pro gamer yeah actually i did i completed a speed run of uh software engineering in uh 20 2019 no so we're gonna have to talk about on last christmas when you gave me your heart um last christmas when we just watched speed running videos for oh that's true oh we have so much to catch up on so i think that could be a fun thing to uh discuss like we are now two old men trying to piece together the good old days yeah we don't know what the show is and we've grown facial hair to show that time has passed the time has passed yeah we both are also wearing glasses my son is in the background. He's engineering. I'm actually going to take a fucking screenshot of this just because that's funny.

But not include your number on that one. So Jordan and I, we used to work at Patreon together. We used to have this podcast. We also exclusively did the podcast in person. And this is the first remote recording that we've ever done. It's something that we had discussed. It's something that we weren't sure about. You know, we're, you know, pretty particular. But you were still living in San Francisco when I first moved to LA. So there was like this big dearth of, well, do we do it remote? Or do we do it when you move down?

Or is this even a thing that we want to keep doing until we can meet up? So we both used to live in San Francisco, California. Now, neither of us live in San Francisco, California. We used to both work at Patreon. And now neither of us work there. And you moved to LA. I, like a high school sweetheart, followed you there. I didn't tell you that I was coming. The disguise is pretty convincing. i dressed up as your cat um diva you i don't want to get into it you seem

very tall look man you should have youtube videos you you live nine lives you learn a few things um so 100 000 subscribers per life a little bonus extra at the end so jordan and i lived in los angeles together in perfect harmony for uh six months and then essentially we got busy you know like jordan stopped working at patreon and started working at a very nice and cool company that he was helping, you know, form. It is very early stages. And I was, you know, when I recorded the last episode of Sad Boys, I think I had 30,000 YouTube subscribers. And now I... Now a big 40, man. Congrats. Yeah, I have... Now I have 30,001.

So, look at me now, mom. And a lot of those aren't bots. True. I don't know about, well, jury's still out. And now I do YouTube full time and I just live inside of my apartment in Los Angeles because it's Mad Max outside. What a lovely day.

By which you mean that Nicholas Ht was running around spray painting his mouth yeah or really it's just a guy named max who's not happy he's wild what an absolute mad lad um and so i i think that like everything was starting to i was starting to get my life together in los angeles i was starting to like try and have friends over to watch The Bachelor at my place as I was becoming a new citizen of the town. Jordan and I were making big plans to bring back Sad Boys. And then the Fire Nation attacked. Zuko rolls up. He says, no tent for you, buddy.

Right. I feel like there's been a number of fire nation attack moments in sad boys history like for example we did record episode 27 of the show like six months after episode 26 and it is to this day the only episode or video or anything that i've ever lost because i accidentally deleted the folder permanently without backing it up. Um, now I have three backups of everything I ever record or shoot ever. Um, so, uh, so yeah, like the fire nation attacked, uh, the world, the sky started falling. Um, the government was afraid of jordan's masculinity

i think and so they yeah i flexed too hard they forced him to leave so suddenly he just had to fucking leave america yeah in february uh i so for context i moved down what about uh five months before you moved to la to start this company with Lauren, who was on the show. She was on the Being a Fan episode. She's been on two episodes, yeah. What's the other one? I don't know. I think it's just called Lauren.

With an exclamation mark, like Jeb. We ran out of steam very early. We stopped naming episodes. And Brigham as well, who did the masculinity episode, the penultimate episode, and did the show end because of him I know what you're thinking seems like a weird coincidence and of course the answer is yes yeah no it is

he tore us he tore down our masculinity with his toxic masculinity and then the New Zealand army attacked the four of Charlie right and yeah and so Then the New Zealand army attacked the former Charlie. Right, yeah.

And so... I had to... So in order to do that, in order to be involved with a new company on my H-1B, my occupational visa, I had to amend it, quote, file an amendment. We filed it. The government revealed that they didn't understand what podcasts were, but March of 2019,

and they said, we're not sure that a poscast, they did spell it poscast, is a valid translation of the job you had before which is incorrect it is almost all of the exact same services and then and is actually even more relevant to my degree which was their claim and then we filed a request for evidence they wanted more stuff we sent it all in it's supposed to take about six weeks it took a full calendar year and then they turned around they were like nabos and

they sent me home and that was yeah a couple months ago so my main question is like why do you hate america though oh well okay um first of all have i well have i told you about this anti-social media thing i've been working because a lot of these kids they're in their phone and um fort knife oh that's funny that's i've i listened to a podcast about that actually i am almost traumatized by that phrase i know i'm sorry trigger warning uh content warning sorry it's the new justin um justin that is oh my god there's so many inside jokes with this show. And I think that this episode will be fun to put out into the world not knowing who is out there. Is there anyone out there? Because it's getting harder and harder to breathe. So, yeah, anyway, the, um, the government said, uh, no, no, no.

And then, and then the fire nation attacked again. Once again, they didn't quite get it the first time around. Yeah. And, uh, and, and then they attacked the fire nation attacked actually everywhere at once. All of the time. All of the time. And in, uh, microscopic amounts traveling through the air i'm talking about coronavirus so the timing was kind of wild and i was hoping to get back

maybe last month and then kind of resume our fun tent lifestyle but right since that we what i mean we had a phone call two days ago basically and, and you had just the monolithic next level insight of maybe we should just do the podcast. It was. What are we doing? I do also think of it as a monolithic insight. It was a big, burly insight from my giant man brain. It came out of your pecs i recall um it was what no but in all sincerity i genuinely had put it out of my mind i was like when i get back i guess and we'll figure

it out at some point but this much like the show always was i feel like is a reason for us to talk yeah oh that's great no i'm i'm already i'm just happy to i'm just happy to be out of the house and by out of the house i mean very much inside of the house. More than ever, yeah. So normally after the intro bit, if memory serves, we ask each other how our weeks were. So it's Wednesday for me as we're recording this. Jordan, how's your week? It's good.

My Thursday has been going pretty smooth. I woke up super, super, super, super super super early like a good boy so that we could record in your evening because I was very sleepy yesterday and I don't know if the tent would have been particularly good Oh man By the way for those who aren't familiar, Jordan has fully

leaned into saying tent instead of content now I'm a trendsetter, check it out I blame Corona i am currently tired but uh i get to sleep after this so that's exciting it's 11 p.m my time gonna wake up tomorrow and edit couple jordan related dreams perhaps have just a few michael jordan related because i'm watching uh the last dance the new Michael Jordan documentary on ESPN. And you're working on something right now, I assume?

Oh, yeah. No, I've got a video in the pipe. I'm waking up tomorrow morning to finish editing and make a thumbnail and then hopefully releasing. You know, it's been a million years since either of us have logged into our sad boys social media um and uh those have gone gone unread so i think that we we will slowly i think it'd be fun for us to like dust off the cobwebs of our of our dms uh see what's in there respond to things a year and a half late um there is also an email for every single subscriber this airboys youtube channel has received over the last couple months oh yeah

that's thank you thank you for each one of those i forgot that we even had a youtube channel literally no idea how we're gonna go through these to the point where we can find emails there's so fucking many i will fix it i will fix it i know the technology um but popping into the dms what do we have oh man this one's uh content warning no um demonetize we haven't made a penny oh man so uh the top of our dms um in messages is uh nora friend, former coworker. Former friend. Who in December 31st of 2017 said,

sad boys, I loved your latest podcast. I listened to it while running errands and it made the experience so much more enjoyable. I had to stop myself from smiling and laughing on the street. Thank you. I look forward to more in 2018 to which i replied this very same day nora thanks so much for taking a listen happy new year and hopefully we don't disappoint in 2018 but let's be honest

jordan will totally drop the ball jarvis oh come on and then nora responded in oct October 30th of 2019. So this is like a couple months ago. After nearly two years. It's like boyhood. I know. Oh my God. This is a Richard Linklater DM. Nora replied on October 30th, 2019. Wow, Jordan did drop the ball.

Okay. Fucking roasted. Relax. Someone on April, on Friday, whatever the last Friday was, April 24th, said, Y'all check this account anymore? Little did they know. That the answer was no. Not particularly, no.

Not often at all. No, unfortunately not. You guys should do some more episodes again i'm sure there are a lot of people that would love to hear your opinions about coronavirus stuff holy shit what amdor 8d i mean i think it's bad it is i think actually yeah yeah wow no good is it not insane to you jordan yeah that in the year of Zeffo, the year of our Lord, 2020, somewhat people are listening to Sad Boys in the pandemic? We just got a DM from Jasper saying – Right now? No, this is March 16th, 2020.

He says, school has been canceled for three weeks so i've just been listening to this podcast to keep me sane uh hey think happy say happy my man oh my gosh i've been having trouble sleeping and focusing in general but your podcast helps me sleep and focus on homework and stuff because it's boring kieran and patrick kieran and fitzpatrick i know you haven't done a show in a while, but discovering Sad Boys. This is in January, by the way. We're working our way back. I know you haven't done a show in a while, but I discovered Sad Boys last year.

And I've just been listening to your episode, Cleaning House, and just crying. It's so resonant. It perfectly presented. And it makes me feel a lot better about my life at the moment. We should listen to that episode, Kiernan. That's very nice of you. What was their name? Did they provide a name?

Their name is Eleanor Cook. do you guys not make podcasts anymore sorry and claire jarvis what's up i'm gonna send you a screenshot uh from our dm from our itunes reviews i also just got a giant wall of text. Okay, here we go. Here's the screenshot of Jordan's. Damn. September 8th, 2019. In iTunes view, five stars. This is the greatest podcast. Jordan and Jarvin are very relatable.

I love listening to them. It's literally like the opposite side of the keyboard. Love it. I don't know what to tell you, man. This Jarvin guy, he's attractive. Justin and Jarvin. Tall. Two sexy, attractive boys. They can definitely do kickflips.

That's for sure. Large meat boys. Definitely not tiny or little. imagine being a coward like that we were actually we're actually super meat boys we're the we're edmund mcmillan super meat boys yeah we're the super meat dude i'm on i'm on fire for remembering obscure names i know that's that's a really good control uh tommy that's the name of the guy who coded that's correct i correct. I don't know his last name. Ref? No. I was going to say Refiners. I believe that's the guy that made Drive. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah.

I actually got a DM earlier that's like, I put up like a little teaser on my Instagram, at Jordan Adika, A-D-I-K-A, no big deal. If you're a follower of Jarvis's, you can unfollow him and go over to mine because there are a limited number of followers that you can have. Don't look that up, but just do it. Oh, you know what?

I just got a, there's an attempt to log in to your account sad boys pod on april 29 2020 that seems suspicious review it now oopsie new newbury england united kingdom so i put up this little teaser and somebody followed up and they're like i just started listening to this show i can't wait to catch up oh that's incredible you might be a little blocked we are getting someone just tweeted sad boys pod this is march 20th uh sad boys pod i'm currently binge listening to your pod and i absolutely love it thank you so much i can relate to so much also i just love your friendship hashtag quarantine life people are hashtagging quarantine life about sad boys in 2020 yes quarantine goals uh someone else said i always end up going back to sad boys

pod because they're the bestest of bros i'm getting kind of emotional like very sincerely uh essentially a comedy podcast about feelings essentially essentially it's really getting there it's uh more or less a comedy podcast about feelings. Yeah, I'll say. Mental health, life, career, etc. Oh, man. What a neat little thing. Wait, so you can send messages and do stuff. Here's my CTA. Call to action.

Send us at sadboys at gmail.com. Yeah, sadboyspod. Sadboyspod at gmail.com. Go ahead and send us like your quarantine vibe and also hey maybe you have an idea for people on how to live in the quarantine maybe some defenses they can use against the fire nation i feel like uh the water style would be very effective and also and also also soap soap style uh hit us up and like i don't know you want some advice on something i mean clearly we're thriving

i used to live in a country that i'm not allowed in anymore and jarvis is currently sat in i don't know the void uh facts only over here you speak no lies whoa did you see this thing from ryan m uh no where is this on where this is to the sad boys on march 31st just throwing this out there i think we can all agree that a sad boys even just a remote special might be what the people of the world need during this crazy time that's crazy because i'm reading something where someone uh depressive denial at grace donner said please come back in parentheses if you're at a place in your life where it's feasible manageable and sustainable wow we really really have a patient audience.

Thanks, y'all. If you're new to the show, and I actually generally don't do this with non-fiction podcasts. I don't tend to go back very far. But I encourage y'all to do it. Have a little fun. Scan through them.

Apparently, go to sleep to them. I think for my homework, that used to be a thing huh homework oh shit a piece of cobweb just blew off about my brain right i think for my homework i'm gonna listen to this cleaning house episode of sad boys because i think it might give me uh i'm in a very different place in my life to to when we recorded that so i'm curious to see if there are any lessons that i can apply from my past self. Yeah, I mean, this is sort of our quick check-in episode.

But if you have things that you want us to talk about, if you have things that you need to hear in the world, if you have anything, if you literally own anything, send us a DM or an email and say, hey, I want you to talk about this. And frankly, if you don't, I do know where you live. It doesn't matter if you do. But you know. Kick it off like that. If you want to find us. You can find us. On Twitter.

Do we have an Instagram? We don't. Sadboy's Instagram? No. I think I made it. Like I think I camped Sadboy's pod. Just in case. Because we should probably have a. That seems like a thing we should have.

At some point. Hey. Go over. Search it now. And if we don't forget there it is But you can also find me at Jarvis on Instagram Twitter and YouTube yeah, you son of a goddamn bitch. I know I know it's crazy I'm a little entrepreneur over here. I was hunting man. I've been hunting I've been hunting

I'm not hoping for Jordan, but I think I can do some damage. I remember we hopped on a call a few... Well, no. What was this? When was this? You were at my house, my apartment, and we were looking for Twitter accounts, and I kept a few. I own Content Jordan on Twitter and Instagram. One that I think I regret long term,

but I found and I'm really tempted to have was Jordan Thomas Brazil. If the people want to find you on the interwebs, how can they go about doing that? Well, short of going to sleep and having the most immersive dreams whispering my name four times into a pillow and me appearing to that's my way nightmares that's my plan yeah go for it yeah you'll finally meet me uh then you can find me at jordan adika on everything in the world aside from tiktok i'm not touching that shit yet j-o-R-D-A-N-A-D-I-K-A

D for Daniel or D for Dika Um, I, damn Dika A Dika I want TikTok at like J, my TikTok is not Jarvis actually It's Jstation I'm Jstation indeed Fucking Jarvis

The Fortnite player has it So I'm like, yeah FaZe Jarvis the Fortnite player has it so I'm like yeah Faze Jarvis yeah do you think Faze Jordan Thomas is that's funny we're not going to talk about my TikTok I'll plug that shit later we end every episode of Sad Boys

with a particular phrase which we both fully remember I believe I do remember it do you want to say it at the same time yeah we should try we should try three two one we love you and i'm sorry sorry yeah boy we did it they said it couldn't be done and they were almost correct is it weird that we say we love you and i'm sorry and i'm sorry like it's it seems like i feel like we love you and I'm sorry? Like, it seems like... I feel like it should be we love you and we're sorry.

I almost don't want to... Is that what we said? I never know if you're going to be sorry or not. Yeah, we don't want to be presumptuous. If you listen to this ramble, if it made it into the internet, who's to say if it does? Don't delete any folders i uh just wanted to say thanks for for being patient with us because you know despite the fact that uh we haven't made the show

in a while it has still occupied space in my brain for the entire time and people have been nice enough to reach out so reach out again and maybe break up the number of emails we receive about just social posts because we forgot to turn those off. Yeah, I'm going to spend the next week and a half in quarantine fucking deleting emails from YouTube so that I can find the needles in the haystack that are our actual community. Oh, actually, and we should also say, if you have any ideas, people listening, Daniel, if you have any ideas, you should hit us up regarding like how we should produce this show like should we be putting out videos should we tmg this kind of thing do you want to discord to join in on like we are if you can believe it we have kind of a surplus of free time right now yeah we've managed to figure that out so hit us up true but i think that like

just making something without too much like expectation is is good for the soul and i'm glad that we are uh throwing our hat back into that ring to mix a few metaphors live well people live mass i hope that you're safe and sound at this particular time we'll talk to you about quarantine very soon yeah it's the taco bell slogan it's i say it like at the end of every break in Ox. Yeah, I mean, we just cut on We Love You, right? We do. No, we say boom.

We do say boom. Boom! Have fun. Live mass. Live mass, everybody. My name is Jeff. My name is jess my name is jess