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Is that the first time I heard you say Seize the Tees?
Did you just come up with that, or did you know you were going to say that today? You wrote Seize the tease because we're excited about them. Holy shit. Is that the first time I heard you say seize the tease? Did you just come up with that or did you know you were going to say that today?
You wrote seize the tease.
It's the background of your phone.
It says seize the tease.
You jerk.
Why not at least make it a note?
Why the background of your phone?
So, yeah, for those of you who are watching this for the first time,
you can listen to the show every Monday for it's a half-hour episode,
and it's just Jake and I doling out advice that people email in you know they email us in at if i were you
show.com no if i were you show at gmail.com with their sticky situations confusing with their
conundrums and we read the emails and try to answer the funniest questions yeah that sounds
about right uh so why don't we get started? You know
what? Fuck it. Let's not. What? Let's just chill, man. Let's me and you just chill. This is the
podcast. Don't you get it? We read questions. We don't read questions. People just want to see us
chat. Yeah. Or we just sit in comfortable silence. Wouldn't that be nice? Yeah. People just want to
see us sit. Let's check our phones for like a couple minutes right now. No talking. It's a video.
They could watch us do it.
I'm just going to check.
I'm going to refresh my Instagram feed.
Literally.
No hate.
Here it is.
No hate.
I don't want a lot of hate.
Yeah, yes, hate.
That's a terrible thing to do.
All right, fine.
I'll refresh it later.
Go ahead.
Yes, so let's get started.
The first email was submitted to us.
We're going to use fake names but real questions to preserve your anonymity.
So the first question we received today is,
For about six months, my best friend borrowed some money from me
because he never has any and I wanted to help out.
I knew he would spend it all on cigarettes and booze,
but I trusted him that I would get the money back.
Now, six months later, I still haven't gotten them back, and I remind him all the time, and he keeps making excuses.
My dad is furious at him and is threatening to kick his ass.
Should I keep staying patient and let him take his time, or should I allow my dad to teach my best friend a lesson so that he knows I'm being serious?
So he knows I'm being serious. So he knows I'm being serious?
So should this guy let his dad kick his best friend's ass just so he...
Hey man, you gotta give me the money or I'm gonna let my dad kick your ass.
He's rearing to go.
I swear to God.
He's a pimple on a chain and I'm gonna let it go.
I'm holding the leash tight but
How much money was it that he spent it all on booze and cigarettes?
$13 probably
Six months
My dad is furious at him
And threatening to kick his ass
Should I allow my dad to teach my best friend a lesson
So that he knows I'm being serious
Should I allow my dad
Should I let my dad have at it?
My dad is a 76-year-old war vet with no legs.
And my best friend is an 18-year-old triple sport athlete.
My dad just wants the green light so he can have at it, teach this kid a lesson.
My best friend is going to kick the shit out of my dad.
That's so funny.
Yeah, all right.
Here we go.
Here's my dad.
All right, yo, you knew I was serious.
My dad.
Go get him, dad.
Oh.
You hit my dad.
Why'd you punch my dad?
That's my goddamn dad, you asshole.
He robs his dad, buys cigarettes and booze my dad is is a 91 year old black belt
so should he let his dad kick his friend's ass um what no your dad's got your dad's not gonna
kick your friend's ass that's not how the world works
That'd be amazing too if he did
Holy shit, my dad just beat the shit out of you
I can't believe that fucking happened
It would feel so good as like a 50 year old
To just know you can still beat the shit out of an able-bodied 20 year old
I'd love to be able to beat the shit out of someone who can buy cigarettes and booze
Yeah, you got like dad strength Yeah dad strength everyone just assumes dads are strong right like at what age
do you think you're you became stronger than your dad you know there's um there's a really nice poem
i forget who it's by let's just go on to the next question excuse me i just don't want to listen to
that excuse me that poetry shit it's all about how like the day this guy beat his dad in an arm
wrestle it's really nice yeah i'll, no. It was on the dad's
deathbed. I'd love to look it up, but you obviously
get pissed when I look at my phone. Oh, I
got pissed because you said you wanted to spend the first five minutes
of the show looking, refreshing your Instagram
feed. Okay, you know what?
We can review the tape.
I haven't checked it in five minutes.
Alright, so our advice to this
guy is, if I were you, I wouldn't
let my dad beat the shit out of me.
Yeah, like make an idle threat.
Say like, hey, man, my dad's going to kick your ass.
Your friend will be like, excuse me.
Yeah, I'll pay the money back.
No, my dad is not going to beat your dad up.
He said he knew his friend was going to spend it on cigarettes and booze, and he gave it to him anyway.
So this is a little bit on you.
I want to look at the camera.
This is a little bit on you. I want to look at the camera. This is on you. If your son gave money away and was not getting it back, would you beat the shit out of that guy?
If I was violent, I'd probably want to punch my son.
But I think as a parent, you have to stop using violence, right?
No, I guess not.
Well, yeah, you go to jail for abusing your child.
Yeah, but what if it's not your child?
What if it's somebody else's child?
If you're 50 and you punch your kid, you're like, that's jail.
That's child abuse.
Your kid gets taken away.
But if you're 50 and you punch a kid, I don't know how it works.
Listen, we're not lawyers.
I guess stick your dad on him and we'll see.
That's your advice?
Let your dad kick this guy's ass?
Yeah, you know what?
Drop the leash.
Let him go. He's earned it. I want to see what happens's ass. You know what? Drop the leash. Let him go.
He's earned it.
I want to see what happens.
All right.
Did I say that person's name?
I can't remember.
Let's review the tape.
No.
Let's figure it out.
We'll call that guy Chandler.
Cool.
So thanks, Chandler, for writing in.
This next question comes from Phoebe.
What's the theme of the names for this week?
I can't figure it out.
It's just weird names that I made up.
Oh, interesting.
Got it.
My friend does drugs, and she has been trying to get me to smoke weed with her.
And I said, maybe.
But then she started taking Molly, and that was her thing.
And she was trying to get me to take Molly with her.
But Molly is bad for you, so I said no.
And now she is trying to get me to take a Whippet, or however it's spelled.
But that can kill you, and I don't mind smoking weed with her.
And I know almost everyone experiments with drugs in high school, so I don't think one time is that big of a deal.
But I'm scared that if I smoke with her, then she will be willing to do more stuff because I have almost no willpower.
My brother said to stop hanging out with her, but she's a good friend.
What should I do?
She's not a good friend.
You can't have that entire first paragraph and then end it with, but she's a good friend.
She's pressuring you to do fucking whippets.
You just said she wants to do something that could potentially kill you, and she's trying to get you to do it.
I also like that she's strengthening the drug every time she says no.
What sort of weird fucked up negotiation is this?
Then she started doing Molly.
Then she started doing Whippets.
I feel like we're too late.
This girl's already doing crack.
They're both living in a crack den.
I don't want to do weed with you.
All right.
Molly?
No, I don't know.
Molly's dangerous.
Fine, fine.
Whippets.
No, I already said
I guess that one has the most fun name.
I'll do the weed.
I don't think everybody does
Molly and Whippets in high school.
I didn't do that in high school.
Yeah, but maybe it wasn't around when you were in high school.
Yeah, I guess that's true.
I mean, I didn't do any drugs in high school.
Except for weed. You did weed.
I did weed.
Yeah, you did.
But weed ain't a drug.
It's from the earth.
You know what I'm saying?
Terrible advice.
Weed's from the earth, girl.
And you know what?
Technically, Molly is actually from the earth.
Yeah.
Even the chemicals have been.
Yeah.
It's made on earth.
They're all matter that was there during the Big Bang.
Yeah.
It's all stardust.
Yeah, exactly.
It's all natural.
Whippets, that's natural. Yeah, because humans made whippets yo that's from the earth not from the earth yeah i don't think so i might check they're from the earth thank you that being said we did
seven whippets and took four molly pills before this podcast started so who knows what we're
thinking uh i would say if i were you i'd listen to your brother uh he seems like the smart one in
this relationship.
She's not a good friend.
Right.
Not a good friend.
If she's pressuring you to do drugs, like, you know what?
That's not a good friend.
That said, yo, like, weed's dope.
She's in high school.
Fuck.
No, don't do any drugs.
They're all bad for you.
And you should try to get your friend help, too. If she's going down this spiral of weed to Molly to whippets,
it seems like there's no end in sight.
Try to help her out if she's actually a good friend.
She's getting closer and closer from drugs to pharmaceuticals
to just something you can get at a grocery store.
To death, the ultimate drug.
That's beautiful.
That's our next shirt.
Wow.
Jesus. I'm crying. I'd like to take that drug tonight, Yeah. That's beautiful. That's our next shirt. Wow.
Jesus.
Shit, I'm crying.
I'd like to take that drug tonight, actually.
Let's die together, brother.
No!
I was joking.
All right.
Moving right along.
Trucking.
This one is from Ross.
All right, Rossy.
Rossy Ross. He says,
Dear Jake and Amir, I have a monobrow. The problem is my girlfriend wants me to shave it off,
although personally I think it completes my look. What do I do? It doesn't. There's no look.
It doesn't complete your look. You don't know what it looks like it doesn't no sorry all right cool moving on all
right moving on you know we usually ask people to uh send in their audio versions of them asking
questions and this week we got a very special video version holy shit so if you're listening
you can hear along and if you're watching check out this hey j Hey, Jake and Amir. I'm Kyle Fox, and my dad was on your show for a little bit.
Long-time listener, first-time caller.
And after your advice in one of the last episodes
where you said we shouldn't get into a long-term relationship before college,
I completely ignored that advice and had to do me.
And now I'm moving out to Cali for a little bit.
And I'm wondering, how do I stay away from these slump buster festival harlot nudes?
Thanks.
Wow.
So there it is.
That is insane.
I want to answer your question, but I can't stop thinking about how much you look like Rick Fox.
That's what you say to Rick Fox every day too.
So he wanted, he didn't want to be in a long distance relationship,
but you know what?
He ended up ultimately deciding to do it.
He did have to do him.
And then now he's wondering how to avoid these ladies in college,
freshman year, which is a difficult thing to do,
especially when you're a tall, handsome man.
Yeah.
So my advice to you is um sorry you're fucked yep you won't you uh you just won't
or you will and it'll weigh on your relationship so much that'll eventually that's what will
destroy it yeah i you're so handsome and cool that i want to give you like good news but
unfortunately no yeah it is you i don't. Can you imagine his girlfriend watching this, though?
Like, okay, Jake and me are going to give you... No, you can make it. You guys are good. I promise.
You guys are different.
Every other relationship is messed. What about beyond college? In general, how do people resist
temptation? Maybe we should take it like that. College is obviously
its own
thing you're gonna it's way harder yeah because there's a lot more temptation there's a lot more
partying there's a lot more like there's you're around so many attractive young people at once
that doesn't usually happen in the real world right so what you're asking me how i do it yeah
because i don't i don't i i don't resist it. Like, my entire life is just giving in to temptation after temptation after temptation.
So, what do I?
This is, give me advice, man.
What do I do?
I guess it helps to think about the long term.
Okay, you're enjoying what you're doing right now, but how will you feel tomorrow?
Do the cons outweigh the pros?
Will the pain of the next three weeks be worth the joy of the next two hours?
And if the answer is yes, cheat on your lady.
Boom.
Are you kidding me?
Are you kidding me, dude?
That's dope, man.
That's dope.
You would literally have that internal conversation with yourself all the time.
No, my brain is wired in such a way that it won't allow me to enjoy the next two hours.
I need surgery for something. I really think I need a freaking lobotomy or something. No, my brain is wired in such a way that it won't allow me to enjoy the next two hours. I need surgery. I really think I need a fricking lobotomy or something. I need
brain surgery. Cause you can't just be like, Oh, you have to think logically. Like if you're
hardwired to do that anyway, I can't change. I really think I need a fricking neurosurgeon to
go in there and change me because I can't do it. You know what? I, um, and while you're in there,
yeah, make it so I want to eat healthy and work out.
Can I ask you a question?
How do I be different?
How do I be a different guy?
Just because me is sort of messing with my shit right now.
I look in the mirror and every day I see, uh-oh, this asshole.
So I don't know.
I'd like to change my face and my personality.
You don't like hanging out with me?
How would you like to be me 24-7?
That's not very fun. I go to sleep. I'd like to change my face. You don't like hanging out with me? How'd you like to be me 24-7? Huh?
That's not very fun.
I go to sleep.
I'm little old me.
I wake up and, uh-oh, here I am again.
I drink.
I smoke.
I take pills.
I try to escape my body, but every single time I come back and I hate myself a little more.
Just when you think I'm done, I pull me back in.
Just when you think I can't get any worse, uh-oh, there I am to remind you
I'm still a shithead.
This is you talking to a brain surgeon?
So anyway, I don't know
if there's something you can cut out that'll make me better
because I ain't gonna change shit.
I'd be down for a monkey brain at this point
because even that would be a goddamn improvement.
And hey, if the knife slips while you're operating
and you kill me, that's fine too.
Make it look like an accident, Doc.
I know I don't have the courage or willpower to do literally anything positive.
You can give me a lobotomy to give me the courage to kill myself.
Please do that.
That's what he does.
The operation was a success.
You're the same exact person.
You just have the courage to, you courage to end it, I guess.
I feel that.
I hate myself and I thank you.
Can I recommend a Starbucks? I don't know.
Is that pleasurable for you?
Call back.
You've got to reward the fans who have been there the longest
while still attracting new audiences.
You know what? Fuck the new audience.
Drake says, no new friends.
No new friends. No new friends. You know what I'm saying?
No new friends.
No new friends.
It's a really mean sentiment, actually.
There's so many people here right now that I didn't know last year.
What am I doing?
Yeah.
Who the fuck are y'all?
Yeah. Oh, yeah, that's right. I'm doing me.
I'm doing me.
Or he's meeting people.
I guess so.
What am I doing? Oh, yeah, that's right.
I'm meeting people.
That's what normal people do.
I can make new connections.
Yeah.
No, no, no.
No new friends.
I don't have a wife yet, so I'll never meet her because I don't want to meet anyone new.
Yeah, you don't need new friends.
So don't make new friends.
Keep the old.
Started from the bottom.
Now the whole team fucking.
Yeah.
I live my life in Drake quotes.
The only people I can meet again are people that I lost touch with when I was four through eight years old and have to reconnect with.
Other people who started from the bottom with me and now are here.
You heard that, Drake?
Amir thinks you're a coward.
Please do not hurt me, Mr. Drake.
He's definitely listening to the podcast.
He was ordering a Seize the cheese shirt and then he was
like what oh hell nah so wait what's our advice for kyle um oh shit what's his fake name oh yeah
yeah i mean we show he said we can use this video so we can use his real name blur his face
have fun in college try to resist resist temptation as much as you can if it becomes too much then
maybe the relationship isn't worth keeping for now if maybe at the end of college, try to resist temptation as much as you can. If it becomes too much, then maybe the relationship isn't worth keeping for now. If maybe at the end of college,
you want to revisit things, have at it that way. Just always be honest with each other.
Yeah. Be honest. And you know what? Either way, you're going to have a great life.
You're a good looking, smart, tall dude. And you have nothing to worry about.
Yeah. So stop asking for advice. You're perfect.
Yeah. I will actually want your advice. You're perfect. Yeah.
I actually want your advice.
How can I make Rick Fox my daddy?
Yeah.
Will you give me a workout regimen, sir?
How do I get my chin to look like yours?
I'd love to be as attractive as you are, man.
All right, moving on. Next question.
Thanks, Kyle.
This one comes from Joey.
I have a friend whose girlfriend
cheated on him. I told him about it, and
they talked it out and are still dating.
However, I recently discovered that she is
sexting the guy she cheated on my friend with.
I told him about this, too,
and they talked it out again.
I really don't think his girlfriend is good for him,
but I'm not sure what else I should do.
Yeah, who is... This vixen. This silver-tongued I really don't think his girlfriend is good for him, but I'm not sure what else I should do. Yeah.
This vixen.
This silver-tongued serpent.
Talks her way out of any problem.
She's talked herself out of two situations where she cheated on her boyfriend.
That's insane.
I wonder what she's saying. Who's this fucking rat coward that fucking tells on her every single time, too?
Yeah, you fink.
You rat fink. You're the guy she's hooking up with. rat coward that that that fucking tells on her every single time yeah you think you rat think
you're the guy she's hooking up with hey man your girlfriend's sexting me i'm sorry uh yeah we
talked it out it's okay jesus really he's okay with it too how are you talking it out and we
should say when you're like i'm sexed i've sexted someone. Maybe she's so attractive that the guy's like, you know, whatever.
Whatever you want to do, that's fine.
We talked it out twice.
What else?
I mean, if you already told the person and they're okay with it,
what else can you do?
Yeah.
I mean, you've basically told them what you think,
that she's not good for this person.
And clearly she's not.
But, I mean, mind your business, dude.
That ain't your problem.
Jesus.
If you saw your friend getting cheated on, would you tell him?
I think, I mean, I'd probably do what he has done.
Just be like, tell him.
She does it again.
Tell him.
But I mean, like, what are you, you can't like physically.
Tear people apart.
I guess I'd ask to be there for this discussion where she's clearly brainwashing
him. She's like the
oh fuck, who's the red
priest? The fire... I'm just
going to ask the guys behind the camera because they'll know.
In Game of Thrones, who's
the red princess lady?
I don't remember her name either. There's a lot of nerds
watching this podcast yelling at their computer
right now. I think it's Jessica Rabbit.
I feel like what you're thinking about.
Your friend is being Stannis Baratheon right now.
Yes.
Oh, totally.
Are you kidding me?
Stannis Baratheon.
Yeah, yeah.
Stannis Baratheon by this girl who's not good.
You're trying to, you're.
Yeah, you're like Jon Snow and she's like, oh no.
Let's cut.
Let's cut me out of the podcast.
Let's end the show, not this episode, but for good.
And yeah, I think we're done.
I bet we cut me out of my life right now.
And I just go home and never talk to any of you again.
I'd love to see a brain surgeon tomorrow.
A brain and face surgeon.
I want a be not need, sir.
Doc.
While you're in there, can you take my wisdom teeth out?
I want no wisdom teeth and a new personality slash lease on life.
Oh, P.S.
How about some pecs?
This is not.
You're at a walk-in clinic.
You need to leave.
We can treat you for your gonorrhea, and that's it.
Fine, I'll take it.
Thank you.
All right.
Next question.
Can we give that guy advice?
Yeah, you did what you can do, and you can't do anything else.
I mean, you told your friend he was getting cheated on.
Yeah, remove yourself from the situation.
Keep an eye on the serpent. Follow ways i want to know yeah we should
have her on the show and be like what what are these conversations you're having that
jafar style all right this one is from gunther gun, Gunther. After a few days of texting nonstop to a girl I love,
she mysteriously stopped replying.
I sent her a few texts until she finally told me to stop talking to her.
I'm pretty sure this is a goof,
but I'm going to play it safe when it comes to texting.
Fortunately, I know where she usually goes on a typical day.
Should I go surprise her at work, school, or home?
Thanks for the help
gunther the the advice is where should i kill her yes the advice is this girl's obviously wants him
to text him do you want to give her let's give opposite advice oh okay that's good uh so what's
your opposite advice for this guy um i mean obviously she she thinks that you've cooled off so i would i like
double time your efforts right now school work or home how about school work and home okay we're
gonna text her we're gonna text her say hey i'm coming over i know where you live like send us
some pictures of you driving over there is i know you where you live a little threatening no not
enough yeah yeah like i know where you live you don't show up to her place with your bags oh that's good if you love her like you can't you can't slow down yeah yeah and uh when she said
uh stop talking to her that he was right that was probably a goof it was probably her way of being
like okay you gotta earn this booty yeah you gotta earn this booty so like a lot of times. Sorry, wait. You got to earn this.
Would you say that again?
You got to earn this booty.
So like that's what she's thinking.
You got to earn this booty.
Yeah.
That's what girls say to you.
Yeah.
So it's like, stop texting me.
You got to earn this booty.
I'm like, all right, let's kick it up a notch.
There's nothing I love more than like you doing impressions of girls when they want to hook up with a guy.
Because you clearly don't know anything't know anything right you gotta earn this booty has a girl ever said
that to you she said i mean multiple 10 15 30 girls at a time they're always saying you gotta
earn this yeah you you gotta earn this yeah like i'll go in for a kiss and she like pushed me away
and i'm like let me guess i gotta earn this booty and she's like, let me guess. I got to earn this booty. And she's like, no, not really. You just, I just never want to be with you.
What have you done to earn booties before?
I haven't earned a booty yet.
A couple of times I'm like really disinterested and they sort of like let their guard down
enough to stop talking to me.
But like whenever I go for it,
they're always just like,
get out.
Oh,
I got to earn that booty.
Yeah.
They don't say it.
I say it,
but it's like,
they agree.
And then like,
then the boyfriend comes over and starts like,
Hey,
I'm just trying to earn a booty.
Quit it.
How did you earn the booty?
How many times did you text?
The dad comes over and beats the shit out of me.
58-year-old war vet.
Stop texting her.
Right, you're a stalker right now.
Don't go to work.
Don't go to school.
Don't go to home.
If you really like someone, you don't want to text them more than they text you yeah a good indicator of how much to text someone
is how much they text you right i used to i used oh my god i used to do the craziest shit when i
like would like girls would be like emailing or facebook messaging or even texting i'd like
i would use i would use like microsoft word and put in the words to make sure my word count was always less than theirs.
Wow.
When was this?
I mean, it was like fucking six months ago.
Weeks ago at this point.
It was not long ago.
So you never want to put more effort than the girl is.
Or at least equal effort.
You never want to be putting more.
Just equal to less.
I don't even think less is a good move.
I'm always like equal effort
everybody's on the same page i think that's the way to do it but does that ever like cycle out
of like proportion so it's like all right i do a little bit she does a little bit and then a little
bit more and then you match it and then it's like holy shit we're sending like full paragraphs to
each other i get fucking excited thinking about text i think that's my problem doc i get excited
like my phone's vibrating twice since we've been here and it's like oh man i fucking wonder what
the texts say i wonder what the texts say.
I wonder what the texts say.
Keep that part of my brain.
Change literally everything else.
I like texts.
What if you were born 20 years ago?
I'd be a better person.
I'd be better.
Text is your number one game.
Yeah, that's fucking number one.
That's it.
Yeah, number one, and that's it.
You also said that if you didn't have an iPhone, if you had to use a different phone. Oh, yeah, that was another thing. yeah that's all that's fucking number one that's that's it yeah number one and that's it and you
you also said that if you didn't have an iphone if you had to use like a different phone oh yeah
that was another thing it would ruin your game i was thinking did i tell you when we were in
iceland i was thinking about um trading in my iphone and getting just like a shitty little
flip phone oh that'll make me a better person because you'll text less yeah interesting
you think you're ever gonna do that
i promise myself i do it in the fall well you're gonna get a flip phone so that you'll text less
yeah that's your way of becoming a better person yeah getting a worse phone getting a worse phone
i well i think my phone enables me well i think you have such deep-seated terrible issues you
don't respect people so why would you get a less... Excuse me! Yeah! Excuse me! No, stop recording!
Don't respect people! Yeah, you absolutely
don't respect people. I'll get a Motorola StarTAC
and I'll be fine! How about a frickin' Razr?
How much do I respect you now?
A Razr? I got a Crazer!
I'm playing Snake too much
to abuse you, emotionally or
physically. The only thing
I'm conquering now, I'm slaying the
Snake game.
So,
our advice to you, get a worse phone.
Right. Where did we...
What was this guy, the stalker? Yeah. Leave her alone.
Cool.
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