Segments - 439: Song Titles

Episode Date: June 15, 2020

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If I were you. Oh yeah, baby. Do you know what that one was? It was a deep cut. It wasn't a deep cut. That's a famous blues song. That was one of their B-sides, I think. It's not one of their B-sides. That's-sides that's off their self-titled it was a single real fans will know what what song that was that's from cheshire cat uh is that is that i miss you is that what it is yeah of course it's i miss you of course it's i miss you did they have like a bunch of cryptically titled songs?

Because I know like Damn It is the song of like what's, Damn It doesn't have the word damn it in it. It's like that song that's, I guess this is growing up, right? Yeah, that's Damn It. Yeah, but this song is I Miss You. Is I Miss You in it? Or is that another like weird, interesting alt title? No, they repeat I Miss You incessantly in that song.

Because I thought the song was called Don't Waste Your Time or something. Voice Inside My Head. Yeah, it could be. But I mean, Mark, Señor Hoppus is in the background saying I miss you over and over again. I don't know if they do have a lot of songs like that. Yeah, no. I mean, Girl at the Rock Show, that's... It's just...

All the small things. That's the first... Yeah, that's true. That's true, yeah. What's My Age Again, you say that a lot. Yeah. Okay, I was trying to create some sort of deep, interesting, philosophical...

There's aliens exist. ...inroad, a thesis. Okay, Peggy Sue, Going Away to College. Those are things that they don't say in the song but it's sort of it's the vibe of the song i think they go they go half and half yeah i mean is that a they're a fascinating band they're right what about like top 10 songs that are titled after words that are not in the song at all. It seems like you gotta go words in the song. Otherwise, I guess movies are the same way.

Sometimes they say the line. The titular line. I guess we were all a few good men. They never say that. Right. I feel like movies it happens less. But Jurassic Park is welcome to Jurassic Park. Oh, yeah.

All right. But songs I feel like it it happens less. But Jurassic Park is welcome to Jurassic Park. Oh, yeah. All right. But songs, I feel like it happens a lot. Like, what's the most famous song where they don't say the words, the title of the song? Yeah, I'm struggling to think of any. It's really hard. It's hard to think of. Hey Jude, they don't say Hey Jude. Oh, no, they do right up top.

Yeah, it's the first two words. And they sing it a lot in the chorus. Yeah, that's what first two words hey they sing it a lot in the chorus yeah that's what i said yeah i bet yeah if you know if you if you know it you're thinking about it and you're you're shouting it into your iphone or android device yeah and you're adding me and that's yeah and i'm gonna can we think of one more we gotta think of at least one because then it's just going to be this itch that I can't scratch the entire show. Okay. What's a song titled?

Oh, no, never mind. I was thinking of that Simon and Garfunkel song. You know where it's like, it's a full song. I sound very stoned right now. It's a full song. And then there's also the second, like the last minute of it feels like a different song and then like bookends it's is it called bookends they have a song called bookends i think i don't know that is that the old friend song it's like bookends and then in parentheses old friends i've a time of innocence a time of something bookends i don't know that's simon and garfunkel yeah it's it's interesting that you

and i have the exact same level of uh zero music knowledge like very very limited music knowledge surface like we have to google a famous simon and garfunkel song right now yeah it's called old friends but then if you there i don't know i wish i knew more i'll do research i i promise you guys old friends and bookends where it's like a song there's i'm trying i can't think of a single song that doesn't say the thing. And now I can't even, all right, who's the, all right. Okay, so let's go.

Wait, this is crazy. I can't even think of a song. I really can't think of an artist right now. Who's someone that sings a song? What? Okay, the Beatles. They've got, let's go through their catalog. They, I feel like they're classically naming the song off of the things that they sing.

Let It Be. That one's in there. Okay. We're just going to go song by song. Goddamn it. Yeah. What about newer modern songs? Brick by Ben Folds. You know that modern song from 1998 that's that's in the chorus

yeah we're gonna get into we're gonna have that that that thing where it's just ruminating thoughts only thinking about songs that have the title in the chorus that's what's going to keep on yeah now one head the opposite i think he says one headlight a lot in this one. Yeah. Most songs they do, right? Yeah, it's the words that you repeat the most. It's the chorus. Yeah, it's all named after the chorus.

The hook. Oh, no, that's in it. The hook brings you back, of course. All the time. Run around, yes, run around. That's, again, the whole point, the crux of the song slash short um i mean you know like the um beethoven's fifth they don't say they never say beethoven's fifth in that song it's all fucking like i think they do because really i didn't realize that i I had only been listening to the karaoke version, I think.

When you touch me like this. All coming back to me, yeah. That's the chorus as well. So it appears as though Damn It is the only song like that ever. Unless we want to look up specifically. I bet it's already been like a BuzzFeed list. I've got it. I've got it. Yeah? Did you cheat or did you think of it i've got it and i looked it up so you cheated you looked it up you don't you didn't got it i got it you got it you found it

it's got it well i didn't i didn't find it i didn't look up like famous songs that don't say the word i didn't look up that my i searched i searched i searched most famous song and there's a list and some of them i'm like oh they don't say that what do you got what's the most famous song that well i mean this is only according to an e-online.com list uh most iconic songs but it smells like teen spirit that's. Yeah. And he doesn't say it. Another one on this list. Here we are. Yeah, that song should be called Entertain Us. Yeah, exactly.

Bohemian Rhapsody. Oh, that's good. That's really good. God, I wish we thought of it. It would have been so fucking satisfying. Me saying, here, let me cut this part out. What about Bohemian Rhapsody? That's like, damn it.

Or Smells Like Teen Spirit is another one. Yeah. Just trying to think. here let me let me cut that this part out oh what about bohemian rhapsody that's like damn it or uh smells like teen spirit is another one yeah just try to think i actually could have had this moment if you didn't say that i looked it up like i i was gonna be like i got it and then say it like that would have been perfect yeah i could have gotten away with it too it's hard because there's no easy way to search your brain for it like i have to stop doing everything else in my brain like i stop breathing to think about you got to think about the song first then the title and then go even deeper in a rolodex in your mind to find every fucking word in that title yeah and the problem really comes when you just like your brain wants you to fuck up so your brain will just like keep on yelling brick by ben vault and you're like

it's not that one and i can't move on until i say it out loud oh i'm just now i'm on rollingstone.com 500 greatest songs of all time and i and we have to record a podcast so i just need to i need to get off of the internet there we go let's get one more you can cheat anything else from that list well now i just closed the tab hang on one second i got you all right the problem with 10 minutes deep yeah with the list here is that it starts with five at number 500 and we don't know those so it's yeah these aren't like oh here we go now we're getting now we're getting somewhere hang on now we're fucking now we're scrolling yeah while you do that i'm just i'm i'm scrolling through weezer's blue album and they all seem to between buddy holly sweater song holiday they all have it it's all in there my name is jonas of course

my name is jonas that one says it yeah right off the off the bat. A lot of them say, a lot of them, it's the first thing they say. That's confusing. Yeah. It's either the first thing or the chorus thing. And then occasionally they just title a song like you're naming a child. It's not necessarily in the actual lyrics. Oh, yeah. When they name just like the song after, now I'm thinking Layla, and it's obviously not

Layla, but. Yeah, because yeah because that's yeah after a woman or a man that's the infatuation but they then they would say the name of that person in the song I was also about to say don't stand so close to me it's really embarrassing because like often it's the thing they they they say so much. They say it nonstop. We're going to get hundreds of tweets being like, this is the really popular song. We should have thought of that. This is another popular song.

We should have thought of that. And it's also, I bet there's a list of exactly what we're talking about somewhere. Someone's done it. Someone's done it better than us. And we tried to do it just willy-nilly on the podcast live on the day oh hallelujah that's a good one that says it a lot just now i'm just looking at great songs yeah um hang on one second i'm at i'm scrolling past uh 200 here so now we're gonna start getting now we're gonna start getting into some really fucking, some real bangers.

Okay. Oh, how about Johnny Cash, Folsom Prison Blues? Oh, that's, yeah. I don't think he ever says Folsom. But I also don't really know how that song goes. Is that the, I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die? Oh, well, there you go. That counts.

That counts as the third song. And now, 13 minutes deep, we can finally put this offhand question to bed. Yeah. We failed. How about Brown Eyed Girl? Does he say Brown Eyed Girl ever? Yeah, he says it like 30 times in the song. All right.

I'm not sure. I think after Damn It, we couldn't think of any. Then you looked at a few listicles, and we scrounged up three more, one of which we're not even sure about. I couldn't even do the list thing very good, because Rolling Stone's website's so bad. It's been a long week, basically. I mean, we're recording this on Monday morning to release right away,

Monday, June 15th. That's just a place things in on the calendar for everybody. The Ides of June. We're not even halfway done with 2020. Are we not? Yeah. Hmm.

Or that would be a, at the end of June would be halfway home. I think, do you feel like June is, I feel like June, or I feel like 2020 is ending in November. That's like Groundhog's Day. Yeah, it's either like,

I feel like on election day, we find out if 2020 has an end or if 2020 ends in 2024. So we'll get to see. Is there two more months or four more years yeah like i don't care about the calendar year anymore the election cycle it's not even a year all right this is if i were you an advice show i guess um hosted by us the only one hosted by us. I'm Amir. I am Jake. I'm in Los Angeles. Jake's in Connecticut, it looks like. That's correct. That is correct. That's your brother's old room.

Yeah, I'm chilling in Micah's room. I got the Fender Strat right behind me. That's a really nice axe. Yeah, it's the Fender Stratocaster. Do you have an amp or a wah-wah pedal? I would love to jam with you sometimes. I do have an amp, but it's in the shed. I don't think we have

the cord. Let's get the amp. I feel like I have an idea. We've already derailed the podcast so much. I want to come up with a song that doesn't have the words in it as the title. That's not a bad idea. That is not a bad idea. Untitled is what the name of the song is.

Blink-182 has a song called Untitled. It goes, Untitled, and I'm so mighty. Untitled in the way that I go wide. I really want to titled. Yeah. So he says it a lot. That's actually exactly how it goes. Don't waste.

All right, here's a question for you that we received just this week. You know, just because the world is having an awesome glow up right now doesn't mean people don't have any questions of it like everything's going splendidly for us sure but some people are actually in a predicament good that's at least it makes sense that we still have the show then yeah uh how this one is from a 20 year old english male at university we'll call him h Grant, who's on the cusp of his second year at university. My best friend for many years is deciding between moving to a city with his girlfriend this September and staying with her, or moving to the same city as me and breaking up with her. Wow. resources when I've got a lot of other things to do. I don't want to disappoint him either if he moves to the city that I'm in, and I can't spend that much time with him even though he's partly

moving for me. How do I convince him to stay with his girlfriend and not move to the same city as me while still keeping him as a friend? That's not where I expected this question to go. That is not where I expected this to go. Yeah, I kind kind of this question jumped out to me because it was like a reverse saving silverman situation where it's like you usually it's my friend's girlfriend sucks we gotta break up get the band back together if i could hang out with my single friend and this guy's like how do i get him to leave me alone and stay in this relationship we're gonna team up everybody and fight to get him staying in a relationship and not moving to the city that i'm in as a single man um what would you do well this is the movie that i want to pitch

you it's called that's the savings saving silverman was the one that the famous one right about yeah break up a friend so this one one's called Protecting Goldman. And this guy's name is Goldman. Yeah, so it's the 2020 version. Everything is like gritty, rebooted style. Everything is different and changed now. We're telling this story from a different

point of view. Two guys team up in a silly caper to get this guy to marry his girlfriend. Even though it's wrong get new friends but lose the old because you are silver and i am gold that's yeah that is you're begging and pleading you're begging and pleading this guy to settle down so he leaves you the fuck alone i think you could tell him be like you know if you do move here i just don't imagine us having a lot of time to spend together because i'm at uni

and i'm gonna like be hanging out with some new uni friends and this guy should be so offended he'll be like you know what fine i'm just gonna go and move in with my girlfriend and that'll show you thinking that he'll be like jealous but instead instead this guy will be like, yeah, that's, that's what I wanted all along. Right. I mean, I think this happens sometimes in relationships. I feel like too, you know, when like somebody like gets into college and the boyfriend or girlfriend is going to go to the same college and they're like, well, you can do that, but do it for you. Don't do it to be with me. It's like people just don't like that kind of pressure.

It's, it's an expectation fulfillment thing. So I think that's right. You could be like, and it's like, he shouldn't break up with the girlfriend for this, for this other guy, for a friend,

he should break up with a girlfriend for himself if he doesn't like the girlfriend. Yeah, so it seems like you don't have to manipulate him. You can just straight up tell him the truth. Worst case scenario, you lose him as a friend, which seems like kind of better than having him break up with his girlfriend, move towards your city slash in your city, and then want to hang out all the time.

The tough thing here is like a lot of the time the truth is like something that's hard, but ultimately good. This truth is like hard and ultimately sad. Like, yeah, it's just it's like the truth is you make you're weird around my friends and i don't like you so i don't want you to move here god glad i got that off my chest things will be better for that like they will be better for you but it kind of will ruin your friend's life a little bit but maybe that needs to happen just because you were friends with someone when you were 11 doesn't mean that you should get along at age 20. You're kind of a different human at that point.

Yeah. I still wonder if you don't tell the truth, but you just sort of, like, you say you should break up with your girlfriend if you want. And if you wanted to live in the city, that'd be cool. But I don't know. Just, like, temper his expectations unless you really want a clean break in which case just say i don't want to hang out with you but you can always do that over time like it seems weird to be like give your friend advice on staying together with with someone he doesn't want to be with or not. Like, he should definitely just do whatever he wants to do.

You just have to remove yourself from the situation. Yeah. Tell the truth. Worst case scenario, this guy doesn't hang out with you, but still better than the alternative of him breaking up with his girlfriend to be with you. He definitely won't hang out with you if you tell him the truth.

That's for sure. The truth is that you think he doesn's he doesn't get he doesn't gel with your friends and you don't want to spend time with him that's right yeah so worst worst case scenario will 100 happen there he will hate you he'll be upset and he won't be your friend anymore but maybe that's fine for you i guess to me to me worst case scenario is him moving in with you so this is second worst case scenario yeah i guess you're right um this guy he says he has a podcast called don't read on podcast and he's been a big fan of ours so we're gonna give his podcast a shout out the don't read on podcast all right and now his friend if he now his friend's gonna

know yeah yeah that's great you don't have to tell him at all. Don't worry, we did it. We outed you. We know exactly who you are. He'll find out, I'm sure. Whether he listens to this show, he either listens to it or he has a friend that does. Like, that's how many people fucking listen to this thing. Like, everybody on earth is one degree away.

I'm sorry. I know it sounds like I'm self-fucking. He obviously has a friend who listened to it, right? Because his friend wrote it. That's right. So he'd be like, dude, I think this is about you. And he's like, yeah, it's about, it's you who wrote it. Yeah, I guess so.

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But just before we came back from the break you told me that you did and i said great so first of all there's a dave matthews song called number 41 right yeah it doesn't say that in it right right correct yeah and like that blur song where it's like i got my head shaved is like track two or song number two yes like that is correct yes titles where they haven't they haven't updated him from the placeholder track title that's right um there's also the that's not my unsolicited the green day song american idiot uh yeah that's don't want to be an american idiot is how it starts oh is that what he says in the chorus i haven't yeah i hadn't heard this song wait is dookie basket case yeah i don't think he says basket case. Dope.

I think I'm cracking up. Or am I just basket case? Am I just case? Yeah. And when I come around, he says... So some of them you're getting right. And the fact that you keep... When I come over there. You don't know the game, I don't't think i think you're just guessing sometimes correctly and but most times not but i got basket case that's

solid basket case is good that was like the first organic one we've come up with 30 minutes into this show a song song two was pretty solid growing herbs growing herbs from seeds is how i've been spending some of my free time recently and it it's been both difficult, and I've lost some stuff, and some stuff has been fruitful. And the fact that I don't have 100% success rate, I'm learning at this basil plant that I've cultivated from literally a piece of dirt with some seeds in it to, like, a plant with, like, 21 leaves on it. Like, I'm looking at this thing like, wow, look what I've done. This thing that I usually wouldn't even care about at all. Yeah. The problem is, I mean, I guess it's not really a problem. It's a fun way to pass the time.

You can see this thing grow, and it takes a couple weeks to a couple months to do. So there's a nice long timeline, but you don't have to wait years like it's a tree or something. And I'm having problems with some of my herbs that I'm trying to grow. The basil's doing great, but my sage is struggling. So I'm learning. I saw you took to Twitter and asked for some sage advice. It was a shit show. And everybody was saying.

Everyone was saying one thing. And I was so certain that that wasn't the case. And I look it up and it's that same old problem of like brown tips. It means you're either overwatering or underwatering. So treat it by adjusting. So it's like, okay, great. So I'm either doing one thing or the exact opposite. either over watering or under watering so treat it by adjusting so it's like okay great so i'm

either doing one thing or the exact opposite and if i do the exact opposite to help that's either going to save the plants live or kill it completely right i transferred the say everyone said i was over watering it so i transferred from the starter bed that i did which was only an inch of soil to a deeper pot and then when i transferred it the roots the roots were like, so like, dried out. I'm like, there's no way I'm overwatering this thing. But I put it in this new plant, and I let it dry out. And then it started getting even more brown. I'm like, I think it's just too dry. I'm going to water it more. And a lot of the little sage leaves died out. And now I'm like, holding on to like, two last stalks that haven't died yet. And I don't know if these...

And you're watering it. I'm watering it, but maybe the roots aren't know if these and you're watering i'm watering it but maybe the roots aren't taking the water so like i'm watering a lot so the soil looks over watered but the actual plant itself is underwatered and then i found a fucking caterpillar on it like a little inchworm that was eating the leaf i'm like i only have like eight leaves left and these critters are starting to eat the leaves so i buy the neem oil i mean i'm learning about all this little shit it feels like a little video game like like Animal Crossing, like a slow burn. But at the end of the day, I might have basil to put on something. That's really nice. And you're using it. You're putting

the basil in some pasta. God, no. No, I have not. I'm too scared to let it. You're hoarding it. I'm worried about growing it right now. The idea of actually using this sage in some sort of pasta sauce seems so foreign to me. So you're keeping it in a little pot by the window you know i leave it outside so okay cultivate it from like seeds to sapling you do it inside and like cover it with saran wrap to create this like uh and that part's over kind of steam room you've done that yeah and then you yeah and then you take it outside and you like water it to try to get it to grow. It's backyard? Backyard style.

You got to get some planters. Do you have planters back there? That's the next step. Because some people are years ahead of me. They got planters with tomatoes and peppers. And they're growing food that they're picking off. And they're eating straight off the vine. That looks exciting.

Yeah, that's Los Angeles for you, baby. You should talk to my sister. My sister Sarah grows that shit. Yeah, but she does it on rooftops, right? Well, she's an herb farmer in North Carolina now. So can she look at my sage and tell me what the hell's wrong with it? I'm quite certain she could. Jesus Christ, why are you hiding that information from me?

I'll call her in. You saw the tweet. Let's FaceTime her. Yeah, I did. You knew what was going on. I should have showed it to her, honestly. I'll show it to her after this but yeah i have after this is too late the leaves are yellowing she thinks yeah she you uh you over watered it it's time to dry it out take a take a hair dryer to that thing actually that's what sarah said she just texted me

yeah the hard part is you have to stick the hair dryer underneath the soil and blow it from the inside out so hold on a second um i have so i have a peach tree and an apple tree a cherry tree um a and an orange tree wow peach apple yeah um that's massive you have an orchard it sounds like you have a little farm going on i've several where's that where are all these trees this is a forest it's on my island so i have okay so i don't know if we talked about your island i should say that you recently either came into or purchased an island well i didn't i guess i yeah because it started out as just a vacation island and then i ended up having to buy the island so i ended up so i purchased the island from a raccoon um it was i mean i don't own the island i think the i think tom nook owns the island i just

i own the house on the island uh but it was like so that's 29 yeah animals this is a game yeah animal it's not yeah it's a lifestyle it's more than a it's not a game virtual fruits yeah it isn't a game they're pretty real to me i sell them i sell them for real money i saw well bells i saw them for real bells and i can got it i use that money to buy goods and services so this is not this is not what i was talking about um i was talking about actual actual actual learning how to like actual create food for it's so this is that seemingly scratch you're talking about yeah yeah how far are you how far have you gotten on your island um it's not about getting far it's just about it's just about doing doing the work day to day you know you gotta you gotta just plug away i haven't gotten far but i i that's it's

a lifestyle it's not like a game if that's what you're trying to imply like you don't beat it i have added an extra room you buy a game in addition to animal crossings you purchased a game recently right oh? Oh, yeah. Well, I bought The Witcher, but I didn't have enough space to download it. So I haven't been able to play it yet. But I have it. It must be an enormous game,

because I have five games on my Switch, and I've downloaded them all. You only have Animal Crossing, and you seem like you can't download The Witcher. Yeah, Witcher is like 33 gigs or something. Jesus Christ. It's huge. It's really big.

So I need to get like a special card. And I haven't been able to do that because I'm still working on the island. You know, there's just, there's stuff to be done. Cultivating. You could delete. I was raising money for a natural ramp, is what I was saying. I was raising money for a ramp. If you delete Animal Crossing, it might free up enough space for the other game you want to get.

If I deleted Animal Crossing, then Timmy and Tommy wouldn't be able to open up their store. Antonio wouldn't have anywhere to live i guess they would live in other people's systems or whatever it's pretty real to me i've been playing super nintendo's super nintendo's zelda zelda link to the past because ben was telling me that it's like an amazing game and i never played zelda's growing up so i'm like all right i'll give this a shot yeah i've been playing for over a week thinking that i'm like getting close to the end finally defeated this big boss man and it was like awesome congratulations like this is great zelda's here and like you have one of the nine crystals you need to take you need to like actually save zelda i'm like excuse me i i thought

i was done and you're telling me that like this is actually i'm 11 of the way through this game wow i'm playing for like several hours a day for a fucking week and a half to get to like this point so isn't that good for 11 year olds aren't you happy though that you have more game to play or would you rather have beaten it i would rather have beaten it because i want to be like okay that was tough but i spent 20 fucking hours on this thing and i finally figured out how to beat it and then it was like like what's hard you're not actually close is it like puzzles that you need to solve or is it like combinations of buttons that are like i just can't imagine combo of both okay good combo of both. Okay. Yeah. So I've never, I had never played Zelda. I was more of a Mario guy, which is very simple.

It's like, you're on one side of the screen, get to the other, beat the bad guys and get there. With Zelda, it's more open. It like throws you onto this map and it's like, try to find the princess here. And so like, you're walking around, there's no like sense of urgency or time it's just like walk around talk to people find out where she is and then like invariably this one person will be like yeah she's in this place but you need to get this thing to get to that place so find the key move a rock put a bomb go into a cave so there's little games within the games within the games to get further along so it's a little more loosey-goosey

so i've been enjoying that aspect of it where it's like are the graphics updated like does it does it look nice or does it look like 8-bit kind of like old school video game it looks like a super nintendo game so it kind of looks like super mario world so it's like a little bit above like nintendo graphics 8-bit yeah it looks like genesis super nintendo it was made in like 1992 i see but i can't imagine did they just re-release it for some reason i thought they like re-released it and it like is supposed to be beautiful or is that that's a newer zelda that you are yeah that's it every yeah every console has like the newer version of mario and the newest version of zel And everyone is loving Zelda Breath of the Wild on Switch, which is like what I'm playing, but with even more insane graphics and like an expanded universe.

I can't imagine playing that because like I'm struggling right now with this 1992 version of the game. The idea of like that times whatever they can do now feels like way too much. Yeah, I'm like, I'm dangerously close to playing more on my switch but like not being able to download this this game just like it was a bridge too far i was like okay so now i need a mini sd card like i don't i'm not i don't know i don't know i don't know if i want to do that so i just like put it down and start reading my book again you should uh you should do these the nintendo super nintendo

online thing because it's like the games that you're used to growing up keeps you entertained without like the barrier to entry of downloading and learning how to play one of these new games right that's another bit of unsolicited advice so it's that and uh makes fucking i don't know rosemary solid i mean growing your own herbs jill was doing this thing do you know you could like regrow scallions yeah like some vegetables you just put in water and it like becomes that full vegetable again yeah and that's one of that's like scallions so you we would like chop up scallions put it in this water and then a week or two later just be like you could have more scallions it regenerates yeah it's pretty cool but like some of it is like regenerated and delicious

and some of it is like poison so you have to really do your research about what you can eat and what you can't yeah so that's the unsolicited advice there's a good uh master class with ron finley who's a urban gangster gardener uh who like teaches you all about gardening uh in an urban setting it's called the gangster gardener master class so that's been that's very educational and fun to watch have you ever done a master class they're actually pretty cool i have not no have you done your are you doing the the food growing one? We're watching it, Avital and I. We're not taking notes and studying it and doing homework. But I've watched a few and watched a few over Avital's shoulder. And they're all very entertaining and digestible information.

I feel like I remember when Masterclass was coming out, we thought everyone was making fun of it. Yeah, exactly. And then it's like, oh, shit. Is that Corey talking about basketball? Yeah, I guess I'll watch this. Or Aaron Sorkin talking about movie writing. At the very least, it's interesting to see how these people who have succeeded have done what they've done.

That's definitely true. All right, let's try to get to one last question. Another piece of unsolicited advice. Yeah, it's too much unsolicited. Here's one last piece of unsolicited advice yeah it's too much unsolicited here's one more one one last piece of solicited advice uh i'm a 23 year old male from california so we'll call him mark hoppus but i went to college in texas for four years while there i met my girlfriend of two years but we recently broke up because the distance was too hard for her we've communicated very little for about four months then we started talking talking again. And I flew out there to Texas this week. And we discussed the possibility of me moving

back. I believe this woman is the love of my life. And honestly, I like the idea of moving out there to be with her. She likes the idea too, but says we should just be friends and not dating for the first couple months it would take for me to move out there, as well as for the time for us to really reconnect in our relationship. So my question is this, is she too under-enthusiastic about the idea? She says if I move there, we should definitely try our best at dating again, but is her lack of response a red flag? I love this woman, but my confidence in moving is lowered by her reaction. Please help this hopeless romantic out. This feels like it's coming from the other guy in the situation that we talked about before. Like, it's the expectations that are too much.

Like, if you want to move out there, I think you got to want to move out there without having any expectation from her. Like, you can move out there with the hope in your heart that you guys will get back together and knowing that she thinks it's a good idea. But you can't move out there with a guarantee. You just can't. Yeah, but it's the fact that she's like, yeah, move out here and we'll see. Are you like, then I won't do that.

I don't want to do that on a fucking 50-50 shot. I'm not moving there to flip a coin, baby. Yeah. So, like, I mean, if you can't get over that, then I wouldn't move out. If you're like, I'm not moving out there for the chance, or, like, I need it to be more of a short thing, then maybe you shouldn't move out because it can't be more of a short thing. You could also just think about, like the other things that texas has going for it where you're planning on moving like if you like the land you like the restaurants you like texas you like certain things about it that will be nice regardless of if you have a

heart you're heartbroken or if you're with your dream person yeah some people are like like wired in a way where it's like i don't care if you like say anything or guarantee anything i just want to be with you i'm going to fight to win you over and then some people i think i'm more like me where it's like if you aren't into it then i'm not going to try very hard myself like i need a buy-in as well i'm not going to move there and try to convince you to be with me yeah i but But I think that like, you also have to look at where it's coming from. Like her saying that she isn't a hundred percent sure isn't necessarily a reflection on you or anything. It could just be like, you know, she doesn't want to live up to that pressure. Like it might be

something that, that she's struggling with. It's not, struggling with it's not it's not a it's not a knock on you or on her but it's just something that like i don't know that it's something you shouldn't take personally right it's not i don't know it feels like uh that's that's her truth and your truth is different and if it jivesives, then go for it. And if not, then don't. But don't try to convince her. I guess it's nice that she was honest with you and being like, yeah, we'll see about it. That way you can make an informed decision

rather than you moving out there and then her changing her mind or telling you the full truth. And sometimes pressure makes things go awry. Like if she's like, yeah, come out here and we'll be together. And you're like, great, I'll come out there and we'll be together. And then you go and you move in together. And if it's not perfect, everybody freaks out and it blows up. You want to let it like be a little

more organic and grow. Much like your sage. Don't overwater this relationship. You have to dry it out. Or underwater it. That'll kill it also in a very similar way. Just watch a master class, but you'll figure it out. I actually don't trust plants that you can overwater. Like, I'm just going to give you a shit ton of water and drink responsibly, I guess. Like, figure it out, Sage. If it's too much, stop fucking sipping on it. And if it's not enough, then I'll give you more. You can overwater a human too the best is like i'm like carefully like pruning delicately like making sure the ph level of this and that and the water is fine and then i like go for a walk and i just see this fucking cactus that's 38 feet high that

like grew in the middle of a sidewalk like so where did that come from like this one is accidentally getting just rainwater once every fucking year yeah how is that random shit growing out in the middle of nowhere that's enough meanwhile you could probably you could grow the you could grow the hell out of a cactus in your backyard all it needs is sun yeah yeah cactuses are easy that's the it's the herbs the food that need extra love and attention you know what they're making me earn it that's right if you could just garnish your pasta with a little fresh cactus that would be perfect the best is when this sage is completely dead and i like prune these like dry small brown leaves like let's make some butter sauce with this we get poisoned We get poisoned. Won't have to go to Whole Foods also.

Yeah, this is all just to fucking make a plant that costs like 99 cents on Amazon. It's the feeling. It's the feeling that you want. Doing it myself. God, it's going to be so good. I can't wait. All right.

Where can people donate this week? There's so many places. I feel it's not like we're going to be so good. I can't wait. All right. Where can people donate this week? There's so many places. I feel it's not like we're going to shout URLs at people and have them write it down. But a light Twitter or Google search will yield many results. That's right. So don't forget. Keep that foot on the gas pedal, everybody. Keep the foot on the gas.

And also definitely do a little bit of research because a lot of places have uh they're they're redirecting their donations now so there's there's plenty of places that don't have enough money yet uh and other places that are overfunded so dive in dive in don't be afraid that's a very unique and new exciting problem is like we've gotten too many donations like people are so upset that they are donating so much money more money than these non-profits know what to do with and they're like literally asking people to to donate elsewhere spread the love around yeah and this is all in the middle of like coronavirus so people are like this is a tightening of the purse strings uh society and they're still giving too much money indeed good job on everybody and good job for you guys for listening and writing in uh theme songs were send them all down to if i were you show at gmail.com this opening

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all right yeah dude i fucking love this song so sorry it's everything's magic everything's magic cover yeah everything's magic called everything's tragic uh and his this guy is Zach Rutteman. Only thing to plug is my Instagram, Slackery. That's a cool Instagram handle. So thanks to Slackery. Thanks to you guys for listening. Thanks for your continued donations anywhere. And we'll be back on Monday

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