Segments - 90: Random State of Mind

Episode Date: August 11, 2025

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Starting point is 00:00:00 This is a headgum original. Jake and a mere two Jews that you can't forget. In 2010, they were big on the internet, but then three failed pilots, two rejected movie scripts won't last it's effort to try and stop their career from going to shit. Seconds Another podcast
Starting point is 00:00:32 Each app different from the last It's the Swiss Army Nightbook shows Meet you two pathetic hosts Let's get started You air-homped so much I'm really, really certain you finished It's uncouth
Starting point is 00:00:56 There is no video There is no evidence that I was air-humping or dancing or gyrating or doing any type of offensive motions. Let's just ease into the show. You're glowing. You have post-nut clarity for the first time in a year. I just part-took a dry July. And now it's time for smogest. That was close.
Starting point is 00:01:25 Actually, there's a Nadpod bit where our character. were doing a dry July, and Caldwell, I believe, coined the term Hoggist. That's good. That's why that show is so much more popular than this one. Yeah, I guess, sure. It's one of the reasons. The Hoggist versus Smogist difference. Yeah, because what is Smogis, really?
Starting point is 00:01:49 Yeah, it's a nothing burger. And Hoggist is a... I gave you a layup. And I blew it at the rim. Okay, sorry I'm chewing on One of my molars broke So I'm just chewing on the debris for now
Starting point is 00:02:02 Yeah, that's a bummer I see it Are you sure it's a molar? Because your front tooth teeth are missing No, those were my adult teeth That went away in a Tooth fairy scheme That didn't end up paying on
Starting point is 00:02:17 I have wisdom teeth and dunce teeth That's these other ones that grow in In an even dumber spot under my tongue I have one thick tooth under my tongue I have a narwhal fucking tooth how bad is that for my hinge bio I have a wall of enamel
Starting point is 00:02:38 from my right gum to my left just like a thick white slit I can use it to chop actually I'm going to be calling this month chaggist for choppy August That's not bad
Starting point is 00:02:54 That was that That's not bad That's why this show has Staying power Well actually this is like The third to last episode Oh yeah We are ending the podcast
Starting point is 00:03:02 I was I woke up and I was like Was that a fever dream Are we really ending the show Or is it like Yeah But not for another month I think September 15th
Starting point is 00:03:11 Is the last one So we still got some time Yeah So you can still If you were gonna miss our voice Subscribe to our Patreon actually Yeah And we can't
Starting point is 00:03:18 We can't give up right now Like we're on mile 19 of a marathon like it's it's too early to start walking yeah but one of us could faint and you would carry me across the finish line yeah and I might stop to take a piss or a shit and then it's like it's a really really hot yeah if we were running a marathon together and I fainted how close to the finish line would we have to be for you to like kind of try to pick me up and help me across is there a distance maybe like a hundred yards anything after that you'll
Starting point is 00:03:53 be too heavy and honestly I wouldn't necessarily like that would almost be mean if you fainted and woke up and the race was over you might be even yeah I fainted less than half marathon I fainted at mile 11 like I dragged you the next 15.2 miles my skin is just gone from my legs nobody stopped you they thought it was endearing I think we should do a fake viral video where you and I run a marathon and then I faint just before the finish line and then you kind of you pick me up and are dragging me over but it's so exhausting for you that then you faint and then me having been held for a hundred yards
Starting point is 00:04:38 I'm able to stand up and I look at your body and I just sprint ahead and finish celebrating and then you go back to me and do the suck it over my life like body rub it in your eye one motherfucker or oh oh that's the kind of shit we're going to have time for now that we don't have to podcast as much we're not going to replicate a dummy marathon i don't think right but we could yeah we could write it we could write it yeah we could write it yeah we could write it let your
Starting point is 00:05:10 imagination decide what it looks like uh okay since we're saying goodbye i thought it only made sense to play a game of sorts with our old friend the game boy indeed i'm wearing a hat this time oh did you say game yeah well i said game boy specifically i'm coming oh nuts and bolts coming out of your metallic mound uh okay this might be the hardest version of game boy we've ever played because we're not searching, you know, a few thousand emails. We're searching every eye message sent and received for the last decade. That's right. It's got to be hundreds of thousands at this point.
Starting point is 00:05:56 Ten years of text. Every single group chat, every single text that we've ever received or sent is archived in our computer, which seems kind of dangerous, but at the same time, I don't want to delete them all either. Right, exactly. every single spam text everything that has a stop to end but then seemingly doesn't actually do that for you exactly
Starting point is 00:06:19 you can search on iMessages which is kind of convenient for like the last day or two but sometimes I search like you know Yom Kippur I'm like holy shit 2016 plans with somebody I don't speak to anymore this is pretty intense so I thought why don't we play the Game Boy where we try to search a word that's only come up once in a text message history, an intergalactic hole in one, and we'll call it a golden win if that one text is between me and you.
Starting point is 00:06:54 Wow. Okay. Yes. So we can win with just one result and we can golden win if that one word that's ever been sent between the two of us was actually a singular word that no. nobody else is ever sent to anybody else in our phone book one word imagine one word so rare it only appears one time it's only ever been typed once or sent to you once is that possible search can tankerous in your eye message can tankerous nothing zero times even if you hit see more let's see well how do I spell can'tankerous but do I spell it right C-A-N-T-A-N-K-E-R-O-U-S
Starting point is 00:07:38 Yeah. Can tancorous? No. I like this us theory, though. Why don't you search fractious? How do you spell it? F-R-A-C-T-I-O-U-S. Fractious. Okay, I've never heard that word, and I'm glad that nobody's ever sent it to me either. So that's a zero. Okay. It's a nothing burger.
Starting point is 00:08:01 It's a nothing burger, and I'm searching for a something sandwich. So why don't you search the word? word, hippopotamus. Okay, I would make sure that I spell it correctly. Why? I spelled it, I sent it only once, but I spelled it wrong. Doesn't count, not a golden win. Wow.
Starting point is 00:08:27 You have one. What? A single? That's right. And it is not a golden win, but it is a win. Who sent you the word hippopotamus? My friend, Steve. who you met my old roommate from when I dropped out of college in New Haven, my high school buddy,
Starting point is 00:08:46 something that we used to listen to around Christmas time was a song called I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas. And in Christmas, 2016, I guess he sent it to me as kind of a nostalgic goof. So it is just a YouTube link of Gala Peevee's song, I Want a Hip. hippopotamus for Christmas. Wow. This game is over. I don't want to play anymore. Well, you can still...
Starting point is 00:09:16 I could still golden win. That's not going to happen. I'm not going to golden win. It's possible. Search pussy. Jesus. Obviously thousands. Thousands.
Starting point is 00:09:29 So many. I'm scrolling. 2015, 2018. It's awesome. Yeah, I use that word a lot. Okay. Let's see if any... If let's see if...
Starting point is 00:09:38 few have ever sent it to me. No, no, let's not play anymore. All right, here's my... Wow. These are really offensive. One second. One second. All right, let's search Scandinavia. Not Scandinavian, but Scandinavia. Yeah. One. Oh, no, it's Scandinavian, but I'll give it to you. Okay. Is it from me to you? It's located within the word. No, it's from Billy. Still laughing over Corvetti's speech, calling you Scandinavian. I guess at his wedding, one of his friends made a speech and he called me Scandinavian. That's really funny. That is really funny. Okay. So we are... It's tied one. It's tied. Give me another one. Try to go for that golden win. Frenching. French I-N-G.
Starting point is 00:10:30 Oh my God. It's a golden win. Are you serious? Yeah. It's only been sent once. It is once from, from you to me, or no, wait, from me to you. It looks like, when was this? May 24th. All right. It's a text message thread with me, you, and Ben.
Starting point is 00:10:59 Okay. It's when it was called, it's called, I believe that our text message thread is now called the Farty Boys. Yeah. It's on a text message thread with just us two called the Meatball Boys. Oh, you know what? I see this too. But I've used the word Frenching more since then. But it's interesting that you've not ever.
Starting point is 00:11:21 Okay. It's a selfie, Ben texts a selfie that he's going to Prague. And then... Okay. This is 10 years ago. Yeah, 10 years ago. I respond with the selfie of me and Jill at a wedding. It looks like it's Nick Rad's wedding.
Starting point is 00:11:37 And then you respond with a photo of you and John Carlo Our old editor and John Graham's friend And then you with the caption, having fun around the globe Ben said everyone is brought together by technology And I say John Carlo is crying And then you say or then Ben says where are you a mirror And then you say party at my buddy Justin's And then I say
Starting point is 00:12:09 And for no I guess I'm drunk at this point Because I look drunk In the photo that I sent you But I respond Pick of you kissing John Carlo And then you reply Frenching grim
Starting point is 00:12:20 So not only did I use the word Frenching only once But it's also me French and grim Who's editing this podcast That's a platinum win That's incredible It is all It's everything together
Starting point is 00:12:35 Also kind of insane nobody has ever said frenching to you since and you've never texted frenching to anyone ever yeah that's that's crazy i can't believe i never said the word frenching i guess you don't call it frenching anymore i'll see if i have making out hmm yeah i definitely say making out a lot a lot yeah well i think it's including making and out yeah yeah yeah yeah okay not really a quote yeah but that's a platinum win that is a platinum gold win congratulations you want to give me you want to give one more shot to see if you can match it. Fragrance.
Starting point is 00:13:10 One, two, three, four, five, six, six texts. Okay. Seeing if there's any funny ones, mostly an Instagram account called Jeremy Fragrance. A Wikipedia page where somebody made a fragrance. Let me change one letter. Okay. Two letters, actually. And we'll go fragrant.
Starting point is 00:13:32 Fragrant. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. fragrant it was a win not a golden win wow wow who is it too yeah uh it was from avital to me it was like a copy and paste of somebody posting on
Starting point is 00:13:47 Instagram something about let me let me change one more word what about fragment the revolution may not be televised but it will be fragrant is what you texted me that's good fragment fragment one two three four five six Okay. One of them is from me to you a year ago.
Starting point is 00:14:11 Really? It's when we were talking about cracking eggs. Oh, nice. Yeah, and I said, curious about the shell fragments in the omelette, and you said, none, and there will not be another conversation. That's enough. We were done speaking on this. Are you, because I was, I was asking if you were cracking eggs in the, in the pan itself. Are you still using that technique?
Starting point is 00:14:39 Oh, where I dropped the egg in the pan? Yeah. No, I'm not. I, but I crack it, I crack the egg on the counter. Yeah, I still don't understand that because doesn't that get egg everywhere? It's, I mean, I think you're always, you get egg everywhere when you crack it on the side of the pan, too. Correct. That's why I crack it in the pan.
Starting point is 00:14:59 That way, getting egg everywhere. Everywhere is getting egg in the pan. Oh, right, right, right. No, that's, I think that's pretty smart, but I, when I cook eggs, I'm providing for my family. I don't ever cook, you're a selfish person. You cook, what, like one or two eggs for you or whatever. I'm cooking. I microwave one egg a day, and I have half of it and throw the second half away.
Starting point is 00:15:23 You're only ever thinking about you. I make, when I make eggs, I make six to seven eggs. I have to. Seven. Yes. That's too many. No, it's not because it's too many eggs. Half a dozen every time.
Starting point is 00:15:34 Yes, it's three for me. It's two for Jill, one for Gemma, or three, two, and two. And how do you possibly keep track of the ratio when you're making it for three people? I really don't. I let Gemma. I let Gemma and Jill eat as much as they want, and then I house whatever is left. Not every day, but when we're egging, yes. And I can't cook all of those in the pan.
Starting point is 00:15:57 I have to crack them all on the counter. Mix them. Into a dish, mix it. Mix it. Yeah, that's right. Then you mix some sort of like really uniformly yellow. Yellow. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:16:07 And then we have a big. Is it an omelet or scramble? It's a scramble. It's a scramble. Nonstick pan or are you seeing? It's a, it's not a nonstick. It's not that like teflon. Cast iron.
Starting point is 00:16:21 It's not a cast iron. It's, it's, it's, it's, it's, um, it's, um, it's, um, it's, um, it's, um, your lies are catching up with you. No, it's one of, it's one of, it's one of those like caraway pans. It's like a rubber, spatula, wooden, or using a fork and grading the bottom. You can't be using metal on metal. You can't be scrambling the egg with a metal. Oh, it's ceramic. It's a ceramic pan.
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Starting point is 00:17:28 Welcome back, everybody. It's actually a stainless steel. pan. That's what I'm using. I believe it's a stainless steel pan. Next segment, I think. Let's keep on thinking about this. Eggwise. We played a segment on our Patreon last week where we randomly generate a state and we have to tell a story from our lives from that state. That's right. And we said, why don't we shift this over to the main podcast for a second? thought it was so good, so fun, that we could take it on Maine. And then we can almost come up with a Maine related story if the actual random state generator should land on Maine. But for now,
Starting point is 00:18:15 well, it didn't. It landed on Oregon. Wow, a lot of Oregon stories. First one that comes to mind was a show we did. It was me, you, and Marty was sort of organizing or helping us out as the salesperson or maybe manager or some sort of touring help and i remember uh being so hung over the next day that we went to go to like a diner or a restaurant that he recommended and i felt so sick that after the food came it the smell of it was so nauseating to me that i walked back to the hotel and you guys were just left with all my food in the restaurant That's right. True or false. Yes, I do remember that. You were so hungover that you had to go home. Yeah. And then did you guys break? I feel like I have a recollection of you bringing me soup from that restaurant. I'm like, I can't eat anything. I need to throw up. We might have tried to get you something. I can't quite remember it either, but it was, I thought that you got soup and we just like bagged it up and we brought it home for you. Maybe I got soup because I thought it would help my hangover. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:19:29 Yeah, and then you're like... And you love soup. Yeah, and then you brought it to me. I'm like, I can't smell. So it's sort of thoughtful, but also kind of like a dick move. I had to leave the restaurant because I couldn't smell food. And you guys brought the food to me. We thought you wanted later.
Starting point is 00:19:43 Yeah, after I beat, of course. And then I remember, we had like a show in Seattle the next day, and I felt so ill on the drive from Portland to Seattle. But as life seems to happen, after a few hours of drinking, resting, throwing up maybe, You just feel back to normal. And you're like, all right, I guess I'm okay again. I'll drink tonight. Time to keep drinking.
Starting point is 00:20:04 Yeah. I'm not sick anymore, so I've learned no lesson at all. Yeah. I feel like I remember this tour. Was it the We're the Miller's tour? Oh, was it? That's why we had even less to do. It was like Portland, Seattle.
Starting point is 00:20:17 Although we did Seattle then Portland for that one. So maybe it was a different one. Oh, yeah. For that one, I thought we did Seattle. Do we do Seattle, Portland and then Sandy? Oh, then L.A. and then San Diego. Yeah, I thought we went down. We did.
Starting point is 00:20:29 Maybe we did Portland first. We might have flown into Portland and then Seattle. I'm not entirely sure. But I remember at the very least I remember that where the Millers tour where our entire job was to just introduce the movie Where the Millers. Yeah, we had very little to do. Didn't have to perform at all. Yeah. And because I think this was also the beginning of basically when we were working at college humor and they were just selling things around us, they would like try to make us do things.
Starting point is 00:20:59 and then and like you know save as much money as possible but this was when we had friends on the sales team because Marty was our buddy and he wanted to party also so he came with us like I'll go and make sure the clients are happy yeah so he's like traveling with the sales budget not the comedy budget so we were like staying this is like the first time I'd ever stayed in w hotels I think for a long time it was like oh my god the w is the most luxurious place in the world. It's too fancy. Yeah. We were used to like sharing rooms at like the days in or the Hyatt or whatever. But with Marty, we were staying in nice hotels. We all had our own rooms. And we're like going out to dinner. And we should have never left IAC. The bankroll was unlimited until the
Starting point is 00:21:48 entire thing ran out of money and then they had to fold everything and sell it to Sam. They had a great thing going. They had a perfect game. They had a perfect game going and we blew it. Are there any non-Portland Oregon stories? I feel like that's the only Oregon I know. My other Portland story is that Marty convinced me and my brother to go with him to this electronic music festival called What the Fest? Oh yeah. In the middle of nowhere?
Starting point is 00:22:20 Yeah, it's in the middle of nowhere in Oregon. And we like drove his dad's Westphalia and he pitched it to me as like the best music you've ever heard. People like dancing in a giant pool is the middle of the summer. It sounded awesome. We got there and it was like 60 degrees in raining for three days. And the music, he said, I don't know why this happened, but he was like, this is so much different that it was last year. It wasn't like electronic dance music that I knew. It was like this weird kind of like all noise music that like even no matter how much drugs I did I couldn't get into you realize how bad the weather and music has to be for MDMA to have no effect yeah and nobody else
Starting point is 00:23:14 seemed to like it either the we were in this like giant football field size like pool of like knee deep water where everybody was like dance supposed to be dancing in the sunshine but we're all huddled together wearing like board shorts and rain jackets. Everybody is so cold and no one, no one's dancing. Did you complain while it was happening? Or did you sort of bite your tongue because you felt bad? I think all of us knew that it kind, that it was like underwhelming, but nobody was going to be like, this isn't as fun or we should leave early.
Starting point is 00:23:48 Yeah. Everyone's just making the best of it. But at one point, some band started playing that, um, uh, what's that song you know you don't want no problem want no problem with me yeah who's that is that rapper yeah I think so yeah it's god damn I have to look it up this is the third thing you looked up the answer to all three have been stainless steel grim's gonna edit it down it was that uh you don't want no problem song by chance the rapper and okay it was like people sprinted towards this stage they were so happy to hear music with like yeah that they recognize and it had like words and a beat
Starting point is 00:24:31 you could dance to and we danced for like 45 seconds and then and then it kind of like faded out into this weird like trumpet thing it was like a remix and I just like was so disheartened you think they'd get a hint to be like see how happy everyone was to hear a song yeah no versus a beat Not so much. And then I also remember really vividly, like, coming back and going to his house in Portland. And we watched that, like, Mark Wahlberg movie about the Boston Marathon Bomber. And it was the highlights of the show. It was just so happy to, like, sleep on a fold-out couch instead of a van.
Starting point is 00:25:13 It was such an upgrade. Stead on top of a van. All right. Good tale. Let's pick another random state. Ooh, I have Colorado. Nice. Really nice.
Starting point is 00:25:26 Yeah. We did a show in Denver once, but I don't know if it stood out in any specific way. I've done a few shows in Denver. All great. Denver is a great crowd. We did that show in Denver. Yeah. Where it was like in the basement of some random comedy place.
Starting point is 00:25:46 Comedy works, I think. I remember having that shirt. Comedy Works, Denver. Yeah. But I also went on a road trip with my sister, Sarah, when I moved from L.A. to New York in the summer of 2012, I think it was. And we stopped in Denver. We stopped in Colorado.
Starting point is 00:26:08 I think we spent the night at the Boldorado Hotel in Boulder, which is awesome. And then we went to this awesome, like, awesome. swimming hole in the middle of nowhere. I'm going to see if I can find it. Let me guess. You have to look it up. Well, I have to recommend it. Search swimming Colorado of 48,000 results.
Starting point is 00:26:33 Each lake's smaller and more beautiful than the last. Well, the good news is that it's on my Instagram, and I don't post that often, so I can scroll to find it pretty easily. Because this picture is only from nine years ago, and you only post three times a year. Exactly. So if you just scoot down, you could probably find it. Yeah, but when I was single, I was definitely posting more because I was trying to, like, get those thirst traps going. Yes, exactly.
Starting point is 00:27:01 Yeah. You're saying a picture of you and your baby isn't like a good thirst trap picture these days? Me being a good dad. Wow, it's really interesting going back to my Instagram. I'm looking at a photo of me leaving Burning Man. Do you post pictures of your child or do you do the thing where you cut? their face with an emoji. I don't really do either.
Starting point is 00:27:22 I think I wouldn't cover her face with an emoji because, like, she's out there in the world. But I don't really post anything on Instagram. So I tend not to post her. Yeah. And I wouldn't, like, go out of my way to post her face. If there's, like, a really cute moment, though, I wouldn't be afraid. And you wouldn't go friends only for the story. You'll go Maine.
Starting point is 00:27:44 I think the fear is that, like, people can take the picture and do nefarious things. with it. Yeah. I mean, I just think if if that's that's good, that can happen at any point. Right. So you're going to lean into it. I'm not going to lean into it. I'm just not going to live my life with in fear. Yeah, exactly. I'm so close to this fucking photo now. It's, it's incredible. It's insane how close you are at the road trip right now. I am on the road trip. I am there. I am absolutely there. And it's in Washington. And I actually. I knew this name. Damn, I should have fucking said it.
Starting point is 00:28:22 El Dorado Springs, everybody. Eldorado Springs. Okay. You jump in, the water is cold, but ultimately fine. Well, no, it's a swimming pool. But I think it's a naturally fed swimming pool or it's just a straight up pool near a hot spring or something. But it's really pretty. That's nice.
Starting point is 00:28:43 All right. Choose another state. I got nothing for Colorado, but not in a bad way. It was just nice. Okay. let's see what we've got okay hard for me to get out of Oregon oh there we go Virginia whoa Virginia that reminds me of one of our first shows I think if not our first the one at UVA where they were telling us how on campus every once in a while or
Starting point is 00:29:11 it's considered maybe part of the initiation of the school is that you have to run the quad naked yeah you got to streak the quad it was it's something maybe before you graduate yeah that was it was you're supposed to do it before you graduate and we were there just before graduation it was like may or like it was like may of uh that year so i yeah we went we did our show and then i think people that were like in the virginia like uva comedy club uh invited us to like a house party Their dorms are so nice. They have these ground-level dorms on this amazing quad. And we were in there.
Starting point is 00:29:55 I'm like, oh, I should have gone to school here. Yeah, this is awesome. This is way nicer than Hunter. And we were sitting there partying. And every once in a while, we'd like look up and there would just be a naked person running past the window. That's what it was. So we would see naked people. Yeah, they were like buzzing by the door every like half hour.
Starting point is 00:30:15 That's awesome. That's a great way to tell time. Then there's also the story about us going to James Madison, and that's how John Carlo met his wife. Oh, yeah. That was also in Virginia. Yeah. Yeah. That was the Ford Fiesta Road Trip.
Starting point is 00:30:33 Yeah, that was Virginia as well. Yeah, which I think we've talked about on the podcast before. Maybe it was Patreon because we were watching the Fiesta Road Trip videos. But we like juiced the numbers. I think the plan was. the idea of the videos was like we're going to go wherever anybody everyone votes so it'd be like vote for our next stop and we would just like we see oh somebody said unc we knew one person was going to say unc and then we're like people like unc and then people would comment on that
Starting point is 00:31:03 and we'd like all right we're going to unc yeah and i think we had told the college humor sales team that it was going to be like UVA chapel hill and virginia tech or something like that like on the way back and then maybe Philadelphia but Jeff Rosenberg was driving the car and his brother was at JMU so we were like let's let's pivot and we and we went to JMU and then I bought a keg with the money that we were supposed to use for hotels and we had a keg party at Dave's frat house and that's where you meet your future wife people amazing it's all about the frat parties that's why I attended frat parties into well into my late thirties. Yeah. Just hoping to God to meet somebody, anybody. You borderline did. Yes, exactly. And then at a certain point, you start aging out of them
Starting point is 00:31:59 around 40, 42, 45. Earlier than that, earlier than that for sure. What's this uncle doing here, whose dad is this? Are you a cop, et cetera? Fun uncle, fun uncle becomes weird uncle. Foncle becomes becomes wonkle. Real fast. Real fucking fast. Any other Virginia tales? I mean, those are the tops. Those are the tops.
Starting point is 00:32:24 Yeah. It's going to be hard to beat that. Yeah. Let's save some states for more rainy days, but those were three good ones. You know it, except for fucking Colorado. El Dorado Springs, folks.
Starting point is 00:32:33 Milk toast ass. I mean, just the outline of that state just shows you what a fucking baked tofu. Come on. Nothing it is. Really nice state, though. And we have returned. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:32:50 Okay. Remember the year 2000? Sure. When the most popular reality and game show was Survivor and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Yes. This was before every show was reality and every other show was a game show. Families crowded around the fucking living room watching. who wants to be a millionaire
Starting point is 00:33:16 seeing if someone became a millionaire I want to be a phone a friend I want to be someone's lifeline so fucking bad and then I remember the guy who ended up winning and the first time he won he used the phone of friend to call his dad
Starting point is 00:33:32 not that he had a question but to tell him he's about to win a million dollars yeah he lived down the street for me is that true yeah he's from Hampton Connecticut do you remember his name no Jesus John Carpenter there you go Jesus Christ.
Starting point is 00:33:45 Did you see him after that? I don't think I personally saw him, but I know he like went around to like some of the schools locally and like did some kind of like, yeah, like Q&A's type thing. Media tour. Yeah. Do you remember what question he had? No, I don't. So I found a website that does every million dollar question on who wants to be a millionaire. That one happened in 1999.
Starting point is 00:34:15 The rest of them happened in 2000 or later. So these are multiple choice questions. Let's see if you can get them right. But here's the wrinkle. If you get it right, I'll give you a million dollars. But if you get the dummy answer that I've inserted, you owe me a million. Okay. So two are just from the game.
Starting point is 00:34:36 We'll call it neutral. One is the correct answer and one is the dummy answer that I've put in there now. you. I'm going to get the dumb answer so often. You're really good. You're really good at needling me. And a lot of these, they say like what they answered or if they got it right or wrong. The vast majority people just didn't want to risk it. And they took the half a million. Wow. All right. But some of them did get it correctly, including we'll start with your fucking neighbor, John Carpenter. Which one of these U.S. presidents appeared on the television series, Laughin. This is familiar Yeah So we'll give you A Lyndon Johnson
Starting point is 00:35:17 B Richard Nixon C, Jimmy Carter Or D Ronald Reagan Okay It's called laughing Yeah And you can phone a friend If this guy's in your fucking
Starting point is 00:35:29 Phone book or something Can I call my dad Can I eliminate two answers You can't use any other lifeline Except for calling your dad Okay wait Give me those answers one more time Unfortunately, ranker rules do apply.
Starting point is 00:35:44 And I can't. If it were who wants to be a millionaire, I'd get to look at them. Of course, Regis was absolutely willing and able to answer the questions again and again. So, Philbin was the man. Regis. So which one of these U.S. presidents appeared in the Laf Series Laugh-in? Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, or Ronald Reagan? I guess the answer you would think is Ronald Reagan, because you know.
Starting point is 00:36:10 knew that he was an actor. Who wants to be a millionaire? The Regis suits. They were so popular. The kind of monochrome. Yeah, the monochrome suit with like... I wore those. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:36:23 Yeah. Well, like at College Humor Affairs in the like 2005 to 2008 range, I wore a Regis suit. Yeah, it's got like a little bit like a sheen to it. There's a sparkle. Yeah. There's a dazzle there. A shiny tie. Big Philbin energy.
Starting point is 00:36:39 I'll just For some reason I feel like it was Lyndon B. Johnson Lyndon B. Johnson final answer D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-Doo. Unfortunately, or fortunately, you got it wrong but it wasn't mine. Okay.
Starting point is 00:36:55 It wasn't mine. The correct answer was Nixon and I put, I guessed Reagan hoping that you would put that in there. Yeah, yeah, okay. So I at least sniffed out the trap. That's right. Was, so we'll call that one neutral.
Starting point is 00:37:07 Was Nixon, was that B? Was it answer B? Yes. Maybe that's why I remember it. B. So I thought it was Lyndon B Johnson, but it was actually just B. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, that's probably why you thought B.
Starting point is 00:37:21 But yeah, he called his dad. He's like, I don't have to ask you anything. I just want to let you know I'm about to win a million dollars on TV. Fucking mic drop moment. Yeah. Never been a cooler dude than that guy. There is. No wonder he went for school to school.
Starting point is 00:37:34 That is so balzy. That is so balzy. You, like, it's a million. Yeah. You might as well just use all the life lines. He had all three left because he had gotten every single one correctly. What a fucking victory lap? What do you go down to if you shoot for a million and don't get it?
Starting point is 00:37:50 I think it's half a million. Oh, wait, no. Oh, that's if you take the money. I think you go all the way back to like $64,000 or something. Oh, my God. You got to be real sure. Yeah. Okay.
Starting point is 00:38:02 The Earth is approximately how many miles away from the sun? A, 9.3,000. million. B. 9.3 million what? Miles. Okay. Say that.
Starting point is 00:38:15 Be earthers, approximately how many miles? You yelling at Regis? A, 9.3 million. B, 3.9 million. C, 93 million. Or D, 39 million. I think it's the furthest one.
Starting point is 00:38:33 Because I think it's something like, it's like 9.3 light years away or something. I think it's insane. far away. So if we're just talking miles, not light years, I'm just going to go the furthest fucking possible. 93 million. Final answer. Unfortunately, you are correct because your light year thing was way off. Your logic was not good, but it did land you in the right answer. So I can't be grudget it. You win a million dollars. I was wrong about my light year thing. that one was actually answered on my birthday January 18th 2000 and he answered correctly
Starting point is 00:39:14 I think a light year is like hundreds of millions of miles it's how far light travels in a year okay cool yeah so 93 million is like how many light years is the earth from the sun the complete answer is it takes eight minutes from sunlight to reach earth so yeah Really, really short brush. So I was super wrong, but it was super right, ultimately. Yeah, my fake answer should have just been 900 million miles, and you would have guessed it. Yeah, probably. Okay, here's another one, just so I can try to get my money back.
Starting point is 00:39:55 Yeah, do you want to double or nothing? Yeah, what country are all U.S. Major League Baseball is currently manufactured? Keep in mind, this was 2000, so it might have changed. A, Panama, B, Costa Rica, C, Dominican Republic, or D, Haiti? I think it's Panama, but I'm not 100% confident, so I think I'm going to lock in the 500,000. fine I guess I didn't I didn't fucking say that you couldn't do that
Starting point is 00:40:35 so I'll send you 1.5 million that's perfect instead of you guessing what could be the correct answer was it Panama is that your answer you're really to lock it in I'm walking and now you'll reveal it in no you have to answer
Starting point is 00:40:51 for the sake of this game you have to answer one of them Panama final answer that was mine you fucking idiot No. The correct answer was Costa Rica, obviously. Panama? Yeah. They're not going to make a baseball.
Starting point is 00:41:05 It seems like an industrial hub with their canal. They're not going to make a baseball. Of course not. Okay, ready? One last one. Yep. Who was the first NFL player to answer, I'm going to Disneyland in the popular series of TV ads?
Starting point is 00:41:22 A, Steve Young. B. Marcus Allen. C. Phil Sims or D. Joe Montana. Phil Sims, New York Giants quarterback. You're sure? What made you even consider that one?
Starting point is 00:41:43 Not that you've locked it in yet, but I'm curious why that one stood out. Because I didn't think it was Joe Montana or Steve Young. And I didn't know the middle two guys. What was the other guy? Marcus Allen, Sims, final. answer. That is correct. Wow. New York Giants
Starting point is 00:42:02 quarterback Phil Sims. Damn. Good for me. It's the first person to say I'm going to Disneyland. You fucking won a mill. I totally guess. You absolutely won a mill. Absolutely guessed. One last one for all the marble.
Starting point is 00:42:17 I thought you said, no, you said this was the last one. And now that I have a million dollars, you're trying to erase my fucking winnings. Yeah. You said this. This was the last one. You were like, this is the last one. And then I got it. Now you say, one last one.
Starting point is 00:42:30 No, I'm walking. I have a million fucking bucks. You sue me. Oh, my God. The judge sides with me. Listen to the podcast. I'm ruined. Everyone's cracking up in the courtroom.
Starting point is 00:42:48 Are you sure you don't want to keep going? This is gold. This is a really good segment. The jury asks to play Ha'ONA again. It has nothing to do with the case. They just really like that one. All right, fine. They love hot. You win a million dollars. Are you happy? Yeah, I am. You can ask the audience what the, what the last question is if you want.
Starting point is 00:43:08 Okay. Which insect shorted out an early supercomputer and inspired the term computer bug? A, moth. B, roach. C, flee, or D, Japanese beetle? Well, the audience is going to guess not me If I were playing, I would have guessed Moth If I were playing But you're not playing? I'm not playing. You're not making that guess
Starting point is 00:43:40 For two bell I'm happy with million That's going to take me a long way Potentially hypothetical You don't want to just Because it could be right And then you could look like a fucking genius And there's no real risk
Starting point is 00:43:52 if you think about it. So you almost wanted to lock him off. You owe me a million dollars. I would have I would have guessed Moth, but I'm not playing. I am happy with a million dollars. My wife would kill me if I left here without this mill. All right. Fine.
Starting point is 00:44:09 Congrats. We'll let the audience play. I'm curious what they say. Yeah. But I guess we'll never know because who's to say what the right answer was. You can tell everyone what the right answer was. I walked away. you owe me a million dollars it was yours moth was your final
Starting point is 00:44:27 i'm not playing moth is probably yours that's why you're trying so hard for me to guess that is what i did last time and you did lock it in and you didn't lose of course i i'm not playing i texted you the right answer that uh that sucks to see that's It was Moth. Of course it was Moth. I could have been a two-millionaire. So fucking bad. All right, good work.
Starting point is 00:45:04 Good job. You're a millionaire. Thanks, dude. Ultimately. That's two from Hamden. Respect. Okay. For more bonus segment action, you can check out our Patreon. We're also watching jake and our videos there. Patreon.com slash J.A. And thanks to you guys for listening.
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