Segments - Bonus Thursday Patreon Episode: Flip Off

Episode Date: January 24, 2019

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If only I were you. Shark.com. Cool. Let's get started. You flipped me off. Yeah, you said fuck you a few times. I didn't say that. I mouthed.

This is. You did, because we're rolling on video. I forgot we were doing the video. I was just doing like we usually do for the podcast. You usually say, fuck me. I usually flip you off to get you. To what? To get you ornery before we shoot.

Yeah. I like you when you're ornery. What do you mean, ornery? Like when you get cornered, you get really defensive. I get ornery when I'm cornered? Yeah, you get cornered. You think I'm corny? Yeah.

You think I'm corny when I get cornered and ornered? I actually didn't say that. But see, this is sort of what I'm talking about. You think I get corny and ornery I'm corny when I get cornered and ornery? I actually didn't say that But see, this is sort of what I'm talking about You think I get corny and ornery Yeah, I give you like a little slap When I'm cornered and I get ornery, right? Yeah Yeah

I didn't say anything about cornering I didn't say corny You didn't say ornery You did say ornery I said cornered Cornered You said cornered Right?

When I get cornered, I get cornered Right? You don't get cornered I didn't say cornered I don't even know what that would mean in this context. You cornered me. You cornered me. I got ornery.

I got hornery. I didn't say you got hornery. I got corny. Right? With puns. Things that sound the same, so it's funny. No, you're doing the pun thing. What?

I said cornered, and I said ornery. That's sort of a rhyme. But you said horny. You said quartered. All that other stuff. And corny, you also said.ny. You said quartered. All that other stuff. And corny, you also said. You're putting that on yourself. Yeah.

All right. We're caught up, though. Cool. I didn't appreciate the flip off. Or is it flick off? I say flip. Because you flip this. There's no way that's a flick.

Yes, it is. That's exactly what it is. You're flicking. There's no way that's a flick. There's no way that's a flick. Well, you don't really. This is not a flick. You don't flick. This is a flick. Let's say when you do it, that's a flick. There's no way that's a flick. Well, you don't really. This is not a flick. You don't flick.

This is a flick. Let's say when you do it, it's a flip. Your finger flips up. Flick me off. Flip. No, flip. Flit. It's a flit.

It's fleeting. It doesn't last very long. Because I'm fleet of foot. Yeah. Fuck off. All right. I wonder if there's an actual answer to that question or you think it's both. It's regional. It's got to be regional. Flick Fuck off. Alright. I wonder if there's an actual answer to that question, or you think it's both. It's regional.

It's gotta be regional. Flick you off. Or flip you off. It's already auto-filling. People have asked this before. Which one is correct? Flip or flick someone off? My theory is regional. Let it be known.

I've used both interchangeably, says some random guy, and I'm down to believe Seth Kalkins in August of 2017. Oh, so there we have it. August of 2017. What a different time.

Yeah, everyone was saying flick that year. It was the truthiness of 2017. The truthiness. Very good. Of course, if you're listening to this, thank you. If you're watching us.

That means you're a Patreon. We appreciate that even more. Or a patron. What the fuck is it? Patron. Yeah. Patreon is the website. Yeah.

Patron just feels sort of like formal. So you're what? You're a Patreon subscriber. Yeah. You're a day one baby. And we appreciate it. This is, of course, a 30-minute ad-free version of our podcast, If I Were You,

an advice show that we regularly do on Monday, but every other Thursday on this Patreon page, we're giving you guys a bonus Thursday episode. Here it is. Here's one. We need a guy who's in a book club with a co-worker. So give me a

male author's name. Ernest. Ernest? Yeah. I don't know. What author is that? I couldn't think of an author, so I just did like from the Ernest movies.

Oh, that's funny. Ernest goes to camp. Yeah. And there's another one where he saved Christmas. Hey dudes, for the past two years, my co-worker and I have been exchanging books that we think the other would like. We have similar tastes, mostly history, so we've always enjoyed the books that the other brings in.

However, this most recent book she lent me is straight up stinky. It's poorly written, poorly edited, and it's a real slog. I honestly don't want to finish the damn thing. But I really don't want to be rude either. She is kind of a work mom to me. I'm a 26 year old guy and I really value our friendship. What should I do? Is there a polite way to give the book back without finishing it? Or should I suck it up and push my way through the next 400 pages? Thanks for shaping my humor over the last decade. Love, Ernest. P.S. Loving the Patreon. So this guy is a patron.

First of all, ta-da. Namaste. I would say, this is a solid candidate for a lie. A lie. Yeah.

So I gave you a long bad book, and then in two months you do what? No, two weeks, three weeks. Three weeks,

you write a 400 page book, and you give it back. You're like, hey, thanks so much. That was great. Let's do the next one. Did you do what? No, two weeks, three weeks. Three weeks, you write a 400 page book and you give it back. He's like, hey, thanks so much. That was great. Did you like it? Let's do the next one. Did you like it?

Yeah, it was great. Favorite part? The beginning I really liked. You already read some. Favorite part? In the beginning? The chapter about the U-boats. I thought that was really cool.

How do you think it ended? You thought it ended well? With the ending? Well, yeah, it was a history of World War II. The ending I thought was crazy. Yeah, it was a history of World War II because as we established, I like history books so I thought it ended? You thought it ended well? Well, yeah, it was a history of World War II. The ending I thought was crazy. Yeah, it was a history of World War II because as we established, I like history books, so I thought it ended pretty well. Really?

With Hitler killing himself and the US of A winning. It ended in 39, the book. You didn't read it. Well, I'm talking about World War II. You didn't read it. Oh, come on. You didn't read my fucking book. You're my workman. Oh, you shot me in the face. Christ! You think that's how you'd react?

You shot me in the head! The bones of my fucking brain! Ow! Ow? Knock it off! No knock it off or no ow. Get out of here! I don't think so. You're acting like I flicked your eyes. Christ! Alright, that's fine. Yeah. What's your advice? Remember Cliff's

Notes? Oh, yeah. So growing up in the early 80s like I did, we didn't read. We didn't have to. This was Reaganomics, all right? You voted for Reagan, right? Yes. I was born in 71, raised in 83. We had these things called Cliff's Notes.

I don't even know if they have them anymore. Is it just CliffNotes? It's not Cliffs. I think it's Cliffs. It's a guy named Cliffs? Let's check the internet again. It's CliffsNotes. Cliff? It was a dude?

Cliff made all the notes? Who the hell is Cliff? Why did he take so many notes? That's good. Seinfeld. Yeah. We kind of did. By the way.

Started in 1958. So CliffsNotes were these, you know, abridged versions of famous stories so that people didn't have to read books in high school. You just read the CliffsNotes, the abridged version of these famous novels. Then later on, on AOL, they had like Barron's Book Notes where they had it all online. You didn't even have to buy the CliffsNotes. Now, I don't know what kids are using.

Wikipedia. Oh, yeah. Just like go to like the Amazon review of this book and just like That's right. get all your talking points right there.

So, there probably doesn't need to be a service that abridges books for you because every popular book probably has a Wikipedia page that summarizes it. Yeah. So, you could just always do that.

Again, you're lying. Right. Because, but I think there's not real, like, so it's, this book club has been going on for a little while.

Yeah. So mom isn't like rigid, like, uh, suggesting her favorite book anymore. Right. This isn't like going to really hurt her feelings if you didn't like it. So I think you can read about it.

You know, don't hurt her feelings so much by being like it. So I think you can read about it. You know, don't hurt her feelings so much by being like, you recommended A Lemon and I want out. This is a bad book. You just read

the clip notes or the Wikipedia, whatever. So you go back to her and be like, I finished it. Yeah, it wasn't my favorite. I had like,

there were some good parts but this, this, this. That's book club. You talk about the book. Okay? And then... You're getting very antagonistic towards the work mom. Okay?

I have a lot of time on opinion. Right, ma? For crying out loud, you shot me last week. By the way, you ever apologized? You shot me in the head. Yeah. I thought you were dead. I am sorry, I guess.

Have you ever read something out of obligation to someone and then gotten a third of the way through and you're like, I can't do it anymore? After high school, it's hard to force yourself to read a book you don't like. I was sort of dating somebody who was really trying to convince me to read Infinite Jest. Oh, that 1,200-page dense novel that doesn't really make sense? Right, but changes some people's lives.

Yeah. And it's like, if you want to know me, Like a 1,200-page dense novel that doesn't really make sense. Right, but changes some people's lives. Yeah. And it's like, if you want to know me, read this book. It's my favorite book. It's a very uptight thing to think. Like, if you want to know me, read this traditionally impossible-to-understand book. And then only then will you know how complicated I am. Yeah, and we slowly stopped hanging out because I couldn't finish the book. You couldn't get to know her either.

Yeah. Somebody gives you a book that you don't want to read, but then you can't like, or he, he reads it, but he stays up all night and then he, he doesn't do well on the date. Oh, because he was up all night reading the book.

We, this could be the pilot episode of our, uh, of our TV show. Okay. So it's our characters. Somebody gives me a book to read to get to know her. Actually, I think this was an episode of friends. show. Okay. For sure. So it's our characters. Somebody gives me a book to read to get to know her.

Actually, I think this was an episode of Friends. Probably. Yeah, where Rachel like writes Ross a letter. Oh yeah, that's sort of it. Yeah,

it's like, I want you to read this letter. It's not quite the same because that's like, he really should have read the letter. It was a really long letter, but it like says all of, he basically like implicitly agrees to

say he cheated on her, right? Right, no, no yeah you just like admit it's an admission of guilt yeah that they weren't on a break this is a great show yeah david schwimmer are you kidding me uh so we both think don't actually force yourself to read the book say you did on to the next yeah Here's a question for you about Friends. Yeah. Did Marcel last one season or two? You know, I've... One season or two?

I actually know the answer to this because Friends has been on in my household for the last few days. And Marcel existed primarily in season one. But there was a mini story arc in season two where ross visits marcel on the set of his movie and they have like a little date together and then he drives off in a cab at the end so they say a final goodbye to marcel i would not have put marcel in season one yeah marcel was like the og i thought that would be like a two or three yeah yeah that's like when ross was just an animals guy that was his character. He loved animals? He loved, like, it was his paleontology nerd, like, focus on that for a whole season.

So he had a pet monkey. He worked in a museum. Then they slowly got rid of the monkey. The dinosaur stuff became de-emphasized over time, and he just became a general nerd guy. I see. All right. Next question? We should do a Friends podcast.

That'd be awesome. Yeah. We'll call it what? Let's read the next question. All right. Next question. We should do a friends podcast. That'd be awesome. Yeah. We'll call it what? Let's read the next question. All right. Here's a guy who lives in Vermont. Give me a famous Vermontese man. You know, a famous man from Vermont. Stephen King's from Vermont, isn't he? Sure. I'm not going to look it up. Cool. Or is he from New Hampshire? Or is he from Boston? No, I think it's either Vermont or New Hampshire.

He's a big Boston fan. I've already looked up enough stuff this episode. You have to look this up. Where is Stephen King from? Where is Stephen King from? And does he say flip or flick off? That's another thing we should look up. It looks like he's from Maine.

I'll search famous people. From Vermont. Yeah. Whoa, it just says LOL. I guess there's no famous people from there. Trolling Vermont. Oh, actually, here we go. Calvin Coolidge is from Vermont.

He's the president. Not anymore, but yeah, he was the president. Right. Coolidge is from Vermont. He's the president. Not anymore, but yeah, he was the president. Right. Well, obviously. Obviously. He's dead. Yes. What number president was he? 30.

No chance, Blumenfeld. He was absolutely 25. That seems, no. 25 was McKinley. No. McKinley is 24. Who was our... You're thinking of Herbert Hoover. No, Hoover was one after Coolidge. Who was our 25th president? I used to know these all. I know, that's why I'm fucking with you.

It is McKinley. Really? Wow. Yeah. But wait, what number... Was Coolidge. This is our fucking, this is a whole other podcast. Jake and Amira look up stupid shit on the internet.

What number president was Calvin Coolidge? What number president was Calvin Coolidge? 30. What did I say? I think I said 30. No, he didn't say 30. I said 30. He said 30?

John and Giancarlo are both off camera shaking their head that you did not say 30. We have video and audio proof of it. Did he say 30? He said 30. Yeah. You piece of shit. Yeah, laugh it up. You're making me look like a fool.

And I don't think it's funny. I'm just kidding. My yuck yucks. Yuck yuck. What number was he? 28. You think in an infinite timeline we'll have a president named yuck yuck? Yeah, because in an infinite timeline everything happens.

Wow. Do you think in an infinite timeline we'll have a president named Yuck Yuck and he'll eat his own shit during a debate to be elected? Yeah, because if time is truly infinite, which you're postulating that it is, the universe grows and expands ad infinitum. I think any permutation of U.S. and world history can and will and has happened. So the yuck-yuck thing is happening. The eating this shit happens. It's happening during a debate.

Yeah, during a debate. Sometimes it's televised, sometimes it's just a radio debate. Right, yuck-yuck was like, this is what I think of your policy. That's right. Yuck-yuck. Yeah.

And he's the president in this specific universe. Crazy. Yeah, it's cool. All right. He's, yuck. Yeah. And he's the president in this specific universe. Crazy. Yeah, it's cool. All right. He's number 29 in that one. Calvin Coolidge writes. That's it. That's all you get, you coy little divas.

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