The Headgum Podcast - 16: Auld Lang Syne

Episode Date: September 11, 2020

Amir, Marika, Mike, and Geoff discuss their dream homes, Amir's Bob Dylan impression, and foam.Advertise on The Headgum Podcast via Gumball.fmWe have new merch in the Headgum store! All profits will be donated to the Black Arts Futures Fund, through September 13.Rate The Headgum Podcast 5-stars on Apple Podcasts.Join the Headgum Discord.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This is a HeadGum Original. Let me just get our theme song queued up. Should old acquaintance be forgot And never brought to mind This can't be it. Should old acquaintance Usually it's Marika playing the saxophone Marika this doesn't sound like you I'm so sorry guys

that was not I don't think you're sorry I tried to cue up the sax but obviously Ferris is kind of I met Ferris as Beck and and call and whim in a way. That was the least appropriate song you could have used. It was like a winter New Year's Eve vibe,

and it's like 110 degrees in early September. Please welcome to the show the core four, Amir Blumenfeld, Mike Komomete, Marika Brownlee. It's kind of cool to have the dream team back. Right? It's like sometimes... Have we ever been on at the same time? Well, Marika, you and I composed the theme song together.

That's true, we did. So that's the dream team. Yeah, you're right. That was one of the highlights of my quarantine, I have to say. Was A, like the process of launching this show i mean now it's like a chore to do obviously but um at the beginning it was it was a novel idea and also hearing that sax for the first time and marika sort of being like i don't know if this is good or not and we were the rest of us being like that's it that's absolutely the theme song and

then amir coming up with the idea of doing like little stingers to kind of you know hit the end of jokes even harder yeah I guess I should record more of those probably I know Ferris wanted to play around with them if you just kind of soloed for a day

me on the alto sex for a day release the eight hours of soul do you guys ever see Me on the alto sex for a day. Release. Sounds awful. Release the monshi cut. Eight hours of soul. Did you guys ever see Wolfpack where they released their album? Let me finish. Wait, keep going. I know Wolfpack.

That wasn't me. All right, I'll mute myself. Sorry. Do you remember in 2014 when they did the Sleepify album on Spotify and they just generated like $30,000? Yeah, Spotify changed the rules after that. we should do the saxify so it's marika doing like 10 tracks of improvised sax and it raises money for this show i mean so so the parallel is raising money not the idea that they recorded an album of complete silence that people played while they went to sleep

because you can't really just play saxophone solos and go to sleep i mean some people probably do but that's actually insane the parallel is is getting cash for this because i feel like at the very least mike your time is worth more than zero dollars that you're getting i just like i i think at one point i tried to improvise on the sax and i just I couldn't do it. I couldn't make myself do it. I don't know why. You couldn't bring yourself to do it? Yeah. I was too embarrassed

for my own self listening. I was alone and I was embarrassed about how I sounded. Such a funny image soloing alone. It's hard. It's like, I doning alone. It's hard. It's like, I don't know. It's hard to improvise a musical or dance thing without any other additional feedback.

Yeah, when you don't have somebody in the corner going like, Yeah, man. Yeah, she's doing it. She's doing it. Yeah. Yeah, you need a crowd being like, Think of that one. Definitely make it worse. And then you need some really strangely shaped guy

with albino white hair being the band leader and just being like, Brie Gobert on the sax! And then everybody's going crazy in the jazz club. What does strangely shaped mean to you? Like, not... Just like oddly proportionate like thick forearms thin wrists jk simmons in a way in a way but more of like uh like you franklin hair you're oddly proportioned

you're oddly proportioned i don't think so yeah yeah broad shoulders and thin ankles you're like a bowling pin upside down that's not wrong that's why you're calling it out because you're clearly like insecure about it every suit I've ever had has been a weird double buy where I get a

44R and then I have to get that tapered pant a size down. So you'll go to a kids suit place for your legs and then a big and tall store for your chest. I'm Johnny Bravo with a fat

ass. That's a great Tinder bio. Johnny Browno with the fat ass. No matches. But I get on Raya somehow. They love it. The committee can't get enough of my profile.

Johnny Browno. What would your Raya song be for that profile? Auld Lang Syne, for sure. a song be for that profile um old lang syne for sure i want people to feel christmas when they kind of see my face it's nice this brings us to our first segment uh when you think of christmas you think of the holidays hanukkah new year's eve you got to be at home for the holidays. Mike, Marika, Amir Blumenfeld, build your dream house, alright? Where is it? How big

is it? What style is it? This is money aside. Let's do your second prompt. Are you kidding me? This is a good one. Marika said let's actually have conversation this one's pretty good favorite no one says anything childhood snack when i said

let's play the price is rice everybody was begrudging about it but they instantly jumped at the opportunity now i'm giving you a conversation started for real marika you don't even say jack i did you see my face light up with joy no i mean you didn't say the word jack i'm wondering if like well i'm wondering if you build it yourself with like a jack i don't think that's a tool that i would really be using for building a house right um i mean i think ultimately if i had to choose a style of ideal house it would be Pyle's house, his upstate house. Early on when they were building it, I talked to Kate about what materials

they were using for their exterior and it was like the same type of material that I had used for like a project in college. So I was really excited about that. Are you taking credit for Pyle's house? You talked to Kate and you told her how to build it. Listen to yourself.

Yeah. Jesus. And she like wanted a clothes concept and you're like, actually, and then you sketched something on the back of the napkin and they framed it. I sent her sketch up files. You gave Nick Rad a permanent tattoo of the floor plan see look at this what's what material is it just like siding stucco on vinyl no it's this it's

it's a it's a wood siding but there's like a technique it's called shosugi ban and it's like this technique where you burn cedar normally so it like coats it with charcoal essentially it's like this black wood siding and it prevents against

like bugs and rot and stuff like that but it also looks really cool only shibushi can prevent wildfires cut that out cut that out for your own sake i have to i'll leave the podcast now just so you know exactly where that happened because then you can't cut around it okay for sure and just to be clear did did *** sign the contract yet? Again, don't name names. Don't talk about internal business.

Well, we can talk about the Finn Wolfhard podcast now. Somebody asked me on their Instagram post, they commented, I wonder if this is what Jeff had to bleep out on the HeadGum podcast, and it was. Yeah, one of the things. One of many things to come. That's true. That one is out. The trailer at the

very least is out. And by the time this airs, the first episode will be as well. And I wonder if people will be kind of up in arms with the way it goes. Like, how is it going to be received? Positively? Yeah, I mean, they're two funny dudes who are talking about movies, so it has universal appeal. I would assume that

his fans and HeadGum fans will enjoy it. So I don't know why you're worried about it. I don't think there's ever really a situation with comedy podcasting where there's something that's widely negatively received. People just don't listen to it. This show every week. I can imagine a subreddit post about hating a guest or something. But even then, it's like a subsection.

People still listen. Not widely. So Marika, it's pile in Kate's house. Like minimalist, chic, a modern update on an old house. Yeah. I don't know where I'd want it to be because I do like living in cities and I feel like that's a real... I do think that that's something about New York culture though that's interesting is that I mean

obviously it's only like privileged wealthy people who are successful can do it but like having you got your you got your New York City place and you got your upstate place or you got your New York City place and you got your place in the Hamptons you know like LA like Amir wouldn't fucking have

a ranch in like topanga canyon why would he need that don't speak because he already has do not speak for me no i'm just saying like you would never take not only take that chance from a real estate investment perspective and like airbnb it out because you just don't have the huevos for that but more like you don't want the headache and you don't need the relaxation don't yeah don't speak like we're friends do not act like you know me stop it because sometimes like he doesn't want the headache and you don't need the relaxation. Don't speak like we're friends. Do not act like you know me. Stop it.

Because sometimes he doesn't need the relaxation. I will often notice about my good friend Amir is that he can slow down time in a way. That doesn't mean anything. He has a free weekend. He can make it seem longer to himself. Don't smile while you talk about me at all. You don't know me. I don't want to be your friend. And don't put that out there in the world. Because you're lying to people. I'm just saying.

I know, and I'm asking you to stop saying. It's disgusting. It's amoral. We can talk about ****. We can talk about ****. What about it? You worked hard on the pilot for the show. Who?

And that time sort of flew by for you. But then now, you know, now is the time that you get to slow things down. Now you get that R&R. Now you get that, honestly, PR and R&D. Yeah, you're not. What do you mean? So let's focus on that. What do you mean I'm going to slow down for R&D?

What do you think R&D means in that? Rest and decompression. That one is actually right. All right, fine. I'll allow it. Mike, what about you? Dream home? Where is it?

What style? How big? I know nothing about houses, but I would say it would be probably in new hampshire near a lake um kind of like but not on the lake necessarily why not on the lake the sound of water scares me what's that what's the sound of a lake like um let me try and make make the sound with my mouth. Hold on. Like that. Waves crashing. And this is not like a great lake. Yeah, just like light waves crashing.

You know, there's no raging storms in the lake. People often fall asleep to that kind of sound. Like it's usually really relaxing to people. It's fine if you're, yeah, if I'm lying on the beach or something like that. But I can't be, just big waves scare me all right you know okay that's why it has to be a lake crashing whoa an old mother dies the angel opens her eyes pale blue colored eyes ferris will play the guitar underneath that so it'll sound a little bit better

that was an original seemingly in a Bob Dylan voice and referencing Velvet Underground song titles no it was live the band live like you know live right I honestly I had no idea what you were singing but then I just in my head I thought live in my head lightning crashes

but light wave crashes instead of lightning sorry for giving you enough credit to think that you would kind of come up with that off the cuff. Actually, I do a pretty good Bob Dylan. Let's hear it. All right. What do you want me to sing about? Just the answer, My Friend is Blown in the Wind. Classic, right?

Everybody knows it. Yeah. But like, give me like an improv style thing. So it's not like Bob Dylan singing a Bob Dylan song. It's like Bob Dylan at a Taco Bell drive-thru or something. He's a musician known for histhru or something. He's a musician known for his very distinctive vocal. When people do impressions of

Bob Dylan, it's songs. That's why it's funny to imagine him. What would Bob Dylan... Bob Dylan is late. Okay, Bob Dylan, he's applying for a mortgage. He's on the phone with Rocket Mortgage. He wouldn't do that because I feel like Bob Dylan has enough money that he can buy outright. Something silly like that. Even if you have enough money, you shouldn't can buy outright. But like, yeah, something silly like that.

He doesn't, even if you have enough money, you shouldn't just buy outright, right? Because then that's like the cash is sunk into the asset and you can't get it back unless you sell. Yeah, that's true. Okay, so give me another. That's true. Give me like, where would Bob Dylan be?

That's kind of funny. Okay, Bob Dylan's at, he's walking into like a fancy clothing store. He's going to get a new hat. That's cool. All right. He would do that. that's cool all right he would do that that's cool or are you gonna do the scene well i was thinking about like what would

bob dylan say and then i have to say it in his voice so i'm just thinking right i'm trying to keep it like casual and like interesting and funny um so this the podcast or this scene the podcast yeah it's funny if it's like conversational so i'm just trying to think like how would we how would we Get into that You're interrupting the flow of conversation right now You brought this up as like oh let me do this quick impression It'll blow you guys away You still haven't even attempted it once

Alright I'm ready So say it again just so we have it And then it goes right into my thing I'm not going to cut all of this out I'm going to keep it in Bob Dylan walking in to Barney's Barney's. Barney's Beanery?

No. Barney's New York, the fancy clothing place. Okay. And he's asking for. Oh, my God. He just needs a new pair. He needs a new hat. Okay.

He needs a new hat. The answer, my hat is blowing in the bath. The answer is Barney's Beanery. And then Ferris would add like, what's that? The corn on the cob instrument where it sounds like a harmonica. It's a harmonica. Don't call it corn. All right.

Sorry, I didn't fucking go to Berkeley School of Music. None of us did. Really? You fucking go to Berkeley School of Music. None of us did. Really? You did go to Berkeley, though. Yeah, I guess that's pretty close alphabetically. And impression wise? It was pretty average. I think Mike could do a much better Bob Dylan. You actually kind of look like a young Bob Dylan. Mike, have you ever gotten that? No, I get Arlo Guthrie, though.

That's cool. All right. What's your best musical impression? It doesn't have to be Bob Dylan. Like who's singing voice can you best imitate and why? Am I going to have to do the impression after this? Absolutely. No, not necessarily. I mean, depending on what it is, like if it's someone random that we don't want to hear,

I can take it from there. I can actually do Michael Jackson. Don't, don't at all. No, keep doing it. Let's stick with this. Drink your Soylent in a cup. Why does everything you eat and drink have broth to it? Coffee, egg white

based cocktails. I saw you eat a burger and foam came out. You just had a rabies. Yeah. Either you were bit by a wild animal or just eat fine burger with foam

you took an Advil and then burped a bubble what was the joke from the snacks video was it anti-foam anti-cherrys anti-foam really anything anti i was just updating this is so not important but i was just updating my website and i was like choosing some videos to put on there and i re-watched day in the strife money here is a such a good performance from a beer he's like podcasting is only important

if you're rich about it and you think that's a good message you want to send people like watch this say what's your name Zach yeah see so get the fuck

out of here right and it's like that fast what do you mean it's fast that's what you take away from it yeah that I can

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check it out uh all right uh this is a classic this is a classic uh conversation starter three dream dinner guests we're gonna go living then we're gonna go dead and then we're gonna go combined so six total dinner guests and then at the end you have to kind of funnel it into three we will let you take that again. Why does this question have rounds? It didn't make sense. Start from the top. Three prompts. You're getting further.

Three prompts. Three separate. Three prompts. The first. What three dinner guests would you like to have uh that are currently alive let's just start there to think of nine people now no it's it's six people total how six how six what three prompts what are you talking about? Three living, three dead. Three living, three dead. And then we'll do a final one, living and dead combined.

Composed of the... We have to pick out of the pool that we just created. Let's start with Marika. Dream three dinner guests that are currently living. And Gusher's coming to dinner. Bernie Mac is my first on dead one.

Fuck. Fuck. God. These are so hard to do without any... I don't think so. I can pick them for you. Yeah, Mike, pick mine. Three cast members from Succession. And three past members of

Succession, so people who are not on the show anymore for the dead ones. Ooh, that's fun. Not really. What? Nothing. We answered your question. No, go on.

Are you bummed? You're upset about it? No, you added this weird TV caveat to it. Okay, okay. No, we didn't. There's only like six characters. People on TV are alive. Meaning?

I think it's included in your rules. you not can you jeff can you like quickly explain what a tv show is a television program is it's like basically showing you somebody else's world through their eyes right so the actors are alive that's what he was saying three actors who are alive for marika's three people who are alive. We answered your question. He looks very confused. What are you concerned about? Marika, is that your final answer? Is just any three actors from Succession and then dead is just any three actors from Succession

who have died in the show? I'll amend it. I'll go. I will go. I'll take Jeremy Strong from Succession. I think he'd be weird. Maybe Zach Woods. Another weird person.

Boy, oh boy. Okay. Who are people that I like that's the question hello guilty and quite alive actually she could have dinner with you anytime

not having dinner with you yeah and you won't split the bill that's part of it too it's more fair to go Dutch you never do well I prefer you to pay for it then i'll get the next one you never do yeah so i'll get the next two you never too i never too last spot marika um does it have to be a person can can i choose the first cow from first cow um so like i'm on a farm with evie the cow but also uh zach woods and jeremy strong what about vernie the pig the cow the horse vernie the horse the pig okay yeah

have the have the cow but just be careful what you choose for the dinner menu. That's fine. What about dead? Can we go in a circle? All right. Mike, three dinner guests alive. Edition. Oh, I mean, I would probably, I get nervous around strangers, so I just pick my three best friends from home. Loser.

That's very nice. It wouldn't be a comfortable dinner if I just invited. It still wouldn't be comfortable with your friends from home yeah because they don't like him well if they don't like me that's true but I would feel more comfortable

with my three friends who don't like me at dinner with me it's because one of them would be like you should have just chosen me and fucking Bill Gates and Michael Jordan instead it's just me and these two jabronis that we hang out with anyway. Yeah, I feel like they would be mad for you and at you

for not having chosen the lead singer of Jimmy Eat World. Jim Adkins. Jim who? Jim Eat World. His last name is E-Eat World. Jimmy Eat World. It's Jimmy world Jimmy Eat World is Jimmy Jim

Eat World we deny you for this loan because of your name it can't be real fine I'm here live dinner guests oh I didn't do dream house so let's start there there's something

about mid-century modern that's just nice split level triplex ranch top floor carpeted triplex ranch i've never even heard of that and in terms of dead people i'd want to have brunch with let's do let's do who died most recently that way they stink the least right because if we're digging up it's not what their carcasses it would be with them as if they were alive like they came back i see i see okay you you think sorry and this is like i'll cut this out because i people have been commenting that like, I kind of go out, go at you too much. Not everything's so like nitpicky and practical.

It's obviously not the carcass. This is supposed to be a fun game. And your first answer, your first inclination is to talk about the smell of a rotting carcass. Are they an old person or are they cool when they're younger? That's a good question. Like, was Jesus real or is that just like yeah abraham from the bible and the people just sort of cross their fingers and hope he existed like can i choose jesus or is this like a question mark kind of thing you can choose jesus you could choose i don't fucking care just get your answer done with jesus he's dead which i think that's not sacrilegious

to say right jesus lives what's that i i heard jesus lives but i don't know that's just what this says in the okay so for living i'll do jesus rivers cuomo oh my god and chiquillo For dead, I'll go Kobe Bryant. Right. Michael Jackson. Jesus. Jesus. Yeah, if he's dead. That's actually good. What about like a Chris Middleton type? So Chris Middleton or?

Yeah, like a stretch two who can hit pull up threes and transition. And are you saying that because he's kind of like a middle tier, middle to top tier NBA player who like might want to keep being friends with you, maybe go on buckets, etc.? I wouldn't say no. I wouldn't say Joe. Ingles. For living, I'm going to go LeBron. Kind of funny.

To have so many options available to you. It's kind of cool this is your question so don't compliment it I'm going LeBron, James, John Mayer and oh yeah it's interesting not really it's a pretty basic question

wow it's boring too because we don't actually get to see the dinner I've got the world on a string I'm sitting on this bad chair i've got a mirror on the podcast just say a celebrity's name it really doesn't matter and no one will remember it in two minutes anyway i'll say it for you steven swielberg all right let's move on no i don't think it's that oh my god colin jost colin jost for sure fine why because then i can kind of finagle him to get him on review review this is the triple crown It's that. Oh, my God. Colin Jost. Colin Jost, for sure. Fine. Why?

Because then I can kind of finagle him to get him on Review Review. This is the triple crown of Review Review guests. Ryan Gall. All right. Kind of knocked that one out. First year. Colin Jost. And guess what the last one is?

John Mayer. Yes, exactly right. Right. Of course. Saxophone. All right. What would your nine-year-old self say to you if they saw your life as it is right now? Are you kidding me? It's so early.

It's 30 minutes. Are you shitting me? It's so early. It's 30 minutes. Are you shitting me? I had so much more. It's not even the one that I literally wrote to get him to leave. Oh, no. Jesus. Mike, let's start with you. Your nine-year-old self saw you today.

And what would they say? What would he say? Okay. So, my nine-year-old self hadn't started playing music yet or like made it a goal to play music professionally, which I obviously failed at miserably. Actually, not really. I was on a Twitch stream the other night and people were saying that they really liked your music.

Oh, yeah. I mean, I think I mentioned it on the last episode and I doubled my play count from eight plays a week to 16 plays a week. Yeah. On Apple Music. Spotify does considerably better because I think more people are on it. But yeah, it did double my play count. So, you know, thank you so much, everybody.

Oh, he's back. Inappropriately early to leave. I have. That wasn't even the bit that I wrote to get you to leave. Where are we? What would your nine-year-old self say to you if they saw your life now? Oh, he would say, hey, that's pretty cool. Like, all right.

He'd shrug and be like, all right, I'll take it. Which that's like jumping for joy in Mike Comite's language, body language. Yeah, no, I mean, it's absolutely. You being like, it's okay, is like me being like, no way, man. You know what I mean? I don't remember what I was doing when i was nine years old oh probably tap dancing right uh i don't know what my career goals at the time were i don't know if i had any because i was a child really what did you want you didn't have any like

what do you want to be i wanted to be a killer whale trainer at sea world bad problematic now it is that was before blackfish came out many years before when i was like a little younger i wanted to be a dolphin trainer yes yeah uh and then gave that one up and and then i think for a while I wanted to work at SNL, but then I realized that I really did not want to do that. I think that was kind of like the in between. I never wanted to be a professional dancer, though. Amir, if you were nine currently and you had a Switch and you had Mario Kart, what would you what would be your career shoals? He wants to leave so bad. I think I was playing Mario Kart at age nine

because it was like 92. No, even before that, it was the Super Nintendo version. Everything was very flat. But I remember that's when I first got introduced to Mario Kart. And then, of course, the N64 version. That's the one that I really delved deep into like. And then of course the N64 version, that's the one that I really delved deep into, like in 15, 16 year old me was like on message boards,

seeing like which courses had the best, like world record times. Cause like you just had to like sort of do it and upload like a picture that you took with a digital camera. So that was pretty old school. And then I took a lot of time off from mario kart i got into tony hawk pro skater that was like my college obsession like freshman sophomore year probably

when i was 19 and 20 and then i really took like 17 years off from gaming i was just like yeah yeah it passed me by so like i never got into like halo or Call of Duty any of that stuff it was just it felt too intense and too hard so I sort of took a back seat and I really didn't get back into Mario Kart until like yeah March April of this year so like it was probably in me still

somewhere from that nine year old version who was playing Super Nintendo Mario Kart but I forget the question but yeah I haven't played Mario Kart probably properly like i have been now since 98 99 or something but i don't know what you're asking yeah what were you asking i was asking what your career shoals were and you absolutely like it yeah i was just yeah you nailed it for whatever that means. It's interesting to say that you were 16 and 15 playing Mario Kart on N64 because that was like the first console I ever had. And I was like four and five playing those games.

And then in high school, I was playing the Halos and the Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2s. Yeah, I'm 16 years older than you. So there's a little bit of a generational difference there. Well, you can age somebody. Well, actually, I used to be on an improv troupe in college, and we did this improv festival, and Alex Fernie, I think that's his name.

Maybe it wasn't him. No, it was Alex Berg. That's who it was. He was like, this is how I always gauge how old somebody is and he said where were you on 9-11 and i said i was in pre-k which is the year before preschool and he punched me in the arm because he felt so old like hard like that was one of the hardest times i've ever been punched which is obviously often because of how i rub people the wrong way. Which brings us to sort of an important segment here. HeadGum network updates.

What can we say? You transitioned from where were you during 9-11, low point in American history in the last 20 years, to thinking that was a good transition to talk about Head gum updates what can we say low to high and that's how you get variation when you're acting texture as it is like kind of turning on a dime going from something very serious to something very joyful and it makes people laugh i left five minutes ago and you said you have to come back. You have to come back. So far, you've asked me two questions. What were your career shoals? And where were you during 9-11? Actually, never mind.

What's going on in Edgum? So I ask you, did I have to come back? New merch. New merch. New merchandise at store.hedgum.com or headgum.com. Store.hedgum.com. Lackluster video dropping. Trailer dropped last week

First episode dropped three days ago So go check that out with Finn and Billy This brings us to our final segment Because I have to kind of get this in Before Amir leaves again Marika who do you think is the best Broadcaster of all time Let's say it at the same time

Because I think we have the same answer 3, 2, 1 I'm not going to answer this let's say it at the same time because i think we have the same answer three two one this is the big interview with dan rather interviewing our very own marika brownlee so i'm gonna have rather ask you some questions and you're gonna answer them as west you can christ let's talk about the negative side of it. You said there certainly is a positive side, experimenting with new musical forms. But on the bad side,

let's talk about the highlights or lowlights, if you will. Yeah. Experimenting with new musical forms is one of my greatest joys and I'd say there's no lowlights only highlights next question

my life's working the whole thing give me a second what was that first one that was my life's work you're going to prison is that a technical error if you hadn't gone to prison life's work, you're going to prison. Is that a technical error? If you hadn't gone to prison, if the judge hadn't sent you to prison, do you think you'd be alive today?

Was that a thing? I'm a great believer you are what your record is and your record shows. I feel like one that wasn't really a question, and also it was very confusing. What turned it around for you, and when? I would definitely say going to prison turned my life around. On either side, it's about being mistreated by the police at home. The fighting spirit is one we all share. It's why Amanda Nunes never backed down

from being the only woman in her MMA training jet. Add on YouTube. The stereotypes get in her way. Inside the octagon. Or out. Well done. The official deal. This is so bad, even for you.

This is a really bad segment. You had nothing prepared. And then a pre-roll. These are hardly any questions. Why was it too much? A live YouTube video? Now, Spice had been just a little bungalow in the middle of a sort of triangular block. But it, of course, spilled over into the thoroughfare.

And that under L.A., you know, Los Angeles City, or I didn't say it's a public music, you know, you're obstructing a public theater. I want to get the picture here. This was a big party, if you will. It wasn't a protest movement. It was a funeral for a bar. What was that? What is happening?

These are not questions. It's hard. You know, I'm trying to get just Rathers' point of view in questions. But like, you have Crosby, Stills, and Nash all kind of butting in at the wrong times. I didn't have time to edit Rathers' questions for their own. I don't have a soundboard like Mike. Yes, you do. He set you up with one.

Really? I haven't checked it out yet is all. I haven't had a chance. Yeah. yes you do he set you up with one really I haven't checked it out yet is all I haven't had a chance thank you guys so much for listening to this week's what the hell fix this what do you mean

what else am I supposed to ask you guys everything I do i'm afraid amir's gonna leave the next second i did leave you told me to come back i'm here i'm here marika told you to come back where you can tell you to come back and you did because at your behest yeah does anybody have anything to plug listen as you said listen to lackluster video. The first episode's probably out. Buy merch in the store. I think this week is the last week to buy it,

so that money goes to Black Arts Futures Fund. HeadGum-wise, those are the only plugs I have. Okay. Mike? Yeah? Your music? also follow me on twitter at at marika elan everything marika said uh catch up on season one of dead eyes before it comes back in the fall um keep listening to old best friend music on Spotify and Apple Music and wherever you listen to music.

I feel really sentimental with this music in the background. Amir, anything to plug? This was a dark day in HeadGum history. I don't know. I don't know how to. What is this part of the song this is a different song yeah this is a different song I don't know how we pre-roll I don't know what happens now what was your goal for like getting me to do an interview saying that I was in prison like what was your ideal situation? I didn't know that Rather was going to ask those questions.

It was Rather's interview. I didn't know. What I should have done, and I realize that the terrors of my ways this episode, is get sound clips clipped out before the episode. Yeah. Asking you certain, yeah, leading questions. out before the episode asking you certain

leading questions and but the issue was I know you didn't have time so instead of questions it was free roll ads I've been making

it a point to work out and you know kind of work out some personal issues that I have with Marika. Understood. Okay. That was the goal. Personal issues. Yeah.

Sorry. I shouldn't have brought it up. Amir left, obviously. Yeah. Old best friend. Yeah. On Spotify and Apple Music. Marika Brownlee on Twitter.

At Marika Aylan. Yeah. And I appreciate you guys for coming on did how'd this go how did this go regarding like not as bit heavy not as game heavy but more real questions i mean i feel like it started off well i think uh my my final interview took a turn for the worst but i'd say everything up to that point, I felt fine with and good about. I thought, I have to say, I have a bone to pick with you guys.

And I'll do it live on air. The three dream dinner guests idea was, I made a meal out of it. And I thought it was a good chunk of change in that regard. I thought that it would be good. Three each, three each, combine it into two. And it would be kind of a fun game to be like, ah, I wish I could have all six. I wish I could have all six, but I have

to get it down to a three combined living or dead. Is he just frozen now? You guys didn't really give it the time of day. I was thinking about this recording this last night, and I was thinking about, like, I gotta prepare for the headcount podcast. This is a horrible way to end this week's episode, but thank you guys so much for listening

we'll catch you again next week thank you for listening to the show be sure to check out Dead Eyes be sure to check out A Story You be sure to check out Buckets Review Review they're back I don't know what they were saying you guys were frozen so I thought you left or you were also frozen so we're having a nice convo

right right I think you should play them at the same time I absolutely will nag pod, lackluster video dead eyes review review etc etc and we'll see you guys again next week bye

god We'll see you guys next week. Bye. That was a Hiddem original.