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Episode Date: July 14, 2023Amir and producer Grace join Geoff to discuss the town of Walsall, the Jonah Hill controversy, and Headgum's liability re: Geoff. Advertise on The Headgum Podcast via Gumball.fm Rate The H...eadgum Podcast 5-stars on Apple Podcasts Rate The Headgum Podcast 5-stars on Spotify Join the Headgum DiscordSee 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.
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Previously on the HeadGum Podcast.
I just wanted to know what spurred this obsession of the week for you.
Obviously for...
Right.
Right, we talked about it last week.
I just meant like, was there a reason that you went to Lucien?
Was it just because you heard it was good and then you meant like, was there a reason that you went to Lucien? Was it just because you heard it was good?
And then you were like, this is the reason why I want to go to a French pastry.
Don't make that face at me.
I got dinner with a friend because she wanted to see me before I left.
I want to see her as well.
On Monday, I said, what kind of food do you want?
Pick a type of food and I'll find a place and make a reservation.
She said French.
So I was just looking up good French restaurants in New York City.
And then I saw Lucien and I had walked past Lucien that weekend, last weekend.
And I was like, oh, that's funny because one of my friend's new boyfriend's name is Lucien
and I haven't met him and he's very mysterious.
So I was going to send her a photo of him. Grace
Writing on the forearm twins
Snap
What you got?
Uh
Nothing What do you got?
Nothing.
Nothing.
You brought up a tattoo.
What does it say?
It's a Jerry Garcia reference.
Nobody gives a shit.
I'm curious.
It says Sansouci.
It's modeled after a wood sign that was above his house in Stinson Beach while he recorded, what'd you say?
His house.
It ended up being a wood sign over his house stairs.
And he sort of recorded
bluegrass tracks there
I love the music I love the
vibe ration and so
I put it on my thigh
ration
it's your forearm you just
said forearm words twins
right but what
if someone's not watching the
YouTube video?
So now they think I have a thigh tat
which I think is hot. Or they think we
have matching thigh tattoos.
Thigh tattoos, yeah.
Which are both visible. Sure.
Skies out, thighs out.
Let's have yams
with our yams today. Let's get
the energy up.
The sign was over his house stairs.
Got it.
And it's on my arm.
And I think that's fine.
Yes.
And who cares?
We have a lot.
We have a lot.
He's, um,
he started the Grateful Dead oh yeah
okay fair
I only know him from the ice cream
the Ben and Jerry's
yeah Cherry Garcia
Jeff have you ever had that
yeah I've had it
and
and it's pretty good
I like Cherry Vanilla ice cream on the day.
Add a little bit of fudge ripples in there, I think.
And I'm tripling, quadrupling down on ripple.
You bitch.
Sorry.
Fuck you guys.
Here we go.
We've got a shit ton to get to today let's start it off with every
what's that oh really yes oh really is that sorry is that oh space r-e-a-l-l-y or is that o-r-l-y
all caps um the first one the shit is played out
so let's get this over with
I'm gonna go what's that
didn't say anything
pump fake
you bit
let's go
I understood that reference me You bit. Let's go...
I understood that reference.
Thank you.
Me.
Yeah.
Draw the contact.
Still get it off.
Oh, yeah.
Let's go Victor Wimbinyama.
And I think it'd be good to have like a seven foot bond.
With the handles, with the candles.
I mean, he's spending... Because Victor at this candles. I mean, he's spending
because Victor at this point, I mean, he's like
he's making the money that he could walk into
the Lullabo and just get that
bucket candle, that Santal 26
in a hash.
French bond?
Yeah, that's kind of interesting.
What if like it was all in Paris?
And instead of MI6, it's like MIA.
Because you don't know where they are.
That's cool.
Victor Wembond, Yama.
Scoot Henderson for me.
And I'll go Daniel Craig.
Got it.
Here we go.
Everybody, everybody, let's get
into it, get stoned.
Get it started, get it started.
Get it started, let's get
it started.
All aboard! I'm all started. I'm all started. Let's get it started. Ha!
All aboard!
Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
We do have a lot to get to,
but I'm trying to make sure you guys feel like you're getting words in edgewise
because everybody fucking complains about that on this show.
What do you guys want to talk about?
And then we'll get to the good stuff.
I'm on my iPad, and it's doing this weird video thing where it's like zooming in a lot closer than
usual but it's okay by the way you owe me notes i'm sorry to do like housekeeping stuff from head
gum normal stuff but you got you and jake owe me notes on uh the jake and amira that's coming out
tomorrow i thought i watched it and said it was good oh it's done you just said it
was good it can be good with notes it can be good but there's like a you know let's get two frames
off of before you say ipad because you say ipad in the sketch is what made me think of that which
is what made me think of that grace cut that out how much money are you worth have i ever asked you
this me or grace uh you grace do you have any assets probably not right
no you don't have a house i'm currently in my new flat nice you just moved this weekend
uh yeah been a slow process this past week but i'm in that counts i just moved too this is my
new apartment nice yeah is that your front door?
Yeah.
It's like an iron door.
More like an iron giant.
12 foot ceilings.
12 foot ceilings because I live in a loft now.
Imagine going from a canyon
to a loft.
Can I ever get a thought out
without you saying like,
oh, that's cool.
That's awesome.
Good for you.
Those are all really
nice things to say
just forget it i live in a loft right i mean also we should say that this laptop is teeter
burrowing on the edge of new jersey no it is on a windowsill, and if I make one wrong move, it's flying out the window eight stories down.
Exposed brick.
You're on the eighth floor?
Exposed brick.
Can you see that?
Yeah, wow.
You're on the eighth floor?
Not eighth, but I'm trying to make sure people don't know where I live.
That's cool.
Is that your whole, is it like a whole studio, or is there another room?
Can we just, can we slow things down for
a second it's gonna tour
it's all one room this is the
the room
there is a kitchen over there
I need to paint that wall because I don't like the green
that's it
yeah it's sort of like
downtown loft vibes
but yeah but don't say where i live
especially downtown because people could go and they could just figure out which building it is
nobody would care to see you you can literally say your address in the title of this episode
and it wouldn't affect anything fine the title of this episode will be my old it'll be my old address because George still lives there okay
yeah
how did we end up talking about you when we were
talking about Amir's
net worth
I'm put out
what?
I'm put out
by you guys today.
You're not bringing
a lot.
I'm tired.
I'm excited.
I'm ready to do this if you guys
are. But what it requires
is the three
of us getting
on the same page. The three of us
wanting to put together a good episode. Because here's the thing. Last week's episode was one of the best on the same page. The three of us wanting to put together a good episode.
Because here's the thing.
Last week's episode was one of the best we've ever done.
I would say.
It's one of my favorite.
Which was us three.
Top three.
No.
No, it was Ozempic.
It was undeniable.
Yeah, it was pretty great.
This week, there's no way it's going to be better, right?
Was the one before that us three?
The one before that was us three.
And people wanted more grace.
That's not us three.
Continue.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, Zempik.
How much money do you have in the bank right now?
Can you pull up your Bank of America?
I assume it's Bank of America.
You're not at Bank of America?
Because that's the closest physical branch to your house.
MoveOn.org.
Is it $400,000, do you think?
It's probably a little bit less than that.
It's hard to say just in the bank well your balance says 400 grand at the very least i'd love to get a numbers crunch
on what interest rate you locked in your, I didn't refinance.
You didn't refinance when mortgage
lending rates were under 3%
for like a month?
Mm-mm.
Because I was already under 2%.
Oh!
Everybody!
Everybody! Yeah, I actually am kind of underwater.
A lot of investments that were made in an illitivized fashion.
You talk about interest rates.
I am paying so many no's on a variable.
This just in.
You know how there's that NBA play or mid-season tournament?
Yeah.
I wanted to announce here at the 12th minute
that as that's happening, late November, early December,
there's going to be a mid-year HeadGum Podcast tourney.
Meaning?
What do you mean, meaning?
It's a mid-journey tourney.
Like the AI illustration bot? No, no, no.
It's going to be people at the network competing for joy and wisdom.
Does that make sense?
So instead of East versus West, it's wise versus joy.
And the winner gets cash.
No one's even a little excited.
You guys could both walk home with 500 bucks.
Why would I be invited?
Why would you be invited?
Not a HeadGum employee.
1099 contracted.
No, it's not.
Oh my God. It's like that was uncalled for it's factual
no the same boat was absolutely you don't want to be part of the tourney that's fine but the
fact of the matter is that there is no tournament without me because i just came up with it a couple
seconds ago okay do you think yourself as joy or wisdom?
I'm probably, I probably have a buy in wise.
I think I'm the number one seed in wise.
Number one seed in- You have more wisdom?
You're the youngest.
I know, but it's-
You have the least amount of wisdom.
No, because age is but a number, and like, Peter doesn't have wisdom to dispense. I'm sorry to say.
Like when was the last time you got advice from fucking Brad?
Over the weekend.
Really?
Yeah.
Good spots to go climbing and things to eat.
Yeah.
In the Pacific Northwest.
Because he knows.
Yeah, that's kind of cool.
Maybe he's the second seed.
He might be the second seed.
Yeah, he's definitely higher than you.
Who do you guys think is the number one seed for Joy, though, at the network?
It can't be Marika.
The happiest person?
Yeah.
Alex Berkman, maybe?
It's definitely not Marty.
It's definitely not Marty.
It's William Conover.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't know. He smiles a't know he smiles a lot he smiles a lot yeah grace no phones at the dinner table type of vibe right that's always what the show has been
i have a bunch of stuff to do on here but you don't see me tap it away right
so let's keep uh let's keep focused didn't you say
you had to drive like 40 miles later that's true yeah i'm going to thousand oaks to buy a thousand
oaks have you ever been a thousand oaks you don't want to chuckle at that i already heard you say pass who me
what
okay come on man
can you just right now
wild line can you say pass
so that when I ask you
if you said pass the audience doesn't think
I'm fucking insane
well they are cause I'm gonna boost
me saying ha.
Hang on.
I've never done this. I have to phone a friend.
What?
I have to call Marika and save this fucking episode.
How?
What do you mean, how is calling her gonna save this episode
we're allowed on phones
gotcha again
nothing from marika this is oh here we go marika we're doing the head gun podcast right now and
things are not going well.
Just wanted to know
if you could save the episode.
Like now?
Yeah, ASAP would be good.
ASAP.
What do you need me to do?
This is good so far. People like seeing your smile.
Whenever I see Brownlee's smiling face,
I have to smile myself
because I love brown
we're floundering
what marika's druthers i don't know what else to do
i also don't know what else to do what are you doing are you what are you doing next week jeff
are you in the office at all? I'm around. All right.
I'll be there on Wednesday and Thursday.
That's too much to commit to.
You said we had enough to get through today.
You hung up on her.
I'll call her back.
You're right.
That was rude.
Unbelievable.
Let me just see if she responds.
If she answers.
Sorry. I don't know what happened.
I think I was under a bridge or something.
Yeah, under a bridge.
Can I see outside your window?
Did you see that billboard?
She's just laughing.
Laughing at the view.
I live under a fucking overpass.
What do you want me to say?
No, there's a very funny billboard outside my right outside my window is it lemon daddy
did you move finally yeah i finally moved it's my new place this isn't interesting to anybody
no i agree i agree um what's up i said okay okay grace how are okay. Okay. Grace, how are you? I'm good, thank you.
How are you?
She says...
Honestly, I can't hear anyone, so...
She says she's good.
How are you?
I'm doing okay.
Amir says...
Tell him it's 20 past nine.
That's the thing.
Amir, it's like a lot of it banks on him.
And sometimes he brings it, sometimes he doesn't it's
i don't think you need to rely on him as much in that way i think it's kind of like his presence
does enough yeah i just get anxious you know because i see like he looks pissed and then i'm
like oh shit what did i do wrong and it's like it's not about me it's all about him
does that make sense i guess you guess or it is true you guess
me talking to my therapist
i saw that yeah that was pretty bad. Rare Toast L. Tell Marika that.
Amir says Rare Toast L.
Rare Toast L.
Rare Toast L.
We'll take a break.
We'll be right back.
Thanks, Marika.
Bye.
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Breaking news, actually.
Do you guys hear about this?
Do you hear about the Jonah Hill shit?
The controversy?
Yes.
I mean, this guy's all over the map, man.
It's like focus.
I feel like he is focused.
No, it's like he was right there, you know?
He was almost good and then he wasn't.
What do you mean?
Almost good with how?
With hash.
With movies, with relationships.
He was almost there.
Oh, like Jeb really being regarded as like a cool dude no one has a problem with yeah exactly
yeah this was an odd choice for him this was bizarre he's so insecure did you guys read the
texts yeah he wanted his girlfriend to take down pictures of her surfing even though she's a
professional surfer or something so he dates a professional surfer
and then this is a text that she he sent her on december 20 sorry december 2nd 2021 this is
apropos of nothing because there's that little time stamp right before so they weren't talking
already he says plain he says plain and simple if you need surfing with men, boundaryless, inappropriate friendships with men, to model, to post pictures of yourself in a bathing suit, to post sexual pictures, friendships.
This is my favorite one.
To post sexual pictures.
Friendships.
This is my favorite one.
Friendships with women who are in unstable places and from your wild recent past beyond getting lunch or coffee slash something respectful.
I am not the partner for you.
If these things bring you to a place of happiness, support it and there will be no hard feelings these are my boundaries for romantic partnerships my boundaries with you based on the ways these
actions have hurt our trust what is the hanging out with women in wild situations what's that one
oh he's just saying if she needs friendships with
women who are in unstable places and from your wild recent past beyond getting a lunch or coffee
or something respectful then he's not the right partner for you so like if she wanted to get a
dinner with a lady friend he's like i'm out that's a bridge too far for me to handle right now
i think it depends where the dinner is.
That's a no-go.
When do you guys
eat lunch? Four?
No, it's way late.
Really? 12.30.
I haven't had lunch yet.
You're bizarre
in every habit, so
you're not the litmus test of what's
average. Do you think it's better to be bizarre in habit or in fashion?
Fashion.
Okay.
Was that an alarm?
That was my phone ringing.
It was my buddy Ivan.
Do you want to go around and we can all list our own boundaries
yeah what would be that's a really good idea
but I just so these aren't good
to have that's what I was trying to figure out
why was the internet freaking out because I'd love to
not date somebody who sorry let me go back
to it I don't want to date somebody who
models
okay that's
inappropriate really so yeah models. Okay. That's inappropriate.
Really?
Well, what's modeling?
Here's the two things that we need to nail down.
When is lunch? You're saying it's before
four or after? I would say
before three, yeah. Okay, so
no meals after three.
With friends or not, I would
say. I think that's a good
start. What do you mean why?
Why is that bad at all?
If she has a hash after three, let alone after four,
I'd rather you cheat on my ass than to cheat on me with hash.
Because that means, by the way, that she's not eating with me and that's cheating almost
second thing we need to figure out is what is modeling because you can get paid to do it and
that's a job or you could like take a photo of yourself or with others and post it and that's almost cheating and ash yeah yeah
every time i'm on this show i'm modeling behavior
you should actually delete your instagram photos really you should be mad at you i think
yeah yeah a lot of them are kind of off putting in a way off color off kilter yeah off base left
center one of them is i think just me playing left right center it's just a video grace what's up
what are your boundaries oh uh pass Oh, uh, pass.
I don't think this show has ever found its stride.
There have been one-off gold episodes.
140 at this point, right?
162.
Yeah, 161. 162, and it still hasn't found its stride slash footing.
Whose fault do you think that is?
I don't care, frankly.
What's the common denominator there?
Honestly, Marika.
No.
Because this episode isn't going super well, and she was on it.
Yeah, you dragged her in and hung her up to dry out to dry
yeah yeah i think what we need to do is figure out our boundaries personally and with the show
grace what so if you sorry let me get their exact wording what are your boundaries with
your partners based on the way actions have hurt your trust in others
for me it's you cannot model which is any photo of you cannot happen that's not okay with me
even like as simple as being on camera on a zoom that is not recorded is going to be a no-go for
daddy okay are you done what's that are you done i didn't want to interrupt i know you have a
you're kind of a stickler for that and no i would like to set a boundary right now okay i do think
the camera is too close to amir's face i don't even know if face is the right word for it today. I feel like it's visage.
Yeah.
It's this iPad.
My computer is sort of acting a fool,
so I thought I'd go iPad,
but it's doing like this.
I don't even know what this feature is called.
It's like sort of like tracking my face left and right.
We should have Alex Berkman on the show and do a segment called Berkding a Fool.
And it's basically like her observation of who's been off that week at the office.
Berkding a Fool?
It's like shacting a fool.
Kind of.
And so it's Alex being like JaVale McGee We don't really make fun of JaVale anymore
He sort of proved himself
What about me and Grace basketball trivia
Because we're both sort of hoops heads
Okay right
And then maybe instead of that
We dive into 36 hours in Walsall
Right See like I'm pitching you kind of
fun little ideas and like when marika's on things are going well and you hang up and cut to a
commercial then like i pitch you something interesting you say actually let's do the
opposite you're sort of averse to any natural joy that could accidentally happen out of this thing
i know but like rose growing out of concrete
and you're just plucking it over and over.
I'm offering you some insight.
And I'm putting it in a milk bottle with some water.
Putting it on a desk.
Yes, that's wisdom.
Grace, I don't think I have you on Instagram.
What's your Instagram?
We were just texting.
Charles Borkley.
I got it. I got it i got it okay um so as we know the last time you were on we were talking about the best fish and chips in
right did you nail down where they are um no but i can verify that i gave a bad answer
okay abelwell, not the one.
And I was recently in Traverse City, and I was wondering if it maybe could give Walsall a run for its money.
Because there was a recently shuttered storefront called Scalawag's White Fish and Chips.
And on the sign, they have a website, which is helpful because you're already at the store.
What's Walsall's answer to Scalawags
in Traverse City, Michigan?
Ambivalence?
Sometimes this show makes
me want to
shift back to
finance or something.
You were never in
finance i i well i had a savings once yeah that's unrelated was working at a carpool karaoke and
getting overpaid so i had like a savings account and i had a job once yeah that was a while ago
you peaked at age 20 that That's really fucking sad.
I know, and it's hard to reconcile with.
How are you over the hill and also 26?
It's hard to stomach slash fathom, right?
I know, and I feel like the only thing that conflicts at all.
Because you're not even in your late 20s yet.
Yeah.
And it feels like the best is behind.
That's such a weird timeline to be on.
is behind like that's such a weird timeline to be on you peaked so fast and young that it's weird to be like thinking about new steps slash directions in your life and are you still 25
yeah i'm like how does that happen man and you can't even like pinpoint it you can't be like
this one thing went wrong it's not like you had a rock bottom it's just been a slow kind of
oh yeah because we were talking about very briefly about um chef kevin last time I was on. Oh, yeah, that's funny. And you were saying that he owns a house now.
He has a house, yeah.
And in many ways,
you were kind of the Chef Kevin
to Jake and Amir's Hollywood handbook, as it were.
My theory is,
well, do you feel like you bet on the wrong horse?
Because Kevin has a house.
You don't even have a job.
So, Amir's saying you can't pinpoint the moment where everything went wrong,
but I think there's a pretty clear indicator that that's a sliding door.
Moment, yeah.
Yeah, so you think I should have hitched my wagon to Hayes and Sean?
Just from the evidence we have
yeah
well we don't know if Kevin
yeah cause it might be like how I spend my money
and how he's spending money or didn't
and then he's also I think married so he has like a dual income
and I'm alone and thin
angled
you move a lot
cause everybody kicks me out
yeah it's hard because I got movers and it was like $600 and then like that move a lot i move a lot because everybody kicks me out right yeah it's hard because
i got movers and it was like six hundred dollars and then like that's a lot of money right that's
basically if you parse it out that's fifty dollars a month i could have spent on extra rent
um and then you have to get some new furniture what's that it's no it is very sweet that you're
willing to blame yourself and not i did just give you a an out to blame amir but you oh i don't think
ultimately it's my fault i'm just trying to like because it's better to take back your agency
and be like oh what can i change if i blame it all on amir i can't change anything
um but there's always travel
oh having a breakdown at tsa shit ass i could have been kevin
and let's spend 36 minutes in walsall england courtesy 36 minutes she grace sent me this Instagram story of how to spend 36 minutes in Wallace Hall.
Our tour begins, says Harper.
That's a great first name.
Why isn't your first name Harper?
And your last name like, I don't know.
Sorry, go ahead.
No, please suggest a last name for me.
Oh, like Hanson.
You want my name to be Harper Hanson?
I think you would have been an erotic novelist.
I really do.
Okay.
Our tour begins upon your arrival at Walsall Bus Station.
That's my sliding doors.
Go on.
They built it in the year 2000.
Late.
And my class took a trip to visit it
and had to ask people on the street
what they thought about it. It was a
geography project.
We took a public bus
and all had to bring bus fare from home.
On this trip, we also visited
a new roundabout, which was a
six-foot diameter, lightly domed circle
at the center of a junction.
Who wrote this?
Grace.
Got it.
On the way back from the school trip,
we got on a different bus that took us
to the back of school.
But the gate was locked.
So we all crawled through a known hole in the fence,
including our teacher
Two people have died
Due to this bus station's extremely confusing layout
So that's the first minute in Walsall
The second one is
35 more
The second one is this piece of art
With no title or artist attributed to it
I don't think it's that bad
But yeah
Walsall high street
here we see the lower end of walsall high street when i was a teenager the market just so you guys
can all see pretty good minute three of 36 that you're reading uh i don't know how many minutes
another hour to get through this you're spending two to five minutes for every
second alright well this one
is just for anybody who has swag
apparently
so
I didn't specify this for you
specifically yeah
I think you have swag but oh pound land
is that a
what is that it's a brothel that? It's a brothel.
I thought it was a brothel.
Yeah.
Do you think they have brothels in Bethel?
Bethlehem?
That could be cool.
So what if it was like a
brothel called Ham in Bethlehem?
Ham.
What if it was a bone brothel called Ham in Bethlehem. Ham. What if it was a bone brothel?
Jeff. This is a disaster.
Oh!
The new art gallery of Walsall.
There's a
wharf?
Yeah.
Episode ends right there. There's a wharf yeah episode ends right there there's a wharf uh grace said in france the geese say honk honk i don't know if that joke landed i just want to
rewind 20 minutes and you're like we gotta go we got a lot to get to today
now it's we've done nothing and you're just reading gotta go we got a lot to get to today now it's we've done nothing
and you're just reading an Instagram
story for minutes
we were supposed to dissect
the Jonah Hill controversy
we did that
we didn't at all
we said he was a bad guy and could have been good
we said he was insecure
you never thought
he would have been a good guy.
You're shitting yourself if you didn't think, oh, that guy could be a good guy.
Anybody can be a good guy.
You have famous people on your phone number.
You know what bothers me about famous people, at least the famous people I know?
They don't bother with, like, texting normal.
All of these texts from Jonah have, like like weird punctuation periods where there don't need
to be capital letters hither than thither i'm like just because you're famous doesn't mean
you can't like format this so that it doesn't look like you're having a panic attack
you don't find that to be true? Rose McIver, Ben Schwartz.
Yeah, they're both normal.
They text normal?
Really?
UTK, what about him?
Pretty normal, yeah.
You're still on Mayer's close friend story, right?
Does he ever punctuate normal?
John Mayer?
Yeah.
He's normal?
So it's maybe just Jonah Hill.
Finn Wolfhard texts weird.
He just doesn't capitalize things sometimes.
Although, no, that's not true.
The last couple times you texted me, it's been fine.
Wait, what was the last thing you just said, Grace?
I want to know what's on the wall behind me, like a blood spot.
Well, I can't show you.
I have to move my head and then have it just follow me there.
Wait, did you finally get rid of that rope?
Oh. Oh, right, finally get rid of that rope?
Oh.
Oh, right.
Yeah, it's the rope.
Cool.
What is this app?
Is this for like cam girling?
I think it's my iPad like built in.
Maybe it's Zoom.
That's like doing motion.
Word of the week.
I can't believe it took 38 minutes.
What?
iPad.
I definitely said that.
One of the first things I said.
Grace, let's talk about dating in Walsall.
Okay.
How's the dating pool there?
Yeah.
It's going to be loud and dodgy.
G-A-R-D-E-N-E-R-S or G-U-A-R-D-N-E-R-S.
The second one being someone who shows up to sort of...
Protect the home, yeah.
Hold the fort, yeah, down.
Yeah.
Grace, how's the dating pool in Walsall?
Answer fast.
I haven't really been dating, to be honest.
I've been pretty busy.
Yeah.
Haven't made time for it.
And that's fine.
So no one's sort of tickling your fancy or you're fancying them?
What do the people say in England?
Do they say fancy?
Oh, I fancy him.
Yeah, but it's more, that's more, yeah.
Sure.
I guess.
Especially at uni.
It feels like childish.
Right. Yeah, that's like having a crush. And what we're talking about here is what you're saying is true love
yeah i'm saying i'm not looking for that right now what do you want you want to just have fun
or you want to be alone forever this is a really bad zoom date man you know what she wants it's
to not answer these questions from you publicly.
I can bleep anything you don't want shown.
I'm just trying to get to the crux of the episode.
We haven't had that moment where it's like, there it is.
You know what I mean?
I think the Marika moment was it.
So we should end it at 35.
Whenever you said that would be funny if you ended it right there.
Maybe we do that.
That was a little early.
I was cutting it off a little early.
Yeah, but then we can edit it quicker and get it done.
Yeah.
Think about freezing eggs.
Eggs aren't that expensive.
I feel like just keep getting them every week.
Eggs are pretty expensive.
You mean freezing ovary eggs?
Yeah.
I'm pro, because I think a lot of people
have to change their life when they're not ready.
They know they want to have kids, but
maybe not at 32.
So what if you could do it at 49?
What if you could do it at 80? What if you could do it at 80?
Let's freeze them eggs.
Yeah, that's true.
Eight-year-olds can freeze them eggs.
That's what you sound like sometimes.
When you hiccup specifically.
Gardeners are coming.
It's going to be loud.
It's going to be real loud.
What you haven't done?
Just like generally blowing, weed
whacking.
It's just all
loudness creating a dog
to be loud. Can I ask you
how many times a week do your
gardeners come?
It's every other week. There you go.
That's what they should do.
My old house, we lived below
the landlords and
every Thursday, guy with a leaf blower.
I'm like, there aren't enough.
The seasons don't change in the city.
You don't need someone coming once a week.
You need them to come twice a month at most.
Grace, let's hear from you about freezing eggs.
Just a consideration I've been having.
Is that something I need to think about? from you about freezing eggs? Just a consideration I've been having as well as ones that
I need to think about.
Isn't it really expensive?
Yeah.
That is a consideration too.
Yeah.
Maybe...
That probably isn't covered
by insurance, let alone HeadGum's insurance,
which for the record is not good.
No, can I invoice for this too?
I think so.
Oh, fun.
Also, are we doing double drive time
for the HeadGum podcast going forward,
where it's like everybody who does it
gets paid twice for the hour
because it's so hard for y'all for some reason?
I can't stress how close this gardener is to my house.
He's six inches away from
the wall and so am I. I feel like I've never been
closer.
Can you tilt the thing?
Trimming.
Oh yeah.
Jeff, what would you do on Patreon?
On Patreon for this show?
Yeah. I would do like a mailbag.
I would do like a one-on-one 60-minute style thing,
you know, where I really take it to somebody's ass.
I would do live streams where people could ask me anything.
Maybe like...
So why don't you?
Because I don't own the rights to the show,
so to do that we need Marty's approval.
And so far the budget's not there, even though...
Why don't you do like a sort of knockoff?
You're a chair now.
I forgot he had that sign.
A knockoff of this show just on Patreon.
I don't know how many people would subscribe to that, and also they would maybe be like, you can't do that.
That's the thing. HeadGum likes to act
like it's so creator friendly, but it's only creator
friendly when they want to help the specific
person. You know what I mean? They don't
particularly care
about my ass.
They just don't want me to
sue.
They just don't want
me to sue.
That was a Hiddem original.