The Headgum Podcast - 199: Tea

Episode Date: April 5, 2024

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No. Okay. Yeah, got it. No, we're going. We're absolutely going. I thought that that was the energy that, Joel, you wanted to have going through. Now you can hear this, right? So was that part where you cut off Allie right as she was in the middle of talking?

Was that the beginning of the episode? That was the theme song, yeah. That's exactly right. I didn't even hear that. Yeah. None of us did. My hair is wet. I'm a little self-conscious about it. We're not gonna talk about it. What we are going to talk about is gratitude.

I think we should explain to Joel what a press junk it is. Take it away, Marika. It's when like for a movie or a TV show, there's people being interviewed for like from the cast or director or whatever. A lot of times now they're on Zoom and you just look like you're one of those people that's just waiting for questions from Bustle or something like that. It's like being in the peanut gallery. Not exactly. No, you're the star of the show. Oh, okay. I'll take it. And everyone else is waiting to ask you a question for five minutes before they have

to leave and someone else comes in. And that's your entire day. You're just sitting here. It's basically the surprise 24 hour live stream. Joel, was it hard leaving your character behind once filming wrapped? It was hard at first,

but I decided to just still wear the clothes and still live my life by a script Which kind of made the adjustment easier? So what you're saying right now is by script. I'm surprised the costume department let you keep the clothes. Yeah, this was all pre scripted So how do you know that because we're asking you questions and you're responding perfectly you're actually were you he was a featured extra in silver linings playbook and He still hasn't let it go.

Holy shit, Ali. That was my screen man. Featured extra. Sorry, I was just like, what movie involves the Eagles? And then that's what I came up with. That was a great poll. That's a great poll. No Bond of the Week, right? The whole thing is on hold. Because now it's seemingly Killian Murphy, though.

We can fucking talk. Oh wait, can I say one thing? Yeah, as soon as we stop doing it, everybody's like, wait, can I give a Bond of the Week? When did we stop doing it, or why? Okay, so Marika doesn't listen to the show. So Marika doesn't listen to the show week to week, because I said two weeks ago, three weeks ago,

it's on hold. Oh, like that. Okay, well, even though it's on hold, I do have to say, okay, so both of my family dogs just passed away in these last couple of weeks and so that has been brutal, thank you, but it's not okay, but it's okay, you know. But anyway, I was talking to my dad on the phone yesterday

and I mentioned that I was doing this this week and he was like, okay, well, if you do Bond of the Week, could you just say Stan? He literally was like, can you just say Stan and George and they're the Bond of the Week? Well, no, hang on, we have to do a proper one then. Yeah. and then... Yeah.

Bond of the Week. Okay, my two dogs who are no longer with us, Dan and George, they would have killed it if they were still around to be cast. In fact, they did. That's good. I'll throw in another dog, Messi, from Anatomy of a Fall. The dog that played Snoop.

And I'll throw in a person who's got that dog in him. Leo Messy. Very nice. And I'll do Funky Girl 1020 in her time of mourning. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Coulda gone like Snoop Dogg or something. That would have been clever. Still in a press junket.

Joel, have you been to Philadelphia this year? Several times, I have a new nephew, so there's been a lot of back and forth. All right. I quarantined him. I quarantined him and I put him in the waiting room because... Yeah.

He wasn't supposed to go. He was supposed to stay put a lot. So fucked. Right. He was supposed to stay put a lot. Yeah, you shouldn't lie, Joel. I put him on the spot. I put him to the test.

And yeah, first of all, you should have lied. Second of all, you said you've been a lot in there. Yeah, you shouldn't lie, Joel. I put them on the spot, I put them to the test. And yeah, first of all, you just should have lied. Second of all, you said you've been a ton of times. Yeah, several, like almost, not quite every weekend, but I know Marika has noticed. Close to it though. I haven't been in the office quite as much. A lot of people thought I moved, actually. I didn't think that, but I noticed you were in the office.

There were rumors swirling. Everyone was like, Joel, you frickin' moved? I was like, no. I don't think there were rumors. know this too. There were rumors swirling. Everyone was like, Joel, you frickin moved. I was like, no. I don't think there were rumors. Who started this? There were rumors. Was it Sage? You started them.

I didn't start them. Who started it? I don't know. So that's the thing about rumors. It's like, you never know. By the time I hear it. You can find out. There's only six of us you can find out.

Whip her down the telephone thing. And how has Sage reacted, Marika? Have you heard any word from Sage in terms of winning the Headgum March Madness Bracket? Joel and Allie, did you see this shit? No. Did you see this shit? Did you see this shit?

Did you get a lot of this garbage? Yeah, no, I told her last week right after. I'll pull up the Slack that she responded with. But she hasn't seen it happen because it was kind of a momentous occasion. You obviously came in second. I didn't even ask you how you felt about that. And you were on the fucking Zoom. I thought you did ask me. I mean, I, you know, I'm happy someone on my team won.

That's a really big, really big deal. I feel like I've I've I fostered that. So that's good. Yeah. It's kind of nice to see the next generation sort of usurp your ass. Sure. Sure. Yeah. Like, is it resounding or is it kind of. Resolute. Is it resounding? Yeah. Is it resounding? Yes. Or is it like fine?

OK, all right. Today, we're going to talk about gratitude for no reason. Are you guys familiar with Plum Deluxe or? No, no, no. So Plum Deluxe is sort of a community that sells tea. Loose leaf or? Loosely, loosely. Remember when you bought $30 of Zach Kornfield's tea?

Or was it, no, it was $100. Yeah! That's a lot of tea. Remember when you got a reasonable amount of tea? Or no, it was an outstanding amount. Yeah, and I tried to get him to reimburse me and he didn't. So. But he paid me 30 dollars. Oh, yeah. No, yeah.

The the Try Guys are on my shit list. I'm down to try it. Start some action. Not Ned, though. No, I love Ned. Mostly his interpersonal relationships. OK, so Plum Deluxe is a tea store slash club slash community. Community. Um, and they, part of the community is that they have this kind of online journal, right? So I found this article from Andy Hayes that says,

The Gratitude Dinner, mindful conversation starters for your next gathering. So, you know, it's Friday. I think we all have that Friday feeling. I know that a lot of the show is conversation enders. So I'm trying to actually, let's try to have a good episode today. Let's try to actually talk about stuff. Let's try to be a little earnest.

Let's try to be a little grateful. We're gonna just go through this article and we're gonna follow how Andy Hayes thinks that a small gathering should go. Is everyone on board? I guess, yeah. Okay, sure. So the first prompt is passed.

We all have to say one thing that we appreciate about the other three. Marika, do you want to start? The first prompt is past? Basically, it's an opportunity to open up the gratitude pipeline and allow the joy to flow. Got it. No, Joel explained it much better. Thank you.

What did he say? He said it's passed from one person to the next. So no one's gonna say it. So you're all gonna pass on past? This is a terrible start. Pass, oh my God. I have to say something about everybody? All three of you. Sorry.

All four of us have to say something. One thing we appreciate about the other three. So Marika, you're going to go down the line, and then Ali will go down the line, and then Joel will go down the line, and then I'll go down the line. What if you just choose one? I just, I'm really trying to keep it together. I'm really trying to keep it together, but you guys are already changing the game. So Ali, let's do one... That's an awesome idea. And there were two things that happened. One was that Ali thought the first thing I said was how much I missed her,

which I wasn't actually saying, although that is true. And then at the same time, we also have the same plant. So I'm feeling very bonded with Ali. Wait, pull it out. Get your bamboo. I'm going to amend my Bond of the Week to the bond between Joel and Allie's plans. That's really good. Fine. Let's start with one. If we can get to more, that'd be great,

but Marika, why don't you just pass it off? Yeah, I guess this is kind of a roundabout thing, but it basically... I was trying to book this, help Anya with booking guests for this episode and I was like, you know who would be good together? Ali and Joel. Ultimately that's an Anya compliment for setting that up, but by way of Anya and Jeff being the host bringing us all here together, that's your compliment. It's bringing Ali all here together. That's your compliment is bringing Ali and Joel together.

So you're sorry. I'm really again, I'm really going to try and keep it straight latest today, but already your compliment is to me. But it's really that you like hanging out with Ali and Joel. Well, I'm happy that you by way of Anya brought them together. So it's a it's more compliment to Anya, Ali and Joel. You're just packaging it up and saying it's a compliment to me. I don't appreciate it, but we will.

I'm grateful for it, whatever. Ali? Okay, I'll start with you, Jeff. I'm so grateful to you for the time that I was having my job interview here and you happened to walk into the studio while Casey and Anya were on Zoom and said, hey, Ali, and that really, I think,

helped me get some good conversational flow going where I was like, see, it's already makes so much sense. I don't think that's the reason you got the job. I don't think it is either, but I think that that- I think it was a scarlet letter on your job interview. That was the only con other than your last name. I think that me saying, oh, I've actually gotten answers from Jeffrey James for years is helpful.

That's so true. It might not be answers you like, but I can get them. I've tracked him down for a decade. Yeah, I can do it. All right, so Ali's compliment to me is again sort of backhanded in that you slipped in a thing at the end there that I'm not good at my job. Joel? I already gave one to Ali.

What is this? I'm literally starting this. Yeah, it's past is what I think. And I think we did it because we all did one. I didn't do one and nobody prompted me to. Can we talk about how we're doing the fucking prompts from a tea company? Why are we doing a tea company's dinner party prompts? It's a small gathering, not a dinner party.

Okay, I was going to say this guy knows nothing about dinner parties. He probably knows about tea parties. I appreciate. he's a far right Republican in the house. I also wanna say, when I'm with friends and we have to do a gratitude thing, I don't like it. Yeah, like on someone's birthday. You don't want me to, I'm not about it. Share our best memory, I don't like it. I feel like there are some people who say they don't like it

but secretly like it. Sure. You know, there's always- Is that the case? Like to receive it. I think Ali might be like that, I believe you, Marika. No, no, no, no, no, no. I'm never one of those, I'm thankful I didn't grow up

in a family that was like the roses and thorns at the dinner table. Like I don't really- This is my entire personality that Ali said. I really don't like planned part, like, forced participation in that way. My attitude was always like, if something happened and I want to tell you,

I'll tell you. This whole podcast is forced participation, by the way. I really have a problem with it. Yeah. All right. I appreciate that you guys... No, I have to give one compliment. All right. I... Joel, I appreciate that you guys, no I have to give one compliment.

Joel, I appreciate that you were honest about not following through and making good on your doled out resolution. Your doled out resolution. But I do expect, you can make up for it for the rest of the year if you just don't say the holidays are really important. Don't say my dad is turning 60. I'm on the Plum Deluxe website. Can we take their tea quiz? I'm obviously grateful for the innovation here, Marika, but you're kind of like slowing us down. You're not sitting down.

You're slowing us down, you're sitting down, and you're reconnecting with the wrong things. I feel like I'm connecting with everyone by this. to find out our collective tea. What we are as a group as tea. Fine, fine, let's take the fucking quiz. Are you new to tea? No. No? I bet in the tea game. No tea knowledge whatsoever. I would consider myself a tea novice.

Or I would lie around tea. Strong disagree, if that's an option. Doesn't it sound like nudity? Did anyone else think that? Do you enjoy new to tea? Nothing out of more than a tea novice. Yeah, should we just go tea novice or do we all know our way around tea?

Novice, fine. I'd say I'm intermediate. Novice is also like kind of a novelty office, which I would say the Union Square Office kind of is. It's cute. It's a little rinky dink, we should say. That's a slight. Is it the mini basketball hoop I put up?

You should be fucking blessed that we have a chine green studio. I do appreciate that. Well, you know, it's more of a dupe for chine, but I'll take it. The New York studio looks better on camera. Well, don't say that. Okay. What type of tea do you like? Black, oolong, green, white, herbal, chai, pura or decaf. Gossip.

Sorry, is gossip an option? No. Is there one that's like the frog emoji next to the little cup? I don't mind that. Yeah, kind of a global village coffee house thing. Is sleepy time an option? That's herbal. I guess it mind that. Yeah, kind of a Global Village coffeehouse thing. Is sleepy time an option? That's herbal. We're all such different personalities. Why are we taking this together?

We should all be doing it separately. I think we're all agreed on herbal. And we're in unity. Unity, nudity. What do you prefer? Hot, iced? I enjoy both. I enjoy both. Hot. Hot.

Hot. Okay, resounding hot. A resounding plum. Resounding hot? Good band name. That's not bad at all. Or is it resolute hot? No. I like resounding hot. Yeah.

Because it also sounds like resounding. It's like sound. No. I like resounding hot. Yeah. Cause it also sounds like resounding. It's like sound. Yeah. How do you take your tea? Plain, with milk, with sugar, with milk and sugar. I enjoy a tea, I enjoy tea a variety of ways. I don't know, slash I don't know. With a friend.

Yeah. Yeah, can you write in with a friend? There's no write in options obviously. A variety of ways. But maybe with sugar. No. Yeah, can you write in with a friend? There's no write in options, obviously. But maybe with sugar? Find a variety of ways slash I don't know. What are your favorite flavors? This is terrible already.

Do we have any idea how many more questions there are? It's probably like three. Fruity, floral, citrus, nutty, spicy, sweet, tart. Citrus. Nutty. I think I'm a, yeah, I'm a spicy, but I can go citrus. Caffeine or no caffeine? No. Caffeine. If it's tea, no, cause I want to also have my cafefe.

Got it. Caffeine does crazy things to me. I enjoy both with and without caffeine. Yeah, I'm a little bit of a fan of coffee. I'm a little bit of a fan of coffee. it. Caffeine does crazy things to me. I enjoy both with and without caffeine. Yeah, that's all right. I mean, if we're doing like the collective of our four answers,

we should just always do the one with the slash in it. Yeah, the amalgam one. All the above. Amalgam in the middle. That's nothing. Sorry. That's a. Sorry. That's a good pun, but it has nothing to do with the T quiz.

Reviewing our results. But it does have to do with the witch Malcolm in the middle brother quiz. We're doing that. Oh, I would love to do it. No, no, no. Before we were. Here we go. We've never done this on the show. Cliffhanger. This show is sponsored by BetterHelp. How is your social battery right now?

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Drum roll, please. And we're back. Drum roll, please. Our best matches. Delightful morning blend, parentheses, Earl Grey Lavender. I thought it was going to be like Oolong and then it was going to be Bomb Drop and then. Yeah, I mean, I have.

The name was Oolong. The name was Oolong. The name was Oolong, yeah. Or should we say Too Long? No, I got it. Nice. That's really good. I got it without the explanation. I felt like Jeff didn't. I haven't seen you in so long, Joel.

Ace. Is that anything, Jeff? That was really good. But that part isn't in the episode. So it's an inside joke to just normal conversation. And for dinner, we'll have a foo-long. From Subway. Marika, what was the tea?

Delightful morning blend Blend Earl Grey Lavender. Okay. Not an herbal tea, but... Let's just continue on with the gratitude small gathering article for maybe a day. I thought we were gonna do a Malcolm in the Middle quiz. Is that what's happening? Fine. I'll stay flexible. No, please no.

It's not. I'll stay flexible. I did watch. It's not. I'll stay flexible. I did watch a bunch of Malcolm in the Middle a few days ago. It's a great show. Everyone should watch it. Bryan Cranston has range. Yeah.

Comedy and drama. Not many people can say it. You're so right, ultimately. Still in Joel's press junket. He's like, sorry, can we talk about me for a second? I thought we were here to talk. I'm like, Cranston. All right, present.

While you search for Malcolm the Middle Quiz, I'll also continue on with the Plum Deluxe Gratitude Gathering Guide. Pile on the compliments. I'll also continue on with the Plum Deluxe gratitude gathering guide. Pile on the compliments. Now, I'm going to amend this because of the pun. Let's pile on the compliments to Pile. Right? Andrew Pile made the LA office Wi-Fi run so much faster than it ever has before. And I am sincerely impressed that he knows how to do that.

Marika. Andrew. I know this one's tough for you, but you have to give Pyle a compliment. Pyle gave me access to his Plex server. So now I can watch a lot of obscure movies and TV shows that I couldn't have found otherwise. Pyle gave me access to his Plex server, so now I can watch a lot of obscure movies and TV shows that I couldn't have found otherwise.

So, really happy about that. Pyle's been a father figure to not only his three sons, me where I feel treated pretty equally. We all get comments on our code reviews. We all get design reviews. Sort of a collaborative approach to everything. So it's great. Did you get into an accident? How do you think Peter is faring in France based on your daily interactions with him at work? Is he driving? He's loving it. He's swimming in the local pool, he's going for bike rides, he's getting his hair cut and asking for what he wants in French and getting roughly what he asks for.

He's loving it. I know you haven't seen his hair lately, but it's interesting. It's interesting. People are going to hate this episode, so let's salvage it somehow. Why are people going to hate it? It's too real because you told us to compliment each other for the entire time. Compliment each other or pile.

Let's be grateful, let's express gratitude, Plum Deluxe style. And what was the reason for that again? I'm forgetting. Because I'm trying to, like this is a kind of a, like, you know, you guys are all very kind, so I'm trying to like be normal for once, but not so normal that the content suffers, right?

Plum Deluxe, tea, club, community. I found a random article I based the entire episode on. Future. Plum just sucks. I'm looking forward to... Tonight we got a house cooling party, Park East Manhattan. Everything must go. Is this your place?

This is my place. I wasn't invited. You want the... Do you want the lucky bamboo? You can probably have it. And Marie, he heard you. Yeah, I could tell. So you are moving. All Marika, he heard you. Yeah, I could tell. So you are moving. All are welcome, as I said.

Yeah, last minute invites are basically a nice way of saying stay the fuck away. Last time I had a party, Marika didn't come. I knew you were gonna say this, I knew you were gonna bring it up, and I knew that was why you didn't invite me. And I knew that this episode would need saving midway through.

Because every story needs a conflict. Because every hero had a comeback. Joel still at his press conference. Joel, did you guys play pranks on set? Sorry, Jeff. We did the thing where, so I peed in everyone's conditioner, which actually no one knew until now.

It's against the law, I think. So this, like, now they'll find out that there were pranks on set, but at the time, I think people just thought that their conditioner was sort of urine-y. All right, what's the worst slash weirdest job you've ever had at Headgum?

Let's say task. Right? I can go worst for sure. I don't know if it's the weirdest. What about the one that broke your back? Yeah, it's that one. What? I can go worst for sure. We have to talk about it. Probably wasn't from that.

Basically we were renovating an old New York studio and right before it, everyone was gone except for me. I was waiting for a delivery from Home Depot. Delivery arrived. It was 10 sheets of drywall and 10 sheets of plywood left in front of the building on the concrete. Also, it was raining sheets. It was about to start raining sheets, and no one was around for a reason I won't say. And a man walked by and was like, do you need help?

And I was like, please. And I had to bring them all inside. And it was rough, it was hard to do. So that was not fun. You broke your back doing it. Why didn't you get workers comp? I don't wanna say that I broke my back doing it. I did get workers comp at a previous job before my back,

so it was just like something got worse after that. Herniated disc or? Yeah, L5S1. Re-herniated last year or two years ago. We've talked about it. Ali. Sorry, what's the question? What's the worst slash weirdest job you've had at Headgum?

Rika's was hauling drywall. Worse? I don't know. Nothing's been that bad. Weirdest then. That's why there's two to choose from. Okay. How about like ordering shrimp delivery for Jeff?

I did have, yeah, I did have to do that. Didn't have to, did not have to. I randomly said, oh, I'd love a shrimp cocktail and then it showed up. And that is because, okay, sorry that I anticipated needs. Sorry, I tried to make a dream come true. No, that'll do it. Ordering a shrimp cocktail that ended up rotting in the bullpen. Yeah, and yeah, no, I was listening.

I was in charge of, if you said I need a shrimp cocktail, making sure that one was on the way. Making sure or making shrimp? Making sure the shrimp. I'm still on record saying I would do another one. But for longer, one week. Either one for 48 hours that I know about or one for 24 again that I don't know about,

as long as my family's not in town. How long did it take your body to recover from doing that? I haven't been the same since, and I think it's a coincidence, just based on the normal track of my mental health declining last year, but. But it's also a concussion. Then, well, my mental health started to get better

at the end of the year, and then I concussed myself. So now my mental's fine, my physical's not quite right. Joel style. Do not feel 100%? Are you still experiencing aftershock? I almost canceled this because I'm not feeling well. Oh, I'm sorry. Like, I just like,

Joel, have you ever had a concussion? You played sports. No. All right, then I don't know what to say because I can't relate unless someone has had a concussion. Marie-Claire and Alec. I wear a mouth guard. I haven't had a concussion, but I have a headache right now, if that's helpful. Is that from the content of the episode or?

No, it's just kind of that from the content of the episode? What the hell is this? It's the new iOS. Yeah, I don't have the setting on. I don't have it either. Yeah, if you do something, there's like confetti and balloons. Weird. Okay. If you could live anywhere for a year, where would you live,

and why would it be really far from Peter? I don't think I'd actually be that far from Peter. I'd probably like go to London for a year. Okay, and it wouldn't be, you wouldn't do gay purée? No, I don't need to go there again anytime soon, to be honest. What happened when you were there that you didn't like? They don't like you there. They were mean to me.

A waitress said that an Aperol Spritz was a touristy drink and that they didn't make cocktails, even though there was a full bar behind her. Where were you there? Where was I there? Where were you? I was in Paris. That they said that. I know!

I don't remember what. Rondes-des-Monts? Patrie M. Patrie M. Patrie M. Patrie M. Patrie M. Patrie M.

Patrie M. Patrie M. Patrie M. Patrie M. Patrie M. Patrie M. Patrie M. Patrie M.

Patrie M. Patrie M. Patrie M. Patrie M. Patrie M. Patrie M. Yeah, it's by Gare du Nol. Yeah, that's very hip. It was like an old school French restaurant and she was like, I love cocktails. And I was like, okay. That sounds cool. I gotta have Peter on the show to like dissect how he'd made this whole France thing happen. Is he on a, how did he get a work visa, first of all? Second of all.

He didn't. Really? So let's get him on the record on the Zoom in the room. Before he goes on the lam. Yeah, exactly right. Ali? I would live in Italia. I don't care where.

Joel? I think I got skipped for the previous question, which is when I was when the sales team from LA was here and they were all out at some bar slash clurb and I was getting a bunch of texts like, Joel, it's not just like a want, Marty actually requires you to come to this bar we're at. That was like the weirdest thing that felt like my job. All right.

Yeah. All right. And yeah, I'll spend the year in Patagonia. Nice. What's one of your most embarrassing memories that had gum? memories at HeadGum. It's a good question. I'm surprised that Joel doesn't have like 18 to choose from right now. He's looking like he's stumped. I feel like I've been on Blast for the better part of the last week in our Slack channel, honestly. The dev channel? No, the east channel.

Oh. I'm not on that. What did you do? Nothing, there's just like photos of me sitting in the park, photos of me eating Shake Shack mushroom burgers, photos of like yogurt I bought. That's funny. Well, because Sage messaged me and was like,

who's yogurt is in the fridge? And you put three quart sized things of yogurt just in the fridge. Joel's been living in the New York studio. I didn't want to bring it up because I don't want to judge him. Clearly it's hard times. I did a year in the conference room. Yeah, because now you're saying that you're doing a house cooling. So I thought that it was that you were without a place to stay.

Now that I see that you're in a different apartment, I don't understand why you've been sleeping over. When people thought I moved, they were right. So you did move. Nobody told me. Just come to the house, boy. That was so rude to Marika. All three of us were so rude to her just then letting her sit in that. Jeff, are you... do you want to give anyone a compliment? I'm not sure.

Jeff, are you... Do you want to give anyone a compliment? I did. Oh. No one gave me a compliment. Yeah, but no one gave... Yeah. That's fine. Yeah. The assignment wasn't give Marika a compliment, it was give... Everyone a compliment.

Well, and Marika would have gotten three compliments if you guys hadn't adjusted the course of the three. Marika would have gotten three compliments if you guys hadn't adjusted the course of the entire episode by being like, let's just all do one. I think we kind of got back to where we needed to go. You guys are about to go on this Nashville offsite thing. Yeah, are you coming? No, I begged Marty to let me come. I really wanted to record an episode of the HeadGum podcast in Nashville,

where it was kind of like a rotating door, or at the very least different. No, it's like, you know, we have a setup, we have the cameras and everything. There's no time for that. Because of all the team bonding nonsense that Marty does? What's the schedule? be like, why? Have him explain why each thing. I'm not going to share what he currently wants to do, but you should ask him and ask him why. Well, Marika, has your dad heard the rice songs?

He hasn't heard them, but I've told him about them. He actually sent me a magazine that he and his friend are in. It's over here. Rice tri-monthly. That's three times a month. Yeah. I'll find it. He was interviewed with his BFF, Hanif. I imagine Rice will come up somewhere. his BFF Hanif.

I imagine Rice will come up somewhere. Have you read it, the interview? No, I haven't had the time. What have you been busy with? Orc. Yeah. There he is. That's them. That's amazing. Yeah. It's a great, great pic.

What did he also appear on TV once? Uh, he's yeah, I mean, he's been in like some news segments. I think it was on Good Morning America. He was in Bone Appetit. It's really I really well, I hope we should say one day on Appetit, Bone Appetit, which is the dog version. Yeah. I feel like you should frame that.

He made rice-flavored dog treats and went dry roll. I really want him to be on the bear somehow. I think that'll be really funny. Well, I think they're doing their last two seasons in conjunction shooting this year, so. Get them on there. Yeah, it's not gonna happen. All right, let's just fucking end it.

Plugs. I thought this was fine. I had a nice time. Yeah. I think we had a fun conversation mostly, but that's the issue. The episodes where we have the most fun... Correct. Are the ones that the fans hate.

I don't know. And vice versa or not vice versa? My favorite episodes are the ones where there's some kind of theme. And what was the theme for this episode? Gratitude. Gratitude, Me shedding rigidity. Joel failing his doling out resolutions. What I really I do.

I do want to use shedding rigidity. It sounded like Iris. Yeah. OK. It's like when tea comes out of the bag. Brought it back to Plum Deluxe. Yeah. personality that you want to because you're moving house? I haven't, but that's a really good idea. What would you change? I feel like that every time I move. I'm like in this new house.

I'm going to be totally different. I'm going to be healthier. I'm going to drink tea and I'm not a tea guy. I also feel like you really base your personality on location and how do you figure because of Laurel Canyon? your personality on location. And how do you figure? Because of Laurel Canyon? Yeah.

Yeah. A place I haven't quite been able to get into. You've been close to it. Yeah. We drove past it. That makes sense for you. With your current hairstyle, you're so Laurel Canyon. Joel, come on.

Yeah, Joel. You want me to stick up for you? Joel, what neighborhood are you moving to? I listened to Joel. I didn't hear it. The point is moot though. I don't think you can change to a Williamsburg person, which is a good thing. No, I disagree. I think Joel is Williamsburg now. We were talking about it. He's going to get really into overalls. Oshkosh bagosh. Again. I already have a set. I don't think overalls are even a thing in Williamsburg anymore.

I think Williamsburg is parents now. Joel is going to sneak past the National Guard with one of those things that he places on the tracks of the L and goes like this. A mine cart. Yeah, that'll be Joel in overalls in Brooklyn.