The Headgum Podcast - 207: Ladle (w/ Billy Bryk!)
Episode Date: June 7, 2024Billy Bryk (actor/comedian) joins Jake, Marika, Emma, and Geoff to discuss Lackluster Video, Geoff's trip to Citi Field, and Geoff's cost-cutting suggestions for the company.GEOFFARDY livestr...eam June 6 at 5pm PT - Tickets at moment.co/geoffardyAdvertise on The Headgum Podcast via Gumball.fmRate The Headgum Podcast 5-stars on Apple PodcastsRate The Headgum Podcast 5-stars on SpotifyJoin the Headgum DiscordSee 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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The consistency of sand! burning all the rice.
Skald scraps.
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You have wishing I think so I went to the doctor about it and they were like it's like, ah, but not like, yeah. You have to have this. I think so. I went to the doctor about it
and they were like, it's allergies.
Have you done an allergy test?
Cause I also had hives on my eye
and I need to get it.
Hives on your eye?
Not bald, but my lid,
because I'm trying to like figure out what I'm allergic to.
I think it's a tetanus shot
because I stabbed myself with a rusty nail.
And so I had to get the tetanus booster.
Yeah. Hives the next day. I had so I had to get the tetanus booster. Yeah.
I'm sorry.
The next day.
I had, I almost died from a tetanus shot.
Do you remember that?
Are you serious?
Yeah.
Emma, this is all good stuff.
Well, we're recording, so great.
Are you shitting, even on the cameras?
Yeah.
So.
Wow.
I got fucked up eyes too.
What happened to your eyes?
I don't know.
And neither does Dr. Arthur.
Dr. Arthur Benjamin. Oh, wow. I've seen like't know um and neither does dr. Arthur dr. Other Benjamin
Yeah, I've seen like I think ten different doctors. Nobody knows what's only one of them was an industry leader though doctor
What's going on?
So they don't look red now right now. They're not very red that seems to be the theme with Billy is like oh
I have these fucked up eyes, but every time I see him. He's glowing yeah
Only who cried fucked up for like almost two years. Just like excruciating pain and I redness
Basically daily interest with no did it affect your libido
Did you not feel?
Worthy of love that's a good question. Do you were you able to still get aroused and get off?
Yeah, it made it harder to jerk off in the mirror just because the eyes were freaking me out
Yeah, it made it harder to jerk off in the mirror just because the eyes were freaking me out. Yeah, you're bad.
But I could still get around.
You just had to put like black bars over the eyes, which became a different fetish.
Yeah.
Putting tape on the mirror.
Bam-blam-o.
Anyway.
It's like the Parasite poster.
You also put up tape saying Parasite.
The only thing that gets me off is the Parasite poster.
Emma, want to chime in?
I know this crazy girl who someone posed the question of like, if you could have one thing
in your Spank Bank forever and she was like me in a mirror.
Damn.
Who was it?
She must have been godly.
Can we call her? I have been trying to do a telethon actually. Are
you guys familiar with these? Basically like these kind of old timey... Do we start the
show? I do think it'd be a funny like development in the show to just like kind of not tell
the guests that we're going. No this is can you... Well Emma's in charge of the soundboard so until the?
headgum podcast button goes the intro song to have
Then the show isn't officially started, but that is this will be released It's a cold open which I kind of am feeling like is the move going forward from 206 onward
So instead of previously on it's more of a this time on. I think it's like, yeah.
What's it called?
Basically, this is what's already happening.
It's the purple button that says Headgun Podcast.
It's gonna be on uploaded instead of favorites.
You have to have the two tabs open.
It's obviously, yeah.
Clunky, it's not what anyone would want.
Everyone was like, hey, you should move this to the soundboard apps that are designed.
Pale yellow button of applause, just because usually I try to pair the two.
It's obviously hard.
It's hard when they're on different tabs.
I mean, this is why, there you go.
People think what I do is easy.
Yeah.
You make it.
Well, you make it hard.
What you do should be easy.
We all recognize that it's hard for you. Thank you. Yeah, I really do appreciate that there's like
Abs you can download where you can like match your keyboard to sound effects, and you could just have a whole alphabet memorized
You could also ask for help, but you tend to not yeah, you don't I do at the last
I do at the last minute. You asked for help when people aren't ready.
You asked for help this morning.
The first thing I opened my eyes to
was an incredibly manic text from Dad.
Well, I didn't expect a response anywhere near 5.30.
I just was like, I will fall asleep soon,
and this way, y'all will wake up to the info,
and it won't be 11.55, and I'm like, cancel the noon.
Totally.
I woke up at 7.30.
I did ultimately have to.
Also woke up.
At 6.19, and believe me.
At like five something.
All right.
Because of the text?
Yeah.
We're not too different, you and I.
I messaged you on Slack at 6.30
and your notifications were paused.
I remember, because I almost called you.
But that's because you can block specific people.
So basically.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We've got Billy Brick on the show.
From Hell of a Summer.
Who hasn't said a word?
I, uh...
Or no, you talked about jerking off to yourself.
I didn't know we were rolling.
Tape covering your eyes, yeah.
Okay.
Is it fair to say Hell of a Summer's Billy Brick,
or are you trying to distance yourself from that project?
Well, I'm not trying to distance...
This product isn't out yet.
Right.
It's nowhere that people can see.
Yeah, nobody can see it.
Can't plug it.
Can't really plug it.
Lackluster videos, Billy Brick, or that was a different iteration of you?
Kind of, years ago, yeah.
You don't feel like the same man.
Well, I feel like the same guy.
I just feel like it's not worth plugging because it's like a podcast that died two and a half,
three years ago.
And not in a grand fashion.
It petered out until it just never came back.
You know what I was thinking about the other day, though?
How lackluster it was. We released like merch for whatever reason.
It was more just to do it than to sell it.
But I remember...
What does that mean? To do it?
You wanted a shirt.
It was a fun time capsule.
Design the shirt that you would like to crop.
And Miley Cyrus asked for all of it. She was like, please send this to crop. Gotcha. Is his motto. Yeah, yeah. And Miley Cyrus asked for all of it.
She was like, please send this to me.
Of course she never listened.
I don't think she knew what it was.
And then we never did.
I just forgot to send it out to her.
I know.
And that was before she realized
that she could buy herself flowers.
She can make her own merch.
Nice.
Anyway, I thought of that the other day.
You should send it to her now.
I will, yeah.
Yeah, I...
Because she won't know the podcast is dead
or even that it was a podcast.
Jeff, do you still have that shirt that we gave you?
I ended up cropping it a little too far.
Okay.
So that, I mean, it could fit Miley pretty easily.
Yeah, that's true.
It's basically a sports bra that doesn't support.
Greatest part.
Yeah, it's kind of her whole vibe, I think.
I don't know what you mean.
Okay.
We tried to uplift women on the
show yeah you implied that she was a whore unfortunate ladle is that what you
just said ladle I didn't I said I knew the eagle sound effect I will don't
bother because I said implied implied 1975 Billy that also isn't out we can't
just keep saying things that people can't go watch.
Why not?
We don't need to say anything.
Just Billy Brick is fine.
Can you just say ladle?
Ladle, I want it.
Okay, great.
Emma, eagle?
I don't...
I don't...
What a terrible job to give Emma.
I was gonna burst into tears behind the desk.
Word of the day, ladle.
Ladle.
Yeah.
There's just so little holding this show together.
You say this to a ladle? You say this to, ladle. Ladle. Yeah. There's just so little holding this show together. You say this is a ladle?
You say this is a ladle?
Jake, why don't we tell the story about how you and I
got bon mes basically at Lucy's Vietnamese.
You mean when we ran into each other.
Do you know I was going to Lucy's?
Were you?
Williamsburg location or Richland?
Yeah, Grand Madden away. You didn't know I was in New York.
I knew that you were coming to New York. I knew you were, I knew we were recording, but I didn't know you were in town, let alone my neighborhood around the corner.
I was walking my dog. Jeff was walking up from L train vintage. Correct. Classic. And we were two ships passing in the night.
We almost committed to a bit,
which was just nodding at each other and continuing on.
I do regret not just doing that.
Yeah.
I kind of told people that that's-
That you did that.
Not that I did that, but that's what we almost did.
And that's not as good of a story.
No, it's much funnier if we actually, like-
We just did a really polite wave. The Like Jeff told it was like you did that and kept walking and that you Jake were like wait what I started to do it
Do you know the end of the Dark Knight Rises? Oh, yeah
Yeah, where there's both sitting in the cafe, and they just sort of make eye contact was very Bruce Wayne and Albert. Yeah
Bruce Wayne and Albert. Yeah.
Albert.
Alfred.
Alfred.
No, Albert.
It was Alfred and Albert.
Albert was the footman.
I was pretty close.
Billy, do you wanna talk about your biggest struggle?
What is with you and this question?
I have been asking, what's your biggest struggle?
Finding a balance for how I dedicate my energy and time to certain things.
Because you have like a lot of things that you care about.
Yeah, a lot of things that I care about, a lot of things that I have to do, obligations,
things that I want to do, then, you know, trying to save that energy so I'm not depleted
when I'm doing something that's more enriching.
Right.
It's because I know that like the NAD pod records, because I know that, like, the NADD pod records,
they're really long, right?
Which I assume is, like, a little tiring.
Yeah, you gotta give those your all for sure.
I obviously, it's like, it's good to do those
after you do the passion project,
which would be something like this episode.
I am recording NADD pod later,
so I'm gonna conserve a lot of energy now if I can.
I wouldn't mind if you spent all of it.
I might go comatose for the rest of this.
Non-verbal.
Yeah, just kind of.
Shutting down.
What if I committed to that bit?
I literally didn't say a word.
Welcome back to the show.
Jake is giving us the silent treatment, I think.
Billy, when was the last time you were at like a 10 out of 10
in terms of fulfillment personally?
Because I know you're not now.
We got dinner the other day at Walters, we should say, in Fort Greene.
I felt bad for you.
You feel like you were in a tough space.
I literally thought that walk.
I was like, man, I hope Jeff's all right.
It's hard because I said watch this space, but then the space was tragic.
Yeah.
No, I feel good.
I feel like I couldn't tell you what my biggest struggle is.
I feel like I have the eyes is a real frustration
But they're all right now and if they were red would you have come I would have been wearing glasses I would have worn sunglasses you can be like a Jack Nicholson type because all these old celebrities
They have bad eyes too, so they wear glasses. They wear the sunglasses
Inside and you know is that why Anna Wintour wears sunglasses everywhere?
I think it's because she sold her soul to the devil that makes sense and that's how she gets the townhouse
That's how she gets the cultural cache a condom because nothing goes. Sorry. I wasn't even close to them
Basically nothing goes more viral than cultural cache a
Sort of facilitated by the devil himself
It's better to just straight-faced say stuff, but it's hard to look at you and know that we did go
to a Mets game last night.
Yeah.
You guys went to a Mets game together?
It was just me and Marika.
Yes!
It was just me and Marika.
We were behind the dugout, I think.
The Hyundai Club.
The Hyundai Club, yeah.
You are wearing a Yankees hat right now.
Because they fucking lost, dude!
You really had no,
because you invited me to the Nets game.
Correct.
And the Nets game.
But the Nets, I said they're not in the playoffs.
They're not playing.
I shouldn't have walked to the Mets game.
You said I could have walked?
You could have.
What neighborhood do you live in?
I live in Prospect Heights.
I could not have walked.
I wouldn't want to walk.
It's so far.
Yeah, to Queens, that would be,
it's hard to flushing, yeah, I was gonna say.
The Nets, you could have walked to though.
The Nets, I have walked to. Right, that's you could have walked to the nets. I have walked to right. Yeah
Yeah
The Liberty or do you not support women's sports? I'm a fever fan because I've got Caitlin fever
Clark or otherwise
mostly
Rica we had seats one through eight in this row with like a group
And Marika's is sat in seat nine just to not sit next to me because I
was in seat two. Wait, just the two of you guys went? No, we went in a big group of like eight people. Yeah, and I sat seven seats away from her. I invited Billy, he said no to my face.
You bought, so you bought like several tickets. I bought eight tickets at $17 each. Yeah. Sort of an act of good faith and charity. And Billy, you texted Billy and said, no, I never even got a text.
So what was the chain of, like, where do I fall?
Yeah, I'd also like to know the chain of.
I just, there's at least nine people in it.
I saw the consideration text about inviting me
and then I got an invite from Jeff.
To the game?
Yeah, I saw it.
Wait, what?
Should we invite Joel?
I saw that too.
Oh, I didn't even see, should we invite Joel?
This is what Joel is talking about. Screenshot? What are we invite Joel? I saw that too. No, oh, I didn't even see should we invite Joel. This is what's Joel talking about.
Screenshot?
What do you mean, Joel?
You barely know Joel.
I'm paying the Joel's toll.
If Emma's gonna come,
I gotta make sure more headgum staffers are there
so she feels like there's a bridge between her and me.
Jeff, we're friends.
I say this all the time.
I think of you as a friend.
But if you want to make more,
if you want more headgun people to be there,
what better bridge am I?
Than inviting the boss?
I'm not a boss.
No, he's not a boss.
I'm a cool peer of yours.
I did.
What's that?
As you did that, your bones creaked.
Oh, not that old. I mean, you guys have worse health problems than I do that's true tonight
It's your hair. Well. It's because of a brain trauma. Yeah, I'm an emotional trauma
You take really good care of your body mind and spirit. Thanks, man. That's what I need in my life
We were talking about who was the happiest person we know. And we maybe said you.
Really?
It was between you and Joel.
I still think it's Joel.
It's definitely not Billy.
Look at his face.
Even when he's happy he doesn't look happy.
He said he's 10 out of 10 fulfilled right now.
Oh yeah.
I think there's a difference between
being happy and being fulfilled.
It's actually easier to be happy when you're less fulfilled.
Which. How so?
Because I think part of happiness is wanting
and hoping for something.
I agree.
Yeah, and working.
Did you say ladle?
No, it's like how when you make a cupcake,
you gotta put a little bit of salt in the bitch.
I'm sorry.
I'm just hyper and not a lot of sleep.
Hyper.
I'm like 12 years in a sleepover. Getting kind of a sugar high from the buffet I had.
Getting hyper is, that was the old getting drunk.
It was such a great excuse. Sorry, I'm just hyper right now.
To have an energy drink at 12 is to get drunk at 19.
Nothing was better. Billy, if you are happy and fulfilled what could be better?
If you're happy and you know it clap your glands
I was I don't know George you want me to talk about my debt
No, you want you know you don't do that. Yeah, let's talk about your debt
I I don't want to get into the numbers because it will just make me sound like a moron. It doesn't I will say that at dinner
He got into the numbers. He's in a lot of debt. We know you know how do you know?
Let's let's hear it. I guess the debt I guess it's not debt because I I have it technically right
Which by the way after I figured that out I was like stop calling it debt
It's just cash you have to somebody yeah
Yeah, I owe them money, and you have to go to Canada to be able to wire it or you're just sitting on it
Well, I'm going to Canada soon
And I think I have to go to Canada to wire and you looked in at all
You definitely don't
Yeah, it's just money transfers please you I don't want to I don't want to make a family member go to the bank
What's your bank TD you
What's your bank TD you can just go to yeah, they're not the same
Yeah, but I see the Canada Trust and TD Toronto Dominion or whatever is called Yeah, I just feel like you should be able to go to a TD and they should be able to communicate
It really should not be this tedious nice. Did you say ladle?
I I oh I was accidentally overpaid about two years ago
Didn't really realize.
By a lot.
By a lot.
That's the part that makes you seem, but.
By like a full time salary.
A full year's salary, yeah.
And then so.
And now they're asking for the money back.
And now they need it back, yeah.
Are they allowed to do that?
Yeah, I want, who do you?
I would look into that.
That's what I was saying was like,
yes you owe most of this,
but I think you should get to keep like 20%
Alt I owe Finn the money so that I think if it were a corporation or somebody that you didn't have a relationship with
You absolutely have grounds to be like I'm not gonna pay this debt
Well, we should say as he walked up we learned that the entity that messed this up
the entity that messed this up
Do you want me to bleep that maybe yeah
Shout out to Sarah with an H who works at the Ralph's coffee around this corner
Upper East Side, let's say just so we don't talk to us or her
Because she gave me a coffee for free because she listens to the show so shout out from where what place
Ralph's coffee, maybe it's Ralph's Coffee.
That's definitely Ralph's.
Because Lauren, right, not Fiennes.
Ralph's Coffee.
Then you say ladle?
Guys, what improvements have you made to yourself
since the start of the show?
Wait, I have a question about the debt.
Let's just figure out the debt.
So you, like would it be more comfortable to go on,
it's two years of this debt,
you should be able to go on a payment plan,
like pay a chunk of it every month for the next two years.
No, I definitely could.
I'm just gonna get it, I'm just gonna send it all.
It's more just an unfortunate circumstance.
I have a lot less money than I thought I had.
I sort of, due to a bunch of people
kind of missing this extra payment
and then other miscommunication where I had kind of noticed
and I had brought it up and then they're like,
no, no, no, we checked with the counting, like you're good.
And then more money was kind of trickling slowly in
over the next couple of, and I was like,
I guess this is just all kind of like found money.
Or I don't know, or not found money,
but I was like, maybe I missed something.
And then there was a currency conversion thing
from US to Canadian. And then the numbers weirdly like...
Went up?
-♪ Cause you had a bad day, you took your money down, you saved a sad song, it's time...
And then we did lose monetization, but it's fine.
So did Billy.
-♪ Tell me don't lie...
We all did.
And then I sort of noticed that, I kind of called,
and then it wasn't flagged, and then I thought
maybe I just had misread the contract,
or there was a part of it, like,
it was for the movie that Finn and I wrote and directed,
and produced and acted in, so that was all separate payments.
And it was only the directing
that I kind of got paid extra for.
I see.
Was that?
Oh no, I just have the worst hands, yeah.
But no, so they found out that I owed the the money and then I found out that I owed actually way more than they even initially thought
Yeah, we can bleep this I guess because I thought I owed
Dollars yeah, and then I had to check for
Hadn't cashed yet that I was like, oh, I'll just give him that and then I'll give him the extra
But you owe it and then I owed on top of
So I am I see yeah, I'll just give him that and then I'll give him the extra. Oh, but you owe it. And then I owed $%& on top of $%& so I owe him $%&. I see.
Yeah.
I only knew about $%&.
Yeah.
Well, that's because so-
This is new.
This is a new development.
I found the- I was the one who found the additional extra payment.
Well, I also feel like-
So you fucked yourself.
I did.
I really did.
I do feel like what you were saying, Jake, like the people that did this should have
some responsibility.
Absolutely.
I agree. They definitely won't take it.
Because legally they would have to sue you to get the money, but you're just
actually doing the right thing.
Yeah.
And you like, you called it out from the beginning and they were just like, no,
it's fine.
Yeah.
I should have maybe been more, it's like it at the end of the day, it's like the
money went into my account.
I should have been more aware of what was coming.
But I think like, this is what lawyers are for.
Like, I think there's's a there's a reasonable case
That this is not on you at all Yeah
And like there is also maybe to their perspective a reasonable case where hey you have the money you have to give it back
But you wouldn't necessarily want the lawyers to go at it because you like Finn
Definitely, I don't want to be taking any money away from right and then also
So that's what makes the situation
Extra unfortunate because if you hated them and they hated you then this would be a lot of fun
Yeah, I I mean when I'm like
Because I don't know if you guys ever do this
But when I'm drunk and high on the airplane be zealing strangers with no regard never done that basically I if you sell someone
You'd they have no responsibility to send it back, no matter
how.
You're so bad with money.
Is it because I was going to buy tickets to Stereophonic at $74 each?
Because you're selling people on a plane.
Why aren't you on airplane mode?
Because I like to basically interrupt
That's really bad you're bad with money, it's hard well you know frivolous Yeah, well cuz you're very five minutes flight
You know New York to Cleveland, and I'm like I gotta have you know I gotta have the access obviously
That's when I start to get upset is when I lose the access to the internet
I don't even have to use the shit. I just have to have it. I get people yeah
What improvements have you guys made to yourselves
since the start of the year?
I've been in decline, I'd say.
I dedicate a lot of time to stretching and mobility now.
What's the opposite of vanity muscle?
Practical muscle.
I don't know if functional muscle.
No.
Functional's good.
Yeah.
No.
I'm dedicating a lot of time to,
because I hurt my back right before the new year,
like my new year's resolution was to do anything I could
to not be in chronic pain.
Of course.
And I've kept it up.
I've dedicated a little bit of time to flexibility,
and I'm not joking.
I do like three minutes a day of stretching,
and that was my resolution.
But he's talking about stretching his mind
to not get upset when plans change.
That's the flexibility he's talking about. Yeah. You said we upset when plans change. That's the flexibility. He's talking about
Yeah, you said you were recording it. That was a really good joke and nobody laughed Emma didn't even like it. Yeah, she loves everything
I don't know
Said something about flexibility relating to me.
I was actually interested.
Like, is that three minutes in the morning?
Is that like the top of the day?
Yeah, I try to do it at the top.
I mean, I didn't do it today because I thought I was going to be late.
Right.
Because I woke up and then I frantically was trying to buy my cousin a birthday present.
Why?
This is a birthday.
You should save money, man.
Oh, trying to get my parents to reimburse me for the present that I'm getting my cousin.
Which is?
Shoes.
When's this coming out?
Shoes.
What does the timing of the release have to do with saying that or not?
I don't want to spoil it for his birthday in case he decides to tune in.
This one's probably coming out this Friday.
Leap it.
Why?
Because this one isn't going to need much editing.
It's going well.
The other one I'm going to have to chop up.
Wow. The one that you said was really good.
It was a goddamn mess.
I just don't like when people go out of their way to be on the show and then I'm like, that was a bad episode.
I think it will play.
It'll be fine. But it's just, I'm going to have to also edit all the graphics from the fucking headgumily feud thing that we did.
Oh, there was a game and I'm on a damn wax episode?
There's other stuff, it's going fine.
I woke up, I was trying to buy him the gift.
My brother called me in a panic about a Canva presentation
that he was making.
And then I had to deal with that.
And then I realized that I was gonna be late
for the podcast.
So I didn't do my exercise or my stretches.
Yeah. Are they the same three minutes of stretching every day?
You can ask you or what? Posture stuff?
How's Stan doing?
Or is it like what Winnie the Pooh does in the mirror every morning?
It's almost exactly like probably what Winnie the Pooh does in the mirror.
What does he do in the mirror?
He grabs a bunch of honey and just kind of jerks off while there's a black bar over his eyes.
Oh, alright.
Do you guys endure fear?
Endure fear?
No.
So obviously you don't.
What does that mean?
I avoid fear.
Like if I have it, what else is there to do?
Do you feel it, do you go through it,
do you process it, or do you go around it?
I go around it at all costs.
Always avoiding.
I don't think I understand that question.
What kind of fear?
Fear in like a physical sense,
like fear for my safety or fear?
In a more sort of abstract sense you can be visceral and survivalistic like oh my god
There's somebody following a little too close behind me or it could be fear of failure or disappointing not only your family
But yourself I think I conquer fear or I try to conquer fear endure fear means just like you kind of settle in it
Are happy to be scared
Very good and that was interpreted it you should avoid fear. Yeah, I try to I avoid situations that will scare me
Do you guys ever feel held back by me? No, right? I don't think we're close enough for that. Yeah
Which in a way kind of like puts me as a yeah part of a network for instance
I was like a little upset at the beginning of the episode that I can get a Mets text
Yeah, but like I've already I will never think about that
You're more than past it because you're sure whatever night you had was probably a little bit better
To what degree does striving play a part in your life
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hard questions. These are all I woke up. You ever do a dream journal? Basically you wake up and you write down what you dreamt.
Mm-hmm. I do.
But I know what you're talking about.
So I was yeah.
So do you endure fear that was from your brain?
I thought this was like a bad list from the internet.
No, this is going to be a good list that I wrote as I woke up
and was between realms.
What's the great question?
What's the loudest thing about privacy?
Let's start with Emma.
Nervous laughter.
I don't know what the loudest thing about privacy is.
What, you want the answer to be like,
my own torturous thoughts or something?
That's not what you're trying to set this up for.
I was gonna say tinnitus.
So it was a joke.
Yeah. It's not a joke.
That's my answer.
You had a punchline.
My answer could be a punchline.
Yeah, your inner monologue, I guess.
Sure.
But I can do that.
You guys have to answer honestly.
I'm gonna answer honestly.
For me, it's having to pee.
If I'm alone and I'm feeling calm and whatever, I start to think about what could make this
even more perfect?
Yeah. Oh, it's if I didn't have to pee at all. I'm like I start to think about like what could make this even more perfect You know, it's if I didn't have to pee at all
I get and then I start thinking about like taking a piss. Have you considered a
incontinence products
Like wearing a diaper. Yeah, we're like a catheter that goes straight into your fucking dick. I
Bedpan could work or you could like train yourself to pee less or that
Resolutions and it's not going closer to catheter than piss training
Gathered it doesn't sound that's why you didn't get invited to the med school because I was gonna bring my cat
No Emma did get up to pee like I want to say thrice it was embarrassing
Were you doing it during the as the innings werenings were changing? I got up twice to pee.
Yeah.
I was kidding.
Did you do it during the seventh inning stretch?
Or was it top, like middle of the inning?
It ended up being a seventh inning wretch
because you had a couple of wines
and threw up into a bucket.
Because what I was trying to make sure
is that we all had a little bit too much caramel corn
to make sure that the seventh inning was worth it.
Do you find it hard to imagine life without taste?
Sorry, the thought is really big. that the seventh inning was worth it. Do you find it hard to imagine life without taste?
Sorry, the thought is really big.
Also, did you say ladle?
Yeah.
Oh my God.
I was like, oh, Jake knows how to come up with questions
like this, I did that.
You forgot that you came up with that one?
I literally wrote these as I rolled over in bed this morning.
How much garbage do you guys produce on a daily basis?
Ooh, that's a good question.
That's good.
Yeah, it's like concrete.
Let's think about it.
Maybe like a liter.
Did you say ladle?
I did see it.
Hey Micah.
You see him all the time.
I thought he was looking in here at me.
I saw a, not billboard, but like one of those fucking things that are on the sidewalk out here
Sure, and it said zero waste Daniel and I was like what a great nickname
And I sent it to our group chat with it's me Marika Riley and Amir and we just send each other like
Copy and ads that look terrible. We send each other
And I need to find there was copy recently that I saw Jeff for Van Lewin copies. I need to find, there was copy recently
that I saw Jeff for Van Lewin that I took a picture of
because I was like, this looks like Jeff had a hand.
Oh, great.
I think, last one.
What do you mean, like, would you also consider
like food waste, or that's kind of biodegradable?
I've created more waste in the last eight weeks
because I have been eating at restaurants or getting takeout three times a week
Yeah, the last 52 days because my fridge has been broken. Yeah
Have you ever settled the debt?
Is that just for Billy? That's just for everyone else too soon. Have you ever gambled away your future?
Feline I try not to put myself in positions where I owe people things what about credit cards you have a credit card
Yeah, so bad example right well I every month
Really yeah, because I make sure that I don't spend more than what's in my checking account. It's hard not to outpace your fiscally
Yeah, income. I'm kind of not really hard for you to read $5,000 credit. It's great like there's great like
Budgeting apps and stuff if you're like really need to focus the hard part about those is that they don't categorize your spending correctly.
They do and mine does. I have a really good one.
I don't think categorizing spending is that interesting.
Like I don't need to see...
I love that.
Interesting.
Like, all right, restaurants, entertainment, like whatever.
It doesn't matter. It's all gone.
Yeah.
Who the fuck cares?
Where does signet ring fall in your catapult ization of um yeah, I'm speaking of incessant ringing nice
Really good not quite as good as the haste question, but you know or
No ways Daniel. Yeah, where you explained a joke from a text thread that we're not on
And she laughs the least yeah, I got this on. Brink is on it? And she laughed the least. Yeah, I got this on Rue Betrayus.
Peter would know that.
Paris Jeff.
PG, aka Paris Jeff, which is where my entire personality changes as I drink red wine at
lunch.
And, you know, I wonder if Peter would be interested in this because he's sort of a
Francophile slash zero-waste Daniel type.
Peter would be interested in this because no one else is but no that was like 40 euro
that's good right it's not real gold because that's a shower with it it starts
to rust and rot it's nice because every time you look at it you think of Paris
I think that's a that's a that's a good investment it's a memento it's already
euros what Steve right I've got a signet ring so I could wear it to a movie It's a good investment right there. It's a memento, it's nice. 40 euros. What? It's steep, right?
I got a signet ring so I could wear it
to a movie premiere and then I forgot it
on the night of the movie premiere and I didn't wear it.
That's the worst way to spend your money.
I wear this every day.
And mine is real gold, duh.
Really? Yeah.
I'm interested in a signet ring,
also kind of interested in a bracelet.
About like a thumb ring.
A bracelet.
Are thumb rings cool?
They are not, that's the the one finger not to wear one.
Excuse me.
How do you know?
No.
They are cool.
I haven't seen you the entire episode
because you're behind this giant computer
and all I saw was just your thumb ring
stick out from behind it.
It's like I had zombie hand pushing up from the grass.
Thumb ring, yeah, nice.
I will say that you have a family,
so you have the most license to have a signet ring.
Because you could create an actual signet.
Oh, oh yeah.
How do you create a signet?
What is, like what is?
It's like a family crest.
Okay, what is that?
What's on this one?
This just says PG, Paris Jeff.
Oh, that's awesome.
Okay, yeah, so I would,
I guess it'd be an H I think for her wits
What else?
It should not be funny, but you're like I guess it'd be H for her
I think you should get a coat of arms. That's kind of cool. So yeah, that would be all the important things
To me dingo my dog climbing. Sure.
Climbing whiskey.
Not really that important to me, but okay. And Paris, Jeff,
I would be kind of cool to have a signet ring of your ring, like just a ring.
It's in one of the quadrants.
Right. So it's the ring,
but then the ultimate would be a signet ring of your signet ring of my signet.
Yeah. Which then becomes kind of that mirrored effect that never ends. But the ultimate would be a signet ring of your signet ring of my signet ring.
Which then becomes kind of that mirrored effect
that never ends, like the gold, really.
Yeah, yeah.
Signet's kind of cool.
In a way, yeah.
If you make like a family crest.
Introducing a segment that we don't have.
The button is called case closed.
So what am I supposed to do about that?
I make that mistake a lot whenever I have to control it.
Welcome to Checking In.
Well, it doesn't really have a name, but I just.
OK, so the segment does exist.
I have a set.
It's not a, you know, it's more of like a category
of conversation.
Yeah, let's go to the,
can we do the Hannah Montana thing?
You're testing me, Jeff.
Sorry.
Better than me.
And come back to the steel pipe clanging.
Yeah, can we do metal pipe clang, if at all possible?
I obviously don't want to step on any toes, but I do want to give everyone else tonight a...
Some producer she is!
And we're back.
That's how you say it.
I wanted to check in, just make sure everything's Gucci main in terms of the financials at head gum
we're in New York the nation's capital of cash and
refinancing
You know, we're talking a lot about debt. I'm wondering how much head comes in
What's the burn rate and where can we expect to pass that 30 mil a year?
Mark think we're burning around K month, but taking in a little bit
over that. We've got what? The bank and the USV investment is on pace to last us another
couple of years. But as we lose that, we should be hitting major profitability. I think in
12 to 18 months, we will be printing cash. Everyone here will be a millionaire.
Interesting.
And we will have replaced your ass with a Billy brick.
Tight, tight, yeah.
So not you, someone similar.
Not me, not me.
Maybe one of my cousins.
I thought you were on availables.
She said you were on avail.
I thought you were on avails.
What's that no way
Where can we sort of trim the fat?
No way
Peter was in France for what the better part of a decade and I feel like nobody even noticed so I feel like me
Yeah, you noticed a lot
Yeah, I kind of will slack first. I'm seeing him in a year. My knees started to buckle I don't know if it's about cutting costs. It's about doubling down
We need to be earning so the machine is built. We have to have proof of concept
Yeah, I don't want the bubble to burst. Yeah, I feel like that's happening with the streamers right now
They kind of went all in one content
You know, there is what is a 2022 a record year in the health and entertainment industry of 600 scripted series now
We're looking at 252 for the yeah. Well, that's yeah there. I mean their industry went on strike that we're yeah for sure
Yeah, but I think we're in a kind of a safer space because podcast production costs a lot less money and it's you know
Obviously there's yeah demand so we don't mind, you know getting higher and we have an advertiser based model
So we're not gonna get bogged down and like the streamers are really reliant on their subscriber base
There's no commercials on there, and then when they start to add commercial yeah
Then the subscriber base starts to get upset we start with commercials, and then maybe we take them away
Well yeah subscription on top of the sort of commercial driven. How would you?
Run this company. I think I would start to yeah well
no that's you know very funny Billy but you know we're trying to get real here about you
know financials and yeah you know I think I could take the reins in a way that's very
different than the way that Marika takes the reins on this show. Jeff's druthers. If I
had my druthers I think I would shit can Peter I think I would basically make sure that Ali's salary is celery because it's going
to be milky.
It's like when you eat celery, you burn more calories than the food contains.
So you want to underpay Ali in a way.
Yeah.
Fire Peter, but fire him in a way where he has severance, where he can use that pay to
go back to mercy.
So you want to save the company money by funding Peters giving Peter free cash.
Yeah.
And nobody would you've heard of defund the police.
Yeah, this is defund MacArthur's ass.
You're not you're funding him.
You're defunding alley.
That's true.
Steal from the rich and give to the MacArthur and I would see to it that Marty's salary doubles, nay triples.
But if you were in charge, what would he be doing then?
I think I'd have him be more of a CCO instead of a CEO.
So he could be like Mr. Morale and I could be the big stepper.
I could basically step in, live as him in his skin, which is much thicker than mine, and make sure that every
show has a certain je ne sais quoi Peter style.
And I don't think you know what Marty does.
I have said on this show that every sentence I say often feels like I'm falling down a
hill.
And I want most of the shows on the network to feel that way.
Yeah.
Also, I've had some good ideas that have come through later
and I've gotten no credit.
Like what?
The Jake Johnson podcast.
In 2020, when I was like vaguely sitting in
on content meetings and pitching ideas
and emailing agencies to be like,
there's your client, wanna do this.
I pitched an idea to do New Boys,
which is Lamorne Morris, Jake Johnson,
and Max Greenfield doing a new girl rewatch podcast.
That's not what Jake Johnson's podcast is.
But eventually we did get a Jake Johnson podcast
that Lamorne guested on, episode was a hit,
clips went viral, Max Greenfield went on,
the most recent episode, one of them,
clip went super viral.
Yeah, but do you think it's an idea
to say these really famous, funny people
should have a podcast?
Because that's not really an idea.
Of a show that then a lot of people rewatched or watched for the first time during
a four year pandemic. So it would have been perfect because we were in the pandemic. And of course,
if they're watching it, it was a bad idea when you pitched Jake Johnson, nobody was like,
hey, he should never do a podcast. It was when I made that video where I was doing you're a jerk,
but replacing your jerk to a gherk.
Parodying Olivia Gerkey's name,
who's just a manager.
That was an incredible, incredible time.
Are you familiar?
You guys hear anybody?
That's probably why they didn't remember
the Jake Johnson thing,
because if you're doing the you're a gherk,
that's so much louder.
Like you fail so much louder than you succeed.
I definitely remember the you're a gherk. Definitely remember much louder like you fail so much louder than you succeed
Definitely remember that yeah, I remember you pitching Jake Johnson. We give you a lot of credit for your gherk. I think that was
Your best stuff because it was also some of your best gherk. Yeah, your best gherk for sure like that was
Man, yeah, it was just for our internal slack Yeah, is there any corner of the company that we can kind of make some improvements
in terms of staying leaner?
Because I feel like, yeah, you have to double, triple down
on content, but you can also do that
while making people feel on edge, mass layoffs,
and you know, like the offsite, how much money?
That was probably like $40,000 all in all.
Did you really need to be where
the cicadas wanted to as well be?
I think it was important for company morale.
It's always good bonding.
People leave that weekend feeling closer to their fellow employees.
Yeah, but I asked everybody how was the offsite and they said it was OK.
There was one moment where Marty was giving a presentation about the financials
and Brad Hilt stood up and said, this is boring. Can we do something else?
Yeah, and I started dancing in a cowboy hat right that was he was a plant that was playing
We also said it was fun. We didn't say it was okay. Yeah, it was a plant you guys
You know you didn't even say it was Robert so
Grace cut that out
My laptop is about to die.
Emma, I'm going to slack this to you and I need you to screen share it ideally.
What sport would go away and you'd be fine with that?
Baseball.
No, I'm not baseball.
Hockey.
Really?
You're not a Rangers fan?
No.
Go, go our Rangers.
Have you...
I'm trying to find a way to phrase this.
Is there a celebrity you'd love to work with for way too long?
Like someone you start to work with, which obviously you're excited about,
but then like you work with them for so long that by the end the relationship has kind of suffered.
Yeah, yeah.
And you want...
But you want... That's your ultimate end goal. Like you want to have a relationship that has kind of suffered. Yeah, yeah. And you want, but you want, that's your ultimate end goal.
Like you want to have a relationship that has suffered.
Right, yeah, I think it'd be cool
for like Matt Damon to annoy me.
Yeah.
That would be really awesome.
For you to like roll your eyes at a text from me.
Jesus, Damon again.
That would be really, that would be really cool.
Have you guys seen these?
Um, no, I don't think so.
Let's roll that clip.
I do want to think about this.
That's a $350,000 car, sir.
Hold on.
So loud.
So, let's just make sure we watch this shit.
Yeah, we're watching.
It's really expensive.
I don't know if you can afford it.
But is there any way I can see the inside?
Look, man, I really don't want to be rude today.
I just don't want to waste my time.
It's like Lucas Gage.
Doesn't it? Lucas Gage used to be rep by my agent.
That guy's clearly going to waste your time, okay?
Look at him.
Things aren't always what they seem.
Don't judge a book by its cover.
Sir, could you please not touch the car?
Is this Dhar Mann?
I'll make sure it's me.
It actually looks like Dempsey Brick. When somebody pictures Ford it comes in.
To buy.
This guy?
Yeah, a little bit.
Excuse me, is that the new Rolls Royce?
Yes.
Yes it is.
Hello, I'm Jake.
I'm Paul, nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you.
What do you think here, Paul?
She's perfect.
Midnight blue, all the options, exactly what I've been looking for.
Can we pause it?
I have keys if you'd like and we can take it for a spin.
No, no, no, no, no.
The first guy looks dressed fine.
He does not look poor.
I don't know how this is going to end.
I'm like this could be any weird thing on the internet that I've heard about recently.
Let's continue.
I've seen what I need to see.
I'll take it.
Let's send the paperwork.
My mom's going to be so happy.
I'm going to send it to you.
I'm going to send it to you.
I'm going to send it to you.
I'm going to send it to you.
I'm going to send it to you.
I'm going to send it to you.
I'm going to send it to you.
I'm going to send it to you.
I'm going to send it to you.
I'm going to send it to you.
I'm going to send it to you.
I'm going to send it to you. I'm going to send it to you. I'm going to send it to you. I'm going to send it's continue. I've seen what I need to see. I'll take it. Let's sign the paperwork. My man! That's quick.
I like that. Oh actually you're late. This is my friend Paul and he just
offered to buy the car. Isn't that right? Yes.
to buy the car. Isn't that right? Yes.
So does that mean it's sold already? Well no, not yet, but it's about to be.
Let's go sign the paperwork in my office. That one over there on the corner. Corner office? Cool. Little piece of advice. Don't waste your time with poor looking people.
And you should never judge a book by its cover. Oh, you're giving me advice.
This is, it's not even been two minutes and she's already said never judge a book by its
cover twice.
Let's keep going.
That's cute.
I am so sorry about that.
Did you have any specific questions about the car?
That's it?
There's no ending questions about the car? That's it
Well, don't close the tab go to the this person's profile and watch part two there it is the second video part two has
Millions less
Which makes sense how come you wasting your time on a poor looking person like me?
Well, I'm all about helping people.
As a Rolls Royce dealer, I'm all about helping the less fortunate.
Third time in three minutes.
That's very interesting.
It's saying that your credit wasn't approved.
Don't worry, let me try again. This happens sometimes.
Come on, man. I need that car. I need people to think that's much better.
I'm looking at the comments right now.
I really don't understand this.
Don't judge a book by its cover times four.
Car Sailman Bites the Curb 4K.
$350,000? I don't even make that much in 10 years.
He makes less than 30 grand a year.
And he walked into a Rolls-Rolls dealership and said,
I'll take it.
I've seen all I need to see.
Don't be fooled by the super.
Part three, please.
Creator responded, okay.
But hey, can I still test drive the car?
How did it go? Did you make the sale? No
No, I did so it's not our man because it says to hold side for darn man
Someone looks like she's on the verge of tears the entire
He's fucking quadrupling down
He's dressed normal
Bag
350 thousand dollars. He has it in a duffel
Yeah, that doesn't necessarily make him rich.
That also, usually if that happens, people have to like call an authority.
Yeah.
No way.
I'm gonna be a manager!
Not necessarily. I'm also gonna make sure that he knows about you as well.
Here's a piece of advice.
Oh, here we go.
You've said it.
Four times in four minutes.
Alright, that's it.
Maybe you'll sell a car.
I...
Yeah, it was really bad. What do you want this segment to be it's not a segment?
I just feel like that's like if we did like short films on this show it would be like that
Oh my god
Like one of those so pain videos that you have to watch before you go to college or something like about alcohol poisoning
Yeah, but and so it was about don't touch a book by its cover and you might sell a car one day
Do you ever make a dinner and trash it immediately? I want to say one more thing about this video
Which is that I I've not encountered this on tik-tok, but I have heard that
People are making like
Almost I probably like many
intros to porn for tik-tok, but, probably like many intros to porn
for TikTok, but like, of like specific,
like book tropes or something, I feel like I heard about it
as like werewolf romance videos,
and I really thought that's what this was gonna be.
I was really scared.
Was it intro to a porn?
Yeah, or just like a, like, we're gonna find out out the guy that looked like Lucas Gage was a werewolf or so
Oh, I get that I do I like the new new porn intro idea
Yeah, cuz they're all kind of the same there's a good short series
That's porn without the sex and so it's just the situation and then they don't have sex. Yeah
Emma my laptop died, but I sent you the list of sort of conversation enders.
Do you mind if we power through?
I do think that it'll add a new energy if Emma's shouting out these.
Okay, whichever ones I want.
Just ones that we haven't said, you know, you can go in order Jeff.
I was going in order until Jake hastily brought up the question.
Yeah.
And then I was like, oh, have you found your beach?
That's all you've asked.
That's true.
That's true.
What's your beach, Jeff?
I would say it's the Upper West Side, 80th and Amsterdam.
Oh, you that, that I was genuinely just thinking about beaches that I like.
No, it's like, find your beach Corona.
And I feel like, you know, there would be a Corona ad
that takes place in Manhattan because I'm basically, you know,
have you ever been to Acker?
That's also on here.
Wait, wait, wait, does it say, have you ever been to Acker?
Have you ever been to Acker?
I'm nothing if not consistent.
What is Acker? It's a wine bar. Of course. On the Upper West Side? I'm nothing if not consistent.
What is Acker?
It's a wine bar.
Of course.
On the Upper West Side?
Yes.
Is that what you're saying this time?
Two days ago, one day ago.
I've never been to Acker.
I do plan to go tomorrow to Acker
because it's my father's 60th birthday.
The only alcohol he drinks is port wine
because he doesn't really drink.
He'll have like two sips of port wine because it's sweet and
This is what you decided to do for him on his 60th birthday. I actually got him
Not here, I'm going to Cleveland basically I I got him a bunch of chocolates in Bologna
when I was there with my girlfriend's family and
That's not enough of a gift. So I'm also gonna pair it with port but he's not here he's in Cleveland I'm going there this weekend
that's not the point of the question the question is have you been to Acker I'm
shocked you've been tortured of happy say it again are you tortured of happy
which I can only assume you meant to write are you torched or happy is that a
problem no because we have to do you't, you can't hear me,
but I'm being recorded.
Are you guys tortured of happy?
What does that mean to you?
I guess that's actually, excuse me,
I would interpret, I do think it was a typo,
as Emma mentioned.
Tortured of happy though, is like kind of that feeling
like am I as happy as I can be?
Exactly.
Am I, oh it is that.
It's mostly that.
Yeah, it's like the pressure that everybody feels
to be happy all the time,
as opposed to maybe just feeling fulfilled.
And it's like, even though you might feel,
you might not feel actively happy,
you can be, you know, you can be.
Are you content?
You can be, yeah, fulfilled.
I might be, I do think it's easier to be actively happy
if you're at acker of happy
That again, this is entirely incomprehensible again has anyone ever fought to the life
Like fought to the death, right?
Basically, yeah, it's like we're falling asleep deeper and deeper
It's like a feud that ends up being kind of giving of life
like either you know, I guess
You know an orgasmic experience could be referred to as the pity more and I don't want to say that you know get
Peter in here by just speaking the French language
That's you know, it's like the thing of like oh like, you know, I
Can't say this. Nevermind.
What thing is it like?
It's like, it's like if you're, it's like when you're, if you're a kid and you walk in on your parents having sex
and it's like, oh, like mommy and daddy weren't hurting each other.
Like they say that in movies sometimes.
Yeah.
And so it's like, oh, that is like, fighting to the life.
The fact that you said you can't say that
means that it happened to you.
Because that's not something that's crossing a line for you.
That's the most tame thing you've said.
Is it?
I feel like it's.
You just said it's fighting towards lipidity mark.
It's just the little death.
Right.
So it's not life. But that's sort of are you it like have you ever had sex in secret?
Is that kind of the vibe? I'm really glad you said in secret because the answer would have been no to both
really
I'm surprised you haven't been to
I'm surprised you haven't been to Acre. Do you ever make a dinner and then trash it immediately?
Do you ever make dinner and trash it immediately?
That's a bizarre question.
Of course not.
I try to fix it, I think.
I've never made a bad dinner.
You're from the Tri-State area though.
You're like a New York native.
I feel like every Yankee fan has been to Acker. Where is it?
It's on Upper West, 72nd and Amsterdine.
I don't particularly like wine.
It's hard because it's like, which also shocks me as a native New Yorker.
He's a native New Yorker.
But you're not a native on Corker.
Right.
He's not a native New Yorker.
You have a native Tri-Stater.
So Hampton, Connecticut.
That's fair.
I do get that.
It's just hard, yeah.
How much money would it take to swap lives with me
for a year?
With you?
Jeff.
We can answer for Emma,
but the question was initially me.
Okay, how much money for Jeff?
How much money for me?
For you?
For a year?
A year.
This is tough.
You love New York.
That's true, but then-
Your problems are so surmountable.
You just want to move to New York.
You make a lot of choices.
I wouldn't though.
Like what?
I don't know. You'd make the choices.
I think your job seems really hard.
I would want more cash to be you.
Thank you, I would want more cash to be me too.
Do you get the money at the end of the year
or do you get the money as them?
I think you have to make it to 365.
And then Billy gets the money.
And then cash.
I would say 100 grand.
Kind of like that, it's that debt with a low interest,
but a high cliff.
Actually, let's amend it to $100,000.
Yeah.
Okay.
I would need, would I still be-
Not because you're not great, I like my life.
I wouldn't be there.
Would I still be earning my-
Would you be, you would be in my life.
Offensive to me.
Would I be spending your money or my own money?
You would be me, so I don't take offense to it.
Maybe the people in my life.
What I'd have to make my nut still separately
and then whatever I'd get as you on top of that.
You'd also have to then like pay for your
myobin gland disorder or whatever.
You'd have to sit through, yeah,
Lipaflow appointments, Billy knows.
I think 11 million dollars.
11 million?
Yeah. Yeah, I think I'd go pretty dollars. 11 million? Yeah.
Are you me for a year?
Do we swap?
If we swap, I get to be y'all.
No, I know that the...
And I am you.
The price is going way down.
You're worried about what I'll do in your body.
Yeah.
So then I think 11 million though,
because then no matter how much you wreck my life,
I think I could...
Yeah.
11 million dollars.
Because they say to have an emergency fund of six months,
so that would be that for you.
Yeah.
Just for your normal expenses.
Yeah, I burn more than head gum actually.
Yeah, I probably do like 11 million, 12 million,
maybe 13 million for Emma.
It's higher for me.
What?
I don't know.
Is it because your lives are too similar
and you wouldn't get to be you?
No, I think I wouldn't be able to handle Emma's life.
At the same time though, I would trust Emma
to destroy my life left.
Like you wouldn't destroy my life.
If it's a switch situation.
Yeah.
I feel like your life is set up the most,
like I would want mine out of these four.
So I wouldn't change much.
Huh?
You'd raise?
Huh?
I don't think I would change, like if I was Emma,
I would like change things to be comfortable in your life.
You wouldn't change?
You wouldn't break up with my boyfriend?
Yes.
The only thing you would change is you would go to Acker more.
Yeah.
My life is otherwise perfect. Pretty much the same. I just don't go to Acker more My life is otherwise perfect pretty much the same
Fine yeah, where's Acker Upper West Side? Oh?
It is ultimately 72nd. It's Acker
Next question Emma if Muji hadn't been created. How do you think people would journal otherwise?
Let's start with Billy.
Also, how long have we been going?
Just under an hour.
Okay, great.
Start with me as if Muji hadn't been invented, how would people journal otherwise?
What did you say? What was the question?
That is the question.
Moleskin. I would definitely be really upset if Muji didn't exist,
but for other reasons, not for journaling.
We should have a journal episode.
I could find my oldest journal.
That's fun.
That would be fun, everyone brings in a journal entry.
Yeah, everyone has to bring in a journal.
I wasn't good at journaling, like I didn't stick with it.
Neither did I, but I definitely, I had spurts.
So like you just read one.
I came across a song I wrote.
Because I took a songwriting class my freshman year of college.
You have to perform it on the podcast.
Obviously the song is about how, you know, it's fun to have one night stands,
but unless you're having consistent intimacy of glands
with the same person,
you're not gonna be fulfilled physically or emotionally.
I wrote such, I have,
I don't have any of these songs anymore, thank God,
but I wrote such angsty songs when I was in high school.
Yeah.
And they were all about different girls
that didn't like me, and they were all about different girls that didn't like me and they were all like I was so
deeply in love
But like real like weird in cell energy like what you'll never love me
Week and a half ago
You only like jocks
Yeah, and it was not true eaters like me
Alright Emma one last question and we'll get the fuck out of here. ask about the songs that I wrote Jeff? Oh, I'm all right.
I really wanted to end on are you tortured of happy?
We already did that one. I know but that one, you know. I wrote raps as a kid for sure
There was a time in high school where I was writing raps for like assignments like in English class
I would like perform a rap. I went to art school and I was writing raps for like assignments, like in English class I would like perform a rap.
I went to art school.
And I would,
in like ninth grade I wore a Brooklyn Nets varsity jacket
to school almost every day.
And then these shoes, have you ever seen the Jeremy Scott
Adidas wings?
So I had those with money print.
And there was about like four or five months in high school where I would like rap, print. Oh my god, like four or five months, you know
I would like rap. I would like rap about um, oh there was this
This book
Look at me timothy shell man
Do you know the chrysalids? I think is what it's called. It's like a book about mutants
No, I think it's like a I think it's like a idea might be color
but I remember I specifically remember writing a rap and performing it to my class and it was to the
What's it called shook ones part two instrumental?
And I it's like I like fully remember it and I won't perform it. I
Think that would be a good way to go viral though. You like release your old. Yeah
I mean it is giving shallow maybe because it's also performing arts high school statistics
Already, I like this song songs better than mine for sure
Emma bring us home
Do you experience pain how often?
No, let's continue very know he has a chronic. Yeah, what pain I wrote like I know I'm fine. No, actually, that's true
Really dumb songs when I was little. And I would-
Let's hear one.
VHS tape performances.
What part of wow do you not understand?
That's good.
World of Warcraft?
Nope.
No?
What part of wow?
Wow.
You fix your tinnitus.
Oh!
Ends right there.