The Headgum Podcast - 207: Ladle (w/ Billy Bryk!)

Episode Date: June 7, 2024

Billy 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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Starting point is 00:01:27 Charring all the grains Here's your bomba char the grains time for ODing on soy long grain white rice is here No, it's the one that's like 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.
Starting point is 00:01:54 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.
Starting point is 00:02:06 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?
Starting point is 00:02:16 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
Starting point is 00:02:25 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?
Starting point is 00:03:00 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.
Starting point is 00:03:16 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?
Starting point is 00:03:38 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.
Starting point is 00:04:26 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.
Starting point is 00:04:49 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.
Starting point is 00:05:00 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.
Starting point is 00:05:27 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.
Starting point is 00:05:43 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.
Starting point is 00:05:54 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?
Starting point is 00:06:05 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...
Starting point is 00:06:19 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.
Starting point is 00:06:28 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.
Starting point is 00:06:48 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.
Starting point is 00:07:07 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.
Starting point is 00:07:18 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?
Starting point is 00:07:29 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.
Starting point is 00:07:43 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.
Starting point is 00:08:07 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.
Starting point is 00:08:15 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
Starting point is 00:08:32 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.
Starting point is 00:09:06 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.
Starting point is 00:09:20 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.
Starting point is 00:09:45 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.
Starting point is 00:10:09 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.
Starting point is 00:10:28 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.
Starting point is 00:10:44 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
Starting point is 00:10:59 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.
Starting point is 00:11:16 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
Starting point is 00:11:49 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.
Starting point is 00:12:11 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,
Starting point is 00:12:24 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.
Starting point is 00:12:35 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.
Starting point is 00:12:44 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.
Starting point is 00:13:13 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.
Starting point is 00:13:39 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.
Starting point is 00:13:48 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,
Starting point is 00:14:06 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?
Starting point is 00:14:18 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.
Starting point is 00:14:50 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.
Starting point is 00:15:02 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.
Starting point is 00:15:14 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?
Starting point is 00:15:44 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
Starting point is 00:16:18 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
Starting point is 00:16:55 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.
Starting point is 00:17:12 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,
Starting point is 00:17:23 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
Starting point is 00:18:04 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?
Starting point is 00:18:17 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.
Starting point is 00:18:34 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
Starting point is 00:18:55 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...
Starting point is 00:19:14 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,
Starting point is 00:19:29 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
Starting point is 00:19:50 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.
Starting point is 00:20:11 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.
Starting point is 00:20:20 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,
Starting point is 00:20:34 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
Starting point is 00:20:49 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
Starting point is 00:21:23 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
Starting point is 00:21:51 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?
Starting point is 00:22:15 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,
Starting point is 00:22:26 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.
Starting point is 00:22:40 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?
Starting point is 00:23:08 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.
Starting point is 00:23:21 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.
Starting point is 00:23:39 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.
Starting point is 00:23:54 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.
Starting point is 00:24:17 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.
Starting point is 00:24:36 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?
Starting point is 00:24:50 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?
Starting point is 00:25:03 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
Starting point is 00:25:42 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 This show is sponsored by BetterHelp. Guys sometimes there's something that you really need to get off your chest, right? Like for me right now it's that Amir hasn't been on the show for what feels like a decade
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Starting point is 00:27:26 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?
Starting point is 00:27:46 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.
Starting point is 00:28:04 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.
Starting point is 00:28:14 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
Starting point is 00:28:38 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?
Starting point is 00:29:08 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?
Starting point is 00:29:24 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?
Starting point is 00:29:39 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?
Starting point is 00:29:57 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
Starting point is 00:30:23 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
Starting point is 00:30:42 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
Starting point is 00:31:21 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.
Starting point is 00:31:41 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.
Starting point is 00:32:08 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
Starting point is 00:32:42 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.
Starting point is 00:32:57 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?
Starting point is 00:33:08 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.
Starting point is 00:33:23 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?
Starting point is 00:33:37 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
Starting point is 00:34:02 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.
Starting point is 00:34:25 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.
Starting point is 00:34:41 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.
Starting point is 00:34:57 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...
Starting point is 00:35:14 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?
Starting point is 00:35:40 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.
Starting point is 00:36:14 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
Starting point is 00:36:32 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
Starting point is 00:37:12 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
Starting point is 00:37:49 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
Starting point is 00:38:20 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.
Starting point is 00:38:37 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
Starting point is 00:39:17 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
Starting point is 00:39:32 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
Starting point is 00:39:51 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.
Starting point is 00:40:04 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.
Starting point is 00:40:32 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
Starting point is 00:40:50 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?
Starting point is 00:41:17 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
Starting point is 00:41:42 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?
Starting point is 00:42:16 Baseball. No, I'm not baseball. Hockey. Really? You're not a Rangers fan? No. Go, go our Rangers. Have you...
Starting point is 00:42:29 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.
Starting point is 00:42:48 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?
Starting point is 00:43:02 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.
Starting point is 00:43:16 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?
Starting point is 00:43:31 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.
Starting point is 00:43:46 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.
Starting point is 00:43:56 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.
Starting point is 00:44:06 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.
Starting point is 00:44:14 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.
Starting point is 00:44:22 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.
Starting point is 00:45:00 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?
Starting point is 00:45:24 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.
Starting point is 00:45:58 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.
Starting point is 00:46:23 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?
Starting point is 00:46:44 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.
Starting point is 00:47:25 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.
Starting point is 00:47:54 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
Starting point is 00:48:21 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
Starting point is 00:48:55 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
Starting point is 00:49:23 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?
Starting point is 00:49:48 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
Starting point is 00:50:06 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?
Starting point is 00:50:25 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
Starting point is 00:50:37 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
Starting point is 00:51:08 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,
Starting point is 00:51:34 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
Starting point is 00:51:49 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
Starting point is 00:52:03 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
Starting point is 00:52:40 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.
Starting point is 00:53:08 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.
Starting point is 00:53:24 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.
Starting point is 00:53:53 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.
Starting point is 00:54:09 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.
Starting point is 00:54:21 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.
Starting point is 00:54:30 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-
Starting point is 00:54:38 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.
Starting point is 00:54:52 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,
Starting point is 00:55:09 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-
Starting point is 00:55:20 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
Starting point is 00:55:35 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?
Starting point is 00:55:48 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,
Starting point is 00:56:00 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.
Starting point is 00:56:13 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.
Starting point is 00:56:31 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.
Starting point is 00:56:47 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.
Starting point is 00:57:01 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?
Starting point is 00:57:28 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.
Starting point is 00:57:53 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.
Starting point is 00:58:11 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,
Starting point is 00:58:37 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
Starting point is 00:58:58 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,
Starting point is 00:59:30 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
Starting point is 00:59:52 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
Starting point is 01:00:24 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?
Starting point is 01:00:51 That's good. World of Warcraft? Nope. No? What part of wow? Wow. You fix your tinnitus. Oh!
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