The Headgum Podcast - 37: The Headgum Vaccine (w/ John George!)
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This is a HeadGum Original.
You hate doing the show, and I see it in your eyes.
Yeah, well, what do you expect?
Like, look what kind of operation you're running here.
It's eccentric.
You're a madman, and we gave you complete control,
and this is what we are left with.
Audio drops, willy-nilly, serious conversations
that sort of happen or not
the podcast itself restart yeah okay you're deep in thought so i'll let you just go on from here
let's hear it what what's your third favorite color do you have any memories of your uncle
let's fucking hear this weird question that has no basis in anything we've said so far
sure shoot go and anything we've said so far. Sure, shoot, go.
No, no, no, no, no. April in Ferris I didn't do like a remix
I just wanted to start off with that again
Here we go
Joining us as never before on this show
is Amir blumenfeld
and ferris monchi and returning guest john george i'm back baby
um sorry Can we just start over?
This is like horrible so far.
Start over.
You just started.
You played two songs and now we're here.
This is starting over basically.
You're muted yourself.
This is the beginning.
You want to start over?
Yeah, he muted himself. Is he just giving up i can't tell like are we actually starting over he's motioning that he
needs a moment apparently okay okay this is again the index finger getting of the fucking episode
this is how is it falling apart this quickly he's's biting his finger nervously. Like something's going wrong.
It shouldn't be this way.
Is he trying to load up more songs?
I don't know.
It sucks.
He's rubbing the shoulder that was sore last week.
What was wrong with his shoulder last week?
He was saying, like, you guys ever get a sore shoulder from sitting?
And when we said that's not a thing but seems to be
struggling with that his name is uh jeffrey paramount on his zoom do we know what that's
about i guess he he's been taking generals with um talent and sort of fraudulently positioning
himself as an executive at a movie studio or something like that that tracks yeah
i've been meeting with like a list and b list comedians just to like get to know their ass and
i'm saying that i can give them various development opportunities because i have a first look deal
with paramount but i don't and that's just a way of meeting people that has nothing to do with what
i'm trying to do right now just talk amongst what are you trying to do we have been since the
beginning you did again you played april in paris and then you played turned down for what
then you said can we start over this isn't working out and honestly we've been vamping for longer
than the entire episode is like before that so i don't know how much you can ask us to kill time
what is this gonna be the whole episode he's so concerned he just mouthed the word fuck
the reflection of his computer shows he's just doing
a sudoku or something like this has nothing to do with the podcast oh he's just stumped on the
sudoku i realized i didn't finish the new york times uh crossword from earlier it's nice thank
you thank you for that john george are you are you back in la or what's going on with you man
no i'm in boston um still in Boston. Still in Boston? Still in Boston
for a bit here but my girlfriend
just got a... Hi let's start the show.
Interrupt me.
Because we were actually...
John George where are you at right now?
Yeah I just said where I was.
Do you have us all muted?
Because I just said where I was
and in Boston.
Where in Boston? have us all muted because i i just said where i was and in boston we're in yeah we're in boston
just when in boston
drinking a dunkin donuts coffee yeah we should say john george former intern star of videos
podcasts kind of miscellaneous culture having to do with the network adjacent wow that's i've never been
introduced like that so i really appreciate that when was the last time people would have seen you
not on the discord would that have been uh in off days half ideas two or something from last april
yeah is that still like the last sketch on the HeadGum YouTube channel?
Time froze.
The internet stopped after that.
So that'll be the last.
That's the last video on YouTube.
How cool is that?
It's kind of funny because I'm getting a lot of hate mail actually
because people are blaming me
saying I ended HeadGum's sketch comedy.
It was my fault.
Two weeks later,
Corona hit America
and yeah, the rest is just
no this was in april so this was after the fucking quarantine started oh sorry about that i was just
gonna be like silly it's not silly because it was on zoom like that's you knew that it was on zoom
you were in the sketch so fine like it it doesn't matter move on you're like harping on like a little mistake and just survive in advance make a follow-up jokes change
the subject you don't have to call me out on it we'll edit all of this out cut this out ferris
and you're here to hear it now and you'll hear it in the edit john george what else have you been
up to other than what did you say what did i say something yeah yeah well i recently moved
within boston so that took a while and then um i got an online ticket to sundance oh that's cool
i watched like 20 movies last weekend so that took up a lot of my time is that fun yeah at the
time i was exhausted and I didn't like it.
But now I look back at it and I'm like, that was actually a lot of fun.
And I would do it again.
Is it on Oculus or is it just on your laptop?
No, just on my, it was on my Apple TV, actually.
And sometimes on my laptop.
Would you ever consider watching movies like podcasts in 1.5 just to like get them into you and over it? I would not.
I know people who would
and I won't judge them, I guess.
There are people who just watch movies
like a podcast almost.
I feel like they're multitasking, you know?
They just have a tab in Netflix open
and I don't, I wouldn't, I think
Netflix added that feature, didn't they?
They 1.5'd it or they're going to?
I think so, yeah. So I don't, I personally would never do it. Whenever I watch a movie that's, didn't they? They 1.5'd it, or they're going to? I think so, yeah.
So I don't, I personally would never do it.
Whenever I watch a movie that's like the only thing I'm doing,
gotta watch it at normal speed.
Unless it's like a specific director that I know is slow and bad.
Call me old-fashioned, but I like to watch movies at normal speed.
Like, I know you'll make fun of me for that.
Yeah, call me old-fashioned.
Yeah? I just think that'd be a fun of me for that. Hey, call me old-fashioned. Yeah.
I just think that'd be a fun nickname.
My favorite drink and all.
Monshi.
We were just talking off-air.
You're going Monshin.
Yeah, I'm just going to double down.
You're going Monshin with some investment opportunities.
I'm Monshin about, yeah. Nice. down you're going munching with some investment opportunities a munching about yeah nice well
ferris i could can i say can i say you sold your car and you but you invested it all in dogecoin
when it was at 11 cents and um currently i think you are yeah you're down to 20 of what you bought
in at and that's an that was an audi and now it is audi as in it's gone it's and um yeah i see you're on the tab open
on your computer used elantras so the investment thing is going fine ish you would say but not
entirely great have you guys ever sold a porsche to buy a porch what do you mean respond fast or
not at all that's how this show's gonna work today
you mean like sold your car to get into real estate like to purchase like a home with a porch
sold my porsche to make like a better sound investment that's better than what you're
giving him too much credit yeah no he was definitely thinking just a porch
just a modular just just the porch just have a crane drop it
amir what's new with you you're kind of like in a different stage of life than the rest of us in
terms of like being stable and things not changing too often because i am all in on my newest hobby
of purchasing basketball cards crack and wax breaking breaking cases, flipping clips. I am online.
I am digital. I am analog.
I got the goods. I got the bads.
I got the news and I got the old.
What can I do to get you guys
into a box of 9091
Skybox Fleer
NBA cards? This is an
unopened case. Okay, I
just cracked it open. The boxes are still
sealed.
If I threw out a number of $3,000 for a box,
does that scare any of you off?
Yes, immediately scares me off.
I don't have that kind of money.
If I did, I wouldn't put it in the baseball cards.
Basketball.
Let me just say I was scared the moment you started talking.
Okay, guys, you tell me to fuck off
and this offer goes down the street.
Okay, I don't have time for
you to put me on hold and ask your girlfriend if you think this is a wise investment i need you to
man up and tell me right now you're gonna be the fucking dude and you're gonna buy the fucking box
for four thousand dollars so you had a malaysian street market the whole street place reeks of
durian.
Look, man, I can't offer you $4,000, but what I can do,
in fact, this might work out for both of us.
I don't think so.
Amir, are you a fan of Yu-Gi-Oh?
You know, as I'm looking into basketball cards,
I'm seeing that Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh is undergoing the same renaissance.
And I don't know anything about that universe.
I'm too old for that world.
I never was into it as a kid.
But if you're sitting on Yu-Gi-Oh and or Pokemon cards,
I recently learned that a Charizard,
whatever that is, in perfect condition is selling for $30,000.
$30,000, okay, wow.
So I don't know what a Charizard...
Is that a game and then a Charizard is the best card you can have?
Do you know? Have you played Pokemon?
I used to play Pokemon back in the day.
Not so much the card game, but the video games big time.
Charizard is just... It's one of the best Pokemons.
It's the final evolution of one of the three starter Pokemons that you get.
And Charmander eventually turns into Charizard,
this giant dragon that should be able to...
Jeffrey wants to stop me.
He's raising his hand as if...
Oh, you have a comment. Yes.
How is Pikachu on a card?
Do you mean how good of a card is the Pikachu card?
No.
Like, how do they print the card with an image of Pikachu?
Like, what are you talking about?
To my knowledge,
he has a lot of energy,
the little fucker.
I know we often say
there's no such thing as a bad question,
but that was an awful question.
I think he's asking how they got
the picture of the Pikachu
because they're quick.
Yeah, again,
you're giving them too much credit.
Anyway, anybody here have a Charizard
in mint
condition sitting on them i have i have old pokemon cards i definitely have a charizard but
it's like the first edition ones that are worth that much and mine's not first edition it's just
a regular old charizard card first edition's big and then have you noticed with basketball cards
that um because with like i was looking into how much I could sell my old Yu-Gi-Oh cards for recently.
If you get even the tiniest little nick on these cards,
like if they're not in a sleeve and really well protected,
their value drops by like half immediately.
Is that true of basketball cards as well?
Yeah.
You have to get them graded by like,
there's the gold standard company named PSA and it's like 10 is mint,
gem mint, nothing's
ever touched this card before and it's been
hyperbarically like
secured in a chamber where
nothing's touched it. And then if like
you said, there was a slight
crease of a corner
or like a frayed edge
or like some slight discoloration
under a magnifying glass
something that you can't see with the human eye.
It's now a PSA 8 or 9, and it's worth like 8% of what a gem mint is.
Unbelievable.
Yeah, it's impossible.
Sorry, Jeff.
You're mad, you're angry, you're concentrating.
You look fucking evil.
You look incensed.
All I can see is your forehead, your eyebrows,
and I guess the tops of your eyes.
That is an evil look.
What?
Kind of demented.
Who gives a shit about any of this?
The investing in cards, the fucking buying basketball packs, the fucking John George being in Boston.
Hell, I don't give a shit about anything I've said so far.
This is bad content for the listener's ears.
Yeah, I thought it was interesting.
The past two weeks have been fucking A pluses, Blumenfeld.
To follow up with this garbage.
Was it I on one of those episodes?
Yeah, just because you were good last week doesn't translate to today, right?
I've been off.
That means it's up to you guys' asses
to fucking patch the ship, right?
Wow, I'm sorry.
I don't know.
Let's just, Ferris, put a sax point in here somewhere.
Let's regroup and start, not the podcast over, but at least re-up the energy.
Okay.
Beep bop, shoo, bee doo, bing bong.
There you go.
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welcome back to the headgum podcast john george where the what what you you literally just
insulted me you insulted me talking about where i was and you said that was funny and then you
immediately get right back into it like you just want to repeat the first hat the first part of the
podcast that you just yelled at us about.
And I'm not going to tell you where I am anymore.
I'm done.
You bullied me too much on this.
All right.
Wait, no, but genuine question.
Why did you move within Boston?
Before I was like not technically in Boston, I was in Randolph, Massachusetts, which is boring.
So once my
girlfriend got a job, we decided to
move on to
downtown so we could, you know,
have more stuff around us. How is
your relationship going? You've been with
your girlfriend for three years? Yeah,
going on three years in a month.
Three years. Amir, how long have you been with Ash?
Yeah, something like that as well. Three years.
Manchi, are you single?
Yep.
Ready to thringle?
You want to start a fucking thruple with Monshi?
Is that why you're asking?
If he found the right lass,
I wouldn't be opposed to sharing an ass.
Sure.
That was actually really good.
But yeah, nobody wants to be with you.
They would probably prefer to just have Ferris in their lives, obviously.
He's not going to add a delinquent in Ohio to a relationship that's going pretty well.
You do live in Ohio now, is that safe to say? It's more than a visit, less than a permanent resident.
I'm still a resident of Los angeles um where have you spent
the majority of the last six months well just the last six months as a sample size it's yeah
or a year a year yeah more in ohio
right yeah i don't think ferris wants to be in a throuple with you but i guess he can answer for
himself you're acting like this is a crazy question i was just asking if he was single Right. Yeah, I don't think Ferris wants to be in a throuple with you, but I guess he can answer for himself.
You're acting like this is a crazy question.
I was just asking if he was single and ready to thringle with me in a throuple of some kind.
Doesn't have to be permanent.
Yeah, as far as thringling goes, honestly, guys, I tried dating during this pandemic.
It's I guess it depends on the person.
Like you kind of have to um you really
gotta screen each other more than even usual um make sure they're not an idiot right but also
regarding covid or just in general no no yeah but mostly i mean generally you want to make sure
the person's not an idiot but covid like covid reasons you want to make sure the person's not an idiot, but COVID-y reasons, you want to make sure they're not too stupid, but also not too like neurotically careful to the point where, and I had a little case of the latter where like I consider myself pretty careful, but this person, she was cool.
the thing is we couldn't do anything but chill at a park you know i hate to say it but yeah i'm not ready to thringle until it's more um not terrible yeah
no i feel you there man it's hard it's what was the what was the applause break you were like
having a serious moment.
Because he's being vulnerable and I wanted to fucking reward vulnerability on this show.
With like a sitcom.
Our only sponsor right now is BetterHelp.
So people are tuning in for a fucking reason, Amir.
That was my personal experience portion of the BetterHelp ad.
No, it's hard because dating's already hard.
And then you add in this like other element where you have to really plan john george how have you found it i know that you're kind of
you've been in a long relationship but that doesn't make it any easier i mean at this point
you have to be going stir crazy and i'm not talking about the chain restaurant what restaurant
what chain crazy where's that never heard of you sh shitting me it can't be popular doesn't even ring
a bell like stir fry this is some kind of surprise party i don't want to fucking get into it because
i don't like surprises oh it's permanently closed yeah there were two locations in cleveland
they closed in the late 90s does two count as a chain is Is that... The shortest chain.
I guess technically it is a chain, but it's...
Ferris is rocking out.
John George was nodding his head and Amir's resolve was kind of thinning.
You hate doing the show and I see it in your eyes.
Yeah, well, what do you expect like look what kind
of operation you're running here it's eccentric you're a madman and we gave you complete control
and this is what we are left with audio drops willy-nilly serious conversations that sort of
happen or not the podcast itself restart yeah okay you're deep in thought so i'll let you just
go on from here let's hear it what what's your third favorite color do you have any memories of your uncle let's fucking hear this
weird question that has no basis in anything we've said so far sure shoot go there's a lot of anger
behind your words amir great that's correct. Moderna. Pfizer.
BioNTech.
AstraZeneca.
Novavax. Johnson & Johnson.
All
viable, potentially, or
approved vaccines against COVID-19.
But the
rollout's not going as
planned, John George.
So what we might have to do is... Rollout's not going as planned. John George.
So what we might have to do is come up with our own vaccine.
And that's what we're going to do here today.
The HeadGum Podcast BetterHelp vaccine, because they'll help fund some of this shit.
No, they won't. How hard could it be?
Let's start there.
Very hard. What's that there very hard i think if
what's that very hard immediately okay but how do you let's talk about it how do you figure
we don't know the first thing about vaccines we don't have a lab none of us are equipped
they're already a year ahead of us team of scientists working around the clock we don't
the times that means the money or the facility to get it done so when you ask how
hard it is it's impossible johnson and johnson made oil out of babies that's their main product
and now they have a fucking viable vaccine single dose mind you so i think we can fucking figure it
out in a couple weeks you think they made oil out of babies baby oil that would be really inhumane
right by babies of babies for babies that's the Johnson
and Johnson guarantee just the last one
for babies alright then let's do a vaccine
for us like that's still
the Johnson and Johnson guarantee but it's ours
of it
who has
I don't even know where to start
what's the idea what are we supposed to come to
the table with here
like my idea is I wanted to cure COVID.
That's my idea.
That's a great idea.
That's a great place to start from.
The next thing we know is it tends to be administered via a shot.
Where do we get the syringes?
Let's start from the last step and work our way backwards.
Sort of backwards engineer this vax.
Vax words engineer in a way.
This is one of the least important parts, I guess.
A vaccine, yeah.
We could inject it into the small people's backs.
Great idea, Amir.
What about, do we want to do an mRNA,
or do we want to do one where we kind of introduce
a little bit of the disease onto people's knees,
or do we want to do the mRNA
where it actually edits your genetic code i was thinking we
could do the former amir because avital had the virus right do not ever say her name on this show
or out loud i wonder can she spit in vials and we inject that into people's bile
so not only is it not intravenous it's intra liver we don't have to go with that because you guys are speechless like that's not how
where you want to start i mean ferris looks like he's legit pondering this though like this could
work so you want someone with antibodies to spit in the fucking vial and then have people what
drink it inject it into their liver bile.
You have high cholesterol, right?
The top 1% of people in my age bracket, yes. I'm due for a
heart attack within the next 8 years.
We're not gonna take any
medical advice from you. We shouldn't be
injecting anything into anybody's liver.
And it definitely shouldn't be somebody else's
spit. You know what you're talking about.
Neither do we. That's fine.
It's medicine.
We're comedy people.
We're, Ferris is an engineer.
You know, John George is in e-sports.
We're not scientists.
It's not our job.
It's not our place to figure this shit out.
If that was the cure, like, I feel like we would have gotten the vaccine a lot earlier.
Yeah.
One person would have had it.
They would have spit into the other guy that also had it.
And then boom, that's it.
End of the disease. But it didn't work out like that right i don't know i mean
sometimes you don't know to try first of all and second of all some things are hiding in plain
sight i think what scientists tend to do after all the schooling that they put these assholes through
is that they have to fucking overthink everything and overcomplicate everything. I'm saying let's literally like drink people's spit whether
they've had the virus or not.
Why?
You know what? Fucking abort mission
here. Abort mission.
This segment's over. We have to move on because I'm
starting to get too angry.
Shit. Welcome to...
You guys know Flip or Flop?
Do you know that show on HD? The buzzing sound before the theme song.
Was that on purpose?
That was an accident.
And then the other song before the buzzing noise?
Then the buzz, then the new song.
Two accidents?
Okay, the wrong button is the same color on my soundboard as the song button.
Also, I think I'm developing late in life
dyslexia because i've been reading things incorrectly recently are you guys familiar
with flip or flop chip and joanna gains on hgtv no no sounds familiar okay well this is ship or not
like we said we've not seen the original yeah you don't need to have seen the original it's almost has nothing to do with it beyond the similar name okay ship or not is the first
celebrity game show audio wise where you either ship a potential celebrity pairing or not here
we go these are all for cash um last week what did did we do? $1,000? I'm out $2,000, I think.
Yeah.
Yeah, let's do $12,000 for every right answer.
If you get it wrong, then you owe me that much.
I'm trying to make my money back here.
All right.
Yeah, breaking even would be good.
This is big.
You're walking into the fucking MGM Grand here.
Ship or not?
Miley Cyrus and Robert Smigel.
Ship or nah?
Who's Robert Smigel? I don't know Robert Smigel. Why nah? Who's Robert Smigel?
Why would they be together?
What's that? Amir, is this a real person?
This Robert character? Yeah, he's like
a, I think he's a 60 year old
comedy writer or something.
It's such a bad pairing.
Do you ship or not?
I wouldn't ship it, but
I'm worried that that's going to be wrong.
And I'm going to be... Amir
said it first, but that's exactly right.
The age gap alone is too much. Let's
forget the fact that they have almost nothing in common.
Amir, I'll give you $12,000 later
unless you lose it on this next one. Here we go.
Tom Holland and
Judge Judy. Ship
or not?
I'm going to ship this one, honestly.
Why would the biggest star in Marvel want to get married to Judge Judy who lives in Naples, Florida?
Like, that doesn't make any sense.
Geographically alone, let alone the age gap and the fact they have nothing in common.
Everybody seems to have a huge age gap, let alone nothing in common.
So let's hear it.
What's the next one?
This one, John George, you might be able to break even.
Giannis Antetokounmpo and Roseanne Barr.
No.
No, please don't ship this one.
This one I could honestly see.
Why?
I could absolutely ship Antetokounmpo and Barr.
The only issue, and this one I won't,
you don't owe me any money for getting this wrong, Ferris,
is what would their celebrity name be rose and janice that's the only issue what about the whole living
in different cities let alone age thing which disqualified kevin love is with kate bach kate
bach lives in new york he lives in bratton all ohio they make it work they're never yes exactly
what do you mean
what's Kevin Love and Kate Bach
who I don't know what is their nickname
Cove
next
fucking option this one's
tough Kristen Stewart and
Marjorie Taylor Greene
no
I don't think.
Correct.
Amir is up $24,000.
Ferris is at zero and John George owes me 12K.
That wouldn't work because of politics.
Yes.
One's like a progressive, young, cool, hot actor.
And the other one is a conspiracy theorist in Congress.
Yeah.
Not even a conspiracy theorist.
She's a conspirator.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
So, right. That obviously wouldn't work out
kairi irving and the lady who voiced the corpse bride yes correct john george breaks eden i've
thought this since he was on the celtics that he might two years ago what's that so two years ago? So two years ago. And what changed?
What do you mean?
Once he joined the Celtics, like what
clicked for you there? Well, he became a coastal
elite, you know, as someone
who moved from Cleveland, Ohio to Los Angeles
I can kind of relate that
you, there's a different air
about you once you do that.
So Kyrie
might have to be a coastal elite and the person who voiced
the core fight is also a fucking hollywood starlet even if you don't know her face because you know
her voice and kairi is he has depth to him so he doesn't just want the face he wants the name and
he wants the i don't understand shipping people based off location
because there are a lot of people in those locations
there are a lot of people that live
on the coast not just
do you want to offer one up and we can
I'm fine
this is actually the perfect time to plug your podcast
it is? because it's the end of the show?
no we have like 10 more minutes
what about Anya Taylor Joy and David O'Rourke?
Who is that?
What's that?
Who is that?
Anya Taylor-Joy?
She's the fucking titular character of The Queen's Gambit.
She was the queen.
Okay.
I don't think she was the queen, but yeah, she was the maker.
Did you guys actually know, this is a fun fact,
Heath Ledger was set to, he optioned the book initially in like 2007 and he wanted to direct and star in uh the queen's
gambit oh um r.i.p ledger and that was all just at his ledger uh all right anya taylor joy star
god damn queen's gambit and david o russell director of joy so anya taylor joy and david o russell director of joy
well i would say no because then he's going to be the director of anya taylor joy right which is
you're looking at relationships all wrong jg the idea behind and you should know this having been
in a partnership for three years it's you're building something together you wouldn't say
that you're directing your partner no matter who they are
like amir do you direct avital never there would never be a scenario that you would give her
directions or even do not talk about her or me or our relationship on this show whether i'm here or
not ever again yeah he did ask you to not do that cut this out i don't like when people talk to me
like that let alone projecting it out to like
over 20,000 people. John George,
you are down 12.
Jeez. Olivia Wilde and the guy
who shorted the housing market in
2007.
Wasn't it more than one guy?
Is it like one person or you're
just talking about any real estate
investor? Michael Burry or whatever his name
was. That one.
The guy who Christian Bale played in Big Short.
No.
I need to make my money back.
No.
And you're digging yourself deeper because she is want for a zaddy type.
She was with Sudeikis, who obviously is kind of America's zaddy.
And yeah, Michael Burry would be the ultimate zaddy john george negative 24 000
we can do double or nothing at the end or maybe just like you know earn everything back or triple
whatever you're down or up uh ferris you're breaking even so you're doing great i gotta
get my get some more skin in the game let's go oprah and the my pillow ceo oh the guy the mustache
guy yeah what's his name let's see mike's something google return as soon as i typed in my pillow my
pillow guy is the first thing that comes yeah beck bennett um i want i want the best things in the
world for this guy for some reason i don't know know what it is. And I actually, I think I missed some- You know that he's like a Trump supporter,
like QAnon shaman, right?
Here's why I shouldn't have said what I just said.
I had been seeing his name pop up recently.
But you didn't read it.
And I hadn't clicked through.
Yeah, I just hadn't clicked through.
And it's the worst thing possible
is that this guy that looks like i don't know he just
looks like a trustworthy likable guy and now you lay this shit on me i did nothing you just said
that you want the best for a member of q and i don't want him to be with oprah no this is not
a shit you're up twelve thousand dollars yeah that change of heart and slash uh hero's journey that you just said don't think
you're always like lost in thought but like there's no need to take that beat because whatever
you're gonna say off the top of your head it's probably just as smart if not smarter than
something that you like consider for a few seconds all right lightning round for these last four
scott baio and a blow-up doll he found on a clearance rack at Hustlers Hollywood.
Ship it.
Ferris is up $24,000.
Scott Kahn in a pile of raked leaves.
Yes.
Scott Kahn loves to be a bachelor, and it's way easier to cheat on someone when they're just a pile of dead leaves.
John George is down $12,000.
Ferris is up, was it $36,000 or $24,000?
$24,000.
Amir, you're up $12,000.
We'll say $36,000. $36,000. Let's say $36,000. Why not? Hil000? 24. Amir, you're up 12. We'll say 36.
36.
Let's say 36.
Why not?
Hilary Duff in the star of the movie Duff.
No.
Sorry, I jumped the gun.
That's correct.
John George, you're breaking even.
She already has a really sexy husband, so she shouldn't need that.
All right, this one is All or Nothing.
So, oh, you said it's truth.
Give all your all to me. I to kiss you baby it's all or nothing
you either can break even which some of you guys are are we supposed to know that song
where are we supposed to know that song because i'd never heard it before
have you guys heard what that song was no i i I thought he was going to tie it up with, and I don't want to miss a thing.
Want to miss a thing.
Yes, that's what it sounded like.
Yeah, but it was all or nothing.
We're missing the point of the segment, which is all or nothing.
Basically, if anybody gets this wrong,
you owe me the amount of cash that's been won so far.
And if anybody gets it right, we pool that cash together and it
goes to you. Here we go.
You guys ready? Yes. Amir, are you ready?
It doesn't matter.
Zona Gale and Frankie
Yale.
Okay, so this is the author
from the past
two weeks that we've been talking about. Of such pivotal words
as Hart's Kindred. 19 words as Hart's Kindred. Yeah.
1915's Hart's Kindred. Yeah.
And Frankie Yale.
The Italian mobster. The notorious gangster.
Okay. I want this for them.
It's a yes.
Yikes.
Amir, you like math. What's $24,000
plus $36,000?
He placated you
he yes handed you
on the way to the finish line
he stonewalled it
I don't know if you're going to be able to go to the Sylvester meeting
that you're going to right after this because you owe me
60 stacks
because
and I know you have to go
but um
yeah no Zona Gale had her heyday
she died in the 30s right so you got to
think in terms of years here because frankie yale was in his prime in the late 40s early 50s you
know shooting people down over drugs and whatnot his vice yeah the age difference yeah the age
difference man that's what got you that's money i won't be able to invest in this super sketchy high frequency 4x meeting that was see you ferris
you're gone you're gone you're kicking him out of the fucking podcast yeah you're kind of just
kicking me out here for what for playing along with you i guess i do have to go you remember who those people were it feels bad Jesus Christ
you absolute dick
can't believe it
kick me out
kick me out
I don't want to be here
kick me out too
he's back
I'm still here
I saw that I was kicked out i was about
gone again nice plugs what do you guys say we're working on where can you point the people to
we're living in historic times i don't know what else to say um i i do a uh movie podcast with my
friend matt bb every week it's called big Big Boy Movies. Look it up on Apple
Podcasts, Spotify. And we
stream it live every Sunday
now. We're switching the day to Sunday. Oh, shit.
At 9
Eastern. Not this Sunday because it's
Super Bowl Sunday, but going forward on
twitch.tv slash
John underscore George. Amir?
Jake and I are doing a live show
February 24th.
Live version of our podcast streamed.
Anybody in the world can watch tickets
at jakeandamir.com.
And you can follow my ass on Instagram
at Jeffrey James,
on Twitter at JeffBoyRD.
Thank you guys so much for listening
to this episode of the HeadGum Podcast.
I think this was...
Let me think about it for a second.
You don't have to think about it. I'm saying just say what you think. You don't have to think about it.
I'm saying just say what you think.
You don't have to stop, pause, and muse.
This was a disaster.
It was a train wreck.
It was awful.
It stopped and started many times.
You kicked Ferris out.
I know it took a while to get going,
but we really hit a stride is what I was going to say.
I don't think so.
I don't think we hit a stride. It took a while to get going.
That leads us up to now.
It was also after you threatened us, basically.
I did not threaten you guys.
You can't have your version
of the story and I don't get a rebuttal.
Alright, let's hear your rebuttal.
I didn't do that.
It's recorded.
Catch you all on the flip.
Diesel? it's recorded good catch you all on the flip diesel that was a Hiddem Original.