The Headgum Podcast - 56: Taking Callers (w/ Billy Bryk!)

Episode Date: June 25, 2021

Fellow Headgum podcaster Billy Bryk (Lackluster Video) joins Amir, Marika, and Geoff to discuss Billy's run-in with Pat Cassells and the New York City mayoral race! Plus, Geoff takes some callers!Follow Billyin on:Twitter: @tryingoslingInstagram: @ilovebillybrykBUY THE HEADGUM PODCAST MERCH!Advertise on The Headgum Podcast via Gumball.fmRate The Headgum Podcast 5-stars on Apple Podcasts.Join the Headgum Discord.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This is a HeadGum Original. Previously on the HeadGum Podcast. Ain't it something hot? Aren't you tired of trying to eat a bat? That's sort of how coronavirus started. Or do you eat milk? Hanging on at Wuhan making silk. I started a global pandemic of epic proportions.

I ate a bat and spit on my man, my friend named Pat. and spit on my man, my friend named Pat. I took a flight to urban Seattle. I saw a concert then. 18,000 people were dead right after the encore, friend. so I basically went to a wet market in Wuhan and then hightailed it to the key arena and I saw like I don't know

who could sell that out Mumford and Sons or like Father John Misty and I was like screaming singing spitting talking into what would then create. The NBA basically got canceled four weeks later. Zax! Billy, put your other earbud in.

Put your other earbud in. So I can hear all this? Ha ha ha. So I can hear all this? Major key alert. When trying to navigate your early 20s, and Billy, I think you can speak to this as well, Marika, too. Amir, you would be speaking more from a point of elderly wisdom, elder statesman, but without the position of power i think it has to do with managing relationships making sure that the people around you are

making you a better version of you i forgot who said it but you are who you hang out with nice um yeah go fuck yourself like that was really messed up daddy chill uh with us as always Marika Brownlee

on the sacks Amir Blumenfeld CFO of HeadGum that's chief farting officer nice and then Billy Brick

William N. Brick the middle name is what Niller Nicholas N okay I thought. The middle name is what, Niller? Nicholas N. Okay. I thought you were related to William.

What? William Niller. Willie Nillian. Oh, nice. Nice. You're staying with me. You're literally eight feet above me right now. That's why I'm on the show.

I'm staying with Jeff. And he said the only way I can stay with him is if I do the show. Yeah. But you also have to be good on it. I forgot to add that stipulation. So you have to be funny. You have to play to the height of your intelligence for sure. Okay. Funny references. Funny puns. Let's make

sure it's an enjoyable experience for the listener. Was it hard to get an Airbnb where they all sold out? Yeah, they were all booked. Yeah, that sucks, man. I'm sorry. You would have rather paid hundreds of dollars than 45 minutes on a podcast.

Yeah, it was honestly thousands. It was the fees that bumped it to thousands. Hundreds I was fine with, but it's these state fees or something. Yeah, but yes, I'm here now so fingers crossed for what yeah Marika you were trying to have some small talk with Billy before Amir joined we should say for full disclosure Amir's late um and I wouldn't allow it because it was all such good content that I figured it would have to go in the portion of the show that we call wax the slower things sound

yeah I was trying to be like a good person I guess and talk to Billy about what he was doing in LA and how it was staying with you which I feel like we already kind of touched on, but, um, would love to learn more, I guess, about that also. Cause I feel like Jeff has multiple times been like, when you come to LA, stay at my house. So I just need to know

if it's like good to do, or if I should avoid it. Um, that would be helpful to me, I guess. that would be helpful to me, I guess. Where to begin? I guess with the first part of the question, which is I'm in L.A. because I can't go back to Canada yet without quarantining. And then the government is lifting their quarantine for vaccinated Canadians in about two weeks. So I'm going to just stay in the States until then. And I'm kind of floating around. And then in terms of how it is to stay at Jeff's, I don't really know what I'm allowed to say. You can speak freely.

Yeah. It's great. Jeff's, yeah, it's nice. It's really nice. Interesting. Good to know. Word of the week. Yeah, sweet. word of the week word of the week interesting who said that was that Marika

yeah sure was hell yeah you know what it is well let's do 10 down from a thousand we can do a hunnit why don't you keep your Venmo at a hundred

my goal is to make Marika have to pay more taxes yeah well no these are everything over Venmo is a gift I learned that last night $100 in your account confirm that you got that Marika nobody say anything until she does do you learn that last nightika. Nobody say anything until she does. You learned that last night? You said that last night.

I said nobody say anything until Marika confirms that she got the cash. Jeffrey James paid you $100 word of the week with a just hauntingly sad Venmo image. What is my Venmo image? It's you in like a fishing cap, crying. Damn, Daniel. All right, now you can go, Billy. I said you were saying that you learned last night that a Venmo is a gift, but you were the one who said that.

I was at dinner with you, and you told the table that. Well, yeah, I learned it because I said something that I wasn't sure if it was true or not. Nobody said anything contrary, so I figure it was right. Everyone nodded along and said, oh, I didn't know that. You're just like secreting it. Well, no, it's because we were talking about something else, and then

you just kind of inserted yourself into the conversation and said, did you know that Venmos are a gift? And then we were like, oh, no, I didn't know that. And then we continued talking about the other stuff we were talking about. And then I did chime in again, too, when the apps came. I was like, because it's kind of interesting. It's like tax-free.

And then you guys were all like, what? I was like, the Venmo thing, it being a gift and all. I guess you guys had forgotten. Yeah, no, we just were still continuing our conversation. Yeah. And I'm so sorry to learn about your grandmother she's fine you're sorry linda she's fine yeah i'm sorry to learn about her you taught me you told me a little bit about her earlier today and i'm so sorry

sorry you wasted my time marika yes you were gonna say something i don't think i was i mean i can say that time. Marika? Yes? You were going to say something. I don't think I was. I mean, I can say that I'll pay you this money right back and hopefully your account doesn't shut down again. Um, yeah, I guess so. It did shut down for a week.

I don't know what, and then I did nothing and it came back. That's funny. By advertising on YouTube, I grow grow my business reaching my most important customers people like allison she's a fashionista who's murica takes the reins how why is there a pre-roll to that app what a bizarre intro did you sell an ad to Marika? Is this a sponsored segment now? How is there an ad? Marika is sponsored by YouTube advertising. So, okay.

A full four minutes this time. Usually it's two. Well, usually she never... You've expressed to me, Marika, that you've... And we have to restart the clock at this point. That you don't get enough time sometimes. Here we go. I mean, yeah. I don't know.

I don't know what's happening at the moment in my life. I sent you a text earlier today, I guess. Oh my God, yeah. I sent Jeff a text. Do you want to see the worst lunch I've ever had to order? And responded with a photo of a venti-sized coffee cup that was filled with chicken broth. And that's what I had for lunch. A venti stock. Yeah, a venti chicken bone broth.

My stomach's been hurting, and so i just decided to have broth for lunch 12 ounces minimum um so that's really what's been up with me for the most part this week and that's got to be expensive right like a full huge sorry i'm here one second i actually have a joke what if it was like you're trying to start a fight with soup and so you're like, you got a problem, bro? Don't tell me to stop. Don't tell me to stop and then do it. You can either build off of my question or say it anyway. You don't have to say, actually, Amir, hold on.

I have a joke. That's not how conversations work. Say the joke. I can see Billy's getting upset. So, Marika, let's take it away. Great, yeah. say the joke i can see billy's getting upset so marika let's take it away um great yeah i don't know i when does this this comes out on friday yeah i saw f9 early but no so i can't talk about it that's the only That's the only exciting thing that's happened to me is I saw that and now there's technically an embargo, I guess.

Or I don't want to spoil it for people. This comes out the day that the movie comes out. Interesting. So I think you could talk about it. Do you guys want a spoiler for F9? Is it like a spoiler movie? Is there a twist?

Don't tell me if there's a twist. Did you like it? It's good. Yeah. It's very fun. It was fun to watch. I watched all of the Fast and Furious movies recently for the first time. So many.

Did you see Hobbs and Shaw? No, of course not. The Rock is not the part of that franchise that i want to watch at any point did you see today there was like news about vin diesel like the feud between vin diesel and the rock are you aware of that i didn't read the article but i saw the headline and i'm just like i clocked it yeah there's like i mean there was like this big feud between the two of them uh and Vin Diesel was like today it was like I had to get The Rock's acting to a place where it needed to be for these

movies I don't think so he's not good in them he's not good I'm 100% The Rock I 100% believe in Vin Diesel. Yeah, that was really funny to me. Billy, one of the first things you said to me when you touched down in L.A. or when I got back to L.A. actually, was that you wanted to see Fast 9 at some point in a theater this week. I am. I'm seeing it on Friday. Didn't tell you about it because you're not invited. Fuck, yeah yeah that's fine

yeah 30 more seconds that's the way to do it yeah you don't need to go with him Billy's going by himself yeah well it was sold out

IMAX so I had to buy I had to buy them on the second whatever it's called someone was reselling them you got them on StubHub

he bought two tickets but he wants to sit next to an open seat for his popcorn. Yeah. That makes sense. God, remember movie theater popcorn? Don't answer that. Yeah, I had it yesterday.

I ate it while I was watching Fast 9. It was hard to do. I was like, I feel like it's, I got at the movie theater, I asked for popcorn, and they were like, do you want butter and salt?

And I was like, yeah. And they brought out a like little sauce cup of butter and a sauce cup of salt and handed it to me so then I had to like pour it on my popcorn that's disgusting yeah I hated it I'm not gonna order

popcorn again did you see the sorry one second Jeff did you see the TikTok hack about adding butter to your popcorn? No, what is it? You put a straw in the middle of your popcorn bucket and then pour the butter down the straw. And then as you lift up the straw, there's an even distribution of butter across all the kernels. It doesn't fucking matter.

No, this has haunted me for years there was some sort of like kid show maybe like zoom or something i don't know some kid show like invented that like there was someone was inventing a straw with holes in it that like oh my god pour pour the butter down and it would like spread out from all of the holes in the straw. And I always wondered like where that came, like where that came from. I can't remember. And every time I go to the movie theater, I think about that. So maybe I'll try this other straw trick.

I think it's so interesting to think about popcorn in general. Like you're literally eating overheated corn kernels. you're literally eating overheated corn kernels and then they're kind of soaked and seasoned with pasteurized uh sour cream so yeah you don't know butters i guess but that's ultimately fine um don't talk about dry salt yeah most of it is applause

applause Bill you should tell your movie theater story that you told me the other day my movie theater I don't even know what that was you Finn was Sam with you or no what you saw a certain someone while watching oh yes of course yes yes yes yes oh that's what you're talking about yeah the movie theater story i told you the other day that's exactly what i

said verbatim yeah gotcha yeah i didn't understand what you were saying but now I get it. We went to go see Army of the Dead in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on a Tuesday afternoon 4 p.m. Nighthawk Theater? At the Nighthawk Theater. Correct.

Nice. Love it. Follow me at this moment. And we were the only people in the theater except for one man who I thought looked

familiar from his profile. His profile picture. Yeah, his profile picture. His Snapchat, it was like Snapchat nearby people, and his bitmoji looked familiar to me. But the, so at the end, I fell asleep during the movie, and then I woke up to Finn going, oh my God, that, the guy looks just like Pat Castles. I was like, yeah, I know.

I thought so too, but it's, it's definitely not him. And it was Pat Castles sitting alone in the theater on a Tuesday at 4 p.m. Reading, I think it was, it was Game of Thrones while watching Army of the Dead, which is a movie that is on Netflix. Reading a book? Reading a book while watching a movie. While paying $30 to see a movie. That was on Netflix already.

He could have watched it at home on Tuesday at 4 p.m., but he went to the theater on his own. Did he order food? He had a couple wines. We got to, maybe next week we can have Pat on to hear his side

of the story. I'm sure he has some pretty damning shit to say about Billy and his profile, was it? Yeah. Vin was pretty pissed at me because I bought us the tickets and kind of made

us go to the movie and then I fell asleep because I only had an hour of sleep but then Finn got mad that I had fallen asleep so he turned his phone flashlight on and started shining it in my eyes Jesus as I was asleep to wake me up in the theater which is the rudest thing to do in any movie theater, but especially to my eyes. Damn! Daniel! Back at it again with the white man! Yeah. The way he says it.

The way he says it, back at it again. Damn! Daniel! Back at it again with the white man. I don't know why it's getting me now. Are you just being tickled by this? I'm sorry. That's actually really funny. Billy, what else?

I helped Jeff with a self tape that's correct Charleston Charles that was one of the lines they asked you not to share any of the material so that might be a problem I didn't sign anything legally I'm covered

so that's going to be fine it was 14 pages and Jeff did not know the lines. And then it said that they were free to improvise because they wanted it to be the tone of one of those kind of whatever

frat pack comedies. And Jeff took that and kind of ran with it in the sense that he didn't know any of the words and we taped for a while in the middle of the night. Correct. Late on a Sunday. This went to 11.40 p.m.

Jesus. Yeah. And I was on Eastern time as well, so it felt like 2.40 a.m. Yeah, correct. Helping Jeff. I knew the lines by the end of it, and he didn't still. But at the end of the day, all you're looking for is that one take where the casting director sees it and they're like. This girl is on fire.

That is how Julia Roberts got cast in Eat, Pray, Love. There's no way she was an offer only for Eat, Pray, Love, right? There's no way that she auditioned for that she taped it was a callback what her roommate got her on tape Sunday night

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window walk away all right Amir this is historic are you ready for this this is announcement yeah for the first time ever all right i'm here this is historic are you ready for this this is announcement yeah for the first time ever in head gum podcast but also company history we're endorsing a new york city mayoral candidate and that candidate is maya wiley the progressive choice um uh the voting ends today um

the day that we're recording this so I did not put two and two together laughing laughing the voting ends today did you vote yeah I voted early

I voted early over the weekend. Oh, I thought they still give you a sticker. Alright, so this is Maya Wiley or Raya Miley. This is just a fun way to kind of celebrate the fact that Maya is going to be the next mayor of New York City. I should say that Hedgum is not officially endorsing

any candidate, obviously. This is the first I'm hearing about it. I haven't done any research into it. And Jeff doesn't speak for the entire company. All right. I can speak for the show. Yeah. Have you guys ever played Maya Wiley or Raya Miley?

No. Right, obviously not. Has anyone? I did just write it about an hour and 10 minutes ago. Basically, I'm going to list off some fun facts about, you know, blank, fill in the blank here. And you're going to tell me whether it's Maya Wiley, candidate for New York City mayor, or Raya's Miley, a.k.a. Miley Cyrus, who is probably on the dating app Raya. She's probably on Raya probably

Blank is a Democrat Maya Wiley that's technically right but I was going for Miley this is all for real cash we should say alright Blank has lived for a portion of time in New York City. Maya Wiley.

That's correct. Yeah, she's been there almost her entire life, which is why she might have to be the choice. I don't know. Here we go. I assume every mayoral candidate has lived in New York City for some of their lives that's

probably not why she's the choice yeah but also yeah and I also didn't need to hear the explanation of this game it's always a random person or someone else and you say things and we guess

I did find the explanation of what Raya's Miley meant to be helpful though. That's true. Continue though. Blank has been a staple on TV screens everywhere for several years.

So vague. Obviously Miley. Maya Wiley was an MSNBC political analyst, dude. 100% she was on national news. Oh my god. Blank believes cannabis

God, sorry. Sometimes when I see him here on the Zoom screen, it like throws me because he just doesn't look interested. This is the most interested he's looked, I feel, in a long time. Yeah, I was gone for part of it. Yeah.

I don't interrupt you guys when you talk. Blank believes cannabis. You purposely did. Eight minutes ago, you said, hold on a second i have a joke to say blank believes cannabis possession should not be a crime the mayoral candidate i was looking for miley you shouldn't be looking for anything. You should have clear answers.

Blank has ties to Bill de Blasio. For those who don't know, former New York City mayor. Miley Cyrus. Correct! In 2013, Bill de Blasio's campaign said, and I quote, Forget Miley Cyrus. The de Blasio campaign has its own signature

dance move. This was at the time of Wrecking Ball. Yeah. Did Wrecking Ball have a signature dance move or was she just swinging on a Wrecking Ball? Do you mean twerking when she twerked at the MTV Awards or whatever it was? I think she was also really into shaking

that ass. I thought that was more We Can't Stop. Bangers that was more we can't stop. Bangers style? We both were on bangers. Let's not forget, right? Alright, Blank has made some bangers. Maya.

Correct! So her husband is a globetrotting CEO of a multinational company and I just figure there's no way that after going to England and coming back to New York that he didn't pick up some of those Anglophile breakfast items. Maybe Maya. Sorry. Yeah, Maya made them bangers and mash for brunch one night. It's the sips of the coffee blank

blank has seen the movie what blank has seen the movie the last song has seen the movie the last song I a wily there's kind of no way my a wily sat down and watch the last song yeah I mean I mean, do you think Miley did? Miley's in it. Yeah, I know. Do you think she watched it?

Do you think she sat down and watched that movie? 2010, this is coming. You have to remember, Marika, that's coming off of Hannah Montana, where it's like, is she going to be a failure? Or is she going to parlay this into some kind of other on-screen success? Mm-hmm. In conclusion... conclusion sorry one second

billy is furious in conclusion if you didn't vote for bio wiley you can go ahead and lose my fucking number that was what we were waiting for and that goes for anyone who doesn't even live in New York I didn't vote for her get out of here why I couldn't I don't live there really yes alright that's a local election

because there's no way that I could I wonder if my friend Fallon voted for her probably who? Brick you used to live in where'd you used to live in New York? Port Green I didn't really live there I was staying there

for like 7 weeks yeah cause you could have voted for Maya Wiley as well couldn't have because I'm not an American citizen and I didn't live there. There's a lot of reasons I couldn't have. Yeah. All right, well, I don't know what happened, but somewhere between that segment and now, everybody got pissed.

Everybody made the contrast distortion to be upset at me or at the show for some reason. I actually think this is going really well, especially in comparison to, let's say, the last eight episodes of this show. What was wrong? What is everybody thinking about? Would you rather be able to determine the outcome of every major American election or be accepted on Raya? It's a great question. It's hard because like...

Yeah, the fact that you're on the fence about it. It's definitely Raya.aya says a lot about what a small man you are i know but that's why i would never get on raya right like my only chance like i could meddle in elections in other ways no you know what i i want people i want everyone everywhere to live a life of dignity and financial security so uh, I think that I would do the elections one. But, you know, that's what the hope that it would get out there and then people would be kind of come to me and kissing my ass. You know, I would finally get to date a Hemsworth sister.

Are there any Hemsworth sisters? What did you just ask me? Are there any Hemsworth sisters? The third Hemsworth might have two daughters. So no. Chris Hemsworth? No, the other guy.

Luke? Chris Hemsworth for sure has children. Luke Hemsworth is his name? I think so. What a bad name. Why have any worse than Liam yeah that's really funny why is that any worse than Liam

Billy can I ask you a personal question and if you don't want to answer it you can answer it and then we'll cut it out okay you've been staying at my place for since Friday night yes that is four days right I can't even be here for the

lead up to this question I don't want to know what you're asking. Just text him about it later. Have you self-completed in my goddamn house? Yeah, that's sort of where I assumed it was going. And then... You've been asking me this every day. And you've been answering honestly no which is just shocking

me that you have the willpower man yeah yeah next second of course um it is funny though because i was i was in tahoe with uh some of my friends from home over the weekend uh and i did ask that question at dinner one night and two out of two of us had and two of us hadn't or two out of four of us i should say nice you were having your own little seinfeld contest episodes by accident guess which camp i fell in i don't want to i can't even talk about this i'm gonna say hadn't correct you have that yeah you have that uh what's it called that rash that's preventing you from doing that i told you that i told you that not only in confidence but by accident you saw it yeah oh don't tell me it was yeah yeah show don't tell it's kind of one of the first rules of screenwriting show don't tell Let's take some callers.

David Young. Hello. We've got David Young on the horn. You're on with Amir Blumenfeld, Marika Brownlee, and Billy Brick. Oh, it's a podcast. Yeah, it's the HeadGum podcast, man. You were on last week. Remember you said it's the uh the head gun podcast man you're on last week remember you said it was the best hour of your life uh i didn't say that but okay what's up uh what are you up to man uh we're taking some random callers you happen to be the first number that i called

you are calling the people what's that you are calling that's not how it usually works i was cleaning my house we can let you get back to it but i feel like let's just give the people one uh nugget of david young wisdom i i don't i mean why this is not going the way I thought this call would go. I I'm, we should, we have to call someone else. This is unbelievable.

Cause you're embarrassing me on air. But you said you're going to take callers. I'll text you. Well, why you don't have to, that was highly embarrassing for me. You didn't tell him you were going to call you just called him out of the blue 3.46pm on a Tuesday

he said he'd love to come back on the show anytime that invitation's rescinded now for sure alright here we go what makes you think this is going to work again I'll just cut the first one hello Finn Wolfhard oh no

you're on the HeadGum podcast with Amir Blumenfeld Billy Brick and Marika Brownlee on the sax oh why we're taking callers so basically people are calling in and we're seeing what questions they might have for us. You called me.

That's exactly what David Young said. Let's just get past the fact that I'm the one making the calls and let's see if you have any questions for us. I don't know. Why are you... I just got off work. I i'm really tired i haven't worked in a while i'm i'm just trying to hang out and watch tv with my family and you're calling me trying to get me Um, can you... Let's just... Alright. Forget this, man. I'm sorry to bother you when you're hanging out with your family.

I thought that having friends was cool, but I guess being with your family is cool nowadays. Yeah. I have no idea what that means. Alright. Text me. No. This is horrible.

This is not going the way I thought it would. And you guys are just staring here, letting me all happen, fall on my fucking face. Here we go. They can't hear us. Yes, they can. And honestly, it's going well because they're picking up. Zach Dunn, you're live on the head gum podcast with amir blumenfeld billy brick and marika brownlee hi everybody uh how's it going what's happening we're uh we're

taking callers uh seeing what questions people might have for us okay okay um is just quickly Just quickly, is this going to be eligible for the out of context head gum? I think in theory, yes. Okay. Okay. All right. I got to turn this on a little bit. Really kind of random and interesting. Fuck.

I can't think. Is the podcast going well? Why are you calling people no we're taking call this has been a real point of contention all three people we've called have been mad that i'm the one who called them but basically it's like a radio show right you're not taking you're giving calls you're not taking calls we're rolling calls then let's say okay i like that it's a good kind of hollywood. So I'm supposed to ask you a question after you called me. That seems to be the goal, yeah. Okay.

Paper or plastic? I don't know. I don't want to do this. I don't care. All right, that's fine. I'll't care. All right. That's fine. I'll text you. All right. Bye, everybody.

Bye. Why does it always end with you saying I'll text you? What are you going to text them? You don't have to say that. A rule of three is right. They're all picking up. Billy's in Mexico on vacation

with his wife of course it's not going through yeah he shouldn't pick up you're calling previous guests I see oh yeah I guess I am what is this this is a FaceTime yeah

George Saba hey George Saba you're on the HeadGum Podcast with Amir Blumenfeld, Billy Brick and Marika Brownlee on the side whoa hey we're taking callers seeing if they have any questions for us like a radio show

oh but you're calling the callers this is the fifth person in a row to say that let's just ask a question about anything anything about the show about billy's budding acting career about marika's honestly floundering sax career i mean i guess seeing as i saw both Amir and Billy yesterday I'll ask about the sax career all right how is the sax career uh definitely floundering as Jeff said because I don't have one uh at some point someone made a wikipedia page for the head gum podcast and it like quoted me as a saxophonist but that got deleted and i think that was like the height of my saxophone career but now it's gone so i have nothing

all right can i hang up now yeah text me all right cool who else is it the horn? Here we go. Last caller. Hello. Shelby Wolstein, Keeping Records Podcast fame. You're on live with the HeadGum Podcast Core Four. Marika Brownlee, Billy Brick, Amir Blumenfeld. And you? Correct. Are you the fourth? Okay.

We're rolling calls, let's say uh seeing if anybody has any questions for us like a radio show um do you feel badly about making me lose on two on two this way um i thank you not to bring that up actually on air uh we did play two on two basketball um and as i said to my friend uh i had I made both important shots and costly turnovers. Katie Moose from HeadGum posted me up and basically I was barbecue chicken out there. I don't know what else to say. Yeah. Have you did you sleep well last night or did that sort of stick in your head?

I rarely sleep well, but that just added to the laundry list of reasons why I was lying awake nights. OK, am I supposed to ask more questions? Rarely sleep well, but that just added to the laundry list of reasons why I was lying awake nights. Okay. Am I supposed to ask more questions? What other questions could I possibly have? That one is good. I mean, if you want to stay on the line, this is the most we've gotten out of any of the six people that we've called, and I do appreciate it. But. Did you not do your work today?

You didn't plan anything for the pod? We got to go. I'll text you jeff you did get destroyed in the post yesterday time after time after time after time it was really cool to see katie who i'd never seen you know i just met her in person like last week because we have been working remotely with her and then she's like yeah I'll play basketball and she just had amazing footwork slash finishing skills she really did and Jeff was genuinely trying to guard her and it was just like there was no chance he

was like pump picking reverse pivoting drop step it was like fading away creating her own shot it was unbelievable. At first, I wasn't playing that hard because I didn't want to like piss anybody off or injure anybody. But then she started being so good. I was like, let me try and see if I could actually defend this. And I couldn't. Actually piss someone off or injure somebody? Yes.

She played in high school and it showed. She has just like years and years of skilled training, specifically in the post. And yeah, unguardable down there. It was really cool to see. In high school, I spent many a night, let's say, studying. It's okay. The cadence. okay cadence I don't know if we probably

utilized Billy on this episode I want to be honest with you and I don't know if that's because of how I prepared or if that's because Billy's still mad at me about what I said to him last night but it's always you what'd you say? it's always you you're the reason anything on this show goes wrong.

It's all the machinations of your insane mind. Anything that happens on the show is because of you, good or bad, and it's never been good. It had to be you. Interesting. I went The Reason by Hoobastank, personally. That was because of Amir. I was a little late because I don't have YouTube Premium. Yeah, we know.

Yeah. You were late because you don't have YouTube Premium? What's the correlation there? I had to watch the ad, and so it wasn't like... Ideally, and maybe Ferris will edit it this way. I don't know. Who knows that you said it had to. It was you or whatever.

Like, it's always you. And then Q, it had to be you by. Frank Sinatra. I spent many nights. Yeah. Studying is what you said. All right. Congratulations to the three of you.

All right. What is this? 56, 57 episodes. You finally broke my ass. I'm fucking done with this. I don't know what else to do to get a smile out of any of you. Oh, my God. Maya Wiley or Raya's miley that's kind of funny

kind of i don't know if the phone calls bummed you guys out but i've been really trying this episode billy hasn't smiled not even once and i don't even mean like he's in character, not smiling. He looks genuinely upset. He looks frozen now. Oh no, he wasn't. He was just sort of stoned. Maybe it is frozen. I mean, this is a dead end.

And the worst part is that the show is thriving. We're getting a lot of listens and a lot of ads booked most of the weeks i forget to upload the ads and sam shackle has to angrily email me and be like yeah which i've been better about it i did it last week just fine yeah yeah yeah it's just it's just hard because i'm always shocked that we have ads booked right I mean you get the emails you know here's the issue with Gumball and this is a real note if you're listening there's too many

notifications right so it's like there's a notification center you can turn them off that's a thing that we made recently that he built yeah that we sent an email about actually to all of the podcasters because it was like an exciting new feature. So we want to check that out, right? Yeah, no, that's really good, actually.

Yeah. Plugs. Billy, what are you working on? Social media, what do you want to point the people to? Floor is yours. I'm not working on anything right now. I have a movie coming out sometime next year But I'll probably be on Sooner than that

So I guess I'm on Instagram At Gmail.com is my email Fuck it, that's my email William and Brick Is my Instagram Nice, William and Brick is my Instagram nice William and Brick

Marika follow me on Instagram and Twitter at Marika Elan and Letterbox always always post it on there and you can follow me

on Instagram at Jeffrey James on Twitter at Jeff Boyardee we'll see you guys again next week. I mean, unless you have anything. I was going to shout out to the new Delta variant COVID.

It seems to be spiking globally and locally. It's of concern. What else is in the news? Oh, yeah. In the Heights. concern um what else is in the news oh yeah in the heights yeah didn't didn't perform too well at the box office but this isn't end of the episode material this is beginning go on like that we have to point out the negatives first the news it's a great cast. It's a great... Simulcast it on HBO Max. I'm sure that affects... Yeah, great movie. Go watch it.

One of the best musical movie adaptations that has come out in a really long time. I really like it. Definitely some problematic stuff. We're not going to be the difference maker of people seeing it or not. I was going to say, yeah. In Houston, 153 employees

refused to get vaccinated. At one company or across the entire city? At one hospital. Jesus Christ. It's the worst place, right? Yeah, so those people have been resigned or fired. Kind of interesting. Not really.

We talk about, ethically speaking, what that means. Can you, quote unquote, force employees to get vaccinated? Yeah. It raises an interesting question. Morally, I think you have an obligation to. Legally, all this stuff is just such a new gray area. It's kind of fascinating to dive into. I was actually talking to a friend of mine who's a legal ethicist.

It's kind of fascinating about whether or not we... What's that? You said it's kind of fascinating twice and that's just bad i guess if it was on paper writing but that's also bad speaking yes it's interesting it's kind of fascinating to see like how different companies especially those that are like you know hospitals are designed to keep people safe what obligation do they have to their patients let alone other members of the staff you obviously can't ask oh plugs what did you think i'm on tiktok at okay bloomer just laugh at your own username you've had for a year

You just laugh at your own username you've had for a year. It's kind of a take on this popular meme. It's kind of fascinating. It's kind of a fascinating take on the OKZoomer slash Boomer moniker that's given to elder millennials, Gen X, Y, Zers like myself myself so check me out there cash me outside how about yeah and I'm also and I'm also on twitter I was

gonna say you get verified yet no I did not why didn't you apply I don't know how or why to apply my eye. I've heard of people applying and not getting it, so it doesn't really seem necessary. So I don't really know.

I think you would get it. You have millions of followers or some shit. Yeah, and that's nice. That is nice for sure, but I don't need... I mean, it's all kind of fascinating because the whole thing is like artificial I mean it's all does does that's does folks the worst ending that was a

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