The Headgum Podcast - 66: Geoff Has Covid

Episode Date: September 3, 2021

Faris, Amir, and Marika join Geoff to discuss the texture of food, ordering Salmon from the Cheesecake Factory, and famous Neils! BUY THE HEADGUM PODCAST MERCH! Advertise on The Headgum Podcast via Gumball.fm Rate The Headgum Podcast 5-stars on Apple Podcasts. Join the Headgum Discord. Check out our sponsor MyBookieSee 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 Vaccine sitting in my own garage! I took 20 doses of Moderna's Vax! I can't see. You were only waiting for the Pfizer vaccine. I

can't hear. I can't breathe. Took 20 vaxes and that's all right that's the end Unless he had the foresight to sit a good 10, 15 feet away from his microphone at the same time. Wait. Captain, say something.

Say what? Dude, he is like... I don't know what to say. I don't know what to say. I don't know what to think. And if he is on a plane, would it be in the air? It seems like they're boarding now or something. The fear is that Marika doesn't get here in time.

Yeah. Do you want to start without her? No, I can't. Why not? Oh, my God. He's going to... Yeah, he's getting ready for fucking liftoff, I bet, right now. So how long can this episode be?

They'll ask him to get off the phone There they might say sir, please stop rolling and I can see a waveform So I'm fine sweet We're not sure if really isn't oh, oh he's there. He is. I'm rolling too. I've been rolling for eight minutes Oh, well, there he is. All right, I'm rolling, too. I've been rolling for eight minutes. Same.

Same, yeah. Sync in three, two, one. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard Delta Airlines flight 2998 bound for Atlanta, Georgia, with continued service to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. All carry-on items should now be stowed securely, either in an overhead bin or under the seat in front of you. All aisles, exits, and bulkhead areas should now be clear. All electronic devices should now be turned off and stowed,

as they may interfere with the aircraft's navigational and communication systems. Once again, welcome aboard Delta Flight 2928 to Atlanta, and thank you for flying Delta. All aboard Delta Flight Me. I have COVID. What do you mean? Oh, wait. No, he's fucking serious because he's wearing a robe.

I don't know what the sunglasses are for. I can't tell what any of this is or what's happening. Are you going to Dallas? It would have been so much clearer if it hadn't taken eight minutes for it to happen. That's not true at all. What is the point of you lying sideways across the road? Because I'm tired. I'm fatigued.

I have congestion out the wazoo. I can barely breathe through either of my nostrils. So that causes me to have a sore throat. Dude, I don't know what's more believable you on a plane to dallas or having the delta variant in sunglasses showing my covid test results as we speak you so you got covid and you're like let's record and let me get some ambient delta noises sure okay how did how did you get it how do you feel and when did you start feeling this way i got it i well okay so i don't know what did it is what's kind of scary about the whole shabazz is that um we should say you're vaccinated for

sure yeah this is a breakthrough case which is what's scary about it. And honestly, it has me questioning the efficacy of these vaccines. I wouldn't. Don't go there. I tested positive on Wednesday after feeling kind of sick after like 4 p.m. on Tuesday, right? I had the Moderna vaccine. Sure, right. All of a sudden I see the positive thing and I'm like, damn, Daniel, back at it again again with the positive pcr rapid we should say it came back in an hour the next day um an hour the next day

it came back an hour after i woke up the next day okay which is sort of okay so if you started feeling sick on tuesday you probably got it that weekend like friday or saturday i'm do you know you're doing on friday or saturday i thinking it well because the incubation period is five days right yeah sometimes faster if it's like a faster variant but sure three to five let's say okay Thursday I indoor dine we have it right off the bat the number one bad thing to do so don't say you don't know where you got it. That's a huge red flag. Okay, Thursday you went where? Indoor maskless dining. Correct.

I went to Son of a Gun in West Hollywood. Nice. Crowded? Was it crowded? There was a fair amount of people there. There was a fair amount of people there. You're maskless with who? This would have been with a couple of friends. And how are they feeling? They're fine. Okay, Friday what'd you do indoor dine i i did it was short but sweet uh i went sure

i didn't say anything said fair man so what'd you do on friday You went where? I went to, I got a couple sushi rolls with George Saba. How's he feeling? He's fine. Did he get tested? Yeah, he got tested. Everybody around me does not have it. Saturday?

Saturday, I didn't do anything. Saturday, I literally stayed in this room all day. I was like, I needed a day to reset, right? Now I have 10 days to reset, and I'm bored as shit. Sunday night, I went to the Cheesecake Factory. Did you really? Yes, but it was outside. And the person I went with tested negative.

So I think I got it at one of the indoor dining spots, man. And then Monday, you felt fine? Monday, I was fine, if not a little tired, but I just chalked that up to, you know, lack of sleep, let's say. And then, yeah, Tuesday, I was feeling a little out of it, tired but I just chalked that up to you know lack of sleep let's say and then yeah Tuesday I was feeling a little out of it like a little bit of that brain fog ish all day and then

I was just at you know around 4pm I was like no I'm starting to get I'm starting to get a sore throat I gotta get a test you know cause John George was in town we should say how's he doing? he's negative and I don't mean tested negative. Just a sour guy

because he has to be around. So he was staying in our guest bedroom. So I was like, oh shit, well I gotta get a test so that I don't hang out with him if I have this fucking bye. And I took the test and I came back rapid in an hour the next day.

Positive. Positive, yes. Have you taken a test since then? Or you're like, that's enough. I'm sick. Plus positive. I got COVID. Oh, 100% I have it. Like it's, it was, you know, it's PCR.

So that's the most accurate test. And also I felt horrible the last few days. Yeah. How was your Wednesday and Thursday after you found out you were positive? Well, okay. So I had to do a voiceover gig on Wednesday, sick with the variant. The rest of the day,

I just kind of took it easy. Oh, I added the HeadGum podcast that came out today. And then yesterday, I had no work to do other than uploading the HeadGum podcast that came out today. So I've just been kind of resting, relaxing, watching documentaries. I feel like I've monopolized the podcast so far. I don't mean to do this.

That's every week, so don't worry about it. I will say, Jeff, next time you have COVID-19, you can tag me in to do the edit for you. No, I could not. The assembly cut, I can take on if you're dying.

Well, I didn't feel that shit until Wednesday night, and then yesterday was bad man i mean what was yesterday like what do you mean what was it was thursday and i didn't feel good like how what do you you want the symptoms yeah yeah how was the throat like during the vo was that was that the hard part of the brain fog uh just like not not able to read mostly the brain fog at that point the brain fog was the worst on tuesday and wednesday and then it kind of has subsided like today i feel fine and then the other symptoms have gotten worse but mostly it's just been the most congestion i've ever dealt with in my entire life and then when you go to sleep obviously you're breathing through your

fucking mouth and so that you wake up with a throat so painful to swallow you can call it uh don't worry about like jokes right now that was easy nice no uh is your nose running or is it like a sinus pressure that is not even like mucus both somehow like literally i'm like both nostrils are clogged i can can barely breathe, but they're also running. It truly makes no sense. And then a little feverish, but I've been taking Advil. I've been popped in Advil. I'm sweating. Yeah, you do have a fever.

So that's probably why you're sweating. No, it's been oscillating between shivering and sweating through the sheets. So extreme, like a bad version of i have not been able to get comfortable is the issue i literally was talking to my friend last night and uh they were like how are you feeling and i was like i feel like death like i i i can't get comfortable i can't breathe and every time i swallow it's searing pain down my throat is it a body thing too like your body just feels oh it is a full body high I mean I'm just it puts me in the cash for sure I think the robe is a good start so we should say Jeff is wearing a robe and ostensibly nothing else I mean I just see a lot of chest hair and we don't know what else is going on on the bottom

half so I think just also sitting on the side of his bed. No, that's absolutely correct. I don't want to monopolize the show. I know that. And Marika, that's a good note. Maybe I should, I talk too much on this show. So why don't we talk

about you guys and we'll period. Nothing is happening with us in relation to you getting COVID. Have your roommates been like afraid to like see you,

visit you? Are they like bringing you food? How are you eating? Well, George has been dropping down Italian ices through the window. What? Just being a bit of a grump about it.

You have to go into detail about that. That's not a thing. Dropping down Italian ices through the window. Like, this is, it's so funny to me. Why? Which part? I can't taste or smell, we should say. That classic symptom yeah oh

the taste is totally gone gone which is such a weird sensation because i'm like trying to figure out what to eat right and usually you know when you're trying to figure out dinner you have a taste for something and so like maybe you want sushi that night but for me that would just be mushy fish in my mouth with no soy does that make No. Meaning you can't taste the soy? Also, I feel like the only thing that you'd experience other than the texture is like wasabi heat through your nose. Oh, dude, you should try wasabi. I should try wasabi, to be honest.

Marika's onto something. You could, you know, that nose-blasting effect the wasabi has. Clear your sinuses right up. I got a fucking sinus boost juice from a local juice place. It had a ton of ginger in it and I couldn't taste it at all. And it didn't clear up my cyanide.

You didn't even feel the heat in your nose? Well, the interesting thing is the only sensations I've had taste-wise are like you know like that umami is sour well wait which one is that you're at an umami burger so it makes sense that that's what you're tasting like when you get when you eat something either umami or sour and it hits you almost i know what you're talking about yeah so that's the only sensation i can feel but it's not

taste it's just the reverberation if you if you will which i imagine is not what's that good on its own without taste right like the sensation on its own is probably weird and unpleasant no i love it it's borderline sexual i was gonna say who's the first person you told and did you think you had it when you got the results to click to get them were you like i definitely have it or you're like i'm sure's fine. The first people I told were my roommates, for obvious reasons. Safety first. My house is set up in such a way and Amir, you never come over for

the dinner parties that we throw, so it's kind of your own fault for not understanding. I would have been dead by now. I live in the basement and it's its own unit. It's the perfect setup for me having COVID. I don't have to interact with my roommates at all. Just to go back to the food thing really quickly,

I did know someone that had no sense of smell like his whole life and apparently beer is very much on the palate and you can essentially taste it so you should just drink a lot of beer. Well, I'm trying to recover from a deathly illness, right? So I can't be drinking

alcohol. That's not good for immunity, right you want me dead is that what you're getting at are you happy you got covid because i feel like you're sort of relishing the story of it i has apologized twice about talking about it and is still going. This record is the only thing that makes it worth it to me. The Delta Airlines bit at the top didn't go according to Flan. Thanks a lot, Jake. Yeah, because we thought you were actually on the plane or something. Which would have been funnier. Yeah.

I really thought you were on a goddamn airplane. Anyway, I don't like that I have COVID. Today's the first day I'm feeling not like shit. So that's why I'm a little high energy and smiling. You guys are also the first people I've interacted with since, I want to say June. I saw you three weeks ago. Yesterday, you did text me, how many square feet is your house? So like, you weren't necessarily on death's door because you were like just randomly asking me shit over Twitter.

And a Zillow tab open. Yeah. Then you sent me something late last night and said, dare me to add this to my Instagram story. Yeah. And it's the quote. It's hard because no one seems to give a shit about my. Well, yeah, nobody's fucking checked in. None of you guys texted me me we didn't know you had

does anybody at the office uh company know that you have no i i had to because i wanted there to be a big reveal live on air and get your live react so i had to make sure not to say anything i did send now you have to make sure now you have to make sure that you don't tell anyone else until they listen to this episode so well i actually, I actually sent a Slack message on Wednesday because Wednesday we were supposed to have the six-year anniversary party. And Wednesday... I did see that.

You saw it? I saw that Slack message, yeah. It was a text and I was like, thank you guys so much for canceling because we canceled the party because of the Delta variant, which at the time I was like, why? Like, everybody's going to be outside.

It's going to be fine. But now, obviously a good move. But I was like, thank you guys so much for canceling the six-year anniversary party because you found out I had the Delta variant. Now I won't have FOMO or some bullshit like that. Yeah, I was like, is he joking? Wait, you did send it? I sent it and deleted it

within minutes because I was like, wait, shit, I forgot I want to do the whole thing about this on the podcast. But enough about my ill ass. What about you, Fer ferris you haven't been on the show in a couple months how are you doing uh i think you're the first head gum person to have covid so it's kind of like a no jake had covid i thought like in march yeah well he found out later he had antibodies so he assumes he had it but he like never was didn't ever feel sick. Okay.

Do you have the antibodies? Yeah, exactly. Do you want to drop your pants? I guess you're the only person to get it while at HeadGum and not feel good. Remember the bit that you tried to do three weeks ago? What did I do? The one that we cut? Oh, well, yeah, this has nothing to do with it.

It has nothing to do with it because I'm vaccinated. Which, by the way, guys, get fucking vaccinated if you're listening to this. Like, this sucks and I'm vaccinated. If you are not vaccinated, you might go to the fucking ER. That's correct. And this is honestly kind of what you get for stealing the vaccine from nurses in December and January because you probably have waning immunity.

That's why you got sick before everyone else. If you just waited your place in line like a nice citizen, then you would have still had a mask. I got it seven days before they opened up. They were going to throw the dose away at a Rite Aid. It wasn't going to frontline health workers. I did my civic duty

by making sure that that vax didn't go in the tracks. Listening to last week's HeadGum episode, knowing that the variant was fucking multiplying in your immune system rapidly

as you hammer the major key alerts about eating fish, knowing what was going on inside you because you dined indoors on Thursday. And Friday. You smiling through it all. What is my life?

God, only a week ago, you were just worried about mercury levels. That was a good tip though, by the way. No, it is. If you're pescatarian, you got to get a heroin, vitamin, and mineral test because that's going to be long-term health effects. This is going to pass out of me in

the next three days. So we hope. COVID has a way of making unexpected right turns, and if you're not feeling the short-term effects of it soon, there's symptoms that just never seem to dissipate. We still

don't know the long-term ramifications of a lot of this stuff there are many young folks that are continuing to deal with this the cognitive issues yeah the lung issues fatigue fatigue lack of smell lack of taste like i mean i hope it goes away but uh you could have holes in your lungs yeah yeah i'm hoping that um your body does what it should which is use the antibodies that build up during your vaccination and eliminate this thing entirely yeah we're hoping for the best yeah for sure what no for sure yeah for sure that's a good sound bite

I didn't know all that of course you did the sunglasses when you went to the cheesecake factory three days after being inflicted that was with John George what did you get at the cheesecake factory

was it worth it and why did you get at the Cheesecake Factory? Yeah, I gotta know. Yeah, was it worth it? And why did you go to the Cheesecake? You got the what? Yeah. I got the salmon. That menu is like 30 pages long. What salmon?

I got the miso glazed salmon. Or that umami sour. After you warned people about mercury levels and you got sushi. You can eat fish multiple times a week. I'm just saying. Yeah, I know. I'm just saying. Right. Also, I didn't say not eat fish. I said make sure you're getting it from the most

sustainable farms. The Cheesecake Factory? They have high quality ingredients, Ferris. Yeah, do they? Do they? Do you guys like pixar i don't really actually you should take it easy i think like rest up yeah don't yeah don't like look we're here all right this is where we're at um i have the virus uh i don't i'm not gonna have any long-term health effects that's for damn sure because i have a strong will and i um

i have the vaccine i've been taking care of myself real well were your parents afraid what's that family oh yeah they're petrified for me but i that's i i almost didn't tell them because i didn't want them to worry but then i was like that's probably not the right thing to do so i told them immediately uh and they've been worrying they've been fearful but you know you have to deal with it this thing is happening it's it's a reality you know that it's like deal with what's right in front of you i can't deal with the potential long-term effects years from now because i don't know if that's going to happen and honestly i don't think it's going to so i can only deal day by day right and today i'm feeling a little better it's good yeah it's good also thank you guys for not like cheering when i

said that i had the delta variant because i really thought that it was going to be like a situation where trump got coveted and twitter celebrated um well you don't know how the public will react um we were we were shocked. Yeah. It's a dirge. Paris is playing the blues. It's actually good. No, it's the national anthem of the blues. It's actually good. No,

it's the national anthem of the USSR. Wow. He's really good at that. It'd be funny if he played that was easy incredibly hard thing to do did you think did you think you had it when you're like i'm gonna press refresh reload see it and i'm expecting yes or yeah i thought i had it because i was feeling i was feeling bad and i was like at this point you want it otherwise you're feeling bad for no reason no i didn't want it because i was supposed to be in seattle today uh for the weekend to visit some

friends and uh if i just had a cold i could have done that i could have gone but not with covid also i was supposed to get lasik on tuesday so i had to reschedule that for tuesday after which was also when i was going to go camping in the desert so now like everything got fucked up you were gonna get covid and go camping in the desert no i was i was gonna get lasik on tuesday and then the following tuesday i was gonna go camping in the desert but because i had to reschedule my lasik i can't go camping that day and i need to get the lasik asap rocky my eyes are degenerating yeah that means well you probably won't get it on tuesday either man yeah something will come up no you'll have covid still it's in three days a week from tuesday the day after labor day what

you're wearing yeah you're wearing glasses under those sunglasses. No. For sure. Take off your sunglasses. No, for sure. Okay. I understand that actually. That was one of the best parts of getting LASIK. I was being able to wear it. I did.

And I highly recommend it. With the right doctor, you'll be just fine. It's super duper worth it. You can wear sunglasses. That's the reason enough. Also, just to be able to wake up and see. Yeah. I mean, you won't be able to see for a good two weeks.

I really don't think you should go camping after you get it. Really? It's going to be blurry. Yeah, it's going to be blurry. And dry. Especially in the desert. No, but that's why I was like, I can't go to the desert. Because I need to be as wet as fucking possible.

Right. Also, if I had gotten LASIK and then gotten COVID, that would have been bad because my eyes have been freaking out. Yeah, you would have assumed that you got COVID from the LASIK place. But in fact, it was from, what was it? Son of a Gun on Thursday. On Thursday. Sushi on Friday.

Yeah. Yeah. And then Cheesecake Factory on Sunday. None of the people you dined with have felt sick? None. Yeah, none. That's pretty good. Good on the vaccine.

Good on the vaccine. Here we go. Are you guys ready for our first segment? Oh, yeah. Segments. Okay. Welcome to Kneel or No Kneel Alright, let's go

Have you guys ever played No, well let's sit in it for a second Sorry Sorry You should say Jeff is back to lying halfway down on his bed No, I'm actually sweating on my floor. Are you feeling hot? Like, are you feeling feverish

right now? I'm unbelievably warm. I'm sweating so much right now. So we can record this another time. You don't have to. We don't have to play kneel or no kneel while you have. Let's just fucking play it. It's the only thing getting me through the day.

Have you guys played kneel or no kneel no I haven't alright so basically have you guys you've seen the show deal or no deal this is kneel or no kneel so instead of walking away with as much as a million dollars you will walk away with the coolest kneel I feel sicker talking to you like I know it can't happen

through zoom but I feel like you're to you. Like, I know it can't happen through Zoom, but I feel like you're infecting me. It's such a weird, bizarre feeling. Seeing you sick yelling into my screen makes me feel weaker than. Yeah. Yeah. Let's play the fucking Neil game, I guess.

Well, only one person can participate. Who wants to? Ferris? Yeah, man, bring it on. it on Alright we've got our contestant Choose a case Case 1 through 12 Give me number 8 Number 8

Alright so number 8 Is Ferris' case. Now, the rules are thus. As you open the cases, you'll realize which ones are off the board. And then at the end, you can switch your case if you don't think that the one you've chosen has the coolest kneel. Coolest kneel. Does that make sense? No.

Of course not. It's just like the regular rules, right? It's the same rules. I can swap out with number eight if I want to. But number eight is your case. So now you got to pick three cases. Two, three, four. Two.

Case two. Neil Young, four. Two. Case two. Neil Young. Oh. Hey, I'm sorry to lose him. That's how it works, right? That's like losing the million dollars. That's like the coolest Neil almost. That's like losing $750,000 almost.

Yeah, that's a bad Neil to lose. That's a real bummer. The whole crowd reacted. Okay. All right, three and four, you said? Mm-hmm. Ah! Neil Cassidy is off the board.

That was the coolest Neil. That was the coolest Neil. Allow me to... Okay, I'll buy that, but I'm just gonna open up Google real quick. Go ahead, Jeff. Yeah. Neil Cassidy was part of the Beat Generation. He was the basis of Dean Moriarty and On the Road, and he drove the bus of the Merry Pranksters. Ah! number four,

Neil Patrick Harris. He's fun. He's cool. That's like losing half a million dollars. What a bad round. You think so? That was a real bad round. Alright, we gotta call the dealer. We gotta call the banker. Alright. Can you give us a Howie Mandel while the banker is...

Alright. The banker is prepared to offer you Neil Brennan. Neil. Or no Neil. Seeing as I... Seeing as I don't even... Hang on.

Neil Brennan. That's no Neil. No Neil! Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. As a rule of thumb, if I have to Google them, I probably don't want them. We do have to take a break. Guys, taking care of your health isn't always easy, right? But it should be simple.

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All right, two more cases. We should say that cases two, three, and four are off the board. Case number eight is Ferris' for the day. Two more cases. Let's go five and ten. All right, five and ten. Five, Neil Armstrong. All right, kind of middle of the pack. Alright, 5 and 10. 5, Neil Armstrong!

Alright, kind of middle of the pack. Kind of middle of the pack. That's alright to lose Neil Armstrong. Really? Number 10. Over, like, Neil Young. What's that? I would say Neil Young is cooler than Armstrong, yeah. I don't know who Neil Young was. Number 10, Neil Sadaka.

Alright, one second. That's like getting the one penny off the board. So the whole crowd just kind of reacts positively. Let's put that in later, Ferris. Alright. Ferris is here. You're talking to him right now. Alright, let's see what the banker has to offer here.

Neil typed into my Google search. Okay. I always thought the song sounded like Lollipop by Lil Wayne. Alright, the banker is prepared to offer you Neil DeGrasse Tyson Ooh Neil or no Neil That's an interesting Neil man

You can consult with the people you brought with you today by the way Alright guys I'm a little flip floppy on this guy actually Sometimes I find him really fun And intriguing I like what he has to say and then sometimes I don't feel like listening to him talk do you guys know what I mean by that I don't know are there

better Neils out there I don't know I've only known two of them so yeah you know it's gonna be a no from me dog no Neil alright one more case one more case we should say that the only ones but up uh are 12 7 11 6 and 1 there is still actually let's do two more cases for the fuck how did you do this illustration like is this built into a website that you can customize

or did you have to make this from scratch kind of somewhere in the middle of those two things i got a template and then i designed half of it and the people those came in the template illustrations amazing they don't follow a consistent theme you can make these nfts later if you wish there's also like a lot of people holding other things not the cases so i guess if i had to give any notes that's my one thing like you have three men holding a trophy with two hands, but the case is just on their dick. There's a hole in the back. All right, two more cases, Ferris.

Okay, this is last round, yeah? Yeah. Okay, let's go six and one. Six and one. All right, six. Ah, Neil deGrasse Tyson is gone. Okay, so we already said we're cool with that. And one, Neil Simon gone Neil Simon

playwright Neil Simon is off the board alright let's hear what the banker has to offer that's alright there's the music there's the anxiety yes wait I don't even know what am I gonna do with the Neil do I own the Neil I think so

yeah what's the result the banker's offer went down but you might want to take it the banker is prepared to offer you Neil Gaiman who's that he's an author I think wait yes oh wait he teaches a master class for you, Neil Gaiman. Who's that? He's an author, I think. Wait, yes. Oh, wait. He teaches a master class.

Yes, the guy who wrote Coraline, right? I'm taking him home. He's mine. Holy shit! Neil or no Neil, he takes Neil! Neil, baby. Yeah. I'm pretty happy with that. Ferris, you are going home with

Neil Gaiman. Not Neil Diamond. Neil Gaiman. Not Neil Diamond. Neil Gaiman. No, that's all. Yeah, that's fine. Yeah, no. Not Neil Diamond. I know.

That's okay. I know. I was just clarifying. Should we see what Ferris' case would have been? Yeah. Number eight, Ferris' case, Neil Peart. The drummer from Rush. Yeah. That would have been yeah number eight Ferris his case Neil Pert yeah that would have been what not really

you know what a mirror of all fucking episodes for you to give me a little something this would have been one of the episodes you could have thrown me a fucking bone I'm sick man would have been one of the episodes you could have thrown me a fucking bone. I'm sick man. I said we shouldn't play.

I said you should rest. And then while we're I said not really when you said Neil Pert would have been a good one. That's all I said. So this is on you. You forced the game. You got mad.

Enough. This has been... Yeah, Neil or no Neil. Neil or no Neil. Yeah, baby. I like own him now or... Something like that. Yeah, I think you own Neil Gaiman.

What about Neil Diamond own Neil Gaiman what about Neil Diamond? that was easy that was easy is my new favorite I feel like we have enough content to fill a 45 minute podcast episode and if not it doesn't fucking matter I feel like we have enough content to fill a 45 minute podcast episode. And if not, do we fucking matter? Oh yeah.

No, we do Marika. You just missed the first 10 fucking minutes, man. Yeah. You missed me in a mirror. Trying to guess whether or not I'm so mad at Jake for that. I, I,

I really think the Delta airlines, Delta variant bit would have gone better if everyone had been able to show up on time. Why didn't you just show up when Marika did? Why were you here before she arrived? You also could have not had the sound effect going. Or muted. By the way, you pushed us to 1.15. And then at 12.55, you're like, actually, let's do one.

You can't undelay a flight. Well, even if we had stuck with one, we wouldn't have made it till 128 but why did you push it because i was editing the fucking meal or no meal graphics you're still making the little characters by the way like five of those squares were still empty man i'm sorry to say there aren't that many famous Neils man exactly it was a bunk game a flawed premise this is and you were running late because you were designing the game yeah I was fucking masterminding

this whole episode man Neil Pert yeah man have you seen his drum set he has 50 drums dude that means you're good at drums if you have 50. I guess. I just don't know. I don't know anything about that. The band,

the drums. I'm musically ignorant, so Neil Pert means nothing to me. Well, Marika didn't know Neil Young, so I don't think you should feel bad about not knowing Neil Pert. Neil Young's an American icon. Neil Pert is like a little bit of a deeper cut. I looked him up. I thought he was from Canada. Guys, give me a fucking break. This is

such bullshit. Major Key Alert. If one of your good friends and co-workers is under the weather, treat them with kindness, not poison. What medicines are you taking to help you through this? I'm on a cough syrup with codeine.

That scissor shit. Yeah, I'm leaning. This is my new favorite. Let's get COVID in here. Let's get COVID in here. Let's get COVID in here. That's how you should have started it instead of the Delta. That would have been better. That fucking bar mitzvah entrance

into a disease. Plugs. What are you guys working on? What do you want to point the people to? The floor is yours. Let's start with Marika because she probably has to leave early too, right? Last one in, first one out. I don't know why you're putting that on me. Yeah, I don't have anything to plug other than Twitter

Instagram letterboxd at Marie K. Alon Paris Monchi yeah listen to newcomers season 4 is out they're talking about the Fast and Furious franchise it's insane

listen to celebrity book club that is a sleeper hit y'all it's funny it's a funny show um if you want to hear you know they read um celebrity memoirs and tell you about it so you don't have to read that shit you get to hear insane stories like um Prince filling a pillowcase full of hard objects and trying to kill Sinead O'Connor. That's a thing that happened. He had a problem with Sinead O'Connor making a really popular cover version of one of his songs. Jesus. It invites her over. You guys got to listen to hear the rest.

Invites her over, tries to kill her, eats soup with her. Oh. It's bizarre. Finally, I've been on... Huh? Follow me on Instagram. I posted there once this year. Oh, congrats.

Yeah, it's been a good break, but I think I might be ready to come back. If I get 100 new followers, I will do a fully arranged cover of the USSR National Anthem. Oh my God. You gotta. You absolutely gotta. Gotta make it happen.

Amir? I will. Sheesh. What to promo? What to promo? So many things need your eye, your ear, your attention in these hard times. I suppose I could point people to my TikTok. I recently crossed 100,000 TikTok followers.

Huge. In about a year. That is a very powerful app. Took so much longer for me to get there on twitter and on instagram tiktok is a powerfully popular engine you post some shit on there and you get tens of thousands of followers so you cannot be the first hundred thousand but um i'm still there i'm at okay bloomer on on TikTok. You can be part of that second 100K. And yeah, I guess feel better, Jeff.

I don't know what else to say. Are you going to tell people at the company that you're sick? Or are you going to wait till the episode comes out? How are you going to reveal it? Yeah, if I can swear you guys to secrecy, let's not tell anyone. Because I want... Like, Pyle's so checked out of the company. Let's just all agree on that. So, like, the only way that he gets any... I don't think so. What's that? I don't Pyle's so checked out of the company let's just all agree on that so like the only

way that he gets any I don't think so what's that? I don't think he's checked out does a lot actually yeah okay well Johnny's kind of checked out let's be honest so like I don't think so really? no nobody's checked out except for you I guess sick for the last week without

telling anybody yeah that was the other thing we switched to Omni this week and last night was the worst I felt and so it was me trying to figure out how to fucking post to Omni which is our new hosting platform and it's not that hard but it took me 40 minutes I will say

that I literally offered Jeff that like I would post the episode without knowing yeah but you do I'm not gonna let anyone do the work that I'm supposed to do and I can't or if I do then I look like an asshole because I can't tell you why I would have done it my plug

is follow Ferris Monshi on Instagram at Ferris Monshi because I want him to do the USSR cover fully produced I will learn a new language and fucking sing that song yes you have to get me those followers it A hundred is like so doable. You should have said a thousand. For me, guys,

it's a meaningful amount. No, I mean like if we distill the listenership down. I think it's there. I think it's reasonable. But yeah, I hope I feel better soon. I think I'll be better tomorrow, honestly. I mean, knock on wood. But yeah, don't tell anybody at the company because I want

the opening of this episode to be people finding out. And by then I'll be fine. Right. Right. Yeah. I'm going to come in on Monday and you're going to be there coughing

and telling me, shh, don't tell them. I want them to find out on Friday. Thanks so much for listening to this episode of the HeadGum Podcast, guys. Until next week, this is... That's Daz, or whatever the fuck. I need to go take a nap. That was a Hidgum Original.