The Headgum Podcast - 83: Regrets and Resolutions (w/ Georges Saba!)

Episode Date: December 31, 2021

Comedian Georges Saba joins Amir, Marika, and Geoff to discuss the gravity of reflection, Geoff's subletter, and goals for the show in 2022! 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.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. What situation are you in where you have to tip a doorman? So, you know, like they have those revolving doors at fancy apartment buildings and hotels. Sure. So when I was a kid slash still, I'll just like love running around that like it's a merry-go-round. And like at a certain point, the doorman has to stop you because you're disrupting not only residents,

but hotel guests. And they're like, hey man, you got to head out. And I'm like, do I? Because I think that Mr. Benjamin Franklin says otherwise. And it's not a hundred dollar bill, but it is five twenties. So no further questions. So you did this as a child, you said? You gave, you're like as a child you said you gave you're like as a child

you gave him a hundred dollars i had a couple line i had a couple limeade stands ended up franchising them all throughout shaker heights cleveland heights sugar falls it was pretty lucrative you were yeah you were a limeade tycoon i was a limeade is that right yeah for the better part of middle school i would distribute uh for lack of a were a limeade tycoon. I was a limeade tycoon, yeah. For the better part of middle school, I would distribute, for lack of a better term, limeade, yeah. Yeah. It's no other term. That's the term that I asked. Another end to another monumental year.

Beginning. Another end to a beautiful beginning to have it be this way on our podcast orally lang syne um december 31st 2021 recording this weeks in advance so who knows what will happen in our individual lives until the end of the year. But for the listeners ears, the year is over. Please welcome to the show. Blumenfeld on the sax, Marika Brown in the fax and George Saba bringing up the rear. Let's hear from you guys. Hear what?

What do you want now? Like a roll call. George. Marika. hear what what do you want now like a roll call george marika george that's funny but uh no there's a certain gravity to the end of the year um you know it's a it's a moment of reflection it's a moment of projection and it's a moment of resolution and it's a moment of new beginnings births renaissance personal spiritual revelations the like major key alert or no that's just that's off the dome that's straight from the heart um but this is part two of our sort of holiday special that we're recording on december 14th um we have a lot

to get to but um yeah i mean you guys are barely giving me anything already i'm trying to stay positive to the entire time my my personal job today is to stay as positive as possible through all of this. The past couple weeks have seen me being harangued by Amir, Billy, Brick, Johnny, etc. for 15 minute periods

where I don't get a word in edgewise and I'm just kind of truly the center of a diatribe. And now I think it's time for me to stay positive well i think the catch-22 you find yourself in like to you saying oh we're not giving you anything is like you're being kind of agreeable right now you haven't said anything incorrect and so much of the construct of this show is you being wrong and then you being yelled at like that's the engine it's either that or you're playing a powerpoint that

we have to comment on even though like each joke is pre-written like that's true yeah your tone is nice but what you're saying isn't good so like you're almost like hypnotizing the audience into thinking that you're a good guy. Like your sing-songing melody. But like if people stopped and read a transcript of what you're saying, they'd realize it was nothing. Like a snake oil salesman. Yes, exactly. And you're using like nice music that's recognizable to make people feel warm and soft on the inside. But again, if they ever stop to like listen to the meaning of what you're saying they'd realize that you are a nasty bad man

i get that um how are you drinking hot cocoa right now i'm like holding it like uh no the positive spin i'm gonna put on that is that um it's still that's a good note and it's constructive feedback that i'm gonna use going into this new year this show might look entirely different by this time next year maybe it's all positive maybe it's all constructive Maybe it's all borderline performance art. In that, it points out both the positive and negative aspects of humanity itself. So far, it's only been negativity.

Because you guys, again, the note that I always get is that I'm a bad host, that the games are hard to play within, that're it's not really spreading positivity it's spreading poison in a way yeah i knew that was gonna be the word and i want it to be less sour starting with this episode great i think that's admirable thank you i am admirable yeah no i said but um yeah i guess guess what changes do you feel like need to be made in order for all of us to spread more positivity on this? I think it starts and ends with... You were almost saying me, which is good. We almost did. You stopped short at actual introspection. Grayson

who it starts and ends with Grayson who edits these video episodes no way

because he could be making I think that there's ways that you can frame some of the

things that happen and make it seem like more of a positive interaction because we don't actually all hate each other you know sometimes

they just were at each other's throats and I think that that could be edited in a way like keeping up with the Kardashians it's like it's reality TV but it's also like they play it up for the camera and the editor is sort of the final you edit the audio you make starts and ends with me i guess but i don't like that

responsibility yeah that's clear yeah um what have you guys what have you guys learned about yourself this past year i know i asked that on the christmas episode yes you did and you did ask that last week. And then I said, are you sure you have enough segments? Because we're recording back to back. And you say, yeah, don't worry about it. I got this figured out. I wrote new segments.

It won't sound like a retread of the last episode. First segment, what have you guys learned in the past year? Instantly, right off the bat, same word for word segment that you had that we already answered the past year. Instantly, right off the bat, same word-for-word segment that you had that we already answered the question to. By the way, when Marika did answer

that question, you sort of ignored her. You picked up your phone and then you cut to commercial break. So true, Zesty. Okay, right? so true zesty okay right but this one is more specific

within the context of this show so George I think you've been on three times this year or twice I think this will be my third time depending if you count the live show I do Marika has been on countless times Amir has been on countless times

I think it could be good to see how this show has affected your guys' lives I do. Marika has been on countless times. Amir's been on countless times. I think it could be good to see how this show has affected your guys' lives positively or negatively. Let's start with George. How has the HeadGum podcast affected your life? Yeah. So I guess every time I'm on, I get a few more Instagram and Twitter followers. That's nice.

That's it. That's good. Oh, I guess that's sort of the big one. Yeah. I get to practice media literacy. So if you were to come out with a project you'd be able to go on a podcast and

you would be used to it. Oh, I guess i was thinking like sometimes being recorded makes me have to sort of look in the mirror with any sort of cultural reference i make or anything i say so i have to be a little bit more like polished or make sure i say things either correctly or importantly at the very least which is it's good it's good to get reps in yeah yeah marika how has this show affected you in the past year uh a lot i feel like i had to be on a stage which i don't like to be um and i feel like uh and i i think the same thing that george said like having to be aware of what i'm saying at all times and like uh pay more attention to how i speak on a

microphone which i'm not used to doing it's been a good lesson um Yeah, but it's been fun. It's been like a good way to talk to all my coworkers and people I don't see that often, which is always nice. So I appreciate that part of it. Amir? Yeah, it's been awesome to talk to people that I wouldn't necessarily get to, like Dane, Marika, George, Johnny,

Jake to some extent. It's awesome to see Angie and Sam be on an episode. All the guests I think have carried the show for years. It's been cool that we're still going strong despite the media landscape working against the show.

Your best efforts. Well, you know what? We did the audit earlier this year. I thought the show really grew from that. I think we found a groove, but I guess it does feel like it's ending, the year's ending on a note of the wheels falling off the wagon right before we get to California. Are you revealing that this is the last episode?

This is the last episode that I accept defeat. that I accept defeat and going forward every episode will be the best it's ever been I think that I yeah do you have any like resolutions for the show as a host I have genuine resolutions if you guys want to hear them for the show

I want to do more creative things because sometimes the week just creeps up on me and then it's friday and then i'm like i have nothing and i i want to do right by the listener more than yeah that shows that tracks yeah um yeah and i have an idea for a mini series that i want to do four episodes of and it's it's more i'm not i don't want to give anything away i want it just to be a surprise drop great yeah so i want to plan that for probably april because so far well it's a mini series that'll take you three months to plan and execute

the idea that I have is very high production value and also I can't do it unless I'm in LA so maybe March but probably April George do you know when Jeff's coming back he's your roommate so I assume he's kept you in the loop well so it's funny you say yes i know he's coming back

end of february but there are things that he has not kept us in the loop about uh where we did have uh he did sublet his room which is fine because like it's not very invasive based on the landscape of our house uh but he's like hey i've got a friend, says their name. It's a name I've never heard him say before. And he's like, they're staying from 12-3 to 12-9. And I'm like, Jeffrey, today is 12-3. Yeah. So six days of a stranger in your house to you. Right.

And then on 12-9, Jeffrey was like, hey, the guest is leaving today. You should have sex in my bedroom. This was something Jeffrey actively encouraged me to try to do. I said, no, thank you. And then the guest ended up staying three more days. So, in spite

of Jeffrey's death. Thank God you didn't take up on the offer. I know. He wanted you. It's so enticing offer. Yeah. So, then the friend stayed anothericing offer. Yeah. So then the friend stayed another three days. But this is not the friend that's doing the housing swap that's living with you now

for three months. No, this was a full extra person. Yeah. She was a friend of a friend. Yeah. Didn't actually know her. And she didn't tell me she was staying

an extra three days did you ever see her George? I know she's like in a downstairs room with a separate entrance I never met her and I would only hear like the sounds of like the gate opening and like walking around

like I knew she was around. But also, we live in an area with a lot of critters. We have a skunk and a possum. Cats. Straight cats. There was a family of raccoons, but then they were killed by a bigger raccoon.

Slaughtered with their intestines all over our front deck. Our other roommate had to call LA Sanitation to remove the raccoon carcasses. Jeez. Yeah. It was pretty gruesome to come home and just see that. I didn't even know that there were raccoons living under that table

until they were dead in front of us. Yeah, to Jeffrey's point earlier about how like the end of the year is really introspective it sort of makes you look in the mirror about your own mortality you know everything we have is

sort of fragile right we'll be that raccoon yeah exactly and does Jeff get paid for the sublet like how does that work if is there a chance he's making a profit off of these strangers

staying with him? Because it's a little unclear about how it works into the greater rent situation. The monetary stuff is sort of a gray area, especially when it comes down to utilities, but we haven't really broken it down face-to-face because of how uninvasive it is.

Yeah, overall it's fine, but it might get to the point where it might be a little weird because like, what if Jeff ends up making a lot of money? Does that go into the overall rent? Because you're the one who's sort of sacrificing your privacy. Exactly. I definitely incur the burden.

But then it's one of those things where you have conflicts with your roommate and you're like, oh, which ones do you elect? I can't make it any louder. I'm trying to make it louder to drown out the subject matter. Right. Right.

It's sort of, and it's not like a conversation that he ever had before. Like, he sort of threw the roommate in and he figured you guys will be polite enough not to make a big stink out of it. Exactly. And it's, like, tested us. And we did ultimately lose that battle and i unfortunately believe we've set a precedent for him to do it again yeah now he considers you guys pushovers and he can sort of do this swap whenever he wants to willard nillard fred willard nillard um if you got if you got she gave me 200 if you and justin want the 200

here we go she gave me 200 the truth comes pouring out normal sublet and they were just giving me whatever i asked for for like whether they were paying my rent or not would you guys like would guys take a cut? I considered this. The fact that it's a housing swap, other than her it's clean, there's no money exchanged. Yeah. But if I was doing a straight

sublet, I probably would have charged extra and then given you guys the extra money. Yeah, I think if we're talking like the swap part of it uh no i think it's if anything it would be like in post how invasive they are like how in not in the next month we will have two different swap people yeah and in the final month it is another complete stranger we know the middle month person but the stranger if they're like an agent of chaos or what have you then i give you a kickback yeah yeah yeah which would be my own personal money

because no one's paying me what if i think you could retroactively ask for it if we gave enough complaints right or do you go to pen to paper on it no of course what if she tries to invoke squatters rights are you concerned about that I don't know I think I'm good at doling out threats like I could I like to insinuate that I have like friends in high places that can do horrible things digitally

you know what I mean like what what could someone do digitally to this person if they refuse to leave well first of all i have a spokio premium account so i can find some information on her and then insinuate that i have more when that's actually all i have so like i find out her previous address and i say i'm like hey you can't invoke swatter's rights this is my house you have to go she's like i'm invoking them and then i'm like okay well then maybe i'll go do that at you know xyz south metropolitan avenue and then she's like how did you know my old address

and i'm like i know a lot of things about you and i can use those things against you because i have a friend not only in the lada's office but also in the ci fucking a what's a Spokio premium account that's just like you can look up people's information CIA by the way I meant the Culinary Institute what did initially drew you to get a Spokio premium to figure out where

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again, like I said, comes reflection. And I'd like to talk about some of our biggest regrets from the year. Let's start with Amir because you probably have the most. Regrets. the mirror because you probably have the most um regrets i feel like i should have there's a lot of stuff building on in the outside of my house that i'm like oh i can use this pandemic to organize or fix like my front gate is kind of fucked up and i keep sort of pushing it off and pushing it off to be like make make a home renovation week happen. And it should probably have already happened because I've had,

what, at this point, 19 months of just being at home doing nothing. But at a certain point, you just get used to how it is and you're like, what's the point? There's no need to actually pay money to fix this thing. I'll just ignore the problem until that becomes status quo and then i'm suddenly not even thinking about it at all but yeah there's probably a bunch of spring cleanings slash home reno stuff that i should have taken care of in the last two years at this point marika uh what are some of your biggest regrets the year um most recently i regret not signing up for ticketmaster fan verification for the olivia rodrigo sour tour um that's what we should call this tour if we do it next year the sour the head gum podcast sour tour yeah we can do it we'll do a poster that looks like the sour album cover it's just you

with stickers all over yeah or like a play on the band poison the poison tour um yeah so those tickets are like a thousand dollars now which is stupid uh i don't know i mean i regret um i regret sitting on my couch so much that my back got bad i feel like that's a 2020 issue. I feel like that's the only thing it could have been. I don't know. It's kind of it. I don't know. It's been a decent year otherwise.

George, biggest regret from the year I regret buying Dogecoin and SafeMoon SafeMoon might swing back yeah at one point I had $6,000 in

SafeMoon and now that same amount is worth $800 so you lost money not until i sell also that's still a profit because i didn't put i put like 500 in i think i put 100 in i meant i haven't checked in a minute but i believe i put 100 in and um it turned to 40. Oh, sorry, it's 30.98 now. Who told you to buy?

Was that a Jeff thing? It was a Jeff thing. Yeah. But I wasn't trying to make it about him because of his whole thing about positivity. But yeah, Jeffrey told me to buy both Dogecoin and SafeMoon. I've been pretty positive this 20 minutes. Yeah. You absolutely have. I thought been pretty positive this 20 minutes. Yeah.

You absolutely have. I thought you were projecting about the rest of us. You've never not been positive about yourself. That's true. That's true. I seize it's happening he's thinking too hard yeah that's fair

how's your dogecoin did you sell your problem was you waited way too late yeah because I was hesitant and then you were like oh it's gonna spike it's gonna hit a dollar on either a 420 or b when elon musk hosts snl it did hit 70 cents on the snl and i should have sold right then because i would have made way more money yeah i sold it like 40 cents i think i broke even or I made like 12 dollars and had a little bit of fun

yeah I mean I rode the wave and I learned about the stock market the stock market through buying and selling this shit coin well you do kind of learn about it like as someone who didn't really know anything about that like about how

it is in like a vacuum vacuum of how rapidly things fluctuate. Now I'm all in on Ethereum, but I obviously don't own a full one. I own a fraction of one, and it's just kind of slowly climbing. I bought GameStop stock, but too late, so I have lost money. Yeah, obviously. Yeah. Did you use Robinhood? No, Vanguard. GameStop stock but too late so I have lost money yeah obviously

did you use Robinhood? no Vanguard this is how we're ending the year I'm just interested in people's investment tools even the way you say things is so momentous what were your biggest regrets Jeffrey? I really didn't have any this year

I went for it this year in every regard. Yeah, I guess so. You moved to New York temporarily. It's a big change. Do you regret getting COVID? Yeah, my one regret is going to the Cheesecake Factory in August. When sort of cases were off the hook.

It wasn't surging at that time. I was like part of the beginning of that small wave. But I don't know. I'm kind of bulletproof now because I'm triple vaxxed. I have the natural antibodies for a couple more weeks probably. I'm golden grams. I'm golden grams. I don't know.

You're golden globes resolutions did you feel that the pause was uncomfortable but then i resolved it with a resolution do you ever play music for that long on this podcast if it weren't like royalty free or public domain like do you ever try to push those limits oh you mean like this we might get away with it this time we might if not i'll edit it out and re-upload here's the thing we need to talk about that's everybody everybody let's get into it and every time he uses it we have to pay the black eyed peas all of our ad money on youtube you guys ever think about the black eyed peas are hip-hop like i feel like they're their own genre yeah they're kind of like imagine dragons is like its own genre it's hip hop which sounds like hip-hop but it's actually hip pop yeah let's talk resolutions what

do you guys want to change about yourselves in the next year I want to take a vacation. Sounds good. I need to take a vacation. Thank you. That's a good goal. Yeah, I feel like I'm very bad at it. In US or out? Romania? Abroad?

I'm trying to go to France. South of France? For Le Mans, as I have previously mentioned. So that's what I'm currently planning in June. Also maybe Montreal. So low or with friends? With one friend that also wants to go to this race. So we're just going to camp in France for five days.

Glamp, actually. I have to reserve our tent. What time of year would that be? June, summer. that's good yeah yeah what part of france uh definitely gonna go to paris but then the race itself is in le mans so jeff was wrong he's answered it was really quick but i wanted to point out that jeff said nice yeah yeah i just don't want anybody to be like, oh, Jeff was right because he said something confidently. I couldn't quite make out what it was.

Yeah. That's not the case. Let's do this because you guys aren't. Oh, sorry. Yeah, because she was answering your question. Yeah, I was. And no, yeah, I think it would be fun. I'm scared of traveling outside the country

I don't do it that often the only time I've been outside the country was to England so it'll be fun to go somewhere else relearning French is a time are you scared of literally traveling like being on a flight or are you just afraid of the

experience of being in a foreign land where people don't speak English? Everything. I mean I feel like the care of it all plus foreign land plus flying. Literally just the same soil. It's the same earth's crust.

What are you afraid of? I cannot hear you say that. You're so bad. You're not good. You're like, yeah. You're a disease. That one is tough to spin positively. Unequivocally I'm bad good feedback

let's get the fucking energy up here that was great that's my resolution that's your resolution that's great let me do this let's do resolution or nah let's go out with a bang

and it's way too similar to everything we've done this year it's cause I didn't have time focus on a passion not the way you look resolution or nah yeah that's a resolution no i'm saying would you guys want to bring that into the fold of your resolutions oh i want to take a furniture making i want to take a furniture making class yeah i'd like to get back into hobbies that i used to do i want to do ceramics again offline hobbies specifically it's good to give your brain and eyes a break i feel like we're

looking at screens all the time yeah do you guys look at your phone while watching tv it's like yeah what's your what's your screen time on your oh my god hours and hours i don't even know i think i'm afraid to even look i watch like full sporting events on there it's it's not a good thing um i'm averaging i'm basically attached yeah i'm i average like eight hours a day on my phone. That's a lot. It's like more looking at your phone than not. Yeah, it's bad. Let me check mine.

Like I'm already watching a sporting event and I'm checking other sporting events on my phone. I'm just like constantly doing two things that aren't good for me at the same time. My daily average, at least for this week, is four hours and eight minutes. Yeah, like imagine getting that down to one hour, which would have been a lot like 10 years ago. Uh, my daily average, at least for this week is four hours and eight minutes. Yeah. Like imagine getting that down to one hour, which would have been a lot like 10 years ago.

Now it feels unattainably low. My daily average for this week. Sorry, I changed it from day to week, uh, is 10 hours and six minutes. I don't know if I've hit double digits yet, but I mean, like just constantly on like, yeah, hang out. Hang out. Yeah. But I, like, do things.

I, like, go to movies and put my phone away. Like, go to the theater. But it's the only, that's the only time where I have my phone not in my hand. Mine's an hour and a half. Oh, my God. Wow. That's part of why I'm really bad at texting people back yeah my messages are most used

seven hours 40 minutes if you're in like group chats it's just like a wrote like a constant rolling room and if you're in like five of them you wake up and there's like 190 messages yeah work out to feel good not to be thin resolution I'm gonna go nah Work out to feel good, not to be thin.

Resolution. Yeah, resolution. I'm going to go gnaw. All right. Why? Because I do want to be thinner. You made it up and you're saying it's gnaw. No, I want to be a waif.

A wake? A waif.ery says awake weird what time did you waif up today waif up this one I know George's answer but stop gossiping now I want to gossip all the time I think gossip is important

yeah gossip is journalism and journalism is gossip all the time. I think gossip is important. Gossip is really important. Journalism's necessary. In a way, I'm speaking truth to power when I say my neighbor was caught jerking off on his balcony last night. George's direct neighbor has a balcony balcony but it's a cat balcony i'm i'm like truly you uh you're never gonna be able to see it never mind that was so ambitious for me to try no no try it you gotta show it all right remember this is being recorded so don't show anything you

don't want me like fully hold up a camera to their house. See that? Oh, yeah. Yeah, the catio, yeah. A cat patio. Yeah. Go a whole day without checking your email. I'm going to actually say nah. It's impossible. Yeah. I mean, maybe if it's like a Sunday during holidays

and there's nothing super pressing, you could probably pull that off. No, let's do Monday morning. Yeah, no. All I want is like iPhones to have a setting where for a certain period of time during a day, you don't see notifications for a specific app. And they're so close to having that because I want that for my email. I want to turn my email only off for end-of-day stuff. But I can't, and therefore I look at it every 20 minutes.

Nice. Just speaking my truth do you want answers to this question that you set us up for because it looks like you're bored every time we actually trend towards giving you what you want i mean it's supposed to be a vehicle for like jokes and you guys aren't like you're just answering them straight yeah that's sort of what i remarked on at the very beginning, was you wanted positivity, whereas, like, I don't know,

you want this show to us be berating you and commenting on how it's bad. Right. You can't have it both ways. What about keep a journal? Can we do that in the new year? Yeah, you can. it's probably a pretty good idea yeah

resolution or nah resolution can we play one of the games where you Venmo us real money George you still owe me $400 $200 but that's the gamble that I take isn't it no I've stopped doing that

because I can't I don't want to get taxed on it and B sometimes people don't send the money back and I can't do that maybe it'll be a special occasion thing what about sanitize your personal belongings is the new years's episode not a

special occasion it could have been if I'd prepared more and I want to be clear that I texted Jeff a week ago about batch recording these and was like should we do a holiday special and he was like yeah I want to do that yeah

and this is what it is Jeffrey asked me to be on this truly five minutes before recording began and that's often how it goes for most people I think it's gonna be better that's a resolution for the new

year a recording schedule we have a recording schedule. We have a recording schedule and it is. It's like Fridays at four Eastern, one Pacific. They're just like, you know, having people sign up again. Yeah, it's just. This this show is crazy because it's like it's the staff of the network. They have real jobs. And so getting people can sometimes be tough.

And people will sign up and then I'll follow up on the day or the day before. And they're like, oh, actually, I can't do it. And then I have to still get someone last minute. So the calendar thing didn't super work that well anyways. But we can try doing it again. What is this? You guys are stone faced and stonewalling me stone faced as you talk about the calendar scheduling for this recording obviously that's when i was talking about that i the fact that i have chronic pain and you are mad about this specifically.

What about removing negativity from your life or anything that makes you feel kind of lousy? Nah, impossible. Next. What about traveling somewhere without a plan? Nah. All right. What about paying off your credit card every month

and then if you want to put something on it that you can't afford, don't? I do that already. What about doing something that scares you once a month? Why? What about going to bed happy every day? Sure, that's nice, but what steps can you doing to...

What steps can you take to make that happen? Smile more. So regardless of how unhappy you are... We can't be doing this in 2021. Quoted Hamilton like three times in the last hour. You quoted Hamilton like three times in the last hour. What about changing your name to Yates? What about that, man?

What about it? What about diving first into something that you don't know if it's going to work out? Diving first or diving head first? What about fucking looking before you leap? That's the same. That's the opposite of the thing you said. Inherently negating one another. So you should say yes to that one, I guess. I was just trying to get a yes out of some of you.

We gave you yeses before, and then you said, this isn't fun what is this and then you yelled at amir you changed the game midway because you don't like our actual resolution i feel bad it's hard to keep the positivity up it's not about positivity it's not about positivity okay what about staying positive you said you definitely said that one already. Really stumbling towards the finish line of this year. This is the episode that deserves to happen at the end of it all. George, what about your pop-ups?

Is there anything you want to do with those? Yeah, I'd like them to be more regular. Once a month. What kind of pop-ups are you doing? The restaurant pop-up that I do with our friend Sarah. It's called Virginia Moss. We also do

private events. What are you making? Where are these places? We have different venues around, but we are in talks with a brewery space to just set up there

and pop up pretty regularly. We do upscale Southern. Which one? Mumford. Yeah. Mumford's kind of fire. What kind of Southern food? So like a touffee or like we do a lot of oysters or like we'll do like fried green tomatoes like that kind of stuff but sort of

dressed up yes why are you Jeff you look like you were laughing at something earlier I wasn't I was just scratching my chin I actually my in a very

sincere plug my dad was on the today Show talking about rice last week. Why don't you send that to everybody? Yeah, I'll send it. It's very cute because our cousin grows rice in South Carolina and Carolina gold rice. And so we're talking about that process. And then my dad was on like cooking Hoppin' John and stuff. And the interviewer is like,

they tell me you're a famous chef. And he's like, oh, really? It was very funny. Oh, there it is. How South Carolina rice could help you live to a hundred my name is roland chalmers that's my cousin all my life this is like five minutes long so we don't have to watch it you can scroll to the middle if you want to rice seven days a week he's my dad wow traditions he's been cooking since he's been 10. i need that shirt rice is like

oh my god his mouth is filled with rice there incredibly famous as a chef oh yeah it's so good it's so funny that's the moment I wanted to see wow oh my god you can push any button

that's gonna be the worst sound I've ever heard I have to cut that one out do you have you seen the movie The Mask yeah do you have somebody stop me that would be really good that's a good yeah i will eat your ass you're not that guy pal trust me you're not that guy

what if this was like my mk ultra like sleeper thing like i have to listen to all these and then i become the world's greatest assassin. You are the winter soldier. Stop it. Just choose one and end the episode. You can call me daddy. You can call me daddy do you realize that Amir left? Yeah. Okay. That's the one you chose to end on.

Horrible. that was a Hidgum original