The Headgum Podcast - The Headgum Podcast is Over - And Other Good News!

Episode Date: February 27, 2026

What was once The Headgum Podcast is now called "That's Funny." A new weekly comedy podcast hosted by Geoffrey James and featuring all your favorite guests from The Headgum Podcast's entire run. Head to https://www.patreon.com/ja to subscribe!---For the inaugural episode, Geoff gathers Jake, Amir, and returning superstar Marika, to discuss Headgum's trip to San Francisco, new names for Greenland, and "cuisine as art." Plus, they reprise the game Haggis Baggis and put Jake in the That's Funny Hot Seat!---» FOLLOW Geoff on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/geoffreyjames/» FOLLOW Amir on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amir/» FOLLOW Jake on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jakehurwitz/» FOLLOW Marika on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marikaelon/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Hey, this is Jeffrey James. Checking in on the back catalog of the HeadGum podcast here to plug our Patreon over at patreon.com forward slash headgum. We're releasing four episodes per month as well as one headgum sketch for $5 a month. So that's $1 per piece of content. Now that may not be worth it to some. Again, that's patreon.com slash headgum. See you guys over there.

Hey guys, Jeff here. Now, if you're listening to this podcast called That's Funny and you're like, what the hell is this? You might be interested to know that the headgum podcast is dead. It's gone. It is over. It's now called That's Funny. And it lives over on patreon.com slash JA under a new umbrella launched by me and Jake

and Amir called J&A Studios. We're doing weekly episodes of the show. That's funny over there. As well as monthly sketches, weekly Jake and Amir watch Jake and Amir's and much, much more at a high. tier, you can even join the Riley and Jeffrey Zardis, which is Zoom parties, which we do once a month, where if you pay at the higher tier, you can come on Zoom and just hang out. Tons of fun we're having over there, and we're constantly meeting every week trying to see

what more content we can add behind the paywall to make it worth your $49 monthly payment. Now, again, that's patreon.com slash JA. Enjoy this, which I think is the first episode of That's Funny. And if you like what you hear or what you watch, go subscribe. at patreon.com slash JA. We'll catch you behind the paywall. It's a new job. Should we give notes now?

Or like, I didn't hate the jazz thing, but I don't know if you, like, want the feedback as we go or like all the way at the end of this, like, what I think is turning out to be a practice episode or a dummy episode, basically. Already. We're rolling on a person. Yeah.

We hadn't even said. We should still roll. Just in case I do something funny. That's clippable. So far, all you've done is, like, enter with this milk toast energy. And you've shot me down immediately. I didn't even hate the jazz.

So close to the camera. I didn't even hate the jazz. Literally. The jazz is your note is you didn't hate it? I'm just, let's see, let's hear like 10 options and we can decide. Okay. It's giving sports.

It's giving money and night football. Yesp. Yeah. So that one was worse I tried to like I was trying to save it there by like playing along and like dancing but like I didn't feel that in my core core

Well it's hard because the other one was a Marika joint By the way we haven't even mentioned the fact that it's Marika's first episode of whatever this fucking is for what four months? Three months? I guess it's everyone's first episode of whatever this fucking is but I'm back. Is that what we're calling it?

No, we're calling it, that's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. Well, that's funny. That's funny. That's funny. Guys, welcome to the first episode of That's Funny. Yes.

You're embarrassed. Look, we were at the, we had our, we just had our show in San Francisco three days ago. And after the show, we were saying hi to a couple people. And Amir turned and whispered. to me and was like they don't even know that this is the last episode of the head gun podcast ever or something like that. Nobody here knows they just attended a fucking funeral. I was going to say an iconic live event. And then I showed you a gun that I had. This is my piece. And it was like a really nice one wrapped in like a cloth. Yeah. There's no way you're going to shoot this. It was a shiny revolver. Yeah. It was a Colt 44 while you drink a Colt 45 and merchage.

merch idea that I think you will really like is that we're a hat but instead of SF it says TF that's funny that's funny really that's really funny that's a really funny that's a really funny here's another one no not that one not this one it's too short I think yeah I was saying I was hoping it'd be like 45 to 60 seconds. I like that it was like sexy. It was a little sexy. No. No, no, no, no.

This one irks me already. Listen, the theme songs are work in progress. I'm wondering if we also maybe take fan submissions. I don't really know. Or if we should get another Marika on the sex. This one with no backing track. Just an a cappella sax. Marika's brothers of saxes.

A solo. Well, Marika's druthers is the name of the theme song. Guys, this is That's Funny, the sort of next-gen iteration of the Headgum podcast. It's not going to be so different that you want for the Headgum podcast, but it's not going to be so the same that it doesn't feel like we're moving in the right direction. Will we still do Bond of the Week? I think it's over. So it's already better than the headgum pod. I think we'll do it the day the guy's cast.

It's a sort of a merry-convo situation. Change your voice before the show starts. Because that was one of the biggest issues with the headgum pop. Nobody said that. One of the biggest issues? Yeah, but people thought it maybe. I'm just saying we're moving houses. And you're deciding.

what to bring or not and like the bottom of the week you're like let's just I hear the vote he has like a vocal throw this way that's like really upsetting that's like it's like tinny it's tiny cannot change it it's it's giving me it's the valley it's also uncanny valley that sounds like an animatronic voice that's the only option there is you can't just make up a different voice you have like a gutteral oil like do you gargle it yeah I mean gargle sometimes like mouthwash like a coconut oil Like the listery that you have to talk as much as you are. My picture is your oil pulling. Right.

But you're not like you're swallowing the oil. Right. I'm not swallowing any oil. Which by the way, it's not going to thin you into an idea. It's going to thick you into a Torah. Meaning? You're going to balloon out if you're swallowing the oil. Yeah.

Yeah. There it is right that. You hear that? Yeah. It's like gutteral, you know, and you're a garg oil. A guttural gargoyle that guzzles oil What's the first segment? What's the first?

Gargoyle or no? Yeah. So the soundboard is most of the same. I've cleaned up the soundboard a little bit And what we'll probably have to do is add from here, right? Would you say you Marie Kondoad the soundboard? I would say I'm Marie Kondo. Yeah.

Because she's back. Marika Doe. Here's a segment that we're going to keep. Word of the Dode. day, right? People love this shit. Keeping this. You don't like Word of the Day. We don't have that. We don't have anything.

It's like that was sort of a goal. It's a wax episode. At that point, what do we really at? I like that idea. Is it at least a new version of Word of the Day? Because we've gone through iterations. It's not a new version.

All right. It's just a portman. So, yeah, I was going to say. Because it's one foot in the familiar, one foot in the new. Sure, sure, sure. So the word of the day is homel me. Homel me? So, you know, like a homily where like a priest gets up and gives a speech during a mass?

Not really. Well, this is a homal me, which is like a religious speech given by a deacon. Not about Christ, but about himself and why he's good. Okay. And that counts as a religious speech. I mean, false idols. I don't know if he's like worshipping himself. Oh my God, nobody is fucking safe.

Nobody is safe. That was absolutely sad. What about this? Saloon vibe. Yeah. A little rag tiny. I kind of like that, yeah. This sucks.

No. Also, it's like not. Yeah. Yeah. It's like a midi file from 1994. It feels like it's playing through a different. Yeah Sounds like it would be

Something from the greatest showman Yeah, a little too whimsical, I think Guys, let's talk about the SF Sketchfest show For a little bit Why? What's that? Why? Sort of out with the old and with the news situation I wasn't there, so

Why are we relitigating? And can you call it Frisco Instead of SF or San Francisco? I think people from that kind of bay area, they call it Frisco. I think people from Oakland call it Frisco. Yeah. So we're in Frisco. I don't know how East Bay any of us are.

I went to Berkeley. Yeah, why don't you just say we were in the Bay? Huh? So you don't want to talk about it at all? No behind the scenes magic. Nothing. It feels like we have to recap for people who were there or not. So Marika wasn't there.

The other three of us were. A lot of the listeners were there. A lot of them weren't. I'm wondering if there was a funny story that we could tell. Like, for example, Anya tried to get Amir like an amuse bouch for his birthday and ended up getting a platter of shrimp tempera role, which Amir hates a lot. So it's only shrimp. That's just an example of a funny story.

We went to Benihana. Katie and Ali went to Benihana twice. Which I think is pretty funny. Yeah, they went to lunch. Yeah, they went for lunch. And then they wanted to run it back for dinner. And it's a very really heavy, big meal to do once a week, let alone two and two days. Yeah.

Let alone, we didn't, we weren't eating the, you know, the heaviest part of the meal until 10.30. It was like pretty late. Yeah. It was so much garlic butter. You were still on East Coast time. Yeah, I felt, I felt, I felt, bizarre. I wanted to, like, I didn't realize how, I was like, I was like, all right, I'm going to sit down and we'll get some food. And then like, nobody came over for such a long time. It was like 10, 15,

and they brought out our salad. And I was like, I don't want to, I don't want to be here anymore. It's 2 a.m. for my body. It wants sleep. Did you ever get sick? It sounded like you were trending towards that. No. I was, I was trying to tell you, I wasn't sick. There was some kind of, like, pressure in my ears from the flight that made talking just sound my voice sounded weird and I couldn't really hear myself your voice sounded weird

yeah it sounded like I was yeah the flight like so you know I thought he was sick yeah it's it sounded like I had a head cold and it felt like I just had so much pressure in my ears and it wouldn't it wouldn't pop yeah but Benny Hana was fun for sure

it looked fun It was fun for every reason other than the food. My flight was delayed for seven hours and actually ultimately nine hours or no, ultimately 11 hours by the end of the day. But you got on a different flight, right? I got on a different flight, which was also delayed. I was supposed to fly out at 9 a.m. and I didn't fly out until 3.15th. Christ.

So you got back home when at like 2 in the morning? No, I got home around. 12.15 a. Yeah. It's pretty good. That's funny. Yeah. Any other tales from the weekend? You guys want to spin the yarn?

It seemed like the shrimp plus the Benihana was the big two. Mission Chinese. We did do Mission Chinese on Saturday night. Everyone loved it except for a mere. I didn't not love it. I thought it was fine. How is the burrito? I like that salt.

Yeah, I like the burrito. Yeah, I like the burrito. The burrito was very nice. There was fries inside the burrito. And I think that's everything I ate. California burrito. Yeah, that wasn't the one I recommended, but... Where was this?

I was at a place that I sent everyone and said... You hate you not being involved in one food thing. Listen to your voice. You're freaking out. Yeah, what burrito was that? This doesn't matter. Because I feel like I didn't hear... I didn't catch wind of that.

Was it a Zim-Zam? Yeah, I ended up having a burrito by myself. before the show you would have I would have loved to have seen that. I would have loved to have seen that. Because he took a selfie and he sent it to our group chat. I missed that one for sure. Because I feel like I was like

Oh, you probably have a turned around. Yeah. Yeah. I had a great weekend in San Francisco. I got to see the Bob Weir Memorial. I was crying. Mayer played Ripple. It was unbelievable out there.

We were going nuts. There was a hawk circling. And everyone thought it was Bob. Did it you not like San Francisco? I have a distinct memory like 10 years ago you saying San Francisco is one of your least favorite cities. 10 years ago, the fact that the Warriors were whooping the calves' ass made me hate the town, let alone the city. But now I'm obsessed with the joint. And I think we should move this J&A Studios headquarters to the fucking Fillmore.

I kind of agree because I also had kind of like, I wasn't crazy about Frisco at all. I was like. Really cool. Yeah. It kind of felt like, you know, just like a little bit dirty, nasty, lawless, bedlam, gross. Like what is happening here? Listless, too, you were saying. Listless.

Yeah. Aimless. But then this time when I went, when my flight was delayed for seven to nine hours, I actually went to a very cute little neighborhood spot, went to a cafe called Jane. I went to... And just, like, walking around, I'm like, this is really, really lovely. I could...

I think being in a neighborhood versus that, like, downtown area. Yeah, like... You support Uber sort of taking over the city, is what you're saying. I think gentrification... Oh, my God. Gentrification is a boon. To society. A roo, what you said?

A boon. A Benson Boon. I thought you were saying it was like a gumbo. A roo. Oh, yeah. More like a gumboat. Have you ever rood a soup? Like, maybe you have a bowl and yeah, you're like, I shouldn't have had that.

So this show will be mostly the same, it seems. Yeah. That seems. But yeah, I had the Bob Weir Memorial was unbelievable. Then we went to Mission Chinese. I was like prepping for the show a little bit that day. Oh, also I went on a great hike at the Mernan Highlands. I think that matters.

It does. I was checking the surf report. The surf report was also really great. Yeah, you can serve so much. Here's the thing about SF that I've thought. I'm just saying nothing. This is that boring to hear. It's the best.

Sorry, yeah. I'm like shaking at the thought of it. I think SF is the best of New York in L.A. When I first went to L.A. When I was like 13 or something, I thought it was going to be New York on the sea. Because I'd spent my whole childhood going to New York like once or a year to see my grandfather because my mom's from Long Island.

And I was like, oh, it's the second biggest city in the world. It must be just New York. But I hear it has beaches. And then you get to L.A. And it's just like fucking shaker heights. but worse. The thing is LA is trash.

I was going to say it's kind of garbage. Malibu's the climate. People always are like oh, the weather is amazing but the traffic, but it's actually both the weather and the traffic are bad.

I feel like the weather is either too scalding hot or I want to be somewhere else. And then it's if it's really, you don't want to be somewhere else. It's not a livable city. I think it's

all about Frisco. The best part of L.A. is that it's affordable compared to New York. And the best part of L.A. is that you can get to Frisco in a six-hour drive, so you can really go there every day. Right. I like the canyons I do. I like the beach and I like the restaurants. The canyons are in L.A., the canyons are a barren wasteland of dust and trash. Like, it's not nice nature. It used to be. That's true. That is true.

But you ever go to like, I don't know. Frisco? Frisco. Yeah. No, I think the food in L.A. is better than New York and San Francisco.

What's that? I think the food in L.A. is better than the other two cities. Please, let's move on. We have to keep going. We spent like 40 minutes talking about my fucking concussion shit last week. And I was like, this isn't interesting. It's one of a kind. And the fucking commenters

were like this is incredible. The first conversation ever. We have to power through. I'm not comparing it. I'm not comparing it. I'm just saying the food, the weather. I didn't talk about, I didn't get to finish talking about my weekend in Trisco.

It's singularly bad, Los Angeles. We went to Mission Chinese. We did. Everyone loved the food. He's saying you went to Mission Chinese. For eight people, it was $200. It should have probably been a movie. Guess how much money Benny Hana probably was, I think.

You didn't see the check. A thousand dollars. Nobody knows how many people were there. So that number means nothing. Amir was complaining a lot about mission Chinese. He was like, this is spicy. This is, and if it isn't spicy, it's salty. And I'm like, Amir, everyone else is having a great dinner.

My weekend was kind of, uh, windy. Kind of boring. I watched a lot of. of industry. I saw Avatar. What do you mean a lot of industry? You're watching the old the old season? Yeah, I was catching up. What do you think of the first? Are you on to season four yet? No, I have one more episode of, I have the season finale of season three. And then I'm there.

Season finale is fucking great. Industry is such a good show. It's really good. That's funny. And I'm excited for four. I've seen, I'm seeing clips. It looks good. Can't wait. First episode. I only saw the first episode, but it's super funny. Man, what a great show. Guys, let's talk about J&A Studios, right? This new event. One second. Yeah. Amazing that this is going to go after 20 minutes of Mission Chinese talk.

If you made it this far. Yeah, let's announce what we're doing now. Is this your announcement? Is this what you have to use as the announcement? Yeah, I mean, are you guys, this is like a new venture kind of. It's like bringing everything from the Jake and the Mier to the Headgun podcast, the Marika of it all. the Riley and Jeff into one umbrella for just $5 a month, right? Instead of paying for the Riley and Jeff Patreon and the Jacoboogne Patreon and the

headgun Patreon, we're bringing it under one umbrella, which we will open inside because this whole thing is bad luck to you. So if you pay, don't be surprised if you go and, you know, find yourself being audited, right? Bad luck to you is a really good name for a production studio. It might be better than Jake and Amir Studios. Yeah, I was going to ask if you had any alts for JNA Studios. Yeah, that could be a winner. Yeah, what were the other ones we talked about?

We talked about Motor Mouth. Mission Chinese Motor Mouth. Chinese studios. Yeah. Salt and pepper affairs studios, pictures. Salt and pepper affairs is kind of good because it's older. Yeah. What about garlic?

These are your affairs? Yeah. Garlic a lot. Productions. Garlic a lot. Yeah. I mean, we should probably just use one of the words of the day. Do you keep those logged somewhere?

I don't mind the hominy one. Homomy. Homomomee. Yeah, homil me. Homil me. Homil me. Homomomee. Hamo, homo, homo, homo, homo me.

Homomomomomom. Enough. Enough. Pictures. You're 43 now. Let's take this shit seriously. That's right. The show was on my birthday.

You got me a cheesecake. That was ill-advised. Yeah, how I was doing a live show on your birthday? It was nice. because then I sort of made the whole show about me. So, like, a lot of the times, like, other people were talking, but, yeah. Did you end up having the... It's, like, everybody's here for me in my special day, and I was, like, the number one

birthday boy, which was nice. I had some cake, and then people sang to me, which was nice. And then we went to Benihana, and I had to wear a hat, which was cute. And, like, everyone was celebrating me, which was nice. That was nice. Yeah, I was wearing, like, a hat. We didn't do that for my birthday when we did the show. Really?

Well, I got you a bunch of cookies that you love. Yeah. Well, yeah, a lot of people ate them, but you did give me cookies. That I wasn't, that wasn't my fault. No, it was. Yeah. Did we sing happy birthday? I think so. I think that happened. Yeah. Yeah, we love to put live shows on people's birthday.

So maybe we do a That's Funny Live in New York on November 28th. I think we should be able to get a monthly or every other monthly show going. I think we do every other month. in LA or sorry, I'll be in New York every time. Guys, I'm sorry, my birthday's on a fucking Saturday this year. I think we got to do, Marika, just, yeah.

I'm obviously on your side. I want us to feel like a team, but you want to say it. I was going to say, we do like a live show at the Bell House. Right. Okay. Why Bell House? Isn't it a little Thanksgiving weekend? It is, but you know, people maybe travel for it, you know?

Yeah. Right. There's a lot of people in New York City on Thanksgiving weekend. And everybody, everyone comes into town that weekend. Gameris does his shit on Thanksgiving Eve and it always goes off without a hitch. Yeah. He has like the built-in cachet that you lack. Yeah, it's been doing it for like 10 years plus. Yeah, but one time he did it for the first time.

So I wonder if we do that. I mean, I like it. Let's try. Yeah, doing it like ECB for the first time. I think it should be wine themed. So like a power hour, but wine. Not power hour. I think it should.

should be like road tripping, you know, where we're like really having a nice bottle. I thought you haven't had alcohol in the year. Yeah. I wonder if I could stomach a glass of red, let alone sherry. It equals to crack like a like a $600 bottle of wine. Yeah. Lose money every single show. And then we could, you know, maybe even have some sherry afterwards when we could do an after,

after at Fort Charles Prime rib. And I walked in and I'm opening the bottle and I'm like, Sherry. I live around the corner on Morton. Guys, once the U.S. annexes Greenland, whether by negotiation or four... We're done with those studios, things sort of didn't really address. We've got hundreds of episodes to figure out what this shit is. I said it's bringing it under one umbrella.

We're going to have that's funny weekly video episodes. We're going to have segment. We're going to have Jake and Amir, watch Jake and Amir. We're going to have sketches as my... as we can. We're going to have Riley and Jeff hosted Zoom parties, maybe with some more familiar faces here. We're going to have

what was the other thing? Really, we could put anything here, whereas when we were at HeadGum, it was a little bit of an odd fit because we had large podcasts and then also like me and Jeff doing sketches sometimes. This feels like a more natural fit.

It's a home. It's a home base for all of the stuff that you guys hopefully love to see. and this way my taxes will be way easier as well because it'll be what's that they will not be they will not be because you are now a light you're a participant in the jacon amir LLC you are going to be brought on as in a partnership fashion you'll be getting a 1099 not a k1 ameer and i will be getting the k ones that's what i was talking about that's going to be pretty easy for expenses any expenses outside of the show and you'll be

sending them to us. There's going to be a licensing agreement. Yes, there's going to be a licensing agreement. We will own this show. Let's go to fucking Maison Pickle. What is that? For what? This dude, like to talk about the shit. Yes. Okay.

Yeah, I'll go. Okay. On Pickle. We have so much time to talk about what JNA Studios is, but for now let's leave it at this. It's an umbrella for all of your favorite. Jake and Amir, Riley and Jeff, Marika adjacent. Marika and Jason

content. How about this? Jake and Amir Studios, it's more of the same. Mm. Light pretty good. Because more of the same is...

Okay. Well, because I'm kind of flipping that term on its head. It actually is more. Yeah, but it's more. No one's going to read it with that intonation. It's going to look like shit written down.

You'd have to clip that audio. It's a double on tonne. It's more of the same. It still sounds like shit. It doesn't sound like shit. You're not giving a fucking chain. Yeah, can we see Dingo while your, well, those little tails up?

Dingo, come here, pal. Come here, Bubba. Jake, I mean, can you also turn your camera? I think people would be fascinated to see the new space that you've got. Come here. Because this might be where we might end up shooting some sketches.

Oh, there he is. Oh, my Sheila. Sit. Can you sit, Dingo? That's a good boy. Oh, look. He's a sweet. He's a sweetie.

So, yeah, this is, This is Motor Mouth Studios. Yeah, and we should say this is in Soho. This is in Soho. We should say that. It's really close to Morton. Yeah, not too far from us. Just a stone's throw from Rails.

What's that? It's a French restaurant that sells 10 bar burgers a night. You really haven't spent much time in Manhattan. You don't get it. They sell 10 hamburgers every night. The headgum, the headgum New York office is no more. I've struck out on my own and

yeah, and we're here. And now Jeff can come into New York and we can shoot stuff in this space. It'll be fun. Guys, once the U.S. annexes Greenland, whether by negotiation or force, what should we call it? Because I'm thinking we trial Davis. Is it called trial Davis?

No, I'm thinking like a period of time where we try Davis on for size and see if the international community starts to love the island. I'm not hating trial Davis. You want it to be named trial Davis. Yeah. Because nothing really matters.

Yeah, and I think it's better than just Davis. Yeah. Because there's no reason why things need to be called Blankland. You know, it can be just called trial Davis. Trial Davis. And would the city still be called Godfarm? I think maybe Godfarm Mavon. Godfab Mavin.

Yeah. We could do JNA Studios Godfarm slash bad luck to you studios Godfarm in Trial Davis. How do you even get there? How would you get there? Sorry, sit.

I'll slow down. Say it again. All we ever do is just say words. You know what I mean? Yeah, but that's what a podcast is. Yeah. That's a tagline. Hell, that's more of the same.

Jake, what's been, because I feel like we talk a lot about what you're proud of of, Gemma? What's been the biggest disappointment about her thus far. And don't limit yourself to just one answer. But she, yeah, I mean, it's hard to answer a question that cynical, right? Yeah. Because it's also, in a way, it's pretty cyclical because you're going to have another

kid and I'll ask again. If I think of an area where like, oh, man, I'd like to see her do more of blank. Sure. Like the way you asked it and the way you want, like it feels like you want to weaponize the information against me. Well, it's also like you could just, you could say like, she's gonna keep disappointing you, you know what I mean? Right. Like, there's always going to be something.

Yeah. Yeah. Like, I want her to eat more vegetables or something. Never gonna happen. Yeah. Right. Yeah, exactly. That's the type of thing. What do you call a cabinet with a nasally voice? Uh, let me guess. Cabinet. A Fran Dresser. I feel like we could have gotten there. What country do you guys think has the best food in the world? What country has the best food in the world?

Oh, did I stutter? Oh, fuck. Yes, sometimes. Sometimes you do. Let's go fucking Denmark. I don't know. Because they invented the Danish? Because that's where.

Noma. Noma is coming to L.A. Do you guys see this? Copenhagen? Yeah, Copenhagen is up. But I think the best like the best food, it's got to be a place like Italy that has the freshest

ingredients. It could be Italy. It could be Italy. You could also we could taste the bottom of it here. It could be Cincinnati or something. That's a city. So it can't be that. But I mean, you can get Mexico.

or pizza there. It could be China. Chipotle and Quisnos. You know, because you have the Cantonese, you have the Sejuwon. I'm wondering if it's Japan a lot. Just people's opinions. Yeah. Because Japan has like tepaniaki.

It has sushi. So does America. Yeah. Yeah, but it's like... Everything you're describing is in America. Yeah, but Japan also has burgers. You know what I mean? Like, it also has ribs.

Exactly. So do we. Yeah. It could also be trial. It could be Trial Davis. Because trial Davis I'm not even mad at in terms of best food in the world. Yeah. Look it, it could be trial Davis.

I actually heard a funny joke on Reddit the other day if you guys want to try to guess. No, that's all right. What's your guys' dream car? Mine question would be better than that. No, I'm serious. Yeah, I know. That's what I'm saying.

Like, my riddle would be kind of clever. Yours is just like, yeah. What's orange and sounds like a parrot? A parrot? Trump. That's funny. The fuck is... Oh, it's a carrot.

Yes, very good. Oh, sorry. A jaguar. Like, what do you want me to say for a tree? My dream car is a Waymo so that it makes money when I'm not in it. I'm sad I didn't get to ride in a Waymo when we were in Frisco. Yeah. There's no Waymo's in New York, huh?

In LA, they have them, right? Marika, here's what we should try and promise to the audience. That's funny live show in London within the next two years. Within the next two weeks. That would actually be perfect for me. Don't give yourself two years. I think it has to be in the next year, because in two years, we're going to run out of steam.

This will be a defunct bad luck to you domain parking website. Well, let's have some aspirations, I guess. Yeah. Okay. Let's say in the next 12. London in one year. Yeah. In one year, then I think it should be on my birthday.

Thanksgiving weekend. They're not celebrating Thanksgiving. You know, actually, I have a NAD pod show in London in September of next year. I wonder if we do a, yeah, double header. What venue? Yeah. What do you guys? O2.

I don't know if I can, because it's not on sale yet. It is, it's an O2. I mean, all of the venues, I think, are O2. Right. But the, we could do something like the Soho. theater, which is 120 seats, just like while I'm there could be kind of interesting.

I think let's lock that in, and then I wonder if we do hot. Because we don't know anything yet. How can you possibly? I just think that it's not a coincidence that the Soho Theater in London is right next to a restaurant called The Taste of Joy.

I'm looking at it as we speak. Got it. By the way, no pull. I just sold out fucking Bats Impro Theater 200 seats in San Francisco. That was a high school. Yeah. Yeah. No, that's great.

And look at this. It's another coincidence. There's a show in September of 2022 called Brown Boys Swim, which was basically my whole vibe in high school. Brown Boys Yo-Yo. All right, guys, I'm trying to write a fucking classic novel. Still, so we are breaking up. You don't like this one? Nobody likes it.

You don't like any of the segments then. The audience doesn't like this segment. Can I at least, then let's make this a fucking dog-walked funeral. Right? Okay. The final novel is called Fogger. It's a children's book about a man whose eyes literally fog up a lot

while he's trying to cross the street. He gets hit by a student driver and dies. The student driver gets the chair. Moral of the story, don't let your eyes get all fogged up. Not even glasses, eyeballs. Not glasses, his eyes. Thank God it's gonna end with that one.

Also, this is a novel, based on the game Frogger. Oh yeah, I guess it is based on a Frogger. Guys, welcome to a segment that I like to call. That's funny, colon, cuisine as art. This is where we're going to sort of... The chicken and bad chicken. It's Diet Coke Chicken Night.

We're going to sort of review online food vlog. So here we go. Talk to me about... about 81 Dean Street. Yeah, that's the Soho Theater. Okay. Brown boys swim and then obviously over here you have the taste of joy. Joy, right.

Yeah, here we go. All right. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. I wonder what's wrong with this woman's eye. It's called Kobe. James gets free pop at work.

And whenever he brings home a couple cans of Diet Coke, I know that's kind of my cue to make Diet Coke chicken. I'm adding my ketchup. I've gotten like solitaire. Now I just kind of eyeball it. Everything about this meal gets worse and worse. If you want to know exact measurements, just type in Diet Coke chicken. I'm all right.

It's not any search engine and it'll pop right up. Like I'd give the benefit of the doubt if it was regular Coke. Right. That's the thing. It's diet. So far, so far it's veering barbecue sauce. Right. If it was regular Coke.

And then I'm going to go ahead and add. in the good chicken what good what's the difference she cut off some fat but not really light versus dark meat maybe 45 minutes only have so much rice left so we're just gonna need to know what's wrong with her eye it got all fogged up yeah it's like exactly a cup that's not exactly a cup she's washing it what's funny. What's funny? The side show to that's funny.

That's our post show. That's our Patreon exclusive. What's funny. Oh my God. What the hell is happening? Cold pineapple. She poked herself in the other eye. Like a burger patty.

Oh, no. Boiled. Why? No, it's over. It's done. Plates. I hope you all had a great day. I'll talk to you later.

By the way, the iPad switched. Yeah, I was going to say. There's no way. Maybe that's a joke. You think so? What are the comments? They say, they're universally positive.

Yeah. Woof. What else? What else? That was all I had. I don't know, man. It's sort of up to you to keep the conversation in the second. No, that was all I had.

So like, end the show with some gravity and not like what else. A whole danger of a first episode. I wonder if once we do the show at Soho Theater, we go across the street, record an episode at All Is Joy Studios. Oh, that's good. All is joy and bad luck to you. Are you guys hearing this? Are you seeing this?

Yeah, the Haggis Bagus opening credit. What if we call it the Shohoh? Oh. Baggis. Or the. So-show. What's going on here? This is a segment I like to call Haggis Baggis. You guys got to talk to over it, so I might have to... I don't think it was important to see what it was.

Yeah, here we go. Can't hear it. Yeah, you stop sharing your screen so we can't see or see. If at this very moment you were given five seconds to choose between this for your relaxing pleasure or this for your living pleasure, which one would you select? that's one of the choices to be made by today's contestants on haggis baggis and now welcome to haggis jaggis this is uh an old timey we did this on the headgun podcast once now we're doing it on that's funny twice uh no um guys this is a segment i just called haggis jaggis more of the same but you know

again one foot in the familiar one foot in that do so many layers now now Now, this is a game show where you guess, you know, from category and letters. So, you know, foods that could be sexual could be like chips or whatever. And then you reveal that block of a celebrity's face. And then you try to guess who the celebrity is as it's revealed before the last box is, you know, taken away. You guys ready? And my question is, like, is it a specific thing? It is a specific thing per grid.

There are right and wrong answers. So we're trying to guess who is going to be revealed. Yeah. Are you ready? Sure. Sure. Okay. Pants that outline your shaft just so Jay would be jeans.

That's going to go ahead and be wrong as shit. Pants that outline your shaft just so chinos. Correct. There we go. A driver. Nope. That is wrong, yeah. All right, you ready?

Yeah. Drugs. C, cocaine. That's not really correct. The fuck. Foods that can be sexual, banana. That's not true. It is.

Foods that can be sexual cucumber. No. Yes. Okay. Amir's flaws, bad. Oh, no, Amir's flaws is Jewish. I was gonna say jaundice. He likes a good jaundice joke.

That's funny, but that's not true. No. Because he doesn't have it. Are you guys seeing it, or is it blocked by anything? Yeah, we see like a little sliver of a white hair. Yeah, that's not true. Pants that outline your shaft just sew, jeans, comma, salvaged denim.

No. Oh. Okay. Pants that outline your shaft just so. Bonobos for B. Close, but no cigar. Jant. Amir's flaws is cold. Drugs B.

Sporic acid. You need an answer. Yeah. You just said, I'll give you that one, even though it's barely wrong. We were looking for Budesonide, which is sort of an anal foam. This looks like a Confederate soldier. Wrong. That's not true. David Byrne.

It is not David Byrne, but that's a bad guess. Food that can be sexual jello. That's not true. None of it is true. No, if you guess it right, Do you guys want a hint?

Yeah, sure. For which square do you want to hint? Amir's flaws, B. Okay. Think Charlie X-C-X's album. I'm a brat. Correct! I feel like all weekend last week, you were kind of like, oh, shit.

Got his ass. You were his face. Matt about the president. It's a president. It's not a president. It's like a president. General or something. Yeah, like an old time you wore.

Robert Lee. That's what I guess. I'll give you the hint that it is a president. General Nelson. That was a president? Yeah. James Buchanan. No, fucking moron.

Miller, Philmore, Franklin Pierce. Just keep guessing the squares. John Tyler? I don't know enough president's names. Zachary Taylor. I know all of them. That was Martin Van Buren. Correct.

It is Zachary Taylor. The man who died from drinking milk and having a cherry. I didn't even know there was a president named Zach. Can you tell us the Can you tell us all the answers?

I can, yes. So for foods that can be sexual, we were looking for corn, borsed, though we would have also taken beats and just egg. For pants that outline your shaft just so, it was chinos, which Marika got. Brackay, which is wool trousers worn chiefly by the ancient gals,

and joggers. For Amir's fault. Nice, or can I keep going? Both. Amir's fault, it was C for clingy. I feel like he never sort of lets us go. Not really. Yeah.

People are texting me a lot. Yeah. Be brady and Jay jealous, because I feel like, you know, Jake's doing the Sydney Opera House. He's done Carnegie. He's going to do Radio City. And then he's doing O.T. Shepherds Bush. He's never said to grasp.

And then I feel like, yeah, he hasn't grasped the idea that he could also have fame. It's like Ben Schwartz also does that too. So it's like two of his huge friends. It's hard, yeah, because Ben's doing well. Like for a while, it was like Ben through the moon, you know. And then you and Jake were sort of on this plateau. But Jake pushed through so much so that he might even end up with a. third house. He hasn't quite got, he might have a Hurwitz compound. And then there's going to be a

Blumenfeld. I don't know. The Hurlitz estate. That's not a bad name for a company. A Blumenfeld dump. That's true. That's what I call it when I post on Instagram. So I'll just say like, here's a Blumenfeld dump. And it's like not necessarily from 2016, but just like photos of my family and stuff. Yeah, but it's, you know, it is from 2016 in that you haven't moved on from then. And you talk about, about it a lot because that was kind of when you're he kicked. Yeah. Yeah. I don't really talk about it a lot.

Valid fears. It was crabs, bowls, and jokes. Bowls? Yeah, it's like, what if, you know, I put my food in a bowl and then it stays hot so long that I burn the roof of my mouth and then I ruined dinner later. And he was kind of always, oh, I thought these were a mere's valid fears. Never mind. No, but he has a lot of fears and he is full of it.

Yeah. Drugs, it was colase, which is a stool softener. Budesinide, which is an anal foam, and then Jardians, which is a diabetes medication. And talk to me about the anal foam. What is that helpful for? Yeah. That's kind of all he's got, I guess.

No, it's just an anal foam. I mean, yeah. No, it's just an anal foam. It's for gastro-intestinal tract issues, such as all sorlid of chelitis and shit. Yeah. I didn't pronounce that correctly. Can't hear that.

We could also, there's the Giles Foreman Center for Acting next to the Soho Theater. So that could be cool to go to. Yeah, that'd be nice. We'd take a class together or something. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Guys, welcome to the That's Funny Hot Seat.

Jake Edition. Should we be able to hear anything? Like, when you did that, I could. No. No. You can't hear the... You didn't hear anything. No.

We were talking and it looked like you were sort of bobbing your head to something. And also I could hear. Okay, shit. Yeah, here we go. Do what you want because of Viking. Three, you are a Viking. That's amazing. This is it.

Never back down. Never give up. The dream, the stream, and the A dream. Is that a grateful dead scene? on. Welcome to That's Funny. So you weren't hearing the correct and wrong buzzers that whole time? No, we might have been hearing

that, but then it went away. Welcome to Hot Seat. That's Funny Edition, aka the That's Funny Hot Seat. Now, Jake sounds like a fire. Yeah, because you're in the hot seat. Got it. Uh-huh.

Hang on. Let me, you're seemingly not loving that, so here we go. What's this worse? It's like, a rumble or a boil. Moulton lava, yeah. Yeah. It turned up the heat on this shit. We've got 10 minutes

to sort of ask Jake anything. I feel like something that was missing from the headgum podcast. An A.J.A. That's good. We really should have gotten questions from the audience. Yeah. Like, it's not that interactive, which would have been like

an interesting wrinkle. Versus us being able to ask anything which could because yeah kind of do already are kind of together in one it would be cool on patreon leave our relation below and then next week we can ask yeah more engagement more like deepening of interactive yeah I like the idea of like us being in like a slack channel or a chat room like where we're sort of all being we've always been fan supportive what if we become fan collaborative Jake I'm loving these ideas but Amir I feel like you it's like you take

This is like weird joy in tearing me down. Like, I actually put a lot of thought into this outline. He does. He did a haggis bag. Haggis, Jaggis. Haggis Jaggis. Yeah. Also, there was cuisine as art where we were dissecting the diet.

We just watched an Instagram story and talked about it a lot. Yeah. Well, you can't have everything be like an in-depth game. You also need these open-ended segments, right? Something that the head gun pod... Jake anything. This is why you're considered brady by a lot of people. Thank you, Jake.

And I fear borsed. I feel like one thing that the head gun podcast was lacking was sort of a forum for people to talk about their life in depth. Right? So I feel like, Jake, let's get in depth on your ass for the next... It doesn't necessarily... If not 10 minutes... Four.

Whoa. Oh, okay. Trerry. Oh, toilet bowl fart. Are you? Four. If not for the next 10 minutes. Four.

So it's come to this, huh? Build up an emotional wall faster. Jake, I guess what are you excited about in your life? I mean, other than that's funny. Yeah, I'm excited about bad luck to use studios. I think this is going to be, it's going to be fun. I think collaborating with Just Amir for a long time, it got, I don't know, no offense, but like stale. Stale, yeah, I was going to say.

It got stale, mate. Like, yeah, I feel like I loved. the old videos but it was almost like this it was like this mirror of looking into look at how good it was and look at how sad he is now yeah um bloom and belt belt obviously so i think injecting all of this with some new some new life some some some new blood yeah you welcoming back of america i think that injects some energy into i don't know this corpse of a guy that it's a weekend at Bernie's venture yeah yeah yeah you're you're a zombie yeah we're kind of lifting him up reanimating him yeah most excited about I feel like it's veering a little of it

towards sometimes you don't grow yeah rehabilitation that's what I'm excited I'm excited you know what I'm saying I'm excited to get something out of you for the first time yeah It's going to push you. It's going to push you a lot. You know other people get to ask Jake stuff or is it just like that one question? Well, Jake gets to go on for as long as he wants answering this question. I'm not going to be. I thought it was four.

I'm excited to share the burden of holding, even though Amir is a lifeless corpse, zombie man shambling a long, hot body. Yeah, I'm super, you know, there isn't a lot of heft to him. He doesn't have gravitas as a man. Yeah. It still takes a lot to prop him up, if that makes sense. Because there's nothing there. So you have to make something out of nothing.

And now I'll have support in doing so. I will get the benefit, excuse me, I think I'd be a heavy. When he says, excuse me, it says don't talk. You know, it means don't talk. That's the type of shit that I'm excited to be done with. Like, you guys jumping in and standing up for me, That was awesome. And now I don't have to stand.

That felt like the vein that we should stay with. And the guardrails have been set for all of that's funny, which is to like make sure that other people are getting a say. Protect me from him. That's what I'm excited for. I'm excited to have some interference. He's been emotionally and physically abusive to get away from his ass. Yeah.

And it still hasn't really helped you. Yeah. And that's part of the reason I've wanted to move. New York for a while is like, you know. What's your favorite new food? A drain on me physically and mentally. For the next question. I could be something like my safe space, my mental health.

What's your name? What food did you not like when you were like? What I want Jake to have is like a support system that has not been there or there. And I want all of us to come to him and say they're there. You don't have to be weary of him any longer. Or like, that's right. I love cottage cheese now to answer your question. I like cottage cheese because I'm trying to have more protein and I have a cottage cheese snack in the afternoon.

That's funny. It helps the energy dip. And even Matt, even him asking you that, it felt like intrusive to you. It was competitive. Your question was much more good. In depth than scary. I feel like I have to defend myself. Yeah.

It's eggshells around him. It feels like I have to get defensive. And I do get defensive of you and Marika. It's a lot. And myself. It's a lot. You get defensive of Marika. I just think.

We get protective of all of ourselves because he's offensive. Because he feels like he's on the offensive. It's a siege. He camps out. And he's a sea. I thought the cottage seats were in the trenches. And he's a wenches. Thank you so much for listening.

to the first episode of that's funny. Much, it's going to end on that note. Much more to come. Marika, what do you have going on? What do you want to point the people towards? It's great to have you back, buddy.

Woo! Brownlee. Happy, happy to see you guys. Everybody. I think in order, it's probably Jake, Jeff, and then Amir. Top three. It's interesting.

interesting he's even on the list. That's kind of huge for him. What about dingo? Oh, yeah. Dingo for sure, top now, because I haven't seen Dingo in a while. Yeah. I'm in the same order. Yeah, I'm not doing anything, so you can follow me on all the usual places. Yeah, I'm going to London, going to see American Psycho, the musical, see that if you can. Shout out if you have a flat for Marika to stay in while she's traveling. Yeah, if you're like normal and night.

and... Everything, rice. Yeah, and you, like, have a nice house that I can stay in. Maybe you're not there. Like, if you just have, like, a family home or something, that'd be really cool. Yeah, or, like, an ailing uncle that needs someone to take care of him. Well, I don't want to do that necessarily. You wouldn't have to give any...

Oh, yeah, that's good. No, maybe. Why are you shushing? Myr was interrupting you and Jay. Oh, thank you, thank you. Yeah, so just follow me on. Marie Galan. Jake, who's interrupting you?

I couldn't have been. Watch industry, watch heated rivalry. Those are kind of my only plugs. It's kind of all I've got going on. Love that. Mo. Nice.

Jake, what do you got? This brand new endeavor survives and thrives with support. The more support we get, the more stuff we can make. So would it kill you to tell five friends, ten friends, a thousand friends? Would it kill you to steal the credit cards of your aunts and uncles and friends and peers and subscribe?

I don't think it would. And I'll say I feel like a lot of people were being very kind and gifting subscriptions in the past. And that's a very nice thing to do. And I appreciated seeing that energy. So maybe do that for a friend. Yeah. Force a friend to listen to this show. For sure.

And not only that, but, you know, the headgum subreddit, the Jacobemir subreddit, the Headgum Discord, if you could spread the word and, you know, we're going to, yeah, that what's going on behind the paywall is worth the $5 because that's our goal here is to really make your $5 worth it and to, you know, have a ton of fun here behind. the paywall have one home for everything you want. So, yeah, I'm going to also plug the JNA Studios Patreon, which is really what we should have done probably last summer.

But, you know, here we are. And it's going to be great. I'm really excited. The journey isn't always straightforward. But this right now, we, Amir and I are no longer at HeadGum. This is becoming our full-time job. So we want to put more effort in. And we're excited to do that.

Namaste. Well, I think that's everything that needs to be. said. I think that's everyone and we'll see you guys again. We'll see you guys actually again in a couple minutes because this is one of two episodes of that's funny. That's available to watch

today, January 23rd. I don't have the emotional capacity. Thank you so much. And Grace, while you're editing this, be sure to mute Amir's last couple seconds and I would give you the license to mute as far back as minutes. Four. I had, far back as I did do hair makeups.

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