This Is Important - Ep 250: Cruise, YouTube, & Cousin Wieners

Episode Date: May 27, 2025

Today, this is what's important: Housekeeping, blow jobs, steak, buzzballs, the renaissance fair, Turnstile, & more.  Click here for more information about the This Is Important Cruise.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Throw an e-brake on this whole podcast. No, we gotta get some housekeeping. We got to. So why we keep saying housekeeping is Isaac, before the podcast, he goes So I just want to do a little housekeeping before the pod. Cognay! Okay what does this mean are we closing deals you know what's happening?

Are we moving? Are we shaking? Because we all know that's what housekeeping means closing deals, starting deals. It's starting deals seems like a housekeeping type thing. Yeah and he just goes you guys should mention the YouTube and that was it that was it. There's a lot of wind up Just mentioning the YouTube. So go to guys go to YouTube. Yes one thing about our podcast is it's it's visual It's fucking on fire. Yeah on YouTube get your ass over there. You get to see our faces. You're gonna want to see You're gonna see the curtain behind me.

That's dope. You get to see Blake's artwork. Yeah. And then you get to see a Game Over Man poster. My unwrapped Game Over Man poster that's never been hung. Why don't you ever hang that up? What's going on there? I don't know. My house isn't like a shrine to me or whatever. Okay. Well it's just on the floor then. Yeah I guess maybe put something else behind you then. Do something. Try a little bit. Pictures of my children. And your house should be a shrine to you.

Your house should be a shrine to you. I don't disagree. It's shaped, if you look at it from the sky, it's shaped in my body laying on my side. Oh, okay. Do not tell my wife. I love it.

And the drones descend upon Hunder's home. Or drone. Or house. Out here in Calabasas. All that housekeeping up top. Oh, don't forget about the cruise. That's a little housekeeping, right?

Oh yeah. He didn't mention that. He didn't say to mention that, but yeah, we should talk about the cruise We should I want to say that there's somebody very exciting that we cannot mention Okay, join the cruise. We just can't mention them yet. Oh my god Yeah, we can't mention them and there's somebody very exciting who we can mention. Who's that? Yeah, there's a bunch of people We can mention is that Bobby Lee? Oh, yeah

He's coming That's right the the wild man! Mr. Good Times himself! What is the likelihood of us seeing, and I'm dead serious when I say this, what is the likelihood of us seeing Bobby Lee's butthole? Ooh... Um... Strong to very strong?

High! Yeah, high! Strong, yeah, strong. I think I've seen it at the comedy store. He used to just get naked at the Comedy Store a lot I that might have changed and I haven't seen him Yeah, for a minute that might have changed because he's much more famous now, right, right I think I think he's really kind of popped off in the last five years or so

And that was that was way back when although he was on mad TV back then so maybe I you know What do I know? I think anything kind of goes for mad TV They were a wild cast. He's done it. He's been there. He's done that do you think he's gonna go overboard? I thought you're gonna be like what are the odds he goes overboard? I don't see that for him. No Don't go overboard do what you will I don't care. I see maybe who would go overboard It would be but we got Bobby Lee we got Adam Ray great friend of the pod He's gonna be I mean he will be drunk, but he'll be on the ship. Yeah, Nick Swartzen Might go overboard. He's a man. He's a maybe he's a maybe he might go overboard

Lifeguard on duty our girl Sam Jay. She's the best. She's gonna stay ship bound. Yes, Annie leader man She is sober now, so I've been told. So I think she will be staying on the ship. Now if this were old Annie, like I knew her, she would be... She'd be off. Yeah, she's overboard for sure. I was intoxicated. And then we got Beth Stelling, Katherine Blamford, very funny, so's Beth. Oh, super funny, super funny. Dude, this is a funny cruise. Brooks Whelan, Eric Griffin. No, Eric's coming? I'm sorry.

Eric Griffin, we might feed him to the sharks. I'm so sorry. I just want to party. I'm so sorry. We might have to. He wants to get in directing now, so maybe we say he's the director just to give him a job. Oh, that's cool. Because we're not going to allow him to do stand-up.

No, not at all. So maybe we say he's the director just to give him a job. Cause we're not gonna allow him to do standup. Not at all. The bit that I'm gonna have is every time he goes to do standup, I'm gonna act like a microphone malfunctions and then I have to go up there and do standup. That's a great bet. I already like this.

Yeah, I already like this. I'd be like, I don't know, sorry, it doesn't work. Your hands are too fat for this microphone so I'll just use it. Why is there hair in the microphone? You're too hairy. Yeah, yeah. Too hairy.

Your knuckles are, the hair is braided on your knuckles. Frickin' see ya. We love him. Eric Griffin's gonna be on the podcast. We do, we do. We're hyped, we're hyped. He's coming. Why you gotta do that?

Brooks Whelan, very, very funny, very funny guy. Oh, no shit. Also from Iowa. Did you know that? As an Iowan, I do know that. Here we go, here we go. Born and sort of raised. My boy, Brett Morin, super duper funny.

Could go overboard. There's a chance. There's another one he might go overboard. This is the way. Josh Adam Myers, very very funny guy. The Action Boys podcast. I'm hyped on that. Featuring John Gabers, Ben Rogers, Josh Adam Myers, very, very funny guy. The Action Boys podcast. Oh, I'm hyped on that.

Featuring John Gabers, Ben Rogers, and Ryan Stanger. I'm hyped on that. Very funny. And we got live music from, and I can't announce it, but I think people are going to be excited. Yeah, you can't say. Friendship. And then we also got Flashback Heart Attack,

where they're like a, what do you call that? A tribute band, cover band? Cover band. And they're great. They're fantastic. I wonder if like cover band's like a dirty word now or something. Yeah, I wonder if they're like, we're actually a band.

Right. Who plays other people's music, but we don't call it. A tribute, right. Yeah, a tribute might be what they like to be called. I wonder if there's a new name for it. Kind of like how they do... Like how you can't call homeless people homeless people anymore. Exactly.

You can't call them bums. Yeah. Well, I mean, for sure you're not supposed to call them bums, which sucks. Right. Because not all of them are bums. And we've gone over this. We've covered this. Right, right, right.

This is just house cleaning though. This is just housekeeping housekeeping yeah yeah exactly not not that everyone who has you you don't have to have a house to do housekeeping in the way that we're doing right and sure that's right that is right you could be on housekeeping yeah yeah Bums are almost constantly not doing housekeeping there are never housekeeping there's nothing not because they don't have a house. Yes. They're just, they're not getting their shit together.

Yeah, I see. Okay, so we got Flashback Heart Attack. You know, I saw them at, I was at a party, no big deal, Hollywood. Get them. At Sean White and Nina Dobrev's house. I just wanna party. And Flashback Heart Attack performed. And it was sick.

Great. It was a great time. Hey, excited. And the goddamn Comedy Jam. That's going to be fun. You guys need to do a song. I hope you know that. Yeah, we have to start training now. You don't have to train.

What does that mean? What does that entail? It's like a live band karaoke. It's kind of like live band karaoke. But then you have to go up and you pick a song and that you're going to sing. And then you have to tell a lot. It's kind of like live band karaoke, but you then you have to go up and you so you pick a song Mm-hmm and that you're gonna sing and then you have to tell a story or do I you know do stand-up But really you just kind of tell a story about why you're gonna do this song And then that leads into the song and then you do the song

Usually it's done with stand-ups, so they do basically stand-up that somehow they Manufacture it to be part of the story. You know? Got it. Got it. Very nice. Uh-huh. Hunter DeBloch, Ateeba and Akko Jefferson, them boys, them boys, and Shut Up and Dance.

Oh, hell yeah. We got a fucking squad going. Hell yeah. Shut up and dance. Remember that fucking song for a little bit? Is that going to be your song that you do? Yeah. So I was told shut up and dance one time.

And so, like, band, go ahead. I like your version of telling the stories. You do your old man dad voice as well. I guess I just don't. Telling stories, I'm like, don't you have to be an old man dad voice as well. That was, I guess I just don't, I don't, telling stories I'm like, don't you have to be an old man? Who wants to hear your story until you're an old man? They start to get really, I don't know, didn't you just tell like stories and shit?

Didn't you give a speech at Evanston Township High School? You did. You did. Isn't that exactly what you just did? I don't think I told the story, but did you hear it? Because my voice was like this the whole time. Yeah! I did, I just saw it online.

I did not. I think it's on YouTube somewhere. I did, it was fun. Yeah, they got the whole thing. Isaac goes, oh, you have to see it. And I'm like, oh yeah, I want to. Is there like a link or something? And he goes, no, I just read it.

And I go, what? And he goes, yeah, I just read it. And I go, what? And he goes, yeah, I just read a transcript of it. And I'm like, oh, Ders sent it to you. And he goes, no, it's funnier. Yeah. And he goes, no, it just I found it. And I'm like, you found a transcript, but you couldn't find the video. He's our manager.

Maybe he's got Google. Punk Rock getting radical. It was a great time. I went back to Evanston. I spoke to the class of 2025. Oh, yeah. Told them told them my story and gave them some advice. So you did tell a story. Okay, I told them I told them a tale actually. Okay, which is different. For the goddamn comedy jam. You can tell a tale. Whatever. And I might anyway. Yeah, it was a good time. It was not as fun as

this damn cruise is gonna be, I'll tell you that much. Okay. Damn. You never had it so good. My cat daddies. Although, that being said, I will give advice to anybody on the cruise who's like,

hey, I'm having a bad go of it, any advice? I got you. Oh, that'd be kinda cool, like Ders therapy sessions. Maybe we do like a spin-off podcast. So we're gonna do the podcast, obviously, and that's a great time. Yeah, we might do several nights of the podcast I'm not sure what I got a name for it already. What's your problem? Boom? What's your problem? What's good? I'm doing I'm doing like a it's almost dr. Phil. It's just dr. Phil. It's just Yeah, that'd be great

We'll be right back. Actually, we're going to keep it right here. Yeah, we're going to stick around. Yeah, let's do upwards of 20 pilot spin-off ideas. Just one-offs, see if the podcast goes anywhere. I kind of want the crews to turn into like a promise keepers vibe. Do you remember promise keepers? I do not.

I don't either, Blake. Will you help me out with that one? Really? It was like a men's Christian retreat. Like for men only. And you go and you like, you end up like... You write a letter to every... like if you die, you write the letter. I don't know that part. I think this was a Catholic thing, right? No, evangelical Christian organization. it was just sent to it.

Everyone I know who went to Catholic school did this, and it was like... I went to Catholic school. I guess not in high school. Yeah! This was like a high school, and you'd see somebody and then you'd be like, oh, what's the fucking problem? And they'd go, hey, actually, dude, I can't tell you, but they're a good guy, and they've got a lot of shit

going on at their house. And you go, oh, how do you know that? They're like, I can't really say, but promise keepers. Wow. We heard all about it. Everyone just cries. You just cry and you talk about a fucked up. It's just secrets.

It's just a bunch of secrets. That's why, it's like a Scientology where you tell all your secrets and then they've got them all. Right. Well, to my knowledge, this was like you all go to a big stadium and then it's just a bunch of dudes watching preachers. What?

That's what Promise Keeper was. It was like you go to the stadium with a throat. Yeah. It was like you go to the stadium with a throat. You go to a stadium? Yeah, it was like a stadium event. This was like a sleepaway camp where at night after you had some sizzle burgers, you fucking just opened up your letter and you read like, if you die tomorrow, this is what you would want to say to people. Okay, that's cool. That's not outside of a stadium. So their biggest event, so I'm sure they did sleepaway camps. I'm sure that was very much part of it.

This was for men. Their biggest event so I'm sure they did sleepaway camps. I'm sure that was very much part of it but the biggest event was The stand in the gap a sacred assembly of men and open-air gathering in the National Mall in Washington DC In 1997 there we go. He's banned motherfucking cease ban Live in its entirety. He's C-SPAN is so fucking boring, dude. God, C-SPAN is so boring. They aired it in its entirety. Yikes. Couldn't even get, just fucking cut it up.

You don't have a show to cut away to? Jesus Christ. But the audience, the figures of the estimated audience was between 600,000 and 800,000. It was a movement, dog. That's so many, dude. It was a movement. And did you keep, because I know you have a lot of secrets, Blake, so were you...

This isn't secret keepers, this is promise keepers. But don't you tell the secrets? I thought you'd tell secrets. I don't know. Yeah, does a guy go up there and go, yeah dude, I was bug-fucked, that's not gonna stop me from starting my own small business. I don't think that's what this was. I'm not afraid to get in the HVAC business even though I gobbled my uncle's cock.

That's gotta be half of it, right? Like a straight up Kanye track? That has to be. I suck my cousin's dick. You're like, this is a hit. Yeah. I haven't heard that. Will you play that for me?

You haven't? I'd go to that concert. I don't think I could actually access it. I don't think he could link up with these Promise Keepers and do a show. Oh, you definitely. There's a Promise Keepers Kanye collab coming. Now, I wonder if you are Promise Keepers.

Obviously, you can't align yourself with Kanye right now Keepers Kanye collab coming. Now I wonder if you are the Promise Keepers, obviously you can't align yourself with Kanye right now that he's like putting Swastikas on the side of his building and selling Swastika T-shirts and shit. But there's a small part of you that wants to, right? Like if you are the Promise Keepers president. Allegedly. You're looking for angles.

And you're like, fuck, how do we spin this? Because he was one of the biggest stars in the world How do we how do we see any obvious? How do we we have a lot of I mean? He's got a lot of hits. Maybe we just use an old hit that isn't problematic. Yeah, Cola. Yeah. Yeah, that would Be a tricky situation. Yeah, it's a lot of a lot of stuff to to untangle there Yeah, that'd be a tricky stitch. What is this link you sent in the? It's probably the the song oh I'm afraid it's like hate speech cousins by Kanye. I don't even know if we should click on it

I feel like I'm gonna get like well Hey, Todd do us a favor and just find the part where he talks about sucking his cousin's dick and then Blake can play. We don't want to play and it's just like... I'm not trying to spread any hate, but the dick sucking part... No, no, no. As a cat dad, Blake is not trying to... As a cat dad, I'm hyper sensitive.

Chicks love a cat daddy. Okay, you can... Adam, if you just want to read the lyrics... First one, wait, I'm sorry. Is it possible, Adam, if you just want to read the lyrics. First one, wait, I'm sorry. Is it possible, Todd, that you can just say the moment, like the second? Yeah, find the exact second in that video,

and then Blake will click on it, and we will play the infamous dick sucking. Sucking. Dick sucking. Because I would love Blake to read all these N-words out loud in here. Yeah, if he could. I'm not seeing any.

No, actually, I'm not either. He took that out of his mouth. That's pretty wild. Oh, no, I do see one. You are right. I do see one. Yeah. That's too many for me.

Yeah. It's interesting. There's a couple. We started reenacting. This is crazy, dude. This is actually, dude. This is actually crazy. Doesn't it explain, doesn't explain a lot?

Okay, so ten seconds in he's saying it starts with verse one and then we could just listen to verse one. There's no Nazism's in verse one. So here we go. Okay. Alright, alright. Here we go. If it, if it slaps.

Todd, this is your fault. Todd, if you're setting me up for failure. He doesn't have to repeat it Okay, that's the gist, but isn't it weird that I'm hearing that and I'm like, I think Kyle made that song What about an alien? Yeah Oh man Is it real? That verse fucking rocked dude Because he didn't have to repeat

Give my cousin head as many times as he did he goes then I gave my cousin head Give my cousin. I know what I'm doing on the cruise ship I know what song I'm doing He said give my cousin head five times I think like he the cousins like he knows that he had to he's like you heard me right I'm gonna say it again I'm saying yeah, you're like maybe he didn't say no He said it still saying it still saying it am I crazy I kind of He's he's in the pocket. I like the beat is a bagel

I mean, I know it's like a little like Joy Division in the back with some vocoder He was Is like calling him out by name and shit Has anybody filmed a sketch of like the cousins foam blowing up and being like what what? And listening to a song and being like, oh my, I am a principal at a fucking middle school. How many cousins? What are you doing to me? How many cousins? Like you just had to be like, it's not me,

it's a different cousin. There has to be, you hope that there's 30 cousins and not just like a cousin. And you're like, fuck. It wasn't me. The next verse is how he gets specific. And I know you know I got a lot of cousins, so I'll be way specific about who it was.

And it wasn't as long as I said before. It was recently. Wee-oo. It was cousin Jeff. I got three cousins. Jeff is not the tall one. Oh, boy. It's the one with the mole Now he's gotta take off the mole

I've always wanted to have him have surgery on the mole The mole is on his dick I kiss the mole a lot We used to say What's the name of the game where you hit the mole with the fuck? Whack-a-mole We call it suck-a-mole fuck, whack-a-mole? We just don't like, we call it suck-a-mole instead of whack-a-mole. I would hit my dick against his dick,

we would play a weird game of whack-a-mole. He called a whack-a-mouth and then it went up in it. Allegedly. I did my cut, uh, hey Blake, run that one back, dude. Let's shoot that one more time. By the way, the worst case scenario out of this is that, this is the worst case scenario out of this is that is that this is the worst case scenario You you're a little kid you're fucking around with your cousin

Okay, okay, like promise keepers do whatever whatever like yeah. Yeah, you're okay. We're promise keeping What I'm saying is what I'm saying is You're you're dismissing it pretty quickly like Like if you were fucking around with your cousin in Chicago and you're in the basement and Evan's... I'm not trying to like demonize it. I'm not trying to demonize it or make those like, that they're bad people because they're little kids. No, not at all.

Yeah, little kids. What I'm saying is the worst case scenario is... If you're a little kid listening, don't suck off your cousin. Yeah, there is something wrong with that. Obviously, you find somebody else that you're not related to. You've got to find somebody else. What I'm getting to is that the worst-case scenarios,

that the greatest dome you ever got was from your cousin. You're sick. Oh, you're sick. And now you're like... Oh, now you're thinking about it. Could you do a thing with... And they're like... You never had it so good.

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I think it's safe to say it's been uphill since my first P.J. I don't know. I look back at my first... I mean we've talked about this my first blowjob before but It was quite the experience it was Was getting a blowjob and It was It was the night of the Millennium a full moon Oh shit, so let the ball drop like y2K is gonna kill us all right so we're upstairs

So cut we're cousins. We're not cousins dude. We're not cousin. Okay, okay, okay? It's a it's a female. She's not a cousin. We're no not related in any way okay, and So fuck it. We're getting a blowjob. I'm getting the blowjob. That seems oddly specific We're getting a blowjob. You just said we're getting a blowjob. Were you 69? Me! Me! You said we're. I know I did. So you're like denim.

So people, it's high school right? So people then like find out that I'm getting a blowjob They like want to like open the door and be dicks about it and like you know So they're like coming in so I like move the dress I'm like trying to move the dresser. And she's embarrassed because people saw us in there. Adam, this is already sounding like an alibi. I had to move the dresser in front of the door. What the?

Gotcha, bitch! What in the mat-lour? So I'm moving the dresser to try to block them coming in. I understand. She then, the story gets even coming in. I understand. The story gets even scarier. I understand it now. OK.

Then she is wasted. I turn around with my pants around my ankles. And I'm like, oh, are we back to this blowjob? She's nowhere to be found. She's disappeared, dude. She's under the dresser. No no no no. The window is open. What?

It's December 31st, 1999. Omaha, Nebraska. It is cold out. It is snowy. Oh, frigid. She climbs out on the roof. Climbs to the front of the house. I'm like yelling her name outside being like, come back in, come back in.

And then I open up the dresser and I'm like, I can't find her. I open, pull the dresser away. The people that were outside were like, were trying to get in. They come in. They're like, what are you doing in here? And I'm like, dude, I was hooking up with what's your name? And they were like, are you jerking off in here alone? And I'm like, no, because no one's in the room.

And I'm like, no, dude. So the whole thing, it's my very first time, the whole thing's fucking ruined. This sounds like a traumatic. Yes, so then I'm like, I'm just sort of fucking bummed about it because it was a Magical a magical moment. Yeah, and then you I go downstairs Go downstairs. I'm like, where did she go? Like I'm looking in the backyard. Where did she go?

From here. Maybe she was a your imagination. She jumps off the roof Yeah She jumps off the roof, lands on the guy whose house we were partying in, dad's truck, dents his hood of his truck, rolls off, pounds on the door, she's only wearing a bra and like her underwear. She's, she's- Okay. Yeah, she- That pause was unbelievable. She's only wearing a bra. Don't get it!

And underwear. And her underwear. And pants and underwear and her underwear just her pants and a jacket No, no pants or jacket. So she's just basically naked out there. She's in her underwear She's proud of the door. We hear a pound on the door. Everyone's like cops cops We turn lights off everyone's hits the floor, right? And so now it takes like five minutes for us to open the door, right because we're like no shoes No shoes. No shoes. Right. So she's frozen solid.

She comes back in. People are like, why are you outside without your clothes on? She's embarrassed to say anything. Adam threw me out the window. Why are your lips helichapped? She's embarrassed to say anything. It was a whole fucking... It was a crazy first way to get a blowjob. Yeah

Dang that's a tough one to live up to you. You tell that story like this time or another time like as as time goes on you think maybe like Why do you wonder why she jumped out the window? Well, I was like is it because she didn't want to be seen hooking up with me? But I don't think that is it. You want to see it? So you're doing more of like a process of elimination.

Yeah. She was so humiliated to be hooking up with you, she jumped out of the window. Or just like didn't want it to be known that she's like, because I didn't, I mean, it wasn't like we were dating or she just was like, I'm gonna suck your dick. And I was like, say what now? Wait.

No, the other part. I was like, what? What did you just say? What did you just say though? That's cool. So it wasn't like we were dating, or even remotely dating. It was like, I just sort of knew her as a girl that was in my school. It was a great... And then that happened a few other times throughout high school where she'd be like hey

Do you want to go in this closet at a party? And I'm like I guess are you gonna like stab yourself with a hanger or like you or I turn around You're just in the HVAC you're just like in an air duct skis scary in a way Goddamn, yeah, it's impossible. Well in an air duct. Can I finish? Wow. Dude. Scurry in a way. God damn. Mission impossible.

Well, God bless. Yeah, I guess we all are kind of chasing that first experience. Yeah. All that's to say. No, no, no, no. But I think it was so brief. It was so brief that it was like, it reminded me the first time you ever had like a wagyu steak.

Okay. Where it was just. Okay. You remember your first wagyu. Yeah. It was just so magical that you're like, this I steak. Okay. Where it was just, okay. You remember your first wagyu. Yeah, it was just so magical that you're like, I've never experienced, I didn't even know steak could be this good. But yeah, I was like, I didn't know it could be this good.

So it was a real toe curler. I got a thing about the steak that you're talking about. We might've covered this before. We're like, I don't like to eat steak too often because I feel like when you have a steak that you're just like, it's whatever, it kind of like sours you on steak, sure. But every 18 months or so, I have that same moat.

No, no, no, I eat steak more than that. But about every 18 months. Pull your man card. I have one that does curl the toes, where you're like, holy shit. And then you're chasing Matt for a while. The worst is when you're at a nice restaurant and you see the stupid expensive, like the $225 steak or whatever the dumb price is and you're like, fuck, I think I'm going to do it.

And people are like, oh, okay. It's always Chloe. And she's like, you don't have to just get a regular entree. And I'm like, I think I'm gonna do it and people are like, oh, okay, like it's always Chloe and she's like you don't have to I'm just get a regular entree and I'm like You don't understand if I get this one. They bring me a cool knife. Yeah. Yeah. I love a cool knife I like they bust out the shun. Yeah Give it to me. Um, I like shun knives so much. I have them I own shun knives. I have But much I have them. I own Shun 9. That's a boss movie. But, uh,

and then I just had it recently and the steak wasn't good and I paid like $175 for it. That's what I'm saying. But when did you have a steak that was good before that? Yeah, what was the toe-curling steak? Like within a month or so? Did you have a banger? It was the last best steak

you had. No, I've cooled off on steaks since I, uh,. I know it's I mean take my main card since no I Did stem cells yeah, you're not supposed to have red meat, so I just sort of stopped eating steak Yeah, specifically I still would have cheeseburger every once in a while But like I stopped eating steak. Did you blow your cousin anymore? No, I stopped. I stopped. Yeah. Too much protein. Yeah. No doubt.

I gave my cousin. The dirty little secret is all you got to do is just dump some fucking rock salt on that fucking Himalayan shit. Oh, yeah. Oh, this steak is amazing. Oh, it's fucking pretty good. It's all about that Himalayan salt hits different. Hey, Blake, you can have my man card, man. That was fucking pretty good. It's all about that Himalayan salt hits different. Awesome. Hey Blake, you can have my man card, man.

I like the pink salt, bro. That's the good stuff. I gave my cousin head. That's what Blake calls his dick, that pink salt. Come on to the cruise and see ya. We're all gonna sing it. I hope, I hope that. Hit it. I hope the I hope that you hit it.

I hope the- Man, this guy got the hand held out. I gave my cousin head. And if you watch on YouTube, you'll see what we're talking about. I gave my cousin head. Dude, I hope the story that Dyrs tells is about him playing doctor with someone,

like a cousin in his basement or some shit when he was a little kid. Yeah. And then busts out. I gave my cousin head. I gave my cousin head. You're a fucking disaster, my guy. I definitely played, I don't know if we played doctor or if it was like husband wife with this girl and I was like four or five. Oh my god.

And it was like the show me mine I'll show you yours days. Whoa, did you, did you? Oh, well, I mean, yeah. You're like five years old and you're like, what? What do you got? What's because I got all brothers. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. OK. I'm like, what's going on down there? She's like, I only have a sister.

What's going on down there? I go, hey, on three. Show it. Is that right? And you remember this pretty vividly? I remember we were standing in the basement or at the bottom, at the foot of some stairs. Maybe it was on the first floor. I don't know. At the foot of the stairs. Maybe it was on the first floor, I don't know. At the foot of the stairs.

Tell more. Very shaggedyling. Yeah. And I've been just chasing that first time ever since. Wow, I think the first time, I was in like some bushes at a basketball court. And you were 32. I gave my cousin. You know the's next to the post office in Hollywood. Fuck off.

That is not true. Yes points! I was a young man. I was a young man. Boy a young boy. Under 10, under 8. I think so. I was under under 10. Well, you could kind of know I don't really have a timeline for I could probably 10 seems like advanced cuz at 10 at 10 You know 11 year olds that are fucked em seems a little old 10. You might Okay, dude, I just remember it was like we're shooting hoops with kids in the neighborhood, and then like we just... They're like, pull out that sweaty cock.

Come here. Do do do do. For the record, I was supposed to marry this girl when we were five. It's science. So that checks out. It wasn't like some rando at my high school like you have. It wasn't rando. I know her. I knew her.

You walk past me in the hallway? You want to suck my what? Uh-huh. It wasn't that far off. I don't know if I've ever heard anybody just say that out loud like that, but OK. It wasn't that far off. She wasn't rando, though.

I did know her. But there was no, we didn't have like, I wasn't like into her or she wasn't into me. It was just like a friend going, Hey, do you want your dick sucked right now? And I'm like, no. Woof! Oh! Hello!

Now? Like it was just a hidden camera show. Now? I was like fucking... You're punking me. I just turned up the Nelly really loud so the party couldn't hear hot shit hot shit It's going down down, baby

What's that noise it sounds like someone's moving a heavy dresser? it's what are those oh Prince on the on the roof is a reindeer My dad's truck alarm is going off. I do love the, if someone can, if someone out there listening can, can write Twas the Night Before Christmas, but it's Adam's blowjob story.

Like she went to the window and threw up the sash. She jumped out of the fucking, onto the roof and away she dashed. Clip clop, clip clop. She- BLURGH The sounds of trucks that have been smashed. She juggled his testicles like sugar plums. Mmm.

Dancing in there. Somebody- some creative soul out there. I gave my cousin head. Oh boy. So what were you saying, Blake? So you were in a bush, you weren't 32. Allegedly. No. I was a young man. A young boy. So what were you saying Blake? So you were in a bush, you weren't 32. Allegedly. No. I was a young man. A young boy. Man. Why do I keep saying that? I don't know dude. Shut the fuck up! I was a young boy. I was a young boy. A squire? Yeah. So you were a young boy, you were maybe 10, maybe 12, maybe 3. I think I was younger than 10.

I wasn't 12. You got it. Yeah, you have to be younger than 10. 10 is pretty old. Yeah, I don't think I was even 10. You're risking her having hair on her coochie and you not. By the way, you have kids that are over 10. Yeah, I'm putting myself in the...

You know how old your kids are at 10, so you gotta go... It's a weird sentence to say, but I'm putting myself in their shoes right now. And it was definitely a younger me. Younger than that. Yeah, this seems like a five-year-old thing to do. I think it was around that time. Five, six. Wait, so let me get this straight.

You were playing basketball, then you put your feet in some little kid shoes and you went over to a bush? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, your little dick, dude. Show me. So it's a girl? So it is a girl, right? Oh my god! Because you haven't even gotten to that part. I think so. Oh my god. What?

You just showed each other butts. He's like, don't for sure. If you don't look at me and don't look at me, I'll show you my butt. Yeah, there's definitely some like, butthole looking. So did you see like her vagina or what? Well, I don't even understand. You can't remember if it's a guy or a girl. Like this story is I think it might have been a dude.

All right. OK. That checks out. You gave your cousin head. It is very confusing, though, when like you you see something that young and you're like, all right, so the vagina is right in the front It's right there and then you get older and you're like Fooling around where is this like where's that? God damn? The first time I I gave a girl I figured girl first time I blasted

Finger to girl my mother-in-law is right in the kitchen by the way What I was in a playdaisy em hey that this pay for that kitchen go ahead Yeah, and I was in a playdaisy em and I didn't know to insert I just thought you sort of just tapped on the outside. Oh, yeah, didn't know you're kind of just smacking it They're not that mad at that. Yeah. Yeah, we know we know she was just sort of like Good stop now. I'm like, all right, and I success. I thought you were gonna say butthole I'm gonna go I'm gonna go get some more birthday cake. Yeah Yessir. So so Blake is that all for you housekeeping or no? I think that and that wraps up the house

Now let's get to the pod. I never had a Sort of Doctor moment. I never know whenever I did have my mom's friends older daughter Hmm and her older friends who are five years older than me. I want to say sure Held me down and took my clothes off. What? Yeah way Way and I this is yeah, and this is important and Then they laughed and ran away. They were probably ten I was probably five or maybe six that shit's important you guys Adams crying if you're listening and you need another four inches

Yeah, and then I remember being pretty bummed about that. So sorry. You were held down. You were how old? I think I was five or six. OK, these girls are 10 or more. Yeah, nine or 10. Yeah.

And they strip you butt naked and hold you down. They got me to my underwear and they held me down. I was not completely naked. And so that was it. That was it. Yeah. That was the end. But pretty traumatic. And I didn't even do it. I was it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But pretty traumatic.

And I didn't even do it. I didn't even get to see nothing. It was kind of sucked for me. It was just them fucking viewing. And have you been chasing the adrenaline of that moment ever since? This seems like... That's why I was like, I told her to jump out the window. I'm like, you have to jump out the window. You should jump out the window.

That'd be so tight. Oh God. Tie me down. Tie me down. Hey, stop. Stop sucking my dick. What? Jump out the window.

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And I was firing, firing on buzz ball because I thought, I thought they did my boy, Blake, a little dirty. I'll admit that. That's what I thought. And you're vocal. You're a vocal guy. You are. You're a dog off the leash.

And I stand by that. And I stand by that. They reached out with a very strongly worded email that Isaac actually hyped up the email a little bit more than I thought that. He was like, oh, they came in real hot. And I'm like, oh, is it like cease and desist? And then it's like kind of nice and polite for the most part. Yeah, it seemed like heartbroken and yet defensive Yeah, they were a little defensive. It's yeah, it's like it's like a bad breakup. Oh, I didn't know we were on bad terms

It's like you knew we were you know my god also like get a life guys What you don't need to write this dumbass email? Yeah, dude. They're bum You don't need to write this dumbass email. Yeah. Dude, they're bum! They're saying we're hurting their brand. And by the way, I am, because it's a garbage brand. I was waiting for this to move! And it should be damaged.

Fucking thing sucks! Stop, dude, stop! What are you doing, man? These are my friends. So Blake, it says in here, and this is why I have even more of a problem with them, okay? Come on, dude you leave them alone? So this is why so essentially they're saying that Blake said stuff that he didn't say Okay, they're saying that Blake has mentioned firstly Blake has mentioned that he hasn't received his full agreed-upon compensation from his contract Well, I know that Blake has said yeah, they fume you through a few bucks

Which is inaccurate? Yeah, no, because now we know the real figure all the business I have ever done with Buzzball, and I hope to continue doing business with them. It's been it's been it's been lovely Yeah, they they brought me on to do the commercial I did paid and by the way I was paid for my services you were you were but they're saying that you said that you haven't received your full upon compensation and I want to say I'm yeah So that's not true. You did not say that. I think he said I got a few thousand bucks some housekeeping here It's more than that, but it's not a lot of money for what I think you deserve Okay, I think you I think we need to 10x this number and I don't think that's an exaggeration

I think it should have been 10x. But that's just me being an advocate for my boy. Thank you. That being said, this was agreed upon number. You guys agreed upon it. That's fine. Isaac, this is kind of maybe his fault that he allowed you to agree upon this very, very, very, in my eyes, bad deal that was bad for Blake and

in turn caused all this You're the one causing the drama then they go secondly and then it's you know It's talks about how much we got paid so now we know the exact number. It's like five paragraphs. Oh, yeah It's a long. It's a long. It's like like I mean did you I've never written an email this long maybe ever Is she using chat GBT because the car was all in the right places. It's very it's very I don't think anybody really writes And because if you I'll say if you go ahead I'm gonna say if you work for buzzball Mm-hmm, you don't write long emails, okay? You're too busy buzzing off.

You got a ball in hand. You got a ball to drop. You got a ball in hand. It is wild. Also, by the way, this is a comedy podcast. Okay. Ooh. Okay.

All right. Taking a stand. This is what we're doing. We're talking about- I'm gonna be a nightmare. We're talking about BuzzBalls. We're shitting on a deal. Who's Josh? It's fine. It's fine.

What are you guys doing? And if they want to roll like this, guess what? We'll see you in court. Yeah. We'll see you in court. Hey, slide into Blake's DMs, because Blake will see you in court. What the hell?

Now I'm on the stand? And who did this message go to? I think to Isaac. What is it? You better lawyer up. How about you just slide the Blake's DMs Oh, I I haven't listened back to the episode something tells me you probably Adam We're like we don't fuck with buzz. I'll stop buying buzz balls like ban buzz ball. What tells you that?

I didn't I did not say that I did definitely didn't say ban I encourage everyone to go out and buy a buzz ball I think if you have bad taste, Hashtag buzz buddies. If you have bad taste, go and buy a buzz ball. That's what I say. Stop. Don't support Blake Anderson.

No. Then. We're a brotherhood of buzz. And also Blake, the deal's up. The deal's up. Are you trying to get another one? And by the way, don't email Isaac. Slide in Blake's DMs, because they

were like, you sent us a message and we left you on read. And they like apologized about that. And I'm like, so obviously just like right back and go, hey, sorry, listen to the podcast. Pretty funny, but do want to check in and make sure you're happy with your deal. Because like, right, you obviously need to get it. And by the way, we'll see you in court. No sir I don't like it. We will see you in court. Oh man. So okay so then secondly it says we are disappointed that Adam honed in on on the narrative that Blake was not paid enough for his partnership. Yeah yeah I'm honed in on it because I don't think he was paid enough. Now it is a little bit more than I thought he was paid it is a little bit more than I thought he was paid.

It is a little bit more, but not by much and definitely not what he's worth. And Isaac, stop sending Adam my bank statements, brother. What are you doing? It is wild. Come on. This is crazy. And I feel like zero mention of me, mostly because I don't get into it. Well, guess what?

I'll be getting into it in quarks. No, call off your dogs, Adam. Please. Mostly because I don't get into it. Well, guess what? I'll be getting into it. Is it is it okay? Oh, no Call off your dog. So they say that they're they they're very happy and we hope that this is an Adam rogue feeling Turns out it's Adam and Anders. It's not just no. Oh, I am Adam feeling Now it is now you are yes so so actually, you know what? I think it was a misunderstanding. As much as I'm shitting on Buzzball, it's a little bit of a misunderstanding. Blake never had any ill will. It was always me because I thought he was underpaid.

I thought he shouldn't have been doing these commercials and the amount of work and sweat equity he was putting into the company. Isaac doesn't even know what those words mean. Was above and beyond what the amount that he was paid to do. So that's why I was a little frustrated. And then when we were on the road and we had asked for buzz balls, we weren't getting them on time. We were. We got tons of buzz balls. Not towards the end of the tour.

If you remember, they slowed down. I'm sure they did. That's because some cities weren't carrying buzz balls. Not towards the end of the tour. If you remember, they slowed down. I'm sure they did. That's because some cities weren't carrying buzz balls yet. We got freaking Buzz Buddies. Hashtag Buzz Buddies. Not Buzz Ballers? Or Brothers in Buzz? Something.

I'm just trying to get the entire name of the product in there. I just need a movement. I need TII Nation to pull up up show your buzz ball. You're not getting paid for this. In fact, you weren't even really getting paid before after taxes and everything comes out of that. You can't even buy like a I mean you you're looking to get a good car wash. You lose you're looking to get like a

full an entire car wash. Like... No, no, no, no, no, no. I'm talking about getting a nice, nice car wash. How much is a nice car wash? Just about as much as you got paid after taxes and paying all your people. I go to the self-serve car wash where you like put the quarters in. I clean my shit really nice.

Okay. I'm just saying... That's the way to go. That's the way to go. A car wash? They paid me a car wash go. They paid me a car wash fee. They gave you a car wash fee in my eyes, in my eye. What's the number? Can we try and do this? It might not be easy, but Adam and Blake, for the work done,

I want you guys at the exact same time to say the number you think they should have been paid. And I say they because I don't know what's going on. I would go a little higher. I'm going to go a little lower than I think I would want the deal to land. But I think a fair deal would be three, three, two, one, free buzz balls. $750,000. What the hell?

He said free buzz balls. You said free buzz balls? Yeah, pay me in balls. Well Blake, with $750,000, you then could just buy... A car wash. All the buzz balls, as many buzz balls as you could ever want. And the car wash or no? Don't case! That's true. Well you're getting more than a car wash. All the Buzz Balls. As many Buzz Balls as you could ever want. Mm-hmm. And the car wash or no? Don't case!

That's true. Well, you're getting more than the car wash. Yeah. That's a, that's a, you know what? That's a hard bargain. It was kind of like a homie deal. It was like me and Buzz Balls. But by the way, you don't know these people.

You set a homie deal like you know who they are. I did. I think they, there's new people working there, but I have a relationship with the Buzz ball homies just through DMS, dude You can't just DM a company and then they DM you back and you act like you know The owner and your home if it was a friend of yours that if a Tiba started buzz balls Then yeah, give a Tiba the homie dealer, right? And in fact, I hope a Tiba would give you a homie deal and pay you well

Okay, because he knows you're gonna go out there and actually support the brand where the shield and sweat equity shield So that's that that was my deal little house. And by the way, Isaac told Isaac told us maybe don't talk about this on the podcast But here we are and we'll see you in court. Yeah, no, no, we can finish this conversation in court All right, my lips are sealed. I'm take back sir Accusation I would love to double down. I stand for my my buzz my buzz brotherhood I love buzz balls. They've treated me just fine If I could maybe get one of those Lonzo Ball Balls, that would make everything right.

Okay. They did a Lonzo Ball Ball? Absolutely ignoring your podcast. So when you reached out several times, they never they didn't get back to you. Yada yada. But yeah. Can I just say something out loud about Buzz? Hey, Buzz Balls, come on. You're doing a Lonzo Ball ball? What genius put that together?

Stop. Leave them alone, dude. Leave them alone. Leave them alone. What are you guys doing? Goodbye. I'm just glad they didn't mention my email. Yeah, I know.

And in fact, I think the Lonzo Ball ball is kind of tight. It's really tight. Yeah, that's kind of sick. It's really tight. Yeah, that's kind of... It's really tight. It's what it tastes like to me, and that's what I don't like. It tastes like Lonzo Ball. I had Buzz Balls yesterday at the rent fair. It was fantastic.

Oh yeah, talk a little bit about this rent fair. How was it? I mean, it was perfect. Is this the pleasure fair? Oh yeah, lots of pleasure, lots of pleasure. My kids went last weekend. Oh, did they love it? They got lost.

They got lost for an hour and became men. Oh, wow. Oh, shit. Okay. Got in a sword fight. Okay. That's actually kind of scary. Aided Turkey leg.

Yeah, I feel like this is kind of a scary place to get lost. There's just like fire breathers and like. Yeah, that's super scary. Yeah, maidens with some big jug of a scary place to get lost. There's just like fire breathers and like... Yeah, that's super scary. Yeah, maidens with some big jugs. Maybe they didn't go. Maybe it was... Maybe they were supposed to go and then the kids who they... Yeah, I don't know if they did go. Oh, they made up this story.

The kids who they were supposed to go with got lost. I can't remember. I've been all over the place lately. What? They were supposed to go. I don't know if they went. Maybe they did go. All right. All right. All right.

Well, who knows? Who knows? Well, talk to your family tonight and find out. Which one is the middle? You've got to show up at the dinner table. Come on, bud. You've got to talk to your fam. So what is your favorite part?

I've never been to a Ren Faire. It doesn't... I'm sure I would like it. I'm sure because I usually like a spectacle or like performance but it does seem a little crusty for me okay and it does seem like maybe there's smells is there a VIP area for Adam or no no it's not about VIP it's about the way but you know what it's about the smells of people dressed in like old-timey leathers and stuff. Bro, I walked by this dude in a wizard hat. I looked at his face. It was fucking Dave Grohl. He was there, just posted. Did you say what's up?

I didn't say what's up. I was too scared. Why? Because maybe he didn't want to be noticed or something? He's Dave Kroll. If he leaves the house, he's like, I can't wait to go get noticed out there. Well, it was wild seeing him. Isn't that the case? If you go somewhere and you're that famous,

you're going to go get noticed. You're going to be noticed, yeah. But maybe the Ren Faire is the only place to get away. His only escape? Yeah. No, no, no. His only escape? Yeah. No. No, no, no. I don't think so.

Have you saw his face? No. Dave Brol is a very nice guy. He's a cool guy. He seems awesome. Yeah. I've met him. He's cool.

He's fun. Yeah. Well, it was a blast. I would love for you guys to come to the Ren Fair with me. I think we could have a great time. Well, yeah. All you got to do is invite me, dude. I feel like I'm throwing out invites

all the time. I'm always... You know that works, right, Blake? Fair enough. I'm always hitting up Blake, saying, what are you doing? I do. We went to a turnstile show this week. We did. Yeah. We did.

And I was basically begging Blake if I could roll with. He was like, yeah, we might roll out. And I'm like, could I roll? Right. Punk rock, getting radical. This is not true. This is not true. And he's like, yeah. And then he doesn't say yes. He just says all the people that are going.

And I'm like, that is not true. You were like, because there was a basketball game. You're like, you want to watch a basketball game tonight? I'm like, going to the Turnstile Show. And you're like, ah. And by the way, you didn't invite me. You didn't invite me in that moment. You said, I'm going to the Turnstile show and you're like, ah. And by the way, you didn't invite me. You didn't invite me in that moment. You said I'm going to the turnstile show.

I'm like. You responded with like bummer, I don't feel like I can't because my back hurts. That is true. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then the rest of the day went on and I'm like, here's where I'm watching the basketball game, come join me. And then you rallied and went to the show

like a freaking gangster. Yeah, you're right. That is kind of what happened. Yeah, I was trying to paint you in a bad light. As a villain. As a villain. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm not. That really kind of was intense and then not. Yeah, well, because I thought I... Yeah, I was kind of... I was... Yes, you're right. You're being kind of a little dramatic. That's not very cat-dabbing.

Guys, listen, this is what it's like being a friend of Adam's. He's like, wait a second. Fucking what? You didn't... And then, well, okay,. Yeah, no you did. Okay. Yeah, and it was fun Thank you. Thank you. Did I say thank you? Try my best to be your best friend a little bipolar bear, but but turnstile How was the show where Where was the show? It was great. It was at the Ukrainian Cultural Center. Which was hilarious.

It was just this big ass room. It was like a gymnasium. It sort of felt like a sick gymnasium. Where is that? East Hollywood. Eho. And it was sick. A T-Bow really hooked it up. And where's East Hollywood. Yeah. Eho. And it was sick. A T-Bow really hooked it up. And where's East Hollywood? East of Hollywood.

East Hollywood. Is this like Gower? Is that on Gower? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. The Ukrainian name? Yeah, a little east of that. Yeah.

It might have been right on Gower, in fact. It was by a college. I fucked my cousin. Because we parked at a college. Yes. What the fuck? What the fuck? What the fuck? Yeah, so and the show was absolutely sick.

Blake's girl's friend who was with us, who was the homie, he was great guy. He bought a lot of modellos for the crew. He kept buying buckets of modellos. And I saw him just like sweaty kids who were like, look exhausted. He would just hand them a modello and change their life I'm like this guy's a freaking Peter. Like he's just a gift-giver. You're like this guy works for a modello No, he doesn't. He's like a Robin Hood. He's like a gorilla marketer. Weirdly, he got you Adam.

Yeah, Adam do you even know how the fucking world works? There's puppeteers pulling the strings, bud So he was just the man and then and then he's like Okay, I'm gonna go to the pit and you're like, alright and the pits up there and it's rowdy But you know, yeah if you could handle yourself, he wasn't like a frail little guy or anything I think he can probably handle himself. Yeah, then next time I saw him he was covered in blood. Shoking. Shoking wet. This is the way. He had a gash in his head, his nose was all fucked up. It was a mess. His lip was busted open. But I think he wanted that for himself.

He was like putting that into existence. I think you know he like a suit and tie job. Yeah he was telling me like he's like a business guy. He he like a suit and tie job. Yeah, he was telling me he's like a business guy. He's like a business manager, a financial advisor or something. I think he was going there to let the wheels come off a little bit. Well, good for him. The wheels are off.

I mean, that's kind of fun because then you get to go back to your financial job and you get to be like, what happened? It's like Adam doesn't even understand guerrilla marketing. Like he obviously works for Clorox or some sort of cleaning company. And he was like, I just want to part.

All the blood on my shirt. Don't worry, man. I'm going home. I'm going to tide this out. We're good. You wanted to go stick? Yeah. You want to tide to go stick?

This is a guerrilla marketer, Adam. It's crazy to me that you can't. Come on. You work in the business. That's actually wild that I wasn't able to put that together. That is crazy. But the show was unreal, dude. The show was pretty fucking great.

It was. I'm very excited for their new album to come out. It's going to be a good one. Me too. They're special. It was cool. It was cool seeing everyone that we rolled with, because I don't get to see a lot of those guys that often.

It was cool seeing Turnstile. I was able to, there was no place to sit. I was very worried about it. Yeah, so this is a standing room only. Yeah, my back was fucked up and I was like, oh dude, like the night before I stood in line for 50 minutes out of LA trying to get my car and I had to go home and lay on the floor. For an hour afterwards. I was like fucked up. And so does that get you right laying on the floor? Yeah, laying on the floor helps For like an hour afterwards. I was like fucked up. And so... Does that get you right? Laying on the floor?

Yeah. Laying on the floor helps. So then, I'm like... The next day, I'm like... My back is still fucking tweaked. But that concert, I was like... I really want to go. And then Blake didn't invite me.

But then he did. And... Sort of. Sort of did. I sort of just tagged along. Yeah. Yeah. That was cool.

You're here. See? See now it's... See now the truth comes out. He sorta just tagged along. Yeah. That was cool. You're here. See? See now the truth comes out. He didn't invite me. I did just show up to watch festival and then I just sort of came to the show. Yeah, you kinda shoehorn yourself in. Yeah. I did have a plus two though, so I really, I could have got you in. Okay. Who was your plus one, girl?

Samantha. Yeah. Okay. Okay, who was your plus one girl Samantha yeah, okay, uh But then I just got it so you did yeah, you did yeah, so everybody's happy Yeah, but you could have invited you could have invited me and I'll invite you guys to the Ren fair I'll write you could have said see this is what I was saying I knew he did not actually invite his heart you could have just invited me, but dude, I'm a famous friend. So I could just go and they'll just let me in. I understand if you're just inviting like an old homie, it'll be harder because you gotta get him on the list. But with me or for Durz, you could just invite us places.

We'll find our way in. It's not like that. Yeah, I just pull out the IMDB on the phone and it's a wrap, bro. Well, this is very much a workaholics crowd. Yeah. They're 50 year old dads. I don't think to invite you because you're not always local, you know what I mean? That's it.

Dude, I texted you, I texted you, and then I went and hung out with you. Right, right. There is that. And I probably should have been like, oh with you. Right. Right. There is that. There is that. And I probably should have been like, oh, you should come out tonight. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. My bad. It's okay. My bad. It's okay.

My bad. I understand that it was very much like all the guys with their girls, and I was like the odd duck out, but... Yeah. What we're just realizing is Adam's needy, and Blake fucking step up. Yeah, come on. yeah, you're an asshole

But we had a great time fulfilled and I gave my cousin Do you want to take back that you took him Blake or did you even take him or did he take himself? Well, technically I took him. Yeah, I And then I gave you guys a ride home. It was really kind of him. He took me. He gave us a ride home. And then I gave you guys a ride home too. It was really kind of him. Yeah, I'm a good guy. He's a good guy. Yeah, it was really kind of you. Yeah.

I just wish you could be nicer to Buzz Balls, but aside from that, you're a pretty good friend. Well, if they were better to you, I would be better to them. Yeah, he's defending your honor. Dude, this is like an ex who was nasty to you, who never treated you right, and you're like trying to get back to her Because you like it was like the first one right? Yeah, it's like oh curler. Yeah, it's like yeah exactly. Yeah, oh curler. Yeah

So any take backs any apologies any epic slams? I've just like to uplift Buzzballs again. No harm, no foul. Sorry about Adam. And we'll see you in court. In court, when we're not litigating your asses, I think that's what they do. Would you do another stint with Buzzballs or no?

I would love to. And Buzzballs, you heard it here first. You heard it here first, Buzzballs. Do another stint with buzz balls or no? I would I would love to and buzz balls You heard it here first you heard it here first buzz balls. It's you the balls in your Literally balls in your court so nice well I'm sure they covered that yes, and I stand by absolutely everything I said specifically about buzz ball and Yes, and I stand by absolutely everything I said specifically about buzzball and And I'm glad it you know what I'm glad I didn't call out That girl's name from the story because it was on the tip of my tongue

I almost dropped it and then I'm like this is called being an Adult being responsible being respectful. Yeah, what do you know proud of you? But Adam, also, of course. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Also, obviously. Yeah, to you. Hold up. Fair enough. To you. I guess I'm a little old. I'm a little older. Mustache is a little dustier. A little wider. Little wider. All right, so play, hey Blake, play us out with our song. Dude a Blake play us out with with our song do please Hey, I'm Dr. Maya Shankar. I host a podcast called A Slight Change of Plans that combines behavioral science and storytelling to help us navigate the big changes in our lives. I get so choked up because I feel like your show

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