This Is Important - Ep 276 : Jelking For Idiots

Episode Date: December 23, 2025

Today, this is what's important: Filming, energy drinks, Taylor Sheridan, hair, working, & more. Click here for more information about the This Is Important Cruise Feb 22nd-26th!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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That shit's important That's life Oh man Did I just motorboat you guys So Blake you just said Before we got on the podcast You said I have had zero sleep Is that because you've been working

Or you were out late I'm on death row Don't you see? Don't you see my film quality The record label? No The death row. I'm the real deal. I've been in prison.

I'm coming to you live. You do kind of look. Yeah, that's... Winnipeg looks actually pretty scary. They're putting you up in a real shithole, or what's going on? Yeah. It's a hostel. Yeah.

It's a hostile with the rest of the cast. It's pretty cool. The rest of the cast is in like a beautiful chalet. Yeah. Isaac signed me up to being a hostel. He's like, dude, dude. He's like, dude. Dude, right, right, right.

Were you working last night? Is that why you say you're sleepy? Yes, sir. Yes. Because what's today? Today's Friday? Yeah, I actually have the day off today, so I'm pretty hyped on that. Freaking actors. Oh, yeah, the bitch.

Actors just don't even know what fucking day it is. Dude, I'm in a time vortex. Like, I have lost complete track of days, times. I'm just in a snowball over here. That's my favorite moment of those movies where they're like, they're like not where when am I yeah baby

when they have time traveled and then someone like gives them a newspaper and they go fucking crazy looking for the date on it oh yeah yeah yeah I live for that shit I've been in one of those movies would you do yeah when we first met and what can you just take us there now yeah give us the scene dress it up

okay so I go to buy a blueberry red bull okay I just want to And it didn't exist. And I'm like, what do you mean it doesn't exist? They're like, Blue, Blue, Red Bull doesn't make blueberry red bulls. And I'm like, yes, they do. Weir.

This is, because they did the same thing in Inception, I think. Yeah. It was Blueberry Red Bull Bay. Yeah. Very famous scene. So it was like a nod and a wink to, yeah. Yeah. The original draft, instead of a spinning top, it was a Red Bull camp.

Right. Blueberry Red Bull. And in the shining. when the elevator opens, that's Code Red. Right. Sir, you were here last night. That's about to do Code Red. Yeah, he's time traveled to the future and the past when the ballroom

seen. You were here last night drinking a rock star, sir? He's just sampling every fucking energy drink. I like that. I feel like the Simpsons must have done that. They did everything. Come on. They really have. They really have. I will say

I'm back drinking energy drinks. Okay. I know. I know, guys. I know. Welcome back. I know. Not as much, obviously. One every few days or so.

Well, they've run out. They've run out, Adam. They can't serve you. I love it. Dude, they've gotten so good. They've gotten infinitely better than they used to taste. Okay. What?

How? When they were already so good. They used to taste like energy drinks. They would taste like a specific. The taurine was heavy. Yes. Yeah. Like monster tasted like a monster.

Now you could just drink lemonade, and it's energy lemonade. It's like, I think C4 does it, and it's just called classic lemonade. Hello. Oh, okay. Well, that's like a pre-workout? What's an energy drink? Or does C-4 just do energy drink? I thought C-4 was a pre-workout, C-4 was a pre-workout, such.

Well, they do energy drinks that you can use as a pre-workout. That's a day. Look at you down. I thought it was going to be a little bigger, but where are the guns, brother? What's happening, dude? Did you just walk through TSA? No guns? Is it the shirt that's making you look so scrawny? What happened there? Yeah. My God. Jesus. I mean, this is a football jersey, so I guess something. Yeah, maybe we're

anyway. Anyway, drop it. You're looking mad weak. If you're just tuning in now, my arms are huge. Knuck and Grandma! Jesus Christ. No, because I've seen your arms not like a month ago. And I was like, oh, yeah, Ders is looking pretty Jack. I'm always, you know, gauging how Jacks my bros are. And how jacked they aren't. And I was just thinking, Durs looks pretty jacked. But right now, he looks like he has grandma arms. It looks real lean. I'm more of the, I'm a try guy. You know, I'm not really a bi guy.

Yeah. That's not what I heard. Anyway, C-4, C-4. You're just doing it in here now. I look good. Adams back on energy drinks. Yeah. Uh-huh.

Yeah, but, and I've tried a handful of them now at the gym. And they're all so tasty. Ghost energy. Have you had these energy drinks? Oh, yeah. My God. Again, I thought this is a pre-worker, no? Yeah.

Well, they're energy drinks, sirs? Yeah. Sorry, I know that pre-workout has caffeine in it. Right. Right. But I think these are not energy drinks. They are pre-workout drinks with caffeine. No?

What's the difference, please? No. Can you draw a line? I mean, they sell my gas stations. What's the difference? I don't think they are. I could be wrong. I don't know.

The difference for a pre-workout would be that it has like some creatine and it's got like amino acids and all sorts of other shit, you know. Energy drink is just straight up the blood of children. So, C4's thing is life gave us lemons, we blew them up. Meet the official energy drink of summer. Oh. Yeah, okay. Yeah. Delicious. Energy drink right in the title.

And so here's my question. Is that C4's energy drink? Okay. Or is that I'm just asking. I just want to know. A lot of work for the company, buddy. All I know is it says energy drink. You're acting like it. You're damn near acting like it. It says it's energy drink on the can. Okay.

And then I drink it. I have energy. Right. And I go to the gym. So I'm using it as a pre-workout because that's where I want to drink an energy drink. But if you wanted it to start your day, I guarantee you it would be fine. And you're not going to be. Jesus.

Adam, I'm just trying to stretch this episode, man. We got two. We got to do two today. Okay. It's worth four minutes. yeah i mean i feel like we're just kind of stretching already yeah watch we'll see you at 54 okay um and so you're gonna go harder than ever on these things because they're just better can you be like an energy jink somalier zinc zinc umalaya uh if anyone could i feel it's me but i i i'm a little

wary because you know i went off the caffeine about a year ago and i was off for several months Because what, the heart, your heart was palpitating? No, it was, uh, it was because of the inflammation. Yes. And you got to bring the inflammation down. You can't feed those cells. And by the way, I will say, uh, I've never looked better. Never looked or felt better than when I was off caffeine.

Sure. The, it wasn't drinking. Yeah. I feel like I got lean, I got like leaner than I just can when I'm doing all the other stuff. And I'm like, oh, this is so much healthier, but I hated it. And can I be honest with you, bud? What's that? You weren't very funny.

Oh. Yeah, you're funny sauce. Every time you thought you were being funny, Blake and I would look at each other and go, oh, my God. I'm going to give each other a look. He's not even eating steak. This guy's not funny. He's not drunk all the time. Yeah, no.

It was sad. That's not funny. We need Adam to have his go-go juice, baby. Yeah. Well, I loved it, too. So I'm back on the sauce. Good. I like that.

And so C4, what was the other one you dropped? Ghost. Ghosts energy. They make a lot of ghost. I like ghosts. They're the ones that do the good, like, co-labs. Like, they'll just say like, yo, this one's Sour Patch Kids. Yeah, they have a Sour Patch Kids.

Come on. Liquid Sour Patch. Imagine if that was around when we were kids. Oh my God. I would just be taking that to the Brick and Dome, dude. Well, it just got me excited because when you walk into my gym, it's a giant wall of energy drinks. Like they have two giant refrigerators

that are just chock full. Like airport style, like the open wall one. Yeah. And you're just, and it's... Bro, say let's it say get you some. I wish it did. I wish it did. I wish it did.

I'm going to start saying get you some. Does it have those plastic flaps that hang in front of everything? Get you something. No, it doesn't have it. No, no, good, good, good. Yeah, I just a regular gym. but there's so many different flavors and types

and I want to try them all. Are you sure it's not a 7-Eleven? Yeah, I'm just working out in a circle, okay? I'm just a dead lifting. I think that's what we're figuring out here. He's like, you just grab a... It's called AM-PM. It's a 24-hour fitness.

It's called AM-PM because it's open... Jugs of blue liquid. You could go in whatever time of the day and there's a ton of heavy stuff you can lift. There's cases of both. Have you ever been in the gym 7-11? It's open in seven days a week, 11 months a year. I do want to see Adam doing what they call them battle ropes with the fucking gas, the gas station.

With fucking slimmed gyms? No, no, with the gas station nozzles, just doing battle ropes outside. Oh, dude, look at home he's got the fucking gas. Might have to. Gas hose workout. Dude, if you could formulate a gas station workout, you would go so vibrant. viral, dude. Well, what you do is you, you farmer carry bags of ice until all of the ice melts. Yeah. And that's how long you have to go. It starts to get pretty easy towards the end.

If you get there. Yeah, but then, but then you're done. Yeah, but you're so exhausted by the time you get there. Yeah. And then you better hope you're working on a hot day. If it's the middle of the winter, you're fucked. Absolutely, dude. I do love that idea. What would that be called if you had like a bucket with like a little hole in it where the water slowly leaked? and so it's heavy, but it's getting lighter. Oh, no, people do that. People do that. And I'm saying, what is the name for that? Bucket, bucket hole workout.

Buckhole. It's like lifting with chains where, like, it's heavier towards the top, I guess, because you're now lifting more chain that's not on the ground. Explain, or? They call it, like, eccentric or? Ecentric and decentric. Yeah, is that what it is? You guys are.

Hypertrophy. What else? Lipids? Lipids. Don't like them. Don't like lipids. Lipids. Uh, macros. Macros, are we back there?

Macros for sure. Macros, I know because of you guys, what is, wait, what are these, let's go back to it, what's a lipid? Is that a workout you're saying? Or that's a, no, lipid is a fat. That's a type of fat. We don't like lipid. No, lipid is fat. It is fat.

Yes. I like. PHAT? Yeah. Sorry, we're from the 90s. Hello. In the 90s. Whatever I hear fat, I assume it's pH.

I think I've heard the word lipid. Yeah, lipids. But I haven't heard the other word you said. eccentric billionaire? What was that one? Okay, so lipids are a diverse group of water insoluble organic molecules, including fats, oils, waxes, and steroids.

Oh, shit. Give me some of those, baby. I don't want that. Dude, I'm watching that show Lioness. By the way, it's fucking good, dude. It's good. It's what Taylor Sheridan should be doing. Instead of the landman.

What do we, you know? I don't even know what? this is. Yeah. Hold up. Okay. I know. Me neither.

I didn't know either. But Zoe Seldon. I'm Morgan Freeman's in it. It's like a cool fucking cast. Uh, and they run like a secret sect of the CIA where they do, they like send in this, like, infiltrate a group of terrorists or, or whatever. And then kill the terrorists either by her or sent, they send in a bomb. That's not nice.

It's truly crazy stuff. But Taylor Sheridan put himself in the movie. or in the show. And this guy, the last time I saw him, he was just, he looked kind of like a cowboy guy. And you're like, okay, yeah, he's like a cowboy type guy. He created Yellowstone and, you know, hell or high water, which is one of my favorite movies.

That's a good tidbit to know. A handful of other cool things. Did he write Sicario? Am I crazy? Yes, that's right. He wrote Sicario. Nice pull. And now he's on so much tea.

Oh. Is he a big boy? He has to be on the most amount of tea. He is so red-looking. And he, like, there's a lot of, like, I think it's a show that both women and men like. Men like, because the action and women like, because guys are always taking their shirts off. And they're always jacked. That's what women love.

Women love that shit. And then it's, and then it's, like, slow montages of men taking their shirts off, putting their shirts back on. And under the guys of, like, we're getting ready for war. You had me in under the guys. Hello. Hold on. Yes, points! You could just cut to them driving. You don't need to see them taking their shirts off and on

and getting in and out of the shower. Right. So it's a lot of that. It's just getting dressed. Like, the last episode I watched last night, it was like seven, eight minutes of them like getting dressed and showering. You see my belt? And getting ready for a war.

It's a good, like, it's a tight shirt too, so they're like pulling it down over the abs and stuff. And Taylor Sheridan is so naked in this, and he is so jacked. But in a way... How are the usher muscles? The fuck-me muscles? He's too old for those. Yeah.

But he has muscles on top of them. Like, he's taking so many steroids or testosterone or whatever he's on that the muscles are growing on top of muscles. And now it's just like a slab of muscle. It's like the big muscle belly. Yes. Oh, I love muscle belly. Muscle belly is my favorite. You guys, can you hold my hands?

we're gonna do it we're gonna do it i would love to okay what age do we start because i feel like right now i'm too young but when it's in poor taste to do it before 50 i think you have to be gray you have to be fully gray i feel like 50 is it's like a celebration it's like we made it i i think you have to be fully gray and then you can start start really getting jacked in and do your steroids i don't but what if you don't get gray at 50 yeah what if you don't get gray oh that Then you missed the bus, and I'm sorry. Oh, I'm sorry. You got to wait?

You have to wait. Or you can dye your hair gray. Adam does not like this at all. It's coming. Give it, give it time. Dude, I have like three gray hairs. I'm not going to go gray. It happens quick.

It happens quick. Just trust me. Just trust me on this. Trust you. You don't have a lot of gray hair. I'm telling you, it's happening, man. It's happening quick. Wait till I'm like.

Dude, I can't wait for you to go fully gray. Oh, me too. I'm going to look like a wizard. You're going to look like a wizard. such a woman. That's gone gray. Like, who's gone, who's gone gray recently? Going gray.

That's our next podcast. Going gray. Go and gray. But we just talked about gray's anatomy. That would be sick. Who's gone gray the best? Like, I'll just, right off the bat. This is a throw, this is kind of a throwback, but it was like when Ted

Danson showed up in saving Private Ryan and had like white hair, everyone was like, okay, let me, it's Ted Dantzanceon in saving. Save him Private Ryan. Hang on a second. Has his hat off, hair's white, and you're like... That kind of throws me off. I need like three minutes to just get back to France here. I kind of don't remember him in Save and Private Ryan.

Yeah, it's too old. I feel like that would throw me out of the movie because he's such a television. I know you could do both, but back then you couldn't do both. But also, he's such a TV actor. Right. It's a little strange to see him for more than 30 minutes. it's out of time. Okay, you like your dancing in doses.

They did put Norm on a stool nearby, just in his regular costume. In the middle of a war? That's fucking cool. Spielberg fucking sends it, bro. Like, hey, Norm, and then he fucking throws a grenade, that's fucking cool. Has the dad from American Pie ever looked richer? Eugene Levy? He's gone gray fully, and he just looks like a male prostitute.

He looks so fetching. Oh, and that's rich to you? Well, no, no, like, he looks like what... Like a male prostitute is like, like, that's what you imagine a rich older man to look like? Like, if he was like an old male prostitute, okay. He would be working.

You know what I mean? I don't know. Not like a corner, not like a teenager on the corner with like jeans hanging off his ass. Well, what do people... That's fine, that's fine. What do people... Not like a...

Not like Blake. Not like a little Blake. The Bay Area, bro. You know how we do it in the bay? A little Twinkie Blake. But he just seems like he's finally found his look. And... Okay.

Well, Isaac has a good one here. Okay. He says, what about... Good job, Isaac. The second half of the latest jackass movie when Johnny was totally gray. Johnny Knoxville went gray. Johnny Knoxville.

Gracefully. Gracefully. I like that. Because he's, that's not gray. That's white. He went, he went. Oh, so now we're saying white and gray are two different things. No, okay.

Well, it's one of the same, but I'm just saying he went super, super. Shades of gray. Splitting hairs at that point. What about Clooney? Oh, my God. What about Clooney? Yeah, I thought that was a subtle, that was like a long, we kind of, we rode that with him, I feel. Yeah.

Timothy Oliphant is suddenly gray. The gray looks sharp. Okay, I like that. I think people who are like tan and gray. Do you think, are we going to go gray? Do you think? Do you think the three of us are going? I thought everybody does.

Doesn't everybody go gray if you don't die your shit? Isn't it like inevitable? Like everybody but Howard Stern. Oh, shit. I feel like you don't. There could be levels to it. Some people go very gray. Some people like.

Salt and pepper, if you will. Yeah, salt and pepper. Some people. Are salt and pepper, gray? Go fully, um, balls. Spenderella Gray? Yeah! I don't know.

I haven't checked in on them in a while. Right. God, can you believe none of us went bald? Unreal. Yet. It's true. It's a phenomenon. How did we find each other?

We are in our 40s, Blake. Like, my dad, every time, I asked him a few times ago that he was here visiting. I'm like, when did you go bald? And he's like, I mean, it was probably about your age. And I'm like, dad, I did the math. I'm like, when I was 18 years old, when, when I, when I, when you got, you got this, you got this. When you were my age, I was 18 years old. And you were so bald.

I did the math and that his brain breaks. Yeah. And you were so bald when I moved out here. Can you imagine having an 18 year old right now, by the way? I know. It's absolutely crazy. Donke. But you were so bald.

And you were so bald when I was like eight. So you're bad at math and knowing like how old you. word. But was he like, I was shaving my head, dude. That was that wasn't really bold. No, no, no. Because for a long time, he just had like a swirl here. Like Charlie Brown.

Yeah, like just like a, it just, he didn't want to shave it, but it was just like a little puff of hair. Yeah. Because as soon as you shave that, you're admitting, you're like, it's over. That's cool, dude. That's the kind of shit I like. I like when dudes cling to the very,

very, very last of the essence of their hair. Right. Those are, I hope so, because those are cuts you can't get in the wild, or, well, you can only get in the wild. Like, it has to happen naturally. You can. Adam, I'm so glad you're with me on this.

We both just made the exact same. Those are hairstyles that only God can bless you with. And they happen through. Okay. So that's what in the wild means. Yeah, in the wild. They only happen in the wild. wild through living a

wildlife. God's wild greener. The Lord's Wild Kingdom it blesses you with that cut. I say, I don't think people should be able to get hairstyles. I think it's bullshit. I think you should have to rock with what. Okay. You are a hairstyle. I am, you

yeah, you're a human hairstyle. I'm very aware. Did you know your call sheet for this movie, it just says hair guy? Yeah. You're in the top. I'm very aware. I'm very aware. Call sheet, but they don't know they don't know your name. I know. They say get the hair guy here. And where's hair?

Hair. Rolling and, oh, we're missing hair. He's right hair. Hair, the man. No, no, no, no, no. Hair man. Where's hair man? Hair man.

I should learn his name, but I have Isaac Graham, so I won't remember. You don't have to. Hey, guys, it's Blake. It's not. It's not. It's hair. Shut up, hair. Shut up, hair.

Get on your mark. I don't think so. I don't think anyone's going to go back, because now. Now, what is it called? Hair transfer, what do they call that? Hair plugs are so good and so... But also the Rogaine or whatever. I know a dude who got Rogaine.

Joe Rogaine. And he showed me pictures of before. And I didn't meet him with his ball. I met him with hair. And he showed me pictures and I was like... Fucking thing sucks. Not really, but it was shocking how far he clawed back to... Really? Rogain has gotten so good.

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Okay. And that's a true thing. And because you read a headline, it sounds like you didn't read the article, you read a headline. It's when I was opening my AOL. Maybe Todd or Isaac can... It's real. Look, baldness cure. Hello.

Well, no, it's a question. They go, did UCLA just cure baldness? And if you click on it and then it just says no. Yeah. Wait, and then do you see this person? It's me. Yeah. It's me.

I don't even know. A guy, oh, by the way, a guy who's like, he has no armpit hair, he shaves his armpit hair, and then he just plays with his hair. This is getting me rock hard. Hello. Can I ask you guys something? What? And no one listening to this will understand this. What are they doing with this GIF up top here?

Yeah, I don't know. No GIF. What did we click? What do you mean the link, Blake? I don't want to click links. God damn. Oh, my God. This guy's AI for sure.

Right? He must be. Look at the way his forehead's moving. That is an AI human. I was locked in on the eyes. I'm sorry, I didn't see the forehead. I'm mostly, so, so it's this link about UCLA, maybe curing baldness. And then it's a, a twink-like gentleman.

Yeah. Playing with his, tossling his hair. And then I'm mostly intrigued by the shaved armpits. Yeah. I know guys do it. I know bodybuilders do it. I know some, I hate it. I hate it.

A guy with a shaved armpit? Yeah, a guy with a shaved armpit. I don't like it. Don't care! You know, do your thing. Unless you're gearing up for finals at the Olympic trials. Yeah, that's true. But how cool would it be durs if there's like a really fast, like, German team

and they all had super hairy armpits? I would be rooting for them to win at swimming. Yeah, anybody fast is cool. Yeah, but what if they're super fast and they're just covered in hair, dude? Yeah, like hairy motherfuckers. Would that be cool? to you? Sure. But here you are shaving your butthole hair in a

in a Hojo bathroom. This is like Mark Spitz style. He used to have like a huge mustache. Do you understand how much slower he was because of that? Yeah, I don't I don't fucking care. I want people to go back to just regular speedos instead of all the suits that like cover their body. What did the and the like, what are they jammers?

They call jammers. They're like bikers shorts. I love that they're called jammers. Sweetheart, where are my jammers? That's, I mean, that's essentially what I tell my son to go put his jammers on. Yeah. Where's dad is jammer? Don't put your jammers. We say jammies. We say jammies and jammers. It's really confusing around bedtime.

Wow. That's wild. Oh, good for you. He comes in wearing a swimsuit. I go, son, you're going to sleep. Blake, real talk, and I want you to be serious. And I know you say, like, you want your hair in the wild and yada, yada. If tomorrow, it just went, your hair is falling out in clumps. and they go, well, Blake, if you can spend whatever, an amount that you can afford, you will have your full head of hair, no one will notice, you'll have to take a few weeks off, no one will notice, and you'll have your full head of hair again.

Or, hey, you're leading the witness here, Durs, I'm talking to Blake. Or you're going to look like you're out in the wild, like you said earlier, and you got a haircut that you could only find in the wild where it's really stranglingly on the side, And it's like, and it's just like a swirl right here. And, uh, could do it. Would you then decide to do that and, and not be a hair guy anymore? Or would you spend the 10 grand or whatever? Well, you're saying like, it's like falling out in, like, in chunks and clumps and like sectors.

It's going fast. Like, within a month, you're going to be a bald old woman. Because if it's like, if it's like skullet vibe, like, you know, I have the ring. around and then like I have like a cool wispy. It's not hey, it's not cool. It's not cool. You immediately look like the old woman from weapons.

Right. Dude. No, she's fired, dude. That haircut is sick. No, actually she has the red hair, right? She looks good. Yeah. She's got a good head. I've always wanted bangs. So if I have an excuse. I don't know. He's talking about when the wig is off. Oh. Yes. When the wig is off. When the wig is off. Oh, okay.

Wake goes straight up like, yeah, no. Like Pippi long stocking status? Yeah, when she's wearing a wig, sure. Dude, you could find me in the club. Yeah, no, I don't. I want you to be real. No, I think at that point I would, I would shave my head. Yeah, I would bust it. You would shave your head and not just... Oh, oh, no, I would take the miracle, I would take the miracle drug and I would go. You would pay 10 grand? No, he's not saying would you take it? Well, it's not a miracle drug. It's, it's, uh, it's hair plugs, essentially, but then... Yeah, you got to go to Turkey, right? It's turkey? No, I'm, no, you could do it here in the States. Okay. Don't people go to Turkey? They do go to Turkey? They do.

It's like they do it. It's cheaper. Oh, it's cheaper. It's not just better. Oh, I thought they knew what they were doing over there. I think they do, but also like, it's cheaper. And it's going to look legit. Yeah, to look legit.

It's going to look as good, if not better than what I got right here. A lot of people will say better. Yeah. Yeah, I think. Hands down. I think I would do it. Really? Yeah.

Yeah, I think I'd do the procedure. Yeah. That's cool. Thank you. That's cool. And I'm like they. you're being honest because I know you want to say like no no I would do I want the cool with the wispy and the well again like I I'm not I'm not totally afraid of the idea of of buzzing my

head I think that that could be a cool thing but I do think maybe I'd want to buzz it in like you know do it like pink sort of like like flea or something like do something but there's nothing to die yeah that's where I'm getting worried I would have to like tattoo my head if you're an actual bald person, there's nothing to die. It's just... Just a tad out the head, right? Yeah. You just get... Like Bam Bam Bigelow, that would be kind of fire, dude. Your first tattoo's going to be on your skull

when you're bald, so then you can't ever cover it. Yeah. Yeah. Like flames. Okay. See, this is what I don't like. We're getting real. We're getting in some place, and then you make up a bunch of shit. What's the name of the Greek stand-up? Is it real? Greek stand-up guy?

Greek... Stavros? I don't know them, but I see them in every fucking video every day. Yeah, Stavros. Yeah. He's made it the look. See? Because he rocks what he's got. It looks fucking awesome.

I love it. But he knows what he's doing also. Of course. He's like, he's cultivated a look as opposed to like, just being a guy who works at Wells Fargo, who's like, Janine, can you pick that up? Yes, but also he could have looked himself in the mirror and gone like, this is not, you know, this is not the coolest hairstyle.

but as long as you embrace it and you love yourself for who you are and what the Lord bestowed upon you, it works. Absolutely. That's what I'm saying. But he knows what he's doing. As far as mixing it with glasses from the 80s,

he's got hair and glasses from the 80s, which we all look back on fondly. Yes. Right? He's kind of cracked the code. You wouldn't just be like, I'll crack the code. I'll crack my code.

I would. If I started to have like the clumps and like I'd probably start wearing a lot of leather jacket you know, like a lot of like... But Blake, so you're... Now you got scared and you pivoted off what you just said that you would do?

Well, no, because... Well, Adam, we're just talking. Adam, we're running through the options. We're running through the options today. We're running through the options. I'm just saying... I could make either of them work, you know? Sometimes life hands you...

Lemonades and you got to blow them up. And you got to make fucking C-4 lemonade energy drink. and just make it work for you. Because what if I don't have the money? What if I don't have the money to get the transplant? No, no, you do. I know, but now we're going, walking.

Let's put myself in different shoes. We're not. You're in your shoes. You're not in different shoes. We're talking about you and your shoes and your life. Right. And what would you actually do? For real, not some made-up thing.

Would you pivot and, you know, maybe gain 150 pound and become Savros? If you're listening, if we were in person, Adam would be holding Blake down right now. I've seen it before. With a leogie hanging. This is why we can't do it in one room.

It gets too physical. It would just turn into boxing matches. Adam slams a ghost. What happens? You know when sports stars have to make big decisions and they're like, I need time to be with my family and think about it? I would have to be with my family and we'd have to discuss it.

But why is it that big of a decision? Like, we all know a ton of other comedians that have done it. Like, Andrew Santino has done it. Theo. What, the hair plugs? Oh, yeah. Theo, Andrew, Joel McHale has done it like five times. Every time I see him, he's talking to me about hair plugs.

He's like the king, right? He showed me photos of him before. Uh-huh. It was crazy. And then now he looks, I mean, he's got a great out of air. Same with Santino. When Santino, I kind of forgot that he got them. And then he mentioned it not too long ago.

And I was like, yeah, I forgot that when we were in the clubs together, like in our 20s, you were balding. And then he just went and got it. I think it's so just, people are just open and honest about it now because it looks so good. Like it would, I feel like you would want to, you're like more scared of it if it turns out ugly, right? Well, yeah. Because then you got to tell people, I got to. hair plugs and it looks like shit but when it looks great you're like yeah fuck i got it look it look how great it is yeah you're hoping it's not something that you always have to address you know what though

i mean i feel like you blake you just for like comedy juice and i don't mean to be looked at and seen as funny but just to be looked at and laughed at long enough that you get funnier and then you get the hair plugs. Because I look at this picture of Santino and I go, oh, this guy. He's got to have comebacks. He's got to be quick with the tongue. Right. With what's happening up here, because he looks very young here. It looks like he's in college in this picture

and he's already pretty thin. No, 2011. He's not in college. Sorry, I'm on the internet. Are you somewhere? I'm not. Oh, yeah. I'm on the link that Todd just sent. But you see it, not even the link the photo, but... I just pulled up the same armpit person. Oh, God. What are you doing?

I can't. I hit the wrong link. I think I'll just leave it here, I guess. No, I'm looking at what I, what appears to be like a college picture. You think that kind of your, your defaults or whatever sort of forge. And I'm not throwing Santino onto the bus or like, he's been out and open with getting this done before. And so is Theo, so I feel like we could talk about it, but I think he looks great. I think he looks great now. And look, he can bring up your penis enlargement.

Yeah, this is fine. It's science. Oh, have you not? It didn't work. Oh, did you never? My tiny cock rejected it. They did my balls by accident. I'm just back to hanging fish weights from my dick to stretch it out.

God, that'd be a nightmare. To go get a penis enlargement and then have the doctor, like, put his hand on your shoulder and go, everything went perfectly. Your balls are bigger than ever. And you just go, uh-huh. What's that? I think if I was that doctor, I would do that every time. Just kidding. Your cock is beautiful now.

I heard there's actually a term for when you try to like stretch your penis to make it longer. I think it's called gulking. I don't know. I think I heard that maybe there's this and anyway. I think I've heard. Yeah, I don't know. Maybe. Unreal.

Possibly there's this thing called gulking. Have you guys ever done that or would it be cool? It's funny because it started in ancient Samarian days. Guys, I don't, and we can keep this kind of talk to a minimum today because I don't want to really dive into it. It's got an interesting history. But I believe it's called gulking or jelking, one or the other. Interestingly enough, it started at the exact same time in four different places on the planet.

But guys, I really would like to keep this talk to a minimum today. Yeah, same. All right, but honestly, we don't want to get into this today. So we're talking about gilk, gilk the shocker? Jilking. This is where you hang something from your dick to make it longer? It's like stretching exercises. So it's a lot of tugging and pulling and massaging.

Hey, I'm doing that. Hey, I guess I've been joking. Yeah, but it's, it's, honey, I'm jilking. I'm just joking in here. I was jelking with you. I was jelking. I'm wearing my Oculus Rift, just jelking real quick. Just jelking.

I'm just joking, kids. Come on. You know what? I feel like if jolking worked, a lot of people would be doing it. Yeah, we would all be joking. But see, I like this podcast has become like a men's health podcast. Yeah, we're just kind of go into, you know, our love of energy drinks, hair plugs, balding, how to make your dick. I don't even know bigger.

It's stretchier. Yeah, I think it maybe it begins to get accustomed. Because if you stretch your penis. out and stretch it out, stretch it out. Mine? When the blood goes into it, is it, would it get like hard or would it just sort of be like

limp and like a limp noodle? Like is there because if the same amount of blood is rushing into the area, right? Now there's more area. Maybe stretching it is about kind of opening the floodgates a little bit. Like opening

your blood gates. Your blood gates and your cock a little bit. And let's keep to a minimum, but... Again, if it worked, starting in 8th grade, we're all doing it. We'd all get the gulking guide to whatever.

Yeah. What is it? Idiot's Guide to Gilder. Yeah, we'd get gulking for dummies. We'd be doing it. You'd be gulking for dummies, baby. Have you clicked the gilking link yet? I saw somewhere that like

the complete Idiot's Guide to whatever, like that world just sold for like hundreds of millions of dollars or tens of millions of dollars or something. It's a great brand. For like, we're going to exploit this in movies and television. I'm like, are you what? Now?

Dude, it was in fucking, what's it called two? Fucking kids movie. What? I just saw it. Whatever it was. The Zootope, Zootopia, too. They have like a partners for dummies book or whatever.

And I was like. Oh, really? I haven't seen them for dummies book in a, that wasn't the 90s that was like in the 2000s by way which came first for dummies or complete idiot's guide to which one was first because they're the same thing right

which one has the little dude with the glasses what has the little dude with the glasses on the cover is that the dummies he's got like in the 90s I don't want to say I couldn't I don't want to be wrong I feel like there's a really cool mascot on the the dummies ones I almost just threw up Ders so if you

there he is there's my guy. Yeah. How to fix everything for dummies. Yeah. Yeah, I guess that is different than a complete idiot's guide. Complete Idiot's Guide and then blah, blah, blah for dummies. I find For Dummies superior.

That is my reference book. I love the For Dummies series because it has that guide. I think I could do both. It has that massive. That might be my first tat on my head when I shave it. I like the idea that Blake goes both. Wait, fuck. You can do both

How to fix everything For dummies is the name I trust I think we had a complete idiot's guide To like history or something at my house You can tell you're not a dummies family Because I couldn't even read it You guys were complete idiots And my family's was dummies

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Find health stuff on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. If my hair started falling out, Adam, would I get it? Yeah, now that I've been sautated and flayed. And I know you're not a very vain person, and I like that about you, Durs, but... Well, my teeth are fake. I don't know. Well, that's true. Teeth are fake. You had some Coke bottle glasses, and now you...

personality's fake. You jelk all the time, and we'll keep that to them. And you, you lasered your eyes. I do think it's, I never had Coke bottle glasses. Like, I never had glasses where, like, you looked at my eyes and they were fucking... You had apple bottom jeans. Which was always tragic. I didn't understand.

When people had those glasses, I was like, you can't find regular ones that don't make your eyes insanely crazy huge. My wife's glasses are insane. She's so blind Like truly blind When Chloe puts her glasses on her eyes get way smaller They're like right Like the lenses are so fucking thick I think it's the opposite

I think they get huge She looks like battle for Alita You know when people wear glasses And it makes it makes like the eyes Smaller behind the lens Because they're so thick Um No

She doesn't want to get just just laser those doggies I think she's scared too And maybe her eyes are like too far gone to do that? Oh shit. They're like, this is fucked. Well, what do I know? I don't know. Yeah, I don't really know why she doesn't, but she's... I guess I would probably get the plugs? Yeah. I don't know. I mean, we all know where I stand.

You're in. I'm getting the plugs. I'm getting the plugs. I mean, shit, I might get them now. I know, like, my hair is perfectly fine. I might get it so my hair line starts right here. Hey, weird. That's kind of tight. I want a widow's peek that goes to the tip of my nose. I don't think you need to, But, like, there's so much preventative stuff now. Like, honestly, like Hymns, I think Hymns fucking... Oh, we're talking Hymns? The way to go.

Hens is just a brand of everything, right? Is it? I thought they made... I mean, we read enough fucking ads. I thought you could get, like, Hymns... That was, like, Hymns Viagra. Hymns hair stuff. It's like they use the generics.

Yeah, I think so. I think that is the case. I have no idea. I don't... I feel like I'm already 44. Nice. It's a good age to lose your hair. Holy shit.

You're a monster. I'm married. Like, I feel like, I feel like, like this is something you do when you're in your 20s and losing it? Yeah. And every girl needs you and just looks at your forehead and goes, next. I'm good. They don't make eye

contact. Dude, I was losing my hair. I don't know if you remember this, Blake. I probably wouldn't shut up about it, but in college, I was losing my hair. I was like, I would take a shower and there would be like hundreds of little hairs in my hands. I thought those were pubs. Blake was just sprinkling fucking his own hairs over here. And it wasn't hundreds,

but it was dozens and dozens every time I would show. Yeah. And then I would like put them, I would like freak out and put like smack my hand against the, the wall of the shower and then count them. And my roommate, Austin, was like, what the fuck is there like your hair all over the shower? Because I was freaking the fuck out.

Yeah, you were, you were probably stressing your hair out. It was falling out because of that. And also you were probably just living off of energy drinks and- And fucking malt liquor. Yeah. Yeah, you're absolutely right. And then it stopped.

I do love the idea of having a roommate who goes, who I go, why is there hair all over the wall of the shower? He goes, I'm freaking out. I'm losing my hair. And I just go, hey, man, I'm sorry to hear that. Don't put it on the wall. Clean up your fucking hair, dude. The fuck are you doing?

Yes. And that would be perfectly, totally fine thing to say to me. and I did it you know it's only a few times that I did that so I could because I was like because I don't know I think maybe my mom was like was it 10 hairs or is it 50 hairs and I'm like I'm gonna count them and so I did and I'm like 66 hairs or whatever the number was and I remember just freaking out about it and then after like a month or two of that where I think like I'm gonna go bald I was not even 20 yet that's lie and I'm like I'm going bald and then it just stopped Yeah, but Adam, imagine if he did...

What was it? We got to circle. We got to figure this out. I don't know. Imagine if you did, and he just would have been so cool if you were bald this whole time. Yeah, you looked like Matt Damon in that one movie. Do you think we still would have got workaholics? No, no. I don't. If DeMamp was a bald character?

I don't think so. I mean... I agree only because I think it's Scotty, who always says this. He goes, sometimes I go back and watch episodes of Workaholics from season one, and you guys are just children. in an office. Yeah. And he's like,

and that's half of what the joke is, is that you guys are so young in an office. And so if you were bald, yeah, it might have, you know, because Robbie, the drug,

the drug tester, he's bald. And if you're bald and he's bald, it's almost like, Brian Husky. Brian Husky, funniest person. We love him.

He really is. It kind of doesn't work as well. That's right. Yeah. That's right. Yeah, that was part of what the charm of workaholics is,

we did look like actual kids in the, and working in an office, which is what the youngest people in your office look like. Yeah. Which is so funny. I love that. I love that you guys were at a call center. And you know what is interesting is we were the dumbest people in the office,

but we liked, we had the most fun and we made fun of everybody in that office. I think that young people now think they're the smartest people in the office. Oh, okay. Okay. That's just what I hear from almost everyone who's like, we just hired a millennial, younger than millennial, I guess, like Gen Z. And they're like, they walk around like they own the place

and it's a little off-putting. You are so dumb. What bosses can no longer like be mean. Right. Can be mean. Principles. Or not even mean, like stern. You can't even be stern to your employee anymore.

That's so wild. I will say this. I remember getting yelled at. at an office and then being like, oh, I no longer take this guy seriously. You know what I mean? Like, he like lost it about like a printer or something. And I was like... I love that.

Well, there's a difference between like losing it and being like, hey, you have to come on time. There's no being five minutes late. There's no being three minutes late. You have to be here on time or five minutes early. Exactly. Like, you can't even say that anymore. Like, you could get written up for that. You know, comedy's dead too.

Yeah, I know. I feel like a old man talking about this, but I had a friend who he fired his assistant because that assistant called in sick for work every Monday for six weeks in a row. And he could not say when he fired that assistant that that was the reason. Because you can't fire someone for being sick.

Oh, shit. Even though it was only on Mondays, six weeks in a row. So they had to come up with another reason and there were other legitimate reasons but you can't even say to your employee like, hey, I know what the fuck's going on. You're 22 years old.

On Mondays, you're hung over because you parted all weekend. You still have to come into the office on Mondays. You can't be sick every Monday. Right. I wonder if there's been studies about mental health days that are taken because I feel like we have never taken a mental health day.

No, it's obvious. I'm just asking. Have you guys ever been like, I can't come in today. I'm just not feeling up to it. It's not how I was raised. It's not how I was raised. But anyway, anyway, I just, no, realistically, I'm sorry. I'm sorry Blake doesn't want to get real today, Anders. I'm being serious. That's not how I was raised. Just Blake, remember, we've got two episodes to do. Let's get real just for a lot of people. That's not how I was raised, man. I wonder if there's been studies that have shown that taking a mental health day is that, actually beneficial or not. Dude, we didn't even acknowledge anxiety in when we were kids. Like, that's not, that wasn't even a thing. So how would we have a mental health day?

Yeah, Adam's hair's falling out. He's like, Mom, I don't know. Anyway, I got to go to the grocery store and go slice. Adam, is it 100 or is it just fucking hair going into the sandwiches? Adam, if it's 50, shut the fuck up and go make sandwiches. Oh, my God. Yeah, you're fucked. Yeah, you're fucked.

Okay, and go make sandwiches. You're fucked. Either way. You're fucked, bud. Get to work. And I guess I'm like, and I don't know. That's why I'm just saying it in front of an international audience that will be recorded forever. Like, don't you still have anxiety?

It's science. Even if you're, like, I don't know. You're just at home that day? Like, shouldn't you go to work and make some money? Oh, yeah. I had anxiety then and I have an anxiety now, but like now I'm told I can like chill about. I guess I just don't know. You're saying what do you actually do with a mental health day?

What is... Well, no, I think sometimes it's fine. Like, if your dad just passed away or something, like someone close to you just passed away, then, yeah, you could take some time. For sure. And then, but then you got to gather your shit and come back to work. Right.

Oh, this is a cool movie. So someone keeps killing people to get mental health days. Oh, yeah. They're like, my best friend just died. So... Oh, dark. And they're like, so dark. Yes, and by the third one, they start checking.

and then they're like, wait, they really are dying. He's not like that. That's a lot of dogs. That's a ton of dogs dying. That's so many dogs. He actually did have 12 dogs living in his house and they're all dying. Yeah. Then they go to the pound and they're like, oh, the dog guy?

He just, yeah. That's the movie. That's the movie. Yeah, I just am like, you know, if you're like a cop and you're having a bad day, I'm sorry, go to work, okay? Go to work. Hold up. Load your gun.

Power through. Okay. Obviously. Take it out on some. Take that, uh, that taser out and go to work and go hand out some tickets. All right. But I guess I'm like, if you're doing a mental health day, what is the protocol? Like if you're, if you're taking a sick day and genuinely you're sick, you're chilling, you're laying up, you're catching up on your shows, you're hydrating, right?

If you're taking a mental health day, what is the protocol? What are you doing? You're jerking off. What are you doing so that the next day, you're ready to go. I think Adam's got the survey says. You're jerking off. Ding, me, ding, ding, ding. 100 people said, jerking off.

Yes, you're jerking, you're gulking. You're setting up your diffuser, your humidifier. You're kind of getting the vibes going. What is the thing? Because I understand the concept of mental health day. Okay, so what are we doing then on that day off? You're running errands. You're jacking off and running errands, right?

It's science. How many mental health days can you take? Like, you're, and what's fucked up about a mental health day is your boss can't say you've taken too many mental health days. Or is there a number? See, I don't know. I don't work in an office. Well, I don't think there is. I think a mental health day is a sick day.

I think they're the same thing. They just can't be denied and you can't be punished. Like, you treat them the same way. Like, mental health day is as undeniable. as a sick day. We don't want you coming in on a bad mental health thing. The event is a misnomer

because it may not be a single day. It could be used to describe an hour, half day, or even a month away from stressful situations. Hey, I'm fucking down for that.

I think that's sick. Now I'm in. It is sick until like you're the boss and you're trying to run a business and you're like, man, all of my employees just left for a month because they want to chill

and just like maybe go to Coachella And, like, yeah, like, it's a bummer for your workforce. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. But, yeah, you know, I get it. Fuck it, dude. Yeah. I just love that they go, it could be an hour or a month.

Yeah, man. It might be a camping trip. I'm sorry, if you need a month off, you know what would relieve the stress? Quit your job. Yeah, dude. Then you get to go. Hello. Quit your job.

Well, I got to pay the bills. I got to pay the bills. Reaply for that job. Hey, man, I'm back. Change your life, go to a whole other job. Learn the guitar. What's the protocol? I love that interview.

I love that interview, though. I'm better, man. I'm good. I know. Actually, my name is Skyler now. I had to go camping in Yosemite for a month. And just kind of get my mind right. And it's right now until two months from now I'm going to go camp in that Joshua tree.

I'm going to be real with you, brother. I'm ready to deliver pizzas again. Well, look, hey, Blake, you look great. You smell awful. Yeah, yeah. I came straight here. See, the problem, Blake, is it, it's not just like the, I understand if it's the lowest level pizza delivery guy, because you can probably get another guy to deliver pizzas

really easily. But a lot of times it's like, it's just like a junior executive. Like, they have a real responsibility in the, in the office or whatever. And they, but they're Gen Z, so they feel comfortable just. just being like, yeah, you know what? I had a really kind of stressful weekend where I did a little too many drugs. So on Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday, I needed to kind of chill up my house and catch up on Lioness on Paramount Plus where Taylor Sheridan is absolutely jacked.

Taking his shirt on and off before going to work. Look, bro, I'm coming down from a peyote bender and I got to watch some boys take their shirts off. I need to take a mental health break. Okay, how long an hour a month? A few episodes. Just a few. I'm sorry, did you say episodes? Yeah, the protocol.

Yeah, I'm actually just going to go in my car and jerk off to these men, taking their shirts on and off. And I might gelt for a minute. You've been gulking during this interview. I have. I have. Guys, keep it to a minimum. Any takebacks, any apologies, any epic slam.

Oh, man. I mean, look, hey, I, I'd like to, I'm not taking it back, but Gen Z, you know, I feel like we, I take back how old we probably seemed going after the Gen Z. And I don't like that we seem old, but we are getting old. You take back how old you are? We're getting there. Interesting. Do you think they take back how young they seem? I don't think they do.

Okay. It's not about them. Okay. It wasn't about them. This is what we take back. Yeah. Interesting. Yeah, so I don't like that we seem so old, but we are so old.

So I guess I'm not taking it back. I mean, I was almost with you about just going, hey, I don't know. But that's kind of my question is, is like, are the numbers there where it's like, A, it actually does work. It's working. Everyone's happier. I don't know if those numbers are there. Everyone seems more miserable.

Yeah, who knows? You know, we're speaking from a place. But the workforce, the amount of time people have to work, it's not fun. It's not good. Well, dude, no, work isn't fun. I know, but I remember when I was young and I was working like crazy, and it's like kind of what you just do. Yeah, I work 60 hours a week in a service deli, dude.

It's, it wasn't fun, but I had to like pay the bills and, you know, make sure I had spectrum cable. Yeah, but with AI and everything, we're not going to need to have jobs anymore and it's going to fucking rock, dude. And life will be a mental health life, baby. Do you think that's how it's going to pan out? is everyone's just going to get free money all right

that'd be hey hell yeah we shall see hmm well yeah yeah do you have a take back

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