This Is Important - The Pleasure Is Ours: "Don't Bite Off More Than You Can Chew"

Episode Date: November 18, 2021

It's Ep. 5 of The Pleasure Is Ours—the This Is Important-hosted BONUS podcast all about blowing up stupid pieces of advice!IN THIS EPISODE: While some might ponder the versatility of the phrase, "don't bite off more than you can chew," the guys on this podcast get literal...quick. So in this week's food-themed-episode of The Pleasure Is Ours, Kyle ponders whether caramel might be the stickiest thing a person could put in one's mouth while Blake reminisces a childhood affinity for shoving mozzarella sticks down his throat. And although Adam insists he's been able to "chew everything he's bitten," the fellas remind him of the time in his life when hosting the MTV movie awards and filming Game Over, Man turned a private jet afterparty into Snoozeville '98. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Think I know how we're kicking it off. You already know. The Pleasure. The Pleasure Is Ours. Hey, guys. Pleasure is ower. That's my spot. That's my spot. You have a spot? Yeah, the spot for me is the dick. The whole dick zone, yeah. It's a big spot. I have a few spots. My nipples are a spot. Come on, guys. Are they really for you? Fuck yeah, bro. What do you mean? Is that for real? Wait, what do you mean is that for real? Is that for real? Because what do you mean? Well, I mean, yeah, it's a pretty standard

question. Okay, yeah, it's for real. But yours are not. That's what blows me away. No, mine are not. Yeah, for real is a standard question. Yeah, I could tug on these all day long, get nothing, get no sexual pleasure from them. Well, tugging is not, tugging is not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the soft touch, the feather touch. Oh, see, because I remember, I used to always grab a hold of your, it wasn't so much a nib while I was grabbing your whole titty meat. Yeah, you grab the whole thing. And I jiggle them around just for, just as a fun, as a fun ha ha. And they're not big nipples on Kyle. Didn't you notoriously fail at piercing your nipples or it happened and they got infected? Something went wrong. No, no, that wasn't me. That

was our buddy. Oh, oh, you're really backtracking pretty quickly. That wasn't me. I did the lip and that failed and got infected, but our buddy Justin did the nipple and that failed and got infected as well. Oh, yeah. And what, was it a dare? Did he do it on a lark? It was like a drunken, yeah, like a drunken, like we'll do this. And do you think when you tried to pierce your lip and Justin tried to pierce his nipple that he bit off more than he could chew? Segway much. Which is the topic for this episode. The pleasure is ours. The pleasure is ours brought to you by Trojan Man. There's no denying this is a classic bit of advice. It's been around a long time. I know people won't shut up about this advice. And I honestly, I'm willing to go out on

a limb and say that it sucks. Oh my God, yeah. Yeah, this is dumb advice. You think it's good advice. Don't bite off more than you can chew. I think if you can't chew it, you're a bitch, dude. Thank you. Simply put. Sorry about it. Yeah, it just needs a little revamp, a little reboot, right? That's what Hollywood's doing now. Don't bite off more than you could chew. What does that mean to you, Kyle? Let's talk about this. Kyle, what does that mean to you? I initially think about like fucking trying to bite a big ass hunk of like caramel or something. You know what I mean? Okay. Okay. That's weird. So you go like right to literal. Literal eating caramel. You really think about eating caramel. And let's just, let's keep that.

And Adam, where do you go? The same caramel? No, it's a little different than caramel. For me, it's more like, like too much applesauce, like a whole jug of applesauce. Oh God, bin there. Don't bite off too much of a jug of applesauce. You don't even chew applesauce, though. No, no, obviously, it's your, you put too much on your plate, you steak, too much steak on your, on your plate. Well, that's when you say your eyes are too big for your plate. Oh, damn, that's true. Your eyes are bigger than your mouth. So you, you're, you're, you're, you're, I mean, what is that? How do you break this phrase down? Because that is how I would explain it. Bite off more than I can chew. Yeah. Bite off more than you can chew is when you take

on too much more than you're able to, it's more than you're able to handle. Yeah. But you've taken such a big chunk out of what you're doing that you might just choke. You're talking with your mouth full. You look like a fool out there. So Kyle, I know you took it literally, have you ever literally bitten off more than you can chew? And what the heck happened? Well, that's what I'm talking about, the caramel. Take us back to this caramel mode. If it is kind of like a warning, what happened to you? Did you, did you choke? This seems like it really rattled you to your core. Well, it's, you're afraid because you take such a big bite of caramel and you have to fucking like, you know, chew through it. And that's, it's very sticky, probably the stickiest of

things you could put in your mouth. So you're afraid for me, I was afraid my fillings might fall out. My fucking teeth might rip out. You went straight to dental bills. Well, fuck yeah, bro. And I'm like, oh shit, I bit off more than I could chew. Obviously, now I'm gonna pay for it in dentist work. So obviously Trojan is the sponsor. So I feel like don't bite off more you could chew. We got to maybe talk about it in a sexual fashion. Okay. Bite off more than you could chew sexually. And what does that mean? Because I feel like I've been able to chew everything that I've bitten. Hey, get off. I wouldn't know. It's definitely not too big for anyone to try chewing. Yeah. So you're talking about biting the

dick. What are you trying to? I'm just saying it's not too big to chew. That's all. Oh, you're talking about your bite off. Yeah. You know, it's like, so this isn't in relation to you biting off. This is someone else biting off your dick to chew. Yeah, this is advice. I would never give that advice. I'd be like, you're good to go. Yeah, it's good. It's very chewable. Have a chew. It's a healthy snack. Are you trying to tell us that you enjoy a toothy blow job? I'm the guy. I'm the guy. You're the guy, pal. You're the one. You're the one human that enjoys a nice toothy blow job. No, I guess I was still, I was still working in the metaphor. You guys are still living in the literal and that's fine. Maybe this, this whole concept.

Adam took it to the metaphor and he said he's never had that problem. He's always been able to chew what he bit in the bedroom. And that's where I said, hold up, hold up, hold up. What is that? You want to, you want to know what that means? Like you never is a very, very extreme word, by the way. Well, other than like, I mean, maybe it was originally called the never games and then they changed it to X games. Caramel games. The Hunger Games. The Hunger Games, I thought you were going on. Yeah, that's what I thought too. So I went to Carmel. Yeah, I feel like don't bite off more than you could chew. Could be like you're dating multiple people at the same time. Oh, scandalous. Which scandalous, mate. But I feel like when you're young and you're, you know,

you're seeing a lot of different people and you're not really committed to, like you're not calling anyone your girlfriend or your boyfriend or whatever, you can see other people. I feel, there's that gray period before you lock someone down. Is this a weird time to talk about the three different families that I have in different states? This would be a weird time. Okay, then I won't. This would be a weird time. I've got families in different areas. That's the original virgin. Yeah, that's that was Ludacris owed to not biting off more than you could chew. See, Ludacris didn't even think it was possible. Right, right. Well, it very much is possible until you commit to someone and then, and then, you know, quit chewing homie. Yeah, I feel like that always

ends messy unless you have a twin and then you can kind of like be in both places at once. I wish I was a twin. Yeah, or you like do like the mist outfire and you're like running from table to table. You know what I mean? Then that's when you know you're biting off more than you could chew. Okay. When your life turns into a farce. Scabby bag. All right. That's pretty good. I mean, maybe I bit off more than I could chew when I'm like, Oh, it's going to go down tonight and and me and my girl come home. Maybe I took I drank a little bit more than I should have. Right. And then I get home and I'm like, right. I'm like the op a lot of guys, they get horny when they're drunk. I'm the opposite. I'm just like, I don't, I'm not horny now. Right. Are you saying you were like

in the club, you had a few drinks, you're like, baby, when I get you home, I'm going to just rock your world. And then a couple more drinks start pouring, you get a Yeager shot in you, you get home and next thing you know, snoozeville 98 snoozeville 98. So you bit off more than you could chew of booze. Yeah, I drank more than I should have. So I couldn't, but that's just not as fun to say. Yeah, right. Yeah, that doesn't, that doesn't roll off the top. Like if someone's like, Hey man, be careful, don't drink more than you should have. You're like, what? For me, I start to think of if I'm going to bite off more than I can chew, maybe it's like some kind of cool fantasy where I get like five freaking partners at once in the bed and I cannot service

any of them well. Right. That's that classic Jamie Foxx bit where he's at the Playway mansion, just trying to anybody in the dick, in the dick, in the dick, in the dick, in the dick, in all the ladies start going for each other. Yeah, you're like, dude, this is so awesome. And then it's just five people pissed off at you. Right. I'm like, come on, man. One of us. Not yet. Not yet. Any of us. Y'all work on each other. I'm going to try to reload the sick shooter. I'm going to go refill the cooler. Reload the sick shooter. I love that. You got a sick shooter. I think daddy bit off more than he could chew. Yeah. Well, I'm lucky if I got a two shooter. Yeah, I got a 250 cc squirt gun over here.

Nice. I love that. Damn. What does that mean? 250 cc squirt gun. That's the littlest one. 250 cc. Did you go to a motorcycle now? No, what is that? What was the little, uh, the six shooter we're talking about? Guns. No, I'm talking about the Super Soaker. Super Soaker. But what's a cc? The littlest one, right? No, the biggest was the 250. Oh, really? Oh, dang. Then I just gave myself a cool compliment. Yeah, you were like real modest. And I think you went to a motorcycle engine, too. Yeah. We're not going to confirm that. Hi, I'm David Eagleman. I have a new podcast called Inner Cosmos on iHeart. I'm a neuroscientist and an author at Stanford University, and I've spent my career exploring the three pound universe

in our heads. On my new podcast, I'm going to explore the relationship between our brains and our experiences by tackling unusual questions so we can better understand our lives and our realities. Like, does time really run in slow motion when you're in a car accident? Or can we create new senses for humans? Or what does dreaming have to do with the rotation of the planet? So join me weekly to uncover how your brain steers your behavior, your perception, and your reality. Listen to Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman on the iHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The pleasure is ours is brought to you by Trojan America's number one condom brand. And today we

are talking about the one and only delay spray. Such an amazing product. What is it? Thank you for asking, Anders. Thank you for asking. It's an innovative new product from Trojan that helps you last longer and keep the pleasure coming. Oh, I got it. I got it. Okay. Okay. But wait, but what does it do? It prolongs the pleasure and prevents premature jack. Oh, thank God. And it can be used at what's cool about it. You hose your ding dong down and then you can strap on a Trojan condom, which is triple tested and trusted for over 100 years. Oh, that's huge. So you use the spray with the condom so you're having safe sex. You're lasting a long time. Everybody's having fun. My gosh. So it's super safe. But then also you're not, you're not a chump. You're not just

Yeah, you're not a two pump chump. You're not a two pump chump. You're a pleasure machine. You're a pleasure machine thing. Yes, a pleasure machine. Yes. Say it again, because that's true. Say it one more time. Pleasure machine. Exactly. Third time's the charm. Or maybe they just read about Sting, who was having tantric sex for hours. Oh, yeah. Yeah. He's a legend in that field. Well, I mean, so I think that this must be his secret. Right. Yeah. This has to be his secret. He must be using the device. He was using some sort of essence of something from like a mountain spring or something. And they put that in here. Maybe I don't know, but like, there's got to be the good stuff in here, right guys? There has to be. Well, he's like, you know, he probably

like, you know, it's staying. He's like, he's like, Oh, yeah, it's probably it's mountain. I don't know if this is what he sounds like, but he's like, it's mountain spray. It helps me last longer. But really, he's just sneaking off in the bathroom, doing a little squirt squirt with some delay spray more than likely, allegedly, allegedly, he's doing stuff like this. We don't know, but we're assuming I spray it around the house. It gets everybody in the mood. They know that something's about to happen. It's everybody knows everybody. The dog. Yeah. It's going down. The dog gets under the couch. Oh, it's about to go down for a very long time. The delay spray. The pleasure is ours. Biting off more than you can chew. What is like the most like, I feel like it's when

you're like in college, you were like taking on like a lot of classes or something, you know, you're like, I'm just going to cram 16 credits. I don't know what that means. You're going to do 16 credits in one semester. Yeah. I was like, maybe I tried to go to school for 35 years. Let's really concentrate on one class at a time. I should really concentrate on improv. I should really concentrate on creative writing and improv class this semester. I'm actually going to take creative writing again. But Adam, you need to take basic math because your math grades were so low. I'm kicking that can down the road. No, I don't. What do you want me to do? Bite off more than I can chew? Come on, baby.

I think I've never bitten off more than I could chew. I take that back. Probably work stuff. I think work stuff is work. It's definitely work, bro. I'm talking to the demo, the college demo. We're still young. Well, you can say side hustles is probably like, you know, hustles and side hustles is where you bite off more. When you said work, I didn't know what that was. Side hustles? I was like, wait, side hustle? Like if I'm selling my bracelets while ubering people and running postmates? Your charm bracelets? For sure. Let's see Adam's coffee real quick. Maybe this is a biting off more than you could chew situation. That is a large glass. Never sleep. And it's late at night. That's what caffeine is for. Yeah,

as we know, it is my birthday today. I went to... Happy birthday. My birthday. Good to find out. Note to self. You texted me earlier. You son of a bitch. I went to Metallica last night. Doing this podcast, I might have bit off a little more than I could chew. I do have to wake up at 5 a.m. Oh, why? On the Sabbath? For work. I think of my friends. You probably are the most big biting friends I've got. Like I recall, remember when we were shooting Game Over Man and in the middle of shooting the movie, you hosted the like MTV Movie Awards? That was crazy. That was truly insane. I don't even remember doing it, really. I mean, it just all happened so damn fast. It was insane. Yeah, we were shooting Game Over Man

and then all of a sudden I'm hanging off a chandelier while the stage is on fire and I'm dressed as beauty in the beast. Safe. Viacom, safe. And what I remember is when we all hitched a ride on your jet that MTV got you back to Vancouver. That was one of the coolest. By the way, that doesn't just happen. We partied as if that doesn't happen because it doesn't happen. Right, yeah. And we were partying and then we turned and you were just curled up in the back taking a snooze. Just a little baby bear. Not in a negative way. In a, guys, maybe I bit off more than I could chew. I bit off maybe more than maybe I could chew, maybe. Maybe. That's a good thing. But I still chewed it, still swallowed it. And that's what you were doing on the plane.

You were just digesting. You know what I mean? Sometimes it's tougher. Like when you take big bites, you can get through them. I think that's a big, a big part of this is you can get through that caramel. You can get through those. Don't bite off more than you can chew that those people maybe aren't losers. Yeah, maybe they're losers. Yeah, they have no teeth. Maybe they're not biting maybe they're not hungry enough. Dude, they could be, they could be scared. They're too scared because of all that caramel. They're afraid it's going to get, it's going to get stuck to them. Is the new saying, if you're afraid of caramel, bitch, step aside, step aside. There's big bites happening. Yeah. Someone else with a, with a big, sit your bitch ass down. Carmel's a bitch. Carmel's

a bitch. And then you bite. Then you bite. We got it. We finally got it. We're not done, but we, we already have it. Oh, we cracked that code. Carmel's a bitch. And then you bite. Man, that almost kind of sounds like it rolls off the tongue too. Wait, what is it? Carmel's a bitch. And then you bite as much as you fucking want. And then maybe and chill while you're digesting. Just chill. Yeah. Okay. So we're adding more to it. Carmel's a bitch. And then you bite and chill while you're digesting. That's good, man. That's fire. The pleasure. I think maybe that fucking phrase might be biting off a little more than it can chew. Yeah. I would say that it kind of goes with one of my very favorite sayings that I ever heard is how do you eat an elephant one bite

at a time? So that's like, has to do with like, when I say that every day, dude, you say that every day. I say that every day. The first time I ever heard that saying was right now. Yeah, I don't know. Kyle made it up. I say this phrase every day. Well, yeah. Now that you were like, oh, my favorite saying and then Kyle says he says it every day. It's Kyle made that saying up. Well, I always like it. It resonated with me because it is about having a very, very large problem. You can't eat a whole elephant one bite. You might be biting off more than you can chew. Right. But you can get it eventually if you nibble at it long enough. Well, maybe okay. Well, maybe that we just scrap, don't bite off more than you can chew or the digesting the caramel or

whatever the fuck we just said. And we just segue or into how do you eat an elephant one bite at a time? Okay. That's a great phrase. I mean, yeah, let's trademark that shit. Let's put on a t-shirt. The pleasure. How do you eat caramel? How do you eat caramel? A little bit at a time. A little bit at a time safely. How do you eat a truck of caramel? You open the truck. You open the truck. You get a spoon. Now that you're mentioning caramel, I used to have a huge issue with eating mozzarella sticks. I would eat them way too fast and I would choke on them and in numerous occasions I did it once at Chili's and once at this place called the Iron Skillet where I ate I ate the mozzarella sticks so fast. And I was choking. Oh, because the string you swallow it

and it goes down. Yeah. And I reached down into my mouth and I barfed all over the table. Oh, but I love mozzarella sticks so much my mom would always buy them for me. And I could never help it. I had to eat them so fast. Oh my god. So you would just shove them down your throat and just let them sit there like hot dogs. Like a hot dog eating contest. So wait, you wouldn't chew these mozzarella sticks? I would try but they're so delicious. I would swallow them and the string would still be attached. Yeah, exactly. It's like when you swallow something and you go like and you like pull the spaghetti back out. Yeah. Yeah, it's so stretchy and delicious. It would get caught in my throat. But you also didn't have to throw up. You just

were kind of a bitch about it, I think. No, I threw up because I was choking and I would reach in my mouth to grab it out of my throat and that would set off my gag reflex. Exactly. You're not truly choking. Well, I was scared. Wait, what do you mean? That sounds like he was. Because he had a poorly chewed mozzarella sticks in his fucking throat. Well, it's like when you go to the doctor, they do the tongue depressor. You're not choking, but it's hitting that trigger. Dude, the tongue depressor is much thinner than a mozzarella stick. I'm sorry. I mean, I eat big mozzarella sticks. He's not choking on the stick. He's choking on the string of the cheese, correct? Well, he said he just shoved them in his flake if I may, Blake. Oh,

see, I plead the fifth. I plead the bitch. He shoved him down his throat several at a time. He's saying that he was chewing it and swallowed before he had disconnected it from the piece that was not in his stomach, correct? Busted. So you bit off more than you could chew. Exactly. But he didn't chew. Hey, when you're biting, chew. That's it. If you're gonna bite, chew the damn thing. No matter what you're eating, just chew it. Yeah, no matter how big the damn bite, chew it. Nothing to it, but to chew it. It's got to be caramel. Nothing to it, but to chew it. Okay. If you're taking a big bite of caramel, you got to chew it. You got to chew it. Well, suck it for a little bit, actually. Now that I think about caramel,

you could probably get away with sucking it for a second. Yeah. Were you talking about those sour apple suckers there? Slurp my caramel. Oh, dude, exactly. Exactly wonders, bro. Sour apples. I swallowed a tooth one time eating the caramel apple like it came out when I was in like second grade. Oh, did it come out in your poop pool? It must have. Or it's still in there. Oh, he doesn't know. Or you got a little tooth chilling in your tummy. Yeah, that's fine. I could see Ders having just a little tooth on his liver. A little tooth, baby. Yeah, I do have that vibe.

Actually, that makes so much sense. That makes so much sense. You see that now? Now that you're saying that. It's answered some shit. Oh, yeah. Right. When I heard that don't bite off more than you could chew, I initially thought of, because I was thinking, you know, sexually, I initially thought of that scene. Remember in Shawshank Redemption where like the dude's like, you're never freaking suck on my dinger. That's the only part I remember. And then like Tim Robbins is like, if you stab me in the head, my jaw will close on your penis and I will bite your

dick off and you're going to need the jaws of life to get my mouth off of you. I don't remember that part. I kind of do. You're like ringing a little bit of a bell over here. Remember like the sisters come into like the laundry room and they all like strap them down and they're like, we're going to make you suck it. And then like they got like a screwdriver to his temple and he's like, just so you know, if you jam that in, my jaw will the reflexes. Yeah. That was always like when a kid was about to get beat up by like the biggest kid. He'd be like, I'm going to if I will bite your jugular if you lay a hand on me. And it's like so much just lay a hand on me.

Yeah. If you so much, I will cut your Achilles tendon and paralyze you for life. I will break the C6 vertebrae. I will unleash so much pain. I will find you. And you're like, bro, you should just run. Just talking about shit you've seen in movies and run. Yeah. You know, you know what he would say. He's like, I will take this part of my hand and I will hit your nose into your brain causing certain death. The internal bleeding will be unstoppable and you'll die immediately in two months. They'll find out you were, you've been dead the whole time, but go ahead, make your move. And the dude's like, he's like, let's leave him alone, man.

No, he just throws him into a toilet or something. He doesn't have a father figure next time. Yeah, of course. The whole thing we're talking about is horrible. It's a bad situation on all ends. It's just bad dads. Yeah. It all comes down to bad dads. Hey, dads, don't bite off more than you can chew and have kids. Okay. If you can chew your kids, don't have them. Don't have them. Something to that effect.

Right. You get the metaphor. Yeah. This is a parenting metaphor now. Yeah. Carmel's a bitch. And then you got kids. Carmel's a bitch and then you chew. Carmel's a bitch. You got to chew. And then chill while you digest. This episode was brought to you by Trojan, America's number one kind of brand. You can get any of Trojan's products that were featured in this episode,

like Bear Skin Raw, Ultra Fit, Ultra Thin, and Delay Spray online or at any major retailer. Do your best. Get yours on. Hi, I'm David Eagleman. I have a new podcast called Inner Cosmos on iHeart. I'm going to explore the relationship between our brains and our experiences by tackling unusual questions like, can we create new senses for humans? So join me weekly to uncover how your brain steers your behavior, your perception, and your reality. Listen to Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman on the iHeart Radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.