Ep 298: Grumpy Old Men

Summary

This Is Important – Ep 298: Grumpy Old Men

Podcast: This Is Important (iHeartPodcasts)
Date: May 12, 2026
Hosts: Adam Devine, Anders Holm (“Ders”), Blake Anderson, and Kyle Newacheck (not present but referenced)

Episode Overview

In this episode, the trio (Adam, Blake, and Ders) descend into classic “grumpy old men” territory, riffing on nostalgia, the evolution (or devolution) of comedy, male friendship, romance in the digital age, the manosphere, and what it means to be funny now versus then. The episode oscillates between hilarious and candid, blending stories from their own lives with commentary on the broader cultural moment.

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Highlights & Key Discussion Points

1. Opening Energy and Nip/Tuck Nostalgia

• [03:01] The guys set a typical tone with banter about bodily relaxation and irreverent takes on sex and relationships.
• [04:00] They reminisce about watching Nip/Tuck:
  • Ders: “Remember when we all watched Nip Tuck? ... where the guy ... just stood up at the table, pulled his dick out, and put it on the table. And then everyone was like, yeah, all right, you can do the surgery.”
• They celebrate Ryan Murphy’s wild TV ("horniest man in television") and joke about possibly re-watching Nip/Tuck together.

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2. Blake Misses Out & Vintage Comedy Central Collectibles

• [04:48] Blake laments not having joined in on the Nip/Tuck watch parties at their old house.
• [06:33] Adam shares his excitement about a new eBay purchase—a vintage Comedy Central cookie jar.
• [07:51]
  • Adam: “That is sick, dude. I keep protein bars in here just in case.”
• [08:18] Adam admits to sporadically checking Facebook just to see which old acquaintances “lost custody of their kids” or are on their “third divorce.”
  • Adam: “I don’t look at it very often, but every once in a while I'll check in to see, like, which high school friend...has lost custody of their children because of their alcoholism. It's science.”

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3. Comedy Central Logo & Branding Nostalgia

• [10:49] The trio geek out on the evolution of the Comedy Central logo.
  • Adam: “I like the new one. I thought it was a cool update. It was, like, going after the '@' symbol, kind of like we’re updating.”
• Discuss the impact of branding on generational TV identity—how old logos stir strong memories and emotional connections.

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4. Coastal Fast Food, Body Hair Maintenance, and Chili Peppers

• [14:23] A debate erupts over Carl’s Jr. vs. Hardee’s, and how regional differences influence branding and personal identity.
• Talk of manscaping, chest hair, shaving routines, and “poofing out” under T-shirts
  • Adam: “I do a one blade on the back, so it's nice and smooth because I don't want ... the follicles have just, like, stuck whiskers [to the shirt].”
• [16:21] Anecdotes about how manscaping affects intimacy—Ders shares a story about a friend whose chest hair left his hookup’s “titties ... so raw.”
• [17:18] Adam reveals he listened (loudly) to Red Hot Chili Peppers during sex to drown out the “roommate noises.” This turns into a long riff about associating certain songs and bands with those memories.

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5. Would You Rather? Parental Sex or Roommate Sex with Your Crush

• [20:08]
  • Ders: “Would you rather hear your parents super loud, or a roommate with a girl who ... you have a crush on? ... your roommate's just slaying.”
  • Adam: “I think I would rather listen to my parents fuck.”
• Dissects the emotional pain of unrequited crushes, jealousy, and oddball sexual scenarios, leading to much laughter and increasingly absurd embellishments—especially imagining Kyle in these situations.

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6. Male Friendship, Romance & Social Norms (Past & Present)

• [32:35] Ders shares a college story about a swim teammate who, after hearing a woman have sex upstairs, timed meetings to “accidentally” run into her—which led, years later, to marriage.
  • Comments about how today’s standards might see such behavior as “insane,” and the impact of social media on traditional “romantic” rituals.
• The group reflects on the loss of physical, organic “chases” in modern romance.
  • Blake: “Social media ... killed all that ... all the romance as you. We used to call that romance.”

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7. Manosphere, Influencers & the Problem with Modern Masculinity

• [35:32] They discuss the “Manosphere” documentary and the bizarre, performative world of male influencers.
  • Blake: “It feels like it's just being done to get reactions. But it's starting to seem like people are actually drinking this Kool Aid and they ... pray at this church.”
• Discuss the danger of young boys absorbing these messages and the generational cycle of seeking problematic “role models.”
• Reference Bad Baby/Bhad Bhabie’s rise to fame and struggles, demonstrating social media’s impact on younger generations.

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8. Comedy & Humor: Past vs Present

• [49:47]
  • Adam: “With our generation, comedy was more important than nowadays... The funny kid was the popular ... One of the popular kids.”
  • Ders: “I think that kids who are, like, texting constantly, like, they don't know when someone's joking or not, so they’ve stopped joking.”
• Lament that modern communication (texting, social media) erodes the natural, context-driven jokes that fostered friendships in their youth.
• Highlight the “Gooners” and extreme subcultures as outliers who overcompensate with endless joking.

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9. Looney Tunes, Cultural Decline, and Grumpy Reflections

• [65:20]
  • Blake: “Kids … aren’t raised on Looney Tunes anymore... Like, you gotta have the Looney Tunes in your life as a kid. Ultra-violence... everything’s on the table.”
• Adam rails against modern “influencer” culture (“everyone is an expert ... everyone is inspirational”), critiquing the toxic positivity and burnout so visible on the internet.
  • Adam [66:54]: “Everyone is doing that now on, on the Internet. I’m like, can I escape this?”
• Highlight how relentless self-improvement fads often end in personal breakdowns.

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10. Reflections on Changing Entertainment “Stakes”

• [71:04] The group compares the “polish” and all-around talent of old vaudevillians and radio stars to today’s podcasters and online streamers.
  • Blake: “Duos ... they’re absolutely insane. Like, they're so polished. They're so good. They're dialed. Everybody can dance, everybody can sing, everybody can hit jokes, everybody can play straight man. … And then we do podcast.”
• Contrast how “stakes have left the building”—the pressure for perfection is gone, replaced by ephemeral viral moments.

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11. Adam’s Comedy Central Cookie Jar & Generational Bonds

• Repeatedly revisit the Comedy Central cookie jar as a symbol for old-school, tangible nostalgia and as a metaphor for the fading of comedy from the world.
  • Adam: “... this Comedy Central cookie jar is filled with funny treats. And the more funny treats you take out of it, the less comedy there is in the world.”
• The guys bond over their shared appreciation for obscure collectible items no one else would value.

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12. Closing Segments: Shoutouts & Takebacks

• Shout out to Sam Jay and Alex English’s new podcast, Look Back At It, launching under the “This Is Important” umbrella.
• Reflect on legendary comedians (Eddie Murphy, Jim Carrey), and how some people are always funny, even when immensely successful.
• Apologize for going “grumpy old men” but affirm the enduring power of friendship, humor, and nostalgia.

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Notable Quotes & Moments (with Timestamps)

• Nip/Tuck Dick Table:
  • Ders [04:02]: “He just stood up at the table, pulled his dick out, and put it on the table. And then everyone was like, yeah, all right, you can do the surgery.”
• On Facebook Creeping:
  • Adam [08:32]: “I gotta check in to see, like, which one has drank themselves to death, who has lost custody of their children because of their alcoholism. It's science.”
• Parental Sex vs. Unrequited Crush:
  • Adam [23:13]: "...she’s not going to catch an STD, but she’s going to get sick afterwards..."
• On the Decline of Comedy:
  • Adam [49:47]: “To our generation, being funny was a superpower ... in your group, in order to have any social standing within your group, you had to be funny.”
• On Looney Tunes:
  • Blake [65:20]: “I think that might be a problem with kids... They aren’t raised on Looney Tunes anymore.”
• On Internet “Experts”:
  • Adam [66:06]: “Everyone is inspirational … It’s like they’re telling you what to eat, … how to be a good father … Jesus Christ, man, stop.”
• On Ed Sullivan vs. Podcasts:
  • Blake [71:01]: “They’re so polished. They’re so good. They're dialed... And then we do podcast.”
• On the Cookie Jar and Comedy in the World:
  • Adam [52:30]: “...the more funny treats you take out of it, the less comedy there is in the world.”

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Final Thoughts

Theme Recap:
A combination of real vulnerability (“grumpy old men” lamenting the erosion of the comedy and friendships they grew up with) and unfiltered hilarity, riffing on everything from sex and childhood cartoons to Internet toxicity, collectibles, and how comedy used to be a social equalizer.

Tone:
Warmly nostalgic, irreverent, self-deprecating, and equal parts grouchy and hopeful for the genuine connections that still persist in a changing world.

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For fans old and new, this episode is a quintessential snapshot of “This Is Important”: equal parts raunch, real talk, and raw nostalgia, all filtered through the humor of three guys who still see the world as a playground—even if they love to grumble about how the swings used to be better.

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[Adam]

welcome to this Is Important, a production of I Heart Radio, the show where we talk about what's obviously most critically, crucially important. Today on this Is Important.

[Ders]

My butthole so relaxed.

[Adam]

I think I would rather listen to my parents fuck.

[Ders]

This is the only way I can come.

[Adam]

Let's go. Yes.

[Ders]

Yeah. Yes, sir. I don't know.

[Todd]

I'm not sure

[Adam]

this one, dudes. I'm excited about this one.

[Ders]

Oh, hell, yeah, you are.

[Blake]

We love that energy.

[Ders]

What's going on?

[Adam]

I'm excited about this.

[Ders]

Do you have a crazy story?

[Adam]

I don't.

[Blake]

What's going on, man?

[Adam]

I was hoping you guys were going to bring something to the table.

[Ders]

I'll bring something to the table. That's what Blake said.

[Adam]

You guys are going to bring something to the table. I was just excited about this one, dude. But do you guys not have anything to bring to the table?

[Ders]

I'll bring some. Remember when. You remember when we all watched Nip Tuck? Just me and there was a part of the show.

[Adam]

Watch it.

[Ders]

You made us all watch it, where the guy. The, like, a hot doctor. They were like, well, what makes you think we can trust you to do this operation? And he just stood up at the table, pulled his dick out, and put it on the table. And then everyone was like, yeah, all right, you can do the surgery. That's cool. Yeah.

[Adam]

Hot, hot, hot, hot.

[Ders]

What a show.

[Blake]

Whoa. And that clear.

[Ders]

Cleared my bar.

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Blake]

That was his. His proof.

[Adam]

It was a. It was a. It was a different time. That's Ryan Murphy. And Ryan Murphy is the horniest man in television.

[Blake]

And he.

[Adam]

When he wants someone's dick out on tv, he's gonna make sure their dicks out.

[Ders]

I loved that show. I might. I might do a podcast rewatch.

[Blake]

I might have to watch it for the first time I have Nip Tuck talk.

[Adam]

You didn't watch it back in the day. I remember Ders would come over to the house, and we would watch Nip Tuck together.

[Ders]

Yeah, Adam, that was our little.

[Blake]

I feel like I wasn't invited.

[Ders]

It's actually better if you're sitting on my lap.

[Adam]

It was in the living room where you lived, where you were jerking off in the room to that AIDS movie you were watching.

[Ders]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Blake]

Angels in America. It's an important play and film.

[Adam]

Yeah. I go in Blake's room. He's crying, jerking off at the same time.

[Blake]

I'm a theater major.

[Ders]

Yeah.

[Adam]

As. As one guy was inserting himself into another man saying, I'm expecting you, and Blake's crying.

[Blake]

It's a powerful movie, Adam. It's a powerful play. It's a powerful piece.

[Ders]

Oh, you got a great ass. How are you missing that? That's the guy who was saying it, wasn't it?

[Blake]

Where the hell has that one gone? That might have.

[Ders]

Isn't he in Angels in America?

[Blake]

Yes.

[Ders]

Al Pacino.

[Adam]

Wait, Al Pacino? That's from the movie Angels in America?

[Ders]

No, no, no. It might as well be. Yeah.

[Blake]

No, great ass is from Heat, right?

[Ders]

Any given Sunday.

[Blake]

No, I think it's from Heat.

[Ders]

Oh, no, you're right. You're right.

[Adam]

Right? You're right. Right, right, right, right, right.

[Blake]

And you got your head all the way up it. And they, like, set. There's some. Some behind the scenes about, like, he was just freestyling on that part. Like, that was unscripted. That was just.

[Adam]

I feel like everything. Is he my favorite actor now?

[Blake]

Alino's pretty freaking, like, now.

[Ders]

As in, like, 15 seconds ago after what Blake just told you.

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Ders]

All right. I love it now.

[Adam]

Now that I know that he just goes way off script and screams about asses on set. I'm like, that's. That's cool, dude.

[Blake]

He's freestyling.

[Ders]

What a bummer for Evan Stone to be dethroned.

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Blake]

Damn, son.

[Adam]

Lexicon Steel, Lexington Steel.

[Ders]

Sorry.

[Adam]

Of course, of course, of course, of course, of course, of course. I. I just. Dude, I bought this on ebay. I felt like Blake when I was buying it.

[Blake]

You made an ebay purchase?

[Adam]

This might be one of the first things I've ever bought on ebay. And it called out to me. I'm. You know, I have. I. I moved into a new office. It's in my house, but it's a

[Ders]

new office, and it's really bright. It's really. It's really bright for some reason. I don't know.

[Adam]

There's a light. There's a light.

[Ders]

There's almost too bright compared to what. What I'm rocking with.

[Adam]

Yeah, it's weird. You're in a d. You do the podcast for the dungeon. But my wife loves me, so she lets me have an office, and that's a sign. I'm. I'm looking for things to fill it. Right. You know, And I don't. I don't collect things in the way Blake does, so I don't have a Lot of mannequin heads or Mac Dre miniature posters. So I bought this. Dude, look at this thing.

[Ders]

Oh, boy.

[Blake]

Oh, I can't wait. I wish I had a drum. Wait, sorry. That was the wrong one.

[Ders]

Were you guys.

[Adam]

Were you guys. Guys expect this?

[Blake]

I was.

[Ders]

If you're listening, it's like a ceramic Comedy Central cookie jar. Dude, it's a cookie jar.

[Adam]

Cookie jar.

[Blake]

Oh, okay. Okay.

[Adam]

That is sick, dude. I keep protein bars in here just in case.

[Blake]

Wow.

[Adam]

Hungry little hanger.

[Blake]

Is that a. Is that a vintage piece?

[Adam]

It's a vintage piece.

[Ders]

Dude, this is like a.

[Blake]

That must be off the desk of, like, Kent Alterman or something.

[Ders]

Wait, wait, wait, wait. So can we get a little bit more of, like, the lead up to clicking by?

[Adam]

Dude, I saw someone.

[Ders]

Where did you.

[Adam]

I saw someone on Facebook and they were like, holy. Look what I just found.

[Ders]

So you are still on Facebook. Also very. Also very cool.

[Adam]

Yeah, I was awesome.

[Ders]

Yeah.

[Adam]

I don't look at it very often, but every once in a while I'll check in to see, like, which high school friend of mine has lost their kids.

[Blake]

Fucking disaster.

[Adam]

My wife. What'd you say?

[Ders]

Right?

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Blake]

Yeah.

[Adam]

I got to check in to see, like, which one has drank themselves to death who has lost custody of their children because of their alcoholism. It's science.

[Blake]

And it's that time.

[Adam]

It's about that time. It's about that time who's going on their third divorce.

[Ders]

I'm like, there's a brat. There's a brat out there going through that right now.

[Adam]

Absolutely.

[Blake]

Brad taking swing.

[Adam]

So. But instead of finding that cool shit, I found something maybe even. Maybe even cooler than one of my friends or old friends lives falling apart, losing a friend was this. Someone was like, I found this at a garage sale for, like, $12. Like, what an epic find. And I was like, what a epic find, dude. So then I went on the ebay and got it for, like, I don't know. I think I spent, like, 30 bucks.

[Ders]

Can I pause you?

[Blake]

Wow.

[Ders]

I don't need to know who the friend is. Is the friend affiliated in any way with Comedy Central that they would think that this was cool?

[Adam]

It was a comedian. It was a.

[Ders]

Got it. Got it.

[Adam]

So. And I think it must have been a Hollywood or, like, you know, in la. Garage sale.

[Ders]

Yeah.

[Adam]

And I'm assuming it was.

[Ders]

You're in a group called Hollywood Elites, right?

[Adam]

Yeah, Hollywood Elite. Broad sales, specifically.

[Ders]

Got it. Cuz that's where we connect, and that's where it's. I found baby blood on there. For, like, cheaper than anywhere else.

[Adam]

Yeah, it's mostly like old Comedy Central and adrena. Adrenal glands. You go in the back. You can call the good adrenal glands.

[Blake]

He's in the email.

[Adam]

You might be in the email, in the files.

[Blake]

Yeah.

[Adam]

So, dude, I found this piece that's

[Blake]

really beautiful, and it's in. Looks like it's in great condition.

[Ders]

So then you went on ebay or did you Google it and then you found it on ebay or did you know, I'm gonna find this on ebay?

[Blake]

That's incredible.

[Adam]

I said. I said, what would Blake do? And I said he would go right on eBay.

[Ders]

700.

[Adam]

And he would way overpay for it.

[Ders]

Yeah.

[Adam]

But I got a really good deal. They sent it. Came right away. Look at that. Look at that dark blitz. That's my favorite color. It's.

[Blake]

Honestly, it's perfect.

[Adam]

That's my favorite color right there.

[Blake]

Flawless. It's beautiful.

[Adam]

I knew Blake would appreciate it.

[Blake]

I am envious.

[Adam]

And you remember this when Woody, when we first joined the Comedy Central family, we.

[Ders]

We got jumped in.

[Adam]

They had. They had this emblem. Yeah, they had this emblem that.

[Blake]

With the.

[Adam]

With the Comedy Central with the skyscrapers coming out of it.

[Ders]

That was like, whole Daily show corner of the. Yeah.

[Adam]

Yes.

[Blake]

Yeah. Then it turned into the.

[Adam]

Then. Then it became like a C and then another C A backwards.

[Ders]

I like the new one. I thought it was a cool update. It was, like, going after the, like, at symbol, kind of like we're updating.

[Adam]

Oh, is that.

[Blake]

Whatever.

[Ders]

I think it's, like, adjacent.

[Adam]

Yeah, it felt. It felt very internety and. Yeah, it was cool. And I. I like their, like, bing bang. You know how.

[Blake]

What was that?

[Adam]

Okie dokie.

[Blake]

Who did that?

[Adam]

I'm doing a bad impression of it.

[Ders]

Netflix twice. What?

[Adam]

The Comedy Central had, like, a. A bit of a.

[Ders]

I thought it was, like, a.

[Adam]

No, that's.

[Blake]

I don't remember that.

[Ders]

I thought it was more of a.

[Blake]

I don't remember that noise.

[Adam]

Look up Comedy Central noise because it.

[Blake]

Comedy Central noise. You think I'm gonna.

[Adam]

It had a noise, dude. It had a noise.

[Ders]

Blake, just do it, okay? He'll quit the podcast.

[Blake]

There's no way that's gonna yield results. Comedy Central noise.

[Ders]

Okay.

[Adam]

Hey, I don't know, dude. You're the one, I guess. Look it up on ebay.

[Ders]

And, Blake, you're talking to a man who does not yield. Okay, okay.

[Blake]

When I looked up Comedy Central noise, all I'm getting is the noise.

[Ders]

Just pictures of Adam from Key And Peele, just pictures of Adam from back in the day.

[Adam]

Noise.

[Blake]

It's all just. No, it's all just key and peel. I'm sorry, that did not yield.

[Adam]

Right, well, Todd just brought up a very fun little clicky thing. What do they call that? A link that they show all of the.

[Ders]

You need some kachava, brother.

[Adam]

They show all of the comedy logos.

[Ders]

Yeah.

[Adam]

And. And there's. There's some good ones.

[Blake]

Oh, yeah. Oh, I. I love. I love watching Logo. Logo Evolution.

[Ders]

And if we could, when this airs on Netflix. Can we share this?

[Adam]

We would love to share this image just so people.

[Ders]

Just so people can enjoy it. Wig out, have a good time.

[Blake]

Look at from 90 to 91. That one sucks. That had the shortest life for sure. It's just an orange box with.

[Ders]

Ha.

[Blake]

That's bad.

[Adam]

Yeah. Well, also 91 to 92, when they went with the skyscrapers exploding out of.

[Blake]

Yeah. With some. Some purple and orange.

[Ders]

That's pre 911 for sure.

[Blake]

Yeah, that is definitely pre 9 11,

[Adam]

I think 2000 to 2010. The one that I got is maybe. Is maybe the most bang.

[Blake]

That one's pretty hard. That one's pretty hard. But I like. I like the whole scope of the world as well. That's kind of cool. Lets you know that it's a North American company. That's right.

[Ders]

We forgot your world. We forgot you've left California twice. Yeah.

[Blake]

Well, no.

[Adam]

And every time you're out of California, you sort of. You and Isaac sort of incessantly talk about California, about favorite place.

[Ders]

You know, it's weird. What's weird here is I can't smell the ocean in the same way.

[Adam]

Yeah. Isaac. Isaac. And you will go like. Like, how far do you think we are from California right now? I don't know, like 1500 miles. I think we're 1300 miles. And Teresa and I are like, hey, shut the up. Who cares?

[Ders]

Just eat Hardee's. There's no in and out.

[Blake]

Well, come on.

[Ders]

Come on what?

[Blake]

Hardy's. Hardee's is What? That's Carl's Jr. Right?

[Ders]

No, Blake. Mr. California. Carl Jr. Is hardy.

[Blake]

That kind of.

[Ders]

You're welcome.

[Blake]

Throws me for a loop. What is even the point of that? I don't understand. Is very bizarre.

[Adam]

I think Carl's Jr. Like, people in the. On the west coast, they weren't with the name Hardee's. It just that no one wants to be hard.

[Ders]

It was too strong. It was too strong.

[Adam]

Yeah. What about no one wants to be Hardy out here. We want to Be long and lean, like, wavy. You want to be way, like. Like a blow over with a gust of wind. Little. But in the Midwest, we're like.

[Blake]

We want to be hardy. We want to be a little meaty somehow.

[Ders]

Very hair. Very hairless and yet very hairy under their arms. That's what you want out here.

[Adam]

Water trash.

[Ders]

Whereas Hardee's hairy all over. Adam, show them.

[Adam]

Hey, I'm Harry Oliver, a little California sun bear.

[Ders]

Go and show them.

[Adam]

I recently buzz. I recently buzzed. I recently buzzed.

[Blake]

Your chest or your back?

[Adam]

Yeah. Well, I do. I do a one blade on the back, so it's nice and smooth because I don't want.

[Blake]

How do you get back there?

[Adam]

You stretch? Yeah.

[Ders]

Oh, you do you shave with a razor on your back?

[Adam]

No, it's called a oneblade. It's like a. It's an electric razor, but it gets really close.

[Blake]

Yeah.

[Adam]

And then the front, I just do a regular. Because I get. It could poof out where you're wearing it.

[Blake]

You're wearing it.

[Adam]

You're wearing a T shirt, and it starts to poof out a little bit. You don't want that. You don't want that. So you just have to tame it.

[Blake]

That's. To me, it's cool.

[Ders]

But do you ever have it where the needles poke through the shirt?

[Adam]

That's. You've gone too short. You've gone too short with your. With your cutting. Yeah. The worst is when I've shaved a few. Like, Kelvin Gemstone had a shaved chest, and so my character on the righteous gemstone. So I would shave that whole time, and it was the worst. You'd put on a shirt, and then you'd walk around and realize, like, it's just sticking here.

[Ders]

Yeah.

[Adam]

So it's drooping all weird on you because it won't come down because the. The follicles have just, like, stuck whiskers.

[Blake]

The whiskers have clung.

[Adam]

Yeah, right. I have clung on to the T shirt, right?

[Blake]

Yeah. Dang, dude.

[Adam]

That's kind of Mac McClung.

[Todd]

Damn.

[Blake]

Right.

[Adam]

Slam dunk contest on my white.

[Ders]

That's slam dunk right there.

[Adam]

Okay.

[Blake]

Good job, guys.

[Ders]

I remember a homie of mine shaved his chest a lot in college and then hooked up with a friend, a girl friend that we all kind of knew, and we're like, oh. And she was like, dude, my fucking titties are so raw from his chest. Like, his chest hair just scraping back and forth on her.

[Adam]

That's the. The worst is when she was very

[Blake]

open with you guys.

[Adam]

Yeah, that's the worst when you have a girl in your friend group. I don't like you guys telling me

[Todd]

to show my tits.

[Adam]

And that has happened to me one time, a girl in a friend group and that. And I hooked up with her, and then she would just say to the group, and it's not cool about the

[Blake]

way you make love or.

[Adam]

Yeah, yeah, but that's.

[Blake]

That's.

[Ders]

That's what I'm talking about is harmless. The way she probably described your weird dick and how you couldn't find a hole.

[Adam]

You need another four inches. That's not what it was. It was. It was the fact. It was the fact that I played Chili Peppers way too.

[Ders]

Oh, well, no, sir.

[Adam]

I don't.

[Ders]

We all. We all know why you do that.

[Adam]

She was like, dude, it's just like, I'm never. I'm never going to get the Chili Peppers out of my head. Jesus. So much Chili Peppers. Yeah. She was right.

[Blake]

It also ruined that band for me as well. For a while, I was kind of grooving, and then that. That sort of destroyed it for me. I can never hear California Cation.

[Adam]

Why? Because when we. What are you trying to say?

[Ders]

No, no.

[Blake]

I would hear it through the walls. Adam.

[Ders]

I do love the idea of Blake turning on Chili Peppers on the radio or when it comes on and he's like, where's the. No, he's like. Like, this is. Is this the original. Like, where's the sounds?

[Blake]

Yeah, the whole.

[Ders]

Is this, like, a remix?

[Adam]

He thinks it's like a. He thinks the Chili Peppers were like, the Nine Inch Nails where they just have, like, sounds in the background all the time.

[Blake]

Yeah. Oh, where's. Where's all the cool moments?

[Ders]

Yeah, I'm missing the mo. This is.

[Adam]

Can stop. Addicted to the.

[Ders]

Oh,

[Blake]

dream of calla.

[Ders]

Oh, where. Where's.

[Blake]

Is this.

[Ders]

Adam, where's the. Where's the part where the guy says, two more fingers in there. Put it.

[Blake]

Put a thumb up my ass?

[Ders]

It's the. He keeps screaming, this is the only way I can come. This is the only way I can come.

[Adam]

What?

[Blake]

I was like, that's a crazy way to start the song off, man. They. That's a hook now.

[Ders]

Now that's my butthole. So relaxed. All right.

[Adam]

Suck. Suck my kiss.

[Blake]

Eight seconds.

[Ders]

Suck my kiss under the bridge of my scrotum. Blood sugar sex. Yes, please.

[Blake]

Dream of Jorgin on my day. Oh, man, I wish I had way more stadium arcade.

[Adam]

I bet that's funnier.

[Blake]

To us.

[Ders]

We truly know.

[Adam]

No one knows how loudly I would play Chili Peppers in the other room. Because we lived in a small house, and you didn't want to hear your roommate. Right. That's kind of weird.

[Ders]

Speak for yourself. Yeah.

[Todd]

Hold up.

[Adam]

It's kind of weird to just hear all the. All the noises.

[Blake]

Yeah.

[Adam]

And so I would blast. Put on blast. Chili Peppers and same album. It's so. It's pretty. It's pretty ingrained.

[Blake]

It was standard issue. You never switched it up.

[Ders]

What would you guys rather hear? I think I already know Adam's answer, but what would you rather hear? Would you rather hear your parents super loud or.

[Blake]

Okay, I'm listening.

[Ders]

Or a roommate with a girl who, like, you have, like, unrequainted love? Is that the word?

[Adam]

Like, unrequited.

[Ders]

Unrequited. Is it unrequited? She ain't requested where, like, you have a crush on her or whatever. But then, like, your roommate's just slaying.

[Blake]

Well, not to be. I mean, then maybe I'm kind of

[Adam]

like, wait, so it's so.

[Blake]

Sorry. Sort of hot.

[Ders]

So you're just. You're listening to a girl you have, like, feelings for.

[Blake]

I'm probably joing at that point who's

[Ders]

like, I'm actually into your roommate, and you're just listening to them smush.

[Adam]

Oh, okay. I thought you meant, like, a rape situation. I'm like, yeah, you didn't want to hear that at all. Like, I feel like.

[Ders]

What?

[Adam]

You called the police?

[Blake]

Where did that come from?

[Adam]

Sorry, dude.

[Blake]

He doesn't know what the word unrequainted means.

[Ders]

I love it. Would you rather hear your parents who love each other have sex or a woman be raped go, yeah, I know my answer. You guys go. You're unbelievable.

[Blake]

I. I think it all comes from the confusion of the word.

[Adam]

That's not what it was from. It's my. Got a little messed up. So I was trying to rearrange some stu. While we were having the conversation, the cookie jar and I.

[Blake]

Is it the cookie jar?

[Ders]

You skipped your kachavas? What happened?

[Adam]

I have too many things open. I had too many things open. Too many files, dude. Yeah, that's the issue.

[Ders]

We're doing it.

[Adam]

We're doing it.

[Blake]

You're in the files.

[Adam]

So.

[Blake]

You are in the file.

[Adam]

The files.

[Blake]

I knew it.

[Ders]

Okay, well, so now that you know, would you rather listen to your folks like crazy?

[Blake]

No.

[Ders]

Or listen to a girl you wish you were. You're in a relationship with going at it?

[Adam]

So. So you're madly in love. Madly in love. No, you just.

[Ders]

This is like a girl who you're like, oh, my gosh, she's beautiful. I like her. She's funny. Well, she's also getting.

[Blake]

She's not that into me.

[Adam]

That's.

[Ders]

That's not into you.

[Blake]

She's.

[Ders]

What's that guy's name?

[Adam]

Used to that. Greg Barrett.

[Ders]

She's so Greg Baron about you. And then the roommate is just crushing through paper thin walls.

[Blake]

That doesn't actually.

[Ders]

She's crushing your roommate.

[Adam]

Oh.

[Ders]

She's like, shut up. I'm gonna ride.

[Adam]

And you're like, I don't know. I think. I think I would rather listen to my parents fuck. What?

[Blake]

Why?

[Adam]

Is that what you would have picked for me? Durs. You said you knew.

[Ders]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Adam]

Why?

[Blake]

Yeah, I feel like you. Yeah, maybe I. No, no, not at all.

[Adam]

Why would you have picked that for me, Ders? Why do you think?

[Ders]

I think that you've interviewed your parents about fucking each other on our podcast. And I. So I was like, oh, he wouldn't even care. He wouldn't even care. He would try. He would turn up the Chili Peppers at the door and be like, get him, Pop. Get. Go and get them.

[Adam]

Don't stop. Addicted to the shindig.

[Ders]

Yeah.

[Adam]

Yeah. Well, I mean, I wouldn't love that. That wouldn't be awesome, but that's.

[Ders]

And those aren't my words.

[Adam]

Yeah, but I mean, it wouldn't be awesome, but I think if it's someone that you really, really cared about and you were like, man, I really. Yeah, I'm in love with this person and they don't love me back. And they're absolutely getting their boots rocked, just choring on. And let's say it's Kyle Newicheck stick. Let's say. Let's say it's. It's college times.

[Ders]

Sure.

[Adam]

And you're. He's in there, and you're like, man, he, like, doesn't shower that often. Like, ah, this is bad news.

[Ders]

So this is interesting.

[Adam]

And she's not going to catch an std, but she's going to get sick afterwards.

[Ders]

Right. And now she's tainted.

[Adam]

Like, she will be. She'll catch, like, a cold.

[Ders]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Adam]

And that sucks for her.

[Blake]

So.

[Adam]

The whole thing. Yeah.

[Blake]

Okay. Yeah. So, well, now that you're making it Kyle. Now. Yeah. I was assuming it was one of you guys, and I'm like, okay, well, she's with a good dude. But if you're saying she's with this.

[Adam]

She's with Kyle.

[Ders]

Just a Kyle.

[Blake]

Yeah. But.

[Ders]

And then I do think it's interesting to be like, it depends on the guy.

[Adam]

I guess it does. It does depend on a guy. Because if it's a real standup dude and you're like, okay, a stand up comedian. No, stand up guy. You know, I think. You know what I was saying, Definitely not a stand up comedian. They're 98% scum bag.

[Ders]

Blake's like, I'm done trying to be funny. This is it. It.

[Adam]

Forget it.

[Todd]

Water trash.

[Blake]

Forget it.

[Adam]

I think it's stand up guy. Then. Then, yeah, then you're like, okay. I mean, it would suck. It's not going to be awesome.

[Ders]

So. But. But here's the thing. Is that the standup guy now, they're like, the probability of them staying together is forever, as opposed to a guy who, you know, kind of, like, sucks.

[Blake]

Yeah.

[Adam]

But then you think you're going to get a chance. Then you think, well, she's gonna realize down the road how shitty he is. And then I'm gonna come in and I'm gonna be the shiny knight.

[Ders]

Yeah, right.

[Adam]

That's what I just said.

[Blake]

You're building your.

[Ders]

So I'm saying I wouldn't want. I'm saying you probably then wouldn't want, like the stand up comedian or otherwise person to be doing it because then they're gonna go get married in 12 months. As opposed to the guy who's like kind of a turd. You're like, she'll realize it. That although his dick is so good, you're a monster.

[Adam]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ders]

He f. And you. And you have. And you're like, that's a tough one.

[Adam]

That's.

[Ders]

He sucks. But I know the dick is so good.

[Adam]

She keeps saying that. She keeps saying that. Like through the wall, you.

[Blake]

That's what you keep hearing.

[Ders]

She goes, you. She goes, you smell so bad, but the dick's so good.

[Adam]

You keep hearing that. And you just hear. You just hear Kyle eating, eating Cheetos and. And like chips and he's eating like, like barbecue lays.

[Ders]

Freaking see?

[Adam]

And salt and vinegar.

[Ders]

Hold up, hold up.

[Blake]

I'm going to pop another bag of Funyuns. And then we're going again. Just let me. Let me crush this bag of Funyuns real quick in a chili cheese Frito. And then we go in again and she's just going, you smell so bad, but the dick is so good.

[Ders]

And by the way, this is just another example to highlight that we know chicks. We just know. We just know them.

[Blake]

We just know.

[Ders]

Not only do we know them, we. We know them.

[Adam]

Oh, Kyle's dick Damn.

[Blake]

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[Blake]

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[Ders]

And by the way, there's a dude on my swim team in college who I. He, like, had a girlfriend halfway through my freshman year.

[Adam]

Boogers, boogers, boogers. Out of my mouth.

[Ders]

Oh, wow.

[Blake]

Adam's got some boogies going.

[Ders]

We must be funny. Dude on my swim team halfway through freshman year, started dating this girl. She was very cool. And I was like, how'd you meet? And he was like, like, dude, she dated the guy who lived above me. And I would hear them.

[Adam]

Oh, no.

[Ders]

And I was like, yo, who's this chick? And then he was like, I would time it so I would run into her. Like, there was, like, a stairway that came from downstairs that met in, like, the lobby of the house.

[Blake]

Oh, my God.

[Ders]

He would, like, time it so he could see what she looked like.

[Blake]

Oh, man.

[Ders]

And then men, men, men. He was like. He was like, like, friendly, like, oh, hey, hey, how's it going? And then would, like, try and not find her on campus, but, like, now know what she looked like. And then like would be like, hey, I know, like, remember from my. You live up, like, date the guy's chairs. And then when he found out they broke up, he swooped in. I'm almost positive they've been married for 20 years. Wow. And I remember him telling me the whole thing and me going, whoa, look, look.

[Blake]

I will say, to today's standards, that sounds insane. That sounds. That sounds like a crazy person. But I think that this is only

[Ders]

like 50,000 days ago. Less.

[Adam]

No, it's probably, like, what, 15 years ago, 10 years ago, something like that.

[Ders]

This is 2001.

[Adam]

Oh, God damn, you're old.

[Blake]

I just think that social media, like, killed all of that, all the romance as you. We used to call that romance. Romance.

[Adam]

Wait, what are you trying to say? Because I feel.

[Ders]

No, hey, let him cook.

[Adam]

Okay.

[Ders]

Yeah, because. Because it's always better.

[Blake]

Okay, so it spawned. No, I mean, it spawned out of him hearing her, you know, having a great time in the bedroom. And, you know, that's a, you know, it's an interesting worm to chase on the hook, but he really wanted to get to know this person. He really wanted to meet this person. He felt some sort of a connection and he, you know, he did everything.

[Ders]

I mean, let's start at the connection. The connection is the 2000 rail. Me. Real me. Real me.

[Adam]

Yeah. The connection is she, he's like, oh, she's a freak in the sheets.

[Blake]

Right.

[Adam]

So now I'm in love with her. That's not like romance. That's pretty pornographic.

[Blake]

Well, he didn't say he was in love with her. He just, he just, he knew he had to meet my lady. There was something

[Ders]

and I'm not quite,

[Adam]

I could put my finger on it. There's something.

[Blake]

Well, there, I think there is some, a bit of romance there.

[Adam]

Okay.

[Blake]

And he just, you know, he had to, he had to find her and he had to know.

[Ders]

What did they call that show? What was the show on hbo? Like, the Inside the Mind of a Man or whatever. What was that?

[Blake]

I don't recall.

[Ders]

Is that a show? The. I don't know what it's called either.

[Blake]

Mind of Men. I don't recall.

[Adam]

I'm watching, I'm watching. I, I, I started watching that Manosphere documentary. It's not as good as I wanted it to be.

[Ders]

No.

[Blake]

Yeah, I had a feeling.

[Ders]

It seemed kind of, you know what though, isn't it? Do you find it fascinating how kind of the dude who's doing the interview. The interview in the British guy.

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Ders]

He like bosses up on them.

[Blake]

Yeah, well, British people do that.

[Ders]

No, but like, he kind of, he, he kind of knows that these guys,

[Adam]

which buttons to push and that they're, they are like all self influenced. It's like they all seem like bullies on the playground that if you punch them in the nose.

[Ders]

Yes.

[Blake]

They go, they'll go crying.

[Adam]

They go crying. They're, they're actually. And this guy like punks them a little bit in a very nerdy way, which is great.

[Blake]

Okay.

[Ders]

Right. He'll be like, he'll be like, is it weird having me in your house? You know, like, that's not a quote. But like, there's very like, non, he just is, he's like asserting himself in a way that, like, where he'll go, why are you talking to the camera? Camera? This is a documentary. It's not fucking TikTok.

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Ders]

And they're like, oh, oh, yeah. No, I know.

[Adam]

I'm just used to doing that.

[Ders]

And that doesn't seem like an album.

[Blake]

But he says it with a British accent, so it, like, it doesn't. It's not confrontational.

[Ders]

It's more than that. It's more than that kind of actually is confrontational, but it's not. It's not to be confrontational. It's just kind of to be, like, putting them in a place in a weird way.

[Adam]

I feel like that's a thing Anders does all the time.

[Blake]

Time. I feel like I. I think it's the accent, honestly.

[Ders]

Because, honestly, mate, like, oh, you.

[Blake]

Oh, you look now. Why are you looking in the camera? Like.

[Ders]

And a British sensibility where, like, they're always, like, taking the piss out of you, mate.

[Blake]

It's kind of like watching. What's his name? Pierce or whatever.

[Adam]

Pierce Morgan.

[Blake]

Yeah. Like, he gets people hella pissed, but he's kind of just, like, asking, like, questions with an accent, so it makes people extra.

[Ders]

I guess I need to brush up on my Pierce Morgan.

[Adam]

Yeah. I don't know what's about Pierce Morgan again. Perfect. Yeah, man, that's.

[Ders]

But anyway, I. You're right, it's not as interesting, but, like, he'll start asking the, like, wife or the girlfriend of the dude, like, right next to him, being like, why do you let him treat you that way? And the dudes, instead of being like, hey, none of your business, they're like, yeah, go ahead.

[Adam]

She's allowed to talk. And then.

[Ders]

Whoa.

[Adam]

Yeah, I mean, and they are allowed to talk, but then you could tell they're, like, a little afraid to, like, say anything.

[Ders]

The dude is around his mom is another level where you're like, oh, see,

[Blake]

this sounds intriguing to me.

[Adam]

Yeah. I need to finish it. I watched, like, 30 minutes of it, and I. I was just sort of like. I wanted it to. I wanted it to go in the weeds a little more with, like. Also, they're like, these are some of the most problematic manosphere guys, and I didn't even know them. I'm like, I guess I'm not that deep.

[Ders]

Deep in them, waiting for Adam to be like. And they reminded me of my closest home. They weren't that bad.

[Adam]

Fine. No. I mean, essentially, they have podcasts where they just have a bunch of, like, only fan models, and. And they stream it, and then they, like, just make these.

[Blake]

Oh, yeah, Yeah. I think I know the person you're talking about.

[Adam]

They're not the smartest women, and they make them feel and look like idiots.

[Ders]

And I think. I think maybe we just hit the nail on the head there. It's that these guys act a certain way to everyone who lets them. And this dude doesn't let them. And they're like. Like, I got to go take this phone call. You're. You're short. You're. Where'd you get those shorts? I'm a dude. And he's like, I don't.

[Adam]

I don't know.

[Ders]

I don't care about that.

[Adam]

And then they. They surround themselves with idiots who allow them. Who are susceptible to being treated this way. And the girls are, you know, they're. They're dummies. So then they can't answer the questions, and they can't. They said, name five countries. And she's like.

[Ders]

They're like, what's the capital of Paris?

[Adam]

Barcelona. And they're like, you're an idiot. That's a city.

[Ders]

Me.

[Adam]

And she's like, damn, I would be screwed. Yeah, we all might have issues on this podcast, honestly.

[Blake]

So it's kind of like, who wants to be smarter than a fifth grader? Or whatever, right?

[Adam]

Who wants to be. Who wants to be smarter than a fifth. Who would. Who would even want that?

[Ders]

Because then you have to, like, have important jobs.

[Blake]

What's the name of that show? Are you smarter than a fifth grader?

[Adam]

That's right. Yes. Okay.

[Blake]

I think I mixed. Are you game shows together?

[Adam]

You did. You did. You did.

[Ders]

Nice, dude.

[Blake]

Oops.

[Adam]

Oops. I did it again.

[Blake]

Well, I don't know. Maybe I gotta check that out because I wasn't very, like, the. I don't know, the whole manosphere. I. I don't really give it too much energy.

[Adam]

I find it so interesting, dude. I think it's.

[Ders]

This is not so. This is not a shock to me.

[Blake]

It's like kind of what we were talking about, like, with the Gooners. Like, to me, it feel like what sucks about it is like, to me, it feels like it. It's just being done to get reactions. But it's starting to seem like people are actually drinking this Kool Aid and they. Yeah, they pray at this church.

[Adam]

Oh, young. Young kids, like 14, 15 year olds are online and they watch it and they think, like, that's how I should be.

[Blake]

That sucks.

[Adam]

And it's crazy, dude.

[Ders]

Yeah, but that's. That's always been the case, right? That there's been some. That kids are like, like, that's my guy. He says what he wants, dude.

[Blake]

Like, Tom. Ly.

[Ders]

Tom Lyus. Exactly, dude.

[Adam]

Well, that. That's like, who's a. Like, take me outside. How about dad? Like, that girl, she just, like, is

[Blake]

watching, like, bad, Bad Barbie.

[Adam]

Bad Barbie.

[Blake]

Bad baby. Bad baby.

[Ders]

She's like, she's dying, right? She's got cancer or something.

[Blake]

What?

[Ders]

Yeah, I think she's got cancer.

[Blake]

Dying.

[Ders]

Yeah.

[Adam]

Oh, no.

[Ders]

Bad baby. No, Anna chimed in with bad baby. Spelled it wrong. I'm pretty sure it's spelled in a fun way.

[Adam]

It's said bh. There's lots of bad Bobby. Yeah, okay. Bad Bobby. And is something going on with bad Bobby?

[Ders]

I think she's got cancer, right? Or so. Or chemo.

[Adam]

Take her outside. How about that?

[Ders]

Take her outside for some fresh air.

[Adam]

Been diagnosed with Waldstrom's bone cancer. Some other giant word of bone cancer. Yikes.

[Blake]

Oh, my gosh. That's not great.

[Ders]

The pun and the joke is there. I'm not saying it. I'm gonna let you guys at home do what you do with the bone cancer joke.

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Ders]

Cuz I don't think it's funny. Slide into. Slide into with your take.

[Adam]

No, sir, I don't like it. Okay, well, I don't. I don't want to pile on to this.

[Ders]

This poor girl, but pile on again.

[Blake]

Pile on.

[Ders]

But when she was.

[Adam]

When she was on.

[Blake]

Or. Or.

[Adam]

Or those Dr. Phil. Yeah, Dr. Phil or anyone, they would bring on those, like, teens that are, like, just from the middle school.

[Blake]

Oh, man, those are the best episodes.

[Adam]

They. They just go to, like, some, like, suburban middle school, and then all of a sudden they're like, like wearing, you know, ratchet.

[Blake]

Ratchet children.

[Adam]

Striped back, so ratchet. And you're like, you don't even know people that act like this. You're literally only watching this online or, like, seeing it in music videos and pretending to be this way. And that's what's happening now with the manosphere kids, is they're like, oh, that's how we should be in society. And then they're just walking around being to their teachers and their friends in school. Yeah.

[Ders]

Oh, that's. Yeah, that's a whole thing. Is it T? And by the way, it's like, like, uk. It's uk.

[Blake]

Heavy. Oh, being a teacher is a nightmare.

[Ders]

It's uk. And I watched what's the move show with, like, the four episodes and every episode's one shot.

[Adam]

Oh, adolescence.

[Ders]

Yes, adolescence. Did we cover this already? It's unreal.

[Adam]

It is unreal.

[Ders]

The acting. The acting is unreal.

[Adam]

Dude, it's on Netflix. Our mothership. Yeah, it is. Is so good.

[Ders]

But I just want to say, like, everyone who talked about how, like, it's dark, it's super up, I was ready for, like, you know, We've all watched like Dahmer or whatever the else is out there. Sure. It's. It's a sad story. It's more sad than it is like dark. I thought it was going to be like diabolical, but it was just like a shitty, sad kid who did something horrible.

[Adam]

Yeah, well, he murdered his classmate. Yes. Okay.

[Ders]

Yeah, yeah. But it wasn't. I thought it was going to be like, like basement type sex ring.

[Adam]

Yeah, like cutting off.

[Blake]

Yeah, you're.

[Adam]

You're a psycho.

[Blake]

You're a special, special case.

[Adam]

I'm just saying, for the rest of society, it's pretty dark.

[Blake]

Your happy place is nip tuck. And if you watch that series, you'll see the guy, he goes. He goes, but.

[Ders]

And then there the kid is like, I'm ugly. And I'm like. The whole time I'm watching it, I'm like, this kid is going to be the next Leonardo DiCaprio though. He's a young handsome kid. He's so good at acting.

[Adam]

The whole time Durst sees this murderer,

[Ders]

I'm like,

[Adam]

something about this kid, he's got killers. He's got it going on. That's life.

[Ders]

And then he's like, I'm so ugly teacher.

[Blake]

And.

[Ders]

Or to the like psychologist or whatever. And I'm like, who's telling this kid he's ugly? What are we talking about?

[Blake]

Yeah, he's.

[Ders]

They should have found a real uggo.

[Adam]

Well, because he hasn't look maxed enough.

[Blake]

Enough.

[Ders]

Oh, dude, this kid is maxed. He's maxed.

[Adam]

It's all cyclical.

[Blake]

After we talked about that, bro, he like had a heart attack or something.

[Adam]

Yeah, the look maxing clavicular apparently. I like this podcast is now just us talking about hot guys. 19 year old hot guys.

[Blake]

Yeah, I knew it would infiltrate.

[Adam]

Yeah, he apparently had he like overdose dosed on some whatever the he's taking.

[Blake]

Okay, so when these upheld, like we're speaking about bad examples, especially in the, in the male universe as something like.

[Ders]

We are speaking about the good examples.

[Blake]

We are.

[Adam]

Yes, we are.

[Blake]

When something like that happens, doesn't that completely knock the legs out of the. The movement? Don't you go, oh, homeboy just his heart exploded and he's only in his 20s. Like maybe this isn't the way.

[Adam]

Maybe it's not.

[Ders]

I would say yes, but also someone. A gen adjacent to that guy. I'll step up and be like, he's weak, he's weak.

[Adam]

He actually. He was a.

[Todd]

He was a.

[Adam]

This is the way.

[Ders]

Yeah, more and I'm and look at me, which is like the Donald Trump. Donald Trump's like, Joe Biden's dying, and I'm eating McDonald's every day. I'm strong as a bull, you know? And people go, yeah, I'm gonna come.

[Adam]

It's a similar thing. If you love Trump. You also. If you were a teenager, you would have been, look, Max, you might. You might be. Look, Maxi. You might be. Look, maxi. You might be hitting yourself in the face with a hammer going, this is

[Ders]

how I get pretty. Yeah.

[Blake]

So there's a real pattern.

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Blake]

There's a real problem with this.

[Adam]

I think so. But I watched a video of him, I think, of clavicular, I think, earlier that day.

[Blake]

Cool name.

[Adam]

Talking about how he does the right amount of meth and people do too much meth.

[Ders]

Oh, was it meth or Adderall?

[Adam]

He was saying meth, and he was saying, if you do the right amount of meth.

[Ders]

Yeah.

[Adam]

Then it. Then it actually doesn't affect you. It just helps you stay lean and look great and give you energy, and people just take too much, and they. And they. Everything up. And then it was, like, however many hours later in the club where it's like, yeah, yeah. And just Odin. So hopefully that guy doesn't die.

[Ders]

All the best. All the best.

[Blake]

Where did he come up with that name? Because it's kind of sick.

[Ders]

I was just gonna say, what. Can we come up with what our clavicular name would be? What would you call yourself?

[Blake]

What is that? What is even drawing from that? Like, that's, like. That's just cool. Like, what am I missing here? What is it? What does it even. What does it mean? What does it mean?

[Ders]

I don't know. I don't know.

[Adam]

I'm sure Todd can, like, your clavicles. And like, you, he's so, like, lean and mean that you see the bones in his chest, which, to me, isn't like, that cool of a look. That means you're, like, gaunt.

[Ders]

But his real name is Braden.

[Adam]

Braden. So you have to change that for sure. Yeah. You have to change that.

[Ders]

Clavicular is an adjective meaning relating. Relating to.

[Adam]

Or the collar bone. Yeah.

[Ders]

Situated near the clavicle.

[Adam]

Very shagadelic.

[Blake]

So what an interesting, like, bone to be obsessed with. Why not just be huge bicepular. Yeah. Or a huge cocules.

[Ders]

He's got me feeling bicepular coc.

[Adam]

Yeah. Well, the thing now isn't having, like, giant biceps. It's being. Being absolutely shredded. It's having, like, zero percent Body fat instead. Like, our heroes were the Jersey Shore guys, You know, Jim Tan laundry.

[Ders]

I mean, we've come a long way.

[Blake]

Our.

[Adam]

Our collective heroes were situations.

[Blake]

We pray at the altar of this situation.

[Ders]

Can we. And by the way, the one. One person's name, Clavicular. One person's name. This situation. We. I think we can all agree the situation is a great fucking name. Clavicular. It's very 20, 26. It's very whatever, like from outer space. But the situation is strong.

[Blake]

I can't spell it, which I'm upset. Upset.

[Adam]

You can't spell most things or pronounce most things if you.

[Blake]

I don't think I could spell situation either.

[Ders]

If you call yourself the Situation, you're very funny. You're very funny.

[Blake]

That's the thing. Are these guys funny? Because even when we were. I used the example of killer's not. No.

[Ders]

Every interview I've seen him. Him. He's not funny.

[Blake]

Right. Because we said Tom, like, as Tom Lycus was actually kind of funny. Like, he. Like he. He had jokes.

[Adam]

Yeah, he was.

[Ders]

He had a job. He had an angle.

[Adam]

His stick.

[Blake]

Yeah, he. He had bits. But like these guys, they're not even like Howard Stern.

[Adam]

He's funny.

[Ders]

What was his bit? His bit was you. Was that what his bit was? Blake, you dumb. Yeah, I guess that's funny.

[Adam]

Allegedly.

[Ders]

No, he.

[Blake]

No, he would do some, like, some other funny things. Yeah.

[Adam]

Yeah. Well, I think. I think the new generation, the these like Gen Z and Gen Alpha kids being funny, like, to. To our generation, being funny was a superpower freaking peak.

[Ders]

Yeah.

[Adam]

Like, you needed to be funny in your. In your group in order to have any social standing within your group, you had to be funny.

[Ders]

Yes.

[Blake]

And it was a great equalizer.

[Ders]

I don't know if that's true, but I know that that's true about some friend groups.

[Adam]

I feel like, like in my friend

[Ders]

groups, I know many friend groups where there's zero funny people.

[Adam]

Oh, that would be terrible.

[Blake]

Existence.

[Adam]

Yikes. Could you imagine?

[Ders]

Yeah, just join a sports team. There's not a funny person.

[Adam]

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. There's some funny ass black guy running back. Who is the. Who is the king of the locker room? Yeah, absolutely.

[Ders]

And how. How many of those people went to your house school?

[Adam]

There was one guy.

[Ders]

So what the are you talking about?

[Adam]

And he was funny and he was funny.

[Ders]

Dude, based on things I've watched, aren't there, like, funny black people running around

[Adam]

the locker room there? For sure. Are there for sure.

[Ders]

Are of course there's funny black people.

[Adam]

The fun. The funniest race. The funniest.

[Ders]

I think that absolutely there are many funny blacks. Black people. Listen, you guys sound like clavicular, right? But my point is most of it is just quoting movies that they've seen.

[Adam]

Right.

[Blake]

There's not a lot of original comedy coming out of a sports.

[Ders]

Anyway. I know what you're saying about friend groups comedy.

[Adam]

I feel like with our generation, comedy was more important than nowadays.

[Ders]

For sure.

[Adam]

I feel like comedy is. Is way less of a thing.

[Blake]

That's wild. Well, yeah, because there's no money in it. What the are you gonna do with being a comedian?

[Adam]

Well, not even money. I mean, just even in middle school and high school and like, coming up, like, the funny kid was the popular. One of the popular kids. And, like, it was a good way to just make friends.

[Ders]

I think that it also. I think that kids. God, this is the worst episode. Yeah, you lose. I think that. I think that kids who are, like, texting constantly, like, they don't know when someone's joking or not, so they've stopped joking.

[Blake]

Oh.

[Ders]

Except for the groups of kids. Kids who are always joking.

[Blake]

Only jokes.

[Ders]

And that's when you get the Gooners at the funeral who are like, these are my guys. Nothing is serious. Everything is a joke to the core.

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Ders]

And everyone else is like, I'm gonna fun crew. I'm gonna avoid being misinterpreted and stop being funny. And so comedy is just seeping out of normal, everyday interactions. Communications. Yeah.

[Blake]

Wow, that's so sad. It's the. Where's your Comedy Central cookie jar? It's going to be completely.

[Adam]

It's going to be empty.

[Ders]

I mean, I do. I do want to. This is so stupid. But look at that.

[Adam]

I mean, this is like.

[Ders]

I'm laughing already.

[Adam]

Dude. This is. Dude, this is like a. Like a movie from the 90s where, like, it's. This Comedy Central cookie jar is filled with funny treats. And the. The more funny treats you take out of it, the less comedy there is in the world. Oh.

[Blake]

Oh.

[Ders]

Is that poop dollar like the Eddie. Eddie Murphy. Eddie Murphy, A Thousand Wishes or whatever movie.

[Adam]

It feels like a bad Eddie Murphy movie. I feel like Eddie Murphy stopped making good movies, and I wish he would make one.

[Ders]

But here's what we gotta say. When they did that, the SNL 50th reunion or whatever it was, he was unreal, right?

[Adam]

Legend dude. He is. He's one of the best.

[Blake]

He was great.

[Ders]

He came on and was so funny and so Committed to every sketch. And apparently, like, he jumped in other sketches that he wasn't supposed to be in because people dropped out last minute. And he was like, I got it, and was so fucking good. It was crazy.

[Adam]

He even in his documentary where you're walking around his, like, palatial Bel Air

[Blake]

mansion, where you're like, oh, when did this come out? Is this recent?

[Adam]

Yeah, I believe it's on the flicks. And it came out within the last year, and it's awesome. And he's just giving interviews, and you're just like. The whole time, you're like, man, he's funny to his core. He's such a funny person. Some people when they get too rich, they just stop.

[Blake]

Stop all comedy.

[Adam]

You know, they're just like, eh, I'm fucking good. Which is fine. Which is, like, probably a healthy way to go about it.

[Ders]

Do you think he's funny with his friends, or do you think he has a skill set that he used? And that's kind of what it is.

[Adam]

He is so funny with his friends. Neil Brennan. And I'm. I don't think I'm speaking out of school, but he told me that because he's always hanging around, like, Chappelle and Chris Rock. He's just, like, in that friend group because he used to write for Chappelle and they hang out with Eddie quite a bit. And he was like, he is the funniest guy in any room. It's like you get all those people together, which obviously they're all fucking kings and heroes and are the funniest person in any room that they walk into. He's the funniest. And I'm like, that is so cool, dude. That is so cool. Because I don't know if Jim Carrey is at this point. Yeah, I don't know if Jim Carrey is the funniest person in the room.

[Blake]

Yeah, he's adjusted.

[Ders]

And it's also kind of like, what is funny. Yeah.

[Adam]

Yeah, that's life. I would like to get him and clavicular in a room and just see. Just see who's the funniest dude. Reef has been delivering comfort since the 1980s, building a reputation for sandals that feel as good as they look. And now one of their most iconic styles, the fanning, is turning 21. It's a sandal that stood the test of time, evolving with new tech and style, while staying true to what made it a favorite in the first place.

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[Ders]

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[Adam]

Neil's a. Neil's a, a. A legend.

[Blake]

He has a podcast. Correct.

[Ders]

It's a great podcast, Blocks. I listen to it. It's great.

[Adam]

I. I've been on it. Didn't have many blocks. I bet I have more now.

[Ders]

Yeah, I think you might have had them then. The block was that you couldn't see the block.

[Adam]

Yeah, I couldn't see the block.

[Blake]

Wait, wait. Sorry. Not to sidetrack too far, but blocks is like your building blocks or things that are in your way.

[Ders]

Blocks are like things in your way that you're trying to, like, sort through.

[Adam]

Okay, right.

[Ders]

Like anxiety or imposter syndrome or.

[Blake]

Okay.

[Adam]

And I just went on and was like, so what are the blocks? And I'm like, man, I don't. I don't think I got any.

[Ders]

Is that what this is about?

[Blake]

Goodbye.

[Adam]

Like, yeah, I just thought this was a podcast.

[Blake]

I don't remember. Oh, that's cool. You prep the same way we prep. This is important.

[Adam]

Yeah, that's right. That's right.

[Ders]

He had a funny story where they were. All these comedians were at a Netflix thing at the head of Netflix's home,

[Adam]

which, by the way, we're going to in a few weeks.

[Ders]

We are. Who's. What's his. Ted Sarandos.

[Blake]

Yes, terrible Ted.

[Ders]

And Ted's like, it's so nice to be here, surrounded by the funniest people in the world. And then Chris Rock goes and Neil Brennan. Yeah. And the entire. The entire room laughs.

[Adam]

And he's like, burn.

[Ders]

Pretty good. Pretty good bully. Anyway, Neil is great. And to stand there and take that as. That's comedy. And another thing about comedy is that, like, that's pointed. And kids don't like that because it's like Neil had to basically get shit on for 30 seconds there. Kids are like, we don't do that anymore. Anymore.

[Blake]

Well, yeah, that's how sense of humor is developed. It's also a. A way of dealing with bullying. You've got the floor.

[Adam]

Well, you take it. You take it from your friends. Yeah, you. Yeah, you give your friends and. And they give it back. And. And then you go in your room and loudly play Chili Peppers and jerk off. I mean, have sex.

[Ders]

Right, right, right, right. Did the doorbell ring? I didn't see anyone come in. I'm just going to be in here looking. What?

[Adam]

I'm loudly in here. Where?

[Blake]

Where did she go?

[Adam]

Yeah, she. It was just quicker for her to leave out the window.

[Blake]

She had to go.

[Adam]

It was actually quicker for her to just bounce out of the window.

[Blake]

So you don't. And I hate to deny, but you don't have a window.

[Adam]

Did I say window? Did I say window? Because I meant air vent.

[Ders]

Yeah, yeah.

[Adam]

It's actually quicker just to get out to her car because the air vent goes right through. Out to the car.

[Ders]

Like, funnily enough, I still say, poof, be gone. And she could just disappear.

[Adam]

Yeah, yeah.

[Blake]

She just goes. She just. Kool Aid, man.

[Ders]

What happened to. What happened to poof, be gone, be gone? Poof, be gone? What?

[Blake]

Bring it back.

[Adam]

Did people say, poof, be gone?

[Ders]

In my high school, poof, be gone was a thing.

[Adam]

Dude, in your high school, there was a lot of very funny black running backs. I know. I know that there was.

[Ders]

I know our running back. Our running back was. Was not super funny, but he's super inspirational. Last time I went on Facebook, he, like, does walks on the beach and he's like, it's 4:30 in the morning. I'm already up. I'm going after it. I know you are too. And, like, I do remember him being like. He, like, knew the state meet was coming up for me that week, and he was like, I want. He was like, I won my event in the track. Like, you can too. And I was like, I don't know. I'm gonna give it a shot. He goes, hey, man, you have to believe it. And I was like, like, all right, all right.

[Adam]

Sounds like Cam Newton, dude.

[Blake]

Very, very, like a leader.

[Ders]

Super nice dude. Super nice dude. Not funny, dude.

[Adam]

Cam Newton. After meeting Cam. I was never a fan of Cam Newton.

[Ders]

Yeah.

[Adam]

Just his. His hats. Really?

[Blake]

You're on record about his podcast?

[Ders]

Let's just add this to it.

[Adam]

His hats.

[Blake]

You comment on it a. A lot.

[Adam]

Truly bother me. And I don't know why they do, but they really, really, really do. I don't like him, but you meet the guy and you're like, oh, I would run through a wall for if. If he told me to.

[Ders]

Right.

[Adam]

Like, he's a leader. It's. It's fun to meet those people every once in a while.

[Blake]

Yeah.

[Ders]

You'd say, give me that hat. Just run, right?

[Adam]

Yeah, just.

[Ders]

I'll.

[Blake]

I'll take that hat, sir.

[Adam]

I'll die for you in this hat.

[Blake]

He had a pretty funny interaction with like, a mascot, like last year where he, like, beat the mascot's ass. It, like, started to piss him off. Did you guys see that clip?

[Ders]

But, like, really hurt the mascot, right?

[Adam]

Is that real?

[Ders]

Bam. Yeah, like, he's like 6, 7, 2, 60. Like, it's.

[Adam]

Oh, yeah. He was massive, dude.

[Ders]

Crazy.

[Blake]

Yeah. I think the mascot, like, ran up and like, took his.

[Ders]

That's a. No, no.

[Blake]

And he, like, he. He like put it. Put his ass in the dirt, dude. It was. It was up.

[Ders]

Would you guys wish that, like, you know, there's those cartoons where someone takes the hat off and then their head is like the shape of the hat that.

[Adam]

Sure.

[Ders]

I kind of wish that was the case where we found out he had like a weird. That'd be fun, like, Bart Simpson shaped

[Adam]

head or like his hair when he used to have like the, you know, the fun dreadlocks. It actually was a wig.

[Ders]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Adam]

And you take it off and it's just like flapping in the wind.

[Ders]

Possible Agassiz.

[Blake]

I think that might be a problem with kids. And their sense of humor is they aren't raised on Looney Tunes anymore.

[Adam]

Okay.

[Blake]

I think that was like essential. Like you gotta have the Looney Tunes in your life as a kid. Ultra violence, ultra violence. All like, I love that, that everything's on the table.

[Ders]

Explosives, ab.

[Adam]

Explosives.

[Blake]

Yes.

[Adam]

And. And if you said someone's going to drop a piano on my head now, no one would even get it.

[Blake]

Yeah, they don't understand.

[Adam]

People would be like, why would a piano just fall out of the sky?

[Ders]

Adam, move. Adam, be careful. Move.

[Blake]

Yeah, and then as soon as you move, you get hit with the anvil. That's just the order of operations, dude.

[Adam]

Well, what, what is bugging me, dude? What's bugging me?

[Blake]

Okay, Adam's bugging, we're griping.

[Adam]

You're. This is Grumpy Old man over here. That's the name of the episode. Grumpy Old Men is everyone now is an expert. It's like your friend saying, I get up at 4:30 in the morning and I get out and I get out and I'm doing it. And they're. Everyone is inspirational where they're telling you what to eat, they're telling you what to drink, they're telling you, you how to be of a good father. It's like they don't have that guy. How to be a good father is you wake up at 4:30 in the morning, you're up before the children get up. You then work out, you get everything done and then you do the laundry for your wife because why is she doing the laundry? And then you clean the kitchen and then the kids get up and then you make a break and you're like, Jesus Christ man, stop. And everyone, everyone is doing that now on, on the Internet. I'm like, can I escape this?

[Ders]

And this doesn't make me feel good. But, but 18 months down the line of them doing that, they all have a massive breakdown and you find out that they were like crackheads on I was intoxicated every peptide and whatever the else. And they're like, I'm stepping away from social media. And it's like you, you don't even have to just chill. Yeah, just chill.

[Blake]

Just post less.

[Adam]

That's the thing is like these guys, it's not like they're making real livings doing like cuz so many people do it. I'm like, you can't actually be making a living.

[Blake]

There's no way. But you might be getting free Kachava.

[Adam]

15,000 followers.

[Ders]

Yeah.

[Adam]

And you're not making any amount of money you're making. You're getting free, you're getting ca atic greens or something. Someone might be sending you some, some cool product, but that's it. And you have to make content every day about how like what sort of high protein meal you're making in your air fryer. You're like, who gives a man? Just go live your life, dude. No, sir, I don't like it. No one asked you to be an inner Internet star. No one asked for this. That's. And that's what people are saying about our podcast currently.

[Ders]

Any takebacks or any introspective questions dudes ever. Shut up.

[Blake]

We're about to be freaking 300 episodes deep. God damn.

[Adam]

God damn.

[Ders]

I'm with you. I'm with you. It's, it's, it's an interesting. It's interesting. It's very interesting. It's just an interesting like mirror to society where it's, it's like what is happening. Where it seems like everyone who's telling everyone to get their together seems like they are on a razor's edge of losing their minds.

[Blake]

Right.

[Adam]

That's exactly right.

[Blake]

So cool.

[Ders]

Everyone who's like, this is what you gotta do. It's like, it's like, I think this is what you have to do to not lose your mind.

[Adam]

Well, it's. It's just them like alone, drinking, pre workout outside of the gym before it opens at 5am and they're like, this is what you gotta do to be a good husband. Husband or a good father or good whatever. And they look insane. They're sweating already. They haven't even gone to the gym yet.

[Blake]

Yeah, they're talking to themselves. When you're doing a selfie video, you're talking to yourself. It's the black mirror man.

[Ders]

And by the way, all that being said, send me a sauna.

[Blake]

Absolutely.

[Adam]

Just send me a sauna.

[Ders]

Send me a sauna.

[Blake]

I'll preach.

[Adam]

The best thing is, is seeing these people, these like jacked yolks, dude, dudes. And thinking about them like not getting the shot right. And be like, no, I didn't. I messed up the words. I gotta do it again. And doing it multiple times because they didn't like how their chin looked. Because they're. Because obviously they're super vain because all they care about is what they look like.

[Ders]

I think that's why young dudes love the streamers who are just rolling.

[Adam]

Sure.

[Ders]

Because it's, it's like he's not edited. Everything is right there. He's not afraid to like, turn it off. Off. And I'm like, dude, it's okay to turn it off.

[Blake]

It's okay.

[Ders]

It's okay to up. It's okay to like have a whoops, a doodle.

[Adam]

No, I know. And they were saying, like, like he's one of the, in the. On the Manosphere documentary. They were like, and he's one of the most successful streamers and he makes up to $200 an hour. 200 to $300 an hour. And I'm like, I know that's good money, but is it worth it, right, to have to, to do that?

[Blake]

Even to this argument, though, like, us being like that this class of entertainers are talentless or like, or weird like that. Even our class, when you look back to like the Ed Sullivan show or you speak about like Eddie Murphy, like, those, those people were like, so talented.

[Ders]

Sorry, I just heard, I just heard. Everyone turn the podcast off. Go ahead.

[Blake]

I'm just like, have you ever gone back and like, watched Solomon? Like those old like, like comedian, like, routines where it's like duos and it's just like they're absolutely insane. Like, they're so polished. They're so good. They're dialed. Everybody can dance, everybody can sing, everybody can hit jokes, everybody can play straight, man. Everybody. It's just like there's like completely. Weapons of entertainment.

[Adam]

Yeah, what about, what about that?

[Blake]

And then we do podcast.

[Ders]

But I think that there's a, there's a, like, stakes to creating something polished and perfect that I think people think is overrated now.

[Blake]

Yes, the stakes have left the building

[Ders]

where they're like, why do I have to be so polished? And like, I, I don't think there's a, a, there's a diminished return.

[Blake]

Right.

[Ders]

Those people used to be like, I'm gonna get polished because if I go on the Ed Sullivan show, guess what? I'm set for life.

[Adam]

You gotta be ready city.

[Ders]

And if I'm good, I'm set for life. And the next day, my world changes.

[Adam]

Now, by the way, Ed Sullivan is such an old school.

[Ders]

I know, but I'm just going with this. Even if it's Johnny Carson, right? Everyone talks about Johnny Carson, who's a couple generations older than us, but if you're the funniest person ever now, you might go viral, but you have to keep that viral going because there's no machine that's going to keep you going, going. And if you aren't doing sauna, ankle

[Adam]

plunge, in addition to, and red light therapy and peptides and trying to get on Kill Tony. You're Dude.

[Ders]

But I will say the people who can sustain it, they were doing it forever before, you know what I mean?

[Adam]

They're Bert Kreischer.

[Ders]

You know what I mean?

[Adam]

They're the one. They're just promotion machines and they're out there and they're just grinding, dude.

[Ders]

Right?

[Adam]

I'm, I'm exhausted just thinking about it.

[Blake]

I'm taking a nap.

[Adam]

Any take backs, any apologies, Any epic slams here, boys?

[Blake]

You know, I, I take back bringing, bringing up Ed Sullivan. I'm sorry, I was just trying to think of a black and white show.

[Adam]

No, that's okay. Why it's got to be black.

[Blake]

Maybe Jerry. Jerry Lewis.

[Adam]

Why's it got to be white?

[Blake]

That was what the television colors were, I believe.

[Adam]

Why is it got to be colors?

[Ders]

Interesting. I'm pissed now.

[Adam]

I don't like how you said that.

[Ders]

Huh? Netflix. Get them.

[Adam]

Yeah, I, I, I loved today's podcast. I thought it was really fun. I got to show off my new

[Blake]

cookie jar, which I think is badass. Jealous.

[Ders]

Poignant. What a po.

[Adam]

Which I, I'm, I'm glad you guys, you guys might be the only people that I could show this to and would be as stoked.

[Blake]

But you Incredible. Yeah, look at that. Look at that beautiful piece.

[Adam]

And you know that's my favorite color too.

[Ders]

Before you flip it upside down and look at the bottom.

[Adam]

Hold on.

[Ders]

On the top. I don't want that to break. What does the bottom say? Where is this made? Is this.

[Adam]

There's nothing, there's nothing real.

[Blake]

That that was on an executive's desk.

[Ders]

Not Cost Plus World Market. You couldn't get that there.

[Blake]

No, that I think that might have came out of the break room in the night. Yeah, I think this is, that's so

[Adam]

this is a true vintage piece. I think corporate.

[Blake]

That might be 10 of 10.

[Adam]

One of 10, right? Oh, and one more thing, dude. Look back at it with Sam J. And Alex English.

[Ders]

Yes.

[Adam]

It just dropped. It just dropped.

[Blake]

Hot new palm under the TII umbrella.

[Adam]

We have our own umbrella. Where.

[Ders]

Yes.

[Adam]

Where it's raining. And guess what? It's. We're keeping these, these podcasts nice and dry for you so they don't get all wet and sloppy out there out there in the world.

[Blake]

I'm very, very hyped to have Sam J.

[Adam]

So look back at it is our first podcast where we are dropping with the very funny ex snl. Sam J. She's hilarious. And Alex English, who was an SNL writer, where they hop in there. I'M gonna read a little blurb hopping where they hop in their time machine and spend time in the past in hopes of understanding the chaos that is sure to be in our future from Pop. I like that they have a thing.

[Blake]

Yeah, that is kind of.

[Adam]

Maybe we should get a thing.

[Ders]

I like when we try and read. Yeah. Super funny. She was on the cruise. So if you were on the cruise, you know what we're talking about. But, Sam, MJ, go and Google some of her YouTube. Stand up, and then you'll understand why we were like, gotta get her under the umbrella.

[Adam]

Gotta get her.

[Blake]

She's the best.

[Adam]

The trailer is out now, and the first episode drops April 29th.

[Blake]

Get on that Mamma mia. I'm hyped, dude.

[Adam]

Well, then show it on your face. Yeah.

[Ders]

Why?

[Adam]

Why do you say it like that, Blake? I'm hyped, dude. All lackadaisical. Say it like you mean. What do you mean?

[Blake]

I am actually hyped. I love Sam J. Hanging out with her on the cruise was so fun. Fun. She's a real rocker. She has some deep cut, like, rock knowledge. Remember when she had the ox and was just ripping up the freaking dance floor?

[Adam]

It was off the chain that was tight. And she was, like, kind of drinking me under the table a little bit. I kept wanting to go to bed. It was like 2:30 in the morning or 3am Right? And I'm like, all right, I'm gonna go. And she's like, yo, real, one, One. One more shot. Real quick. I'm like, yeah, all right, okay. And then I'd take a shot. And then her girlfriend was like, yo, Sam, let's. Let's go to bed.

[Blake]

Bed.

[Adam]

And she's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Adam, one more shot. Come on, let's do one more shot or else my ass is going to have to go to bed. And I wanted to go to bed. And I'm like, maybe we go to bed. And she was like, one more shot. And I'm like, because I. She's the type of person that you want to be cool around.

[Blake]

Yeah, of course.

[Adam]

So I just kept drinking. I just kept drinking. Which awesome.

[Blake]

Sam, Real rocker.

[Ders]

Now she got a podcast.

[Adam]

Look back at it. First episode drops April 29th. Check it out.

[Blake]

Very funny.

[Ders]

Funny title. Fun title. All right, and then that's another episode of this is important. 10 of 10.

[Blake]

10 of 10. That is a 10 of 10.

[Ders]

That episode was a 1 of 10.

[Blake]

It's a 10 of 10.

[Adam]

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[Ders]

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