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Speaker 1 Why didn't Gmail ever get a song? Who? Why didn't Gmail ever get a song? Why you got a song? As opposed to

Speaker 1 get a song. I thought you were on the side.
Yahoo!

Speaker 1 I was trying to do the music from Raising Arizona. I've never seen that film.
Oh, you've got to see it.

Speaker 1 It's come up a few times for me. I think I'll have to watch it.
I bet you'll like it. You've got to see it.
But yeah, it sounds very similar to the Yahoo theme song. And you're right.

Speaker 1 Why didn't Gmail get a three-thirds? They should have gone gone

Speaker 1 Gmail.

Speaker 1 Gmail. G-Bail.

Speaker 1 Gmail. I remember when Gmail started, I was like, wow, that's so cool.
Really?

Speaker 1 Well, you know, I had this friend who always. Well, you used to have to get an invite.
Everyone would face it. Yes, my friend knows the best.
This is exactly it.

Speaker 1 I had this friend who always knew Spotify, you had to get an invite.

Speaker 1 Oh, and you always get a certain amount of invites. Yes.
Yes. But he always knew the hip new technology to know about, like, oh, you should get on G, your email should be a new technology.

Speaker 1 You should get a vibrator. And then he'd be like, yeah, vibrator turns on with batteries.
Nechology. No, and then he got me on Twitter at the same time Foursquare and all these different websites.

Speaker 1 When Twitter didn't have an app, you had to use like a different app to use it? We'd use the browser. Oh, yeah, but you need to use it.
You downloaded a different type of app. A different type of app.

Speaker 1 And then finally, Twitter made its own app. Yes, that's right.
Yeah. Yeah, those are the good old days.

Speaker 1 The good old days. Back when things were safe.

Speaker 1 But so, so Gmail you thought was cool. It was.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Compared to, you know, people will still have Yahoo and stuff, and I just go, what are you doing? Yeah, I have a friend. None of it has to be Gmail, but I just have an AOL friend.

Speaker 1 It doesn't have to be Gmail. I just wonder,

Speaker 1 what's going on in there? Well, what about our good producer,

Speaker 1 Matt Appodaka? Yeah, what about him? He's always telling us to get iOS. He's always trying to tell us to get Outlook for iOS.
Every email, every email. Get Outlook for iOS.

Speaker 1 And he can't change it, no matter how hard he begged.

Speaker 1 And quite often you read his replies to our emails, and he only says, like, yes, or something like that but it it seems like he's trying to just tell us to get out

Speaker 1 like honestly there was a like a couple months ago yes get out look for ios he wrote

Speaker 1 like there was like a question about

Speaker 1 because he said do you guys like caligar invites and then he wrote get outlook get out look for ios i don't want outlook i use and i literally wrote back i don't like outlook i use gmail and then he's like aha sorry and i was like I actually thought you were saying yeah, I thought he tricks me 30% of the time into thinking he's trying to tell me to get outlook for OS.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And why is he so obsessed? He always wants to say it.
Dude loves it. He likes it more than his own name.
Does he get a commission? I don't know. He likes it more than his own name.

Speaker 1 That would be so rad to get a commission, like passive income from Outlook for iOS. You know, and the deep dive.
Oh, please. Go ahead.

Speaker 1 It is funny that you used to have to get an invitation to Gmail and now you can make 50 email addresses. I know, I know.
But I find that more confusing.

Speaker 1 Is it a scam or it's just a scam? Or sham. Yes, thank you.
Scam or sham. Sham or ham.
All right, let's play scammer sham. Scam, sham or ham.
Scam, sham, or ham. Okay, ready? Scammer ham.

Speaker 1 You eat it at Easter. Ham.

Speaker 1 Scam. Exactly.
Scam.

Speaker 1 Jesus didn't exist.

Speaker 1 Ham.

Speaker 1 I'm still playing. I'm going ham.
If you say Jesus didn't exist.

Speaker 1 What were you going to say, somebody? I don't know. You were going to have a deep dive.
Oh, they talk about passive income. They have their Amazon stores

Speaker 1 that you can have. And I think Kulot made one.
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 I thought that seemed kind of fun, but then Jess was saying hers got shut down. It was going to be shut down for lack of purchases being made on it.
And I was like, that seems

Speaker 1 unfair. What is the Amazon store? If people are.
You can set up your own store. Like, I could be like the Lauren store, and it's like, here's all my favorite items.

Speaker 1 And then if you buy it through my store, I get some money back, which seems great to fuck with Amazon. It's like someone else can make money.
That's anything, though.

Speaker 1 You could have a website, I think, and have a link. And you tell your fans.
and friends, like, hey, if you're going to buy something through Amazon, go through this link because I have to do that.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it has to be like an affiliate link. Yeah.
Anyway.

Speaker 1 I was going to say, is it a scam or a sham or a ham

Speaker 1 that

Speaker 1 you these invites? Are they trying to make it seem exclusive or they just can't handle the web traffic?

Speaker 1 Or is it a ham? It's like a new thing.

Speaker 1 I think it's more like trial.

Speaker 1 I think it was trying it out. Where it's like, no, no, but you know what I mean? It feels elite.
So you're like, oh, I want to do it. That's what I'm saying.
That's a scam.

Speaker 1 Or a sham.

Speaker 1 I think it's more of a sham. It's more of a sham than a scam.
Where they're trying to make it seem elite, but they could handle handle as many.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean, you would think Google could have, would not have had a problem

Speaker 1 with a bunch of people setting up email addresses at the same time. My favorite thing I've been doing recently is if

Speaker 1 hold on a second. Yeah.
Truly your favorite thing? Yeah, I love this. Okay.
No, I did it to a friend of mine.

Speaker 1 I did it to everything.

Speaker 1 I love it more than my wife. Okay.
Wow. Okay.
You have a daughter.

Speaker 1 It goes, my wife, my daughter. Oh, suddenly this thing is third? No, no, no, no.
And then now I'm mine. I'm hands down.
Yeah. I went hands down, and now I'm going hand up.
Okay. So

Speaker 1 I mean, it's below Kulab. Below Kulab, definitely.
Should not be. She's new.

Speaker 1 She's new. Hey, this is a trial.
I've been on Kulab a long time. Probationary.
She's in beta. Yeah.
Okay.

Speaker 1 She also is a beta.

Speaker 1 But,

Speaker 1 oh, yeah, is my friend asks me like, oh my God, where did you,

Speaker 1 how did you find that out? And I just like write back a Google link, like to to Google, not to the link of the thing they're trying to hit.

Speaker 1 Just like your favorite bit is to say, I looked at google.com. Yes.
Because like, that's so many times when people are asking you a question, it's like something very easily Google-able.

Speaker 1 But you don't give them the link, give them just the link to Google. You should move that to number two.

Speaker 1 I feel like Emmy's better.

Speaker 1 I think Emmy's better than Google.com, and I think Cool Ops right under it. I was going to say that, but I think that I think Emmy, I agree with Scott, that it's too soon to tell on Emmy.

Speaker 1 Yeah, she might turn out to be a bad seed. That's true.
She might be

Speaker 1 one of those Macaulay Culkin. Yeah, she's going to try to push a kid off a tree house or something.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 It's so ironic that it's called The Good Son when he was so bad. I know, but is it about him or is it about Elijah Wood? I think that's what it's right.

Speaker 1 Then maybe you think the good son is Macaulay Culkin and then he does bad things and you're like, actually, the twist was the title was about Elijah Wood.

Speaker 1 Oh, so that's the M Night channel on Twist at the end?

Speaker 1 What the title refers to? Yes. So the author comes out.
It's a very specific, yes, he comes out in Lord Grantham style. Hello, what you've just seen is a twist, Mr.
Grantham, Lord Grantham, Mr.

Speaker 1 Grantham. I'm calling back our last episode.
I should say, Hollywood is the ultimate dream factory.

Speaker 1 Is that what he said in the new one? That's what Mr. Mosley says.
Oh, one of the

Speaker 1 he went off to Hollywood at the end of this last film, right? And he's, I think he becomes a screenwriter, yeah.

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Oh, they have movies.

Speaker 1 Oh, they have movies now.

Speaker 1 Six seasons in a movie.

Speaker 1 Is Upstairs Downstairs good? I was thinking about that. My parents used to watch it when I was a kid.
I watched it as an adult and really enjoyed it. Oh, yeah.
I think it would be good.

Speaker 1 It goes through different time periods. I think it's bad that PBS

Speaker 1 exists. Yes.
Shut it down.

Speaker 1 No, no, no.

Speaker 1 Now with streaming and everything like that, I feel like you never

Speaker 1 go through PBS anymore when it used to be so reliably wonderful to like as something, you know, to watch as opposed to. It used to be their slogan, reliably wonderful.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 But you know what I mean? PBS. Now why

Speaker 1 wonderful?

Speaker 1 Why would you happen across PBS at this point? You know, it would take a lot of time. You'd have to get to that channel.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I mean, even, you know, the classics like Sesame Street or

Speaker 1 HBO Max. We have their app on Apple TV.
I know. How often did you watch it? Never.
Exactly.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you're right. I can see it.
But it's not hard to find. I can see it.

Speaker 1 But isn't it wonderful? It's very easy to find and skip over. Isn't it incredible that they had a huge hit with Downton Abbey? Yeah.
And it was just word of mouth. That was their show? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Well, I mean, it was, you know. It's just word of mouth.
But it was. Because they didn't have billboards.
Well, they had reviews. Not every day you see it.
But you know what?

Speaker 1 Why did you ever watch it?

Speaker 1 Well, because I love

Speaker 1 manners.

Speaker 1 Good manners, bad manners. Exactly.
yeah. I love to see how they're gonna deal with the manners.

Speaker 1 I've never really watched that show, so I don't really know. You got to see it because it's because it's got uh uh uh uh dialogue and action.

Speaker 1 Well, I did watch the first episode, and I think there was a surprise blow job that kind of threw me

Speaker 1 and I was like, whoa, surprise to who, the audience or the person receiving it, or the person giving it everyone involved is like, What am I doing?

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 how did I get here?

Speaker 1 This is not my beautiful wife,

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 And then I found myself giving a blow job

Speaker 1 when I meant to set up the croquet.

Speaker 1 If you had to live back then

Speaker 1 and you couldn't be part of the aristocracy,

Speaker 1 what job would you want to do?

Speaker 1 So what are my options? Like if you could be one of the Downtown Abbey servants. So it's like chauffeur.
You want to be? Yeah, chauffeur. I would love to drive one of those cars.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, yeah. That would be fun.
But you wouldn't talk to me. But it would be so bumpy.

Speaker 1 Yeah. You went over a bump the other day and you had a bad time.
You had a tire. That's right.
Are you now reconsidering your choice?

Speaker 1 That would happen to you all the time. Do you think potentially

Speaker 1 just wood?

Speaker 1 Oh, that's right. So they're more durable.
Yeah. I'm not worried about the bumps now.

Speaker 1 But the roads also were probably, in a way, better.

Speaker 1 No, I think they were worse.

Speaker 1 Well, they weren't like, I don't think they had

Speaker 1 dirt and big potholes.

Speaker 1 You had dirt, yeah. Yeah, but you had like, it was, you had

Speaker 1 some bricks that got misplaced.

Speaker 1 Well, you weren't just driving over the countryside. Like, they had roads.

Speaker 1 But they're roads just because, like, people have gone down them so much. They're not paved.
I don't think they are. They're not medieval times.
What year is it?

Speaker 1 Like, the 30s. 1910s.

Speaker 1 No, it was like the 10s. To the 30s, I think.
Yeah. Yes.
It's recent sometimes. But what if they had the same? But they had paved roads in the 19s.

Speaker 1 They did in the city. I'm just saying, like, if if you got from Downton Abbey and went to the city, you'd have to go over a lot of bumps.
I don't think so. I disagree.
I think it would be bumpy.

Speaker 1 I don't know why we're having an argument about how bumpy the roads in 1910 were. I know why, because you brought it up.

Speaker 1 When you disagreed with me, when you could have just paid no mind to it. That's exactly right.
I think I'd like to be like.

Speaker 1 You could be a scullery maid. What's that?

Speaker 1 You could be. What is that? She would wash the pots and pans, right? Oh, no.
I'd like to be the cook. The cook? But I don't know how to cook.
Because you could be sassy. I would assume I'd be good.

Speaker 1 The cook is allowed to be sassy. Yeah.
You assume you would be good. Well, you have the skill.
In this game that we're playing right now, you are good at the thing. No, yes.
No,

Speaker 1 it's you having. Oh, then I guess I'd be like the nanny.

Speaker 1 Like, you know what?

Speaker 1 I guess. Did they have a dedicated nanny back then?

Speaker 1 Or did everyone just kind of take turns on it? I can't remember. I, yeah, I don't, because they did eventually have babies there.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but you never saw like one of the people i don't remember my only job is being a nanny yeah yeah interesting they also sort of but it also made it seem like the servants didn't play that much of a part in a baby's life when of course they would like from what i remember it seemed like it i do remember one scene where the baby was just there and they were the baby they suddenly the baby came in and everyone went oh wow the baby's here and they played with the baby a little and said all right take her away yeah so i don't know that's living

Speaker 1 my friend when i was little grew up in this house that was like my friend did too okay

Speaker 1 it's not a brag it was i actually a very old

Speaker 1 house

Speaker 1 that had servants quarters oh wow and it had a servants like stairwell that led to a room and then that went to the kitchen

Speaker 1 like that and i actually think this stairwell right over here is was used to be a servant stairwell because this is this is a house from the 1920s is it really wow i wouldn't have guessed so it's very narrow Yeah.

Speaker 1 And I think when we were looking at it, the realtor said, oh, and these used to be servants. Our house might have been servants' quarters to a bigger house that might have been next to the house.

Speaker 1 It was demolished. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Oh my God. I love to look at real estate online just for fun.
I was actually doing it last night and I was like, this is better than Instagram because it doesn't hurt my feelings. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Do you know what? Can I say, I'm glad you didn't say real estate porn. No, I would never say that.
Even when people just put porn on it. I don't like food porn.
I don't like nature porn.

Speaker 1 It's like, no, it's just you can enjoy something. It's not, it doesn't involve.
You're not actually jerking off. No.
Look at that cheeseburger. But I saw some house.

Speaker 1 I would say sex is like nature's porno, don't you agree? Yeah, I think so. I agree.
Yeah. I saw some houses that were shocking.
Like I saw this one house that was very, it was a Victorian home.

Speaker 1 And as you scroll through the pictures, it got more and more haunted. It was just like a terrifying, like the wallpaper was creepy and every room was creepier than the last room.

Speaker 1 And it's just like, oh, this is like the, and the way they photographed it was so chilling. Yeah.
It was just very scary.

Speaker 1 Honestly, this is why I watched Downton Abbey and I don't, I would never remember a lot of what was going on because I watched it purely aesthetically just to look at the room loved the sets I love the clothes I loved all of that yeah and then Janie we would watch an episode

Speaker 1 yeah you look to see the girls walk down the Popestam Street yeah but Janie would be like wait why does he was he was mad at him for something I'm like I don't know I don't care I don't know that's great it's brand new to me every time that's fun

Speaker 1 what happened to your friend who grew up in the house though nothing but I'm saying I just was remembering she's still okay Yeah. Serving ghost didn't?

Speaker 1 I just remembered that house being sort of like a, like, oh, it was over. It's like the stairs were not used often, but it felt a little, you know.
What did they do with that room?

Speaker 1 It was just like a, it just had a bed in it. You know, they did rent out some space to college students from time to time.
So I don't know if it was that room or if it was another room that they had.

Speaker 1 But it was disconnected from like the main house. It was like in the attic.
Okay. There was like a room.
Fonzi style. Yeah.
Yeah. I was doing some research for a Did Fonzi live in someone's house?

Speaker 1 He lived. He lived above the cunning's garage.

Speaker 1 Oh, I forgot that he did that.

Speaker 1 He also had a very funny way of sitting in chairs. Well, he also always put his thumbs up in the air.
He would jump into it. Remember? No.
Into the

Speaker 1 recliner of Mr. C's.
He would like

Speaker 1 jumping.

Speaker 1 I remember that. I remember that.

Speaker 1 I was doing research for a script years and years ago.

Speaker 1 And so I got to be taken on all of these open houses for these incredibly huge, rich people houses in Beverly Hills and got to see like fun. These giant ones with like bowling alleys from the 20s.

Speaker 1 That's bananas. Oh my God.
I would love to. I do have a friend I follow on Instagram who's always at estate sales.
And like, he was at one recently. Oh, your friend the ghoul.

Speaker 1 He was that one recently that was like clearly a. Who's dead? Who's dead?

Speaker 1 Someone die recently. Cha-ching.

Speaker 1 It was clearly like a crew person had passed and all of their belongings were like a lot of interesting props, but they also had water bottles labeled with celebrities who had drank out of them.

Speaker 1 Oh, and it had like Sean Hayes, like a straw sticking out of Starbucks cup with like liquid and like different celebrities with a piece of tape with their name. That's gross.
Isn't that crazy?

Speaker 1 The idea of someone keeping your cup and then, I guess, hoping to sell it for something with your residue in the case. And then I'm like

Speaker 1 putting it out. I'll decide.
Of course, I'm going to give it to you. I'm putting it out.
I'm going to put a cup for you.

Speaker 1 I don't know who's in charge of the sale, but I'm like, this feels like the trash part.

Speaker 1 Yes. No one wants to

Speaker 1 be bizarre that they would leave it out for you. What if the person who was in charge of the estate just made this shit up? Yeah.
Just make it interesting.

Speaker 1 Cleared out their car of all the whole Starbucks and shit. Yeah.
And they're like, give us your tape quick.

Speaker 1 People are coming over. I mean, no.
Well, have you ever been to estate sales? Like, you ever have been? No. Oh, I can answer.
I've got one from Bob Hope, who I used to live down the street.

Speaker 1 Oh, that's interesting. I mean, with like a celebrity like

Speaker 1 that, would be very interesting.

Speaker 1 And sometimes I would be curious to go to like what you're saying with going to like really rich people's houses and like just being able to see the house and like what, how it's all laid out.

Speaker 1 But it can be very unsettling, I think, to go and see someone, all of someone's belongings laid out like that. It's just kind of like, oh, this is like what we all become is just like this pilot.

Speaker 1 But at least we're taken up to heaven. I'm assuming the rapture.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 So the rapture, you can't, you don't get your clothes.

Speaker 1 You don't get your wedding ring. Clothes stay on earth.
Everything stays.

Speaker 1 That's your biggest concern you don't even wear it

Speaker 1 yeah your wedding ring just like drops to the floor of the car i don't wear one earrings earrings fall out we've talked about this yeah all right your your earrings fall out your uh your gold teeth your grill

Speaker 1 your tattoos your

Speaker 1 anything metal

Speaker 1 anything you've added what's this weird skull with flowers on it that'd be kind of cool How great would it be, though, to be the people left behind on Earth? It's got to be so. Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 You got so much elbow room at that point

Speaker 1 so much real estate pops up that's cheap i almost want to watch those left behind movies yeah i haven't seen just to see what the idea is with i've i've seen the a thief in the night movies based that it's it's similar it's based on the rapture the first one is ker cameron no

Speaker 1 these are the 70s this is not the crossblade this is not the cross and the switchblade with eric estrada

Speaker 1 never heard of that he did a christian movie called the cross and the switchblade but um back in the 60s But

Speaker 1 this is The Thief in the Night, which is from a Bible verse. And it's basically the first one's very tidy, which is a woman wakes up and her entire family is gone and the raptures happened.
Oops.

Speaker 1 And she's the one who's never believed in all that stuff.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 basically, like.

Speaker 1 the government starts to oppress people where everyone needs a barcode tattooed on their either their forehead or their left hand.

Speaker 1 I have talked about this, yeah. Anyway, but then the fifth one is just just like zombies chasing her around.
Yay. Yay! That's just fun.

Speaker 1 You gotta be aware. Because a nuclear explosion happens or something, so then it just gets to be like zombies.
Oh, it's not God's wrath? No, no, no. All right.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 anyway, because when the rapture happens, I don't remember the details. When the rapture happens, the people left on Earth, it's bad news because then the Antichrist comes.

Speaker 1 Yeah, then all the plagues start happening with localists and all that kind of stuff. So you don't want to be around then.
Also, also the 66-year-old.

Speaker 1 The 666 part of it is the bad part because if you get that number, it's just like, dude, you fucked up. What do you mean if you get that number?

Speaker 1 If you get it tattooed on you, it's like, oh, dude, you fucked up. You have to go to hell now.
Even if you believe in all God and rapture and stuff. Yeah, you can't get that number.
You got to escape.

Speaker 1 What if you got 999,

Speaker 1 but you didn't count on, you didn't put the line

Speaker 1 and you were just like, God,

Speaker 1 this is emergency number in England. 999.
999.

Speaker 1 999.

Speaker 1 999. What's emergency? 999.
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Speaker 1 What's going on then, love?

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Speaker 1 We're back. Hi.
Hi. Hi.
Hi. Hi.
Guys, I'm still, we were talking about houses. I'm still dreaming about the house.

Speaker 1 Oh, that in my dreams that I own. Oh, you're dreaming.
Wow.

Speaker 1 That I own, that I never go to. Wow.
For some reason. And then for some reason, I'm like, oh, well, let's just go here.
I own this place.

Speaker 1 And we go in and it's empty, but it's the same house all the time. It's in the same place.
Something's going to come of this, and it's going to be something

Speaker 1 sinister oh like in the movie sinister no or you're going to move and it's going to be that house and you're going to be like whoa on earth

Speaker 1 yeah i don't like this yeah i think that'd be interesting

Speaker 1 i think that'd be really cool but why do i keep dreaming about this one house that's what i'm wondering you need to see a psychic

Speaker 1 yeah yeah you need to are you psychic at all kind of just well let's figure it out yeah

Speaker 1 i think you're gonna i think is what i feel and what i see is that you are going to eventually sell this house okay You might not think that right now, but something is going to come in your life that is going to make it very clear that you need to sell this home.

Speaker 1 And when you do, you're going to be a bit rushed and you're going to move kind of quickly. And your realtor has, you know, it's going to all fall into place really, really well.

Speaker 1 And when you move, you will see that the new house has elements from what you're seeing. I'm getting a call from my other psychic.
Oh, okay. Hello.
Here's it, Scott.

Speaker 1 This is Scott. Yeah.
Yeah. This is me, the psychic, Joe.
Oh, hey, yeah. I hear you want to tell me what you think this house is all about.

Speaker 1 Uh, so you're still dreaming about the house, right? Yeah, I'm still dreaming about that. Yeah, pardon me.
This is just gonna be one second.

Speaker 1 Okay, yeah, so uh, basically, what it means is you're gonna move out of the current house you're in, yeah, and then uh, it's gonna be a rush, you're gonna be like putting shit in boxes, and you're gonna be like, oh no, I don't know what this is, I don't have time to sort through it, just pack it, and then uh, you get to the new house.

Speaker 1 Uh-huh. Sorry, I have to go.
Uh, I'm sorry, I'm just getting a sense of that. I just think you should hang up because I'm gonna have to leave.
I mean, or you can keep talking.

Speaker 1 No, no, I just needed a second opinion on this psychic thing. If two psychics think the same thing, then it's actually going to happen.
Okay, so what I can't hear. You're still there.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'm still here. Yeah.
Okay, sorry. This all lines up with the person who gave me the first opinion.
Oh, great. So he's saying something.

Speaker 1 He says the exact same thing. Oh, that makes sense because that's exactly what's going to happen in your life.
Right. Yeah.
But then when you get to the news. I'm going to end the scene here.

Speaker 1 Why don't people get a second opinion from another psychic?

Speaker 1 You know, I think a lot of people don't want to break the spell. You know what I mean? You do it with a doctor.
That's so funny.

Speaker 1 If people truly know what's going to happen, two people will know.

Speaker 1 Is it because then they would realize there's no such thing as psychics? Maybe. They don't want to ruin it.

Speaker 1 Oh, have you seen Paul T. Goldman? Yes.
No, and I need to watch this. I don't even know a thing about it, but I keep hearing about it.
Absolutely watch it.

Speaker 1 I was reluctant to watch it, but I'm glad I did. I don't know anything, but I have heard it's good.
There's a psychic in that. Yes.
No spoiley.

Speaker 1 No, I won't spoil anything about the psychic, but it's interesting.

Speaker 1 But this all reminded me talking about this, reminded me of that article I sent you guys the other day based on a previous episode of discussion we had about hypnotism. Yes.

Speaker 1 Now

Speaker 1 teach the controversy. So

Speaker 1 just to just to back up a little, we were talking about how I tried to get hypnotized in a show when I was young and it didn't work, but I pretended and I went along with it and I raised my arms like they were light as a feather and there were balloons on the end of my fingers and it was really and I didn't get picked for the show and I was secretly glad because I was just faking it.

Speaker 1 And some people have said, you know, some people have replied, oh, yes, this is what those hypnotism shows are. They just find the most extroverted person and everyone is faking it.

Speaker 1 And that's so weird. Good theory.
Yeah, it seems accurate.

Speaker 1 Then after we did that episode, find the most extroverted person and everyone is faking it. Yeah, everyone's faking it.

Speaker 1 So just find a person who will like go along with it and do the acting like a chicken and stuff like that.

Speaker 1 So I wasn't extroverted enough, I guess. I got to work a little harder.
But

Speaker 1 this article came out called, I faked my hypnosis during therapy and then lied about it for years.

Speaker 1 I know. This is fascinating.
It's a great title. And it's literally this woman, right? It's a woman.
No, it's a fellow named Patrick

Speaker 1 Wakter. I know you would think it would be a woman because lying is something that.

Speaker 1 No, I thought, I thought when I skimmed it, there was a psychic word.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I thought it was a woman too, but I just looked down and it's this guy, Patrick Wakeder. Is he a doctor? He's a BuzzFeed contributor.
I'll tell you that much. Thank you for your contribution.

Speaker 1 One thing that

Speaker 1 I thought was really interesting and I wanted to try with you guys

Speaker 1 is that he wrote that there's a little test that hypnotists will do to their to see if you can be hypnotized. If you're more likely to be able to be hypnotized.
Susceptible.

Speaker 1 So you roll your eyes back. What is it? Roll your eyes back in your head and close your eyes.

Speaker 1 And when you do, if your eyes come back. So if I look at you and I'm only seeing your sclera, sclera, a white part of the eye, well, that's got to show me your sclera.

Speaker 1 No one has ever seen my sclera. Then that means you're more likely to be hypnotized, but if your eyes kind of come back, you are less susceptible.

Speaker 1 Okay, if your eyes are just in place when you open your eyes, no, like you roll back and close your eyes. And if your eyes don't roll, if your irises are physical.

Speaker 1 So let me just do what you asked me to do, and you tell me if I okay. Roll your eyes back and close your eyes.

Speaker 1 I see, I feel like you had a lot of iris.

Speaker 1 I had too much iris? Like, let me show you. Like, the Google.

Speaker 1 See what happens when I do it. Okay.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay. No, I just see Sclara.
Sclera for days. Oh, wait.
So I'm supposed to keep my mine open? Like, you're supposed to roll back as far as you can and then close your eyes. Okay.
Okay.

Speaker 1 Here, here I go. And so there's a lot of people.
I see what you doing it has made me realize. Well, what you're doing.
Okay,

Speaker 1 we're about to do it. He's rolling his eyes back.
I can't even roll his eyes. I know you can't.
I can't do it at all. So you're not, that's why you're not hypnotized.
Let me try it. Okay.

Speaker 1 What happened? It just looks really funny.

Speaker 1 It's so

Speaker 1 what I were doing. What happened? Did I went back?

Speaker 1 I still saw your iris while you were closing your eyes. But you got pretty far.

Speaker 1 But some people can't roll their eyes. You got pretty far, but that means they can't be hypnotized.

Speaker 1 Supposedly, according to Patrick Wamuku, who wrote this article. Well, I don't know.
Let me talk about this article.

Speaker 1 Let's talk about this article for a second because just to sum up. By the way, when I saw the eye,

Speaker 1 I think Lauren said there's an eye roll test, and I thought it was like

Speaker 1 if the comedian, if the hypnotist tries to hypnotize you, and you're like, come on, dude.

Speaker 1 Okay, I can't imagine. If he sees Sclera after he introduced him,

Speaker 1 telltale sign.

Speaker 1 Yeah. So this person.
Slara. This person.

Speaker 1 Sclara.

Speaker 1 This person went to a hypnotist because he was having a lot of mental anguish, the lingering pain of a divorce, a lot of anxiety. Oh, I thought he failed one of his own quizzes.

Speaker 1 And he went to get hypnotized and essentially paid for three. You got to pay for three sessions, I think, in advance.
And it was a lot of money.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 he went to the therapist. That would make me suspicious right away.
I know. They say, well, if you're going to do this, you have to do three.
Yeah, it's nothing.

Speaker 1 Interesting. And paying attention.
There's nothing you know you're going to want. Like, you know, I feel like a lot of beauty things will have you do that.

Speaker 1 Like, oh, if you're going to do this, you should do six sessions and you get this discount and blah, blah, blah. And then it's like, at the end, you should have to do it.

Speaker 1 Well, what if I don't know if I want that? Yes. But if I'm missing out a discount because I haven't tried it yet.

Speaker 1 For me, the issue, and I think the real person who does hypnotism brings this up halfway through is like, this hypnotist was saying, oh, and we'll delve into past lives, which to me is like, oh, you're not a serious person at this point.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 So, and that's what the, anyway, so, but, but this guy, this guy goes in, he does the first session, pretends to be hypnotized it doesn't work he's awake the entire time says at the end like oh that was really good yeah uh i sure was hypnotized yeah and then the then the second one oh by the way he starts to kind of talk about his feelings first before the hypnotism and the person's like not interested and goes no no no we'll just hypnotize

Speaker 1 no feelings was this a separate person No, this is

Speaker 1 the hypnotist is a separate person from the person being a hypnotist. No, if that's what you're asking.
That is not what I'm asking. But thank you.

Speaker 1 I'm did the did was the therapist the hypnotist or was it a separate it was a it was a hypnotherapy person which is not like you can't be accredited for it so oh and forgive me because i have not read the article because i if somebody sends me a link it goes right in the trash of my mind okay um wow what

Speaker 1 that's an option certainly talked about it for a while was uh what you pretended to have read it right

Speaker 1 i started writing from buzz feet oh okay um did he go to a regular therapist first or was this his first stop? No,

Speaker 1 I think maybe he did. And again, I'm just, you know, I read this a week ago when I sent it to you.
But as I recall, he tried a lot of different stuff

Speaker 1 and finally settled on hypnotism because there were various people who had said like, oh, this really works. Right.
So they were all hypnotists.

Speaker 1 So he found one who said, oh, you got to come in three times and we'll delve into past lives.

Speaker 1 First time they just hypnotized and he goes, he goes, okay, now play this every night as you go to sleep, the tape of it.

Speaker 1 And And then the second time he goes, okay, now we're going to delve into past lives. He still pretends to be hypnotized.

Speaker 1 And then

Speaker 1 the hypnotherapist says, like, okay, now you're in your past life and tell me what your name is. It could be anything.
It could be like a sound, even. And he just goes, like, buh.

Speaker 1 And they're like, all right, buh.

Speaker 1 Like, he can't think of anything. He's on the spot.
He just goes, buh. I'm now speaking to Buh.

Speaker 1 So dumb.

Speaker 1 so so he does the whole thing and he's like in his head the whole time and he's on a dirty couch and going why is this couch so dirty i hope some of the money i'm giving like they clean their couch um and then he squalid comes out of it and goes like oh that was really great yeah wow i was really back there or whatever and then call then the they call for the third appointment he goes nope i'm cured

Speaker 1 um so but here's the weird part the lying about it for years yeah to he lied about it

Speaker 1 since then to all of his friends.

Speaker 1 Like, I did this thing. It was

Speaker 1 saying it really worked. And it really worked for me.

Speaker 1 That's, that is very, maybe that's what he actually got hypnotized to do. I know this thing was to recommend hypnotism.

Speaker 1 I don't know whether it's like, you don't have to tell this story about hypnotism. Is it to seem interesting or is it to seem...

Speaker 1 But it's like, it would be such an interesting story to say, I went to a hypnotist and it was all a lie and I was faking it. Yeah.
Does he say why he lied about it?

Speaker 1 No, he just kind of says, like, I know if you're my friend and you're reading this article and you feel like

Speaker 1 my friend posted an article like that and I found out they've been lying to me that way.

Speaker 1 Wouldn't that be hilarious? I had such a dick. That would be wild.
If you just like saw Buddhist, someone like sends you a link to something your friend said. And we've heard them say many times.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's like, oh, by the way, she's never done that kind of medicine. And like she wrote an article about it.

Speaker 1 It reminded me of Paul's book about how he quit smoking and how like, what if you were still smoking? Oh, wow. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And you tell everyone about that book.

Speaker 1 It's just a weird thing to do. It is so strange.
Also, and I had a totally different idea based on the title of the article. Of what the article would be.

Speaker 1 I thought it was he had a therapist who at some point suggested hypnotherapy and he didn't go under, but then he kept continuing to see this therapist for years and was saying like, yes, you did hypnotize me.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 not that he went around telling

Speaker 1 other people. Yeah, that's the bizarre part.
And I don't think he ever explains why he does it. He needs to explain.
I do think I could have the

Speaker 1 follow-up article with this guy. I definitely see lying to the person and saying it worked.
Because I definitely have had situations like that where I find myself

Speaker 1 in some weird sort of, like, I got like a free Reiki thing. No, and I was like, that was amazing.
And I'm like, I don't know what just happened. The Bug Man of Cypress, California.

Speaker 1 I was in that before. Oh, yeah, I learned all about these bugs.
Just give me the bugs. Yes, the Bug Man, of course.
The famous Bug Man. Of Cypress, California.
But they had them all ready to go.

Speaker 1 But then telling your friends about it. That That's right.
They're saying it worked and that they should do it. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
But in any case, so he wondered, can anyone be hypnotized?

Speaker 1 Anyone without lying about it? Yeah. And he went to a person who

Speaker 1 actually was like, oh, the first thing is like people talking about past lives. That's like quackery.

Speaker 1 You know, that's, you know, he goes, but no, I mean, this is how you actually do get hypnotized. And I talked to some people who.

Speaker 1 have these kind of sessions on tape that they play every night because they have trouble going to sleep. And they go, I have never heard the end of this tape because I'm it, I'm out.

Speaker 1 And he goes, and he goes, well, you know, a lot of that is just like psyching your body into. Do you think it's one of my albums? Oh, no.

Speaker 1 I've never heard the end because I am just out. As soon as I turn it on, I'm fast asleep.

Speaker 1 But a lot of it is just psyching your body into like a meditative state that is good in order to fall asleep in. So, but in any case, so I just want to follow up with that about hypnotism.

Speaker 1 The closest I feel i've allowed myself to get to hypnotism is when i did drunk history was allowing myself to be that vulnerable yeah did you feel that way it was so weird because every time i did it i never felt i think i did it twice i shouldn't say every time i never felt um that drunk during it but i look at it and i'm like i am yeah and i obviously was i was drinking more than i ever would drink and i can get drunk off of very little so it was like but it was more like the situation was so unnatural that like it's like my body was still kind of going like you're fine

Speaker 1 and it's like no and also that's definitely how i've been talking to someone at a party and think that i'm fine and i'm like not is weird but you feel like you were more like in a traumatic i blacked out oh so i had no recovery

Speaker 1 because i feel like i definitely watched yours did you like fall over at some point in your couch and like no i didn't like i did not fall over mixing you up with somebody at one point i did have like a little apparently a little nap because i think it was after i was done and they were like they left the camera on like so you see people packing shit up and everything packing up equipment and everything yeah I'm just peacefully it's actually kind of sweet

Speaker 1 but it was I've only watched it once I feel like I want to watch it again because it was so shocking to see myself like that yeah but that's why I did it yeah was I wanted to be like that because I didn't know what was going to happen yeah and I was like I just want to give myself over to that experience it was really fun yeah and like I ended up having to do shots when we did it because like he set up a game game where we were doing like water or vodka shots where it was roulette.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. And I ended up getting vodka so many times.
I never do shots.

Speaker 1 And I'm, I mean, so it's like, I know that I was, but it's, I think there is that part of your body sometimes when you're drunk that's like telling you everything's great. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's why you're going, you're having great conversations. That's why it's so fun to drive.

Speaker 1 Oh, driving drunk is the bad. I remember that show is very safe, by the way, where they

Speaker 1 have to drop a wheel. They have a nurse.
Well, they have a nurse there.

Speaker 1 Yes, they let you take the wheel if you ask them nicely. Oh, the PA took me.
If you drive yourself, you're absolutely allowed to drive yourself home. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And they gave me pizza.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 so the next day, I did not remember the pizza. Pizza Turtles? Jeez.
No, pizza was the only thing I remembered. Like, I remember doing it, and then I don't remember anything.

Speaker 1 You woke up and you're like, I had pizza. And then I remember being at a table eating pizza.

Speaker 1 I don't know how I got there.

Speaker 1 And I was saying the next day that I was emailing Jeremy Connor the next day saying, What happened between this and this? Because I remember at some point I was, I just was gone.

Speaker 1 And then I remember eating pizza at this table. And he said, Yeah, you were fine and you did this and you passed out for a little bit.
And then we gave you some pizza.

Speaker 1 And you kept saying that the pizza wasn't good, but it actually was very good.

Speaker 1 It's going to be rude, too.

Speaker 1 But I sort of remembered saying, This pizza is terrible. And I kept eating it.

Speaker 1 Oh, I hate it.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Wow.
That's fun. That's fun.
Well, you know, you can do drunk history when you're not on camera. It's so funny.
Yeah, just tell Jeannie an old story.

Speaker 1 That feeling of that drunk, like not where you blackout. Should we do drunk freedom? Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 We just tell the same stories.

Speaker 1 It would be the worst. If we had like a party and then like we went and recorded a podcast in the middle of it, that would be so cool of us.
That would be so cool.

Speaker 1 Everyone would kick our ass. I feel feel like I've only ever seen you drunk once.
Really? Yeah.

Speaker 1 It was at a Christmas party. At Scott's.
Yeah. I recall that one.
Oh, I remember this. Yeah.
And you weren't like drunk drunk, but you were just

Speaker 1 like, yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. I showed up drunk.
That was part of it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And you left even drunk.

Speaker 1 Free drinks.

Speaker 1 Oh, no. You walked out on the table.
Oh, shit. You owe me $300.
Oh, my God. That's a lot more than I expect.
I was talking with friends about, you know, when you're younger and you're drinking a lot.

Speaker 1 And that, I remember that feeling of like, when you get too drunk and you don't want to be drunk anymore, it's just like, I'm just going to get you. No, that's the worst, especially

Speaker 1 when you're young and you don't really know the experience. And everyone has to take care of you.
I haven't got

Speaker 1 it. That night, I think I did throw up.
Oh, you're right.

Speaker 1 But it's been a very, few and far between. I've barely ever had that.

Speaker 1 Remember a New Year's party over at Brian Plusane's and Dave Rath's where I got so drunk and then we all walked to Denny's for some reason. Well, and

Speaker 1 that actually is the the next part of the story when you say Denny's so drunk. When I say for some reason, I mean, meaning it was too far away.

Speaker 1 Oh, that's also, we did a high school musical and then we walked to Denny's afternoon. Yeah, oh, yeah.
Or Baker Square.

Speaker 1 It was too far away, but we just decided to walk there and it hit me how drunk I was when I got to the Denny's. And I immediately went into the bathroom and just like threw up and retched.

Speaker 1 And I was like,

Speaker 1 and I just stayed in the bathroom on the toilet for, and I fell asleep and like,

Speaker 1 wow and then people had to come in and be like are you okay and then like I know Dave everyone's still got pancakes and sort of yeah yeah I mean I like he kind of came in was like you're okay you're okay yeah you're okay buddy um and like sort of took care of me and I remember being at uh uh patton oswald's bachelor party and

Speaker 1 uh I took some drug right before it and

Speaker 1 um I was at his bachelor party and like a big knight came in no Eddie Pepitone as a knight came in or something I can't remember what happened but I was too fucking high. Medieval bachelor party.

Speaker 1 And I, and we were, no, we were at a steak restaurant. Forsooth.

Speaker 1 That would be one of the most confusing things if you were really fucked up and then that happened. I was really fucked up and I started getting very paranoid.

Speaker 1 And I was like, felt like I was being judged by everyone there. And horrible.
That's the worst kind of high anyone ever ever. And I remember David.
David Cross was next to me.

Speaker 1 And I was like, oh my God, David's. And I've always felt judged by David Cross in certain ways, right? So

Speaker 1 that's not familiar to you, that feeling? Weird.

Speaker 1 But, and he's great. You mean Carmel?

Speaker 1 What? Eminem?

Speaker 1 I thought you said Ian Carmel.

Speaker 1 So do you mean Carmel?

Speaker 1 Yeah, Carmel. No, David, David's great and, and, and very nice, but I, for some reason, I felt like I couldn't tell him.
And I remember telling him. He'd be the perfect person to tell.
He was. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Actually, because I told him and I said, I feel really weird. I'm way too high.
I don't know what's going on. I don't feel good.
I feel really paranoid. He's like, hey, it's okay.

Speaker 1 Everyone feels like that. And like, talk me down.
And I was just like very appreciative to him. Sweet.
Yeah. Yeah.
I do think you've told us that. I just have to say that for the record.

Speaker 1 First time I'm happy. I'm happy.
But I'm drunk now. Look, I don't remember anything you've said.
I've just at the end, it vaguely, I vaguely go. Okay, so I've told this twice then.

Speaker 1 Will you remember it the next time we play Threedom Trivia? Yeah, how does it start?

Speaker 1 How does it start?

Speaker 1 Bachelor Party, yeah.

Speaker 1 I, The first time I did ecstasy, I remember. Was this last night?

Speaker 1 I had this bill from 1994, and I've been saving it.

Speaker 1 Time to drop my bean.

Speaker 1 Drop my bean. Is that what it's called? Isn't that what, like, the

Speaker 1 fish terminology? Yeah. Oh, okay.
I should know this. My brother likes fish.
You should know this. Yeah.
He's a pescatarian. Drople your bean.

Speaker 1 Drop the bean. Drop your beam.

Speaker 1 I it was.

Speaker 1 Should I say people's names? This is so long ago.

Speaker 1 I don't know. I guess just don't.
I was.

Speaker 1 Unless we ask. Oh, no.
Say them all and then we'll bleep them all. So we can know.
Oh, we can't bleep them. It's really not.
It's actually not important to the story. Okay.
But I just remember I...

Speaker 1 We were at a friend's house and we were going to go to another friend's birthday party, which was at the HMS Bounty. What's that? Oh, yeah.
It was a great bar. It's a bar in like Koreatown.

Speaker 1 On Wilshire, which is sort of nautically themed. Yeah, but it wasn't that much.
It wasn't like a Korean bar. It was, it was in a hotel.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And it was like, it was nautical themed and sort of English seeming, but it was in the middle of Koreatown. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 the brass monkey was also like decorated like a shit. I guess it was, right? Yeah.
Anyway.

Speaker 1 And so I. Brass monkey.
We were all going to do, there was a group of us, like, I think four of us that were going to do

Speaker 1 ecstasy before we went to this party.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 so we, we took,

Speaker 1 we took the pill. It was illegal back then.
I'm a dark. Now you can do it as much as you want.
Illegal. Illegal.
You have been branded illegal. Illegal.
You shall be taken away.

Speaker 1 And so we did it at my friend's party.

Speaker 1 Just in case we ever tell anything

Speaker 1 incriminating. We have a cop.

Speaker 1 I'm speaking into a little button on my arm. Illegal.

Speaker 1 So we all take it. And then I'm sitting there and,

Speaker 1 you know, nothing's happening. And I'm like, I guess it's not, you know, it's not going to happen for me.
And then at one point, I said,

Speaker 1 I feel weird.

Speaker 1 And,

Speaker 1 you know, my friend, we had one person with us who was not on ecstasy. And she said, weird, how? And I said,

Speaker 1 I don't know. Like, I might be sick.
And she goes, well, why don't you go into the bathroom and

Speaker 1 see how you feel?

Speaker 1 And so I went in the bathroom and like, I, I put water on my face. And then I looked in the mirror and I saw my pupils were gigantic.
And I was like, oh,

Speaker 1 hi. I'm on drugs.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And then did you feel fine after that? Of like, oh, and I had a great time. Okay, good.
I had a great time. You gave yourself up to the experience.
We went. Yeah.
We went to this.

Speaker 1 We went to this party. And then when we got to the party, it was like weird for us because

Speaker 1 we were the only people that were having this one experience. And we were like,

Speaker 1 we were not the greatest guests at this party because we kept going off by ourselves to talking about touch stuff.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I love this. Fans of this show basically are listening to two nerds talk about being on.
What am I? I mean, you're cooler than us. Yeah.
True.

Speaker 1 I think we're all really cool, and I think our stories are

Speaker 1 exemplary of that. Are they relatable to a bunch of squares? Hopefully.
Well, yeah. Because everyone out there, no, because everyone out there goes, everyone does Coke, you fucking squares.

Speaker 1 So whatever. Do your thing.
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Speaker 1 And we're back. And we're back.
And by the way, one thing I wanted to say is, people give us a bad rap for telling the same stories over and over. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I started the story thinking I'd told it before about the Thief in the Night series. And you guys were like, no, what is that? Oh, of course.
So

Speaker 1 we don't have my fault, half of your story. This is how it is, though.

Speaker 1 This is just life. I mean, I think you tell the same stories as your friends.

Speaker 1 My question is, why do any of you remember these stories we tell? Ooh, good point. Yeah, you should forget.

Speaker 1 You should forget everything.

Speaker 1 Hypnotize yourselves into forgetting everything we talk about on this show.

Speaker 1 I'm constantly saying this. Folks, you got to hypnotize yourself.
You have to. You've got to do it.
This is the world we're living in.

Speaker 1 People tell stories.

Speaker 1 But it's also funny that you won't remember a story until there's one crucial detail. It's like, oh, I have heard this before.
I know.

Speaker 1 All I remembered remembered was the craziest. I know.
I know. Well, that's kind of why that game was really hard where we had questions.
Because I'm not listening to your story.

Speaker 1 I don't have the context at all. I don't know who you are.
Yeah. Yeah.
All right. We're going to play.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I'm trying to think of the rhythm for this three chart because I've done it in improv.
Okay. This is called Bad Rap.
It's submitted by Emma Bradshaw.

Speaker 1 And we basically are going to chant Bad Rap, Bad Rap, Bad Rap. And you're saying it's like the BC Boys.

Speaker 1 I think the chant goes, My favorite shirt. My favorite shirt is blue and red.
Bad rap. bad rap

Speaker 1 well let's just do it like that okay no no it's definitely wrong but I think we should just do it like that because I can't really figure out in my head what it is my favorite shirt is blue and red bad bad rap bad bad rap and then the next person when I'm tired I go to sleep bad rap bad rap so you say a line that would rhyme yeah indeed should rhyme should rhyme but instead you change the last word now my question is does the next person no i think you start over a new you start over a new one okay so you don't have to do the rhyming with sleep would be an extra added level.

Speaker 1 It's a lot. Yeah, and it also makes it harder if you're the random word you throw in is really weird.
Yeah. Okay.
All right. Here we go.

Speaker 1 Bad rap. Bad rap.

Speaker 1 My favorite. I almost

Speaker 1 had a bad bad word.

Speaker 1 I didn't know who was starting. Okay, I'm sorry.
I pointed to you at the last second. Oh, you're going to start.
I'm going to start. Okay.
Okay. Three, two, three, two.

Speaker 1 Bad rap, bad rap. I'm standing at the corner store.
Bad rap, bad rap. When I'm hungry, I ask for less.
Bad rap, bad rap. Drinking water is what I do all day.
Bad rap, bad rap. That's

Speaker 1 man. When we picked this one, I knew that it was going to be trouble for both of us.
Because you want to rhyme. No, because we're just bad at any of this.

Speaker 1 It's, it's both that I want to rhyme, but I also want to put the word at the end.

Speaker 1 Right, right, right. Yeah.
All right. Let's try it again.
Let's go ahead. Okay.
Do you want me to say this? Oh, I'm going to start. I'm going to start

Speaker 1 the rhyme. Bad rap.
Three, two, three, two. Bad rap, bad rap.
My favorite thing to sing a song. Bad rap, bad rap.
You may think I'm right. You know, you are right.
Bad rap. Oh, hard.
Bad rap. I.

Speaker 1 Paul gets us far. Both times with I

Speaker 1 so bad.

Speaker 1 I like it. For me, it's so hard

Speaker 1 to divorce of anything else. Yeah, it's

Speaker 1 a completely new thing. All right, you start.
This is a harder part to me. You start.
You start. This is definitely hard.
No, you start. It could be anything at all.

Speaker 1 This is definitely a hard game. I'm surprised I pulled it off whatever.
All right, here we go. It's really good.
Here we go. Two, three, two.
Bad rap. Bad rap.
Last night I had the strangest dream.

Speaker 1 Bad rap. Bad rap.
When I'm scared, I want to cry. Bad rap, bad rap.
That's why I go to a therapist. Bad rap, bad rap.
Did you ever read Stephen King's It? Bad rap, bad rap.

Speaker 1 You said I would say the missed. Bad rap, bad rap.
Oh, but this is a whole new one. I did a slam line, which is.
I got a figure. Sorry, I'm so sorry.
I like to. Bad rap, bad rap.

Speaker 1 I like to listen to music.

Speaker 1 Can't even do the straight lines? I already said so.

Speaker 1 All right, let me try to get out.

Speaker 1 Bad rap, bad rap. My favorite clothing is my pants.
Bad rap, bad rap.

Speaker 1 When I have a picnic, I see a penguin. Bad rap, bad rap.
Did you ever have a stale sandwich? Bad rap, bad rap. I hate my mom.
She's a stupid hoe. Bad rap, bad rap.
Seriously, my mom really sucks.

Speaker 1 Bad rap, bad rap. I think I look good in a tuxedo.
Bad rap, bad rap.

Speaker 1 Do you know what's kind of amazing about it?

Speaker 1 When you... Because he elongated the actual words.
No, but I mean, it's like

Speaker 1 every line is equally a bad rap because nothing ever rhymes.

Speaker 1 So it's almost like it doesn't matter what was said before you. It's a really good point.
Are we high right now? But it has to matter because it has to be like what you expect the word to be.

Speaker 1 So I think because it's only three of us, it's more, it's less obvious what the what the okay.

Speaker 1 Okay, let's move. Okay, you're starting again.
Bad rap, bad rap.

Speaker 1 I want to go to the beach. Bad rap, bad rap.
Should I have all of them? Okay. Bad rap.
Bad rap.

Speaker 1 One of each.

Speaker 1 Go ahead. Uh-huh.

Speaker 1 Bad rap. Bad rap.
I like a corner. I like a dime.
Bad rap. Bad rap.

Speaker 1 When I'm running late, I take my missed. Bad missed.

Speaker 1 I think I did it wrong too, because

Speaker 1 you're only supposed to swap the one word, right? Yeah. Okay, got it.
Got it. Got it.
So everyone's ready for the word you're about to say. Right, right, right.
I got it. But it has to make sense.

Speaker 1 Okay, got it. All right.

Speaker 1 You want to start again? Bad rap. Bad rap.

Speaker 1 I am looking at the sun.

Speaker 1 Bad rap. Bad rap.

Speaker 1 I was like, I finally hit on one

Speaker 1 long after I was supposed to start. I was like, son? What rhymes are sun? Yeah.

Speaker 1 I finally got one. Then I was like, I had nothing to say about it.
Yeah. I'm really sorry.
That's a good breakdown of what happened, though. Yep.

Speaker 1 That's what the mind goes. Behind the three church.
Okay. Well, are we doing it again? Or are we done? Let's do it.
No, no, let's do it. Okay.
Who wants to start? I'll start. Bad rap.
Bad rap.

Speaker 1 You know, I love my sweet little doggy. Bad rap.
Bad rap. Bad rap.

Speaker 1 The weather outside is kind of misty. Bad rap, misty.
Bad rap.

Speaker 1 I went to a concert show. Bad rap.

Speaker 1 Bad rap. When my friend asked me, I said, okay.
Bad rap. Bad rap.
I like to look at a picture frame. Bad rap, bad rap.
My lion here is very fierce. Bad rap, bad rap.
Seriously, take a look at my lion.

Speaker 1 Bad rap, bad rap. If you can't see it, then you're not even making an effort.
Bad rap, bad rap. Bad rap.

Speaker 1 What do I do when I don't know what? Bad rap, bad rap. I think I'll go poop out of my penis.
Bad rap. Bad rap.
So it's like something is wrong with me.

Speaker 1 I got a phone call on my phone. Bad rap, bad rap.
Please go away and leave me beat. Bad rap, bad rap.
Seriously, please don't call the cops. Bad rap, bad rap.
I'll see you at the top of the charts.

Speaker 1 Bad rap, bad rap.

Speaker 1 I am leaning in my chair. Bad rap, bad rap.
Bad rap. I took off my hat and I didn't find my ears.
Bad rap, bad rap. Some people say that the sun is hot.
Bad rap, bad rap. And I am lying.
No, I'm.

Speaker 1 Yes, I am. Bad rap, bad rap.
What am I going to have for dinner? Pizza. Bad rap.
Bad rap.

Speaker 1 Yeah, pizza's hard.

Speaker 1 Why do you, you always set me up with. I'm sorry.
Always. Always.
Ever since we started this podcast, you always set him up with a papa. This is every time we play bad rap.

Speaker 1 Paul and I need to go to podcast couples therapy. I'm going to be the therapist.
Okay. That seems healthy.
Okay. Go ahead and say what you said.

Speaker 1 So we do this

Speaker 1 free trip, which is a game. What? You're playing a game?

Speaker 1 Am I playing a game? Are you playing a game? Will you just listen to what he's trying to say? All right.

Speaker 1 This is serious. This is serious.
This is serious. I can't pay attention because I can't hear what either of you are saying ever.
I think.

Speaker 1 I don't know. This is

Speaker 1 something about me and how I can't hear you. And I just want to talk.
And I feel like. I can't be your therapist.
Why do we pay for three sessions in advance? You had to do it. Wink.

Speaker 1 What? She's gone. She left.

Speaker 1 Bad rap. Bad rap.

Speaker 1 She winked and then was gone. Bad rap, bad rap.
I hope you like my little diddy. Bad rap, bad rap.
I went to the zoo and saw a horse. Bad rap, bad rap.

Speaker 1 When my friend asked me how it was, I said it was fine.

Speaker 1 Bad rap.

Speaker 1 Bad rap.

Speaker 1 Sitting inside a cardboard box. Bad rap, bad rap.

Speaker 1 I like that little red-tailed

Speaker 1 otter.

Speaker 1 Bad rap, bad rap. When I asked if I should, I said I otter.
Bad rap, bad rap. My favorite show is Welcome Back to That Old Teacher.
Bad rap, bad rap. If you go outside, you'll see the sky.

Speaker 1 Bad rap, bad rap. Don't ask me when you say if you should

Speaker 1 do

Speaker 1 it, that's how you wear it down, folks. That is how often does it end like that? Not with a bang, but with a wood boom.
That feels right. That feels right.
That feels right. That feels right.

Speaker 1 Well, listen. Thank you all for listening.
Listen.

Speaker 1 Look. Thank you all for listening.
We love that you do it. If you would like to hear advice versions of the show, you can go do so at StitcherPremium or at cbbworld.com.

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Speaker 1 And write to us at FreedomUSA at gmail.com to send us a three church or call us at our phone number lauren what's the number again the number is and the number goes a little something like this

Speaker 1 424-252-4678 and that is hag claims eight and it's in the episode notes in case you don't remember a good way to remember it is like it's there's not the number one at all and there's not a number three at all no but there is another number nine but there's everything in between

Speaker 1 a one or a three or a nine so here's how you remember you got four two four just remember four two four okay so just separate

Speaker 1 actually just remember the one and then just remember two five two

Speaker 1 and then after that you go you think it's gonna be five six seven eight it's four six seven eight the the mnemonic device is four two all you have to remember is four two four because remember four two four leaves into

Speaker 1 five two two five two two five two yeah they go together like so remember four two four leaves into two five two five two because that actually makes sense and then instead of five six seven eight you're doing four six seven eight but let's say you're going four two four two five two five two

Speaker 1 No, no, no. 5-2.
4-2. 4-2.
4-6-2. Stop.
Stop.

Speaker 1 5-2.

Speaker 1 Stop. Stop.

Speaker 1 4-6-7-8.

Speaker 1 There you go. That's your name.

Speaker 1 So easy to remember. So, thanks, everybody.

Speaker 1 We love you.

Speaker 1 We'll be back next week with more of this bullshit. Yeah.
Yeah. Hypnotize yourselves.
Bye.

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