GASLIT BY A GAS LEAK Ft. Good Children, Joe Hegyes & Andrew Muscarella | The Comment Section ep. 119
Summary
Joe and Andrew from Good Children join me to talk about the origin story of their hit podcast, Good Children, and how they came up with the idea to create it. We also talk about how they met and fell in love with each other.
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Smacking asses. I would never understand that on a field. I smack him an ass all the time.
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And sometimes they really get in there, girl. And I'm kind of like, you were kind of like,
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oh my god. I was like, well, what about me, you guys?
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Hey everyone, and welcome back to another episode of the comment section show starring
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me, your fave. Everybody knows me. Who cares about me? On to the guests. Today we have
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the iconic duo, the legendary, the hilarious Joe and Andrew from Good Children. Woo!
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Woo! Welcome to the pod. Thank you for having us. My twins. Me and my sister Jason, this
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is our twins. It does feel like family. It's us in a different universe. We're variants
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of each other. Yeah. We would have had a TLC show growing up. Yeah, totally. The four
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of us together. Yeah, growing up as quadruplets. Quadruplets? Yeah. We're literally the parent
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trap. Stop. With Lindsay Lohan. We're not sisters, we're quadruplets. We're playing each
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other's twins. Actually. I'm so happy to have y'all. Oh my god. We go way back. Yeah.
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We do. We do. We were just chatting. 20 years. Catching up. 20 years. Yeah. We met when we
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were just children. Four years old. Four years old. Because now I guess we're 24. We're all
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24. We're all 24. Well, we share a manager, first of all. Me talking as if we're not being
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recorded and people know us. Yeah. So we share a manager. We also share vibes and DNA, clearly.
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We look so much alike. And remember when Phil was like, what was he saying? How old
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we were? Or you were. Oh my god. Phil was telling, I believe, you guys that we were
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around. Like, our manager was describing us as around, like, the 23 to 24 range. I just
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graduated college. Yeah. So young. So beautiful. And, I mean, we're up there. We're 28. We're
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28. The fact that he thought that we were that young. Right. Like, we worked in offices for
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a bit. For a couple of years before this. Our lore is extensive. Yes. Yeah. Here's
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my resume. First of all. Well, I adore both of you. That is not a secret. I've sung your
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praises everywhere. Thank you very much. But y'all have a very successful and hilarious
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podcast called Good Children. Yes. Which we love. For those of them in the audience who
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don't know, like, how did you guys come to start Good Children? What's the genesis of you
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guys? You know, I think it just comes down to delusion. I think it comes down to, we've
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been, we've actually met when we were four years old. Period. We've been friends for
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now 23 years. Three years. And a half years. Yes. And still together. Yeah. Somehow we
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live together. Like Bert and Ernie. We are this generation's Bert and Ernie. But one day, I
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just feel like you kind of took the plunge. Yeah. We were definitely, listen, I think we told
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you the story before that there was a gas leak that was happening in our apartment and we
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were being gas lit. Oh, no. Oh, I never told you this? No. That we were being
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actually. So like, everyone's like, oh, stop gaslighting me. Remember that time I
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told you we were being poisoned? No. For a year? So actually, the people that say that
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they've been gas lit, no, you haven't. You have no idea. Yeah. No, I was gaslighting
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you. No, we were being gas lit for about a year in our apartment. We were just like
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smelling this gas and out of nowhere we were slipping into some mania. Okay. And
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whenever we smelled it, we would just look at each other and be like, no, it's supposed
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to smell like gas. It's not you gaslighting each other. It's about the gas. We should
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smell a little gassy at all times. Our friends came over and they'd be like, they would sleep
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over. They're like, that was the best sleep I've ever had in my life. We're like, yeah,
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you knocked out, girl. But so. Carbon monoxide. That'll do it. Literally, we slipped into
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delusion and we said to each other, like, what the hell are we doing with our lives? We're
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working corporate jobs. Like, this is not what we wanted to do. We wanted to entertain
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people. And we were sitting on the couch having about a three and a half hour conversation
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about Rebel Wilson. It was Rebel Wilson. It was. Any particular thoughts or just going
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over her lore? It was extensive. What was the movie? It was that movie. It actually honestly
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like falls back into the Good Children universe. It was the movie where she plays like herself
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going back to high school. Yes. Yeah. And we didn't even watch it. We just had like a
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full feature like conversation about it, like about the trailer. And then we're like, put
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a camera on us. Yeah. Let's just talk. And we posted a clip to TikTok and the rest is
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history. Girl, one thing about me, I'm going to yap. Well, professional yappers. Professionally
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yappers. Yeah. The three of us. PhDs. Yeah. From Yapp University. We're truly, I know,
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sometimes I think I'm like, what was I talking about? Like, I'll talk to my boyfriend. I'll
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start something. I'll end up, I don't even fucking know where. But there's no better
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feeling. Right? Than being like, I just talked for two hours straight. And I couldn't tell you
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one. They were really cohesive thoughts. It just like took you on a journey. How did we end up
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here? I'm crying. I literally would like, I started a, this is not a joke. Like with my
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boyfriend, I was like, I forget. I was telling him about something I saw on Instagram, like
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something ancillary stupid. Of course. I'm like, oh my God, I didn't even tell you what I saw the
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other day. And somehow I ended up talking, like I'm talking for an hour straight. Like he has not
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interrupted me once. He's just listening. Yeah. I ended up talking about the Chinese Imperial
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Army. I don't know how I got there. And I literally got there and I was like, what was I
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talking about? And then he was like, you said something about Instagram. I go, oh, right. So
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and so got married. Can you believe it? And then he was like, oh, he goes, that's what you were
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trying to tell me. I was like, yeah, I got off track. My bad. That's doing a podcast. And that's
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kind of like how, you know, you found the one. If he's going to listen to you speak about the
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Chinese Imperial Army, if he'll listen to a Patreon episode at random. A full Patreon
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episode. And he'll sit and he'll look at me and he'll be like, oh, that's nice. And then
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he goes, what were you telling me? I'm like, oh, right, right, right, right. Oh, you weren't
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paying attention. Y'all know you have a podcast. Sometimes when people ask me or they're like,
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oh, I think I want to start a podcast or whatever. I'm like, I don't know. Not many people can
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talk for that long uninterrupted. Yeah. Like just like bounce for that long, like 50 minutes
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straight. And nothing, again, nothing brings me more joy than hearing yourself talk.
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Yes. Me too. Going back to editing that, I'm like, this is perfect. This is the best content
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I could have. I know. I watched our episode together on 2D Girls and your guys' episode
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as well. And I was laughing like I'm not there. We were cracking up. Crying. That was crazy.
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I was cracking up like it's not us. The story about Jason running away was sending me to a
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different planet. Like it was crazy. I don't know if I've told that story, but just for a
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synopsis, like Jason is not a going out girl. Jason's my sister. She doesn't enjoy going out
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as much as I did, especially when I was in my thought days. I was like, I'm going out
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when I was a city girl. And just long story short, I took her out on New Year's Eve.
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And then at 12.01 on the money, she was like, I have to go home immediately. And I was like,
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okay, we'll just chill because we'll go home in a little. And I turned my back. She was gone
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for like 10 minutes. And then I find out she's running home physically. Like she cleared
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And then she got tired, laid down and went to sleep. And then was brought back to me by
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I just put a TikTok in my story the other day of someone was like, it was like a boyfriend
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and girlfriend and they're both drunk and they're walking home. And he's like, this is how you
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handle each other's drunk. Like, cause he's not a runner, but she is. And so he lets her sprint in front of him. And then he's like,
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then I yell, stop. And then she stops at the end of the road and waits for him to catch up to her.
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And then when he tells me, he's like, as long as I can see you, you can run. And then I'm going to tell you when to stop.
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But imagine drunk. You're killing two birds with one stone. You're having fun.
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Yeah. And you're like invincible, like bulletproof.
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Literally, it's like two drinks in and I'm just side smirking the entire night.
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People have said Andrew looks like Debbie Ryan in the face.
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That little clip of her doing that interview where she's like.
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I sat down with the president of Disney Channel and I said, we're going to make history.
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Like, I tell people I'm going to join them on plans.
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They're like, can you send me the 5K that I just put down the deposit?
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When I was in college, I promised one of my girlfriends.
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And the next day she was like, remember you said you would go with me?
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I've been advised to not speak on that matter without a lawyer present.
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I'm going to need to plead the fifth on that one.
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I ended up going and it was for an act called Knife Party.
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But I ended up going because I promised I would.
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The idea of a rave in general would give me a panic attack, but calling in a knife party
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No, literally, it was, we went so late, like, late when I'm a millionaire's old.
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So, like, we go, someone's already been on for a couple hours.
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What will the change be that dramatically at Knife Party?
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They need to have, like, those little cots for people to, like, sleep a little bit.
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They have to have, at Coachella, we told y'all this, how we know this.
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But they have that tent where you can go and work space out.
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And honestly, they should have them everywhere.
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I frequently say, I'm like, sometimes I wish I just had somewhere I could go in and just
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scream really loud and come right out and go to work.
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I actually can't believe I had locked this memory.
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But they had these racquetball courts that I thought were soundproof.
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So I would get the racquetball and be like, yeah, I'm going to go upstairs, you guys.
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And I would hit the fuck out of that ball, screaming on the top of my lungs, getting anything
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I needed out and walk out like no one heard me.
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Someone, one of my friends was like walking by and they were like, we heard someone screaming.
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But it is a beautiful thing to be able to scream out.
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One time my boyfriend and I were like arguing, we weren't like screaming at each other, but
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And I like went back in the house and I was letting in Adam, like my cousin, he's my hair
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And he was like, dude, I was listening to some guy and he's like fighting with someone
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And I wasn't even screaming, but I sounded angry.
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As soon as I come out here to get you, it stops.
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Whoever they were talking to is probably being an asshole.
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So y'all said that you met when you were four years old.
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Immediate spirit connection between the two of you.
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We were in a Hard Rock Hotel pool in Orlando, Florida.
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Our parents then like started chatting because their two little gay boy children are in the
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They lived five minutes away from each other on Long Island.
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We then obviously went through all of our formative years.
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And the continuation of those formative years now in our 20s, almost more formative.
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And like, we need to do Bert and Ernie drag so badly.
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Any event that Joe would host like for high school or anything would always be like a
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costumed event, which made me sick to my stomach.
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I wouldn't get a costume until the day before and I'm like freaking the fuck out.
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You're stressed out because you want to do a good job.
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But it still has kind of followed me into our adult life with the podcast.
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I'm like, what do you mean did I order the costume?
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We're doing Heat Miser and Snow Miser tomorrow.
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Was it the Christmas movie where it's like fire and ice?
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I was like, I look like a possessed Glenn Close.
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Which we can't deny Glenn Close's servitude to us.
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But your Heat Miser always really cracks me up when I see it.
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It's like one base layer of foundation across the whole phase.
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And you guys do your own makeup and everything.
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So you guys have known each other for a long time.
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How do you guys not get on each other's nerves?
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Whenever everyone's always like, how do you guys still like each other?
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I think that it's because it feels like we're related.
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Andrew like grew up almost every single day at my house with my family, like going on family
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So that like level of deep, sick intimacy that you only get with a sibling.
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Well, for a while, we would just like be silent about it because we're both really passive
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I did recently, Andrew reminded me that I one time sent a tutorial on how to put a
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I was like, here, I just want to help you out in case you're confused.
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It was a picture of like a roll of toilet paper that had maybe like one piece left.
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I'm going to provide the image to you because it was literally.
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Like it was so many rolls and rolls and rolls just tossed into the trash.
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I wouldn't say it was tossing rolls into the trash.
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Like normally you're wearing that roll to the bone.
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But for a couple of weeks, I was noticing like a lot of toilet paper being wasted.
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So I just figured rather than ignore it, I would send a graphic with what a full roll.
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But I think that it helped everyone at the end of the day.
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But we've gotten a lot better of like having serious communications now that we're like in business together too.
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Well, also too, like I've talked about this with like Dace and like our friend Caleb Heron, which you all know Caleb.
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But like he's like, if you don't have friends that you like, you're like, hey, okay, I'm going to need five from you.
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I need you to give me five because you're pushing it.
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Like when you get annoyed, you allow yourself to get annoyed at each other.
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That's so funny too because Dace and is extremely passive and I'm not at all.
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So like I'm very like, hey, I don't, that upset me because of this and this.
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She'll literally tell me, I can't talk about this with you.
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And then I'm like, well, we have to talk about it.
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It's like, well, what are you doing for dinner?
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I literally have told Dace like, I know when she's mad at me because she doesn't send me anything.
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Like she doesn't send me TikToks, like funny things, like tech, nothing.
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And then she wants me to call her and be like, hey.
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Especially because we FaceTime like 30 times a day.
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So whenever she's not calling me, not texting me, I know she's mad at me.
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Because we are talking 24, like talking 24 seven about nothing, complaining about something
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And when the communication stream is cut off, even if we're not mad about something, you
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can tell that like something in our energy has been disrupted where we're like sitting
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in the car and we're not talking to each other.
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And since we've been friends for so long, like you, yeah, you feel the energy.
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And then like one of us will eventually be like, should we put on Beyonce?
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Even when I'm mad at my boyfriend, like I act like he can't tell that I'm mad, but
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like, again, like I am constantly fucking talking, even if he's not, like his back
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It's really, really, really bad because when I'm mad at him, I go full day sin.
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And it's crazy that you're saying I'm mad right now.
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And then like two hours later, I'm like, I want to address.
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I feel like it's so, like friendships are so important.
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But especially like, obviously, y'all are two men.
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But it leads into our topic because we're talking about like why straight men are so afraid of
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And I have no ill will towards the concept of straight men or whatever.
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I don't like being around them or in their presence or like.
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Like when one of my friends brings their boyfriends, like except for the ones that I've
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like obviously vetted for years, like a new boyfriend in the mix.
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It's like I've seen a meme where it's like, why does your straight boyfriend have to come
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I feel like you, though, have a better relationship to the heterosexual.
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I think that like growing up in sports, like I always like how to put myself into it and
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like totally get used to it, like talk to them and whatever.
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But if you make me feel uncomfortable, I don't want to be around you.
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Jason's the same way where she's like too many men.
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She's like whenever there's too many men around me, I get really uncomfortable.
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And it's like I feel like people say that like in like a meme-y way.
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But sometimes it's like it's crazy because most recently I went to like a straight bar.
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I feel like I'm only really ever going to gay spaces at this point.
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But I went to a straight bar and I kind of was like, okay, girls, like get it.
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Like I was kind of, I was living for everybody talking to each other.
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But the thing is about Brooklyn straight men, it's like, are you straight?
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They went to the Harry Styles school of heterosexuality.
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Like I had friends come over to my house and like days was over.
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And then he was like, I'm going to go get lunch with my parents.
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And he was like, well, I just think you want girl time.
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You should make sure you lock the door on the way out.
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Even like he's so great about like, I feel like in settings, especially because he never wants
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So even like all my friends are gay, like literally all of them are gay, except I almost said, except
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No, I have like one, a couple straight friends, but they're all, they're girls really.
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It's just, I'm not even, I don't even allow myself into spaces that they would be in.
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And then it gets like, what are you doing later?
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Even like in their closest, like in their own friendships, like, you know how they joke
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sometimes they don't know their friends at all.
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Like they don't even know their birthdays, their star sign.
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So it is nice because like, I think that, again, my, our straight girlfriend's boyfriend's
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fiance's, husband's, et cetera, like, are like a little bit better.
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Like, I feel like they have like a, they have friends and they like know how to be adult
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Which is nice to, like, I love when I see that.
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Like you, like, yeah, like you step out of the house.
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But it seems like just that's, that's the exception to the rule.
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Like, I think it was like, I saw it on the office when he's like, we're not friends anymore
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than people staying in the same hotel are friends.
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Like, see, like my boyfriend, like for one of our friends' birthdays, and he's a straight
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He was like, I think I want to get him a dog for his birthday.
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And he was like, he's been really needing a dog.
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He's been telling me how he's not been feeling well mentally.
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But most of the time they're like, I don't know his fucking birthday.
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If you don't want to talk to your straight male friends about it, talk to somebody else.
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Well, actually, I forget who I was talking to about this.
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But like, when I first started dating my boyfriend, like, he has a brother and he's like six or seven years younger than him.
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But like, he's a good kid and he's really nice.
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But I think a good tell for me was like that they weren't those kinds of men.
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Was that they're very affectionate, even with each other.
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And I feel like even just that, I was like, okay, you guys aren't annoying.
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Of course, they're not going to show it to friends.
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Like, what kind of drinks they're cool with having.
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You know, some men are super opposed to having like drinks with a straw or a fruity fun drink.
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If I get a beer, it's like suddenly I slip into like I'm the straightest man ever.
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I think the grip of like toxic masculinity is like, it's still on our necks, you know?
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But even that, like, there will be times when I'm in like a straight space where I'm like,
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I can't get my little martini or like I have to like play.
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Like, there are certain bartenders that I would not order an espresso martini from because
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So when I think about these like men who have never worked through their feelings, I'm like,
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yeah, of course they're going to like never once take one step out of that comfort zone
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Like, we do it to ourselves a lot of times, but it's also really hard.
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It's really hard to like confront it if you've never even like admitted it, which like they
00:31:45.580
Like, have you seen that video on TikTok that people are like tearing him the fuck up,
00:31:49.280
but it's this guy being like, why is everyone pinning their fingernails?
00:31:51.980
He's like, my dad would have kicked me out of the house.
00:31:54.820
Like you're exposing your trauma and not hearing what you're saying.
00:32:01.940
And then he's like, why are guys pinning their nails?
00:32:18.680
I'm like, your interests and hobbies, they're so boring.
00:32:22.280
I feel bad for women all the time because I'm like, my, my, sometimes, no, like for
00:32:27.960
my straight girlfriends, I'm like, it's brutal out there.
00:32:31.740
Like I'm looking at your hinge and I'm like, that's really sick and twisted.
00:32:40.880
The dating apps really remind me of it because like, truly being gay on a dating app, like
00:32:45.500
it's, I mean, men are men, but like, at least you have something to work with.
00:32:51.580
Like something, like something, like something where you're like, oh, you care about something
00:32:56.900
And then like my straight friends will show me their hinge profiles.
00:32:59.420
And I'm like, this is the scariest thing I've ever seen.
00:33:10.040
And you know what's, you know what's, you know what's worse about that?
00:33:12.780
It probably took him all day to come up with that.
00:33:17.160
But then when they're too good, sometimes the profiles are very good with the straight
00:33:20.280
And then I'm also like, you have to be wary of that because that's manipulation.
00:33:31.120
I know they're, they're wising up a little bit.
00:33:33.620
Like, especially with men who are, like, they take half a step outside of that realm of
00:33:41.920
So they'll paint their nails or they'll like wear a skirt inside the house and not
00:33:47.300
But they'll make sure to record it when they wear it inside the house and then post it
00:33:53.120
And I'm always like, are you wearing them outside the house?
00:33:56.160
You're like, wear them on the subway and then get back to me.
00:34:01.280
Those are the men that I think are far more dangerous because I'm like, you're learning
00:34:07.000
And now you're trying to trick women into thinking you're a good person.
00:34:10.600
They're really, they're getting more and more self-aware.
00:34:15.100
We got to, we got to go back to when they didn't have enough.
00:34:22.680
therapizing language and never going to therapy was like such a curse.
00:34:28.420
You shouldn't be allowed to leave the house or wear a bikini.
00:34:40.900
And I was like, boundaries are not something that strip your partner of autonomy.
00:34:45.760
But a man who goes to therapy simply to learn how to better manipulate women is far more
00:34:53.040
dangerous to me than like an outright awful person.
00:34:56.500
Outright awful dude who doesn't even know his friend's birthday.
00:35:11.420
We stopped talking to each other for the rest of it.
00:35:15.720
I'm like, can you just direct the questions to me and then to go.
00:35:20.180
So we're going to look at some TikToks on the subject of like why toxic streamers are so
00:35:24.980
afraid of having closeness or even like showing affection to their male friends.
00:35:30.200
So this one says the caption of this video is normalized male affection between two best
00:35:36.280
mates and shows clips of two friends hugging, cuddling, one rubbing the other one's feet
00:35:47.080
No, I'm just like, no, I'm just kind of confused, I think.
00:36:10.000
Like, and again, we're like the gayest people we know and like physical affection, even like
00:36:15.740
saying I love you is not something we often ever, ever do.
00:36:19.200
There was like a, there was like a week post a shrooms trip where I feel like we got really
00:36:24.440
like when, when straight men do shrooms and discover empathy, we had that moment.
00:36:30.940
But yeah, but otherwise it's, we've gotten better with that.
00:36:37.220
But I don't think that like, no, I haven't rubbed your feet.
00:36:46.040
We're on the couch and there's like one singular moment where something touches something.
00:36:51.100
I think you're always like, did you catch that?
00:36:54.340
One time me and Jason were on a roller coaster, but it was one that like, that goes up and
00:37:02.100
And we were both screaming and laughing because we were like making each other laugh as we're
00:37:07.340
And then at one point we like went to grab like the handle at the same time.
00:37:11.940
We grabbed each other's hands and then we both went, ew.
00:37:15.720
And then like, we're like not having fun anymore.
00:37:26.800
And then we couldn't stop laughing the rest of the time because we were so grossed out
00:37:35.860
Like, I'm not a physical touch person really at all.
00:37:42.440
So sometimes she'll just come and start hugging me and I'm like, okay.
00:37:55.980
I don't care if my parents like hugging kiss me.
00:38:02.540
Like, if it's like a friend hug, like a consensual friend hug, like we see each other, say hi.
00:38:10.080
And that was spiraling for the rest of the episode.
00:38:19.900
I don't care at all in situations like that because I know that's going to happen, so
00:38:36.880
Like, honestly, it sends me into a rage, which maybe that says more about me than it does
00:39:03.240
Maybe that's a girl thing because I feel like when I brought that up to men, like, they're
00:39:07.800
But when I bring it up to women, they're always like, oh, yeah, totally.
00:39:09.960
I just like, there's something like a removal of your complete autonomy.
00:39:18.780
Like, you know, in high school, people kind of went through these phases where they were
00:39:23.460
And then like, they're like, I don't even know, like men trying to flirt is like picking
00:39:28.560
One time, one guy tried to do that to me and I yelled so like severely that it made it
00:39:40.940
And then I made it not silly almost immediately.
00:39:57.820
Or like, people were telling me like, that's what sex feels like.
00:40:24.380
We were right in like our school's like entryway.
00:40:27.600
And a boy asked both of us to show him our nails.
00:40:56.860
One of my favorite clips of your guys' podcast is when you were saying.
00:41:00.640
I don't think it was something that people knew.
00:42:38.260
I've taught other creators how to find their Gettys.
00:42:48.420
I'm going to read some of the comments on this.
00:43:48.960
I just would never cuddle with anyone besides my boyfriend.
00:44:01.280
But maybe I will say that I've had an experience before with a straight man in college though.
00:44:17.400
But we were two straight bros and he was my best friend and I was definitely in love with
00:44:28.660
I didn't necessarily know it at the time until it was like.
00:44:32.940
Got to a point where I was like I actually need to cut you out of my life because it's
00:44:40.860
We'd be like on the couch like next to each other.
00:44:51.780
It was just like we were like next to each other on the couch.
00:44:58.360
We would like sit on the bed and watch something.
00:45:06.920
It would mentally destroy me for the rest of my life.
00:45:13.140
Because then it would also be like he was very like you're going out tonight.
00:45:19.560
But this is what I'm saying about this video is like who is to say.
00:45:22.660
It could be those two straight bros that are massaging each other's feet.
00:45:24.980
But one of them might like it more than the other.
00:45:37.440
Well actually that's a great time to reference the video.
00:45:44.660
But I feel like that's a gay experience a lot of people have.
00:45:49.220
It's like being strung along by someone who is straight.
00:45:52.880
Like an intense homoerotic weird strange friendship.
00:45:57.260
Straight men do like the literal gayest things a lot.
00:46:08.320
Because it would be fine if they weren't like so like.
00:46:29.600
Like we've joked about this because my brother is straight but he played football.
00:46:35.880
And my brother obviously is raised by mostly women.
00:46:38.420
And so like my brother's very empathetic and very sensitive.
00:46:40.940
And like he's not an awful like toxic masculinity man.
00:46:44.280
But like when he was playing football like he would tell us like he would get really uncomfortable
00:46:52.980
It's like the way they like joke around and stuff.
00:46:58.180
Like men just be pretending to have sex with each other all this time.
00:47:11.060
And I'm kind of like you were kind of like oh my god.
00:47:20.620
You're smacking everybody else's ass butt bide.
00:47:29.720
Yeah he would say like they would like line up and like hump each other.
00:47:37.960
And then he was like it's just so like I don't understand.
00:47:47.340
And then my boyfriend's played football for a long time.
00:47:59.260
And then my dad goes you know like you know guys.
00:48:26.460
They need to get that emotion out in another way.
00:48:28.680
I was like at what point are you kind of like I really love doing this.
00:48:39.020
Showing up to like practice and you're like I'm humping.
00:48:43.140
My favorite part of practice is getting to hump in the locker room.
00:48:54.240
How come in none of those interviews in any sports documentary they don't talk about the humping.
00:49:18.700
What's the most memorable hump you've ever had in the locker room?
00:49:25.880
You're like if you had to pick top three people you've humped in order, go.
00:49:43.780
But like when me and Jason were working corporate jobs and like just had the one of the hardest jobs in the world.
00:49:49.740
We were working this booth and we were handing out like giveaway, like little things to get people to come to the booth.
00:49:57.780
But it was in the shape of a orange like traffic cone because we worked for like transportation.
00:50:02.720
And these kids come up and they're probably like 12, 13, right?
00:50:10.040
And they were like, oh, can we have some of the like little squishy cones?
00:50:17.480
And then he turns around and he goes, and shoves it up the butt three times to the kid next to him.
00:50:23.900
And they both start laughing and they run away.
00:50:49.160
There's so much pent up like rage, aggression and sexuality going on in the male community.
00:50:57.720
And then they, he came, they came back like probably an hour later.
00:51:03.880
And I go, I saw, I was like, I literally, the other one's already up there.
00:51:08.740
So he's like, I actually kind of lost the first one.
00:51:13.980
And he came back and he was like, can I have another one?
00:51:17.280
Cause I saw what you did with that last one and I'm not giving you any more.
00:51:22.440
Bring her over here and I'll tell her what you did with that last one.
00:51:26.440
And then he, and then he was like, and he just walked away.
00:51:34.520
What's the worst job you guys have ever had or the hardest, whether it's worst, hardest, weirdest is one that I signed an NDA for, but it was just in social media.
00:51:50.740
I was an intern at the New York stock exchange.
00:51:52.960
I was working on the training floor and they were like, Hey, Andrew, we're actually like very hungry.
00:52:09.660
They would make me go pick up about eight pies of pizza to bring back.
00:52:13.920
I was getting coffee like, like this, like balancing them coming into the, wearing a suit, sweating.
00:52:33.620
We did clean toilets together for a little bit, but honestly, that was a fun job.
00:52:40.180
But it got to a point where it was like, when you weren't working with me.
00:52:44.160
It was misery because there was this older man, Jerry.
00:52:47.660
He would pick the weeds and I'd be like, Jerry.
00:52:52.680
And I would drive the cart to the bathroom, but I wouldn't go to the bathroom.
00:52:56.860
I would sit in the cafeteria and I would eat cookies and watch Jerry through the window.
00:53:02.100
He's about 80 years old picking weeds on his hands and knees.
00:53:06.400
It got so miserable when I had to watch Jerry do the job alone.
00:53:10.700
There was something about those weeds I couldn't do that.
00:53:14.740
That was a strange job, though, because it was like every day it was something different.
00:53:18.520
It was like being on The Simple Life, but we were 17.
00:53:21.700
Because they'd be like, today you're going to clean out this dumpster that we forgot exists
00:53:33.260
And I was 17 and obsessed with Miley Cyrus and her bangers era.
00:53:37.360
So I would pick them all up and take pictures with them.
00:53:56.400
And we would just go to a tropical smoothie cafe for half the day sometimes.
00:54:00.300
We'd get little things of macaroons and just pop them in our mouth.
00:54:12.720
Basically, there was six orphans that were brought in at one point.
00:54:25.260
And our cubicles were like right next to each other.
00:54:38.200
And I remember when she quit, I was like, wait, why?
00:54:45.520
And she was like, I just can't do this anymore, dude.
00:54:47.500
And I was like, you're going to leave me there by myself?
00:54:56.020
Because now you know you're like, I'm getting out of here.
00:54:57.580
Well, I can't believe I thought I was going to work there without her.
00:55:04.600
It was so silly, too, because the job we had was literally like telling people bad news
00:55:10.560
So naturally, like they're going to fucking hate us like on site.
00:55:21.740
Like we would walk in the hot fucking sun and like go to people's houses and be like,
00:55:25.240
hey, they're going to be power drilling behind your house for the next eight to ten years.
00:55:35.820
Like the amount of times I got cussed out on someone's porch and I'm in my Nike Roaches
00:55:49.560
Because I worked a sales job and people would curse me out all the time.
00:55:58.360
Jason sometimes would have to answer phone calls.
00:56:02.320
And the way that old people will call to ask about construction is fucking insane.
00:56:13.440
Like, literally one time Jason was like, I need to play this voicemail that I had to talk
00:56:18.660
And he like called and he wanted to know what kind of gravel was being used on the 405
00:56:29.940
Like, she had to call an engineer and, like, talk to him and then call the guy back.
00:56:45.340
I remember one time we were walking around the neighborhoods for hours.
00:56:52.340
And we were laughing, like, making each other laugh.
00:56:55.080
And I told her, I was like, dude, I need you to do me a favor.
00:56:58.520
I was like, I need you to throw up so we can go home.
00:57:06.860
Because at that point, Dacen had mastered the art of being able to, like, make herself throw up.
00:57:18.220
And I'm going to be like, I have to take her home because we carpooled.
00:57:35.660
And the only reason she didn't was because we had, like, maybe two hours left.
00:57:40.360
And then she was like, dude, we can make it two more hours.
00:57:43.460
Yeah, she was like, let's use that another time.
00:57:45.800
There's nothing more mortified than actually throwing up and, like, walking in there and being like, hey, guys.
00:57:53.880
They're like, all right, man, whatever you need.
00:57:58.880
And Joe doesn't drive, so he has to come with me.
00:58:26.700
Every day, because then I'll go into an extensive conversation of why I threw up.
00:58:30.180
The amount of listeners are like, Andrew, you should go to the hospital.
00:58:33.680
The amount of listeners are like, Andrew, you should go to the hospital.
00:58:33.720
The amount of listeners are like, Andrew, you should go to the hospital.
00:58:34.760
Every single comment on everything we post is a diagnosis for Andrew, and every diagnosis
00:58:43.360
On this show, on the show of days, they're constantly diagnosing.
00:58:48.240
And it was funny at first, but now we're starting to be like, scale back on the doctors.
00:58:53.360
Like, thank you for saying that, but I'm actually good.
00:58:56.000
Girl, the amount, like, I've told people, like, well, me and Dace have both said, like,
00:59:01.520
Like, I just, like, when they're in enclosed spaces.
00:59:03.780
Like, I don't, I don't like them outside, but, like, especially indoors, like, they upset
00:59:09.520
The amount of people that diagnosed my mental illnesses off that.
00:59:13.500
Girl, the way they immediately were like, oh, yeah, you have this.
00:59:20.840
I was speaking to my therapist for, like, three months last summer.
00:59:24.500
And I was like, all of my, like, YouTube comments are saying I'm autistic.
00:59:30.720
And he was like, why do you even, like, why do you want to know this?
00:59:38.440
I was like, no, but everyone's letting me know that they must be right.
00:59:48.460
But I was like, when so many people are telling you things all the time about yourself, you start to be like, okay, you must have a point.
00:59:55.540
Myself and my doctors, they can make errors with this person.
01:00:14.840
And to be fair, I've never really thought about it, but I've never thought actively that I had ADHD.
01:00:22.560
But then when I talk to my mom and sister, I'm like, actually, I don't know.
01:00:28.620
Because, like, again, like, I'll jump, jump, jump.
01:00:31.420
Like, as soon as I told you, I ended up Chinese Imperial Army.
01:00:35.560
Like, I'll just talk for an hour with no interruption.
01:00:38.740
And I'll talk about three billion things in one.
01:00:42.640
And it's the same where, like, you start one task, and then you go, it takes you into another room.
01:00:47.200
And then you see something else, and you're like, well, I should do that.
01:00:57.740
No, because yesterday you put it into perspective for me again.
01:01:06.220
But any food that comes by, anything, even if I'm having an elaborate conversation with you, I'm somewhere.
01:01:13.160
I'm like, I was like, my neck is, it's almost, I'm getting whiplash, because I'm looking at everything else besides the person I'm with.
01:01:21.800
And Joe's like, huh, do you think this is why you shouldn't go to restaurants for dates?
01:01:27.700
All I said was, make sure you never go on another first to fourth date at a restaurant.
01:01:38.640
No, I was just saying, wait until someone gets to know you.
01:01:42.720
Once they get used to that, then you can go outside.
01:01:45.260
Well, then they'll be like, oh, he's staring at food.
01:01:46.720
But you could be like, is he staring at another man?
01:01:50.600
Because it's fully like zero dead on the molten lava cake where you're like, okay, I'm not even here.
01:01:54.460
Just show them your TikTok comments and be like, well, according to my doctors.
01:02:02.560
Dude, my boyfriend does this thing where he has to smell everything, which I don't know what that is.
01:02:11.340
But he has to smell it, like, no matter what it is, especially if he's going to eat it, which I find odd.
01:02:16.600
And he'll smell it even if he's already eaten it.
01:02:18.540
Is there sometimes, like, a smell and a rejection?
01:02:20.620
Like, if the smell isn't good, you won't have it?
01:02:22.160
Or, like, if he touches something and his hand gets wet, he immediately smells his hand, which I find to be gross.
01:02:30.580
Literally yesterday, I'm not kidding, because he was, like, getting in the car and I think his hand got wet from, like, the rainwater because it was raining a bunch a couple days ago.
01:02:38.940
And then we get in the car and I'm talking and he's like, uh-huh, like, listening.
01:02:43.220
And I see him smell his hand and I was like, why do you do that?
01:02:49.920
And then he's like, how do you not smell things?
01:02:54.060
I'm not a baby putting everything in my mouth to identify it.
01:02:58.660
And I was like, you'll smell food you've already eaten.
01:03:27.760
And like, it just like lingers that sour milk on the top of your lip?
01:03:31.380
But like, sorry your lips are big enough to smell them.
01:03:40.880
You said that it smells when you have a milkshake.
01:03:46.580
It's like one of those things you can't stop smelling.
01:03:53.740
So you have to keep forcing yourself to smell it.
01:04:38.100
Because you guys have been sniffing, haven't you?
01:04:58.800
Like, things that make your breath smell awful, no matter what.
01:05:01.960
One of the things I said was, like, anything with, like, protein shake.
01:05:10.260
I'm like, what the fuck do they put in that that makes your breath so fucking rancid?
01:05:20.040
Girl, I told you what happened to me when I had that ricotta.
01:05:30.060
They were telling me that I paid the piper heavily that morning.
01:05:42.680
That's, like, your trophy of an amazing dinner or an amazing...
01:05:48.400
My asshole's on fire, and you're kind of like, last night was amazing.
01:05:57.840
Like, you know when it's, like, you're paying it so hard, you have to get, like, naked while
01:06:03.480
When the socks come off, it's a whole different experience.
01:06:05.940
Yeah, when your feet have to touch tile or something.
01:06:15.700
It's one of those where you can't even look at your phone.
01:06:26.500
I'll just read this last comment, and then we'll wrap it up.
01:06:45.000
Even if they are, I guess, that's not a problem.
01:06:46.800
Just to refresh, this is TikTok saying this is affection between two straight men.
01:06:51.620
Yeah, like, they're saying that they are two straight men who want to normalize affection
01:06:56.680
for your straight friends, which is fine, but then they're talking about cuddling and
01:07:02.580
I think we should start posting content like that.
01:07:05.500
We should be, like, normalize straight friendships.
01:07:11.800
Next week, you're going to be reading comments on that.
01:07:15.620
You know, if they're massaging each other's feet, who are we to say if they're shagging?
01:07:22.220
Sometimes you have a little, like, muscle ache in your foot.
01:07:27.960
It's actually really sad to think that you couldn't ask your bro to massage your foot.
01:07:35.500
If I needed you to massage my foot, I know that you would.
01:07:52.340
The cuddling, I would say, let's keep that out of the equation.
01:08:02.060
Well, and I think, too, it's like the undertones of it.
01:08:08.260
Like, there is a certain line you cross when you start, like, really showing, like, love
01:08:15.160
It doesn't even really matter how they identify.
01:08:22.300
So, I mean, there's nothing wrong with showing affection to your rose.
01:08:27.740
And we should be showing more affection to our rose.
01:08:32.980
You should be showing more affection to your rose.
01:08:43.760
Other than you saying you smell your lips after you have no shirt.
01:08:52.180
But we did talk about, obviously, your guys' beautiful friendship and now partnership
01:08:57.480
because you all have an amazing podcast together.
01:09:00.280
But I would love to know what your best piece of advice is for anyone who's like besties
01:09:04.960
and maybe they want to go into business together or start a pod or, you know, do any sort of
01:09:11.360
What's your guys' best piece of advice for them?
01:09:13.560
I think that's like trust what the other person has to say, too.
01:09:16.940
It's like I think we do a really good job of like Joe will come in with an idea.
01:09:20.760
I'll come in with an idea and we both hear each other and being like, yes.
01:09:24.060
It's also like when you go into business with somebody, it's like you need to know how to
01:09:34.380
But like when money is involved, like you need to have conversations.
01:09:37.880
You need to recognize what you're getting yourself into.
01:09:40.480
And if you're monetizing a friendship, like you need to have a solid foundation for your
01:09:46.040
Yeah, I also think that that's the main it's like making sure that the most important thing
01:09:53.660
Yeah, because I think that we had like in our first year of doing things like getting
01:09:59.560
I feel like we suddenly were like every time we were together, it was content.
01:10:03.700
And like prior to that, it was like we were together every single day for no reason.
01:10:09.140
So I feel like now we found that healthy middle where it's like, well, listen, we're still
01:10:12.220
going to make that content, but we also need to prioritize like the only reason this exists
01:10:23.840
That's such a good point about separating the two and prioritizing one over the other
01:10:31.100
Like it's like we're sisters before we're business partners, just like you guys are besties
01:10:41.920
I honestly multiple times forgot we were recording.
01:10:47.280
I can't wait to hear this episode because I'm terrified.
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