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All right, we're back. We're halfway through

22:38

the questions. Eight down. Eight down, eight down.

22:41

Current score is Jill4Me3. And

22:43

we didn't get the omelet one. Yeah.

22:46

Okay, okay. That one belongs to the

22:48

community at large. I am, I'm still a

22:51

little shook by that. I literally never get

22:53

anything else in my omelet, but that's fine.

22:56

Okay. Mushrooms felt right.

22:58

Mushrooms felt right? No, they didn't.

23:00

They really didn't. But also, avocado

23:03

to me doesn't go in the

23:05

omelet. It's topping. And

23:07

so I was stumped. Yeah, to be fair,

23:09

I don't want warm avocado. But it's not

23:12

about what you want. It's about what I

23:14

want. I don't think you want the warmth

23:16

of the avocado. Honestly, we

23:18

got it right. You were wrong. Yeah, my order, I'm

23:20

not saying the order is perfect, but it is my order. It's

23:23

not like it's put on top or on the side. Yeah, I mean, I

23:25

deal with the world. You say put the avocado in my omelet.

23:27

I don't say anything. I say you choose

23:29

three ingredients. You say hot slices of mushy

23:31

avocado within the egg. I guess I don't.

23:33

The one thing I say is that I

23:35

like the home fries crispy. Okay, now,

23:38

Jillian, what size shoe am I? Oh,

23:41

that's hard for me, 11? Correct.

23:44

My size as well. So you would have gotten that one

23:46

for me. I

23:49

think Amir would have known that as well, because we

23:51

do share shoes. So Jillian five, me three. Yeah, I

23:53

gotta catch up. But you're catching up. How many continents

23:56

have I been to? Okay, North

23:58

America, obviously. Was

28:00

there that story too, was Sarah holding

28:02

a heel? No,

28:05

that's the Jacob Neesaw. That's

28:07

the Neesaw. They came

28:09

out like a human chain, one delivered the

28:11

next. Right. No, Sarah was choking Eliza. Yeah.

28:13

Exactly. All right. So it's six to five.

28:15

Yeah. You need to get one wrong so

28:17

I can steal. Jill, what

28:20

brand of underwear do I

28:22

wear exclusively? Para Thieves.

28:25

That's nice. That's correct. Wow. I really didn't think you

28:27

were going to get that. I do too. And

28:32

I don't know how you like it folded.

28:34

So I just sometimes guess and then I

28:36

wonder if when I'm not looking, he refolds.

28:39

OCD style. Yeah. I know. I have

28:41

got better about. Because you voice fold

28:43

boxers in half. No, you

28:46

like them long. I, yeah. No, I fold them.

28:48

Do you like them with the folding crease on this left

28:50

side or the right side? I'll answer the next question so

28:52

don't give it away. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Amir.

28:55

Yeah. What was my daily

28:57

Starbucks order for eight years?

28:59

Steel. Grande

29:04

sweetened iced coffee and

29:07

warmed up butter croissant. Correct.

29:10

Do you know that? Well, he missed the

29:12

half and half. Well, I put half

29:14

and half in myself. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

29:17

Okay. So you try. But I don't know if

29:19

that matters but. I mean, I would have. The

29:21

swirl, the one swirl. I would have accepted. Remember that

29:23

swirl? Needs this. Yeah. Needs to

29:25

sort of get shaken. He goes shoot. With

29:28

the new in the new

29:30

post COVID

29:32

era Starbucks with

29:34

the mobile order. They

29:37

take I think they've taken the cream off the

29:39

counter. So you can't do it yourself. You have

29:42

to trust them to do it. Trust them Nizala.

29:44

Yeah. Starbucks

29:47

took a page out of sugar. Jill's

29:49

still up one right? Yeah. Seven to six. I'm

29:51

running out of opportunities here. What is my all-time?

29:54

Favorite drink. In

29:57

old-fashioned. water.

30:00

I cold

30:03

like a cold brew. All time

30:06

gear. All right. All time

30:11

favorite drink. Submitting

30:14

water. I

30:18

do love water. Is that considered a drink or

30:20

you'd like I would have I yeah, it was

30:22

on the table. But I was considering my all time

30:24

favorite drinks because I did think a lot about this.

30:28

Dave Eggers called water the unadulterated soul of

30:30

the universe. If it's wrong, it's wrong. If

30:32

I'm wrong, I'm wrong. It is incorrect. It's

30:35

incorrect. It's incorrect. So this is my opportunity.

30:37

This is your opportunity to steal. There is

30:39

a correct answer. And I think you're going

30:41

to be kicking yourself when you

30:43

find out what it is. Don't look at me like you

30:47

think I care. Oh,

30:51

oh, I

30:53

deserve that. Jake's favorite drink and

30:57

golfer is the Arnold Palmer.

30:59

I see. And I think you are kicking

31:01

yourself. We're

31:07

both concussed and tied. We're finally

31:10

tied. Seven seven with two questions

31:12

left. This is

31:14

your last question. So you could actually so

31:16

seven seven and we both missed one. This

31:18

is question 16 of 16. Yeah, this is

31:20

to win. This is to win it all.

31:23

I'm scared. What if I don't know it?

31:26

Wait, that's unfair. Seven

31:29

to seven. That means there are 14 questions.

31:31

Aren't there 16 total? There's

31:34

one we got both wrong

31:36

the omelet. Yeah. So really

31:38

is a tiebreaker. Yeah. Can I

31:40

just steal it? You

31:43

might have the opportunity. Okay. I

31:45

know it. Okay. What were my

31:48

two feet injuries? And I do need you

31:50

to be specific. Good

31:54

game. I'm

31:58

gonna phone a friend. I'm gonna call my dad

32:00

tell him I know the answer. I

32:03

get it wrong. You

32:07

fractured slash broke your

32:09

calcaneus which is your heel bone.

32:12

He's good. He's good. Then on

32:14

a hike in Hawaii that I was at

32:17

you slipped and got turf toe.

32:19

Turf toe. And those are your

32:21

two feet. It wasn't

32:23

just turf toe. What? It's

32:26

a torn ligament that

32:29

led to a surgery

32:33

for his bunions. A torn

32:35

ligament. It was a turf

32:37

toe. Yeah. It was misdiagnosed. Yeah misdiagnosed

32:39

too. It was actually a torn

32:42

ligament in my fifth metatarsal.

32:44

Yes! No!

32:48

A torn ligament in your fifth metatarsal?

32:50

What is that? What is that in

32:52

sports? By a mile. No. I would

32:56

never. I urge you to reconsider. I will

33:01

say that. Oh technicality. Technicality.

33:03

So you thought by a mile

33:06

you held up your fingers in a really

33:08

tiny. Well in this auto

33:11

order. Did I win by a technicality?

33:14

This is the it's the VAR review and I

33:16

can't have this game decided by VAR. Oh. I

33:18

think that you I think I would call what

33:20

has happened here largely a tie. Basically

33:24

I think. But you're still really pissed about the omelet

33:27

to a place where maybe. You said you

33:29

fold my laundry a lot because I actually

33:31

do a lot. Yeah that's true. I

33:33

wouldn't say. A major folder. What's a

33:35

lot? How does he fold his omelet? So

33:39

there's cream cheese, mushrooms. I wonder.

33:41

Okay. And water on the side

33:43

for dipping. We can we

33:45

can settle this the same way that we settled. Basically

33:48

I think Jake is a troll who

33:50

doesn't do his own laundry. It's my

33:52

portrait. I know you touched the car

33:54

four times. Agent tomorrow's on repeat. Agent

33:57

tomorrow. And one of the Lord of

33:59

the He's just tapping the door with

34:01

four fingers, tapping the door with four fingers. Hitting

34:04

the clicker. Hitting the clicker. We're

34:06

gonna settle this the same way. Tiebreaker.

34:08

You guys are gonna go back and

34:10

forth naming my friends from high school.

34:13

Whoa, an old

34:15

fashioned tiebreaker. Yeah, whoever can't

34:17

name an old

34:19

friend. Old friends. Here

34:21

we go. Who wants to go first? Eddie.

34:27

Mike Carnell. Jeff

34:30

Rosenberg. Let's get these. The

34:33

classics, actually. Dave Rosenberg. Okay,

34:35

Christine Remar. Lynn.

34:39

Nice. Nice with the

34:41

Lynn poll. Very good.

34:43

Jamie. Jamie,

34:49

of course. Christine, yeah, Lynn.

34:52

Eddie, naturally. Eli

34:55

Hutchinson. Incredible.

34:58

Incredible. Freeze

35:00

me up to say Steve. Steve,

35:04

that was perfect. Great. Love

35:06

Steve. Ian

35:11

Rupp. How do you know Ian

35:13

Rudd? Ian Rudd, yeah. That's really close, I'll

35:15

give it to you for sure. Ian,

35:18

nice. Where are we, where are we,

35:20

where are we? Joe

35:24

Winnick. Good, good work. And

35:26

his brother, Matthew Winnick. Joe's

35:30

brother's name is Alex, and

35:32

I wouldn't accept that in Michigan or

35:34

something. Yeah, but he's definitely,

35:38

I wouldn't say that counts as one

35:40

of my high school friends. You

35:45

also called him Matthew. So,

35:48

you're shaking. This part of the game has

35:51

a lot of tension. We're really thinking. I

35:54

feel that. And specifically

35:56

high school. Right. I'm

36:03

just like going through my mind of all these like former

36:06

holiday parties or people I've met at

36:08

bar or something and they're

36:10

just like, hey, and then I leave and

36:12

I'm like, who's that? And Jake's like, friend.

36:15

Do you know one other? I don't have anything. I

36:18

think I was gonna throw in Frank because

36:21

he was in the crew. Yeah, right,

36:23

Del Servo for sure. Okay. Frankie

36:25

Del, you're out. I didn't

36:28

have it. I didn't have it. There it

36:30

is. There it is. Frank.

36:33

There it is. Fucking Frank. Frank,

36:35

she wanted all with Frank. You know, I

36:37

would have also accepted Nate. Nate was up

36:39

there. Oh yeah, I played basketball with Nate.

36:41

Yeah, yeah. This is where the

36:43

brain would have had to keep, you know.

36:46

Well, great work. Wow, good question.

36:48

Great game. Great game. Wow, that

36:50

was exciting. This is like, what

36:52

was that? Two hours or? That

36:54

was nine minutes. I'm sweating. I

36:57

have 30 more questions. Who

36:59

knows me less? Beautiful. Now

37:01

I'll read a poem for you guys. That's nice.

37:05

Wow. I like that

37:07

they both came down to the tiebreaker. Yeah. I

37:10

asked Jeff Rosenberg yesterday for high school

37:12

names, thinking that it would come down

37:14

to the tiebreaker. No, no way. I

37:16

didn't know Ian Rupp or Rudd or

37:18

Eli Lutchen. Really?

37:20

I was like, why did it?

37:22

That's wild. I just knew you

37:24

would ask that. That's incredible. And

37:26

that actually. And it still wasn't enough. No,

37:30

but I think in that way, he

37:32

knows you so well. I knew what

37:34

questions. I didn't even think about this

37:36

game till like walked into the room.

37:38

Really, Jeff should have given his four names. Did

37:40

you know Lynn? Lynn

37:42

was part of the list. It was Lynn, Christine, Eddie.

37:45

They were at my wedding. And then those two people

37:47

that I didn't know. Right, okay, so yeah. But like

37:49

cheating for your heart. Like you really

37:51

wanted it. Yeah. You wanted

37:53

the win. Frank and fucking Joe,

37:55

I didn't know those. I'm

37:58

Jay Coddal, you knew Jay. Oh yeah. I

38:01

had those but I was also like

38:03

I should save them until you were

38:05

like throwing out some man. Yeah, I

38:07

was gone I was done. Yeah, I was

38:09

really I want to see Jeff's list. I

38:11

think it was just those four guys I

38:14

didn't know. Yeah, and you thought that'd be

38:16

enough. Yeah, plus Jeff and Dave and Mike,

38:19

right? Yeah I mean how many

38:21

friends can what person have I mean I was struggling

38:23

to I was trying to

38:25

think of them at the same time Once you guys

38:27

got Steve, I was like, who else is there? Because

38:31

I wanted to make sure but then yeah, yeah the other

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Remember back yeah, you're left

39:58

with a trophy. Yes She

40:00

left with that W. The

40:03

omelet question was such a debacle that

40:05

I thought you were gonna forfeit her

40:08

instantly and on the day. We

40:10

were, that was our first fight. Yeah.

40:12

Yeah. What I saw there was a nasty.

40:14

It was, that I've never sourced. It was

40:17

tension. It was all coming out. Yeah.

40:19

Yeah. That was obviously about all the shit.

40:21

Water was not your favorite shit. Water, it's

40:24

kind of interesting because she won but it

40:26

felt like she lost. I'm definitely, looking

40:28

back on it, I only remember the ones I got

40:30

right. Yeah. But she walked away

40:33

quite easily in the tiebreaker. Yeah. Unfortunately,

40:35

like you, I think

40:37

you missed some layups and you got

40:39

lucky with some guesses, but like. It

40:42

all balanced out at the end. If you would hit those

40:44

layups, if you would hit the ones that were easy, like

40:46

the whiskey one, I really think was. Yeah, Bullet I should

40:48

have known. Yeah. I thought you

40:50

like graduated from Bullet and now you like

40:52

something else. Yeah. Yeah. And it's true and

40:54

it's planted. But I wouldn't have expected

40:56

you to know that, which is why Bullet

40:59

was accepted. Acceptable too.

41:01

Yeah. Okay. But we have for

41:03

the last segment, another sort

41:05

of weird game that I invented. Right. This time

41:07

I get to play. Yes. So

41:10

Jake's going to be doing a spelling

41:12

bee. Yeah. But there's a wrinkle.

41:15

It's as he's spelling the word

41:17

letter by letter, I'm going to be spelling

41:19

a different word in between his

41:21

letters. So Jake's not only

41:23

supposed to get his word correctly, but he's also

41:25

supposed to listen to what word I'm

41:27

spelling in between his letters. Kind

41:30

of hard to explain, but you'll

41:32

see it on the day. So

41:34

Nicole, do you have

41:36

a word for Jake to spell?

41:38

Yes. Okay. Restaurant.

41:40

Why yes. Restaurant. Oh, okay. Solid. So now I'm

41:42

going to be thinking of a word with roughly

41:44

that many letters, so that as

41:46

he's spelling restaurant, which you have to check to see

41:49

if he's doing correctly, I'm going to

41:51

be spelling a different word that you have to listen

41:53

to me spell. Okay. Hold on, don't get

41:55

there yet because I'm thinking of a word that's, because

41:57

it has to be that many letters as well.

42:00

Um. Uh. This

42:04

is the heart of the game. OK,

42:06

yeah. Ready? Yep. R

42:09

C E O S M T.

42:13

A U U T. R

42:20

E A R and

42:24

T. Did

42:27

he spell it correctly? He did. You. I

42:31

thought you were spelling company. Comp

42:35

compare. No. Come. C

42:41

O M P. It

42:47

ended with R. Come

42:53

car. Computer. Oh, nice. Computer.

42:55

Computer. OK, give me one. Now I

42:57

want to try. So, Nicole, give me

43:00

a word. And then Jake, you'll spell

43:02

a different word while I'm spelling the

43:04

word. Financial. That's

43:08

really good. All right. OK, it's hard

43:10

to close your eyes is cheating, I should

43:13

say. Just out of that rule. Closing your

43:15

eyes is cheating. Too much concentration.

43:17

Just look. OK, financial. Ready? Yeah.

43:20

F A I B N

43:22

A A I. N

43:26

L C A I

43:29

B A L L C

43:32

A I B A

43:34

L L E. Are

43:37

you done with your word? Yeah. Viable.

43:43

Did him get his word right? He did. He

43:46

got mine wrong. It was available. It

43:49

really is hard to talk and listen. Yeah.

43:51

I'm also not sure I spilt available. It

43:54

was definitely it wasn't viable

43:56

because I started with that. All right. You should do

43:58

this at the fucking script. national spelling bee.

44:00

Let's trip these 11 year old brothers. The

44:03

judges should be able to. Interject L. L.

44:05

Oh. Oh. Like

44:08

when you're counting something and someone's behind

44:10

you. 19, 20, 19, 20. All right.

44:13

Give me one more nickel. We got to get it

44:15

right. Definition. Oh, this is going to

44:17

be impossible. OK. OK.

44:24

D. R. E. A. F. D. I.

44:31

And F. I.

44:39

U. T. L. O. L. And

44:43

did I even get mine right? Yeah.

44:51

F. O. R. It's

44:55

funny, we only hear like the beginning.

44:57

Yeah, at the end. There's like, yeah,

45:00

referendum. Rageful, rageful.

45:04

Nice. Yeah. Asshole.

45:06

All right. One last one. I got to get

45:09

one for the fucking culture. I can't walk out

45:11

of here a three time loser. Surrender.

45:15

I'm dead. I'm

45:18

dead. OK. OK. Hold

45:20

on. Let me think of something. OK.

45:24

F. S. U. I. R.

45:27

T. R. U. E. A.

45:33

N. T. D. I. E.

45:35

O. R. N. Correct.

45:39

Situation. Correct. Yes. Another

45:43

advice cast. Each have

45:46

different than the last.

45:51

I got lucky because I I sort of I

45:54

was going to say S.U.R.R. without

45:57

listening. That was right. So I'm

45:59

just. and then only listening to you. And

46:02

then I'll have to spell the rest and hear

46:04

what the last few letters were. So I was

46:06

like, S-I-T-U, I'm like, it's gotta be a situation.

46:08

It's gotta be a situation, yeah, that's good. I

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was afraid you were gonna get, I was like,

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it seems like, I wanted to think of an

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S word because I wanted to sort of mess

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you up at the beginning, but you did the

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perfect counter strategy, which is don't think about spelling

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my own word. Yeah. All

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right, what a fucking episode for the

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history books. Two great games. Two great

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games. I think you're listening. I

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want it better than the last. Yeah, exactly. Thanks

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for watching, if you're watching on YouTube. We're

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also on Patreon, patreon.com/J-A.

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Checking out classic Jake and Amir episodes.

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That's right. Strolling down

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memory lane. And we'll be back,

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I guess, on Monday. Find out.

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With the brand new segments. Let's do

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it. Every day until we retire from comedy.

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