224: Once You Pop & Trackin' Turkeys (with Elyse Myers)
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🗓️ 29 October 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Jake, Gareth and guest helper Elyse Myers help a caller break her husband's popcorn habit. Then, they hatch a plan to fight city hall.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Headgum podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | Weir, yeah, too, out. |
| 0:09.0 | Weir, we're, we're, we're, we're, here, two, two great, We're more to help. |
| 0:21.8 | We're more to help. |
| 0:24.8 | So at least, what's the book you wrote? |
| 0:27.1 | It's called That's a Great Question. |
| 0:28.6 | I'd love to tell you. |
| 0:30.5 | And it's like short stories and poems and cool illustrations and just fun little things about my life that are fun to read. |
| 0:40.2 | Fun. What sparked the desire to write a book? |
| 0:43.3 | I've been writing since I was like 11. And so I wrote a lot of music as a kid and wrote books |
| 0:49.2 | like in my just journals and notebooks and things like that. And then when I got older, I think because it's |
| 0:56.3 | something I've done my whole life, I didn't realize it was like a gift or that people would |
| 1:00.6 | want to read it because you're just so used to doing it. And then I started sharing stuff online |
| 1:04.7 | because usually a lot of my stuff was a lot funnier. And then I started sharing more, not like sad, |
| 1:10.0 | like more serious tonally stuff. |
| 1:12.2 | And people are like, oh, wow, that's actually really good. You know, and someone's like, |
| 1:16.2 | that's actually really good. Like, oh, thank you. And then you go like, how was this stuff before? |
| 1:21.0 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. So have you hated everything up until now or just, you're, that was actually |
| 1:25.7 | good what you did. I've been doing this for 12 years. Yeah, yeah. You don't actually suck that bad. Yeah. Yeah. I thought I hated your stuff, but you're definitely middle. That's like you're not, you're actually pretty. Like, people do that too. I don't look like I just woke up at a bed. They're like, wow. You don't look terrible. I'm like, thank you. The worst is when you shower and they go, what's different? Yeah. Or he slept. Yeah, you slept a little bit? Yeah. And you're like, well, thank you. I took care of myself, the bare minimum. I did the bare minimum. I literally combed some of my |
| 2:01.3 | hairs. Just some of them. The showering admission is a big one, Jake, because that feels very specific |
| 2:06.3 | to you. No, I mean, that's me too. I think I showered. And your thing is, so you started up, |
| 2:12.4 | where'd you, where'd you come out of? What was your journey? I started making content on the internet. |
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