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386: Circumcision (w/Nic Rad!)

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Jake Hurwitz, Amir Blumenfeld, Jake And Amir, Guidance, Advice, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Comedy, Relationships

4.95.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Friend and father Nic Rad is on the show to talk about difficult decisions, pop music, and of course, ladders.

And if you see this in time, come hang out with us in Chicago! HeadGum Live is coming June 14-16 at Thalia Hall! Get your tickets here.

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0:00.0

This is a Headgun Podcast.

0:30.0

This is a Headgun Podcast.

1:00.0

This is a Headgun Podcast.

1:31.0

Okay. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Did you know what that was a parody of? No. Oh, no.

1:40.0

I guess it sounds like a Beck thing. Do you really not know? No. Oh, I was being sarcastic

1:46.0

because it's a very popular song. Do you know Old Town Road? No. Yeah. What are you talking about?

1:51.4

Sorry. Not even know if you guys are doing a bit together or if you're not doing a bit really.

1:57.2

Absolutely not doing a bit. What the hell are you talking about? Wait, Nick, are you doing a bit? No.

2:01.2

No. No. No. No. No. First of all, Nick Rad is on the podcast also not knowing what Old Town Road is. Yeah.

2:07.2

Old Town Nick. Was there a whole thing where I shouldn't have talked until? Oh, no. That's okay.

2:11.2

We're actually notoriously bad at introducing growth. Cool. Cool. Wait. Both of you don't know what Old Town Road is. No. No. Why do you laugh?

2:21.2

Are they like, everyone knows who this is? It's embarrassing that we don't. I don't know. I feel like you guys are joking.

2:26.2

But I'll just explain it to you if you're not. I'm not. I'm enjoying this way too much. It's bothering me. Who sings it?

2:36.2

I'm having an episode. I really am recording an episode. Yeah. Have you heard of Lil Nas X?

2:48.2

Lil Nas, not me. This is killing me. It's like when I'm at home for the holidays and my little cousin is just grilling me on the latest and I get nothing.

2:58.2

When you said Old Town Road, I thought it's like some kind of like Bob Dylan Beatles-esque thing that I really should have known. Like you're supposed to have a bass or a work.

3:07.2

But then you say Lil Nas X. I'm like, oh, I think this is just because you listen to top 40 in your car on your commute. This song is so overwhelmingly popular.

3:17.2

It's like you guys not hearing about hotline lines. Well, it's popular on the radio right now. It's popular. It has several hundred million views on YouTube.

3:26.2

Today's the number one. This is like, this came out recently enough. Because that to me sounded like if you were like, who is this a parody of, I would have said Kid Rock.

3:36.2

Like that was like the vibes that I was getting. Yeah. So it's a rapper named Lil Nas X. And then he made a remix featuring Billy Ray Cyrus, an actual country musician, Miley Cyrus's father. Have you guys heard of Miley Cyrus?

3:50.2

I mean, who am I talking to? I've heard of both Cyrus's. I've heard of both Cyrus's. So the remix has, it came out on YouTube two months ago. It has 181 million views.

4:00.2

I assume that everything on YouTube has 181 million views these days. We were talking about it in our company Slack this morning. Lil Nas X, the horse in the back, the kids singing along. We're already talking about the iterations.

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