First Date New City (w/ Amelia Ritthaler and Evan Lazarus)
Exploration: LIVE!
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4.8 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Ideas Covered:
- First date new city
- Themed parties as social service
- My cubes
- Forgot my password on phone
- Do you have any lead
- Real housewives of Schenectady
Guests: Amelia Ritthaler, Evan Lazarus, Girls Rewatch podcast
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| 0:00.0 | This is a headgum podcast. |
| 0:07.6 | Life gets pretty boring when every day's the same. |
| 0:15.0 | Take me on a rocket ship to see the earth from space. |
| 0:30.6 | I'm that extollary, baby. Hi, it's an exploration time. It's exploration life. |
| 0:34.6 | Hey. |
| 0:35.0 | Hey, good morning. |
| 0:36.0 | Morning. |
| 0:36.2 | Exactly. |
| 0:36.8 | And it's up and Adam. |
| 0:38.3 | It is up and Adam. |
| 0:54.9 | This is the earliest we've ever recorded. Maybe. Come on. Don't you think? We've definitely started at 10 before. Shoot. It's like, because we're recording, it's 10 right now. Or it's like 10.30. It's 10.30. Okay. Crap. so it's not looking so it's all falling apart |
| 0:55.7 | but I woke up really early |
| 0:56.8 | would you wake up early for? Eight. Because I was getting my pharmaceutical delivered. Ah, of course. I'm always scheduling stuff for the morning being like, this will be good. It'll force me to be up early. And then there's just like a huge disaster in the rest of my day in terms of how that affects me, the repercussions, the sleepiness later. And then also I'm like, I'm like, that'll force me to go to bed earlier. And then it's like, no, it doesn't. Well, that has to be relentless. Like, it's not waking Up one time early doesn't make you go to bed early night before, but having to wake up early every day. |
| 1:31.1 | Yes. It's like, no, it doesn't. Well, that has to be relentless. Like, it's not waking up one time early, doesn't make you go to bed early night before, but having to wake up early every day, it breaks you. And at a certain point, you're like, I'm going to bed at nine. Yeah, it's like, I cannot do this anymore. Yeah, I actually was thinking my new plan idea for February, doing a February challenge, up at 9 a.m. every day no matter what. Nice. No matter what. |
| 1:47.8 | I think that's great. That would be my dry January. I like that, honestly. I think it's, I think it's good to try as a 30-year-old. Yes. That's right. Give it a shot. Give it a shot. You know what I mean? You never know. See what's happening at nine in the nine o'clock hour. Right. And it could be amazing. I'm so curious. |
| 2:04.5 | Or not. Like, that's right. Give it a shot. Give it a shot. You know what I mean? You never know. See what's happening at nine in the nine o'clock hour. |
| 2:02.6 | Right. |
| 2:02.9 | And it could be amazing. |
| 2:03.9 | I'm so curious. |
| 2:04.5 | Or not. |
| 2:05.3 | We were just talking about this. In my apartment, the light faces east. And so every once in a while I'll see the sunrise, like if I stay up too late. and I'm like, oh my God, it is so gorgeous. |
| 2:16.7 | Like, what if I was starting my day like this? |
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