Episode 74 — Kumail Nanjiani, Our Close Friend

[Casaba 5942]

 

 

RIP "Ummm, ACTUALLY, that's gross" The official catchphrase of the Hollywand Handbook Forum.

 

Gone too soon

 

Oh shit! I forgot about Um, actually, that's gross. We can have more than one catchphrase right?

[chanson 9697]

Does anyone on here know who Tom Friedman is?

 

 

Yes.

 

Ugh.

 

He won a Pulitzer though...

 

I shouldn't be so harsh, sometimes what he says about world affairs is interesting. Not very groundbreaking, but interesting.

 

Edit: Unless that's not your thing. Then it's probably not interesting.

[Joe McGurl 8358]

Dear Sean or Hayes,

 

Will one of you guys be on my podcast? The premise is this: I told the boys on the football team that I have a really hot girlfriend and now senior prom is coming up and they're all expecting to see this really hot girl. Also, I told my parents that they could meet her at dinner before the dance. So would either of you guys be willing to come on my podcast and pretend to be my girlfriend? I'll drive you to the dance and pay for dinner and everything. It would be funny if you showed up in "THE dress." That would definitely score some points with my dad because he thinks I'm gay and I'm not but I've never had a girlfriend and am too scared to ask Stacy Giovanucci to prom because obviously she's going to want to go with Kevin Olimpio and how can any guy compete with him? Anyway, shoot me a text or you can answer on here and we'll work out the logistics. Thanks in advance

[SteveH 11126]

This is actually my podcast, I'm happy to answer any questions!

 

I have a question. Is it canon? My story about the first day on set of baby grandpa. I think so, but you're the expert.

[NoahTomaszewski 2768]

I mean, is there really any point posting now if you can't get a like from JMonsterface ? Do you think he will cave soon?

 

New competition --- get JMonsterface to like your post !

 

Presented without comment

 

 

[A Bear 1813]

Welcome to my cool guys list.

 

*Smirks, slips shades on but misjudges a little and pokes his eye out*

[marshall mellow 1671]

 

Presented without comment

 

 

 

But this was from before he stopped giving likes right ? I'm trying to lure him out into liking again, just for giggles.

[NoahTomaszewski 2768]

Oh I didn't realize he'd stopped liking. I guess that makes those all the more valuable

[marshall mellow 1671]

Yes, he stopped liking for now and so of course I immediately thought how fun it would be to play with this !

 

JMonsterface .... I know you're reading this. What's it gonna take ?

[greggy 15909]

The pretzels were nice greggy but I think I fucked up the boiling part, Swedish baking soda probably doesn't have enough pretzel units to work good. So they did not end up photogenic enough

its possible i wasnt clear what kind of pan i meant in the instructions, i meant something kind of shallow. if you're using something bigger like with 10 cups of water use 2/3 a cup of baking soda

[dixon 5920]

The pretzels were nice greggy but I think I fucked up the boiling part, Swedish baking soda probably doesn't have enough pretzel units to work good. So they did not end up photogenic enough

Thank god you're ok. When you didn't come back I assumed you forgot to put the car in park when you were kneading your dough.

[dixon 5920]

its possible i wasnt clear what kind of pan i meant in the instructions, i meant something kind of shallow. if you're using something bigger like with 10 cups of water use 2/3 a cup of baking soda

Ya, I ended up using way too big of a pot for the amount of baking soda I used, I realized afterwards. Mine still came out yummy, but not quite as pretzely as I had hoped. Next time ima make it rain baking soda.

[greggy 15909]

i will revise the instructions

[RanRan 3242]

 

Haha! That might be a weird conversation. Also, I haven't talked to them for about a year, so who knows if they remember me. They used to play with my husband Paul's band Primitive Hearts a bunch. But Primitive Hearts broke up and Cool Ghouls got more popular, so we don't see them much any more.

Oh, I've heard such good things about Primitive Hearts! That's too bad they broke up.

[greggy 15909]

k i fixed the instructions, you can use the original doc still or if you printed it out write on there "use 1/3 cup of baking soda per 5 cups of water"

[dixon 5920]

you da pretzel man

 

 

this is beautiful ^

[Casaba 5942]

 

Oh, I've heard such good things about Primitive Hearts! That's too bad they broke up.

 

That's rad that you've heard of them. You can still download or stream if you wish: http://primitivehearts.bandcamp.com

[Zsinjeh 1677]

yeah pretty much, first I had too small a pot, then too big, and then a large pan which was juuuust right.

also unrelated: if you casually dump a load of sodium bicarbonate into a pot of boiling water things get real interesting real quick

 

Well, you know what they say about Swedish baking soda. "Mmm...BORK-BORK-BORK!"

 

(That's a quote from the Muppet Show, which is a television program that we used to have in the United States. I hope it isn't offensive to you.)

(nah it's cool, I actually grew up in Connecticut in the late 80's to early 90's so I'm all about dem Muppets and Flintstone Fruity Pepples but I haven't figured out yet how to get the most likes out of that backstory so keep it on the downlow)

[SteveH 11126]

Not that there was ever a question, but, the fact that there is recipe sharing on this forum cements it as the best ever.

 

Hollywood COOKbook?

[SteveH 11126]

Potential recipes:

 

Official popcorn gallery popcorn

 

Gmail roulades

 

Teaser freezer pops

 

Eh! Foo wrong

 

 

[SteveH 11126]

Fil-Hayes MigSean

[SteveH 11126]

With a Davenport wine reduction

[A Bear 1813]

A Clementine

[Zsinjeh 1677]

points

[Toby Keith Sweat 1000]

18 pages?! jesus. i'd better put on a pot of coffee.