I really hope they just redo all of the stories from Cumtown without Stav just to repeat the original experiment without the obese control group

Adam always sounds like he’s talking on the phone while laying in bed.

He told 90% of this same story on Cumtown but it’s always hilarious to listen to this experience

The thing about old people literally not knowing how to push a button is 100% true. Boomers might not be digital natives, but anyone older than that grew up in a world where a gas station had a staff of 40 people including a concierge desk with a guy in a tux

Damn the thing about staring in the laser is so fucking heavy haha

Call centers and canvassing jobs turn n burn 3-5 employees a week. Our weird staff dude was a 20-something that invited us all over one night and literally had swords and shields and made his apartment a low-rate renaissance fair. he asked if we wanted to see his capes and we all laughed at him. He quit a few days later. I didn't know anyone who brushed a doll's hair, but there was a guy who would talk to his daughters on the phone and help them fall asleep while there was a California 7/10 attractive coke fiend kneeled in front of him frustrated she has to wait for this phone call to finish before blowing him for blow. I'm so glad I can talk to my best friend and his sidekick that takes half the revenue

the thought of a grown man hyperventilatating as his codependent boss furiously makes a cup of hot cocoa is hilarious.

I actually totally get watching Wind Waker. “I would rather be at home playing video games but instead I am stuck here in this stupid dead end job.”

Nick's description is spot on. 99% of the calls are, 'how do I use a computer/phone/email?'. Basic fucking things like 'how do I double click?'. I had to spend 45 minutes explaining the concept of apps and how an app is not a phone to a customer the other day.

Adam is getting too comfortable. The whole paper bag and eating thing. Mullen needs to get a 3rd viable person so he can bring Adam down a notch.

nicks premonition about looking into lasers and going to a baseball game is considered racist when we're all 80 will come to fruition

Adam not knowing what a Let's Play is is hilarious.

If I hear Adam say “run train” one more time I’m gonna “run train” on my dad

My first job was doing phone surveys. Lasted about 3 weeks but it's a good job to get into as a highschooler just to scare the hell out of you for ever ending up in these types of call center jobs my god! Just a little funny story, I remember the guy I would sit next to was pretty cool and we would talk between calls, he muted himself, turned to me and said "This guy just excused himself from dinner at a restaurant with friends to take this survey" hahahahaha

That guy at the call centre was probably watching DSP lmao

Worked at a soul sucking call center for a while right after college. It was a hell hole and Nick's story is 100% spot on.

Get that man off the frontline, he's got shell shock

People complain about them reusing stories, but this was worth it just for the part about staring into lasers

Adam's "What happened to her... Something bad." in response, IMMEDIATELY, to Nick telling him about brushing the doll's hair, has gotta be the funniest unexpected response I can imagine

This Nick guy is pretty funny. He should be a regular.

now i see where nick learned his patience at dealing with an incomptent cohost

Now the bug is eating in the middle of the fucking show...

I cannot get into this podcast but I want to I return 3 weeks later as a humble man. These guys are great. Their appearance on MSSP is one of the best episodes yet

Adam looks like he calls movies "films" in that Woody Allen cosplay

I worked in a call center for like 7 years with 2 years of that in a "frontline" position which was by far the worst. Nonstop inbound calls for 8 hours straight with small business owners screaming at you because their phones/internet don't work. It's brutal shit that some companies subcontract out to prisons which is cruel and unusual punishment.

I love when Adam pretends to not remember

I like Nick because he admits how low we've all been. You don't have to rub shit all over yourself to know what it is.... but I think I guess i did already

It always takes some sort of social anguish to engineer a great comedian. Glad nick and mark Norman are where they’re at now. Adam too.

This was such a funny moment to see the switch in Nick's head as what Adam said registered 😂

I worked for a defunct (M&I Bank) bank call center years ago overnights. One guy worked a full shit during the day and then he would work overnights. So he'd fall asleep underneath the desk on the floor with the headset and then wake up when a call came in. He was really good at it.

anytime someone mentions Zelda or a call center I always think about these stories hahaha

I'm sorry but Nick is CARRYING this show. Adam is just as entertaining as a bologna sandwich.

I worked at a call center and this stories couldn’t be more accurate

“Are you insane? What do you mean just come to the game?! Are you a racist “ lmao

I worked a call center for 8 years due to the pay (surprising I know). I have become a husk of a human. Jaded, pesimistic and quick to anger.

Adam is the most dainty man of all time

The new meta is rehashing all the old jokes but with a little more context

I once worked at a call center with a dude who had been among the most powerful lawyers in town before getting caught embezzling funds. Dude had to get a shitty call center job to pay that shit back.

I did this job for 2 years. Can confirm everything he said.

Adam knew from memory that David Schwimmer grew up in Beverly hills, he knows what let's plays are.

One of the most popular podcast for years and Adam still eats in mic

I had a call center job working for metro pcs and we would disconnect calls all the time. Imagine getting yelled at by black women for eight hours a day. It was awful. Finally I just started putting calls on hold and reading at my desk. I got away with that for a few weeks then got fired. lol

my boyfriend sent me here

I realize Hollywood is rebooting all the classics because they’ve run out of ideas but this has gone too far

That AI comment Adam made at the end was pretty cool and smart

So now we’re just repeating stories that they already told in Cumtown but with video

"just stare in the laser" LMAO

This is a common experience. I had a guy on the phone ask me if he "should put the password into THIS box or the box that says password"

i worked through my time in school, but one year, for some stupid reason i tried working at this job my buddy suggested. it was a place that sold $1500 vacuum cleaners. they would have us cold call these poor bastards & try to get them to agree to an in home demonstration. we would get so stoned, it was shocking, like pass out on the phone stoned. i literally never, not once single time made an appointment. i was the worst employee, but it was the worst job

I worked at a call center in Austin and had to sit next to this guy who would just all day quote jokes he heard on UPN sitcoms.

I worked for a medical tech company that provided chronic ill patients with medical equipment. Teaching old people how Bluetooth connections work was something else.

I worked with a guy at a call center who had a sleeping disorder and he would fall asleep in the middle of calls it was fn great

2:14 love how much labor nick puts into explaining lets plays

Good ol' Telenetwork, sort of miss those days. I had this guy call that wanted to complain about getting 4 spam emails in the last week. He spent the next 30 minutes excitedly telling me in graphic detail how he was going to murder these people and nuke them to the center of the earth at the I just said "Well that'll do it"

Reminds me of the Yelp days, shoutout all the former Yelp sales crusaders. Brutal job lmao

Adam finally looks 35 in the thumbnail

Oh this is going in a special playlist

I’ve worked at a call center 3 separate times, two of which were at the same place. Usually I make it 3 months with 1 of those being training. The longest I’ve ever made it was around 6 months and that almost destroyed me. I felt bad for the dudes that had even fewer options that me and had been there for years.

1:52 makes me fell like I’m in 2012 again

It sounds made up but the old person not knowing how to push a button and you running them through that is a thing i have to do at least 10 times a week. Blows my mind.

"Just go ahead and unplug the ethernet ca..." "WHAT COLOR IS IT!?!?" "Uhhh... let me place you on a brief hold."

4:29 I think about this all the time and it pisses me off, idk exactly what makes Nick want to be interned in a Chinese labor camp but this is what does it for me. I’d rather have to dig for wild roots and tubers to eat in the wilderness and die of parasites at age 40 than learn to use whatever bullshit new social media is going to be out in 5 years

I work in a call center environment, and I'm about a year away from murdering our clients.

Adam and Nick saying "upwards mobility" in unison warmed my heart

My call center job experience sounds so similar to NIck's. It's a fucked up dance between you and management. They desperate for workers due to the rate of turnover and constant training. You're badly underpaid and overworked. And you find a balance.

Adam “Sounds Like a Computer Thing” Friedland

Weird when I’m several minutes in and start scrolling through the comments only for some asmr to start going on in the background.

Amazing how much more energy nick had just a few months ago. And i thought he was low energy when this aired

This call center must be where Nick got his inspiration for the old man character in his prank calls

a 70 year old new employee last week at our call centre about 2m into his first call was already heard bellowing "YEAH I CAN HEAR YOU, CAN YOU HEAR ME!!!" lmfao sums it all up.

I work for a call center troubleshooting home internet and people really are that dumb and slow. It hurts so much lol

I worked at a call center for 4 years, because of it I developed severe anxiety and not from the customers but by the ones in charge and just being complete dicks and clueless at the same time since most don't understand why the calls would last too long since they moved up food chain like withing a week of being on the floor. worst job ever, but it was the only job I could get that paid 11 an hour at the time.

Oh my god, as my parents have gotten older they have somehow lost the ability to properly use a TV remote control despite having used TV remote controls for over 40 years and it drives me nuts. I can totally sympathize with the call center people. Also, listening to Nick describe behavior I consider totally normal as wacky, aberrant, and autistic was a real pick-me-up.

Phenomenal

The new thing of eating while podcasting is killing me !!

5:29 I’m sorry but, Adam reaching and eating watching Nick talk about the premise to Workaholics was so stupid lol

I have had one of those jobs, probably the easyest job I have ever had, it did suck hearing those chimes so much that i would still hear them at home in the quiet.

Oh cool this story. Again.

I used to go on an email in a very chill call ctr for an hour while going to the pub (it was next to Rockstar North offices so always nerds to drink with

I think this pair of fruits should do a 23 & Me or Ancestry DNA test and then spend several hours riffing on how Irish and Jewish they actually are, complete with offensive accents.

“Oh no what happening to her”

I remember dudes would upload the video game plays & just slap sandstorm darude in the background lmao we would do that as a bit walking around in real life & the cafeteria in college 😅

Had a similar call center job. It was alright before the lockdowns, but once I started working from home it became way too gruelling. I didn't get the catharsis of complaining about all the retards who called in anymore. I had to quit. Couldn't hold out until WFH ended.

I worked in a call center for 2 years and this is 100% accurate, I straight up had a nervous breakdown and quit.

hell yeah this rules

Everyone stepping into a call center gets nauseated. Sitting at your desk watching the seconds tick to the exact minute the first bleep from the headset comes in, then 8 hours of mind numbing misery.

i need to find this call center so bad

This sounds exactly like my call center experience, with the exception of upper management getting it. The work sucks.

4:22 I think about this part a lot.

Nick explaining Let's plays to Adam tickles my 30 year old autism.

My best friend who works in a call centre here in india(medical paper work) described it as a tap. Once you login, the water(calls) starts flowing in non-stop and it won't stop ringing till you logout. You need a shot of whiskey every night to flush the days crap out. People who don't talk will not be able to handle this job.

I worked at a Spectrum call center he nailed it lol

That Wind Waker guy rules

Lol I did tech support. It do be like that. Back then, people that could tell someone to click on the mouse or plug in a monitor were like cutting edge tech guys. Those days are long gone now and I am obsolete .

“What does email mean?!?!?!?!”

I love how every story from nick's life is about how unreasonably nice people have always been to him despite him walking all over them

For a few years, I was getting Mexican telemarketers.. my spanish is so terrible, I could never figure out what they were trying to sell, but I eventually taught myself how to say stuff like "You sound sexy." and after several attempts, I got ONE lady to giggle and say "Gracias".

yea great time to start eating

My most memorable moment from working at a call centre was doing network troubleshooting for a guy who, based on the frailty of his voice, was about 117 years old: "Okay, so you should see a small box with lights on the front with the word "netgear" on the side." "[FULL BORE HARD R N-WORD SHOUTED INTO PHONE]?" "no... Netgear." "*[N-WORD SHOUTED INTO PHONE AGAIN BUT LOUDER]??*" "No, net gear. Like internet gear." "Oh. Okay I see it."

Nick asked Adam if he knew what a let's play was so he wouldn't go "is that a computer thing"