#23.11.25

Question: Define archeology for us.

Dan: I think people are wondering if it's okay to look at our old tweets because in our long hard launch video, we talked about traumatic archeology.

Phil: I think that there's lots of stuff out there like old pictures of us that we've put on Twitter and stuff like that.

Dan: There's a big difference.

Phil: There's a big difference.

Dan: When we were in the closet, it was spooky. Now that we have hard launched, who the fuck cares what Dan Howell tweeted in 2009?

Phil: I think it's kind of a line. If you think to yourself, am I being creepy? It's like if you're digging through every tweet that we've ever posted looking at something in particular.

Dan: Yeah, yeah.

Phil: Or say we've got a new friend and then you're digging into everything they've ever done, going into their Instagram. Something like that.

Dan: Oh, yeah! Stalking other people, period creepy. Going into Dan and Phil's past, I mean, guys, we can't come up for rules for this. If you tell yourself, I've got a tingly feeling that this is wrong-

Phil: Usually, it is.

Dan: -then you have herpes. But you know, some... a picture of Phil in 2010? Girl, that's been there. We've done that.

Phil: That's out there.

Dan: People have already talked about it. So yeah.

Phil: That's fine. Everyone is being pretty like, everyone is chill.

Dan: Big respect for people asking what's respectful. Thank you.

Phil: Big, big respect.

(they didn’t mention he was wearing Diesel)

Question: What kind of piano is in the phouse?

Dan: Oh! A cheap one. That's the answer.

Phil: An old one.

Dan: Instruments are expensive and pianos are such a scam because people try to tell you pianos gain value over time, so I know they're really expensive but when you sell it- no, they're not! Things get old and then they're shit. Shut the hell up! So Facebook Marketplace piano.

Phil: Piano.

Dan: I found this piano and someone was like it's from 1996 and I was like, give me that old bitch. Give it to me. And it's actually, it's got a really weird feature, it has the ability to play itself like a cowboy saloon ghost piano.

Phil *spooky*: A ghost.

Dan: And this made it cheaper because the guy that owned it said that it had a floppy disk based.

Phil: What's a floppy disk?

Dan: Literally, you put floppy disks into a hole in the piano and it reads like a MIDI file and it's plays itself.

Phil: It works!

Dan: And the guy was like I'm so sorry, do you want a discount, do you want me to remove it? And I was like that's the coolest shit that I've ever heard.

Phil: It's so cool!

Dan: And so I went on this hyper-fixation mission to find as floppy disks as possible, and obviously because this is dead-ass 20 years old, it's not a thing. They don't make it anymore. But if you go on Facebook Marketplace, people dying grandparents are giving away floppy disks, and so I bought about 20 for 5 pounds, and people don't know the camp value.

Phil: They don't, it's very camp. Also, I can put a disk in and play for a few seconds and they think I'm like Dan. Just for a moment, I get that buzz.