[PREVIEW] Episode 383: Fun Pump dives into the eerie silence of a new recording studio—no saxophones, no math rock, just unsettling quiet that triggers claustrophobic jokes about being buried alive. The hosts contrast it with past chaotic spaces like Young Chomsky’s apartment, packing gongs and debating Botox prep for nerves. A CVS run becomes the highlight of their "creative problem-solving," leaving the episode’s vibe as tense as a locked room with no escape. [Automatically generated summary]
There's no banging except for the gong, but that doesn't count.
There's no hammer.
There's no hammer.
There's no drums.
There's no metronome.
There's no metronome.
There's no studio next door, rap studio next door, recording.
For some reason, even though they say they're just a vocal studio, they record everything with the subwoofer on.
And before you get mad at me, they're white.
There is no, I like the saxophone.
Yeah.
That was nice.
That was a little treat, but it didn't float in as often as I would like.
There's no occasional math rock that we hear once a fortnight.
I was kind of, I'm thinking back, I don't think we had any like ambient wailing.
I did that.
I tended to do that before you guys showed up to the studio.
A little bit of wail.
I do like screams.
Meditative wailing.
Mine isn't primal scream.
I would say it's just regular scream, like a frightened scream.
And I practice it therapeutically, but there's no there's nothing.
We are in a completely dead silent room for once.
We're in a new studio.
We're in a new studio and goddamn, it feels good.
What would you say the environment makes you feel here, Liz?
I feel calm.
I feel collected.
I feel cool because we have a nice very silent AC going.
Truanon.
Gonna be damned.
Truanon fans with a sense of history may remember from last summer.
It increased.
This wasn't last summer.
Was it two summers ago?
No, it was last summer we were really hot.
Oh, but remember when we used to record in Young Chomsky's apartment?
Yes.
Where that was also not really an option.
Yeah.
I finally can record a podcast episode where the only sweat that comes out of my pores, which actually, to be honest, isn't much because I coat my entire body in antiperspirant.
And the Botox all the way.
And I do the Botox stuff.
And I just do pore pluggers.
But every ounce of sweat that comes out of me now will be my nervousness in talking to a woman, Liz Franzak.
Yeah.
As opposed to being boiling hot in a windowless room.
God, it feels good.
What's your name?
Oh, we're right there already?
We're there.
My name is Liz.
My name is Brace.
We're joined by producer Young Chomsky.
And this is a newer, fresher, brighter, cleaner, less damp, significantly less moist, drier.
Less banging, too.
Does this make you feel more at home?
You like that?
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No.
I will say, like, I do have to get used to the silence.
It is strange.
Because I am sort of like, now I'm having the classic.
Sound of silence.
Hello, darkness, smile.
The sound of silence anxiety.
Yeah.
Which is maybe it's a little too silent.
Yeah.
Well, we are talking, so it's not actually silent.
And I'm with you guys.
But we don't know what's going on out there.
And we won't know because it's so silent.
We did lock the outer door.
We did.
Yeah.
And I actually had locked this in here as well.
That is my new fear, I guess, that I have.
You can't lock it.
No, this locks from the inside.
I know, but what if somebody puts something on the outside of it and like buries me in here?
Like, what if someone bricks up the outside of the side?
There isn't a second exit, which is something to think about.
There is what?
There's not a second exit, which is something to think about.
No, if I start a fire in here for my insistent flicking of a lighter on the carpet, then yeah, we're going to die.
We have been moving.
We have been moving in both the Buddhist sense and literal sense.
We moved studios.
We boxed things up.
We taped those boxes up.
We then ran out of tape and boxes and then got creative.
Interesting that you say we got creative when in reality, Brace went to CVS.
Well, I think that was very creative of you.
Creative to make me go sore.
I think that it's sad that you're really playing down your creativity with problem solving.
But we got everything boxed up and moved over here.
We are currently in the process of unpacking our both trauma and things.
I want to say real quick to all the haters and losers out there who are actually technically lovers and followers.