#147 - Gareth Reynolds

Summary

Stavvy’s World #147 - Gareth Reynolds

Date: September 22, 2025
Host: Stavros Halkias
Guest: Gareth Reynolds

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Overview

In this lively, off-the-rails episode, comedian and podcaster Gareth Reynolds joins Stavros Halkias for a wide-ranging conversation blending playful banter, reflections on sitcom nostalgia, immigrant family chaos, and offbeat listener call-ins. The episode leans into both comic absurdity and genuine life advice, sticking to “hangout energy” as Stav and Gareth commiserate about growing up, the myth of meritocracy, the pains of adulthood, and everything from Seinfeld to sharting at work. Notably, this episode stands out for its blend of sharp wit and reflective moments, moving from riffing on pop culture to earnestly fielding listeners’ real-world problems.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Podcasting Life & New Projects

Theme: The perils and monotony of constant podcasting

• Both comedians riff on the never-ending churn of their podcast schedules, swapping jokes about burnout and forgetting their own show names.
• Gareth mentions his new project, We're Here to Help, and the “Frasier” vibes it brings.
• Quote (Stavros, 02:12): “You said it earlier. I'm not familiar with moments ago. I think maybe now that you say it, I'm like, oh, that's what that was. I saw it. It looked pretty fun.”
• They joke about putting awkward, half-remembered endorsements on promo materials.

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2. Sitcom Nostalgia & Comedy Icons

Theme: Growing up with classic TV and how it shapes taste

• Wide-ranging dissection of Frasier, Seinfeld, King of Queens, and Caddyshack, peppered with debates on which shows hold up and which are overrated by nostalgia.
• Riff on the “fat guy/hot wife” TV trope and lamentation about learning of Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s billionaire lineage.
• Quote (Gareth, 08:13): “You know what it's like. I watch planes, trains on automobiles, like, a year ago...When was the last time you watched it?”
• Insightful take on how the classics seem slower—Stav notes that “Caddyshack” is an exception because of its tight runtime.
• Commentary on how “comfort TV” like Seinfeld becomes generationally dated (“...I am the old guy who...was a kid telling me to watch Leave it to Beaver.” – Stavros, 19:13)

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3. Celebrity & Character Gossip

Theme: The reality behind beloved actors and sitcom stars

• Playful speculation and debunking of the sexual orientation of Frasier cast members; conversation takes a self-aware and absurd turn as they joke about Google, online misinformation, and “AI” producing bad answers (06:37).
• Dive into the oddities surrounding Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s family fortune and Old Money’s dark side from the 1800s (15:00–15:50).
• Quote (Stavros, 14:15): “[Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s] net worth was estimated to be $3.4 billion.”
• Joke riff about historical illustrations of rich bankers and antisemitic propaganda, with Gareth mock-horrified at “sharpening the fingers” in old photos (16:32).

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4. Growing Up Immigrant (Sort Of)

Theme: Navigating identity when your parents are “barely” immigrants

• Gareth details being raised by British parents in Wisconsin, with comic stories: his brother getting bullied for wearing a British school uniform to a Cleveland public school (25:16), and his mother’s culture shock moving to the Midwest, expecting Beverly Hills but finding cold, gray Cleveland.
• Gareth’s family history gets truly wild: his brother, born out of wedlock, was raised to think their mother was his sister (!) and only learned the truth at age seven.
• Quote (Gareth, 37:29): “When she was 19, got pregnant with him and her parents raised him to think that they were his parents and that she was his sister. And then when he was like seven, when they were gonna move to the States, they were like, this is her mom.”
• Stav and Gareth compare their “authentic” ethnic upbringings and crack jokes about guilt, generational trauma, trips back to Greece/England, and parental flexing (“my dad would just save up so much money and...pretend he was doing awesome” – Stavros, 29:49).

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5. Listener Advice Calls

Theme: Real-life problems, absurd and heartfelt, get the Stav & Gareth treatment

a. Rekindling a First Love (48:16)

• Premise: Woman reconnects via text for five years with her chubby middle school boyfriend; wonders if they should meet up.
• Insight: Go for it, but temper expectations—nostalgia is powerful but doesn’t guarantee adult chemistry.
• Quote (Stavros, 51:16): “What's the downside?...Worst case scenario, you meet up, you make a trip of it...Worst case, you stay friends.”
• Emphasis on clarity: Don’t let nostalgia prevent honest self-assessment; establish boundaries if nothing materializes.
• Quote (Gareth, 57:52): "You might just be an escape to the good old days...You're just a manifestation of his best memories."

b. Jehovah’s Witnesses & Family Estrangement (62:01)

• Premise: Former cult member’s mom wants to see his baby grandson but not him (he's shunned).
• Advice: Stav and Gareth are adamant: If your mother can't treat you with respect, she can’t see her grandchild—period.
• Quote (Stavros, 65:14): "You can't see my son if his father's not there. The fact your wife is entertaining this is actually crazy!"

c. Over-Sexed Girlfriend Dilemma (67:24)

• Premise: Caller’s new girlfriend (ex-dancer) wants sex 4–6x/night, every night, and it’s becoming unsustainable.
• Advice: This isn’t “the dream”—it’s a problem. Both hosts note this indicates a deeper issue with how she seeks affection.
• Quote (Gareth, 69:42): “You can fill the hole between her legs, but not the one inside of her heart.”
• Suggestion: Open communication and clear boundaries are crucial.
• Quote (Stavros, 71:13): “What if you're with anyone and whatever they want supersedes what makes your life better...that's bad.”

d. Partner Hates Your Friend (74:53+)

• Premise: His girlfriend hates his longtime friend (MAGA, prison guard, slob, makes “jokes” about hurting women, ate all her dip and left a mess at a party).
• Advice: Hosts are unsparing—the friend sounds like an inconsiderate jerk and the caller should reconsider why he’s still in his life.
• Quote (Stavros, 86:45): “If he's rude to somebody who should be one of the most important people in your life...I don't want people like that in my life.”
• Memorable moment (Gareth, 77:29): “This is getting Al Capone for tax fraud.” (i.e., the ‘dip incident’ is the least of it.)

e. Honeymoon Compromise (89:49)

• Premise: Listener wants to splurge on a luxury honeymoon, fiancé is money-wary.
• Advice: Validate both points. Lean into gentle persuasion about the significance, offer financial compromise, avoid “steamrolling.”
• Quote (Gareth, 99:31): “Even a token, like compromise could go a long way.”

f. Dire Digestive Dilemmas (101:04+)

• Premise: Caller works in a “clean room” and constantly fears shitting himself at work.
• Advice: Major dietary changes needed; see a doctor. Pepto isn’t enough—consider fiber, Imodium, and lifestyle overhaul.
• Quote (Stavros, 106:01): “I'm not the kind of fat that is worried his ass will, you know, ruin a clean room.”

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On nostalgic TV:
  • “The fat guy/hot wife dynamic—I love to see that. You know what I mean? I'm like, this could be me for real.” (Stavros, 12:05)
• On family secrets:
  • “My mother when she was 19, got pregnant with him and her parents raised him to think that they were his parents and that she was his sister.” (Gareth, 37:29)
• On American billionaires:
  • “I'm so much closer to a homeless person than I am to even somebody with half a billion dollars.” (Stavros, 45:33)
• On unhealthy relationships:
  • “You can fill the hole between her legs, but not the one inside her heart.” (Gareth, 69:42)
• On friendship red flags:
  • “This is a wedding ruiner...at your wedding, people are allowed vetoes.” (Stavros, 87:22)

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Important Timestamps

• 01:24: Gareth returns, jokes about not remembering his own podcast title.
• 03:33: Gareth’s Kelsey Grammer/Frasier anecdotes.
• 06:37: Riff on Google/AI making research worse.
• 14:15–16:32: The Louis-Dreyfus billionaire rabbit hole & “claw” joke.
• 25:16: British school uniform disaster story.
• 37:29: Gareth’s family bombshell (mom was brother’s “sister”).
• 48:16–58:06: First listener call: rekindling first love.
• 62:01–67:12: Jehovah’s Witness estrangement call/advice.
• 67:24–74:46: Advice for the caller with the over-sexed girlfriend.
• 74:53–87:41: MAGA prison guard friend call.
• 89:49–100:12: Honeymoon budget dilemma call.
• 101:04–112:43: “Clean room” diarrhea crisis, dietary and health advice.

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Tone & Language

Both hosts stay true to their on-stage styles: irreverent, conversational, and openly self-mocking. They swing from earnest and empathetic to off-color and absurd (see: chicken dip diatribes, or extensive metaphors about bowel control). No matter how wild the topic, advice is seasoned with sharp, often brutal honesty and a clear-eyed compassion for listeners’ real struggles.

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Final Thoughts

This episode delivers the signature mix of Stavvy’s World: unfettered goofing, biting insights, and candid dispatches from the mess of adulthood. Stavros and Gareth’s rapport is magnetic, navigating the ridiculous and the heartfelt with equal flair—proving that even fart jokes can lead to genuine wisdom.

Suggested Next Steps:

• Listeners are encouraged to self-reflect on nostalgia, friendships, and boundaries (especially with family).
• When in doubt, trust your gut—sometimes literally.

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For more, follow Gareth at [Gareth Reynolds TV on YouTube], listen to The Dollop, and keep calling the Stavvy hotline for your problems and weirdest stories!

Transcript

[Gareth Reynolds]

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[Stavi]

Welcome everybody. To stop his world 948 after stuff call in. We'll solve all your problems. We have with us our pal returning Gareth Reynolds on the couch. What's up?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Hi.

[Stavi]

What's up, Big G?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Hey, Stavi.

[Stavi]

How's it going?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Good. How are you?

[Stavi]

You know him from his multiple pot. We're. This is. This man's a podcaster extraordinaire.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's a nightmare.

[Stavi]

I know.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We were just talking.

[Stavi]

It sucks.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You think you get ahead and then you're like, I've only done for two weeks. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Stavi]

I. I've done. We're here to help. Great show. You got a new one launching. It's been going.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's been going good. Good cover there.

[Stavi]

I knew. I know it because you told me. Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Like the reason I know because you said it.

[Stavi]

You said it earlier. I'm not familiar with moments ago. I think maybe now that you say it, I'm like, oh, that's what that was. I saw it. It looked Pretty fun. I didn't know if it was somebody else's show, but it looks.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I put that on the. Is there any way to. Can I put that quote on there? That stammering half endorsement? Like they were filmed. You're there. Audio quality was there. It's cool.

[Stavi]

Next we have.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

Yeah, I like that. We did that little bag of push so I could remember what it was called.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Stabby stammers.

[Stavi]

Yeah, dude. It's all broadcasting secrets. Too much, do a bad job. And then. So you'll remember the title of the. Of the podcast.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I even forget it sometimes.

[Stavi]

I like it, though, so it gives me Frasier vibes. Next we have.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Or that's my next.

[Stavi]

That's.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We're here to help.

[Stavi]

We're here to help. Right?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Very Frasier.

[Stavi]

But it. But didn't. Wouldn't Frasier say. What was the name of his show in the fictional world?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, I don't even remember.

[Stavi]

I'll just do some producing.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I didn't follow Guy. I didn't follow him. I was a big. I liked him when he was a drunk.

[Stavi]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

All sober and became emotional.

[Stavi]

No, I was just Dr. Fraser Crane Show. I never.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I used to do kids birthday parties, dress up like superheroes for kids birthday parties. And one time I did, like, the Frasier season wrap party for the kids, and I was dressed up as a wizard and I was just, like, able to just be like a fly on the wall to, like, Kelsey Grammer having conversations.

[Stavi]

Was he with his Real Housewives?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, he was. It was a Camille era. Meal era.

[Stavi]

I remember when, when. When I saw that he was with just a hot blonde with big fake titties, I was like, wait, Frasier is cool.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

I was like, maybe I thought he was a nerd. Well.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And then you found out he actually really was, like, a cokehead drunk. And you're like, frasier.

[Stavi]

Frasier's the man.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Wait a minute.

[Stavi]

Yeah, he was doing coke. He was. He was a wild boy. Yeah, Kelsey was a wild boy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But he seemed so, like, intellectual.

[Stavi]

Right.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But.

[Stavi]

Well, that's the thing about Frey. Yeah, they were. Oh, Niles. Like that.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Let's do a bump out of Camille.

[Stavi]

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And Niles being straight's hilarious.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's like, you know, so fun.

[Stavi]

I mean, that guy's gay as hell.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. Yeah. He probably was dying to talk to Frasier about his sexuality crisis. Frasier was so inaccessible.

[Stavi]

Yeah, Daphne, maybe, you know, you find one. He's probably. He's probably gay for everyone except Daphne is my guess.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

I fell in love with her. But he's gay as.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

Because Maris. He didn't want to. Maris.

[Gareth Reynolds]

No.

[Stavi]

You know. Or was Maris was. Phrase. No, no. Was. Was.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Wasn't that. I don't know much like what I said it was.

[Stavi]

Maris was Maris Frazier's ex wife. No. Niles.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, right.

[Stavi]

Nile's ex wife. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And then there was the dog, of course.

[Stavi]

Eddie.

[Caller 1]

Sure.

[Stavi]

And the dad. He was awesome. He was gay also.

[Gareth Reynolds]

The dad was.

[Stavi]

Yes. That actor. Seems straight. Is gay.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

Niles seems gay. Is gay. Frazier seems gay, is straight. They had it all. They had every type of guy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Daphne was the alpha.

[Stavi]

Yeah. Yeah. Daphne seems straight. Was straight.

[Gareth Reynolds]

No, I never got. Oh, yeah.

[Stavi]

John Mahoney was gay.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Right.

[Stavi]

I guess they were missing one. Seems straight is straight guy.

[Caller 2]

I think we've looked this up before, and I don't think there is definitive evidence that John Mahoney is gay.

[Stavi]

Really?

[Gareth Reynolds]

I mean, it's funny that that's the high. Did you highlight that Elder.

[Stavi]

No. No.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So it's funny that you were like, I've come to the conclusion that these highlighted. No overview is.

[Stavi]

We. We. We.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We went.

[Caller 2]

We, like, talked for 20 minutes on an episode about how he was gay. And then we, like, did another simple Google search. It was like, no, he's not, actually.

[Stavi]

Yeah, he was. He was like the kind of gay guy that wouldn't say it. Go down.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Closeted closet. Old school.

[Stavi]

Old school. Back when they had on. Don't make my kids look at that. Do it on your own time. And then you get Marri. You know, that kind of.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. You go to Thailand, get married.

[Stavi]

Yeah. Get out of the AI. That's your problem, Elders.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You're succumbing completely. Agree. So many people I know are like. And I'm like, scroll.

[Stavi]

Oh, no.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Half inch more.

[Stavi]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Get some real answers.

[Stavi]

Although I do think they've made Google shittier.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Google's gotten way shittier.

[Stavi]

Because they want us to go to AI. Yeah. But we won't do it. We'll just get shitty answers on Google.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Will you Google how bad Google is? And let's read the AI.

[Stavi]

Yeah. Not a fridge guy. What were your shows as a child?

[Gareth Reynolds]

You know, I really watched a lot, and we're probably. What? We're pretty much the same age. You're probably a little young. Oh, you're, like, a lot younger. Yeah.

[Stavi]

Than I do.

[Gareth Reynolds]

No, that's not true.

[Stavi]

You do. For real.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, you have a much better career. Yeah.

[Stavi]

Yeah. I'm gonna die earlier, though.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Whatever. I'm gonna be poor forever. It's gonna suck. Look, you give you.

[Stavi]

You know what I mean?

[Gareth Reynolds]

There's gives and takes. You're gonna be a comet. I'm gonna be a nightmare.

[Stavi]

Start bright. Yeah. Burn bright.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. I watched a lot of, like, old sitcoms from Nick at night when I was growing up. So I would watch, like, Taxi. Welcome back, Cotter.

[Stavi]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Like, those are my shows.

[Stavi]

I would pretend to do that. Like, I was the little. I was like. I was like the little annoying kid pretending to get the shows you were watching.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Right. Because I don't even know how much I got him, but I definitely was like, that's important.

[Stavi]

Yeah, exactly. I felt that way, too. It's like being little. I was like, oh, I get Taxi. I get it. Andy Kaufman.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

I would pretend to, like, really like Andy Kaufman. Like, the biggest one is Lenny Bruce. That's the most closer you can do, which is. And look, I've listened back, and it's like, there's a couple, and. And he's very important, obviously, for, like. But it's like some guy being like, no, I love watching highlights of the 1940s Philadelphia Warriors.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You know what I mean?

[Stavi]

It's like their highlights aren't good games.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You know what it's like. I watch planes, trains on automobiles, like, a year ago. I don't know.

[Stavi]

That's a banger.

[Gareth Reynolds]

When was the last time you watched it?

[Stavi]

Pretty recently.

[Gareth Reynolds]

See, I like it still, but I'm like, this has been replicated 800 times now.

[Stavi]

The replication is fair.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So you're literally.

[Stavi]

Just. Because of John Candy. He is just so. You can't replicate him.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And when the wife's been dead for 12 years.

[Stavi]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You're like, oh, my God. Yeah, I make sense, actually.

[Stavi]

But John Candy is. It works with him because he's such a good. Like, he is able to portray that kind of depth.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

In a way that big fat buffoons can't. Right. Like, I'm trying to. I'm trying to get into acting. And I watch a lot of John Candy because I'm like, he was a favorite of mine, and just. And I just know. I'm like, I am not. If I could do one eighth of what this guy can do.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He was the best.

[Stavi]

I will have an incredible career.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Died early, what you're after.

[Stavi]

Yeah. Well, that I will replicate. That's. That's the 1 8th I can do is dying too soon.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He's. David replicated the Giant game better than anyone.

[Stavi]

A lot of guys, I'm replicating No, he was.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He was the best. He.

[Stavi]

He.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And that. I'm not saying that movie is not good, but it's like road trip movies. At that point. There was just not a shitload.

[Stavi]

Well, I will say in general, I think you're right in that. A lot of classics. Some classics, really, the pacing is off. Like, they're not as funny as you remember. Or there's like four good jokes you latched on to as a kid. Caddyshack is like this Caddy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

What you feel like is a little out of touch.

[Stavi]

Yeah. Not as good.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Still, there's. I mean, it's so good.

[Stavi]

When's the last time you watch Caddyshack?

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's been a minute.

[Stavi]

Re. Watch it. I. Because I. In fact, I was really embarrassed because I. I'm showing it to a girl who's already too young.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's the worst.

[Stavi]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

When you're trying to show off and you're sitting there in silence, it's like, this is bombing.

[Stavi]

And then.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

And then I'm realizing, even if this was good, this she wouldn't have liked this. Yeah. Now I'm bombing twice.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

Because even the idealized version of Cash. I Get My head. Wouldn't have worked with this woman.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And then you got to jump ship. You, like, turn it off, and then you're fast.

[Stavi]

When you're fast forwarding, you are toast. When you're like. Let's just get the Rodney Dangerfields part. She's just looking at it like.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You're like, Chevy Chase was very funny at the time.

[Stavi]

Like, I know, like, Bill Murray's kind of, like, really important. And. Yeah. The go for things. I guess we're improvised, but he's just making this up.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Nobody wrote this.

[Stavi]

She's like, so what? Why? It's the go. The gopher is a part of. It's like.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, Yeah.

[Stavi]

I mean, he's like. He's got a problem with it. He's the groundskeeper.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Piece of.

[Stavi]

Yeah. That's tough. But it's. It is very funny because I do. I do think you picked maybe the one I disagree with the most. I think it holds up really well because it's also 90 minute run time. It's one of those.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So good.

[Stavi]

It's one of the rare old classics that actually has a pace that keeps up with today. Because they cut a lot of. That was like. I feel like they said the first cut of that move was like three hours.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, yeah. I've read there are scenes where you're like. I think in the Steve Martin documentary. He goes into it a lot.

[Stavi]

Yeah. Which it's cool because you watch the movie and it doesn't fully make sense, but you can put it together. Like, there's certain things where you're like, how do we get here? Yeah, but I love when they're like. I love when a movie just does it. Like, you can figure it out. And it's way more important for the pace to be there than it is to explain every little fucking thing.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, I'm not. I'm. I think that it, like, some of the shine got taken. Like, it used to be, like, my favorite movie. And then I watched again, and I was like, oh, yeah. Well, you just are so used to odd couple road trip movies, so that. That's.

[Stavi]

I'm with you there.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I agree with you. Frasier is good. There's no doubt about that. What was your show growing up?

[Stavi]

I w. I mean, legit. I watched Frasier, but, I mean, you know, the classic Simpsons.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

Seinfeld. The. The. Like, they would run him in syndication.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yep.

[Stavi]

King of Queen snuck in there.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Wow.

[Stavi]

Because it was just inc. You know what I mean?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Came on after Seinfeld.

[Stavi]

It was just timing, know, perfect for that. Plus, fat guy, hot wife. I love to see that. You know what I mean? I'm like, this could be me for real.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It is possible.

[Stavi]

100. I'm not even kidding. It was like, me looking like.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But then you found out she was a scientologist. You're like, this makes sense. Yeah. That's how he got her.

[Stavi]

Although he. In real life, she jumped. She's with a hot guy and not a Scientologist.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, she is.

[Stavi]

Oh, yeah. Her real husband's, like, some sexy Latino guy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay. I don't know.

[Stavi]

Legit pissed me off when I'm, like, 16, and I figured this out. Look at that guy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

See, I think I'm gonna. I'm gonna.

[Stavi]

Plane. He used to be hot.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Planes, trains and automobiles. You on this guy.

[Stavi]

He used to be hotter. Go back. Go find Angelo Pagan. Young. Julia remedy husband. Young. I mean, come on. That's a handsome guy. Dude. I mean, look at that guy with a goatee.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. All right. You know Mark Anthony. Bargain bin Mark Anthony.

[Stavi]

No. He's hotter than Mark Anthony.

[Gareth Reynolds]

No, he's not hotter than Mark Anthony.

[Stavi]

I don't know Mark. He's big.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I'm not even into Mark Anthony.

[Stavi]

I'm just saying he's a little more substantial. I don't want to twink, you know, I want to be. I want a guy who can throw Me around.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I mean, I know neither of us are gay, but I want to twink. Okay. I really want to twink. That's my style, I guess.

[Stavi]

If I had to fuck a man, yes, I would want to twink. But if I was the kind of guy who wanted to fuck, man, I would want them to be heftier, you know, that's just me, anyway, compared to Kevin James, whatever the fuck this guy. But you know what? You're right. He's not as hot as I remember in my head.

[Gareth Reynolds]

No, see, this is the year. This is playing Strange in Automobiles.

[Stavi]

But with this guy, he wasn't a fat guy. I think that pissed me off.

[Gareth Reynolds]

No. And you know, it's funny, I was saying this the other night. I was like Seinfeld it slowly those. The people in Seinfeld are starting to like. You've really got to separate the actors from the characters now.

[Stavi]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's like the Kramer. Took me like five years to be like. I could watch him.

[Stavi]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Think about the end. And now Jerry, who's so like.

[Stavi]

Yep, yep.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Jerry's just a little too callous when it comes to Palestine.

[Stavi]

Yeah, absolutely.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Garrett. Jason Alexander's next. I feel like Julie is gonna hang in there.

[Stavi]

Julia, I think it's kind of like she's in. It's like when you get a vaccine and there's a little something you have to get over. It's like a little piece of the poison. Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You got to.

[Stavi]

The fact that she's a billionaire's daughter.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I didn't know that.

[Stavi]

You have to get over that immediately. Right. The Dreyfuses are like, yeah, Julia. Louis Dreyfus, her family is like, she's an insane Nepo baby. So if you get over that early. I got over that when. When she was young.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I didn't know that.

[Stavi]

Yeah. I mean, it's not good what he did.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Gerard. Gerard, their name is.

[Stavi]

His net worth was estimated to be 3.4 billion. He was the chairman of the Louis Dreyfus Energy Services. And the great grandson of her dad was the great grandson of a guy with a Wikipedia page. That's not good. Wait, are you Leopold Louis Dreyfus? Yeah. The French government award him the Commander of the Legion of Arms.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Does he have claws?

[Stavi]

No, no, no, no, no. He does not have claws.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay.

[Stavi]

But I'm sure there was some propaganda of the times saying he did. What was the.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I think I just fell into a bad job.

[Stavi]

I think you did. I think you unfortunately did look up the Louis Dreyfus Group. Let's see what they were up to. Eldest right there. Dumbass. Is a Dutch multinational merchant firm that's involved in agricultural. I mean. Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's tough when you find out someone grew up rich. It's. It's difficult if her. There's a lot in comedies.

[Stavi]

Her family's business was founded in 1851. That's not good.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

Not good.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Now old money.

[Stavi]

The company makes up about 10% of the world's agricultural product trade flow and is the world's largest cotton and rice trader. That's not good.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Now the cotton. Cotton.

[Stavi]

One of the four companies that dominate world agricultural commodity trading. Really bad. You know what I mean?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Like the cotton is not cotton. 1800s never really works out.

[Stavi]

No. No, certainly not. But that's them today. I'm sure what they were. Whatever they were up to back then was you. What were they up to in the 1800s? Elders. Let's scroll down. Idiot. He rapidly diversified across shipping, weapons manufacturing, agriculture, oil and banking.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, so the good industries. Yeah. Okay.

[Stavi]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I was worried it would be dark.

[Stavi]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Top five biggest fortunes of France in.

[Stavi]

The early 20th century. So anyway, once you get over that and she's, you know. So she, I think is not gonna disappoint.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Circle back on the claw thing. I really. It was in. And I wish everyone could see the picture. He just had pointy fingers. I was going for a totally different.

[Stavi]

You know what I mean?

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's just. Yeah.

[Caller 2]

We'll have the screenshot up. The people can decide.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Maybe sharpen the fingers.

[Stavi]

We won't be doing that.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Really not.

[Stavi]

We will not be sharpening the hands of a 19th century Jewish banker.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Stop. You're digging further for me.

[Stavi]

Go.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I'm not saying sharpen him because it's a. I don't even want. I can't say don't sharpen his hands because he's a Jew. That'd be a crazy thing to say. This can't be the clip.

[Stavi]

We'll.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We'll.

[Stavi]

We'll bleep all this.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

This should be all.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Let's restart the show.

[Stavi]

We'll just show Gareth's frustration. But we'll be bleeping it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Allmobiles Holds up the best. That's a movie that is unchanged. My opinion is unchanged. Oh.

[Stavi]

What do you think? Okay, so what do you think? Because I agree with you. Jason Alexander is the one that I'm a little worried about.

[Gareth Reynolds]

No, he's next. He's ill. Do so. It'll do something.

[Stavi]

What's Jason. Jason Alexander. Look up Jason Alexander. Scandal let's see if there's.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So here's. So my buddy. My buddy Evan man, who I used to write with, he. When he first moved to la, he was an intern at Jason Alexander's company. That picture is great. I'm sure this makes him happy.

[Stavi]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And he has a hairpiece for the bald side, so his hair looks a little fuller on the bald part.

[Stavi]

Oh, interesting. Is a bald.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He's got an. A little bit of X. It's very interesting.

[Stavi]

Yeah, you'd think once you're bold, you're bold.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, it's just cook. But it was. Yeah, see, that's.

[Stavi]

That's Jason Alexander.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And he'll never get accused of having a piece.

[Stavi]

Yeah, yeah, exactly. He upset many in the lgbtq.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Here we go.

[Stavi]

We don't need to. You know what we're not doing.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Take him down.

[Stavi]

You know what? I'm out on this, actually. I. You know what, George? I'm not looking to be mad at. At the cast of Seinfeld. If it's brought across my front door, there's nothing I can do about that.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's coming.

[Stavi]

But I'm not looking. I'm not going to be looking at.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He'll be at the Capitol R. I will say that. Like Jay Johnstone.

[Stavi]

Come on, man. Why?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Why?

[Stavi]

I love Mr. Show the Best.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, the best. The falling into the shelf guy.

[Stavi]

You're like, no, honestly, the fact that it's only One guy from Mr. Show isn't bad. I think that's what we have to look at it as.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I agree.

[Stavi]

Only one guy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. Yeah, that's right.

[Stavi]

Seinfeld also holds up.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I agree.

[Stavi]

That actually does.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I. I just. It's like comfort to me. I just put it on. If there was a radio station that was only Seinfeld, I would listen. Yeah.

[Stavi]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Without a question.

[Stavi]

It's good. It is. Like, even though it's at this point, you know, 30 years old or whatever, you're like, I get. I am the old guy who. I was a kid telling me to watch Leave it to Beaver. You know, I would tell a child to watch Seinfeld. They would probably hate it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

All in The Family or M.A.S.H. when those shows are on. I was like, these are trash. I never watched an episode. But I was like, nope, not like. I think that's probably. That's exactly Seinfeld for those generations.

[Stavi]

Yeah, that's probably true. But also, those shows are good when you key in a little bit, but they. They couldn't. They never grabbed me.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. So it's probably exactly I was always like, no.

[Stavi]

There were moments where mash.

[Gareth Reynolds]

God, no mash to me was like Sunday afternoon, change the channel. All in the family. I just like that he was pissed off. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Stavi]

I liked when he was being racist, not me.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I. That's not my thing. But there's the clip, Elvis. That's the clip. Get me away from the Jew claw stuff. Hurry. Move away from the Louis Dreyfus clause. Walk away. Thank you, stabby.

[Stavi]

Dude. Yeah, I. Yeah, I don't know. I was not. I was not a. I. I didn't watch too much the old. But you know, whatever. I do worry. I wonder elders you think like all babies are basically like they love 4D animation and now like they like computer. They don't like old. I don't know.

[Caller 2]

I feel like the way kids like stuff, like I see my niece is watching and it is just random shitty cartoons. Like you can't really tell what makes a cartoon like better or worse. I feel like a baby just sees one thing one day and they just want to like watch it over and over.

[Stavi]

Yeah.

[Caller 2]

Like the new doesn't really seem like.

[Stavi]

I mean there's some babies we know. I know a baby. You know, I know a baby that loves Finding Nemo.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, I know a baby. Are you name dropping a baby? Yeah, I know.

[Stavi]

Pretty cool baby.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I know a very chill baby.

[Stavi]

He loves sea creatures and stuff like that.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, that's cool.

[Stavi]

He's a pretty sick guy. Yeah, he's cool.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Such a good baby.

[Stavi]

He's a good.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He's a good kid.

[Stavi]

You know what you. You learn when there, there starts being more babies in your life? There are some duds out there, yo. Yeah, there are some. They.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Sometimes it shows. I will figure it out quick. Sometimes it shows. I will ask parents like if they have like three kids. I'll be like, you got a favorite. And they'll be like, yeah, I do.

[Stavi]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, yeah. Cuz I'm like, of course you do.

[Stavi]

Of course.

[Gareth Reynolds]

There's got to be.

[Stavi]

And it becomes clear.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And I know in my family my. My mother liked my brother better growing up. There's no doubt she like almost admitted it repeatedly.

[Stavi]

Why do you think that was?

[Gareth Reynolds]

I. He was a little bit older and he was just really smart. And even though he was like kind of a shit, like he greased the wheels for me to be such a little right. That I was just way more stressful.

[Stavi]

Right.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And so she just definitely like had a bigger affinity for him. It was my fault.

[Stavi]

He just made her life easier.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He just didn't ruin her life.

[Stavi]

Right.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Like, whereas I was like, you know, like, smoking cigarettes in the basement and, like, sneak, like, filling her vodka with water after I drank it, like, just being a piece of shit. And, like, my brother was a not nearly as big of a piece of shit.

[Stavi]

Interesting.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And then now we've, like, balanced out. But there was definitely a deficit for years.

[Stavi]

Oh, really?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yes.

[Stavi]

His life's gone bad in the second half.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. Thank God. He's really doing poorly, and I'm doing everything I can to keep it that way. I will hold him down. You know, it's a marathon, not a sprint. So in the long run, I'll get him.

[Stavi]

Now when it was now when you. Because he's a little older. We. I mean, I forget because I do love that you're. It's fun. It's so funny to be an immigrant. But it's England because it doesn't feel like it counts.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, I try to make it count, right? Yeah. But they're like worst colonizers. I'm like, no, no. Ice is coming after me too.

[Stavi]

That's why I'm worried my British father is gonna be detained by ice.

[Gareth Reynolds]

They're opening mouths. They're checking teeth. They're seeing if you got those British teeth.

[Stavi]

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[Gareth Reynolds]

I was born in Wisconsin, raised by English people.

[Stavi]

Your brother was born here?

[Gareth Reynolds]

My brother was born in England.

[Stavi]

Okay. And.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And until he gets deported, that would be.

[Stavi]

That actually might not be so bad.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I think that'll help him in the race. My mother. Yeah, but my mother lives. I. I would. I need him here.

[Stavi]

Yeah, yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Just so I can keep the race closed.

[Stavi]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. But he was like. So he was an English kid who went to Cleveland public school when he was 7. And she sent him to school in his uniform. In his school uniform. And he. I block my ass kicked. Like, he showed up like someone mercilessly.

[Stavi]

He went in a British school boy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You know, someone beat me with my whole water bottle. Yeah. And they fucking murdered him. Oh, my God.

[Stavi]

I'm trying to think what would have happened if we saw a British kid.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You know how long you're on an island in a cartoon and you're hungry? Oh, my person turns into a ham. Yeah. They were just like, oh, my God.

[Stavi]

I wouldn't have been. I would be vibrating if I saw that. I would be floating. I was so pumped to bully him.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And that's what happened. Oh, yeah. He came home and he just had his hat in his hand, and he was all scuffed up, and he just goes, I need new clothes. And he was trying to explain what a lunchbox was to her. They put their lunch in boxes and she was like, in boxes. She said, what are you talking about? No, you put it in a satchel like a good boy. Go get beat up again.

[Stavi]

They learn to love you. Oh, my God.

[Gareth Reynolds]

She had no. My family thought they were moving to Beverly Hills when they moved to America. They moved to Milwaukee. They moved to Cleveland and then Milwaukee. And my mother was like, you know, like, packing, like. Like Lays. She was like, I need those when I get to the big city. And then she was like, in the freezing cold and just literally. It's funny. You brought up any come. She said she cried for the first year, and the first time she left after a year was when Andy Kaufman did the Mighty Mouse thing on snl. She said, it's the first time she laughed in a year.

[Stavi]

That's hilarious.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And she was just in absolute hell.

[Stavi]

That's crazy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And my dad was, like, on the road, like, you know what Was he doing again? He was like a toy sales. He's like a toy guy.

[Stavi]

The classic. The, the. He really was. It's the last generation of guys able to cheat by being a door to door salesman.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay. He. Listen, there's. He's really muddied the waters. Life was like. But now that I'm on the road, I'm like, yeah, be honest.

[Caller 3]

Come on.

[Stavi]

Come on.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You're at a Hyatt bar. You know, we had a bunch of Lego style.

[Stavi]

Yeah, you weren't.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You want to go see the Lego in my room?

[Stavi]

Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Have a boy. Why don't we look at some toys? Why don't you come back?

[Gareth Reynolds]

I can give you some freebies.

[Stavi]

Yeah. Sucking dick for Legos. Sucking some British.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Connect my crop to your mouthpiece. There you go. I'll let you know when it snaps into place.

[Stavi]

Blended.

[Gareth Reynolds]

There we are.

[Stavi]

Getting your dick back and going. Splendid.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, well done. Oh, good job there.

[Stavi]

All right.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Right in you. That one was bravo there you.

[Stavi]

And that's probably a thrill if he's a door too salesman in the Midwest.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I mean back like you're saying.

[Stavi]

It was like he's exotic is what I'm saying.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yes.

[Stavi]

He could have cheated easy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yes. That's.

[Stavi]

Is there anything on the record?

[Gareth Reynolds]

There's a couple. There's a couple marks on the permanent record. Let's just say in the long run. My dad lives in Wisconsin, my mother lives in England.

[Stavi]

So.

[Gareth Reynolds]

They'Re not doing the long distance thing.

[Stavi]

That's awesome.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, but. But it was, it was like they. I do think that now with like I try to be like I'm an immigrant too, you know, like I'm a first generation and people like the English doesn't.

[Stavi]

Well, I was going to say she might have also just loved your brother more because they culturally are both. He was also born there. He probably had the accent. You're truly her American son.

[Gareth Reynolds]

No, I. When I was 12 years old, I started wearing. I got. I had a mullet. I had Z's on the side of my head. I had the eyebrow partially shaved. This all happened organically. And I wore a San Jose shark's jacket.

[Stavi]

Awesome.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And she was just like, are you all right? Like, it was like I was a teen wolf. She's like, it seems that night you change a bit. And like my brother was pretty much way. I mean, my brother still like when he talks to my mother, he's like, mom, it's not like that. I'm like, it's not how he talks when you're not around. Just so you know, he's regular. When you're not around. You're getting authentic me.

[Stavi]

This is me always.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

I don't put it on a fucking.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But she definitely was like, losing me. Yeah, but what do you, like, was that like, what happened with you? You've always held on your heritage very strong.

[Stavi]

I've tried. Yeah. I mean, I love. I do. You know, there's waves of it where it's like, you're sort of indoctrinated as a kid.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

And then when you rebel against everything. I kind of didn't give a fuck about Greek shit for a while. And also you were like. For me, we would go to Greece and the trips were dog shit because it was like with my family and it was my dad pretending he was my dad would like, go to Greece and like, pretend he was doing awesome. Like, it would be like this weird five week, like, North Korea propaganda trip.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And you're like sitting there, I'm like.

[Stavi]

Why the can we afford this? Like, we can't afford regular shit in America.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We have a pool of. Shut up. Yeah.

[Stavi]

And it would be like. And he would save up, like, so much of his money and sometimes he would even take out like a loan. Like. Like, he would. He would fucking flex and. And I would just. I would be like, this is kind of fun, but.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Right.

[Stavi]

It's weird.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, when you grow up in that shit too, you don't real. It takes you so long to actually have the revelation of, like, oh, totally fucked up.

[Stavi]

Yeah. And like, afterwards we would, like, we would come home and he would. It would be the worst month of the year is the month after we come back.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

Because he spent all the money. He's in his shitty house. He can't pretend. He's like some fucking.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

And so we would have to deal with him being really angry during those times.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Cr.

[Stavi]

And so I think when I put it all together, I was like this, fuck this, whatever. I don't give a fuck. But now I've been able to have my own relationship with Greek shit where I go back by myself. I see the family, I like.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

I see the family, friends I like. I. Sometimes I don't. I take a week. I don't see anybody. I just go do my own shit. I actually have a good vacation.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

And so I am trying to. And like now when there is like, you know, friends of mine and my brother had a kid and now I'm like, oh, fuck. There's a part of this. This is like you have to pass this on to other. To the next generation.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

And I'm looking around, it's like, if it's gonna be anybody, it's gonna be me. So that makes me feel like I should. Like, I'm thinking about taking Greek lesson. Like I'm fluent, but you know, I don't barely speak it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

Something about like actually taking some language lessons, getting more involved next year when I have the time. I think I'm gonna go for a whole month and like. Really?

[Gareth Reynolds]

You do gigs there?

[Stavi]

No, I'm. I will next year. I was going to, I was going to this year and then the scheduling got up.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

But they have, they're starting to have enough of a scene where like I know friends of mine have gone. You probably, you probably know people to have done Athens as a gig.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

And they say it's good. You know, they don't speak Greek at all. They do it in English.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So you know, See when I would go to England, they were so, it was, it was so debaucherous so early.

[Stavi]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Like, it really was shot like everything that we started doing it in like Wisconsin. They started like three years earlier. Like they were legit at like 12 and. And they were like. When I was a virgin at like 12 or 13, they were like, Mike, come on. I was like, like, I was like, I don't have pew. I was like, I have like five pews. And they. And weed and drinking. And then I would be. I was like 15, smoking opium. And then I was like, I. I would come back to Wisconsin and like my friends would be like, totally. That I was full of.

[Stavi]

Of course.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Cuz I'd be like.

[Stavi]

And smoked and smoked a, A drug from the 1800s. I, I smoked the kind of drugs Louis Dreyfus used to bring in through shipments of cotton, who by the way.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Is no normal hands.

[Stavi]

And I don't even care what religion he is.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It doesn't. I don't even see that at all. Honestly. When I see that guy just as a big beard, that's what I see. It's the only thing. And that's the way it'll always be for me. Despite what it could clip May say again, someone was also saying some stuff over yonder about racism that has to be included in that legally. But no, as I come back, I'd be. I, like, I had like two girls. Like when I was like 14, I came back. I was, I mean they were just partying.

[Stavi]

Yeah. And then that was not my experience in Greece. It was all Lock and key.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

And I do think that's what Greek kids were like. But my parents just watched my dad. Like, they just would watch us. Like, we weren't allowed to just go out and do fun stuff.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

Because they were scared. They were. They were kind of. I don't know. They were. I don't know if it was like, helicopter parents or if they had some kind of weird part of me. Like, honestly, the way my parents, my dad in particular reacts, I'm like, sometimes I'm like, did I get molested and black it out? Because whenever they don't. Whenever they would, like, lose me for, like, an hour or, like, weren't sure where I was, my dad would freak the fuck out. And I'm like, did I get. When I was 4 and forget? Because that's how they react. And they wouldn't let us go to sleepovers. And I'm like, that's pretty classic. Or did they. Did my dad.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, right.

[Stavi]

My dad get greeting.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I mean, but that. That makes more sense. I'm doing great.

[Stavi]

Sure.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I'm crushing it anyway.

[Stavi]

That's something. I literally have that. Where I'm like, I literally, in the past been like, think hard. The best. Somebody made you suck his dick when you were a child. And I'm like, I'm coming up blank. But I'm like, why were my birds so, like, protective? Like, they wouldn't let me sleep at your house.

[Caller 2]

My parents were, like, super protective about, like, especially sleepover.

[Stavi]

Like, it was the only time ever, I think, was, like, us when we were. By the time we were like, 14 or some shit.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. That's a weird time to be allowed to finally sleep.

[Stavi]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

14 is far too old by that point.

[Stavi]

It was like, just. It was like just crashing with your. It was like the earliest. Crashing with your boy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, right.

[Stavi]

Was the vibe. But it was like, yeah, it was like, maybe. Maybe not 14. Like 612 or some shit.

[Caller 2]

Like, I think it's more like protective immigrant family. Like. Like you're in a foreign culture that you just don't fully feel a part of. You don't know, like, how you can trust, like, a complete stranger, Like.

[Stavi]

Yeah, I don't know. That's true. I guess they didn't make. Yeah, it was like, your house. And then one time when I really asked and they knew the guy, like, the family. Well, they're like, you can go there.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, that's what I felt like as a. A child of immigrants, too. I mean, that immigrant story, you know, it's just very Similar.

[Stavi]

Yeah, absolutely.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Non colonizing.

[Stavi]

Well, it is funny because clearly you weren't doing well as a family if you ended up in Cleveland and Wisconsin. No Legos, no, like no one. No, no, no member of the House of Lords is moving his family to the Midwest.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, you know what's so funny too is like the fact that she, my mother thought she was like going to California based. It's like I'm like, look, I'm not saying the Internet was around, but how did you not.

[Stavi]

You could have done a little reading.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Like a little bit.

[Stavi]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

A little bit of research.

[Stavi]

Yeah. It's just like that being your only for frame of reference for America.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, right.

[Stavi]

Is.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It was just like move. They were just like, oh yeah. Palm trees.

[Stavi]

Beverly Hills.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Beverly Hills movie stars.

[Stavi]

And your dad didn't tell her or anything like that.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Now I think he was like, should probably not want to do it. So I'm not going to tell her I'm moving to the arc.

[Stavi]

Yeah. What was the idea that he was going to sell toys for a British company? What's the idea? How do you get there?

[Gareth Reynolds]

I don't remember what he's first. I don't. I think he. So he basically started running Brio toys. Do you remember Brio? It was like wooden railway. It was like. Yeah, it was like a weird like Swedish toy company.

[Stavi]

I actually do think I. If there's something in my head. Yeah, yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So it was like this.

[Stavi]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And so he, he like started working there and then he like advanced. So then it was like, you know.

[Stavi]

Like we were like opened up the American office.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, exactly.

[Stavi]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And then so it was like, you know, it was like we had a real like. It's so funny to like talk about middle class, but I was like, we were like a comfortable middle class family eventually.

[Stavi]

Right.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But I think I came around when things were like doing well. But like when they moved, I think it was like terrible.

[Stavi]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And my mother was depressed and they were. It sounds like the fact that they had a horrendous marriage. I was like, yeah, well, what the did you think was gonna happen? And then I combine that with the fact that my. My mother so so fucking complicated. But my father is not my brother's father, even though he's adopted him. My mother when she was 19, got pregnant with him and her parents raised him to think that they were his parents and that she was his sister. And then when he was like seven, when they were gonna move to the States, they were like, this is her mom.

[Stavi]

What the fuck? What and then six months later he's getting the shit kicked out of him in a uniform by his. His sister, packed him a fucked up lunch and dressed him like an asshole.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, when you put it like that. It's a rough year for a seven year old. Way better.

[Stavi]

Oh yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

The kids beat it out of him, which was nice.

[Stavi]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Like a dirty road.

[Stavi]

Of course he liked it more. Dude, she's like, it's a dad.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

You know what I mean? So it's the guilt. It's also your, your dad who was the dickhead who dragged her to America.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You know what I mean?

[Stavi]

Like, you definitely carry that baggage for sure.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It was like 15 years later, she's. She was like, Cleveland. He was like, what? Nothing, Nothing. How. How spicy do you want dinner?

[Stavi]

When they were move. They dropped it on I'm pretty.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It was. I'm pretty sure it's right around there.

[Stavi]

Wow.

[Gareth Reynolds]

She was in London like, like working for like Wrigley or something. And then. And, and, but my brother's the most balanced dude. And I'm like. It's just because they like piled trauma on his plate at 7.

[Stavi]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And then it was like his life got easier from there.

[Stavi]

That's one of those like if he doesn't snap, then he's going to be good forever.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And he is, he's the. He takes everything in stride. That's probably because he thought his mother was his sister. And then he got thrown to Cleveland in a school. He dressed like Angus Young at Cleveland Public High School.

[Stavi]

That's nuts, dude. So when did she finally was like, all right, this. I'm going back to England.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, they got divorced when I was like 14.

[Stavi]

Okay.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And then it was. I went to school in Boston and then my. And I moved out to la. And then my brother was just like wanted to leave Wisconsin. Then he moved to la. And then like two years later she's like, well, there's no reason for me to be here. So then she just moved back and then she like ended up taking care of her mother a lot. And then, and then she actually moved back to la.

[Stavi]

She moved to Lace of the Beverly Hills dream.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. Right. Yeah.

[Stavi]

Yeah. How ironic that both her sons end up where she thought she was gonna live.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, and then she's like in Glendale and she's like, where are the movie stars? Oh my God. Does it even exist?

[Stavi]

Why are these hairy Armenians accosting me?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. And so. And then she. Now she just lives there full time.

[Stavi]

Okay.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You know, it's, you know.

[Stavi]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's Small town. It's easy. Yeah, yeah, she knows it.

[Stavi]

It's nice. Dude, I, I went for the first time. Although I guess I have just gone. Oh yeah, I've just come back and it was awesome. I love.

[Gareth Reynolds]

What's your favorite thing?

[Stavi]

Going back again? No, I went, I went last summer and I actually will take. If you have any little tips or whatever from you, I'm sure you go.

[Gareth Reynolds]

If you have a kid, tell him that you're his.

[Stavi]

If I have a 12 year old, get him some pussy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Get him some pussy, you're his brother and run away. You're fine, don't worry about it.

[Stavi]

No, I really, I did actually really like it. And the countryside shit over there, that's.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Where she basically lives.

[Stavi]

It's like. It is, it's exactly what you think it's gonna be.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You little cottages. Totally.

[Stavi]

Little villages. It's cute. It's like a contained town. Like I was, I was staying an hour outside of London and it was like you might as well have been five hours outside.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's what I like. I mean I, I like the cities, but it's really. There's so much countryside. It feels very like we here even like, you know, there are like many areas that are just green or whatever, but there's still too much like there. You actually have legitimate like countryside cottages.

[Stavi]

Well, that's the thing.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Local small pubs.

[Stavi]

The thing about it that makes it awesome is that here you can get away, but you're away from everything.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, right.

[Stavi]

You're almost too isolated there. You're at a village and it's like you're like someone has been what you think of as a medieval villager existed exactly where you are for the last like 600 years. And so it's built around people have lived there communally forever for like a thousand years. And so there is little villages. There are little. You know, there is little. Like you go into the little town and there's like a grocery store, there's a whatever you want.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Local, smaller. That's what we lack here so much. There's still some of it. But it's like everywhere you go you're like, I guess Chipotle, like they really do. They have like everywhere is a small P. You feel like Bourdain, you're just like totally, you know, everything's local.

[Stavi]

It was nice.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Beers are local. But it is just simpler. I go there and I'm like just like way easier little existence. And you know, it's nice to not be able to get everything all the time. Like when I've toured Europe, you are like, there are. I remember we finished a show once on a Sunday and it was like 9:30 and we were like, can we get some food? And the guy was like, oh, yeah. I don't know if that's gonna happen.

[Stavi]

Yeah. Depending on where you are, if you're in Greece, they're just start opening the restaurants.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. Really? Yeah. Right?

[Stavi]

Yeah, some places are open.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I was in like Denmark and the guy was like, oh, good luck. Told me you wanted to eat at 4. Yeah, it's Sunday, you know. Yeah. Is that a Taco Bell?

[Stavi]

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[Caller 2]

Yes, it was.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I did it.

[Caller 2]

I legitimately did it. So easy on like my phone.

[Stavi]

And Elvis can barely produce this podcast. He doesn't even edit him, folks. Do you understand that? He sits there, presses a couple buttons. Ones somebody else edits them. He can do. He could do it. You.

[Caller 2]

Well, I manage the editing.

[Stavi]

Yeah, sure. No, it's really hard. Anyway, are you ready to say yes to saying no? Make the [e-mail] that's mintmobile.comstavi Upfront payment of $45 required equivalent to $15 a month. Limited timing. New customer offer for first three months only. Speeds may slow above 35 gigabytes on unlimited plan taxes and fees. Extra cement Mobile for details. No, I agree with you though. I love when things were just. They were just. They're like, yeah, sorry, it's better. It's a Sunday.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

When people like confused, you're like, you wanted to go to the electronics store on a Sunday.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Like when places close like, like in Australia, there's like. Or wherever there's places that close from like 1 to 5 and you're like, yeah, no, you shouldn't. You just shouldn't be able to have access to everything, every moment of the day.

[Stavi]

I agree. I almost, like, I even miss, like, in America, you. You only got that for holidays for a while.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

It was like, you have to go do your shop it. You know, if you need something for Christmas dinner, you better go early Christmas. They're closing early on now. It's like, you. It's 10am on Christmas. I'm like, I'll go over the grocery store, get whatever. And I feel like an. It's like, why are these people working Close.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. You're just like. You really are. You're like, why the. Why are they working?

[Stavi]

It sucks.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. It really does. And that. I think that was Black Friday every year. I'm like, man, this is just the fact that was dystopian capitalist ever.

[Stavi]

That was the worst. When it was like, we took this beautiful day where it was like, there's nothing to do. And they're like, let's fill it with shopping.

[Gareth Reynolds]

What if they beat the out of each other for a CD player instead.

[Stavi]

Of spending time with their families?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

Why didn't.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Why don't they just get up early? Yeah. Make them wait in line and get agitated at each other.

[Stavi]

It's the world. It's the beautiful little. It's the most like, like, delicious day of, like, nothing.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

Right after Thanksgiving.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yep.

[Stavi]

You got two weekend days coming up that should be the, like, lounge. Any company that makes you work on Black Friday.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I mean, I like, talk about that on stage it up, man. It is shocking the level of people who are like, I don't care for your anti billionaire stuff. It's crazy, dude. It's so.

[Stavi]

It's not gonna be you, man. You're not good. Like, yeah, I'm rich. Right? I am. I've gotten really lucky. I am so much closer to a homeless person than I am even somebody with half a billion dollars. Like, the amount of power I have in society is closer. And that's what people like. No one is trying to stop you from being a successful. Like, you want to have a successful business and have a lot of money. Whatever. We're not taking your money, idiot. We're talking about Jeff Bezos.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

We're talking about the people. We're talking about the guys that go to space for fun.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

You'll never have space for fun money.

[Gareth Reynolds]

No, you'll never have it. Well, and then it's like the way that they're just like. Like food stamps. That's the issue, like, I don't understand.

[Stavi]

How you think we can't let a lady who on food stamps get a soda.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, that's the crazy out of here.

[Stavi]

That pissed me off so much.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I mean, this is America.

[Stavi]

Poor people don't deserve.

[Gareth Reynolds]

They deserve soda more than anybody.

[Stavi]

Exactly.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Jesus Christ.

[Stavi]

Whole country's fat as. They can't have little fast food.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, and then if you look in like, 2012, like, Zuckerberg was worth, like 2 billion.

[Stavi]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's like in 13 years, the level of hundreds of billion, it's like, even if you went back to that and capped it there, now that would be, like, enough.

[Stavi]

Cap it at 2 billion. You'll. You're fine.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay.

[Stavi]

You're fine.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Plenty, Plenty.

[Stavi]

Anyway, whatever.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, right.

[Stavi]

These people.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

And if you're sucking billionaire dick, you're a piece of. Yeah, they're your ass. Wake up, idiot. Yeah, anyway, let's help some people with some. With some. With some questions here, Elders. Yeah, we clearly know what the fuck's going on.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Stavi]

We're two of the smartest guys people have ever fucking heard of.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I mean, let's listen back, look at our careers. Well, you did, though. You got, like, elevated as a. A solid voice of the.

[Stavi]

Oh, yeah, just.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But only for speaking, like, sense, dude.

[Stavi]

And believe me, the amount of people who wanted me to become, like, a political. Yeah, it's like, I'm not doing that.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

I'm a comedian, and a big problem is comedians thinking they're smart.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

I'm not smart.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, it's worked out pretty well with those.

[Stavi]

Yeah, I know.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But.

[Stavi]

But it's like, if. But it'. Like, the whole point is, like, you don't have to be smart to realize we're getting fucked.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

You know, like, that's all there is to it. It's like rich, the absolute ultra rich are fucking everyone else's ass. There's no other conspiracy. It's so fucking obvious and simple, it's crazy. We don't have to make up conspiracy theories. The people with all the resources keep fucking you to take more of the resources. That's all there is to it. And yes. And he kind of like, there's no. No shadowy people control shit. The people who control it tell you that they're controlling it. They buy all the.

[Gareth Reynolds]

They brag about it.

[Stavi]

It's crazy. It's nuts.

[Gareth Reynolds]

All right.

[Stavi]

So anyway, let's keep going. All right.

[Caller 3]

Hey, Savvy Eldest.

[Caller 1]

Yes.

[Caller 3]

So this is my question.

[Stavi]

Okay, whatever.

[Caller 3]

44 now. When I was 13, my first boyfriend And I, we were pretty much, you know, in love. Puppy love. He was a chunky kid, and we really clicked.

[Stavi]

Good for you.

[Caller 3]

And I didn't care.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I loved him anyway. Great for Scotty.

[Caller 3]

And we were just, you know, on the same wavelength, so things got pretty intense when we were, like, 13, 14, he would sneak out of the house, come over to my house, he'd rap on the window. I would let him in. We would just screw around all night long. Age 13, going at it. Everything but sex. You know, like titty blow jobs.

[Stavi]

It was really, really good.

[Caller 3]

Crazy stuff.

[Stavi]

We got it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's just always nice, you know?

[Caller 3]

And then we kind of broke up throughout high school, but we always stayed friends, and senior year, you know, came together, stayed a little bit. Finally screwed, you know, so screwed. Always.

[Stavi]

I like this.

[Caller 3]

Fast forward to 2020, 2020, and we start chatting, texting. 20 years, never seen each other, no talking. And in 2020, we start chatting, and we've been texting for five years. That's all it's been. He's in a different state, but we are really, really good friends now, and we've gotten to know each other as adults and not children. And, you know, consider him one of my best friends, and I think vice versa. And so my question is, and, you know, through our texting, he told me, you know, that time with you when I was a kid, those were the best orgasms I've ever had in my life.

[Stavi]

I don't really need a thing to know.

[Caller 3]

I remember one time it came so hard, it shot on my wall and was stuck on my picture frame.

[Stavi]

Being a teenager, first of all, yeah, he's 13, getting.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

I mean, do you understand how awesome that would be to. I've. I can't even imagine. I was so far away from it. Yeah, that's when.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's how you used to patch walls. That's usually patch holes in your wall.

[Caller 3]

He told me that was the best time of my life. So I guess my question to you is now that we're adults, you know, in a position where we could meet up, should we, like, meet up and, you know, should we meet up and try to date? Like, what do you think that we should do? What are the pro Of.

[Caller 1]

Of this?

[Caller 3]

And like I said, we've been just texting for five years, so it's not been physical. It's just been a friendship. Like, it started out when we were kids. So what do you think we should do? All right, thank you.

[Caller 1]

Bye.

[Stavi]

Well, I think it's kind of wild. They haven't met up yet.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, but it's also not just a friendship. If he's talking about how good the orgasms were. Small talk.

[Stavi]

Yes.

[Gareth Reynolds]

No, no, no.

[Stavi]

This guy's just a coward who wants to. You, I think.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

Or whatever. Maybe he's. I mean he's being something around. Yes, he might be. Yes, this. That's true. Are you sure he's single? Whatever. You know, that's important to know.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, what do you think? I mean, should they.

[Stavi]

I. Look, I don't see the downside.

[Caller 2]

They live in separate states too. Yeah, what she said.

[Stavi]

Yeah, but still, but still, it's like what's the down. Worst case scenario? You meet up, you make a little trip of it. You see if there's, you know, worst case scenario, like you stay friend, you just meet up. These people have a history, you know, and it's like you could give it a shot, see if you like it. You definitely do. I mean this, that's, that's what.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But I also would lower the bar of like he's not going to be like shooting loads on the wall. I mean this is like 20 years later. Like you'll be lucky if he hits one on the pillow. Like, you know what I mean? He's not going to be shot putting like his Olympic days.

[Stavi]

I think, I think the lower the bar jizz wise and also, and also emotionally too because it's like, you know, this feels a little storybook.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Like.

[Stavi]

And it's like first love turns into who you. Whatever.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Time away really ages things well.

[Stavi]

And no, nothing stronger than nostalgia.

[Gareth Reynolds]

If your life's bad, your first teddy is. Oh, dude, you carry that with you forever.

[Stavi]

Cry.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Your first titty. If your first titty reaches out, you go back.

[Stavi]

You go back for five years.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. Maybe you gotta hold them a little tighter.

[Stavi]

Yeah, exactly, exactly. So I think like, yeah, the pros and cons are. The pros are like, could be fun, whatever, you know, whatever. You might have a real connection here. What are you. I guess the thing is, what are you looking for out of this?

[Gareth Reynolds]

She's, she's. I think she would be worried that, that you know, maybe she would feel emotionally attached and then it's logistically so complicated. But that's one of those things where it's like, well then, then you know at least because you're like middling too much right now.

[Stavi]

I would say you kind of should give it a shot because clearly there's somebody you've talked to for five years.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, that's so long.

[Stavi]

They're in your life. Is it. You're saying it's a friendship, but is it possibly stopping you from finding somebody else? Like, are you. Are you. You know what I mean? Like, yeah, is this. Is this.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I also. It's almost like, call the bluff. Because for a dude to only be texting for five years and texting about how good has come was back, like, yeah, sure. He clear. Like, say you want to meet up and see what he does, because there's a chance that then he might go, like, I can't. I'm, like, in something. Like, find out.

[Stavi]

Because, yeah, you could just be like him. You could just be, like, a way for him to tap into his nostalgia.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

You could just be a physical reminder, whatever. And you should know. What do you want? Like, do you. If you want to try and date, I get it. I totally do understand it. If you have this, like, chemistry, it does feel romantic on some level. Even though, you know, I. I love how they're both. She's like, yeah, titty. And he's like, yeah, I used to jizz so hard.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Like, screw for your first.

[Stavi]

I know. I love the screws.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Great.

[Stavi]

She's awesome.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I love her.

[Stavi]

But. But. So, yeah, look, you need to go. I don't think there's anything wrong with it. And I do think, clearly, this is occupying a lot of space in your head. And I think even your. As kids, you said it was, like, kind of will they, won't they? You only really dated a little bit in senior year. Like, you might just owe it to yourself to give this a shot, see if there's anything real here. You might get there, and it might not. You might just not feel it. Right? Like.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Like, it's worth doing it.

[Stavi]

It's worth just. And then one way or the other, you have to decide either you're truly trying to make this work and you think it's an actual somebody you can be with in a serious way, or you just stop talking this much. Because if. If it's. This isn't a regular friendship. This isn't like, this. Clearly. This person clearly has a very specific part. Occupies a specific part of your mind. And, you know, unless you can both agree, like, all right, let's just be friends, and you text each other, like, a handful of times a year. You know what I mean? This becomes one of those, like, oh, great to see you, or if you bump into each other in your hometown, you have a chat, but it's nothing more than that. That's fine. I'm saying you have to tell A guy to fuck off. But either you give it a shot or you stop with this weird. You're kind of engaging in the same pattern as you were in high school by kind of being on again, off again.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Have you had those? Because I've had those over the years where it's like, even, like, on the road, like, you'll meet and then you're, like, texting a lot for, like, ages, and you're like, what the fuck? What am I doing? Yeah, weird. Kind of a weird comfort thing.

[Stavi]

Sure.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That I don't think is necessarily helpful.

[Stavi]

Yes, I. I fully agree. I think it's like this weird. They're sort of like at least a real person, but you're basically. You're kind of using a person the way people now use chat GPT. And it's like. It's like elders.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

At least this is a real person, but it's like, in. In a way, it still is fake.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

If he. If you never meet up with him and you're talking to him constantly, it's like you're still pouring your energy into something that's, you know, not really there. You were about to say something, Eldis.

[Caller 2]

I was just gonna say you guys kind of, like, joked about it with a titty thing, but I feel like, especially when men get older, like, there is like, just a wistful, like, sad nostalgia to, like, things that are, like, related. You know, that idea of, like, sex in your youth.

[Stavi]

Yep.

[Caller 2]

And it's like. Yeah. Just to go with what you're saying, like, he probably is just tapping into that, like, so what is he doing with the rest of his life?

[Stavi]

Like, totally.

[Caller 2]

Is it going good or is this just, like, an escape for totally?

[Stavi]

Like. Yes. You need to find out one way. Because the other thing is, I would say thinking about being. She said he was chunky and she didn't care. She liked him. If I was 13 and a girl, like, look, you know, like, at that time, like, believed in me, whatever. And then here's the other thing. Sometimes that person gives you confidence and you believe in yourself forever. And then you're like, you're good.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

That might have been the bet that. That might have been the best. The most a woman was in, like, love.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's why he shot such.

[Stavi]

That's why his lows were so viscous that, like, he. He might. That might. He might have peaked at 13.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

Right. And so, yes, that's a very good point. I think you need to kind of meet up and figure out, is this real? Because. Yes, this you might be an escape to the good old days. And him not wanting to make anything real of it could. Could mean that, like, because he doesn't want it to be real, he wants it to just be this ethereal. I'm talking to the girl and he's just remembering back then. He's not thinking of you.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's what I would worry about.

[Stavi]

You actually are. He's. He's. You're just a manifestation of his best memories. So that's why I think you have to give it a shot to see if it can even be real. And if it's not, you just gotta get the out.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. At least you'll know.

[Stavi]

You'll know.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And even if it gets more complicated, it's like, well, at least then you can make a decision and. Or get off the pot.

[Stavi]

And also.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Or jizz or get out of the.

[Stavi]

Yeah, yeah, jizz or get off the wall.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

But I think like, also our friend here seems pretty fun. She might not even mind just meeting up and then being like, all right, good screw. Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Good titty screw. Yeah, yeah.

[Stavi]

Have a diddy screw for old time's.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Sake and then move on. Leave money for the maid. Good night.

[Stavi]

Good old fashioned tit screw.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Tit screw.

[Stavi]

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[Caller 2]

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[Stavi]

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[Caller 2]

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[Stavi]

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[Caller 1]

Hey Stavi. Elvis. And just wanted to reach out. Need a little bit of advice. So basically I was raised a Jehovah's Witness and I decided to leave when I was 25 and, and that religion, whenever you leave the, the cult or the church, basically your whole family shuns you.

[Stavi]

Right?

[Caller 1]

But my wife and I have a, a little baby and my mom is trying to have a relationship with the baby because in that religion you can still talk to someone who's not not been baptized in the religion. So my wife, she's from Sweden.

[Stavi]

You can talk to heathens. Yeah, but not people who are baptized and don't go to church.

[Caller 2]

Basically that's more like innocence than heathens. They Just haven't had a chance to baptize.

[Stavi]

But that's a real loophole, though. Anyway, Keep going.

[Caller 1]

Very religious. So my mom keeps reaching out to my wife and saying, you know, hey, we'd love to have a relationship with you or grandson. Obviously, you know, Steven can't be there, but we'd like to meet up with you.

[Stavi]

And it's like, your friend is a baby, so. Because his wife wasn't. This is what I'm talking about, though. This is a loophole. His wife is no longer an innocent. She's rejecting the religion. So you can. You can talk to an adult who's not baptized, but because he's been baptized, she can't talk. I mean, that's insane.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

That they think that's even on the table.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's a very weird contract they have. Same. Yeah.

[Stavi]

God is gonna be like, oh, yeah, that makes sense. Keep going, Elvis.

[Caller 1]

So my wife's a little confused on what to do, and there's no confusion. I'm saying no, because of course. Obviously them.

[Stavi]

Of course.

[Caller 1]

Relationship with me, they shouldn't have a relationship with my son. Of course, my wife is a little bit like, you know, hey, it's your mom. Maybe you should have, you know, interaction with our son. But I obviously respect you as well, so just need a little bit of advice.

[Stavi]

Dude, that's insane that your wife in.

[Caller 1]

Relationship to or in relation to this situation. So, I mean, decided to reach out to.

[Stavi]

Runs in the. Your whole life has been being gaslit by the women in your life. Clearly, like, you went from your mom to your wife. Like, what the is this? How is your wife not like. Like, obviously not. You can't see my son if his father's not there. That. The fact that your wife is entertaining. This is actually crazy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That is a. I mean. I mean, you don't want to get into that too much, but that is a red flag.

[Stavi]

That's insane. And now maybe it comes from a place of, like, really valuing the relationship with his. The kid's grandmother, but it's like, clearly they have some up. Like, when I first heard this, when he first started, I thought, like, oh, I thought the cr. The problem would be, like, can I get over how they used to treat me now that they want to be in my life with my kid?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, but it's. But it's like, no, we want to.

[Stavi]

Keep shunning you because look at the baby. Like, oh, but now there's something good for me, so I want to look at the baby. Like them.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I would Secretly baptize the wife and then she's out of the equation. She can't be a part of it. And maybe the kid, and then they both baptize everyone.

[Stavi]

Yeah, but no, dude, obviously. This is insane.

[Gareth Reynolds]

No, you can't do that.

[Stavi]

Yeah, you.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You cannot.

[Stavi]

I mean, you should have some hole. You should be like. You should. Yeah. They're about to meet them and you should be with a. A sniper. A sniper with holy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

A balloon of holy water above them. Yeah.

[Stavi]

Boom. No, A priest with. In a hot air balloon with a. With a bullhorn. You are in the bott. Your mom takes the holy water balloon.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, dude.

[Stavi]

I mean, your wife's a idiot for even. I mean, look, whatever. Maybe she's coming.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, she's probably. I mean, I don't know. There's probably a lot of confusion with. In that you want to have like your child that have a relationship with the family. So she. But I. I would say she thinks.

[Stavi]

She can soften her up.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, she doesn't know the LDs, but obviously. Yeah, I. I mean, I completely agree. I think you got to be like. Like. No.

[Stavi]

Like, no.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Just.

[Stavi]

Yeah. First of all, if I have to be there. And by the way, you have to apologize for how you treated me when I left the church.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

And if. And if those are non starters, then you don't get a relationship with my kid. That's insane. You're not gonna disrespect me.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I also think you probably don't want to have that kind of weird influence on your young child of like, anything like this being. Even entering the. The headspace of a little kid.

[Stavi]

Totally.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You don't want to be like. Like, I mean, look, trust me, my brother was raised to believe that my mother was a sister. You know, it's. These are delicate years.

[Stavi]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You don't get them back.

[Stavi]

But.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But no, I think you. You probably don't want to be putting your son in that position anyway. And I do think you might want to say to your wife, like, you know, this is a decision that I'm gonna make because this is my mother and it's pretty frustrating. Up.

[Stavi]

Yeah, of course, of course.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And then titty. Yeah. Yeah. Makes it feel good.

[Caller 1]

Hey.

[Caller 3]

Stop.

[Caller 1]

Hey, Eldis. What's up, Guest? So I have a little bit of an issue with this new girl that I'm seeing. It feels weird even saying that it's an issue. So when we first started talking, so I've been single for like a year and, you know, I just kind of started getting back out there. Like, dating. Dating around on the apps and whatever. And so I met this girl, and she used to be a dancer, but now, you know, she's like a single mom now. And she's really cool. She's really smart and funny. But she told me pretty early on that in a lot of our last relationships, like, the guys. The guys that she would date would say that she. She likes sex too much or she wants too much sex. And my initial thought was, like, what kind of. What. What fucking guy would. Would say that a girl wants sex too much? That sounds like a fucking dream. And then we started having sex. And at first I could keep up. It was like five. Five to six times a night. And I mean, I wasn't busting every time, you know, but that doesn't count. Yeah, but that. That hasn't slowed down. And it's been like. Like four weeks now to the point where I'm like, like, my hurt sick. Yeah, she. She consistently makes me late for work because I, like, I'll get like. I'll try to get up an hour before work. She just won't.

[Stavi]

Psychologically.

[Caller 1]

Keeps trying to suck my dick and me. And I'll be like, all right, and I'll get like, one sock on, and then she'll start sucking my dick again, which I'm not gonna be like. I'm not gonna be like, no. Then I'll be like, 15 minutes late for work.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Caller 1]

Because she was. Because she was fucking me.

[Stavi]

Yes.

[Caller 1]

I mean, this is like, my first legitimate encounter with a nymphomaniac, I think. And she told me before that even in a long relationship, like, that doesn't really slow down for her. She just has, like, a constant, constant need.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Something wrong.

[Caller 1]

That's how she expresses, like, affection or, like, love or whatever.

[Stavi]

There's other ways to do that, and it's cool, man.

[Caller 1]

I like sex, dude. Sex is dope.

[Stavi]

But that's too much. We like to around here too.

[Caller 1]

But, yeah, I'd appreciate any advice, you guys. Thank you so much. Peace.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, you can't. I mean, look, you can fill the hole between her legs, but not the one inside of her heart.

[Stavi]

Oh, yeah. No amount of jizz is feeling that, filling that.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. I mean, imagine it like, you know, the chase. Like, you can't through the chafe.

[Stavi]

Then what are you doing? I mean, this is insane.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I bet the fact that she's a dancer probably makes you want to keep up with her so that you feel like, at work there's no libido left or something.

[Stavi]

She used to Be. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I. I mean, you gotta say. You gotta say something or get sponsored by Gatorade.

[Stavi]

Damn. She used to be. I bet you a couple guys got pretty. Were pretty stoked when she was working when they caught her on a shift. You know what I mean? I think there's probably some pretty cool stuff.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Only $10 for that.

[Stavi]

Yeah, dude. I mean, this is a problem. It is funny. He's like. I feel dumb even saying his problem. It's a problem. It's crazy. She has a pro. She has an issue. She has a psychological issue. And yes, you.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You.

[Stavi]

You hit it kind of on the head where it's like, that's how she expresses affection or like love. Whatever. It's like, that's not normal. Sex is definitely a part of it of showing effects of showing love. But it's like. Like she needs to work on the other ones. You know what? Another thing that's like. Did you show you affection to your partner is like not fucking their life up with your needs, even if your needs happen to be sucking them off?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

It's crazy to say that, but it's like if. What if you're with anyone and whatever what they want supersedes what makes your life better. Even when it's something cool like, that's bad. I can't believe I have to explain.

[Gareth Reynolds]

This four to five times a night, even a day is.

[Stavi]

That's insane.

[Gareth Reynolds]

A night.

[Stavi]

That's insanity. That. I mean, look, that's one cool. Awesome. That's like, you have like one awesome day a year where you don't do anything else but Black Friday, you know?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

Black Friday. Back when we were a country, you'd your wife four times pumpkin pie, just slow, ineffectual. But four times in between watching Saving Private Ryan on TMS tmc or turn a TCM Turner Classic Movies with commercials in the ads when you would.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, you're watching a class. All right, let's have a look at this. Let's see what's going on over here.

[Stavi]

That's when you do it. But yeah, you have to have a conversation. And like, look, it basically amounts to. Who is this person to you really? Like, is this a cool. You're dating her for a little bit. You get so you her a bunch. And then you're like, all right, this is obviously gonna work you. Or is it someone that you have. You want a future with? Because if it is, you have to be like, hey, this is a problem that you have to solve.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Also a great. I mean, it's Going to be a very good barometer for like how do you guys work through an issue? Because this is like you can't look it. The reason why he's fucking leaving a message is because it's not sustainable. So you know, I mean you got to just be like, look, it's. It's not possible I think with someone. I bet you when she starts this off by being like other dudes couldn't keep up. You probably are like, well. And I can do that.

[Stavi]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Until you're, you know, your penis looks like a newborn gerbil. Yeah.

[Stavi]

And then.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Stavi]

And so.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But. But it is. It's a great. It's a great test to see if you do want to be in this. Because if she's like that's your problem then you know, it's not good communication.

[Stavi]

Even her like framing is like. Yeah. Guys in the past have told me it's too her. Her not having any self awareness that maybe you're literally the problem if every one of your relationships ended because you fucking too much.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

Don't you know how much that has to be if you're. If like that's insane. So she hasn't really. She has to it actually like that. What I'm saying is that makes me a little skeptical of her like being able to really face it. Like she's basically. There's a denial framed it as it's been a proud. The other people haven't been able to keep up. And that's not what's going on here.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. Right.

[Stavi]

You have a up. You know, she's addicted to something. It happens to be having sex. But. But there's a reason the same as any other addiction. Really.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

She's got. I mean it's good that it's with you I guess but it's like still.

[Caller 2]

This is also like too much by honeymoon period standards. Like they've only been dating four weeks. Like the first month you're dating someone. Like. Yeah. You're probably gonna. Way more on average of course the longer you are together. So if you. If she wants to so much that like you can't keep up a month right now. Yeah.

[Stavi]

Oh yeah. Dude. Come on.

[Caller 2]

It's untenable now.

[Stavi]

Fully untenable.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But you gotta bring it up.

[Stavi]

You gotta either solve this the idea.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I mean you have. You actually physically have no other alternative. Yes. You know what I mean?

[Caller 2]

He's like, I got fired. She goes for his belt buckle.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

Oh really?

[Gareth Reynolds]

You know you need. You need a sock for your. And that's the first one you put on you.

[Stavi]

Oh, what you need is this chastity belt.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yes.

[Stavi]

You like? No, no, no, no.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We shut it down.

[Stavi]

You're gonna ask me about my day first.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We're gonna have. We're gon sitting there to chastity about.

[Stavi]

No.

[Gareth Reynolds]

What else? How was your day?

[Stavi]

Do all your chores and then you get digged. She's like.

[Gareth Reynolds]

The keys under the bench. There you go. Careful.

[Stavi]

Oh, damn. Hilarious.

[Caller 1]

Hey, so I got a girlfriend. Love her to death. Adore her. She's one of my life. But she hates some of my friends. Good friend of mine, known him for almost a decade at the point. He's been there for me, but she hates him. Just. She hates him for a variety of reasons. He's a big maga dude, you know, when we lived together, he was a slob xyz. He's a prison guard. Women a lot less of bad taste.

[Caller 2]

He said. Jokes about meeting women a lot.

[Stavi]

I mean, so far.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So far, you know, she's a good guy.

[Stavi]

Pretty right dude. Anyway, let's keep going.

[Caller 1]

He's a big maga dude, you know, when we lived together, he was a slob xyz. He's a prison guard. Feeding women a lot less of bad taste in my lady's mouth. Pause. But the real inciting incident is a chicken dip incident. She made a beautiful hand, like, you know, homemade.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Several hour long.

[Caller 1]

Buffalo chicken dip. Phenomenal for a poker night that we had. And you know, we're going to use the leftovers to make our buffalo chicken dip. This guy, you know, he comes tonight, he hangs out, doesn't really talk to anybody, chills. And later that evening at 3am when he's getting ready to go to work, he just devours all of the chicken dip that's left over and makes a huge mess in the kitchen. And then vominoses vomits. No apology. No, not somebody.

[Caller 2]

Vominosis.

[Caller 1]

But it's funny. It's a funny story. But I want to figure out.

[Stavi]

It's not funny. It's not funny at all, dude. That's funny when you're like.

[Caller 1]

And they're all clear that when you make something for poker night, you can't expect leftovers. Even. Even at the end of poker night, you know, things happen, things change.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I like this.

[Caller 1]

Help me fix my broken home. Stavi.

[Stavi]

I got a bad news.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I mean, there's this dude is.

[Stavi]

Now, look, I. Okay, I kind of see what they're saying. Like, you make something for a party, you can't necessarily expect leftovers. But also, if that's the case, the guest who takes it, you help by cleaning up a little bit or doing something. Like if I'm. If you're holding me to host duties, you know, you have to hold your guests to a little, you know, a little. A little. You eat the whole thing, and then you just make a huge mess. That's. You're being an inconsiderate guest, at least. At minimum.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's also cumulative. It's like all the other. Like, if this was just a one off and this guy just ate a bunch of buffalo chicken dip and took off, you know, all right, you can. But the rest of the stuff in totality is.

[Stavi]

Yes.

[Gareth Reynolds]

This is many red flags.

[Stavi]

This is getting Al Capone for tax fraud.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, right.

[Stavi]

You know what I mean? Those were not his real crimes times. That's not what we actually want him behind bars for. But this might hold up in court, you know, like, I might have an actual, like, yeah, look, I don't know this guy, and certainly I have friends that I don't agree with politically, but all I've heard is negative.

[Gareth Reynolds]

What's the worst thing on that list, in your opinion of those things that she.

[Stavi]

I think if you're. If your friend jokes about. About women.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's what I think.

[Stavi]

That's insane.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, and I mean, yes, because he.

[Stavi]

Does a guy who's a guy who is a prison guard, who's an in. Who doesn't care about other people, who's a slob. He's shown himself to be, like, inconsiderate. I think he probably is, actually.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I do too. And I also think, why the. Is he doing that material in front of her? Like, totally. At least you can't read the room. Yeah. I'm not saying it's, like, great to be around it as a guy.

[Stavi]

No.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But it's also a girlfriend to be like, he does.

[Stavi]

Doesn't you add an extra layer of that being an annoying joke.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It is also that position that he's in is so stressful because that. That honestly, what I would do is I would talk to your friend and I would be like, look, I want you to be friends with my girlfriend. You are.

[Stavi]

This guy sucks. He's gonna be like, you're a.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, then it's over. You know, Then you just go, whatever. I mean.

[Stavi]

But that's. That is the truth.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I would side. You side with her. I mean, she's right.

[Stavi]

Well, that's the thing, though. This is a fork in the road moment, unfortunately. Because, look, it's one Thing to have. Like if your partner doesn't love one of your friends, that's tough. Sometimes that can be understandable and sometimes there is an agree to disagree type thing here. But if like, well like, like you, you got what kind of guy. Like, it's even you being like, it's funny. It's like, like the thing is, look, did he do anything technically wrong? But clearly this is not a person who is. Who cares about others. He clearly is a self centered. Like it's kind of crazy to just eat a bunch of shit like at the last minute of a party to just like, I don't know, clean it out like a whole. It's also a dip. It's like that's a. You eat it in one sitting. That's fucking weird.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's a weird three.

[Stavi]

It's weird.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And it's like, by the way, that next day at work for him was pretty tough as a prison guard. Yeah, he's got buffalo chicken shits.

[Stavi]

I know. Also, he's a prison guard.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's what I mean. Like there. That's not, that's not like, listen, I.

[Stavi]

Can deal with one of all of these things. Like MAGA guy, whatever. I have friends who are MAGA guys. Like make a guy who makes jokes up jokes in a vacuum that you know, he doesn't mean them. Y. I can, you know, obviously half my friends are like that someone who's a slob. I'm a slob. You know what I mean? Prison guard. That one's maybe the toughest one in a vacuum. But it's like even that it's like I have friends who are cops, whatever, you know what I mean? Like if the rest of them makes up for one thing that I don't typically look for in a friend, yep, that's fine. Right? But this guy has all this stuff that he like to me. Is he like doing it to piss your girlfriend off? Is he like, is he fucking with her? Is he being a dickhead? If he is, then that's a problem. And you have to think about maybe is this the kind of. Do you care about how serious is this relationship? And also, even if it's not her, do you want to end up. Even when you end up with someone, is this guy gonna be fucking weird to you to who you end up with?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Think about this guy you okay with. Exactly. I mean, that is like this is going to be the worst fucking guy at your wedding. I. What I would maybe start with is separating the friendship. Like have the friendship with him on the Side, don't bring him into your relationship with her, and then see if that. You parlay that into a conversation. But he's in the wrong for most of this. So I feel like with a lot.

[Caller 2]

Of this, it's like, when we get calls like this, it's like, oh, I'm kind of growing apart with one friend. Or I went out with my friend, he tried to fight a bouncer, and then threw up in the Uber back and blah, blah, blah, blah. It's like, you know, all.

[Gareth Reynolds]

All the.

[Caller 2]

All the he's saying about his personality, it's like, yeah, you can be friends with a guy like that, but a lot of the times, like, especially as you get deeper into your 20s, it kind of comes down to how unpredictable is this person. And what if I invite them to something? Can I guarantee that he won't get, like, tanked? But we're just, like, having a chill night and also, like, yeah, up my fridge and make the kitchen counter crazy and.

[Stavi]

And just be rude.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Right?

[Stavi]

Here's the thing. Did he do anything technically wrong with any of this? No. But is he being rude? Is he being a. What is he adding to your life?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Right. Yeah.

[Stavi]

Really? You should have this thought to yourself, what is this person adding to my life? What do I add to his? What's the like. And not that everything should be transactional, but at some point, you have to think, like, because I've been in relationship. When you're younger, you have friendships where it's like someone is essentially a leech on you, or they treat you bad, or they treat you like. And you're like, well, this is my boy. Whatever. And they're like, why am I putting up with this? You know what I mean? Like, I. What. Why do I actually need this? Do I actually like being around them, or is this just inertia? Now you could be like, this is my boy. He's a fucking piece of shit. I want to be my boy forever. Maybe I just can't have him around my wife or girlfriend. That's possible. There's guys like that. Sure. But I think this is a good opportunity for you to really think. Now, in terms of the Buffalo chicken. If we want to get granular here and talk about The Baltimore. The Buffalo chicken dip incident. Yeah, I. I think it's not a letter of the law thing. It's like. It's like, come on, man. That was just. You were just kind of being a dickhead. It's like, what. By the way, what did he bring? Okay, you're hosting poker Night. I get that. But what did he bring? Did he bring anything?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Some great jokes about abuse.

[Stavi]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Did he bring anything? Did he help clean up? Did he do whatever? It's like, then he's just being a.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Sometimes, like, I. I think that with my girlfriend, sometimes it's like I'm a bar rescue episode where she'll come in and there's just stuff that I've been, like, fine with forever. She's like, why is it like this? And I'm like, I don't know. We just got bugs in the vodka.

[Stavi]

It's fine.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We just still pour it. She's like, no, you kind of do.

[Stavi]

Right?

[Gareth Reynolds]

It is a helpful reassessment. So I think you should. You should take it at face value for what it's worth and just kind of reassess it, because, honestly, that list is pretty bad.

[Stavi]

It's a bad. It's a bad.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Like.

[Stavi]

Like, if you're telling me, for me, in my life, those four things in one guy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

I'm probably not hanging out with that guy. Me personally.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

Like, prison guard plus one. I mean, take slob away.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

Like. But prison guard and. And, like, maga. Prison guard.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Maga. Prison guard.

[Stavi]

Good maga. Wife jokes. Is he actually his wife? Matt. You know what I mean? Like, slob. Listen, hey, we're all slobs.

[Gareth Reynolds]

The chicken dip is maybe the least offensive one, in a way. Yeah.

[Stavi]

I mean, look, he was just being boorish.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

And that's the best you can hope for for a guy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. Right? Yeah. Right? Yeah.

[Stavi]

It's kind of shitty, but. Yes. I actually. You don't. You don't say. Like, hey, I was planning on eating the thing I put out for my guests.

[Gareth Reynolds]

This is.

[Stavi]

This is one of those things where it's like, she just hates him.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yep.

[Stavi]

And so this just. This pissed her off because it was kind of rude. But if, like, one of your. Her friends did this. But it's also, like, you know, she just hates him. And that's the. That's really not a bait. Whatever.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, that could be weird.

[Stavi]

He's being a. But it's. It's not horrible.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Your other move could just be start hating one of her friends a lot. For an eye. It. Go. One of her friends.

[Stavi]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, Go One of her friends, the lipard.

[Stavi]

Oh, I bet you want to turn my nephew trans.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. They're using litter boxes.

[Stavi]

We're going to deport. My friend is going to deport your. Your friend. He's hiding up for. He's Doing some double. I mean, this is the kind of guy who would be pumped to join ice.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, yeah. Dean Cain energy.

[Stavi]

Yeah. Fuck. I mean, whatever. It's hard for me not to say, fuck this guy, but I, you know, I will stop short of saying that. Do I think I would like this person? Absolutely not. But whatever. This is a chance for you to take stock. And I agree that. That's so funny. Bar a girlfriend being like. Bar being John Taffer.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Totally. Like, what are you doing?

[Stavi]

What is going on?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Why you hanging out with a prison guard who makes all these abuse jokes? He's in check.

[Stavi]

A deputation.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Get someone killed. What are you doing.

[Stavi]

Dude?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

So look, take stock. Really think about this. And yeah, I think your options are either if this guy. If you want this guy in your life, then he's got to be. You got to keep him away from your girl, and he just is. You know, that's. And that happens. Or really think, like, what. What does this person add? And, like, what kind of life do I want? What kind of people do I want around me? Me. And it's not about his beliefs. It's how he treats other people. If he has all these beliefs and is nice to your people in your life, who cares, right?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Totally.

[Stavi]

But if he's rude to somebody who should be one of the most important people in your life, especially if it's a serious relationship. I don't want. Guy. I don't want people like that in my life. People who. Whether it's my girlfriend or a family member or a best friend, you don't get to disrespect the people I care about and then stay. Be one of my friends.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So think of him at your wedding without unchecked. Think of him at your wedding.

[Stavi]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

This is a wedding ruiner for her.

[Stavi]

Oh, he's not coming. There's no way.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And then you get. So then confront it now. Get it out of the way.

[Stavi]

That's a good point.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Stavi]

Because I do think at a wedding, people are allowed vetoes.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

You know what I mean?

[Gareth Reynolds]

This guy's a big veto.

[Stavi]

Yeah. Once you get married, you're like, all right, you're my family. You get the ultimate veto.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. Anyway, he'll take it well. Oh, he'll take a veto real well. For sure.

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[Caller 3]

Hey, stabby, eldest and esteemed guest. I'm just gonna get right into it. My fiance and I are getting married in February. We're doing a Mexico Cancun destination wedding. And then we're just gonna extend out our stay there for our honeymoon.

[Stavi]

Nice.

[Caller 3]

I want to stay somewhere super bougie, super luxury. Because I'm like, this is our Honeymoon.

[Stavi]

I get that.

[Caller 3]

You know, the only one we're gonna have. And we've never, like, bawled out before. I think it's worth it. Also, we're Both will be 35 and have to get on like, having kids right away. So it's gonna be like our last big trip. The issue is, is my fiance thinks it's too much money. To which I said, well, I will pay for most of it. I make, you know, significantly more money than him. And I'm also going to be getting my bonus right around that time, which is a nice chunk of change too. So it's not. It's not like we're going to be using up all the money we have to pay for this trip. It's just like, you know, a little bit a lot nicer than a trip we would normally take. How do I get him on board? He's still him and Han. I just want to gonna do it, but I also don't think that's the best thing to wait a start. Our marriage is just to me steamrolling him and being like, no, this is what we're doing.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. So thanks.

[Caller 3]

We'll love the advice. And. Yep.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's all.

[Caller 3]

Okay, bye.

[Stavi]

Yeah, that's a hard one, because I. I get both sides a little bit. You know, where it's like. And you're right. You don't want to start be like, well, I make the money, you broke idiot. Yeah, here's some champagne.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Eat some dragon.

[Stavi]

I paid for it. Yeah, you don't have to worry, broke boy. I'll pay for it. You know what I mean? I don't think that's going to be the most relaxing honeymoon.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Hurry up. Enjoy it. We got to have kids.

[Stavi]

How about this? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not in me. And enjoy this ceviche.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Here we go. It's funny to be like, I want to blow a lot of money. We got to have kids soon.

[Stavi]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But I do. I mean, I kind of get where she's coming from because it's like, you know, like, you want it to be a big deal. You want it to be nice. You wanted to. You want it. If there's. If there's moments in your life to kind of. I understand splurging on the honeymoon so much more than I understand splurging on a wedding completely. Like, the honeymoon is like, if your.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Wedding is the craziest way to start your, like, that's. That's it.

[Stavi]

Yeah. That's insane. But, like, going on a night, like, taking a really luxurious trip. You might never in your life. You might never, you know, you, you know, have the kind of disposable income and time to be able to take this level of trip. I agree with you. I think though. And you know, I would have. Now I have money. But even when I wasn't, I definitely would, like there were important things I would just splurge on because that's what life is about.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

It's enjoying these moments. You don't want to have a 50% shittier time at one of the most important moments of your life so that you like, what can afford a little bit faster Internet. Like what? You know, whatever utility you're paying. Utilities with this money. You know what I mean? Like, oh yeah, we could have a life changing trip, but hey, we paid for 14 months of FiOS. Instead. It's like, I don't know.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. I. I also wonder if you can maybe like loop. Could you not just put on your registry that this is part of what you want?

[Stavi]

And then they're already going. Destination wedding though.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Like you don't have a registry for those.

[Stavi]

I just think like sometimes, I mean.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Believe me, I wouldn't go. It's a pain in the ass.

[Stavi]

That's what I'm saying is like when, when people, when you do destination, it's almost like you're like, hey, just get there.

[Gareth Reynolds]

All right, so I've got an evil pitch on what she hit me with it. She could pretend that someone gave her the money and then she just uses her money and doesn't tell him. Oh, make sure the lie.

[Stavi]

Uncle Adley. You remember my old Uncle Adley?

[Gareth Reynolds]

I think I've heard of him before. Uncle Ad. Uncle Adley the millionaire. I spent a night in his house to get his inheritance after he passed.

[Stavi]

Wow. My part of Uncle Adley's inheritance just came in. Wouldn't you know it? It's exactly what the resort costs.

[Gareth Reynolds]

There's a waterfall in the room. Uncle Adley lay the foundation. Now about Uncle Adley too.

[Stavi]

Start breadcrumbing Uncle Adley.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I don't know if Uncle Hadley's gonna be able to make.

[Stavi]

It's not feeling well.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He's on dialysis.

[Stavi]

Oh, no. He's my favorite. Start photoshopping yourself. Yeah, start photoshop yourself. As a child with Uncle Adley.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It could be the Julian Lou Drey relative. He looks Adley.

[Stavi]

Yeah. He starts start crying like Uncle Adley died. And then three days later be like, you're never going to believe it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He left us $25,000.

[Stavi]

But okay. If there's, you're right, you don't want to steamroll. But it's just very important to you and to him. This is important because he's probably like, you know, he's just money conscious, whatever. So the, the, I think the compromise here is like you got to pinch pennies somewhere else to make your fiance husband feel better about this. Clearly it's purely about, it's not like he doesn't want to have an awesome time with you.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

Maybe he's just nervous about money.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That, that might be a good way into it is to sort of, of present it in a way where you're offering like a swap of savings in some capacity that makes him feel like you're not just dipping into savings, but you're kind of countering it with. Yeah, some actual cuts. It's a hard one too because it's like, I mean, it is, it's like the f, the, the time you want to celebrate, you're getting push back. You don't want to be arguing over how good.

[Stavi]

Yeah. This is really hard. This is really hard.

[Caller 2]

I, I think, I think she should just, she should think of it as like steamrolling, but like, just like persuasive. Cuz even what you guys are saying, it's like that is an optics thing. She's like, yeah, we'll get this, but we'll, you know, only spend 300 on groceries this month or something. Or, you know, she, you know, just like moving theoretical money around. It's like, I think you can steamroll him a little. Put on that little.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We're coming back to Uncle Adley again. Which really.

[Stavi]

But what if, what is. Well, yeah, I, I, I know you're saying what I mean.

[Caller 2]

What I mean by steamroll is just be like, this is really important to me. I really want to pay for this. I think we could have an awesome honeymoon. We'll figure out the money later or whatever you want to say. But I think all it takes is like just sitting him down and saying.

[Stavi]

That and you know, saying it's really important to me. I, but what if he's like, it's really important to me to not start off our marriage financially in a hole. What if they're, what if they're in a, what if they're at a stalemate? You know what I mean?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Like, could, could you maybe just like do half and half and like, you know, lower it for half of it and the second half is a little more luxurious and so you're not spending the whole, you Know, you're not spending all of it. You're spending half of what you were telling me, you know? But compromise.

[Stavi]

Yeah, I mean, I do think compromise is sort of some kind of compromise here is like. Is the answer. I mean, it's hard because it's just like, you really want this? I mean, I guess. I guess you could try what Elder's saying and be like, hey, this is really important to me.

[Caller 1]

Me.

[Stavi]

Could we do it? And then if he hits you back, then it's like, well, then can we compromise somewhere? Like, try Elvis's thing. And if you're met with resistance, say, well, then let's find something that makes us both happy. Can we cut some costs? Can we stay? You know, like you said, maybe one day at a cheaper part of town, and can we just cut it a little bit? Is there a dollar amount that would make you comfortable if we cut it?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Take him to a dangerous part of town and be like, this is your choice, and then go to the resort.

[Stavi]

Yeah. For real.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But no, I. I think that's true. I think. I mean, I. I think even if you offer up some kind of compromise, that'll probably at least help grease the wheels a little bit. That's tough one, though.

[Stavi]

And maybe even be like, all right, I guess I'll take some extra shifts. It's.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's also tough because it's like. Like, I. I wouldn't. I'd be like, great, you pay for it. But there are men who would be like, no, no, we can't afford. It's like, if someone's paying for it, I'd be in. But you can also understand the fragility of being a male, being like. Like, she's paying for it. That potentially could be playing into a.

[Stavi]

I mean, I. I also think, like, yeah, when we don't know if this guy's like this at all, but it's like if you're feeling financially cucked by your wife to begin with, and then it's like, oh, don't be silly, little boy. I can afford it. You know what I mean?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Like, he feels like that's my fetish.

[Stavi]

I know. It's all. I mean, I don't understand this at all.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, obviously.

[Stavi]

Don't get me wrong. I think this guy's a idiot. But I could see, like. I think I could see somebody having that. It's an emotional reaction to feeling emasculated. And here he has control in that. You have to make the decision together.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

But, like, it's tough because he knows his control Is it's soft power versus, like, she has the actual she. If push really comes to shove, she kind of has the power. All he can do is kind of is complain in a way that is traditionally feminine.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

You know what I mean? Like, where it's like if a 50s housewife didn't want to want her husband to buy a car, he'll be like, well, too bad, sweet cakes, I'm buying it. And that's enough out of you. You know what I mean? Like, he's in that position.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Stick to goulash. I'll pick the car.

[Stavi]

Yeah, he, like, maybe that's what it is. But like, you know, hopefully not. Hopefully he's not emasculated by it. And hopefully if you just are like, hey, this, you know, try it and then if anything, make even some. And if it is. If it is ego thing, even a token, like compromise could go along.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, I don't. Yeah.

[Stavi]

Even shaving off a couple GS off, it could go along.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, you. I heard you.

[Stavi]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We'll do this instead for these two nights.

[Stavi]

We'll fly back coach or what?

[Gareth Reynolds]

You know, you'll find that coach. I'll sit first. Yeah, yeah, you'll go coach.

[Stavi]

But I, I also feel for her because it's like she can afford it. She really wants.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Seems like she can. I wonder.

[Stavi]

Maybe she's. She's overdoing it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Maybe. And maybe he's like being rational. But either way, like, that's why you offer the of kind compromise. I mean, it's actually probably a pretty good way to like after you get married, to have a big point of contention and compromise on it is. You know what? This is all.

[Stavi]

Yeah. Actually getting through this is a. Is the most significant.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

Part of it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Good. Good bar to test.

[Stavi]

You know, and if it doesn't work, then, hey, maybe you could not just call the whole thing off. You know what I mean? If he's being a.

[Gareth Reynolds]

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[Caller 2]

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[Stavi]

Oh, does anything fun for us to go out on here, little buddy?

[Caller 1]

Hey Stuff. LB Love the podcast. So I have a question for you. I work in a clean room and I like eat like shit a lot of the time.

[Stavi]

Is it a clean room?

[Gareth Reynolds]

How do you.

[Caller 2]

I'm not sure exactly what that is.

[Stavi]

A clean room.

[Caller 1]

Not like need to. What do you do if you need to like shit yourself on stage? Because I have like really bad stomach issues. I'm a pretty fat guy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Green room, like no.

[Stavi]

The fuck is a clean room?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Do you think he's talking about?

[Stavi]

Eldest has searched. No, no, don't do the AI. What do we say about the AI? Oh, is an engineered space. Why would this guy work here? A clean room or clean room is an engineered space that maintains.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I thought he's. I thought he was trying to say he's like a stand up and he works in a room where can't. No, no, he's actually works in a.

[Stavi]

So it's like something that's like some.

[Caller 2]

Lab or something where you can't have a.

[Stavi]

How many contaminants? This guy's.

[Gareth Reynolds]

This guy's got a shart.

[Stavi]

This guy's worried. Yeah, this guy's worried.

[Gareth Reynolds]

There's just a great problem out of his ass.

[Stavi]

24 7. Keep going, Eldis.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I don't know, man.

[Caller 1]

I just like. I like can't not eat good, I guess. So I like have to spend a lot of time in a clean room and don't really have the opportunity to use the bathroom a lot for my job. So I was just wondering if you had any advice on. I mean I take like Pepto Bismol, but sometimes that shouldn't. It ain't that even ain't enough. So do you have any advice on.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Like if you're like on the plane.

[Caller 1]

Or if you're like on stage, how you not shit yourself? That'd be much appreciated.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Just talk about this.

[Stavi]

This is insane. Yeah, he's about himself in the clean room.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's amazing to not be like, I'll just stop eating like cuz this is part of my job. Yeah, your diet is your diarrhea issue, dude.

[Stavi]

I don't know what to tell you because yes, I am fat as. And I did. We did go through this with the bus where I did kind of have to just change my diet because you weren't allowed to at night on the bus us and so yes, I Took some Pepto. If you've gotten to the point where you're eating through Pepto, that's a level even I'm not at, Dude.

[Gareth Reynolds]

This is actually a very good problem for you because this is a, this problem is a lot bigger than trying to hold your sharts in a clean room.

[Stavi]

Yeah. Without the clean room, actually, you might have gone down even more sinister path.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, you, you really should be able to take this and recognize that this, this is, this is a holistic change.

[Stavi]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Dude, I don't know how old you are, but treat this like your mid-30s. It's time to re analyze some of your.

[Stavi]

At the very minimum, you have to get to the point where Pepto Bismol stops you from. Yeah, at the very minimum. But ideally, you need to be able to control your bowels enough, man. You're an adult.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

Or I don't even know what the to tell you. Then I guess you could do Imodium because it's stronger than.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I'll tell you that Imodium does work.

[Stavi]

Imodium does work.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I, I, I, I also would consider going to a doctor.

[Stavi]

Definitely.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We had that. I wanted to help where it was like, we were like advising this guy who went into a sauna and he kept like finding brown stains on his towel when he would get up. And we were like pitching for ages. And then like everyone in the comments was like, that man should go to a doctor. That's a good one too.

[Stavi]

But would leak out of this guy's ass in the sauna.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, then it turned into a whole thing where. Yes. And then what ended up happening was so then we told this guy to get a Brazilian and see if it kept happening. And then I got one in solidarity. So I got my wax and my front waxed.

[Stavi]

Wow.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Full clean. Thank you. Full clean. And it was absolutely the worst one. I mean, I did, I was sweating. It was the craziest.

[Stavi]

So you got your whole wax and then went into a sauna, just chat?

[Gareth Reynolds]

No, I didn't even do the sauna. I just as a brotherhood move, got it all waxed.

[Stavi]

And it wasn't trying to get waxed.

[Gareth Reynolds]

No. Jake's like, I was on a Fox show for eight seasons. Like, no. But I was like, I'll take do it. And it did cure his problem. And it did make me be like, I kind of like having my waxed.

[Stavi]

I've heard the is the best part.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Of the wax and the without question the way easier wax.

[Stavi]

And then people say it's like relaxing.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, I It was hard for me to know because I had the front done first and that was hell on earth.

[Caller 2]

Do they wax your nuts when you do this?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, but that's not even the worst part. That the pubis is the hell, the top, the mounds. Yeah. And then it's the. She's going and it's like you're sit. It's like you're in a baby position with a woman. Stranger. It's awful. Overall it's like I would rather someone. I would rather my therapist talk about what I talk about versus like this woman be able to reveal my stories. Yeah. But. But I think like maybe you want to go. You know, you might like if you can't keep your in. It's either your diet or there's something bigger.

[Stavi]

I'm not this fucking fat, by the way. Let me just also put it that way.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

I'm not the kind of fat that is worried as ass will, you know, ruin a clean room.

[Gareth Reynolds]

A clean room.

[Caller 2]

He's like manufacturing Covid cells. He's like, I don't have time to get this hazmat off.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, it is like having to get a hazmat off to is really an ordeal.

[Stavi]

This is good though for you. I think we were in agreement that you needed this.

[Gareth Reynolds]

A wake up call.

[Stavi]

You needed this outside structure on your hole.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yes.

[Stavi]

Cuz left to its own devices, it would be. You would just be leaking 24 7. So. So you just need to fix yourself, brother. I'm sorry. This is tough love here.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. If it wasn't a clean room, I would say maybe diaper it. But this is you.

[Stavi]

You can't be dipping it. You're too young for diapers, man.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, we gotta get him out of diapers.

[Stavi]

Too young for diapers. You gotta get out, man. You gotta get a better diet. You gotta regulate your. I don't know what to tell you.

[Gareth Reynolds]

More so I'll bet there's a lot of booze mixed in here. You know, I would definitely click start with the diet.

[Stavi]

A little more fiber.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

Get a little more regular. You know what I mean? Eat a breakfast because you know a little metamucil will get you. Right.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. It.

[Stavi]

Now listen. I have never had to more than when the met. When the metal mutual comes calling. It's coming.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I've heard their exception.

[Stavi]

There's no stopping it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

But it comes at a nice log and it gets you. It clears you out. It's good stuff. So.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So that. That's actually a good thing too. It's. It sounds like Any of this is diarrhea. I mean, it has to be. This is definitely diarrhea. You do want to solid it up. Metamucil is probably a good start with Metamucil, get yourself on a schedule.

[Stavi]

You need to get on a schedule. That's really what it's about.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

You need to learn how certain foods affect your body. Eat more fiber, eat some beans.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Or quit your job and just enjoy your life.

[Stavi]

Yeah. What is your job? What could you. What does a guy. Because a clean room, I think, is like a lab.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

Or like, it's like a.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's something we're like, so great.

[Stavi]

Something so dialed in that a particle of dust will.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Real Tom Cruise lands in the first Mission Impossible. You can't touch the ground.

[Stavi]

Exactly. Important equipment.

[Gareth Reynolds]

This guy's in there with his butt cheeks clenched so hard.

[Stavi]

10 million dollar equipment that they can't get a speck of dirt.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. And this guy's just like, I'm gonna die.

[Stavi]

Like, what are you doing in that clean room?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Can we also talk about how great his is after work? That must just be the awesome. It's better than.

[Stavi]

Running, dude. Yeah, Running. He's dropping his pants.

[Gareth Reynolds]

His co workers want to, like, chat a little.

[Stavi]

Just jiggling his jeans outside.

[Gareth Reynolds]

As far as Sunday goes, where do.

[Stavi]

You want to meet? Not. I have to. I have a call.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Let's just logistically get this.

[Stavi]

I can't. We'll do it. Give me a second. My mother's calling me.

[Gareth Reynolds]

All right. It didn't look like there's anything on his screen. Oh, my God.

[Stavi]

That first one, dude. That first unclench.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, you know what? It reminds me.

[Stavi]

Oh, good Lord.

[Gareth Reynolds]

When you first. Like when you first start sleeping with someone and like the first, like, three or four dates where you spend the overnight and then you're about to become a piece of actual. By the time you, like, get out, you stop by a grocery store and you run in and you just. Your brains out and you're like, that purge is better than anything. A cleanse. That is just the greatest moment ever. Ever.

[Stavi]

Totally.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Running up to the front being like, what's the door code? Let me walk through the gum.

[Stavi]

I'll buy your sport dog. I'll buy gum. I'll buy gum.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I know I'm in the lock. Employee lockers. What's the door code? I'm a hot woman.

[Stavi]

She can't know what comes out of my monster.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I. I clean room.

[Stavi]

No, it's too early to show her this part of myself.

[Gareth Reynolds]

She'll leave if she learns I'm a monster. You fools. Slapping someone who's just on a forklift. You idiots. Open one of those boxes.

[Stavi]

Oh, open up. I'm gonna on those scrub daddies. I'm gonna shit on 48 scrub daddies.

[Gareth Reynolds]

They'll soak it up like mushrooms on an oil spill, you fools.

[Stavi]

There you go, man. I don't think we could be any clearer than that.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, I think it's pretty obvious what to do.

[Stavi]

Good luck, man. Get your hole in order.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Honestly, Gareth.

[Stavi]

Thank you, brother. Thanks for. Thank you.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I appreciate it.

[Stavi]

Everybody check out the freaking pods.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

We're here to help.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. Next we have is. Next we have go to my YouTube, which is Gareth Reynolds TV. And then I still have the dollar.

[Stavi]

The doll up, of course. Check the dollar bag. But you're still chugging b. More history to figure out or.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, yeah. It becomes more applicable today. Yeah, yeah. We started the show and we were like, man, what a bunch of whack a doodle idiot. Now we're like, yeah, I know. Of course. Yeah. As whites are prone to do Teapot Dome.

[Stavi]

You're probably talking about that quite a bit.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, yeah.

[Stavi]

A lot of Ulysses S. Grant.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

ERA type.

[Gareth Reynolds]

No, there's. There's so much. What we're talking about and be like, yeah, it seems like maybe two, three years from now we'll be back to that.

[Stavi]

Absolutely. That's. That's. Honestly, kind of being a history guy when I was younger does make me feel a little bit because I remember reading and being like, can you imagine this stuff happening?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, dude.

[Stavi]

And I'm like, you know what? It happened then. Little rise of fascism's happening now. We'll get through it. Like, there's no more. It's not happening.

[Gareth Reynolds]

No.

[Stavi]

It's hat we're in the middle of it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

No.

[Stavi]

And it's like, we'll get through it. I mean, like, I remember when you. When you heard that they put Japanese people in concentration camps in America and you're like, jesus Christ, how did that ever happen? You. You're like, okay. You know, George, the Kai got to make movies afterwards. There's going to be a bunch of like Mexican children that will be talking about what an atrocity this was when.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Now you're like, those Japanese internment camps sound pretty nice. Honestly, not alligators surrounding them, at least.

[Stavi]

I know, man. It's so completely. You know, we're all. So just take a night to.

[Gareth Reynolds]

In a clean room. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah.

[Stavi]

Get some night. Yeah. Let's firm up. America's with Some with the metamucil of. Of caring about your community and you know, resisting fascism. Where you supporting.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Supporting those you love and supporting those you love.

[Stavi]

You know Trump's a. Oh, it's pretty clear. Release the Epstein files too. We don't care by the way.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, no, no, we're not like Remember.

[Stavi]

When we started in the beginning when we said it's rich guys versus the R of us. They are the ones who. Kids. The rich of all stripes kids.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We're ready to take down any of those guys.

[Stavi]

You a millionaire? I'm starting a coalition of non millionaires, single millionaires. Not in the tens, just a low digigit millionaire that doesn't kids. We're starting a coalition of them. We're going to take this country back.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We're the most relatable political party of the last 100 years.

[Stavi]

Yeah, we're a little richer than you. If the if push came to shove, you know, a million dollars is not what it used to be. You hear the term a millionaire. You think he lives in a big ivory tower. Not what it is. Okay, maybe he's got his whole family living off him. You know, when you really think about it, he doesn't have that much spending power. Lot of stuff going on here and we don't kids, most importantly, we don't care if you release the Epstein files. We want them released.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Qualifier in our.

[Stavi]

You are not allowed one kid. No.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You'Re right.

[Stavi]

Absolutely no. No kids.

[Gareth Reynolds]

No kids.

[Stavi]

No kids.

[Gareth Reynolds]

None.

[Stavi]

That's our. That's. That's a. That's a beautiful political stance.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Stavi]

We're gonna grow that. We're gonna grow that movement.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We don't kids and it's so popular. We're what we call populists.

[Stavi]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We don't kids.

[Stavi]

That's the thing you could aspire to be. You can. You're never gonna be a billionaire, but you might be a non pet one millionaire. You might have $1 million in not kids. I think you can do that. Folks, we need a strong safety social safety net to have that to happen.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I'm from South Carolina, raised by a farmer who didn't any children. My mother wasn't a either. I'm a regular guy like you.

[Stavi]

I bought bitcoin as kind of a joke. Turns out it's worth exactly $1,000,100. And I don't kids.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I have no interest and it's not like I'm sitting on the appeal or something. I have no attraction.

[Stavi]

I'm not even close to. To the fence. I like a mature woman. As a matter of fact, I'm bisexual.

[Gareth Reynolds]

For adults.

[Stavi]

Oh. All right. That's going to do it for us, folks. See you next time. Bye. Bye.