166: No Shoes, No Shirt, Teeth In & Unwrapping Whoppers (with Steve Berg)

Summary

Episode Summary: We're Here to Help - Episode 166: No Shoes, No Shirt, Teeth In & Unwrapping Whoppers (with Steve Berg)

Release Date: April 28, 2025

---

Episode Overview

In Episode 166 of "We're Here to Help," hosts Jake Johnson and Gareth Reynolds delve into a sensitive workplace issue brought forth by a listener named Tammy. Joined by special guest Steve Berg, the trio navigates the complexities of managing employee appearance standards, specifically addressing the challenge of a coworker who has ceased wearing dentures. This episode highlights the importance of empathy, effective communication, and practical solutions in resolving workplace conflicts.

---

Main Discussion: Addressing Denture Issues in the Workplace

Tammy, a newly promoted manager at a hotel in Northern California, reaches out with concerns about her coworker Grace, who has stopped wearing her dentures. Grace's decision has sparked discomfort among employees and raised questions about guest perceptions, given her customer-facing role in the hotel's breakfast area.

Notable Quote:

Tammy Reynolds [22:06]: "But a couple of months before that, I had a coworker stop wearing her dentures. You can count how many teeth she has. It's zero."

Implications on Guest Experience and Workplace Dynamics

Jake and Gareth discuss how Grace's appearance impacts the overall guest experience. They explore the balance between maintaining professional standards and respecting personal choices, emphasizing the need for a considerate approach when addressing such issues.

Notable Quote:

Gareth Reynolds [25:45]: "If they hurt, if she lost them and can't afford them."

---

Guest Appearance: Insights from Steve Berg

Steve Berg joins the conversation, providing his perspective on handling sensitive workplace matters. Drawing from his experiences, Steve offers practical advice on how Tammy can approach Grace without causing offense, ensuring that the solution benefits both the employee and the organization's reputation.

Notable Quote:

Steve Berg [25:51]: "You could just pull. Put a backdrop down, have someone take it with her iPhone, and if she shows up with her dentures, you'd be like, oh, wow, you look so great."

---

Advice and Solutions: Crafting the Right Approach

The trio brainstorms effective strategies to address Grace's absence of dentures. They consider initiating a staff photo day to subtly observe Grace's choice regarding her dentures and discuss the possibility of sending a respectful email to express concerns and offer support.

Notable Quote:

Jake Johnson [34:28]: "Teeth must be present."

Email Strategy: A Balanced Approach

Jake and Gareth emphasize the importance of a non-confrontational and empathetic email. They suggest that Tammy clearly communicate the impact of Grace's appearance on the guest experience while offering assistance if Grace is facing any difficulties related to her dentures.

Notable Quote:

Jake Johnson [50:19]: "So, Tammy, this is going to be the cleanest."

---

Tammy's Implementation and Positive Outcome

Following the advice, Tammy drafts and sends a thoughtful email to Grace. The response is positive, with Grace explaining her reasons for discontinuing the use of dentures and expressing appreciation for the considerate approach. This outcome underscores the effectiveness of respectful communication in resolving workplace issues.

Notable Quote:

Tammy Reynolds [87:57]: "I'm feeling relieved. You should thank you guys for the encouragement. For sure, you did it."

---

Conclusion: The Power of Empathy and Communication

The episode concludes with Jake and Gareth commending Tammy for her tactful handling of the situation. Steve Berg's involvement highlights the value of practical advice and supportive collaboration in overcoming workplace challenges. The hosts reinforce the show's mission to provide heartfelt and actionable advice, even in situations where they may initially feel unqualified.

Notable Quote:

Gareth Reynolds [90:35]: "Have some grace."

---

Key Takeaways

• Empathetic Communication: Addressing sensitive issues with empathy fosters understanding and positive resolutions.
• Practical Solutions: Implementing thoughtful strategies, such as respectful inquiries and offering support, can effectively resolve workplace conflicts.
• Balancing Professionalism and Respect: Maintaining professional standards while respecting personal choices is crucial for a harmonious work environment.

---

For more engaging discussions and heartfelt advice, tune into future episodes of "We're Here to Help."

Transcript

[Jake Johnson]

This episode is brought to you by Mint Mobile. Do you say data or data? Well, at my house we say data. And for the longest time, I thought paying a fortune on my monthly data plan was just normal. That was until I found out about Mint Mobile and their premium wireless plants that start at just 15 bucks a month. The reason I like Mint Mobile is because it's a cheaper way to talk endlessly with my dear Pam, AKA Gareth, Mommy, AKA my mommy. Because we can talk all the time at a lower rate.

[Gareth Reynolds]

All plans come with high speed data or data. I don't. I can't even get involved in this argument anymore. And unlimited talk and text delivered on the nation's largest 5G network. Use your phone with any Mint Mobile plan and bring your phone number along. No matter how you say it, don't overpay for it. Shop data plans at mint mobile.com/here to help. That's mintmobile.com/here to help. Upfront payments of $45 for three month five gigabyte plan requires equivalent to $15 a month. New customer offer for first three months only. Then full price plan options available, taxes and fees extra. See Mint Mobile for details.

[Jake Johnson]

With new McValue at McDonald's, you get more than you expect for breakfast. Like buy a sausage burrito and add a sausage McMuffin for a dollar. Get more than you expect with new MCvalue. At McDonald's.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Prices and participation may vary. Valid for item of equal or lesser value.

[Jake Johnson]

Calling all ones and twos. We're conducting an audience survey at Gum Gum fm. Hereto help and we would love to hear from you so we can keep making content that you love.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You know this, we know this. There are ads on our podcast. We want to improve that experience. But in order to do this, we need to know a little bit more about you, our audience. The survey is a quick, easy and free way to support the podcast. Take you two minutes and you'll be helping us out so much by doing it.

[Jake Johnson]

So go to Gumgum FM here to help to fill out our audience survey. That's G U M F m here to help.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Hi, everybody. All right, we're back. Well, Jake, now, come on now. Shut up. Listen to me. Okay? So you know you're a any bit of difference. You immediately go, I comment and you do something to your nose. I remember when I went to New York to shoot, like my first pilot. Do you remember that? Like years ago, we threw a party. Yeah, it was very stupid because then it got passed on. Then we were like, ah, stupid.

[Jake Johnson]

Remind me of this party, though.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It was, I think it was like it was downtown somewhere. It was like the Hotel Figueroa was Evan's idea. Evan really wanted to throw like this party to celebrate us going to New York. So whatever, we go to New York, six months, make a pilot that's completely middle of the road, gets passed on. But before it got passed and I came back and you were a hundred percent, I'd done something to my. You go. Your teeth. And I'm going, what are you talking. I'm like, I don't know what you're talking. You're going. You did something to your teeth. And I'm going, dude, stop you right now. Okay, yeah. New haircut.

[Jake Johnson]

I got a haircut. Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And a shave.

[Jake Johnson]

I shaved the beard.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You look 10 years younger.

[Jake Johnson]

Well, it's not what my.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You look like. You look like a meme of you that people send me.

[Jake Johnson]

You know what my daughter said? Why'd you do? Looks terrible. This is not a joke, Gareth. My other daughter, Elizabeth was homesick.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

And when I got back, she literally. This is not a joke. Gagged.

[Gareth Reynolds]

They don't like you.

[Jake Johnson]

Kids don't like their parents change.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I remember my dad.

[Jake Johnson]

People change.

[Gareth Reynolds]

My dad shaved his beard once and I thought he was a different guy. I was very sure.

[Jake Johnson]

But I'm similar to kids on that. That's why I always comment on stuff I don't like. Change. But really quickly, I want to bring something up with you that I think I'd like to get your take on. And guess what? We're not a topical show, but this one could be topical. Thoughts on Sanders. Shador Sanders to the fifth round. Getting drafted by Cleveland and that kid not getting drafted. For those who don't follow sports, neon Dion Sanders. Look good, dress good, play good, pay good. We've all. We all know Deon. His. He's got sons. He coaches them in college. His one son is a top rated quarterback. No team in the old stuffy NFL drafted this kid.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We know how you feel. Well, here's what's funny about disgusting. Here's what's funny about you, Jake.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

When we used to play sports, you often framed yourself as Dion.

[Jake Johnson]

Did I?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yes. You called yourself Pac man, but you also referred to yourself as Prime. You also referred to yourself as Prime Time. So you have an affinity for flair.

[Jake Johnson]

Pacman.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. You were a. You were a third over 30 year old guy playing with a Frisbee in Griffith Park. Definitely more of a Pac man is quite a quote for what was going on Back there, but.

[Jake Johnson]

And your name there. Do you remember the nickname we got you from those Frisbee days that stuck in my phone until this podcast?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well.

[Jake Johnson]

Oldsmobile 87. Oldsmobile.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And so for years I got there. But it was not pretty to watch.

[Jake Johnson]

Because you would do things where the field we played on had all these dips and dives in it and Gareth would be running and his foot would go in a hole and your leg would do this motion where when you would fall, I would be sure that was it, that you were going too fast. You were just too eager to get the ball. You'd now destroyed your leg. The whole.

[Gareth Reynolds]

No health insurance, by the way.

[Jake Johnson]

No health. And then you would get up, you would do like a really internalized walk it off, like self talk. But you wouldn't be cussing at others.

[Gareth Reynolds]

No.

[Jake Johnson]

And then you would get back in the game and I was like, you're like somebody's 1987 Oldsmobile that I grew up going in, where you'd go, how many miles is it? And they'd go 240. And then you would take a road trip in it and it would be fine. Fine.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, yeah, it'd be scary, but it'd be fine.

[Jake Johnson]

It'd be scary. There'd be moments where you'd be like, what's that sound? And the guy would be like, don't know.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Don't know. It just started clicking.

[Jake Johnson]

But like drive through it now it click. Stops.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. And then eventually it stopped clicking. I hit the side. It stopped clicking.

[Jake Johnson]

You were 87 in my phone. And now it's Garfi.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You know, I, I think we've talked about Berg's tennis abilities on the show before, but Berg. The last time I played tennis, Berg basically blew my ankle out right by painting the lines.

[Jake Johnson]

Oh, interesting.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He's phenomenal. It's like a, it's like a joke. If you were to be like, oh, Steve, Steve Berg is unbelievably good at.

[Jake Johnson]

You know, the only time we played it beat him.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yes, I know.

[Jake Johnson]

Keep going, Pac man prime time. But back to Sanders.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Hold on, we'll get back to him. But, but he blew my ankle out. I woke, I like opened my eyes and a bunch of probably 15 year old girls and burger over me. Like, and I was like, I could still play. And everyone's like, stay down, stay. And I was like, I can finish.

[Jake Johnson]

What is your problem, dude, chill.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I don't know enough. But I did read a couple days before the draft that, that his one guy said his interview was the Worst interview he'd ever seen a player take in the NFL.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So I don't know what that means. I mean, I saw that he built himself a little, like, throne for draft night. Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

But look who his dad is.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I also think he's a fucking good quarterback.

[Jake Johnson]

He could play the game.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I also think it's like there are so many guys where you're like, yes, guys like an asshole or whatever, you know what I mean? And they get drafted. It's like, it's not.

[Jake Johnson]

There was a guy, Mike Green, who got drafted by the Ravens. And I only know this because I. At first, I was like, oh, he could be a good bear. I read about the draft about a week before. I don't watch college football, so I like to read about it at the end. It's fun.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

I was like, oh, Mike Green would be good. And then he started slipping, and I was like, oh, why is he slipping? And I read. I'm like, oh, he's been accused of sexual assault two different times. He got drafted in the second round. But Sanders threw himself a draft day.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Party, and The Browns signed Desean Watson. Yes. Who had 28 sexual assaults.

[Jake Johnson]

I mean, the issue with Sanders.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So what do you think it. What do you think it is? You just think it's purely that he's Neon Dion.

[Jake Johnson]

I think what it is is Neon Dion, dress good, play good, pay good. Is trying to change the power dynamics, and the players have the power. And Dion was talking during his thing about, like, where he's gonna go, and he's like, he's not just gonna go to any organization. And it was this idea that players were going to control what team they went to a little bit more. A little bit more like the NBA.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Right.

[Jake Johnson]

And I think the NFL got together and said, we can't have this happen, because now if he's a fifth round draft pick, as opposed to a first round, his money is so different that other kids who are right now getting an nil deal where they're making $3 million to play in Nebraska, and their attitude's getting big, they'll go like, yeah, I'm not messing around with the NFL. Those guys are stuffy old men, and they will punish you even if it hurts their team because it helps the overall business. And so I think he was a lesson.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, I think the tie dye makes you look even younger. The tie dye makes you look like, I could sell you a dime bag at a concert, by the way, because.

[Jake Johnson]

I used to wear tie dyes when I would buy dime Bags at concerts.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's really quite a look. Change. You're not wrong. I actually think that's that I had not even really thought about that. I still just think that even 31 teams saying, oh, yeah, we got to send a message. One team would be like, yeah, we do. But we also.

[Jake Johnson]

But how about this? You're. You're the Pittsburgh Steelers, right?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. That's the one that I thought was going to take him.

[Jake Johnson]

Oh, how about this? You're the Cowboys. You need a backup to Dak.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You need a new Dak.

[Jake Johnson]

Maybe all these teams and they go, none of them are doing it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

This feels to me like conspir you. This is a bit.

[Jake Johnson]

This was a bit. A few little conversations and word spread of guys, the college football is changing.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

These kids are starting to get paid. The attitudes are changing. They will ruin our billion dollar business. We need to set a message now. This is our league and we're allowing you to play in it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, I'll tell you what I think. You. You probably think this as well. That. I mean, this is. You talk about self motivating.

[Jake Johnson]

Oh, I mean, kid got it. Now I've become the biggest fan of his. His clip when he got drafted. He and his brother and his friends, they're all dancing and celebrating.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

Now, mind you, I'm getting to Mandy Patinkin's age and spirit. Gareth. I got emotional.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Wait a minute.

[Jake Johnson]

That's what I'm turning into.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Is Mandy saying you have an inside. Patinkin is really.

[Jake Johnson]

I do.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You're thinking on the inside.

[Steve Berg]

Yes.

[Jake Johnson]

I cry all the time. Ah, God, I'm sitting there. Last time you cried 40 minutes ago.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Why?

[Jake Johnson]

The clip of before that probably last night.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Why?

[Jake Johnson]

Watching something, hearing a song.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Wow.

[Jake Johnson]

Inner Patinkin.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You have an inter. That is.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Feels a little incongruent with the.

[Jake Johnson]

Guess what. I'm a Gemini baby. Two phases. Let's get into the show.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay. All right, everybody.

[Jake Johnson]

So here's what we got to set up the first call really fast. Steve Berg is on. There was a mishap with my schedule, but I. I joined that one a little late.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yep.

[Jake Johnson]

Nat Attack asked us to set that up. She said it was too weird without the intro. And lastly, in our followup, we have Stone with us.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. So, yeah, he. I mean, I do. We need to.

[Jake Johnson]

I feel like the only reason that he's on there in he. We do his followup that I think is going to come later. And at the end of it, it was so fun that we just said, hey, you want to just hang out with us. And so we're playing them out of order, but we did his follow up. So that's coming up, I think next week.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yep.

[Jake Johnson]

And then Gareth got to know Stone a little bit and obviously those two gentlemen connected right away.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Huge. It's hard to not connect with Stone.

[Jake Johnson]

This is the greatest. And so the way we do this show is when we record we're on Zoom.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He must love football for sure.

[Jake Johnson]

Or not. He could be either way.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, it's the feet that I'm pointing, right? Yeah. But so he joins us and the.

[Jake Johnson]

Way we do it is we'll do like six calls in a row and we'll do like a bunch of follow ups in a row. And so we just said, honestly, I think for me, I didn't want him to go because I like his vibes so much. So he just pops into follow ups that he knew nothing about. So it's a little weird, but I think you'll enjoy it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's. It's our version of when Johnny Carson would ask a comedian onto the couch. If you, if you do a follow up and we ask you to hang around for a call, we're exactly. We're getting a. We're having feelings for you. Jake started crying.

[Jake Johnson]

Everybody enjoy the show.

[Gareth Reynolds]

This podcast is sponsored by Squarespace. As we have always said, we love Squarespace. It's an all in one website platform design that helps you stand out, succeed online.

[Jake Johnson]

If anybody listening to this wants to just have a little bit of fun, why don't you start a Squarespace website, Use our code here to help and they'll take 10% off your first purchase. And let's make a website designed Jake and Pam forever. And it's just about our love story. We'll have people submit just different images, fanfiction, and we'll surprise Gareth with it online. So if anybody actually decides to do this, please email it into the show and I'll surprise Gareth during one of our intros.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We've used Squarespace multiple times to help people on this show. It offers services like everything you need to offer to get paid. It's all in one place. From consultations to events to experiences. There's cutting edge design tools so anyone can build a bespoke online presence that perfectly fits their brand. Blueprint AI. Squarespace's AI enhanced website builder. So you can get a fully custom built website in just a few steps. What you need to do is go to squarespace.com here to help for a free trial and when you're ready to launch. Use offer code here to help to save 10 off your first purchase of a website or domain that's here to help squarespace.com here to help for a free trial. Go get them.

[Jake Johnson]

This episode of We're Here to Help is brought to you by booking.combooking. yeah, every time I use booking.com to travel anywhere in the United States, it does exactly what I need. In reality, I like to use booking.com to book family vacations. Currently figuring out a movie and we're talking about housing. And we are using booking.com to book everything we need for cast and crew. Because LA is making it so hard to shoot here, we have to go elsewhere. That's a shot at you, LA noon. Come on baby, let's play. And if I want to get the best place, I go to booking.com to get what I need. If I need to visit my lover, Pam Reynolds, I use booking.com and we find a little love suite someplace in the middle between she and I. I always pay. If you want to make booking easy, you want to get exactly what you want in any city, go to booking.com.

[Gareth Reynolds]

When you go to booking.com or the app, there's everything. You really get a sense of what you're going for. Whether you want a pool, you want no pool, you hate pools, you hate water, you want a sauna, you want a gym, who knows? Find exactly what you're booking for on booking.com booking yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

This episode is brought to you by booking.com booking. Yeah, every time I use booking.com to find a place to stay in the US I know they'll have exactly what I'm looking for. I've mentioned this before, but booking.com is something that I use. It makes it very easy. I have got the app downloaded on my phone so when I book travel, I just go to the booking.com app and I book my trips.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I use booking.com all the time to find places to stay in the US Because I know they are going to have exactly what I'm after. What do you want? A hotel? They got that. You want a vacation rental? They got that booking.com and the booking.com app has something for everyone. I previously mentioned how I've been looking for a place with a friend to show and we are trying to find somewhere in between our residences where we can meet, just, you know, have a pool, some beers, that sort of thing. And booking.com could not make it easier. You have an abundance of options. Well, whenever I've used booking.com or the booking.com app. I always find the thing that's perfect for my specifications. It just has it all. So no matter who you are, Booking.com helps you find the stay. That's ridiculously right for you. Find exactly what you're booking for on booking dot com. Booking. Yeah.

[Steve Berg]

There we go.

[Gareth Reynolds]

There we go, baby.

[Steve Berg]

Hey, look at me.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Hey, babe. Perfect. Thank you for doing this.

[Steve Berg]

Yeah. How's my hair?

[Gareth Reynolds]

You look phenomenal. Obviously, you're in space. And it looks pretty good for someone floating. And by the way, can I just point out before we even. Yeah, you gotta.

[Steve Berg]

Well, on my. On my thing, it covers the whole thing, but okay. I guess not. On zoom.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, on zoom. You guys have really ruining the effect.

[Steve Berg]

You guys have inferior technology.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Stop.

[Natasha]

No, we'll crop you into a little square so it'll cover you anyways.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, I'll put you in a Martian.

[Steve Berg]

I moved it. I moved it. All right, let's get down to business.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So, Steve, here's what happened. So we had a session ready to go today with Jake Johnson, our amigo. Jake Johnson, from where?

[Jake Johnson]

Here?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Now? Yeah, yeah, no, that would be. I'm not even going to dip into that. But. So we had us. We were having a session. Jake apparently was busy today. Okay. We saw a thumbs up on a text. He hearted a thing. He said no to an invite. There's some. We're not sure where this stood, but we thought we were recording today. So we got all geared up. I obviously put on my Sunday's best. I made sure my frame was great. And. And then it turns out he's not doing the show today. He's busy. So. So we've pivoted. So. Because. Because we had some callers. We just did one, and we're bringing you in for this one. So we're gonna jump in.

[Steve Berg]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You know the show.

[Steve Berg]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Is there anything in the oven right now?

[Steve Berg]

No, there's nothing in the oven. But you can go ahead and say you want to bring in the big gun when referring to me.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Do I have to. To get you to do it?

[Steve Berg]

Yeah. I don't feel like I won't be at my best unless you come with the big gun.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay.

[Steve Berg]

Go ahead.

[Gareth Reynolds]

All right. No, no, I'll do it when we have the call. I'm not just gonna say it right now to you.

[Steve Berg]

I'd like to hear it. I think Natalie wouldn't mind.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You'll hear it on the call.

[Natasha]

You're getting a little practice.

[Steve Berg]

Yeah, right.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Not attack.

[Steve Berg]

Nat.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Attack. Why is it that when we need the help, you're quiet, and when we don't, you're just. This is the Natasha. You know, we call her that now.

[Steve Berg]

The Nat Attack. I like it at the ringtone.

[Gareth Reynolds]

All right, I'll practice real quick. And then we got to get into it. All right, caller, Blah, blah, blah. Oh, cool. Okay. Well, you know, we. Jake couldn't make it today, so we thought we'd bring in the big gun.

[Steve Berg]

Yeah. Steve Bird, the Norwegian Nightmare.

[Gareth Reynolds]

My God. All right, I'm gonna have to get a pen.

[Steve Berg]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

All right, can we bring in the caller quickly before he starts adding more credits? Hello.

[Tammy]

Hi.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Hi. How are you?

[Tammy]

I'm doing well, thank you.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Good. Well, welcome to the show. We're here to help. I'm going to give you an update real quick. Because of some schedule stuff, Jake is not going to be on today with you. Please, can I do your intro and then you can do that? Okay, so. So we had to. We had to think quickly. And, you know, I wanted to bring in someone who's been on the show before who is definitely a player in the we're here to help universe.

[Steve Berg]

Fan favorite, fan favorite.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So I thought. Would you stop talking while I'm doing the intro to you? So we thought we'd bring in the big gun, the Norwegian Nightmare. Fan favorite Steve Berg is joining us today.

[Tammy]

Wow.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. So this is pretty big. So can we get your name, your approximate age and where you're calling from, please?

[Tammy]

My name is Tammy. I'm in my late 30s and I'm from California.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Great. We're in California.

[Tammy]

Northern California.

[Steve Berg]

Oh, that's the place to be. Also, I just want to say I've never met a Tammy I didn't like. Yeah, it's a fun name.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Would you just stop? She's on our side. We're on her side. We don't need to. We don't need to butter her up like a chicken in the oven.

[Steve Berg]

You forgot I'm a biscuit butterer, man. You gotta butter a biscuit sometimes.

[Gareth Reynolds]

All right, all right, Tammy. Well, Tammy, we're excited to help you. We got Steve here. What's going on? What can we help you with?

[Tammy]

Okay, so I run breakfast at a hotel.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay.

[Tammy]

I was promoted to manager about a month and a half ago.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay.

[Tammy]

But a couple of months before that, I had a coworker stop wearing her dentures. You can count how many teeth she has. It's zero. Okay.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, so she is Gums only.

[Tammy]

Yes. Oh, God. Now that I'm in a position where I Can say or do something. I don't really know how to go about that because obviously it's awkward. But also she's like, super, super resentful that she got passed up for manager.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh.

[Tammy]

And I'm not, I'm not trying to make like a weird power move. I just want her to put her teeth back in.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, Tammy, okay, first of all, let me say this. You have called the right show with this problem. This is right in the wheelhouse. Let's give her a name, even if it's fake. Should we just call her Grace maybe?

[Tammy]

Sure.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay. We're gonna call her Grace because she's gumless.

[Steve Berg]

In what capacity is she, like, what, through her exact job? Her position.

[Tammy]

So it'd be breakfast attendant. She's not in the kitchen much, so she's very much out in the buffet area. Like stalking.

[Gareth Reynolds]

She. Interacting. She's interacting with people.

[Tammy]

It's very customer facing.

[Gareth Reynolds]

What's the age on her?

[Tammy]

She's in her late 40s.

[Jeff]

Oh, wow.

[Tammy]

She looks much older than that.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, I mean, having literally no teeth does age you.

[Steve Berg]

Yeah.

[Tammy]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Gives you that sort of. Yeah. Like boxcar hobo energy. Does she play a harmonica? No.

[Steve Berg]

Does she have a corn cob pipe.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And a roof set? What's her overall deal? She's got one. She's got one set.

[Steve Berg]

Did this occur when you. Around the same time where you got the position that she wanted? Is this an in your face?

[Tammy]

It was, it was a mouse protest. It was a couple of months before that, yeah.

[Steve Berg]

Oh, okay. So. Yeah, okay. So that, that, that, that alleviates that concern for me that she's doing this to, like, you know, mess with you. But that would be. That'd be crazy too.

[Gareth Reynolds]

If I were, if I were to.

[Tammy]

Try other things to do that.

[Gareth Reynolds]

If I were to try to nail down your main issue with this decision she's made, what would it be?

[Tammy]

Probably just, you know, what our guests might be thinking or assuming about her.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Have you ever seen a guest be a little weirded out? I mean, I would again. I mean, like, I've stayed in some real dingy spots, so I've seen some stuff. But, you know, it's like the person who approaches you at the buffet, it's kind of the kitchen liaison a little bit. You don't want them to look like they're going to take you on a haunted tour of an abandoned mine.

[Tammy]

Right. You know, we're, we're like a three star hotel, so, you know, we're. We're not like a little dingy motel or anything.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Right. Has anyone above you. Has anyone above you in the hotel mentioned this to you? Like, that they've noticed this?

[Tammy]

He knows that all, like me and all of our coworkers kind of are concerned about it, but he hasn't really done anything about it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I. Okay, go ahead, Steve. Do you have anything else? I mean, I got.

[Steve Berg]

I got. I got one idea.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You got a pitch? Let's go.

[Steve Berg]

I got a pitch. So you could try this. You could say, hey, we're doing like a staff picture day, like a. Almost like a high school yearbook thing, and see if. And you could basically be like, you know, you could just pull. Put a backdrop down, have someone take it with her iPhone, and if she shows up with her dentures, you'd be like, oh, wow, you look so great. You could, like, over compliment her. And if she shows up without the dentures, that means she's like, nope, I'm not wearing. I'm not wearing dentures anymore. This is me. Because, I mean, if she's going to have a photograph taken, you. You know, most people's inclination is to gussy themselves up and make themselves look as good as they can.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, I. That. That's a very good pitch, and it opens up a little bit of a door in my. Is she on social media? Do you know?

[Tammy]

She probably has, like, Facebook or something.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It would be interesting to go through and see if recent postings have teeth in, like, is she. It's very strange. It's. It seems really weird. Look, here's what we need. We need to a. Get answers on whether or not this is a choice or not. Like, because if it's. If it's economic, I mean, you know, what are you going to do? You can't be like, well, at this hotel, we have tea. I feel like you kind of just got to figure it out, you know? So I feel like you kind of got to let that part go. Then. I kind of like leaning into Steve's pitch. And the truth is, if you were to say, like, someone from the hotel is going to start, like, on the hotel social media or something like that, be a little more active around the hotel and take some more pictures and do a couple videos, that's a way to maybe start doing it. And it's even a way for you to maybe ask a question and just say, hey, look, I'm not trying. Like, we're gonna take a picture, all of us, we're gonna do individual pictures. They say they might post it on the social media. So people feel like the staff is more of a family. Are you gonna. Are you going to wear your teeth? Are you done wearing your dentures? It just, you know, we're just curious. Hi, Tammy, I've got big news.

[Steve Berg]

Hey, Jakey.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Jake Johnson has joined.

[Steve Berg]

Hey, buddy.

[Jake Johnson]

Your name's Tammy?

[Steve Berg]

Isn't that a parent name?

[Jake Johnson]

Hey, Tammy. Sorry, I was doing a Taco Bell commercial.

[Steve Berg]

Wow, Jake, I love Taco Bell.

[Jake Johnson]

You're gonna like these spots because Taco Bell's more than a taco place now, Steve. It's a taco place. It's also a chicken place. That's also a taco place. Taco Bell.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Jake. Jake, first of all, you're now encroaching on the shows. You know what I mean?

[Jake Johnson]

You can't be. You're right.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Drop the Taco Bell energy. By the way, Jake, you are coming in the hottest I've ever seen you.

[Steve Berg]

Here's our deal with Tammy. So Tammy is. She's got a higher up position at a hotel and she's kind of running the breakfast area.

[Gareth Reynolds]

She just got promoted to manager of the hotel.

[Jake Johnson]

Thank you.

[Steve Berg]

Yeah. And one of her co workers who is a little jealous that she got the job has decided to not wear her dentures anymore. She's in her 40s and now.

[Jake Johnson]

But how does that make sense? Why would her jealous co worker.

[Steve Berg]

Well, that's just. I, I just, I just.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Steve's putting a little mustard on it. She stopped wearing her dentures before Tammy's promotion. So we don't think this is a mouth.

[Steve Berg]

We thought it was a mouth protest for a second. But the thing is, we feel like, you know, you're eating breakfast and stuff like that. She's in her 40s too, and she does have dentures. And the dentures, you know, according to Tammy, are a pretty big improvement around the breakfast area, the eating area. So Tammy's.

[Jake Johnson]

One of these is a great show, guys.

[Gareth Reynolds]

How it's great.

[Steve Berg]

How do.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's great.

[Steve Berg]

How do we get.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I mean, we're biased. It is the best. By the way, the pockets of inaccuracy or missing that Steve has are just awesome.

[Jake Johnson]

Telephone, I'm sure. Tammy, I got to hear from you.

[Steve Berg]

I'm cutting to the chase. Time. Time is money, babe.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Jake, a couple things. The main thing is that we're calling this woman Grace. She's in her 40s, so this is not like her. You know, we don't know how she got to the denture game, but since she stopped wearing them, Tammy's worry is really only that when Grace approaches guests at the buffet area. It's weird. She looks weird. It's a gaunt look. It's her sales.

[Steve Berg]

Would you like another sausage link? And you're like, oh, I'm good.

[Jake Johnson]

Not if that's what's going to happen to me.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So.

[Jake Johnson]

So whatever you're eating, I don't want them.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So. That's very true. Honestly, for the person there to be like your liaison, like frozen yogurt. Would you like. Would you like to pancakes? Those are the easiest ones.

[Jake Johnson]

I've got some homemade lemonade I made pass. Anything making that goes in my mouth, I'm not putting in my mouth.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Unless we also have yogurt.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah. So Tammy, Tammy, is all this accurate and where are you at with the pitches?

[Tammy]

It's all very accurate and I'm leaning towards more of the compliment round.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We've got more pitches coming.

[Jake Johnson]

Okay, that's a good start.

[Steve Berg]

It's the easiest. It's the less, it's the least drastic because the picture day thing is you'll have to convince the other co workers and then what'd you ever do with those pictures, you weirdo? You know, but Tammy, walk me through.

[Jake Johnson]

The compliment as the way you see it, how it leads her to wearing dentures on a regular old Tuesday.

[Tammy]

I think she would just respond well to that.

[Jake Johnson]

And how would that compliment go? If you're you and you're giving the compliment to Tammy, how would you do it? How does that feel?

[Tammy]

Yeah, I guess I would have to make something up about an Aunt Beth.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, but, but Jake.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We have a SAG AFTRA actor on the call. I know, but one who hasn't worked today. We might want to just employ his skills real quick.

[Jake Johnson]

But I think we could get there. But here's where I'm kind of getting to before we get there because I think this is a good pitch. I'm just wondering if there's more meat on the bone before, because I don't know if, if you got a lady who started taking her dentures off at work and she works, let's just call it a food court.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's not a food court, though. It's a hotel buffet area.

[Jake Johnson]

But I'm saying it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You're in Taco Bell zone.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, but I'm saying it to Steve because I'm thinking he knows malls, he knows food court, he knows there's like Boardwalk fries.

[Steve Berg]

I like living moth.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, exactly. So if all of a sudden someone's working and Tammy. They have no teeth, do they do customer service?

[Tammy]

Yeah, she's mostly. She doesn't really stay in the kitchen much. She's out there.

[Gareth Reynolds]

She's the face of the buffet.

[Jake Johnson]

So are you. And you're. But by the way, that's the truth.

[Steve Berg]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yes. There is that person who's kind of like, oh, we're going to bring more cornflake.

[Jake Johnson]

You know, whatever. Hey, where's the roast beef? And they go, the rough beef over here. And you go, no cheese.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

So Tammy, she's front of house and your manager do. What kind of authority do you have? Could you put a mandate. Here's where I'm getting at, Tammy. No shirts, no shoes, no service, no shirts, no shoes. Teeth required.

[Tammy]

Well, I don't think it's specifically lined out in our, you know, handbook, because I have gone through that well.

[Jake Johnson]

But here's what I'm saying. There's always adjustments with new leadership. Like the Yankees, for example, of all the baseball teams in the league, they say no facial hair. It's arbitrary, but that's what it is there. You could say hair must be in ponytails or up. Shirts must be tucked in. Teeth must be present.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We're a tooth place. We're just one of these teeth places.

[Jake Johnson]

Open wounds on face must have a bandage. Yeah. Pimples must be covered with bandages.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Scars covered shirts. Buttons. Yes.

[Jake Johnson]

Cuts on.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Shoes on.

[Jake Johnson]

Must have gloves.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yes.

[Jake Johnson]

Nails must be clean. Teeth must be in. So there's nine. And you're saying we're doing this because we are changing the face of the buffet. We are trying to up sales. We're trying.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You're the buffets.

[Jake Johnson]

And so part of it. You're not just saying, hey, everybody, put your teeth in. You're making 12 weird rules. But all of those are about if you're presenting roast beef to somebody, the person serving it's gotta look a little delicious.

[Gareth Reynolds]

The marriage to the roast beef. And what you just said is, am I amazing? Obviously. No, you're not wrong.

[Jake Johnson]

Tammy. Why do you. What are we calling her again? Why. Why do you think in your heart of hearts, Grace isn't. You guys picked Grace for this.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I don't want to. We don't want to get into the process of how we landed on Grace.

[Steve Berg]

Through that the. The name pitching thing.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I tried to make it through something I didn't let. For the first. Jake, you weren't here.

[Jake Johnson]

I agree.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I wanted to feel the power. And I. And I thought I'm just gonna name. And I said grace.

[Jake Johnson]

Grace. Like to have Grace.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Look, I picture I was this before we knew it. First of all, it was all Right. We're not gonna get anything.

[Jake Johnson]

It's too early. It was too early.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Burn. It was early. And I didn't know her age. I was picturing a 70 year old 40s. I would have made her Julia.

[Jake Johnson]

I agree.

[Gareth Reynolds]

No doubt.

[Steve Berg]

You should have let the Big Gun choose the name.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, by the way, he insisted I introduced him. He insists I introduced him as the Big Gun and the Norwegian Nightmare.

[Steve Berg]

Yeah, pretty good, right? I like the Big Gun.

[Jake Johnson]

I like the Big Gun. You got a new nickname. Thank you. So, hey, Tammy.

[Tammy]

Huh?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Why.

[Jake Johnson]

What's your guess of why Grace or Julia isn't wearing these dentures? You think it's financial?

[Tammy]

It could be. You know, before she stopped wearing them all together, there were like some days she'd start the day off with them and then she'd take them out.

[Jake Johnson]

It might be uncomfortable.

[Steve Berg]

It's uncomfortable.

[Jake Johnson]

She's quiz is changing it.

[Steve Berg]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

Because look, if it's. If it don't fit well in the mouth, if she doesn't have the money, I mean there is also a world. We could create a GoFundMe. I would pigeon.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I would go fund me.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah. Our audience really quickly with us throwing it. We could get that. We can get this Julia some very comfy dumb.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We could pimp the mouth. I agree.

[Jake Johnson]

Tammy, will you talk for a little bit? Because Big Gun, the Garf man and Mr. Taco Bell have been talking a lot.

[Tammy]

Just knowing how she responds to positive feedback. I think the compliment is a much easier and safer route to go. And to start, you know, digging into maybe why she stopped wearing.

[Gareth Reynolds]

How are you?

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah. So Tammy. You're Tammy. Steve. You are Grace.

[Steve Berg]

Perfect.

[Jake Johnson]

Gareth. Of course. You're somebody who works in the food court.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I'll just be a person who's wrapping Jake. I just like to come in for a minute, you know what I mean?

[Jake Johnson]

Okay.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So I'm going to be. Okay, shall we start? Can we get an action?

[Jake Johnson]

Tammy, you know what you're doing here, right? Don't say it would go something like this. When I. When I say action, you're talking to Grace.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, well, we'll just start.

[Steve Berg]

We'll start. All right. I'll bring more sausages out in five minutes.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Excuse me, miss, I. I am a person who stays at a hotel. I stay in a lot of hotels. Is there an area. Where are the pancakes? And where is the syrup?

[Steve Berg]

Okay, the pancakes are right over there. And the. The self made do it yourself waffles right over there. But be careful with the waffle iron because if you leave it too. Shut it' Burn the waffles.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And I'm going to walk away and not be back.

[Jake Johnson]

You'll be back.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Maybe.

[Steve Berg]

Hey, Tammy. How you doing? Did you have a good weekend?

[Tammy]

Yeah, I had a great weekend. How was your weekend?

[Jake Johnson]

Boring.

[Steve Berg]

Didn't do much. I watched the Phillies game, worked on my Mac. I bought the MLB package, so I feel like I got to get the most out of it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Hey, I found the waffles. Miss, if you could lock it up and let her talk a little bit, I'll be over here.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, okay. You know how it feels, Garrett. Yeah.

[Steve Berg]

Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

Welcome to my job on this show.

[Gareth Reynolds]

A new path of empathy has opened up inside of me. I'm gonna go get the syrup.

[Jake Johnson]

Enjoy this Ayahuasca, buddy.

[Steve Berg]

Grace. Something on your mind? You're looking at me. I'm sorry, Tammy.

[Tammy]

I don't know how to get to that point where I'm just.

[Jake Johnson]

I know because they made it really hard. So Tammy. Tammy Tamm to start over. And you're going to start. And your intention here is to find a way. And your whole goal of this is you have to compliment. When she had dentures in correct. Cuz we're not starting with them. So just try and see what happens and if it goes shitty, then we'll try again. This is a workspace.

[Steve Berg]

Yeah. I'm going to try a new character too. So let's. This will be fun.

[Jake Johnson]

But we're going to start on action with Tammy talking. Yeah. Big gun.

[Steve Berg]

Yeah, Got it. Got it. Got copy. Okay, copy that.

[Jake Johnson]

And quiet on set. And action.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Waffles.

[Jake Johnson]

Cut that.

[Tammy]

Oh, Grace.

[Steve Berg]

Hey, Tammy.

[Tammy]

Gosh. Like, I really, really have no idea, like how to get it in there.

[Jake Johnson]

So let's do this. Gareth, you're Tammy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay, here we go.

[Jake Johnson]

Steve, you're great.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I don't even need to warm up. And we still rolling?

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah. Action.

[Steve Berg]

Tammy. Got that five bucks you owe me?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, I do. I'll. I'll get it to you in a little bit. I don't even remember why I owed you that. And I kind of don't even want to know. Hey, I just wanted to ask you something real quick. And this is truly if I'm being invasive, tell me this is a personal question. Whatever. You've stopped. You stopped wearing your dentures, right?

[Steve Berg]

Yeah, they're uncomfortable. It's just causing too much irritation in my gums.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, so that's why, leading up to you not wearing them at all. Well, I. Here's my only thing. And I really like. You still have them. And they're still intact and everything.

[Steve Berg]

Yeah. I need to clean them.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Just because you're a human as well. But I was wondering.

[Jake Johnson]

Do that with everything you own, Grace.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, it just kind of. You know, sanitizing is great, but I was just gonna say, or suggest maybe when we're. When the buffet is really going, it might be nice if you just wore them in. It just kind of gives an appearance that's a little more sanitary, which I think is maybe just helpful for the job you have. I really. I'm not trying to be like, a mean boss or anything. I just think it does help the general.

[Jake Johnson]

Can I jump in and try one? I'm not loving this. No, but I think it's. I'm just not liking what we're. What's going to happen between Tammy and. Go.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Go.

[Jake Johnson]

All right, now give me an action when you're ready, Gareth.

[Gareth Reynolds]

All right, Roland. Quiet. Ted. Action.

[Jake Johnson]

Hey, Grace, can I. A word?

[Steve Berg]

Sure, yeah. Let me just put down the sausage carafe.

[Jake Johnson]

Okay.

[Steve Berg]

Yeah, I'm good.

[Jake Johnson]

Okay. Question. That's kind of personal. My mother is having teeth issues, and I remember you used to have dentures.

[Steve Berg]

Yeah, I still have them.

[Jake Johnson]

Oh, why don't you wear them? Because I'm trying to get her to get hers, but she says she won't wear them. But it's this whole thing, and you're the. I hope this isn't uncomfortable, but you're the only person I know who has them. And when you had them, they looked so good, I thought they were real.

[Steve Berg]

Thank you. Thank you. Well, I mean, I said they just cause irritation. And, you know, I'll wear them if I'm getting gussied up or going out to the casino to do some play some slots, but I just feel like at work, you know, on my feet, I'm working hard, I'm sweating, I'm carrying big trays of food. I just, you know, I need one less irritation.

[Jake Johnson]

You know the goal of this, Steve?

[Steve Berg]

Yeah, what.

[Jake Johnson]

What's the goal of what we're doing here, Steve?

[Steve Berg]

To be honest and try to role play character.

[Jake Johnson]

That's impossible.

[Steve Berg]

Okay, a softer grace. Just pick it up in the middle. Pick it up in the middle.

[Jake Johnson]

No, you. I gotta get back to the casino. Gonna get all guffied up. I'll never wear those because they hurt.

[Gareth Reynolds]

My teeth and I. Alan lost a finger.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah. So, Tammy, when you hear something like that as a way to go in of. Well, when you wore them, they looked so good. So I was thinking of my mom or the idea of Is there a chance you could wear them back to work because it's more presentable? What are you thinking? In that zone?

[Tammy]

Yeah, I really liked where you were going with the mom thing.

[Jake Johnson]

Okay, so, Tammy, let's do this for a second. Let's you and me play. You're Tammy. I'm Grace.

[Tammy]

Okay.

[Jake Johnson]

And who is Grace? Give me a little bit of info on her, because all.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I'm Steve's Grace.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah? Yeah. Does she get gussied up to go to the casino and hold a bunch of weird sausages?

[Steve Berg]

Guarantee it. Guarantee.

[Gareth Reynolds]

She have a carafe of sausages. Which is what?

[Jake Johnson]

Who's Grace? I mean, she's 40, so she's a little bit younger than Gareth, but what else do we know about her?

[Gareth Reynolds]

First of all, forties.

[Jake Johnson]

Okay, keep going.

[Steve Berg]

What?

[Gareth Reynolds]

What? Like what?

[Tammy]

She's. She's pretty quirky.

[Jake Johnson]

Okay, Yeah, I don't want to hear any more. About to get recast.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Wait, but real quick. Yeah, real, real quick. She.

[Jake Johnson]

Tammy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Tammy.

[Jake Johnson]

How.

[Gareth Reynolds]

How close was Steve's Tammy?

[Tammy]

Not very close.

[Jake Johnson]

Okay, you know what? I have a new idea. Tammy, and I need you. I need you. Sometimes when people call in, you need to help us help you. Okay? Yeah, Tammy. Okay, so we have steamrolled, and that's just part of it. And I'm sorry. But now, Tammy, we can't be insecure. I'm not sure. Tammy, it's time for you to grab the goddamn reigns. Okay, so, Tammy, you're Tammy and your Grace and you it. So let's start on action. You are both. Go.

[Tammy]

Both.

[Jake Johnson]

Tammy, stop asking the question.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You didn't say action. You said on action. Then you said go.

[Jake Johnson]

So you're both. I want to hear what happens when you compliment Grace. Do your best version of Grace and see what happens. Okay? Step into the goddamn magic, Tammy, because you can do it on action. I don't want any more questions. And I know that if you go. Did you mean this? You're just stalling. And action.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So.

[Tammy]

Hey, Grace, my mom's been having some dental issues, and it looks like she might be looking into some dentures. Now, I know that yours look really great when you wear them. Is there a reason why you're not wearing them? Now.

[Jake Johnson]

Change your voice for Grace and keep going. Don't think about it. Just go. Stop thinking. Just start talking as Grace. Go ahead.

[Tammy]

Yeah, I just stopped wearing them because they're uncomfortable.

[Jake Johnson]

Steve was right. Unfortunately.

[Tammy]

I know that you look really great when you wear them. Maybe you can try to tough it out while we're at Work.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I, I, I'm gonna jump in.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Tammy, are you on. Great job.

[Steve Berg]

I thought you did a great job. Wonderful.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Are you, Are you going to be able to.

[Jake Johnson]

Okay. Okay.

[Tammy]

Like if I can prepare, then I can do it. It's just being put on.

[Jake Johnson]

Let me just say this. Unless you've got.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

Because Tammy, we can get you there. But then here's my question to you. And this is just where I feel bad. If Grace's teeth are hurting her gums.

[Jeff]

Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

Let's not force her to wear that bench.

[Gareth Reynolds]

No, I don't think. I think all of this is in an attempt to, to get them back in. There's a couple roadblocks.

[Jake Johnson]

I agree.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I think are fair.

[Steve Berg]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

If they hurt. If she lost them and can't afford them.

[Jake Johnson]

I agree. But it's simply. Why aren't you wearing them? I don't know.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

Tammy, let me ask you a question. Just because this one's giving me a stomachache. Who gives a rat's ass if Grace don't have any teeth?

[Steve Berg]

Does it bother anyone else at the hotel?

[Jake Johnson]

But Tammy, what's this about? So Grace doesn't have her dentures in. What is she gumming on the meat before she serves it? Who cares?

[Tammy]

It does bother our other co workers.

[Jake Johnson]

Oh, it does? Why does it bother them?

[Gareth Reynolds]

It bothers them because it's kind of. It's weird. It's distracting. But you're not wrong. You know what?

[Jake Johnson]

Life's unique. I mean, all the different flavors are.

[Gareth Reynolds]

What makes it beautiful. What? Hold on. Let's not United Colors of Benetton. This too much. What? What I think Jake is saying, which is true. Is the issue with this. Is it affecting the the place you're managing?

[Jake Johnson]

Is there she doesn't have teeth.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Is there a difference between a guest experience, whether she has her teeth in or not? Or are these travelers who are just trying to have some weird om witches and a couple sausage links.

[Jake Johnson]

Because I'll be. I'm gonna be perfectly honest, Tammy. If I went on booking dot. Yeah. See what I did? And I booked.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You're really in the zone today.

[Jake Johnson]

Thanks. And I went to the buffet and some lady turned to me and goes, want some French toast? And it didn't have any teeth. There's not one part of me that's gross out of anything I'm saying. You want to sit down at my table and also want to be in my next indie movie with me?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, my gosh.

[Jake Johnson]

You got a headshot. You just want to be in the podcast.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Got any Dental X rays.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah. So there's also thought of.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I agree with you there too.

[Jake Johnson]

So, Tammy, the issue is your co workers and you, or is it complaints from the people? And I only say this because she doesn't like it. So you, Tammy, you.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Tammy doesn't like it. She's just like that. Teeth.

[Jake Johnson]

Put him in. So this is what we're getting to the bottom of. Because you can't like. It's been a hard pitch because it's a tricky problem. Tammy, at the core of this, don't worry about being liked or not liked. We can't live in that zone. We got to live in being honest is the reason you're calling into a podcast is because you don't like seeing her gums.

[Tammy]

I really do think about, like the guest experience and maybe she hasn't gotten any, like formal complaints or comments about it, but it does kind of reflect on everybody and, you know, it's, it's a very customer facing thing.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So.

[Jake Johnson]

Okay, then let's do this. Let's do this. You're. What's your new position? Manager. Yeah, Send her an email. Hey, as new manager, I just think if you're going to continue to be so front of the house, which I would like you to be, because I think you're great at your job, I would respectfully ask you to put your dentures in it. It is nothing personal. Besides, I think it's a better experience. I've seen you with and without, and you look so much better. If there is a reason for you not wearing them, if it is financial or they have they hurt your teeth, please let me know. But this is a business decision, not a personal decision. And I just want to make you feel comfortable with this as well. But if it is as simple as putting them in or not putting them the equivalent of zipping up your pants or not, I'm asking you to, to zip it up so I don't see the hog, the tongue being the hog in this.

[Steve Berg]

I like. I think that's the cleanest.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Stop talking. Okay, so the pitch is you. You write an email and you just say, look, as I watch the experience of the guests, which is really what I'm hovering over here. I do think the version of you where you had your dentures in is more inviting to people, which is really in the hospitality business. Exactly what we're trying to do. As I'm trying to do my job best, I have to ask you, is there a reason you don't have your dentures in she and you. You Know, I. Is it. Is it a medical thing? Is it an economic thing? What's the justification? Because if I have my druthers, I would love for you to have them in. I just think it's a little more pleasing to the guest experience. If she comes back at you and says they hurt, it's economic. We can have a follow up where we try to solve that problem on your behalf. But this is just. Email is kind of a little more fact finding as well as maybe it solves the issue.

[Steve Berg]

It's also.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But that's our first humiliating.

[Steve Berg]

It's also not uncomfortable if you like, because if you approach somebody about their appearance in person, that could be. Not make her feel very good. I think the email is by far the cleanest.

[Jake Johnson]

So Tammy, where are you at? What are you thinking here?

[Tammy]

Yeah, the email is a. Is a great idea.

[Jake Johnson]

Are you. But are you gonna actually do it?

[Tammy]

Yeah, I can do that.

[Jake Johnson]

Okay. Why don't you open up really fast?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Steve?

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, Tammy, do you have something to write with or. Nat attack. Could you be the person? Stenographer.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

So Steve, really quickly, we want a short email conveying the situation. Yeah, go.

[Steve Berg]

Hey, Grace, just checking in. So we were wondering if. I think saying we too is good. So you're spreading the blame.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Steve. Stenographer. She's writing down everything. This is like talk to text. So let's lock it up, start over. Yeah, yeah, yeah, let's start over.

[Jake Johnson]

Action.

[Steve Berg]

Hey, G. So we were thinking that, we were just curious, where did the dentures go?

[Jake Johnson]

Nope.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay. Jake, may I? I mean, this is insane. Yeah, yeah. All right. Hey, Grace, I just wanted to drop a line as I'm trying to get full grasp of my new role here at the hotel.

[Jake Johnson]

Pause for that attack.

[Steve Berg]

I love full grasp. That was great.

[Jake Johnson]

Nat, give us. Okay.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I really appreciate everything you do and think you're great at your job.

[Jake Johnson]

Pause. Nat attack.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Go ahead, go ahead. The only thing I'm struggling with a little bit right now. Now when it comes to the guest experience and your role.

[Jake Johnson]

You'Re taking a pause or you're thinking, I'm taking.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I'm letting that right there, Gareth.

[Jake Johnson]

You just do you. I'll stop you.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay, all right. Okay.

[Jake Johnson]

Your pauses felt dramatic.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, to some extent.

[Jake Johnson]

Okay, but I don't want.

[Gareth Reynolds]

They're not all ellipses.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, okay.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I know at one point you were wearing your dentures.

[Jake Johnson]

Pause, pause. Okay, go ahead.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And recently you've stopped. I think it is better when greeting the guests.

[Jake Johnson]

Pause.

[Natasha]

Uhhuh.

[Jake Johnson]

Go ahead.

[Gareth Reynolds]

If you have your Dentures in pause.

[Natasha]

Go ahead.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I just think it's more inviting and I'm hoping pause. My pause picks were way better. Your pause picks, I'm hoping that you can put them back in if that works for you. This is so insane. Drug with the pause power. The pause power. I know. The pause power. It's like a wizard with a stabilizer. If there is a reason why you can't.

[Jake Johnson]

Four words for that.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Attack. If there's a reason why you can't go ahead, please let me know and I'm willing to have that conversation.

[Jake Johnson]

Okay. Tammy, that sounded great to me. What do you feel about that when you just hear it? Are you going to actually send that email?

[Tammy]

Yes, I can.

[Gareth Reynolds]

100.

[Jake Johnson]

100. You're sending it?

[Tammy]

Yeah, I can do that.

[Jake Johnson]

Natasha, you read it back with no emotion as fast as you can, as if you were in a courtroom room.

[Natasha]

It's a lot to ask. Okay. Hey, Grace, Just wanted to drop a line as I'm trying to get a full grasp of my role in the hotel. I really appreciate everything you do and I think you're great at your job. The only thing I'm struggling with a little bit right now when it comes to the guest experience and your role is your appearance when you're greeting them for the buffet. I know at one point you were wearing your dentures and recently you've stopped. I think it's better when greeting the guests if you have your dentures in. I just think it's more inviting and I'm hoping that you can put them back in if that works for you. If there is a reason why you can't, please let me know and I'm willing to have that conversation.

[Jake Johnson]

First of all, Nat attack. Excellent job.

[Steve Berg]

Great point. That was so good.

[Jake Johnson]

Excellent job.

[Natasha]

Okay, can I do Steve's really quick?

[Steve Berg]

Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

Yes, please do.

[Natasha]

Pinky. Hey, G. We were just curious. Where did the dentures come from?

[Steve Berg]

There's something to that brevity.

[Jake Johnson]

Tammy, we'll send you this email. Will you follow up with us?

[Tammy]

Yes, I will.

[Jake Johnson]

Okay, thank you. Okay, goodbye, everybody.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Let us know.

[Steve Berg]

Keep your head up, Tammy. It's going to work.

[Jake Johnson]

Work.

[Tammy]

Okay.

[Jake Johnson]

Thanks, Stevie.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Says the author of the weirdest email.

[Jake Johnson]

Hey, G, where your dead juice?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Hey, G, where your dead juice? Tam Tam. Steve, thank you for joining us. That was epic.

[Steve Berg]

I gotta go. I'll tell the Canadians who said, hi, buddy. Great to meet you.

[Tammy]

I appreciate it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

All right, bye.

[Jake Johnson]

Bye, everybody.

[Steve Berg]

Bye, guys.

[Jake Johnson]

This episode is brought to you by Quince. Vacation season is nearly upon us this year. I'm treating myself to the lux upgrades I deserve with Quince's high quality travel essentials at fair prices. I'm going to be honest. I just took a vacation to Mexico with my family and I decided I was going to finally wear some resort wear and I got on Amazon and I bought the cheap stuff. I should have gone to Quinn's and I ended up dressing exactly like the staff and it was a mistake. I looked like a waiter. Everywhere I was going, people was asking me for directions and help in broken Spanish and it was a disaster.

[Gareth Reynolds]

When I'm out on the road doing shows, I always am bringing quints with me. I have the duffel bag myself. The duffel bag is full of quints. It's all quints. People see me and they go, is your name Quince? And I go, I'm trying to make that happen. Happen.

[Jake Johnson]

For your next trip, treat yourself to the lux upgrades you deserve from quince. Go to quints.com here to help for 365 day returns plus free shipping on your order. That's Quince. Q-U-I-N-C-E.com here to help to get free shipping and 365 day returns. Quinn.com here to help.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Moms deserve the absolute best, especially on Mother's Day. And when it comes to flowers, there's only one place I trust to get it right every time. 1-800flowers.com Every year I order from 1-800-flowers.com and my mother is always blown away. Roses. Stunning. The service on point here is the truth.

[Jake Johnson]

I do Send Eve flowers from 1-800flowers.com and I'll tell you why. Because it's easy and it works. And I'm gonna also tell you why I use our promo code here to help. That's a reality. I'm going to tell you something that's not true. But I wish it was true. I send my other mommy, Pam Gareth mommy roses from. We're here to help because if you're going to give Pam one dozen rose, then double it for Pam for free. Twice the beauty, twice the love, all at no extra cost when you use our promo code. Why give the beautiful Pam one rose when you can cover her beautiful body in a thousand?

[Gareth Reynolds]

To claim your double your roses offer, go to 1-800-FLowers.com here to help. That's 1-800flowers.com here to help. Hello, caller.

[Jeff]

Yeah, hi there.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Hi. Hey, how's it going?

[Jeff]

Good, good. How are you guys?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Great. Welcome to the show. Can we, can we get your name.

[Jeff]

Sure. Yeah. My name's Jeff.

[Jake Johnson]

Jesse.

[Jeff]

Yeah, From Chicago.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, great.

[Jake Johnson]

Jeff. We're in Chicago, but right now I'm.

[Jeff]

In the Loop downtown.

[Jake Johnson]

And are you. Where are you from in the. You're the Chicagoland area. You're from the city. Where you at in there?

[Jeff]

I lived in the city for a little while, but I'm originally from the burbs.

[Jake Johnson]

Which.

[Jeff]

The north of suburbs.

[Jake Johnson]

Which one?

[Jeff]

Right near Schomburg.

[Jake Johnson]

What's it called? I know Schomburg. We used to play Schomburg as kids in sports.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Improv. Out there.

[Jake Johnson]

They do the Schomburg Improv.

[Gareth Reynolds]

They call it the Chicago Improv, and it's in Schomburg. How about that?

[Jake Johnson]

Is that where you go when you're in Chicago?

[Gareth Reynolds]

No, not really anymore. I go to the den.

[Jake Johnson]

Cool. So, Jeff, Chicago. You a Cubs fan? Sox fan? Bears fan?

[Jeff]

Definitely Cubs fan, Bears fan. Both fans.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah. I gotta tell you, I think PCA has it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay, Jeff, Jeff, Jeff, how old are you roughly? Jeff, can we just get a rough age so we can think about that?

[Jake Johnson]

Thought I was going to L. Oh, yeah.

[Jeff]

A little bit over 40.

[Gareth Reynolds]

A little bit around. Same here, my man. Just a little under. Jeff, Chicago, a little under 40. What can we do for you today?

[Jake Johnson]

How much makeup you earned?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Your.

[Steve Berg]

Jeff.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Jeff, you got any makeup on? Just a little base, little powder. Nothing wrong with that. Nobody likes a sweaty guy. Jeff, what can we do?

[Jake Johnson]

Paint your beard because mine's tricky.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's not easy. People could tell. You got to shake it out like dandruff. Jeff, what's going on? What can we help you with today, bud?

[Jeff]

All right, so I appreciate you guys taking the time.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Sure.

[Jeff]

So I work in a normal building. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I work in a normal building here.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay.

[Jeff]

And so, you know, a couple years ago, Covid, things like that, we all started coming back into the office more often. And, you know, it's a nice building. It had been redone, but what's funny is this is kind of a weird. Like, I'll just describe it, but it came to mind because I was listening to the Max Greenfield episode you had a couple weeks ago.

[Jake Johnson]

The rare release.

[Jeff]

Yeah, exactly.

[Jake Johnson]

And that was the first time you heard was.

[Jeff]

Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

Wasn't that interesting to the haters? Thank you so much, Jeffy. Go ahead.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Thanks, Jeff. Go ahead, Bab.

[Jeff]

So we've got a bathroom here, a men's bathroom that is essentially a trough.

[Jake Johnson]

Gross.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's.

[Jeff]

It's kind of weird.

[Jake Johnson]

I know what you're talking. They used to have them at Wrigley Yep, exactly.

[Jeff]

And so it's this. It. It's the men's room on our floor.

[Jake Johnson]

Really quickly, I got to interrupt. Jeff, Jeff, I got to interrupt for a second. It. Just tell Gareth a quick story. When I was growing up, we used to go to Wrigley Field and there was a big trough and everyone would take peas in there. And my friend Jack Frankie in seventh or eighth grade goes, you know what I love doing at Wrigley Field? And I go out. He goes, when you're just at the trough, you look down, you just see all the whoppers. Go ahead, Jeff.

[Jeff]

Well, that's really. It is. It's not. It's not something you should have to do here.

[Gareth Reynolds]

No.

[Jeff]

Right.

[Jake Johnson]

Disgusting.

[Gareth Reynolds]

No, no, no, no.

[Jake Johnson]

You should not see a co workers Whopper.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's a bar. It's a. At best it's in a bar in the uk they're pretty much trough only.

[Jake Johnson]

Is that true?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, pubs are all troughs. I would say most. At least they were as of fairly recently. They're not big divider people. You just get in there and it's just slop time.

[Jake Johnson]

Gross way of putting it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You're welcome.

[Jake Johnson]

But accurate.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So, okay, I. I think we obviously understand the trough. The no divider. It's kind of like.

[Jake Johnson]

But Jeff, at a place of business, it's weird.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yep.

[Jake Johnson]

You said it's a regular old office building. So in the loop of Chicago, is it a modern looking building or is it a 200 year old shack?

[Jeff]

No, it's pretty modern. Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

What the. And it's. Well, how many people can piss at once? It's like a bunch of horse lining up for.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, that's. That's the advantage to the trough. It's a numbers game.

[Jake Johnson]

You just squeeze a bunch of me.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

Spray all over each other's slacks.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, yeah. Hold your buddies. Doesn't matter. There's no. There are no rules.

[Jake Johnson]

Agreed.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So. So, Jeff, I think we definitely understand the trough issues. What is the direct problem you're looking for help on today?

[Jeff]

So the thing is, I think the right people here don't know and I think. I think someone would come in here and say right away, this is absurd. You know, this is awkward. Why would you have it. But I don't know the right way to bring it up.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I'm a little confused on that. Hierarchy wise, how are the right people not using that bathroom?

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, I hear you.

[Gareth Reynolds]

What do you mean exactly?

[Jeff]

Yeah, I guess, I guess maybe that's a good point.

[Jake Johnson]

No, but Jeff, you're.

[Jeff]

Yeah. I guess the. The hierarchy does use it, but I don't know that they care enough. Maybe it's that, but it's also, you know, the people that you would go to that you would have to describe this problem to.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Huh.

[Jeff]

It's like they're not. Most of them. I don't. Well, I. I just don't feel comfortable.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You know, I get you.

[Jeff]

Because then.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, Jeff, I get it. You're in a tough spot because you're also then dealing with real estate issues. You're dealing with moving. If they're going to change the trough, that might be new plumbing. Because the beauty of a trough is it's one big bucket, but it's one pipe into the ground. If you go to urinals, you got to just cut into that concrete more, and that's going to be expensive. Then. How many floors is your building over? 25.

[Jeff]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just to be. Just to clarify, though, it is. It is two urinals, but it's that they're actually back to back. Like they're six inches apart, you know?

[Jake Johnson]

You know, we're gonna need from you next time is a photo of this.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, I asked for a photo and we don't have one, but we do have a diagram. So I can share that.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, great. And then we'll put that on our IG and the website.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So. But I like this detail. Trough. You're right.

[Jake Johnson]

Urinal. Ashtray.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Ashtray.

[Jake Johnson]

So old. I know exactly what you're talking about.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, yeah, this is.

[Jake Johnson]

Okay, so you're facing each other. Other.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You. If you're. If. No, no, no. It's too. Basically, if there's no divider, the issue is there's no divider, basically. Right, exactly.

[Jake Johnson]

Okay.

[Gareth Reynolds]

There's no divider. A better problem to solve.

[Jake Johnson]

So I think where. Gareth. In this. So basically what we have here, you've got a empty wall that says 4ft. For people who only like to listen. Then you've got a yellow box that says urinal, two feet. Then in between it says ashtray, one foot. Another urinal, two feet on the other side. Empty wall space, four feet. So if you're looking at this thing, are you standing both where the two feet are and you're both facing the same direction. So you're meant to be pissing facing the same way while ashing in an ashtray. Right in between.

[Jeff]

Exactly. You can't break eye contact with the wall because otherwise it just gets weird.

[Jake Johnson]

Is there a mirror there?

[Jeff]

No, thank God, no.

[Jake Johnson]

Just like a tile wall.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. You know the issue is. The issue is that you can see, someone can look. It's, it's. It just. You don't have the privacy. I mean, this has been a problem with urinals forever.

[Jake Johnson]

But here's the issue, here's the other issue. There's no way they're going to remodel these bathrooms. So we need to, Jeff, talk to you about the specific questions so that we could help, because there is. With an old school bathroom like this, you're talking an ashtray.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Of course.

[Jake Johnson]

It's an old building. You can't smoke inside anymore.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

So back in the day, when you let your whopper out of its wrapper, you would rip a cig. I mean, I used, by the way, cigarettes while pissing.

[Gareth Reynolds]

This hearkens back to quite an era. I mean, in our lifetimes, you could smoke a cigarette while taking a piss. And we did it.

[Jake Johnson]

I used to go to a boys club in Winnetka called the Yo. And part of it was I'd have a marble right in my mouth while taking a piss inside.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Now let me ask you about this. Do you remember the ice in the urinal days?

[Jake Johnson]

Of course. They're still there. Takes away the smell.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Is that what it is?

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah. You wanna know how I know that? Because for the dink, we were doing a scouting country clubs, and there was a scene where we were going to be in the bathroom and I talked to one of the guys who runs one of the country clubs. I go, why the ice? And he goes, smell. Smell. And. And splashage.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. Either we've. The technology is advanced, but I don't hate it.

[Jake Johnson]

You think ice is an advancement in technology?

[Gareth Reynolds]

No, I think we've got those. We've got the little splash dividers now. Yeah, I think we moved through it. We have, but. Okay, I mean, look, there's a couple options, Jake, you tell me where you're at. But I think one option is lobbying for a divider. I think the way you would do that is anonymously.

[Jake Johnson]

But how would you even get a divider? Gareth?

[Gareth Reynolds]

I. I think you would. I think we'd have to do some kind of sign. I think we would need to do some sort of signage or something like that. It's not my favorite version. Because I have another pitch.

[Jake Johnson]

Because I got a pitch that's pretty easy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

What do you got?

[Jake Johnson]

An anonymous note taped up on the wall? Stop looking at each other's whoppers. It's weird.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I like that. Something like that. I was thinking, but here's the thing.

[Jake Johnson]

Someone's looking at Whoppers in here, and everyone knows it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay?

[Jake Johnson]

And here's why. Gary, hold on, let me finish. Let me finish here. Why? Because then everyone's going to go, I don't want to be the guy looking at Whoppers. I look straight ahead, and if I'm that guy who even thought to look at the ashtray, I will not be the guy who looks at Whoppers. Gareth, you're up.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, I'm not even pushing. I love your pitch.

[Jake Johnson]

Thank you.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I just think we're getting very casual with. With what? The term Whoppers. You heard it when you were a kid. It imprinted on you. You. But now you're really tossing it around like it's just like a normal thing to put on a letter in a building of. Of work. So I. I like the idea, but I. I'm gonna need to pull the Whopper bone away from you.

[Jake Johnson]

No way. Okay, so, yeah, Jeff, can we go to Jeff for a second?

[Gareth Reynolds]

I just wanna. I just. Can I be clear with you? You are. Your pitch lives and dies. No, with the Whopper, but I would.

[Jake Johnson]

Like to start there, see if we can live there. Jackson. Jeff, are you okay with the term Whopper for penis?

[Jeff]

Yeah, it's fine.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

Are you excited about it, Luke?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Jake, quit pushing.

[Jake Johnson]

Jeffrey.

[Jeff]

It's probably better than anything else.

[Jake Johnson]

What are you gonna put Member, Member.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Hog, Member genitals here?

[Jeff]

Gear. Mine.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Gear.

[Jeff]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

Confusing.

[Jeff]

But I like Whopper better.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay, so can we see who's endorsing your pitch? The guy who wants to call it ear or gear?

[Jake Johnson]

Can we all. So we're going to live with Whopper. Do you like the idea, Jeff, of a sign?

[Jeff]

Yeah, I do. Because anonymous is what you'd like to do, but it's hard to do that.

[Jake Johnson]

No, it isn't. There's no. There's no cameras in a bathroom.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You're still doing it.

[Jeff]

No, yeah, yeah, yeah. The sign is totally anonymous, so that's nice. It was always hard, you know, I was hard to think of a way to let people know.

[Jake Johnson]

Oh, yeah, here's what you got to do. You put a sign up there and then put it up every couple days if it gets taken down and then start going, hey, you see that sign in the bathroom? Because what we got to do is we got to get chatter. We need everybody who takes their Whoppers out of the wrappers to know there's a guy looking at Whoppers. And I'll tell you what, you don't.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Want to be titles being rattled off.

[Jake Johnson]

Right now, what you do not want to be on planet Earth is a guy looking at another guy's Whoppers when it's uninvited.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Whoppers. How many does this guy have, Gareth?

[Jake Johnson]

I don't know, because I didn't look.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's just Whoppers out of the wrappers. As long as Jeff's down, you guys could keep doing this sort of weird Chicago Whopper land. That's fine. Fine. What are they called?

[Jake Johnson]

Milwaukees? Vaginas.

[Gareth Reynolds]

All right, okay. So. And Jeff, I like the pitch. I like the pitch. And I all. I think it could be the follow up to my pitch, which is. You can do that. You can tell. You could tell the boys to, you know, we've got new rules. Welcome to West Point. Eyes ahead, whatever. Yeah, or we can distract.

[Jake Johnson]

Clear eyes, full heart, start. Don't.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We can distract them with something else. Please stop. You can distract them with something else. What you could do is twice a week, you could get the sports page from the paper, since your building is already living in the 80s, and tape the sports page up on the wall in front of the urinal. So instead of telling them to not look.

[Jake Johnson]

That's old. That's old school bar, by the way.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Whoppers. Yeah, they frame.

[Jake Johnson]

I love that. You can too.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You could tape it up there. They're not going to have any interest.

[Jake Johnson]

I got a pitch on that pitch. Go get a photo of a Whopper. A dick, put it up there and say, look at this one. Stop looking at mine. Or get one of like a chimpanzees dick and go, that's a chimp's dick. Stop staring at mine so bad. Look here. Stop looking over at mine, you weirdo.

[Gareth Reynolds]

All right, well, Jeff, look, look. What about the duck? Maybe a duck.

[Jake Johnson]

A duck stick.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, my God.

[Jake Johnson]

Let's do Mateo's dick.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Sherlock. Hey, what we could say is. Did you. Here's what we could do off of that. We could start just having you print up interesting facts twice a week and tape those and I love it.

[Jake Johnson]

Too much work.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I agree. We could start. We could just start with the duck.

[Jake Johnson]

Sherlock, I think nailed it. It. Jeff, what about this? We send you an image, you get it printed out. Get a couple of them printed out of Mato the duck's dick. Then put that above the ashtray on the wall so it's in between but high up, so you have to look up and go look at Mato's dick, not each other's O.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Pretty good. Mato is the guy Gandalf's the duck just so get upset.

[Jake Johnson]

No, I meant take a picture of the guy's dick.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We need to get a Mateo dick pic for this to work his Whopper. Okay, don't Sherlock. Don't push too far because Jake has Mateo.

[Jake Johnson]

Let's do look at Gandalf's dick. Not each other's bathroom rule. If you must look at a Whopper, look at the duck swapper. Not each other's. This is a great sign. This goes for every bathroom, for everybody who's listening who has an establishment that has bathrooms in it. You know how they say, like please don't only flush toilet paper. Get these laminated. Don't look at each other's whoppers. Look at the duck swapper. That's what duck made them so big.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I love them.

[Jake Johnson]

And they get weird human's eyes.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I love it.

[Jake Johnson]

Why don't they look like a corkscrew?

[Gareth Reynolds]

All right, buddy, why don't we start with something about like we can shame the fact that there's no divider. So maybe that at some point kind of nudges anyone with power to pay the $40. Have a piece of wall screwed in between these two things because it's.

[Jake Johnson]

So is the, is the ashtray part of the wall or is it just a blank spot higher up?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Isn't it?

[Jeff]

I think it's part.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I, I, I think it's easy to get out.

[Jake Johnson]

Oh, you do?

[Jeff]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You. You could.

[Jeff]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Look, it's an as.

[Jake Johnson]

I mean, who's surely deco ones.

[Gareth Reynolds]

No, it's kind of one of those ones where you hit the button and it kind of like trap doors open and your. But.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jeff]

Okay, that's it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So I, So maybe we start off with. Since the building won't give us a urinal divider, look at this picture of Gandalf's dick. Maybe in parentheses a duck instead of each other's Whoppers.

[Jake Johnson]

I think we could even go a little bit quicker. Jeff, are you liking this idea? Are you going to do it?

[Jeff]

Yeah, I like the idea of the picture the sports page. It's super easy. Won't get. I, I think that, you know, it's, it's not something you would expect to see in an office bathroom. Like the picture of the doc. And so if, you know it's. It's nice to. It's a good option. I think that would high. That would call attention to it. And so I kind of like it it, you know, I think it.

[Jake Johnson]

What's your guts? What's your Gut saying start with. You want to start with a sports page, see if it fixes the problem. And we know we got the duck stick after.

[Jeff]

Well, that's the thing. Do you go hard to start or soft to start?

[Jake Johnson]

Gandalf does.

[Jeff]

You start with.

[Jake Johnson]

He goes soft. Gandalf to hard.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Look, Jake. Jake's in Whopperland. So don't, Don't. Don't throw me, Jeffrey.

[Jake Johnson]

A couple guys in Chicago, we go hard to hard. In Milwaukee, they go soft to soft. Soft.

[Gareth Reynolds]

What do we. What do we even do? Do you know what you're talking about right now?

[Jake Johnson]

Whoppers.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay, Jeff, I think what we're saying, honestly, if we were to pick out of our pitches, we would start with the Gandalf dick and a sign. I agree. Because it's. It's just kind of a bold move, and it actually, per Jake's pitch, calls attention to the problem a little bit. So it's kind of.

[Jake Johnson]

Then what we're pitching on, that is how wordy do we want it?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yes.

[Jake Johnson]

Do we want the divider? Because I like a really short and simple Gareth. Gareth likes more of a little bit longer, but both work.

[Gareth Reynolds]

What I like about the longer is that you're sort of saying it gets the conversation. You're putting call to action in there a little bit.

[Jake Johnson]

I think that's smart. But then, Jeff.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But we don't have to.

[Jake Johnson]

But here's the point, Jeff. Doesn't matter what Gareth and I like. We're just a couple of guys from Milwaukee in Chicago who have whoppers, that we keep big rappers.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Big, big ones. Sorry. I'm sorry.

[Jake Johnson]

Has anybody ever told you you have a big whopper?

[Gareth Reynolds]

I have. I've told myself I have, as a.

[Jake Johnson]

Partner, ever said to you, you're a great guy. I'm having fun doing this with you. The issue is you have a big whopper.

[Gareth Reynolds]

How about this? Here's what I've never heard. Whoa.

[Jake Johnson]

Thanks for the call, Jeff. So, Jeff, the real question is, what do you want to do?

[Jeff]

I think the sign. I think I. I think the sign with picture.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And then I was.

[Jeff]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And I'm.

[Jeff]

I'm trying to think of, like a way to get people like, you know, kind of a call to action, you know?

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah. So call to action. Good to put up a divider. So you like Gareth kind of a if then statement on it. If put up a divider, then look at a dick's duck instead of mine.

[Gareth Reynolds]

How about this? What your pitch is instead of this? Your wording was something along lines, Jake. Of instead of looking at each other's whopper, or look at this picture of Gandalf the duck ducks dick. Instead of looking at each other's whopper. Something like that.

[Jake Johnson]

You got to go whopper, Whopper.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay, so we do two Whoppers. Then let's show the picture of the Gandalf duck dick, and under it, let's hashtag put up a divider.

[Jake Johnson]

Yes. Here's what I would say on that. I love the underneath. I don't think we need hashtag because it's not going on Instagram. It's just in a bathroom.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's how the kids talk.

[Jake Johnson]

You're not wrong. But what I would say then, if you must, must look at someone else's whopper. Look at the duck's whopper, not each other's underneath. Please put up a divider.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I think we got it.

[Jake Johnson]

What do you think of that?

[Jeff]

I think that's it. I think that's the winner.

[Jake Johnson]

Okay, so, Jeff, here's what we're going to assign you with. Because we're in a new era and what we're finding is the callers are pretty goddamn funny and pretty creative. We got something cooking with Steve Berg behind the scenes. So we're going to ask you to make that sign and the reveal is going to be when you send the photo of us with it up. But I don't want us to see how you did it until the audience sees it too. And we'll post that on our Instagram on our website. Hey, really quite nat attack. What's going on with the guy who's putting all the images per call? You know where we're at with that?

[Natasha]

We're very slowly doing it, but they are going to be back up online. Hereto helppods.com caller images every episode.

[Jake Johnson]

Any caller image that ever that from season one on, if you listen to it. I love it.

[Tammy]

Yeah.

[Natasha]

So right now it's season two episodes and we're working our way backwards to season one.

[Jake Johnson]

Perfect. I love it. Thank you.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So should we maybe send Jeff the image of the Gandalf dong?

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

The Whopper Hopper. Yeah. And let's start there. So we'll send you the. The picture of the duck dick. That'll work for this sign, Jeff, and then you make the sign off of what we just said and then do.

[Jake Johnson]

Us a photo of it in the bathroom.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yes.

[Jeff]

All right.

[Gareth Reynolds]

How do you feel about that?

[Jeff]

Yeah, anything will help.

[Jake Johnson]

And then here's what's also going to help Jeff after it's up. And do not do it right away. Imagine you're playing a game like Survivor or the Challenge. You're trying to get somebody else to bring it up to you first so that they can be the one who first notices. But you're trying to spread the word to go. Like, somebody goes, you see that sign and go, like what? Yeah, what is that about? And then what you want is everybody's talking about this whopper nonsense. So people are going, who's looking at Whoppers? And you go, go, I don't know, but everybody's looking at Whoppers in this building. And then you go, honestly, I don't feel comfortable. That's why I don't even piss in there. You don't know why. Because I don't want some guy looking at my whopper. And they go, I agree. And it's nothing to do with the size of my whopper. I got a fine whopper. No girl's ever said to me after.

[Steve Berg]

Whoa.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Thanks for the call, Jeff. Take care. Bye. Yeah. Hello.

[Tammy]

Hi.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Hi. Welcome back. We are aware you're a follow up. We're excited to find out who you are and what your follow up is. Let me point out, you have Jake, you have Gareth. Did you happen to listen to the last episode of the show, Perchance with Justin Long?

[Tammy]

Not yet, I didn't. I didn't get a chance yet.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, I'm gonna just gonna be weird. Note this briefly. I. This individual, so it shouldn't be that strange. Most people would be star struck, or should I say stone struck? But we have the great stone. He's a guy, he likes feet. It's not a fetish.

[Jake Johnson]

Not a fetish.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's boobs are the sauce. It's an appreciation you'll understand soon enough.

[Jake Johnson]

Also, you have to know, he does not have a foot fetish. I think that's an ugly word, but he does.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Not at all. But sometimes when he's in the heat of battle, if you know what we're saying, it takes him out. Feet pop over, feet will pop in.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, but he also thinks elbows are gross.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So can we get appreciation?

[Tammy]

This is Tammy, the breakfast manager.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, keep going, Texas breakfast manager.

[Tammy]

Uhhuh. And one of my employees stopped wearing her dentures.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yep, you had so you now stone. Are you familiar with this first call?

[Jeff]

I'm not, no.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Jesus Christ.

[Jake Johnson]

I would love for the callers. Everybody's gotta catch up.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I would love for our callers to listen to the goddamn show that they're.

[Jake Johnson]

A part of episodes.

[Gareth Reynolds]

This call hasn't aired yet and Stone. Oh, it hasn't aired yet. So, Jesse, thank you for jumping in. Thank you for jumping in, Jesse. And let's all. 3, 2, 1. And we're back. Of course, Stone. See, the reason you haven't heard this call is because it hadn't aired yet. So the problem was basically together. So basically the problem Tammy had was she is a manager at a hotel.

[Jake Johnson]

Hold on, let's. Let's let. Tammy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Sure, absolutely.

[Jake Johnson]

So, Tammy, will you explain what the problem was? Will you explain what we pitched and will you explain what we did?

[Tammy]

Sure. So, yeah, I have an employee that before I got promoted, stopped wearing her denture. So now that I'm in a position to do or say something, I wasn't really sure how to go about it. So a couple of things were pitched. We decided to go. Maybe.

[Jake Johnson]

Before you say that, Tammy Stone, do you understand the setup on this one?

[Jeff]

Oh, yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

What would you pitch here?

[Jeff]

I'm gonna be honest, speaking from the heart, I would definitely tell her to put her teeth back in because I don't think it's helping anyone that she doesn't have teeth on the job.

[Jake Johnson]

Jake.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Teeth are the sauce.

[Jake Johnson]

Okay, so we were similar on that. Tammy, what did we pitch?

[Tammy]

We had two different email options. Gareth's was really nicely, nicely worded and sounded great. Okay. Steve Berg's pitch was a little more direct and that's kind of the route I went more directly. Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

So did you sent an email? Will you read the email you sent?

[Tammy]

Well, actually, I texted it because we were already texting about work stuff.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Read the text you sent, and we've got a screenshot of it if we want to see.

[Jake Johnson]

Okay, great.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Evidence proof.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Tammy]

So I asked her, you know, if it was okay if I, you know, asked her a personal question. She could tell me it was none of my business.

[Jake Johnson]

Don't read ahead, Gareth. Don't read ahead. Tammy just explained to us what happened. So you said, will you read it to us? What was the first thing you texted?

[Tammy]

Yeah, I asked if I could ask a personal question. And I copied and pasted exactly what Steve put. Steve said was, we were wondering where the dentures go.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's what you said.

[Steve Berg]

Wait, hold on.

[Jake Johnson]

You were wondering, Tammy, we were wondering where did the dentures go?

[Natasha]

I can read her.

[Jake Johnson]

That's exactly what. Okay, hold on, hold on one sec. I need a little. We're getting a little chaotic here.

[Natasha]

Yeah, let me. Let me read her her text. She says, hey, can I ask you a personal question? And absolutely feel free to tell me it's none of my business. And to piss off lol. Then she said, yes, sure, go for it. We were just curious. Where did the dentures go?

[Jake Johnson]

Oh, my God. Okay. And then what happened, Natalie? Keep going. You're killing it. This is what I was dying for. I appreciate it. So then what happened, Natalie?

[Natasha]

Grace says I keep forgetting them at home. Plus I hate eating with them in.

[Jake Johnson]

Okay, then what happens?

[Natasha]

I clean them at night and when I finish them in the morning, I place them back in the container and take Ruckus outside. And then they get forgotten. There's some days we are lucky I remember to do my hair. Just saying okay then.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Great response.

[Jake Johnson]

Agreed.

[Natasha]

And then she says, okay, I was a little concerned that maybe something happened to them and was feeling bad in case you couldn't get them replaced. Replaced. I'm glad it's all good.

[Jake Johnson]

Great.

[Natasha]

And then Grace says, nope, just old people thinking, kicking in already laughing. Emojis. Two of them. And that's the end of the conversation.

[Jake Johnson]

That's positive.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's positive. But it's not. It's not. There's. There's not a conclusion.

[Jake Johnson]

But Tammy, is there a conclusion?

[Tammy]

Yes. So I figured, you know, if she didn't continue to wear them, then it would be okay to bring it up because obviously she. She's okay talking about it, but I did hear over the weekend she had them in.

[Jake Johnson]

Hey, this is a goddamn win.

[Tammy]

The win.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Win.

[Jake Johnson]

Stone, what do you think about all this? Where are you at here, babe?

[Jeff]

Well, she sounds like a lovely woman first off. And.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, here we go.

[Jeff]

Yeah, I think just the reminder worked.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's. That's. You know, this is going. You know where this is going?

[Steve Berg]

Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

Stone, we're not going to ask about her feet though, right?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, we're not going to get a picture of those feet. Nobody.

[Jake Johnson]

You know me. Natalie, can we send Steve the thing that the woman sent us? Cut out the name I just said. But the woman who. Parmesan. The Parmesan. Can we just send that photo to Stone from the original email? Because it's just feeding an office. Could we just get this guy hot and bothered for a second?

[Gareth Reynolds]

We have such a database now, we may as well take advantage of it.

[Jake Johnson]

This animal in the heat of battle.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Micro feed. Yeah, eventually. Eventually give the codes.

[Jake Johnson]

But. So Tammy, she's wearing the teeth.

[Tammy]

Yeah, she did this weekend, so definitely a win.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay, great.

[Jake Johnson]

This is awesome. And I think the way. I think going the Steve route was interesting, but it really worked. You guys were jokey. It was nice.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It did not gave Me, anxiety.

[Jake Johnson]

But I thought go sideways.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So did I. It's a very direct. You know what I didn't love about about it? We were wondering like a posse of.

[Jake Johnson]

Gossipers, but Tammy, let me tell you, you pulled it off. It was not mean spirited and you and her were laughing about it. So she knows I'm a little bit quirky. She's lucky I comb my hair. But she now knows my boss, who's a cool person, would prefer I do this. So I'm going to try my best. If she slips up every once in a while, give her a little grace.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You look, you give her a couple and then you go, hey.

[Jake Johnson]

And on the third one, you could just go. Like you could create a joke where you just go, chief, teeth.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I don't mind the hair, but it's the teeth I care about.

[Jake Johnson]

And she'll go. Like, she'll go tomorrow is a guarantee. And you go, I can't wait. And then you could playfully go, do me a favor, if you forget the teeth, just go back a house, babe.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

Teeth are in the front. Or go home and get a motif back a house.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Go home and grab.

[Jake Johnson]

Grab. Or just get in the back of.

[Gareth Reynolds]

The kitchen or get some work teeth.

[Tammy]

Right?

[Jake Johnson]

Get some work teeth.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I think it's great. I also think Ruckus is a phenomenal dog name. Me too. But it is a win. How do you feel? Are you feeling better, Tammy?

[Tammy]

I'm feeling relieved. You should thank you guys for the encouragement. For sure, you did it.

[Jake Johnson]

But also.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, we did it.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah. But also, Tammy hit a home run. And I got a question for you, Tammy, really fast. When you're in the heat of battle, sexually, do feet not attached to a body ever pop in your head and turn you on? Just. We need the truth.

[Tammy]

No, Never.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Huh?

[Tammy]

No, no.

[Jake Johnson]

Now, if they did, would you think you had a foot fetish?

[Tammy]

Probably, if that's something that I'm thinking about.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But nothing. No shame. And no shame in that thought, though. If someone had it right, if they.

[Jake Johnson]

Popped in, would you go, like, I got a thing for feet?

[Tammy]

Probably they.

[Jake Johnson]

And Tammy, do you think the word fetish is an ugly word?

[Tammy]

No.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Neither do I either.

[Jake Johnson]

Stone, do you think it's an ugly word?

[Jeff]

It's becoming destigmatized by the minute.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Good.

[Jake Johnson]

I love it. Tammy, thank you for the call. This was a huge win. We appreciate how you handled this woman with grace. You did not offend her. I think you absolutely one.

[Gareth Reynolds]

May we also give the surrogate hit to Steve Berg?

[Steve Berg]

Who?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Who? Who? Who, sir? No, to be activist.

[Jake Johnson]

Steve's a winner on our show.

[Gareth Reynolds]

She is a winner.

[Jake Johnson]

Thank you. Thank you so much, Tammy.

[Tammy]

Thank you.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Thanks, Tammy.

[Jake Johnson]

Okay, Stone, you're the best, buddy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Thanks a bunch. Stone.

[Natasha]

Stone, I sent you an email for your enjoyment.

[Jeff]

Oh.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Have a good afternoon.

[Jake Johnson]

Really fast. Why don't you open the email? Let's get it in and then can. Can we see the photo as he sees it?

[Natasha]

Let me find it.

[Jake Johnson]

And Stone, I want a real take on this.

[Natasha]

Oh, my God.

[Jeff]

Yeah, they're pretty good feet.

[Jake Johnson]

I don't know. I don't know.

[Jeff]

I think I just haven't explored it enough where I know what. What attracts me about a foot, I guess.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, but what. But when you're looking at it, what do you feel?

[Jeff]

Probably neutrality. Honestly, nothing.

[Jake Johnson]

Okay, so those aren't your kind of feet. Now, if they were going to be better, what would be better about. About them?

[Jeff]

I think it would help if I knew the person they were attached to.

[Jake Johnson]

Ah, so they're not just floating. You know what the problem with these are? You're not seeing the toes.

[Natasha]

I was thinking it's no toes.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's an extension of his love. I. I think it's a no, Gary.

[Jake Johnson]

They could just be floating through space.

[Gareth Reynolds]

They are sometimes, but that's when he's with toes.

[Jake Johnson]

I think it's a toes thing.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We all need toes. It's called toe gas. I mean, it's fine, Stone. God bless.

[Jake Johnson]

Did you just end yourself on the togasm?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Thanks a bunch, Stone. We appreciate it. We gotta go. That was the best joke of the show. Thanks, buddy.

[Jake Johnson]

Waitresses.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Thanks, everybody.

[Steve Berg]

Love you, buddy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Love you.

[Jake Johnson]

We're Here to Help is hosted by Jake Johnson and Gareth Reynolds. If you'd like to be on the show, please email us your question@ HelpfulPod Gmail.com. and if you want to watch video episodes of We're Here to Help, you can go to our [e-mail] heretohelpod to see our entire catalog.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We're Here to Help is produced by Rabbit Grimm Productions executive producers Rob Hollis.

[Jake Johnson]

Jeff Porter and Natalie Hollis.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Associate producer Jesse Thurston.

[Jeff]

Editing, mix and master by Chris Faller.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Theme song by Oliver Raleigh. The COVID artwork is by James Fosdike, animations by Andrew Strelecki. And if you'd like to see Gareth Du stand up on the road, go to Gareth garethreynolds.com Remember, all the advice given on We're Here to Help is for entertainment purposes only and all listeners should be adults and make their own decisions.

[Jake Johnson]

Hey, I'm Tony Hale. I'm Matt Oberg.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And I'm Kristen Schall.

[Jake Johnson]

And we're going to be hosting the new podcast, the Extraordinarians, where we are going to be interviewing extraordinary people doing extraordinary things, things that we have never and probably will never do. Do we talk to people who have broken records on slack lines? Suspended by hot air balloons? We're talking to people who have done multiple flips on trampolines. You'll have to tune in to find out how many flips they did.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Subscribe to Extraordinarians on Spotify, Apple Podcast, Pocket Cast, or wherever you get your podcast and watch videos.

[Jake Johnson]

God, in three.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Watch it on the YouTube. There's new episodes that we release it every Wednesday.

[Jake Johnson]

We do. I've never seen you cry before.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I know. I don't know. This is upsetting for all of us. They don't let us break for lunch.

[Jake Johnson]

They do podcasts.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's so competitive. They make you just talk. Guys, we're watching a spin out. Please subscribe. Oh, man. Extraordinarians.

[Jake Johnson]

All video episodes of season one are available now on Patreon, and season two video episodes will be available every Monday starting January 20th. Go to patreon.com heretohelpod.