177: Duo Ling-Crow & You Got Nudes (with Nick Kroll)

Summary

Episode Title: We're Here to Help
Episode Number: 177
Featuring: Nick Kroll
Release Date: June 4, 2025

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Episode Overview

In Episode 177 of We're Here to Help, hosts Jake Johnson and Gareth Reynolds team up with comedian and actor Nick Kroll to provide advice on a range of listener-submitted issues. This episode delves into quirky family dynamics and relationship challenges, blending humor with heartfelt solutions.

Main Call: Navigating an Obsessive Father's Behavior

Caller: Nicole from Vancouver, BC
Issue: Nicole seeks advice on how to address her father Jim's unusual obsession with crows, which has begun to disrupt their neighborhood.

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Nicole's Dilemma:

Nicole explains that her father has become increasingly fixated on crows over the past decade. He names individual crows and spends his walks loudly calling them, which has started to unsettle neighbors and make her family self-conscious.

"Every time my dad goes outside... he is cawing at the top of his lungs for Russell all around the neighborhood." ([17:36])

Discussion Highlights:

• Understanding the Behavior:
  Jake and Gareth explore whether Jim's actions are merely eccentric or indicative of deeper issues. They acknowledge the blend of humor and concern in Nicole's predicament.

• Potential Solutions:
  The trio brainstorm creative strategies to help Nicole's father moderate his crow-calling without causing him distress.

Gareth Reynolds: "Maybe we can get in your dad's ear about the idea that using... you're speaking crow gibberish." ([30:02])

Advice Pitches:

1. Anonymous City Council Letter:
   Gareth suggests composing a faux official letter from the city council addressing Jim's crowing behavior, emphasizing its impact on the community.

   "We value your contribution to the community, but the crowing at the crows needs to stop immediately." ([43:32])

2. AI-Enhanced Feedback:
   Jake proposes using AI to simulate crow responses to Jim's calls, illustrating the futility and potential misunderstandings of his actions.

   "You could also go around and interview some of the people who are talking shit about your dad and then show that to him." ([36:34])

3. Photo-Based Intervention:
   Combining their longstanding prank bit, Jake and Gareth offer to create framed photos of themselves making goofy faces and have Nicole display them at home. The idea is that Jim, upon seeing these images, might realize the silliness of his own behavior.

   "We're going to send you a bunch of these photos, and we'll have them framed then... you'll take one down if you take one of your things down." ([72:10])

Notable Quotes:

• Gareth Reynolds:
  "You can't take your passion and start crowing down the middle of the street." ([27:02])

• Jake Johnson:
  "You’re a grizzly with boxing gloves, but he’s winning." ([64:50])

Secondary Call: Conflict Over Art Taste in Relationships

Caller: Gene from Chicago, IL
Issue: Gene is struggling with her boyfriend's poor taste in art after moving into a new apartment together. His bold and mismatched art choices clash with her preference for neutral, light-themed decor.

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Gene's Dilemma:

Gene describes how her boyfriend insists on displaying eclectic and often garish artwork, such as a panda with boxing gloves and cartoon mash-ups, which she finds off-putting and out of sync with her aesthetic preferences.

"Everything represents him, no matter how horrible." ([53:28])

Discussion Highlights:

• Balancing Aesthetics:
  Jake and Gareth discuss the importance of maintaining individual tastes while creating a harmonious living space.

• Compromise Strategies:
  They suggest practical solutions, such as dedicating specific areas for each person's artwork or incorporating humorous pieces that can lighten the mood.

Gareth Reynolds: "We need to make him think that he's getting an extra. We might have to take some away." ([64:52])

Advice Pitches:

1. Curated Gallery Walls:
   Encouraging Gene to collaboratively create a gallery wall that includes both her neutral pieces and selectively chosen bold artworks from her boyfriend. This approach aims to blend styles without one overpowering the other.

2. Humorous Art Integration:
   Proposing the addition of funny, self-deprecating posters featuring Jake and Gareth to introduce humor and reduce the perceived seriousness of the art conflict.

   "We're going to send you a bunch of these photos... so when he says one less, you go, I'll take one down." ([72:10])

Notable Quotes:

• Gene:
  "If this doesn't work, I will put him on blast and shame him into this." ([53:07])

• Jake Johnson:
  "He wants to feel seen. He's trying to come out in that way." ([61:30])

Hosts' Personal Updates and Banter

Between calls, Jake and Gareth share updates about their personal lives and upcoming projects, maintaining a lighthearted and relatable atmosphere.

Jake Johnson: "I got a movie coming out the next week, June 6th... It's funny but kind of suspensey." ([80:22])

Gareth Reynolds: "We've been taking these photos for 10 years... This has been so fun." ([70:29])

Additional Highlights and Listener Interactions

The episode includes brief interactions with other listeners, offering quick advice snippets and humorous takes on various topics, reinforcing the podcast's friendly and supportive vibe.

Lauren from Arkansas: "The ideal sleeping temperature is between 60 and 67 degrees... my idea is that instead of Piggly and Mo..." ([86:52])

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Conclusion

Episode 177 of We're Here to Help masterfully combines humor with practical advice, addressing both unconventional family issues and common relationship conflicts. With the added dynamic of Nick Kroll, the hosts deliver engaging solutions while maintaining their signature comedic flair, ensuring listeners are both entertained and informed.

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps:

• Nick Kroll:
  "There's sometimes, like, if there's a topic that I think I want to do stand up on or if there's sometimes, like, if I'm writing something for my show." ([00:58])

• Gareth Reynolds:
  "What we're going to recommend is we're gonna... get him to watch an Italian singer sing gibberish, and he's gonna go, what?" ([34:18])

• Jake Johnson:
  "You're a grizzly with boxing gloves, but he's winning." ([64:50])

• Nicole:
  "He thinks he's communicating and, like, letting them know that he cares about them." ([31:06])

• Gareth Reynolds:
  "We're all fans of you... we're gonna do a letter." ([48:54])

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Production Credits:
Produced by Rabbit Grimm Productions
Executive Producers: Rob Hollis, Jeff Porter, Natalie Hollis
Associate Producer: Jesse Thurston
Editing, Mixing, and Mastering by [Editor's Name]
Theme Song by Oliver Raleigh

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Please note that all advice provided in this podcast is for entertainment purposes only. Listeners should consult professionals for serious matters.

Transcript

[Gareth Reynolds]

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[Nick Kroll]

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[Gareth Reynolds]

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[Nick Kroll]

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[Gareth Reynolds]

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[Nick Kroll]

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[Gareth Reynolds]

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[Jake Johnson]

I just did a bunch of propofol before I came in here, so then we might hit a. We might hit a period.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Propofol's the colonoscopy drug.

[Jake Johnson]

Yes, if you're lucky.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I was lucky. I just had it.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, me too.

[Gareth Reynolds]

What'd you think?

[Jake Johnson]

How many polyps do they find?

[Gareth Reynolds]

None. How about you?

[Jake Johnson]

I don't think any. Now that I think about. Now that I heard you, I don't think any.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, what they said to me is honestly was, you have a beautiful. My man. And I went like, thank you.

[Jake Johnson]

Okay, when does the exam start?

[Gareth Reynolds]

And he goes, you're in an alley in la, man.

[Jake Johnson]

I know this.

[Gareth Reynolds]

This isn't the place.

[Jake Johnson]

So thank. First off, thank you once again.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Thank you. You got some pops. You can be honest.

[Jake Johnson]

I can be honest about the palms they described. They said it looked like nerd rope. You know, like nerds when they're all like bunched together on like a long gummy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

They said your looks like nerds on a rope.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, nerd rope.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's bad news.

[Jake Johnson]

Is it?

[Gareth Reynolds]

It ain't good news.

[Jake Johnson]

I don't know. As it goes, any news is good news.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Not with help. Is that what it is, what they say in show business and help any. This is good news. Over under. Do you think we're going to be good at this together.

[Jake Johnson]

I think we're going to be really good at it. I 1.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, I'm feeling slap happy to start, which is problematic.

[Jake Johnson]

Is it?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, I think it's good. A Sunday night. My kind of vibe was, I'm in tonight.

[Jake Johnson]

Right.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I got a weird stomachache. I got a juice stomach and I had some weird dairy. And a smoothie at Year one today. Yeah, they gave me a free one.

[Jake Johnson]

Oh, congrats, man. You're. That means you're up $170.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It was because of some membership. And I go to my wife and I go, must have been here a lot.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

If they're just giving me a weird.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah. Here's a hailey bieber, a $300 smoothie.

[Gareth Reynolds]

My daughter got one today.

[Jake Johnson]

How was it?

[Gareth Reynolds]

She said, beyond delicious. And then because she is a fan of Hailey Bieber, which is exactly what I've planned, which means I've done everything right. She starts as she's drinking looking like this. And I'm like, oh my God. It's happened as a culture she knows as a little girl to be Hailey Bieber means you look like this, as if the Instagram photos here.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah. And you drink it. You're drinking it one way and your eyes are there going the other way.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And I would look at it and I was like, she did that. And I was like, wow.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, it worked. The Baldwins win again. Thank you so much. Isn't it amazing that Haley Bieber is Billy Baldwin's daughter? Stephen, I'm sorry I said it wrong. Stephen Baldwin. Can you imagine being the least of the Baldwins still?

[Gareth Reynolds]

What an honor.

[Jake Johnson]

Number two on the call sheet to Paulie.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You're behind. Wait. Yeah. But no, who's the fattest Baldwin? Danny Baldwin.

[Jake Johnson]

He's the oldest.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, he's. He's the Baldwin that I've always looked.

[Jake Johnson]

At and gone like he took the hits though. You know what I mean? Like you're thinking he's the oldest. Like. Yeah, he's the lead blocker.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

Open it up for.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I know, but he took all these stuff.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Cuz he's alec, but like 15. Too much.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Because you got a lot.

[Jake Johnson]

He's got a Long Island 15 on him.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, but like Alec can pull it off. And you go like, he's really handsome. And then you look and you go kind of bulky.

[Jake Johnson]

He's a thicker guy. If you look at his hands, if.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You look at his body, you're like, I don't know, like he pulls it off in Beetlejuice.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But at certain angles, you go, it was thick. Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

You go back and watch that movie album doesn't get a size 28 waist in.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Gina Davis in that movie you like. She's a beauty.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

His chest hair and face. I go, now that's a good looking man. Him walking down the stairs. I go, that's a kid from Long Island.

[Jake Johnson]

It's all about how you shoot him.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But that's not a kid who grew up surfing. Certain male babes, they grew up surfing.

[Jake Johnson]

Their bodies are perfect. Yeah. Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Owen Wilson.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Owen Wilson falls downstairs at every angle. You go, besides the nose, that guy's a movie star.

[Jake Johnson]

Your nose looks a lot like. I know, I know, but I have Alec Baldwin's body.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I got Baldwin's body. No, but he's the guy. I've always looked at it. I'm like, I can't believe you're right on the line. And then his poor brother, you go, yeah, but you know what, Al? You've had discipline.

[Jake Johnson]

And then. But then Billy, it. It comes together. Sleek and like a panther. Billy B.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Right.

[Jake Johnson]

Too, too hot.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Flatliners. He's too sexy.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah. The smile comes too easy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

But it's like trickier. He looks like a murderer, but my money's on him. As far as a life goes, Billy Baldwin's the one. If I had to choose which life I'd want.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

I mean, obviously Alex would be real fun right now.

[Gareth Reynolds]

She's the best character on planet Earth.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

She's one of my all time favorites.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah. She's a real winner. Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And now whatever happens on social media, she gets so offended, but pretends to with her tone that she doesn't. But defends it.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Everybody's so mad at me. You're not understanding. This is how I put my foot. Tell him. And then some little kid in the background goes, that's how mommy sits.

[Jake Johnson]

Have you watched the show?

[Gareth Reynolds]

A little bit.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I haven't gone deep in it.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But I've watched it every episode a couple times, but I'm not getting. But I don't get deep in it.

[Jake Johnson]

I guess I've seen a little bit of it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, I've checked it. Have you?

[Jake Johnson]

I don't. I mean, I fall asleep to it. And then my. I got a shower. I got a shower screen. So I watch it in the shower, you know, and then I get. And then I, you know, I got that. I got one of those hotel ones in the mirror.

[Gareth Reynolds]

All right.

[Jake Johnson]

Okay.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You ready, Rob?

[Jake Johnson]

It's just on the phone. In the shower. It's not great. The plastic bag doesn't work.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I don't care. I don't care. It's a great show.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah. All jokes aside, and I know we need to take the call. It's a great show.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. But I don't.

[Jake Johnson]

I'm so happy for them.

[Gareth Reynolds]

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[Gareth Reynolds]

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[Gareth Reynolds]

Hello. Hi. Can we get your name, please?

[Nicole]

Yes.

[Gene]

Nicole.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Hey, Nicole. How you doing?

[Nicole]

Good, how are you? Dylan.

[Jake Johnson]

Hey, I'm Nick. Roll. Hi, Nicole. I'm Nick Kroll.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Holy.

[Nicole]

Really?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nicole and Nicole. Yeah. Well, I'm gonna tell you what. We're also recording at night. Nicole. We never do that. It feels different.

[Nicole]

You never do that?

[Gareth Reynolds]

No, we always do, like 9 in the morning, and that's the truth.

[Jake Johnson]

Really?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Nicole]

Are you guys tired then?

[Gareth Reynolds]

No, we're excited.

[Jake Johnson]

We're. We're feeling alive. We're recording at night.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. But also, Nick and I have been talking about getting a beer together for 15 years, and this is our first hang that's not at an event.

[Jake Johnson]

Absolutely.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And we were just talking about the.

[Jake Johnson]

Baldwins, and we don't have a beer between us.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But he did just get a colonoscopy.

[Jake Johnson]

Yep.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And.

[Nicole]

Oh, okay.

[Jake Johnson]

I'll tell you my colonoscopy later. Nicole, where the polyps?

[Nicole]

Later. Okay.

[Jake Johnson]

I'm constantly worried about life insurance coverage. I won't speak of it publicly.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Nicole, I would love if that was real. And the thing that is always on your mind.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

All jokes aside, Rob, cut that out. Nicole, how old are you?

[Nicole]

32.

[Gareth Reynolds]

32. And where are you calling from?

[Nicole]

Vancouver, BC.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, I love where. Vancouver.

[Jake Johnson]

Vancouver.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Love Vancouver.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah. Love, love everything about Oregon.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Nicole. Nicole.

[Jake Johnson]

He's joking. Nicole, this is Nicole. I'm joking around.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He's just doing a bit. Where is Vancouver?

[Jake Johnson]

I know pieces. I know what pieces.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We're similar.

[Nicole]

I gotcha.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Nick, really quick. What is it all about?

[Jake Johnson]

It's about Banff.

[Gareth Reynolds]

What else? It's.

[Nicole]

It's about Stanley Park.

[Jake Johnson]

It's about. Yeah. And it's about. It's about. It's about the red ones.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Nicole, what's going on? What can we do with it?

[Jake Johnson]

What can we do with you?

[Gene]

What can we do?

[Gareth Reynolds]

What's the issue today? Dude. Yeah, I'm gonna pull it together. God damn it, I'm excited. Nick's here. Let's go. Nicole, what do we Got.

[Nicole]

Yeah. Okay. So my dad loves animals.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Same.

[Nicole]

My whole family does, but loves animals. And over the last 10 years, has been. Has become increasingly interested with crows.

[Jake Johnson]

Wait, sorry, I didn't understand.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Crows.

[Jake Johnson]

Crows you want.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Hold on. Nicole, wait.

[Jake Johnson]

Nicole, this is Nick Kroll. Your dad's obsessed with crows.

[Nicole]

This is Nicole. Dad obsessed with crows?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yes.

[Jake Johnson]

Okay.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And you are?

[Jake Johnson]

I'm Nick Kroll and Nicole's dad is obsessed with crows. I'm Nick Kroll and Nicole's dad is obsessed with crows. Okay, sorry, go ahead.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Dad loves animals. Lately, obsessed with crows.

[Jake Johnson]

Sure.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Crows are fascinating.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, they are.

[Nicole]

Yeah, they are.

[Gene]

They are.

[Nicole]

For sure.

[Gene]

They're very cool.

[Nicole]

And like the session, it started off normally.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yep.

[Nicole]

Like, he was feeding them. He was feeding them every once in a while. He was feeding them every once in a while.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Nicole]

And he would leave out, like, water for them and stuff as normal. Ish. And then he named a few of them that were coming around the house.

[Jake Johnson]

Did he name.

[Nicole]

Yeah, he named a couple of them. It was Russell. And did he name any of them Nick Crowe? No, unfortunately.

[Jake Johnson]

Like an idiot. Go ahead.

[Gareth Reynolds]

What is he called? He's got a Russell.

[Nicole]

Russell. Russell and Judy. But we never knew if they were actually the same crows. You just. Random crows would be Russell and random crows would be Judy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay, but.

[Jake Johnson]

So. But one of them Russell and. And is Russell Crowe. Is it Russell Crowe?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Right, So I didn't put that.

[Jake Johnson]

Is it Russell Crowe? Is it like a heavier. Is it like a heavier. Yeah, yeah, Heavier crow. Makes you listen to his music after rap.

[Nicole]

Yeah, exactly.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He smokes. He won't say his lines. He talks about a nest he was in 10 years ago.

[Jake Johnson]

Like, still be. Can still sell a movie. But it's like. It's weird financing Russell Crowe and then Judy Crow.

[Gareth Reynolds]

What's Judy Crow?

[Nicole]

Judy Crow.

[Jake Johnson]

What's Judy Crow?

[Nicole]

Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

Did he name.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Shocking Nicole. Do you think he did it because of the actor Russell Crowe, or is that 100?

[Gene]

Not.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Not.

[Jake Johnson]

Oh, okay.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I was with her. You just found that.

[Jake Johnson]

I just thought she's a crimin.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Wow.

[Jake Johnson]

That's.

[Gareth Reynolds]

No, I was with your dad that he just. It was just randomly. Russell Crow.

[Nicole]

No, that would not have been.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay. I'm totally with you. It would have. If your dad was doing themes. The other one would have been a crow.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah. And you wouldn't.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It would have been Cameron and Russell.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Nicole]

No, no, definitely not.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay, so great.

[Nicole]

Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

If he gets into, like, other animals, like a bear, what do you name it? You know, grills. Okay, let's get back Bear Grylls. Okay, let's get. Stop it. Stop. Nicole, stop it. Stop freaking out.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It was a joke. You can stop laughing.

[Jake Johnson]

I was just.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We'll have to cut out all the laughs. Okay, Nicole. So Russell and Judy, your dad names them the two crows. Okay.

[Nicole]

Yes. So he would like go out in the morning and in the backyard and like call for them or whatever. They don't respond to the names obviously, but this is what he was doing. And this was the first sign of my mom and I being like, okay, this is a little weird. So over the last year is when it's escalated a bit because, well, I mean, this is like the issue every time my dad goes outside. Every single time, whether it's on a walk with my mom or I or he's on a walk by himself, he is cawing at the top of his lungs for Russell all around the neighborhood.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Dad, no, like, Nicole, can you give us a taste of dad's crows? No exaggeration.

[Nicole]

I knew you were gonna ask.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I knew I have to hear. I'll put you on the spot, but you can do it.

[Nicole]

Yeah. So I can't do the gargle that he does. Like, he shocking. But my best. This is my best. It's like. Like that.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Can I, can I. I know you want it. Can I see Nick, see if he can top it?

[Nicole]

Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

So this is your dad for a walk. How old's your dad?

[Nicole]

My dad, like, I don't know exactly. I think he's like 68, 69.

[Jake Johnson]

Okay.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Respect that. You don't know.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, but it's cool that.

[Nicole]

Yeah, I've never known.

[Jake Johnson]

69.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, it's my favorite number.

[Jake Johnson]

Bill has been for years. I respect him, so I respect your father.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You got a crow, my man.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah. So it's.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Wait, did it just come out as you were in your head seeing if you had one?

[Jake Johnson]

It was just finding the timber of it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Pretty good practice.

[Jake Johnson]

Sure, let's just. But it's her dad as a 69 year old Canadian man. Going for a walk. Going for a walk with Nicole. Shall we go for a walk? Okay, great. Russell Crowe. Russell Crowe. Judy and Judy as well. Cameron, Cameron, Cameron. Crow.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Out of 10, Nicole.

[Jake Johnson]

That's a little more dolphin than I want it to be. I want to take out a little top.

[Gareth Reynolds]

The top was pretty good. Nicole, your thoughts?

[Nicole]

No, it was good. It was good and it was closer.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He had a bit of.

[Nicole]

Bit of a gargle, so it was closer than mine.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Great.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, I can take some. I just want Nicole, you to know I could take a little gargle off him. Okay.

[Nicole]

No, it was good.

[Gene]

It's like.

[Nicole]

But it's like. It sounds like a. It does sound dolphiny, like a little bit more crow, I guess. But it is like, I have been trying.

[Jake Johnson]

Thank you. What are the crows saying back? Like, what's. What are. Is it a dialogue?

[Nicole]

But that's. That's part of it is that they don't respond to him at all. Like, this is not like, oh, that's my friend calling me.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He's trying to.

[Jake Johnson]

Nicole, these crows remind me of talking to you and your mom. Mother.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Silence. All right, so, Nicole.

[Jake Johnson]

So you think he's putting a little quack on it?

[Gareth Reynolds]

All right, hold on. Nicole, we got to do this really fast. You got to close your eyes, and you got to be the judge.

[Jake Johnson]

Now, separated from our voices.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Separated from our voices. Promise, no setup.

[Jake Johnson]

Fair enough.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You do a better Canadian, you do a better story.

[Jake Johnson]

No, no, I'll do. I'll do sorry. No, nothing. I won't do a goddamn thing.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You do sorry and yours. Then say, sorry. Point at me, and I'll do mine. What am I saying, Nicole? You're judging which one does a crow that is more realistic and closer to your dad. Okay, you're gonna get two options. It was just like, really, no setup.

[Jake Johnson]

You're just gonna hear it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. You're just gonna hear two crows, and then you go, one was better, one was worse, and you say it. We're gonna move the hell on.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay. Ready?

[Nicole]

The first one was much better.

[Jake Johnson]

The first one was much better.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Can we try one more time? Because I didn't expect that to come out of my mouth.

[Jake Johnson]

Okay. I was in Gladiator.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Which crow was better?

[Gene]

The first one.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So we're going to split one and one, and we're going to move on. All right, Nicole? It's all right. So your dad is really into crows? He's named some lately when you go for a walk, some he's just crowing at him. Not ideal, obviously. You didn't have to say they don't crow back. We knew they didn't, you know, feed them. He tries to, yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

Nicole, can I ask.

[Nicole]

Yes.

[Jake Johnson]

Is he summoning spirits from somewhere? Is that part of it?

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's interesting. A lot of people say crows are connected. Crows and owls.

[Nicole]

I don't. I don't believe so.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay.

[Nicole]

But maybe.

[Gareth Reynolds]

All right, Nicole, so you're walking down the street, Dad's crowing it all. Crows. Then what?

[Nicole]

Yeah, so? Because he does this all over the neighborhood, and he does this by himself. Like I've been coming back from the store to my parents place and you can hear him from a block away. And you know it's him because it doesn't sound like a crow.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So the neighbor really fast about. What are we calling dad?

[Nicole]

Dad? Jim.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Jim. Jim a guy who had a job or Jim, the kind of stay at home guy who does projects in the basement? I'm not judging you. I just want to get a sense.

[Nicole]

Yeah, yeah. He's retired, so he's. He's at home.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He's doing a lot of home projects. I'll tell you what, in between gigs, when you got some time off Covid the strike, were you doing great, Nick?

[Jake Johnson]

I was doing great. I was thriving. Do you know how many decks I built?

[Gareth Reynolds]

How many?

[Jake Johnson]

Zero.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So what did you. What did your dad do for work? Seems like it doesn't matter. But it might matter when we get to pitching.

[Nicole]

I mean, like he's not working now what he did before.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, Just trying to get a sense of Jim a little bit. I mean, if Jimbo's in a little.

[Jake Johnson]

Bit of a hard time, like a truck driver.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Was he a computer engineer?

[Jake Johnson]

Computer engineer was. He helped.

[Nicole]

He helped people that were injured in the workplace find new jobs.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay, cool. Okay. Helpful guy. Okay.

[Jake Johnson]

That's a very Canadian job.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, it is, isn't it?

[Nicole]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

Okay, so a problem at work. Well, can I help you find new employment?

[Nicole]

Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

I mean, yeah, that's it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We also have that here in the States.

[Jake Johnson]

Do we?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. It's not like he just volunteered. It's not like he was just walking down the street saying it. And someone said, hey, would you like a job doing this? You're great in the park.

[Jake Johnson]

You're just wonderful in Stanley Park.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. So, Nicole, your dad's walking down the street, he's talking to crows. They're not talking back. I'm not seeing this as great so far, but it's because we've been interrupting. But I'm not seeing a big problem yet. Right.

[Nicole]

Yeah. It's because of the calling around the neighborhood and everything. That neighbors. I've seen them cross the street when my dad's coming. I've heard a couple people walk past our house and the one of the women whispered like, yeah, something about Dave is a little off.

[Jake Johnson]

He seems a little off.

[Nicole]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's a little off. My mom, like the children that walk past the school to. Or walk past our house to go to school across the street, like.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I get this.

[Nicole]

Really giggling about Him. Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Great. This is embarrassing.

[Nicole]

Essentially the question is, how do I get my dad to stop calling around the neighborhood?

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Let me first of all compliment you, Nicole. Is a heck of a setup. And you landed the plane.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, absolutely.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So, Nicole, so the question and the whole idea of this is dad's got an obsession with crows. How do we get your dad to stop crowing on the walks? Because people are starting to talk a little and it's getting weird and you're a little worried that dad's turning the corner from I love my dad Jim to retired Jim, who's getting weird.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And look, we all have our passions, but you can't take your passion and start crowing down the middle of the street.

[Jake Johnson]

Is it emblematic of larger quirks that he is exhibiting or is this like, it, Is this like his main thing that he just crows?

[Nicole]

I mean, that's his main thing. Sort of like he, he, he likes to be important, you know, like around the neighborhood. So he, he definitely, he likes, like there's an owl that's down our street right now. And so he's like calling the city to make sure that everybody knows that there's an owl there. So he's very involved.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But what's with the crow? I get a guy like that. He's just a Hands on Mr. Helper.

[Nicole]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He's probably bored as hell.

[Jake Johnson]

Was it, Is this, is this new for him? Like, is this a different than he used to be or is this all.

[Nicole]

Like new behavior as far as talking animals? No, like with the dogs and cats we had growing up. He will have full on conversations with them and everything.

[Gene]

So that's not new, but it's good.

[Nicole]

But it's outside of the house.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Nicole]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And by the way, that is very important.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah. It's good to know that you're like.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, this is fine indoors, dad, when you're talking to Nickels and Ronnie.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's not okay. Walking down the street.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And thinking like we are, like you and your mom are fine with this.

[Jake Johnson]

Behavior or you've tolerated private.

[Nicole]

We were fine when it was in our backyard. You know, we're fine.

[Jake Johnson]

Did the dogs, did the dogs and cats talk back?

[Nicole]

Oh, yeah, totally.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay, so.

[Jake Johnson]

Okay, good.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And what are your thoughts before we start pitching? Because there's going to be a lot of different routes we can take on this one. What are your thoughts about a straight shot? Because I think. Tell me what happened, please.

[Nicole]

Yes. So with me, like, I, I'm not out to embarrass anybody. And so I just said, dad, you know, like, this is. This is a little much. Oh, no, no, it's fine. Like, he.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He definitely. Yeah, keep going.

[Nicole]

Yeah. He's definitely the sort of person that he. He just thinks whatever he wants to think. Like, he's in his kind of own world.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Nicole]

And then with my mom, she said to him, like, okay, we'll go on a walk together, but no calling.

[Gareth Reynolds]

No. And that's so humiliating. Could you imagine saying that to you? Hey, I'll take a walk. Great. I'll take a walk with you.

[Gene]

No.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Trying to talk to crows.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I go, yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

What about crawling? But am I allowed to.

[Nicole]

As soon as my mom said that, he just doubled down.

[Jake Johnson]

I just walk up to people. I go, hey.

[Gene]

Hi.

[Jake Johnson]

It's Nick. I go, small crow.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's cool.

[Jake Johnson]

I'm a little crowd.

[Gareth Reynolds]

This is nighttime vibes. It's, like, sexy. All right, so that's interesting that you have literally, your mom has said to him, I will walk with. And what does your dad say when he is told, we can walk, but please don't crow it crows. Because I gotta tell you, Nicole, that's shocking. Yeah, it's shocking. This is actually starting to understand the problem. Okay. Yeah.

[Nicole]

He'll totally dismiss it and then crawl.

[Jake Johnson]

In front of your mom. Yeah.

[Nicole]

Oh, yeah. He'll double down 100.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So maybe there could be something. And I'm just planting a seed of a pitch, but I don't have the second half of it. But maybe we can get in your dad's ear about the idea that using. Because your dad, I'm sure, knows how smart crows are. So the thing about crows, which I'm sure your dad has got obsessed about, is that they are so smart, they have unbelievable memories. They do revenge. If they don't like you, they come to your yard for years. Like, you don't mess with a crow's brain.

[Jake Johnson]

Sure.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So he's probably on of kick. Like, they're great. Maybe you could say you have to be careful growing because you actually might be insulting them.

[Jake Johnson]

Right.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's like people who get those Chinese tattoos, they go like. It means harmony, but it really means, like, eat a dick.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Like. Like, dad, just be careful. Because I. I read that a crow's brain is so intense that by going, you. You're not saying gibberish. You're literally. They. They go, dad, they speak a language.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah. It's about intonations. And you can't get their intonation, but.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Also you are saying something.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So you just think you're making a sound, but it's like, if it could.

[Jake Johnson]

Be making an enemy for life, you.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Might be saying, like, you. Yeah, and that if he's really in the brain of a crow, could trip him out.

[Jake Johnson]

It's not clear how long these crows can take the high road.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, but think about this for a second.

[Jake Johnson]

This, Danny, this guy, this guy says you to me one more time. I'm telling you, Danny, I'm about to split.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I can't keep doing it.

[Jake Johnson]

I can't keep doing it with this guy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But let's think about this, Justin. This is the perspective I'm trying to get in your dad's ear, right, Nicole? What does he think he's doing?

[Nicole]

Sure, he thinks he's, like, bonding with them.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Right? But how? He thinks he's communicating.

[Nicole]

Yeah, he thinks he's communicating and, like, letting them know that he cares about them. And.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Nicole, let me bring this up to you then. Does he speak crow or, say, have you ever studied it or has there ever been any text about the language of crow?

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, does he.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Does he know how to speak crow?

[Jake Johnson]

Is he, like, into bird calls or other birds? Like, has he ever gone birding?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Has he. Does he have a specific device that was somehow created, which is impossible to create, that you can actually communicate to a crow using their legs?

[Jake Johnson]

So smart. They won't even let you study their brain.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's not where I was going.

[Jake Johnson]

You couldn't even do a dual link crow.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Also a sponsor.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, also a sponsor.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But do you see the. The road I'm trying to get to? Your dad is trying to pretend they're in a heightened thing that he's in, and you and your mom don't get it. Yeah, but what he actually is doing. Imagine this in English, if a bird tried to communicate with us and just went like, yellow, mustard, yellow, green. And you go like. Like, huh. And it sounds like English, but they'll just be like, it's gibberish. You know, there's this really funny song. There's this. I saw it on Instagram. But an Italian rock star, you might have seen this in the late 60s, early 70s, who sounded kind of like the Stones.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He did a song. He was an Italian star, and he was like, everybody here likes everything English.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So he did one in English, but it was all gibberish. It's a fucking banging song. Yes, but it's gibberish.

[Jake Johnson]

It's. There's a great Italian disco era where they're just, like, watching not even VHS of us and, like, putting it together, but they're. They're so Italian and groovy in the 70s that it all works, you know? You know?

[Gareth Reynolds]

You know, Please do some more. I'm dying for you to do it. Nick. I'm sorry.

[Jake Johnson]

Does your dad. Is this a pitch?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay.

[Jake Johnson]

Do you allow your dad to walk around with a wagon, a red wagon with a boombox on the back with this? You know me. Nobody loves you. Can I go wait for you?

[Gareth Reynolds]

That is it. So here's what we need to do.

[Jake Johnson]

Nicole, Questo, you.

[Gareth Reynolds]

The funny thing is, is it. Is that it's a banging song.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah. Yeah. And like, that one, like, just honestly, like, what.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's kind of what Nick does. And then there. But there's, like, cool guitar and drums.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And you're like, it sounds like a stone song. He's speaking gibberish.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So here's what I'm gonna recommend. We could either try to find it. I can look around, and I could email it. But I want you to show the video of this Italian thing to your dad and I to explain the concept before you talk about crows. What we're trying to get your dad to do is go like, that's insane. Right? So you.

[Jake Johnson]

That man's beat.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yes. What we're trying to do is we're gonna. We're gonna get him to watch an Italian singer sing gibberish, and he's gonna go, what? And you go, yeah. I heard this podcast, and they were talking about it, and they were saying, like, but it was a popular song, and you can Google it. You go, like, it be. Was a hit, but it was gibberish. They didn't understand what they were saying. And if you can get him to go like, that's so stupid and crazy. Then go. Imagine the point of view of the crow to what you're doing. You're speaking crow gibberish.

[Jake Johnson]

Can I pitch another? So that would be. One is play this Italian classic rock gibberish to your dad and let him know that that's what.

[Gareth Reynolds]

What he's doing.

[Jake Johnson]

What he's doing to the crows is, yes, entertaining, but two, ultimately silly and remembered for silliness.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Exactly right.

[Jake Johnson]

Not for genuine.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Exactly right. You're not actually communicating with anyone. So, dad, if you want to do.

[Jake Johnson]

This, you're just doing.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You're weirding out the neighborhood. You're weirding out Mom. Mom's asking you to stop, and you're not talking to crows. If anything, the crows are making fun of you.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah. You're a joker, dad.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You Feeding the crows, wonderful.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You sitting outside and bonding with them spiritually, wonderful. You trying to speak their language turns you into a clown in the community, I guarantee it.

[Jake Johnson]

And. And these crows. You said clown. Because I did want to. We did. I was going to name my show Crawling Around With Nick Clown. Truly. And now here we are. Do you have, like a ring cam or anything? Do you guys have, like a ring cam?

[Nicole]

No.

[Jake Johnson]

Have you ever.

[Nicole]

No, I don't.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Do it on your phone.

[Jake Johnson]

What's that?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yes, film him on your phone and.

[Jake Johnson]

Film him on your phone. Show it to him or film it on. On your show to us. Show it to us.

[Gareth Reynolds]

A quick question, Nicole. Do you have any footage of your dad doing this?

[Nicole]

No, I only emailed you guys, like, two days ago. Like, I didn't know how quick this was going to go.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He doesn't, but this is a good problem.

[Jake Johnson]

But I also think. I mean, this is what AI is for, so. But you could also go around and interview some of the people who are talking shit about your dad and then show that to him and be like.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I'm afraid of that. Hurting Dad's friends now.

[Jake Johnson]

Go hard at him.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, but what is this to do with AI, though, brother?

[Jake Johnson]

That's what I'm saying. Then you don't even have to do the interviews. And they just. Oh, you create.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You create fake neighborhood.

[Jake Johnson]

How about this?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Who is that? I've never seen that person.

[Jake Johnson]

Can you get a clear pictures of the crows? You send it to us, we will AI a conversation.

[Gareth Reynolds]

This guy's an idiot. You gotta be kidding me. This guy's not speaking crow to me.

[Jake Johnson]

It's all fucking crow to me, this guy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, it's not. There's not one word. I understand. So here's my question about that, because there's actually something, one, I like for the show, and two, I like. As a backup pitch, before you do anything helpful, can you try to just film him?

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Nicole]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Because I think it'd be really fun and really funny. And we'll air it during this thing, too. We'll post it on social media. If you want, we can blur your dad's face up. But I guarantee he's not following our Instagram account if he's talking to crows.

[Jake Johnson]

No. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Nicole]

No, he's not.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But the idea of just getting footage of a Canadian guy walking down the street. If you could get that for us in a nice wide shot.

[Jake Johnson]

But then cut in if you can get coverage and then get coverage, you're gonna come around and let's get your reaction. Let's get a little B roll too. Just the trees.

[Gareth Reynolds]

If you got. Also if you got a C camera, get people in the neighborhood, but split off.

[Jake Johnson]

Split off C camera. Go get some sort of interviews around the neighborhood, on the street stuff.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And so what do you think of these two ideas? We've kind of given it. Because here's what I would do. I personally wouldn't do the. Unless it's AI. I would maybe do fake AI people talking on them. But I do know this. If my daughters brought that to me one day and we're like, hey, dad, you know this weird quirk you have? And I go, like, I wouldn't call it a weird quirk. Go on. And then they go, here's a bunch of people talking on you.

[Jake Johnson]

Hey, what's up?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Let's do it. Please do it. All right, so now this is me in Canada watching clips about my weird quirk.

[Jake Johnson]

Yes, I know that guy down the block. Yeah, he's always crowing and it's very weird and off putting. I don't like it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Your anger is amazing.

[Jake Johnson]

Pardon me, but I don't like what he's doing. I think it's weird. And I don't think the crows like it either.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Sorry. Really good stuff, Nick.

[Jake Johnson]

Thanks.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You great at this, man. So the two things. What are you thinking? What zone are you in?

[Jake Johnson]

What. What are the options?

[Gareth Reynolds]

The options are show your dad this video. But honestly, like, that would hit home for me. And I think, logic wise, it could hit home for your dad. The other is camouflage yourself and film him and go, hey, dad. Yeah. You need to see what you look like.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Because I. I know you think you're talking to them and they're talking bad. Oh. Ask a neighbor if you can go in their house and get a POV from the neighbor. So it's like you're filming from somebody else's house and go, I know what you think you're doing, but you're speaking gibberish to crows. But here's what. You're speaking in English in Canada.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah. You walk up to their house, you knock on the door, you say, hi. You know the creepy, weird guy who crows crows all day long? I'm his daughter. Can I go up to your second floor? Can I come into your home on your second floor and clandestinely film someone?

[Gareth Reynolds]

You know that guy, that weird guy who crows. I was talking to Nick Kroll and he said.

[Jake Johnson]

He said what Nick Kroll said, but he was with Jake.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Whose last name is the guy?

[Jake Johnson]

Jake. The guy's last name Johnson.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So what do you think, Nicole? Out of those two, you happy with one of them?

[Nicole]

It's possible that the second one of filming my dad and having him see, like, what it's like for other people, it's possible that would work again. It could go the total opposite direction.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I agree.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah. He's like, look how great this. Look how great I am.

[Nicole]

Yeah, yeah. Because I have tried to hit him with logic before as far as, like, other bird watching stuff goes. And it like, he. He's a brick wall.

[Jake Johnson]

No, like, do you want to show him, like, have you showed him, like, the birds, like, movies about crows? Does he like.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Maybe. I have an. I have an idea.

[Nicole]

I bought him books about crows. Yeah, I've done that.

[Gareth Reynolds]

What if we write a fake letter from the city?

[Jake Johnson]

Oh, wow.

[Nicole]

Saying that would be amazing.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Saying like, hey, you know, we know what you're doing. There's. There's nothing wrong with it in theory, but you're harassing. What if we referred to it? You're harassing the crows because they don't know what you're saying to them. And we've studied them a lot longer than you. And even though what you're trying to do is nice here, pal, it's not what they need. It's like a lady walking down the street and construction workers yelling all day. They're just trying to raise their families. They're just trying to mate. And there you are screaming at them all day and you're scaring them, right?

[Jake Johnson]

Oh, you're scared them.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. Hey, in a very real way, friend.

[Jake Johnson]

You'Re scaring the cruise. We'll use an aerial font, but it'll have a little tilt to it for Canada.

[Gareth Reynolds]

What do you think of that?

[Nicole]

I like that a lot.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You do? What do you think of either us writing it or you rating it. And we created here. What feels better to you? See what I'm doing here, right?

[Nicole]

I think it's. I think if you guys write it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Sorry, Rob. Okay, so let's come up with it. Nick, will you take the first stab of.

[Jake Johnson]

Of being the Canadian government? The city of the city. And Are you in Vancouver? Where are you?

[Nicole]

So my parents are in Vancouver. I'm in, like. I don't know if you guys know, but like Burnaby area. I don't know what you guys know.

[Gareth Reynolds]

About, but I know where Barnaby.

[Nicole]

I'm like 30 minutes away.

[Jake Johnson]

Barnaby's shout out to Barnaby.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay, so what we're going to do then, tell us. If we get this Right. And we can run it with you over email after. But we want to get the address right. We want to get everything. And then we'll just send it to them in the mail.

[Jake Johnson]

Dear. Yeah, so. So.

[Gareth Reynolds]

From the city council, maybe.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, the city council. Dear Jim, from everyone here at the city council, excellence. We acknowledge that you are an important part of our community, that you've made great contributions.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Sweet.

[Jake Johnson]

We feel lucky that. We feel great that you want to have such a strong connection in nature. But your communication with the crows. Pardon, but it needs to end.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Keep going. Why?

[Jake Johnson]

It's making neighbors feel a bit uncomfortable. They're worried that you're summoning crows. Many crows. Thousands. A murder of crows. And that's what you call a group of crows. A murder of crows. We are worried that you're bringing an absolute murder of crows who will come. Come invade Vancouver, a city ill equipped to do. We offer so much here in Vancouver. Beautiful seaside views, wonderful seafood, amazing Asian cuisine. But one thing we cannot tolerate beyond giving methadone to junkies, is an absolute murder of crows taking over our city. You know, politics never comes first.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Especially here in Canada.

[Jake Johnson]

Especially here in Canada, where we let go. Sorry. Okay. New letter. No, start again.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We're right there. We're right there.

[Jake Johnson]

Okay. Okay. Nothing's more important than community. And we value you, your member. We value your. No, I take that back. How we doing? Is this real?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yes, it's great.

[Jake Johnson]

Okay.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We value your contribution to the community, but the crowing at the crows needs to stop immediately. We ask for your participation or your acceptance of this. We are not looking to. We're not looking for any further correspondence. Thank you so much. And then we'll say, just building Vancouver City Council. And we'll find no names. We'll just find, like that Vancouver City.

[Jake Johnson]

Council out like Ryan Secre.

[Gareth Reynolds]

What do you. What do you think of that, Nicole? And it's just. It's literally going to come in the mail. I from. The problem is it's going to come from Los Angeles.

[Jake Johnson]

No. You want to put a different return address?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, we can. Okay, great.

[Jake Johnson]

One of us will run it up.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Run it up there. Yeah. Nick will run it up there. But. So we will email that. We will literally send a hard copy to your dad.

[Jake Johnson]

Dad.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So now you.

[Jake Johnson]

Can I just. Please, please, you. Could you get photos of him from somewhere? Like, this is when you do want to sneak up to someone's second floor.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. And get him doing it from the.

[Jake Johnson]

Get him doing it and have. And then. But the photos are printed on that weird, curly, sort of shiny, like, parking ticket paper.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yes, Rob. Is that something we can pull off as best we can?

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, as best we can. You know. You know what I mean?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, I know exactly what you mean. Like, that you feel like it's official paper, right?

[Jake Johnson]

Like, official shitty paper. Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yes. And you could also put those little shitty pictures in on the letter. So on the one page of this letter, because at the bottom of it, they're in. They're on it. So you just go like, oh, they have proof.

[Jake Johnson]

They have pictures of.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And then maybe do a photo of, like, a crow of, like, a murder of crows.

[Jake Johnson]

There's like a thousand crows, their hands up. Be like, you know, we could maybe do.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Or we could also do an AI photo of crows that have taken over a town. So it's a town overrun by crows. Like, because they're saying. Option is we're saying to him, we're afraid. You're feeding him and calling to him. You're going to bring so many in.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah. And like, here's would be another pitch is like, you get the. One of the fairies coming from Vancouver Island. Right. Absolutely covered. We AI a murder of crows, just like all on a boat on their way to the mainland.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Why aren't they flying? You don't need to take a boat.

[Jake Johnson]

That's how pissed they are. This guy, Danny, this fucking guy. I'm so mad, I can't even fly anymore. What time's the next ferry?

[Gareth Reynolds]

So, Nicole, I think we've actually given you some solid options.

[Jake Johnson]

We're here to help.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yes. What are you gonna do now? You talk for a little bit. Let's get a sense of where you're at here. You're the star.

[Nicole]

Yeah. So I like the letter as you guys were doing it. Like, I'm fairly certain that if he. If it comes from, like, city council, he 100 will write back. Like, no question in my mind.

[Gareth Reynolds]

What if we do it anonymously?

[Nicole]

Yeah, if it's anonymously, that'll be better. He has no idea where it's coming from.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So rather than you tell us. So if it's anonymous, is it from the neighborhood? Is it? What is it? Where is it from? What would.

[Nicole]

Neighborhood Would be. Would be good.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And then so we just have to put a little sweetness in there because no one's looking to hurt Dad's feeling. So if you. We're all fans of you.

[Jake Johnson]

We're all fans.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. Everybody likes you around here and your spirit, you're the best. With that in mind, what we're afraid of is you bringing a murderer of cross to our lovely little community, Jimbo, or whatever his name is. And it's too much. Thank you for the call. Follow up with us, but we're gonna do a letter, so we're gonna email you and it's going to be. Now that it's not from the city, it's even easier. It's going to be an anonymous letter letter. And we'll run it by you before we send it to you.

[Nicole]

Okay, lovely.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But when you follow up, this one's going to be a victory. Your dad's going to stop and we're not going to shame him.

[Jake Johnson]

No. We're going to make him feel empowered.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. And also that his power might be too great.

[Jake Johnson]

The one thing I will pitch is that unfortunately the letter is anonymous, but it's clear that it's coming from chipmunks. So then he starts talking to the chipmunks.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Thank you for the call. This is Alvin.

[Gene]

Thank you, guys. Thank you.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You guys, I got two of my brothers, Theodore. So listen, look. Oh, hello.

[Gene]

Hello.

[Gareth Reynolds]

How you doing?

[Nicole]

I'm good.

[Gene]

How are you?

[Gareth Reynolds]

I'm doing great.

[Gene]

Glad to hear it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

What's your name?

[Gene]

I'm Gene.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Hey, Gene. Gene.

[Jake Johnson]

Hi, Gene. It's Nick Kroll.

[Gene]

Hi, Nick Kroll.

[Jake Johnson]

How's it going?

[Gene]

Fabulous.

[Jake Johnson]

Great.

[Gene]

I'm excited to get some results here.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, we're excited to be here. Yeah, you got to be a big fan of Jake Johnson.

[Gene]

Massive.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Gene, where are you calling from?

[Gene]

Chicago, Illinois.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Get the out of here. We're in Chicago ill ago.

[Gene]

I'm currently in Andersonville. I'm from Evanston, though. Your old neighbor.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I lived on an apartment on South Hinman, 740 with my mother.

[Gene]

I lived on. I lived on Hinman and Keeny for a long time, too.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We were neighbors. Dude.

[Gene]

Nick, where'd you live?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Where'd you grow up, Nick? New York state. Right.

[Jake Johnson]

I grew up in Ike Barinholtz's house, also in Evanston.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, I think he was Chicago, wasn't he?

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Let's move on. Nick doesn't like to talk about anything personal stuff.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, I had. I hid in Julia Louis Dreyfus's hamper when she was in Northwestern. I was 4 years old. I loved being in there.

[Gareth Reynolds]

She was a wonderful college actress. She was at all the plays, all the place. She's still very funny. Yeah, she's very good. So, Jane from Chicago and how old are you?

[Gene]

I am 32.

[Gareth Reynolds]

32.

[Jake Johnson]

And you had a little hesitation in telling us that you were 32, I.

[Gene]

Because honestly, I don't think that I'm supposed to be this young at forgetting my age. My birthday's in June, but I had to think about it for a moment.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It does get embarrassing.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah. Have you. Have you noticed that time is hurtling past?

[Gene]

Yeah. I kind of feel like I'm falling and I'm about to hit my face.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

My birthday's in June and I cannot believe I'm in striking distance of my birthday.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Gene]

Do you have your birthday planned out?

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Do you know what you're doing, birthday guy?

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah. I do six days at Disneyland by myself. I get six days to myself. No kids, no wife.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

Just the ride. I do the same thing.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I do showbiz, I do Chuck E. Cheese. I do all the arcades. Oh, the buff. No kids.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

The way a lot of mothers do Mother's Day, where they go. A lot of moms who do Mother's Day, they go. All I want is a break.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's my birthday. That's Christmas.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's Thanksgiving.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, I had them all. And I go to Dave and Buster's and I challenge other people's kids.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And I love it.

[Jake Johnson]

I compete.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So, Gene, Chicago, 32, Evanston. What's going on? What can we help you with today?

[Gene]

So I recently moved apartments with my boyfriend of about five years. We lived together beforehand, but he moved on to my turf, into my apartment. So this is our first neutral ground. And he has God awful atrocious taste in art. And every time I shoot down his art, he takes it day. Every as me shooting down him. Everything represents him, no matter how horrible.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I know, but also I gotta say, Gene, I gotta say, and I know we're gonna get back to you. You are shooting him down.

[Jake Johnson]

You are and I am.

[Gene]

1000%.

[Jake Johnson]

And art is an eye of the beholder. His. His ten ways that beers are better than girls. Art is fucking funny.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But. But it is.

[Jake Johnson]

Yes.

[Gareth Reynolds]

An FBI.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Federal boom inspector. I mean, it's funny.

[Jake Johnson]

He's got a how's your ass been? Poster.

[Gareth Reynolds]

This is it.

[Jake Johnson]

Oh, this is the art.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay, so Gene, we're seeing a photo.

[Jake Johnson]

What is that? Is that Cartman?

[Gene]

Partially. It's Cartwad. He's a cross between Cartman and Neat wad. And my boyfriend's name is Nicholas Sageti. And if this doesn't work, I will put him on blast and shame him into this. And when he got this, it was.

[Jake Johnson]

A very real hostility.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That got Chicago is what I like to call it.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Got a little mean.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But I love.

[Gene]

Well, it's a little bit fresh. We're having a game night right now at our place and the guys that like. I'm literally in the car right now sitting on Clark street and I used.

[Gareth Reynolds]

To work on Clark street.

[Gene]

The guys team and yeah, same. Look at us. We're. I'm just following you.

[Jake Johnson]

Soon enough I'll be absolutely freezing in a car.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay.

[Gene]

So it is really cold. And I can't be on this on the crazy car speaker. I got the phone pressed. I got a blanket over me right now.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But give me a second. J. Just cuz I. But Jim, give me a second because I interrupted. So you guys just moved in together. And he has this terrible 10.

[Jake Johnson]

Is a lot of this kind of like bad pop culture art around.

[Gene]

It's. It's a variety.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Right, Jake?

[Gene]

I apologize in advance. He really wanted to hang a Bears fans parking sign.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I know it.

[Gene]

Yeah, he wants this like man cave sign. I know I allowed this three by size, five foot boxing panda.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay.

[Nicole]

Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

So he. You. You're dating a. You're dating an absolute parody of a man from Chicago.

[Gene]

Yeah, he's so. He's from Vegas. And so I was kind of like to his aspirations.

[Jake Johnson]

He's been. He wants to live this Chicago dream.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He's dipped the French meat. Now he's in. So what question for you wants me to die inside? Yeah. So. All right. So Gene, so essentially what the question is is then how do I get him to take all this art down? Is that correct? Correct.

[Gene]

Yeah, I guess. Like, or find neutral ground between this and. Okay, normal people keep complimenting it too, which is driving me.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But that doesn't matter. People compliment the wrong stuff all the time. So you. But they do the stuff that people like a lot of times is the worst stuff. So we can't go to a third person's point of view. This is between you and him. So when you guys were separate, what's your style? And then do we have more photos of his style before we start pitching? So. So do you have images of your stuff, Jane?

[Gene]

I literally. I told my friend that I was doing this and she just sent me a photo of the guys that are at our place doing game night admiring his art on the wall.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Can we see it? Yeah, I can send it to her.

[Jake Johnson]

I like if she's like, my art tastes different. It's just like. It's just like huge, deep. It's pictures of huge deep dish pieces and hot dogs with tomatoes.

[Gene]

I do have. I do have a very cool thing of like the Orig l like system from like 19 something 58.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So do me a favor, Gene, really fast.

[Gene]

I'll figure out a way to.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, tell me. Just. Let's take a second. Tell me. Paint a picture of your style and then paint a picture of his style. Thanks.

[Gene]

I just want everything to feel very light so it's. I don't know, like right now I've got like some. It looks like almost like what you would put to this isn't gonna sound good, like patch up a wall. But it's in design like a nice light canvas. I've got some colorful like cartoons of our dog. I've got. I've got like. I'm pretty varied in it and you.

[Jake Johnson]

Know, I feel like you've got some like.

[Gene]

I have like painted.

[Jake Johnson]

She just plowing right through me. I mean, I'm plowing through you, but I'm just.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You buy them.

[Gene]

Chicago.

[Jake Johnson]

Okay. Chicago. Chicago. How do you say Chicago?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Chicago.

[Jake Johnson]

Chicago. Chicago.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

Do you have like wood that's painted white? You know what I mean? Like, you know, that's like you're trying to keep it light and airy. It's like.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, like, would you paint a natural, like a built in white?

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, I hope not. Do you have like Old Bill? Is it like a 90 year old building and everything just has like a white coat over everything?

[Gene]

I mean, I do have paint all over everything with the landlord special, but not my doing that.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay. So I'm just trying to get a sense. So your style jeans is kind of neutral. You got a little bit of funk to you, but you kind of just want it to look like. And I don't mean this as a mean thing. I'm painting a picture. But like something that could possibly be like an Airbnb.

[Gene]

Totally.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Right. Well, that's what it's. I don't want. I don't want.

[Gene]

I don't want my place to be. I don't want my art to be the talking piece.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So that's what I mean. So your kind of place looks like you're like light pastels, a little funky patch art thing. So I'm not talking about a terrible Airbnb, but you go to a nice Airbnb and you go like this. Yeah, they got. But I don't want to get there and go, this guy's got some weird taste in art and I'm staying here.

[Jake Johnson]

Right. But I'm also like, there's the Airbnb that you go to where I've been going to where it's like. It's like this lady's very interested in roosters.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's. Agreed.

[Jake Johnson]

Like, there's like, themed Airbnb where it's like, it's a lot, but you're choosing that always correct. Always choosing the rooster.

[Gareth Reynolds]

If you got something specific, I'm staying in your place.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah. If you're theming it, by the way, whales, roosters, motocross.

[Gene]

So I did email over the photo of the men admiring this giant panda painting.

[Jake Johnson]

Okay.

[Gene]

It's sizable, so there's that people at your house.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, keep going.

[Jake Johnson]

How do you like. How do you like his friends?

[Gene]

Oh, wait, they're my friends that are so they're all right.

[Jake Johnson]

Oh, by the way. Oh, that's a great look.

[Gareth Reynolds]

By the way.

[Jake Johnson]

I have no problem.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Is that a panda with hooks with boxing gloves?

[Jake Johnson]

Is that a. Is it a dog with jeans on?

[Gareth Reynolds]

So that is the panda with boxing gloves. Correct.

[Gene]

Yeah. And he goes. He. He keeps saying, like, oh, that's me. I'm. I'm the panda. I love to box. I haven't seen this man box in our entire relationship. I asked him if there's, like, a timeline on passion.

[Jake Johnson]

Does he eat bamboo?

[Gene]

He's a massive bamboo guy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Gene, this is amaz.

[Jake Johnson]

Can I ask, though, the guy in the middle, the. The friend in the middle, the guy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So there's a guy at a beer, drinking a beer. There's a guy in a hat. Then there's somebody else leaning against.

[Jake Johnson]

Is he. Is the guy in the middle. Is he okay?

[Gene]

The guy in the. In the green shirt drinking the beer is the purveyor of the art. That is Nicholas.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's the same. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

He's. He's very.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's the man of the house.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah. He's proud of this painting.

[Gene]

Oh, yeah. He's like. He's acting like he's at. You know, he does look like Museum of Contemporary.

[Jake Johnson]

He doesn't look like a boxer, but he does look a little like a pand.

[Gene]

For sure.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I got a little red panda.

[Jake Johnson]

He's like a little red panda, isn't he?

[Gareth Reynolds]

I gotta say this to start, and you're not gonna like it, Gene.

[Gene]

You're supposed to be on my side. I'll just remind you.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And, Gene, I'm gonna end up on your side, but by being your friend. The premise is, if they call, we're on their side no matter what. So I'm on your side. But I like the panda.

[Jake Johnson]

I like the panda, too.

[Gareth Reynolds]

If I'm at that game night and I Got that host going, check it out.

[Jake Johnson]

Out.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I would way rather see this. Like I'm seeing the gray walls and the white finish. That is all that trim is painted white.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So I'm like, it's. It's got the light airy look that you want. I'm seeing the throw pillows have that clean look. I'm like, you want him to take that down and put what, like a generic piece of art there?

[Gene]

It's, it's, it's just any time he wants to bring anything in, I know it. It's a personal. That panda is him. Cartwad is him.

[Gareth Reynolds]

They're all self.

[Gene]

He wanted to get this like really tacky guitar shaped art.

[Jake Johnson]

He wants to feel seen.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yes.

[Jake Johnson]

He wants to. He's trying to express to you and his friends who he is.

[Gareth Reynolds]

This is me.

[Jake Johnson]

This is me. I am. I am sort of Meatwad SL Cartman. And with love in my heart. He does look a little like Meatwad and Cartman.

[Gene]

Totally.

[Jake Johnson]

So he want. And he feels like a panda who's a boxer. What he's saying to you is he's. I'm tough, but I'm sweet.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yes.

[Jake Johnson]

And I. And I. And I got a. I got a yes, I'm tough, but I'm sweet. And so he's trying to come at you in his place. He's trying to come out in that way. Like, look like, I know and I can't be tamed.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But Gene, do you get. Do you obviously understand all that?

[Gene]

Yes, 1,000%. I've been told it's me many times.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, but for you, you're like, I don't give a rat's ass. I don't want to see all this.

[Jake Johnson]

How much common, how much common space do you. How much space is there in the apartment? Like, are we looking at the. Like we're. We're coming from like the TV room, looking into like a, a dining room. And then like, what are we looking at here? How many rooms?

[Gene]

Yeah, so we got a, A one bedroom, one bath. At our old place we had a spare room. So I just kind of like shoved him and all of his stuff into the spare bedroom room.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So.

[Gene]

And he also. This is going to sound rude. He also has an old lazy boy. It's from 2002.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh jee.

[Gene]

And it looks like it's from 2002. His dad died in it and I.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Hate that too, man.

[Gene]

I know.

[Jake Johnson]

It's okay.

[Gene]

My dad's dead too. I'm not trying to keep his stuff around.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You are so Chicago, I feel Like, I'm at Thanksgiving and I'm in. I'm 14, and you're an aunt, and I'm going, whoa, whoa. You just go. You just said like, yeah, your grandfather died. Oh, what, are you going to cry? So did mine.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And I go like, you're right.

[Jake Johnson]

The.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Your dad died on this lazy boot. What, are we going to save it? That's what Goodwill's for.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

His body leaked. Got into St. You know, when somebody dies, they let out juices. Baby, those juices are on the Lazy Boy. Your dad ain't. Your dad's in the ground.

[Gene]

Yeah, your dad, he's actually on the shelf, not far. He's on the shelf not far from.

[Gareth Reynolds]

The Lazy Boy, so. So rephrase, because now we've got a very clear setup. This guy is holding on to everything. You hate it.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You're also. What I like about you and what I'm not nervous on this call is you're not a pushover. He's not dominating you.

[Jake Johnson]

No.

[Gareth Reynolds]

If he's got. If he's a panda with boxing gloves, you're a goddamn grizzly with boxing gloves. But he's winning, or at least. Let me ask you a question.

[Jake Johnson]

Bottom line is, you're all Bears. We're in Chicago.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I got a question for. For you. Of the wall space, art, furniture is 100% of everything, right? What percentage is his? Because there's only two of you. Is it 50? 50? Honey, are we talking 60, 40m.

[Jake Johnson]

What are we talking about?

[Gene]

No, right now. Yeah, word. He's. He's in a. A spot. He's 6. He's got 60. I got 40. Now, would you knickknacks, too? I'm not even going to get into the.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, Jean. I'm talking about everything. I want every. If you. If you look at your space and you looked at everything, every knickknack patty whack counts here, babe. Okay, Right now we're trying to figure out.

[Jake Johnson]

You got to give this bear a bone.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He might have enough bones. We might have to take some away.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, but we got to give him a bone.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But if he's got 10 bones, we got to take five back. Sure. We got. Because here's what we need, G. We.

[Jake Johnson]

Got to make him think that he's getting an extra.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Now we're talking. Here's what we got to do. Actually, that started off as a bit of these two old salesmen, but here's what I think we need to. To do. What's his name again? Andrew.

[Gene]

Nick.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Nick. I Wasn't even close. And I was 100%.

[Jake Johnson]

And by the way, it's the name of the person. The other person you're talking to.

[Gene]

I was gonna say, but sorry, we won't throw him under the bus.

[Jake Johnson]

All right, what's his name again?

[Gareth Reynolds]

And you are?

[Gene]

Andrew.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Andrew.

[Jake Johnson]

Have you guys met? That's how I try to find out your name. I ask. I asked her.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You guys know each other?

[Jake Johnson]

You guys know each other?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Hey, caller. You know this guy? So here's my question. Here's what? Would you be happy? Now we want the truth before we start getting into this. Gene, if it's 50. 50 between you and Nick, you happy with that or. No, to be honest.

[Jake Johnson]

Can you live with it?

[Gene]

I would be happier if we could. Yeah, I'd be okay with it, but I'd be happier if we could just find neutral art. If we could find some. The panda. Honestly. I'll be honest with you. I. I told.

[Jake Johnson]

He's not.

[Gene]

I was growing on me. The panda's growing.

[Jake Johnson]

Just doesn't want neutral art.

[Gareth Reynolds]

No, he needs.

[Jake Johnson]

It's like. Yeah, but.

[Gareth Reynolds]

What was that last thing you just.

[Gene]

He wants that conversation. The panda's growing on me. It's. There's like. It's just when. Because now we're in a spot I've gotten. Because he also was like, it's all basic. It's boring. Doesn't strike up a conversation. I don't have a problem striking up a conversation, so that's not really my concern.

[Jake Johnson]

Right, but we need neutral.

[Gene]

We need things that are.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Both of us. I have a pitch.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, I like it.

[Gene]

I'm here.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Go for it. So what he wants is things that strike up a conversation. What if the art you pick strikes up the wrong kind of conversations?

[Nicole]

I'm down.

[Gene]

You want to send me some giant, like, nudes of you, I'll put them up.

[Gareth Reynolds]

No, that's not what I was thinking. I was thinking more like taking a dump on ice. Where you go.

[Gene]

He would like that. He would like.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay, then. No, I don't want.

[Jake Johnson]

At the bottom, it says, go F.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I'm looking for something where you walk into someone's house and you go, okay. What's that, my man?

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah. What you got up there?

[Gareth Reynolds]

What do you have?

[Jake Johnson]

Can I. Can I ask some? I got a pitch, too. Go. How does he have funny T shirts? Could we get him, like, some funny T shirts to start a conversation? Like, put the art. Let him wear the art.

[Gene]

He doesn't. Shut up. He doesn't need help starting a Conversation.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I have an idea.

[Jake Johnson]

Okay.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I have an idea.

[Jake Johnson]

All right.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And he goes off.

[Jake Johnson]

Your idea of nudes of Jake.

[Gareth Reynolds]

What if we did this? Nick and I take a bunch of photos today. Do a different poses. We make posters and we send it to you, and you hang up.

[Jake Johnson]

I don't know if this is the place, if this fucking schmuck deserves it, this Panda Express, but Jake and I have been taking pictures of ourselves.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, my God. Nick, hold. Nick, you're a genius.

[Jake Johnson]

Jake and I have been taking pictures of ourselves and sending him back and forth for, I'd say 10 years if we go back to the first one. Nick, we've been. We've been taking really low angle. Truly repulsive.

[Gareth Reynolds]

The worst photos you could take.

[Jake Johnson]

The worst pictures you could take of yourself. Yourself. And we have. We've been loosely communicating over the last 10 years, largely through these pictures.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's exactly right. But big life events.

[Gene]

I'll make a gallery wall of that. I would rather have that than this.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay, but this is. What. So this is a very real pitch all of a sudden. We got to make sure we actually have them. Yeah, because my.

[Jake Johnson]

I mean, I'm out of data, so I got to clear them. You need.

[Gene]

Every time you upload them, you can just send them to me.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So here's what we're thinking on this.

[Jake Johnson]

Can we just. By the way, the way, I don't remember her name.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Jean.

[Jake Johnson]

Jean, can you pull back on. What I'm feeling is some like, a little bit of like. Just send me the pics. Like, I need. I need to come to this on my own, and I don't. I don't want to. You're. I don't want to. You to make. I don't want to feel your aggressiveness about getting Jake to send you pictures of him. Okay. Okay.

[Gene]

All right.

[Jake Johnson]

Can you promise?

[Gene]

Jake, I promise I won't compromise.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I won't compromise, but I think this has actually turned into something great because this is a real bit that we have done for so long. Wait, send it to Rob.

[Jake Johnson]

I don't have Rob's number. I can't give him my number.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay, send it to me.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah. No, I'm kidding. I'll send it. Rob.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So, Gene, we're gonna. You know, we might actually do. We might email them to you two right now. Can you look at them on your phone as you're talking?

[Jake Johnson]

Look at the last two that I have. Rob, I'm gonna. Who do I. Can I hold on one.

[Gareth Reynolds]

One second, Chain. This is an incredible pitch. Now, if this is. Is this something you're kind of interested. Interested in?

[Gene]

See, like, you guys, like, I'm down with this.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay.

[Gene]

And we interestingly have no photos up and it's all art.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So then here's the kind of pitch we're going to try to do. We're going to send you a lot of these photos. And then what is the move here, Rob? Should we make posters and send to them?

[Jake Johnson]

We should get like Framebridge to do it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Let's get Framebridge to do it. Okay, perfect. We will figure out and we will get a company to frame these and we're going to send them to you. And I want you to put a bunch on your wall and we're going to give too many. And so when he says one less, you go, I'll take one down. If you take one of your things down.

[Jake Johnson]

Do we want to show. I mean, this is.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Gene, does this sound good?

[Jake Johnson]

Gene, you are getting.

[Gareth Reynolds]

This is amazing. Okay, good. This is a.

[Jake Johnson]

Do you have. Can you put it up?

[Gareth Reynolds]

I have.

[Gene]

I have only brothers. I'm the only girl. I'm all about a prank too.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay.

[Gene]

And I'll commit.

[Jake Johnson]

This is not a prank, but this.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But I'm going to give you credit. Credit. Nick, I fully forgot about this.

[Jake Johnson]

You did.

[Gareth Reynolds]

No, I. I don't. When I do our photos together, I forgot about it here.

[Jake Johnson]

Yes.

[Gareth Reynolds]

To pull that into this pitch.

[Jake Johnson]

It's.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I'm right as we're talking about photos.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah. And I. It's. I think, feels like. I think this feels like. And. But I want you to know, Jean, this is like a very personal thing that has been between me and Jake exclusively.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Nobody else.

[Jake Johnson]

I mean, I've shown it to so many people.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I exaggerate.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah. Who'd I show it to, Nick?

[Gene]

Well, I'm so glad to be one of the boys in this situation and find a home for your photos.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Besides, it was with the contestants on Love is Blind.

[Jake Johnson]

You were.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, James, he showed it to Debbie. How do you know the hosts?

[Jake Johnson]

Nah, it doesn't matter.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Ah, that's cool as hell.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I go to the bars out in mini. How's that? In Minnesota, they. We all go to the same bars. Super cool people, man.

[Jake Johnson]

Actually, really cool. This is just. I'm not joking. A smattering. This is. These are one of each of us from like we have. I'd say, Gene, over the last 10 years, we have like a lot like many of these each.

[Gareth Reynolds]

When one of us has a life.

[Jake Johnson]

Event, it'll be there.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Congrats, man. I Hope everything's going good. Good.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, it's. And some of them are pretty.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Any of them do it? Who cares?

[Jake Johnson]

Oh, my God.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Holy Jane. So we have a solution. What we're going to do is we're going to send you a bunch of these photos, and we'll have them framed then.

[Jake Johnson]

So sexy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But here's how you.

[Jake Johnson]

Next. We're coming in is so hard.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But, Gene, here's how you win. I think when you put these on, you have to take down one of the ones you don't like of his and say, like, that's the trade. Does that sound good?

[Gene]

Fine. Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Does this. Does this solve the problem?

[Jake Johnson]

By the way, this is a real walk down memory lane for me because I'm, like, looking back and I'm like, oh, I missed that water bottle so much.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Jane, we've got a winner. And then will you. Will you do us a favor and will you.

[Gene]

Yeah, I'm going to send you photos of it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Will you send photos of the next game night when people are standing around?

[Jake Johnson]

These photos, I'm looking back to see where they start.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yes. And send photos of your life. This is a big one.

[Jake Johnson]

And send photos of them. Hopefully enjoying this. This is so hot. You look so hot. You guys are going to be so psyched. Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We're saying thanks, Jake, you got nudes.

[Gene]

Perfect.

[Jake Johnson]

You're getting your nudes, and you're getting provocative. I missed this WMYC water bottle so much. It was square.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

You know what I mean? Like wmyc. Like, perfect. Oh, hello. Nonsense. This thing was a square water bottle. Fits in nothing. That's what public radio is. You know what I mean? Just like, here's this. Do you have a square tumbler in your car to put your water bottle. Then get this red WNYC water bottle. The wrong shape for any car you'll ever be in, but perfect to fit in in your nook in the library where you rent books to read.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Hey, Jane. Yeah. Follow up with us. We're gonna. Rob's gonna be in touch with you. We're gonna send you stuff. This is a bit big win.

[Jake Johnson]

This is a big win.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Me, too.

[Jake Johnson]

And. And also, just quick in general, he. You know, part. Also remember that part of the fun of your relationship is this push and pull. So don't forget that you like. You like, part of your shtick with each other and your friends is that he's like, what? It's a panda. You know?

[Gareth Reynolds]

But this is going to take it to another level. Do me a favor, though. Don't tell him the solution if. Does he know you're on this call right now?

[Jake Johnson]

He knows.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay, so then say it went well. And go, what was the solution? And go. You'll see.

[Jake Johnson]

You'll see. And don't.

[Gene]

Yeah, I told him. I said, we're. We need to pull in the heavy hitters. And he was like, I want to read what you told them. Like, I want to make sure they understand where I'm coming from. I was like, it's not about you. And so I'm going to go back in, and I'm going to be like, you'll see.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You'll see.

[Jake Johnson]

Makes sense. Film. Film the unveiling.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Film the unveiling. Yes, by the way, that's right. I would like to see him seeing it.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, I want him.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay. And then maybe for the follow up.

[Jake Johnson]

Are you looking for artwork in your bedroom or. No? Like, is this part of it? Is your bedroom still unfinished?

[Nicole]

We.

[Gene]

We don't have. We don't have any artwork up in our bedroom. If you have some tasteful items that.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You would like, there's something we got in behind.

[Jake Johnson]

This would be.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You know, do we have any.

[Jake Johnson]

It should be pretty good for the bedroom. Like, do you have a wall when your bed. When you pop up, that you're. That you look at and you're.

[Gene]

I. I mean, I'm down. Our neighbors are pretty chill. I could put it on the ceiling if you want it to be what he sees when he opens his eyes in the morning.

[Jake Johnson]

All right.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We're gonna win on this one, Jane. This is gonna be a very, very.

[Jake Johnson]

Should I be sending more pictures along? No, but for. For the. For the pod.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, just do a bunch. This is. Yeah, I do have mine, too. Yeah. So, Gene, we're good. We're going to be in touch with.

[Jake Johnson]

You, but I. I'm not joking. Okay, Gene.

[Gareth Reynolds]

All right, we'll talk to you soon, Jean.

[Jake Johnson]

Love you.

[Gene]

Wait, before you go, I do have one suggestion.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay.

[Gene]

You guys were struggling to find a name for your followers, and I think you came up with the ones and twos.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yes.

[Gene]

And I think it should be the Further Ado dudes.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay, The Further Ado, but then that's. That's the dudes. I don't want some people. Unless dudes is then dudes as males and females.

[Gene]

Yeah, I call. I call my lady pals dudes all the time.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I like that. The Further Dudes. Okay, I'll throw it out.

[Gene]

Just something. Just some. Something. Just a little help from me.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Back at you.

[Gene]

I appreciate Returning the favor. I'm really excited to see the new design of the place and share it with you guys. So thank you.

[Jake Johnson]

And again, I don't want to ask too much of you, but I do. Can you get your hands on the Queer Eye production crew to come in to just shoot the reveal? Here's what I'd like. Here's what I would. I'm going to ask.

[Gene]

That's my next call actually is I.

[Jake Johnson]

Want a wide of each room where the art is like a wide picture, just a general picture of it where the art lies now. And then I want a same angle once you've finished all of the pictures. Like when you've changed the art.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yes, totally.

[Jake Johnson]

So that. And then we can do like a star wipe to what like the new room looks like. Like when, when they, you know what I mean, they make house and then your boyfriend walks in and that. And then I want that filmed and I want. Yeah.

[Gene]

And the tears start flowing and his life has changed forever. You got it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So tell me what you got going on, Nick.

[Jake Johnson]

Okay, but you got adults. I got. So I got Big Mouth coming out on May 23rd and then adults on FX that I, I produced and directed some of. Man, it's so. I think it's going to be a great show. It's like 20 somethings in New York and these. The. Ben Cronogold and Rebecca Shaw created it. Five really funny young actors. And how'd you like directing it? I loved it. Yeah, I was, I had. It was also because I produced it. So I've been involved with it for like four or five years. So it was nice to then actually go and do it. And it was fun to do it and not have to be totally on and. And they were all great. It was really fun. I think the show's really funny. It's like a real FX kind of show. But in that kind of. In that tradition of like girls. If, if like the girls and girls were living in Brooklyn, now these kids have to live in like deep Queens. They're like living in one of the. They're living at one of the kids parents house and they all live there together. First place out of college.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Cool.

[Jake Johnson]

This is funny. And then. So that comes out on FX on the 28th and then drops on Hulu that night. All, all eight episodes.

[Gareth Reynolds]

FX and now Hulu are doing it together.

[Jake Johnson]

FX for Hulu or however that is.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

And then I got a movie coming out the next week, June 6th. Me and Andrew Rannells called I Don't Understand You. We're married couple. Live and going to Italy for a family vacation. We've been trying to. To adopt a baby. Amanda Seyfried's baby.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay.

[Jake Johnson]

Not. Not her. She's not playing a character. We're trying to adopt actually.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Amanda documentary. And so who, who directed the one with you and Andrew?

[Jake Johnson]

This couple, Brian Crano and David Craig. It's lightly based on them like adopting their son and then like a Italian vacation that goes off the rails. So basically we're a couple. We go to Rome and then we go and it just goes off the rails. And it's like a very. It's funny but like kind of suspensy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

A farce.

[Jake Johnson]

And we shot nights for a month in Rome and I had a two year old. And.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You lost your mind.

[Jake Johnson]

I. I lost my mind. I lost my mind for sure. So please see this. But it ultimately was a very challenging time in my life with my young family and so please go to the movie theater where it's being released to see it so that I can justify what was a very stressful, complicated experience. Personally speaking, I loved working with Andrew. I loved the film.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Very hard experience.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah. We would shoot nights and. And then I would come home at like 5 in the 45 minutes outside of Rome and then come back and go to sleep at like 5am wash like rain and mud off my body. And then my son who was like nearly two, just freaking out at seven in the morning. So I'd get two hours of sleep until he would scream. And down in the. We were living in near the Spanish Steps, you know, like, like it's like the center, which is an incredibly beautiful place, but like Times Square, you know what I mean? Like, it was like so loud. So crazy, so loud. Tourists. Thousands of tourists at all times. And we had a beautiful apartment. It was really cool. But we could, we were at the top. We could hear everything. Just like a, like a, A busker playing an electric violin all day of Coldplay. All hours of the. My God, seven in the morning. Just like. So we had this vision of what this movie was going to be and it wasn't that. No, it was. No, it was a nightmare. It wasn't a nightmare.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I get it.

[Jake Johnson]

But it was because I also then had amazing times like with my son in like these.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yes, of course, you know, great Saturday.

[Jake Johnson]

Great Saturday.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But you know, you could also do. You should go to Italy for six days.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So you've got those three projects.

[Jake Johnson]

I got those three projects.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Then I also read there's a new animated show on Netflix.

[Jake Johnson]

Oh, yeah, we're doing. Doing a followup. The guy. The folks that I made Big Mouth with, Andrew Goldberg, Mark Lev, and Jen Flacket, we're going to. We're making a new show called Mating Season. Fun about animals, dating and fun. Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Nick, you're one of the funniest guys.

[Jake Johnson]

I've ever met, man. I really appreciate you saying that.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Jake, Say it back. Jake, say it back. End is strong.

[Jake Johnson]

Johnson.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's my.

[Jake Johnson]

You're one of the. This has been fun, man. This has.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Say it back. Cause I could edit out all the metal. Let's just do it. Play. Nick, you're one of the funniest guys I ever met.

[Jake Johnson]

Jake, you're one of the funniest guys I've ever met.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Rob, cut out all the middle stuff and cut out me saying it to him.

[Jake Johnson]

I'm getting cut that part. You can bleep it if you want. Blur out the mouth.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Anyway, let's start the thing with him saying that to me. Say it in the middle in the end.

[Jake Johnson]

You are so funny. This has been so fun.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So fun.

[Jake Johnson]

We gotta go get a beer, man.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We gotta get a beer.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yes.

[Jake Johnson]

Non alcoholic. I got a lot to tell you.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Are you an n a guy?

[Jake Johnson]

I do like non alcoholic beer.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You do?

[Jake Johnson]

I weirdly like it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah. You still get turned bright red when you drink beer.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, and I get hives.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I'm actually going through. No, but I have a allergy thing.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, I know.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We've talked about that. And it's getting worse.

[Jake Johnson]

I know. Mine is.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And I'm like really trying to.

[Jake Johnson]

Trying hard, buddy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I'm like doing all this stuff.

[Jake Johnson]

I know.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And I'm like, I'm literally eating nothing. And I'm like, yeah, Literally a full on attack.

[Jake Johnson]

Always a constant, constant, constant fire.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

Red fire.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Same.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah. Okay.

[Gareth Reynolds]

All right, Nick, that's it.

[Jake Johnson]

Oh, also, new girls season five coming up. You won't believe what the guys are up there.

[Gareth Reynolds]

All right, here's the deal about Piggly and Mo. It's just got to be in moderation.

[Nicole]

You know, my grandmother used to say.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Everything in moderation, even virtue. And now it's everything in moderation. Even Piggly and Mo. You know, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

[Nicole]

That's okay. Just.

[Dylan]

Just don't overdo it.

[Nicole]

Even chocolate stops.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Stops being awesome if you eat too much chocolate.

[Jake Johnson]

Anyone who didn't appreciate what pig limo were doing just weren't capable of understanding their undeniable chemistry. I mean, they Very well might have saved that grandpa's life who wouldn't stop giving himself heat stroke. They stopped someone from using their roommate's vaginal scrub on their face. I need more. I want a spin off. This is Dylan from the Pacific Northwest. Long live Pigley and Mo.

[Nicole]

Hey, if you guys can save Pigly and Mo, that'd be great. They Piggly owes me five bucks, so do with that information as you will. They're my dogs. They saved my life. Let's save theirs.

[Jake Johnson]

Hey, guys, this is Reedy from Canada. I just want to say I love the show so much and been doing some re listens and I gotta say, let's get Mary Holland back. Man, her back and forth to you guys is so funny. Just fits right in. Huge fan of the show. Love you guys. Oh yeah, and fuck Pigley. Mo.

[Lauren]

Hi, Gareth and Jake. This is Lauren from Arkansas. I love your podcast and think it is hilarious. I am a therapist in the central Arkansas area who recently had a conversation with my dad about how the temperature affects your sleep because they like to sleep at about. My parents like to sleep at about 75 degrees. So instead of going for Piggly and Mo, I just did a quick Google and Cleveland Clinic and WebMD both say that the ideal sleeping temperature is between 60 and 67 degrees. So my idea is that instead of Piggly and Mo, which if you Google them, a bunch of Piggly Wiggly stores show up. A quick Google would have served in this particular case. Anyway, love the podcast. Hope you all have a great day.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Bye.

[Jake Johnson]

Dear Mr. Reynolds and Dear Mr. Johnson, first, I must say your podcast is awesome. Regarding this business with Piggly and Mo.

[Gareth Reynolds]

People must realize it's just a show.

[Jake Johnson]

It's all just a bit. It's all just for the fun. I think they should stay.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And I'm not the only one. So take my advice and listen to my words.

[Jake Johnson]

And I think I ran out of things to rhyme. Goodbye.

[Dylan]

Hello, Jake and Gareth, longtime listener of the show, but I felt compelled to call in with my voice note here and just audibly gasped out loud on my evening walk when I came to realize that both of you did not know who Aragorn from Lord of the Rings was. Just appalled. I thought you were my people. I'm from the Midwest. I'm from the Milwaukee area. I love hearing the banter of like the packers, the Bears, you know, the usual stuff. At one point, Gareth talked about Brown Deer Road. I went to Homestead High School. This is all like in my universe. And then my dreams of being my people are shattered. I don't care if you're into fantasy or not. I'm not. They're good fucking movies. How can you be in the entertainment industry and not have seen these at least once to at least appreciate them as good films? I am totally devastated, totally disappointed. I really hope you both do your homework. If you like Star Wars, I'm guessing one or both of you like the Star wars trilogy, you're gonna like these movies at least at face value. Please, please, please make an effort and watch these movies. I think your fans will appreciate it. Thanks.

[Gareth Reynolds]

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] hereto help pod to see our entire catalog.

[Jake Johnson]

We're Here to Help is produced by Rabbit Grimm Productions executive producers Rob Hollis, Jeff Porter and Natalie Hollis associate producer Jesse Thurston Editing, mix and master by.

[Nick Kroll]

Chris Faller theme song by Oliver Raleigh. The COVID artwork is by James Fosdyke, animations by Andrew Strlecki and if you'd like to see Gareth do Stand up on the road, go to 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.

[Nicole]

All video episodes of season one are.

[Gene]

Available now on Patreon, and season two.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Video episodes will be available every Monday starting January 20th. Go to patreon.com heretohelpod hey Gorg, it's.

[Jake Johnson]

Me, Gottmik and me Violet Chachki and we want you to listen to our podcast no Gorg. Now on Headgum. Each episode we will be bringing you vlogs, answering burning questions, discussing what's going on right now, and diving into our all things fashion, hookups, gossip and more with past guests such as Heidi Klum and Dita von Te. No Gorge always keeps things hot. Listen to no Gorge on your favorite podcast app or watch full video episodes on YouTube New episodes every Thursday. Bye gorgeous.