217: Our First Intern & Why the Stinkeye, Stinkeye?

Summary

Podcast Summary: "We're Here to Help" — Episode 217

Title: Our First Intern & Why the Stinkeye, Stinkeye?
Date: October 13, 2025
Hosts: Jake Johnson & Gareth Reynolds
Special Callers: Tom (from New Zealand), Laura (from Virginia), Rebecca (from the UK)

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Episode Overview

Episode 217 of "We’re Here to Help" is a quintessential ride through Jake and Gareth’s comedic yet genuinely supportive podcast: equal parts banter, heartfelt advice, and wild storytelling. This episode centers on two standout listener calls—a New Zealand teen grappling with reentry after a stay in a psych ward, and a Virginia woman with cancer seeking help with public “stink eye”—plus follow-ups on prior advice calls. In typical style, the hosts riff on awkward celebrity encounters, invent on-the-fly solutions, and infuse every moment with empathy and irreverent humor.

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Key Discussion Points & Notable Moments

1. Celebrities, Awkwardness, and Encountering Daniel Day-Lewis

Timestamps: 03:03 – 15:17

• Jake shares an awkward story: Gareth recounts sitting across from Daniel Day-Lewis on a flight, describing the internal tension of being near a living legend.
  • “I didn’t even think he was a real human anymore.” — Gareth (04:52)
  • Describes DDL’s style: “He looked like Anthony Bourdain… cool tats, cool rings, cool vibe, cool guy. You know what I was wearing? Sweat outfit.”— Gareth (05:32)
  • Jake’s advice is reminiscent of a failed basketball celebrity encounter: “I love to watch you play.” (08:00)
  • Ultimately, Gareth did NOT speak to DDL, reflecting on how interacting might be more for himself than for the actor: “He’s given me enough.” (14:58)
• Relatable riffing: The hosts segue the story into a broad discussion of the weirdness of airports and seeing familiar faces in unfamiliar contexts.

2. CALL 1: Tom, 16, Newly Out of Psych Ward, Needs a Story for School

Timestamps: 19:06 – 33:04, with follow-up at 56:48 – 60:32

Tom’s Situation

• Tom, a 16-year-old from New Zealand who has OCD, recently spent time in a psych ward. He wants a more “fun” story for school about his absence.
  • “I really need a cool story to tell people at school.” — Tom (20:04)

Hosts’ Approach

• Empathy and Validation:
  • Gareth: “At 47, I think what you're doing is the right thing... a hard reset at your age is brave as hell.” (20:46)
  • Jake: “Taking care of your… mentals is the key to the game.” (20:57)
• Creative (and Comedic) Problem-Solving:

  • The trio brainstorm various lies for Tom to tell:

    • Teenage cooking show contestant
    • International video game tournament
    • The winner: Tom came to the States to intern on "We’re Here to Help"

  • They stage a fake intro on the show introducing Tom as the “intern from New Zealand,” complete with planned social media posts and “corroborating” details. (29:07 – 31:44)

    Standout Exchange:

    • Jake: “We have Tom, the first... The New Zealand Thunder, the first intern. Tom, welcome to the show.” (30:36)
    • Tom: “Just happy to be on the show. Happy to be the intern.” (30:55)
    • Tom later updates that the plan worked: “Everyone believed it. But what actually ended up happening is school wasn't working out for me, so I've actually left school and I've applied for a barbering course… It's much better. I'm feeling much better.” (57:56 – 59:08)

Outcome:

Tom reports back that the fake intern story worked; he was able to deflect difficult questions at school, and ultimately left to follow his real passion for barbering, with improved mental health (59:08).

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3. CALL 2: Laura, Traveling with Hidden Disability, Gets the “Stink Eye”

Timestamps: 33:06 – 55:21; creative hat design riff: 47:44 – 54:28

Laura’s Situation

• Laura, mid-late 30s, from Virginia, has late-stage, slow-growing cancer. She needs boarding assistance on planes—a fact invisible to other passengers. She gets “the stink eye” when she boards early.
  • “I do have a chronic and serious medical condition that you would never, ever know just by looking at me... I get the stink eye so bad from people.” (34:49 – 35:20)

Advice and Comedy Brainstorm

• Options Pitched:
  • Over-the-top comedic props when boarding: fake baby, neck brace, fake limp, kazoo, beeping “medical device” noise, “Price is Right” entrance.
    • “Put it in your backpack and then right before you get on, you wrap it up in a towel and…shake it and you go like, okay, okay.” — Gareth on the fake baby gag (40:24)
    • “What I want you to do—I would load myself up with the fight for life stuff. Ribbons. I would make sure that I would go, pink hat.” — Jake (42:07)
• Empowerment and Boundary-Setting:
  • “Fuck these people.” — Gareth, encouraging Laura not to care about stares (43:50)
  • “If someone gives you a stink, I consider going, can I help you?” — Gareth roleplaying confrontation (43:03)
• Settling on a Fun, Assertive Solution:
  • Develop a hat saying things like “Why the Stink Eye?” or “Easy There, Stinkeye.”
  • Laura: “What about a shirt that says, hey, stink guy. You good?” (47:31)
  • Laura’s final pick: “Easy there, stinky.” (54:28)
  • The hosts promise to have a hat made and send it to her.

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4. Follow-Up Call: Rebecca & the Legendary Comb-Over (“Budgie Nest”)

Timestamps: 60:48 – 69:13

• Recap:
  Rebecca, originally called about her uncle’s wild “back to front” comb-over (“Budgie Nest”). Hosts had previously advised orchestrating a windy scenario (boat ride) to expose the combover.
  • “The guy in China who goes from back to front.” — Gareth (61:15)
• Result:
  Couldn’t execute the comb-over reveal, but played the episode for a (hair-thinning) friend, who was inspired to shave their own head instead:
  • “He looks good. He looks really good. It had been like clinging on.” — Rebecca (62:39)
• Comedic riffs:
  On “budgies” (small birds): “Calling a bird a budgie is one of the greatest things I’ve ever heard.” — Gareth (64:51)
• Call-to-action:
  Jake and Gareth encourage listeners at the “comb-over decision point” to share before & after photos, and playfully pitch “Budgie Nest” as a Halloween costume.

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Notable Quotes & Exchanges

• “I look like a guy who was auditioning to be BG and Sopranos and they said, no thanks. You don't look tough. You just look sloppy and goofy.” — Gareth (05:45)
• “Everyone has an opinion now… If someone gives you a stink, I consider going, can I help you?” — Gareth (42:42)
• “You have the best excuse in the book, so if I were you, I would load myself up with the fight for life stuff. Ribbons. I would make sure that I would go, pink hat.” — Jake (42:11)
• “So the hat is going to be… Easy there, stinky.” — Laura (54:28)
• “All you have to do is take your hair from the back. It’s such an easy costume. You take your hair... push it forward, and you go, what are you? Budgie Nest.” — Gareth (68:19)

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Key Timestamps

• Celebrity / Daniel Day-Lewis story: 03:03 – 15:17
• Tom calls in from New Zealand: 19:06 – 33:04 (main) & 56:48 – 60:32 (follow-up)
• Laura calls in re: “stink eye” at airports: 33:06 – 55:21 (hat design riff: 47:44 – 54:28)
• Rebecca’s comb-over follow-up: 60:48 – 69:13

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Tone & Style

The episode is fast-paced, playful, and deeply human. Jake and Gareth’s banter disarms even the toughest problems with humor, while showing compassion and real empathy toward every caller. The advice, while frequently ridiculous, ultimately aims at making life easier and more fun for listeners.

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Summary Takeaways

• For listeners with hidden illnesses: Consider playful ways to deflect unwanted attention or judgment, but feel empowered not to explain yourself. "Easy there, stinkeye" hats are now canon.
• For teens returning to school after tough times: Sometimes a creative story helps, but the right choice is always the one that preserves your peace of mind.
• For anyone facing a “comb-over crisis:” Shave it, own it—or give us your best “Budgie Nest” for posterity.

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This episode perfectly captures "We're Here to Help’s" blend of unfiltered humor and sincere support, showing that laughing while you figure things out is always an option.

Transcript

[Jake Johnson]

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[Gareth Reynolds]

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[Jake Johnson]

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[Gareth Reynolds]

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[Jake Johnson]

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[Gareth Reynolds]

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[Jake Johnson]

Jake, we are back.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Can I tell you something, Gareth?

[Jake Johnson]

Yes.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And I want to know what you would have done here. I was on a plane to New York. Okay. Sat down, look over someone sitting next to me. There's not a lot of actors I care about. There's really not a lot of people are good, but there's not people. I'm like, oh my God. I had an oh my God sitting directly next to me across the aisle. It's a six hour flight. Got the time. You know who that person was? You got three guesses. You're not gonna believe it. Actor, Great actor. A generation at least above us. Male, Male, Great actor.

[Jake Johnson]

Oh, man.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I mean, somebody where you would go, I never thought I'd see them on planet Earth.

[Jake Johnson]

I'm not even still acting.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, Ben Kingsley. Great guess, but no, I'm not even Jeff Bridges person. Oh, great guess, but no. You're right there in the zone though. Think a little bit more intense. Shocking. Maybe the greatest ever Hanks. Nope, I'm surprised you went Hanks after intense.

[Jake Johnson]

I was gonna say sinise, but then you said greatest actor. Who?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Great. Daniel Day Lewis.

[Jake Johnson]

Oh my God. Oh my God. That is. I know that is. There's nobody back.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Daniel Day Lewis. Agreed. And I didn't even think he was a real human anymore.

[Jake Johnson]

I don't know if he thinks he.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Is he sitting next to him for six hours. And then I texted my buddy Max Winkler and Max is like, I know him personally. I've met. Say hi for me.

[Jake Johnson]

That's a good in.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I know it is.

[Jake Johnson]

Here's what you have. Also famous. Not Daniel Day Lewis famous.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Not near Daniel, but I bet he.

[Jake Johnson]

Knows who you are. So what did you. Did you make a move?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, before I. Till the second half.

[Jake Johnson]

What was he wearing?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Cool clothes. He looked like Anthony Bourdain.

[Jake Johnson]

He's the best.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Bunch of cool tats, cool rings, cool vibe, cool guy. You know what I was wearing? Sweat outfit. I look like a, a, A background actor in the Sopranos.

[Jake Johnson]

Well, you didn't know he.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He looked like Anthony Bourdain in tour in Vietnam. Eating food, Eating noodles at a cool place, having a beer. I look like a guy who was auditioning to be BG and Sopranos and they said, no thanks. You don't look tough. You just look sloppy and goofy.

[Jake Johnson]

You look like a guy who borrowed a bodega scooter to go buy liquor for a woman at the front desk who helped you locate your phone.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. So keep in mind that's what we're playing with. Because, look, if he was in a weird sweat outfit, too, I might be like, I get it. We're just traveling. But I'm like, ah, you came. Set ready. What do you have a wardrobe? What, do you have a stylist to get on this plane? You look great.

[Jake Johnson]

I mean, he is the best. This. This. This is truly the top shelf.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I know it. So you're me. You sit down. Mind you, you're tired as hell. So you were thinking you were gonna get some Z's on that.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah. Now you're stressed.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You would be stressed.

[Jake Johnson]

I would be like. I would really want to say something. Right? Have I. Did I tell you my Latrell Sprewell story? I blew.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Please tell me.

[Jake Johnson]

I. I was probably. I was probably 20 years old, and Latrell Sprewell was from Milwaukee, everyone.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Great NBA player.

[Jake Johnson]

Great NBA player.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Choking a coach.

[Jake Johnson]

He choked Rudy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He got offered $30 million and passed and said, I got a family to feed. Which is a quote. Eric Edelston and I still say to each other, whenever we get a new job.

[Jake Johnson]

He. He, he. So he's at the Y, and I'd heard he goes to this Y.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Crazy.

[Jake Johnson]

And I never seen him. And then he's there. And I was like, oh, my God. And I was. I wanted to say something.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

And I didn't think far enough ahead. I thought, I'll figure it out. I wanted to be like, you're awesome. You're just a great basketball player. Something like that. And I just go up and I go, I love to. I love to watch you play. And he, like, takes his ear butt out a little further, and he goes, huh? And I go, I love. I love to watch you play. He was like, all right. And I, like, walked away, like. And then I, like, was like, well, I can't go to the Y anymore.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's so bad.

[Jake Johnson]

I blew it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Love to watch you play.

[Jake Johnson]

Terrible.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay. You good, man?

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, like, sad.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You know, I just had a woman come up to the. At the airport and said something that was actually sweet. She. I was getting headphones because. Because I forgot my headphones. And I had flown there and back without him once, and I'm like, I just need. I know it. I've been doing so much of this travel. I'm literally. I flew on a Tuesday, worked and Flew home on a Thursday. So I'm like, I'm. I'm on a plane so much now that I'm like, I. I even know everybody who works there.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Where I walk in and the flight attendant site. Back so soon. I'm like, good to see you, Tammy. I'm like, in that zone. Yeah. Where you're like, going through tsa and they're like, how's it? And I'm like, this Thursday, brother. Well, you know when it gets weird fast.

[Jake Johnson]

Oh, yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And you're like, airports aren't even weird for me anymore. I'm here so much. Look at that amateur going through tsa. We just do it like this.

[Jake Johnson]

Awful.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But a woman walks up and did the, you know, whole, I hate doing this, blah, blah, blah, which in the future. Just skip that.

[Jake Johnson]

Sure. Get to it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Do it. No. Okay, but just skip that part. It's. I get why you're doing it. It's kind. It's all good.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We're here. And then she goes, not gonna take a lot of your time. Just want to say, I grew up watching you, and it's nice to see you in person. We shook hands and she boogied great. I thought power. Yeah. But also, I had just tested the headphones. I put them on so I had good music playing. She said that, walked away, and I went, well, that was lovely.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

She. Part of her childhood was watching stuff that I was in. Great. I loved TV as a kid.

[Jake Johnson]

And then gone. Yeah. No, it really. The full circleness of that is really amazing.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I was in a hotel and one of the cleaning people, they had found out. Some people had found out I was at the hotel, and one of the people recognized me, so they told the other people. And I was hanging out in the hotel a lot during the day when no one was there because our sound stage was. I. Because of the incident that happened last time. I'm staying a block from the sound stage. Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

They know that they can't play.

[Gareth Reynolds]

They don't know I said that.

[Jake Johnson]

Well, whatever. The point is someone put limitations on you, and that's the better way. Yeah. Good, good.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's it. I want to be a block away.

[Jake Johnson]

You made the adult decision to recognize you're not an adult at all. And I'm a base camp. You need to be a trot away, not a four mile jog away.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I'm staying at a hotel a block away in a little industrial park.

[Jake Johnson]

You should sleep in a sleeping bag at the soundstage.

[Gareth Reynolds]

If I'm doing this fast turnaround, I'D sleep in my dressing room.

[Jake Johnson]

Okay, all right. But wait. So now.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So somebody recognized me, that we all said, hello, nice people. They were working hard during the day, and I was goofing around in between work. I get in the elevator with one of the housekeepers and we smile at each other, and she says, is it you? And I go, not sure. And she goes, are you? And she said, I don't think she meant to say it like this, but I liked how she said it. She said, are you in the tv? And I said, I am. And she said, okay, good. And I said, good. Are you in the tv? The elevators left and I walked out and I thought, I am in the TV. That's where I've always wanted to be since 1985. I was like, I would like to be in the tv. I didn't think I would like to be off Broadway. No, I want to be in the tv.

[Jake Johnson]

You really are.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's all I wanted to be.

[Jake Johnson]

You know what I mean?

[Gareth Reynolds]

The tv.

[Jake Johnson]

You know what else that new girl is on every in flight Entertainment. I mean, you're in the TV in.

[Gareth Reynolds]

The plane, I'm in the tv.

[Jake Johnson]

So, okay, so there you are. You've been in the tv.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

It's worked well for you.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

But now Daniel Day Lewis across the aisle.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But first I go to you, Mr. Gr. You're feeling nervous, you're there.

[Jake Johnson]

I love to watch you play.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You have in the past that I love to watch you play. What do you do for real? Because then my. Okay, so keep in mind this. I'm gonna break down. And you know this I'm. Keep in mind to the audience, my guy in Greenland who maybe has never flown, you walk in, you sit down, you got six hours. You maybe go to the bathroom here and there's. But then at the end when the beep goes on, every maniac, myself included, stands up right away. And then you just stand there for seven minutes. Well, that also happened with me and Daniel standing essentially nose to back of the head right there. Two maniacs. Beep, we're up. What do you do, Gareth?

[Jake Johnson]

I think I would take a note from the interaction you had, and I would say. I don't know, if you say, Mr. Day Lewis, I would just say, just so you know, I'm an actor. You have inspired me endlessly.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Thank you. And what if he said, I've seen your work and I can't see the inspiration? I'd be like, so what I do is very. I do very good work. I've seen you Move on in the tv. You move poorly. Thank you. I'd say, have you seen my left foot? That's what I do.

[Jake Johnson]

Can I have your email?

[Gareth Reynolds]

I like watching you play.

[Jake Johnson]

I like to watch you play. I love to watch you play. What did you do?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Nothing.

[Jake Johnson]

The Met. Nothing interesting.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You want to know what it was in the end? I was thinking about it a lot, and then I thought I fell asleep on the plane. I look over and that old codger sleeping. And I was like, man, we're watching Daniel Day sleep a little bit. And then I thought, we're all just sleeping. Then we got off. We're standing there for a second, and that would have been the moment.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And I don't think he needs me to say it. Everybody in the world is saying to him, you're the best, you know, to your day, Daniel, I love you. I've never seen a guy so good and stuff certain perform when I watch There Will Be Blood.

[Jake Johnson]

The greatest, truly.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I honestly think I came home and cried out of happiness of how much I loved him in that movie.

[Jake Johnson]

Daniel Plainview, just the best. The best.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He. I don't think he needs some guy who looks like a background actor in the Sopranos to go, I like watching you play.

[Jake Johnson]

You know, it's more for you than for him at this point.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And guess what? He's given me enough.

[Jake Johnson]

There's something nice about.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's what I thought. Our partnership, what he. His deal that he's made with the world is he's gonna fucking act his ass off.

[Jake Johnson]

You know what?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Honestly, I would say enjoy it.

[Jake Johnson]

I would have said this. I love to watch you play.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Hey, guys. Everybody enjoy the show.

[Jake Johnson]

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[Jake Johnson]

Hello.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Hi.

[Tom]

Hello.

[Jake Johnson]

Hi. Hello, International school. Can we get your name where you're calling from, your age, please?

[Tom]

My name is Tom. I am 16 years old and I'm from New Zealand.

[Jake Johnson]

Sixteen, yes.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Our youngest caller ever.

[Jake Johnson]

I would, I would say so. Can you drive at 16 in New Zealand, Tom?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yes.

[Tom]

You can drive?

[Laura]

Yes.

[Jake Johnson]

All right, there we go. That's the end of the small talk. Well, Tom, welcome, excited to have our youngest caller. What can two old weird men help you with today?

[Tom]

I just want to say I'm a huge fan of the podcast. I've been listening to the podcast every night while I've been in the award and you guys are just awesome and I love you guys.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Thank you.

[Jake Johnson]

Been in the ward?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yes.

[Tom]

Yeah, sorry, I'll explain my story. So I'm a 16 year old boy with OCD and I have recently been in a psych ward for a month and I'm not touchy about it, so you can joke about it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Great.

[Jake Johnson]

It's very funny.

[Tom]

Very funny. But I am going back to school in about a week and I really need a cool story to tell people at school. So that's my problem.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That makes a lot of sense. So you don't want to say. So explain if you don't mind, Tom, just so we get a sense the ocd. So it just got kind of bad and you needed to kind of reset maybe. Is it medication? Is it some therapy and kind of help you out a little bit?

[Tom]

Yeah, yeah, a little bit of that, little bit of everything. And sort of just kind of hit a hard reset, basically, which is normal. But that's kind of like a weird thing to tell people when they ask.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Where I've been, especially at 16. Well, I'll tell you this, at 47, I think what you're doing is the right thing. I think a hard reset at your age is brave as hell.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Good work. I think taking care of your as Michael Ely and I call it, your mentals is the key to the game.

[Tom]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So fuck yeah, man. And I totally agree. Let's create a lie.

[Jake Johnson]

Awesome.

[Tom]

Thank you so much.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I don't think it's 16. You want to go back and say, what I'm doing is really mature and I understand the way my brain works and I'm trying to fix. What?

[Jake Johnson]

What, what do they know? Do the people at school know anything? They just know you've been gone.

[Tom]

I Have three friends that are in on it, and they know that where I've been, okay? And the rest just know that I've been gone from school, and they don't know anything.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So, Tom, when I was 15, I dropped out of school for a year, which was essentially my hard reset. It was. It was the 90s. So what I should have done is gone to a ward and actually got help, but what I did was stay up all night.

[Jake Johnson]

We didn't do that then. We didn't do that and.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And listen to Bob Dylan and go, like, maybe there's something in these lyrics that could help. But when I would see friends and they would go, why aren't you in school? And I tried to explain why it made it worse. So I did start line. I would literally say that I was my twin, that I was not Jake. I was the twin. And because I didn't have it organized, I was like, now I actually seem crazy.

[Jake Johnson]

You didn't have a show to call it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I don't think having OCD and going to the ward makes you crazy. I think means you're trying to get some help. And so, yeah, I think we create something that. Here's my. Here's the danger and here's the fine line. This can't go sideways on you and make it worse where you're like, what's going on? Oh, I was in a karate tournament, and. And then somebody goes, dude made that up about a karate tournament danger zone.

[Jake Johnson]

There. There is the pitfall of the lie falling through. And then. But the truth is, you're almost playing with house money, because worst case, people go, he was in a psych ward and he lied about it. And it's like, oh, well, he was in the right place. He lied about being winning a karate tournament. I'm glad he's getting.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But here's what we tie it to, no matter what, Tom. And here's the saving grace. We tie it back to this podcast. So if it goes. If people find out. And you said at the beginning, we didn't say it, but you go, like, I'm not sensitive about it. You could make jokes about it. It. Which is an absolute game changer about your personality. In a good way.

[Tom]

Exactly.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So that if somebody goes, Tom said, like, let's say this is just a bad pitch, but you had to go because you are a black belt in karate. Steven Seagal hosted a private tournament in Russia for the top under 17 black belts. You went, you won the tournament. And the final thing is, you and Steven Seagal got in a karate match in Monks dojo, and you won. And if people start to believe it for a while and then it's revealed to be a lie, and people go like, he's weird as hell. They go, no. Check out this podcast called We're Here to Help. It was all the joke I planned. Tom's hilarious. He's amaz. And people are going to go like, I don't like him. But that's fine. People hate him.

[Tom]

That just shows his real friends.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. But also in real life, especially when you get older, Tom, you're gonna realize, who cares if people don't like you? You just need a few people to like you. And those are called your friends. The rest, who gives a.

[Jake Johnson]

That is very true. And I think this will be a blip on the radar, which is why you calling and wanting to have fun with it is good. I. I like that. I have a couple pitches. My first pit. What do you like to do for fun, Tom? Like what? What do you have a hobby? What do you do?

[Tom]

I play video games. I skate, I ride a motorbike, I race motorbikes, I collect Dragon Ball Z cards, and I watch Dragon Ball Z.

[Jake Johnson]

So I would say one of two things you could say you had to go to another country to compete in either a video game tournament, a Dragon Ball Z trivia contest, something like that. My first pitch, without knowing your specifics, was your parents entered you in a teenage cooking show, and you are in a teenage cooking show that is going to air in another country. You're not sure when, but you didn't win it, but you. You finished high up, but you can't say in which level you finished. My last pitch, and this would require us to hold onto this call for maybe months at this point is Tom says he came to the States to intern for his favorite podcast, which is here to help.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

And we in the next couple intros, mentioned Tom how he's been helping on the show a little bit. So if anyone goes and actually wants to corroborate it, we've set that lie. And then when you're far enough away from this event, you can then we can then air it. And then if people find out, who gives a.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So, Gareth and Tom, what we could do, if you like that one, is we could do. We could end this call now, do an intro, the three of us.

[Jake Johnson]

Yes.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Introduce our new intern from New Zealand.

[Jake Johnson]

Yes.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's got to take a little time off of school.

[Jake Johnson]

Yes.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And then we move on. Eventually, when this comes out differently, Tom and You go, like, I kind of fine with the gag being over, then we release it. If not, we never release it.

[Jake Johnson]

Well, it's our last episode. It's if or when Tom graduates, we release it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

The worst case scenario, Tom, when you graduate high school, we release it then. Or when you go, I don't care anymore. Then we release it then. But we set up.

[Tom]

I reckon we release it in two weeks.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I reckon I'll go there. I'll go there for two weeks and.

[Tom]

Then I'll be like, I want to hear myself. I want to hear my voice on the podcast.

[Jake Johnson]

Well, you'll hear yourself on this intro. And then what we can do is we can let the lie bubble for maybe six weeks and you can call back in, let us know how it's going in that world, since you've sort of said that. And then what we can do is then we can release it all in a chunk in like seven weeks or something.

[Tom]

That's perfect.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay, so now, Tom. So now, Tom, we're going to put you to work. We are going to do an intro.

[Tom]

Okay.

[Gareth Reynolds]

For Monday's show.

[Jake Johnson]

Okay.

[Gareth Reynolds]

In the middle of it, we are going to introduce that we are doing something new, and that is through a Patreon contest.

[Jake Johnson]

Yes.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We have found and we are doing something, and we have hired an intern, a guy who's interested in podcasting, who's going to spend a month with the production and learn how it all works. And that his parents have agreed, so he's out of school for a little bit. It's going to be really fun for us, too. We're going to introduce you, Tom. Then we're going to get rid of you, Tom. So it feels very real. Gareth and I are going to end the intro and that's going to be it.

[Jake Johnson]

And then we will follow up with you soon after that.

[Gareth Reynolds]

What do you want your role to be that you're going to be as you're learning production on this? What do you want the. What you're bringing to the table?

[Tom]

I don't know. Just. Just an intern that you're 16. I'm 16.

[Jake Johnson]

I don't know.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay, so then you don't really need anything. Here's what he's doing Garrett with.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, he's just. He's a gap filler. He's checking emails.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He's just had. He's learning, he's interested, he loves. He's a day one listener.

[Jake Johnson]

Okay.

[Gareth Reynolds]

All right, so we'll bring in. Hold on, Tom. Do you get the game we're playing? Yep.

[Tom]

Yep.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Do you like the game we're playing?

[Tom]

Yes, I love it. Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You want. Is this what you want to do?

[Tom]

Yes, this is what I want to do.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And we are back.

[Jake Johnson]

Sweet Jesse here. The following is from an intro that Originally aired on July 7, episode 186, I ask the questions and I love my wife. So you got an email from a teenager in New Zealand named Tom, who is a day one listener, Ride or die of the show.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Had. Had his. Had the episodes, knows his stuff.

[Jake Johnson]

And. And we. And. And he pitched us on an internship and we were like, but very.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But very specific. And it was, can I come out for a month? I have my own place to stay.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And I just want to learn the ins and outs of the business and I want to know all facets of it.

[Jake Johnson]

So we kind of followed up and made sure his parents had. Okay, this. And this was not some sort of catfishing. And Tom was real. Tom's parents were super into it, wanted to give him a break. This is from school. He get. He got a month off, basically.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But there was a version of credit, like, I'm not going to get into the weeds of it, but there was educational things involved.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Drinking beer out here and gambling on horses.

[Jake Johnson]

Not that we know.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. But so let's. Let's bring on.

[Jake Johnson]

So we have Tom, the first.

[Gareth Reynolds]

The New Zealand Thunder to help the New Zealand Thunder, the first intern. Tom, welcome to the show.

[Tom]

Hello. Hello. How are we?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Good, brother. How are you?

[Tom]

I'm doing good. I'm doing good. Just happy to be on the show. Happy to be the intern.

[Gareth Reynolds]

How have you been enjoying your internship on we're here to help.

[Tom]

I've been loving it. One of my first trips overseas, first time to America, and I've been loving it here. I've got a place to stay, but you're pretty much.

[Jake Johnson]

You're at the end of your internship with us for now, Tom, we're gonna keep using you for certain things.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You've been over with them.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course. But you've. You've really been helping. You've been. You've been working a lot, learning a lot, and everyone has very positive things to say about you. Is it strange that the initial chapter is kind of coming to an end because you're going back to New Zealand, back to school now, and you're gonna kind of.

[Tom]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It feels weird, you know? Like one day I was helping on a podcast with Jake Johnson, and now.

[Jake Johnson]

I'm going back to do, like, Gareth Rentals too, also. Gareth Reynolds.

[Tom]

And notes.

[Laura]

Sorry, sorry.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He knows the bit. He knows the show. He's our Heather, baby. He's our Heather.

[Jake Johnson]

Well, you've been awesome, dude. Everyone has great things to say about you.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. We wish you luck going back to school. We're gonna miss you like crazy. But you're also not done with us, obviously, as we've all talked about. We're going to keep emailing and figure stuff out. Tom, you're a hard worker. You got a bright future ahead of you.

[Jake Johnson]

Thank you, Tom, for all your hard work.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

And good luck back. Safe trip back and enjoyed. You'll be missed anyways, Jake.

[Tom]

Thank you.

[Jake Johnson]

Without further ado.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Tom, what do you think?

[Tom]

That was awesome. That was perfect.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I'm gonna start the light immediately.

[Tom]

As soon as I can.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Amazing. So what we'll do, Tom, is we're not gonna release the episode until we get a follow up from you. And if we don't get a follow up, we're not gonna release the episode.

[Jake Johnson]

All right, buddy?

[Tom]

Okay.

[Jake Johnson]

Okay.

[Tom]

That sounds perfect.

[Jake Johnson]

Thank you.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Good luck back at school, man. You did the right thing.

[Tom]

All right, thank.

[Jake Johnson]

Hello.

[Laura]

Hello.

[Jake Johnson]

Hi. Welcome to the show.

[Laura]

Thank you so much. Is this Garrett?

[Jake Johnson]

This is.

[Laura]

How are you?

[Jake Johnson]

Good. How are you?

[Laura]

Good, good, thank you. Thanks for taking my call.

[Jake Johnson]

You're very welcome. Thanks for calling in. Jake's here, too. What's your name?

[Laura]

Hi, my name's Laura.

[Jake Johnson]

Laura. Laura. Where are you calling from?

[Laura]

Virginia.

[Jake Johnson]

Nice. And Virginia. God, I love Virginia. That's just the Blue Ridge Mountain. They're beautif this time of year.

[Laura]

That's great.

[Jake Johnson]

How are you roughly? Virginia. What's the range here?

[Laura]

I'm sorry, could you repeat that?

[Jake Johnson]

Give me your age range? Rough age.

[Laura]

Oh, age range. Mid to late 30s.

[Jake Johnson]

Okay. And Jake, I actually.

[Laura]

Young adult.

[Jake Johnson]

You are? Absolutely.

[Laura]

Thank you, Jake.

[Jake Johnson]

The person who came up with the question of what would your book title be was at one of my shows recently.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

And she reminded me of another one of her prompts, which maybe we'll try with you, Laura, which is if you had a boat, what would the name of the boat be?

[Laura]

Ooh, that's a good one. Yeah. The standard is like the minnow. Right. For Gonzale.

[Jake Johnson]

But no, you're not a young adult anymore, Laura.

[Laura]

I'm not a young adult.

[Jake Johnson]

At that point, if you're dropping Gilligan's island boat references, you just aged up.

[Laura]

I think. Yeah, I think that if I. It'd probably be the sinker.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Sure.

[Laura]

Because we're. Yeah, I don't know. Let's Be honest. I don't know how to drive a boat.

[Jake Johnson]

Well, that's why it's going down. That's why it's sinking.

[Laura]

Going down.

[Jake Johnson]

So what can. What can we do for you? What's going on?

[Laura]

Okay, so here's my situation. I. I have a chronic and serious medical condition that you would never, ever know just by looking at me. I look like a normal, healthy young adult when you look at me. Unfortunately, I'm not. And so I do have have to ask for, you know, extra time boarding airplanes, and in particular, I'm doing a lot of flying lately, and I get the stink eye so bad from people.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I believe this.

[Laura]

Yes. And I don't know if there's anything I can do about it, what I could do about it. I would love any advice.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, we're going to crack this one, so. And then if we ask questions and Is there anything you don't like, just say pass. Okay. Do you mind telling us about what your condition is? There's a. The reason I ask is, one, I'm a curious individual, and two, it might help.

[Laura]

Sure. Yeah, absolutely. So I do have a very rare form of cancer, and it is, you know, late stage, you know, stage four, but it is slow growing, which is good. So, you know that I got that going for me. But I was initially diagnosed in 2018. And so since 2018, I have had one of my lungs removed. I've had like a whole muscle group and in my back removed. And then it's like. It's like in lymph nodes and stuff. It's been in bones. And so it's just like the pain. And so I just. I just need some extra time. Again, you would take a look at me and have zero clue.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I got a question for you, Laura. Does any of the edible marijuana help at all? And I asked because when my. When I was in high school, my aunt had cancer and she came to that. She had stage four and she moved into the house with my mom and I, and my mom and I were her nurses. And my mom for the first time said, I know you know where the weed is at your high school. This is the first time I'm asking, bring it home. I was like, yeah. So I was able to go in the corner and be like, two joints and they're like, be cool. I'm like, literally, my mom asked for it, but the weed helped her so much.

[Laura]

Yeah. Well, in 2018, I did ask about that from my doctors, and they wouldn't even really talk to me about it at that time. I know it's. You know, things have evolved since then, but. But yeah, I haven't ever gone that avenue. But yeah, we'll see. And I. It's again. It's slow growing. It's not like I'm gonna die tomorrow, but it, you know, like, you know, 10 years maybe. I don't know. Who's to say?

[Jake Johnson]

But yeah, well, let's make sure that in those 10 years you're not getting the goddamn stink eyes from people. Now, Jake, you seem to respond very quick to the stink guy. It's because of the delay. I mean, people, when people fly, they're at their worst.

[Gareth Reynolds]

No, I'm gonna tell you why it. People, when they fly are so weird with lining up early these days that I was crazy. I was at a flight and the person at the board and said, please, everybody sit down. You cannot form a line. You're blocking the hallways. Laura, Gareth. Nobody moved. They said, guys, he's on a mic. He goes, all you people who I'm talking to, we have not called your zone. Sit down. There was this fake line of people. They were like, zone two. Sit the fuck down, you maniac. I had to. I really didn't want to be a fucking Karen or a Kevin, but I was like, I was gonna start pulling those guys by their hair and says, sit your ass down, you goofball.

[Jake Johnson]

Ah, this is where fame is hilarious. Because you can't be real. You can't be your real self.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I can't be 1990s.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah. You can't freak out like you should. But it was same with baggage claim, where you're like, what are you doing when the bag drops? Go get it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yes.

[Jake Johnson]

What are you doing?

[Gareth Reynolds]

So if that same line of maniacs are like, I'm zone three, I will be first because I will not be checking my bag.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

By the way, take a breath. You're being crazy. Yeah. If a woman walks to the front and looks fine, they're going, my bag won't fit. Listen, chill out.

[Jake Johnson]

It is nuts. I.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You goofball.

[Jake Johnson]

Well, let me. I. I have a pitch right off the bat. What is it? Well, I think, I mean. So, Laura, are you getting on the plane first? That's what we're saying, right?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, they're saying if anybody needs extra help.

[Jake Johnson]

Okay.

[Laura]

I mean, yeah, yeah, it's. Or it's me and like the 80 year olds in wheelchairs, and it just makes me look even worse when they're there.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Or it's you and people boarding with kids. Is that correct? Correct.

[Laura]

Yeah. Yes, that's correct. Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

Here's the thing.

[Laura]

I usually go before kids, though.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I got one, I got one really fast. Go bring a fake baby. What?

[Jake Johnson]

No. She has cancer. She doesn't need the fake baby.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Laura, baby, you get out, all you need to do is in your backseat caught. It'd be hilarious. And then she goes like this. Cancer, stage four.

[Laura]

No, Jake TSA would stop me every single time. That would be like.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You put it in your backpack and then right before you get on, you wrap it up in a towel and they go like sport. And you go like, you shake it and you go like, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.

[Jake Johnson]

I, I, I.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's not a good idea.

[Jake Johnson]

It's not a good idea. But it's, it's not.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But it's an idea.

[Jake Johnson]

It's an idea.

[Laura]

Hey, I'm writing it down. Fake baby.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Thank you. And then in the end, Laura, you're gonna decide. And if you do fake baby, I won't judge you. I'll ask for video, though.

[Jake Johnson]

I, yeah, I look, it might just be worth doing it just for our socials, if that's cool with you, by the way.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And if it's not you, somebody listening? Somebody try fake baby.

[Jake Johnson]

I think, I think we're saying fake.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Baby I and do it to the point where the flight attendant afterwards gives you the wings and goes, that baby was so quiet. I know. They're amazing.

[Laura]

To hold the baby the whole flight.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Put it in the backpack, Put it in the overhead.

[Jake Johnson]

I don't love the last part. Put it in the over the last part. I'm jumping ship on a pitch I wasn't on on ship for earlier, Laura.

[Laura]

Nobody would ask about it because, you know, it's too weird.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's too weird.

[Laura]

They're going to be like this, this person has their own issues. We're not going to bother.

[Jake Johnson]

I started following this guy on Instagram who, like, on planes, eats raw shelled eggs and films the reaction of people next to him. It is our worst. But, man, it is entertaining to watch people next to him. The hell is he doing, right?

[Gareth Reynolds]

The amount of people filming themselves doing pranks and content. It's enough.

[Jake Johnson]

It' we have to stop filming ourselves. We just, it's, I don't know.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Enough.

[Jake Johnson]

I, I, we should shut the Internet down for a month and see what happens. But either Laura, look, you have the best excuse in the book, so if I were you, I would load myself up with the fight for life stuff. Ribbons. I would make sure that I would go, pink hat.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

I would do something like that. I think that is going to. That's going to elicit enough out of people to be like, they can't get mad.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So, Laura, that's a winning pitch, but I think we can go more comedic than that. But if you have a cancer button.

[Jake Johnson]

No.

[Gareth Reynolds]

No one can say anything.

[Jake Johnson]

Pink hat.

[Laura]

You're right.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But I wouldn't go that direction. And I'll tell you why. Because though the stink guy you're getting from people, they're out of line.

[Jake Johnson]

I agree.

[Gareth Reynolds]

They have no idea what they're talking about. If you're giving somebody stink, you don't even know why you're giving stink. I. Everybody has an opinion. Now, I would lean into. If someone gives you a stink, I consider going, can I help you? And they go, walk me through this, Gareth. So I'm. You're the person in line giving me stink eye. People who need special assistance. Go now.

[Jake Johnson]

Here we go.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Hey, can I help you?

[Jake Johnson]

You. Huh? No, just.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You're giving me stink. Ey. Can I help you? Ginger.

[Jake Johnson]

I'm actually.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Let me tell you this, honey.

[Jake Johnson]

Stage four cancer. I have olive skin.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Italians don't go red.

[Jake Johnson]

I'm not red. I have beautiful jet black hair.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You're pretending to be a cool guy from Sopranos. That's not how you look, babe. Hey, hold on. My baby's crying. That wouldn't work. I. I mean, that would go sideways.

[Jake Johnson]

Well, here's what I want you to do.

[Laura]

I love all of it, but here's.

[Jake Johnson]

What I want, Laura.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And. And I mean this. Seriously. Gareth is right that if you got a sticker, that's going to work. My kind of thought is. And pardon the people who listen with kids in the car, but fuck these people.

[Jake Johnson]

I agree.

[Gareth Reynolds]

They're so tired of when. I'm not kidding. I was waiting in line. They were all standing there. I was watching this line. The flight attendant was saying, please sit down. They weren't moving because of some fictional line they created in their head about being at the top of zone.

[Jake Johnson]

Well, the other thing about. The other thing about my pitch is that it's like maybe you don't want people to have this insight into. It's your private business. You don't.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Weird walk.

[Laura]

We actually thought about. I have thought about, like, faking a.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Limp before, but I would push it.

[Laura]

I feel bad about it, but. No, I have thought about it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Laura, you got stage four cancer. You don't feel bad about anything. So you're allowed to, in my opinion, but don't just do a Little limp. Do like a whole weird shimmy.

[Jake Johnson]

Do you. Are you doing. Are you doing wheelchair to get on?

[Laura]

No, I'm not. And I'm like. I really am. Like, again, physically, you would have no clue.

[Jake Johnson]

By the way, if you wanted, you could do one.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Don't do the wheelchair then. You gotta get work in there. You gotta deal with them as.

[Jake Johnson]

I got one. I got one right now. Neck brace. Get a neck brace. Once you get these headaches, I have.

[Gareth Reynolds]

To be even easier than neck brace. I pass.

[Jake Johnson]

Can I go a little further? Eye patch, neck brace. And might I say, when you're on the plane and everyone's boarded, take them off and tell the person next to you what's going on. It's a good conversation starter.

[Gareth Reynolds]

How about this? Because. How about this? Kazoo? And I'm not even joking.

[Jake Johnson]

For what? What.

[Gareth Reynolds]

When they call it, just go, like, make the weird sounds. I'll tell you why. Everyone's gonna go, jesus Christ, look who's on our plane. She's a maniac. Then when you sit down to your normal, they go, I thought we were gonna have a lot of problems with her.

[Jake Johnson]

Okay, here's another one.

[Gareth Reynolds]

One.

[Jake Johnson]

You get an audio file on your phone, and when you get up to board, you just press play and it's a loud groan like it pains you to stand. And it's just a. It's just like a drop.

[Gareth Reynolds]

How about this? When they do your thing, run up like you're a contestant on the prices, right? Where you go like, yeah, yeah, you're first, baby. And you go like, I'm first.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And so people give you the stinka and they'll give you more of what is going on with that maniac.

[Jake Johnson]

Also, here's another one. Have a hanky and just keep dabbing your eyes like there's tears, like you're.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Emotional, or, you know, really good. Laura, fake a phone call. Where you go. They. As you're walking up, you're on the call and you go like this. You cheated. But what about the kids, Roger. And what about the kids, Roger? And then you go, we have seven kids. What?

[Jake Johnson]

So there.

[Gareth Reynolds]

With my mother.

[Jake Johnson]

There are options for. If you want to get. If you want to elicit sympathy, if you want to just seem like a.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Loon, or if you want to go straight with the cancer button.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah. Or if you just want to straightforward, just be like, here it is. I mean, honestly, if you're flying a lot, you might just want to employ a couple just to see what happens.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I'm Actually, Laura, what are you thinking?

[Laura]

So, first off, love the energy. Love, love the ideas. I. I've made a list and it's. It's epic. So I.

[Gareth Reynolds]

The what.

[Laura]

What I do like, is I do like the idea of like the ribbon or a button or something, you know, can't hurt.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Laura]

I also really like the idea of not giving a.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Now we're talking.

[Laura]

Yeah. So I could work on that. That's a me thing I gotta work on. Or just being like, hey, can I help you? Or, you know, you. Okay. Like, if they would give me the stink eye.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Hey, stinky.

[Laura]

But yeah, what about a shirt that.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Says, hey, stink guy. You good?

[Jake Johnson]

How about this? A hat that says, hey, stink. Ey, you good? And the second you start getting it, you pop it on and give people a glare.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. If they look at you, you look at them and then they.

[Laura]

Oh, I love it.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

A hat that says, why the stink guy?

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Laura]

Okay.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Right.

[Jake Johnson]

And you know what? Put a. Put the, Put the pink ribbon on the hat.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Hat. Yes.

[Laura]

Oh, I love it. Yes. Okay, I gotta find a hat maker.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We have one.

[Jake Johnson]

We got a hat maker.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We'll. We'll talk to. Yeah, we'll talk to about making a hat and send it to you. We'll see how busy she is. I know she just had a baby. Here's a. Now we have a good idea. And it sounds like we're out of the woods and I'm still mentally pitching bad ideas. And I'll tell you why, Laura. Because I think these people are crazy and they deserve to deal with crazy.

[Laura]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Beeping sounds like.

[Jake Johnson]

Like there's some medical device.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Who the knows standing there and somebody goes, I see, like a lady cat.

[Jake Johnson]

Is. Is cat here?

[Laura]

Oh, well, hold on. Yeah, the beeping sound. I'm in an airport, remember beeping sounds? Bombs, Airports, like, they just don't.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But Laura, Laura. I mean, more like this. Gareth, give me the call in the. And I'll be Laura.

[Jake Johnson]

All right. And we'd also like to invite anyone who has any special assistance needs or anyone like that, please board now.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Everyone's gonna go, oh, God, like I'm.

[Laura]

A forklift backing up.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. They're gonna look at each other and go, go. Holy. I got three hours. Once you get in your seat, what's up? Once you get in. Am I supposed to be here? Sure.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah. Hi. I've just been listening, laughing my ass off.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So we're right almost near the end on this cat. Laura has a rare form of cancer. She is stage four, but doesn't show from the outside. Okay. She looks totally fine. When she goes to board a plane, she needs a little extra time for her goddamn body. Guess what? Nobody's business but hers. She gets a lot of stink eye. So we're pitching either get a little ribbon that says, you know, cancer survivor. Then we're talking about getting a hat that says why the stink eye? And we're just kind of going in that direction. Laura, where are you leaning right now and what are you thinking of doing?

[Laura]

Doing Big fan of the hat.

[Tom]

That.

[Laura]

Says why the stink. Ey. That would be probably my number one.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay.

[Laura]

And yeah, my number two being not giving as much of a.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay.

[Laura]

I'm just getting over it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I really thought number two was going to be the beeping.

[Jake Johnson]

You. Are you out of your mind?

[Gareth Reynolds]

No.

[Jake Johnson]

You thought that the loud beeping based off of when you sounded like a dying bird to.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I truly in my heart of hearts thought she was going to go. Love the hat and the beeping. And I think we're good. And I was going to go.

[Jake Johnson]

She ping immediately.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Laura, did you push back on it immediately?

[Jake Johnson]

She was like, it's a airport, bombs, all this.

[Laura]

Well, yeah, I was just. But I didn't understand that the. It would be more like of a forklift, not like a.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You know, that's what I figured happened. Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

I'm sorry. I love the idea that you're differentiating the bomb beep and the forklift. You know, in my experience, beep's important. The beep is important. I think those are great. I think we can try to get you the hat and. And I wouldn't be afraid to carry around an eye patch and a neck brace every now and then if you're feeling a little spicy. I mean, those carry ons can get tight, but a neck brace can pop in there real easy. Also could be a pillow if you need it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Laura, we're writing. I'm writing a letter to Leah right now.

[Laura]

Thank you.

[Gareth Reynolds]

About the hat. Will you email your address and then we can connect you to her and we're going to get your hat. And what did you want the hat to say? Why this? Why they stink. Ey?

[Laura]

Yeah, I think, yeah, that was the consensus. But I do trust your creative direction.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay.

[Laura]

Entirely.

[Jake Johnson]

I like why the stink guy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And then if anybody else wants a why the stink eye hat, go to our. I guess we're gonna make why the stink guy merch. She makes one, she can make more.

[Jake Johnson]

Go ahead.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And maybe I was quick. Perfect.

[Laura]

As opposed to making it a question Mark.

[Jake Johnson]

Why.

[Gareth Reynolds]

How about turn down the stink guy?

[Jake Johnson]

Or. Oh, don't hate that.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That easy stink guy. Just something more of a stink guy and less. Less worse. Would you say easy comma, capital S, Stink eyes.

[Laura]

Like it's a person.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Like a proper stink. Ey. What about Stinky Jones? Easy stink. Ey Jones? No, don't make it too far. Don't make it too far.

[Jake Johnson]

Stinky Jones.

[Gareth Reynolds]

How about fu. Stinky.

[Laura]

No, Now.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Now you're. Now you're getting confrontational. How about. How about just us? Stink eye.

[Jake Johnson]

No, that's you.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You're stink.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, she's stink guy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

You know, then people are like, that's why she's boarding early. She's got stink eye.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And then you go. I'd rather you imagine stink ey patch.

[Jake Johnson]

And a hat that says stink guy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

If you get a stink ey hat, do not wear the eye patch.

[Jake Johnson]

No.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Such a gross combo. No good.

[Jake Johnson]

No good then.

[Laura]

Or do I. Is that the. Is that the perfect.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I gotta say, if you walk in with an eye patch, that's all you need. If someone's. If someone's bored in early and I go the. She seems fine. She turns around with an ey patch, I go, after you, ma'. Am.

[Jake Johnson]

There's real power in adding an eye. Whatever you need to the easy stink ey hat. Now, Laura, do you like easy stink eye? Because we're going to pull the trigger on this comma.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Do we like. Do we like easy comma, stink eye, or do we like, why the stink eye? What about why the stink eye comma, capital Stink eye.

[Jake Johnson]

No, no, stop it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Jake. Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

You're putting another hat on.

[Laura]

What if it's like, easy there, stink guy. Easy. There's not a stink guy or something.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Like, see there, stinky. Love it.

[Laura]

And I only put it on when I'm getting the stink guy. And I put that puppy out.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And then you make eye contact with him, and then you take the hat off. Off.

[Laura]

And then I wink.

[Jake Johnson]

I also don't be afraid to have the ribbon on the hat when you. If you feel like it. I think that's a nice. That's a onew combo right there.

[Laura]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So the hat is going to be. We have locked in. Laura. Say it. What do you want the hat.

[Laura]

We don't give a. Oh, oh, I'm sorry. I misunderstood. Okay. Easy there, comma, stink eye.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Easy. And do we want the easy there, stink capital. And we're doing two words for stink eye or stink dash I with a capital E. That's A dash out of there. Make a one.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, one word.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So you want, you want.

[Jake Johnson]

It's a person, it's a noun.

[Gareth Reynolds]

K. Proper lowercase, one word. Eye. Stinky. Stinky.

[Jake Johnson]

Stink eye. Yep. Stink eye. Yep.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That looks weird. Why are you adding bells? Why? Don't know. Because I can't read.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, he's.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I don't know how to read words. So we're going there with easy there, stinky. I'm into it. Laura, is there anything else we can help you with?

[Laura]

No, you guys are perfect. Thank you.

[Jake Johnson]

All right.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Thank you.

[Jake Johnson]

Keep it. We were very invested. So let us know when you get the hat, how it's going and keep us updated on how you're doing.

[Laura]

You know what? And I'll get a kazoo as a backup and yeah, I'll send you some pictures.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Thank you. Thank you.

[Jake Johnson]

Doie.

[Gareth Reynolds]

All right, Laura.

[Laura]

All right, take care.

[Jake Johnson]

Thanks, Laur.

[Gareth Reynolds]

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[Jake Johnson]

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[Gareth Reynolds]

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[Jake Johnson]

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[Tom]

Hello. How are we?

[Jake Johnson]

Oh, good. How are we?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Recognized that voice.

[Jake Johnson]

Come on.

[Tom]

I'm doing really good. It's Tom here from New Zealand.

[Gareth Reynolds]

What's up, brother?

[Jake Johnson]

New Zealand?

[Tom]

Yeah, what's up? How are you guys doing?

[Jake Johnson]

It's been a while since we've recorded so we remember you. We love you. What was your first call, Tom?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Was it the old lady harassing you?

[Jake Johnson]

No, no, that's an English okay.

[Tom]

No, I had a. I had been in a psych ward and needed.

[Jake Johnson]

Tommy are in turn.

[Tom]

Yeah, I'm your intern. Yes.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, dude. So remind the audience everything because we haven't told anybody anything.

[Jake Johnson]

I was just gonna say I don't think.

[Tom]

No, we haven't. Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, first of all, what happened then?

[Tom]

So I had been in a psych ward and, and I need a really cool story to tell at school. So we made up the story that I had been an intern and it went pretty well. I, I went to school and I told everyone that I'd been in America and I even edited like I did some really bad Photoshop photos and put them up on my Instagram.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Great.

[Tom]

And yeah, everyone believed it. But what actually ended up happening is school wasn't working out for me so I've actually left school and I've applied for a barbering course.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay, great.

[Jake Johnson]

Yes.

[Tom]

And I'm actually working at my parents bar.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Great.

[Jake Johnson]

That's fine, that's good. I mean did you feel like it? It sort of at least got the conversation out of the. So people weren't bothering you with like a lot of follow ups and all that?

[Tom]

Yes, you can 100 ring the bell. It definitely worked.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And so yeah, I would say for sure. Ring it.

[Tom]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And so long and short of it, just out of on a human thing, you went back to school. There was no weirdness about the psych ward. But as a person in your life you realize this isn't for you. You want to trade, you want to start working and just start your life.

[Tom]

Yeah, I realized I just, I've all I want to be is a barber. So I realized I want to go straight into doing my trade and get it done and over with.

[Jake Johnson]

How are you feeling overall? How's the mental health? How are you doing?

[Tom]

It's much better. It's really, really better. I'm feeling much better. I'm getting better. Doing all the therapy and everything's working great.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Gareth, how's your mental health?

[Tom]

Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

Back and forth, forth.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It depends on the day for your life. I love it, man. For the show. I love that it worked. Are you comfortable with us releasing all this?

[Tom]

Yes, I would love it. You guys have really helped in my healing process. It made me feel more confident about myself.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Great. And go kick ass and cutting as a barber. And Gareth, when are you going to be in New Zealand?

[Jake Johnson]

I don't know. Maybe next year. Maybe next year.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Year. If so.

[Tom]

Well, if you come to Christchurch, come, come to Smash Palace. It's my parents bar and it's the best bar in Christchurch.

[Jake Johnson]

So yeah, sure, yeah, I'll do all that. I'll get a perm, I'll have a beer. Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Are you referring to a barber shop as a bar?

[Tom]

No, no, no. It's a real bar. A, like, drinking bar.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, but why not a bar where you give haircuts and call.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It Bar Bar Terrible. Because everybody's drinking.

[Tom]

Everybody's drinking. We're getting their haircut. I don't think that's.

[Gareth Reynolds]

No. You got scissors, you got moving heads, you got jumpy moments. You'll have.

[Jake Johnson]

I want you to. I want you to take the day and think about it. Tom, we appreciate it. Jake will get back to you. No, don't worry. We got it. All right, Tom. We're gonna figure this out. Okay, buddy?

[Gareth Reynolds]

We're back 50 of the company.

[Jake Johnson]

Not a problem.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Bye, buddy. Thank you for the call, man.

[Jake Johnson]

Thanks. Sweet Jesse here. This next call is a follow up to episode 187, the man in the Iron Hair.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Hello.

[Laura]

Oh, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Welcome back to the show. This is a follow up, but we do not know who you are or what the follow up is. So could you tell us your name, recap what your problem was and let us know what happened? Yes.

[Tom]

Cool.

[Laura]

So I'm Rebecca. I called in about my uncle who has the worst comb over helmet.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Love this call. Yeah, the guy in China who goes from back to front.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Laura]

Yes.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay.

[Laura]

Exactly. Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And what did we pitch, Rebecca?

[Laura]

You pitched that when he comes to visit for the summer in London, convertible would. Well, no, the one we went with was taking him on a boat on the Thames.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, same idea.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And then Gordon, like, whoa, you look so good.

[Jake Johnson]

Get him gusty.

[Laura]

Yeah, precisely. Yeah. Unfortunately, when he was in London, I was either working or away, and my mom. My mom was keen on trying it and then ultimately completely chickened out.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, I get that.

[Laura]

Yeah. But when the episode came out, I was so excited, I told, like, literally everyone I knew and my very, very, very good friend. Actually, can I change that to Ryan? Can you bleep out? He asked me not to use his name. He listened to the episode and he has been struggling with losing his hair for quite a few years. None of us had really said anything about it. And he listened to the episode and was inspired. And he. Shave head.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Isn'T it?

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, that is a bell ring.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's just.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah. He just said, how does he look?

[Laura]

He looks good. He looks really good. It had been like clinging on. He went to. He lives in Glasgow and he went to a barber. The barber said to him, like, you're gonna have to come to terms with.

[Tom]

This at some point.

[Laura]

Yeah. So, yeah, he had the episode with Justin Long and he was like, maybe me, maybe. Maybe I need to do this.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I think I really do believe that if you're on the line and it's starting to go, just shave it.

[Laura]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

Oh, I think also when you're the comb over, that this is what I would pitch if I were you. The next time this guy comes to town. I would bring the friend in as a sort of feel good story about this as well. And maybe bring it up in front of our back to front comber might be another way. And then you could even do it on the Thames. You could do it on a. Or you could do it in a convertible going up a hill. But I think that might be a way to continue to try to get another round.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I think that makes sense out of this.

[Laura]

Yeah, yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Or maybe killing it in China.

[Jake Johnson]

Maybe, maybe, maybe.

[Laura]

And then my mom said that she. She has a theater theory. I don't know if I buy it, but if my uncle has this budgie that he adores and the budgie sits on his head. Yeah, budgie, like a little bird.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, I thought you meant like a buddy, Like a friend. And then I got thrown when you said he likes sitting on his head.

[Jake Johnson]

Wait, wait. What is a bird?

[Laura]

Yeah, do you know, Is it. Do you call budgie something different?

[Gareth Reynolds]

When I think of a budgie, I think it's Steve Berg.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, yeah. Cockatoo.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Little budgie.

[Jake Johnson]

Buddy, little budgie.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Get that budgie on the line.

[Jake Johnson]

Buddy, budgie, I am here for you.

[Gareth Reynolds]

When Budgie. To sit on my head and I want.

[Jake Johnson]

Hello?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello. So I had blueberries this morning.

[Jake Johnson]

I had blueberries.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, okay. That's a little cocktail.

[Jake Johnson]

Cockatoo. Yeah, a budgie.

[Laura]

Coca tea. Smaller than a coca tea anyway.

[Gareth Reynolds]

By the way, calling a bird a budgie is one of the greatest things I've ever heard.

[Jake Johnson]

Yep, you're not getting away with that one.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I'm gonna literally be walking outside in Siemens tree and go like this. Look at that. A tree full of budgies.

[Jake Johnson]

Bunch of budgies.

[Gareth Reynolds]

A budgie on me last night. Last night. That's good luck.

[Jake Johnson]

You got to make sure people know who a budgie is by then.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Nope, they don't.

[Jake Johnson]

Okay.

[Laura]

We also call. We call Speedo's Budgie smugglers.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, budgie smuggler. I know.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I didn't know that.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, but okay, so wait, what about his little head? Budgie?

[Laura]

Well, it. It likes to sit on his head. So my mum thinks that maybe the hair is to protect. Maybe it might be.

[Jake Johnson]

No, no, no. He's not cruel. He's not living his life 24 hours a day looking like that in order to just make the bird more comfortable.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You know, my husband, I'll tell you, Croco had a little budgie in his house.

[Jake Johnson]

Is that right?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. He had a cockatoo named Cleo.

[Jake Johnson]

And plot never stops thinking.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He let that budgie fly around no cage, and that budgie shit everywhere. You'd go to his house, there would be bird poo on curtains. And I'd go like, hey, dude, dad, there's bird poo all over the table. And he would go like, yeah, that's where she's going.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, that's scary. And then you want, like, bacon soda from the fridge.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It would, like, land on you at weird times. You'd be like, watching tv, and all of a sudden bird claws would hit you and you'd be like. And you'd be like, hey, Cleo, saying hello. I was like, oh, see, I thought I was being attacked because I'm not used to things coming from above landing on me at weird times. And if I was bald, I would header from the back and push it to the front.

[Jake Johnson]

I just wish we had a camera of the Croco era.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Me too.

[Jake Johnson]

This Croco.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I wish we had cell phones. But, Rebecca, this is all really great. This actually is a pretty good update because we helped your friend whose name we don't know.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, Ryan.

[Laura]

Yeah, he's pretty happy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, he should be happy. It's going great. And he's back. He's back. And then whatever's happening in China is happening in China. China.

[Laura]

Yeah. And at least four people, new people.

[Tom]

Are listening to this podcast, so.

[Laura]

Because of the hair.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So it's all good, I would say, right now. My guess is internationally, because that's where our show is. It's an international show. Believe it or not. We do have fans everywhere. We've got one guy in Greenland.

[Jake Johnson]

Where is he, by the way?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Ditching us.

[Jake Johnson]

Reach out.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Here's what I will say to our balding community. Shave it and take a photo before and after.

[Jake Johnson]

Or may I make another pitch? Yeah, do the fresh comb over and let's have a look.

[Gareth Reynolds]

See, let's have a look.

[Jake Johnson]

Let's start.

[Gareth Reynolds]

To any person out there who is balding and is at that crossroads. We all know the crossroads. Yeah. You go, there's a lot of glare. Hymns ain't working. The weird powders aren't working. Working. That little foam ain't working. It's over. Before you do the shave, take a Photo with hair.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Take a photo back to front, which we are going to call the Budgie Landing.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Give us the budgie Nest. Give us the Budgie Nest. Then shave it. We'll post all three on social.

[Jake Johnson]

Thank you.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, we can create a look, by the way. Oh, Halloween. I idea Budgy Nest. Go as. So all you have to do is take your hair from the back. It's such an easy costume. You take your hair from. If you last second you don't have a costume, you're like, God damn it, take all your hair, push it forward, and you go. They go, what are you. Budgy Nest? What's that? We're here to help. What's weird to help? Podcast about what? The guy in China. What? The game China. It's the budget.

[Jake Johnson]

Us.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And then by that point, you. They've moved on.

[Jake Johnson]

I. I think it's a great idea for Halloween. I also think if you are going to go razor, please give us. Give us the glory.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Give us the bud.

[Jake Johnson]

Give us the Budgie Nest. Let us have a look. And Rebecca, thank you for calling. Thank you for the followup. And I'm not kidding. I think you could still. We could still get it shaved. I really do.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I would love to be on the phone at some point. Point I would do video with that son of a.

[Jake Johnson]

Well, we gotta. We gotta get him on the Thames boat or get him. We gotta get him.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. Are we going overseas? Is the first. We're here to help. We go to China.

[Jake Johnson]

We go to China. We intervene.

[Gareth Reynolds]

The show is called Shaving the Bungee Nest.

[Jake Johnson]

Shaving the bungee. We're here to help International journey.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We were here.

[Jake Johnson]

It's on the travel chat. We're like, what is happening?

[Gareth Reynolds]

So this is the Shaving the Bungee tour.

[Jake Johnson]

So we're here to shave the bungee, the passport, it's all.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Excuse me, sir. He's like, hello.

[Jake Johnson]

He's over there. He's over there.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Sir, you have a bungee? Yes. We have to shave the bungee landing.

[Jake Johnson]

No. All right.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Should have been planned better.

[Jake Johnson]

It was priced to. Didn't think much about this.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Head home.

[Jake Johnson]

All right, we're out of here. There's a lot of tension on.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We can't interview anybody here because they all speak Chinese.

[Jake Johnson]

We're not talking flat back.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I'm in business hearing Coach.

[Tom]

Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

I'm peeking through the curtain.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We got any argument.

[Jake Johnson]

Me and Coach is amazing. All right, Rebecca, thanks for the call. Thanks for the followup. Appreciate.

[Laura]

All right, thank you.

[Jake Johnson]

Bye.

[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 Grand Grimm Productions executive producers Rob Hollis, Jeff Porter and Natalie Hollis associate producer Jesse Thurston editing, mix and master by Chris Faller theme song by Oliver Raleigh the COVID artwork is by James Fosdike, animations by Andrew Strelecki 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.

[Laura]

All video episodes of season one are.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Available now on Patreon, and season two.

[Laura]

Video episodes will be available every Monday starting January 20th.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Go to patreon.com heretohelpod.