249: Dr Big Sack & Margaritaville Jr

Summary

We're Here to Help

Episode 249: Dr Big Sack & Margaritaville Jr
Hosts: Jake Johnson & Gareth Reynolds
Date: January 12, 2026

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Episode Overview

In episode 249 of "We're Here to Help," hosts Jake Johnson and Gareth Reynolds return for another round of their signature blend of dubious advice, camaraderie, and bit-heavy banter. The episode features lively discussions on community vasectomies, workplace etiquette with an unaware "Dr. Big Sack," creative shed use, and a heartwarming follow-up from a listener dealing with disability-related stigma. True to form, the show's tone blends earnest attempts at problem-solving with a heavy dose of comedy, self-deprecation, and running inside jokes.

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Key Segments & Discussion Points

1. Community Vasectomy Initiative ("Vasectomy Madness")

Timestamps: 00:31 – 09:18

• The hosts discuss a surge of interest from listeners wanting to become "vasectomy brothers" with Gareth—a playful, if slightly unhinged, community effort to network men undergoing vasectomies around the same time as Gareth.
• Listener Engagement: 14 men and counting have signed up within 24 hours—prompting the idea for a March event tied to "March Madness" (a common time for such procedures due to televised sports).
• Listener Feedback: Women express gratitude for men taking responsibility in contraception, especially in the context of post-Roe v. Wade America.
• Jake and Gareth brainstorm giving out commemorative hats reading "Don't Boo Snip" to those who participate and send in proof/voice notes.
• A resident urologist listener volunteers to offer advice and join the special episode.
• Quote:
  • Jake: "Men are so mad about all this, then get snipped." [03:43]
  • Gareth: "This community is good, but I mean, way more ambitious...the idea that we can make like a vasectomy day..." [05:55]
• Action Item: Listeners are encouraged to join the mass vasectomy, send before-and-after voice notes, and aim for a goal of 50 participants.

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2. Caller: Vicki & "Dr. Big Sack"—How to Address an Unintentional Wardrobe Issue ([13:05]–[40:29])

Background

Vicki (32, NY) calls in about a male pediatrician in her largely female office whose overly tight scrubs and costumes routinely display his anatomy ("sack on full display") to colleagues and sometimes patients.

Key Points

• The doctor is completely oblivious; concern exists for how this looks to parents and the potential for discomfort or HR issues.
• The hosts clarify boundaries: Nothing HR-violation-worthy (no actual skin), just very obvious bulging and occasional odd costume choices.
• The dilemma: How to alert a sensitive, sheltered, and "unaware" male coworker to his wardrobe malfunctions without shaming or overstepping?

Advice & Solutions

• Jake and Gareth pitch several comedic and practical solutions:
  • An anonymous comment box or a voicemail system where "concerned parents" leave (fake) messages about the visibility issue.
  • Natalie, from the show's team, improvises a series of sample complaint voicemails that Vicki could use to broach the subject with the doctor, choosing tones from gentle concern to comedic bluntness.
  • Decision: Vicki, in her administrative capacity, could send a single, low-stakes anonymous voicemail to the doctor around a particularly bad "sack day," ideally right before a holiday break.
• Sample "Complaint" Quote:
  • Natalie (sample voicemail): "When we were there, unfortunately we saw doctor Testicles outlined through his pants. I think they're just too tight...maybe he can get some new pants." [26:53]
• The team rehearses potential in-person and text-message deliveries, emphasizing brevity, discretion, and plausible deniability.
• Notable Moment:
  • Jake requests that Vicki wait for a "bad sack day," send the message before a holiday, and then allow a cooling-off period:
    Gareth: "Send it Friday, late in the afternoon. So you've got two days away from this situation." [38:41]

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3. Caller: Stephen – Transforming a Shed into Margaritaville Jr or Swamp Bar ([46:00]–[59:53])

Background

Stephen (29, South Louisiana) and his wife just bought a house. He has permission to 'go crazy' decorating a backyard shed and considers a rainforest/gorilla cave theme, inspired by Jake's own decorative eccentricities. He’s a former bartender at Margaritaville and is torn between a swamp bar and a faux Margaritaville.

Discussion & Ideas

• Jake leans into the swamp theme, suggesting cajun-esque touches, fake alligators, and "Swamp Forest Café" vibes, while Gareth offers practical tips (solar lighting, extension cords).
• They pivot to Stephen's enthusiasm for Margaritaville, suggesting a full themed recreation, dubbed "Margaritaville Jr," complete with sky-painted ceilings and tiki bar features.
• Quote:
  • Jake: "If you recreate a Margaritaville in your backyard and you really spend time on it and it looks great, that's a massive win." [56:38]
  • Gareth: "...you paint the ceiling like the sky. There's a lot that can be done here. It is a little tiki themed anyway." [56:53]
• The hosts encourage Stephen to document the transformation, promising to help contact Margaritaville PR if the project proves impressive, and to throw a “shed-warming” party.
• Stephen signs off with a strong Cajun accent at Jake's request, delivering a personalized comedic roast of the hosts.

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4. Follow-Up Caller: Laura – The "Stink Eye" Hat and Owning Disability ([60:12]–[72:39])

Background

Laura, a past caller with advanced rare cancer, follows up on her adventures with the custom "Easy There, Stinka" hat (from ep 217) meant to help her handle airport/queue judgment for needing extra time and mobility assistance.

Key Moments

• Laura shares that she now travels weekly for a clinical trial, using the hat and sometimes a kazoo to deflect or diffuse social awkwardness—successfully scaring off “stink eye” rather than seeking sympathy.
• She candidly discusses how the hat boosted her confidence and used its message in grocery stores with mobility scooters.
• The hosts brainstorm ways to further "own" the experience, encouraging Laura to embrace a "biker gang" motif: leather jackets, fingerless gloves, funny patches, goggles, scooter horn, and switchblade combs.
• Notable Quotes:
  • Jake: "If all of a sudden I'm at a grocery store...and I see her in a very Fonzie-style leather jacket with cool ass gloves and some shades that say 'Easy There, Stink Eye'...I'm moving to the side and I'm going, the road's for you and your hog." [67:11]
  • Gareth: "What's great ... you're just trying to enjoy the things that you feel people are judging you for and make them fun for yourself." [67:56]
• Laura promises photo and video updates with her friend Mary’s help; Jake and Gareth encourage future appearances—potentially even involving tattoos.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On the vasectomy project:
  • Jake: “If we can get 50 men to do it, that's a hell of a community.” [07:09]
• On Dr. Big Sack:
  • Gareth (on anonymous parent voice notes): "I was wondering why the doctor has a bulge." [21:16]
• On Laura's airport strategy:
  • Laura: “This hat has just given me, like, superpowers...I feel more confident.” [65:11]
• On the spirit of the show:
  • Jake: “A lot of people think this show’s stupid.... Our question to those people is, you think this is stupid? We fixed a real problem with kids.” [39:33]
• On creative living:
  • Jake: “If you recreate a Margaritaville in your backyard...that’s a massive win.” [56:38]
• On embracing difference:
  • Gareth: “You’re just trying to enjoy the things that you feel people are judging you for and make them fun for yourself.” [67:56]

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Structure & Tone

The episode flows with Jake and Gareth’s signature blend: sincere attempts at problem-solving, running bits, and warmth toward their audience. They tackle awkward real-life issues (medical responsibility, workplace etiquette, social stigma) with a mixture of earnestness, absurdity, and friendship that makes advice surprisingly usable—and distinctly entertaining.

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Vasectomy Community Segment: 00:31–09:18
• Vicki & Dr. Big Sack Problem: 13:05–40:29
• Stephen & Margaritaville Jr. Shed: 46:00–59:53
• Laura/Stink Eye Hat Follow-up: 60:12–72:39

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Conclusion

Episode 249 showcases "We're Here to Help" at its best: irreverent, unexpectedly heartfelt, and creative in both its advice and community-building efforts. Listeners are left with tangible plans—from an epic March vasectomy event to a "shed-warming" Margaritaville, and a biker-gang-themed affirmation of living boldly in the face of adversity.

Transcript

[Jake Johnson]

This is a headgum podcast. And we are back. Okay, so now we've got some news about your testicles.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay, good, nice. Very casual switch, Gareth.

[Jake Johnson]

We've had 14 people who want to be vasectomy brothers.

[Natalie]

Wow.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And that's wild.

[Jake Johnson]

This has been. It aired yesterday.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, 24 hours in 14.

[Jake Johnson]

So here's what Natalie and I, who have been texting a bunch about it, want to do. Natalie, you can chime in.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I love that you guys have been texting about my testicles so much. That's awesome.

[Natalie]

And we love.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I do make it all about me. So you love it.

[Jake Johnson]

Remember how I told you why he likes this? Look at how happy he is.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, stop. Go on though. Take your time.

[Jake Johnson]

Natalie wrote.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Go slow.

[Jake Johnson]

She wrote, I think it's funny that you're planning. Let me see what you wrote, Natalie. She wrote, I like how you orchestrate all of this without ever volunteering yourself or giving an opinion on it for yourself. Because I think we should try to get as many people who want to do a vasectomy same week as Gareth and had people send in voice notes of their experience, see how many we can get snipped as a community. And she wrote, yeah, that sounds fun. Then she wrote that. And I go, I'm just producing episodes. And she goes, yes, but it is funny that Gareth never turns it around.

[Gareth Reynolds]

On you, you know, but Jake, Jake, would this not be option A? This is. This is what happens. This is what happens.

[Jake Johnson]

The tattoo bet you made years ago.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Exactly. I just, I don't know. It's with him specifically.

[Natalie]

Why are you going to turn it back, Jake, when you get all the attention?

[Jake Johnson]

Agree.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, because he turns maybe, I don't know.

[Jake Johnson]

Cuz I wrote, no, he also won't be game for.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I know that. Like, he wouldn't have gotten his whack. Well, you're right.

[Jake Johnson]

I wrote, hahaha, totally. And I go, no, he loves the attention. And then she wrote, 14 people so far that want to actually get snipped.

[Gareth Reynolds]

With ga and then bought.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah. And so, so Gareth here, one of the callers that were airing it after Wednesday's episode emailed it. And I emailed him back and asked him to do a voice note. He had a great idea and said, a lot of people do this during March Madness and it's a thing, it's called like, he named it something like. I don't remember what it is. I'm not going to guess. You know what I'm talking about now. Yeah.

[Natalie]

Yes, yes.

[Jake Johnson]

But it was like a term and.

[Natalie]

It'S like the madness.

[Jake Johnson]

Maybe vasectom madness. And it's. You're supposed to take a couple of days and just relax. So they schedule it around a day where there's games all day. So.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So that you're. Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

You're off work. All you have to do is sit around and relax. We've also gotten a lot of emails from people, women, specifically thanking you, saying they're happy that a man is taking responsibility for contraception.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yes.

[Jake Johnson]

And so it's. It's. You're saying, like, hey, I'm half responsible. I never saw that side of it, but that's cool. Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, that. Honestly, the first time when I. I told you I wanted to shoot something about it was right when Roe versus Wade got overturned.

[Jake Johnson]

Right.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Because it is. I mean, there is so. I don't know. I just. To me, I'm like, it should be. Yeah, we don't need.

[Jake Johnson]

Men are so mad about all this, then get snipped.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yes.

[Jake Johnson]

And what everybody's saying is, we've got a bunch of people emailing in, going, like, it's really not a big deal. It's one woman. We have a urologist who answer any calls. She actually wants to be the show's urologist.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I think, by the way, I think we're ready to anoint.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, for sure.

[Gareth Reynolds]

She wrote, it's not a heavy competition.

[Jake Johnson]

It's less evasive than, like, going to the dentist.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, remember that guy I sent you that mess, that screen? Some guy DM me, and he wrote, no scalpel, vasectomy. Check it out. I was busting again. Four days later, we did get an.

[Natalie]

Email from someone that has a proprietary method to it and his snip.

[Jake Johnson]

Nobody who would be on our Shark Tank episodes.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, there's a way.

[Jake Johnson]

I got the best way to skip you.

[Natalie]

This is From John Paul McLean, 45, Seattle area. Scorpio. And due for his first colonoscopy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

How do you not trust this, by the way? Tinder profile?

[Jake Johnson]

But by the way, he's gonna love the drug. The best part of that colonoscopy. Adios, amigo.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I gotta get one. Maybe I'll do it the same day. I'll go both sides.

[Jake Johnson]

You're gonna love the colonoscopy. Babe. Babe.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Don't ever do that again.

[Jake Johnson]

Dude, when I got mine, they put you love it. I went like this. It's not gonna work. I got an intense brain. It doesn't go to. 20 minutes later, I'm opening my eyes in another room with a wet butt. That's not what this intro is about.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I'm sorry, you're telling us that's not what this is about? Yeah, we know what Butt. By the way, new nickname. I maybe hate it.

[Jake Johnson]

Very accurate.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Maybe wet butt.

[Jake Johnson]

Hate it, hate it, can' fight it if a shoe fits kind of vibe. As Eric would say, you broke it, you bought it. But so here's what I'm hoping for. For vasectomy in March. We'll go around your shooting, your touring schedule, okay? We'll find out how many days we need to do.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Uhhuh.

[Jake Johnson]

What do we all think is a number of other people who do it who release a voice note and send it to us? What's an impressive number of people that.

[Gareth Reynolds]

This community is good, but I mean, way more ambitious. You know, this is what I. This is, I think, to lean into what some of the people were saying. The idea that we can make like a vasectomy day for when we say on this show, look, you know, we've got the contraception, let's go.

[Jake Johnson]

It's a guy's problem too.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yes. Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

You don't want a baby. You don't want to deal with all this shit. All this abortion fight. People are saying you can't get an abortion. Hey, you know what?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Guess what?

[Jake Johnson]

Don't boo snip.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Don't boo snip wet, but you've done it again.

[Jake Johnson]

Or how about this? Don't post. Like, don't post snip.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, don't boost them is pretty good.

[Jake Johnson]

Snip is pretty good.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Don't boo snip.

[Jake Johnson]

You know, we could do. If you. How about this? And the show. How about the show pays for this? Gareth, if you. Okay that. Okay, if you go on the day that Gareth goes to get a vasectomy, we will send you a hat that says don't boo.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yes. Yes.

[Jake Johnson]

You have to send the note and give us. Send us an email of the proof that you did it, the receipt y. And a voice note. We will do a day picture of the balls on a Friday. You know, we'll release on a Friday. Just voice notes.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yes. And that'll be the only thing these guys are releasing. Yes, I like that. I think that's great.

[Jake Johnson]

But let's see if we can get 50.

[Stephen]

100.

[Natalie]

Yeah, 50 is an ambitious.

[Jake Johnson]

Okay, let's go.

[Vicki]

Go for 50 to.

[Jake Johnson]

So we are looking for in March. Right now we have 14 vasectomates, men who want to get a vasectomy on the same day or week that Gareth gets it. What we are Asking you to do is make a voice note after. Explain the process. Maybe make one before. Maybe one before and one after.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yes.

[Jake Johnson]

Then what we're going to do during, if you can, if you do it, we will air. We will have a Friday episode. A not weird one, just a random Friday. And all it'll be is it'll start up. Gareth and I will do a big intro talking about his, and then we will spend a nice chunk on that. Then we'll just air everybody's voice notes.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I love it. And this should be annual.

[Jake Johnson]

We'll have the urologist on. She'll come on. We'll bring her on that episode too, to talk about it a little bit.

[Natalie]

Should we bring Pee Pee and Scatter just for fun?

[Jake Johnson]

Possibly.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Maybe for. Towards the end. Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

Turn into concerts.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. Oh, I love that for you. That's great. And I also don't want to hear.

[Jake Johnson]

Steve say a million times, this is the greatest. This is it. And then go, would you do it? Not for me. So why did you say it was so great?

[Laura]

Okay, just at the end.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I just really want to hear them and their opinion. Yes, I agree.

[Jake Johnson]

That's how we end it. So we do an intro with Gareth and I, and the urologist comes at the end, calls, and then at the end, we do a chat with Gareth, myself. Scatter.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Scatter. And pe.

[Jake Johnson]

Or you know what I really say?

[Gareth Reynolds]

What?

[Jake Johnson]

Street drugs, Wet butt, PE and scatter.

[Natalie]

Okay.

[Jake Johnson]

All right, so, guys, we're gonna get off right now, but email in if you're really gonna do it as a guy. We are looking for 50. If we get more, I'll talk to Leah today. We'll make hats. If you do it, get it. If you just want to buy a hat, we'll put it up there too.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And so don't boo snip is great.

[Jake Johnson]

Don't boo snip. Okay, everybody.

[Gareth Reynolds]

There we go. Wow.

[Jake Johnson]

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[Vicki]

Hello.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Hi. Welcome to. Welcome to. We're here to help. We're fresh off of the helpies. We're hot. Jake's fried on coffee. What is your name? Where are you calling from and what can we do for you?

[Laura]

Oh, my God.

[Vicki]

Okay.

[Laura]

Amazing helpies. My name is Vicki. I am calling from New York, queens area. I'm 32 years old.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Vicki, what can we do for you? What's going on?

[Vicki]

Okay.

[Laura]

I do. I'm in need of desperate help, and honestly, you're my only hope. So I work in a pediatric office. The staff is primarily women. There are two men.

[Vicki]

So I'm calling about one doctor.

[Laura]

He's been there for a million years, and I need you guys to help me figure out a way to police his clothing and attire choices. So more often than not, I'll just cut to the chase. This man's literal ball sack is on full display through his pants. The scrubs are tight. There's not a day when the sack isn't out to play.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We know.

[Laura]

No peace.

[Jake Johnson]

Gareth is wearing really tight pants. Can't see anything.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But do you want that?

[Jake Johnson]

You don't want no bulge. Nothing.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You don't want to. You don't want to present sack.

[Jake Johnson]

I know, but you want to present something. I'd rather you don't want to present male Barbie doll.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I not male Barbie doll, But I would not be going, like, looking like a bullfrog about to ribbit.

[Jake Johnson]

If you had a big sack, you would.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Are you big sacked? What's going on?

[Laura]

Right?

[Jake Johnson]

I'm like you.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You, Santa. If I had one big sack.

[Laura]

I had one.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You got a big red sack.

[Jake Johnson]

I had one. Dude, I'd be wearing the tightest sweaties.

[Laura]

So I'd rather it be a Barbie doll situation, honestly. Okay, so, I mean, the man's scrubs are tight.

[Jake Johnson]

So what is. What are we calling Dr. Big Sack?

[Gareth Reynolds]

I think we got his name. We don't need to hear it.

[Laura]

Dr. Gene.

[Jake Johnson]

Dr. Gene.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I choose Dr. Big Sack.

[Jake Johnson]

And how old is he? What are we dealing with here?

[Gareth Reynolds]

I've got a lot of sac.

[Laura]

Yeah, it's gonna be tough. It's gonna be a tough one. Boys, he is in his 60s.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, that's what I figured.

[Laura]

He's in his 60s. And I do also want to say that this is like, like a regular daily thing. He is man spreading. It's fully out. He's man spreading in his doctor's chair again. It's a pediatric office. Whatever. I also want to specify that this is. This isn't just about the pants.

[Vicki]

He.

[Laura]

When we do, like, fun Halloween or other events that we're. Or other events. Whatever. Other days where we're dressing up in costume. It's also interesting costume situations as well. There's one day that he wore a onesie. He definitely wasn't wearing an undershirt. And his nipples are pointing all over the office. It's ridiculous.

[Gareth Reynolds]

There's.

[Laura]

Most recently on Halloween, he got the tightest pants I've ever seen on a man. He actually had to take them off at one point. Point and change back into his scrubs because he thought they were going to rip. And when he reached up, his little belly was hanging out.

[Jake Johnson]

Let me ask you a question, Vicki, just so we get a sense of Dr. June in your guess. Is he doing this on purpose or is this in it, like.

[Laura]

No, no, no, no, no, no. I do want to specify that he is fully unaware of this situation. He is, like, a very innocent man. He's, you know, kind of just completely.

[Jake Johnson]

You don't get it.

[Laura]

Unaware of what's happening.

[Jake Johnson]

He doesn't think about his body as a sexual object. No.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But it's weird that there's nipples, there's tummy, there's.

[Jake Johnson]

He doesn't get it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I get it.

[Laura]

He just doesn't. He's just like. Not. One last thing.

[Jake Johnson]

Sorry.

[Laura]

That I want to say is that it's noticeable to parents as well. So there was one day specifically that he was wearing a 1V during Halloween. It was. It was very tight. I mean, the nipples were one thing. I mean, it was just maybe also like baby camel toe as well. It was a situation. But there was a mom. We'll never forget it. We talk about her all the time at work. She came in, she literally shook her head, and she said, well, I never thought I'd see that in a pediatric office. And walked away.

[Jake Johnson]

So what have you guys done, Vicki?

[Laura]

We've done nothing. We just talk about it and we sometimes will change the background of, like, our little imessage to imessage text thread as, like, a picture of him in his costume. So we've done nothing about it because it's just been kind of an unsolvable issue. I do want to say that, you know, this isn't, like, HR worthy. It's just like, come on, dude, what are you doing?

[Jake Johnson]

Right. So we have to find a way for Dr. Jean to realize that men's bodies can be seen through clothes. And it's gross. It does Feel like a piggly and mo potential situation, but I'm not going there. Gone. But something in the world to let him know comedically that you're showing him something that he goes, oh, this is like me.

[Gareth Reynolds]

What's his sense of humor like?

[Laura]

He's a sensitive man.

[Jake Johnson]

Not great always, are he?

[Laura]

He is, I would say, one of the more dramatic individuals in our office of full of women. And he is not. He is like, just to give you an idea of who he is, he's like his parents baby boy. He doesn't have, you know, a significant other or kids, and he's just kind of like Peter Pan man.

[Gareth Reynolds]

A little on my path to this.

[Jake Johnson]

When you said, I get it. You could be described as your mom's.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Baby, I meant I. To be clear, I did mean I get the. What she's saying.

[Jake Johnson]

Not here, Dr.

[Laura]

Gay.

[Gareth Reynolds]

This is certainly. I'm not trying to show tummy.

[Jake Johnson]

That's the least offensive thing. He shows merch.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Can I ask one question very quickly, Vicky? When you say you're seeing his balls, you're just seeing a large ball bulge. You're not ever seeing, like, skin?

[Jake Johnson]

No, he's not wearing glass pants.

[Laura]

No, we're not seeing skin.

[Stephen]

Thank God.

[Laura]

I would definitely call HR for that one.

[Jake Johnson]

Or pull him aside a mini skirt with no underpants. Gareth.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I wasn't sure if Halloween we're seeing maybe a little bit of the side. Oh, side sack.

[Jake Johnson]

Oh, like short shorts in the doctor's office. Okay, I got you.

[Laura]

No, it's not short shorts.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And he's a sensitive person.

[Jake Johnson]

It's not easy, but we have to alert him.

[Laura]

Yeah, it's not an easy one.

[Jake Johnson]

And you've never. You haven't. All you ladies. Does the other doctor gossip about him, too?

[Vicki]

Yes.

[Jake Johnson]

So everybody in the office will go, like, Jesus, you guys see Jean's dick again or Jean balls again. And everyone will be like, gross.

[Laura]

100.

[Jake Johnson]

You have a comment section, a box. You get. Do you have.

[Laura]

No, we don't create one.

[Jake Johnson]

A fake one. And then the first day, go, we got four things saying, we just saw Dr. Jean's balls in his pants. Can we please wear loose? We love him as a doctor. Hate seeing his nipples and his balls. And go, everybody, let's just read these independently. Let's not do it. For shame. And then go. He goes, there was five notes about my balls. Is anyone else seen this?

[Gareth Reynolds]

And go, yeah, you know, here's the right off the bat comment box. Feels helpful to me because, like, when the mom. When the mom was saying Something that's helpful, but you can't. You're not going to be able. In a pediatric hospital. You know what I mean? You can't be approaching people to be like, on your we're here to help team. So. Anonymous comment box. If it's about something else, I have an idea. Go.

[Jake Johnson]

Anonymous voicemail box. We do the voices of the kids. I really like the pediatrician, but I think I saw his sack. Beep. I saw the doctor's balls. Beep. Why does the doctor have mommy nipples? Beep.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I was wondering why the doctor has a bulge.

[Jake Johnson]

We do photos of fat baby and baby ginger.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You're. You're crashing from coffee now. Pictures of dolls. These are the children who reported you.

[Jake Johnson]

You got reported by these two.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Those are dolls.

[Jake Johnson]

What do you think of a comment box? We can't do the voice notes.

[Laura]

I love the voice notes. Honestly, I. If we. If I could. I don't. I don't love the comment box because I do think it's gonna open up a can of worms.

[Jake Johnson]

You know what I actually could do? Wait, Vicki, are you serious? You like the calls?

[Laura]

I do. I just. I want to know if there's a way that we. Okay. So, like, I didn't want to, like, put in too much information just in, in case, but, like, so I'm on management team, so, like, I'm kind of like administrative management. He's obviously a doctor, so he. You know, they have their own clinical, you know, board that they report to, so the suggestion box would not be great. However, I do. When there's an emergency, like, we do get recordings.

[Jake Johnson]

Yes. Here's Vicki. I got a pitch.

[Laura]

Voicemail.

[Jake Johnson]

Vicki, I got a pitch. We'll do it right now. I'll leave a message as a dad calling in about something I witnessed. And you send it to him. Go. I just got this. This could be really bad. I'll do one. Gareth will do one.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We can get Berg to do one. We can get Eric to do one. I could ask Kat to do one. We can get a few people to do them.

[Jake Johnson]

And then you could take all five of them, six of them, and decide if you want to show him all of them or just one of them and say, hey, these first started coming in. I didn't give it any thought. We've got a bunch of complaints and just want to send it your way. And we should probably. We should probably correct this situation. Yeah. What do you think?

[Laura]

I honestly think that. I love that because I think I could also wait until. Which, by the way, won't be long. Wait until it's like a particularly prominent sack day, and then I can start filtering them through one by one and then just be like, hey, this is kind of weird. Is this crazy, this message that I just got? That's so weird.

[Jake Johnson]

Let me ask you.

[Laura]

And then when we get the second one, it's like, oh, but let me.

[Jake Johnson]

Ask you a question. Okay, let me ask you a question. What if he said, which parents are these?

[Laura]

Yeah, that's my con. That's my concern.

[Gareth Reynolds]

What I would say is, nobody, you know, they're being anonymous. Nobody wants to have a ball conversation.

[Jake Johnson]

That's interesting.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Just be like, it's anonymous.

[Laura]

Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

This was from a private number.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

But then I don't think we do six or seven. I think I do one and Gareth does one.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But then we could give her a couple, too. Yes, absolutely.

[Laura]

Yeah. If we, like, I think Natalie. Or also like a woman doing it.

[Jake Johnson]

Now, you know, let's start with Natalie, because Gareth and I will yuck it up a little bit.

[Natalie]

Wait, I don't know what I'm doing.

[Jake Johnson]

Well, we'll explain it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, we'll give it.

[Jake Johnson]

So, Vicki, if this works, will you show it to the doctor?

[Vicki]

Yes.

[Jake Johnson]

Okay, so here's what you're doing, Natalie. You took your kid to this pediatrician, and the doctor who came in was wearing scrubs. And through his scrubs, they were a little tight. You could see his ball sack. And you're just calling in anonymously to say, he's not a bad guy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

How about we all.

[Jake Johnson]

This is a little weird. And could you maybe.

[Laura]

And you deserve to know.

[Jake Johnson]

And you deserve to know.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You noticed it, which was one thing, but your kid brought it up on the ride home.

[Jake Johnson]

And so maybe this is something you guys want to know and correct. You know, if you don't care, you don't care. But it's a little bit uncomfortable for you.

[Natalie]

So we're saying this is a voicemail? Yes, it's a voice note at the, like, reception, Vicki.

[Jake Johnson]

Is that what we're saying?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yes, yes, yes.

[Laura]

I think that's great. And then also I just want to say that I work in an area where everyone is really, like, very passive aggressive, bitchy. So. And I think Natalie would be probably perfect for taking that Persona on. And I mean that the highest compliment.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So you mean you live in a.

[Jake Johnson]

What, A Vicky attack? That was a Vicky attack.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Sick. Em victim.

[Stephen]

Yeah.

[Natalie]

I feel that I'm. I'm quite direct. I'm very much not passive.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I think you can handle this.

[Jake Johnson]

So, Vicki we now need the doctor's real name, which we will beep out.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yep.

[Laura]

Yes.

[Vicki]

Okay.

[Laura]

So that's gonna be doctor.

[Jake Johnson]

Okay. So now, Natalie, you get the assignment. You're calling this anonymously? This is not a formal complaint. This. This happened about a month ago. You've been thinking about it a lot.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Your kids brought it up a couple times.

[Jake Johnson]

I wouldn't push too much of that. I'd make it very real. But it's just a little bit. Ugh. And you just felt that they should know. This is meant for Dr. Gene. I'm still calling him to get this and go, oh, my God. And Change his pants. AKA cover is nuts. In 3, 2, Pigley, and.

[Natalie]

Hi. This message is for doctor. My son is a patient there at the office of doctor and we were there a little while ago, and something happened that I was thinking about, and I wasn't sure if I wanted to leave this message, but I just felt like I had to. So when we were there, unfortunately, we saw doctor Testicles outlined through his pants. I think they're just too tight. And, you know, I wasn't gonna say anything, but it's. It's really been sticking with me. And my kid even mentioned something, so I just wanted to let you guys know. And we love Dr. He's great. But maybe he can get some new pants.

[Jake Johnson]

54 seconds.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You know what you need a little bit of Runway to mention your doctor's nuts.

[Jake Johnson]

Now I'm gonna do something. One more in 30 seconds.

[Gareth Reynolds]

What?

[Jake Johnson]

You are. I just want to see it. I just want to see it. Yeah, we're in a money.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So seems so okay with it. 30 seconds to say you saw your doctor's balls.

[Jake Johnson]

No notes. She's in a money.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Hi, my name's Kim. I saw the doctor's nuts. Get him to get new pants.

[Vicki]

Thanks.

[Gareth Reynolds]

My son brought it up, too. Bye. Bye.

[Jake Johnson]

That's eight seconds and terrible. I think there's a way to do it authentic.

[Natalie]

30 seconds.

[Jake Johnson]

Yes. Yeah, so don't look. This is line reading this. But Hi, how are you?

[Gareth Reynolds]

I just a line reading.

[Jake Johnson]

Hey, how are you? I'm just calling to say I was just recently in there a few weeks ago, and I really didn't want to bring this up, but I did see Dr. Testicles through his pants. His. His bulge, I guess. Again, I love Dr. He's wonderful. We're not going to stop coming. I just hope the kids aren't seeing it. And I think he should know that we can all see his balls. Okay. Have a great day. 29 seconds.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But Vicky admits that the ramp. Vicky, what do you think, by the way? He took two shots to say day professional. That is really good. I think you're a professional broadcaster.

[Natalie]

Someone's an actor and someone else.

[Jake Johnson]

But you're. But your tone is better. You're doing a better job. I just want to see if you can do that in 30. Now, look, in the end, Vicki, you're the boss. If you say, I like the long one, then we win with the long one. But this is the fucking lad we're trying.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I mean, look, we got the take.

[Vicki]

Yeah, I agree.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So now we just have a little really fast.

[Jake Johnson]

Give me a 1 in 15 seconds as best as you can. 3, 2, Pigley, and.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Hi there. We were there a couple weeks ago, and my son and I noticed that you could see Dr. Testicles through his pants. It was really distracting and a little upsetting. We're gonna keep coming, but maybe before the next time we come in, he could get new pants.

[Laura]

Thank you.

[Jake Johnson]

15.

[Natalie]

I think it's perfect. I don't think you need any more from me, Natalie.

[Jake Johnson]

We're going to. We're gonna send her every option.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, I'll do one in four seconds for you, just so we have it.

[Jake Johnson]

Three, two, Pigley end.

[Gareth Reynolds]

The doctor has big balls. Please hide them better. I'll buy the pants. God damn it.

[Jake Johnson]

Bad. Hey, sweet Jesse.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. Let's hear yours the way that Jesse's. Sometimes if I. When I'm on the road and I'm about to, like, talk to the crowd, I'll see people look down at a napkin and be like, this is so interesting. Jesse was completely doing me. Like, I've got a lot of work to do over here. I can't. I can't do one.

[Jake Johnson]

Jesse. Yeah. You got 20 seconds.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay.

[Jake Johnson]

Three, two. Piglyon, whenever you're ready.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Hi there. I was in the office with my kids the other week, and I just wanted you to be aware that we saw Doctor.

[Stephen]

Doctor.

[Gareth Reynolds]

The outline of his testicles through his scrubs. And I just thought you should be aware that that's something that if we saw it, other people are probably seeing it, too. My kids mentioned it to me, and that made me uncomfortable. So I think you should maybe do something about that.

[Jake Johnson]

25. Exactly. Vicky, go ahead.

[Natalie]

That was perfect.

[Gareth Reynolds]

The reason why that's great is because you were like, other people are seeing it too. Yeah, it gives. It does a lot of lifting.

[Laura]

Yes.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Why don't we give you both. You can pick.

[Jake Johnson]

Why don't we give all of them.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And then if you need strength in numbers. If doctor Is resilient in the face of voicemails over the course of two months.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, so you're right about that. Gareth, we're gonna send you all of these as independent clips. The question to you, which one do you think you're gonna play and why?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Which one wins? The helpies.

[Jake Johnson]

Which one gets a little burnt?

[Laura]

I honestly. I honestly feel that I may have my co worker listen to the clips because my co worker is actually the one that showed me your podcast.

[Jake Johnson]

What's your. What's your co worker's name? Never mind.

[Laura]

Jamie.

[Jake Johnson]

Jamie, we appreciate you listening.

[Laura]

Not her real name. She knows who she is. But. So I think that the first one was excellent. I really liked. Honestly, they. They were all really good. I liked Jesse's too. I also liked Gareth. Like, they were all really good. I have to sit there and really listen.

[Jake Johnson]

I'm the only person. You didn't. You literally said everybody else.

[Laura]

No, actually, Actually, no. No, no, no, no. Yours was phenomenal.

[Vicki]

I think I.

[Laura]

Laughing through it.

[Jake Johnson]

You know, you said you liked all of them. You liked Jesse's United. Garrett.

[Gareth Reynolds]

See, Natalie, he always makes it about himself.

[Jake Johnson]

This is the first time because it's hurting my fans. I don't feel good.

[Laura]

Feel like it was a childhood stuff.

[Jake Johnson]

Because it was more like the best I could. I never done it before. I've never called a pediatrician.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Hold on, Jake. Vicky, he's never left a voicemail like this for a doctor with balls before. Okay. He did a great job.

[Jake Johnson]

So, Vicki, we're gonna send you all of these. Will you walk us through? You're gonna show it your friend not named Jamie. You guys are gonna pick together and walk us through how you're gonna actually do this.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, that was. Yep.

[Vicki]

Yeah.

[Laura]

So I'm gonna mull it over, but I have two ideas of how I'm gonna do this. So I'm gonna wait for like a bad sack day.

[Vicki]

But it's coming.

[Laura]

I know it is.

[Jake Johnson]

Fuck yeah.

[Vicki]

And.

[Laura]

So I am going to either talk to him in his office when it's just him, and just be like, hey, listen. Kind of weird. Really don't want to do this at all. Brings me no joy. But because we got a voicemail and it was a while ago, I wasn't even going to show you. I just feel I have to bring it to your attention. Especially because we had another. Maybe I'll say that we actually had another comment from a patient that wasn't recorded. It'll be like. Because they said it I was like. I went back and I. I went through. I was just gonna let it go because I wasn't sure if it was real or not, but now they said something, so I just want to play it for you.

[Gareth Reynolds]

No big deal.

[Jake Johnson]

You can do it on speaker. I also have to. Or do you put. You gonna do it on speaker or just hand him the phone?

[Laura]

I might. I might just hand him the phone. I mean, he's. He doesn't know how to do technology.

[Jake Johnson]

So I wouldn't do speaker. The eye contact would be hard.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I. I also. Vicki, when I would rehearse with your friend. Rehearse with Jamie, whose name's not Jamie. Get it right and as quick as you can. But also natural.

[Jake Johnson]

I'm playing Dr. Gene, you're doing. Let's rehearse right now. I'm in my office. My balls are pushing through my pants.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

My nipples are talking.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You're reaching for something on your stomach.

[Jake Johnson]

Oh, just tell me to reach for the. One of the gifts we had for the helpies. Everything's hanging out. All right. I'm in my office. My balls are out. Hi, Vicky.

[Laura]

He doesn't.

[Jake Johnson]

What can I do for you?

[Laura]

Do you have a second?

[Jake Johnson]

I've hopefully got a lot more than one second left in my life. That's a joke. Yes. Vicki, what can I do for you today? Bubbles?

[Laura]

Okay. Hey, Doctor, I want to talk to you about something. It's a little weird and uncomfortable, so I'm just gonna come out with it if you have a second.

[Jake Johnson]

Again, I hope I have a lot of them left in my life. Bubbles.

[Vicki]

Okay.

[Stephen]

Okay.

[Jake Johnson]

I'm kidding. What do you got, kids?

[Laura]

All right, so a mom came up to me and approached me, pulled me aside, and made a comment towards me that I would usually probably just brush off and let it go because it's weird and uncomfortable, and I don't know why she would say it's me to begin with, because.

[Jake Johnson]

Why.

[Laura]

But it actually. My ears perked up because we actually had a weird voicemail a couple months ago that I wasn't even going to bring to your attention.

[Jake Johnson]

Vicki, what is going on here?

[Laura]

Yeah.

[Stephen]

Yeah.

[Laura]

So I'm just gonna send you the voicemail. It's a little uncomfortable for me, too. Send me the voice if you have any questions.

[Jake Johnson]

I'm sorry, you're gonna send me a voicemail? Why don't you just tell me?

[Laura]

Yeah, because as you're aware, it comes through as a clip on. On my phone.

[Jake Johnson]

Oh.

[Vicki]

Because it all gets. Yeah.

[Laura]

There's also an audio clip that comes through. Which just stepping out of the scene for a second. This is true. They come through as voicemails and we have to listen to them. So we actually have to send them to the doctors out outside of ours. And they are audio files, so that's not outside the realm.

[Jake Johnson]

So this is all lining up perfectly.

[Laura]

Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

This is what happens. You guys do this.

[Laura]

I would prefer to just send it to you. I said it was a little weird for me and also not really my place, and I really wasn't going to say anything to you, and I don't really think it's that big of a deal. So I'm just going to send it your way and do with it what you will. I guess if you have questions, let me know. But I have answers.

[Jake Johnson]

I got notes. Vicki.

[Vicki]

Yes.

[Jake Johnson]

A lot of words. And some of the words are confusing. I know. But the words can sometimes confuse the thing a little bit. You comfortable doing this to him over text message?

[Laura]

Yeah, I could do that.

[Jake Johnson]

I would say as simple as, hey, Doctor, we got this thing. I thought I'd pass it on to you. All the best.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I. I think text is going to be better. I would. I would maybe put a little hint of what you were saying. Hey, Doctor, I hope you're having a good day. I'm gonna send you a voice memo, a voice message that we got. I only do it because there was another parent who said a similar thing.

[Jake Johnson]

I wouldn't say the other parent. I would say, since hearing it, I've noticed it too.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay.

[Jake Johnson]

I wouldn't make it like the whole community.

[Gareth Reynolds]

No, no, that's fine. I just want to make it just so it's not isolated.

[Jake Johnson]

Got this call. Didn't think about it since then. Have noticed that it. It might actually be a problem or.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Be a helpful advice.

[Jake Johnson]

Might be helpful advice. Wanted to pass this on discreetly to you and we can keep this between us.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yep.

[Laura]

I. Yeah, I think that's great, actually. I was. I was kind of typing very fast.

[Jake Johnson]

And so the idea of it is, is it's a text that all he needs to write back at his humiliation is thumbs up.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Can I give you another piece of advice? Please send it Friday. Send it Friday, late in the afternoon. So you've got two days away from this situation.

[Jake Johnson]

Send it before Christmas break.

[Stephen]

Oh, yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yes. Then you got.

[Jake Johnson]

Then he comes back and he's like, it's a new year, new me. I'm covering my sack.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. Yep.

[Laura]

Oh, that would be amazing.

[Jake Johnson]

Maybe we'll get this to you as quickly as we Can.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yep. And then right when you're. Whatever your break is, however long it is, send it that day so you can walk away from the scene.

[Laura]

Yeah, I can definitely do that. For sure.

[Jake Johnson]

You think that's right?

[Vicki]

I do, actually.

[Stephen]

Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

Because then you could also write like, happy Holidays.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

It can be really positive. But he's got it. He's got it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

No, this has to ask Santa for some loose pants.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah. You can't show your sack.

[Gareth Reynolds]

No. Can't be in pediatrics.

[Jake Johnson]

So, Vicki, I gotta say, a lot of people think this show's stupid.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, we hear you.

[Jake Johnson]

And we don't help and we give bad advice and we're. What's fun about the show is how bad of advice we give or just.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Get to the advice.

[Jake Johnson]

Our question to those people is, you think this is stupid?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

We fixed a real problem with kids.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

Welcome.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Potentially.

[Laura]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But Vicki, this is a great solution. Vicki, what's your confidence level on this?

[Laura]

A nine out of ten.

[Stephen]

Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

One quick question before we go, Vic. Quick. At a pediatrician, could you see a grown man and do a doctor's appointment on him? Or do you need to be a baby? And what's the difference?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Vicki, we're gonna actually let you go before you answer that question.

[Jake Johnson]

Moving on.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And we're just gonna let you go. And we'd like to hear from you again. Jake's asking another thing and just hang up your phone, Vicki.

[Jake Johnson]

Why can't a doctor see a man?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Thanks a lot, Vicki.

[Jake Johnson]

Your baby's bodies are that different.

[Gareth Reynolds]

See you later, Vicki. Really? Hang up. I'm not kidding.

[Jake Johnson]

Same organs.

[Gareth Reynolds]

See you later. See you later, Vicki.

[Laura]

Hurry up your soul searching.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay, bye.

[Stephen]

Happy holidays.

[Jake Johnson]

Thank you for the call.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Thank you.

[Jake Johnson]

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[Stephen]

Hello.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Hi there. Welcome to the show. Can we get your name, age, where you're calling from, please?

[Stephen]

Hello, My name is Stephen. My name is. My name is Stephen. And my name is also Stephen. And I am 29 and I'm from South Louisiana.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay, Stephen, Steven.

[Jake Johnson]

South Louisiana.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, yeah, we're about that. Yeah. Oh.

[Jake Johnson]

I can't even ask a question.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's because your face changed.

[Jake Johnson]

You're right.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You were already a character. Stephen, are you near the bayou?

[Stephen]

Yes, I am on Bayou.

[Jake Johnson]

Lafourche.

[Stephen]

Lafourche Parish.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You know Lafourche Parish?

[Jake Johnson]

That's pretty exciting, man. You friends with any Cajun folks?

[Stephen]

I am one of those Cajun folks, yes. My family is all Cajun folks.

[Jake Johnson]

I Love the Cajun people. Stephen, will you give me a little bit of heat of the accent?

[Stephen]

I don't know, I gotta get a little. I don't know, it comes out if I get a little excited.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, well, guess what? We're here to help goes your aunts. You're with the relatives. You're with grandma and grandpa. Give us a taste. Talk about a Gatorade, man.

[Stephen]

I don't know what. What, what you talking about there? I got. You got gators in your bayou over there.

[Jake Johnson]

I got a couple of gator in my b. You gotta go get it with you. You gotta put the spicy stuff in the gator if you're gonna do the gator.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Gotta put the spicy stuff in the gator.

[Jake Johnson]

Hey, Steve, you know what I'm talking about, man.

[Stephen]

You gotta spice the gator before you put it in the gumbo.

[Jake Johnson]

Absolutely, man. Cuz you can't be putting that in a gumbo without the.

[Natalie]

But.

[Gareth Reynolds]

All right, let's get into what did. Just quickly, before we get into it, translate what you think you just said.

[Jake Johnson]

Stephen, will you tell Gareth what I just said?

[Stephen]

I don't know.

[Jake Johnson]

All right, Stephen, what is your issue today? Sir. And your issue is not. You live in southern Louisiana. Yes, sir, that's where I'm going to be. But when I'm Jake, you were buried me in the bio.

[Laura]

What?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay, Stephen, when I'm dead, take me home to Chicago.

[Jake Johnson]

By you.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Wrong. Okay, Stephen, what's going on, by the way? Jake's having a thimble of coffee. What's going on?

[Jake Johnson]

Actually having way too much.

[Stephen]

That's.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's not a lot.

[Jake Johnson]

I was doing a sip. Okay.

[Gareth Reynolds]

All right, Steve. What's up, buddy?

[Stephen]

All right, so my wife and I just bought our first house. My wife. My wife and I, we both just bought our first house.

[Jake Johnson]

House.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay.

[Stephen]

So we going through kind of the. The more mundane renovations, you know, painting and cabinets and all that kind of fun stuff. And in the middle of all this, my wife noticed that I was getting kind of bored, so she pointed out that I'm getting a small shed in the backyard to put my, like, lawnmower in. Stuff, you know, just storage stuff, you know, boring thing. She told me that I can go as crazy as I want to back there with decorating.

[Jake Johnson]

Cool.

[Stephen]

And I immediately thought of Jake and his gorilla statue and all that fun stuff. Yep.

[Gareth Reynolds]

This little gorilla cave.

[Stephen]

So keep. Do I get a gorilla statue and turn it into a rainforest cafe back there?

[Jake Johnson]

Oh, my God.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Or this is the. Is this the soft. This is the softballest of softball. Jake.

[Jake Johnson]

Steve, I got a different pitch for you.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, keep going, Steven.

[Stephen]

What were you.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You were going to say keep going, Steven or.

[Stephen]

Well, the thing is my. My brain's been racing. I've been having a lot of fun just thinking of different ideas. You know, turn. Turn my shed into something, you know, insane and fun and just stupid. And give me some, you know, some weekend projects for a while.

[Jake Johnson]

I think this is such a great project for you. I think your wife is really smart to get you excited about it. Keep you busy on the sedge so she can finish up the house. And I think we turn this shed into, well, what I like to call it. A swamp.

[Gareth Reynolds]

A swamp.

[Jake Johnson]

I think we get.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You're talking about a.

[Jake Johnson]

You know what I think we do? I think we connect you to our guy Rob. Oh, and figure out if you guys can make a deal. Yeah, Dinosaur guy. If you guys can figure something out and get you some gators, get you a frog. I think we get little swamp sounds.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I mean, you are really. You're talking about a swamp Forest Cafe, basically.

[Jake Johnson]

Swamp Forest Cafe, the takeaway cafe. You know what I'm talking about, Steven. Steven, what do you like to do for fun? Are you a cappuccino guy? Are you a alcohol guy? Are you a weed guy? Are you a read science fiction guy? Friday night, 8pm no one's around, you got the night to yourself. You go, oh, great. I have no responsibilities. What are you doing, Big Steve?

[Stephen]

Actually, this leans into my. One of my other ideas that I had was my last job for fun, I like to bartend, you know, at home, be a home bartender. But my last job, I was a bartender at Margaritaville.

[Jake Johnson]

We got a couple of.

[Stephen]

Margaritaville.

[Jake Johnson]

No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We can do better than that.

[Jake Johnson]

But we can do that better than that. But Steve, what do you think about turning that shed into a bar?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, a mix. A little mix room.

[Stephen]

See, the thing is, I don't have. I don't know if I'm gonna be putting air condition or electricity in there.

[Jake Johnson]

Hey, babe, we talking about the swamp. We. Hey, in the 19. In 1905, you go to the bayou, you find a little shed bar. I'm not saying give me some.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Cool. Now, obviously, Stephen, Jake's losing himself in the accent just a touch, but not too much. Where it's becoming a huge problem. But I think he might be right in that. No. Well, no matter what, no matter what you're going to do back there, 1880s Swamp Bar, it doesn't have electricity or air conditioning. That's okay.

[Jake Johnson]

Here's what you do. If you're going to have a couple friends over there, you can have the old lady and you have a drink. You bring a bucket of ice or.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And an extension cord.

[Jake Johnson]

No.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. What are you talking about? No, he's just gonna. What if it's 8:30 at night? He's just gonna sit in a dark shed, find fiddling with gins, candles, what this is.

[Jake Johnson]

You're.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He's gonna burn his little bayou shed down. Why are you opposed to an extension cord?

[Jake Johnson]

They're so ugly. It's ugly, but it's.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's practical.

[Stephen]

It is.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Admit that it's a good emergency valve.

[Jake Johnson]

Yes, Stephen. I mean, we could get a generator.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Could get a generator. Could get a solar generator.

[Jake Johnson]

You know, you could get. You can get a solar generator, direct access to the sun out there. Or you got too many trees above you.

[Stephen]

That could work. It's not near. Shoot, it wouldn't be near trees.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, there's also just solar. There's those solar lights, too. Like, there's just. You could kind of hang some solar lights, put the little thing up on top of the shed. Put those inside. Those were great.

[Stephen]

Great.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I think what you could do is you could almost. You could. You could kind of turn it into like a faux poacher bar where you do like. We could get Rob to make you like some of these, like, fake. Just like a couple things synonymous with the bayou. And you could just make it like a little drink shed. And you could have a couple chairs in there. You could have like, you could easily put together some kind of bar.

[Jake Johnson]

You could get some old school fan, metal fans in the corner, some fans.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Put a couple maps on the wall, make it feel like kind of an old throwback. And it could just be a place where you could go out there and you know what? Even if it's not the sort of thing where you're hanging out, it could be a place where you go to mix cocktails for people when you're hosting. And if people want to come in there, have a hang, it's just like a separate little zone, I think. Something like that, I think. And I think Rob would help with the aesthetic. I don't know. I kind of like that idea. I feel like that's where you were starting.

[Jake Johnson]

One big gator head that we like the size of our chimp heads that as a feature piece on the wall, sets the vibe.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You paint it or on the door.

[Jake Johnson]

A dark green or a, like, you know, or you put, you know, wood paneling. You get like, old wood slabs or even, like, throw those on the wall.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. Like fake wood wallpaper or something. But I do think you could make it look like cool hay on the kind of speakeasy. Ish. Even if it's small. But you could just have a little bar in there and just go in there. And that's where Steven goes to mix.

[Jake Johnson]

What do you think, Stephen?

[Gareth Reynolds]

We're very excited.

[Stephen]

No, it sounds fun. I mean, I like the idea of the bar. I. I still. I don't know. The one thing I'm hesitant about is the swamp theme, because.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay, okay.

[Stephen]

Everywhere around me is already swamp.

[Gareth Reynolds]

All right, let's pitch.

[Stephen]

I feel like I want an escapism kind of thing.

[Jake Johnson]

Like, I got a fun pitch. Gary, go, because I hear you. I want you to potentially then recreate to the best of your ability. And by recreate. And everybody save the comments. You could go into one of these franchises and take a menu or two. Recreate Margaritaville.

[Stephen]

I did. I can. I can guarantee you that I have the menu in my camera roll somewhere with. With the rest.

[Jake Johnson]

Yes. Piece. And so. But get the. Look, whatever Walther. So you've created. And then on a sign outside, created. Call it Margaritaville Junior. And so when people walk in, it almost looks exactly like a mini Margaritaville in the middle of your backyard. That's like if somebody. I went to someone's house and they go, do you like in n out? And I was like, yeah. And they go, you want to go in and out Junior? And I walked in, and it was almost perfect. I would trip out. If I walked into someone's backyard and they had a mini Margaritaville, and it was called Margaritaville Mini or Margaritaville Junior. I'd go like, Jesus Christ. The flooring's the same. And you go, no, if you recreate. You know what? Here's something crazy. Remember that couple that goes to all the Margaritavilles?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yes.

[Jake Johnson]

What if you finished it and they came and visited and gave.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Where were they?

[Jake Johnson]

Someplace else. But they travel.

[Gareth Reynolds]

They do. They do.

[Jake Johnson]

Anyhow. That's if they're listening to this and they want to chime in. But, Stephen, if you recreate a Margaritaville in your backyard and you really spend time on it and it looks great, that's a massive win.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's huge.

[Jake Johnson]

And if it looks really good, you know what we will have the reach to do? Connect you with the PR people from Margaritaville.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yes.

[Jake Johnson]

Because if that doesn't excite the good people at Margaritaville, oh, yeah, you paint.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You paint the ceiling like the sky. There's a lot that can be done here. It is a little tiki themed anyway.

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, it's margaritas. It's Key West.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's exactly my point.

[Jake Johnson]

You need a couple parrots.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yes.

[Jake Johnson]

I've never. You need a couple of. I mean. Steve, you work there, babe. You know what it is.

[Stephen]

Yeah, I'm familiar.

[Jake Johnson]

Hey, Big Steve, let us know what Margaritaville Jr. Is going to look like. Take it away. Let us visually close our eyes, unless you're driving and paint us a picture of what this shed's going to look like in 12 months.

[Stephen]

So I think I'm going to be building up a little, let's see, maybe, maybe a fold up portable bar that can stay in the shed, but I can take it out to the carport for a little party and I can decorate it to look kind of like the, the Volcano bar. Back where I was, was working at Volcano. Let's see, the, the. I don't know, the floor can probably stay kind of plain. Like, I think it's just kind of a wooden shed. And the. Let's see the roof. I can paint the roof and put some parrots up there. Like some stuffed parrots. What we got. Oh, can we make the parrot thing? Like the freaking tiki room?

[Jake Johnson]

Yeah, like the enchanted tiki room. We just got a photo of a Margaritaville bar. You could make this happen.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

And you could get. You could buy a lot of this stuff too. Those little like tiki umbrella things you can get easily.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That could go over it.

[Jake Johnson]

The palm tree leaves are so easy to get. A sky paint is really easy. Yeah, you're gonna be. This is gonna look great, bud. Can we get some before pictures of that shed and then just keep us updated and then we would love to be part of the grand opening in some way. It's a big deal.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. I think you have a party about the shed too.

[Jake Johnson]

Of course you do. Yeah. You invite those three. A shed warming party or an. An opening of Margaritaville in your town and Margaritaville junior Is officially opened.

[Stephen]

That sounds incredible, Stephen.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Keep us posted. Your energy, we. I feel like you're at a 10. It's just hard to tell. But I. We think you're excited, so keep us posted.

[Jake Johnson]

And then before you go.

[Stephen]

I'm very excited.

[Jake Johnson]

Before you go, Big Steve, can you in your most Cajun accent that you've ever heard say, I think it's true, Jake, you're my Cajun brother. And you, Gareth, sound like a goober. From Wisconsin. Go ahead, head man.

[Stephen]

I think it's true, Drake. I think you're my Cajun brother from, from down the by. Garrett. I think you're from Wisconsin or something. From up there. Yeah. Accurate.

[Jake Johnson]

Thank you, my man. That was great.

[Gareth Reynolds]

All right, bye. Thank you, Stephen.

[Stephen]

Bye. Thank you. Love you. Bye.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Love you. Sweet Jesse here. This next call is a follow up to episode 217, why the Stink guy stink, Ey?

[Laura]

Why they become a fraud.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Excuse me, who are you talking to?

[Vicki]

Hi, this is Laura.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Hi, Laura. Who are you talking to right there?

[Vicki]

Oh, this is, this is my best good friend, Mary.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay.

[Stephen]

Hi.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Hi. Is that important? Okay, we know this is a follow up. I was just trying to bust chops here, but you're Laura.

[Vicki]

Yes.

[Jake Johnson]

Okay.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And you're talking to Mary. Maybe that's important. We don't know anything other than your more a follow up. So will you remind us who you are from your first call and then we'll catch up?

[Vicki]

Absolutely, absolutely. So I was the gal who called in about getting stink eye in the airport line.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We've thought about you.

[Stephen]

Yes.

[Vicki]

I gotta tell you guys a lot too. I got a lot to talk about.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay, so you were take over. Yeah. Tell us what was happening.

[Vicki]

So I have a rare form of cancer that it's pretty advanced and I need extra time to get on a plane. And one of the things I actually didn't, I failed to mention is why I'm traveling so much. I am part of a clinical trial. I have to get on a plane weekly to go out of state for this clinical trial. So this is, you know, why you guys have helped me so much. But yeah, I. I don't look like I need help. You know, I'm. I look like an able bodied person, but I need extra time. And I was getting a lot of stink. Ey. I was feeling pretty insecure about it. You guys, you know, helped me through that.

[Jake Johnson]

Okay. And we made a hat that said easy there. Oh, there it is.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Easy there, stink.

[Jake Johnson]

Easy there, stinka. Okay. And you have a kazoo.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I know why.

[Vicki]

If I may, I actually purchased, I believe your very last hat today online for my girl Mary, who I was just talking to.

[Jake Johnson]

Oh, what's that? Of this hat?

[Vicki]

Of that hat?

[Stephen]

Yeah. Wow.

[Vicki]

Yeah, that's cool. Well, that was an exciting development for us.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay. All right. So you were. So the idea was that when you're in the airport, you're taking the extra time, you now have a hat that sort of shuts down the stink eye that you were receiving. You also had the kazoo there. We pitched on the kazoo, Right?

[Vicki]

You did?

[Gareth Reynolds]

What was.

[Vicki]

Was that when they call for people who need extra time to stand up and play a little tune and then go on in.

[Jake Johnson]

We pitched that.

[Vicki]

Why did we do it using a fake baby, if you recall?

[Jake Johnson]

I remember that fake baby. I remember the point of the kazoo.

[Laura]

I. I think it was to, like.

[Vicki]

Draw attention in a funny way and, like, freak people out so they didn't.

[Jake Johnson]

Want to love it. Yes. Okay, so hell, walk us through what's been happening in your life at airports.

[Laura]

Yeah.

[Vicki]

So, okay. The hat comes with me every trip. Love wearing it. The kazoo. I'll tell you the extent to it. I use that hat in the TSA line. Had it in my pocket, along with the hat on my head. But, you know, they have the empty ear pockets and, you know, take all your. Before you go through security. So I had to grab.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Kazoos. Whistles.

[Vicki]

Yes, exactly. So the TSA guy actually thought it was pepper spray, but I had to correct him. No, this is a kazoo. It's a musical instrument. But I had to grab, you know, one of those small plates, and I'm just. Took off the hat, put the kazoo in there. The guy behind me gives me the craziest look, and I just decide to pick it up and blow it towards him a couple of little. Yeah. And then he got a huge kick out of it, so he was cracking up. I put it back down. I go through security, and then there was no eye contact to be made whatsoever by. By anybody.

[Jake Johnson]

Oh, I hear what's happening here. You're scaring people.

[Stephen]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Scared me.

[Jake Johnson]

Extra time because you're crazy.

[Vicki]

Yeah, exactly. And this was the pitch, and I gotta say, it was a good one. This might be working, I'll be honest. Yeah, yeah, I would agree. I would agree. Because people don't tend to, like, read what's on the hat. I don't think, you know.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, I think. I think we. I think we wanted you to point to the hat maybe, right. To be like, oh, maybe I'm wrong. I don't know. I. Look, if the kazoo's feeling the show, let it cook.

[Jake Johnson]

Hold on.

[Vicki]

Well, I have misplaced that kazoo. I'm gonna be honest. I haven't had it for. For, you know, a few weeks now. But I will say I think this hat has just given me, like, superpowers, because it. I put it on, and I feel more confident.

[Jake Johnson]

Great. That's.

[Vicki]

I thank you guys for that. It's made me Genuinely not care as much what people think and just have fun with it.

[Jake Johnson]

So it's a win. So regardless of it's a win, if they look or don't look, it doesn't matter. You have the half hat.

[Vicki]

Exactly. And the hat makes me feel better. And that's what matters.

[Stephen]

Right.

[Jake Johnson]

So that's, that's all the point of it. Those people. Easy there, stink guy. You don't know what I'm going through. It's none of your goddamn business.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It felt like you were, you were saying there's a lot of stuff.

[Laura]

Oh, yes.

[Stephen]

Okay.

[Vicki]

So I, I am part of this whole trial, Right. And one of the unfortunate side effects is that I, I no longer have any sensation, like in my leg. So it's hard to walk. I can walk, but it's difficult and I look like a crazy person walking. So my. I guess I like wearing, you know, I still wear the hat all the time, but I think it's more evident, you know, that I do have a disability than it was when we first spoke.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay.

[Vicki]

But what I have been doing is I'll be like, I've worn it out to grocery stores, like, you know, Costco, you name it. That have like, you know, the carts, the motorized scooter carts.

[Stephen]

Yep.

[Vicki]

I'm all about those motorized scooter cars. That's another place where I wear my.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Hat because I'm like, of course.

[Vicki]

Yeah, exactly. So, you know, it's helped me in other places outside of the airport, we've expanded its range.

[Jake Johnson]

Can I, can I pitch something with those carts?

[Vicki]

Yes, please.

[Jake Johnson]

Would you consider getting black leather gloves that are fingerless?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, do this.

[Laura]

Absolutely.

[Jake Johnson]

Would you consider a little bedazzling and maybe some shades? And maybe some shades.

[Vicki]

Should I get a leather jacket?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Nobody's fighting you.

[Jake Johnson]

Not get a leather.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Nobody's gonna fight you.

[Jake Johnson]

But if all of a sudden I'm in a grocery store, you're looking for pushback, a young lady like you driving, and I see her in a somewhat dated, very Fonzie style leather jacket with cool ass gloves. I had this as easy, stink guy. And we're going by each other. I'm moving to the side and I'm going the roads for your. You and your hog.

[Vicki]

I would love nothing more.

[Jake Johnson]

Now I think you mongol.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I think what Jake is get a fake mongol jacket. I think what Jake's suggesting. I think what's great, and I don't think it's even necessarily in a what we pitched, but maybe how you're owning what we've talked about. Is that you're just trying to enjoy the things that you feel people are judging you for and make them fun for yourself and.

[Stephen]

Yep.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So that's what's great about that.

[Jake Johnson]

I've just pitch. I've got.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I've got a. Can I. May I tack on one thing to the scooter? A horn.

[Vicki]

Yes.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Great. Go ahead. Jake.

[Vicki]

Big fan.

[Jake Johnson]

Love the horn. Here's what I'm going to really pitch now. That's the same as the hat. The other day I was with my daughters and we were at a street fair and there was a bunch of Mongol motorcycle guys hanging out at a cafe and we had to walk through them and I did have a moment where I'm like, motorcycle street gangs are scary to me.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yes.

[Jake Johnson]

They're outlaws.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

Us, they're old school tough guys.

[Gareth Reynolds]

A group too.

[Jake Johnson]

A group. And they all have a similar look. Now, I'll be honest. This group was not doing one thing rude or mean to anybody. They were having fun with each other. And when we walked through them, there wasn't an ounce of negativity or bad vibes. And we finished. And I thought those dudes looked cool. Here's what I'm going to pitch to you. Copy the look. Get a leather jacket that is sleeveless and make patches. But our patches should be stupid things like easy there, stink eye and my hog's bigger than yours and move or get run over. So we're like, we could pitch different stuff where we could have like funny patches that you have on it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Need a robe for that judgment.

[Jake Johnson]

So that all you have to do. You don't have to do the gloves and the hat. You just. You have a little horn horn. And you got your cool Mongol inspired biker gang leather jacket that you just throw on all the other clothes you're wearing. You got your business attire. Who cares?

[Vicki]

Hey, what's the name of those goggles that old school motorcyclists used to wear.

[Jake Johnson]

That almost looked like I know exactly what you. Yeah. So cool.

[Vicki]

Amelia Earhart looking goggles.

[Jake Johnson]

So I think where we're at on this is. I think you know what to do. You pushed it with the kazoo. I think what we need from you is follow up photos.

[Vicki]

I would be glad to now. Yeah. I'm gonna make all of this happen. I'm thrilled. I'm even thinking, like switchblade comb. I'm gonna go big.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Cool as hell for the hair that's hanging out of the back of the hat.

[Jake Johnson]

You kidding me? I don't actually. 8 unlit seg in your mouth. I say, let's get wild.

[Laura]

Yeah.

[Vicki]

And this is good timing. Post Halloween, I. I think I can get some good jacket gear.

[Jake Johnson]

Agreed.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yes.

[Vicki]

Biker gear.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yes.

[Jake Johnson]

I think you're. I think you're in a great zone where I just need you to come back on the show.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yes.

[Jake Johnson]

When you've created the look, don't send it to us. Just come back on the show and we'll look at the photos with you on. On it.

[Vicki]

Fantastic. And my girl Mary here, she's very good at video montages, so we need her.

[Jake Johnson]

We'll see what can tell her. She's a big part of this team and all the good work we're doing down here. That's an Eric Kettlestein quote. Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

She's part of this team.

[Jake Johnson]

And all the good work we're doing down here. He said that to me probably 10,000 times about literal people in restaurants. Wait for Steph. Hey. Please follow up with us. This is a winner.

[Vicki]

I will keep going.

[Laura]

So much.

[Vicki]

I really just want to thank you from the bottom of my heart because you have taught me to embrace something that feels very out of control.

[Jake Johnson]

Well, let me tell you something before we get. Before we get sweet and sentimental, which we appreciate it. We ain't done with you, kid.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

This is chapter two. We're going to talk to you soon. This ain't goodbye. This is farewell until. We want to see what's going on with the scooters.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Jake Johnson]

We're gonna push. We're gonna see what happens.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And also, we just. We gave you the instructions. You put the whole thing together.

[Jake Johnson]

We might be in a spot. We might be in a spot very soon where you have some tattoos on your arm.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yes.

[Vicki]

I'm so ready. Let's go.

[Gareth Reynolds]

By the way, Laura, this is becoming a medical podcast. I don't want to tease too much, but this is what we do.

[Jake Johnson]

Things are getting wild.

[Gareth Reynolds]

This is. This is year three. Okay.

[Jake Johnson]

Okay.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So buckle up.

[Vicki]

No, the next time I talk to you guys, we may have to. You may have to explain to my mother why I have tattoos.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Not going to be an issue. Some words for you, by the way, Laura. We don't want it to be done any other way. How about that?

[Jake Johnson]

How about this? If we're actually going to get a tattoo, bring your mom on before.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yep.

[Vicki]

Okay.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Thank you. All right, Laura.

[Vicki]

Thanks, guys.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay, bye.

[Jake Johnson]

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

[Gareth Reynolds]

We're Here to Help is produced by Rabbit Grim 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 Strlecki. And if you'd like to see Gareth do Stand up on the road, go to garethreynolds.com Remember, all of 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 available now on Patreon, and season two video episodes will be available every Monday starting January 20th. Go to patreon.com heretohelpod.