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Jake Johnson
This is a Headgum podcast. This is a Headgum podcast. And we are back, Jake.
Gareth Reynolds
We've got our guest, Gil Ozeri. We just did two calls that were, I'm gonna be honest, visually wild.
Stunning. Yes.
Gil, thoughts? Takeaways, Lessons.
Gil Ozeri
I mean, I found the. The. I found the problems to be very similar in nature, that someone was saying, oh, I had this disgusting issue about myself.
Tom (Caller)
Right.
Gil Ozeri
I need help sort of coping with this thing that I can't change. And I need some. I need both. And both people came at it with love and reason and saying, hey, I really need to help with this problem. And I know it might not, you know, change anything, but I'm going to try to sort of plead to the empathy of the other person. So I liked that.
Gareth Reynolds
I did, too. So, Gil, I've been a fan of yours for a long time. You've been deep in the comedy scene for a long time.
Gil Ozeri
Right back at you.
Gareth Reynolds
Thanks, my friend. And then you were on hoops with us.
Gil Ozeri
Yes.
Gareth Reynolds
And now you're starting to have a nice big moment. It started a couple years ago from my point of view.
Hmm.
That's sweet of you to say with that. Whatever the Ryan Murphy, all those shows are. When you started jumping into those, where I was like, okay, Gilly.
Gil Ozeri
Yeah, that was nice.
Gareth Reynolds
Will you walk us through this audience how you kind of started your improv journey into where you're at now and then be promoting what you're doing, too? Sure.
Gil Ozeri
I started at UCB in New York. I came up with Ben Schwartz and Adam Pally around that time.
Gareth Reynolds
And so you three were a show. Did you guys meet in classes? How did you three become a thing?
Gil Ozeri
We met in classes. Me and Ben met in Paul Scheer's class. And I'm not sure how Ben and Adam, but, yeah, we had a group called Hot Sauce together. We had a sketch show. We did some improv, and, yeah, we came up together. And then eventually, in 2011, I moved out to LA for happy endings. Worked on Happy Endings.
Gareth Reynolds
So you came out as a writer for that?
Gil Ozeri
Exactly. Yeah.
Tom (Caller)
I.
Gareth Reynolds
So I wrote a show.
I've got a question for you, then. So the three of you were a group? Cause I remember hearing about that group. So then did people in that group just start moving to la? Is that what broke up the group? And you were the last one to do the move out?
Gil Ozeri
Yes. Yeah.
Gareth Reynolds
Okay.
Gil Ozeri
It was sort of like, you know, in steps, kind of. I think Ben had moved out first and then Adam and then me.
Gareth Reynolds
Okay. And then Pally gets Happy Endings.
Gil Ozeri
Yep. Pallie gets happy endings. He submits my script to the fucking good dude. To Cat. I know the best dude to Casp. And I got hired as a writer's assistant for the first season and then a writer for season two.
Jake Johnson
Okay.
Gareth Reynolds
Oh, so you did the real grind up.
Gil Ozeri
I did the grind up.
Gareth Reynolds
That is the most stressful job. People writers.
Gil Ozeri
I was terrible. I was terrible at it then. It didn't know how to use final drafts, hated to listen to people, would not write notes. I was terrible.
Tom (Caller)
Awful.
Gareth Reynolds
Well, it's also the. It's almost the stenographer of the room where so much stuff gets said. And there are. I've seen so many moments in rooms where someone's like, what? What was that part? And a writer's assistant trying to find it and.
Gil Ozeri
Yeah, yeah, hold on a second. Wait a second. I wasn't on the Internet.
Gareth Reynolds
The level of empathy you feel is like, oh, God, please.
Jake Johnson
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And so then.
Gareth Reynolds
But you'd come up as a performer. So then you made to a writer being like, yeah, all right, I can do this.
Gil Ozeri
I think so. In the room when I was a writer's assistant. And then sort of like. Because I had sort of experience on stage and stuff, I was able to sort of pitch jokes in the room. And then got hired as a writer and then worked on Brooklyn Nine nine after Happy Endings.
Jake Johnson
And then as a writer.
Gil Ozeri
As a writer.
Jake Johnson
So what?
Gareth Reynolds
I'm doing a show with Dan and Luke.
Jake Johnson
Yes.
Gareth Reynolds
What should I expect?
Gil Ozeri
You should expect greatness. I love the pilot.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah, we just did the pilot.
Jake Johnson
Luke.
Gil Ozeri
Luke is such a funny curmudgeon. The funniest.
Gareth Reynolds
So Luke is the least happy person I've ever seen on set.
Oh, Lord.
Gil Ozeri
Yeah.
Gareth Reynolds
And I had to write to like Melissa from Brooklyn 99 and Andy and go like. Cuz he. I'd literally be doing a take. I took photos of him eventually.
Gil Ozeri
Yeah.
Gareth Reynolds
Where he would be standing where like my performance is physically hurting you. And then he would walk over and go like, pretty good. And then he would say a line. His joke writing is so good.
Gil Ozeri
It's really good. He's really, really funny and really smart and so.
Gareth Reynolds
Dan Gore.
Gil Ozeri
Y Y Dan. But Luke also is just the. He's just a very sweet curmudgeon. So like, you know, under everything. He's got a. A nice heart to. So you did.
Gareth Reynolds
You were on the staff for that?
Gil Ozeri
I was on the staff for that. Then I worked on. I wrote on Big Mouth. I mean, and you know, acting throughout, but Big Mouth for like the entire Run of big mouth.
Jake Johnson
Yeah.
Gil Ozeri
And now I'm writing on a show and acting on a show called 100% with Kroll, NickRoll and Gabe Leadman. Do you know?
Gareth Reynolds
Oh, yeah, of course.
Gil Ozeri
Yeah. So that's about. That's. We just started shooting last week.
Gareth Reynolds
And who's in that show with you guys? I just was.
Gil Ozeri
Vanessa Bayer, Sam Richardson, Jason Manzoukas.
Gareth Reynolds
Great cast.
Gil Ozeri
Diane Lane, Lisa Gilroy. Yes.
Gareth Reynolds
Oh, you got the Murderers Row.
Gil Ozeri
Diane Lane and Nick are gonna have a thing somehow. Nick wrote a thing where he's dating. Can you believe that?
Gareth Reynolds
It's the most embarrassing part of our business. And it happened to me in Self Reliance when I was the writer, the director, and the star. And then I wrote Anna Kendrick to be in love with me. And I'd be like. She'd be like, so what is my character. I like about your character here? And I'd be like, well, it's in the wr.
Jake Johnson
Yeah.
Gareth Reynolds
And there'd be moments where I'm like, this is.
Jake Johnson
And me. You've seen me, right?
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah. You love it.
This is a gross business.
So awkward.
And so you're also acting in it, too.
Gil Ozeri
I'm acting, Yeah. I play Vanessa's husband in it.
Gareth Reynolds
Okay, great. And when did you start transitioning more into getting more like, you're really funny on social media, too.
Gil Ozeri
That's very.
Gareth Reynolds
You started pushing on that pretty hard too, which is.
Gil Ozeri
I did. I was just like, I feel that Hollywood is burning, and I just sort of like covering my bases just in case I'm like, oh, maybe I should have, like, you know, some sort of relationship with, you know, people on the Internet, direct directly, without having to go through some. Yeah, so that's. That's why that started.
Gareth Reynolds
I love it. And what's the podcast you're doing, too?
Gil Ozeri
Oh, yeah. So the podcast is with my best friend, Anthony Atamanic.
Jake Johnson
Oh, yeah.
Gareth Reynolds
He had that show on Comedy Central.
Gil Ozeri
Yes. Called the President show where he played Donald Trump. And so now this one is called Good Science. Yeah. He's an amazing impressionist Show. He plays RFK Jr. And the podcast is. And I play, like, an unfiltered manosphere comedian type. And the podcast is basically as if it were released by the Health and Human Services Department. So it's a lot of. A lot of misinformation and conspiracies and stuff like that.
Gareth Reynolds
That's really funny. Well, Gil, thank you for joining. Been happy to watch your rise y.
And great work.
Jake Johnson
Appreciate it.
Gil Ozeri
Thank you. This is so much fun.
Gareth Reynolds
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Tom (Caller)
Hello. Hello.
Gareth Reynolds
Oh, it's foreign. Can we get your name, please?
Tom (Caller)
Yeah, my name. Well, the name I'm going with is Tom.
Gareth Reynolds
Tom, okay. And Tom. How old are you, Tom?
Tom (Caller)
I'm coming up to 40.
Gareth Reynolds
40. And where in England are you calling from, Tom?
Tom (Caller)
I'm calling from London. How did you know?
Gareth Reynolds
I have a friend who went to international school and he sort of has given me an ear towards these languages and these accent and these dialects. Yeah, he's here with us now. Yeah.
Are you an English bloke?
Me? Yeah.
Tom (Caller)
Yeah.
Gareth Reynolds
Well, we'll do you have an English accent on the spot, mate.
Tom (Caller)
Fake.
Gareth Reynolds
Tom and fake.
Hold on.
Yeah, go on. What's going on then, Tommy?
You all right, Gil?
Jake Johnson
You got an English.
Gil Ozeri
Of course I do.
Gareth Reynolds
We've got a couple of real Brits over there. Wow.
All right, Tom, what can we do
Jake Johnson
for you today, bud?
Gareth Reynolds
Well, Tom, we got to tell you, we have our guest, Gil Ozeri is with us today.
Gil Ozeri
You're going to get.
Gareth Reynolds
You're going to get a lot of great help. We're all American but we want to help you. We believe in helping People outside of this country. So what is going on, Tom? What can we help you with?
Tom (Caller)
It's great to meet you all. Thanks for taking my call. Long time listener, first time caller, and to be honest, I have a problem that I think only you guys can help with. Can I start with the question or should I give you some background?
Gareth Reynolds
Do whatever you want, bud, mate.
Tom (Caller)
Okay, thank you. How do I genuinely ask my friend if his dick is real?
Gareth Reynolds
You know what? Don't start with a question.
Hey, Gil.
Kyle Mooney
Yeah.
Gareth Reynolds
Florida floor is yours. Any thoughts?
Gil Ozeri
What does that mean?
Gareth Reynolds
Great question. Yeah, we're not.
Tom (Caller)
I have suspicions that my friend's dick is fake and I'm hoping that you guys can help me get a sincere answer out of him. I'll give you a bit. I'll give you a bit of background. That's okay.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah, that's probably going to be helpful.
Tom (Caller)
So my friend, I knew him really well, like 10 years ago. We, we were pretty close, but he moved away. He now lives in another country and he has really got into bodybuilding. He's constantly taking pictures shirtless and they've kind of just been getting more and more explicit. They started off just, just of his torso, then just of his ankles and legs and calves.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah.
Tom (Caller)
Then they sort of like merged in the middle and we started to get pictures of. Of the middle region, I guess. And it's. It's insane.
Gareth Reynolds
You're talking about it. He's got a. He's posting photos of a python.
Tom (Caller)
It's the size of a baby's arm, publicly, publicly on social media. And I do not buy it. But my issue is that I could, I'm happy to ask him. You know, we're like, we're, we're. I'm separate enough to not worry about breaking ties with him, but I am so invested enough that I need to get the real answer is when he's
Gareth Reynolds
posting these, he's not just posting like solo hog, he's posting like full body. And you're just zoned in on the package.
Tom (Caller)
I don't know if I'm. If I'm finding the fascination or if anyone would. Looking at the pictures, I've sent a few in. I'm not sure if you can see.
Gareth Reynolds
I've never been more excited for a
Tom (Caller)
dong when I knew him. Just to sort of explain, there was no sign of this. None at all. He would always wear shorts, he would always wear very tight clothing, skinny jeans, the lot. And, you know, I think we would have noticed. Okay, the pictures that you're. That I've sent through though, tell a bit of a different story. So I've sent in like a few that give you an idea of when I knew him and you know. No, no sign of.
Gil Ozeri
Wow. There's a before and after.
Gareth Reynolds
Gil, will you describe what you're seeing when we see each pic for a
Jake Johnson
lot of people listening while driving. Absolutely.
Gil Ozeri
Justice. Oh, there it is. Okay, so there's a man sitting in what looks to be a throne. And he has tight khaki shorts on. He's slightly burly, not in a bad way, in a nice way. He's got a hat on, a linen sort of see through shirt, white. And I can't. His hand is in front of his crotch, so it's hard to tell. But he looks like a nice thick man.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah, he's kind of bearish.
Yeah, but not like a bodybuilder to me.
Gil Ozeri
No, not a bodybuilder.
Gareth Reynolds
Okay, next pick.
Gil Ozeri
Next pick is a man who's clearly on vacation. He's wearing. Or maybe in a Mexican restaurant. He has a sombrero on and what looks to be like some sort of Rorschach shirt. Oh, no, it's a dog shirt. Like a Tommy Bahamas pit bull shirt and shorts. And no, there's. Again, he's. You can't really tell. There's no outline in the crotch area to.
Gareth Reynolds
No, but shoulders and arms look big. Maybe a little test out here.
Gil Ozeri
He looks bigger. He looks bigger.
Gareth Reynolds
He is getting stronger.
Gil Ozeri
Okay. Now he's more lean. This is another picture. He has a tank top on. He's opening a vitamin water with some heft. So he's. And there's his crotch. There's a slight outline in his crotch. I don't know, it's.
Gareth Reynolds
But not much.
Gil Ozeri
It's hard to tell. Not much. But now he's gotten leaner and fitter.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah. But I will.
He appears to have a whistle.
Gil Ozeri
No, no, no. This is a joke. This has got to be a joke.
Jake Johnson
Okay, all right.
Shannon (Caller)
This is.
Gil Ozeri
Okay. He is now in a gym and he's completely nude except for underwear and his. He's wearing gray under gray undies. And his cock looks like. It looks like. Holy mother. It looks like a salami from Katz's Deli. It's enormous.
Gareth Reynolds
He is strong now and leaning nearly
Gil Ozeri
on steroids hanging down halfway to his knees. No, that's a joke.
Gareth Reynolds
This can't even be.
Gil Ozeri
Can't be real. Now that looks like. It looks like he's got a cat in his underwear.
Gareth Reynolds
And it says three weeks. No gym, can't sleep Even though I'm exhausted. Started home workout soon. This is. He's got a monster in his.
Gil Ozeri
Yes.
Jake Johnson
This cannot do.
Gil Ozeri
This is like, fake. It almost reads as a joke.
Jake Johnson
All right, slow down on these pics, guys.
Gareth Reynolds
I want Gil to describe them.
Gil Ozeri
Okay, now he's in a sauna. He's got his arms up to show us his pits. It says chest day. Done. I killed it. He's wearing black tight underwear. And his cock keeps getting thicker somehow. Not longer, just thicker.
Gareth Reynolds
Maybe shorter.
Gil Ozeri
Maybe shorter. And it looks like a can of cranberry sauce if you ask me.
Gareth Reynolds
Agreed. He also looks different. His face, his body. He's a different man because of the skin.
Gil Ozeri
He's got a beard now, too.
Gareth Reynolds
He's different.
I haven't made it past the groin. This is possible.
Not you, Gareth.
Gil Ozeri
Berserk. Now his dick is. He's in. Looks like in front of a fireplace. He's standing again in underwear. Flexing. Says crushing dad. Home workout number two. Now this is where he gets.
Gareth Reynolds
By the way, this is no dad workout.
Jake Johnson
This is no dad. His balls are.
Gil Ozeri
His balls are cantaloupe, like, head size. And his dick is wrapping around towards his ass.
Gareth Reynolds
Like dick is fighting to find his asshole.
Jake Johnson
Yes, it's. Fighting is going to do bad things
Gareth Reynolds
to his own backside.
Gil Ozeri
It looks like he has, like, two. Two dicks now.
Gareth Reynolds
It looks like he looks like a monster all of a sudden. And also, the junk this dude is on for steroids. He's on another level of bodybuilding.
Yeah, he's definitely got some junk for
Gil Ozeri
a shot from up top. It's coming down again. His now. All right. It's making. That's the reason. It's making his dick look even bigger because it's up from. It's like a crane shot. Weekend workout done. About damn time. I got one in.
Gareth Reynolds
His face looks different, too. Because of the jug.
Gil Ozeri
Yeah, it does.
Gareth Reynolds
He looks. His shred.
Gil Ozeri
No, no. This is crazy. Okay, so now he's in his kitchen.
Gareth Reynolds
It has an elbow.
Gil Ozeri
Yeah, it almost.
Gareth Reynolds
It's a shelf.
Gil Ozeri
It's a shelf.
Gareth Reynolds
You could put a cup of coffee on the top of that.
It has a joint.
Gil Ozeri
A cup of coffee. You could put like a fucking turkey dinner on that. That's insane.
Gareth Reynolds
You could put Thanksgiving dinner.
Gil Ozeri
Thanksgiving dinner. And now he's got.
Jake Johnson
He's eating.
Gil Ozeri
Yeah, he's eating something.
Gareth Reynolds
And his arms are massive.
His arms.
I have to say, Gary, yes, his dick is enormous, but his arms are massive.
I've not left the homeland.
Gil Ozeri
It doesn't make sense because it looks like wow. That's craz. That's crazy.
Gareth Reynolds
Hold on one second, Gil. Tom.
Tom (Caller)
Yeah.
Gareth Reynolds
This is 100% real life.
Tom (Caller)
Yes. As far as I'm. He. He even posts ones where he's acknowledging it, which I didn't.
Gareth Reynolds
Saying what?
Tom (Caller)
Not embarrassed anymore. The thing for me is that it changes shape.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah.
Gil Ozeri
Yeah.
Gareth Reynolds
There also might be different blood flows. Guys.
Gil Ozeri
It looks sort of like a. Like a flipper. Like, it's sort of like got, like, a curvature to it at the tip.
Jake Johnson
Now it also looks like an anteater's nose.
Gil Ozeri
An anteater?
Jake Johnson
Yeah.
Gil Ozeri
Or an elephant's trunk.
Gareth Reynolds
He's probably got its own diet. He probably feeds mice.
Gil Ozeri
Yes. Yeah. Maybe it's like the Little Prince. It's following a little mouse right now.
Gareth Reynolds
That's so cool. If he feeds his dick mice and little baby rats.
Jake Johnson
He likes to watch it eat them. He likes to watch.
Gil Ozeri
Hey, I got. I need another bag of crickets for
Gareth Reynolds
my, like, weird guys who had snakes here. Like, when you're in, like, middle school, they'll be like, you want to watch it eat a mouse?
Jake Johnson
You'd be like, yeah, no, no, no, thanks. This sounds like a nightmare.
Gil Ozeri
I can't tell where he is right now. He's in his basement, maybe. And he's wearing again. It's just another flex picture.
Gareth Reynolds
You can see the veins from his
shoulders as he's gotten more and more jacked. His dick has gotten bigger.
I will say why the opposite does occur.
Gil Ozeri
That's what I've heard, too.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah.
Tom (Caller)
Yeah.
Gareth Reynolds
Well, we've always said that about, like, Mark McGuire when we were growing up, that, like, he had all those big muscles, but he had tiny balls. Probably he and Canseco. No disrespect, if Jose listens. I know Mark doesn't,
Jake Johnson
but we do
Gareth Reynolds
have a fighting shot with Jose.
Knowing that Mark McGuire doesn't listen is quite a metric.
No, there's no way Mark McGuire is into this. There's a chance Jose's right now going like this. That guy Gail's pretty good. There's no way he's watching the video feed, though. Gareth. Okay, so, Tom, before we get into this, just to organize this a little bit, because this is getting a little crazy. You believe. What are we calling this guy? What's your friend's name?
His name's.
Tom (Caller)
I've gone to.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah, go ahead.
Tom (Caller)
Gone for Dirk. I've gone to Dirk Diggler, please.
Gareth Reynolds
Okay. Dirk Diggler. So Dirk is an old friend of yours. When we saw earlier, he looked regular. He moved away. And where did he Move again.
Tom (Caller)
He moved abroad, Overseas to America.
Gareth Reynolds
Okay, so he's in America. And did he have some sort of a nervous breakdown? Midlife crisis? What started the junk, do you know?
Tom (Caller)
I don't think so. He's got a wife and kids.
Gareth Reynolds
Okay, how many kids does he have?
Tom (Caller)
Oh, two.
Gareth Reynolds
So. And then a few years back, just to catch everybody up and to slow things down a little bit because those pictures were jarring.
That's a lot.
You just started jarring in the sense
that it looks like a full jar.
Yeah, well, it's. I mean it's a, it's an enormous penis, as you know, Tom. And he's on an enormous amount of junk with steroids. So he just started working out. Did you ever talk to him about these workouts or did you just see the pics and be like, whoa, Dirk's getting big.
Tom (Caller)
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah, he, he was like, as you can see from the pictures, he was always quite a muscly guy, but
Gareth Reynolds
he just exploded another level in America.
Tom (Caller)
Exactly.
Gareth Reynolds
When you guys were friends back in the day, you know, people casually make references to the zone of size of dick they have. Guy friends will. Sometimes people go like, you know, like I'm a mid sized sedan or ain't nothing special. Or they'll go like, I'm throw you in a Camry.
Jake Johnson
Yeah, but people will.
Gareth Reynolds
Men will sometimes put a car around their dick and then you'll have a. Sometimes a little guy going like, oh, I got a Ford Bronco down here. And you're like interested.
A Pinto. Don't hit it hard.
But bay will get. Give you signs of what they got.
Gil Ozeri
Cooking segue.
Jake Johnson
Well, also I got one of those
Gareth Reynolds
electric scooters, those limes.
I'm alive. But also English culture. If you go to a bar, they really have never invested in the infrastructure of dividers. So it's a lot more common to see someone's penis in England than it
is or Wrigley Field.
Yeah. Oh, you're right. Yeah.
So Tom, did you ever see this penis back in the day?
Jake Johnson
No.
Tom (Caller)
I'm a pretty sporty guy, but we never did sports together. But I've seen my fair share of, you know, guys getting changed and I've never seen anything like this.
Gareth Reynolds
No.
Tom (Caller)
To just to just add some validity to it as well. There are literally, if you, if you. I did some research into the underwear that he's wearing. The free longer underwear. I don't know if I can say the name of the brand. And there are literally dozens of people who all post similar pictures of themselves on that site for reviews.
Gareth Reynolds
Oh, well, maybe he's just got a big old dick, guys.
Maybe. But. Well, let me ask you this, Tom. Are we classifying. There's two versions. There's one where he's stuffing these underwear, and there's another where he's had some kind of procedure or something.
Oh, that's interesting.
Like, because there is. I mean, again, we are dealing with. If he's gonna be honest.
If he's stuffing it, he's doing a bad job stuffing it.
That's the biggest penis I've ever seen. Hello.
Jake Johnson
I agree.
Gil Ozeri
Yeah, no, I think there's.
Gareth Reynolds
You just said that so excitedly, I didn't know how to respond.
Gil Ozeri
I. I personally think it's. It's. It looks fake to me. I can't see a world where it's real unless they're. Yeah. Maybe it's some sort of surgery. But in terms of, like, asking your friend of, like, whether you know how to do that, I think there's, like, a number of ways you could go about it.
Gareth Reynolds
All right, let's hear the first pitch. So let's start pitching.
Gil Ozeri
Gil, to me, I would say start with a compliment. I feel like always, you know, soften. Soften him up and say, I love. Look, I love what you've got down there. Or I love what I'm seeing. You know, I love. I love the shape of you. No, I like. I like. I like the pictures, man. But I gotta ask. Come on. I feel like he knows, right? I don't know.
Gareth Reynolds
How often do you see him, Tom?
Tom (Caller)
I haven't seen him in years. And that's. That's kind of why I feel comfortable asking him, because I'm not learning the biggest bridge.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah. Well, so I. Tom, what are your thoughts? You think. What do you think is going on here? Stuffed surgery. Real dick. Talk to us for a little bit. You know him better. Where's your gut at?
Tom (Caller)
I. I thought it was stuffed. My initial thought was stuffed.
Shannon (Caller)
And.
Tom (Caller)
And, you know, I've shown a couple of friends, and they're 50. 50. I think the. The thing that really, like, gave it some. Some validity was the fact that he started to pop up on, like, the review sites. Yeah. And started to, like, post a bit more like, personally, I'm not. I'm not ashamed of. I'm not going to be ashamed of this anymore.
Gareth Reynolds
And that's. I agree, by the way. I agree with this. And here's why I'm gonna go away from stuffed. The penis is big. Yes. It's also ugly, isn't it? So if you're going to, like, that's a scary penis. We've all said, why would you.
Jake Johnson
Why would.
Gil Ozeri
Why wouldn't you make a beautiful penis? You're saying, yeah, the shape.
Gareth Reynolds
We're all like, ew, it looks like an anteater or an elephant. That's what I would do if I
Gil Ozeri
had to stuff my penis. I'd make it ugly. And I'd be like, I'm so ashamed. And then everyone would be like, oh, my God, it's real.
Gareth Reynolds
That is.
Jake Johnson
That's actually interesting, the idea of being
Gareth Reynolds
like, look, if you stuff, like what is considered a large penis, people might try to poke holes. If you go, oh, it belongs in a museum to be studied, then you go, nobody.
Jake Johnson
No, no, no.
Gareth Reynolds
By the way, that's an interesting thing. It's so ugly that you think it must be real, but you also, deep down, have to go, it's got the biggest dick I've ever seen in my life. It's ugly as hell, but it is. What is the biggest dickies ever. And I'll tell, dicks of that size are more for other men. And so, from what I understand, weightlifting,
Gil Ozeri
the same stuff that you're saying makes me think that if you do ask him, he will say it is real. You know? Well, what if you won't give you a real answer?
Gareth Reynolds
What if you ask him? What if you say you're trying to grow your penis? What if you start hitting him up with. You have.
You do it, brother.
I have a smaller penis. It's been really difficult.
It's ugly, too.
Yeah. You have a. You have a problem in your pants. How did you get yours there? I'm looking at some online pills and stuff, you know, some seem a little sketchy. Do you vet the things you take? If you take. You know, maybe coming from a personal standpoint.
Gil Ozeri
Gareth. Here's why. Here's the problem with that, because now you're putting in writing, hey, man, I have a small penis, right? You're putting that. You're putting that out there.
Whitney
Phone call.
Gareth Reynolds
It's listen.
Or a voice note that disappears.
Gil Ozeri
Yeah, yeah.
Gareth Reynolds
You just said.
Yeah, right.
Gil Ozeri
Snapchat.
Jake Johnson
Yeah, Snapchat.
Gareth Reynolds
You cannot have a quote going. My dick is in great shape.
Let me tell you my dream. My dream scenario. And I know it's impossible, but I do just maybe. Maybe, Tom, you'll be. My dream scenario is you ask him for workout advice and you go work out with him. And I know you're in separate countries, but you get to have him hit the showers with you.
Okay, so everything. It's not realistic. But what is realistic is what you started, which I love. Maybe there's a world where you do a workout where you go like, hey, man, I'm trying to get in shape. Can we. Can you train me? And I've done this with Rudy Garcia, my trainer. Mind you, he doesn't have a dick like Dirk, but we've done zoom workouts together where I've been in a hotel. And then you could go like, what the fuck?
Gil Ozeri
Have you done zoom showers together?
Jake Johnson
Nah. Nah.
Gareth Reynolds
All right.
Jake Johnson
And if I have, I'll never talk about it here.
Gareth Reynolds
But wait, I think there's actually. There is a way to do this. If you ask him to give you a couple zoom workouts so that you can start getting into shape, he will probably show up in gym shorts or something. And you look, he has the Liberty Bell down there. You're going to be able to tell if it's moving or not. So if you're like, how do you do a thrust? You're gonna see this thing dinging and dong.
How it moves.
Gil Ozeri
Yeah.
Gareth Reynolds
There's. You're gonna see movement or if it's got life.
Gil Ozeri
Lifelike movement.
Jake Johnson
Yes.
Gareth Reynolds
Tom, we're in a spot here where I kind of like the idea of complimenting them. I also kind of like the idea where you say, I'm looking to do something similar and do a workout.
Tom (Caller)
Or.
Gareth Reynolds
I liked what Gareth was saying. It's as you're working out, go like, hey, man, is that thing real? Or you could also say you're thinking of doing some steroids. Has it changed your penis in this zone? Is there anything you're liking? Let's hear you talk for a little bit, pal.
Tom (Caller)
I like it all, I think. I think me going down the steroids and I've got a small dick is probably the best route because I think it's. It somewhat opens it up, doesn't it?
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah.
Yeah.
Are you willing to do that?
Tom (Caller)
Yeah, 100%. The crux of this for me is getting a genuine response. I need to know if it's real. I don't mind if, if. If, you know, I don't just want a response that. That he's. He's already dishing out to the public. I. I need to know you want real talk.
Gareth Reynolds
There's also. And I like where we're headed. I don't want to throw us off. There's also the alt version where you kind of say, you know, his dick's a little smaller than yours. Does he Want anything to make it big? You could dish out some advice, the
Jake Johnson
insulting version, or send a photo with
Gareth Reynolds
a huge fake dick in yours and
Jake Johnson
go, hey, little guy.
Gil Ozeri
I have a follow up question to Tom and that is, have you thought about what your response is going to be once you find it? Let's say you do find out and he says it's real. How would you react in that moment? Would you be like, holy shit, that's incredible. Or like, that's something's wrong with you.
Gareth Reynolds
I gotta. I got another pitch. Not to. Another pitch. Could be. You could say you're working for like ITV or something in the UK on a production of fascinating appendages and you're in pre production and you were wondering if he would be interested in being featured over the size of his enormous dong. You could be like, there's a woman who. Hold on. There's a woman who has a finger coming out of her ear.
I know you're taking this seriously and I know you're not doing a bit here because I know your face changes when it's just a bit. Walk us through the logic of this one, babe.
So the logic is this.
He has a fake job as a TV show on a show. And then when the guy goes, sure, can I talk to a producer? He goes, just stop.
Say, we're in the. Listen, we're. We don't have a lot of money, but can we just have. Can. My friend and I, I'll join as the producer. I'll get on this zoom and we'll do it.
Jake Johnson
I'll be.
Gareth Reynolds
And I'll be like, hey, listen, can we see it? Can we have a look at it? Can we see. How can I see a third of it?
This is if I'm the guy with the big dick in the steroids. I'm afraid of my friend from London who pretends to be on a show about weird. Tom, going back to you from Gil's question, what. What would your response be? If it's real.
Tom (Caller)
Good for you, man. Good for you.
Gareth Reynolds
You just want to know.
Tom (Caller)
I just want to know. I just, you know, it's, it's. I think, I think it's. A lot of people are wondering about my fascination with it, but hopefully you guys are on board with it now.
Gareth Reynolds
We are.
Tom (Caller)
You can see the fascination there, right?
Gareth Reynolds
I have no, I have no. I'm not questioning your fascination at all. It's a. It's one of the wonders of the world. You gotta find out. Here's what I would consider if I were you.
This Is. He's right. This is the pyramids.
It's too much.
This is the pants pyramid.
Gil Ozeri
This is Da Vinci Code.
Gareth Reynolds
This is Da Vinci Code.
This is Ron Howard and Tommy Hanks would get lost in this and do three sequels.
Yeah.
So, Tom, here's where I think we're at. Tell me if you agree, because this is where I felt like you were going and I'm looking to get you in this course. Couldn't get you out of the lot. You said you were okay to do it via text and talk about how your dick is smaller and ask him point blank is his real. If it is, and it's totally natural, cool. But if there's anything he has done to enhance it. You're not positive about the steroids, but off the record, could he give you any advice? Is it supplements? Is there anything he's done or is he just stuffing it? Because if that's real, he'd be like, man, if I could just get a couple of inches, I'd be thrilled. You got yards, brother. So what do you think, Tom, about that text?
Tom (Caller)
I see. That sounds perfect.
Gareth Reynolds
Bring your phone out, brother.
Tom (Caller)
I've got it. I've got it.
Gareth Reynolds
Gil, will you start the first draft and then do it nice and slow? Tom, I need you to write this and then if you approve, send it to him now. And then the way you can pay the tab at this bar for us, which we would appreciate, the free drinks, is send us a screen grab of this sent to him and then the follow up will be the response to you, Tom.
Love it.
Gil Ozeri
I think a good way to start is. Hi, Dirk. Hope you're well. I've been following you recently and I'm loving some of you. I'm loving some of the pictures I'm seeing. You look like you're in great shape and your family life seems phenomenal. I'm writing because personally I am having some trouble getting into shape myself
Jake Johnson
and
Gil Ozeri
I wanted to know where, say, oh, especially around, I would say, the, the, my nether region. And I was wondering, I might, I feel like I might be undersized compared to some of my friends, especially seeing your pictures. And I wonder if you have any advice about, or like, I was wondering if you did anything to enhance it or. That is just something that God has given you as a gift. Again, hope you're well.
Gareth Reynolds
Can we. When you're ready, Tom, hear that back into your words and see where we're at with the text.
Tom (Caller)
Yeah, let me just flesh it out.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah, do your thing, man.
I, I, I Mean, it's hard to exist in a world where something like that is real.
Yeah.
Jake Johnson
Yeah.
Gareth Reynolds
But I honestly, I'm leaning towards real.
Gil Ozeri
You are?
Jake Johnson
Wow.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah, I am. I think it's too ugly to stuff. I do. I don't think anyone would stuff like that.
Enron was too big to fail. This is too ugly to stuff.
But like that. The one where the balls looked was disgusting and the dick was wrapping around his hip.
Gil Ozeri
Right.
Gareth Reynolds
You're going after such a small fetish audience if that's what you're going for. I think he's more like, I have a disgusting, huge dick dick.
Jake Johnson
Yeah.
Gil Ozeri
And I'm not afraid.
Shannon (Caller)
And that.
Gareth Reynolds
That really. I mean, not to people having fun, but I mean, it.
Shannon (Caller)
It.
Gareth Reynolds
It is. That is an alarming, alarming.
I mean, I tell you what the nightmare of meeting a woman in a bar and having a tiny dick. The other nightmare is she pulls your pants down and goes, no, gracias.
Gil Ozeri
It's too big.
Gareth Reynolds
Not only let me screams and jumps out a window.
Gil Ozeri
Yeah. Punches him maybe. Well, Jake, I. I have to ask you. What? Why do you think then. The earlier pictures.
Gareth Reynolds
I know. I was thinking that too.
Gil Ozeri
Yeah. What is that? So what's that about? Do you think that.
Gareth Reynolds
I don't have an answer because it doesn't make sense. You would have seen that huge monster in those early picks.
Gil Ozeri
Yeah, but he might have been.
Gareth Reynolds
He might have been, you know, he might have. Tying it down if he was finding liberation. Yeah.
Gil Ozeri
Yeah.
Gareth Reynolds
He might have had a whole system of rubber bands. And that's just a fact.
Like, he is like Gulliver and Gulliver's Travels.
But there could have been a whole
Jake Johnson
thing that you're like rubber bands and
Gil Ozeri
his head is just bright red.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah. Just thinking, please don't get hard. Or it's gonna. It's just like a giant.
Jake Johnson
Like.
Shannon (Caller)
Yeah.
Jake Johnson
People are dying.
Gareth Reynolds
Tom, when you're ready, read it to us, bud.
Tom (Caller)
Okay, I've got. Hi, Dirk. Hope you and the family are well. I've been following your progress and you're in great shape. I'm writing because I'm having trouble getting into shape myself. Especially around my nether regions. I feel like I might be undersized, especially after seeing your pictures. I wonder if there's anything I could be doing to get closer to your size.
Gareth Reynolds
We need a little bit harder.
Here's what I might do.
Yeah.
I might. I would maybe say you've looked online and have had and have, like, something to the effect of I'm about to go down a dangerous Route with this.
I love.
Jake Johnson
Yes.
Gareth Reynolds
Is there something you've taken that you like?
I've. I was talking to a doctor who said there are some injections that might help me, but it sounds a little suspect.
Gil Ozeri
Sounds like.
Gareth Reynolds
Have you done anything?
Gil Ozeri
The more specifics you have, the more real it sounds.
Gareth Reynolds
If that is natural, cool. If it's a something you have done. Can you tell me specifically what you're using?
This is good.
Gil Ozeri
Also, no pressure. If you don't want to answer, I totally understand.
Gareth Reynolds
Agreed. Tom, what do you think of that?
Tom (Caller)
I love it.
Gareth Reynolds
Absolutely, Big Daddy. And then read it. And then we're going to get out of here because we got to get to the next call.
Tom (Caller)
Okay.
Gareth Reynolds
And let's just go from the top again. Sorry. I know it's a little bit longer, but there's a rhythm to this text.
Tom (Caller)
Hi, Dirk. Hope you and the family are well. I've been following your progress and you're in great shape. I'm writing because personally I'm having trouble getting in shape myself, especially around my nether regions. I feel like I might be undersized, especially after seeing your pictures or if there's anything I could be doing to get closer to your size. I was speaking to a doctor who suggested a couple of routes I could go down. If yours is natural, cool. Forget I asked. Also, no pressure. If you don't want to talk about
Gareth Reynolds
it, do we want to say specifically, I'm talking about my penis nether region.
The only thing I would say is after you're saying, talking to the doctor, say some of it sounds a little too experimental, but I don't know, question mark, something like that.
I'm scared of injecting stuff into my penis, but if some. But just because he's injecting so much into that body of his, man, you don't want him to go, like the way to get big thighs. You're talking about the hog.
Gil Ozeri
Maybe it's like some of this sounds a little scary.
Gareth Reynolds
Some of this sounds a little bit scary to inject something into my penis.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But let me know if I'm being crazy here.
Yep, I think that's right. Let's say penis.
Let's just. At the end, just read that last line.
The last line could be, I'm talking about my penis. All the best.
Jake Johnson
I'm talking about
Gil Ozeri
sincerely.
Gareth Reynolds
Then, Tom, we got to hear it one more time. I know I keep saying we're about to get out of this, but we're close. This is going to be a very effective text.
Tom (Caller)
I've got one shot at this. I've got absolutely one shot at this.
Gareth Reynolds
This is 8 mile, and I'm not just talking about what's in his pants.
Let's hear it when you're ready.
Tom (Caller)
Hi, Dirk. Hope you're in the family. Well, I've been following your progress and you're in great shape. I'm writing because personally I'm having trouble getting in shape myself, especially around my nether regions. I feel like I might be undersized, especially after seeing your pictures. I wonder if there's anything that I could be doing to get closer to your size. I was speaking to a doctor who suggested a couple of routes I can go down, but some of it sounds a little experimental. Injecting stuff into my penis. If yours is natural, cool. Forget I asked. Also, no pressure. If you don't want to speak about it.
Gareth Reynolds
I think we're all the best.
And then we're like, yeah, yeah, that's great, man. Hit sand. Do us a favor and pay that tab. Send us that screen grab. And then, Tom, best wishes, brother.
You gotta let us know. We all must know. I can't walk around knowing that's out there.
If he happens to text right away, just call back. Yeah, we're gonna be on for the next hour and a half or so.
Tom (Caller)
Okay, thank you, guys.
Gareth Reynolds
Thank you, bud.
Thanks, buddy.
Tom (Caller)
Wow.
Gil Ozeri
Unbelievable.
Gareth Reynolds
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Gareth Reynolds
Hello.
Shannon (Caller)
Hi.
Gareth Reynolds
Hi. How are you?
Shannon (Caller)
Good. How are you?
Gareth Reynolds
Good, thank you. Can we get your name, please?
Shannon (Caller)
Yeah. My name is Shannon.
Gareth Reynolds
Hi, Shannon. Where are you calling from, Shannon? Roughly?
Shannon (Caller)
I'm calling from Burlington, Vermont.
Gareth Reynolds
Oh, what a town. Burlington is the best. You ever been there, Gil?
Gil Ozeri
I have not. No.
Gareth Reynolds
It's awesome. Jake.
Shannon (Caller)
No.
Gareth Reynolds
All right, well, you got Shannon, you got me, you got Gil Ozeri joining us today as our guest helper. Got Jake Johnson. Why don't you just jump into it? What's going on?
Shannon (Caller)
Okay, so I've got a very unique problem we've got. In the fall and the winter, we have this murder of Crows that comes through and they come in the middle of the night. They come with no warning whatsoever, very sporadically. And I pay for my parking spot, so I can't park on the street. I have to park in my paid spot in my lot underneath this large amount of trees. And every so often in the middle of the night, I'll wake up in the morning and my car is just absolutely plastered in bird shit. And it happens at least twice a week between the months of maybe like November and May or no, probably, like, I'd say, yeah, yeah, like November and maybe. And I have no idea when they're going to come. I have no warning, so I can't park anywhere else. And I can't go to the car wash, because when I go to the car wash, the people yell at me and tell me that they can't clean my car because there's too much bird shit on my car and they are incapable of cleaning it.
Gareth Reynolds
I've never heard of that at all.
Shannon (Caller)
Yeah, yeah, I know. I. I said. I said, am I supposed to bring you a clean car to the car wash? I thought this was what I was supposed to do.
Gareth Reynolds
And they said. Too disgusted.
Shannon (Caller)
Yeah, they literally did. They. They shamed me. They. It was horrible.
Gareth Reynolds
That would really hurt myself.
Shannon (Caller)
Anyways, it did it very much.
Gareth Reynolds
Your stuff is too disgusting to clean. And I'm like, I'm just dropping off some shirts at the cleaners. And they went like, pit smell too bad.
Tom (Caller)
Like,
Gareth Reynolds
you nuts? You guys want to see some pictures?
Jake Johnson
Yes.
Shannon (Caller)
Yes, today, please show the picture.
Gareth Reynolds
Let's see.
Gil, you want to break down what we're seeing again?
Gil Ozeri
Oh, my God. God, it looks. Okay, so there's a car.
Gareth Reynolds
It looks.
Gil Ozeri
This is in December, and it is covered. Riddled, in fact, with dog. I think it's snowing outside, but I can't tell.
Gareth Reynolds
That's a different thing.
There's a bunch of retrievers in the tree.
There's dog shitting from the sky. Is a nightmare.
Tom (Caller)
Sorry.
Gil Ozeri
There was so much that I thought it had to be a bigger animal.
Jake Johnson
Okay.
Gil Ozeri
And the security guard at the bank said people have been taking pictures of it all day. I think I have to move because I don't know how to stop the crows. They are too powerful.
Tom (Caller)
Agreed.
Gil Ozeri
It is completely. It's. Oh, my God.
Gareth Reynolds
Oh, my Lord.
It honestly looks like if someone could paintball bird.
Gil Ozeri
Yes.
Gareth Reynolds
And you got.
Yes.
Annihilated it.
Gil Ozeri
Yeah, it's covered. Okay. It's covered. All right. And this is a view from inside the car. And there's all over the window. And then now it's inside the car. The windshield. There's about, I would say, you know, close to between 50 and 100 spots.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah.
Gil Ozeri
Bird spots.
Shannon (Caller)
It's a safety hazard. I can't see through my windshield. And the. And the. You can't clean it because it freezes.
Gil Ozeri
Oh, that's the other part. It's cold.
Gareth Reynolds
I can't believe I'm on the car wash's side.
Jake Johnson
Oh, look.
Gil Ozeri
Okay, so now we're in the car wash now. And it looked. Or is that snow?
Gareth Reynolds
That's snow.
Gil Ozeri
That's snow.
Gareth Reynolds
Okay, that's snow. And the yellow little droplets are the dumps. But I forgot all about the ice factor you're talking about. You're gonna need one of those scrapers to scrape the ice off your windshield. And there's crow everywhere. This is a disgusting mess.
This is really bad.
Gil Ozeri
This is tough.
Shannon (Caller)
It's bad. So the first. The first couple times it happened, I took my car to the gas station and I used, you know, the little, like, setups they have just to. Yeah. And I. And I did. I did my best. I did what I could. And it made it drivable. Yeah.
Gareth Reynolds
But it ain't.
Shannon (Caller)
But, you know, after. Yeah. And it's. It ruins. It's ruining the paint on my car.
Gareth Reynolds
And it gives you those gross streaks. Those things are disgusting.
I would also imagine after a season of frozen crow, your car's paints cannot be doing.
You're losing value for sure.
Shannon (Caller)
And I just bought this car as well.
Gareth Reynolds
That's crazy.
That car looks 20 years old to me.
Without question. It's like your car smokes.
Tom (Caller)
Yeah.
Whitney
Agree.
Gareth Reynolds
And lives in a casino where you can smell and is outside in the Arizona sun all the time.
Gil Ozeri
And also is covered in bird.
Tom (Caller)
Okay.
Gareth Reynolds
So, Shannon, to get to it, we could all keep piling onto this car. But what's the point? What have you done to try to stop the crows at this point? Because the hard thing I'm going to tell you from my point of view right now, same after doing this show, is we don't know when the crows come.
Shannon (Caller)
That's the thing. So I'm. I'm. I'm at the point where I'm thinking, can I. Can I put them onto my neighbors? Can I try to put a bunch of shiny items or bird seed onto my neighbor's cars so they go over there? Or do I try to lure them,
Gil Ozeri
give the problem to someone?
Shannon (Caller)
Or do I try to befriend the crows? Because, you know, there's that thing where you can. You can make crows befriend you, apparently.
Gareth Reynolds
Well, crows are a member.
Shannon (Caller)
Then they won't.
Gareth Reynolds
Crows are unthinkably smart.
Jake Johnson
Yeah.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah, that.
Jake Johnson
You know.
Gil Ozeri
Yeah, they are very smart. Which makes me think they're doing it on purpose.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah, it could be. I read this really interesting thing in Either. I think it was Norway where they're doing a thing that if a crow drops off a piece of garbage into the garbage, it could go to another area and get a little feed.
Jake Johnson
Wow.
Gareth Reynolds
So, like, if it picks up a cigarette butt and puts it in, that was another thing.
Gil Ozeri
Yeah.
Gareth Reynolds
If someone running for president just said they'd do that, they would get my vote.
Tom (Caller)
Yeah.
Gareth Reynolds
I'd be single issue.
Shannon (Caller)
Yeah.
Gareth Reynolds
Let's go.
How cool is that? A bunch of crows cleaning up the garbage.
Amazing.
That's the city I want to live in. But you have like. Literally, you're like, the crows are at work, guys. Everyone, don't go on that street. I've been working all day, man. I'm beat, tired.
Jake Johnson
I work all day.
Gareth Reynolds
I got nothing to save. All I do is get food deed at the end of my shift.
Gil Ozeri
I guess it beats on that car all day, right?
Jake Johnson
You know what it beats?
Gareth Reynolds
If you sit on a tree hoping food falls in my mouth like my kid does.
Hey, you know, she leaves spaghetti out. I'm supposed to pick up the garbage. There's all things crazy.
My life's a nightmare. Okay, so I like what you're kind of saying, Shannon. So if we think about how smart crows are, what I don't want to do is I don't want to put it on another person's car because then they might call and we might have another problem. But I. If they're only there for two weeks out of the year. Do you see the crows any other time? Like, are they around? But it's only two weeks of taking hard shits.
Shannon (Caller)
It's. It's like two months.
Gareth Reynolds
It's two months. Okay, so.
Shannon (Caller)
But they. They're not there the whole time. They just come at every, like, Rand family every so often in those. In that frame.
Gareth Reynolds
And it's your car specifically. So is there a tree branch above you? Are you beneath a certain. Are they all living somewhere or like, is it. Do you park under their home?
Shannon (Caller)
Yes, but it's a designated spot, so I can't park anywhere else.
Gareth Reynolds
You. You can't complain to the people who are booking the spot and say, look, here's where I'm at. You've got to move me. Like, let this be Someone else's problem
Shannon (Caller)
there then.
Gil Ozeri
Or cut down the branch maybe maybe they can pay. Oh, it's the whole tree.
Gareth Reynolds
Really quick, really quick on this one. For the first time I tried to cheat a little bit and I googled and I tried to write how to this is why dyslexia is funny. How to attract crows. But I've also been you guys. But I wrote how to attract crowd. And as we've been talking I looked down and it said spread the word. Promote on social media. And I was like, that's crazy. And then I got street performance. Start with a strong opening act, interact with masterminds and keep energy high. And I literally thought this is some of the dumb.
Jake Johnson
My pitch is going to be keep
Gareth Reynolds
your energy up and get a crowd. I mean you really got a strong opening is going to be really going
Jake Johnson
to gather for that maybe do a
Gil Ozeri
two for one kind of thing.
Gareth Reynolds
Shannon, why not a car cover? Why not? Is there not a cover you could throw over your car? I know it's a pain in the ass, but if you.
Shannon (Caller)
No, see, I thought of this but then I'm going to be come out to a frozen A piece of right Tarp covered in frozen that I then
Gareth Reynolds
have to pick up off to drive also gross.
Shannon (Caller)
And then put back on covered in frozen wood.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah.
Well, go ahead Jake and then I'll ask my question.
Gil Ozeri
Go ahead.
Gareth Reynolds
No, I, I was thinking more of a pitch that's a weird invention. Like the idea of an umbrella top.
Gil Ozeri
Oh, like, like a, yeah, like a top.
Gareth Reynolds
Like we just something that you create. Like a portable garage.
Jake Johnson
Yeah, yeah.
Gareth Reynolds
That just for those two months you suction it on the top of your car. Like a little tent actually.
Shannon (Caller)
Wait, that's good.
Gareth Reynolds
A little tent is actually good too. If you could put, if you could have the room to do a little tent. I don't want to talk away from car umbrella. But yeah, something like that would be great.
Or get up in those trees and put a little tarp under their butts.
Gil Ozeri
Well, you, that's so basically diapers. You know that I, I, I had this problem with like raccoons in my backyard and there's like little devices you could plug into or like dig deep. You know, you put them in the ground and they make a sound that like annoys the raccoon. Maybe there's something you could put in the tree that just like.
Gareth Reynolds
Wait, what was your issue with raccoons? Really fast.
Gil Ozeri
They were just coming back and eating. We have like an orange tree and every time they would fall they Would just like, eat the. Like leave tons of oranges and shit everywhere.
Tom (Caller)
Everywhere.
Gareth Reynolds
And how'd you get rid of the raccoons?
Gil Ozeri
With this. These little, like, sat. Like they have like a. They have like a sensor. So every time, like an animal passes by them, it like, emits some like.
Gareth Reynolds
So this is really quickly to the woman whose grandparents have been overrun by the raccoons. We just did a follow up. I know you're listening. Do Gill's advice. Try the sensor. Put it inside their attic and all around their house and let's see if that works. Shannon, back to you for a second. What do you think about creating some sort of a device thing or a sound thing to make that tree? Because you could also get like, you could use something in your car and point like a. A light sensor up there. So when the crows come to this tree, we're maybe trying to just get them to move away from the tree. What do you think of that as an idea?
Shannon (Caller)
Yeah, I think that could work.
Tom (Caller)
That's.
Shannon (Caller)
That's a good. That's a good plan.
Gareth Reynolds
I have an idea. I have an idea. That's stupid, but there might be something to this because our pitches right now are kind of reasonable, but I don't think she's going to do them.
Shannon (Caller)
Yeah, no, the umbrella. The umbrella.
Gareth Reynolds
That's probably my favorite.
Gil Ozeri
Is my favorite too.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah. Here.
Here's something that. Again, I'm not standing behind this. I'm hoping this gets heightened and pitched on and gets better. It's going to sound like a joke, but it's not a joke. But it is not thought out enough. And there's no real second half. What if when you see the crows, you make a plea to them and you try to communicate with them where you point at the car and you have seeds for them. Like you're throwing food further away from them and you do a physical dance. You get. You trying to get real into the hocus pocus of this whole world and
Jake Johnson
you're leading with them.
Gareth Reynolds
You're saying like, like I give you seeds.
I don't think you want to give seeds because let's say it doesn't work. You're fueling the problem a little bit. But I like the idea of some offerings. I think some shiny offerings, some things like that might be a good idea. I like the umbrella. I also think that we can. I can even do this off air with you. I can call this car wash and be like, you're my client. And the idea that you're rejecting someone because we're not doing that.
Jake Johnson
Go ahead.
Gareth Reynolds
So, you know, we could also do. What if we created something on the top of the car that looked like a. This is a little weird, but what if we did a picture of a crow baby? A baby crow?
Gil Ozeri
Crows felt bad.
Jake Johnson
Yeah.
Gareth Reynolds
Well, if their crows are smart. Like, we had a crow in our backyard and there was a nest, and the baby fel. Fell out of the nest and died. And we did nothing. But my wife then, trying to be sweet, took the dead baby bird and buried it. Well, the crows thought we did something to its baby and hounded our asses for. I'm might be exaggerating, but I think about a month. Wow.
They did a study where they can remember stuff up to 12 years.
They get praised. Yeah. So we could try to find something where they might be smart enough. Where your car's a toilet. And how do we change the toilet into. It's a photo of them. It's their family.
Jake Johnson
So just to see how smart these
Gareth Reynolds
sons of a are, we turned it into a science experiment.
Gil Ozeri
Maybe get a decal of a family
Jake Johnson
of crows that goes on the top
Gareth Reynolds
and they go like, I gotta take a shit. I'm go to the toilet. And then they go like this. What am I looking at?
Gil Ozeri
That's my son.
Gareth Reynolds
Maybe take a photo of them and then put that on the top of your car each day in that period when you leave. And it's simple. You could just put it into the car and close the car doors so it gets like sealed on just so they go one. And then if one of them takes a shit out of them, the older crow goes like, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Don't shit on us. Another Subaru. It's a city full of Subarus I.
I couldn't even figure out what make or model it was, it was covered in so much shit. The good news is, Shannon, you are playing with house money. I'm not. Unfortunately, your car. Your car is ruined. So. So we can be a little experimental. So I do think my first instinct is try to offer up some shiny things, some peanuts, some stuff like that, and see if that maybe dissuades Gil.
What are you thinking?
Gil Ozeri
I'm thinking the tent thing. I don't know how far you're. You're parked or talking to the people and saying, can you offer me maybe a different spot? But, like, if I don't know how close you are parked to the other people. But like a beach tent, you know, where you just put the poles on each side and it's just higher up, sort of like a car park. And now you just park under it.
Gareth Reynolds
I'm thinking, weird out. Have a long conversation with them, nobody around. Throw a voice note on pay the tab so we could hear you. Talk to them, ask them to stop shitting on your car. So you respect them in their community, but it's ruining your vibe. And then the next step is I'd put a photo of them on the car. But the question to you, Shannon, is what do you think?
Shannon (Caller)
Well, I'm, I'm always going to go for the cheapest option because, you know, I'm, I'm a poor grad school students, so I'm, I'm going to start with Jake's solution and I think I'm going to try fleeing to them. But I'm also, I'm also going to go with Gareth and try to, I'm going to try to give them some offerings in the process of my pleas.
Gareth Reynolds
I like this. Give us an example then, Shannon, Just off the top of your head,
Tom (Caller)
hear
Gareth Reynolds
what you might say to them. Close your eyes for a second. Forget you're on this podcast.
Tom (Caller)
Who gives a.
Gareth Reynolds
Who gives a shit? We could cut this too. So there's a real chance this is just for us and nobody else on a zoom, but pretend. Put yourself there and talk to them real. Don't think about being funny or clever crows don't get your sense of humor. And I'll tell you what, they're not going to listen to this goddamn podcast. But what could you say to them? Pretend they can understand you.
Tom (Caller)
You
Shannon (Caller)
all right? Let me think. Probably be something like, I, I respect you guys. I've never done anything to you. I, I was afraid of you for a long time, but I've come to understand you and your ways, and this is just not, it's just not cool at this point because I just want, I want to have a mutual symbiotic relationship. I really just want to get along. I want us to coexist. I'm willing to supply you with whatever you'd like to bring you joy. If you please, just promise to stop making my life miserable for these two, three months out of the year. It's just really hard for me and I just really want you guys to give me the respect that I'm trying to give you all I'm asking for, please.
Gareth Reynolds
I think that's gonna work.
Gil Ozeri
Very reasonable.
Gareth Reynolds
By the way, we all see how smart crows are. They're in Sweden picking up garbage, right? They hold grudges for 12 years. We, as humans, this Whole last decade or so is how smart crows are. Let's see.
They are also birds.
Stupid ass birds.
So they are. But. But I do think there's a world
tone to understand her tone. Be pointing at your car and go like, no, no, I.
Let's listen, Shannon, start with this. See where you get to and call back. And if the crows are ignoring you, we can start pitching on maybe a little more of what Gil's talking about. I do think the idea of, like, a tent or something like that, part of why that will be good too, is because that tells the parking people, hey, guess what? I'm taking matters into my own hand. I mean, this is.
Let's start with the speech and then follow up.
Start with the speech, the plea.
Shannon (Caller)
Okay, Sounds like a plan. Thanks, guys.
Gareth Reynolds
That speech you just said.
Yeah?
I think it's really nice. I don't know if it'll work. I don't know if crows are gonna listen, but I know they should.
There's a world where you get a crow costume and do it in that. All right, Shannon. Thanks a bunch. Talk to you later.
Not the worst idea.
Shannon (Caller)
It's not the worst idea.
Gareth Reynolds
Think about it. You can order it real quick. Take care, Shannon. Thanks a lot. Put on a crow outfit.
Shannon (Caller)
Thanks, guys.
Gareth Reynolds
We're all signing over.
Shannon (Caller)
Okay, thank you.
Tom (Caller)
Bye.
Gareth Reynolds
Bye.
Shannon (Caller)
All right, thanks. Bye,
Gareth Reynolds
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Episode Title: Too Ugly To Stuff & Your Car's A Toilet (with Gil Ozeri)
Podcast: We're Here to Help
Hosts: Jake Johnson & Gareth Reynolds
Guest: Gil Ozeri
Date: July 29, 2026
This jam-packed episode brings comedian and writer Gil Ozeri into the "We're Here to Help" fold alongside hosts Jake Johnson and Gareth Reynolds. The show’s theme remains playful “bad advice,” as they take on two particularly strange yet hilarious listener dilemmas: one involving suspected genital fakery, the other a relentless avian assault on a car. The trio break down each problem with signature irreverence, empathy, and plenty of punchlines.
[00:39–08:15]
[11:50–45:28]
How to ask the question:
[48:10–68:38]
Redirect the Crows:
Be Friend, Not Foe:
Physical Barriers:
Appeal to the Crows:
Science Experiment:
Escalating Interventions:
The tone is wildly irreverent yet compassionate—no question is too absurd to get full-hearted attention and creative, if occasionally unhinged, advice. The trio’s willingness to role-play, improvise, and “workshop” both the message for tight-lipped friends and the plea to menacing wildlife demonstrates why their brand of help is equal parts joke and genuine attempt at human connection.
“We're Here to Help” might not change your life, but it will make you laugh at your problems—and maybe even solve them.
Notable Quote (Final Word):
“I think it’s too ugly to stuff.”
— Gareth, [29:27]
For video episodes and back catalog, visit Hulu or their Patreon. Exit ad and credits omitted.