We're Here to Help - 122: My Best Idea This Decade with Jimmy Kimmel

Episode Date: October 14, 2024

Jake, Gareth and special guest Jimmy Kimmel talk to callers about a dad’s old gym shorts and a candy bowl at the office. Later, the guys follow up with the third caller from episode 103 “Smart People Are Our Kryptonite.”Want to call in? Email your question to [e-mail]: heretohelppod.comINSTAGRAM: @HereToHelpPodTIKTOK: @HereToHelpPodIf you’re enjoying the show, make sure to rate We’re Here to Help 5-Stars on Apple Podcasts.Advertise on We’re Here to Help via Gumball.fm See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Shark, we really do. This is a guy you and I both love. It's so funny how we got to great one. Shark. We really do. This is a guy you and I both love. It's so funny how we got to know him. The guest we have is Jimmy Kimmel. And I. Just the best. Just the best. Do you remember when we shot that that little pilot for Comedy Central?

Yes. And Jimmy was already so busy and he emailed us both. Yes. Individually, like great. And I was like, wow, what a guy. And then I ended up going over to his place and watching football at his house for a couple of seasons. And just the truly hardest working dude. Also, my favorite, the best top best host in the game. It really is. It's like I think it's the best show.

I'm like, he's just great He's just so funny. He's gotten so much funnier and and we were so thankful to have him and he was great on the show He gave great advice. Yeah, he laughed at our advice at times But you know what to be honest, he had every right to didn't laugh with But and he did the thing that a lot of people have done where at the end they go That's it. That's this thing and we went. Thank you so much for coming. We really appreciate you But he was great and yeah lucky to have him so And then I think we have a follow-up too. Yeah

So let's get to it. Let's get to it. Let's get you it let's get to it let's get you know I like to say damn without further ado hi hi there welcome to we're here to help listen we're gonna get right into it we you have Jake who you know from Hollywood you have me the periphery but we also have a fantastic guest We're very excited for our guest helper today to have Jimmy Kimmel Yeah, see that reaction we don't get the reaction yeah, that's the right reaction. Oh my Brian the security guard from New Girl. I'm Here too kind

from New Girl? I'm Ben myself. Geez, you're too kind. Can we get your name, where you're calling from, and rough age, and then we'll get into it. And yes, Jimmy Kimmel and Brian, the security guard from New Girl. I'm excited to help. I just want to, you know, all I want to do is help. Yeah, you've often said it's a

passion. Yeah, I like to be a helper. Yeah, that's great. So what's your name? My name is Becca. I am from Chicago and I am 30 Okay from Chicago 30. Well, thanks for the call. Yeah, take care. We really solved that one. Good work Okay, so my problem my dad is he's in his late 50s he's super sentimental about his stuff from his past like trophies letterman jackets

You know stuff in boxes in the attic in the garage him and my mom are remodeling their house and purging a lot of the old stuff and Among these items just recently were my dad's high school baseball shorts I'm just recently were my dad's high school baseball short As you can imagine these are from the 80s they're very short and I will add that they still fit him I'm not seeing a problem anywhere near this Take I thought you might say that actually I'm loving this setup But I thought it was gonna be he gave you his trophies and I was gonna say He just put him in a room. You got his fucking short shorts He actually did tell my mom this is kind of an aside but he actually did tell my mom

You know, I'm really shocked that Becca didn't take them So I know he's gonna have a really hard time parting with a lot of this stuff But like I said, they're remodeling and whatever. So I'm wondering if you guys can help me come up with a meaningful send off we can do for some of this stuff. The booty shorts included and some of his old trophies, obviously like he was an athlete of so late. Yeah.

So he's got a ton of them laying around. So let me ask you a quick question on those shorts, Becca. We're seeing them. Would they fit on your body? They would fit on my body. Okay, good. Okay, because there's a way I can get those shorts from dad to daughter. Okay.

But it's not throw them out. You know, I feel like I can be very helpful in this situation because I'm almost your same age as your dad and i i have the same affliction where i like to keep all the stuff and you know i i know logically that there's there there's no future home for it i think when you have a t v show the best case scenario is some auction house sends out an email and some dickhead buys all your stuff and his friends as a joke. But I did do something because I had, my mom would save everything,

and she still saves everything. And I had crates of like all my homework from when I was a little boy. And I, you know, just all these drawings that I did when I was a kid, and you don't wanna throw them out. You know, I mean, I guess some people would throw them out and that's probably the reasonable thing to do but I'm comfortable throwing away kid art Jimmy gone yeah but your own would you throw yes mine and my children's art when there's a pile of it I'm like what

I do is I go through my kids art and I decide which pieces are good and which are not that's a good way to do it this is trash we can all admit it that's a good way this one has a little bit of talent to it. He went way off. So I'm only supposed to keep the first place trophy then is what you're saying. That's right, that's right. I scanned everything as far as the, you know, print items go. I scanned everything and that made me feel okay about, in fact not just okay about, good

about throwing the rest of the stuff in the garbage pail because I know that I have it just in case I want to look at it or I need it for a comedy bit or something like that. So I think photographing everything, I'll give you another great interest in this is I like that. This might be the best idea I've had this decade. Okay. You know, when you go on a real estate website and they have that 3d tour of the house where you can walk around the

house. Oh, I did that. I did that at my aunt Chippy's house. It's called like Matterport or something costs like 250 bucks and you can, you don't have to be selling the house to do this. You can walk around with the camera. Wait, Jimmy, did you just do it because you have an emotional connection to the house and wanted to see it or was she selling it? No, she wasn't selling

it. I did it because I knew we would want to remember what it looks like when she is alive. She's 85 years old and I knew my cousins would be attached to it. So for Christmas this year, I had this video, I had this 3D video made and they could put on the goggles and it's like walking around the house. Oh, that's awesome. And Aunt Chippy is sitting in each room. Oh, if I had that for my childhood. Oh, you imagine if you had that for your childhood house? I'm going to do it.

That would be at the show. I'm going to do it before I retire from the show. I'm going to do it in every house I ever live. That's really amazing. So that's pretty good advice. So that's actually really good advice. I'm going to do it in every house I ever live. That's awesome. That's really amazing. So that's pretty good advice right there. That's actually really good advice right there. I also like that Jimmy labels his advice good advice.

I think that's good on itself. Oh yeah. I like that too. Sometimes when I come up with an idea, I'll say to my wife, I'll go, great idea, Jim, as like a suggested response. Someone's got to say it. A a line reading. Yeah that's great. It was a great dinner you cook Jake. Yeah. What do you think of that Becca? Is it too late? No not at all. I have to kind of see what he still has. Obviously the booty shots are going to be a

tough one for him to get rid of. Just put everything out and then have like a little dad museum, mom and dad museum and make a video and everything will be in it and You'll have it forever. I really like Something I pay someone to do yeah Okay, it's really not paying It's like two or three hundred bucks or something to have it done and real estate agents all know how to do a little dad VR Yeah, it's like dad VR and you can put your parents in each room. They could be, he could be wearing the shorts

in the bedroom. You could be wearing the shorts in every room. Let's be honest. You know, holding a trophy in one. You could walk in on them making love. Is it, I mean, is it crazy for us to pitch that your parents are mid coitus when this is happening in every room?

Just so you remember the good times. Yeah, that's crazy. Remember where you came from. That is crazy. Yeah, for man, I think it's honor them is what in every room. Just so you remember the good times. Yeah, that's crazy. Remember where you came from. That is crazy. Yeah, for man, I think it's honor them is what we're suggesting. That's VR for them. They can use those VR tapes. I will not be.

Okay. Let me go to you for a second on this. Why do you want to get rid of all dad stuff? Did he ask you for this or are you just sick of dad having all this stuff? I don't want to get rid of it. I don't live with them. It's not really taking any of my own space. I think they're downsizing because

I'm the oldest of three and all of us are out of the house. They're in the middle of this free model and they're just going through the non-important buckets you know like my baby blankets and all of our old toys and stuff so my dad's like trophy buckets and stuff like that or some of the stuff that i think they're i mean he has so many i sent a couple of pictures to kevin he has buckets of clothes and toys and baseball stuff well the trophies don't look like they make him happy or anything, so. You've never seen anyone happier.

No, it doesn't look like it's hand Prozac or anything. I think he's lying about this stuff. Yeah, no, he clearly likes to win. He clearly likes to win, but every now and then. Your dad's a winner. He is such a winner. Becky, you know what I would consider doing? I would consider lying and saying it would mean a lot to you if you could have all your dad's trophies and how much seeing him win has meant to you. Now that you're a 30 year old woman entering the world, you want to be reminded of how powerful and what a winner your father is.

This is a good idea, Jake. You put all those in a box, put it on a boat and set it on fire or do whatever you want with it. But Jake, how much of this bitch was figured out before you started talking to me? I would say 2%. I just hope that you never see him again. Yeah, honestly. You invite him to the funeral, your dad's trolling. No, but here's what I would say that is real,

is the lie of saying I would love all the stuff and get a couple of boxes of it, maybe with your siblings and get mom involved in this, you pitch in for a yearly storage thing, but just begin the disconnect from dad and his stuff. And then maybe in three years you can revisit and you can go, you want me just to throw this junk out? It's just a bunch of softball trophies and some weird old shorts, man.

Let's move on, right, Dad? And maybe in five years he's ready. It's the hoarders pitch. Yes. How about this, Beck? I, what if you take Jimmy's pitch and you get all that set up so that you have the nostalgia factor there. And then what if you, your dad has a lot of trophies,

a tremendous, I don't know, he must've been very good at whatever the hell he was doing. He's been really good at, my dad was good at everything he did. He was like the type of guy who did everything. Not letting go. He's not good at letting go. He's not gonna let him go either.

I've never seen that many trophies. So what if you just took the top of all the trophies and you found a way to, this is crazy and I don't know if this exists, but melt some of those down and have a new trophy made that is world's greatest dad. Oh, that's what I mean. So you're sort of taking the spirit of all those trophies. Into one big one. Into one trophy.

And then you also have the VR tour for when your dad wants to take a stroll down memory lane. This is becoming a nearly thousand dollar pitch. Make one huge trophy and put it on top of the house. They live in a trophy. Yeah. But I will say the last part of my pitch is you let us have the shorts and we give them away to a fan who promises to give them a good home. Oh, yeah, that's interesting. That's a good pitch, Gareth. The first one was great, Gary. I really thought I had a good punctuation.

You had won so much and you said that one more thing. Yeah. Can we wear his shorts and give it away? I think you received a lot of advice and I think you can cobble together the best parts of the advice. I think some of it was good and some of it was ridiculous. I'm going to say my advice is the best. Garrett's was second and Jake's was a distant third. I honestly think it's super accurate.

And in fact, I'd love to have a trophy for that, you know, where to get some before we go. Let me pitch another thing to see if I can also be fourth place. Say you would like to donate the trophies to charities of like kids, softball leagues and orphanages. That's a great thing. Jake, Jake, Jake is like pitching for the Bronx in the forties. He's like orphans. You love baseball.

It's how Babe Ruth. I'm going to hit two out for your kid. So Becca, you've gotten a lot of different ideas and thoughts. Where's your head at? What are you thinking of doing here? Um, thank you everybody for your pitches, especially Gareth with the shorts living on I Really appreciate that. I'm loving the idea of a world's greatest dad trophy because I would imagine that they have space for at least one for him to keep I

Don't know about How easy it will be to melt these down because I'm pretty sure that Don't worry about that. Just do what I said how easy it will be to melt these down because I'm pretty sure they're mostly plastic. Don't worry about that part. Just do what I said. Do what you are. You don't have smelting? You don't have a smelter on your block? I mean, my idea is definitely going up towards the top.

Quiet, Johnson. She's like, I don't have a bunch of money to melt fake. Joe Becca, let me solve this for you. Put all the trophies in the living room, get the real estate agent to come through a video of the house. You can look at the trophies anytime he wants. Throw everything else in the garbage with Jake's pitches. And so what is so back? What are you going to do?

So you're going to you're going to either go buy a world's greatest dad trophy and then he's gonna go. Thanks This is cool, but I want all my trophies in my shorts Let's just be honest if my kid did that I like saving stuff. I'm like, I'm not saving this like $4 Walgreens trophy I have real now you get it made. Why do it classy you do it class? I think if you do it you have to melt down the old woods. Yeah. Yeah I think you've got to do it, right? Stuff come on don't be we doing that would add another hold of the ozone layer like these are plastic Oh, it's up. We're already cooked. Anyway, just melt the trophies. All right, so back in closing What are you gonna do? The floor is yours. Take us out of this

It's gonna have to be some sort of combo of all the trophies turning into a world's greatest dad trophy and then Taking pictures of them are getting a nice big picture done of them so that he can sort of come through all of his accomplishments When he feels like I think maybe I'll maybe I'll try The world's greatest dad trophy in the short great Great by the way Maybe I'll get the world's greatest dad trophy in the short. Great. Oh, I like that. Put him in the cup. Great, by the way. Very easy to do. Yeah.

And that way, if he can't see the trophy, he can smell where it is. But that's a great idea. Then he's got a book that has all his stuff that his daughter made. That's a huge win. Daddy's trophies. Yeah. Daddy's. He's super sentimental.

So he'll love that. This is a big win. Becca, thank you for the call. We appreciate you. Thank you, Becca. Thanks so much, guys. Yeah, you super sentimental so how loved that this is a big win back. Thank you for the call. We appreciate you Thank you back. Thanks so much guys. Yeah, you're welcome. Well, wow, I didn't you know what I wanted to help I didn't know we'd be that much help though. Yeah, that's a lot of times what we find It's well to the premise of the show I like the part of the show where Jake forces them to say what they're gonna do You know most self-help shows they give the help and then it's up to the person to do it.

But Jake's like, no, you need to decide right now. Well, I like that. We got 15, 20 minutes of call. We need an ending. Jimmy, we're cutting to a Zot-Dot commercial. I also like sometimes when Jake pitches back the pitches, if he doesn't like someone else's pitch, he be like oh you can do the weird like trophy thing I definitely try to manipulate the numbers in the end because gareth and I always text about

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That's the right reaction. They called me in especially for you. What's your name? Yeah. Well, thank you. I'm very glad. My name is Julia, and I was calling in hoping that you guys can help me with a super serious work bill that I'm having. We can.

Oh, well, what, what is it, Julia? What's going on? So, um, I am an assistant, like an executive assistant, and I recently applied for a job supporting one of like the big boys of the company I'm at. Um, and so, so basically I, I kind of already knew him just a little bit and his office was already near my desk. And so I heard through the grapevine that he has a bit of a sweet tooth.

So I put my thinking cap on and I put a candy bowl on my desk, knowing that when like he walked by, he'd get candy and like, hopefully get to know me. And so the good news is I got the job. The bad news is I have this candy bowl, shout out to like Pavlov for giving me the idea. But you know, I'm in the new role, I'm doing my best to take care of the big dog. But now it's turned into like a water cooler type situation. Everyone's on my desk at all times. There's candy flowing. It's very annoying. You said it. This is an easy one.

This one is so easy. I won't even, you gotta poison the candy. I mean. Good pitch Jimmy, good pitch. Razors. Candy bowl and that'll solve the whole thing. There will be nobody gathering on it. You know, out of all, yeah.

Thanks for the call Julia. Yeah. It's, so Julia, you got a candy bowl out that was meant for the boss, but now all the other workers are eating it and everybody's hanging around. Now you're desk and you were just really giving it to him. That's the problem. Raccoons. Yeah.

A bunch of slobs. Like raccoons. A bunch of slobs. And I know you guys are like. I would be pissed if I was Julia. I'm like, I'm doing this to kiss one person's ass. Get your grubby hands out of my Mars bars, you asshole. These are these are his skills. You motherfucker. I'm not paying for you to eat sweets. Yeah, walk

away asshole. Okay, so is that that's basically it. So that's the kind of thing. How do we get people to stop eating the sweets, but continue having them there for the boss? Is that it? He or like, I don't know if it's date and switch if I just completely get rid of the candy bowl Cuz he's kind of me and him are still in this awkward position where we do a lot of scaring at each other And I think the only reason he comes out of his office sometimes is because of the candy But it's also like, you know, I know you were living your Hollywood fantasy, but candy's expensive like it's very So you got a good not not not Halloween. It isn't you can go

around neighborhoods and stock up for the whole rest of the year. By the way, that is a great pitch if this is a money thing. Get two other friends go to Halloween and get garbage bags full of it for the year. Beat up the kids. My child is robbed. This Snickers is a little bit old.

Fuck you. I got it last. I mean, hey, there are no expiration dates on it. So, Julie, what do we call on this boss of yours? Big dog. We'll call him Big Dog. Are there lollipops? No, no lollipops.

Should I add lollipop? Well, I don't know. What kind of candy do you supply? I get the good bags like the Reese's and the Hershey's and the Snickers. Maybe you're getting, maybe the bags are too good. Maybe it's time for some Smarties and we'll see how frequently people stop. Laffy taffy's nobody's gonna be showing up if you've got those. Or how about now and laters? Like eating a candle. Yeah. Or wax lips. Yeah, it's a Julia. Tell me why you haven't just taken the bag of candy away before going into the show Cuz you already got because you got the job. Yeah Yes. Yeah, but like people like they love it. They love it. And it's what's worse is like for months

I bet I'll hear about the candy bowl still like Like they'll be like really aware to go. It's become a thing. I don't want that either. I think I hear you. Yes, it's bad candies. It could be bad candies. You also could, what you could also do is like make an egg salad sandwich and cut it into little finger foods and make people feel like you've just kind of missed the mark a little bit and you're going in a new direction. Leave it out in the sun. bit and you're going in a new direction. Leave it out in the sun. Or little hints of salmonella. You could start to open the candies and leave an open can like leave chocolates opened. I think that'll slowly deter the people. Okay. Okay. Okay. I have another pitch for you because I'm looking at a little container of them right now. What if you switch to mints? No one goes crazy with mints.

Yeah, this is a good switch. People will take mints, but they're not like flocking for mints. So if you have like a thing of Altoids or something, people might want them and appreciate them. You won't have to disappoint people. But you also don't have that frenzy. I've got it. I've got a pitch to open candy like Skittles or M&Ms that you have to put your hand in

and don't have a scoop. Oh, scoop. So they walk by and they go like, oh, and then they go, oh, and you go like, yeah, there was just a two pound bag of M&Ms I got. And somebody goes like, oh, you don't have anything. And you go, no, I don't. And then they'd have to put their hands in once one person does, no one's following. I wouldn't hesitate. I would put my hand in there every time. Maybe a single chopstick. Yeah, a single chopstick is a bald swap.

What if you, okay, I got, how about this? A sign where the candy used to be that just says I have diabetes. Well, so little thing about me is I am a fat individual. So it's also like, what a great term, by the way. I've never identified more with a term. I think I just fell in love. I get I get my big dog likes you.

Yeah, I also think we got a new piece of merch. I am a fat individual So just before we go any deeper you guys need to know I am a fat Guy do identify as a fat Okay, so you're a fat individual oh And you're the one who. Oh, that's great. And you're the one who has candy on their desk. Oh, fruits. Fruits and veggie strips.

OK. You lean out with, I'm going on a diet. And everyone goes like, great. And you have apples, some weird brownish bananas. And you go, guys, it's the year of getting healthier. And within a day, nobody cares about your food. You'll never speak to anyone again. You'll go like she brought a thing of grapes and bananas and then you go like look I'm a fat individual I'm looking to lose some weight your desk is not an issue anymore no one's coming. I like what Jake you

just went through what I went through with my pitch was that there was silence and Julia just goes, okay. But it's pretty lonely out here right now. I like that though. I mean, I think something like that. I think something where you're making the switches good. Mintz is a good pitch because it's not, that's not going to bring people, like you don't have an addiction, especially Altoids. Yeah. They're like powdery, they're so aggressive. You could do those in a pack of gum. You could do little trident ones where you just empty it out. And that means everyone take one a day and that's it. Gum's expensive though.

Gum has become very, very expensive. A pack of gum now is like $3 a target. At the airport it was about $5 the other day. Wow. It was shocking. Yeah. So Julia, you got a bunch of ideas here. Mints, you got a bad smell, which was an under credited pitch.

So I do think there's something to it. If you, but I mean it, if you put something near your desk that just had a really funky smell to it, egg salad sandwich, you know, salad sandwich, fart into the jar itself and then quickly seal it up. Is that crazy? Does it have a shirt that says I'm a fat individual and farting? On the back and I'm farting. I think the whole point is to not draw it to the mic.

And then then there's the idea. So there's mints, there's gums, there's fruits and veggies. Uh, what do you think you're going to do? I maybe I'll put like a nice bowl of apples or something. I kind of like the fruit idea or the, I mean, the mince is nice because then everyone has fresh breath, which is always good. But so what, so what if you started with mints and apples as a transition and then you could slowly, once the Altoids are gone, just have apples and apples.

I mean, that is, that sounds extremely unappealing just agreed. Yeah. It'll end this. It'll end this within you're still offering but it's a nightmare it'll end it apples aren't sure be there I tell you what you know Reese's peanut butter cup is a lot cheaper than an apple and nobody's taking part of an apple yeah I think you got to go with mince I mean that's what I would do I would go with Altoids I I'd go to Costco. I'd get one of those big packs. I'd put them in there and I think the last year the rest of probably till Easter. Well, it's up to you, Julia. What do you think

you're gonna do? I think, you know, I do love the image of mints right beside apples, so maybe I'll try that and start the transition and then hopefully get all of this food off my desk. Can you send us a photo of the final spread you put out there? Of nobody near your desk with those options? Yes. And me in my I'm fat shirt. No, no, no. I'm a fat individual.

And farting. And farting. Very different. In the back. I'm a fat individual and farting. Julia, we appreciate the call. Jimmy, thanks for coming on, man. You're the best.

Thanks, Julie. Oh, is that it? We're done? That's it? That's the whole show. Oh, we solved all the problems? That's the whole show. It feels like it, though.

We took candy off a woman's desk, and we put mints there. What a killer line with I'm a fat individual, though. Do you guys have merch? I mean because It seems like this is the type of thing you need to print up Yeah, we do have merch and we will have fat. I'm a fat individual. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Would you please send one to me? And we're sponsored by Greenlight. You know the deal with Greenlight as your kids get older.

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I'm going to I'm going to I'm going to with I going to get a grown up fridge. I had the baby fridge. Oh, yeah. I remember this. Cutie fridge. And you had somebody who came to your house who made a mean joke about your baby fridge and you wanted to know how to get revenge. Yes, it was my cousin and her family. And to be fair, Jake, when we saw the fridge, it was not great. We were, we, we really sort of jumped ship as far as being super supportive. Or we held it in. We, I think we rose to the fridge.

I think we both said, I know we texted about it after. We did text. It looks like when a kid puts on his dad's shoes is what that fridge So what happened? So as I mentioned on the call the they were coming back to visit and So you guys had mentioned like getting some we kind of settled on like some sort of like magnet We didn't want to do like over the top, you know, first we talked about a party and then we were like, no, let's just reel it back a little bit. Sure.

So I did get, you push, you gotta take the shot. We find it. So we, I did get some magnets made, what we settled on, I wasn't gonna try to do the, let's have everyone over and do a game night thing because that dream is crushed. So we decided on they would come over, say hello to my husband and the dogs and then we would go to dinner.

I didn't force my husband to go to dinner with them. So I just had the magnets on the fridge. I think I sent Kevin some photos. Yeah. What does it say on it? So I liked the line of the line of stuff like the, like the fuck you fridge. Cause it can be, it kind of is, it kind of is a fuck you fridge. But you, I got a photo of the old fridge. It says started from the bottom and then it's a fucking fridge. But you, I got a photo of the old fridge. It says started from the bottom

and then it's the new fridge and it says, now the whole fridge fucking here. Then first ice cubes and then what is that first? First beer amid. First beer amid. Yeah, my husband was very excited about his barramid. He's also disappointed that I didn't get a picture of his first Costco steak hall,

because he literally, our freezer is just steaks from Costco. Okay, so you put, now did this stay on your fridge for a while, you promised this was up when they were there? And it's actually still up right now, like I never took it down. I don't think this is pointed, You promised this was up when they were there and it's actually still up right now I don't think this is pointed if I was the person who made the mean joke This doesn't feel like a fuck you to me. This just feels like yeah, they agreed with me now They got a better fridge. Well, but I just what I was gonna ask you Jake you see that What's your first reaction when you see that that fridge?

Honest if I'd like go to someone's house. Yeah, it's like a cute inside family joke. OK, I'd be like, this is me. I'd go, oh, everything OK over here? No, no one else has seen it like no one else has seen it. It's still I think it's one of those things like a family who takes like a family, like a funny Christmas thing. And then they post it up and they're all like it was crazy

So we all wear ugly sweaters and you go like I hope you guys had a nice. Yeah I mean, yeah the fridge is it's really, you know a utility for sure But I definitely like if I was in the neighbor, I'd be like hey Yeah, a lot going on over here. But for the for so our pitch just to remind us was more pointed at this this character who insulted you correct. I believe so yes we were calling him Fred. We were calling him Fred and did Fred respond after seeing it. He did chuckle and their older daughter who had no idea about any of this stuff because she was not at the original visit. So it was kind of like he chuckled,

like I was like, oh, you guys can go grab a drink, like to feed them into the kitchen. And he like saw it and he like chuckled. And then she was just kind of like, like you guys were like, wait, I don't really get this. Glad you got a fucking fridge. And you guys like your new fridge, which is cool. Yeah, we do.

But so Fred, just to make this about us, Yeah, go ahead. just because it's a follow up. Go ahead. So Fred chuckled, but didn't get that stomach ache I think we were craving. No, but I think by the end of our call we were like, we didn't want to be like mean because then it made it seem like that like I'm just sitting over here seething for, you know, eight months.

And I did see like some of the the I watched the YouTube um they were like acting like guys this isn't our most important issue this is just I have a therapist for the the real help stuff you know Jake and Gareth this is their real house yeah and Carla we'll tell you from experience don't go in the comments on YouTube. OK. Or I had great ideas. Well, I will. That's where I was called fat Aaron Paul. And, you know, it's it's a ride. So if you're going to jump in there, you're going to need some Kevlar.

But so to to go back to just to wrap this one up. So our advice to you was put something on that fridge that lets him know you've upgraded, you have a sense of humor about it and also kind of fuck off. Yeah. You guys picked a fun thing. It worked. You did it. I think the magnet looks really good.

It's making fun of the old one. It's celebrating the new one. Fred saw it, chuckled and went, okay, so all in all, this feels like a kind of win to ring the bell. You think it is? I think we're going to ring the bell. You think it is? OK, great. All right. If you think it's a ring the bell, if both you guys do, then I'll take it. Ring the bell. OK, because this feels more like it was near the suggestion, but also like happy ending. Yeah, I listen. We get closure. I mean, my only note would be why is the calendar on the fridge?

But we're not going to get into that. Maybe. Why is it? And why is it bigger than the picture? Why is it so big? But we're not going to get into that because then we're going to start to. Because that's because, Garrett, that's where I'm at. It's not a 10 magnet. Well, also, there's also like a calendar, but it's the beer joke, too

It's a lot so I'm like well. I thought the joke was didn't he say it's time to get a grown-up fridge Yes, so I thought it was gonna be more like I'm growing bitch Yeah So so I failed no We rang the bell. We're not unringing the bell, but also just to be very clear It would not be your failure in the statistics of this show, which we all take and Gareth and I will take with us for the rest of our lives via text messages. Absolutely. I just don't know if-

I mean, you came up for 40 percent, so I think you're doing- All right, all right, all right, all right, listen, you're the one with the huge calendar. We're not gonna start, like, we're not gonna start shitting each other. I just don't know if I have my heart of hearts if this is a victory. Kevin. This is a- Kevin, what is it? I think it's a dub. What is it? What is your thoughts?, I'm taking it as a win. Let's ring the bell. Thank you for the follow-on. Ring the bell. Big calendar. If anything, I'd shrink it a little bit. Thank you, Carl. We love you. Thank you.

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