We're Here to Help - 124: Schrocktoberfest

Episode Date: October 21, 2024

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Yeah. And then, oh yeah, the news. He was going to do the news thing. I think he did, didn't he? No, he was supposed to do the news thing. I think he did, didn't he? No, he was supposed to do the whole thing. He kind of did. Kind of. The reporter, I guess, had a stroke before, about a couple weeks before,

and he didn't want to be rude. He didn't want to seem like he was making fun of the reporter. But which was nice. It was a sensitive move. Sure. Because it could seem like you're doing a move on a guy who's like, hey, man, I'm trying to do a story and you don't do that. Here's, I'm, my father had a stroke, so I am allowed to say.

Braggr. Things are good. Dude, my dad had Parkinson's, you don't see me bragging about it. And cancer. And he passed away. By the way, my mother's had cancer too, so don't think you're the only one. All right, we're even even you braggart. Bragging about parental ailments.

But as a guy whose father had a stroke, I'm allowed to say I think he could have plowed through. You think? Yeah. Yeah. I don't think, I don't think you're making fun of the reporter. I mean, I think you're right. It is the, I think he just, he just, yes, but they're separate. It is the I think he just nice thing Yes, but they're separate their separate moves I would have loved it because it would have been so funny on that clip to hear him do the whole voice and really go For it. We really teed him up. We really and it was good. Like it worked. Yeah, I was like man

You had a full meal in front of you Yeah and bailed and and we're allowed to say that because Kevin's dad ate a lot. What? Without further ado! Hello, can you hear us? Yes, hi. You scared the shit out of us. Where were you? Waiting.

What were you doing? Are you okay? I didn't know I had it on mute. Oh, you were muted. Thank gosh. Our last caller should have been muted when they... Yeah. Oh, God. I'm scared as hell.

Kevin, will you start doing something rather than saying, producer Kevin here, will you just start saying the shark here? Hello, the shark here. Shark here. Or shark here. Yeah. Like when you jump in and do a thing a day and where you go like, hey the shark here. Hello the shark here. Oh Shark. Yeah, like when you jump in and do a thing a damn where you go like yeah We're saying some of the emails now are like hey shark. Yeah. Oh, yeah, so many. All right. What is your name, please? Oh someone gave me this too

I mean, it's gonna be hard to see but a friend came and gave me a little baby shark for the top of my recording board So I'll put it on camera anywhere. I'll put it. Yep. I'll send I'll put a picture of it on a cam, too. Sorry. Go ahead, caller. I interrupted. Sorry. You know, sharks are there. I got a toy and I had to interrupt.

You can't stop moving or they die. What is your name? My name is Kat. Back to back. Where are you calling from? I'm in Massachusetts. Oh, beautiful. Where in Massachusetts? Like? I'm in Massachusetts. Oh beautiful, where in Massachusetts? Like an hour northwest of Boston.

My brother Tommy's out there in Boston. What are you talking about? My brother Tommy lives there. Tommy doesn't live there. Tommy's over there in Southia, in Boston. Yeah, by the donkett. Now you're near the Jordans furniture out in Nadek. No, are you?

Yeah. Tommy? Yeah, how far do you think he's going? The fireman. Yeah, the fireman the fireman yeah oh I'm thinking about Danny yeah no well Danny's still out there in Southie he was over there with me well he can't move poor guy that's so big it got so big cat okay they said they had to get a crane to get him out of his place he's a real sad his mother his mother's a wonderful lady I love his mother his mother's like my

mother all women are mothers everyone is a mother is like my mother. All women are our mothers. Every woman is a mother. Everyone is my mother. I'll tell you what, I made it a lot, I made it very uncomfortable with a few women because I said, you're my mother. Well, every woman I love is my mother, every woman I hate is a whore. And every guy meets my friend and my enemy Cat Massachusetts What can we do free? We don't even need I mean, I'm just ten minutes from New Hampshire I don't know what you have for a new hamster voices. Hey my friend Cody's over there Sucks about the old man in the mountain, but it's a really nice cabin up here, isn't it? Beautiful? No, like on Sunday. I can't

Massachusetts near New Hampshire What's the problem? Yes Okay, so I have a relatively new boyfriend and he's an October baby And his last name is Shrock. So he's of German descent and And his last name is Shrock so he's of German descent and So for the last years he's been throwing a Shrocktoberfest for his birthday Don't oh boy That's a gay. Okay. Oh boy. Good. Okay. I love it. I thought you were doing rocktober. Okay, great. Okay a little close to shark I

Sharkwinds your birthday five days ago. I lost 20 pounds. Oh, yeah, that's right. Oh, when's your birthday? Five days ago. I lost 20 pounds. Oh, yeah, that's right. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I was three months of my life. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. My bad. We had a big thing about it. OK. Yeah.

Can. Whoops. And we're back. All right. So you literally gave me a gift. OK. Today, I literally gave you a birthday gift today. I forgot. OK. What is your birthday? We gave a gift. Okay, today. I literally gave you a birthday gift today and forgot. Okay. When is your birthday? We gave him a gift today.

So, Kat, you got a boyfriend. His birthday is October. His last name is Shrock. He calls it Shrocktober. Yeah, he throws a Shrocktoberfest the last few years for his birthday. It's a house party, it was German fair. Sure. Quick pause. David Wal- Well, I'm sorry, Kat, really fast. David Walton, great actor, comedian, funny guy. He was on New Girl Played, the doctor guy. He and I were hanging out a little bit ago,

and there's this video going around, he showed me, of an Oktoberfest where everybody's going crazy. Oh, he's a man. Fizz fights, guys dicks out, people barfing. There's so much beer drinking. Random, like, dudes who are blowing lines of coke right on a table. Isn't it Germany? Yes.

Wow. But the level of debauchery where you go like, he's like, just keep watching. All of a sudden it's like a random woman's lifting up her skirt, sounding like, I'm like, this is noon? Random guys almost drunk their dicks out, somebody's giving them a hand job.

Coke all over people's faces. I'm sorry. But it's very funny. It's great. All right, so'm sorry. But it's very funny. It's great. All right. So keep going. Yeah. So maybe you don't pitch anything in that row. Yeah, we're trying to get a little bit from that, obviously. Yeah, we don't want to be a coca-cola, especially this October festival.

Maybe don't pitch anything is a perfect. Yeah. Yeah. Nothing in that zone. Guys. Okay. So this year, I've taken upon myself to throw the Shocktoberfest at my house, but I'm feeling a lot of pressure to make it epic for three reasons. One is that it's his 50th, so it's a big milestone. And another is that I just need it to be better than the ones that he threw with his ex. And the third is that half the attendees are psychologists, which terrifies me. So,

wondering how I can elevate the Shrocktoberfest so it's not, you know, just sticky beer floor and sausages. Interesting. Well, maybe leverage the shrinks at my disposal. I don't know. Things like there's something there. Did you hear what Jake was talking about earlier when he saw it on October 1st? I can get you the video. Yeah, we're talking about sweeps. I mean, we're really, could just be a fun direction to go in.

But you're looking for something, what has he done at the other ones when you said his ex? Because that was a big buzzword for me because I love a little competition. So he used to do this with his lady. What did they do in the past? What is the Schachtoberfest? How does he run it?

They just have parties with German beers and they buy sausages and other schnitzels. We got a low bar. But part of the video, and Kevin really other you know schnitzel but but part of the part of the video and Kevin if you remind me I'll ask Walton if we can get it great maybe we could put a clip of it online it's insane part of the fun and the first thing I'm gonna pitch is uniform required yeah outfits later later the whole you it's like a Halloween party or a theme party where they say, do not come if you are not dressed up.

What's our petty cash situation here? We have a little money to throw at this thing? You're talking about them providing outfits? I think you could find cheap laterhosen costumes online, and you could get a few extras. But I will say this. Because I hear what you're saying, but that's if it's get a few extras. But I will say this. Okay, yeah. Because I hear what you're saying, but that's if it's like a college one. Yeah. This is a man's 50th birthday. So what you could say is you could give it early. You could send links on Amazon where you're like, these will do or pick your other ones. But there's like skirts and later

and weird shorts and the weird hats. Because part of what's so funny about the video is how they're dressed and That the guy's getting jerked off Cooking everywhere It was also what was funny is how funny how hard he was laughing while showing it Yeah, the person who loves the video so much the best for the best but There could we could start with it's obviously German beer. It's obviously the food, but you've got to come, you know, dressed appropriate here in that cat.

What are your thoughts? Yeah, so he has an outfit himself. The laden, whatever you call it, and the janty hat. Yeah, that was it for outfits. So he's the only could add a costume required. Yeah. And maybe we don't tell them about the costume being required. Oh, it's a surprise to him.

I love that. I think that's really fun. But that's great. So he doesn't know. So that's a big surprise to him. But it's also what it's going to do is it's going to turn your party from a six to an eight. Yeah. Everybody in funky outfits all of a sudden.

We're looking for a ten though. Well, we're getting to a ten. Jesus, Kat, we're building. You can't get to a ten right away unless guys are getting their dicks out and people are doing coke. No, but you think the video starts with that? No, it starts with them taking shots. Exactly.

We're talking about the A's side. 45 seconds into the video, you see your first H.J. But yeah, I think that's good. Keep that a secret. That'll be a fun reveal for him. Costume reveal is great. And music-wise, what are you doing? Are you coming up with a German playlist?

How do you get into it? I have a pitch on that. Find a group of German old musicians who play traditional music and hire them. I like it. And that's also at least for an hour at least for an hour. That's not the whole time, but I want 75 plus in uniform To have a microphone and when he comes in everybody's there he comes late. So everybody's inside He walks in they're all there and as soon as he walks in the guy goes like we're gonna do And it starts yeah, but you find it

Yes, the whole real music. Yeah, and then everybody has The beer in those big fucking dines. Yes Somebody's walking around in the uniform maybe get get, it's his 50th birthday. So maybe get caterers, which Gareth and I have both done, but they're in uniform. So you have a bunch of women in like the skirts and guys in the little later houses, no shirts, why not? Walking around with little wieners. Yep. What?

On the trays, dude. Okay. Chill out. You chill out, you do exactly what you're doing. Where you think I guys selling a guy Guys what? You started it he's out of control. Come on. You want to do the video with me? Absolutely But you could hire because you're gonna you're gonna need food at this event turn it like a wedding have have a

catering they're in uniform uh... the beers are on tap not on tap but whatever get a couple kegs get a fucking keg very nice german beers and you get all you get somebody dressed up in the german outfit being the one running the keg everybody's got an accent the caterers if they're not they just fake one yep a live band is great I think live bands great

I you also I mean, you know, you're gonna have your various types of sausage. I have a crazy pitch Please okay as the day gets going a little further Why don't we do a brought beer where it's like a why don't we call it? I know what you're saying why don't we call it? I know what you're saying. Why don't we call it a German car bomb and what it is is we put a kielbasa or some sausage into a beer and you drink the beer and then you Eat the sausage at the bottom, but that's a real thing. Is it so I'm crazy I feel like I've seen things where they drop a hot dog in a beer and then show it surprised me Yes, I've never heard of that. But why don don't we do that we'll do that now just to stop the momentum for no reason great why why what why stop a party trouble with your hot dog because we're getting

drunk we're making it as German as possible that's fun because beer brats are a thing okay so what is a beer brought a beer brought is like a brat that's been marinated okay yes 100% this is just a way of combining yeah yeah and that by the way that's a lot of fun because what you could also do then is all the brats get thrown in a beer yeah they marinate you chug it take the brat out grill them yeah great well you probably don't want to drink that beer how come i don't know raw sausage beer right yeah i consult a physician there's a zone here a way. Yes, we're adding something like that We could all do I mean, okay. How are you feeling about this so far cat?

How are you feeling about our direction? I can answer for she's fired up. She is fired up. I can hear She's so hot about it. We could put a broad on her right now and it'd be good She's so hot about it. She could just be one of the random ladies and that video Walton sent me So cat, how are you feeling though? Alton sent me. No, no, no. So Kat, how are you feeling though? So the live music thing sounds like a riot had you thought of that route.

Would you consider going old and traditional? Yes. Yeah, so long as it's capped at an hour for sure. Agreed. Yeah, that's great. I think you're dead right. I don't think you want that too much longer. No, capped at an hour.

No. OK. Keep going. Yeah, it sounds amazing. Costumes, anything with costumes sounds like a hoot. And do you like the reveal of it that he doesn't know about it? Yeah, that's ideal for sure. I want to make it a surprise. Whatever we do would be great. Great. And then the German car bomb, I mean, if it's like, I think the only reason I would do it is knowing that you guys coined this thing, but I don't want a frat party situation.

Well we're beer to help. Because it's a 50th. Oh. Yes, you are. I'm gonna quit the show. Hang in. Hang in there with me. It's gonna get worse.

Okay, I'm back. I'm back. It's going to get worse. I would argue also, let's hide the fact that we've hired a band from him too. I think if you're talking about how do we step it up, I think the more that you are doing these little chestnuts for him throughout the day, the better. I totally agree. What do you think about the caters? So I did already ask him about the caters and he said he wants to grill. So he wants to like the whole DIY thing. But not for everything.

The boyfriend wants to grill. Yes. At his own party. Some guys are, you know, like that. Okay. All right. Okay. So he's grilling up.

Then would you consider seeing if you can hire two people, one man and one woman in full uniform to distribute all the food he's grilling up. Then would you consider seeing if you can hire two people, one man and one woman in full uniform to distribute all the food he's grilling? Mm, that's good. Just to get a little bit of that theme part. Yeah. You see the look. So if you're standing there, you feel goofy. There's some 25 year old who's excited to be there, who's making good money going like,

yeah, I'm just walking around making sure everybody's drinking. They could have a tray of beer. They just walk around offer beer and hot dogs so you go like and then recommend to everybody please take a Lyft or an Uber. We highly recommend. Let's allow yourself if you're a drinker this is the night to drink. If not have some fun and watch everybody act like clowns. Yep. I think that's good. I love it.

And then as far as like the stuff he's gonna be grilling, is he on top of that? He's picking all that out? Yeah, I mean, maybe not everything, but it's a 25 person party, so it's not like 100 people. Oh, great. That's right, that's perfect for a 50-year-old. So, Kat. It could be all right, yeah.

Are you gonna do all this? Hell yeah. When's the party? Every single one. When is October? October 5th. Will you send us a, October 5th, my brother's birthday. Ooh.

Will you send us to get drunk with him? Maybe. Would you send us photos of the party? Yep. Some video. Absolutely. This sounds like a lot of fun. Maybe would you send us photos of the party? Yep some video Absolutely, this sounds like a lot of fun. I think this is gonna be a great 50th and you're definitely gonna beat the X Has he ever listened to this show? He does it's that he's the only one in my crew who listens to you guys with me

So it's gonna be hard not to tell him do we want to give a couple of days? Shout out for the 50 just to help a little bit. What's his name? I'm so mad. Matt. OK, Matt Shrock. You guys can tell him what you did. Yeah, that's the one. Shark.

Don't know. It's crazy. Happy birthday to you, Matt. Happy birthday to you. Shrek. Happy birthday, dear Matt. Got a nice. It's German, it's lovely. Happy birthday to you.

Boy, Matt, we're so happy for you. You're 50. We got a great sound over here. It's like three men and a baby. You, Matt, but come on. And the three of us sing together. Tell me that the dogs in the neighborhoods and just how old are the moon? You're 50 years old. You're a lucky man. We hope you have a great birthday.

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What's your name? What's your age? Where are you calling from? I'll just update him when he's back. OK, my name is Maya. I'm 40 and I live in Massachusetts. And what do you do for work, Maya? I work in public health. Public health. OK, that's exciting. Is your call related to public health?

Um, it's related to something about my gym. So, I guess it's in the greater realm of health. Are you born and raised in Mass? Where's that accent? Um, yeah, I am from Massachusetts. I don't have a Boston accent. My parents do. I can break it out from time to time. Okay, well, why don't we, when Jake's about to sit down, I'll update him on who you are and what's going on. But why don't we just hear this Boston accent that eludes you? Let's hear it. Well, you got to give me something to say. Why don't you say, boy, the other night when I walked too far, I hit my head.

Boy, the other night, I walked too far and I hit my head. Not bad. Jake, this is Maya. She too far and I hit my head. Not bad. Jake, this is Maya. She's 40. She's from Massachusetts. She works in public health. And we're about to hear a gym related question. Okay.

All right, Maya, let's party. Okay. So this past year I joined a new gym. It's kind of like a CrossFit or like a boot camp. The town I live in is pretty small. So it's really like one of only three gyms that are like a reasonable driving distance to my house. I don't really have a lot of options. I don't really have a problem with the workouts

themselves. I actually really like them. Like I said, it's close to my house. Everything seems great. Yeah, so far so good. Everything seems pretty fine. I'm not here in a Boston accent That's not Sorry to disappoint. That's okay Okay, okay, so as my brother told me has one for sure. Yes. I'll tell you what Brother told me he was a fireman. My brother Bobby was one He was a cop down in Southie, but we were all together back in this must have been 84 85 He was a cop down in Southie, but we were all together back in, this must have been 84, 85.

Yeah, we used to go for roast beefs down at Kelly's near the boardwalk. Ah, the boardwalk. I had the best roast beef in the town. All right, so Maya, what's your issue here? Some of the- The other night I walked so far, I hit my head. Fuck it, no one makes me laugh like Dennis Leary. That guy.

What is that kid up to? He's one of us. Yeah, absolutely. He actually talks about this city in a way that makes sense to me. He's an asshole. I like us. All right. Feel free to feel free to steamroll Maya. Kevin, Kevin very much in the parental role today. I like it. It's good. I like it. Okay. I'll get right to it. Okay. So the culture at the gym is just really intense. It's kind of culty. It kind of has that gym fam vibe.

Like everybody wears their merch. They're very aggressive about like selling their merch, selling all those protein powder things. The trainers are like in your face all the time. Like all this stuff, that's something I can handle, but like the stuff that's really getting to me is like very aggressive and constant high fiving. So it's like a 45 minute workout. You have to do a big high five at the start of the

workout. And after every exercise, they tell you to do a high five. At the end, you have to do a high five. Sometimes they tell you to do high five. More like cross five. Right. Keep going. It's just like 30 high fives. By the end of like the 45 minute class. Oh, yeah. It's one hundred and fifty.

Way too many high fives. Yeah. Yeah. Where I get with your voice. I don't think it's right. I don't know. I tried to count it up. So what is the specific question, Maya? So when I try to like do something

alternative to a high five, like, they're like, good job or like a fist bump or something like that. People just give me weird looks. Um, I really like the gym. I want to stay at the gym, but I just like really not into the high five. So I wonder if you like have any ideas about how I could, you know, stay at the gym and avoid the high fives or do something else. Well, first of all, you joined CrossFit,

which you kinda... CrossFit likes, she said it's that mixed with a boot camp. Yeah, but it's not CrossFit. But it's still like, it's one of the, I know the vibe you're talking, I've lost a friend to CrossFit recently, I lost a friend to Jiu Jitsu, which was pretty hard. I'm gonna lose a friend after you keep talking about it.

He sort of became, he started to be kind of a weirdo about his old gym culture. You know, I couldn't have a regular conversation. It ain't little, baby. It ain't little. Actually, the other night, the other night he sent me a picture of a dummy that he bought that I guess he trains with at home. It's insane. It looked like it was made from Knight's armor. Anyway, you want to hear the truth?

What? I hurt my back training with it, which my wife said I can't believe the dummy one and I said I didn't this time but I honestly got hurt But I honestly got hurt and I don't know how it happened for the YouTube You can we throw up a picture of what we're talking it is. I can't believe that thing beat you I'm not surprised because I asked him to bring it in the studio and he goes it's too heavy to carry in what happened is When you start doing jiu-jitsu No, you need to stretch your body and train and one time somebody said to me hurt your back

You better you better stretch I go why they said old things break But then when you stretch you hurt your back so for you, it's like what do you do? You got to stretch before you stretch. I don't know. You're not wrong Yeah, I actually don't know cuz my soul is your journey is phenomenal to watch from the outside filled with a lot of bumps But what's gonna be really? Is when I when I hold up that fucking what is your belt right now? Why with a stripe why with the stripe? Okay? Okay? Anyway my it's not about what's going on in Jake's world I think I'm great your question is is how can we get that boss?

No, no, no eliminate the high five I think you'd you wear a mask to the gym. And when somebody goes to high five, you say I'm getting over a sickness. I like that. Well, I go ahead. You said, well, what didn't you like? I could. I mean, it's a little intense to wear a mask. So just they go to you and you're going this. I'm getting over a sickness.

OK, I like that. Here's two others. Yeah Let's just go all in on bowing you bow every time. There's a high five in your face, but you bow You do a respectful bow you do a fist in hand or oh or you weird out You use the bow to do you like go to give me a high five after a workout you do like a Mortal Kombat Yeah, you go and then go like this Yeah Like go to give me a high five after a workout. You do like a Mortal Kombat thing? Yes, you go and then go like this. Yeah.

And that's like a weird, you like make a punch move where they just have to look at you. And then you go like make direct contact and go like have a good day. Yeah. A bow, a bow, a little move is an acknowledgement, but it's not going to be a high five. Now let's say you can't get out of the high five easily. How about you bring like climbers chalk in a little pouch on your side and you over chalk those hands so anytime someone wants a high five and you give it to them it's like LeBron pregame. Or with that in mind there's another thing you could do is you could carry a little thing

of Vaseline and right before they give you a high five put it on your hand where they go like the fuck is on Maya's hands. or talk about you behind your back is like the lady with like really greasy hands How about this? I like that too? Yeah, how about this let's put a fake bandage on your right hand like you've just had an injury and So it might make working out hard well, but it's fake Oh, that's it so take a glove just yeah something where you just if someone you kind of point to a guy I can't but and then you could even do your bow here's another move I think the bow is a really good move

but here's another move and gareth just did it right before I said it right before somebody gives you a high five cough or Like pretend like you blew your nose in your hand So you just do like a pretend we just finished and you're gonna go to me have you go like a no like you're the person Hey What's up, man? I don't like that. But the people will still high five you then. But people people will be pot committed, though. I tried to eliminate the handshake.

You did. COVID, you got scared. I well, I just was like, great, let's get rid of it. So what did you how did you do it? So I went with a bit of a bow. You howie Mandel. I fist bumped and then my elbow. People didn't nobody. Nobody else came on board. I fist bumped and then my elbowed. Nobody nobody else came on board. Yeah. And everyone stuck in there with the like the high five the handshake the whatever. It's weird not to. I don't I don't like I didn't I've never liked it.

Yeah. Just weird to me to just be like hey cool. Yeah. Just be like hey hi I'm here we're connected. Intimacy issues. So Maya we've given you a lot of. I tell them with judgment. Options. What do you think you're going to do? And can you answer it with a Boston accent? Has anything tickled you fancy? I like the hand bandage. I think if I'm like, I don't want to get a reputation of being like the growth person and like coughing and sneezing all over the place You know small powers back. Yeah, okay, we're gonna get around sure

Um, but you know, I can I can pull out a bow I can try about okay So you're gonna you're gonna bandage it with a side of bandage or the bow or are you gonna bow it with a side of bandage? What's your main course here? I think a bandage I can definitely do the bandage for I think a bandage, I can definitely do the bandage for a while but then like I can't have like a years long hand wound. Maybe I can, maybe it's a persistent thing. Well first of all you probably could. Yeah but also you just have to deal with the moment with the bow Maya and you can't back down. If they put the five and you bow and they leave the hand, you don't reciprocate. And also, you're going to if if if someone sees that you bow two to three times,

that's your thing. That's your thing. Guess what? If it's how and how does a weird punch thing that Gareth tried to copy. How he still does it. You want to know why Gareth does it? He didn't commit. Yeah, I'm not as famous. Be how we get it. Yeah. Be bowie, bowie, Mandelel. Bowie Handel. Does that make sense? Whatever you do, you gotta commit, okay? Just lean into it. Bowie Hand Swell. I'll stop. We had it somewhere. There's one in there that works. Does that make sense? It makes sense. What do you think? I feel like we're leaving. You're like, no, I think I think I'm very interested in the hand bandage and

I think I could do something like a bow. Yeah. I would just be my thing and people would be like, okay. Yes, they will. They will. Yeah. You're paranoid because you're making a change, but I think people will be like, whatever she bows.

Yeah. Cool. Yeah. Okay. I'll just be like the weird member of the gym family. Well, everybody needs a weird member of the family. And I think I don't think it's as bad as you think it is. And then Maya, in your thickest Boston accent could you say, we're here to help with Jake and Gareth. We're here to help with Jake

and Gareth. Excellent. Thank you Maya. That was terrible. Alright Maya. That's good. Keep us posted. I do think you went to international school though. Yeah, you definitely know Jake probably from some school in Internationally we have kids from Scotland South Africa. Jesus Christ, New York Boston. So it's all together, but mostly you're Boston Yeah for sure. Absolutely. We need to do a vocal ancestor. My parents are from Hyde Park. Ah, they're from Hyde Park. Hyde Park! Yeah, that's over there by the church. Yeah Yeah. All right. Well, we'll see you later, Maya.

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Can you remind us who you are, what your problem was, what our suggestion was, and what did you do about it? Sure. My name is Kat, and I called in about elevating the Shocktoberfest for a 50th birthday. Oh, this is what Jake, I was just talking about. Remember you showed the video? Yes. Yeah. I was just telling someone that the other day. I'm like, a shocking. It's a shocking. Okay, so you called in because your significant other wanted to do an Oktoberfest and we gave

you a bunch of pitches on how to make it an awesome Oktoberfest, correct? Yes, exactly. So Kat, what did we pitch? Do you remember? Yeah, so the first one was costume required and another one was servers in costume. Yes. And another one was minimum 75 year old Oompa band. I like that one.

And then there was another one about some kind of German version of a car bomb. And that's the only one we didn't do, but I did all other three. No way. Okay, great. Now, okay, keep going. Well, it just really helped to make it a wonderful event. So I do wanna thank you.

Ring the bell. Bell's ringing. So this is, Kat, this is a big win. So you guys had a great, he He had a great 50th now wait But Jake look we got two calls on here. So I'm thinking Do we have the the fiance or the significant other on to corroborate the success? Yeah, actually is on there we go What's this? I'm here

sir Hello, my name is Matt. Thank you. Thank you Hey, Matt walk us through the party from your point of view Yeah, how do you well? so so the the interesting thing here is I'm a big fan of the show like cat actually Introduced the show to me and I've been binging it from the beginning and like catching up to where we are. Appreciate that. And have a lot of a lot of in common with the both the two of you which

is amazing. Huge huge Packers fan, Cat owner, Packers, yeah we both have cats. Also huge Chicago, grew up in the Midwest and Hugh Chicago and Cubs fan. But um, so I've been, I've been listening to the podcast and so she, she, I was not participating very well in terms of like planning the party. Yeah. Um, and uh, she called me one day and was like, so I have to ask you a question. Would you be interested in like this being a costume party? And I was like, well, what? Yeah, that sounds great. But like, what's the, so she, she divulged that she called in.

Okay. That's fair. To the podcast, which actually made it like way more exciting for me. It was like, it bumped it up a notch and I was like, holy shit, like no way. They took your call and you like had a conversation and they pitched stuff to you and she's like, yeah. And I was like, what did they pitch? And she's like, nope, you're going to have to wait on all of that.

Love that. Yeah. Love that. Love the power room from cat. Yeah, that's great. Um, so, um, so all I knew, all I knew was the costumes because she was, I think kind of wanting to make sure like, cause a lot of my friends were coming and she was like, is it okay if I, you know, say, like, there's a required thing?

I was like, sure, this would be fun. So that's all I knew. And then I knew, so I knew there was going to be this event. I didn't know what you guys pitched. I didn't know the other things were going on. And there's, the only other thing that I knew about was there's this I don't know how familiar you guys are the Boston area but there's this place in Boston that's called Carl's sausage in European Emporium. I

went to school in Boston and I've never heard of this place. It's not surprising it's up in Peabody it's's like not very well known. I stumbled across it when I was doing a previous version of this. I knew I was going to go up there and get some food and stuff. This kind of up the ante. We got a bunch of stuff from there. Then I showed up and there was this like insane space. Like she had like these key lights and this whole outdoor space. And there was this bar and like, I was like, oh, this is incredible.

This is beautiful. This is amazing. And then like we're getting ready and this car pulls up and these two people in costumes get out. I'm like, I don't know who these people are. Like who are they? She's like, oh, that's the bartender and the surfer. And I'm like, what?

Yeah, it's great. And so they set up. And I'm like, what? That's great. And so they set up behind the bar and they start doing stuff and helping out. And then the people start showing up and everybody's getting out in costumes and it's hilarious and fun. Everybody like really dove into it. And then all of a sudden this other guy gets out

and he's like this older dude with an accordion. All right, so we're gonna watch some video of something here. Let's see what's going on here. Oh shit. This is legit So this turned into a great party. Oh, it was incredible a huge success. We're definitely ringing the bell Let me ask you a couple questions You guys think we should ring the bell correctly? Come on, Garrett. Oh, stop. Yeah. I like to hear from them. And just because Jake showed me a documentary about the real German Oktoberfest, did anyone do powdered drugs or take their wiener out? We do slightly different. Okay. The sausages were on the grill., a little while in their outfits and came back very disheveled. Uh huh, yeah he got later.

He has a little drama. I like that. Well, that sounds great. It sounds perfect. Listen, this is why we love the show for follow ups like this. So Matt, Kat, we're really happy that this worked out. Big win for us. Obviously it's all about our ego and we feel good about this.

But also, Matt, and I don't know, you've probably heard the first, have we aired the first one yet, Kevin? No, we're doing this as one episode. Oh, perfect. So, Kat was- Yeah, I haven't heard anything yet. So she really wanted to throw you a great party, which you'll hear, and it was a really sweet call.

It really meant a lot to her to kinda really up it on your party. And it sounds like she knocked it out of the park. So Kat, you ring a bell, we ring a bell. And Matt, you just had a fun party. And Kat, show Matt the video that we had on the show, just so he can see what next year is going to be like.

Why did you say you guys put it on the show? I would say we would text it to your email, too, but we could get arrested. So we're not going to do that. We're not doing that. All right, guys. We appreciate the call. Thanks, guys.

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