We're Here to Help - 184: A Classic Vinnie Problem & Guest Host Energy

Episode Date: June 30, 2025

Gareth and Jake help a caller from Philly punch up a meat-themed party. Then, it's an extended follow-up with a caller whose work schedule conflicts with her rope-tying class. For more Heather from Orlando, check out Ep 104 "Smart People Are Our Kryptonite."See caller images here!Want to call in? Email your question to [e-mail]: https://patreon.com/heretohelppodMERCH: heretohelppod.comINSTAGRAM: @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.fmSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This is a HeadGum Podcast. And we are back. Is it nice to be back in the back home? Have we not done this since I was back? We have, but I feel like you just had gotten back. Yes. Yeah, I miss Alaska was awesome. Yeah. But I like California more.

Yeah, that seems to be what most people think. But I liked it a lot. I told you it's a good break. It's like a fast. Wait, hold on. Where did you perform? I was thinking about it. Did you do stand up at a place called Coots?

Oh, Christ. What was the bar like? It was in Anchorage. It was kind of like, it felt like an old movie theater. And I... Never heard. It might have been that. So Coots is an old, like, it's a... We shot in there.

It was this cool, western-y bar with like seven different rooms. No. Okay, but what was insane was there was a wall of where stand-ups performed there. And I gotta tell you, it must have been, would have been the most intimidating room in the world to go to. And there were names I knew, I'm like,

these fucking dudes are showing up to Goots on a Thursday and doing stand-up? Well, you know, it's like there. First of all, there's a whole run you can do throughout Alaska. And obviously you're not. It's just like seven cities. But you would be like, how is that even possible? But if you're doing that, you're not necessarily doing it

because you're like, these are going to be huge venues. You like want to be there. But when I was there, people like people were like, thank you so much for coming. And I was like, they must be pretty bad if they're like, Gareth, bless you for coming here. What cities did you go to? I only did Anchorage for standup, but I've been to Juneau and Ketchikan.

I did, I used to have a travel show and I did Ketchikan for a week on our travel show. We did a lot of lumberjacking and stuff like that. Yeah, what was the coolest place you went in the travel show? It might've been Alaska. I really might've been, it was like, it was so, we got access to stuff that was just crazy.

Yeah, we had the same shoot, we had the same thing. Where it's like there's no regulation. Yeah, we had the same shoot. Yeah, I think where it's like there's no regulation Yeah, it really does it just it I mean this it's probably sounds condescending to people But it's like I was like I'm in the 80s. Yeah, like this is like we're smoking in bar Like it's just there's one of everything. Well, how about this? there was we went on the one one of the producers, husband at, at a little plane. And so we would fly around on his plane and not only were we able to shoot in it, but Corey, Michael Smith was able to fly it on camera. And then I was able

to fly it. My brother, Dan flew the plane plane Like he's not even involved in the production because they would be you got the pilot and then you got the Copa But you both have steering so the real pilots right there But you know the air and it feels like you're moving a boat like you can move it to the right and the whole thing moves You're like an airboat though This is not happening in California No, and to be fair, it shouldn't. There were certain things in the 80s, like you could have an open can of beer while driving. Seat belts were like mildly encouraged.

There's a reason we got past it. I think we've talked about this, but there's this really funny clip. I know exactly what you're going to say. I think about it all the time because it just shows you the way that what maybe feels abnormal now Yes in 20 years we will be like why did we ever have it the other way? It's people mad because there was a new law that you had to wear a seatbelt and You weren't allowed to drink in a beer while driving Did the I think the video time as an Indiana and yes, it is that one have an open container Telling me in America, you can't drink beer on the drive. I can't walk me through this

I can't finish my job and drink a couple of beers By the way, that person was the only one where I was like, that's pretty good point. Honestly after I work By the way that person was the only one where I was like that's pretty good point honestly after I get work Gareth I felt 50-50. I really do too. I think look if we're talking about one beer on the drive agreed Like is I this I do that on stage where I'm like I'll have one on state. I'm not feeling it It's different after the show when I get home. I feel the beer after the drive by the show, when I get home, I feel the beer after the drive. By the way, I, growing up when we grew up in the 90s, being part of our teenage years, I remember my buddy Clay Allen used to pick me up.

He had a little Jeep Wrangler that was open top and he would pick me up and he would always have a cocktail and a little plastic cup and he would hand me one. And it wasn't strange to be like Hey clay and he's like, alright and you're drinking. I'm like, what's this? And he's like, it's a rum drink You know, like we're fully drinking alcohol in a Jeep in Chicago and how old are you this was You know when I was 20 21. Yeah, it's just so it's it really You know, when I was 20, 21. Yeah, it's just so, it really.

Yes, LA changed the drinking and driving game for me. Look, I know people are gonna go, you know, the world when people listen, they're gonna get annoyed by this, but it was different before. Well, nowadays drinking and driving is insane, but it's as crazy as smoking cigarettes now. Everybody used to smoke cigarettes.

I really, I mentioned, cause I got a DUI. And I've mentioned. You did? Yeah, back in the, but, and because I got a DUI. You did? Yeah, back in the, but, but, and, and I'm not proud of it, you know, it was a huge mistake, but I've, I have tried to contextualize it when I've talked about it sometimes because I'm like, it was not like now. It was like, I literally would have taxis cancel on me all the time after waiting a half hour and I'd have to go to LA now. Yeah, you're right I should have like been smart about it, but I was an idiot Right. So what happened with your DUI? Oh my god. It was just it was I was just over the limit not by a lot

Where were you? I was leaving in Bravo Olympic obviously Remember this the whole problem was Jake. I stopped to get Cool Ranch Doritos. How drunk were you, Gareth? I was, you're not drunk until you see sirens and then you go, well, I'm not doing great. You know, now I gotta prove it. I gotta prove it, but I got it in front of my house. I was parking. Oh no.

I made it. That's what I said to the cop. I was like, I did it. What are you doing? I'm here, motherfucker. I'm parking. Oh no. I made it. That's what I said to the cop. I was like, I did it. What are you doing? I'm here motherfucker. I'm home, I did it. Oh no. And you know who picked me up?

Steve Berg with a power bar, a banana and a water. But the next morning. The next morning. And as you- You spent the night in jail? I did. I was cuffed to a guy Who was like you and me are gonna put the system on trial and I was like buddy. I want to fly under the radar

So we're not on the same page with what we're trying to get accomplished here, but you got cuffed to me I got yeah, and who was just like hey, we're supposed to be allowed I was like just let let him do their thing. Just chill, my man. Let them do their thing. Chill, brother, please. Please. And I was in there for like 12 hours. I didn't, I didn't.

Here was the worst part. I, I, the toilet was like in the center of the room. Shared. Shared. And I went up to it five or six times trying to pee. Like I was going to die from urine. Why? Cause you had to go to the bathroom so bad. Yes.

But you couldn't? Couldn't. Why? The stage was too big. That's the title of your memoir. The stage was too big. The stage was too big. That's insane, Garrett.

I couldn't, and you want to talk about embarrassment standing in front of 20 men and Just having your penis out and no pee come out four or five It was I wonder what that is you couldn't pee it was I it was like you were terrified Terrified I would have been terrified and I was just like it got so bad That it was like they're gonna need to cut it out of me or it's gonna have to come out. So it hurts so bad. I was dying. I didn't even know that was possible. I didn't either. You've never stepped up to a urinal and not been able to... I have but I don't then have to go that bad. Something happens in my body where it'll just like disappear in there. Yeah. I'm like I really have to go

to the bathroom and then I'll be like this is my opportunity. Like if I have to take a dump and I'll be like what's the bathroom situation? They're like just the weird hole in the floor. My body will go like let's agree to to go to the bathroom and then I'll be like, this is my opportunity. Like if I have to take a dump and I'll be like, what's the bathroom situation? They're like, just the weird hole in the floor. My body will go like, let's agree to not go to the bathroom on this trip. Yeah, see, I think I'd gotten there and I think that it was bad.

But like, I'm not kidding. There have been a couple of times in my life where the stage is too big. You go to a urinal in England and you're just at a trough. I grew up in troughs, Wrigley Field. Yeah, see, I grew up, I had a charm life. We had our own urinal. And most beautiful Milwaukee bars. We're not like Chicago, you know, dog people. Once you get used to using the trough and you just whip it out, it's normal.

Yeah, you call them whoppers. Yeah, I used to. I remember Berg told me, because when I first met Steve, I was still drinking and driving pretty heavily. Yeah. And he was like, Jesus, you have got to pull this together. You will lose your license for six months and it'll cost you $10,000. He's not that wrong. Really? I mean, it, dude, it really, look. Changed your life.

Yeah, you realize, I mean, look, again, we're like laughing, but it is like it is serious It was back then though. It was just there's no LA Transit and we were just idiot young dudes at a theater Just well what I also realize and it's just how I feel and as I get older I care less about the backlash of stuff, but the world changes This is what we're talking about the end yet. you should be able to have a beer on your drive. And when the world changes, it's then over and the past is the past. And it is what it is. And you change with it or you become a weird dinosaur.

I, but there was, and look, drinking and driving is never good. No. And I also believe if you're drunk, okay, callers here and you hit somebody and they die, you should go to jail for that crime. Yes. You fucked up. But if you want Doritos and you're in front of your, if you're in front of your house, you let him go. You've made it. He made it. The race is over. It's ended. What are you doing? It's ended! What are you doing? We got a caller. Let's get into it. Thanks for everybody for listening. We just initiated a new thing of trying to tell somebody and recruit people to listen. We appreciate it. Once we start getting those, we're going to start posting those in for the fun of it. And without further ado...

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25. Italian, Italian parents, Italian family? Yeah, for the most part. Okay, it's interesting that maybe they weren't and they named you Vinny. Vincent. Huh? Vincent. Would you rather go by Vincent? No, but it's just Vincent.

Is your God given name Vincent? It is Vincent, but everybody calls me Vinny. Okay, all right, we'll call you Vinny. All right, Vinny, what's your favorite thing to put in a calzone? What's the problem? What's going on today? What can we help you with? So, I don't know if I would necessarily call it a problem But some years back a friend of mine his name's Joe. He came up with this concept called meat fest and

essentially the idea being Meat fest. Yeah, I mean AT. Okay MeatFest and essentially the idea of being MeatFest. Yeah, M-E-A-T. Okay. Feels very much like a Vinny problem. It sounds like what? Sounds like a problem Vinny's gonna call into a podcast and be like, y'all I'm struggling with MeatFest.

Just killin' me. Vinny, can you please go ahead? How dare you? Yeah. Vinny, can you please go ahead? How dare you? So essentially it is a holiday where once a year our entire friend group gets together and we spend the entire day drinking and more importantly like eating some form of meat for each meal. And we usually start at like 7 38 in the morning and it could normally

go until like one or two AM. Um, and this August will be the fifth year that we do this. Um, and seeing as it's the fifth year, I am trying to come up with an idea or like something to put together for the group that can sort of like commemorate the fact that we've been doing this for as long as we have. Oh, that's an interesting issue. So you, you, you. All right. So Vinny sent a document that shows.

You mind reading it, Garret? Sure. Okay. So we start with drinks, a lot of beer, ceremonial mead, house mixed drink, which is pineapple, spiced rum, fireball, lot of limes, whatever. Meat, breakfast, same as Meat Fest Prime. Pre-lunch is a rum ham. Yeah, what is a Meat Fest Prime? Prime rib? I will say I did not create this menu, so it's hard to get into his mindset, but I believe Meat Fest Prime is like the first Meat Fest we did. Okay.

Okay. Pre-lunch is a rum ham, plus the weirdest freaking thing at the shop. Lunch is burgers, sausages, corn, 15 ears, 30 pieces, grilled salsa. Dunch, which is a dinner lunch, is continuous hot dogs, which is just a scary thought. Dinner is ribs, fuckload shrimp, boy oh boy. Kebabs, goat question mark? No, chicken. It's very stream of consciousness.

Dessert, sea beverages. And then at the bottom there's a note that says other expenses, propane, propane, whatever. Okay. So you guys throw a... Huge meat party. Yeah, just a grill, like a Fourth of July thing where you lean heavy into the meats. You've been doing it once a year for this will be your fifth year. Yeah so it hasn't technically been um five years in a row

because of like COVID and some other stuff but this is like the fifth year we've done it since I think 2019. But I would agree that this doesn't see I don't see a big problem here. This is just saying this is a call about how do we make it call about how do we pitch to rename the fifth one and make it really special. Yeah Rename it Or you just want to make it a very special event is your question. Yeah, just like just like something memorable I also sent like no email. Yeah or human. Oh Vegetarian I love it personally. I love it. Personally. I love it. Yeah. I like saying as like a point of reference, like one of my friends a few years back started making like

koozies and like designing. Okay. We see a koozie now. It's got a pig and it says meatfest 2023. How many people show up at Meat Fest? I would say like at its peak anywhere between like 25, 30. Okay. So it's a small group, a group of friends just gets together once a year and has a barbecue. Don't. I'm not being mean. But what I'm trying to get to is it means something to you Vinny, you guys seem to eat a lot of meat

but it's not like, there was guys I remember who were like really into, where they would eat, the whole thing would be like, we're gonna try to knock back like 50 pounds of pork. And it's like, and then you got the guy like man versus food where the whole thing is like how much, the menu I just saw was lit, it felt like a 4th of July thing,

where it's like, we're gonna drink some alcohol, some beer, some rum, we're gonna have some shrimp, fuck loads of it, and then we're gonna have some hot dogs, we're gonna have some steak, and some chicken. It is essentially, in its simplicity, just one giant tailgate. Yes, that's what I mean. More than 4th of July, it feels just like a big tailgate.

Yeah. Yeah. Right. But I think the core of it is not so much the drinking or even the meat per se, but it's the fact that we can get, at 25 years old, still get all of us in one place together for an entire day. So that's, I guess, really what I'm more trying to like. I would have two pitches to make it a bigger event this year for the fifth annual. Okay. So I think I mean it is it's just a tailgate.

Yeah. So but you're saying you kind of want to have a way to make it go originally I thought you were saying because it's a fifth one you kind of want to make this a little bit bigger. Yeah, I don't know if bigger is the word I would use necessarily because I think you're online in the sense that like it's special and personal to like me in this group. Like 25 people is not like that crazy, but it means a lot to you know. Yeah. And I want it to be like memorable, like something we look back at it like, oh, that was really cool that that happened.

How about this and I say this as a guy who does not like this or eat this but what if you got a whole pig roasted it like you were in Hawaii and that's all you ate and it's called year five we're eating the whole fucking pig. No hot dogs. Go pig or go home. Go pig or go home. Go pig or go home. Go pig or go home. It's one animal.

It's really simple. It's more intense than anyone had where they're like, ooh, I don't like pig, but I like bacon. Let's look at what we eat. I think to what Jake's saying, I personally also don't wanna pitch in a meat direction, but you're the caller. We're going to try to help you.

So I think that's a good one. I got one after that. But what do you think of something like that? As an idea? Yeah, no, I don't hate that at all. Especially like go pick or go home. Or in that zone, what do you think about dress code required? Like that we're doing a luau

Okay, yeah, we're only drinking on the fifth one my ties and you got to wear one of those straw skirts. Yep And Hawaiian shirt, okay Yeah, I do like that. I will say we have over the last couple of years Done like themes for this and I do believe last year was sort of like a Hawaiian theme shirt sort of thing They're doing the themes. Yeah, let me ask you a question Vinny Yeah, what are three things in the back of your head in the zone? You were hoping we were gonna pitch on Because you've already done themes. So when you in your head, you're thinking, I'm going to call this show. And what I kind of want is something in this zone, but heightened.

What zone were you in? Um, I think for the most part, like, I mean, I don't think you're totally off base with like the idea of, uh idea of a whole pig and then coming up with some sort of pun for that. I don't think I wanted anything, like the koozie thing would be cool if it was something I could come up with where everybody got some sort of tangible object that they then bring home. You did the koozie.

Here's what I'm going to pitch. Off of what Jake just pitched and since you're Saying you want to make it a little special. Why don't we do the whole pig? And again, I would I think pigs are as smart as like a three-year-old why you can eat it. I don't know but We call it the Olympian. You don't think there's any animal products in your creams. Stop. There's not I guarantee there is not gelatin stop Guarantee there is. There's not. Gelatin.

Stop. You hear Natalie dying out there. Why don't we call it the Olymp pigs? And what you're going to do is everybody's going to weigh in their plates before they eat them. And at the end of the day, the person who's eaten the most gets some sort of prize. Let's make it even easier than the whole pig. Same menu, but the Olympics still works. And every plate

you weigh. And at the end, the winner gets a gold medal. And the person who got the least gets a dunce cap. The loser next year doesn't get to eat. This is why we're going to offset some of the meat consumption. Please. The loser next year. Don't get political. Stop. No one's interested in that vest and hair.

Stop. Everybody is. People are talking. Stop. Three girls talked about it and you've lost your mind. I'll see you at the premiere tonight. It's not a premiere. Next year, yeah it is.

Let's feel good about it. Let's be positive. Oh great. But it's not a premiere. Next year, yeah it is. Let's feel good about it. Let's be positive. Oh great, but it's not a premiere. It is. It isn't. I'm showing up. I know where it is. And you're not going to turn me away if I show up.

I know you. You're welcome to come. I can't. I'm busy. You're not. I'm not actually. So, next year, the person who loses the first three meals of the event has to only have salad.

Or, because I like what he was going with the punishment, but I would make it this year dependent. What I would do is at the end, the loser has to make a speech of why they didn't eat enough, and then they also need to make a speech of why the winner is the greatest. Yes, I agree.

And then everybody needs to chant, all hail the pig! And the pig makes a speech while you all carry them on your shoulders. I mean, what else do you want, buddy? What do you think of that? There's the, it's called the Olympics. You weigh your plate.

The, oh no, rather the loser at the end stands up and everybody throws garbage at him Everybody carries on their shoulder as you chant all hail the king Cuz I'll put some incentive you're like, yeah, I don't want to do that So you take art, let's keep going. Let's go and then you go you can eat whatever you want You're like, I don't want to eat all this but you know what? I'm gonna do I'm gonna weigh it down with corn. Have a strategy, who cares? And then you've got an official tally to how to keep weight. You've got like one big board, dry erase board, and as you go you just add your numbers, add your numbers.

You want to go full, I don't like this pitch, but you want to go full glut and just put a scale in there and you weigh in the day as soon as you arrive. And at the end of the night we weigh in. That's right. That's exactly right. Well then liquids count, but liquids do count. By the way, that's what you do. Gareth is right, you keep it simple. Everybody when they first get to the Olympics weighs in. Everybody weighs in at the end.

Whoever gained the most weight is your winner. Whoever has gained the least gets garbage thrown at them. Yeah I'm really glad I called in. Hey Vinny, thank you for the call. Please follow up with us. All right, buddy. Thank you. Thanks, buddy.

I'm really glad I called in. Oh, fuck. Oh my God. That is so counter to everything I want to have happen. And it's also at the end, I was like, this is awesome. I'm really glad I called in. A sincere, at the end, I was like, this is awesome. Really glad I called him. A sincere, I'm really glad I called him. This is awesome.

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Well, it's not just a follow-up. I have a new problem. So this is Heather from Orlando, and I had the BDSM cooking class situation. Oh, remind me. This was a while ago. Yeah. So will you remind me? It was about a year, almost a year ago. What the problem was and what our solution was. This sounds amazing.

Yeah, I remember this one. So what happened was I signed up for a rope tying course. This is a square space. It was once a week for four weeks. And so I needed one night off a week from my job and I didn't tell my boss what I was doing. I told her I was going to a cooking class. Right.

So the class is over and she had just had a baby and she was like, I'm ready to leave the house. And that cooking class sounded great. I would like to go to that. And I didn't have anything to send her a link to. So we made a website. We Squarespace the website. Oh my God.

But we made it look like a legitimate cooking. Can we, Jesse, can you pull it up? Do you remember what the name of the website is? Yeah. You guys called it Friendly Shark and it confused my boss because she was like, why is it called that? So is it still there? Is it FriendlyShark.com? Look, we're not... I know that we shout out our sponsors a lot on this show.

This website that we did on Squarespace... Wait, did you make this or did Caitlin? Caitlin did a great job. But it still looks so legit. Wait, did you make this or did Caitlin? Caitlin did a cool way. But it still looks so legit. Yeah, by the way, shout out Caitlin, who used to do our social media. She's excellent. Awesome.

She's doing great too. So, okay, basically the site's up. It says where to next. It shows a bunch of things. It looks totally legitimate. Yeah, making food that will make you say, hmm, are you ready to create? Yes, chef. This is great. Okay, so we made this site

then we brought you back on this is sniffing like it's gonna be a Wednesday re-release now that we got them too and then Gareth caught us. Yeah, and so what is the real follow-up then? It's a new problem But then we still got to go to the other one. So what did you follow up with us in that follow up again? Will you remind us? We've done about 400 of these at this point. So the follow up was she believed it.

I shared screenshots of these guys last time about our text messages and we kind of made fun of my boss a little bit to be honest with you. We were like, wow, she was dumb. Not ideal. I made fun of my boss a little bit to be honest with you. We were like, wow, she was dumb. Anyway, so she believed that it worked out fine. And yeah, I basically sent her another cooking class that actually exists. And she never went to it to be honest with you, but she was like, oh, thanks, I'll do that.

So ring the bell. So the bell's wrong, right? That situation. Yes, you guys never rang the bell for me. We'll ring it. We don't have one now. We're in the new studio. Yeah, I know it. We're together. It shouldn't be more important.

How about this? We're ringing it. We're ringing it. It's ringing. We'll do it in post. Is it? We're together. This is more- It's ringing, everybody.

Don't you hear it? OK. All right, Heather. Come on. That's a good-ass thing. Hey! Hey! Is it? We're together. This is more- It's ringing everybody. Don't you hear it? Okay. All right, Heather. Come on. That's a good-ass thing we have. Hey! Hold on.

We do have a bell. Yeah, it's a weird little clay thing. There you go. It's like something my mom would hang under one of her weird plants. That wouldn't- Mom wouldn't send something under her plants. Stop! Hang a pair of panties. Stop!

Because they're dripping. Enough! She's got a dry eye. I'm gonna call in our own show. Stop. Stop everything. We're in sex. Jesus Christ.

Are we 69? No! Jake! It's my mother! It's my lover! Stop. You tied up your mom. You stop.

Quiet, Heather. We took the class together with you. We learned how to tie each other up. Pam tied me up and then called me a sizzling fajita. I hope she ties you up and throws you in the hot tub. She does. Her hot tub. Okay. All right. Listen, Heather, we got to, we're actually up against it. We have a really tight schedule today, so we can't fuck around too much more like that, unfortunately. Then stop fucking around, Garrett. Heather. I agree, Heather. Heather. Just, Heather, can you tie Gareth up? Heather. You are tying me. You fucking, Gareth. I agree, Heather. Heather. Heather, can you tie Gareth up? Heather, you are tying me.

Jake's tying me. Quick pause. What? How was the tying up class? Yeah, actually. Don't say yeah, actually. Come on, we're growing out. Well, that kind of leads into the new problem, if you want to get into it.

Yeah, let's get into it. The tariffs affect rope prices. Things are good, yeah. You need a new rope, I'll just cut off one of the little chops of hair. Because we love carrots. Boy, I can't tell which side of the bluff you're shooting from anymore.

It was all over the place. Just chop off his hair and tie up anybody you want. Hey, does any, if you saw someone drive to a BDSM class naked, would that be strange? How about with a 70-year year old woman on his lap? Enough. That's what she said. Enough.

That's what she said. It's wrong. No, that's what she said. That's what I'm saying. But I convinced her it's not. Stop. And she fell for it. Heather.

You had to talk out of it. Please, her name is Pam. Heather, stop Jake by talking now, please. I'm going to Venmo you $150 to start talking. Okay, well you'll be interrupting me, Paris. Heather! Heather! Thank you, Heather please I'm gonna Venmo you $150 Heather Heather, thank you Heather. I'm with you. He's not interrupting everyone today. He's wearing a vest You put this guy in a vest with some curly hair. He won't shut up Jake I wouldn't be surprised if after they find out Jake had been drinking same with you

Okay, okay. So I found out that the same place I went to the first time is having a Rope 201 class. And I want to go to it. You have to have had the 101 class. The first, what was good about 101? What'd you learn, Heath? You learned sailors? That's the basics. Really the basic stuff. Honestly, a lot of it was just about how to be safe

In the kink scene and how to be safe with rope Okay, and just like the dangers of you know nerve damage stuff like that Okay And so we just learned a lot about that and then we learned basic like one column two column ties and then a few other Things it wasn't like a ton of information to be honest with you We learned basic like one column, two column ties, and then a few other things. It wasn't like a ton of information, to be honest with you. It was a lot of foundational stuff. You've been using the, the role play in your life and how's it going? Well, good news is I'm single now.

I got out of a six and a half year vanilla relationship earlier this year. And so I've been playing a lot more and it's been going really great. So what do you mean? So you were in a vanilla relationship so that your partner wasn't interested in the ropes. That's correct. So that's why I went with a friend last year. And what happened when you brought it up with the partner?

Walk us through that chat. I had to convince this man to let me go to this class because he... All of the BDSM stuff made him really insecure because he wasn't... He didn't want to be part of that world. I understand. So he hated it. He didn't want me to be part of it. If you're into BDSM and you're in a relationship that isn't... It's tricky.

You must have known that this was probably not... You're hoping maybe there's a chance. I mean, I guess it's a confining relationship. Well, thanks, Dr. Garius. That's really helpful. I'm totally with you. You should see his hair right now. So now you want to go to the next level, and that's 201, rope tying.

Yes. Okay. So the problem is I would need to get off work once a week for four weeks. When the same boss, remember I did this last year. How, how, this is tough. How long? Uh, seven weeks. No, it's four weeks. Four weeks.

Medical procedure. No, she's four weeks. Four weeks. Medical procedure? No, she's a doctor. Fuck. She's basically my doctor. I talk to her about everything. What do you guys talk about? If I have a problem, I mean she wrote me a prescription this morning because I have a sore throat. Like, she's not gonna buy it that I have a procedure once a week or four weeks. Therapy.

What do you think about therapy? At 7 p.m.? Sure. Wait, 7 p.m.? Oh wait. That's when the class is. What time do you work? Yeah, what is your work schedule again?

Oh, well, I've been working more nights because she started paying me overtime that year. But your boss is a doctor? So I've been working a lot. So the thing is, is I need to, so maybe I'll be off at 6 p.m. one night, but I still need to get over there and be at the class at 7. And so I really need to be off by like 5.30. Okay, so you do need a way out every, let's say, Friday for seven weeks. For four weeks. No for four weeks guys. Okay sorry sorry sorry there's just a lot of information the rope stuff and get it through us. I'm sorry. No no it's not you it's us.

We've also been really weird today. No it's okay. The audience will love it. I bet they will. We started insane. We started insane. But so this is a big one, this is a big one. Yeah, it doesn't, I mean. I think here's what we should do. What? I'm gonna come wherever you are, tie me up, and then let's see if we can get a gorilla around.

No, no. I think that's worth a shot. Let's just do it, tie me up, and then, I got a guy who makes dinosaurs. No, Rob. For over $5,000 we could make a seven foot gorilla. Stay away from Rob. Why don't we just tie could make a seven foot gorilla. Stay away from Rob. Why don't we just tie that thing up and get Dennis?

Jake! You know what we never talked about, Jake? I do Jiu-Jitsu. You do? Oh, Jesus Christ, Heather. What the fuck? What belt are you? By the way, theirs are out. By the way?

What? Jiu-Jitsu class. By the way, what belt are you? No, so I hired a personal trainer. Yeah. So we just did it like one on one. Okay, but look, this is, you already have the beginnings of your life. I do too. I think you're exactly right.

You have the jujitsu. Really? Yes, you now are taking jujitsu at night, once a week for the next, what you say is you're going to take it every night for a little while, and then after four weeks you say it wasn't for you. Here's what I think you should consider saying. Your trainer is asking that maybe you start competing in order to get your blue belt,

and so they want you to step it up a little bit to see if you're going to compete. So they want for four weeks at an earlier thing, if you could put in like a big two hour intensive and you're very nervous, but you just want to give it a month to see if you're ready to do this. And then after the month go, I've realized I'm not ready for these group classes. I'm not ready to start rolling more, but thank you for giving me the time to do it. And when you're talking about your excitement

about the ropes, you just pretend you use that excitement, but you talk about the jiu-jitsu. It's all the same tying up. You really learned how to lock things in. By the way, you got a thing with- Yeah, she likes to be confined. You like to be confined and confined if you're a jiu-jitsu practitioner

So I'd like to respond please and feel her love getting her up. Yes Um, I think this would be a bigger stretch than you guys know I don't think I think this would be like kind of a big lie because She knows I do it on Sundays usually Understood and it's for like self-defense and for like exercise Of course it would be a big stretch for me to say hey now it's on Wednesdays. It can be both But she's saying it's for? And it starts this Wednesday.

No, I can't wait and change it another day. I have to go this Wednesday. OK, I understand. So it's not going to work. You know what I mean? But I'll tell you what's also not going to work, a new fake cooking class. No, we can't do cooking.

I know. It's not going to work. Because also, she wanted to go to the class last year. It would be weird for me to say, oh, it's back in town. You're not invited. It's a disaster. We can't do that. How about this?

There's someone who you are trying to go out with. Your schedules are completely upside down. Can't do that for weeks in a row. You could start. She's been saying that. You could say. She's very supportive of my love life nowadays. So OK.

All right, I've got two. She supported me in the break up. Sorry, hold on. Gary keeps okay. He did not lie on my edge. Alright, I've got two. He supported me in the breakup. Sorry, hold on. Gareth keeps interrupting my literal- She likes to be tied up. I can't hear you because he talks so much and he insists that his mic is louder than everybody else's so it's all I hear. I think you should consider a gag. That's all I'll say.

A gag? Amen. Yeah, for Gareth. Yeah. I'll still get bits out. He would talk through it. He could? I'll eat through it. It would be the first time the gag dissolves. Hey, I've been there. I have special bit enzymes.

So she's really interested in your love life. Very supportive. I stayed with her when I broke up with my ex. It was a really hard time. She was super, super supportive. Can I interrupt for a second? That's all you've been doing. Why not be honest with her? She sounds like an amazing friend. Oh, okay. Because what?

She's worried about last year's life. I lied to her last year and I think it would, honest to God, creep her out that we made a fake website and I tricked her. We're not gonna tell her about that we made a fake website and I Part I don't disagree with this It is so much weirder than being in a BDSM class to be like I called the podcast and we made a fake website But now you're in a danger zone that you're stuck So this is what I would do. I would say one of two things.

Either you do the thing where you say, there's someone who works regular hours and for whatever, they work two jobs. There's one night a week when you guys can really hang out. It's gonna be this. You do that for four weeks. It didn't work out. Your schedule is a topsy turvy. Or, you say, that's a good plan.

Or, you say, the next one is you say the next four weeks I had a friend of mine who gave me a birthday present and signed me up for speed dating they're gonna do it for the next four weeks so the next four weeks I'm going to speed dating and this gets hard because then you guys start making up who you're on the dates with if she asks we're looking to do it we're looking to simplify the lie because the other part of this that gets complicated is that you like her I Got something crazy. Yeah, I got something crazy. Okay, and don't say yes unless you like it because I don't know if I like it

Okay What if we have her on and? We admit Gareth just gave me scared eyes Well, let me just say let me just say this very quickly Heather during the last pitch Jake said a pitch that made Jesse Sherlock go whoa and it worked out so I'm not sometimes you want to take his hand. On this one I don't know but here's my thought you and this woman have a wonderful friendship and you seem like you've gotten a lot closer in the last year since your breakup. Yeah.

So it is true you lied, but you don't want to keep lying. And the reason you lied was you were embarrassed she was going to judge you. I also think if you wanted to go this route in any capacity, you also were in a relationship where you felt a little bit of shame over something that you liked and you weren't sure how much that would carry over and now you're taking the power back. And you don't want to keep lying but you don't know how to admit that the first thing was a lie but you would love to be honest with her and you blame it on us and you say I called into the show but you go like I called into the show because I thought it would be funny and these goofballs did this whole pitch they made away and but you go like, I called into the show because I thought it'd be funny and these goofballs did this whole pitch.

They made a way and then you go like, I liked the attention of it, I thought it was fun, but I didn't ever wanna hurt you. And I don't wanna lie to you again. And I don't wanna lie again, but I wanna go to 201 and she's gonna go, I want you to take the class and if we can do it right, she's gonna be laughing and then we can all look at the website together

I think well, what's your gut reaction to that? Okay, I my gut reaction is I like it But I I have a little bit of fear just cuz I know she will listen to that call that I did and Yeah We're making fun of her yeah, okay, you were saying we were making fun of her a little bit I Think we did a little like I understand what you're saying I know I know I said in the episode like I lied because I wanted to get out of work

And I knew that the cooking class was not a good enough reason. We're not we can't do it I get and also sometimes you say things that you don't even fully mean, you're just having fun on the podcast, but the other person will be like, why'd you say that? And you go like, I honestly didn't mean it. And they go, why'd you say it? And I go, cause I've never seen a man at your age

start perming his hair. It's curling cream. And then you go, but I was pushing. It's like gel. And then I go like. It would be like having gel is what the person would say. I'm trying to talk to her first. No, I understand, but I'm just saying,

I'm jumping in to give Heather. You got one of those gags. I'd really love to hear Jake. What's that? Is what they the person I'm trying to talk to her no I understand, but I'm just saying I'm jumping in What's that I'd really love to hear from Jake in this moment Heather that's come across very strongly I really tried to we know and it's working. We know who's team you're on Heather I'm still gonna try to help you with your problem. You know tell me after jiu-jitsu I would love for you to start helping, Garrett. That would be great. Heather, I'm the guy who pitched the dating one that you've responded to most. That's true.

Do I need to reintroduce myself? No, you said, hang on. You said once a week for four weeks speed dating. That does not exist. I was my second pitch. That was me talking past the close, Heather. That was me talking past the close, Heather. Here's where we're at

We need to create we need to create something for you That is a clean way out of this if we start well boyfriend thing It's gonna lead to a lot of lies. Are you comfortable with that? If you are we can create a thing I don't want to just do the role-playing for the fun of role-playing and I'm gonna tell you why because I don't think that's gonna Work, I think what you don't want to do is keep lying Because I don't think that's gonna work. I think what you don't wanna do is keep lying to her and I think that's gonna create a lot of questions. It's really your comfort level.

I think the problem in that pitch is that there's gonna be a lot of specifics. If you said you're gonna take a botany class. That's exactly right. If you said you're gonna take a botany class for a month, she's not gonna wanna hear about that. I think it's Jiu-Jitsu. She won't wanna talk about Jiu-Jitsu.

I think the Jiu-Jitsu one works, but Heather, Nick's. But what if you said this, take away the tournament and all that, say, hey, my instructor this week can't do weekends, he can only do Wednesdays. Is it okay if in May I get out early just so I can do jujitsu, but then in June I'm back in? I think that's great.

I think that could work. And if you say, if we wanna make up more time, I can do it on other days of the week. I won't miss any hours. I just, for these four things, he needs me to do it on Wednesday. It's the only time he's free. And I don't want to fall off because in the Jiu Jitsu game, once you fall off, it's really hard. Yeah, you might pull your knee playing with a doll.

So I would say to her, like, because we talk about like, I'm about to start living on my own for the first time and she's been trying to help me feel ready for it and confident and we talk about like how to save money and stuff and she's really good at that kind of thing. Okay. So I would say I've been considering instead of my personal trainer, what if I try taking a class? It's a lot cheaper.

Great. And there's a really good one on Wednesdays, but it's at seven, what do I do? Great, but here's the catch with that. Maybe. Goofy, Heather. So, Heav. We are Heav and Jay to each other.

You're, we're Skerath. Just We are Heav and Jay to each other. You're... We're just go. Gareth. We just go. Heav. Do you want more lies? If there's a class, is there a website for the classes? Your friend recommended it. What if she says, maybe I'll try Jiu-Jitsu?

We got a fucking website to do that. See, it's not going to, though. But why do we do a class as opposed... Here's what I'm saying. Okay. Let's create the simplest thing possible so you can lie to this woman as little as you can, get through this class, and move on. You already take private, you do it on Sunday.

He can only do Wednesdays, four weeks, that's it. How were they? Whatever you did on Sunday, you talk about it on Wednesday. It was good. What do you think of that clean trainer? Sunday to Wednesday. I think you're right, simpler is better. Yes.

How was it? Great. It's a world that she's disinterested in. Yeah, and you already do it. You already do it. You are gonna do it every Sunday. You just say Sunday's Wednesday for four it is in the world of lying It's easier to be closer to the truth. Yes as opposed to now. There's a class. How was the class?

What'd you do in the class? Did you spark? Yeah, there was a guy named Jerry. What Jeremy look like he did Yeah, he did this. What are we talking about? Yeah, what did you do on Wednesday? Well what you did on Sunday? Yeah Doing it what you do on Sundays? Well, what you did on Sunday. Yeah. What are you guys doing it? What you do on Sundays, you just move Sunday to Wednesday. Where do you guys do it? Wherever you did it. What'd you practice? Yeah, that makes sense.

Yes, it does. Well, okay. But what do you think? Okay, so I would say. Let's start the role play. Gareth, would you like to be the boss? No, no Fucking it's gonna be it's gonna be that one studio pastime I'm just a guy who showed up at the fence of the line creative past and there's literally

Why did I even look at the sides? Because they were around somebody else's and you said, can I look at those sides, brother? I took a picture of them, zoomed in and printed it. So here's what's going to happen. He's going to jump in because he's very excited about this Southern voice and he's just going to steamroll. No, I'm out. I promise.

Okay. Heather, are you ready to practice? Yes. Okay. Heather, are you ready to practice? Yes. Okay. So where are we? All right. So the kids are napping and you come down to chat for a minute while I'm getting the kids to eat.

Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. What kind of fantasy are we in? He was talking about role playing at your job. Kids are napping. I come down.

Jesus Christ, Heather. Heather, you're so funny. I'm so funny. I'm so funny. I'm so funny. I'm so funny. I'm so funny. I'm so funny. I'm so funny. What kind of fantasy are we in? He was talking about role playing at your job. The kids are napping. I come down. Jesus Christ, Heather.

Heather, what are we doing here, young lady? I think you know what we're doing here, Jake. Hey, then where are the ropes? Do I have them or do you have them? You have them. And why are the kids napping? They're at somebody else's house. Maybe we might get caught.

Also, it's a fantasy. There's no kids. By the way, if it's a fantasy, it's definitely your fantasy. The kids are asleep and you only have an hour. I thought you were saying we're about to practice the conversation. We are. We are. But what was the kids?

What are they napping? We haven't heard about kids up to this point. He's my boss and I'm her nanny. Oh, right. I forgot. Jesus Christ. I forgot! I forgot! Jesus Christ! I forgot about that! It's her dad!

I honestly... Wow. What a twist. I was thinking with the doctor. I thought I pictured this in a medical room. That's why you said the night so I was like, how late do you work? The kids are sleeping. Now I remember that you were her nan.

Okay. There's a tear in my eye. That was so funny. I was like, yeah, what's confusing? The kids are napping. That's when we talk. No, it makes perfect sense. Holy shit.

Okay. Who the hell was I going to be with? Ha, I'm a robber. Okay. So the kids are napping. Okay. All right. Now we're back. Here, here we go. Okay.

And are we doing eyes open or closed, huh? Who's my boss? I'm your boss. Are we gonna go ahead what? Are we doing? I'm your boss. You never asked this one before. Okay.

I did it to you before. Eyes closed? Yes. Okay. Do you want to do this with our eyes open or closed? This is crazy. I'll close my eyes and then you guys decide for yourselves. Okay.

All right. It'll be like a personal journey for everyone. You learned that in the class. I like being more rulesy. Minor open. Mm-hmm. Gareth's are open, but he's not even invited. I'm fully aware that's why minor open.

Yeah, classic creep. Yeah, we're literally saying this is an invite only. Heather, Heather, Heather, you have guest host energy. Heather, I want to say first of all, you're doing a great job. We've been medium today. Oh, thank you. I don't agree. I've been crushing. Heather, you've been a bit of a problem.

Go ahead. Close your eyes. And your mouth. Close your eyes and your mouth. Hey, hey, hey, creep. This is why guys like you aren't invited. Hey. Never.

Come on. Back off. All right. Girlie. It got, hey. Hey! Never. Come on. Back off. Alright. Girlie. It got, hey! Your weird hair. Stop, nude driver. Okay, Heather.

Yes. Our eyes are closed. Me too. Alright. I'm doing the dishes. The kids are asleep. That's the water. Oh, hey! How's it going? Good, how about you? The kids are asleep. Whoosh. That's the water.

Oh, hey, how's it going? Good, how about you? Good, just doing these dishes. Ha ha ha. Everything okay? Ha ha ha. Hey, Mom, he woke up. This is so stupid and loud.

You should just get to it. Now we're going to go back to bed. We'll put ourselves. Hey Heather, wanna use those ropes, tie that kid up? Excuse me? That's a crime! Okay, and from the top, Heather, let's do a little less insane with the dishes and just more... I'm so sorry. Just regular people. I think I got excited. You got excited, it's okay. Just regular real humans.

Alright, alright. And... I'm trying to picture her now. I walk down the stairs. No, you're you. Wait, we need to come up with a name for her. No, you're you. I know. By the way, you guys sure you don't want me on this project?

It seems like a bit of a train wreck. You're talking about for the boss? You need someone to clean it up a little bit? Yeah, so I can say like, Hey, Selena. Drake. Okay. Great.

Very creative. Action. Jake. Okay. Great. Very creative. Action. He doesn't call action. He doesn't have that authority. He's literally worse than that. Lights. He's like a PA on a set.

You ever heard a PA call action? And egg sandwiches. Oh, sorry, we rolling. Okay, ready and action. Thank you, Jake. Hey, Selena. Cut. Let's go from the top.

Legit PA. He's the producer's son. Thanks. Thank you Jake. Hey Selena. Cut. Let's go from the top. Legit PA. He's the producer's son. Hey cut. Yeah let's go from the top. If he says that again just avoid he's the producer's son. We have money involved in this. And action. Hey do you have a second? Of course. What's up? Okay. You know, how do you do that too on Sundays? Yeah. Well, he was asking me if I can move to Wednesdays for a little bit.

And I told him I could like for a few of the weeks, but I have work on some of the weeks. I was wondering if it's okay if I leave by five 30 on Wednesdays for maybe like a month Is it indefinite or is it just a month? Just for a month, okay, let's start overhead a little bit cleaner and you didn't tell him yet. You're asking her Yeah, you're asking her first. What's my reason that I know that it's only a month. Okay. Let me let's reverse You're selena Are we doing eyes open or closed because you said closed your eyes are open all the time That I know that it's only a month. Okay. Let me let's reverse Your Selena

We do not have clothes because you said close your eyes are open all the time. I'm doing eyes open, okay I just want to see where the mic is near Garrett's face. I know what he's gonna be okay ready have no need to lie to each other ready and action Hey, hey did the kids down go okay? Hey, did the kids down go okay? Wait, did the kids go down okay? Excuse me, cut. I don't mind calling it on that one.

The hell happened? Back to one. Heather, take a look at the script real quick. It sounds like you euthanized the children in that one. Can we put the kids down twice good now? Did the kids down for a second? Did the kids down for a second not wake up? Heather, I need you to take a breath and just...

Alright. Let's just be in the moment. Alright. And action. Hey. Me? Heather, I now have to say you're doing a very bad job. Cut!

Back to one. Heather, Heather. Guys, we're losing daylight. Heather, I need you to step up a little bit, okay? This is falling off the rails. I need you to just take a solo. I know you like to be tied up, but where's the tongue? Okay, are you ready for this?

We're going to do it right now, Heather. Alright, I'm really ready. And action. Okay, so I'm going to go ahead and start. Okay, so I'm going to go ahead and start. Okay, so I'm going to start. Okay, so I'm going to start. Okay, so I'm going to start.

Okay, so I'm going to start. Okay, so I'm going to start. Okay, so I'm going to start. Okay, so I'm going to start. Okay, so I'm going to start. Okay, are you ready for this? We're gonna do it right now. All right. I'm really ready and action Action Heather And action Hey, did the kids go down okay? Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was no problem. Everything was fine. Ah, good. Yeah. How's everything with you?

How are you? Ah, you know, I'm doing great. How are you though? Heather, Heather, Heather, Heather, Heather, Heather. A tad aggressive, yeah. Let's just, let's just feel each other out a little bit, okay? Alright, alright, alright. I'm not on this project. It's a bit of a train wreck. It's little bit. Okay, all right. All right. All right I'm not on this project. It's a bit of a train. It's not great right now, but we're about to find it right now

Let's find it. Let's not think about what we're gonna say Heather. Let's just be in the moment together Let's as if we're musicians. Let's play jazz Heather as a threat. I'm about to do cat voices and action hey Hey, how's it going good? How about you? Good just got off a big call. Oh yeah, what was the call about? I had to present this new project to corporate.

Oh no way, what was the project about? What were the details of the project? Science, blah blah blah, medicine, blah blah. Yeah, could you mind being a little bit more specific? I'm interested. I usually am specific with you, Heather, and you don't remember the details. That's true. You know me. What's your favorite memory we've shared?

Um, probably when you raised my kid so lovingly. You're really great. You are the absolute best. Hey, can I ask a favor? Sure. Anything. So, my Jiu Jitsu instructor cannot do Sundays for the month of May and he asked if I could do Wednesday nights, so I would have to leave here at 5.30, but it's only for May and then after that it goes back to Sundays, but I wanted to ask you before I said anything, is it okay if I leave early just on Wednesdays for like a month? I think so, let me double check. Awesome, and if it's not, no big worries. I just wanted to ask, cause he can't currently do them.

So just, if I can, it would be leaving here at like 5.30, 5.45, just for four. I totally understand, yeah. Okay, cool. Let me see. Yeah, that should be fine, we'll be fine. Okay, great, thanks so much, I appreciate it. She's lying to you.

What was that? I don't know. She's lying to you. Who is that? The wind being honest She made a website last year at cooking class. No, I didn't hear that. So how did that sound Heather? That's good, I mean, I hope she says yeah, that's fine. I think she will. So now let's reverse it. Now let's reverse it. And now you're you and Gareth is your boss. Great.

Let me know when you're ready. Ready Heather? Mm-hmm. Hey Heather, sound a little more excited about the pride. Shhh. Let me know when you're ready. Ready, Heather? Mm-hmm. Hey, Heather, sound a little more excited about the project. You're right, absolutely. Three, two, one. Please don't make me laugh again.

Here we go. Three, two, one. Action. Oh. That conference call was just... Hi, are you okay? Yeah, I just so stressed out with some of the work stuff. Piles and piles and piles.

How are you? Are the kids okay? Oh yeah, they're doing great. They're both sleeping. Oh good, great. God, nobody puts them to sleep faster than you, Heather. What's your secret? Oh yeah, but not in like a creepy way.

Sorry? I said not in like a creepy way, of course. That does protest too much. What do you mean? That's weird. Let's start over, yeah? Okay. And action.

God, what an asshole that guy was. Let's start with Heather. And action. Oh, hey. Hey, Selena. Hey, Heather. How'd it go up there? Hey, can I ask you a favor everyone napping?

What and let's start over Action Action Heather. Hey, hey Selena. Can I have a favor? Sure what's going on? Hey, hey Selena. Can I ask you a favor? Sure. What's going on? My judicial instructor, you know, we always do Sundays He asked me if just for May if I could switch over to Wednesday nights instead I know some of the Wednesdays I work late. I was wondering if I could be off by 530 Wednesdays just for the month Yeah, just for May and then he said he can go back to

Sundays like normal. That shouldn't be a problem. Let me just make sure that that works for me but that should be fine. As long as it's okay. That's what's happening. Yeah. Okay. That's perfect. That's perfect. Yep. Thanks. And there's no follow-up. That's perfect And I think if she says oh why I'll just be like oh, I don't know he didn't say yeah I don't know he just asked but he said he said but it's only for he said it's only for me And then I'm back to Sundays Yeah, and I don't know the reason I don't know who knows he's mysterious. Yeah, but that's a win. Yeah, you got it This is perfect. Thank you guys. Yeah, will you follow up with us?

Absolutely. And how long did this call take? So long. Honestly, no fucking clue. For a... That has to be the longest follow-up. This is the longest follow-up for sure. And what we're going to need you to do at some point, Heather,

is you're going to have to... You're going to have to guest host an episode with us. Honestly. We'll zoom one. Yeah. We'll have a Zoom one. Will you be awake when like Gareth is busy or something? I guess you just got bounced from the project, Heather. Have a good one. I was thinking with Gareth but I hear you. Peace. Heather, follow up with us. This is gonna be a great one. Wait, I have a question for Gareth real quick. Nah, goodbye. I've been meaning to ask you.

I've been thinking about it. This is going to be a dumb bit. By the way, nobody smells a dumb bit more than me. It'll be sweet. Yeah, well, it's going to be a compliment. Heather, go ahead. I'm going to tighten up my vest for the claws. Literally, your vest. Yeah, up my vest for the claws.

Literally, your vest. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. And the claws to get through your corn hair. Jesse, get ready to hang up. Yeah. Yeah, Heather? No, don't hang up on me. No. All right.

I just want to know, how's your wife? I mean, your cat. Ha ha ha ha. By the way, I'm so glad we hung in there for that. That has to be the biggest plot. What the actual fuck? Heather. By the way, Heather, Heather, take care.

Go think about what you just did. Don't listen to him. It was perfect. She doesn't anyway. By the way, Heather, it was coming in sweet. I thought she was going to go like, I really love you. You're the best. No, what I thought was it was going to just be, I thought it was going to be crazy. But I... Jesse, hang on. Bye Heather. I love you guys. Bye. Wait. Never would I have guessed that ending.

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