We're Here to Help - 205: Find Your Switzer & Like a Prayer

Episode Date: September 8, 2025

"We're becoming a real competition show!" First, Gareth and Jake help a Milwaukee trivia host go out on top. Then, the guys get their white whale when the ex who bailed on Ep 197 "Don't Cry for Me, Season Tickets," calls in to make things right.Vote for who gets the season tickets: https://weneedtopick.com/lionsticketsCast your vote and pick who Jake and Gareth will help to find a friend: https://weneedtopick.com/vote/friendshipcasting1Want 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.

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Nope. Lots going on, Jake. Lots going. Where do we even start? Why don't we start with the big one? We made the bet a long time ago that Steve Berg would have to do a sexy photo shoot for a betty lost. In the world of Patreon, we've really dug in deep with this. We had a session with the photographer.

we pitched the looks we wanted. Let me give you a little appetizer, and I'm not going to give anything away, but Gareth, so Steve and Ali, our photographer, went off to a field with two bridges in a creek in Omaha. Two bridges got brought up for some reason,

and Jake responded very like, whoa, two bridges? I was the only one who's like, it's very common. Okay. Well, Steve said it, went really well. Yes.

And I'm going to just read a little something, if that's okay. Yeah. He just said, guys, it went really well. Gareth wrote, fuck yes. And Steve wrote, the word smolder was being thrown around. Garris said, bye, question mark. Berg said, like dot, dot, dot, dot, everyone in the park. You'll see.

We then jump a little bit forward. just tell you this as an appetizer, there was a rotissory chicken there, a whole one. Which he said had a little funk to it. Man, we just wanted different looks. We're building a calendar. We're going to make 12 different picks. It's going to be something that we have. We can give it away at the helpies is something Gareth is about to tell you about.

But let me just give you a taste of some looks that Berg teased us with. 50s bad boy. It's a strong start. Outdoorsmen. Fly fishing. 70s stoner. Grateful dead car wash. What?

Preppy picnic. And more. Ladies and gentlemen of the audience, if you're not excited to see this calendar, then you're listening to the wrong show. Are you not entertained? Are you not entertained? then turn the podcast off and find another one.

There's a billion of them. But we got a Steve Berg calendar coming your fucking way. Bring on Lori Grenier. Bring on the Shark King. Everybody's buying it. Now, which one are you most excited by? Mine's very obvious. You want the 50s bad boy.

Okay. Anytime he says bad boy. Did you guys actually pitch? Yeah, we kind of co-pitched that. Yeah. No, he pitched that one. I wanted. Oh, maybe he did, yeah.

I wanted over. Oh, no, I thought you meant you and me. I thought you pitched that one, 50's bad boy. I don't remember. I just, when he said bad boy. Yeah. I wanted overalls. I wanted a dirty gardener.

I wanted him in a flower bed. But I wanted his hair to be washed. That didn't make it. But again, you hear that list. It's very, I mean, there's two bridges. Did Eric pitch any looks? No, Eric in homework? No.

Eric's impossible to ring. We will, we will be sure. Showing Eric the looks. We will be a hole. It'll just simply be this. I don't get what's funny. He looks great. Wow.

That's your new look. That's your headshot, dude. Dude. Wow. I legit have a boner, brother, in a good way. So we have that coming your way. That's very exciting. There's a lot of that on Patreon if you want more.

But if not, you'll see the spoils. Obviously, we're all going to see the 50s bad boy. Then we're also going to do the helpies we decided. At the end of year, we're going to pick our best call. We're going to have a nomination process. We'll open that at some point. Let's open it now. All right, sure, it's open right now.

Polls are open. And where you basically, if someone wants to nominate a call, best call of the year, just send a voice note to the show. We'll start airing some of those at the end of the show. You cannot win if you're not nominate. win if you're not nominated and you cannot self-nominate. Yeah, we'll know. We will know. Well, we'll get the emails. Yeah, exactly. They can't start a second email. Good point. But we'll figure it out. Either way, we'll take it down to 10 calls. We'll have a little

award ceremony end of the year. We will figure out our best call. Winner gets a calendar. Yeah, winner gets a calendar. Losers, if you're in the top 10, you get a calendar. It's just going to be exciting. We'll do something fun for the winner. Yeah. So people need to to email in a voice note. Recommending somebody else as the best caller of the year. Of this year or of all time? All time's fun. Yeah.

I feel like this. I feel like this. And then after this will go. Yeah, then we'll start going season by season. Yeah. So do that and then we'll vote. We'll have the voting, which leads us to the friendship game, the last thing. Yes.

Which is also exciting, which Robin Berg hosted. did a great job an episode about basically talking to the people who are in need of a friend and we're going to address the loneliness crisis in this country in a fun, exciting way. Yeah, but more

than that, Gareth, because everybody knows the game right now, but this is what we need to tell people. So we had six different contestants and I'm going to just tell you where it's at right now. You've got to go to we need to pick.com slash friendship casting 1 to vote. And I'll tell you why. because the person who gets the most vote is going to win.

And right now, Sarah 38 from Philadelphia, needs a friend to skate with now that she's learning to skateboard. Over a thousand votes. Andy, 39, from Massachusetts, needs a friend because many of her friends have kids, but she does not. She's only got 246. Miriam, 33, from Wheaton, needs a friend now that she's a stay-at-home mom, 760. Christina 27, from Boston.

needs a friend now that she's living in the big city, only 240. Mataya, 25 from Tucson. Needs a friend because she works in a male-dominated industry and wants to make more female friends. 284. Sydney 37 from Model, Colorado. Needs a friend because she used to work remotely and didn't make friends for a long time. 300. So, guys, Sarah is running away with the competition.

Everybody go out of we need to pick slash. One more time, Natalie. Friendship casting one. And vote today because the voting is going to end soon, and the winner of that will be the star of friendship game round two. It's exciting. Well, that's a lot of stuff. I mean, that's pretty good.

I feel the same way. These people want. We got chimp heads now. Everything's happening. We've got the Sweet Js, Nat Attack. Anyway, the intro's over. And then one quick, before we are, one more, before we go, and I just want to say this because I had been thinking about it.

And I brought it up on our last follow-up. We're at episode two, whatever, 205, 206. If you were going to find this show and start now, where do you start? Because it's not in the news. It's not so you can start at one, but I wouldn't start at the beginning. No. The show has really changed. I think going back to season one is fun,

but I would almost say start at the beginning is I would start with rabbit grin at season two I would run through two I mean don't forget we started with a duck who wanted to fuck a guy it's been a big year it's it feels like eight years ago that that had I also want at the end of December January this season ends and I want to break it up into seasons yep so that each season could have its own feel into it yeah and we'll just do January 1st I agree Yeah, helps the helpies. Helps. And then we'll have like a big ending and then we'll start over and there'll always be something different. Let's do it. Great. Well, there's that energy from the two of you.

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Right? Isn't that what we're doing? Go, go, go, go, go. Hello? Hello. Hi, welcome to the show. Hey, thanks for having me. How's it going? Good, good, good, good.

So you're on with just me. Oh, and Natalie's here, too. You're on with Gareth and Natalie because yesterday... Hey, guys. We did a session, and I was maybe three minutes late. I was having some issues in my camera, and they started without me, we're disrespectfully. So Jake's not here on time, so we decided Natalie mainly pushed

for it, but we decided to start without Jake. So that's just an update. I'm sure he'll join us when he's ready. But as the guy who currently cares about the show, can we get your name, please? Awesome. Hey, my name is Joe. Joe, what a guy.

Joe, where are you calling from? I am calling from Milwaukee. Oh, my God. Yes. Look at us. Look at us. Are you near the lakefront? I'm going to do it, Jake.

Yeah. You know Lakefront near Lake Drive? Shorewood area? Where are we talking? I'm talking like Southside Bayview area. I love Bayview. Big fan of Bayview. Yeah, you ever go to Puddler's Hall? Have a chance I get.

They just had a big block party like two weeks ago. Buddy. We'll go there, ask for my buddy Brett. Okay? It's my man. We'll do. All right, Joe. We're all worried that Jake is actually fully forgotten about the session at this point,

but we're going to keep going. What can we do for you today, Joe, Milwaukee age, I don't care. What can we do? I, um, okay, so I run a pub trivia show each week at a local bar. Okay. And, um, uh, Blackbird. Okay.

Right in, right in the area. And, um, I've been doing it for quite some time now, almost 10 years. And about eight years ago, eight years ago in 2017, the local indie newspaper finally added which, uh, what's the local newspaper? Oh, God. Sorry, Joe. I'm going to have to cut you off. Joe. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. Jake has had on head, not in hand, has shown up to the call. Sorry, I was driving my daughter to gymnastics. She's got a camp. Well, that's what I was doing. I was doing something very similar yesterday when you started without me. And I would have loved to wait, because I think that's a great excuse, but you instituted. What were you doing yesterday? We're not going to get into yesterday. Joe, hold on a second, bud. This is just between me and Jake for a second. Sorry, Joe. Joe from Milwaukee. I know, I got you.

But I was just driving my daughter to gymnastics. Okay. So you think you maybe left a little late for that or something? No, I actually left early. We got stuck in a little bit of traffic. Oh, just that's L.A. for you. What were you doing, trying on your new tight t-shirt with your new necklaces? You're the late one, so you don't do stuff like that.

Do you understand me? Do you get it? Do you know how this works? How many, when are you going to start wearing chokers? Berg said you used to wear puka shell necklaces? When he first, no, don't, you're late. You stop this right now, Johnson. Joe, I'm sorry, brother.

Hey, we're nothing. It's not flexible. Joe's from Milwaukee. Okay. I know you love Milwaukee. It's a great town. Great town. Great state by a great lake.

And he runs pub trivia. He has for 10 years, and we're just about to get into it. Eight years ago, something happened, Joe. Yes, eight years ago, the local Indian newspaper, added a best trivia night category to its annual Reader's Choice program which they hail as Milwaukee's longest running and most prestigious Best of Awards program.

Okay. So we have won that Best of Award four out of the last eight years. We got the first two and then 21 and 22, but for the past couple years, even though we're nominated, we can't seem to get over that hump and win again and bring this plaque home.

So one of the problems here is that in order to win, it's all reader's choice. So you have to get people to go to the website, you know, create a login and then vote for like five or six things in order for a vote to count. So you've got to get people, you know, engaged and committed to actually voting in it. And I've received a couple of reports from people who come to my quiz as regulars that they specifically will not vote for it anymore because they don't want the bar to get any busier than it already is on trivia night because it's hard to find seat. And, you know, I understand that. I hate going to a bar. I want to go have a good time and you can't find a place to sit. But trivia is free and I really want to win this plaque one more time because I'm thinking, you know, after my 10th year here, it might be a good time to hang up and retire.

And I'm trying to go out on top. So I'm trying to see if you guys have any advice to help me get my audience re-engaged and actually voting for us again. I tell them, you know, it's the most important election of their lifetime every year. It doesn't seem to stick. It doesn't seem to matter. Hmm. This is an interesting one. Yeah, it's a bit of a quant.

Well, first of all, I don't know. How do you feel about bar trivia, Jake? Do you like it? No. Yeah, to me, it's like time to move to another bar. Same. I'm the same way with karaoke. Same with karaoke.

I'm same with stand-up. Same with stand-up. If I'm in a bar... If anyone who's going to set up a speaker to distract, I'm like, no. Yeah, out. I just had it the other night, a couple weeks ago. I was out with some friends. We went to a bar, and perfect little bar,

and then all of a sudden I saw some commotion in a corner. The commotion's the worst. And I went like, what's going on? And they go like, oh, we start karaoke at 10 p.m. I literally went like, let's go. Oh, my God. It is bad. Trivia is probably the least degree just, but still, it's over.

But anyway, Joe. But I don't love it. I don't either. We're on your side here. So the issue that I find right away is the one that you pointed out, which is that if people aren't going to vote for it because they don't want the bar to get any more crowded, I mean, it kind of feels like you either need to bring in a new audience

or maybe you need to like start capping the number on how many people can come in. Is it indoor or outdoor? Well, how much space do you have? It's indoor and it's like a long, narrow bar so you could probably fit about 85 people in the bar. There's like a couple of boots and a couple of high three tops and then mostly just bar space.

Hey, Joe. Are you filling, oh, go ahead. No, you go ahead, Garf. Are you filling it? 85 people are there for trivia? Yeah, yeah. The whole bar fills up for trivia every week, pretty much. So, Joe, why is it take over for two hours and then they leave?

But why are you stopping this? Why am I stopping it? You said this is going to be your last year? Well, I mean, it's 10 years. I'm like 40. At some point, I think I should probably stop going to a bar. each week and it's not basketball doing it. I don't know. Oh, I got

you. So you just host it. Yeah, I just host it. Do you own the bar at all? No, I do get paid a little bit from the bar owners. This is just probably like write the quiz. Now I'm understanding. I'm not

like the bar employee. I'm just kind of. I got you. So there's no upside for you. You just like to do this hobby. You started doing it. And now it's become a thing and you would like one final victory because I was going to say you could offer I thought you were the owner of the bar but you're not so you're just going to you want to end on top but you don't want to tell them you want to end on top because of why I don't

want to well I don't want to I'm okay with maybe announcing some sort of like hey I'm leaving after this year because I would like to find someone else to take over that's kind of how I got entered in the first place, too. Well, this could be our answer, Joseph. Yeah, that's a... I wonder. Hey, Joe, I mean, what if we do Joe's final year?

The farewell tour. The farewell as well as you do, we're looking for my replacement. Very similar to on this show how we've been doing the friendship games. You've got to figure out who is going to take over the slot, but the only way to really do it is

you need to win this year and then they need to win next year and now it's sealed. Wait, what do you mean they need to win this year? So you got to get everybody to vote so that you go out on top and then you need the new person to really step it up their season one so that the dynasty continues. So you win with one head coach and then Jimmy, who was the old Cowboys coach? Jimmy Johnson to

Barry Switzer. Yes. But Switzer needs to win in his first year. Yes. Yes. He's inheriting a good squad. And so you've got to win. Now, the team's going to fall apart in three years.

It's not Joe's problem. It's not our problem. That's not our problem. But that's a way to get a big vote and to get a big pass off. I'm kind of, I was thinking something along those lines. This is what I would say, maybe. What if you, to that point, you're trying to find your Barry Switzer this season.

So what if you set up a website through Squarespace, right? Way to hit a sponsor, baby boy. I'm just talking. We're just talking. I'm not even hitting a sponsor. I'm just saying they're the best. I mean, what do you want from me? Squarespace is the best place to pay. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, Jake. And so what if you, like, set up a website. You crap you up. I like me. So what if you set up a website where, like, People, if they attend trivia, can go there and nominate who the next trivia coach will be. And on the website, either how you, I don't, I'm not going to pretend I know too much about this, but either there's a question or a link right next to that that takes you to the voting for trivia of the year.

So you're driving people to the website, and then while they're there nominating, you also ask them to vote. vote for this as the best bar trivia? You know what I'm really thinking? This goes into my brother's fucking app. This is perfect. The poll, because we got to get, here's what we need to do. We got to get everybody in your group vote.

Here's how we could maybe do it, Joe. I'm talking to my brother. He's created an app called We Need to Pick for the show, and I might just connect them with you because here's what I think we could do. We could get everybody to vote on who should be your replacement. But not once everybody's into the world of voting, then you could say, hey, guys, I need one more favor. Could you vote for this?

I'd like to go out on top. So everybody's engaged in the voting, in the passion of who's next. Yeah. And then, of course, they go, this has been a decade of success. I think it's something like that. I also, what I would do is I, like, I feel like if you just kind of put those two ideas in the same space, people are going, people are nominating there. And then as we get closer to the end of the year, people can go there to vote. You know, that's how we could maybe start it, Jake. What we could maybe do is we could set up, he sets up a square space. That's where people go to nominate. Also right there, we have a link. Then when your brother's ready to go with the poll. stuff towards the end when Joe's last year is kind of running down, that's when he's driving people to the app to vote. So he already has the five names of the realistic people who are

inheriting a system. And then on top of that, I think you really got to lean into the farewell tour stuff. I would get a shirt that says Joe's farewell tour, go vote for my last year's best trivia at this link or some shit like that. Put a QR code on your shirt. that people can go right where they need to go to vote for you as Best Bar Trivia. Joe, what are you feeling here, babe? I think, I like it. I think, I think, playing on the retirement heartstrings

might be the last way to get all of these regulars to vote again. And even, I mean, a lot of them tell me they do, but sometimes we're up against, you know, big-name trivias as it were just, you know, it's at like from brewery, which is huge in the area. So just by name recognition, they're probably going to get more votes.

So if we got to go, I think, balls to the wall with a campaign in order to make it work. By the way, I love what you just said there, Joe, about a campaign. Yeah, I do too. Because this is David versus Goliath. You're the little engine that could,

and you're going off into the sunset. I think it's a full campaign. And I think the website, which I really like, that Gareth is pitching, I think the shirts, but it's all, can this little trivia game and this little 85-seater, can we win? Can we take back our glory? Or is it too late for us?

Are we just a bunch of geeks in a bar in Milwaukee? I like it. I think maybe get a banner that, like, really lean into campaign mode and campaign strategy. and buttons with the QR code with the QR code on it I would lean into that you can get that shit so just get a QR code that can be put on buttons on shirts oh here's another thing you could do during the night joe of trivia you take a three minute break in the middle where you ask everybody and they don't even know what they're doing to please take out their phones this is something very special we're doing please take out your phones everyone takes out their phones okay you guys

45 seconds. Okay, now take out, now put in this thing. Then they do a note. Now vote for us as number one. And that they're in the trivia mode, they're doing what they're told. It's the version of Simon says. So you get everybody,

you said they could vote five or six times? Yeah, they have to vote for five or six things in order for one vote to count. Hate that. Hate that. I'm not a fan of it either. But it's just going to be part of the strategy. I mean, it's just going to be locked into your campaign mode.

I mean, it just has to be. you know so you send people the QR code should send people right to where they need to go and the only thing you care about is that they vote for you but just be very clear there's five or six other things you need to do i think if you have merch if you can lean into that a little bit you can hand around a tip bucket at bar trivia and say you're in campaign mode so if anyone wants to tip a little bit extra so that you guys can sort of afford stuff for your small campaign and i think jake's right about the david and goliath part of it's You should be, like, impassioned on that side of it. And I would, is it crazy for him to go to a couple other trivia nights and kind of hand out some shit? No, it isn't crazy. But you know what else isn't crazy? Joe, to go to those nights and make the nights worse. Ask questions at the wrong time.

Sabotage. Stink bombs. I mean, how- Rune of the vibe. How crazy do you want to get? These are just options, but I like something like that, too. I remember when I was used to hand out flyers after other people's shows in clubs where I would be like doing a set a couple nights later, and it was super weird.

But you could just make little flyers, hand them out after other bar trivias. Is that in bad form to do that? I don't know. It's kind of weird. It's sad. Yeah. I mean, I used to stand in Times Square and hand out flyers. Yeah, but it was like I would go to like the punchline, like when I was first like

headlining and I would wait for someone to be leaving and then I had my little weird flyer it was I mean it was not a good look I understand yeah but but something like that I mean I think all those things and again leaning into that like last time part of it and I you know what you could also do on trivia night before you take a break you could be like all right our last question then we're going to take a three minute break this is the best bar trivia in Milwaukee a this one that That's it. Go scan the QR code right now. We're handing them around. You know, like, I don't know, just really push it, lean into it. It's like the last year Jordan was playing before he came back. What do you think, Joe? Where are you at? We've given you a bunch of roads here. You know, I think this is good. I think what I needed maybe personally was just a push to also re-engage myself for a campaign for voting.

I'm a big fan of trivia. I used to go all the time before I started hosting and I think all of them are fun and all of them are good but I think ours is the best and since I wholeheartedly believe that I think leaning into getting real kitschy with campaign stuff, hats, buttons, flyers,

going to other trivias and making my team name vote for Blackbird Bar trivia instead of this one. Yeah. The host has to read it out. And that's why if you're, like, handing out stuff, like, you're telling people to, like, go and... Oh.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. What's up, Dan? This is Dan. An honor. First time we met. I know. It's an honor.

Hey, you've been in my ears for so long. You're jumping through the screen. Wow. Sorry. Your brother said to me on this call, boy, you really find yourself funny, don't you? No, I said you really crack you up. And he said, I like me. Like, you know what? The vibe is John Candy, Steve Martin, and planes trains. Oh, my brother and I used to do a bit where when my mom would be tired of our jokes, we would go, I crack you up. and then we would pretend to literally crack apart.

So I'm like, I'm cracking myself up, crack, and you just stare at us with hatred. Oh, yeah, that's for that tracks. Hey, Joe, this is my brother, Dan. Hi, Dan. Hey, what's up, Joe? I'm just chilling at work on lunch. How's it going over there?

Nice lunch. What do you do for living, Joe? I do operations management for a company that makes touchscreens. Damn right. Milwaukee guy? Yeah. Yeah, I could tell. Hey, Dan, Dan, where was your bachelor party, Dan?

In the greatest city in the world, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. That's my... And what did you have 12 men drink at the bar? It was sea breeze. Why wouldn't I? He made us all get sea breezes. And Dan, what happened when you and me started playing paintball? well you are maybe not in as great shape as you are these days and after you uh took a hard fall

um i shot that fat ass on the ground directly with a lot of like vindictiveness and like the triumph of victory and it hurt i could tell it hurts what was what was his attitude when he got back up uh he was putting a good face forward. He's like, hey, I'm here to rally, but this is not how I want to be spending my Saturday afternoon. But look, I got a great attitude about it, guys. I'm my brother's best man. I'm in. I had purple ankle. And while I was down with a legit injury gear, like legit, took me weeks. My brother shot me so many times on the ground. Man, I haven't been hit in a while Man, they hurt. They hurt.

And that, like, dead on, like, being an asshole shot, those are brutal. Wow. Your brother's cry laughing. Yeah, always cry laughing. I can still see that fat ass just hit the ground. Stop. It's just like, oh, you're exposed, bitch. Bam, bam, bam, bam.

With a legit injury. Yeah, yeah. They, unfortunately, I agree with his decision. and it is a very funny moment to take a shot. Oh, absolutely the right decision. But Dan, here's where we're at. Joe runs a trivia. And this is in two parts.

One, he's trying to win this contest to get the award on his final year, which does not apply to you. But two, he's looking for who's going to take over next for him because we think that could connect to his other thing if we get people voting on that. So how close are we with we need to pick for you and Joe to get in touch where Joe could tell everybody at the bar

and this could get people in the mode of voting where he's going to announce this is his last year he's got a website where people could go to and vote and then on top of that while he's doing that

he's going to start campaigning for everybody to vote for him in this other election so he wins on top got and so we're thinking like there's how many contenders can take over for like five. Well, hold on, let's say, Joe,

how many potential people could take over for you? Who do you think? I mean, it's really about gauging interest, so whoever you can get on the line. So I would imagine if we really push hard, I could find two to three people interested in becoming the new host. Okay, hold on. I got an idea.

What if we do this? what if Joe starts to gather these names and we do a friendship-style dating game thing with the new host and drive people to Dan to vote on that and we do that in Milwaukee as well so that we can kind of and again I mean it's all to really just drive people to the idea of going to a link to go vote for his bar trivia on another site that's right but that might be a way to drum up some of that business well what do you mean like we go to milwaukee no no we just have him on the show with like four contestants and we we don't pick at all we're just kind of like hosting a debate night that's exactly right

we drive them to the dan app they vote there again we have that link there it's just another way it's another way to get people in that community engaged and then we ask everybody on each one please yes guys let's go out on top and at the same time joe you're making the shirt you're making the buttons. Joe, is that something you want to do? You want to see if any of these guys would come back on and we could be part of the process of seeing if we could get your replacement?

This sounds pretty hardcore. It sounds pretty awesome. Good hardcore? Yeah, like good hardcore. Joe, when is, there's like time parameters around the voting for Best Trivia. Is there time parameters around finding your replacement? Yeah, so the nomination campaign

for writing in bars to nominate, I think it's like usually September, October. And I'm not too worried about that. We always get nominated for the final round of voting. And then the final round between like four or five bars runs, I think after Thanksgiving to the end of the year. And then the winner is announced. Yeah.

And then the winner is announced in early January. This is like a presidential election. This is big. Yeah. This is big. We need to do door to door. Are we aiming to find Joe replacement right around the same time as you find out if you win this award or not?

My goal would be to step away right after the winner is announced in January so that I can still go to the party for free. And I'll tell you, wow, listen to this guy. He's lucky. Awesome. Awesome. Danny Jay improves.

I'll also do you one solid, Joe. When I'm there, I think I'm there twice before then, you could meet up with me and I'll like, I'll mention it and we can get people trying to snag like some QR codes or scan QR codes and stuff like that to help try that a lot a little bit too. Oh man, that's awesome.

Cool, and that's awesome, thanks. So I think, Joe, this is the beginning of a relationship that's going to end in January for all of us. We're probably going to do a couple of follow-ups. We're going to bring some people on. You've got to do some work for us, Joe, and connect to the people, connect with Natalie. We're going to get you when the time is right.

We're going to have people voting on we need to pick. Gareth is going to do some shows and try to get everybody. You know, it be funny, Gareth, in the middle of the show, if you stop it, you have an image of a QR code and everybody needs to vote before you tell your next joke. Well, I'm going to keep in mind that some people there are probably like, who's this asshole? So I might not stop. But what I could do is, like, we can figure out a. way to really incorporate it you like that's a really fun bit from the show totally then you even

if you get a third of the people who vote that's huge yeah yeah yeah david and goliath the whole thing yep i can even bring him on stage to make a quick speech that's maybe the way to do that that's the way to do it yeah okay all right well hey joe are you into that um i am good at talking in a microphone in front of 80 people so that's about how many you're going to probably turn out to some of these Milwaukee shows, Joe, if I'm being quite honest. My hometown, yeah, no, that's fine. Don't say that, honey.

You're right. Don't say that, honey. Thank you. Get ready for 50,000 people here, Joe. You're going five serves. Yeah, we're going to have a Greenland voter. You're going to be doing it where the fucking Milwaukee bucks play, baby boy.

Danny Jay, thanks for hopping on. Thank you, Dan. Thank you, guys. We're going to connect you with Joe at some point. Yeah. And wait. We're ready. All right.

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Hi. Hello. Yeah. Who are you? Where are you calling from? My name is Sophie, and I'm calling from Detroit, Michigan. I know you, Sophie. It's a ticket, scared.

Hi. Oh. How you doing, self? You know, I've been better. It's just one of those days. What is happening? So, wait. How do we cheer you up?

And let's bring people up to speed because Sophie, you've been our white whale. A little bit So Sophie You What was your ex's name again Sorry Do you remember? Aaron

I didn't remember Well I meant Jake I figured you would Sophie Aaron You guys were together You How about this Sophie

Will you Ooh We have Aaron in the waiting room too I just saw that Uh oh So Sophie Did you know that

Not really I thought it was just going to be able to talk with us So Sophie First of all are you okay with that I'm okay with it why not We don't have to bring her in We told Aaron it's up to you Sophie That's okay

Hey bring it on Let's talk to Sophie for a minute And then we could also do individually Yeah what do you prefer here Sophie You know let's bring her on Let's do this. Okay, because what, if you remember the original problem was you guys broke up and you had Detroit Lion tickets, yes? Yes.

Season tickets. And when you broke up, you wanted the ticket and then we said, let's figure out we were going to do a singing competition and whoever had the better voice got the tickets. Then you sang and realistically, Gareth beat you. But I personally didn't feel comfortable with that. I beat Aaron. Yeah, I didn't even show up. Oh, wait, I'm all turned around. Yeah, Sophie's our white whale.

Sophie's not been on the show yet. Okay, Sophie. So we had, so Aaron and I competed because Sophie, you got cold feet or you didn't want to participate. I had all turned around. First of all, good to meet you. Nice to meet you. Yes. It's a pleasure.

I thought I got screwed up. Okay, so what happened on the day of? We had frigging Judd Appetal. You killed us. 40-year-old virgin. You killed us. By the way, it was a real miss of an epa. It was our first miss afterwards, Gareth and I were like,

pretty big miss when we had old Juddy Apatow. Oh, shit. I know I really missed out on that. I know. You know, to be honest, the day, it's just I had a little anxiety. Respect. And, yeah, just kind of dipped. I get home.

By the way, respect. We selfishly were upset, but. I completely understand the bail as well. So Aaron and I had a singing competition to win the tickets because Jake and I tried to make something out of the call. And Judd handled it great. We couldn't get you on. We've been trying to get you on.

Yeah, but hold on before. So then Aaron sang and realistically, Gareth beat her. Did you hear that? Just be fair. I just want to make sure, sir. But you know, Sophie, like, she, it was off. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Erin, yep, she definitely lost.

She lost. And the problem was because you weren't on. If Judd wasn't on, if it was just Gareth and I, I probably would have been meaner. Yeah. But I was like, I don't know. He came onto our show. I'm trying to have a good ending. I didn't feel comfortable having her lose.

But fuck, man. She made it hard on us. Yeah. It was a sticky situation, I get it. And then in the end, we gave her the tickets, but I didn't feel right about it. And then supposedly, you were fine with it. You were cool, but then your group of friends was like, she doesn't deserve the tickets. Right.

So walk us through what happened. So I was fine with it at first. And then all of a sudden, but your mutual friends were just, wait a second. Like, you really didn't listen for her, right? Because she definitely didn't win. She tried. She tried. And I didn't even show up.

Which is true. That's true. That's what the flag is. But yes, it's true. She didn't win. But she didn't. Right. But she was there.

But we also, Gareth, I did not expect you to have a voice of an angel for the first time. Hey, I don't know what came out of you either. Who knows what happened. All of a sudden, it was. It was beautiful. It was beautiful. I thought it was going to be a joke. And all of a sudden, I look at a little cherub's singing his heart out.

In front of Judd. Oh, I know I was auditioning. Oh, yeah, for sure. Yeah, I can see that happening. 40-year-old virgin with a thinger? 35-year-old virgin. All right, so you then, your friends said, well, hold on. This is kind of dog shit.

She didn't win. And what were you thinking? And they kind of riled me up, you know? They got my blood blowing a little bit. All in fun, though, like there is no, you know, there weren't any super hurts. feelings, maybe a little bit from Erin, but I mean, she did lose. But yeah, so they kind of riled me up.

And then I reached out to her and I was just like, yo, you know? Like the agreement was if you lose, we're not doing the money thing. I know we got a lot of backlash on that. Yeah, yeah. But it was like all or nothing, all or nothing. Interesting. It's such a strange little web we've caught ourselves in now. Yeah, but I hear what you're coming from.

Absolutely. I will say this, though. And we will get into all of this, and then you guys are going to make your decision. I do think the person who gets the ticket has to pay for the tickets. Is that insane? Well, I mean, yeah, we could. It's just right before, it's just like, hey, we're all in or nothing. That's it. But she bought the tickets. She did. She did. So it's not all or nothing Because she's all, you're nothing Yeah

You getting three season tickets Is a strange But by the way You getting the tickets Might be the end of this But I don't think she loses the money too Yeah It seems a bit strange

What do you think of that? I think that's fine Okay But I do think there's a world Where you still get the tickets Now, let me ask you this. Do you want the tickets still? I would love the tickets still.

Okay. Let me ask you this, and this is without her on it. And if you want, we can have this scratched from the episode. Nat, I'm a man in my word. Is there any world where you would go to the games with her? Oh. I mean, it depends on where we're at if we're still talking. So, I mean, I could see going to a.

with her. I got you. Okay. Where are you at right now? Where do things that stand now as far as you guys communicating? I mean, we have the same group of friends. And so, I mean, I haven't seen her in a little bit, but we run into each other here and there just because we have the same friends.

Let me ask you a quick question. It's neither here nor there. What happened between you two kids? Because I got to tell you, when I started talking to you, I thought it was her. there's a similarity with on her last call when she called in for the patron 200 night i go how you doing she was like yeah it been better not great when you started today i go how you doing you go like this not great that's why i said what can we do to cheer you up i felt like i'd been on this call there's a similar thing between you two ladies no yeah yeah there's a vibe there's a vibe so i mean it was like

four years back and forth back and far and um yeah and you know we just like we're We're great friends, but there's other people out there for both of us. Okay. I got you. So in the end, it's a very, it's better to not be together, but to be friends. Correct. Yeah. Okay.

And I'll stop playing matchmaker. Yeah. That's cute. I saw this. I saw a version of us playing parent trap. Oh, bringing us back together. Getting at a game together, sipping on a beer, cheering on the bears over the lions. and all of a sudden,

I don't know. Oh, then the kiss cam comes on. The kiss camp. Now we're talking. And all of a sudden you go like, hey, that was fun. And she goes, yeah. And then she goes like, I'll see you next Sunday. And she goes, yeah, when we play the Titans,

let's text about it. And all of a sudden you go, who would I rather watch a game with than this? Right. Crazy old gal I've been dancing with for four audios. Like a job. An Apatow movie. Is there a curly-haired boy who sings in it?

Why is there a little lad who sings at the half? And how does it sound? I was a little sad I missed out on meeting him. I will say that. That would have been really cool. Yeah, no, it would have really helped everybody. It's fine. It's fine.

Everybody would have been really helped out by that. But also, let's be honest. Anxiety is a real thing. Yeah, absolutely. When you're not being paid and it's with X, I truly have zero judgment. The amount of shit I have bailed on in my life has been spectacular.

Well, this is also, this is an extraordinary. I'm also a big believer, and I hate this idea that people go like, never quit. Sometimes it's fine to quit. Yeah. But this meant every once in a while to go, I'm going to fold is okay. This idea of never quit, you know what happens to gamblers who do that?

They go broke. You got to know when to fold them. You gotta know when to walk away. The night that day wasn't right for you with Judd, and it's fine because we got this. Yeah, so we are going to make up for it. So, well, Sophie, if we, let's say we do bring Aaron into this call. Are you okay with that?

Because maybe we can work out some of the pitching in front of her a little bit as well. I think we have to figure out a competition. Oh, yeah, let's do competition. We're both super competitive. I think we have to figure out today who gets the tickets. Okay. Yeah. But I will say before she comes on,

if you get the tickets, I think you have to pay for your tickets. I agree. I will do that. I think that's fair. I will do that. I get it. I was being kind of a little bitch about it. But then it's fair because she still loses the tickets, but you could also sell them.

You're allowed, they're yours. Yeah. You could say like, oh, big games coming up. I'm selling these tickets. They're your tickets. Okay. So we are just competing for who gets the tickets. We could do a Detroit Lions quiz contest.

Well, let's do this. Let's bring Aaron on and then we'll see what happens. So, Sylvie, can we mute you for a little bit? Yes, absolutely. Thanks. And also good to meet you, welcome to the show. Yes, thanks for doing this. Thank you so much, guys. I'm happy to be here. We're happy to have you. Okay, here comes Aaron.

Aaron. Yes. What's up, Big Dog? How's it going? Hi. Welcome back. We were just chatting with Sophie. Okay.

So Sophie has agreed that whoever wins the tickets should pay for them. Yeah. Okay. She's also totally open to being friends. She's got a good vibe. She's like, I got a little bit of anxiety. That's why I bailed. There was no drama.

Yeah. She's here now. And she's willing to create a competition for the tickets. but whoever wins them also pays for them but they're their tickets then okay are you going back to the original call

willing to throw it all on the table and play again it depends on what the competition is I think that's right but you guys are how about this you're both allowed we keep pitching until you both agree okay

are you into that yeah that's fair Nat attack can we bring Sophie back in the room She's here. Hi. Sophie, Aaron, everybody's here. How are we doing?

Hello. Hi, Aaron. Hi. Hello. This moment's not about you. That's shocking. Yeah. Shocking that you tried to get part of that.

Yeah. I love the tent. I wanted to be part of the tent. I know, but you weren't in it. They were. Yeah, yeah. No, I agree. My instincts way off.

Go ahead. Insane. Nuts. Nuts. Nuts. Hey, hi. And then, Garret. goes, hi, I guess.

Crazy. Yeah, I know. Just one about me in any way. And yeah, I don't know what. You were a throuple for a second. I know. And it felt great. You let me know if you got, you drive for a second, Jake. I'm here, drive for a second.

You're emotional because of that high. Yeah, no, there's a lot going on. My hands are up. I don't feel my hand. Why did you step out of this love story? What happened? Well, it just felt like maybe it wasn't time for a man to be involved, I guess. I guess. I don't know.

And maybe I'm crazy, Sophie Aaron, call me crazy. I think you're spot on, yeah. Yeah, no, well, you don't need to put it. I think they're spot on, too, and I will say, I think everyone agrees you're crazy. Yep, I agree. We just all say, hey, let's all just say, we all kind of lost our heads back there a little bit, and let's just move forward. I don't know, what the hell we were all doing.

Take away we all. Yeah, yeah, no, I know. You're being really weird, my dude. Agreed. It's not getting better. I don't know what's going. I am melting down. You are melting down.

It's a meltdown. So why don't you drive? Of the 200th. Yeah. Are you there? Have you heard of a podcast? All right. Let's just...

Okay. All right. So, anyway. Sophie and Aaron. Go ahead. So Sophie, this is what we just talked about Aaron about, and she said something that we like. First of all, everybody has agreed. Whoever wins the tickets in the competition we create right now, gets the tickets and pays for the

tickets. But Sophie, Aaron said she is willing to... to play if you both agree to the game before doing it. So when Garris said trivia, you're allowed to say, pass. But we'll find a competition that you both go, I'm willing to play for those stakes. Does that sound fair to both of you? Yes. Do you guys want the audience to vote on the winner?

I don't know. That's what we should do. We should do what we need to pick. It shouldn't be us. They can both play their case. so that's a great idea this is for you guys this is for Aaron and Sophie

do you guys each want a minute to plead your case or do you want to do a song now it doesn't have to just be the two of these do you want to do a singing competition do you want to do

a scat competition a lot competition scat I don't even know what that is Jazz, jazz makeup singing. Hip-p-p-a-da-bat skit-skat. I didn't know a Broadway song. You didn't know a Scat.

How about, how about an improvised spoken word poetry slam? Oh, my God. These ideas are getting worse. Okay. Hey, singing, I didn't get to sing. Oh, you didn't show up. I feel like you did enough. Well, if that's all we can agree on, I'll do it.

But I also don't want people to hear more of me singing. Okay, we'll do something else. Let's do that then. Okay. You want to do a scat? I mean, that's actually worse. I'd rather sing than scat. All right.

Aaron, Sophie, hold on a second. Is there a song? Go ahead, Gareth. Well, I mean, I just, I just as a sideline reporter at this game, I mean, the two of them, they just worked themselves out of a problem with great respect and communication. Agreed. It just seems like a really important thing in a relationship. Go ahead, Jake.

I'll just be over here. I will say I think you guys communicate well. Thank you. Yeah. There's been good and bad time. Yeah, but right now it seems to be a good time. Yeah. Great.

Yeah, I agree. Yep. Gareth and I don't communicate that well. We're mean to each other. Well, I'm all out of love. It's funny, though. We're meaner to Steve, I think. Well, I suit it up when we get the calendars.

Okay. Yeah, so, I mean, what do you think? I mean, would you read, like, we have, we have a website where people can pick who they would like. It's literally built for this. So you could both plead your case. Or sing, Gareth. We were getting close. Or sing.

Now, first, this is. I'll sing, but as long as it's a song that I know, please. Okay. Okay. Let's do this. Sophie, I'm just talking to you. correctly. Would you, what would you like to do as a competition? I mean, I'm down to sing. I think it's pretty easy.

Okay. And then would you want to pick your own song? I will sing whatever song Aaron thing. I should sing the same song. Same song. Okay, Aaron. Yep. Yeah. Would you want to turn this into a singing competition, you pick the song? Yeah. Um, yes, let me just, I need to get out of your shot of everyone around me. Hold on. Where are you, right? You're not, I'm at work. Okay. Yeah, this is. I don't need those people. They already heard it. It was enough. I don't need them to hear it again.

So then, Aaron, you are per Sophie picking the tune, but Sophie, I want to make this fair to you. You're allowed to say pass. Well, I also. Jake, I mean, we're talking about Detroit, Stevie Wonder, fantastic musician, Detroit-based. Maybe we go with a Stevie Wonder song that they can sing. What if they pick? I agree. Again, yeah. You're not in the relationship.

I know. You said Madonna? Yes, Madonna. Madonna. Oh, God. Wasn't that what we sang last time? No, we did Argentina. Song by Madonna.

By the way, that song was stuck in my head. Well, when you hear an angel cry. It's on to my dreams, for it still is. We'll never forget that song. I got a feeling something's cooking between you, gales. Hey, Jake, that's not for us to do. Come on. Get out of the kitchen.

If there is, we'll update you. Now, let me ask you a question. Let me ask you a crazy question. Where do the lines in the Packers play this Sunday? Are they in Lambo? Yeah. Damn it. Week two, where are those?

By the way, Gareth, if you want the lion's packers tickets, who said we would give them to you if you want them. That's interesting. No, Gareth would have to go with one of you. Sounds like I'd be making it by myself, but I'm in. Love it. So what song are we thinking, ladies? Oh, God.

Take a second. We're not in a manic rush. Yeah, we could deal. I don't you guys like a prayer like a prayer yes I got one yes

who was that from I have like PTSD from saying in general okay well we don't okay no I'll do it I'll do it I'll do it

like a pair is the easiest one you should do that one okay you can do that one so Aaron are you excited to do not excited but are you willing to do like a prayer for the tickets. Yeah.

Sophie, are you willing to do, but if you don't think you're going to win, Ann, don't do it. I know, but I can't think of what else we can do, really. Well, that's why you got two pitchmen on the line with you. Yeah. We could do something else if you want,

but I was getting my vocal cords. No, I'll do it. You're into it. I'll do it. Now, Aaron, do you think you're going to win because I know you want these tickets. So what I don't want to do is I don't want Charlie Brown to go. I'll never kick a field goal.

And then go up and miss it and go like, you, I'm a fell in a puddle of mud. And then have everybody voted and go like, maybe give it to Charlotte Brown because he tried. Fucking Lucy Wood. I need to. I know. What would Dan Campbell say to you right now?

Oh, God. Well, I know I can't sing. So then you shouldn't sing because I don't think you're going to win as a singer. I know. That's very true. We've all heard it. We all know. It's going to end up well.

And I think Sophie's confident because she heard the tape. I know. She's like, I'm going to kill her. But what I'm looking for is a good man. So, Erin, what are you good at? Oh, God. It's a good question. We need you to tell us what you think you could win at right now.

Is it just on the top of my head? What else besides saying? Can we do? Lions trivia. I would definitely win that. What about trivia in general? Regular trivia? Yeah.

Well, the only problem with trivia in general is there's no, like, vote. There's no, it is. Right. Yeah, I guess that way, then you're right. I've got a question. Which one of you loves the lions more? Oh, definitely. Who's me?

Aaron. Well, sorry, yeah, Aaron. So, Sophie, is that true? Oh, that's very true. So why do you want the tickets? Because I'm competitive, and we, I want the tickets. Why don't, Jake, why don't we make this? Why don't we just give them a minute each?

They each plea their case as to why they deserve the tickets. And we'll just have people vote. I mean. But Sophie, I feel like that's going to put you at a disadvantage of how we just said that. I'll do. I'll sing, guys. I'll do it. Are you going to win a fucking singing, Aaron?

Probably not. But we're already here. Jesus fucking Christ. I'm taking it. the tickets. Jake. I'm taking the tickets. Because here's what

we're playing with these two. Sophie won't show up to the first fucking one and now Aaron's already lost. So I'm still competent. It's all who gets a shit. Here's the stakes of this.

Go ahead. It was very dramatic. It was very dramatic. This is traumatic for me. Jake. Ladies, you're pissing me off. Jay. Jake, go rub the chimp hay.

Take a lap. Jesus Christ. I'm very sorry about that. I'm trying to create stakes. But I need, Aaron, I need you to go. Then you know what? How about we do this? Aaron, you have a minute to convince the audience why you should get the tickets.

Sophie, you have a minute to do whatever you want. If you want to sing, you can sing. But you each get one minute to do whatever the fuck you want and then the audience voice. Is that fair? Yeah, I will sing. I'll do it. I'll sing. But Aaron, I don't want you to, here's what I will not have people vote on because this is what happened to me last time with you.

we did this Garrett beat you and what did I do just give Aaron the tickets but now we've learned from our mistakes I think Aaron

if I were you I would take I don't think there's anything wrong with making an impassioned plea speech point for why you deserve

the tickets we're gonna let Sophie do the same so don't feel pressure to do that just people are gonna vote they're gonna probably respond to

some earnestness or some sincerity or if you're a good singer whatever I think it's just in this minute, the way that we can have finality and feel good about it is if you both give it your all. You could sing like a prayer for 10 seconds and then explain why you love it, why you love the lions, why your blood runs blue. You can do any of those. But here's what we're going.

While one of you is going, we're going to mute the other one so the other one can't hear. Yeah, great. You're going into soundproofooze. So now let's do this. I'm going to hold up a number one or two. Aaron, you pick. If you pick, that means you're going. If you get it right, you go, you have the option.

We're doing a coin flip like in football. So you can either go first or second. So I'm holding up a number right now. Gareth, you see the number I'm holding up? Correct. Aaron, either one or two. Two. Okay, I was holding up one.

Sophie, do you want to go first or second? First. First. Okay, so Aaron, Nat Attack, can you put Aaron in a zone where she cannot hear what Sophie does? Yeah. All right, Aaron, I'm going to put you in the waiting room again. See you soon, Erin. Okay, I'm going to start a stopwatch.

Do we want to say one minute? Do we want, okay. One minute. One minute. Sophie, do you feel ready? You have time before we start. This is pregame. This is about to be kickoff of the biggest game of the season.

How you feeling? You ready to go? yet. I'm ready to go. I'm going to bring some singing to the mix since I plagued the first time. Here's my recommendation to you. Go fucking, go fucking hard. Okay.

I'm going to do it. Okay. You tell us what you're ready. Okay. Oh, my God. I'm so happy. You got this. I am ready as a look for me.

So I'm going to say three, two, one, and on action, I'm going to start the clock. We are going to be silent for a minute. Okay. Three, two, one, action. I brought to you by Sophie Sanchez. I'm going to be singing to you like a prayer by Madonna. All right. Life is a mystery.

Everyone must stand alone. I hear you come by name. and it feels my I'm saying like five years when you call my name it's like a little prayer I'm down on my knees I want to take you there

in the midnight hour I can feel your power that's like a prayer you know I'll take you there I hear your voice it's like an angel sighing I hear you You're in a minute

You did it Yeah Hey Great You brought the fucking heat there, pal Great voice No wonder No wonder Aaron didn't want to do that

You brought the heat From one singer to another That was really nice Oh The voice of an angel talking to me right here Thank you to it Hey really quick you two How about a duet?

Like a prayer. In three, two, three, two, one, action. When you call my name, it's like a little prayer. Down on my knees. Want to take you there. All right. Great. In the midnight hour, I can feel your power.

Just like, I'm closing his eyes now. Oh, go ahead. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. So even though that was beautiful, he lost himself. He was Madonna.

That does not count for the vote, everybody. So when you go to vote for Sophie, just think about her minute. Don't cry for me, Argentina. Sorry. Hey, Sophie, can we get a taste of yours? Don't cry for me? Yeah. Oh, God.

Aaron's in the other room, like, it's been three minutes. Yeah, let's just hear it just as how it would have gone. Okay, ready? Ready? All right. don't cry for me Argentina I'll never let you until my wild days

my mad existence I kept my promise yeah look if you would have shown up on that day we wouldn't be doing a follow-up Thank you I know I gotta tell you Aaron's got a minute now

she doesn't have to sing she could take it from you and I'm telling you the audience is going to vote We're going to set a time. We're going to bring you guys back on to reveal the vote. So we will set up a page. We need to vote. We need to pick.com slash probably lions tickets,

but we'll figure that out. Nobody is going to know the results until the call with each other, but this sticks. So I will tell you this. You killed it. Great. You should feel very confident. That's a really, that's a hard one to beat.

Yeah. Thank you. So don't leave yet. We're going to put you. on the same thing we did with Aaron and let Aaron have her moment, then we'll bring you guys both on. Okay, perfect. Good job.

Okay, penning you in the waiting room. Our show's becoming a real competition show. This one especially. But, I mean, we got the pickleball mask. Well, it's because we need to pay. We really, now we have a place. We have a place. It's the new Pigley and Mo.

No, don't say that because anyone's going to hate it. No, no, I mean, it's, it's helpful. It's a helpful Pigley and Mo. It's fun. Okay. Aaron, are you here? I'm here. Okay, so you have a minute to do whatever you want to do.

Do you know what you're going to do? Um, I probably should have been thinking about that. Let's take a little bit of time. I guess. This is a big moment. Oh, God. You want some notes? You want to discuss?

Where are you and you? Where are your uncles right now? How hard do I have to try? How hard did she actually? She brought some heat. Oh, God. She didn't go halfway. But I'll tell you this, if she came the day on Judd and did what she just did,

yeah. It wouldn't even matter. We wouldn't be here. You have more of a shot now than you would have then. Yeah. So I would say, speak from the heart. Sincerity will play. You know.

Do you want to, what Gareth is saying, oh, it's going to be we need to pick.com slash lions tickets. Natalie, way to make it fast. Or Jesse, way to make it fast. So do you? do you want to talk your strategy this is the lions we're in the locker room you're not with your your OC and your head coach right now I mean I don't have a strategy so I don't know so this is what we're talking about we can no longer say I don't have a strategy I know I know we're forming the strategy right now that's what this is okay so the I can't do it I'm going to lose you don't show up

to the match if you think you're going to lose no you're fair that's right that's fair so do you want to sing I'm going to tell you she's got a beautiful voice so if you sing, you're only going to win with passion. Okay, well, I'm not going to sing them. What did she sing out of curiosity? We can't tell you that. The rules dictate we're unable to tell you. It's not fair to her.

I didn't, I wasn't aware there were rules. There's a whole thing. My nickname is rulebook, for God's sake. Yeah. There's always rules. Okay. They're always arbitrary. Yeah.

Sometimes they get peeled back real quick. I feel like that doesn't make any sense. Yeah, they change. Hard to keep up with. Agree. Try doing me. Try falling asleep at night. I don't know how you do it.

It doesn't. Okay. Well, I guess since I'm not going to say, do I just, I guess I'll just give my plea. Take away the fucking, I guesses. And Aaron, you have a minute. Do you want, here's another question to you. Do you want the Lions tickets? I do.

Or do you not care? Because if you don't care, let's just fold. to get him to Sophie. But that's the other way around, though. That's what I, and I would include that into your plea as well as, let's not forget, Aaron, you showed up the first time, you laid it all in the line. You wouldn't, you were already saying, you didn't feel comfortable doing it. You went out of your comfort zone.

You're the Lions fan. Look, sure, she's got a lot of bells and whistles with that voice. Who cares? Don't give her lines, Gareth. I'm not. This is not about, no. Okay. You're the, you can coach, but so here's what I'm going to say to you.

Yeah, exactly. Yeah. We are, we are going to release this episode and the audience. is going to vote. Then we are going to bring everybody on, you and by everybody, I mean you and selfie. All two. And we are going to reveal the winner of the vote. Then it sticks. The winner of that gets the tickets. They pay for them, but the tickets are theirs conversations over. So this is for the 2025-2020-6 Detroit Lion season-season. Tickets.

Favored to come number one in the division. Now and more with Michael Parsons going to Green Bay. Stop it. So I'm going to give you a minute of time. Do you feel ready, Aaron? I guess I'm ready as I'll ever be, yes. Take away the fucking, I guess. Let's go.

Can you imagine Jared Goff going and a two-minute drill down by six? All right, we're going to get down there and score. I guess I'm going to lead the offense. Yeah. You know what you would say as a fan? Get out of here. We're fans, Aaron. We're fans.

This is our Lions game for this audience. Yeah. But, I mean, as a Lions fan, though, I'm used to sing a lot of, you know, not great people. Aaron, this glass is full. Not empty. Are you ready? Yes. Three, two.

And by the way, I'm going to tell you when the minute's up. Three. Hold on. I've got to do face ID now. Three, two, one, action. Okay, so I think that I deserve the tickets. First off, because it was my idea to buy the season tickets in the first place. I've been on the wait list for like seven years.

I paid the waitlist fee, which she did not pay. The account is in my name. So technically the tickets are in my name. I could have just taken them, but I didn't. I was trying to be nice and split down like the plan. Also, I bought a lot of cute outfits for the season that I cannot return because it's past the return window. So I lost all that money if I can't go. That's important to me.

Also, I've been a Lions fan my whole life and she was up until like two years ago when they actually started being good. So I feel like that gives me a point in my favor because I actually like have watched them my whole life and she has not. Also, last year when we didn't have season tickets, we did go to a couple games. I bought all those tickets out of my pocket, including the playoff game, which is a lot of money. So that was all on me. And I did show up for that first call and humiliated myself for the tickets. Okay. We're in a minute.

I think that was really good. I think that was really good, too, Aaron. I do. Okay. I truly don't know who's going to win. So let's bring, by the way, Aaron, how do you feel about it? I feel fine. Better than singing, yeah.

Great. I think you brought up some really good points. I don't know who I would vote for. Let's bring, now, let's bring Sophie back in. That was good, though. That was great. Yeah, from where you were, to there. And it was very different.

You should believe in yourself more. That was great. Agreed. And you went fast. You weren't milking the time. That was good. Sophie, yeah. All right.

Is everybody back on? Yes. Yes. Oh, yeah. So you guys, I want to let you know, you did very, very different minutes. Very different. Both very good, though. Both very good.

good. I have no idea who's going to win. We need everybody to go to we need to pick.com slash lions tickets. Is that correct, Natalie? Yes. Then you either vote for Sophie and let's have Sophie's singing or Aaron speech. We will bring you guys. We will bring you guys guys back on. It's got to be before week two. That's the first game. We will bring it before the first home game.

So we will do this fast. Yeah. So are we releasing this on Monday now now now? So under a week, yeah. Yeah, I'm going to have to switch it. We weren't going to, but yeah, we'll put it on Monday. Okay. And we've already, you already created the page to vote on?

Yeah. That's active. This is huge. Okay, shit. So crazy stuff, guys. Well, look, thank you both for showing up. Now the people will decide. You both did well.

So, Sophie, thank you for coming here. I'm really glad that I've sang all that for no reason now. That makes me so great. Aaron, Aaron, are you doing that thing again where you're being negative? Come on now, Aaron. Come on now, Aaron. That's not what we're doing. You got to see with Judd.

Okay. That is true. Sophie, you didn't even show up. Let's not start doing that thing either. Come on now. You don't even show up. You could have sung to Judd. You have a great voice.

You could have done it. You bailed. The Lord. All right. Guys, I got to say, from a dud of a first call, this is turned into a top 10 for me. Let me say, from Juddud to Stud. Yeah. This has become its own animal.

And I am very excited about it. And I'm going to be very a hundred. 100% honest, I have a stomachache about the vote. I'm intense. I want you both to win. My goal is you both go to all the games. But unfortunately, I don't know. Look, I'm just the kid and parent trap.

I'm Lindsay Lohan. I want mom and dad together. So don't we are. And Gareth is the other twin. I think I'm thinking of the right movie. Yeah, you are. You're the one of the English one. I'm the rough one from camp.

We should trap them. How are we going to trap them? It's never going to work. I'll tell them that I'll go to the Lions game with each one of them, and then they'll show up together, and they'll sit right next to each other. Wait a second. That might actually work. Yeah, wait a minute. We should probably cut this out and talk about off the call. All right, guys, Sophie, Aaron, we appreciate you both a lot.

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