We're Here to Help - 206: We're Here to Chat Vol 4: Light and Love (with Steve Berg and Eric Edelstein)

Episode Date: September 10, 2025

Eric Edelstein and Steve Berg return for another installment of We're Here to Chat, featuring an update from Vandy Camp, pictures of Steve in High School and Kenny Rogers chucking $10 bills at the crowd.Cast your vote and pick who Jake and Gareth will help to find a friend: https://weneedtopick.com/vote/friendshipcasting1See images from the episode here: http://www.heretohelppod.com/post/episode-206Want 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.Visit gemini.google/students to learn more and sign up. Terms apply.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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Busted 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Rock and we'll go Rock and roll Rocket Chip take off Hey, this is U.S.S. Bergmaster

And we are back on a Wednesday for another chat The whole four is coming The big four but as of now it's just old Steve Berg who got popped in the chat

hey no I'm not doing visuals for the month of August oh no hi are you recording gman of course not bro I just got the text to jump by it's all useless

a waste of thought and time man man all right and we are rolling you know what I had breakfast this morning. Let's guess. It was interesting. Hold on. Let's guess. Gareth, you're up. Okay, yeah, yeah.

I'm going to think he had like, I think Kinawa was involved. Okay. I'm going to say he had like Kinawa eggs, sourdough. Okay, I got a guess. Double carb,

Kinawa and sourd. I wish I lived in that world. Made. By the way, are you the shortstop for the Royals? I mean, Bobby Witt, Jr., yeah. Jake, before you guess, just quickly, his baseball thing? Yeah, I know. I'm the biggest baseball guy you've ever met.

It feels like witness protection shit where they're like, and you're moving to Nebraska and you're a huge Royals fan. I grew up a big Royals fan. Here we go. Agreed. Yeah, I got George Brithonograph. I'm not keeping up with it. It's just like what I'm not even.

And I love, listen, I'm full bandwagoning the Brewers, but it's like Berg has just been like, oh, I watched like three games yesterday. It was like 15 hours. And I'm like, what? Yeah, he texted me the other day. Uh-oh, looks like my royal got the best of your cubs. You're like, they were playing?

I was like, stop, Stephen. Three years you haven't given. We've always bullshitted about this. I mean, out of nowhere. It's our thing. Hi, Eric. We're guessing Steve's breakfast.

Eric, you're up. Wait, Eric, are you recording? Oh, yes, I am recording. I'm guessing Stephen had a glorious few eggs. A little bit of cheese in that scramble. Don't mind if I do. Some artisanal toast, some sourdough with pre and probiotics. I guess how are you.

Loving life in Omaha. I think that's great. Eric got closer than Gareth. But, boy, there's a lot of, there's a lot of crossover. Your impression was the most, is so grounded. Absolutely. Thank you, Steve. Thank you, buddy.

It's very, you. You're like the indie movie version of me. It's believable. Eric, that's right. Eric, not, I think your guess is great and we have a lot of similarities, but keep in mind, Berg's playing left outfield today in the Royals game. So he might be trying to get a little bit more. Can I get an impression of Eric's response to that?

Yeah. Oh, man, I love it. I would love it. I would love Eric, Steve, you could play outfield, man. You can do, man, you look great. I love it, brother. God, you look good. You could.

They'd be lucky to have you. The Royal said, Bird, they would win the division with your passion. Look, look, no one's been more supportive of my baseball turn than Eric. Oh, I love it. It's so cool. I always thought you were deep down a baseball guy. The game moves at our pace, Stephen. Thank you.

Thank you. God. I love you. Two turtles. Amen. Who won that racing mythology there, buddy? The title did. I don't know if that's mythology.

What do you guys think about the new, whatever they're called, banana hammocks team? Oh, the, yeah. The guys who dance and sing and do fireworks, and it's Harlem Globetrotters. They're selling out Fenway Park. What the hell are they called?

Jesus Christ. You know these guys. Savannah bananas. Yes, Savannah, banana. why wait um i love it you do yeah way better that's baseball i'd go to that game happily yeah and what do you guys think i i i want to have a strong opinion you don't care because but i don't know about it oh you don't so there's a whole interest that has formed where i mean it's coming with strange coming from such a big baseball guy like you

jake i'm shot shot shot shot fired out of monday i judge as shocked as you are This is insane. They have created a baseball league where it's competitive baseball with good players mixed with Harlem Globetrotters. So they do things like they pitch in between their legs. They all stop and do dances. The entire crowd, like bigger than the wave, everybody does something. So it's, yeah.

It's entertainment more than just. It's circus baseball. Yes. It's circus baseball is exactly right. But the main guy takes it pretty serious. Obviously, I hate it in terms of being right on the nose. You know, it's so, it's a very typical, I'm like. Here, I'm going to play a little of it real quick if you want.

I feel like, I, I've already, perfect thing you said, Gereff. Do I like it? It's, you got three guys on a dancing mound, dancing. This is not a good. The umpire's shaking his ass. Eric's dancing. Everybody's shaking. Oh, now we've pitched.

Yeah, well, they get right into the game, and then they play baseball. See, that's a good catch, though. That was incredible. So here's my question. It's like a nine-ennings of this craziness? It's a game. Yeah, it's game. I will say that's the worst clip I've seen.

That is by far the worst clip of it that I've seen. I thought it was more globetrottery. Like, that's how I viewed it. It was a lot more. It's like TikTok banged the globe-trotters. It is right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yes. Eric, what are your thoughts on the thing?

I think the magic of it is, one, we're old men, and this guy is bringing baseball to a younger crowd. Garrett, can I speak for you? No. I'll deal with that statement. Speak for yourselves. Yeah, okay, yeah. All of our ears are easily Googlable.

I apologize to you. You know what? Speak for you three. Jake, a little more, Jake. I've seen this guy do, and yeah, I'm a so-called baseball purist, but what I love is this guy. You mean you called yourself? Who called you that?

Yeah, I called me. The rags. Eric, I'm the same way. Thank you, Stephen. I'm glad I've one ally. What this guy's done is he sold out stadiums that we were told people didn't want to go watch baseball that anymore. I watched this week.

That's true. South side of Chicago. And that place now, there's rumors that might move to Nashville and other stuff. Sold it out. Brought back Paul Canerico, Mark, Burley, A.J. Prisinski, beautiful thing. Anaheim Stadium. I've gone down to so many show Hey, Otani starts, and it's a third full, and it's a sad baseball experience right now with their owner. They sold out Anaheim Stadium, and then the owner now doesn't like anything connected to Disney. The whole stadium stood and did angels in the outfield angel wings. But it's not baseball. Like, it's a fun show. It's like the Globetrotters. Like, you know, AJ Prisinski hit a ground out to shorten a guy. I flipped it behind his back, did a flip,

and then still hosed, you know, a 55-year-old catcher. Yeah, well, holds a guy not running full speed. He's running full speed. He's just in his 50. But here's my question. Semantics, Jacob. To me, the use case for this thing would be, like, every once in a while before a game,

it's like Bat Night or somebody that's like, you come and you have like a little show before the real game starts. But I could not watch nine innings of that. That would drive me insane. You know what I feel? I feel this goes to the, uh,

a thing that I love. live by, which makes me difficult. And that is, you got to pick a lane. You can't love Pete Rose and the Savannah bananas. Well, drop Pete Rose. That's your choice there. Yeah.

And I say it as a guy who fought for Pete Rose. I'm no longer team. But the type of baseball, Pete Rose plays, when you're knocking into a catcher and hurting him in an all-star game, when it's all hustle, it's all, and the game, the beauty of the game is you say,

you're going to love it, Steve, it's at our pace. Then the Savannah ban bananas is to what our business is when we started coming up and watching movies from the 70s on film and we all want it to be in those, compare that to TikTok and we're going, I like them both. It really is like the old guard. You want a five-minute oneer or you want a 70s, a seven-second? Give me the long oneer that bores the audience.

The old guard that we can. came up with in so many, like, it is, it's like when YouTube, like, we were doing, we were, like, doing sketch shows and then, like, YouTube happened, and we were like, what the fuck is it? Yeah, like, we're the old guard, but I, the truth is, like, even when you see video, like, gamers sell out Madison Square Garden for seven shows, like, part of me is like, what? But then the other part of me is like, look, if people are going out and doing shit, that is good for entertainment, that's good, like, you know, so, but I actually, why I actually, watch. Watching that, watching that, I'm like, I don't think I could go to that.

I see, I don't agree. And I'm 30. Put an S to the end of it just to keep it believable. I'm in my 30s. We got some a little bit. Wait, first of all, because I got another surprise coming Berg's way. I do want to say before that surprise, can you take a guess of what I have for breakfast? So sweet.

Oh, thank you for including me, little Stevie. Yeah, that was in the cards, but I didn't realize. Look at how beautiful. Eric's got little rainbows. I know there's some reflection of a mirror. You're like an angel, king. Yeah, there's like a disco ball. It's like a disco ball.

It's a disco ball. That just has this, this rainbow maker. It's incredible. It brings actual rainbows in. Also, we're getting work done, so I'm not in my usual barn. Oh. Whatever it is, Eric, it's working. I feel it.

We all need a little rainbow in our life. You just talking with rainbows going across? That is the, it's vast. vastly different than it looks like that low down in a barn my usual barn you know this is the difference

between husband and wife when you're in charge you're in a barn with a chair breaking where you can get like Tom Selleck's toothpicks you look like you're yeah like he's taking refuge

and he's on the run like somewhere yeah yeah like he's like all right ladies and gentlemen here's where the crops are today Just FYI next time you'll be seeing me back in that barn Yeah This is a very rare one-time thing I'm not allowed to do this usually

A couple little issues I can't communicate with the queen right now Because we're on air But there'll be There'll be a discussion after we're done Give us a taste, Kig Jess, what is going on? No, no, you're not allowed at all

I could just tell you wanted something for me Oh, you're a queen We're all great. We're all great here. It's amazing, guys. Everything's fan. Everything is rainbows and glory today on Monday. I'm just going to go out and blur it out because I really have a feeling that the listeners are going to want to know what I have for breakfast.

Wait, Jake's got to guess. Well, I mean, let's get to it. Okay, sorry. I got excited. It's all rainbows on his face. Jesus. Spurgy. Sorry, everyone wants to know.

So I know when everybody, when everybody has mentioned eggs, you got excited. So. But I'll tell you what my real guess is. Overnight oats and fresh blueberries from a farmer's market that is just incredible. It's actually one of the greatest in the nation. There is something that's going on with the farmer's market here in Omaha that is so splendid. I've got three vendors I go to right now. One for, have you guys ever experienced?

I know Eric has these two other rafts have not. Maybe you have a sun butter? Jesus. I mean, first of all, it's low-carb. It's delicious. It's better than almond butter. So I put a little spoonful, maybe a teaspoon, maybe a teaspoon, and a half in that with some fresh blueberries. And then perhaps I'll have one hard-boiled egg with a little hemelene sea salt.

No, but God, that sounds good. And I have, that is very, no, that's a Sunday breakfast because I all need the time. I only do ghee on Sundays. I had ghee yesterday. I'm an Indian. I told you, Gareth, when we talked. I did do meal prepping yesterday for the week.

But what I did have for breakfast, guys, I did have two hard soft boiled eggs in the fridge. And I was like, what am I going to do with these two little rascals? And so I took a fork, a little bit of veganase, and it scored of mustard, and I made an egg salad over sourdough bread. Wow. That's a delicious breakfast. We all got, we all.

got we all sniffed around some of it yeah it's how we all know steve we all know them in slightly different ways yeah together it's the full picture and i got to tell you the full picture is the best breakfast i would love to eat that's great yeah and i'll and i'll tell you what every single uh breakfast y'all mentioned our breakfasts i regularly have excuse me y'all sir yeah yeah not only i'm a big fan of the royals but do you realize how close omaha is to nashva oh i'm sorry I can't buy boots. I'm so crazy for wearing a Canadian tuxedo every day. He's just naked, stirring his hard-boiled egg with boots on.

That's right. I changed so much. I just happen to be in a denim tuxedo. Oh, sorry. I relieved an album called Howling at the Skies. Oh, it's not music per se, but it is chance. Music is a guitar player and a drummer, and I'm only chanting a little. They call me the Yoko Ono of this band.

Eric is, I mean, he would love it. Yeah, completely. Brother, I didn't even invite you, Jake, but you missed out. That is the story of our friendship right there. And also trying to hide what I go to from you. Well, not anymore, my man. No, no, it's all gloriously out now. Well, that might be a good segue into where we kind of,

so you started texting us updates, Eric, and we had to tell you, this is what the kids call content. That's what the Savannah Bananas called content. And you got to save it for the air because when we left you, you were in the midst of the Dick Van Hurricane. And it sounds like there, some stuff has happened. There's some huge updates, boys. And I've not told you.

I've not told you. It's great. And I've been just saving it. Great. Good for you. So basically, I had not heard from our promoter for about, you know, two to three weeks since we last hard. to remind everybody really quickly.

It was, you wanted a refund. He said no. You said, I didn't pay for some guy to walk around and do a Q&A with the audience. He said, there might be another show. You said, thank you, brother, or something like that. Is that correct? And this is all for Dick. This is all for, this is all for Dick Van Dyke.

Who is about 100 years old? Yeah. So if you have, let's have it. Well, he's about to. In three months. And so they've been doing this show. To know that is wild as well. You can say about to once he hit like 88, Eric.

You're not wrong. You're not wrong. I mean, imagine being a hundred and doing shows. I hope I'm there, brother. It's like, no, you don't. Yep. It's like a circus elephant. Jake, tell him.

I'll work till the day I die. This whole operation is geared up to peak around 83, 84. He's been saying. I'm seeing Neil Young this week. He is. peaking right now at 80s. Not true. Yes, he is. It's not true.

He's an old blues man at heart. You always say, promise you, and I don't agree. Well, I'm fighting against a goddamn track record, boys. Okay? I know it. Imagine being me. Imagine being me, like, it would help me if I were a tiny bit more delusional. Because that's actually, and this is incredibly embarrassing, how I finally got my

ultimate resolution with Chris, the promoter of Vandycamp. I didn't tell you this, but this was highly embarrassing. I got an email in my account offering a very rare chance to see a Sybil Shepard one-man show, one-man show. A Sybil Shepard one-man show was the weirdest thing I've ever heard. So when getting her head, how old is that? Are you sure, Steve? How many years young is Sybil right now?

I mean, she's got to be late 70s or early 80s. Who did you get this email from? I got, well, I got an email. I didn't know. from after I signed up for Chris, our promoter's email list. 75. I looked at it and I'm like,

God, I'd kind of like to go to the Sybil Shepard trip. Then I got down to the very bottom. I loved moonlightning. No, no, no. Sybil Shepard, okay, Sybil Shepard dated Elvis. And then most amazingly,

her marriage was broken up when Orson Wells started couch surfing and ended up on her couch for like a year and a half. And Peter Bogdanovich had to choose between Orson and Sybil and he chose Orson. apparently. I want to see this one woman show. But then I got to the bottom. I was legit thinking

about who might want to go, what victim I could find. Then I saw it was our same promoter. And I'm like, oh, no, there's a potential maybe I could buy tickets for a Sybil Shepard one woman show and Sybil might not show. And then I also saw that he signed off on his message at the end of the Sybil Shepard advertisement with light and love. Oh, that's why all the texts, everybody's saying light and love. I miss me. part of it. Okay. Light and love

has become a big part of this team and all the good work we're doing right now. Did he reverse it because usually it's love and light. Did he actually reverse it?

I think it was light and love for him. That's a new spin. It's a new take on it. And then when I saw the light and love from him, immediately I went from, well, I'm not, I'm obviously,

I'm not going to this civil shepherd show until this is resolved. Not true. This, Eric, this web. You tell the story, not true and rober. This only makes sense if you've been in the weeds with this as much as we have

because what Eric's saying right now is so wild that he's like, I'm not going to trust the Sybil Shepard show until I go to Vandy Camp and Dick Van Dykes. It's only because of Chris, the promoter. He's a hustler because he says light and love, but he doesn't mean it. He is about money. Eric's guy picked the tires on the Vandy camp before he seals the deal on Sybil. Yeah. So I said an immediate email to Chris seeing that.

I started to have just tiny bits of anger as I thought about the drive from Malibu. Don't recap it. Send us the email. The email from, so all I said to him is. I don't want you to spin it. You're going to leave out sentences.

Okay. I know you, Eric. Florida to me, Eric. He's going to go like this. I said to Chris, I'll read it to you verbatim. Do you want that? Or do you want me to send you a text?

No, no, no, read it. Read it, read it. Read it verbatim. Okay. This is Wednesday. Read it how you think. Chris would talk, by the way. No, this is mine to him first.

It's trying to be very reasonable. Eric, for real, read it how you intended it. Chris, I waited as long as possible to I feel like I'm kind of being delayed here. I know this isn't your fault. Dick didn't show up, but as a promoter, you got to do the right thing and refund me. You sold tickets to a Dick Van Dyke show, and there was no Dick Van Dyke. I shouldn't be having to ask you this many times, and I hope you can make it right today. and if Dick does another show, I will buy tickets knowing the risk.

But they told us on the day we would be refunded. I'd love to be done with this. The show already cost me a lot more than the ticket price. Let me know if you need my... What emotional cost to you? Are you going to get saved for emotional damages? Well, I think you can tell on this podcast. I'm acutely aware anyone listen to this podcast.

You have a very different opinion to me than they did before. But I'm okay with it. What do you think people think of you, Eric? I think I make my money to play killers, and the next time I show up as a killer, so he was like, that's not a killer. That fucking idiot,

what's the big man died and trying to get his money back. You're so good, it's okay. Eric. Eric, you realize that makes the killer even scarier? Okay. Yeah.

I love you. Yes, Jake. Yes. Your rates going up. It all works. All right. Keep going. So,

um, I'd love to be done with this. The show, We cost me all over than the ticket price. Let me know if you need my Venmo or Zell or original credit card. Thanks, Eric. By the way, he also invented a flight. He flew people in for the show.

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I wish I didn't hear this part. I failed bad for my guy. I wish I didn't hear this part. Gary, was on cloud. We do a lot, Gareth. We do a lot.

We do a lot. Was on cloud nine. But I know you. We got to give you a little child. All right. Natalie will cut out all of that. And three, two, one.

Natalie doesn't listen to you. Three, two, one. Hi, Eric. Actually, I'm not doing this. Dude,

it's not about you. Just do it. No, we just had to go another way. We just wanted that voice. I can't even get through the sides. I can't even get through the sides. No, we heard after that first voice. Let's get rhythmically.

As me. He does a good me. Very good me. Hi, Eric. Got your message. I just refunded your tickets, which will be posted to your next credit card statement. Thank you for supporting the shows. And I hope to see you again soon.

Best, Christopher. So you got refunded. Oh, you got refunded, boys. You have confirmation? Wow. Right? I can't, the guy, he made you whole. Oh, my God.

He made me whole. At the end of the day, I'm just really another weird, we're here to help client. You guys help me get my refund. Ring the bell. We don't want to be, we don't. Bring the bell, Gareth. Yeah, ring it. Ring it.

I'm, yeah, I'm a client. Eric, can you do something for the show? Always. I know. I love you. Can you email Chris and ask him if he, He wants to be on and hell hell his side. See, this is, boys...

And we won't have you on. It'll be me. No, uh-uh. This is... You'll steamroll with light and love, and I'm sorry. You'll be like, brother. You'll compliment him every other word. You'll take him to lunch.

You'll go to lunch with it. Chris, first of all, wow, man, you have an energy through a Zoom, brother. I love you. Second of all, what a promoter. Guys, okay, and then I'll go, hold on. Can I ask him a question? He'll go, he's the man who's promoting Neil Diamond Spectacular. Chris has hit a rough patch.

He's on my couch right now. I'm going to make questions. I can't just open for him. Can you email him and say, I've discussed the saga on the podcast. We're here to help. It ends with a very happy ending. And my friends would like to know

if you would like to come on, give your side of it, and then promote any shows you have coming up. I think so. And I'm not allowed to speak. I'm not even loud in the room. I don't want you in the room. We can bring in towards the end.

No, because I think then they're both, he's, the guy's terrified of Eric, and then Eric is going to shower him with compliments and love, so we are just going to have 15 minutes of nothingness. You're not wrong. It's now funny, though.

Now that you've called it out, it does become funny to see that happen. Yeah. So maybe we bring him on at the end. Yeah. I think you're right. I would say, like, you know, I would be like,

Hey, man, you're a stand-up guy. Really appreciate it. This all just comes from major Dick Van Dyke fandom. I actually do a podcast with some friends who got very invested in all of this. And we would love to have you on, promote the next Vandy camp, really do right by, or whatever you're working on. And then you could also say, the guys are dear friends. And if there's anything you don't like, we'll send you the audio before. We'll cut it up.

We're not doing this to, we're not doing this to humiliate you. We're doing this to humiliate each other. Yeah, I'm in. I'm in. Maybe we get comps to Sybil Shepard, Steve. Oh, are you kidding? Some walk by night, you know? Okay, so, Eric, will you send that email right now? Yeah, I will.

Okay, and as you're doing that, to bring Stephen there at the end is amazing. Will you start doing that email and then I'm going to transition us into something else as you're doing that? But let us know because we're going to love you to read the email out loud. That I send? Yes. Okay, and we're here to help style.

You're going to prove it. Before I send it, we're going to... You're going to read it all. Okay, I love it. I'll start composing right now. Bless you. So we've got another little surprise here. Hmm.

So, obviously, everybody loves Steve Eberg. We all know that. And somebody emailed into the email. And Gareth, I don't think I've even texted you about this yet. I'm curious. Similar, but maybe even better than you were being catching. fished on Tinder or whatever it was, Grinder. Bumble.

Bumble. Somebody wrote in and said, these are photos of Steven Berg in high school. I don't know if you want them, but here they are. Natalie, can we see? Oh, you did tell me this.

Yes. Can we see the pics? Oh, no. Wait, wait, wait, wait, explain. Explain to people the first one. Wait, Natalie, can you change the angle of these so they're all face up? The first one... Who the hell did this?

First of all, Steve's wearing a wedding ring, and he's in high school, so that's interesting right off the bat. I'm not wearing a ring, am I? Yes, you are. Second of all, he's in a forest next to a vacant patch eating a panini pretential sandwich. And then will you go to the next one? Because that's a good one. The next one's spectacular. What the hell?

This next one is a group of wisconsin. I mean... But it's the hair, Gareth. It was so good. It's... It's also... The hair comes down in front. It looks like a full wave of an ocean.

It's called a pompadour, bro. But I didn't know. I thought this stuff... We have always called you having Bieber hair. I didn't know your fucking badass. Dude was rocking this. He looks at 90... This way my hair falls, bed.

It's an incredible look. Steve looks very handsome. in this picture. It, uh, he's, he looks like he's part of the outsiders if they were Christian. And, um, and,

and one of his friends, I'm the bad boy of that group. You stop it. By the way, everybody go on Instagram and look at this photo. Eric, do an impression of Alpha Steve in Omaha. Look,

you little bitches just listen to here. We're totally fucking skipping home room. And anybody that doesn't skip homework, these are fucking ass beat by me. Okay. Capish? I'm not dealing with a thing. I miss losses.

How are we doing? Just having a nice little time. Cancel Christmas here. I had a delicious breakfast. Overnight oats and two medium-style eggs. Okay. See that? I just put out that fucking fire because you little bitches could never even think to do that.

Right. Can we see the next photo? Oh, wow. Eric, how do you describe this? Oh, my gosh. Listen, boys, there is my life before. Morrissey and after. Deeply troubled by the problematic things he's have now.

Wait, the smile on that one is so half committed. It's a very... I know it. But the, I got to say, I'm hell. So for everybody, Gareth, will you describe what we're looking at for our wonderful audio listeners? Well, it's a classic yearbook, you know, kind of slide pick. He's amongst a bunch of other photos. We have the classic Steve Bergmelons.

It's a, you know, he's got a larger melon, and the hair is, I'm just explaining, and full clean shave. So he looks like a little, it looks like if a baby became 20. And his hair is down and kind of a half committed to a side swipe, but also. Is this 50s? It definitely looks, yes. Like it's like he went on a hair. ride that night. Yeah.

No, I look like a Joe cool, a real James Dean type. You look like a Joe cool. You look like the middle linebacker on the football team from a 50s movie. Yeah. Thank you. Jake, you're just going to sit there while he said James Dean type and move on? Okay, sure. Moving on, moving on.

Jake agreed. Jake agreed to it. Oh, sweet bastard. Look at this king. By the way, that's when the Grateful Dead were the Grateful Dead. The dude makes you in the 90s. Yeah. That's when we started being able to get good weed in high school.

You're wearing a necklace. This was the beginning. You could see me happen. Ralph Lauren. The message on the side says, Steve, best wishes for the future. Congratulations to you and the rest of the gang, the class of 1995.

Yeah. So just want to say, thank you, Nat. We can be done with these. to the person who emailed into our show and I also want to say to the woman Natalie who emailed in Gareth we posted this yesterday but a woman emailed into our show named Natalie I guess she's huge on TikTok

I did not know that that was not part of the strategy but she wrote to me she wrote to the show saying hey you know what you guys should do on Wednesdays you should end episodes and have the audience give hot takes and I went like what a great idea just to have the audience part of it so I said to her great idea You want to just make a video and you just do it

and then we'll post it. And she did. She made a really funny, fun video. So to the audience member who decided to email these picks of Steve to Natalie who are doing it, the world building right now is on another level to people sending Stevie Bird. Symbiotic, yeah.

Stuff on you and Morgan on Patreon are doing in the field. What's it called again, Stephen? In the field. In the field with Steve where people are sending you stuff. You're just reviewing it? This is great stuff. Well, it's also in the field was where Steve was eating a sandwich

in that first pick. What? Am I not allowed to know who sent this? Did they give their name? Do you want me to tell you? I would love to know. Hollywood reporter. You are.

Eric, in the meantime, can you read the email as I look for this? I sure can. We get a lot of emails. And I waited to respond to him to get help from here to help. So here it is. Chris, you are awesome and thank you very much.

I will see you at the next Vanity Camp and also that Sybil Shepard show looks amazing. I appreciate you handling this in such a stand-up way. Now, in funny related news, I do a regular guest slot on a hit podcast here to help. I wouldn't call it a guest spot, host. Well, what am I? Host.

You're a recurring, babe. You get a trailer, call sheet. Well, I appreciate that. As a perennial guest star for 20 years, I really do. Change your language, babe. You're serious. No bit. Fuck, yeah.

Okay. Now we're doing something here. Okay, a regular, a regular slot. Host. Yeah. Just to be a regular. I just want our community. Serious regular.

Now, in funny related news, I do a regular slot on the hit podcast here to help with Jake Johnson and Gareth Reynolds. And we have been talking about. Berg. What'd you say? You got sliced. He didn't mention your name. I fucked up with the other reason.

At the time I wrote that, I still thought we were Gasberg. Now I know. It's okay. Basically us and Jake and Gareth are grabbing onto our cape as we fly. That is Eric in a nutshell. Man, thank you. God, that's all I want is community. The second you give him power.

Okay, so it's basically, Eric's here to chat. Drag you a feet. There's a few of them. He became Napoleon in like 1.3. Three seconds. God, Napoleon with height. It's just unfair to the rest of the world. I have a superiority complex.

Okay. They would like to invite you on the show to, oh, sorry, a regular slot of a hit podcast here to help with Jake Johnson and Gareth Reynolds. And we have been talking about Vandy Camp and the whole saga. And Jake wants to join me for the next Vandy Camp. They would like to invite you on the show to talk about Vandy Camp. Sybil Shepard, and to hear your end of me asking for a refund because they found my request funny and surprising and gave me a healthy amount of grief.

Who knows? Maybe you can represent Jake for shows when he's in his 70s. Oh, really right. No worries if this all sounds too crazy, but they would love to have you and also hear about the shows you are doing. That's perfect. It's very good. There was a major.

One note. Eric has Jake's like senior citizen. agent is now I have more motivation to stay alive longer than anything that's happening birds you're in are you kidding somehow Jake will be like okay I'll let you rat me for a little while in a certain point I always

defer to Eric and he beats me down I am the little chihuahua that barks but he's at a certain point I go like I of course I'm bringing cheese to a restaurant I got issues with dairy and it's not that weird and then I go he does this and then I go to him

alone fucking dude I'm bringing hollible pinos in my socks. This is all building to Jake and I doing mice and men in our 70s across my own. I already have a whole plan. Jake, you have to shoot me every goddamn night. The most embarrassing part of you will be like, somewhat

improvised. The rabbits are jumping off point. The first show will be 85% on scripting pretty good. The third one, we will get forward. And it will just be you and me on a bit. It will be like, it's kind of like waiting for Godot meets of mice and men. It's basically

because of what we did today. Yeah. We're going to talk about meals. That's what we're doing now. Jake meals, but Jake calls me Lenny and I call him. Yeah. And every night he shoots me. We're not going to cheat you out of that.

He touches a rabbit and I shoot him. And then the truth is Jake got lazy. So we stopped doing it on stages and we just do it from our closets on Zoom. Ladies and gentlemen, the shooting moves up 10 minutes every night. Speaking of two-handers, about 15 years ago, Gareth and I did about four to five rehearsals at my apartment in Los Phila's. Get ready for this, boys. Of True West.

I'm not even joking. No way. We were seriously going to, like, rent a theater down at the complex and put up True West. We really wanted to. We got to get back, that back on the feet. I feel like that ends with that sentence. I would love to, but. I don't see comedy in that.

I would have loved to see you. You guys were watching it out. Well, here's where the comedy is. Berg and I probably smoking a bong, sitting on his couch, reading the script together, being like, this is going to work. We went to Samuel French together and got a little paperplate. This is, and Eric, I'll talk about it sometimes about Grindrberg.

Grindrberg was the guy who would, I did all my head shots. We went to, I had a similar thing where he goes, we got to get cooking, Johnson. So we went to his little apartment in Little Armenia with our headshots and Vanilla's writing cover letters to agents being like we just sent them off blunt. We just smoked a little bit of weed and sent everybody in town to photo. If you need to see us, come to the Improv Olympics.

We will be there two nights a week. And we were like, if it doesn't work, he was like, who gives the shit? We go again tomorrow. I was like, this guy's an animal. This guy's an animal. I loved it. But guess what, man, you never fucking.

No. Yeah, well, we didn't have any... I'm still a believer in it. We were outsiders coming in, so he didn't know. Yeah, we still are, King. Yeah. It is amazing that you still have that mentality, Jake. I will say, I hung out with Sebastian Manuscalco two times,

and he told this story, once, about how before he moved out to L.A., he sent postcards to every agency of a projection screen. And it just said, Sebastian is coming. And it cost them lots of money. Incredible. And he sent them all. And then when he moved to L.A., and he, in his head, he was like, people are going to be like, who's this guy?

Sebastian. So he's coming at time. He's coming. What is he, a movie star? Who is this guy? I got to know. Then he moves to L.A. He sends out another round.

Same image. And it just says, Sebastian is here with a contact email. And he was like, and I was waiting, like, here we go. Here I was. Nobody wrote a thing. So the opposite story that was, I went to Sundance for a movie with Joe Swamberg. I can't remember the movie. I think it was digging for fire maybe.

But I was there with my friend Nick Poole, who I grew up with. I was there. You were there. And Nick Poole had just always had the most interesting look of anybody I knew. God. And he just crated it out of nowhere. He was really skinny in high school. He's a little skater.

And then he claims it was natural, but it wasn't. He took steroids and all of a sudden got massive. And I'd say that because there was like always weird powders and he's not a co-guy where I'm like, what are you cutting it and sniffing it? And he's like, I just got a lot stronger. But all of a sudden, he had long black hair, fully black outfit and huge muscles. And we did, remember when we went to that UFC event guys? Steve, I think you were there where who was there?

I wasn't there. I wasn't there. I wasn't there. I mean Clay was there? Yeah. We went to live UFC. But there was something we went to Vegas and did something. Oh, that was for Let's Be Cops. That was for Let's Be Cops. That was a fascinating trip. They gave us an opportunity to go meet with you. We did a screening of Let's Be Cops. And so they flew a bunch of us out there. And I got them to pay Nick

Poole as if he was my security guard. Oh, you're so good at this. But he met UFC fighters and they showed him respect. He was that big? No, he's little. He's that. He's that mysterious.

He walks around at about 5'9. But all of a sudden, there'd be, guys, I think it was Forrest Griffin. We were all talking to him, and Forrest Griffin was like, he was making fun of all of us calling us a bunch of accountants. Didn't love our vibe, that's for sure. And then he said, except for him. And he was like, I could beat you guys all up in a second. Something like that. Then he pointed to Nick and he goes, but I don't know about you.

But, so Nick and I then were like, oh, this is really fun. And Nick used to always visit. Anytime I'd be on location, you'd come hang out. And so we were at Sundance, and he was wearing his all black, doing his stuff.

And he was just there for the fun of it. And my agent, after, like, a dinner, Jay Gassner goes, hey, man, I know I'm a fucking idiot, but, and we, oh, we called him black ice because there was black ice all around Sundance, and we were all afraid of slipping on it.

So we would just introduce him to people as black ice. And so it'd be like, you guys know Black Ice, right? And he'd be like, hey, and they would be like, no, nice to meet you, Black Ice. And Gassner goes, look, I know I'm an idiot, but how do I know Black Ice again? And I go, what do you mean? And he goes, is he like a huge star from Eastern Europe or Canada? Who the fuck is Black Ice again?

And I go, a huge star in terms of what? He's like, what movie is he in? And I'm like, it's not. He's a goofball I grew up with. So we then created this idea. We started calling him, Nikki Exhael. and putting them in Joe movies with me, but we would do and featuring Nikki Excitement.

Oh. And it was working. People just started believing that Nikki Excitement, aka Black Ice, was a big video. Is he in the Swamberg movies? Yes. Yeah. Who, does he have any big role?

Yes. He ended up being in Win at All. He was my character's best friend. Dude, that's exactly who I was thinking of. Well, I needed him because in that scene, my character gets carried. out of a casino. It's my favorite purpose.

So I just needed somebody. I was like, I called him up one day because we had the idea for the bit. And I went like, hey, Nick, how strong are you these days? And he's like, how strong? And I go, worst comes to that. Worst comes to yours. Could you lift my body up and run for like a block and a half on camera if Joe wants it as a winner?

And he goes, I'd never stop running. Wow. And so we put him in that movie. He crushed it. And then Joe put him as like the lead in an episode of Easy. he i remember he's opportunity i remember that i that's exactly who i was thinking of i was like there's no way he's that guy

that's incredible that's so awesome he's amazing uh for the record jake i can definitely pick you up run the block you would just stare at the camera and change everything about your appearance and do accents hold on a second boys let me just talk to jake quick yeah just let me know okay um uh that's crazy crazy that's fucking awesome uh eric we were going to bring this up before, but what's the Kenny Rogers story? Oh, Kenny Ross texted me about this. Well, didn't you, didn't you both go

to Kenny Rogers together? I didn't go to Kenny Rogers, yeah, you did. No, Berge and Eric, yeah. We did, we did. What year is this? Well, I mean, Eric, why don't you start? I mean, I know how it ended. Well, Berg got me into Kenny. Kenny is another one of those. I didn't get. It wasn't on my radar, and this is

why I do try to see everybody once. Because Berg was big on Kenny, the song Lovell Turning Around. And Kenny was playing. Oh, it's phenomenal. So I'm like, let's go see Kenny. So we went to see Kenny at the Sabon Theater. The way you say Kenny.

I know. It's like Stevie from Eastbound. There's Kenny right there, guys. Yes, there is a photo on Eric's a 70s painting. It's an oil painting. It's on velvet. Yeah. Please.

Please. That's how important that Kenny night was. Respect the art. So my lasting memory of Kenny was he came out. this whole thing you wouldn't know there's he's like all right what you husbands got dragged here that don't want to be here today and i'm like what is this and then hands went up including hands close and he's like you don't want to be here huh you got dragged here huh well i'll tell you what you're going to get ten dollars forever you hit you here and every single sarong kenny played

he'd wad up a ten dollar bill and chuck it at this guy what we sent him this very very And he kept chucking $10 bills at this guy. Then at the very end, before the encore, he brings out a t-shirt. He's like, well, I'm going to give you a t-shirt now. And he's like, and I want to ask you, how does it feel to have $230 because you just heard 23 hits? Oh, my God. Glorious madness. And then during the encore, he chucked like four more tens of this guy.

So this guy walked out of there with like $280 in a t-shirt. and Kenny's sick of it Kenny knows that there's certain husbands and I would say why go like Jess never needs to see Neil Young again any of this shit that poor woman but for some reason these husbands get dragged my my experience of the

that's shocking Eric and I did go and it was amazing and it was in our probably peak of our like party years I would say and boy did we drink a shit ton of bourbon i got so i mean i'm blackout drunk i was so drunk the end of the concert and we

were like way up in the nosebleeds and they had these big long carpeted stairs as you go down i trip on the first year going down and did like a movie tumble like you look like a stuntman would do i was so loose and hammered that i popped up not not even a scratch that's also the magic of burg because he went down hard and it wasn't a bit he wasn't covering he Got up, and I'm like, at the end of the day, this man is an oak tree. If I did that, I'd be like, I'm good, broder, no problem at all. Align me. And then I'd be in a chiropractor and acupuncture for the next three weeks.

Steve popped up like nothing. And that's right. This man is an elite physical specimen. Shut up. We were also the youngest people there by years and years. That's an advantage. But what you said before. Yeah.

I could have been in the NBA. I think we decided on double a baseball. We did not, Eric, with a different set of parents and hard work. If you had Randy Dickow, if you got held back in the eighth grade, yep, you too, Jake Johnson, you too. In terms of that fall, my daughter, Elizabeth, did something that was so classic that I can't tell think about, but the in-laws were over the other day. And she was goofing around on crutches, kind of showing off, and she fell. And so everybody just heard the fall and she was outside. And rather than just say, like, I fell, but.

I'm fine, she popped up and went, ah, I just saw a lizard. That's your daughter. The playoff. Oh, my gosh. Don't look over here. Look over here. Yeah, and the reason, it's like, why did you do that hard fall?

Like, that was a lizard. I guess I'm a lizard hunter. When you see a lizard, you got to jump off crutches at a weird angle, make a little bump. But I saw a lizard. So, when you fell down those stairs, I imagined you, doing a tumble and then and I've been going like just on a lizard how good was that show you know I just googled around for a minute and I don't see anything of him

like he had to have money preset to do so he was probably doing that at every show I would imagine but I can't see any other examples of it and also making it a $10 bill is fucking hysterical. Not 20. Not 20. Kenny's doing well. At a t-shirt. And the guy and the guy shook hands afterward, too.

It was one of the funniest things I've ever seen in my life. Tens. Tens. Not 20, 10. They got walked out of there with like $290. That's a level of heat that you have so much anger towards that one guy. Yeah. Everybody else is there because they're excited to see you, Kean.

I get it. I really do. I'll do shows sometimes. and you can be fucking murdering and there'll be one guy not having a good time and even after the show

he might be like that was great but you look at him and I will I have to ignore the instincts to be like sir what's going on what's your problem

like why go to the most negative source of energy in the room everyone else into it and yet you're like why why don't you love me and that's

Kenny's probably just by the way I should start carrying tens and throw him at that guy and be like, Gary's going to give you a 10 for every punchline he hits tonight. You should. Do it with nickels, though. Or $2 bills.

There's something funny about throwing a coin at somebody. Yeah. But also, so you don't hurt somebody and get in trouble, Garret, you should just carry $100 worth of $2 bills. And if somebody has a bad attitude, hey, take your money back and they'll go like, those six bucks. Stop it.

Well, you know, it's even worse for. my shows sometimes people like yeah they just offered me a free ticket and I'm like all right we're good we're good here money back you asshole we're good so I feel like we're all that way we're all like I didn't show this weekend at dynasty this Star Wars Re the glorious Patrick Cotner had me do it with this cast and I played Chewbacca and it was rolling at one point there's this huge laugh give me a taste of your Chebacca yeah excellent but I'm actually Fazi playing Chewbacca so I improvised a lot too I I rehearse I rehearse I It's very good.

Can I hear some of your Fazi? What is it? Like this. It's like this. Because Chubacca's not talking about Fossey, play him. Fossey, not method. Fossey, take nicer intensive. It's good.

So I got off some line and it hit and I'm thrilled. And then all I can look at is a girl, a woman in the front row with her arms crossed. And I wanted to do in character do the Brody Stevens. Arm cross negative. Arm cross negative. Hands and pocket. negative. Every single time I see some of their arms crossed, I think of Brody. And I'm like, this whole place is yucking it up at the big man's improv.

And why are you focusing on the one person of their arms crossed? So they were just love. But I think we all have that crazy thing that I can't enjoy the people laughing. I'm like, what she doesn't, I'm Fuzzy Bear's Jubakta. This is as good as I can do. They were just loving what you were doing, huh? We'd like to think that. He's crushing.

Bringing your friend Jessica Williams, because it's great because Jake reached out to her beforehand. Yeah. And so we have like, we are. talking to each other and becoming friends solely because of Jake Johnson. It's a very sweet thing. She's a killer. She's the best. Oh, my gosh.

She's great. She's great. She's great. I love her. Incredible. She's awesome. The one person who has a bad time and a thing, but it is funny, I took my kids to SkyZone.

SkyZone is just a place where you could just like jump around on trampolines and jump a little mesh things or whatever. And my kids are now at an age where I just sit at a table like a weirdo and they go play. But the highlight of it that I didn't tell you guys. That's the highlight. It's a sad highlight. talking about a child, but at the end of the day, right before we left, so we 11-year-old kid with braces jumped into a mesh thing, and his braces got connected to a zipper.

Oh, no! Like, it was probably like a, you know, a little cube, the size of his head, the fucking kid's walking around. See, odds. An orange cube connected to his teeth. Oh, my. Luckily, the guy had a great friend because the friend stuck with him, but the dude's walking around and the staff of those things are just like 19 year old kids so he'd be like

excuse me just so you suck up with finish so I got to get this thing out and the staff member and I wanted to go see if I could help but I'm like as a creepy guy I don't want to make more attention for this kid so these people would go to this little boy who had a full cube and then they ended up just cutting it off so there's a big piece of before and the kid had to go to an orphan honest oh my god yeah but I was I was just watching and just thought, like, this is what I loved about sitcoms when I was growing up. This was a, this was a B story. That is a great set.

I was just, that's a great set piece. Yeah. I was like, I was like, this is a perfect. Living your life with orange mesh on your mouth for three days over the weekend. And then as he talked, it was like big enough out. So like the lady cut it and she's like, you okay, and you'd hear this kid like, yeah, they did it back. Yeah. And he's running for student council.

So he's got the debate on Monday. Can't get to the orthodontas until Wednesday. Well, that's actually how I got my left. Lisp. Go ahead. But that didn't fall. Boy, but that,

wow, you guys are all crossing your arms of that show. You're looking at the one audience member who likes it. Let me do an impression of Eric.

No, my brother, I laughed on the inside. He's laughing off my towel. Text to me right now, Burd, that was actually really funny. Man,

that was the joke of the show. It's funny because I was thinking out of all of us who would that happen to most, but Berg, Berg answered that question. with that joke that hit. Well, we got to wrap up in a minute,

but to your hot takes point, Jake, which I think is a great, that is a great way to end the show. We can just listen to some hot takes, which are awesome. Or also, it might not even be for us. The way I was thinking about it was just play them at the end of an episode.

It might be nice to do one every now and then and just kind of weigh in. Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, we can debate it, but we thought we could also do a round of our own hot takes. And then so we all have a hot take to just close out the show. Why don't we go? Berg, do you want to start?

Yeah, I got a lot of hot takes. Yeah, give us a hot take. Okay, I would say one I've been on a long time is that the winter holidays, Christmas, Hanukkah, and all these things, they should come every other year like the Olympics to make it special. Huh? Yeah. We don't need them every year. for a year?

Yeah, I don't think we need the Christmas every year. I think every other year would be just fine. What about for kids? I mean, like, get used to it. I mean, like, you know, it's not all gums drops of rainbows. I just think it's too much. Six months out of the year, I'm appetizing for Christmas. It's like the most miserable time for people.

You can't be positive to Berg's outtake. No, I love Christmas too much, Berger. This is the rare time. I don't love it. It's a vacation. People get time off. It's also just a fun time to be with people. And what do you propose happen?

over that time period. You're talking time off. It's called the winter break. So I texted Berg last night to come up with some hot takes and said we were all going to do them, but I really just wanted to hear one from him. So none of us have them.

Let's go, yeah. You got another one? I got, look, I got grapes. Every hotel instead of a Bible should have a Ouija board in the nightstand. What the fuck? That is wildly.

You can contact the dead. Like, you're like, oh, is anyone dying this room? I will not go near a Ouija board. If there's a we're here to help with the Ouija board, I send light and love. I will not be there. These are. I've never touched one.

I won't ever touch one. It's made by Mattel. It's made by Mattis. It doesn't matter. It's the intention behind it. I've heard too many horror stories, Berg. I understand your opinion. We can agree to disagree with so much light and love. I will not go near Ouija board.

I think you invite that stuff in. And I don't want to follow you around. 799 on 1 in 1989, and I deserve my money back with flight and love. I contacted Debbie Reynolds, and it was a nightmare, dude.

I spent my life going to shows of the near dead. I couldn't need to see the dead. By the way, we're hanging on by a brink, hopefully we get to see Big Day Night and Civil Shepherd, okay? This is my goddamn brand. Boy, that pound translated, but these are not takes, which is great, too. Go ahead, Stephen.

Great idea. These are fun. Well, I, I would love to hear as many of these as Berg has. Those are the only two I came up, but by the idea of one that's coming to top of my head. Okay. You go to Chinese restaurants, right? We all love them. No, this is pandering to Eric.

Pandering to Eric. 90% of the sauces are all brown gravy sauces. And I like the clear sauce more. And I wish there was more dishes. Look at Eric. That had the clear sauce. So I feel like I would say the clear sauce. is better at Chinese restaurants and the brown gravy.

You know what I just thought, Stephen, that you could do as a part of your, because Stephen's getting into stand-up. He's doing a lot of live shows in the Oklahoma area. Everybody, if you got a chance to see him, find him on high strangeness. He also advertises for it here. Where can people, where do you do your show in Omaha, Burke? So people around the area. The Red Lion.

Okay. Every month. Every third Thursday, usually. Every third Thursday at the Red Lion. If you're at Omaha or near it, it's worth the drive. But, Steve, it's something that you could do is a section where you just, like Larry King did with Twitter, who bring out a book and just read your hot takes. Yeah.

Because if you just had a section where when Gareth texts me, he's like, I want to text to everybody, let's have hot takes and then not have anyone, but Steve do it. I said, just text Steve. And I was like, you could just have like a Steve's corner of hot takes. Well, I do do life advice in my stand-up. you do call and advice or you just No, I just give like the things that I've learned Like the five things that I've learned that are important Let's here.

We got three minutes. There should be more gargoyles on buildings. Wow, that's a wild first one. Eric, interesting. Go ahead, Steve, keep cracking. Don't call for spirits, but call for gargoyles. Never order a cheeseburger at a Mexican restaurant because I think that's lame.

If you get drunk and you go get an IV bag the next day because you can't handle your hangover, you're a douchebag, take the pain. And then the last one I usually close with, which people love, I always say, and this is a great advice, set up your tent before you take the mushrooms.

These are great. By the way, first one, no, every other one, yes. Yeah. I kind of,

all of them, yes for me. I like a gargoyle. Yeah. Of course you do. It's fun. It's fun. Yeah.

Jake's like, can we build some in my yard? It could be a whole, thing. Honestly, I would love that old concrete look with a bunch of gorillas hanging off the side of the building. All right. We're wrapping out.

All right, Jakey. I'll slow down. Please stop. All right. Well, Berg, is it okay if maybe every week we convene you could maybe have a couple hot takes and we might incorporate them a little bit? I can manage that, yes. Okay.

I have one thought. Eric, you're getting closer to booking our big get, which is Chris. Yeah, we're excited. We're very excited. That email has been sent. We've confirmed that that email has been sent, or are we still in draft mode? You want me to send it right now? Yes.

I sure can. Can you B-C-F? Oh, I'd love a BCC. No, no, no, no, no. I don't want a BCC because I want Eric the reader. Oh, true. You're right. You're right.

All right. All right. Well, anything else? Otherwise, it feels like we came here to do some good work. And once again, we've somehow managed against all odds. Yeah. Gentlemen, love you all. Love you.

A pleasure. So fun. Talk you guys soon. All right. Bye, buddies. Bye, guys. Bye, y'all. Hey, guys.

This is Laura. I've been listening since Day 1. And I have to say, best call of the year is PFF. I mean, when have we ever been more invested in something in the follow-up? It was great.

Deserves the win. Thanks, guys. Hey, guys. This is Steve from South Africa, a massive fan of the show. I would like to nominate. I can't remember his name now for the life of me.

But the model for the sip and paint, that dude was one of the funniest guys I've ever heard on this show. That intro to that episode, I was driving and I almost had to pull over because I was literally in tears. Thank you so much for the show and everything you guys do. You bring a lot of joy to a lot of people's lives. So keep up the good work. And yeah, love from South Africa. We're here to help is hosted by Jake Johnson and Gareth Reynolds. If you'd like to be on the show, please email us your question at

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