We're Here to Help - 236: ROCKET MONEY BEST ADVICE EPISODE 4 (with Steve Berg)

Episode Date: December 3, 2025

Steve Berg joins Jake and Gareth to hear the best advice callers have ever been given. Featuring a shocking number of compliments, a caller who does impressions and the truth about why moms love Steve.See images from the episode here: http://www.heretohelppod.com/post/episode-236  Want to call in? Email your question to [e-mail]: https://patreon.com/heretohelppodMERCH: heretohelppod.comINSTAGRAM: @HereToHelpPodIf you’re enjoying the show, make sure to rate We’re Here to Help 5-Stars on Apple Podcasts.Advertise on We’re Here to Help via Gumball.fmSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Guys, what we're doing right now is a special Rocket Money ad, which you guys know, we're taking best advice. We want to thank Rocket Money. We talk about them a lot in the episode. But as you guys know, Rocket Money is a personal finance app that helps find and cancel your unwanted subscriptions, monitors your spending, and helps lower your bills so you can grow your savings. So start saving today at RocketMoney.com slash help. Everybody, welcome to the show, we're, welcome to the show. We are doing a little intro now. We will probably cut back to the intro, but we have callers on right now.

Steve, go ahead. Do da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-ha-ha. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Garrett, he has been so jacked up. Yeah! Jake, you were supposed to sing with me. Garrett, he has been so jazzed. Let me ask you this.

I love attention. I love it. Wouldn't I be reveling in this in your little theory? This is a nightmare. Steve is even more today. Why are you, why would you not be happy? I mean, I think a pretty nice birthday rendition to you.

You did. Steve asked if he could enter a little late, and he came in playing a guitar, but he wasn't Mike, so he just walks in with a guitar in the background. Did you think I was going to be on that? What was the thinking there? I wasn't sure I had to go to the bathroom,

so I thought I was hoping to intro the show coming in, out of focus with a guitar. Can we play a game real quick, just real quick? Love games. Has he had to hit a pot today? Yes or no, yes. No, I haven't. The eyes tell a different story.

Look at him, they're white. I would have put vizine to them. Because I'm a professional. I should have stocked vizine. Do you want to know why Steve Berg has always been so warm to moms growing up? You know, he's like so sweet to everybody's, mom all the time.

Oh, every, oh, yeah. And his, grandma's mom. What is your, what is your, what is your mom think of me? Like you better than me.

Yeah. But do you want to know why that is? I mean, the Lisp helps. Why? Steve? They got the keys

to the kitchen, baby. I just, the half hour was too long. Snack? Snack! They get them better snacks,

Garep. All the boys would run downstairs and play Nintendo and he gets adult snacks. I get an I get leftover baked ziti, maybe like a little, you know, chicken tech or zini from last night? Do you mind if I grab another handful of that checks makes, Mrs.

He said they would offer it up. They'd be like, do you want one of these? And he'd go, sure, Mrs. Brownstein. And by the way, we don't have to tell the other kids. This can be our little secret. Put your feet up. Oh, they don't thank you enough. No.

Oh, my God. You know what? Put the chip clip down. You're not going to need that for a while. All right, let's take the first call. Chip clip. This is the best advice episode. We are taking people that are giving us the best night.

This is sponsored by Rocket Money. Let's see what happens. Which we love. And we have Gareth Reynolds and Steve Berg and Eric Edelstein passed. Not a way. He died. He's alive. We can't even joke about that.

He passed on doing it. No, he's at the vet. He had a good reason. He should go to a real doctor. He's a man. Go under he passed. the way he's going to know a vet. Brother, I'm saving you money.

If it could fix a cat's heart, it can fit. Come on. He's clipping my tail. This vet is a healer. This guy, the human body and that of a feline could not be more close. Go to a real doctor. Hello.

Hello. How are you? Welcome to the show. Thank you so much. It's very exciting. It's exciting for us, too. You've got Gareth Reynolds and Steve Berg and Eric Ellison. at a vet. He passed. He's at a vet.

He's at a vet, yeah. Oh, no. We don't know why. Yeah, we hope it's for one of his animals. Yeah, his paw is a little tender, I know. He got a thorn in his paw. That old bears get himself checked out. Yeah. That old grisly is checking out the body.

Take my temperature again. Can you get your name? Rectally, please. Do it rectally. Shave my, Eric. Eric's got a little shaving where they drew blood on it. They took it out of my arm, dude. They had to put my fur down.

Can we get your name, please, sir? My name is Max. Max, and I heard you snuck in an error. Can you do another error compression really fast, Max? Yeah, let's go with... I'm sitting here looking at a Louisville slugger. So the Louisville slugger might be the best. best invention that God's ever created.

It's all wood. That is really good. Actually good. Max, can you do a Steve Berg? Let's hear, Max. Okay. I'm also sitting here looking at a bottle of wine, and it is... Well, the clip's lady rhythm is really... It accentuates notes of acid, but it's still distinctly Napa, and that's something

that I want to have when I'm making any mixed green salad that I'm doing. tonight. Max. That is really good. We have our Rich Little over here. How about Gareth? Go ahead.

Oh, God. Garrett, I love you. It's not a perm. It's definitely something I've yelled. How about me, Max? Oh, Jake. God. Don't even think about it, Max.

One of my favorite little go back and forth between you and Cici about the popcorn maker was It stinks, you have to clean it. You have to clean it. Max, that's one of my favorite bits from that whole show. I am obsessed with that. I think it was one of the best written bits of that. I've talked about that since a bunch.

I thought that was perfect kind of sitcom writing. It was. It really was. And it was so, like, it was so tongue-in-cheek for what, how, like, it was so explicitly tongue-in-cheek and very dirty. When Zoe comes to, Zoe's character thinks Hannah Simone's character wants to fuck me and that I might want to be with her and she's trying to be cool about it. But really what it is is Hannah-Simone's character wants to put a popcorn machine in the bar.

And so Zoe's character walks up and goes, hey, have you given any thought to, you know, the whole Sisi thing? Basically saying, like, do you want to be with her? And I go like this, I don't know, that old box is pretty gross. And she's like, well, I wouldn't say that. And I go, yack, all those oils just cooking in that hot box. I go, all those drunks are reaching in. Yeah, not for me.

And I go, it's not sanitary. And she's like, it's sanitary. And I go, the smells alone will make a man's sick. And she's like, oh, I think it smells just fine. And it was just the day we shot it, they had so many jokes. We were just sitting there. I was like, oh, my God, I could play this game forever. That's the best.

Yeah, that was beautiful. A great intro. You nailed it. What do you got, Big Daddy? What's the best advice you've ever gotten? So this was about almost 10 years ago now. I was just starting into my wine sales career. and uh i didn't like this i love one we all yeah um so it was the first big dinner i got invited to

it was like five months into my my career huge dinner for food the main sorry steve shit out of turn the air conditioning on he is max Steve is on fire today wound up i know i can tell okay keep going so somehow i got seated and it was like a ton of bosses there. It was a huge dinner, a ton of bosses there. Somehow I got to eat it across from my, my biggest boss, and he was, you know, an old school company guy. Love old school company. And yeah, no, he was, he's right up here out of Jake. But he towards the end of dinner, and after a ton of drinks, he kind of was like, oh, so how's it going? And I was loving so many old fashions. And at the end of the end of it,

he was like so how's it going how's how's your new job i was like it's great but you know i think there's a lot of waste and a bunch of systems that we have um agree and yeah i still agree to the day but he did not take that well at all and we proceeded to get in kind of like a drunken fight for the next like 45 minutes even not great with the boss not great no believe me i say that because i've been you a lot where i'm like i'm arguing with the wrong person. Yeah. Well, also I made a mistake of thinking that he was a friend because I'd known him a long time. I went to school with his daughter. And so I thought it was just going to be like a normal back and forth. But he did not take it that way. We got into this huge. Well, basically he just yelled at me for 45 minutes. And then we went to another bar. And after they left him and his wife, my other boss, Bobby, who's now he's one of the funniest people I know. He's not. He's not. not one of my best friends and like a dad to me, but he comes up to me very calmly,

and he said, you know, Arnold Palmer once said, sometimes what's more important than knowing what to say is knowing when to shut the fuck up. Amen. Yeah. Amen. And that's one of the best pieces of advice I've ever gotten.

That's such good advice, especially for young people. You learn it way more as you get older. So many times in my life now, I'm like, you know what? And then I go, nobody cares. Yeah. I made a dinner with all new people.

It'll be like a cast dinner with a new group. Someone will say something and I go, I got three opinions on that. Oh, yeah. And I'll go, and nobody cares. So just shut the fuck up. Yeah, just shut the fuck up. Well, there was also a piece of information

that was revealed about old Arnold Palmer in the last six months. Do you guys hear about that? Go ahead. Yeah. Our president came out and said he's got a huge hog. Oh, good for me. People in the shower are always like, wow.

He's like, at the clubhouse, everyone's always marveling at his thing. We want to thank Rocket Money for coming on board. We really appreciate him so much. And I just, their willingness to attach themselves to this is just always been exceptional to us. And we appreciate him. Rocket Money, you want to save money? Get some Rocket Money. Beautifully executed, Gary.

Oh, I love Rocket Money. Great call. We appreciate it. Great impressions. Great impressions. Amazing impressions. And happy holidays, Big Baddy. Gobble, Gobble, Max.

Thank you, thanks. Happy Thanksgiving, guys. Get after it, dog. Yeah, thank you guys so much. Don't need hog. I heard that same thing about the big hog about Richard Nixon. Really? LBJ, they said.

Really? That's who I was thinking. LBJ is the one they said. LBJ apparently had to have very, there's a call where he's calling his tailor, and he's basically saying he needs more crotch room. Are you serious? No, there is. And he would supposedly, in.

public bathrooms. Yeah. When he had not, like, public public, he wouldn't be at like a Burger King. But if there was a big meeting, he would go, pull his hog out, and then turn a little bit while continuing talking. So that if you just had like a big meeting,

you had to be like, Jesus, God, the president of the United States of Dick is enormous. He got, he was put into office because JFK was killed, and then he didn't run again. Like, he had a very sweet, he was just like, whatever. Yeah. few years here. Look at my penis.

I was born with this big dick. I fell into it. Yeah. Life has been easy for me. By the way, having a really big dick and bragging about it, you didn't earn that. No. No, agreed. But also still works on us.

What do you mean on us? Don't speak for all of us. Yeah. What does that mean here, go on? A lot of revelations today, me with why I like moms, Gary, why he loves OBJ. I mean, look, it works on us. We love LBJ for it. Long big Jets and LBJ.

All right, Collar, are you there? Sorry about Steve. How are you? Yes, I'm here. Hi, what's your name, please? My name is, I go by Talley, but my full name is Talia. It's relevant to the story. Ooh, like Talia Shire, Francis Ford Copp's sister.

Did a table raid with her with Eric Edelstein for this is my friend? Did you really? She was going to play the mom. Oh, Adrian. Yeah, back in the day. Talley, just so you know, Eric Edelstein couldn't be. here today, the vet is, he's at the vet. They're taking... He's getting neutered.

Yeah. We're fine. Oh, no. Yeah. I don't need these nuts. They get in my way. They're ruining me. Dude, the things they make me think. All right, Talia, what do we got? So, like I said, my name is relevant to this. So I moved into my house

about four years ago. I'm in the Midwest in Cincinnati. Ooh, fancy. And my neighbor. One second. Go ahead. Is there any place anybody could ever say that you wouldn't pretend to be excited about? Or anything that you don't love.

I can find something beautiful about Cincinnati. Somebody commented about the weird here to help where they emailed and they said as a drinking game, every time Berg compliments somebody they say, or every time Eric goes, oh. It's this huge realization. The last guy said, Max said, I'm looking at a bottle of wine. Ooh, I love wine. Yeah.

But it's from, I'm from blank, and it's going to get a, oh, I love that. Which means you love everywhere? Well, there's something wonderful about every city and every town. I live in hell. I'm the devil. Oh, I love it when it's hot during the warm. The weather's always nice there, isn't it? God, Satan seems so cool.

They got all the good music there. I'm going to look at it. Blues from the Delta. Oh, yes. Slayer. Talley, please start. Talley, back to you. I appreciate the love.

And so I was newly divorced moving into a house by myself in the Midwest. And my neighbor, Jeff, who's in like his 50s, came over to introduce himself to me. And I don't know how he already knew my name. Either he went through my mail or a package or something. Uh-oh. I love stalkers. called me Taylor. So he said, hey, Taylor, I'm your neighbor, Jeff.

And I thought to myself, when am I ever going to interact with this man again? I'm not going to correct him. So I didn't. And then he would say hi to me over the fence. And our dog started playing with each other through the fence. The man has an excellent green thumb. And he gave me homegrown tomatoes and zucchini every single summer. I love zucchini.

Yeah, with the early girl tomatoes? I bet they were if it was in Midwest. Sorry, go ahead. No clue. They were. I did send pictures. Yeah, please do. They were definitely early girls.

I mean, in the Midwest, we just have the soil for it. They were amazing. One time. Oh, those are heirlooms. Wait, what about your companies before? Well, I mean, I stand corrected. So we've got a photo of some fruits and a zucchini. Oh, geez, Louise.

That is a nice bounty. Yeah. And then one time, so he, Marijuana became legal in Ohio. Hold on. We got a little bit of the, what do we got there? Is that the devil of acorns? Devil's cabbage?

It is. He grew weed and he dropped off those two bags of weed to me. What is that? If you want more. That's a, that is close to, we're near about a half ounce there, wouldn't you say? I would say there's probably an ounce in each bag. It looks pretty leafy, not super nug heavy. So, yeah, I would say it's like shake.

Great for joy. Wow. Okay. So he dropped off a ton of weed. Yes. And he, every time I see him, offers me more weed, like more than I know what to do with. So he's an excellent neighbor. And so then I was like three years in. I can't tell him you've had my name wrong for three years. Right. Because that felt real crappy. And I was asking everyone, what do I do? He has my name wrong. And my friend from grad school came up with the most simple. And he said, next time he talks to you over the fence, he'll say, hey, you know what, Jeff, all my friends just call me Talley. Yeah. That's great advice. What a great pivot. Yes. And that way he knows I'm his friend.

And he called me Talley now and still offers me weed every day. Now, do you have other people calling you Talley? Did you lean full in or is it just him? No, everyone calls me Talley because it, so my name is Hebrew. So it's hard to pronounce in English. I didn't grow up in the States. And so I usually just go by. I actually did go to international school, but I don't have an accent.

I went in Mexico City. Oh, I was in England. No, you weren't. That's great to help. Cheers. London, really. Berg was there. Yeah.

Cheers. Well, we should tell people. We should tell people. Bloody hell. What you're going to do, Nigel? Yeah. Stop. We've been a field trip to Stonehenge, man.

remember his dad has a lot of quid yeah yeah not more and i was from the orphanage perfect accents by the way we almost did a podcast called mates do you remember when we talking about doing this yeah it's just going to be us doing that all right cheers do you know that steve and i recorded an episode with scott gimpel it's what it was our idea kind of you were the third it was too good it bothers you too it was no good it's not one I, my first stop, my first fake ID was my friend Steve's

actually. Yeah. And when I used to go to the bar, like I went to the bar all the time and they would call me Steve and all that. And then I turned 21. So I was like, well, I'm going to start using my ID. So I was like, what am I going to do? So I was in there one day and I was talking to the bartender who was like my buddy. And I was like,

I think I would have changed my name to Gareth. And everyone was like, what? I was like, I don't know. And I just slowly over like Five months, got it. He bought this? That is really funny. Yeah, like, bouncers were like, hey, Steve, I was like, hey, what's up?

I'm going by Gareth now. Call me, Gareth. That is really funny. It's almost impossible to believe because why would you do go from a perfect name like Steve to a complete dipshit name like Gareth? Makes no sense. No one will believe that. Oh, I love Gareth.

No one would believe it. So, Talley, one quick question about this, you and this neighbor. how much weed do you smoke in a his how is it oh my god it so i ended up giving some away to people my mom told me to sell it which was not the right advice from the jewish mother no no but very solid jewish mom advice yeah yeah jacogic i'm with mom tally i have joints always have i see you have to agree you just always have joints now correct um and i've given a lot of way because because my partner doesn't smoke.

So I've shared the love. That's so awesome. And is it legal or illegal in Cincinnati? No, it's legal. And so he actually told me that me and my partner can each grow six marijuana plants if we wanted to. That's cool. And so he grew all six plants

and my yard smells like weed every summer. I stopped smoking weed probably five, four years. Whenever we went to Landers, what was that, four years ago? Yeah, but you would not been smoking much wheat at all for like a decade, a long time. Since New Girl, I basically stopped. But I've always fantasized about growing it and just having pounds of it.

And I think it's because of growing up in the 90s when it was so hard to get. And all of a sudden you get like, somebody's got like an eighth of good weed and you're like, here's 35 bucks. And I'd have like a really great weed in my drawer. And I'd be like, I can't believe I have. have this. Yeah. It was crazy. Also, not knowing what the strain was.

Yeah. Like the idea that I'd be like, I'm going to smoke a bunch of sleepy weed and start my day. Yeah. You just had, by the way, it didn't matter. It didn't matter. Back then we didn't know. It was just weed.

Yeah. It's great weed that he did me. Thank you, guys. Yeah. What a great turn. What a great turn. Thank you. Smoke it up, sister.

Before we go to the next call, gentlemen, your thoughts on the format. Love it. Fun. It's gotten better. I'm enjoying it. Got it better. Yeah, we found it.

I'm kind of enjoying it. I am too. Okay. Next caller, please. Hey. Stevie, you want to start us? I'm just going to say. Hi, buddy.

What's going on? My name is Steve Berg. I'm here with my two best buddies, Gareth Reynolds, and Jake Johnson. Really exclusive of Eric, Steve. Look at you trying to cut him out. He would have been in it, too.

Look at you, you little. rat. This is it on the Monday shows. Try to get on Friday. You should be at the vet because you're a rat. Yeah, this is a snake in the grass. You cut the grass, you see him slithering around. Look, trying to leave Eric in the bed.

I can do it on my own. Hey, Eric, this snake has a lisp. Hey, Eric, all snakes have Lipsburg doesn't need you guys, okay? Hey, Eric, why don't you go to the vet early? Oh, good idea, buddy. Hey, Gareth and Jake, I'm available. Hey, hey, Eric, so sorry, they switched the time on me. I think we're starting now, question mark?

This would never happen. And Eric goes, didn't work. Whoops. Guys, this would never happen. Natalie, cut this out. This is all garbage. Don't talk to her. She's not listening.

Natalie is doing another podcast in another room. Good. Hey, caller, what's your name? What's your name? Good friendship, buddy. How you doing? Where are you calling from? How's it going?

This is Mike. from Brooklyn. Oh, yeah. What part of Brooklyn, Mikey? Uh, Cable Hill.

Fun, beautiful. Gorgeous. Yeah. Love Covell. I've never been there. I've never been there. It's great.

What do you got, Mikey? And, well, I just need to say, man, man, man, you're okay with me,

pal. I like you. We're old friends. Way to act like you've been there before with a compliment, honestly, dude.

Oh, Jesus, wow, thank you. I, oh, what's your, what's your, friendmo pal

pal. I'm going to pour some gasoline on my feet and light him for no reason. Hey, what's your closest airport? I think I'm going to come out to Cobble Hill. I'd like to shake that hand. You got an next to chair of the Thanksgiving table for me. Okay, Mikey, take us away. Yeah, so the best piece of advice

I ever got was from my dad who it wasn't really like this like one big moment, but I was a little shit of the kid and he used to scream at me all the time to and he would say if you think it's funny don't do it oh huh that is a really interesting advice that is that's tough for my brain to process yeah Mikey how have you

process that and at what moment did you almost do it but not do it and then think dad was right you know uh recently so uh 31 now this it's just ingrained in my head now second nature where I'm like, you know, it'd be really funny if I did this and I'm like, don't do it. My cousin was, you know, he was getting married and he was engaged before and right before the wedding, he got it canceled. And so he called me up right before his actual wedding that just happened telling me how nervous he was and like it didn't work out. And I almost stopped him to say, oh, wait, that wedding's still happening? And I chose not to.

I was like, you know what, that's only going to be funny for me and probably wouldn't be the best thing to say in the moment. By the way, this makes more sense. I think it's more, for me, the advice is, if you think the mean joke is worth it, think again. You need a moment. If you're like depending, or if you think the mean joke is worth it, make sure you know who you're delivering it to.

Yeah. Yeah. Because I've definitely made mean jokes to people and then realize, like, oh, we're actually not old friends. Yeah. And now I have to go like, but also I'm a big piece of shit. So it was just a total joke. Do you want to punch me in the face? Because I genuinely like you.

I literally thought you were going to laugh. And now I think I hurt your feelings. I said it because I like you. Steve's brain process. Go ahead, Mikey. Oh, I was going to say, as a kid, the amount of things you do to get just attention. Oh, my God. Oh, yeah.

I thought it was going to be funny, so I did whatever. Whatever. I was just like, no, don't do that. Yeah. I got to say, that's a big. I think the three of us could probably take a little of this lesson. Glad that ends. What happened?

Gary, it is being funny, Steve. Is he? Oh, I love jokes. I love a good guffaw. You know, my old man gave me advice once during his pre-getting sober thing that I think about quite a bit. We used to play a game in his car. He would take us out maybe once a month on a Thursday. And at a certain point of the evening, he was ready for the night to be over.

So he created a game called the silent game, which was whoever was the most silent one. And me and my siblings wanted his attention so bad in approval, we would be like, and then if anybody talked, we'd be like, you've loaned. He would drive us back to the house. And one time he got in front of our suburban house, and he's in this, like, you know, he had a car dealership, so he was in this, like, great 80s Corvette. He was so boozed up and swerving like this down.

I remember driving, we told my mom, and my mom's like, no more being in the car with him. And we're like, it's really fun when he drives because it's like, and he goes in passing, just remember, there's no problem in life that's too big that you can't run away from. Oh. That is remarkable.

That is such, you're dead. He's right. He also told me when he got sober. But when he got sober, we became friends. He was one of the first people who's like, you know, everybody says you can't quit. You can't quit. You can't quit.

Quitting's so bad. Sometimes quitting's fine. And I was like, you're totally right. This idea of like never quit, but what if it's wrong? And what if you're wasting your time? Life is short. Quit. There's no problem too big to run away from.

You can't run away from. I love that. I kind of like a shit great life. I do too. It's a wild thing to let a kid in on it. It's a very different philosophy, but it's not, you're like, yeah, it's kind of true. There is a way. Stephen Gareth, any wild, paternal or maternal advice you've gotten that,

still sticks in the craw. Mine is like the most boring. My dad's like always park far away in a parking lot to let old people or people who can't who can't. And Jake, I mean, you guys probably know this is real about me. I will go to parking lot and park as far away as possible from the age.

The place will have parking for us and he'll park two blocks away. I think I've seen this. My dad did the same thing. Yeah. My dad's like, don't be lazy. You have two legs use him. You're young and healthy.

He's like, save him for people who can't like, you know, have problems, physical problems. I'm like, Okay. Well, here's the whole thing is you're not going to get a shopping cart

that's going to go stray and hit your car if you park all the way in the back. That's true, too. If you park in the front, the shopping cards may get loose and then hit your car. Yeah, you're saving that true coat on that, on that paint in the car. G.R. you got any? No, my parents, I raised myself. Not true. I know, Pam.

Jared lived in a tree house. I basically did. It's like monitored Lord of the Flies as well. Oh, by the way, somebody wrote in something so funny. Gareth and I are talking about if we ever do a live show, we're calling it Lord of the Fly. We're here to help Lord of the Flies. Wait, what were we saying? I can't remember what, well, you were Ralph and obviously, Steve, we cast you.

Piggy. And we were going to call it Lord of the Five. Oh, two conches. Two conscious. But somebody said rather than call it Piggy. fucking funny. It's got to be pigly. Pigley.

Oh, yes. That is so funny. Pigley, the conch. Yeah. Pigley gets the conch. Pigley gets the conch. Jake and I get a conch to share, and you and Eric get one. And then I do think we just landed on, we need to give you a conch to talk, Steve.

I would love one. I admit also, I really love that character. What a great book. All right, Mikey. Thank you for calling in. We'll see you around, pal. I want to create a new fake drinking game. People call it a drinking game at our show.

They say, like, drink whenever I interrupt a caller, drink when whatever. Like, there's just fun things people come up with. There's got to be a drink whenever. Steve just gives a compliment to nothingness. When it's just positivity. You'll end up with a vet. It's not going to be good. Literally, oh, I love breathing.

Oh, I love podcasts. You're doing one. This person has cancer. Ooh, I love cancer. It is the strongest of all diseases. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Well, I mean, you have to take your hat off. Hey, say what you will.

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All right. Next caller, please. Hi, what's your name and where are you from, sister? My name is Anna, and I'm calling from Washington State. Ooh, the Cascade Mountains. Home of the Bigfoot, Yakima. Yes, exactly. Evergreen State.

Oh, yes. Absolutely. Some great record labels there, too. Kill Rockstar, K. Records. Thanks for calling the show today. You got Steve. There's no Eric.

You know what we're doing. We're working with Rocket Money. We adore Rocket Money. Oh, you're going to save a bunch of money with Rocket Money. Anna, what is this advice you're calling about? Also, we don't have to do a Rocket Money commercials while we're doing this, Gary. We're going to do a spot at the beginning in the mill. You're just having this.

I love Rocket Money. What can I say? Save me a bunch of money. I'm sorry. And we will be talking to you more. Don't worry. Steve loves everything we've discovered. What is this advice?

Where did it come from, walk us through it? Yes. So, some backstory, this advice came from my dad. And my dad is such a great character. He loves the YMCA. He knows everybody in town. And he honestly could tell someone to fuck off, and they would thank him for it. Like, he's that kind of guy.

I know the time. So that's kind of just in picture. Yeah. Yes. So he was in charge of teaching me and all my siblings how to drive growing up. And when we got on the freeway, you know, it's kind of nervous being your first time out there and stuff. And he told me, I needed to change lanes. I needed to get over in the lane.

And I was nervous and he just looked at me and he said, Anna, either have to shit or you. get off the pot. I agree with this. This is something I say a bunch. Yeah, it's just great advice for life. I mean, I feel like you either have to commit or don't do it.

Yeah, it's true. And even literally, you'll cause yourself a hemorrhoid if you don't, if you sit on the potch along without shitting. Literally, this advice works. Steve, all jokes aside, do you have hemorrhoids? No, I've never had one. Have you?

No. I eat Phileum husk every day. So, I mean, it's regular over at the Berg-H-Q. You call your butt the Berg-H-Q? Your butt is headquarters. So most people don't think of their butthole as headquarters. Meet me at headquarters. We got a good stuff. I wouldn't think of my butt as headquarters for Jake Johnson.

I'm in thinking of it. I'm at HQ. I got to stick these fingers in H-Q. The Huff course. Well, I think that that is really good advice, though, especially in the middle of a, you know, a freeway. It is. You can't, you can't lollygagger, dilly-dally. You got to make a decision.

At a certain point, I think people are allowed to go, I might want to do this. I might want to do. And then you're just kind of like, just do it or don't. Yeah, yeah. You know, some advice that Jake's dad gave to him is there's no problem too big that you can't run away from. Yeah. So you could always park that car on the shoulder and just run. I don't want to do this anymore

But I think your dad is truly right And I wish more people took that Especially like One thing that drives me nuts Is when people have like a business idea Or a creative idea And they'll be like

I don't know if it works It could be do it Or And then see if it works If it doesn't work it doesn't work But do it I also hate when you If you work with someone

And you have to like Drag the reality out of someone That you know already existed Like where you have to be like You don't want to do this Right And someone's like I don't Yeah, I can't.

I don't have time. I don't have to. Great. That's fine. Great. I'm mad about the ways of time. I'm mad about the four months. Yeah.

Not that you didn't want to do it. Or like corporate. Yeah. Like during corporate meetings. Whereas like everyone just talks back and floors and nothing ever gets done. I think you two are very good at like just doing something when you have an idea and you want to do something. I'm getting better at it. You are getting better at it.

Steve stays on the pot. I'm historically a little bit staying on the pot too long where I will over-intellectualize and think about how everything go wrong and how I'm stupid and I'm not good enough to do it. I don't think that's the real reason. It is. It is. You're trying to be likable. No, it is.

No, no, no. It is. I'm so bored of this version. This is not true, but it's a fear of, it's a fear of not, of a failing. Just as me, you're trying to be likable, Gestapo. It is. It's too much. I just, I know Steve.

But you know I'll over-intellectual. You called me 50-50 for like three years. Yeah, but that's not because of fear of failure. That's because you'll go, I think I'm going to actually do this. It's because you mix ketchup and mustard and dipped your fries in it. I literally do that, by the way. No, because you'll go like this, Steve. You'll go, Jesus, this is going to be so fucking funny.

When I start cooking with that, and I'll go, it's going to be great. And then you'll go, ooh, a little bit of this. Ooh, it's the marinators. And then the next day, you'll go, I don't even know if that's a good idea. Yeah, I don't know. I was kind of thinking maybe that's not the right. direction. I was so into it, but now I'm like, is it good?

The difference with Gareth and I is while we're in that manic mood, we'll then write 14 pages, not sleep that night and be like, okay, I think they're good. And then the morning I'll read and I'll go, all right, I had a pot of coffee. Now I wrote page 14 to 50 and now it's bad. So what happened? It's a bad idea. There's no second act. But one out of ten, those will be cool.

Agreed. Or then you get to the first 50 and you go, it's bad. You send it to somebody. They go, oh, cut here and do this. And you go like, they're my writing partner. I'm sitting near the pot Yeah I took a shit in my pants

And they threw some of it in a toilet bowl I didn't make it to get a pot again And appreciate it very much Thanks for joining Thanks for sharing And just, you know, Steve loves you Yeah And also Steve is really insecure

And he's just such a sweet guy Yeah I'm just a pussy cat Yes I'm You know I believe it I mean, I'm excited for his calendar. Oh, my God.

Speaking of 12-3, it's available on the website. Fucking what is the website again? I always do this. Being dyslexic is cool. Cheek. Give me one second. I think it's helpful pod, but I just wrote it. Yeah, it's here to help pod.com.

We're only making 500. so order them fast if you order them i guess before the ninth they'll get there for christmas yeah if you want a weird stocking stuffer i'm asking you to get this for somebody who does not listen to the show if you're doing a secret santa at work yeah yeah this is actually the youth case for it or you know what else order it and put it in on someone's wall that you work with They'll let them figure it out. Yep, yep. This is, Steve also delivered little quotes for each month.

And boy, are they good. I'll tell you. The pictures are the star, but we got a real good backup in the quotes. So 12-3, head to the website. When they're done, they're done. We're just doing 500 of them. We're keeping them, as Steve says, collectibles. Yeah, I'll be doing press on Kim all the day before to get the word out.

All right, Anna, we got to let you go. Thanks for calling. We'll talk to you later. And thank you. Bye. Bye, buddy. Stevie, you want to intro this one? Yeah.

And then at some point I'd like to hear what you guys are thankful for, though. Will you indulge me? Just, yes, of course. Okay, great. Well, hello. How are we doing this final holiday week? Who are you and where are you calling from? Host, Shade.

I am Kelsey and I am calling from Connecticut. Ooh, you guys are famous for your pizza. Everyone's saying that Connecticut has the best. pizza in America. Would you concur? I'm not a huge pizza person, and I am going to be assassinated by the people in my state spot. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I don't like Connecticut pizza. Gareth, your thoughts on what we're witnessing.

I want to let it cook, but I also have to jump in a little bit. Gareth, please. I just full host gear on, ooh, not connecting with the local information and deciding to pivoted and there's some real good bits. but they're also super sweet. Very sticky. Very sticky. I don't think I should talk about it.

I don't think I should talk on this one. Get out of here, you rot. I'm teasing. I'm teasing. I'm teasing. I'm teething, healthy, Kelsey, Kelsey, Kelsey, I love you. Can I give you my home address and will you mail some dough? Absolutely.

It's all in the water. It's all in the water. So what is a piece of great advice that you have found very useful and just top of. Who is this person, Gareth? I love him. I don't know this man. I love him.

Bottle it. So some important context about me is that I am a middle school special education teacher. Wonderful. Good for you. Thank you. Yeah, I work with 11 and 12-year-olds on a daily basis. And so I get a lot of really weird, unsolicited life advice from kids who do not have life experience. This particular piece of advice.

came about two years ago when my youngest sister turned 20. She was obviously very excited, but she was also grappling with this dramatic morning of her loss of her teen years and her childhood. So part of her birthday gift, I wanted to give her some advice from kids. And so I had asked my students what advice they would give her. And my students, thank you, you got to use the kids where you can. One of my students said so matter factly. Oh, yeah. I love using the kids where you can.

Jesus, guys. Headquarters on my butt. Okay. Whoa. Okay. Ows going on. I don't use steroids. I use hemorrhoids.

Sorry, rocket money. So one of my students had just said so matter of factually to me, obviously she needs to get a slinky. And I was like, what? Why? And he was like, well, slinkies are fun and they take your mind off of things. So I went out and I bought her a slinky for her birthday. And it ended up being really good because my mom, who is normally a very good gift giver,

somehow bought the weirdest assortment of presents. And there was a particular gift that was aggressively confusing. And my sister was very upset about it. Can we know what? I mean, I feel like we have to know what that is. Agreed. My sister's might refer to it as the gay ass frame. When I was in high school, I went on a trip to Europe.

with my high school. And I got my sister this treat art. It was her name in rainbow colors and whatever. And she was seven at the time. So I thought it was cute and appropriate. She never hung it up or anything. But my mom found it and decided to get it professionally framed in this really horrendous rainbow picture frame. And my sister had just redone her room and my mom expected her to hang it up. And she was very embarrassed about the whole thing. And everybody ended up in tears. It was a little uncomfortable. But my little slinky. had saved the night because she was up there crying in her room afterwards and I came up and she was just sitting on the floor playing with the slinky and we laughed about birthdays

and weird gifts and how strangely wise kids can be and it ended up being a lot of fun. Did you do the little thing where you take the slinky at the top of the stairs and you let it kind go down? You mean the slinky? You did not. This was a really cheap slinky. This was a dollar store slinky. Okay.

Yeah. Only the metal ones will do that. So Kelsey, what is the takeaway on this one? And what is the advice? I don't think it could be always give someone a slinky, can it? Well, so that was the student's particular advice to me, but the advice that I took away from it was always consult children because even though they don't have life experience,

they weird to get life and they remind us to have fun and find the good in all kinds of moments. During the pandemic, I shaved my beard and my hair one day. I was like, oh, my God, I'm not going to be acting for. a while. I haven't been able to do this since I started acting, I think 2011. I was like, weird. I'm in control. So I just was in the backyard

one day and I just shaved my hair and my face and my daughter said, don't do that again. And I said, why? And she goes, you don't have the nose for it. See, kids are very wise. I went, it hurts my feelings, but you're right. And that is 100%

my experience in middle school. They hurt my feelings, but they're always right. But when, I looked straight ahead, I was like, dude, I might be a fucking shaved head guy. Cool. And then my daughter was at the profile goes, no, because it's your nose. And then I looked at the profile and I was like, ew. Without hair, I was like, you know, imagine Owen Wilson with no hair.

You're like, ew. Oh. Right? You're like, part of who works is? You're like, yeah, man, that's not right. And I'm sure he's had a child tell him. Exactly. While we're on childhood advice, and you brought a pizza,

Steve, why don't you just very quickly, because I thought this was really good advice that one of your teachers, your coaches gave you at the pizza party. Real quick, just tell it. Please get, Steve, just go out of quick. Look, so we were doing a fundraiser, I think for like new soccer warmups in high school.

And Mr. Gilpin, our coach, who didn't love him. And he clearly didn't love me. We were, what we were doing is we were ordering a bunch of pizzas and we were selling it like slices. And I was, I was, you know, and this, he shouldn't have had me working the register at this thing. But I was there just housing pizza, housing it. And he came around and he got angry and pointed out with like red face and he goes, haven't you had enough, Steve? Like in front of, and all my friends, and my friends, we were, you know, we were ballbusters like we were.

They actually, like, all got quite like, uh-oh. Whoa. Was it Connecticut pizza? Uh, no, it wasn't. No, but what it was, was he dug into Steve's soul and did the worst thing ever, which was embarrass him about how much he loved pizza. He's shaming. You should never be ashamed of that.

Thank you. Yeah, he showed a little bit. Sometimes I think he should have. I was, you know, we said this because we love him. He can eat a lot of pizza. That's unfair. I had a teacher, Gary Clark, and, Gary Clark's thing, he was the gym teacher.

His whole thing was, I'm 60% deaf in one ear, and I'm 40% deaf in the other. So for my book, that makes me 100% deaf. And so he was an old man guy. He was not the math teacher. He used to do a thing where he'd go, he'd be like, for a roll call, he'd be like, Jake, and rather than say here, you'd be like, suck my dick.

Because he couldn't. So it would be, he'd be like, Sarah Ann. and be like, eat my dick. And then it was first period, so I started just missing all of them. And once you get in the pattern of waking up later, I just came to school's second period. And then it was later in the year, in my senior year, and I'd missed like 70 days of gym or something. And the school had found out that I lived outside of the school district. I was taking the train in from Evanston, and there was talk of I might get expelled and not to, and I was already a

50-year senior. So I was like, yeah, ooh. Can't do six-year. And he was losing his temper at me when I came in and I said, like, I've missed. He's like, son, you've missed, I think it was like 67 days. He's like, you've missed 67 days consecutively. And you're telling me, you just were a little sick in the morning. And I was like, yes, sir. And I'm really asking for another chance. And I was doing my whole sales pitch. And then he goes, you know, I've got five students who are mentally handicapped, and I consider you one of them. And I went like, I don't think you could say that, dude. I was like, looking back, I'm like, I know it's the 90s looking back, but I was like, yeah, Gary, I think you just got in trouble, man.

You missed five days, Jake. Well, he, he had me. Then I had him. The tone changed. And then he goes, you know, I'm going through a lot going on. He goes, obviously, I didn't mean that. And I was like, hey, I'm not mad at you. But it's me.

I was like, you can't do that. And he said, why don't you stay after school and do some physical activities? I was like, can I play basketball? He goes, yeah, and I go like, Gary, we got a deal, big daddy. There you go. Well, Kelsey, thank you so much for the call. We appreciate it and appreciate you. Thank you so much.

This was so fun. Enjoy the pizza, sister. Hey, and Kelsey, take the tires and rocket money. Save yourself. Okay. Hey, and Kelsey, Kelsey, don't be afraid to eat so much pizza that you get sick. and the teacher yells at you. Too much, Gary.

You know, as somebody who does not care for pizza, I probably will not be doing that. Hey, that's going. Oh, I'm so sorry. I'm kidding, we love your sister. Thank so much. Email me. DM, say hi. I appreciate it.

Love my fans. Thank you, Kelly. Hey, real quick, could my sister, my sister, who's 20th birthday was two years ago, her birthday's coming up again in a week, could she just get a quick shout out? What's her name? What's her name? Julia. Julia, Julia.

Happy birthday, Julia. Chelsea, please. Julia. Thank you, Kelsey. Julia. Happy birthday, Julia. All right, Gareth. Okay.

All right. Stephen, go again. Your cash money. Hey, welcome to an episode of, We're Here to Help, starring Gareth Reynolds, Jake Johnson, and special guest star, Steve Berg, coming at you live from Omaha, Nebraska. What is the best advice you've ever got? What's your name, caller?

Yeah, what's your name? Where you're calling from? Damn, I'm so close. My name is Kyle. I'm calling from Oregon. Oh, Oregon. Yeah? What else?

You ever seen a Bigfoot? I have not seen a Bigfoot. I've seen really big parties of Bigfoot. People have, actually, Jake. No, they have. Do you have? What's the biggest one where someone's seen a Bigfoot? fit, Steve.

What's the most notable? They ever find the bones? The Patterson Gimlin film. Hey, Steve, they ever find the bones? Well, Jake, that's if you believe in a flush and blood, Bigfoot. I do not. It's a spiritual creature. What's Bigfoot got running through him?

It's a manifestation of the Gaia Earth energy, just like UFOs are in Gossar. It's all just localized. They don't come from anywhere else. They come from here. So why do we call it Bigfoot? It's just energy. Because then you're asking, have you seen any energy in Oregon? I mean, that's actually stripping.

down. That's actually a very intellectual way to look at it, Jake. I'm going to take that into consideration. Super weird that Jake's done no research or spent any time on it, and he just put it the best way you've heard. I'm now a professor, too. He learned through osmosis from being around a genius like myself. There's no better word for Steve to say than osmosis. You were. You were going to say you saw something, Kyle.

Shut up. There's tons of energy in Oregon. We've all seen that. Thank you, dog. No, proceed with your best advice, please. Can we mute Steve? No. I'm on fire.

And this came from my wife to my family when they were visiting, and she said, give more compliments. Don't. We don't need this advice for Steve. That's a great one. I love your wife. She sounds great. She's a genius. What's the last thing she made in the oven over $3.50?

Yeah. What's your favorite? Kyle, the advice is give more compliments? Yeah, which maybe if it's, Well, he doesn't sound super interesting, but she did it. And the way that she deployed this compliment upon my family, I think, is probably it was just a job well done. Had a big impact. Walk us through what happened.

How did it come? And what was the impact? And Steve, please don't talk. Oh, my parents were visiting, and my parents and my sister were visiting from Minnesota. Minnesota. What's so excited about Minnesota, Steve? Oh, great place. The Wendigo creature, the Twin Cities,

the great music scene, the replacement, Houskerdu. I can go on. Keep going, Kyle, I apologize. Your new nickname is Housker Do. Thank you. Thank you. So we rented a condo out at the coast. We're hanging out, watching whales and stuff.

And then during the evenings, I'll typically sit around the table and just, you know, we'll play, like, dice and card games for a couple hours, have a couple of beverages. Have a couple of jizz? Adolts. Everidge is. Oh, it literally froze for a second on mine.

Yeah, sure. I swear to go. We hear what we want to hear, don't we? Okay, keep going. That's right, Stephen. Anyway, so, yeah, we play games. They take about five minutes a game. Everybody puts in a buck, you know, winner gets the pot.

That type of deal. And then the person who wins the game gets to pick the next game. And then they also, we also get to just make up rules for the games. Throw the rule book out. think go ahead yeah so my wife wins and she makes a rule picks a game and then the the game has some condition you know everybody starts with three quarters in front of them and then and then there's some condition in the game that makes you put a quarter in the middle and then once everybody's out of quarters you can win the pot so what she the rule that she made was

Instead of putting a quarter into the pot, you could give somebody at the table a compliment. Oh. I love this. She's a spicy little garden pepper, isn't she? And when she made this rule of my mom audibly said, oh, fuck. You know, and just everybody at the table immediately, you know, looks like fearful in their eyes and they're nervous. We're not a very affectionate bunch. we're all kind of emotionally repressed a little bit.

This is nice, Kyle. That is nice. Yeah. Getting that to happen, I think, was, it was just great. And so, one, everybody at the table sat around and, like, gave compliments to each other for like 20 minutes. Super nice. And then, you know, probably forced us to do a little bit of introspection to be like, why does it feel weird for me to give my family compliments?

It's those frigid Minnesota winners. Perhaps. Are you from Minnesota yourself, sir? Seems to be the wrong question at the moment, yeah? Seems to be a not interesting question. You're sort of nodding with sort of an intellectual, sort of pensive nature. But I think what Jake's saying is that that was a misstep. You need some notes.

No, no, we don't need the pen for this. No, no. So, Kyle, I think that's really great, actually. So it's just adding a little, so I think the thing that I jumped on where I was wrong is I imagine your family is all Steve Berg's, but the reality, if everybody's a little bit, they're all Jake Johnson's. Yeah. If everyone's a little bit too tough, it's nice to go around and have to do like a, what do we like about each other? And then you go, well, there's plenty. And it does create a sweetness that's really nice.

Yeah, yeah, definitely. Like my wife told my dad, she said, you're really good at decorating for Christmas. And I told my mom, I like that you say, whatever the fuck you're thinking, whenever the fuck you're thinking. Shut up, Kyle. So let's do this really fast. Kyle, you're part of this too.

Let's all go around and say something nice to everybody on this Zoom. Oh, around the horn. I love it. I'll start. It's very easy for me. Go ahead, Steve. Gareth, you are comedically the fastest person on the planet. That's great.

Jake, you are an absolutely, truly talented actor. I can watch a movie with you and not, like, and forget, it's you. And that's saying something. And for Kyle. And for Kyle? Kyle. Buddy, you feel the energy. You obviously have had many Bigfoot encounters, and I feel like you are in touch and

tapped into the greater Gaia consciousness. And that is something you can't teach, pal. Gareth? Kyle, I love your bravery. And I love the fact that you were brave enough to call in and share that thing about your family. Jake, you are truly, you're the most savvy business thinker I've ever worked with and also a great communicator.

Steve, you are the most pure person I've ever come into contact with. Thank you. And you never get rattled at being pure. And Natalie, feel free to elaborate, Gareth, a little more if you want. No. Jake. Kyle, I'm going to start with you. you have opened up with your question

a sweetness in the show where I didn't know there were any in this. I thought we were going harsh to finish because we're just about at the end. So my compliment to you is your openness and your ability to pry open a box that I didn't think was opening. Gareth, you're one hell of a partner, buddy.

You are not only really talented, you make hell of adjustments. And even though you're very sensitive on air, you're not sensitive in real life, where you and I will be able to, like, talk things out and figure it out. And not a lot of people have this, but you'll see the goal even if it's like, I know, but it's a little muddy here,

but it's not personal. We're just trying to get here. You're very easy to see that goal together and go like, oh, yeah, we can make this thing work. Likewise. But there's just been a lot of people There's not a lot of people like that That you're like

We're getting caught up in these little Why are we getting caught? Like it's not, this has nothing to do with this We're trying to go there together Steve similar to what Gareth was saying Why are you acting like a kid Who ended up in a hotel

I gotta say There's a purity But also She was one of the funniest people on planet Earth I mean, going from this idea at eight, saying to mom, this is what he said before, Gareth, because I was trying to get to psychologically on the Patreon, and I was like, why are you always so nice to moms?

Like, there was a kid, Mike Lyons, who was always nice to moms. But I was like, that's because he had a tough mom. He just wanted a little sweetness for moms. I don't think that's it was Steve. And I was like, so what is, and he's not like the joke of like the stifler of like, he wants to bone him. I'm like, that's not Steve. So I was like, that would be you, Gareth.

He'd be like, I'd love to see her underwear drawer. Hey, why don't you take me to the room where you hide all the snakes? We can go get some for Steve together. But I'm like, I don't psychologically understand why Steve likes this so much. And then he finally said, they hold the keys to the kitchen. That is amazing. It's one of the funny. I will think about that on my deathbed.

A little boy going to all the kids being like, the kid going like, you guys want to come over? Go in the basement. I've got like, I got baseball stars on Nintendo. Yeah, yeah. And Steve goes,

I'll be right down. He fake walks with the group and then shuts the door behind them. Mrs. Bronstien, how are you? Good, Linda. Linda. What, can I ask a question?

What is that smell? Good Lord. You're whipping up something fancy. Well, you know what, Steve? Do you want to try some? I'm just cooking it up for, I mean, if you need a second set of taste, but I'm always here.

Oh, this is the best gazpacha. I've ever had. Hot show. Feeding a child cold soup, even Steve likes cold. I would love it. I had a very refined palate at a young age, especially for tomato-based products. You know, I will say, guys,

what a perfect way to end a Thanksgiving episode. This is like what we're grateful for. Isn't it sweet? It is sweet. And a little shout out to Eric, who's at the vet. Oh, let's say this. Let's say this. I will say mine to Eric is.

that more than any other human I've ever met on planet Earth, they broke the mold when they made that one. Yeah. He is in such rarefied air on planet Earth that anybody who encounters them and gets to know him a little bit, the big takeaway is it's,

you want to know what's deep? I have seen Bigfoot. He shamed a little bit. I had lunch with him once a week. He shamed a little. He fell in love with letter grade C Chinese food restaurants. But I'll tell you why I'm not interested in UFOs or in Catalina. I'm not interested in looking at the sea to see if something jumps out. Because I get Chinese food

with the wildest. You're right. He is our UFO. A life fascinating guy where you just get to go, what's going on, King? And I'll go, Smokey Robinson. He's like, man, it's crazy. But let me tell you what's interesting about Smokey Robinson. And I'm like, that's 20 minutes of Intel. How did you know that I threw that out at random? And he's. He's like, how do I know about Smoky Robinson? I read nine books out of him. Yeah. I'm like, when?

I will say about Eric, I feel like I've never, ever met a human being who is living life to the absolute fullest. There's no downtime for him. That's very true. Like, I'm a homebody. Like, it is hard to get me out of the house, especially after 7 o'clock. Even when I was young, really, I need to be getting paid to leave the house. But Eric is like, there's no wasted day. A Tuesday.

A Tuesday is a first. Friday night for him. But here's another adjustment that guy made, because we all copied that based off Belushi and Farley and the idea of the hard-party and actor who lives in shifts. Belushi used to live in eight-hour shifts.

So when we were all young improvisers, that meant you were talented. Yes. Eric has converted and done that sober. Totally. Yeah. He used to be the hard partying guy who could out-drink everybody.

Now it's like he's doing all these concerts. He's not drinking at them. No, he's totally. Cooper. I mean, so. Shocking. And that is so true. Like, that guy, like, is just, he is, he is living so hard. Yes. And I don't mean, like, hard in a way where it's hard.

Every day's a Friday. Every day's a Friday to him. I will say, I always love that. Eric is a, there is a actual gravitational pull to Eric. Yes. Unlike anyone I've ever. No. Absolutely.

Absolutely. Everyone is pulled in. He's a magnet. Yes. He's a giant magnet. So thank you for everybody who is listening. This is going to air post Thanksgiving, but we hope you guys all had a great Thanksgiving.

And last but not least, and I hate to say this because I've really tried to close the door on this. But can anybody in the Vandy Camp family, please allow Eric to go to the hundred. Garrick and I and Steve. We're saying mean stuff about it, but really just to tease Eric. It's true. We have really no opinions on the actual show.

I don't know anything about it. What's gone sideways is it felt like we were teasing his new wife, or we were teasing Chris, or we were teasing the people who else went. The reality is we're just teasing Eric. Yeah. And Eric truly loves it and has nothing in him besides a deep desire to celebrate Dick Van Dyke. There is no spin on it.

There's no angle on it. We are happy to not talk about it on the show. But a Christmas miracle would be lifting the band. We will not bring it up on the show if they don't want. Or if Dick or his wife or anybody wants to come on the show and advertise for it, we are happy to have you. We have zero bad blood. Undo the bandy camp.

Unbue the bandy camp. Undo. If you did it for anything we have said on this podcast, we all apologize. It's all just for stupid bits. And the reality is the intention was to tease our friend who is dying to celebrate Dick Van Dyke. For I'm not sure why, because I will say this to that community. He was not a Dick Van Dyke huge fan 10 years ago. But he's become such a big one recently that it's not a joke.

He got extremely old. Yeah, Dick was a little young 10 years ago. He loves Dick Van Dyck in a way where Eric and I. talking one-on-one, and I'm like, what is going on? He was like, I'm sorry, you have a negative attitude. Hey, it's me, I guess. I'm the crazy one. So if you guys could please lift it, and if you don't want us to talk about it, we won't.

If we can, we'd like to have you guys on. But out of the real love of Eric, let's get that guy at Van Banned the Man. Unband the Man. Guys, I love you. Love you, too, fellows. What a great one. Great calls today. Great calls.

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