We're Here to Help - 274: Phantom Throat Bean & More Snowballs

Episode Date: March 23, 2026

Jake and Gareth talk some sense into a baby boy. Then, they help a caller who just wants to have a snowball fight. Plus, a follow-up from Ep 272 Fancy Football (with Aya Cash).Want to call in? Email your question to [e-mail]: https://patreon.com/heretohelppodMERCH: heretohelppod.comINSTAGRAM: @HereToHelpPodIf you’re enjoying the show, make sure to rate We’re Here to Help 5-Stars on Apple Podcasts.Advertise on We’re Here to Help via Gumball.fmSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This is a headgum podcast. This is a headgum podcast. And we are back. Back. Oh. Hey-oh. Our pilots here. Dan, how's United?

How's United in 1997? If you don't have video, look at Instagram of what my brother is choosing to wear as a headset. Look at every podcast you've ever heard. Have you ever seen this? Go ahead, Dan. 100%. Yeah, yeah.

I think Joe Rogan suggested it. Chopper 5 technology. You geek. Yeah, Joe Rogan's like, yeah, dude, this is what I use. Gareth, can I throw something out at you for a second? Yes. So Dan and I are going to South by Southwest in two weeks.

Awesome. Right? It's going to be a two-day thing. It's going to be fun with the movie. The Sun Never Sets. Joe Swamberg, Corey Michael Smith, Dakota Fanning, Lamorne Morris, Anna Conkel, Debbie Ryan. We got some killers.

Cricy. World premiere, open to the world. Right. I think everybody got that, Dan. So we're going to South by Southwest, and our producer, Ashley, who's great and a friend, and she and I and Dan text a lot of bits. We were texting this morning.

She said to me, hey, I've got a fun idea. They're charging an arm and a leg for car service to get you, Corey, and Dakota around for your press day on Friday. And mostly everyone's got their own car. And I go like, what's it cost? Like $150, $200 each person? And she goes, $2,000 each. And I was like, oh, that's a...

And she was like, I know. Markup. It's such a disgusting thing that Apple will be willing to pay because they don't even think about it. But we're an indie. And so she goes, what do you think? Should we just have people do Uber's? And I'm like, I don't want to be standing on a corner with Dakota and Corey and be like, it's three minutes away, guys. Where's this guy going?

And then we're like, you know what? We're late. Why? Our guy went the wrong way. Hey, Jonathan. Jake. Yep, this is the one. Wait, were you for Dakota?

Dakota Fanning? And Dakota was like, I hope. Put it in. Oh, this car's got a funky stick to it, Jonathan. Someone barfed in it last night. Yeah, six straight. People barred on the right. I didn't really want to pay for Uber X.

You know, everybody is like, this is a tight little corolla. Everybody pile in. And Dakota's like in a nice dress being like, what is this movie? And I'm like, don't worry, we saved $80. This is going to help. We're putting.

this money on screen. We're just done. I know, but you'll see. This is just gross. Also, everybody, we did craft service. We have a sponsorship deal from Subway, and by sponsorship, I mean, I just paid for Subway because it's cheap.

Got a bunch of those little bag chips, variety pack. That's gross. As many as you want, many as you want, total of 12. As many as you want on a 12. I'm not buying another thing. They cost $3.99. So just.

So Ashley said, I have an idea. We could rent a, like a big escalade and just get a local guy to drive and everyone. And I go, that's actually fun because we're all together. And she's like, I just wanted to run it by you. And I'm like, everyone would be good with that. Would pile in. But then the only problem with that is if the driver's annoying, you're like, get out of here.

And I thought, you know, it would be funny. Dan as like the disco driver of the day pumping the music He's like he wakes up where they're like And we don't tell on her until the day Where Dakota's like Dan And Dan like has a little like taxi out And he's like

Let's rock we're going to 4th Street How's the brand? So every time we're in it it's a bit right I was like oh that'd be fun And I'd go to Ashah go Yeah I think my brother would be down It'd be fun And she's like you should probably ask

My thought was Of course he's in. We'll all be hanging out all day. Dan writes about, I don't think so. Maybe have a PA do it. Not how it went at all. I'll go to the red carpet, though. Yeah, fake news.

Fake news. Fake news. Okay. Hit us with the straight poop, Dan. Why didn't you read the text? Because Ashley said, I got a local PA. I said, I think that's a better idea. Honey, yeah, because she was true.

I'll read the text, honey. Go ahead, sweetheart. Oh, no. Two Crockos. Can I ask you a question? Can I ask you a question? Yeah, you can't, sweetheart. But this was a big opportunity.

You blew it. Oh, wow, I get to drive around. You guys go have some fun and I'll sit the escalade. That sounds like a blast. Honey, you know the alternative? You sit in the hotel room and sniff your own butt. You're not doing the press. You're not in the cast.

I am in the cast. And I am doing the... He also said, I'm considering wearing a tuxedo or a bright colored suit. And I said, please don't be a pick-me, girl. Dan, I'm going to just go the other direction real quick before we hear the evidence. I love the dumb and dumber style for you at this event. I think Jake, long-term, Jake's going to like it, trust me. My man, he's just so negative.

Because I love my brother. No, no, because he's like, I know. didn't get my way on the driver bit, so I'm going to take it out on the rest of everything else. Man, man, man. Everyone should have a Dan in their career. Don't they should. You're never going to feel big. I'll tell you who doesn't have a day.

Tom eggs. Oh, my God. All the big stars. I'll tell you who does. Me, I get up. I told you this story, Garrett, but we went back to Chicago. My brother and I loved Second City as kids. We talked about Del Close and the good.

It was just cool. Yeah. So I get an opportunity through Bill Bungroth to go do the improv with the mainstate. Guys like Tim Robinson were there. I think Sam Richardson, but I'm not, but a great cast. Yeah. Tina Faye, Chris Farley were there. They weren't there.

Either way. What a night. Who's a lightweight with alcohol. Oh, dear. That's fair. That's fair. I don't say that, I mean, I've become one, too, and you're going to see in Texas. I don't have one I used to have.

Good, good, because otherwise. It's an embarrassing way. Good. Lightweight's better. I agree. You have been right about that. I used to think the other way was cooler, but now I like being a lightweight.

Awesome. This is the talk of two guys who ruin an event. Open bar? Awesome. You want to lose your mind after two. That's it. Right. That's the point.

Why not? So we go to the old townhouse before, maybe have a couple of drinks. We get a little loose. We get to the place. We're sitting in the front where we have a couple more drinks. We're getting a little bit. loose. Yeah, it's fun. Then they

say, Bill goes, hey, Jay, get up on stage, man. And I was like, what an honor. And my brother was like, get up there, man. Big brother, little brother, what a moment. Gareth, the second I get on stage, he starts heckling me with booing me, Garrett. What's he

doing? Heckling, impromps. So, like, he and I are dying. Shake him up. Shake him up a little bit. You know, it's not going to be like cozy. Come on, you're tough. Hey, everybody. It's tough new girl. We're so excited to have Jake Johnson.

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Roughly, 31. Great. Where are you calling from today? From New Hampshire. New Hampshire, beautiful. Anything else, Jake, or should we just dive in here? I think we're good. All right, Natalie, 31, New Hampshire. What's happening?

So I am calling because last week, my husband and I, were eating one of our favorite soups for dinner when he thought that he got a bean stuck in his throat from the soup. So he could still breathe and eat and drink so it wasn't, you know, really that bad, but he could feel it somewhere in his esophagus. And it was bothering him so much.

Right, it is. So it bothered him so much that that night he was having a hard time sleeping because he was panicked that the bean would dislodge in the middle of the night, and he would choke. He thought the bean was going to jump from wherever it was. So you're married to a man, baby. By the way, as soon as she said he thought he swallowed a bean, flag started to drop for me. No official bean second, honey, there's no chance I'm sleeping tonight.

This bean could fall and I could be a dead man by morning. Honey, you know how beans are. They'll jump back up into the throat, choke you. I guess our pitch would be give him a big hug and tell him, it would be fine. All right, now they keep going. So the next morning, he called his doctor, and they were like, you know what? Yeah, we do want to see you. So he went to his regular doctor.

They said, we can't see anything. You need to see a throat specialist. So they sent him directly to the throat specialist where the throat specialist scoped his esophagus to try and find Havine. Now, just very quickly, this is great. But he's worried, what is he worried about the being just like living in his throat? Like some sort of fable? Because he feels it. And he's having a hard time.

He's worried it's going to move in a weird way and kill him. But this is like a day, like I've swallowed a vitamin wrong. And yeah, you know what? It's not great for like seven hours or something like that. A day later, I'm not like, well, I'm getting an upper GI. But then it scratches the throat. a little bit, and now he's like, that could be a scratch or it could be a bean. But you admit.

Look, anxiety's a crazy thing, man. Anxiety is a wild animal. You know what they say, you know, cocaine's a wild drug? The 2026 version of this. Anxiety is a crazy drug. I can't imagine, like the level of placating you have to go through with your partner to be like, oh, you're going to another doctor for the bean throat thing? Okay, hon.

All right, call me after. Well, the problem is the bean could start growing in my throat. and then a tree gets out of my mouth. I mean, obviously, then we got a bean plantation, and that could be a, that's a death sentence. So Natalie, what's going on? Keep going. So basically they scoped his esophagus,

and they did not detect a single bean. They said it's either not there at all, or it was too far down for their scope to see. But they didn't think it was anything major. He was experiencing what doctors called digestion. So the problem now is that, because of he's, you know, haunted by this phantom throat bean. He's now refusing to eat not only our favorite soup, but also beans generally.

And so I am need help trying to convince my husband that the soup and beans generally are not dangerous before it's too late and he becomes anti-beams. Yeah, Natalie, what's this guy's name? What are we calling him? His name is Nick. Nick. Okay, so I hate to say it, but I can relate to Nick. No. I, when I was 17, I did a Peace Corps in a type thing called Amigos in Costa Rica, and I got so weird there that I thought I couldn't swallow. And it led to the time where I was like, I'm having a hard time swallowing while literally being alive.

So I was swallowing all the time, but everyone's wild. I'll think about it. And when I thought about it, I'd be like, it's happening again. I can't swallow while swallowing. And this is just psychosomatic. This is just a... Something probably happened where I ate something,

got some allergies, and my throat closed up a little. And then I didn't understand what happened. So I said, like, oh, that could get bad. This is the same trip where the people you were staying with, you shook out your bed and a scorpion flew at you? I got bit by a scorpion in the stomach. I mean, I think I had a worm crawl with

to my foot and lay eggs. Just very, no, another time, another time. Okay, okay. But yes, that's an intro.

That's a crazy one. That's a wild one. That's a wild one. Okay. Okay, so, but you still, even with that being said,

this, as a lingering condition against beans. Yeah, because beans are the thing that's stuck, so now he's like, I don't eat beans.

But it didn't even stick. Yeah, but I don't eat beans. I don't believe there was ever a bean. I agree, but I got stuck. I almost died, so I don't eat beans.

Here's going to be my first pitch. We need to trick him into eating beans. I do agree. And he has to almost like you make him a bean burger or a taco. So he doesn't know. And he goes, what is that? And you go, tofu. And then he goes, that was delicious.

And you go, oh, you know what? It was beans. Or a dick. Or a dick. Whatever it is. So he eats it two or three times, likes it. And then you go, hey, you know that cassero thing I made you? Yeah.

Well, I lied to you, Nick. You just ate beans and you loved him. And he's going to go, I can't eat beans because I could die from him. And you go, you didn't die, brother. Or baby boy. Baby boy. This is a baby boy. This is a baby boy.

This is a bean baby boy. So sometimes your lover becomes baby boy. Sometimes they're a great guy. Sometimes they turn into a baby boy. You know what? This thing, you just nailed it. at Gareth. We got two type of callers. Great guys?

Our baby boy, baby girl. That's exactly right. And you're a great guy, Natalie. Natalie, you're a great guy. Nick, Nick's a baby boy. Every call, as of now, two categories. Yep. And so different type of pitches.

This is for sure a baby boy call. There's a baby boy call. And that's good. You're a great guy, he's a baby boy. The way a great guy does this is tricks the baby boy into becoming a great guy. That's exactly right because we need to fool Nick into becoming a great guy without him knowing it. And then he goes, I'm a great guy.

And he's a baby guy. And so now, Leslie, we got to get him going, I'm a great guy, eat beans. When you're hearing this first pitch, what are you thinking? And all about the baby boy great guy stuff. What are you thinking about that? I like it. I feel like it's a good way to reintroduce the bean in a way that's not me just saying, you need to grow up and eat beans.

Like a bean isn't going to kill you, but I don't think I can outright say that to him. Agreed. Because he's a baby boy right now, not a great guy. That's a conversation you could have with a great guy. Exactly. In six months when he's a great guy again, you guys can talk about beans.

Yeah. And if you're sneaking a bean into something, you've got to let the baby boy think that he's being a great guy while really he's being a baby boy. Let me ask you a question. How do you get babies to eat broccoli? Airplane. Right.

You sneak it in. And then all of a sudden they become a great guy. But by the way, you can do the airplane. That's sneaking it in. Yeah. Check this out. It's a game. You don't do that to a great guy.

He'll go, I don't need all that. He'll go, what do you think I am a baby boy? I'm a great guy. Treat a great guy like a baby boy. Give me the beans. So what dish could you make that you know this baby boy likes, but that he's going to eat without thinking, while maybe watching TV in the dark.

Ooh. Hmm. I think one of you said dips. And I feel like that's a really good idea because you can also disguise, you're eating the dip with something. You're eating it with chips. You can, yeah, partially disguise the bean that way too.

Like you're not basically just the dip. That's exactly right. And you could also do nachos and then you could melt cheese on top of everything. So he's just grabbing a chip. All he's seeing is on top of the cheese, salsa. But under what he didn't see that got cooked, beans, alabaynos, onions.

To Jake's earlier point, you're putting the veggies and the cookies a little bit here. Yes. He's not going to know. And then what I would also do, if you're down with that, I would suggest that maybe you start taking some pictures documenting this for a later reveal. when we let this baby boy know that actually the whole time he was being a great guy while he ate the beans. Yes.

So what do you think about? This is, you know, we lately, we haven't been going with first pitch, but what do you think? Is this a one and done? You happy with this? Are you going to try that? And look, if he smells it and throws it, he goes, I can't eat it. It's got beans. Well, then obviously you call back.

But this might be a, you trick the baby boy, he turns into a great guy. you call with a follow-up and you go like this. That was easy. And we go, well, it wasn't easy. We made it look easy because we're professionals. Yes. And you go, no, but it was easy. And we go, no, it wasn't because we've diagnosed the two types of calls, baby boy and great guy.

You were there for a moment where we realized. Because we're professional. Because, yeah, this is what we do. And, yeah. We're just writing a prescription for a baby boy. And you're going, but it's so easy. It didn't even feel like work. And we go, yeah, 40 plus years of work leads to an easy call.

Yeah. Makes it look easy, but this is experience and acceleration. Because we're great guys. Yes. But we love baby boys. You are a baby girl right now, Natalie. Just in this moment of description. Because you're around two great guys.

Okay, Natalie. What do you think, Natalie? So I think it's a good idea. I'm wondering if when I start sneaking beans into the food, Should I start with something like a refried bean where it's mushy, which takes the texture and like bean look away? Hey, Natalie? Natalie?

Natalie? Yes. When you have a baby, do you feed it chunks of steak or do you mush it up? I imagine you mush it. You do? You ever heard of baby food before? It's in a little jar. It's not a jar of carrots.

carrot chunks. It's just mush. Baby food is mush. Yep. And then how long am I mushing the beans that I'm sneaking into the food before I pivot to one time? The second time, less mushy. I was just going to say, why don't... Less mushy.

Why don't we do that? Why don't we slowly get it to the point where the baby boy says, hey, what's with the beans? I'm a baby boy. What are you doing? And you go, really? Because guess what? This whole time you thought you were being a baby boy, you were being a great guy because you've been eating beans for four weeks.

That's exactly right. And so every single time. And you've got pictures to say, here it is, here it is, here it is, here is. 15% off the mush. Yeah. Mm-hmm. This is going to work. I think this is right now.

Natalie, here's what we really need to happen. You want to how we win? Fucking make those nachos like you're a fucking chef at a nacho restaurant. Yes. So he goes like this. He goes, I was just on TikTok and I got this great recipe

and he goes, what's in it? You mentioned everything but the beans. And then he goes, about the beans. Yeah, and then he goes,

these are really good. You're like, I know. And then you go, hey, after work, want to watch Law & Order and eat some of those nachos?

And he'll go, do you mind making them? You're like, no, baby boy, I don't. Just don't come into the kitchen. While I mush your beans, you want to make you a great guy.

You little baby ass. Well, I make you a bean Mickey. You little baby. And then if it doesn't work, bring him on and we'll scold him. Yeah. Because if it doesn't work, there's two ways to make a baby boy a great guy. Trick him. You otherwise take him out back and give him an old school.

Hey, we were born in the 70s. And then he'll go, I'm really embarrassed. Why? Those guys were mean to me. And they were great guys. And I was a baby boy. Then he goes, but really, it's just a fucking bean. I can eat it.

And we're going to go, yes, Nick. Yes. We will, we can coach him take a video eating beans. I guarantee you we can coach him in the harsher direction. But either way, start with this. That'll foam our runway when we come at this baby boy. Or you're going to get a great guy out of this. I agree.

Because this is going to work. It will. One way or the other, it's going to work. Natalie. It doesn't matter what these great guys say. What does that great guy named Natalie say? I think it's going to work. Yes.

And I love to be. cook so I feel like I can, I'm at the point in the kitchen where I can be creative. That's cool. So I feel like, I feel like I can do this. And I don't think it'll be that difficult. And I think I can probably trick him. It'll just be really hard. Yeah.

Well, you're a great guy. To keep it to myself. Well, remember, you're only keeping it to yourself for a finite amount of time. As well as when you're about to burst and you want to say something, record a voice note. Yes. Yes. When you present the evidence, you have him record you as you hold up the pictures showing him. Or I would even say, Gareth, as it goes, when you're making the nachos and you're like, I'm going to freak out, I'm going to explode.

Film yourself really fast. Yeah, do a little confessional for us. And just say what you go, show us what you're doing with the beans and say, I just need to talk about this. So you're not alone. You're not holding it in. You're telling us. Yep. The only person who can't know is the baby boy.

Guess what? If you and Nick one day have kids, you know what's going to happen? the Easter bunny's going to come. You know, it's really hard to not say who the Easter bunny is until that kid's a great guy. Especially to Nick, because he's still a baby boy. He probably believes it.

He won't be by then. That's right. Thank you. Yep. Thank you. Call the number at the bottom of your screen right now. Natalie, follow up with us. Send all those videos.

Yeah. You're welcome for giving you a great guy. Yeah. Make the most of this baby boy because he's on the way out. All right, Natalie. Bye, Natalie. I will.

Awesome. Thank you. Thank you. Bye. Thank you. Bye. I have to do a counter for how many times you fucking said. Great guy.

It all made sense to me, though. It did. Same. Every part of that to me, I was like logically, not only do I follow him, I've got a new a thought. But this is right. Yes. I agree.

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Grace. Where are you calling from, Grace? I'm calling from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Whoa. Freak out. River West. Oh, beautiful. Love River West. Do you? Yeah, beautiful. It's popping.

Grace, how old are you? I'm 25. Grace, what is the issue? What can we help you with today? So I'm an arborist and I work on trees outside year-round. And a few years ago, our office was kind of like in a slump, not a whole lot of sales and stuff coming in. It was really slow. And so we have floods that we use at work to drag sticks and stuff. And I started, you know, sledding down the hills, building snowmen and throwing snowmen.

and throwing snowballs at my co-workers to make them laugh. And now, you know, a couple years later, we're kind of hitting a slump again, and I tried throwing snowballs, and no one will have a snowball fight with me anymore. So I was wondering, like, how do I get them to, you know, throw snowballs again? You're looking to restoke

of once solid snowball fight. You guys used to be a more fun group, but something changed? Yeah, a lot of them got married and had kids in the past couple years. And I think they've just gotten kind of lame. So it used to be more of a young company that felt like this is almost an extension of college.

We're living the dream. We're also all friends. Works allowed to be fun. and now it's become a place where people go to work. And when it's slow, people just want to hang out. You're like, get on the sled and let's whip snowballs. And they're like, it's Wednesday at 10 a.m. When you're old, like we are, it's very easy to see their POV.

Why are you throwing a snowball at me? Please, two hours last night. That's cold. And so, Grace, your question is, is how do I bring back the fun? Because why not have it be a fun day? Is that accurate? Yeah. Okay.

So then really quickly, walk me through the look of your office, because the first thing I'm thinking about is if you guys are all in like a big warehouse space together, first thing we got to do is we got to start DJing. But walk me through what your day looks like. What is the office? How do you interact with people? How does it go? So our office is pretty small.

There's only about eight of us that go out and do work. Okay. And we do have like several large garages that are kind of like warehouse vibes. And then we have like a, you know, smaller bit that's, you know, where we have meetings and stuff inside.

Okay. But everyone there is about at least five years older or more than me. And I'm the only girl in the office. So they're, you know, kind of over putting up with my shenanigans. I got a question for you, Grace. I got to get real right now for a second.

Your energy is pretty low, and you seem pretty chill. I don't mean that in a bad way. But I'm not getting rock star party girl on this call. I would expect from your tone it would be more, they're throwing snowballs at me and I don't want them to. Are you the life of the party at work? Or is it off-putting when kind of the quiet gal who's good at her job?

But she's pretty chill. And then all of a sudden she whipped a snowball at me. I don't know how to react to that. So what's your vibe at work? Is it similar to this call? I guess I'm pretty chill at work. But I'm more like, you know, trying to lift everybody up. Like, you know.

So they're low. lower energy and kind of more chill than you. They're the low energy ones. Yeah. You're the hype man. You're the accelerator. You're the cocaine, baby. Yeah.

Grace, I'm asking, is it, I'm just trying to get a sense of this before we bitch because. Grace, this is what Jake's saying. And it's not in a, it's definitely not a shitty way, but it's just, the snowball throwing coworker is going to be. someone who's got this kind of... The wild card. Man, I'm telling you what. Like, I'm trying to bring the fire, but...

But it's the Galslow character, maybe? These people just won't let me cook. Because I'm trying to go. And they're saying, hey, enough coffee. Enough coffee. And you go, like, I can't shut up. I have ADD. I'm not a wild.

Like, we're on a satellite delay with you when we're talking. Like, it's taking a minute to actually transfer into your phone. So I guess it's... There's something lost in translation, Grace. you're, so you're saying the people you work with, it's a really chill environment. Years ago, you partied more by snowball fights, but now they don't want to,

but the version of you that I'm getting, and this is one call, so I could be dead wrong. But you seem like a chill cat, and there ain't nothing wrong. I'm married to a chill cat. So there's nothing wrong with a chill cat, but I would be very shocked if I worked with you,

and this was the vibe we had, And then one day you said like, hey, I just threw a snowball at the back of your head. And I went like, why did you do that? And you go, challenge set. Fun. I love fun. And then I would go, you okay, guys? And you go, yeah, I love to party.

And I'd go, okay. Fun is my middle name. It feels. Look out. Look out. We're about to have the time of our lives. Have you ever had more fun than this? So my question.

Now, Grace, are we wrong here? Because we might be wrong. We're wrong a lot. We're doctors, but we didn't go to med school, obviously. No, we're not lawyers. I guess the energy, like, comes in spurts. I feel like I can't be too crazy, especially at work, because it's also dangerous. Like, I don't want to, you know, be acting out and, you know, hurt somebody.

Totally. You're 70 feet in the air. Right. So basically when you're grounded and things are slower, you're still going outside, and that's when you want the snowball fights to happen. I have a pitch maybe. Okay.

Right. Okay. I would pitch one of two things. The first is the best way to get someone involved in any sort of snow altercation, Jake, as we both know, being from the Midwest, is an act of war. So bigger the snowball, the more that you will actually retaliate. But also, part of the pain in the ass about a snowball fight is making the snowball. It's like it's cold, your hands, all that shit.

So what if you had a couple coolers in the back of the car full of pre-made snowballs? These are going to be ice balls, brother. It's not going to be great. These are going to hurt so bad. But you freemake them so that when you take them out, you just are sort of saying this is all already set. and that way people don't. And first of all, you've got a can't. I mean, you've got like a bunch of artillery.

And then these people also have the option of going up to a cooler and grabbing snowballs if they choose to retaliate. I think that'd be really good. Just have like a little stash of them. Yeah. A couple in the back of the car. So, Grace, will you walk us through how you initiate in the past, in the last few months? And let's hear the joy.

Yeah, but no, but for real, I want you to do. do it the way you do it. What was the last time you tried to initiate a snowball fight and what happened? You play all the characters. So it was probably a couple weeks ago and I feel like usually we have more shenanigans and stuff as we're kind of packing it up for the day because, you know, there's what's going on. And so I'd make a snowball and my tactic. is trying to throw it over the truck so it lands on top of their head while they're on the other side of the truck.

I do like that. Perfect. I do like that. Perfect. Humiliating but not painful. Exactly. You know, it's like a soft land. Yeah, perfect. And, you know, usually I'm the only one there, so it's pretty obvious who's through the snowball at them. And they just kind of brush it off and keep walking. And then... It's sad. Grace, do you say anything? What?

Do you say anything after that? Is there any dialogue? I mean, not really. They don't really mention it. And you don't mention it? No. I do it pretty frequently, so I've kind of just stopped bringing it up, I guess. Okay, but you don't bring it up.

You just, while you're on the other side of the truck, you throw a snowball at head and then neither of you guys talk about it, right? Yes. Here's what I'm going to pitch. A conversation. Would you guys like to start having more snowball fights with me? I like that. I have a similar idea, but let's just for a minute, Grace, highlight what's happening.

You're throwing snow at people and they're not saying anything back to you. You might be missing them. Or they're like annoyed. They, it's like they're like, Jesus Christ, they're like, stop. Or are you positive if you're hitting him? There's a truck in between you. You got those frosted windows. Yeah, they could just be like, well, snowing again.

It could be you're hitting the top of the truck. Grace, are you positive? You're hitting these people? Yes, I'm positive of hitting them. And you're hitting them and they're not saying anything. I mean, this is in my head what's happening. They don't want to have a snowball fight because you are hitting them with snow.

like, it's fucking Milwaukee. It's cold. I'm freezing. Please don't pile on the snow. And then their talk like, I have an idea, Grace. Grace, I have an idea. Send them a note and go,

do I have a snowball fight with me after work? Yay or nay? Y or N? Oh, how about this anonymous? Anonymous poll. Okay. Do you guys want to start having more snowball fights? Yes or no.

please leave in this comment box. And if they're all no, let it go. Or right now, we could have Grace send a company email. There's only eight of them and just say, hey. That's true. Grace, are they on it? The subject is snowball fights. Yay or nay.

Do you guys feel like you're open to having those anymore? They were really fun. If not, I'll stop. And we can come up with something else. What do you think of that? We could also do it through we need to pick, and it could be anonymous? I think if I send them an email,

they'll give me shit about it forever. But could that lead to more snowball fights? It could. Because then if they give you shit, every time they give you shit, you throw a snowball at them. Yeah, you are stoking the competitive fire. What we're trying to do is we're trying to get the game going right now,

what's happening is you're throwing a snowball at them while they're on the side of the truck, they're getting hit and they're going, that sucked. and so do you have them all on a text chain? Went down my jacket. Yes. Do you want to send a text right now that says, anybody interested in snowball fights after work,

yea or nay, just answer Y or N? Or we could make a video that you could send them, and we could, Jake and I could do it, so maybe it takes the culpability off of you a little bit. We work on behalf of Grace right now. she misses the snowball fights I kind of want to see her do it okay

we've been doing I kind of want to see what happens in the real pitch of if you just sent a text to the group and they don't know this show exists to get a real response we also we have weekly meetings and we have one

tomorrow I could bring it up in the morning meeting and how would you do that pretend we're at the meeting Grace, I'm going to set you up and then you go. Okay, all right. That about wraps everything up. Does anybody else have anything else they want to add?

Grace, your hand is up? Yeah, what's up? I am wondering to boost, you know, company morale if we could have more snowball fights, you know, as we're cleaning up for the day. So what does that mean to boost company morale? You think morale is low? Yes, everyone seems pretty on edge and cranky lately.

Because somebody keeps starting snowing us over and trying to leave. I tried bringing in cringles and they were still cranky. Right. I would say, I wouldn't bring it up at the company meeting. It could go sideways on you. I would do it, but you can. I don't know the vibe of this group. I agree.

I would not. I would do it playfully via a text or an email. I would say due to the crankiness of the employees, would anybody like to blow off some steam and have a snowball fight with me tomorrow or afterward? Actually, what I could do, we have, like, walls of whiteboards. Yes. I could make a specific whiteboard for the cold.

for the snowball fight? Yes. But I would say in there, as all of you know, after work, I throw snowballs over the truck, can I hit you guys on the heads, and nobody comments? Is this because you don't want to have a snowball fight? If so, that's fine. I'm asking for a poll. Who wants to have a snowball fight?

If I get one vote, that's enough to continue my shenanigans. Okay. What do you think of that, Grace? I think that would be good. What are you going to put on that board? Write it down as you're saying it, and then we'll have the exact thing up there, okay? Okay.

Maybe, should I keep it simple and just say snowball fights, yes or no with, like, check marks? Hmm. I think you need a little bit more than that. I agree. I think a little... What am I voting for? Yeah, snowball fights, is an idea?

Sure. After work with Grace? No. It could be... Grace is. snow pole and you could say I'm still into snowball fighting after work I think it's fun who agrees with me and then you could put a yes side and a no side and a line down the no hard feelings either way even though there are but you're allowed to be honest you're yeah yeah absolutely I I now

as she's writing this down Jake I do think that we're going to find that there's mostly no's almost all knows, probably all knows. Nobody's engaging in this. Do we, is there a more adult game that can be played that is less I'm going to make you freezing? No, but that's not what she's calling about, Gareth. Well, she's missing that the, Grace's inner child is screaming for some play. And she's not getting it by tossing snow over the truck at coworkers who are probably pissed.

What were you like as a kid? Were you a rambunctious little girl? Only child? No, I'm the oldest. I have a younger sister. We were just always running around doing random stuff in the yard, you know, digging holes, playing with worms. That's cool. That is cool.

So, Grace, what are you thinking of doing here? Do you like the dry erase board idea? Yeah, I think that would work, and that way they can be. kind of respond on their own time. And anonymously. Yes, and anonymously. Are you going to do that tomorrow? Yes.

Will you take a photo of the board before anybody responds and then one 24 hours later? Yeah. And then will you follow up with us and we can get to the bottom of us? I will. Grace, we appreciate you. Good luck out there, Grace. Thank you

Stay warm Also if you're gonna do a If someone says yes Change your technique No more over the truck Face them So you guys are looking each other And then go

How was your day And they go Yeah fine It's slow today We didn't have any clients And then throw a snowball Right at their face Yeah

That's gonna That's gonna stop For sure But no more Hiding behind a truck Just go like this Or go like this Hey nice shirt

And they go Thanks you go It'd look a lot better with a snowball on it and they go what and then throw a snowball at the chest. I'm just picturing these people on the other side of the truck like getting hit and like making eye contact and just shaking their heads like, hey, your nose looks dry. Then throw a snowball at their face and go, never mind. Yeah, they're definitely over it.

This is a wild last sentence while we're doing a whiteboard pull. Yeah, they hate it by the way. If it's eight to nothing, then we'll figure that out. Yeah, then call in and we'll figure out. Grace, we'll find people in Milwaukee who want to a snowball fight with you. We'll find you a new job, Grace. Okay. Then we're going to find you a job.

You're going to start working with teenagers. You'll do yard work. It'll be awesome. Yeah. Okay? We're going to change your life just so that you can throw snow at someone. All right. Thank you for the call, Grace.

All right. Thank you. Bye. We know you're a follow-up, baby girl. I'm great. God. No, but you did it. You did it.

Remember? No. All right, baby girl. Remind us what this is. Who you are, what the problem was and what we're doing. Yeah, okay. So I'm Rachel, but yeah, you can call me baby girl. That's totally fine.

And I'm calling from Minneapolis, and I was part of a fantasy football league, and not everybody paid me. So you all help. me create a little voice recording that I did send to the team and I got everyone besides two people to pay. So it was pretty good. Rachel, before we go any further, Natalie, do we have the recording? Can we hear it back? If you give me a couple of minutes, I can try to find it.

Yeah. Listen here, everybody. You owe me some money. My memo is Rachel dash Danis dash zero one. This league was grueling. It was tough. I beat all of you guys throughout the whole season

and none of you are going to pay me come on I deserve it 20 bucks buy my birthday January 25th I'm turning 30 send me the money

Rachel that was great you know it's so funny we clearly we were talking for a while for it to get to because it's like you hear that now you're like that is quite intense

but also good but good okay and so you sent you sent that Rachel and then you What happened? And then you did a follow-up. Yeah, okay.

So I sent that to the group and I said, I really didn't want to have to do this. But, you know, I can't be the nice guy anymore. So here, listen to this. And then I had a handful of people pay. And then I said something. So, Rachel, they just, so you just sent, will you read us the email you sent to everybody attached with that?

Thanks. Yeah, let me go find it. I always got it up here. All right, Rachel, we got it. You want Gareth just to read it? All right, screen started. Yeah. Sure.

Go ahead, gee. Okay, so it's leading into the voice memo, she says, I really don't want to have to do this, but I can't be Miss Nice Guy anymore. As the winner of this league, I'm asking everyone to please listen. Then we've got the clip,

followed by. And if you're not encouraged to pay up after that, my friends that were here to help us have something to say about it, too. Can we listen to clip number one? No. By the way, no response is one heart. And by the way, no, we're here to help the podcast.

Those are my friends that we're here to help. They're like, this girl's crazy. I'll be like, if I got that, I'd be like, Rachel's weird. Yeah. But hold on, Rachel, before you go, Rachel, before you go, we're going to listen to clip number one. Because this is what people got. Hey, BFF Football League. We were brought in by Rachel Danis.

That's Rachel dash, Danis D-A-N-I-S-0-1. That's her Venmo. She hasn't been paid by eight out of the people in this league. Seven of you have, so you guys are off the hook. You play a fantasy league you should pay, of course. So this is really to the eight remaining. This isn't a threat. Although, what were you saying about your training?

Oh, I just mentioned that I happened to study at the Guthrie Theater. So I know quite a few actors in the town of Minneapolis and the Twin Cities who could possibly show up your door and act real tough if the debt is not paid back. But that's not a threat. No, it's just what's reality. Gareth, you got anything to say? Yeah, I got a threat. Listen, you're not going to pay?

Yeah, you are. You're going to pay in one way or another. We're not playing any more games. Give Rachel the money. It was all fun when you're making your little fake team. Now that it's the real world, you got a problem? Rachel dash Danis dash 0.1. Pretty good, Gareth.

Way to be tough at the end. Way to Joe Pesci. Yeah, no, I was just kind of thinking it is the Pesci vibe. It was pretty. I mean, you came in as the fucking heavy, baby boy. I tried to close. Yeah. Well, you guys were sugar, so a little spice, I guess.

I don't remember doing it. I don't remember that at all. But still. But Baby Boy, you crushed there. So, Rachel, you then sent both. Then walk us through what happened here, baby girl? Yeah. Okay, so I sent both.

And definitely, okay, so the reason I didn't say, like we're here to help podcast. I was trying to maybe get some like funny reactions out of people if they didn't know what's going on. But really the funniest thing that I got was, who is that AI? By the way I paid. Wait, is that AI by the way I paid? Okay. Yeah, that was the funniest that I got.

So then I was like, okay, well, it's fine. If people have enmo me great, we're going to just drop the bit from here on out. But most of everyone paid. How many are not, how many have not paid? I cannot imagine after that not paying. How many are still hanging? I know.

Two people. All right. So we're not done pitching, Gareth. I agree. I completely agree with you. Garrett, Rachel, what if we,

do you have the people's contact information? Okay. So I was trying to figure that because, so if you remember from the setup, This is like my parents, close friends, and they're all connected through my brother. So it's like my brother and his friends and their parents, and then they came to our little family friend group. And so the two people that haven't paid, this is about to get long. So two people that haven't paid, one of my brothers, good friends, oldest brother and their youngest brother.

So it's like that from one family, there's four boys, and then the oldest and the youngest haven't paid me back. Okay. question. Do we know we have their right info? That's a good question. My brother set up the text group and I have a bunch of phone numbers in here that I don't have. But we

could maybe connect with my brother because he probably has the number. Let's do this. What are the two guys the first name of the oldest brother? Peyton. Kayton? And what about? Peyton Manning.

Oh, Peyton. And what about younger brother? Connor. Connor and Peyton. I get a sense of this family. Blonde boys. They are. Of course they are. It could be the mannings.

Yeah. Did Eli pay that little brat? Eli Pay. Oh, Cooper's the younger one. That's right. Can we call your brother right now on the spot? This is right. I really think you could.

I think, yes. Will you send that info to Natalie really fast? we can try to get. What's your brother's name, Rachel? His name's Matthew. Let's see if we can get Matthew on the line. And if not, we could send him a text or something. Yeah.

What does he do for work? You think he's going to be available? I really do. I think he'll be fine. He's a mechanical engineer. He's like super smart, whatever. Sure. He'll be able to answer.

Okay. I'm dang it now. Rachel, when Jake says baby girl and I say it, Is there a difference in the energy? Do you feel? Is there something? Yeah, the callers get turned around when you say it, Gareth. That's a good question.

The girls go crazy when Gareth says. For something. When I say it's more paternal. I don't. I actually feel like when Jake says it, it sounds like he said it before. I mean, that's right. That's exactly right. That is.

Forrest. Can you hear? Or is it not coming through? Oh, there it is. I'll start us, Gareth. Okay. Hello. Hi, guys.

Hey, Matthew. How are you, bud? I'm good. How are you? Good. So you were the commission of this league, yeah? Yes, I am. And we're all caught up.

Gareth is here, too. Hi, Maddie. Hi. That's my baby boy. What's going on, baby boy? You all right, baby boy? Yeah, I'm all right. Are you?

Yeah, baby girl, Rachel, got to get paid. You know what I'm saying? Baby boy, Maddie. You're a sexy-ass dog. Rough, rough, rough. Put you in a dog house. Yeah, from Baby Cooper and baby, whatever the other guy's name is. Connor and Peyton.

Connor and Peyton. So, hey, Big Matt. Have you contacted Peyton and Connor? The Manning brothers? What's going on with those two cats? I have not contacted them. Well. And I'm just finding out that they didn't pay their last two didn't pay as a very recently.

Yeah. As a commissioner, like, look, I'm not trying to, you know, baby boy you're here with my guy G. Money. That's scary. But hey, man, we got hired by Rachel to get that money, you know what I mean? So, like, either you're going to write a big fat check. Not a baby. Or you're going to get us a goddamn money. What my partner is trying to say, Matthew, is that. it's time for you to step up.

We've gone, Rachel's done her stuff. Did you see those messages she sent? You heard what she sent? I mean, they were very aggressive. I did. What did you think when you saw those pop up? What did you think when you saw those pop up and you listen to those?

Yeah, I was pretty intimidated by Rachel as you should be. She's a killer. She's a baby girl with sharks' teeth. I thought she really put her foot down. Absolutely. Matthew, what are you going to do to help us here? Well, I think to start, I'll try to reach out to Peyton and Connor, but they are the type of people who don't answer ever.

So we will start with that. And then I know that they're going to be at, so Peyton and Connor are brothers of my friend, Nolan. So I know that they will all be together for the Super Bowl this weekend. So if that doesn't work, I will contact Nolan because he's good. about responding and hopefully get the money from them at the Super Bowl. Okay, so let me ask you a question. If Peyton or Counter won, would they receive the money? Yeah, great point, Jake.

Yeah. Would they contact and go, I won, where's my money? You know, that's a good question, too, because I honestly don't even know if they paid attention much in this league of ours. But theoretically, yes, I think that they would. Okay, so, and when they didn't. pay attention where, so as a commissioner, can I give advice to you and to all commissioners of any betting pools? Gareth, I used to be the commissioner of a betting pool that we did. I gotta say I was

pretty good at it. Phenomenal. I completely agree. And when you step down, I said this is unfortunate. Yeah, and Gareth tried to convince me to come back. I said, let's do it together. We thought about for a little bit and we both said it's too much work. Well, this year, we thought about redoing it, but then we tried to even get into it. We couldn't even go. We were just, we both, we both at the same time we're like, I can't do this. Yeah, we're like, dude, let's stop. But here's the general rule. This is what I think is really important.

This is my two cents on it. About a month to three weeks before the league starts, you say, whoever wants to play, the league starts, let's say it's August 19th. You must have your money sent to me by Venmo by this date. If you miss the date, you ain't in the league. if the glove don't fit you must have quit

It's not a one for one But you get the point I think he's going for the cadence More than the message And here's the point of it Then you get let's say nine people You tell everybody This amount of money came in

First place gets that Second place gets this Somebody goes Connor goes Hey brother sorry I was skiing in Vail With my brother Peyton and Nolan Hey what's up Anyhow, man, I want to be in this football league because I love winning, but I hate paying. And you go, it's August 21st, brother.

You're out. If the glove don't fit, you must acquit. If you don't pay, you can't play. Ooh. And how about this, Jake? How about this, Jake? How about, and this could be, this might be good, too. So you have your deadline.

It's whatever. It's a $50 join. Let's say you get these stragglers. Oh, shit, I missed the deadline. Is it too late to join? Well, guess what? We carved out an extra four days where you pay an extra $25,

and you do still get to join, upping the kitty. Yeah. 10% of a little punishment. So that's just holistic stuff, Matthew. Are you willing to do that for the next year and going forward? Yeah, I think that's a great idea.

And I've been a part of leagues where that's the case and it does work out pretty well. Sure. The only difference with this league was it was a family league. And I was really more, I just wanted as many people to join as possible. And I knew if I put those rules out front, we would have got like four people to play. Right. And so it was a, it was a let's put, let's get everyone to come to the draft.

We'll draft. We'll pay the winner at the end so that we can just get through that. And then, you know, once we get to. Once we get Peyton and Connor, then that's 100% period. I know, but we had to do this. Hold on, Matthew, Matthew, no way. Baby boy, listen to Jake. Go ahead.

Yeah, baby boy, you're out of line here. You had seven out of the 15. She had to do a threatening voice note. We had to get Iya Cash to talk about some acting school thing. She was dropping Guthrie threats. Because guess what? Every one of these sons of bitches who won would have taken. It's one thing I can't stand.

People go to casinos and then they go like, or you have like a poker night and they go like, Yeah, really fun. Thanks for inviting me. I lost $200. And you go, well, yeah, if you won, you would be celebrated.

You showed up, didn't you? It's called gambling, baby boy. It's not called earning. This ain't interest, motherfucker. If you don't pay, you can't play. And so, we're finally setting the precedent this year.

Yes. You have to. But to your point, Matthew, Of course, everybody's excited to do it. Free money. It's free. They don't have to pay. It's awesome.

Now you make someone pay $75. You're going to get the people who pay. Guess what you want? Peyton and Connor go like this. I don't care. I get everything in life just handed to me on my veil of occasions. So I'm just going to get paid at the end of this. Disgusting behavior from the Manning brothers.

So Matthew, you on the hook, baby boy. This ain't Rachel's problem. It's yours. So, so Jake and Gerith, do we feel like we need? like some other like potential like besides Matthew just asking them for the money like do we need like a little I've got a pitch like good call by the way Rachel good call so uh super bowl this Sunday Matthew where are you going for it um I'll be at my friend who's your friend they're part of the same okay oh you're going there yeah uh Rachel's going

Rachel that's where you go you're going yes I'm not going to be I'm not going to be there but I know that this person was part of our fantasy football league too. Okay, here's what we could do. I think we, I just want Matthew to go to Peyton and Connor. If you could go to where they are for the Super Bowl, you could just have a video message with Rachel making one last plea for the money. Yeah, and I think because of these guys are so, so unresponsive most of the time,

I think just being able to see them in person could do some... I think it'll do that. And if I, most Super Bowl parties, you're playing some sort of betting game anyway. My guess is they've got a taste for it. So they're going to be there. Go. I have an idea going off of this. Is the guy who hosts a buddy of yours?

Yeah. So why don't you ask him to tell everybody to bring cash? Because like when we used to do UFC fights, we would just do betting as we went. So it would be like, one of us would just be the boom. We'd like, three to one odds on this. And then if somebody was in, you throw your money in the middle. after you don't have to go like, hey, Eric, will you pay me the $15 bucks?

And he'll go like, I'll buy your lunch on Wednesday. Just give me the money. It's not a trade. It's not a trade. We're not bartering. Brother, rice walk. Yes, but also, just give me the money. So tell the guy to tell people, in terms of like the fun

betting pools you guys might do, everybody bring cash. The reason I say that is then we know Peyton and Connor got cash. And on them. And what is the fee? What was the fee to play, Rachel? What did everyone have to pay? 20 bucks. That's just so little money.

This is disgusting. I mean, Jake, if you think about our rate for what the amount we're working for here, $40, hours. I don't know. You guys are really- A rice walk. But I will also say that I would accept other firms to payments for the last two, if needed, a bottle of wine or other stuff. No, no, no, no, you don't. Because, because, listen, they don't get special privilege.

But this is what Jake just said that Eric would do. No, you want your 40 fucking dollars because you deserve it. And also because if they won, they would want the money. 100%. If you don't pay, you can't play. You go buy the bottle of wine with the $40. You decide what the bottle of wine is part. Because it's your goddamn money.

Matthew, you're on the hook, baby boy. That's right, baby boy. So get their money. All right. So Matthew, are you comfortable doing that? hit him up and just basically say, look. Break his fucking legs. I don't know about that, baby boy.

Come back down earth for a minute, baby boy. You're kind of out of the atmosphere. I don't think we want that, baby. Think about the long-term strategy here, baby boy. Come on. Get in here. Get in here. All right.

Hug it out. Slow down. You're cooking. But now you're burning the oil. That's a carcinogen. Slow down. Did you guys see the movie casino? No.

What? I have not, but I've known. some references. In the movie casino, there's a guy who gets caught cheating in Bobby De Niro's casino. Yep. And Bobby De Niro's character,

the security, bring him to the back kitchen, you can't cheat. Because if you cheat, you throw off the whole thing in the casino. You steal the money. The guy's like, sorry, it won't happen again. They open him up.

He's got a little beeper, so he and the dealer are cheating. Morse. They take a saw off and they cut off his goddamn hand. Well, Yeah, it's a good movie. You know what I'm saying here, Matthew? Yep, I hear you.

So I would like you to film with your phone. You know what I want you to do? You ever seen the show to catch a predator? You guys watch television? What do you guys watch? Where are you guys right now? Matthew was born in 2000. Oh, Matthew was born in 2000?

That's crazy, man. That's crazy. So you haven't seen any of this either, so you can't call me out like that. You guys are missing. These are important things. They could not be more different, but they're both equally important. All right. So Matthew.

It's a cultural touchstone. The only point of it that's important is you're filming people when they get busted in the act. So what I want you is with your phone and go like this. Hey, Payne, what's up, man? And just take your phone and film them and go like this. Hey, man, you have my sister, $20 for the league? And he'll go, why are you filming it? And you say, for the podcast.

These guys have commissioned me to do this. Will you Venmo her right now or give her $20 cash I'll give to you? I'm the commissioner and he'll go like, stop filming me, brother. And go like, you got to pay, man. And then go, why do you think he didn't pay? Is that cool? I think he's, listen, I think he's completely right. And then we also need you to after you do that,

have him on camera agree that we could use the footage. It's a new component. It's a new component of the show after the embarrassing got you. We say to him, hey, are you cool if they use this on Hulu? Yeah, we were just told now on Hulu, we have to get permission. So then say, I have to work. Part of the thing is you have to say. So we're setting people in on Donnie Blasco's sting moments.

And then they go, hey, you mind if I make this admissible? But say this, because of Hulu, do you mind? Can they use this? Hey, can we use this? It's for Hulu. All right, Matthew, will you do that? and try to get Peyton and Connor to pay on camera, admit it, and then say yes to Hulu, airing it.

He's not kidding about everything he just asked. Baby boy. And then will you guys follow up with us next week what happened so we can get to that 15 out of 15? Yeah, I think that sounds great. Okay. Thanks, guys. Thank you, guys.

Thank you guys for the best. Go get them. Bye, baby, boy, baby girl. Bye. Baby boy, love you. Bye. You're great, guys. All right, baby, boy.

You guys are great guys. You're great baby boys. Bye guys. Seriously, hang up. Hang up the goddamn phone. Thank you. You guys are great guys. Hi, this is Rachel giving a final quick update around the fantasy football winnings.

So after we chatted with my brother on the episode with Jake and Gareth during the follow-up, we were able to get him kind of looped into the situation as he was the commissioner of the league and he reached out to the two guys that hadn't paid me yet who really we haven't had much contact with throughout the whole season and we tried to get them on a facetime call to confront them about why they weren't paying but after a few quick messages back and forth they did both send over the Venmo and I really would not have had the courage or excitement to do that without we are here to help and I have officially been paid by every member of of the league and that truly is because of your old's help.

So I'm sad to not hear the bell be wrong. Maybe I can jump back on just for that sometime soon. But really exciting that everyone paid and it's all because of you guys. So thank you so much. I'm that much richer because of being on your podcast. So really appreciate you helping a girl out. Thanks again. Hello, Jake and Gareth and Natalie and everyone else on the production team.

Thank you so much for all you do to keep the, We're here to help podcasts rolling out. I did want to share a little thought slash note. I was listening to Trash Night Buffet and Fantasy Football with Iyakash this morning on my commute. And, you know, this has just happened one too many times. By the way, my name is Lila, 25 years old calling from SoCal. But they're talking about the fantasy football league and getting this. group to pay what they owe. And then this caller is already in a group chat. And yet, Jake says,

do you have their emails? And I literally screamed and had to stop the podcast. I love the show, but this is, Jake Johnson specifically, why do you think people are going to send videos and voice memos over email? Like, I don't know if that's an old. generation thing, but truly, I promise no one under 40, I'm going to venture to stay under 40, because my parents are in the early 40s and like, just hear me out. We're not using email that way. And if someone sends a video over email, if someone sent me a video over email, I would be like, what is happening? And she already was in a group chat. She can literally just send the video to over text to the group chat.

So, listen, I respect my elders, but please I'm begging you for future episodes. If there's something you want to share, sometimes it's appropriate to do email, right? Like, if it's like, this is like a fake email from the Homeowners Association, sure. But if this is like someone you know in your personal life, your mom, your friend, your roommate, Like, just send a text. Just send a text. Don't email voice memos.

Don't email videos. That's weird. So sorry. But I just really had to get this off my chest. I've been listening for years now. And I hope you'll hear me out. Love you guys. Bye.

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