We're Here to Help - 288: Pineapple Suspicion & Squatters Rights

Episode Date: May 11, 2026

Jake and Gareth determine if a caller's parents are swingers. Then, they evict a bathroom squatter. Plus a follow-up from the Popcorn Queen and her search for a missing kidney. For the full popcorn story, check out Ep 224 and Ep 231.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. Guess what I'm drinking out of, Gareth. Symbol? Oh, cheek monkey. Ticky monkey. And guess what else? Eve Johnson's moving to LA

That's official She's coming out I think in about two and a half weeks Uh oh Oh oh Hey sweet nerds How are you doing Uh oh

Piscettios Uh oh I heard I'm right in time We're literally talking moms And he pops up And I'm assuming now this was your surprise Gareth

Because if he just hears mom And join Zooms He's just like the milf Milt beetle juice Not even milk just moms. It's not about fucking with Berg.

It's about talking. No, that is very true. I love mothers I'd like to have brunch with. He's into Milbes. Mothers I'd love to brunch. This is so true. Gareth, what's going on with you, King?

Well, I actually, Jake, I did invite Berg on for a specific reason because I was, we were talking on Patreon and he and Eric have talked about this in an intro, but I did think I haven't listened to it. I haven't heard the story,

but I did think there was something juicy enough. Jake will like it. Jake will like this one. I'm dying. So, Stevie, you got a story? Well, Jake, every April in the Midwest, there is a glorious seven-a-day period where Moral mushrooms pop up.

Why does every time he starts talking? It's like a camera pans down slowly. Then it's working because that's exactly what I'm picturing. So anyways, I was out at this beautiful property by the Platte River foraging for one or fours. Like a little pig. Like a little pig. Yeah, like the little pig. They send pigs out to forage and then you dig them out.

So they know, farmers send you out? Correction, they sent pigs and me out. Were you released with the fish? Literally I was on all fours. And boy, did I. Sniffing and oinkin, brother? Snorting and fuzzin to Steve. I'll get a good feeding time after this.

Unfortunately, Sondon Fussing is a Jake and Gareth story. Yeah, it is. It is. When you're in the forest, you know, being an outdoorsman myself, you always come home and you do a thorough tick check. That means you're looking at a full body mirror. I did, I took my shirt off and I did see a tick crawl like from my back to my shoulder. I'm like, yeah. Steve, do you do, Steve, do you do the full, like do you do cheeks mirror?

You got to. What is that? you got to. Tell him. You spread your cheeks open to see if, because like they like to hide in crevices. I mean, you got to. So, Jake, at the end of a successful day of mushrooming, Steve lays down his tick mirror spreads and checks. Yeah, I'll call you guys on speakerphone next time I do it.

So Jake, I assume my tick is there. I go about my day. Well, later that night. And about, you know, you get a little older. You pee at three in the morning or something like that. So I get every night, brother. Right? You know what I mean?

I get to pee. You know, I have to turn the lights on in my bathroom. Otherwise, I just pee all over the place. And that's no good. That's crazy. I know, right? Maybe I need to work on my aim. It's not amazing.

Or just remember where the toilet is. It's hard because I'm in the heterogic state, you know, and I'm between waking and sleeping. I'm not all there. So I turn the lights on. She's lucky. I looked out of my junk. And there is a tick halfway brood into my junk.

Brood. Into my bathroom area. Yeah, yeah, and it's on the, uh, not, how did it get there? You're not blessed. Brough, brother, I am, that is not blessed at all. I mean, it's on. He thought his penis was the tink until P came out of it.

Oh, yeah, I'm very blessed. I'm very blessed. I'm very blessed. That's like a tick burning into a piece of rice. It's like a tick on a tick. I love that you referred to it. The tick thought it was mating. He just said, I love that you just said, you're not blessed.

That tick is the, The first comment he is. I'm looking around. What do I do? And then he goes like this. Oh, there's another tick. Okay. I'm right here, guys.

Two ticks. It's like a clock. I look down there and there is one burrowed into my deal. And I, freak the fuck out. I immediately, like, I know you're supposed to, there's like a protocol for removing it. What is it?

It's, it's, it's, I wasn't going to go, I wasn't going to go, I just supposed to burn it off because that gets its little thing to release. Get that goddamn take out of there.

But I ain't fucking waiting around to put fire to my fucking privacy. So, dude, I just ripped that thing out with my fingernails, freak out, lay in bed the rest of the night. And I kind of committed to myself like, well, since it burned into my my junk, I'm going to have to get it. Like, honestly, like, there was a part of me it's like, I probably am going to get called, go to the doctor tomorrow. And they're going to tell me they have to cut my dick off. So what happens, Steve? It's crazy. Well, then honestly, like, you know, like you have to.

I did not call my doctor until a few days later. But he was like, well, it's not really anything to worry about until it turns into a bullseye looking bite. Then you got limes. Limes is such a nightmare, brother. A nightmare. I was like really like, I was like, fuck me. I really can't have Lyme's disease right now. That's like going to really.

Like, look, talk to me to here. Stevie's having a moment. I know. I can't have lines on your dick in this moment. I am young Hollywood. Ghosts. But it turns out, guys, I have passed the safety window. I'm okay.

There's no lines. And maybe I'll never go Meryl hunting again. Yeah, I think. Yeah, I would say quit crawling around the dirt like I'm going to pit. I mean, what do you do? That just seems like good sense. Ain't worth that. That's what.

You're on television. Go to a restaurant and get those truffles. You can't. You can't. You can't get Merelles. You can't. By the way, the reason they're picking them is to sell them. Yeah.

Yeah. It's just. So you can. But boy, The amount I got, oh, my freezer are all prepared in my freezer. I'm going to make it into a risotto. What a swan song? Yeah, it's probably one to go out on.

What a way to roll up. Hey, Steve. You're right. You're right. No more digging around the dirt, my brother. Fair enough. Fair enough. I can't promise anything.

A tick climbed into your dick. You're done climbing around the dirt. Someone sent you a message. No more dirt play. There's a moment in life where we make adjustments, right? Okay, fair enough. I like adjustments. Where you just go like, well, why?

You go, what are you doing? Well, me and a bunch of pigs We're climbing around the dirt looking for mushrooms. I think what happened? Because I'll tell you, pigs get those shit all the time. I told you when I had a worm crawling to my foot when I cleaned a pig and Costa Rica. This is one of my favorite stories. Yeah, it's fucking horrifying.

Your Costa Rica thing is incredible. Crazy. Well, you know what the problem was? I was messing around with a pig. Shouldn't get on top of those guys and clean them. You act like a pig. You're going to get, you know, you ask stupid questions. You get stupid answers.

You act like a pig. you get pig problems. I think Steve. I got big problems right now. Steve has big problems. Guys, everybody, enjoy the show. I think the morel of the story is don't go looking for mushrooms anymore.

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That's Omaha Steaks.com code here to help. Terms apply. See site for details. Hello. Can we get your name, please? Yeah. My name is Julie. Hi, Julie. Where are you calling from, Julie? I'm from Ohio.

Julie, how old are you? I don't mind asking. 24. 24. And what are you doing, Julie? School, job. What's up? Working. Working in finance. You know, it's a weird thing, Gareth, a woman born in 2002 is work and finance. How does that make you feel? Not good. Old and failed. By the way, 2002 and having a job and fine. Being born in 2002 means you should be just be getting out of diapers. Julie, what's going on?

Yeah. Well, I have a question. I'm trying to find out if my parents are swingers without directly asking them. I love this question. Can you give us all the information you got? Take over, Julie. Take your time. Yeah.

So my parents, they have recently retired in the last couple years and they've been going on a lot of cruises. which I mean that's kind of a I don't know a common thing I guess from cruises They have a high swinger community on them I didn't know that about cruises Yep really well you just go room to room There's a whole like

They put a pineapple upside down on their door And that's how they go Hey yeah Yeah they've co-opted the pineapple these Swingers yeah So with pineapples my mom As a note, she has a lot of pineapples. They're not, say, upside down, but she just has a lot of them in her house.

It's not good. And then, no. And then a couple years ago, at Christmas time, my sister called me into their room. And there were condoms on my dad's nightstand. And my mom has gone through menopause. So there's not really any reason that he would need those. Jake, you know what this is right now? This is like, this is like someone saying,

Well, I found weed, rolling papers, and lighters. Do you think my son's smoking pot? No. Keep going, Julie. Yeah, I mean, they just, like, aren't. It would just almost shock me, but, like, I don't know. My husband, he is convinced that they are. I don't know if they are or not with all these things.

I'm like, I don't know, but I just want to know because if they aren't, then I'm going to tell my husband, I told him so. But I'm just trying to, I don't know. I don't want to directly ask them. Yeah, I don't want to directly ask them, though. Be like, hey, like, you know, I'm not going to do that, but I don't know a way to. Well, why don't we do those, Julie? Why don't you give mom and dad?

Why don't you explain who dad is, who mom is? Give us a little taste of who these characters were before you were born and who they're at while you were growing up and who they aren't now. Let's get a sense of mom and dad before we start passing judgment. So before, my mom's pretty. I don't know the best way to put it. She's pretty, like, she doesn't talk about anything to do with, like she would never talk about any of this with me. Like, she would never want to talk about sex or any, boys, anything.

She was never like that. Very private, okay. Yes, very private. Is she like a little prude? Yes, yes, a little prude, yes. This is leading in your direction. Does she swear? She didn't until I was, like, in high school.

Like, she never would. She would she would not let us say, oh, my God. She would have to say, yell at us and say, oh, my gosh. Religious people? No. I mean, like, I mean, they say they, you know, they are, but they, you know, they're not. Yeah. They aren't.

Yeah, they're not really. Another quick question, another quick question about mom started to be doing detective work here. Did she recently, did she recently in the last few years have a health change, a health scare, or get in much better shape? No, she got on a Zempe But Okay, so that's what I'm talking about When did she get on OZempic? Probably about six, eight months ago

Last summer maybe And how many LBs did she drop? I don't know Probably look, I don't know Maybe about 30, 40 Okay, so this was exactly what I was talking about And when do you think the pineapples And the swinging started?

Well, the pineapples have been since for the past. Well, I would say probably like six or seven years. Okay. But we started, yeah. We don't know, Gareth. We don't know. The pineapples, if she said six to eight months ago, it was obvious.

But what were the clues? When did they start? When did you start thinking, what's going on here? Are they swinging? If you say six to eight years. Okay, so more than six to eight months ago. Yeah. Okay.

Okay. Okay. Any other things about your mom? mom we're missing. And don't tell us in 20 minutes. Don't tell us in 20 minutes. Think about it. Is there anything else about your mom in the last

couple of years? Does she dye her hair a lot more? Does she, is she in a much better mood? No, I think so. She's been whistling? No, once they're retired, they're traveling like crazy. I mean, they're not just cruises. They're just traveling like for the past.

Since they've retired, they're just going off going off going crazy. So, Gareth, it might try. just be having fun, brother. Jake, I love you. The pineapples, the Olympics, the Olympics.

The condoms. The condom is really hard to get around. Look, you can, and there is no hate. We are simply trying. We're simply trying to find our way through this. In my medical opinion. Like the sperm.

But it's impossible. You get stuck in there. In my medical opinion. and your parents are swingers. But we need proof. So how about this? Can you tell us about dad just the way you did mom? Yeah, he's more, he's very loud, just in, I mean, he's has a loud voice.

He is a little more gruff. He still is, he's, he'll swear, he's not as prude or anything. He's very, he's a manly guy. His old chest hair. Yeah. chest hair, mustache? No, neither. He did in the past, like, a couple, like a couple years, probably three or four years ago.

He started getting up, growing a mullet. So that was something apparently my mom loved. Yes. Okay, this has becoming pretty obvious. Did he get a tattoo in the last few years? No. My mom did. She did, but my dad has not.

So in the last few years, your mother got a tattoo? Cheers. What, Julie? What? You're not. You're right, Karen. Please. We're dealing with a 24-year kid she was born in 2002.

Let's take our time. So what tattoo did your mother get? An upside-down pat. Right above her butt. She got a swing set and it said, I'm a swinger. She got a palm tree. And where did she get that? On her ankle.

I wonder why she got a palm tree, Julie. Why do you think she did? she likes the beach. Pineapples. Okay. That makes sense. But could it be a pineapple tree? Hmm.

I don't think so. I think so. It has a wave with it at the bottom. It's like a little, yeah. He says she wants to sip like a pineapple, peanut collada, like a pineapple smoothie on the beach. What pineapple? So she doesn't drink.

She doesn't drink. My dad does. I mean, there's no reason that she doesn't. She just said that she's gotten drunk once in her life and she doesn't want to do any. She doesn't like it. So she's searching for vices. She's searching for fun in her retirement.

This is the last chapter. This is a big chapter of her life. So I've got a question for you, Julie. Mm-hmm. So we've got a sense of mom and dad. By the way, I'm happy that your parents are together and happy. Yeah. They seem to be living this part of life great, which is lucky for you at 24.

Happy parents are a great thing. Yes. Definitely. But just a question for you here, but your mom went through menopause. Why would they have a condom in the bedroom? I don't know. I don't know. Well, my sister, she, she saw them and then had to share that with me so that I also had the wisdom of that.

So I don't know. They were just, they were the whole box. It wasn't a huge box, but it was a medium-sized box. I'll tell you one of the, but let's talk this out. They've been together forever. if they're not swingers, they don't have any diseases, any sexually tremors, admitted diseases, because it's only been each other.

And they can't get pregnant. So do you think they're like, maybe we should have sex, but have it feel worse for both of us? No man has ever said, let's get latex involved. No woman has ever said, you know what I would love inside my body? Besides your body,

latex in between us. A layer. Why don't we do this? Let's make this worse significantly. The whole point of longevity. longevity is just to remove little things like this. Part of the beauty of retirement is you go, want to go on the beach and guess what?

We don't need a piece of latex wrapped around my penis like sausage casing. Terrible. It really is. This pinchy thing that gets on that, by the way, kills the moment where you put it on, you're like, that snap thing doesn't feel great, but now I guess it's on.

I'll tell you, nobody in the world has gone like, that hot. That's nice. Let's pinch that little weird tip on it. Is that about the thing or something else? No, the fucking, well, you got to put it on and then you pinch the tank. It's like Tupperware.

You got to like pinch the tip of it so that it cinches a little bit. So, Julie, we're asking you, why the condoms? Not just one, but a box. Why would they buy a box of condoms? Out. Not like deep in the closet. Yeah, recent condoms.

So why would they possibly have condoms, in your opinion? I don't know. The only way I would ever think of it is, but like you said, it's not enjoyable. I don't know why. You were thinking as a fetish? Like, this could be fun. Like, let's make this worse. Yeah, I was like, maybe they just.

Let's make this worse. Well, I was like, well, maybe they just, I don't. don't know. Is there like any... No. No. No. There's like... No. Go ahead, Julie. Let her finish.

Go ahead, Julie, but the answer is no. No. No. No. No. But finish. Go ahead. Finish. No. Go ahead. No. But go ahead. There's no way. There's no way. There's no way. It's no... I mean, maybe we're wrong. So let's talk it out. We're not. But I don't see any way... There are reasons. There are so many reasons.

Such as. Go ahead, Natalie. People don't like mess. They don't want to clean up. It's easier to contain. There could have been an infidelity. One of them has an STD and they reconciled. Everything you're saying is accurate. Okay, I'm gone now, but those are just some reasons.

I think that's good that we had someone point out those possibilities. The pineapples is a massive, massive tell here for me. Well, the whole house is also beach themed. I mean, it's like her walls are blue and she has like, like, like blue in the whatever sand color. I mean, like a couple of rooms are beach themed. So that's what I was thinking. But then I got a question.

I got a question. Because what we're not going to do, what you don't want to do, and correct me if I'm wrong, is put them in a spot where it doesn't sound like you and your mom have the kind of relationship where we want to push this, ask this, set up a questionnaire type game.

so that your mom answers, set up a world where you're like, you're considering with your husband, does she have an opinion, are you judgmental on it? So from what I gather from you, you're not looking for any pitches like that. You're more kind of going, is there a way to find out without finding out? And that is my opinion. It's more we could take a vote on this in the comment section

or people emailing in and leaving voice notes. and get how many people, if it's 80, 20, maybe it's time you start accepting that they're swinging. If it's 50, 50. Because to me, I think the thing is going to be 95-5. I think they're swimmers. But what do you think, is that satisfying to you, or do you want us to pitch on something

to try to find more proof? I don't know. I mean, I really, there's a lot of, I guess there's a lot of proof, but then at the same time, it just would blow my mind if they were. But maybe I just need to it. I don't know if I just need to accept it or not.

I don't know. I think to what Jake's saying, you know, look, it's, it seems very likely. Now, if you are, if you want a sense of proof, I know you just completely put a dagger in it, Jake. Yeah. But I do think if you went to your dad or your mom. Just one-on-one and said to them, you know, I've been married to my husband for whatever, a couple years and it's great and all that stuff. I guess the only thing I struggle with sometimes is I go, how are we going to be able to do this forever? Is there a key to anything you guys have done since you've been retired in the last?

Like, how do you see yourself go through the marathon? You know what you could also do with that, Gareth? you could talk to one of them and go like, I have a question to ask you guys. One of my good friends, her husband, is bringing up this idea of swinging and we've all been talking about it. Do you guys think that's a killer for a relationship?

I'm not, I don't know, but what are your guys' opinion? If they both go, we don't say anything wrong with it. Then you don't have to push, but if one of them goes like, it's a really bad idea, then you could know. I think that's good. I also think you're going to be able. The reason why I think something like this is you're going to be able to see the look on their face.

And the look is either going to be what? Or the look is going to be, oh, God, she saw the condoms and she knows what pineapple stand for. That's exactly right. But I think, but what do you think of that? Because I think we're kind of close. Yeah. Yeah. I think that would be good, just kind of like nonchalant.

Like, what do you think, you know, I don't know, yeah, kind of what do you think of, I've heard people are doing this or someone was talking about it. Well, what you could say, you could do something like this. You could say something along the lines of like, oh, you make up a friend, you know. I think my friend Denise might be getting a divorce because she said to her husband, you know, she wants to open it up and be polyamorous, like a swinger, but the husband didn't go for it. You know, something like, just see what they look like. Right?

So you're talking about a fictional third person. Yeah. Yeah. And that's an opportunity for your parents if they're swinging to go, we don't see anything wrong with it. I mean, if it's not for you, don't do it. But if it is for you, it could be great for a relationship. And then every couple is different. and if it works for the couple who's to say,

that's them saying, stop sniffing around this whole bush. And by bush, I don't mean bush. I mean literally like a bush. Jake. I'm not great with saying, Gary. Why sniffing around it? You know I'm not great with saying.

But that's crazy. You're sniffing for food in there because you're an animal. Stop. Because that is, of all the things you could have just yanked out and just jammed in the middle of this conversation. No, you're sniffing for dead meat. Because you're a scavenger. Dude.

I'm sniffing for an animal. animal that was killed but hasn't been fully eaten because I'm a scavenge. What animal if you're going to call this animal? I'm hoping for a squirrel, maybe a rat. No. A raccoon? Careful, because you're getting very close to one.

A rat? No. A raccoon? Stop. A kitten? We're moments away from beaver, so stop. But Julie, what do you think of that? I think what we could do here is we can do the hypothetical

conversation. You can get one out. and see how you feel, but I do think you can find a way to allude without directly asking, and you're just going to have a fact-finding reaction when you see what one of them or both of them look like. Yeah, I think it would be good. I like the, like pretend, like a third person being like, oh, yeah, they, you know, they're having problems now because he brought up this kind of like not like this, bring it up like that. So I don't have like a, like not including me or having someone else be doing it. Julie, let's do this really fast.

Gareth, you want to be mom or dad? Sure. I'll be a mom, but I'll be a grounded mom. Don't worry. Okay. I'll be dad. Julie. Wait, who are you going to talk to?

Your mom or your dad are both? I probably talk. They'd probably both be in their room. I think both is great. Okay, we're all in the room. We're watching a television show. Yeah, we're putting the finishing touches on dinner. We're watching a TV show.

We're eating or something. That sounds nice. I mean, because it's the morning. We're hungry. We're on Zooms. Having had breakfast. I haven't had breakfast full of coffee talking to Julie about fighting her dad's condoms. Okay, ready?

So, Julie, you're going to run point. We're going to see how you do, okay? Okay. Three, two, pigly end. Hey, guys, how are you? We're having dinner. We've already talked. What?

Oh, yeah, no. The dinner was really good. great. Thank you. Yeah, thanks for having us over. Of course. You're welcome. Sorry about your mom's insane start to this. I don't think you should apologize because it was pretty obvious that we'd already been hanging out. So it's weird to start like that. Start in the middle. I would also say, cool it a little bit, yeah, hon. Okay, babe. Always listen to you.

All right. Yeah. So one of my friends, she, her and her husband are having some problems. Like, he brought up, he mentioned that he wanted to start swinging with. just, you know, going out and on cruises. And no, maybe I shouldn't bring up cruises. No. Yeah. Let's start over. I've got a pitch.

Fake a text message or a call that you're ignoring. You were giving her too much. She's good. No, but then you go. We don't want to start juggling. It's a good launch if you want it. Julie, you like a text to initiate it? Just go.

It's out of my friend Denise. Okay. So how about this? We don't really text con convert. We don't conversate via text. Very much. No, no, no, no. I'm talking about, he's saying you got a text from a friend.

Look at it. Then you go, hey, guys, I just got something. In the room. So it's not, hey, here's a crazy thing. Yeah. So let's do this. Here's a random thing. Okay.

Yeah. So here's a thing. We're just in a scene now and you're watching TV. And when you get the text, you start it. But your mom's going to be talking to your dad and just interrupt when you're ready. Okay. Okay. Three, two, you can adopt a champ with Jake and Gareth.

Oh, gosh. It's supposed to be more humid this week. Oh, gosh, I just got this. I just got this text. I just got his text from one of my friends. And her and her husband, she's going to stay at our house because her and her husband got in a big fight. He asked her if she wanted to go out and they try opening up their marriage.

Hey, Julie, are you okay, honey? You're having a panic attack. You seem manic. Yeah. You're scaring me with your behavior. a lot of extra words. Everything's a little bit chompy. Yeah.

Let's switch. Julie, I'm going to be you. You be your mom, Gareth, you be the dad. Okay. This is good.

Okay. So Julie, you're your mom, okay? Okay. Will you lead me in Gareth? Yeah, absolutely.

And the whole video is about how you can gut a fish in five minutes, but you have to wash your hands after you've got a fish. Did I tell you that, honey? No,

that's crazy. Yeah, because the parasites in some of these things, if you're not washing your hands, if you touch your face, infections can be. I saw this guy who had a terrible nose infection on one of these videos.

My whole, what do they call the thing where YouTube recommends stuff? Your, the thing. Recommended feed? Yeah, but there's a term for like the computer,

the way the computer's telling me that that's what I want to see. Suggesting? No, but it's like a technical term. The thing the thing that tells you, the thing that knows you. What is the thing that knows you? Do you know what I mean?

Like I, because I've watched a lot of this thing, now all it's the technology that they're all talking about, that they're all going for, the guy, the chipper the coder guys, the whole, what is the thing where it's starting to recommend based on your, what, you know what I mean, hon? Based on your previous, Yeah, but it's not...

Yeah, but that's sort of the... I feel like we're playing $10,000 pyramid, but what is the thing? It's like the term, the term. It ends with like... Like if someone's playing the guitar, they could be like blank or blues, or blank and blues.

If you're tapping your hands, because you listen to the radio, it's because you like the beat, but it's also the... I just got a crazy text. Oh, hey, Julie. Algorithm. And scene.

All right. So, Julie, follow up with us, okay? Julie, you've got this. Just blame it on a friend, okay? You got it. Okay. And I'm open for a poll, too. I'm open for outside.

Just like your parents, you're open. Let's do this. Julie, you take the lead on it. Everybody in the comments, please, or leave a voice note, don't just email in, but if you're going to email, just do a voice note where you either, you just can say, I think Julie's parents are swingers,

or I think Julie's parents are not, or just write in the comments, swingers, not swingers. Julie, pay attention to the comments and see where it's at. Drop a pineapple if you think they're swingers. Yeah, a pineapple or no, do it on anywhere you go. So YouTube, we're back on that. We're just starting that again.

Spotify, Apple, wherever. I don't think Lulu a lot. comments. I don't know how that works. I don't think they do. If you're doing that, then go to another one too. Yeah. And Julie, pay attention to all the comments, do this, and then follow up with us, and we'll talk them out together.

You got it. Okay. Awesome. Thank you, guys so much. See you. Bye, Julie. Thank you. Bye.

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Yeah, I kind of switched back and forth. Are you going on a K or a C on Curtis? It's a K, actually. Interesting. Do you care if I call you, Kurt? Kurt, signed by me. Thanks, Kurt. Where are you calling from, Kurt?

I'm calling from, well, closest to Hamilton and Canada. But kind of on the boonies. Okay, what are your, what are, where are you, is it North East? I don't know, Hamilton. close to the border like on Lake Erie just on the other side Okay

Okay Any idea where he's talking about trick And what can we do for you today, Kurt? Okay My dumbass mind Way you got a math going on You started out Yeah I was like

Oh yeah Yeah I don't want to say I think I know But I could be wrong I kind of know But I don't want to talk about it How about that? All right

Curtis. Kurt, what's going on? All right, well, I sent this one in the other day, and well, I was actually kind of listening to you guys while I ran into this problem. So I work as a janitor on a weekend at a big factory, and I got a set timeline schedule in which I'm supposed to get things done. But there's this one fella who has taken upon himself to take a really long time. I'm in the bathroom, and I can't go in there to clean this bathroom when there's somebody in it. Awful.

And so he's occupying up the space of like half an hour and like 40 minutes. Awful for Kurt. Yeah. Keep going, Kurt. Sorry. Well, I mean, it's not a place where I want to spend a lot of time anyways, but I've got to kind of get things done. So my quick and finite, how do I encourage this person to move it along? I've got a pitch.

Wow. I got questions, but go. Can we do the questions after the pitch? Yeah, yeah. Small talk. That's great. You mean you want me to creep them? Yeah, I want when he's in there.

You go like this. It's, hey, bud, where are you from? And he goes, what? And he go, you're from around here? And he goes, yeah. And then you go, yeah, I was raised near Hamilton. I love it around here. You know, I love the fishing.

in the hunting. And he goes like, all right, man, I'll be out in a minute. And you go like this. Oh, it's all right, man. I'm just cleaning up. And then you go, you like fishing? What? He's like trout fishing, bass fishing.

You like pulling fish out of the water? He's going to wipe his butt, walk out and go, good seeing you. When he goes in there again and you go like this, hey, my friend, you're back. It's me, Kurt. You're going to hear flush. He's going to walk out with a dirty butt and go, I hate that fucking guy. It's pretty good. I mean, you could even, I mean, I think small talks a real good zone.

How long is he in there, Kurt? So it's not that I'd love monitoring these things, but it's now like 30 to 40 minutes. It's insane. He's not doing well. That's too long. Well, he's doing. I don't think he's actually accomplishing business. I think he's just hanging out on his phone.

Yeah, that's the fucking. But sitting on the phone. for that long. I'm sitting on the toilet for that long. So with your phone. Who, who's like,

I just need the, I just need to sit like Donald Duck for a little while and like doom scrolls. Yeah. Hey, Curtis, what kind of factor? Can I throw one thing in? Can I throw one other thing in for your pitches?

Sure. For me, like, so I don't work for this company, right? I work for a separate company. And for me, these,

these working shifts, they're perfect because I don't have to talk to nobody. This is my peace and quiet time of the week, you know? Right. So if I cannot actually actively engage with these people, especially when they're on the toilet, that would be ideal. You would prefer that. Okay.

First of all, that's good news, too, because it's house money. I think, well, look, I think Jake's in the right zone. Release crickets. What's that? Release crickets. I'm serious. Someone's got there. No, but I'm serious.

If you're taking a dump in all of a sudden. and crickets are running around, you're like, what am I in an outhouse? I'd rather not, it's not comfortable. We have to make it not comfortable for him to sit in there. You know, the problem with the crickets is that then Curtis is making, you know, Curtis is the janitor. So if they're like, we got crickets, that's more Curtis work.

Great. He gets to do fake work. I got an idea. Why don't we, you know, one of my favorite things is when the, you, I don't watch awards ceremonies anymore, but I'm sure, you know, you've been to him, Jake. I mean, you know, when that fucking or. starts playing and it starts cutting people off and letting people know it's time to wrap it up.

You could maybe put on some orchestra. Or wrap up music? Yeah. We're done in here. The band's playing you off music. So you could just put your phone in there and just kind of give him a little bit of like... I actually like that too. What about going off of that, changing the light to a sensor light?

Or you could do that. Walk in and just open the door and turn the lights off. off. And then if he goes, hey. I would think I turn the lights off too. When you were pitching that, yeah. Yeah, I would just walk in, but don't even say anything. Just walk in, hit the lights, walk out.

And then he goes like, I'm in here, I'm in here. You don't hear that. I like that. And what you could do it. Have you seen this guy? You know what this guy looks like? Yeah, yeah. I know what it looks like.

I would tell him. I would say, just so, you know, we've switched the censored lights in there. So you maybe don't want to take. No, because what you don't want him to do is go like this while he's taking a dump and move the arms. I've done that, though, and it doesn't work. and you're like, god-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d- there's, like, certain, I can't remember, but I've definitely been in place, like, comedy clubs, sometimes the green room bathroom will have that.

And mid-piss, you'll be like, damn it, damn, damn it, I've got to go all the way back. Get-a-da-da-da-da-da-ha! You could, well, if you don't want to- I like to fall off the stage, if we're going that far, I might have to, like, make a trophy after a couple of weeks. Hand him a trophy? I don't know.

I don't know. I don't know. I like how he's pitching stuff that we're both, like, Too far. Too big. Curtis, slow down. But I think, Curtis, I think you've got some options here. What are you kind of thinking when we talk this out?

What are you thinking you're actually going to do? Oh, I've got another one. I'm kind of liking the exit music. You know another one? Another one that you know what always gets me off of the toilet from the public? Someone's sitting in the stall next to me. Agreed. That to me is always like,

so Curtis, if you go in, sit in the stall next, drop trow. I just think the most people's thinking is, oh, you're the newest here. I've got to get out of here because it's your time to shine. Oh, I have an idea also. Go in there, sit down, and be on a fake conversation or turn our podcast on.

I think that's a great escalation. It'll just ruin the thought. Just take a, put an episode on, so if you don't want to do the talking, take your headphones off. You're probably, you probably listen to us while you're cleaning. That's what you said. So, Well, yeah, that's what, yeah, I do.

What do you have headphones in? You got head, what do you wear, Kurt, headphones? Uh, yes, yes. Take them off, brother. I agree. I think it becomes, yeah, just let him sit in there and go like, and then if he goes like, hey man, could you turn that off go, oh, this isn't a lobby, brother.

Yeah. This ain't a waiting room. The communication. Go ahead. I guess best case, sorry. I guess best case scenario, this conversation plays that I can actually play this conversation one sitting inside them.

You know what you could also do? Wow. We could right now play a clip where the three of us just exclusively talk about getting off the toilet, so you don't have to do any talking. You just play this. Well, we can even do this in this.

Like, it's very meta, but right now, potentially Curtis is playing this next to the guy on the stall. Yeah, so if you're in a stall and you're at work and you take long 40-minute dumps, or right now you're thinking, it's not talking about me, I don't take that long. Well, our pal's a janitor and he's got to clean up after, and he needs to wait for your 40-minute dump? What's going on? Hey, pal, get off the toilet.

Get off. I mean, you know what you are. You're done. You're the customer who walks in at 950 and stays. as long as you want. We close a tent. Yeah. If you want something now.

Get off the toilet. You're done. And if you're not done after 40 minutes, go to a doctor because you're sick. Your insides are essentially bleeding out. But this is not. This is a three-minute activity, Gary. This is, listen, that is the whole thing. Go in there when it's time.

It shouldn't take that long. If it's taken that long, you've got to go, but you're not the only, this is not, this is a shared space. And hey, pal, I want you to think about something for a second. We're obviously animals. We belong in the animal kingdom, right, like the rest of us. We're no different from them. Could you imagine a dog taking a 40-minute dump? You know what you would do?

You'd call an emergency vet. Yeah. No, do you. My cat has been pooing for 40 minutes in a litter box. You'd cry. If Jose pooed for 40 minutes, you'd cry. You'd go like this. Something's up.

Ah, I mean, we'd be in the car. But this guy, for you sitting in the stall, Jose's my cat. Yeah, but Homeboy, you're doing this on a daily basis. So do me a favor. Do yourself a favor. And do Kurt, the janitor sitting right next to you. Wipe that buddy yours. Pull your big boy underpants on.

Put your pants on. Walk out. Don't make our contact. Then walk out. Wash your hands. And then tomorrow, maybe do this at home before work, yeah. And if it happens at work, It's just an in and out.

Yeah, but it's like this is where I go fast. At home, we had a caller the other day, pal, who was saying she likes to stretch her legs out while taking dumps. Yeah. So do that at home, but not at work. No. It's a different vibe. So, yeah, wrap it up and get off the toilet. Go get them.

Hey, Kurt, would you rather play this as a whole or get that on a loop and just play that on a loop? both sound like good options I think just considering how long it can take I kind of have an idea in which I don't actually actually have to sit down I'm going to play it leave my phone in the bathroom and just let that play

Great I'm into that my phone I don't think that will happen but okay maybe put it high up somewhere yeah I like that I think that's I think that's a good alt plan.

And I think, look, what you can do is you can just set it at the start of this call. And if this is not wrapping itself up naturally, then you can just go to the section we just did, and you can really just play that. You can also just play it on a loop. Yeah. Yeah, we could send you a loop if you want, if you want the loop option. You know what, please send me the loop.

And if it doesn't work the first time, I'll heat up the temperature a little bit. Yeah, by the way, and follow up with us, Kurt, but this is going to work. It might take one or two bites of this apple, but we'll get it. Yeah, I think this is good. Nobody likes the spotlight in this moment. No, he's looking for a dark hole to hide from his coworkers. Yeah.

But this dark hole needs to be cleaned by you. Well, I think part of the issue is that we're on the weekends, so there's not a lot of people there. Yeah. So it's like he thinks he found a secret bathroom, which everybody talks about at work. It's everyone uses that, but on the seventh floor, there's a little secret bathroom. Yeah. Well, guess what? This ain't it, pal.

Party's over. Okay, squatter. Get out. Kurt, will you follow up with us, bud? Yeah, go get him, Kurt. Yeah, absolutely. I like this idea. Yeah, please do this.

It's going to work. All right, thanks, fellas. All right, buddy. Bye. Take care. Take care. God bless you. God bless you.

Good, God bless you, Kurt. Hello? Hey. Hi, what's your name? It's Whitney. Hi, Whitney. What was your... Okay, popcorn queen.

Oh, Whitney. We've been emailing a little bit. Let's remind people, Whitney, and update us. This is a big one. This is a big one, Whitney. No big deal. Just trying to find my husband a kidney through popcorn-related experiences. So walk us, so walk the audience through.

Some people, believe it or not, have not listened. to the back catalog and they're starting here. So walk us through what the problem was, what we suggested, where we got to, and then walk our audience who knows where we're at right now. Sounds good. So I had a problem that only the guys could help, as you know. It was very specific.

So I called into the podcast because after my husband had brain surgery from a C&F lymphoma, he developed a very weird habit where he would have popcorn obsessively multiple times a day and it was in the bed and it was on the floor and it was just a mess everywhere. And I called in because I just needed help with it. It was out of control. Long story short, the follow-up call happened.

Jake had some suggestions and we did try them. It didn't really work, but it did end up making me come around to popcorn and I just have adjusted to this new life and adapted the role of popcorn queen and I have just had it with him and we set some boundaries. In the process of all of this, Jake's big monkey gorilla heart that he has that's so kind. And Gareth, obviously, security guard on New Girl, has so graciously said, hey, if we could solve this problem, we can definitely find my husband who's in kidney failure, get a kidney transplant because we have the best community of people out here.

And we've just been communicating and going through the process so far. Yeah, but Whitney, so Whitney, to jump in for a second. So there were a bunch of emails that came in that I was sending to you. And you and I were going back and forth and I said that you've got to vet them. Because this is now getting real. People were writing in saying, like, I would actually do this. And so I was like, this is above our. our pay grade to vet, but then you've got some people that you've been vetting, correct?

Yes, correct. I have some amazing people. So out of the podcast, just from the emails that you've sent, and then a couple that have reached out to me indirectly through socials as well, we had 10 surefire people that were, like, I'm ready to do this, like, let's go, like, take me to the table now. And out of those 10, 5 have already started the process of vet, like, through the hospital vetting.

So much so that one of them, we actually became really good friends with that was the listener of the pod. I think it was one of the first emails. His name was Wynn. And he lives outside of Birmingham. And when we were there last time for Alexa's testing, because we have to go quite often, he met us, him and his fiance, we got lunch, we became friends. And he's the furthest already involved. Amazing. Talk about a full circle experience of the friendship game, meets the kidney game, meet the kidney game.

Meets everything in one. But Whitney, here's what we want to do. When we find the match for your popcorn king, if we've got nine other people who want to do this, be part of the help us find nine other matches. So that's what I'm working on, actually. I love you. Great.

I don't think small. I think large, right? Me too. You too. You too. So what we can do. So, well, here's the thing. I noticed when I was in Birmingham and we had to meet with, you know, all the people.

We spoke to the social worker and she said something that caught my attention. She asked Alexon, how motivated are you for transplant? And I found that question odd because why wouldn't the answer be very motivated? He hates dialysis. It's blood sucking his life away. And she said to me, that's not a common answer. And I said, why? She said, because people will spend their lives on the transplant list waiting, but they can't afford to get a transplant

because when they finally get the call, there's no funding for them to be out of work for two months. They can't afford it. So they have to turn it down. And I said, that's unacceptable. I'm going to do something about that because that should not be. If I had 10 people that are willing to,

from a podcast about popcorn and problems, get a kidney, there's no way that this other stuff can't happen. So everyone that's reached out, we've also had people that work at local charities, that just all over the world, different connections. I'm going to start a foundation.

I already have a meeting set up with the VP of the hospital, and it's going to be a transplant recovery fund. Great. So if you can't actually give an organ, you're going to be able to then donate to this cause that people that do have, you know, ready to get an organ can get it. Because that's unacceptable.

Because as a donor, you get all the funding, which as it should be you're giving us your organ. Everything is covered for you as a donor. But we have to be in Birmingham after his transplant for a month. Like about eight weeks. I have to miss work. I have to find centers for my kids. I have to find an Airbnb.

There's a lot of expensive amount of work. I have to care take. Yeah, I'm telling you. So maybe they could hook up with me with the foundation. So we'll see. But I don't know. I just saw it and I call the opportunity. I think that's, listen.

There's so many things we hear about how it works and you just go, what the fuck? The idea that if you're don't. So how about this? That's great. When you get this, do you, I mean, do you feel like you're going to get this off the ground? And if you are, is that going to be, what's your time frame on that? I have, when I say I am going on a just day by day basis, but, okay, I did not have it on my bingo card this year to call in a podcast about popcorn and get a kidney.

So honestly, I can't tell you, Gareth. Like, this is a really weird situation I'm in. But every day, another door opens and we're just walking through it. And I have, we have to go to Birmingham in May. We'll be there May 1st. I'm setting up meetings with the VP with my proposals. And I'm going to try. If there's any listener out there that has ever organized a 501 that has experience,

email me, call me, text me, whatever, postcard me. Put your, send us, email right now. Tell us an email where people can email you directly. Yes, I'm going to, I already have it drafted. I'm going to give you everything. I'm going to give you everything. So I was thinking maybe I could just have a generalized document that you guys could have and they could click on it. And if

they needed information, it's everything they need. So if they want to be a donor, if they want information about organ donation, Alexa or the foundation, I'll have it all right there. I'll get it all organized. It'll be so simple. Okay. So Whitney, we are 100% in, but do you have an email right now? Anybody can be... Yeah, just my

first and last name. Yep. Spell it girl. Does W-H-I-P-N-E-Y, like Whitney Houston without the crack? And then it's A-R-A-N-A at iCloud.com. Send it over and I'd be happy to help. You're not saying it's happening right now. This is

going to all air if you're comfortable with this. Yeah, go forward. So to any listener listening to this right now, what we're asking you to do, if there's something that you can do to help, if you just know how to do this, if you're a lawyer, if you've done the five, whatever it is, and you're like, you know what, this is something I'm interested in. If you are connected to fundraising, if you're connected to somebody with a lot of money, if you want to be on the board.

I don't know if I know anyone that I'm talking to has money or not. Well, we're going to figure it all. We have a lot of listeners. Look, we didn't know we were going to get any. People have been amazing. So we're going to kind of see what could happen. I will gladly fly out there and do a fundraising show. Actually, I know a couple of great comics out there.

So we could easily put together something when you feel like the time is right to do a fundraiser out there. And there's a lot of people that want to help. what we really could do honestly is we could do like we're here to help telethon for this charity that's exactly right we could do something like that

we could just do it we could go to Rabbik grin and we could just do a live some we could just do it we could figure out a way to do like a a full on telethon I just don't know

and I do you know I want to thank everybody I mean first of all I wanted to think you know like the podcast Like, I know it's serious, but it's alive that we're talking about. My husband is the, you know, Chumbawamba. He's been through literally insane things. That would take anyone out.

And he gets up every day and he's so positive and he's so kind. And he's just so honored that everyone of the people that have reached out just genuinely want to help. And it's amazing. And our own family and friends don't even do this. So the fact that strangers on a podcast do is just crazy. And Jake and Gareth, for you guys just taking the time out of your schedules to even think about, you know, us as well. We just wanted to say thank you because you are making a difference. You know, he has two young kids who want to play with him and hang out and they're always asking,

where's dad? And he's at dialysis, getting his blood drawn like a vampire four days a week. And it's exhausting. So giving him the chance at life again to enjoy his youth is huge. And we're just so grateful. and the fact that multiple other people could also benefit from this because of other people is even better. And it's turning into something great. They did also give me a couple of other resources.

There's people that actually already went through this and donated kidneys that gave me their name and numbers that are like, hey, if anyone wants to talk to me from my side of already giving a kidney, I'm here for them. So I also have those contacts. If you just want to talk it out with somebody because you're like, period. And, you know, we're still standing on. We're traveling back and forth from Birmingham. It is getting costly and expensive, but we're making it work. Like, my mindset is you don't question it, you just do it because that's what you do, you know, and you figure it out later.

But it's just been a fun experience. And a lot of the nurses in Birmingham heard the podcast, and a couple of them went up to us and said, is this the popcorn game? It was really crazy. I mean, the doctors were very confused. One thing I want to say, Whitney, is I appreciate, and I know Gareth does too. We do have a lot of fun on this. The fact that this one is getting real,

we appreciate you driving the train because what we say on this show a lot is we're just messing around, but when people get involved and do something, that's where we can really get wings, because we do have a community. And in terms of the seriousness and the life and death aspect of it, I do need to say the previous caller was a woman calling about breastfeeding

and how she takes both breasts out when she breastfeed. And we did pitch that her brother-in-law should get a fake dildo and make it seem like he's getting a boner while looking at the boobs. So just to be clear, the integrity and the strength and the changes coming from you, and we just happen to be near somebody doing great. stuff, Whitney. It's important for Jake to point that out. Perfect.

It's important to point that out so that we can say, hey, you know, we also try to do good stuff. It wasn't all terrible pitches. It's not all, hey, sneak a dildo in your boyfriend's pants so that one of the tips goes away. At least we hope not. Well, but I think what, yeah, I mean, essentially what Jake's saying is like, listen, Use the community for whatever you can and let keep us posted.

But once you get something in place and you need us to... She knows, yeah. Just calls right back and we'll be part of it too. I know you guys got our back. I mean, I believe that wholeheartedly in the community does too. There's no doubt about it. It's just now, like I said, just putting the pieces of the puzzle together and looking for that one puzzle piece.

But if you're listening, and again, I'll just repeat it. You're an O blood type and you have a spare part that you want to give and get some podcast attention to because I know Jake's really excited to see who it ends up being. Absolutely. By the way, anybody who donates to anybody, we want on the show. Yeah. Yeah. So if you come through this and it starts. We will do a whole thing.

If we do that fundraiser thing, we do like, we'll have everybody on. It's like, yeah, it's a big part of the show. And not only a part of the show. I think, too, like, Jake and Gareth, this is also big for the podcast. I mean, this takes it from something that is lighthearted and fun to actually making a huge impact that could get, like, you know, more national attention. I mean, to say that a podcast does someone a kidney. I know, but Whitney, we do the same thing because if that brother-in-law put that dildo, and that's going to fix that problem, too. That could get us attention to.

I think that's going to get us of attention as well, to be honest with you. attention. So we need this. We just needed to point that out to the national audience knows who they're dealing with. I'm offering my kidney. We need to really figure this out. I know. Are you no blood type?

Don't tease me now. No, no, I'm not. I'm not. But, no. That is funny. But yeah, like Jake said, like we're here. So get it started and let us know. And we will jump in action when it's time.

And we appreciate you. And I'll send an email and we'll create the link. think, whatever it is. And lastly, if you're not O blood type, it is okay. There is a swap program. So you're kidding. You will go to someone else who will go to someone else. And then it will go down the line back to our original person, plus five other people.

Computer science has created that machine. So thank you, computers. So, yeah, you're not out of the running and you'll make a difference. And I just thank you guys. And we still do eat popcorn multiple times a night, if you're wondering. That's the big question. And the hope is just like we're trying to get a bunch of people to get vasectomies with Gareth in May, we are looking to donate as many kidneys as we can.

If we can get to 100 kidneys. Yeah. Or pancreas, liver, whatever. Whatever they take out of my testicles. I can give you get that. I don't know if we can. Yeah. You've given enough of that to people.

Wow. Okay. Okay, pal. You is right. I think you're giving it to your hair for a year of this show. I've given that to enough people. Whitney, we appreciate you. We love you.

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