We're Here to Help - 291: Corn on the Cob-lem and The box that keeps on giving.

Episode Date: May 20, 2026

Jake, Gareth, and big bro Danny J help a college student gain elite status in a corn eating competition. Then, they figure out ways for roommates to remember their beloved cardboard box. Plus..., a follow up from Ep 231 "Scooter Cooter."See images from the episode here: https://www.heretohelppod.com/post/episode-291Want to call in? Email your question to helpfulpod@gmail.com.PATREON: https://patreon.com/heretohelppodMERCH: heretohelppod.comINSTAGRAM: @HereToHelpPodIf you’re enjoying the show, make sure to rate We’re Here to Help 5-Stars on Apple Podcasts.Advertise on We’re Here to Help via Gumball.fmSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Starting point is 00:04:21 But there's a language barrier. There was a language barrier. It was a very strange. I would love to do a live, we're here to help in a country where nobody speaks English. I agree. I agree. One thing, failed in the whole thing, an entire audience, nobody speaks a lick of it. And we're taking the calls, or we take the calls in a live show, but we hear the callers.
Starting point is 00:04:43 on headphones, and they only hear half of it. Or, you know what, I would love to get the UN translating earpiece. That'd be great. If we were just getting the calls and we were sitting there just like, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. And then we were like, yes, of course. But they're translating for us. That'd be interesting. It would be a nightmare.
Starting point is 00:05:02 But I like the idea of it. I like the idea of having somebody translate to the, you know what I would like, actually? Go to a country, have two translators. One of them we put in a perm. One of them we make them like scowling the whole time. And they have to translate in real time as we're talking. The perm clip with Casey Wilson has hit quite well. And the funniest part is what I saw today is my face as I'm like,
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Starting point is 00:06:28 Yeah. Were you a little emotional? No. Just ready to move on. Sometimes I see clips that are posted from the perm days, and I think, yeah, maybe he was right. There was a clip of my stand-up posting where, I'm in purple pants with that hair and I was like, yeah.
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Starting point is 00:13:20 We're here to help. Hi. So my name's Emily. I'm from Pennsylvania. And my problem is, so the town I live in has a corn festival every year. and one part of it is they have a corn eating competition. So last year they needed participants. So I said, hell yeah.
Starting point is 00:13:40 And I participated. But I went in really cocky for having no preparation. I ate two pieces of corn in three minutes, which compared to like the eight, the winner eight was on 10. Wow. Yeah. So I kind of was like I need to actually win this year because it was my last year. That's cool.
Starting point is 00:14:00 Because I'm meeting. So my problem is I need help figuring out how do I train for a corn eating competition without just eating a bunch of corn. Because I'm in college. I don't have a college. I don't have a corn budget. Yeah, right. Right. I just, may I just say, Emily, I think this is the best launch into a problem pitch.
Starting point is 00:14:24 There was no small talk. This is the elevator. This is literally an elevator ride with time to spare. got that all out and clear, concise, perfect, and a great problem. So you need to learn how to win a corn eating competition. Awesome. Well, you've come to the right place. Obviously.
Starting point is 00:14:44 Emily, phenomenal problem. Obviously, Jake has a lot of experience eating corn in the cob. He's picked up a lot of tips and techniques along the way. And I think he's going to share the one with you, which is like kind of basic. But then we're going to get in the more creative stuff after this. Jake, when you eat your corn in the cob at Carson's and you go through three or four of them a night without a hitch, how do you do that?
Starting point is 00:15:14 Typewriter. Right. Dan, how would you explain the technique? It's pretty clear to most of us who've watched Looney Tunes. Right. The typewriter is essentially you take the corn on the cob, which is a cylinder, and you're going to do a plane at a time.
Starting point is 00:15:33 One left to right. You shift up. Never stopping. No, then right to left. Shift up left to right. You're swallowing as you're biting. But you're also letting it go on the side sometimes. That's where I'm...
Starting point is 00:15:48 You're beavering. I'm kidding. Because what this thing is not, you don't get weight. I wouldn't win that. But Emily, you're not getting weight at the beginning in the end. Imagine a beaver with a piece of wood. Yeah. What is the, uh,
Starting point is 00:15:59 officiating situation here. How tightly are they watching the niblets? So you've got to wait. So they have a bucket of corn in front of us. Sure. And they keep refilling it. The dairy princesses come around and fill it up with more corn. Quite a scene.
Starting point is 00:16:15 What are the dairy princesses wearing? Like they're full princess dresses and their crowns. And this isn't, what kind of town in Pennsylvania? This is wild. This would be fun. Yeah. When is it? Should we send Berg to it?
Starting point is 00:16:29 Yeah, without question, Berg should go to this. Keep going, but yes, Berg is there. It's in like lower Pennsylvania, more like southern Pennsylvania. Bird goes to Pennsylvania a good amount too. Right away. This is the competition? Yeah, when does it take place? Maybe try to get Steve Berg into it to compete against me.
Starting point is 00:16:47 I think it's the last Saturday in August, I think. We got to- He's available. He is available. So now back to you, because this isn't about us sending in a ringer to beat you. This is us coaching you. But what it could be is. one of us is your coach, one of us is Steve's coach,
Starting point is 00:17:03 and Dan is playing both sides of the fence. Right. And we definitely need more rocky music for the training. It's exactly what I was thinking of. Yep. Yeah, this is awesome. I know, but let's put that to the side. Really nice.
Starting point is 00:17:19 But let's put that to the side for now. Emily, talk about your technique. Talk about what you've tried. Talk about where you're at. Talk about who's there who's good. Well, also, Emily, tell us another problem with the corn that you mentioned in your email. So my, the corn was piping hot, which was not great. I didn't anticipate that they were serving, like, fresh out the boiler hot corn.
Starting point is 00:17:47 Yeah. So that was, like, terrible on the gums. I had also just got my braces off. So, you know, why not celebrate with eating some corn on the cob? Sure. But, you know, I can't lose because, like, my friends of all, you know, they're picking on me, so I really need to make sure I win. So, okay, so everybody's dealing with hot court? Everyone.
Starting point is 00:18:10 It's a lot of amateurs. Okay. A lot of amateurs. Then they're like, you know, you get one person who's like done this their whole life, you know. There were like two people who were just straight, like going at it. I was rewatching the footage, the play-by-play. Nice. And it was crazy.
Starting point is 00:18:25 Are you telling me They don't have corn in the cob in college, Emily? We do, but not in the dining hall or anything. Really? No. No, we don't. I don't go to like Yale. We have corn off the cob.
Starting point is 00:18:41 I don't go to Yale. That's the best. I don't go to Yale I've ever heard. I don't go to Yale. We've got corn off the cop. At Yale, you just imagine everybody going like, Is your corn on the car? More comp, sir?
Starting point is 00:18:58 You gave me a bowl of corn that's off the... I got to eat a hell for fuck's sake. A shocking University of Oxford defeated us in the rankings this year. Bring me in the table. I mean, that's hilarious, Emily. But let me ask you a quick question. You allowed to use a fork and a knife?
Starting point is 00:19:22 I don't think we were provided. with a fork in a knife. I thought about that method. You know, because we get a water bottle, you get some salt and you get some pepper. And then you just get corn. Okay. Here's my first pitch.
Starting point is 00:19:34 I got a pitch too, go. You take the water, you douse the corn to cool it. Ooh, that's a good one. Corn in front of you. You asked for ice water before. It's a technique. It's only bottled, though. That's fine.
Starting point is 00:19:49 I was going to be cold enough. I think if you, I was going to suggest something similar, bring some ice. Put some ice in the water when they give it to you. I feel like a... I don't cheat. I don't know. I'm like a cheating.
Starting point is 00:20:01 You feel like it's... Okay, how about this? How about this? Cap teeth. Oh, everything's cheating. I love it. This is like... It's not necessarily cheating.
Starting point is 00:20:13 Show me the rules. I do think... I like that. And I also think where we were sniffing around earlier, they're not going to know how much you put... corn, eating corn, there's a lot that comes off of the cop. Even if you're at Yale.
Starting point is 00:20:29 Even if you're a Yali. That's how they do it. They eat like 25% of the niblets at best. It's a mess. Yale cafeteria is disgusting. Now, the people who won, there was one person who won. Was there anyone close to putting up the numbers
Starting point is 00:20:48 like the person who won? It made it sound like there were a couple maybe. I think that might have been a tie and they had to have a corn eat off, but the one person caved in and said, I can't eat anymore. So it would be close to having to be a corn eat off. Hmm. All right. I got a pitch, too, when you're ready. All right.
Starting point is 00:21:06 So, like, I think the typewriter, it's as outdated and archaic as that writing instrument. I think it's time to go to the Pac-Man. You take the Cobb and you chomp across the environment. entire, like, radius of it. This is insane. Right? So you were talking about going like this? No, no, no.
Starting point is 00:21:30 No, no. I don't hate what you just did. That's it. You took a turn that I'm not willing to follow. Fair. I like it. I thought you were talking about the insertion scrape out. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:21:41 What a. Well labeled. Well labeled. I think the. The only time you hear more teeth. And that they do at Yale. I think you're, You're doing it perpendicular to your face, right?
Starting point is 00:21:56 But you chomp the entire cob. You're scraping top and bottom, like gently just to get the niblets out. And then in the middle, you chomp down. Do you swallow most of the niblets? No, you don't care. But the point is you're trying to do like three, four, five chumps to a half and then flip it over three, four, five champs to a half. You're done. You're done.
Starting point is 00:22:20 If you do the typewriter Right? Go ahead, Emily. We did try. So I've got five pieces of corn last year. And with each one, I tried a different method for each one. So I did, and I timed them to see what the best of the most efficient timing was. It was bleak looking in because, you know, I only had a minute for my best score.
Starting point is 00:22:42 Yeah. But I did like the typewriter. I used a lot of the rotating typewriter where you do like a diagonal across. I even tried with my retainer on to see if that would help. Wow. You should have called this last year. I would just, purely from an orthodontic standpoint. So let me ask you a question, Emily.
Starting point is 00:23:06 First of all, how old are you? I'm 20. You're 20. Okay. And at this point, the braces and the retainer are gone? My question is this. You got any metal in your mouth? Not anymore.
Starting point is 00:23:19 I'll have a different retainer, but it won't be the same. We'll provide any advantage, I don't think, anymore. Well, we don't know that for sure, because what we're looking for is if you naturally have a little bit of metal in your mouth, maybe we can use it as a scraping device. Right. Maybe secret. But, hey, retainers aren't cheating. Retainers are part of the mouth. Totally.
Starting point is 00:23:44 So if the retainer right before you started, you used your tug, are you pushed a right? were slain her forward so that the metal part was sticking out and you just went scrape like you're literally painting the wall and you're scraping all the, like you got imagine the corn like one of those
Starting point is 00:24:04 walls that have stucco on it. Yeah. We're trying to get all the stucco off. So you need a tool. That's what the tainer's for. It's like a prisoner with a shiv in your mouth. Yes. Now calling it a tainer. Go ahead.
Starting point is 00:24:19 I think I could be possible. I don't know how my mom would feel about that. Don't worry about your mom. We'll handle it. Are we worried about your mom or we worried about winning? Don't worry about your mom. We're going to handle your mom. We're worried about the history books. But so I think the hardest part was, yeah, swallowing the corn because you get too much of the corn off, then like, you got, like, I don't want to choke on corn either.
Starting point is 00:24:42 No. So that was definitely a tricky part. We're going to chew it, yeah? So one thing we can't help you with it 20 years old is how to chew, God, corn here, kid. We're not talking about choking on the goddamn corn again. We're going to assume you know how to eat. I might lead us in a wild direction where even these two lunatics will pull me back from. All right.
Starting point is 00:25:01 Are you ready? Yeah. You ready? Yeah. I want you to sneak in a couple prop cobs. I want you to have pre-eaten cobs, two to three of them. And you're going to over the course of the competition, toss two or three. of the fake cobs, the prop cobs, in the bucket.
Starting point is 00:25:23 So at the end, they're going to have a couple extra cobb props that you tossed in. Gareth, you're like a... I'm a little scared of the dairy princesses might rat me out, though. I got to say, I'm not into the cheating here, Emily. I agree.
Starting point is 00:25:41 And I just think... I want to win on my own ballot. Me too. Can I give you a pitch? Same here. Here's what I really think, actually. So walk me First of all
Starting point is 00:25:51 I've got to quit This pitch is in the questions first How many pieces of corn won last year And how many did you eat? I think it was somewhere between Maybe like seven or eight I ate two Seven or eight as a winner
Starting point is 00:26:05 Is not hard to beat How long do you have? So it's in August So I have about four months No how long is the actual eating competition Oh You have three minutes Okay
Starting point is 00:26:16 So and once a cob is cleaned you drop it into bucket you go on to the next then at the end they count how many you have right so I watch a lot of terrible television and one of the things
Starting point is 00:26:32 I watch is man versus food where yeah way too many episodes of it I would argue I've seen every episode of the show and I don't even know if I like it I'll tell you I don't like it and I've seen everyone and I don't like when the host is being, like, funny and doing, like, gang signs.
Starting point is 00:26:53 I completely agree. He's like, the amount of talk to camera? People versus food west side of the eating of my mouth versus the east side. I'm like, you're a heavy guy eating corn on the cow. When we made eating athletics in this country, I think that was a bad move. That's a huge mistake. But that's not what this is about. No.
Starting point is 00:27:12 So here's what I'm saying. All we need, Emily, is seven goddamn pieces of corn. And what that show does is, and here's what you and everybody else are doing wrong. You're trying to do everything at once. So, for example, it starts. The first thing you do, pour water on eight pieces of cop, cools everything down. It takes a second. People go, what is she doing?
Starting point is 00:27:37 She's not even eating. I'm strategizing, you stupid dopes. Okay. Idiots, you smell a town dopes. Hey, take it easy, Jake. Trust me. These are her peers and friends. She's not going to insult them because she's not a yally.
Starting point is 00:27:53 I'm cooking. Then, after 15 seconds, Emily, here's what you do. You create a beaver-type overbite. Just scrape on a plate. Hold the plate like a bib under your chin.
Starting point is 00:28:09 Scraped the corn. Scraped the corn. Don't eat anything. With the retainer. If you can, if not, if we're afraid of mom, use your goddamn teeth. But here's what we're doing, Emily.
Starting point is 00:28:19 We're not eating a bite of corn. We're creating a pile of corn on a plate. Dang. Throw it away. Throw it away. Till you've got about a minute left. At that point, you have a pile of corn and seven cobs, 95% empty.
Starting point is 00:28:42 Then when you look and there's a minute remaining or a minute and 15 remaining, baby girl you shove that corn and like it's your life depended on it and guess what? You may not go to Yale, Emily, but at your college, you can get unlimited corn in cups so you can practice every freaking
Starting point is 00:29:04 fucking day. And the way... I think that might work. And Emily, here's how you practice, though. It's important how you do it. Create a pile, put the plate at your mouth, do not let your peers see you because they will copy the technique.
Starting point is 00:29:19 Take two fingers together like a little hockey stick and learn how to shovel it in. Without the tongue. Because the tongue would blow. Oh, like this. The plate goes at the bottom lip. Emily, the plate goes
Starting point is 00:29:38 bottom lip. Two fingers. Get low on the table. So you might want to get low enough that you don't even have to hold the plate. Go two fingers. Hung, shuffling, shovel in, shoveling. Like pinball. Like, like you're playing pinball. Yes.
Starting point is 00:29:53 I think that might work. I think the cooling down the corn of the water, I think, is definitely going to be plus the retainer helps avoid the whole, like, it's too hot anyway. Also, in Jake's pitch, the corn is going to be out of your mouth pretty quickly and onto the plate. So you're going to have a cooling time. It's going to cool down. But you just don't want to burden yourself early. It's like if you need to do a chug-in competition and it's too cold,
Starting point is 00:30:19 it's the cold that makes you quit sometimes. Yep. So everybody who starts is going to go like, my mouth kind of hurts. This sucks. And you're going to go, I'm prepping. Yeah. If you do it, though, and you take your water and you spill it on the corn and you wait, I think it's important that you stand up while they're all like idiots doing the typewriter method.
Starting point is 00:30:42 And you look at them with contempt and disdain and say, I am about to win. Or. Or you go real hammy and you pretend to sleep. Like, boring. Okay. Check your watch. Then might I suggest we wear the old-timey three stooges sleeping outfit?
Starting point is 00:31:04 Then with a minute left, you be like, yeah, an alarm goes off. You go to work. But Emily, here's what you can do to practice. as part of your diet as a 20-year-old girl, every day you get a bag of frozen corn at night with dinner, you shovel it into your mouth using your fingers. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:31:28 And you go faster and faster. See if you can eat an entire cooked bag. It's got to be warm. You've got to get used to it. See if you can eat an entire bag in 30 seconds. I like how the pitch really eliminates the cob from the paris. problem too. So why it's practiced
Starting point is 00:31:45 more feasible. Jake calls it a coblem because that's what it is. It's an issue. It's a hurdle and now we're eliminating it. And Jake is, Jake, if you can see him right now,
Starting point is 00:31:54 he's nodding his head. He agrees with coblum as a term that we're using. He's a gift from God, Gareth. It's a gift from God. He's happy about it, obviously. Most people don't do think, I do think as insane as all this sounds,
Starting point is 00:32:08 if you just cob the plate and you go hockey style, see how much you can ram in there, get better at that. And also once a week you practice scraping. Yeah. But Emily, what do you think about starting to do some
Starting point is 00:32:23 practicing and filming yourself doing it? Sending it to us, we'll have Kyle cut some of these together, we'll put some music to it, but what do you think about you start training and sending us videos as you go, just email them in
Starting point is 00:32:39 and we'll kind of build this up until August. I like that. I definitely could do that. Okay. I think it'll, yeah. I mean, I go to school for videos, so it'll be a... Oh, then you cut it.
Starting point is 00:32:52 Then this is, you know what? This is an internship, pal. Hey, this is an assignment. Because you're the magician. And guess what I'm saying? You keep doing this. You're going to be the corn cob princess. Yes, those dairy princesses.
Starting point is 00:33:05 They're useless. Yeah. You can handle this. Corn cob princess. Agreed. But here's what we're looking for, Emily. I want you to do one. obviously this week
Starting point is 00:33:15 where I want you to get actual corn on the cob and see how long it takes you to do seven or eight's the win time yourself, try the technique, film it with a timer in the background so you're like, it took me nine and a half minutes. And I think it'll be good to see...
Starting point is 00:33:36 It'll be good to see the pile of it off the cob so you know if a bag of frozen corn is a one-to-one. What that represents? Yeah, right. What exactly is that pile? How enormous? Not enormous.
Starting point is 00:33:50 Let's see. Emily, how are you feeling? I think we're going to, we'll be weighing in before you get there. We'll have you back on a couple times if you're making these videos. And the other thing. Let's see it. Just one more pitch.
Starting point is 00:34:02 I'm not sure about the pinball machine. It might work. I'm not against it. But I think there's something to like the motorboat. and you just dive right into that pile. It could be much fast. Show Mommy how the pigies eat? Right.
Starting point is 00:34:19 Just dive into the pile of corn immediately. And if some of them get in the ground, we don't care. The dairy princes don't care. Well, there's also... If there's too much, there's going to be something that they say we call hogwash. There's also the technique that if you get a paper plate... This is a skill. You got a skill too.
Starting point is 00:34:37 You could tube it up, roll it like a burrito and pour it down your throat, as these two brothers have a feud that were in the middle. of. That's not bad either. You could roll the plate and sort of pound it in. Oh, because it's paper. Hey, Garrett, do that motion again, brother? No, I won't, buddy.
Starting point is 00:34:53 Go ahead, Emily. Can we clip that motion? You got one earlier. Yeah, I'll clip it with yours, Jake. That's my dad attack. Yeah. Natalie, jumping in with, yeah, I'll clip it with yours. So nasty.
Starting point is 00:35:13 So, Emily, I feel like we call you, Mo. She's the real Mo. She just clunked our heads together. I pretend to be Mo. I'm the, I'm Carly. No, no, you're Larry because you're like, I'm in charge. But Natalie's Mo and I'm just, the guy's like, my head hurts. That's exactly right.
Starting point is 00:35:34 Okay, so, Emily, tell us what you're going to do here. Because I think we're winning here, but what matters is is you. So tell us what's happening. walk us through what you're going to do starting tonight. I think I'm going to do what I did before, you know, really really hone down the method, you know, what method is quickest, what method of scraping is the quickest. Okay. And then I think from there start practicing that one specifically and then also practice
Starting point is 00:36:01 the actual eating of the corn regularly. I love it. So see how long it takes you to eat that pile. Yep. Great. It just feels to me like we're, you know, sort of like three men and a little lady. And we're like, you know what our little five-year-old's going to be an Olympic champion?
Starting point is 00:36:21 Let's take her to the community, ice rink, and let her start to skate. That's what it feels like today. And in August, we're going to be the ones in a co-commercial crying that she earned the gold medal because we really did it too. Hey, thanks for coming on today. Thanks, Emily. Okay, bye. This episode of the podcast is brought to you by Squarespace. If you want to know what's great about Squarespace,
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Starting point is 00:40:31 Hi. Hi. How are you? Can we get your name, please? Sure. Jane. Jane. Real name, Jane?
Starting point is 00:40:41 No, made-up name. Felt it. My name is uncommon, so I didn't want to use it. Good work, though. Thank you. Fake age, Jane? 34. That's a real age.
Starting point is 00:40:52 All right. Where are you fake calling from? Fake calling from Brooklyn. Great. Okay, Jane, 34 Brooklyn. What's going on? Okay, so I'm going to try and explain this clear. For the last five years, my friend and I have had this cardboard box.
Starting point is 00:41:14 It came from a DeWalt-Miter saw, so it's big and yellow, could fit like a large child. It's empty. We've had it empty for five years. The only thing inside of it is like the original styrofoam packaging. There's no reason for us to have this box. We just love it. We've used it as a coffee table, it's a TV stand. usually it's just sitting in a living room
Starting point is 00:41:35 and she moved and she brought the box with her and now it's been five years and it's time to get rid of this box so we're going to throw ourselves a party called a farewell to box and we kind of have ideas for it but at the end of this party we want to get rid of this box it doesn't have to be that we're getting rid of it but we need to do something of this box
Starting point is 00:41:57 we can't be in the apartment anymore so our question for you is what can we do with this box to preserve its legacy or like honor its life? But it can be anything. The only parameters are that we don't want to litter. So like we can't just like set it afloat in the East River. And we don't really want to make a fuss in public. But our friends would be down to do whatever and we'll do whatever with this box.
Starting point is 00:42:24 It just can't be in the apartment anymore. I've got pictures of this box. If you guys want to see what is. Yeah. I mean how it's been used. Oh, it's a terrible box Oh my God You have to hang up right now
Starting point is 00:42:38 I thought it was a wooden box You're talking about Literally old DeWalt It's a saw box That's like a table saw Yeah like a It's a it's a major saw But it's a big saw that goes on the table
Starting point is 00:42:53 It's just This is garbage I mean Look We understand it is garbage but we've had it for five years. Jane, but I thought it was going to be like a wood. The pitch I was going to have to take away some of the wood and everybody keeps a piece of the wood.
Starting point is 00:43:13 It's a disgusting box. You got a lot out of this box. It was used as a TV stand and you've been eating off of it. Yes, but most of the time it just kind of sat there. And then in one of those images, you can see all the cushions in the living room because our basement flooded. And we just saved the couch and that box. Oh, my. That's all we saved.
Starting point is 00:43:37 Can I see the photos again? I'm sorry. I like that. I would like to see it again. I was just so shocked. It is shocking. Okay, so your apartment, slow down, slow on, so the apartment flooded.
Starting point is 00:43:51 And you saved this gray couch. What we're looking at is a gray couch. And then just a big yellow DeWalt box. It is a big yellow box. That is literally just that holds us. It's the, box you guys would all know if you bought a big power tool comes in a box you cut it open then you take this out you throw the disgusting box out it's what we call a box yeah and then they've
Starting point is 00:44:13 taped the they've taped it closed okay so that's you guys in your basement and then can we see another one um and then what is she doing here she's cutting that this is when you first got it maybe that's probably when we got it it arrived March 2021 I looked that up okay so you got it and what about this box made you guys say we should keep this box? Well, we didn't have any furniture, really. So we needed a table and then it just kind of grew on us. So why do you, okay, hold on. Charcottery on the box, wine on the box.
Starting point is 00:44:46 So then you wrapped the box in plastic? No, sorry. That image is before we opened it. We eventually opened it and continued to use it because of the fire comes in it. I know it. Agreed. That's a crazy detail because you had an affinity. for the box more than the item inside.
Starting point is 00:45:05 Every time I get a box, I open the box. I would never put salami on top of it and eat off it. I would open it and use the thing. I would open it. And then I'd be like, okay, I'm keeping the box. But the idea that the box, you know what it is? It's like imprinting. It's like what that duck did to that guy.
Starting point is 00:45:24 Yeah. Like the box imprinted on you in some way and you feel like box moms. This is crazy, but it's right. I don't care. That's exactly what it is. This is crazy, but right. But so... Something happened at that moment in 2021.
Starting point is 00:45:39 Yeah. You guys were probably just climbing out of the pandemic. Yep. The world was opening up again. And then you went like... Not the box. The box stayed nice and closed for some fucking reason. But okay.
Starting point is 00:45:54 So whatever. So you love the box. The empty is... Wait, who is the... There's a photo of somebody. lounge you near the box and their face is blacked out. That is unfortunately a photo of me looking really bad. I love the photo.
Starting point is 00:46:13 I love it all. It's amazing. And what I also love is that you're like, I don't want to be associated with the box publicly. No, I mean, you make a good point. I should have showed my face. No, it's fine. The box is so distracting.
Starting point is 00:46:29 We can't even get into the Buccaneer style pants. Also, I got to say, it's almost your size as if you could have come out of the box. Completely agree. There is a high chance you could fit in the box. The size of your body while you're sitting on that chair. Is that could be the box that houses you? This picture gets better because we haven't even focused on the frayon writing at the bottom with an arrow. Hold on.
Starting point is 00:46:56 Why did you say I wish? It's like imagine getting in that little box. It's just perfect. That's like, oh, it is. It's a nightmare. Needing that little box is a nightmare, but there's something about that box that it's become a womb for you.
Starting point is 00:47:13 It's a pet. It's a pet. It's not just me, though. It's two of us who love this box. I know. I got the pitch. Okay. I got one too.
Starting point is 00:47:23 I want you to cut a part of it out, like when a baseball stadium is getting knocked down. Or the net. People will go and like rip a seat out of like the old Kamiski in Chicago. Or they'll like go take some of the grass
Starting point is 00:47:43 out of it or the dirt and they'll put it in like a glass jar and they'll be like this is the dirt from the outfield and like old Kamiski. So what I would like you to do is cut part of the box out and frame it. That's literally basically what I have.
Starting point is 00:47:59 And you each get you go on the parallel sides of the box so you get the same part but it's not the DeWalt just get like the T the line next to the T some weird yellow space cut the same size of each frame it go to a professional framer so it's framed it a really nice frame and you guys make a deal that that picture will always hang on the wall of your homes forever I agree I think I think that's right. My only issue is if the frame picture comes in a box, we're right back where we started.
Starting point is 00:48:42 I think it's an excellent idea, and this is going to seem weird, but maybe not based on my question. I think it was. We both bought, I forget who the artist is, but we basically both bought a slice of this giant baby made of styrofoam.
Starting point is 00:48:58 We have our styrofoam art. framed. So maybe it would fit. Maybe it would fit in. But it's a thing. Jane. Jane. I heard how many things can you have, how many pieces of, you know, container can you have? How many pieces of garbage can you frame? That's not a question for us. That's not a question for us. That's not a question for us. We throw boxes away. So we don't know. I think that's right though. Okay. I like where your head. Well, look, it is there you, for whatever reason, this has sentimental value to you. So that is a way to preserve a piece of it. And here's the other part, I'll say.
Starting point is 00:49:33 I would, I'm trying to think if you know anyone who has a fireplace, I would also suggest just burning the box on its own, collecting the ashes and doing an ash spread after you've picked your pieces of the box. Or burning it. Yeah, Darren, or burning it, doing the ashes and keeping the ashes like you would. Keep an ur? Keep an ur? Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:50:00 Okay, I love that. I was thinking you were going to say sometimes people, when they're cremated, you put their ashes into a tree and then you grow the tree. But I like the idea of putting it in an urn way better. A tiny little urn. Earn is a winner. If you've got to. Okay. I like that.
Starting point is 00:50:16 I think it's an urn. And you know what? Here's what I'm also going to say, not to cut you off, but I like, you're having an event about this. Let's treat it like it's a goodbye, like it's a funeral. Yes. Let's write a little. A little eulogy for the box. Let's talk about fond memories.
Starting point is 00:50:35 You've got all these crazy-ass pictures. Let's show them and talk about it a little bit. And maybe everyone's got to say a little bit of something. Or at least just you and the other gal. Yeah. And then you'll tell you what I don't want is a bunch of friends there and everybody thinks it's really funny. And then like you've got like the two guys who are like the funny where they're like,
Starting point is 00:50:53 all be ironic. You're like, this isn't as funny as we all think it is. Jake's pitching me. It's a Gareth Reynolds type. you and me I agree it only works if it's really sincere for you guys because this box actually does mean a lot to you
Starting point is 00:51:08 yep I agree so I think the two of you should burn it together drink one too many glasses of wine and let yourselves get emotional have an urn get the ashes in the urn you know what I would ask of you Jane
Starting point is 00:51:22 oh I forgot that's my name Jane yes James. Yeah. Neither way bad poker face. Oh my God, that's me. Oh, yes.
Starting point is 00:51:34 Hello. Here's what I would like. What you could do for us is I would like you and your friend who did this to burn the box, grab the ashes, put it in the iron, and then wear all black and have a night. After that, that's the doing part. then go to have a service where you have photo, you print out these photos of the box that you guys had and they're around and you guys just sit around,
Starting point is 00:52:06 eat a shirkutery, have a couple glasses of wine, and then at a certain point, both stand up and as sincerely as you can at that night, talk about what the box meant to you and how important it was and how fun it was and how great those years were and film it. I agree. And send it to us and Kyle will edit it down.
Starting point is 00:52:26 I agree. and you're also the night of this event, you guys are not going to know where to put your wine, where to put your charcutory, you're going to be very confused, but there's going to be a table. This is a thing a lot of us have been using for a while, and it's got four legs,
Starting point is 00:52:42 and it's a flat surface, and you're going to put some of your stuff on this thing, and it's sort of like a fancy box. So you'll be putting your stuff on there, and it's going to be difficult because you're definitely moving on at that point. But this is, The equivalent of like, this is what this reminds me of is like if you got like a pet hampshire that dies.
Starting point is 00:53:04 Yeah. And you get kids and you go, well, we should say some words. And then somebody says some words and you go, they're not wrong about Lucky. We did love that son of a bitch. Yeah. And that little bastard did find his way into our hearts. Yep. And when you got over the hump and you're honest about it and you go, that was the cutest road night ever seen.
Starting point is 00:53:26 and when it would burrow itself in the corner and you would see its little teeth, I did like looking at them. I also liked holding him. It was a bony son of a bitch, but I like the way his little nails would feel on my hands. And so you all say what you need to say about box, and then move on.
Starting point is 00:53:45 I have one last question. I think it's a great idea. But where can we burn this box in Brooklyn? Can you send it out? An alley. You can't sit there. You got to do it yourself in alley. Okay.
Starting point is 00:54:00 Or you rip it up and you do it piece by piece. You do it, you do little pieces throughout the whole night right in the sink. I think that maybe at this party will have everyone rip up the box and then afterwards we can burn the pieces. And I think that you guys burn. And while you're burning it, you do it in the tub. That's when you're making your speeches. Yeah. Okay.
Starting point is 00:54:24 Maybe get a metal bucket or something. Get like a metal bucket, maybe put it in there, open the window, you know, get like you don't want it to get out of control. So I think, yeah, you take your time. Go right in an alley. Just make sure, you know, make sure it's... Put it in a bucket. Yeah, we just don't want this to get out of control.
Starting point is 00:54:42 Buy an $80 grill. Ooh. Like you're going to be, you know, go to the grill. Or just someone you know with a grill. That's it. Yep. Yeah, the park. Go to the park and grill it out.
Starting point is 00:54:53 Go to the park. can grill it. Now that we're in this zone, I'm going to also say, have a decoy cooler when you go to grill the box as ashes. Just so when you go to the park, it doesn't look like you went there to just burn a box on a grill. Just, I think that's right. That's important. Just a decoy cooler. Make it look like you're grilling something. Cool. Okay. Thank you. I think we're going to grill the box. So. And then send, yeah, send us some, And then you're going to put the urn, the ashes in the urn? Yeah, of course.
Starting point is 00:55:29 Don't say of course. A little urn. It's going to be a teeny tiny urn. Yeah, this is, listen, if you're happy, we're happy. And I think, like Jake said, please include us in the service as much as possible, film it. And we would love to edit it into something that, you know, it's a tribute to the DeWalt box that you got five years ago. That's so kind. The box would love that.
Starting point is 00:55:54 I don't know if, okay. Jane, why'd you use a fake name? Sorry? I see, oh, my God. I believe you're forgetting because I don't, I, I have a very uncommon name. And I think that when I listen back to this, if it were to air, I'd be a little embarrassed. Hey, Jane. What's the uncommon name?
Starting point is 00:56:22 I'll say it, but I don't know. We might need to beep it out. Okay. It's ERISA. like Marissa, no ass. We're not going to beat it. Thanks so much, you know what.
Starting point is 00:56:32 We're not going to beep it. Your problem is not serious enough to beep it. It's not about like a husband or a wife. It's about keeping a box. We're going to let it out. We're going to lead with it. Everybody, her name is words. She lives in Brooklyn.
Starting point is 00:56:43 She gives a weird disgusting box. Thank you for the call. Her name's not Jane. She's going to be at a party. Bye. Bye. Bye, Jane. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:56:50 Bye. Bye. This next call is a follow-up from episode 231 Scooter Cooter. Hey, call, are you there? Yeah, I'm here. Welcome back to the show. You got Jake, you got Gareth, and you've got, as you know, Danny Jay, Chopper Five on the ones and twos. Coming at you.
Starting point is 00:57:20 Yeah, lots happened so far. It's just been technical, to be quite honest with you. Can we get your name, please? My name is Allison. Allison, welcome back to the show. We know you're a follow-up. Now, can you tell Dan what your first call was, and that'll also inform Jake, myself, and the audience?
Starting point is 00:57:40 Thanks. Great idea. Yeah, so I originally called about because my husband's nudist uncle sold him a scooter, and my husband wanted me to ride said scooter, but I did not. Right. So he's a nudist? They got the scooter from a four. from a nudist and there was, you know, nudity on the scooter.
Starting point is 00:58:02 And we were thinking about the seat being disgusting. You had sent us a photo, I remember, right? Yes. And you were, oh, cooter, scooter. Cooter Scooter Scooter. Yes. Well, Cooter, cooter. Oh, Scooter, either way.
Starting point is 00:58:15 So, Allison, what did we pitch and what did you do? So, y'all pitched two different things. So I think the one that Garrett mentioned was having like a dream. that like we were riding the scooter and like we crashed and it freaked me out and now it was like going to be like all jittery around the scooter. But then we settled on that the scooter like there's like this disease called scooter and that it can give you like a rash and stuff and that's why you shouldn't like ride it and that's why you need to clean the seat and stuff like that.
Starting point is 00:58:49 I honestly think both of those are pretty good. I do too. To get you off. They were pretty good. So Dan, your thoughts on hearing those two pitches, You understand the problem, right? Well, I heard the problem. I just have a hard time understanding it.
Starting point is 00:59:04 Okay. Why? Hold on, why? Like, clean the seat, and then it's an immaculate scooter. Like, take some bleach, you're good. What's the issue? Some random man's chote sitting on his seat you're sitting on? It's not random, it's family.
Starting point is 00:59:23 Fine. It's our Uncle Eddie's chote while he'll all sweat. in Florida on a seat and then you're in a skirt. Six months later. Six months later after, I'm sorry, I don't know if you're a like scientist but like chote kuters
Starting point is 00:59:39 doesn't exist. So you just spray a little Windex or a little Clorox and you're done. I love that. Also, me too. Also, who are you, our sister? Spray it and you're done.
Starting point is 00:59:56 Windex. By the way, it's such an insight into Dan's world that he's one of those Windex guys who does every service with Windex. That's what my mother is. My mother's a Windexer. You're just like on a table? That's wood. Doesn't matter. It's all the same.
Starting point is 01:00:12 I can see the Pam thing now. Now I get it. Yeah, I get it. So, Allison, I hear Dan's point of view, but I do think he's crazy. I'm with you. I would be pretty disgusted if I bought a scooter and there was a new, the idea of like a juicy man's butthole, sweating, driving his scooter. Well, it's also, isn't it your husband's?
Starting point is 01:00:30 It's your husband's relative. But she's going to be on it. Yeah, no, I think it's extra gross. I think it's extra gross. Imagine being a woman in a skirt. Yeah, that's a random man to her. I'll just defer because she, Allison matters. It's her problem.
Starting point is 01:00:46 You guys accept it as a problem. I don't want to go back and say, it's not a problem. We'll just say great, great pitches. What did she do? Damn. Professional. I did.
Starting point is 01:00:58 I told my husband, he asked me, my husband asked me one day, he was because of more background for Dan, but, you know, because of our, my weight differences,
Starting point is 01:01:10 I'm a little bigger than my husband. He's saying for us to ride together, I would need to drive it. And I didn't want to because then, you know, that's too much contact for me. I'm a big germaphobe. Okay.
Starting point is 01:01:21 Okay. So if you, because you would have to drive it so that's more right on seat? Right. Yeah. Okay. So, but yeah, so there was one day that, you know, my husband asked me, he's like, hey, like, I'm thinking, like, you don't want to take the scooter for a drive.
Starting point is 01:01:36 You want to come with, you know, and everything. You can get used to or whatever because, you know, you have to drive there ever so often with the gas or whatever. And so then, you know, I recorded our conversation and I told him. I was like, no, I don't want to. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, Allison, Allison, Allison, Allison. You bury the lead. Yes, right. You have it recorded?
Starting point is 01:01:55 Can we hear it? Yes. Let's hear it. Yeah, I emailed it to Natalie. Let's hear it right now. First of all, way to go. Yeah. Thank you, Allison.
Starting point is 01:02:04 Thank you. You're a pro. I was crambling. I was like, oh my gosh, I felt like, you know, a fifth-year-old person trying to find the record button on my phone. But, Allison, you're a fucking pro
Starting point is 01:02:13 and you're a star. We ask a lot of people to do this and they don't. And when people do it, this is awesome. Because you call, you're like, we're here to help and you use them for help. And it was an amazing success. But so far, are so good.
Starting point is 01:02:27 What? Sometimes you don't have to talk, Dan, if you don't have anything to say. If I didn't talk, why would you ask me on your? You don't have to be such a dick. I know, but Dan, that was a trap. You don't have to go out of your way. That was a recap. Hey, hey, can you, can you come on the show?
Starting point is 01:02:44 Sure, because I want to like be a dick to you. On Hulu or whatever. Thanks. This is great. It's on Hulu, not whatever. I'm sorry. Great, great. Awesome.
Starting point is 01:02:55 Allison, I'm sorry. have to witness that. All right, Dan, I'm sorry. I just felt like you did a recap that you didn't, you just started talking, but you didn't have anything to say. Apology accepted. Tensions are high because this problem is big, and we're about to hear some audio.
Starting point is 01:03:10 Roll tape. Okay, dude. Okay, here we go. What did you say? At some point, I want to ride the scooter with you on the back. Why? So I know what it's like. So if I don't want to sit on the scooter.
Starting point is 01:03:27 I'll put a trash bag. You're gonna let me get scooter cooter? Yeah. You don't be an infected cooter from the scooter? That's nasty. I'll put an antimicrobial towel down. Inside microbial stuff. No, I'm serious.
Starting point is 01:03:51 I don't want that. I'll put something down. No, that's not going to help it. Why what? Why would it happen? it can go around it. Yeah. And then it's going to climb up my legs.
Starting point is 01:04:07 I'm going to get to my cooter. Jerry's mustache is going to be climbing. No, I'm serious. It's a real thing. No, it's a real thing. Ask Maddie. She told me about it. All right, let's pause it for a second.
Starting point is 01:04:33 Yeah. Where are you going? Allison. excellent work so far. Yeah. He was really stonewalling you. So good. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:04:43 I'm with the husband so far, but this is great. Great effort. But he did a really good job of just winning that. We're going to listen to the second half. Is there more information or is it more of the same? It's more of the same. I told my best friend after I got off the original call and I was like, hey, like, you know, and she's like, oh my gosh,
Starting point is 01:05:06 It's like genius. And so, you know, he doesn't believe anything I say. But if someone else says it, then he'll believe them. So my best friend was in on it. So that's when I was like, hey, you can call Maddie and, you know, confirm this. So she was in on it too. Okay. Did he?
Starting point is 01:05:18 But we didn't have to call her. Okay. So then what ended? So you say in the second half call Maddie and what's his kind of vibe? What does he say? He was just, he kind of brushed off. I don't know if he heard me on that. But then he was like, he was just being funny afterwards.
Starting point is 01:05:34 Okay. So that's perfect. Howl. Home run for the husband. Yeah. So this is pretty great. So what happened? So he didn't really do any, like he didn't ask me to get on the scooter after that.
Starting point is 01:05:47 And I was like, okay, well, we'll wait because I, like, you know, because life happened. So we got really busy. But he hasn't asked me to sit on the scooter or ride with him since. Great. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. That's a bel ring. Yes, for sure. That's a bell ring.
Starting point is 01:06:02 So we created enough. nonsense that he's like oh my wife believes in a stupid thing called scooter cooter and her goofy friend
Starting point is 01:06:14 her goofy friend thinks so too so she doesn't want to go on my scooter it's insane but moving on I still like my scooter that's winning by losing
Starting point is 01:06:24 because he won that argument but you won the war I think going in we knew we were outmatched because a scooter cooter doesn't exist and B We're three dirt bags who would be like, yeah, I'll get on it.
Starting point is 01:06:38 I'd get on that scooter naked. I wouldn't give a shit. Stop, Jake. You're right. See, Dave gets it. But the point is you went in there, you stuck to your guns enough, and you committed that it worked. And on top of that, just once again, to be very clear, the recording is awesome. More people, when we ask for it, we know they go, what are you doing?
Starting point is 01:06:58 You're producing. Let us cook. Yeah, but Allison, I agree with Garris, but Allison, 10 out of 10, dude. 10 out of 10. I would say 11 out of 10 because you were, you were going up against logic. Yes. Yes.
Starting point is 01:07:12 Like you held on to like, no, no, it's a real thing. It goes up my leg. It goes around a microbiolio. He doesn't make any sense. Doesn't make no sense. What you were calling a germ was a worm.
Starting point is 01:07:27 I mean, the way that you were talking about how these things move. You were talking about a soldier. Have you seen them like under a microscope moving around. They move like worms sometimes. But that's a microscope. Yeah, but what you did was excellent.
Starting point is 01:07:42 This is not a conversation about logic. It's a conversation about how do we keep you off this scooter seat? Jake, to quote one of our favorite, our favorite James Brown lyric, I don't know karate, but I know Karazi. Yeah. You fought. You fought. And Allison, you won.
Starting point is 01:08:01 Yeah, I did. Thank you. No, thank you. Yeah. This is what this show is all about. You got what you wanted. You got what you needed. And you'll never ride that disgusting scooter in your life.
Starting point is 01:08:18 You don't have to because a scooter scooter car. I better not. If he asked me about it, then I'm going to be calling back and be like, hey, guys, we need a plan B. I already got a solve for that. So you call if you fake scooter cooter. How would she do that, Gareth? Itchy crotch walking around going, what are the other symptoms she has?
Starting point is 01:08:38 It's just, I don't think our callers want to hear what I'm going to say. We do, we do. She's got a rashy, scratchy cooter. Can you do that? Can you beatbox and then throw those words into it? Why are you doing this? I don't know because he would know, like, because I'm such a germapho that I would be like,
Starting point is 01:09:00 no, I got to go to the doctor right away. Yeah. Then you fucking know. Allison, will you do a quick rap while Gareth, Dan and I do a beatbox and you incorporate the words, itchy, scratchy, cooter? I'll be honest. I don't know how
Starting point is 01:09:22 to wrap at all. Got to go to the doctor right away because my itchy scooter, cooter is coming today. I can't ride on my Uncle's chote because if I do that, you're gonna choke. It's disgusting. It's nasty.
Starting point is 01:09:38 The dude's a nudist. You better not ride it or I'm out. I'm out. Oh, you had it, bro. I had it. Dude, you had it. I've never seen these two more connected. He was going at a pace.
Starting point is 01:09:53 He was cooking. I was inspired by Allison. We all are. All right, Allison. right off into the sunset. Sorry, walk off into the sunset on this one. Killer job. Yeah, no writing.
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