44: She Said Yes (Probably)! with Eric Edelstein and Steve Berg
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Sonny. Oh, interesting twist. Welcome to We're Here to Help. We have some... This is kind of a personal show for us, wouldn't you say? I would say. This one specifically. These are... I would say you were friends with Steve before me. You, Eric, before me. And I was friends with Eric. And then you guys were a two, we were a two, we started mixing. We were never really a four, though. Not really.

Not really. No, you, Berg, and I sort of became a three. Eric was more me and him, and then he and Steve got close. But it's four people who like each other a ton. And Steve and Eric have gotten very close. Yes. And they've got a nice thing that they cook between the two of them. Yep. But we wanted to have them both in, and as we hoped and expected, they just murdered. So Eric Edelstein is my first...

Los Angeles friend. I was living in the Las Palmas with my buddy Brian Farrell. And Eric, in 2004, used to believe he was channeling Elvis Presley. Yep. We get into that a little bit, I think. He is a wild man. You know him from such movies as Green Room, where he is a straight-up neo-Nazi. Nice. Fucking dude can act. He can go from intense... Yeah, those aren't his real views. No.

But this dude goes from intense drama to hard comedy. One of the funniest guys. Oh, yeah. He's one of those guys. Both of these guys are that you would recognize these guys. 100%. Steve was my intern manager at the Improv Olympic where we used to do improv. And that's where we basically know each other through. And he did not like me when he was my intern manager because I wore a puka shelled necklace. And he thought I thought I was hot shit. Yeah.

But we eventually became friends one day when we over-edibled and we got into it. He also didn't like me at first because he said, He's a judgy little man. He goes, you know, you reminded me of some like overconfident Greek guy. Yeah, he didn't like my confidence. By the way, come on. He ain't wrong. And he's like, what does this guy think he has that others don't? This little Greek son of a bitch. Yeah, and he didn't like me because of him.

Puka shell necklace. We shouldn't have it back on. But here's the beauty of Berg. That attitude. We're so serious and judgmental. Within 30 seconds, he's like, this guy is sweet as can be. It's funny, too. As well as I love the Greek culture. Because he's the sweetest guy, but then he'll also be like, I don't like that guy.

Yeah. I don't, and then I go, I know you're going to change very quickly. And he goes, and I have. And the way he talks about like how he talked to someone, he'll be like, I told that guy, get out of my way. I'm furious. What did you actually say to him? I said, thank you so much for the opportunity for you to step on my toes. Um,

So anyway, these guys are killers. Great episode. I also want to say thank you to everybody who tuned in to Self Reliance this weekend on Hulu. Gareth has helped a lot with the push. The show has helped a lot with the push. Everybody from the cast who came on, I appreciate all of you guys. Everybody who's watched, I appreciate you. It means a lot and

Thank you. Yeah, and tell people. I mean, like we ask you to do with the show, with self-reliance, keep it going. And then to go to our show, we're here to help for a second. I just want to say the day we're recording this, which is Thursday, the Andy Samberg, Steve Berg first episode, we are having our biggest day ever on the podcast. So thank you guys for listening. We really love doing this.

We've both been really shocked and surprised how many people have come with us this early. So thank you. We're listening to the comments. We're in a studio. We're trying to... Yeah, we're on YouTube, too. If you want to watch a video of us do this, it's quite dynamic. And so... We're shirtless. I'm just feeling a lot of gratitude, and I love you, Gareth. Oh, boy. This is... Jake's been drinking, but Jake... Without further ado! Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha!

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Code Gil sent me. Hi. Hello. How you doing? Great energy. I'm good. How are you doing? Great. Can we start? Can I get your name, please? Yeah. My name is Lance. Lance. And Lance, where are you calling from? Yeah.

I'm calling from beautiful Southern California here. Okay, we're in Southern California. We're in Los Feliz at the moment. Kind of like around the Burbank-Chatsworth area. Respect, respect. Oh, Chatsworth. And Lance, about how old are you? What's your age? So we can kind of judge you a little bit. Yeah, absolutely. I'm 33. Oh, real quick. This is Inside Baseball. Burbank is so far from Chatsworth. It is. It doesn't seem like anything. What do you mean Burbank-Chatsworth area? Already here's an indicator, friend. No, no, no. Chatsworth. What?

Where are you located? My family, I'm located in the Chatsworth area. My mind just says Burbank, Chatsworth because some of my family lives in Burbank. Can I suggest that the reason why you say Burbank, Chatsworth is because if you say Chatsworth, people just go, oh, well, they make porn. Yeah, porn or a militia, right? That's why you do it, right? Yeah, but do you have a manifesto, Lance? You're trying to make people go like, oh, near Warner Brothers and where they make porn. Yeah. Like Warner Brothers and Bang Brothers. Yeah, exactly.

Thank you, Garrett. Thank you. All right, Lance, what can we do for you today, sir? Okay. So basically the story is I, I recently, so ever since I was young, I've been into magic practice ever since I was little. Recently,

I kind of stumbled into a couple like legit gigs just from kind of like climbing around and doing it to some people. And it's been going well. Like people seem really, I think I'm a little bit better than I gave myself credit for. And it's great. The issue that I started having though, is that the form of magic that I do is more akin to like mentalism, not like typical magic. And this has resulted in a,

me getting kind of cornered after something by some people who are very, very convinced that what I am doing is 100% real and will then kind of like rant at me with some really crazy stuff of their own. And I'm one of those people where I'm kind of too polite. I can't really like get out of the conversation. And I'm not...

I'm not really sure how to deal with these people because if I refute the craziness that they're shooting me, I'm kind of... Refuting your own craziness as a mentalist. Exactly. Yeah. So let me kind of paraphrase and see if I know where we're at. You're a magic man. You do legit gigs. You do not do sleight of hand magic.

You do mentalism and mentalism is basically you say to a group of people, think of a number. I know what number you're thinking and you've got ways and tricks to get to that number. Correct? Yes. Can you do any mentalism right now on one of us so that we can see what you do or does it not work? Yep. But Lance, does that work or does that not work?

it's very i'm gonna just break through it won't work right wait hold on say that again lance spoiler it's not gonna happen

I have some stuff I could maybe hold on, but it'd be very difficult to do over the phone. That's a long way of saying no. Hold on. Hold on, G. For a man who was healing people at a 7-Eleven as a president. As well as a man who uses turquoise and has told me you should rub it on your body. It works. But I've done the work. Today's just day one of doing the work with Lance. So, Lance, what I'm hearing for you in the subtext, you're incredible at your job. You're so incredible. People corner you for hours.

And how old a man are you, Lance? 33. 33. Okay. 33 years old. Time to learn a little thing called boundaries, friend. Yeah. But like this problem, I'm like, I'm so good at my job. People are cornering me forever. Are you just calling into the show to promote yourself? Like, is there a website or Instagram or something? Hold on, Lance. Hold on. And I can only say this because I love Eric. Hold on, Lance. And I've known this fucker for so long. Ease up. I'm coming in hot. We are on Lance's team. We need a bad cup. All right, Lance. I'm on your team.

This is a bad lieutenant and we're like paper boys. He's going to kill Lance. Sorry, Columbo. Go ahead. Go right ahead. And so, Lance, is there anything you could do over the phone so that we and the audience is a little bit on your team with the magic? Let me think. So much relies upon me.

me having a reveal on hand. I can try something really fast. I've never tried this over the phone before. Okay. And if you get, Hey, by the way, if you get it wrong, Eric's going to be abusive, but Gareth and I are going to try to be, that's it. So don't, don't be discouraged at all, but Eric is going to be your subject. Lance take over. And I'll tell you what, Kevin, the honk Gareth and I are really hoping this works.

Okay, let's try this here. So first of all, do you guys have, does one of you have like your phone on you really fast?

Yeah, I do. And I'm rooting for you, friend. Attaboy. Okay, perfect. So here's what I want to do. So have you ever been, there's a website that's like affiliated with Google that kind of like lists basically sort of everything that people have searched for recently. It's just google-staff.com. It's literally just part of Google. Can you build it really fast and just google-staff.com?

What I love about this already is that Eric's naysaying has led to us potentially going through his Google search. No, no, I'm absolutely terrified. Keep going. I made my bet. Okay, what is it, Lance? This ain't good. Okay.

So it should be like... Bigger ladies. How weird did I get last night? Oh, if you can get him to reveal his history, what he looked at to help him sleep last night, I will die laughing. Yeah, I was trying to help my friend's stepmother. That's what that was. Ha ha ha!

Okay, so there should be, like, if you scroll down to the bottom, there should be a couple of, like, cities and whatnot, yeah? I don't see... Okay, cities. I just clicked on cities. Yeah.

Okay, so here's what I want you to do. I'm so scared. What I want you to do really fast is don't do anything just yet. I want to kind of unlock something in your mind, right? So what I want you to do, I want you to just, in your mind, visualize as many cities around the world as you can picture in your head rapid fire. So like somebody has a flip book, and they're kind of, you know, like pulling the page, and they'll flip it really fast. You're just seeing city after city after city. Does that make sense? Yes, sir.

and really visualize that as much as you can, iconic details, landmarks, whatever pops in your head. Okay. Once you've kind of gotten a hold of that and flipped through everything. Okay, I got like three or four cities I'm flipping through.

Okay, so here's what I want you to do. What I want you to do now is I want you to concentrate on the city of, let's say, Miami, okay? Okay. So what I want you to do, on the website, I don't want you to pay attention. I just want you to scroll down to the bottom of the page as fast as you absolutely can without really looking anything over. Just subconsciously take it all in. Okay, okay. Okay, you got the bottom? I'm doing it.

I'm at the bottom now. Yeah. Okay. Perfect. Now, what I want you to do is if you had to pick a number between one and a hundred that you think that Miami would fit it into just on instinct, don't think too hard. What's the first number between one and a hundred that you would think of that you associate? Should he say it out loud or give us the fingers? Yeah. Yeah. Say it out loud. That's fine. 77. 77. So here's what I've done, right? What I want you to do is,

You can take in more information than your brain, than you think you're capable of taking in. You can subconsciously register things on a level that you've never done before. And so what I want you to do, you just said 77. You were thinking of Miami. You scroll through this list really fast. I now want you to go back up and see what is the 77th most Googled city right now. Lance?

I am humble. I am sorry. I believe. I'm looking right now. Miami 77. Show the camera. So Lance, what? Oh my God. All right. Wait, show the kid and really fast. Cause you came on here and you just killed it. What is your first and last name? Your Instagram? Where can people find you really fast? We're going to promote you a little bit. I got chills. I'll be honest. I,

I was actually using a fake name just in case I did say anything that had a magical. You just, you blew my buddy's mind. You blew all of our minds. What is your thing? How people can find a mentalist. And then we're going to give you advice. Oh, well, thank you. Uh, I'm, I'm brand new at this. So my, my socials aren't really too active. Uh, my name, my real name is Jake Price. Uh, Instagram. I'm Jake Price. No things all run together at Instagram. Uh,

uh there's like there's like nothing on there okay i'm good hey hey jake you're starting everybody look him up on jake price everybody starts somewhere jake and i met in a bachelor apartment now he's got syndication money the price is right jake price we're fans friends so jake now you by the way way to come in here eric has gone in he was trying to knock you down you spun him he did the error oh

Now, really fast. I'm humbled. Eric, really quickly now to Jake Price. He's in a situation where now you see it. I see it. I feel like an ass. And his fans are coming at him pretty intensely. Yeah. So can you, as David Lynch, the great director, give him a little bit of advice of how he can keep distance between his fans and

trying to tell them their crazy stuff so that Jake Price can do what he does, and that is be a mentalist and then have space. Well, here's the thing, Jake Price, is you and I are both deeply, deeply in the water of esoterica, and sometimes you need to swim out of the deep end, bucko, because you got a gift here, pal. You got a real gift, and you got personality and spunk, and the world is going to know the name Jake Price.

But what you have to do, buddy, is figure out these boundaries for yourself because this incredible energy that you're putting forth in your mentalism, the best way to get that drained is an unboundaried weirdo after a show.

You just tell them I'm not part of any secret MK ultra project. I was born to humble, good people in Chatsworth Burbank, which I'm giving you now because you blew my mind. Eric. Now, can you give Jake price some advice from the great basketball coach, Mr. Bill Walton? Now look here, Lance, what you've done today is,

absolutely blown us away this is it this is jerry garcia this is neil young this is bob dylan rough and rowdy ways but you have to rein in the energy look i watched larry bird tell off person after person in airports because he needed his energy for himself

How is he going to drop triple doubles if he let every unboundary soul unburden their mental illness upon him? Lance, you got this. Throw it down, big man. Take price. Last but not least, Eric.

Will you tell Jake Price Knows Things what he should do as the one and only Elvis Presley, the king, baby? I'll tell you, Lance, I came in here. It's a comedy podcast, man. I came in here doubting and shooting and hoping for some editing, and you blew my mind, man. So I'm telling you right now, man. Ah!

However you choose to see God as Allah or Buddha or Jesus, I agree with you, man. But what you need to do right now is summon this power, man, because these people are going to try to tear you down. Jake Price, man, you might be a goddamn chosen one like me. All right? I'm going to say one more thing. Embrace every religion. Don't get left out of heaven on a technicality, my friend, because you've got the goods, man. Miami. Miami.

So, Gareth, those were three. So, by the way, you just had some great advice from three different great figures. They're all kind of the same idea, and that is you got a gift, Lance. You're talented at what you do. You just need boundaries. Garf, are we missing anything here? Because I'm kind of with Walt and King. Listen, of course I'm with the trifecta there. And I think, yeah, I think it's really...

You're new to it. That's the real issue, is that you're not used- you feel like you're gonna be letting people down if you're not doing a show after your show, but to what Eric is suggesting, you cannot pour from an empty cup, Lance. So, you've gotta just- you've gotta find a way to just be done when you're done. The show is over. If someone corners you or if someone wants to have this sidebar, you just need to say something like, "I'm too exau-" like, "These shows exhaust me."

and I have another show tomorrow, I don't have time and not feel like that is rude. Sometimes people will. I'm sure all of us have been in the situation where someone thinks because you're not

Giving the effort one on one that they want from you, that you are disappointing them. But you're in the right. And I would just you know, you need to have your energy. So so Lance, well, I think we're all on the same page here. And that is keep doing you, man. You're kind of killing it.

We expect big things from you. That was shocking. Yeah. I'm not going to lie. We kind of set you up there to mess. Oh, yeah. I really in my head, I was like, we're not going to use. No. And then I thought, you know, I was kind of just doing it to fuck with Eric a little bit because he came in hot. Yeah. And the Google was perfect. And also, I've never seen so many stills of busty maids.

When I looked at the phone. Research. I was doing my own research. All right, Eric. No, Jake let me off the hook. I thought it was going to be conspiracy theories and stepmom stuff getting revealed. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm so lucky. The stepmoms come up a couple of times, which makes me feel like that's the real deal. It's stepmom stuff. That's a bit. I swear I'm not into stepmoms. Tons of other weird stuff. I just read it. That's the number one thing. Well, but also both of you, I've been up to you in public. You both have a way of making people that come up to you feel great in a

In a very brief way. Like, Jake, you're wonderful to people, but it's brief. Yeah. And you give people what they need. And I think you are a thing. I'd say, Jake, keep it moving. Yeah. Keep your body moving. Yeah. If you're moving, just act like there's this hidden force, which clearly you're in touch with propelling you along and don't get cornered by. Well, you know, it also actually helps is a lot of times, like if I'm at a club, like

I don't know what the setup is for where you're doing these shows, but it's very good. Like if you need to give someone like Eric saying like,

30 seconds, it's always helpful to have someone there pulling you away. I think that's right. Yeah. So in closing here, Jake, we gave you some, I would say some pretty solid advice. Where are you kind of at? What have you taken from this? You probably knew what we were going to say. Yeah, you're reading all of our brains, but take us out of here, Jake. Where are you kind of at? No, I agree. I really appreciate it. I like the mantra too of like keep moving, like act like I'm busy, act like I got places to be sort of thing, you know, like

I like that idea of, you know, stopping, giving somebody 30 seconds of my time and then just, yeah, setting that that boundary, which is. Yeah. And I really thank you guys so much. I think you really hit the nail on the head here. And I am a big target booster, too. So thank you for that. Another real quick good one is to go when someone's in the midst of that. OK, yeah. Well, hey, let's get a picture. Have them take a quick picture. Then you're out of there. That feels like a punctuation to the interaction.

Yeah, and eventually they'll have a handler. And hilariously, they have us when David Lynch does events. We go down in character, and he interacts with us in character because it makes him happier. So he'll come to me, detective, how's your mother? I'm like, oh, you know, we had a big dinner on Sunday, and you know what happened? What? Another murder. Oh, my gosh, and you had to go? Yeah, we did. So...

Have a way when you're out to make things more fun because that's what they do with us. And eventually very soon, because you're a shooting star on the Uprise, you'll be able to have somebody with you that can kind of help move things along with love. And then, King, take us out of here with one last thing as Elvis. And then at the end, tell him to get the hell off. And that's going to be the end of our call. All right. Jake Price, he's the future, man. I'm deeply invested in him. I'm going to come over and mentor him. And that is that for that call. But we'll never forget Miami 77, man.

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Took a weird turn, I could tell by Jake's face. Jake and I are wearing the same outfit. He likes to dress like me now. It's a little unnerving. Can we get your name, please? Yeah, my name is Jake Johnson. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. This is too much. Jake, make the sign. Wait, hold on. Here's my sign. I got a guy who has my name and a guy who dresses like me. Today ain't great.

Hey, Jake, my guy, what are you dressed like right now? Are you wearing a blue button-down and jeans? No, I'm not. White shoes? I'm wearing a t-shirt and a short. Here's something dorky, Jake. So I always start, but I write the notes as I go because I don't have a great memory. And I was about to write Jake Johnson. I think I can remember your name. How about this? You wrote Jake. Jake had crossed it out. I was like, I think I got that. Where are you from, Jake?

I'm from Minnesota. Is your name really Jake Johnson? It is. Okay. Where in Minnesota? Minneapolis. Great city. You a Vikings fan? Great town. I'm not a Vikings fan. Great person. Great man. Great guy. A Minnesota Jake Johnson who likes the Packers. It's like you were created in a lab.

This is kind of like Gareth's dream guy. Yeah, this is the guy I want to do the podcast with. Jake Johnson. Jake Johnson. And so Jake Johnson from Minnesota. How old are you? I'm 26. Yeah, I was going to say 28. And I'm going to tell you why. I'm 45. There weren't a lot of Jakes at my age. But when I was about 8 to 10, they started. What? Yeah, not a lot of Jakes. When I was growing up, there were no Jakes growing up. And then at around 10, a lot of baby Jakes.

I think when I was born, Jake was the most popular name. Well, you got guys like Jake Johnson. Well, I'm going to tell you, my mother is similar to me. We are braggers, and she likes to take credit for bringing that name back. I don't know if it's accurate. Yeah, I can see that. All right, Jake, so you're about 26. You're from Minnesota. You got a great name. What can we do for you? Great team. Well, my girlfriend and I,

are huge New Girl fans and we often listen to this podcast together. And

Well, from Gareth, thank you for New Girl. And for me, thank you for the podcast. Yeah. Yeah. I really appreciate it. We love making the show and we love when it hits. And we love making the podcast. We love the podcast, too. But yeah, the show was a lot of fun. Okay. Quit acting like you're part of the show, Jake. Come on. Well, the reason why we started dating is because their Tinder profile said that she was a huge New Girl fan. She had a Nick Miller quote. And...

I use that as a way to talk to her by saying, "Hey, I'm Jake Johnson. I play

Nick Miller in the show, jokingly, of course. And we hit it off, and here we are three years later, still in love. All right, so you guys connected through New Girl. You used the name and the bit to form the connection, Smart Play. No bad blood there. You guys have been together for three years. I'm not seeing a problem, oh my king. Are you the Garf? No, nothing so far. Smooth sailing. Surely it's going to... Okay, what do we got? What I made...

from you guys is to assist me in crafting a memorable proposal to my girlfriend. Tough. A lot of pressure. Okay. Do you know when you're going to propose? Well, I was thinking since we listen to this podcast a lot and, you know,

you know we lost and listen to it together are you proposing to us that you do the proposal live on this podcast and when this podcast airs you'll listen to it together and she'll wait no no or are you proposing having her on or are you going to do it and then have her listen to it i think since we listen to the show so much together i think you want to wait i like the idea i like the idea

Oh, you know what? Then I got a special surprise for you too, because we've got a guy who I know who's got a beautiful singing voice.

He's got the voice of an angel who I think could help a little yeah, Kevin you want to bring him in a little bit He's a friend of me and Gareth what and he's got a wonderful Our friends Steve Berg who also played cheese on new girl sit down sit down sit down my friend watch the microphone

Oh, my God. All denim. Good morning. It's nice to have some more denim in the room. Well, now that he lives in Nebraska, he's denim on the top of the mountain. Denim cowboy. Yeah. Wow. Wow, nice shoes. Don't. Really quickly, before you gals start gabbing. Wow. And we're going to catch this guy up to where we're at. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're on the phone. What was he hiding in a broom closet while Beaubon was here? Don't worry about it. We wanted to surprise you. You did. I took a private jet here. What?

So, Jake, I'm going to catch you up and I'm going to catch everybody up in audio. One of Gareth and I's best friend in the whole world, Mr. Steven Berg. Friend of show. From the podcast that we're asking you guys to all check out called High Strangers. Steve, really quickly, give a quick pitch of what High Strangers is. Well, I love weird topics like UFOs, the paranormal, cryptozoology, and I talk with the leading experts in this field and I'm passionate about it. And let me tell you something. It's all real.

When was the last time you hit that one hitter? About 60 minutes ago. And it is wearing off and I need another dose. And so. Because I'm telling too much truth right now. Clearly. We decided, our friend Steve came in town and we decided rather than just tell Gareth he was here, we were going to surprise him on the show. Crazy. And so, Steve, you are now caught up. We are talking to a guy named Jake Johnson.

For real? For real. He's 26 years old. He's from Minnesota. Love Minnesota. Likes the Packers. He likes the Packers. He wants to propose to his girlfriend. Yeah. But the way he wants to do it is on this show right now. Then he wants to save it and listen with her when we air it. And then so that time when they air it, that'll be how she hears. So it's our job to help him come up with a beautiful pitch for

But, okay, here's the thing, right? If we're going to air this as a... First of all, it's insane. First of all, it's insane that you're all in denim. And it's insane that you're here. It's also insane that you're dressed like me. Stop it. I'm dressed cool. Chicken or the egg. You guys look like you're from Urban Outfitters. Stop it. We're...

Part of me actually is. All right, keep going. It's easy close. No, man, I look like I rode here on my motorcycle. Cool customer. Looks like you ate a chocolate motorcycle. I did as I was riding my real motorcycle. Good God. With friends like these. Eating a chocolate motorcycle is pretty good. We would air this as a call. So probably his girlfriend by now has figured out that a proposal is coming, which I actually think is okay.

Like right now they could be sitting here listening to this call. Or, or, or. We start it. Jake. Yeah. So here's what you might have to do.

You might have to find a way to not let her listen until this point. What do you think, Jake? So do you understand? Did you hear Gareth's kind of issue there? And that is as soon as she starts hearing Jake Johnson, she's going to know you're on the show. But once you do this setup and you say what you want to do, she's going to freak out. So there could be a way. And you got to tell us how your relationship works. Is there when you guys are listening together? Whose phone is it?

It's always mine. It is. Okay. Okay. So what you could do when you say you want to listen, here's what we're going to do. Kevin, will you replay the theme song? Oh, great. Yeah. No, it would be. Yeah. Well, no, there's an intro. How do we do this? No, that's what we could do right now. You can play the intro. Okay. And then we just start the call, right? Yes. Yeah.

Or we just take the call. Yeah. Cause we do that, the transitionary thing. Yep. So do that transitionary thing. We're going to start the call right now, but before we do this, actually, cause this is all pre what's your fiance's name? Emily. Emily. Okay. Jake, let's have a moment and figure out what you're going to do to propose. Okay. Okay. Uh, can you tell us a little bit about your relationship?

We are both major foodies, so we love going to different places to eat in our area. We love traveling to different countries and cities. Both huge animal lovers. Hold on, hold on. Jake, I have a big idea. Jake, I got a big idea. I think we do this. We do the transitionary music. And stay with me on this one, Jake. Tell me if you like it. We pretend Steve Berg is the caller. Oh.

We go, hey, who's this? You go, my name's Steve Berg. You go, I want to propose to my fiance. I don't know how to do it. Her name is Emily. Yeah. You do the whole thing. Then at a certain point, we stop and go, now we're going to take a pause. Jake Johnson in Minnesota. Is there anything that you want to say to your dear fiance, Emily? You say out loud, yes, there is. We'll go, then do it.

Her head will explode. Yeah, that's pretty massive. Then you jump in after it and we will all congratulate you. I like it. I got a counter pitch. Do it. We just, when we're ready, we start and J.

Jake Johnson in Minnesota is saying to Emily, I've got a new podcast I want you to listen to. It's High Strangeness. Oh, yeah. We start Steve with a little weird kind of talk. Interesting. And then we jump in and say, you're actually not listening to High Strangeness. You're listening to We're Here to Help. And this is a special message to...

to Jake Johnson and Emily in Minnesota. No, from Jake Johnson. From Jake Johnson. Okay. And then he could jump in and say, hi, Emily. I'm sure it's pretty weird for you listening to me. We're here to help. But there's something I want to say to you. And then you propose to her on the show and we all go, that's amazing. Stop. Everybody likes it. This is how it happens. This is a 4.8 on the spice level. Yeah, but in like 15 minutes, if we didn't stop him, he'd be going like, this is going to happen. And then I'm eating spaghetti for dinner. Shut up. Oh, look.

The people that we here at Helper's are going to love that. Trust me. So, Jake, right now we've got two songs. Here's the third one. Steve Berg is going to improvise a little song, and then you're just going to do that. So right now you have three options. You've got the we set it up. Steve is the fake caller on We're Here to Help. Two, we pretend this is a different podcast you really like called High Strangeness, which is a real podcast.

Then we can get his actual music or we'll do a transition in. He starts it. Then after his setup, he says he's here with Jake Johnson and Gareth Reynolds from We're Here to Help. She'll go, oh, that's why. Then we'll find a natural transition to say to the Jake Johnson. Third is you just make up a singing song and then something else happens. Where are you at, Jake Johnson? You make it up. I can do that. Give us a taste. I'm a song and dance man.

Sitting in the corner wondering to myself our crop circles real or am I fooling myself? It's not about the UFOs. It's about a human proposal. Oh, it's okay. First of all, I like that it's about crop circles, but I like anyone who rhymes myself with myself. Thank you. No, thank you. This is your Jake Johnson proposing to Emily. Oh, yeah. Go ahead. My name is Jake Johnson.

I'm part Norwegian. I love a lady named Emily. She's wonderful. She is great. She's a foodie. We went on a date and we fell in love. Oh, we fell in love.

Sometimes we go to Europe. Maybe we'll try a fun gyro. Sometimes we'll go to Tokyo and have ramen. Okay. You cut it off on food right at the perfect time. You cut it off on food sense. Not because their food is- He was halfway through ramen. Because he's hungry. Yes, but he was about to get more into starving. So, Jake, in Minnesota, where are you at, man? What do you want to do now? Let's get back to you. You're the star. Okay.

As much as I love advice from another Jake Johnson, which I really appreciate, I think Gareth is on to something. I do too. I'd like to explore that idea. Okay, so then tell us how you would like to do it that would work the best for your actual relationship. Do you want to start with Steve talking about high strangeness and then he introduces Gareth and I?

And then we, at a certain weird point, say, there's a guy named Jake Johnson. If you want, oh, you want to talk about high strangeness? Here's some high strangeness. There's a guy in Jake Johnson in Minnesota right now sitting with his fiance, Emily, and he's got something he wants to say. Then we all take a pause and then you jump in. How does that sound? No, that's pretty good. I like that a lot. She'll not expect that. So Jake, this is your life, right? We're doing bits. Is this how you want to propose to Emily?

I think it is. And don't just do what you think we want. Is this what you, because if you like it, I'm fired up. I think it's a great idea. If you guys would, you know, allow me to give a little something from the heart. Do you know what you want to say? Yes. Do you know what you want to say, Jake?

I kind of have something prepared. Great. Okay, great. So what we'll do is we'll jump into the high strangeness. Steve, you'll start. You'll say we're your guests. Yeah, you go first. Okay. Pretty quick. Yes. We'll stop. We'll say this is actually an episode of We're Here to Help. No.

Okay. Why? Why do we need that turn? Because that's for her. That's so she's like, what the fuck's going on? The turn is that he's going to talk. Yes. Why don't you also talk about our sponsors? Well, I mean, we all know if you want to get hard in 10 minutes, you take a mango RX. Hold on. It's a lot of fell and sent an awful. Bring in Gilfax.

Gil fucking Buchanan. I couldn't be more excited for you. I'll tell you what, Alice and I have been on the rocks many times. 68 and Balmy. 68 and Balmy. That's not just my age and demeanor. No, what we're going to do, Garf, that keeps it simple,

is he brings up high strangeness. Yes. You say something strange that happened. You said, do you have anything strange, Jake? I say, yes. I talk about the same name and then I'll say, hey, Jake, you got anything you want to say? All right, great. Then you do your pitch. All right, great. I mean, I do feel like you walked on the set of my movie and took the script out of my hands, but okay. Okay, Gareth, what do you want to do, honey? I like it. I like it. You like that, Jake Johnson from Minnesota?

Yeah, I think we're on the right track here. So I'll just tee it up like it's the beginning of my podcast and introduce you guys. And then you'll take it from there. Say something. I'll throw to Jake. Jake will throw to Jake. Jake will throw to Emily. And then after the thing, we'll react. And then Jake, we're going to get off after that. Does this sound good? This is really beautiful. Yeah, he means we're going to leave the call.

That's what he means, not me necessarily. Jake and Emily, when you listen to all this after, I'm sorry about that. I promise you both, I'm not going to masturbate about the compulsive. Unless it goes super, super great. It depends. It's a lot of pressure for Jake Johnson, Minnesota. Okay, so why don't we start? Steve, why don't you start your show? Whenever you're ready, I'm ready. Yeah, and then what you'll do in reality, Jake, is you'll have it paused and you'll say, I want to play you a new podcast and you'll start it right here. Yeah, okay.

Hey friends, welcome back to another episode of high strangeness tonight I have two of my best friends the entire world two guys who you probably wouldn't expect to be on a show like this talking about the weird but my friends are Gareth Reynolds and Jake Johnson straight from Hollywood, California Thanks for having us man him on the top and the bottom absolutely absolutely always denim all the time over at a Berg HQ guys

It's weird because a lot of people wouldn't realize this, but Gareth, you at a young age started having alien, I mean, this sounds weird to say, alien abductions. It does sound weird to say. Is this real? It's even weirder to go through. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. As a kid, I used to actually go to, right on Lake Michigan, we used to go down there and watch the fireworks every July 4th. Right. And one year after the fireworks were done, we thought that one of the fireworks had kind of,

gone awry. This classic, by the way. And we sort of saw what we thought was a flying saucer. And it stuck with me my whole life. But I don't want to eat up too much of the air time. But we can get back into that. But I'm sure that a Hollywood star who really is gracious and understanding to other people's time, Jake Johnson has something too. Oh, thanks so much. Yeah, I've had a lot of strangers. I know you have. The ghost in your old house by the staircase? We're not going to get into that right now, obviously. What?

This is all true, folks. Sorry, I didn't know what you wanted to talk about or not. The chandelier that talked to you? Well, I was actually trying to take the lead, obviously. Well, go ahead, Jake. You don't have to talk necessarily. I mean, whatever you want to talk about, Jake. Well, because the thing that I want to talk about... Is that the ghost near your stairs? Nah, or the talking chandelier that didn't happen. The thing that I would like to talk about that I find very strange is that obviously my name is Jake Johnson, and there's another Jake Johnson,

uh from minnesota whoa who's 26 years old i know it's really crazy and he's got a fiance named emily not yet and they've been together for three years and that other jake johnson has something that he wants to say to emily right now so jake johnson are you around i am around i'm right here well the floor is yours jake hey emily uh let's listen to jake together what do you say

She said yes, probably. Yes!

All right. Hot dog and a half. Song it up. Song it up. That is so great. Wait, what? A little song. A little song. Oh. Emily, you're beautiful. I can't imagine spending a single moment without you. Just imagine the travels we'll do. Okay. We will go to the moon because Eid

mine's gonna make it possible. We'll try something weird. Emily and Jake, congratulations. Bye, guys. Romance is alive and well. Now, we're gonna do an option two, and that is She Said No.

What's your deal? You know what? Maybe it's better this way, guys. Hey, Jake, you come to LA. You and me, we'll go out on the town. We'll find what we're looking for. There's plenty of Emilys out here. Hey, Steve, you want to give us a sad song to close us off? Emily, you've made the gravest mistake of your life. You will be

basically just so depressed deeply you'll never go to Europe you'll never try fun foods and that furry friend hey that's going with Jake not you you blew it

You failed. Your life will amount to nothing. All right. All right. Thank you. I went dark. Jake and Emily, congratulations to both of you. Jake, thank you for the call. We wish you guys a happy life together. Good luck, man. Let us know what happens. Awesome. Thank you. Bye, guys. Bye, buddy.

We're Here to Help is hosted by Jake Johnson and Gareth Reynolds. The show is produced and edited by Kevin Bartelt, and the associate producer and editor is A.J. McKean. Our social media director is Caitlin Tanwakio, and our video editor is John DeBruin. The theme song is made by Oliver Raleigh, and you can check out his music at OliverRaleigh.com. That's Oliver R-A-L-L-I dot com.

The album artwork is by James Fosdyke. You can find him on Instagram at James underscore Fosdyke, D-I-K-E. And if you'd like to see me do stand-up on the road, go to GarethReynolds.com. And if you'd like to be on the show, email us your question at HelpfulPod at gmail.com. All of the advice given on We're Here to Help is for entertainment purposes only, and all listeners should be adults and make their own decisions. That was a HeadGum Podcast.