Brian Marshall & The ROCK 108 Morning Show - "Gareth Reynolds"

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108 Morning Show, Brian Marshall.

And this individual, I was introduced to his work through the We're Here to Help podcast.

And then I see he's going to be in town at the Olympic Southside Theater Cedar Rapids.

This happening on Sunday, comedian, podcaster, actor, writer, Gareth Reynolds.

Welcome to the show.

Oh, thank you very much for having me, Brian.

I appreciate it.

And that is, uh, you really made me sound like I do a lot for someone who does very little.

Well, you and Jake Johnson, good work.

He's been on new girl.

I love the show because I was a huge fan of Love Line growing up.

And I see Jake and he kind of looks like he could be a love child of Adam Corolla.

And, uh, you're like my modern day era Dr. Drew on this one.

Oh, the idea that i am uh... consider doctor by any metric really tells you how how horrible the show has been position uh... although doctor got a little wacky so maybe that help it at you know i'd love to love line when i was like in high school and it was one of those things were like we started doing the show and then i started going you know it is very influence in that direction but again

What you had on LoveLine was you had a doctor being like, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Don't put that down your urethra.

We don't have that on We're Here to Help.

We just have two guys who are like, put it in your urethra.

The first thing that I gravitated towards was not only you guys providing the help, but I'm a guy that grabs a pencil and a notebook every once in a while.

I see you guys do that too on We're Here to Help.

We do because it's name-based.

Uh, you know, mainly so that you, you're not going like, listen, Kelsey, and they're like, I'm Shannon, or even like, I'm Heath.

Um, so it's helpful with that.

And then Jake will tell you that he started the notebook thing, but I've always been doing the notes.

But, you know, it's like when you go to a restaurant and the server doesn't write down the order, you're like, I don't love this.

Like, I don't know why they're trying to show off this skill.

And, but when the server writes it down, like there's a little, even if it's fake,

There's more comfort that I'm going to get what I want prepared properly than the server.

Like the squatting server is like, cool, got it locked in.

And you're like, I don't love that.

Get a pen, would you please?

Gareth Reynolds is our guest Sunday at the Olympic Southside Theater Cedar Rapids Tickets at theOlympicCR.com.

So you've been doing this since what, 2023 or so?

What are some of the odder pieces of advice that you've had to give to some of your callers?

I personally have given

some things that like people when I do shows like after the show like at like meet and greet thing or whatever will recount some of these things and I go I cannot believe I said that there was someone who had a co-worker who was like wouldn't wear shoes and they were like you know cubicle sharing um and the co-worker wouldn't wear shoes and so you know we were pitching back and forth and then I suggested just throwing parmesan on the floor where that workers feet go

And I said Parmesan on the floor.

And so people after the show will be like, Parmesan on the floor.

And I'm like, I'm not trying to lead some sort of movement of like, let's Parmesan on the floor.

But, you know, that was an insane one.

The amount of times where I'm like, look, I'm not saying you lie, but a lie will really help you here.

Like there's a lot of our, it's like,

soft, non-consequential lies.

We built a website.

We had a woman who wanted to go to like an S&M thing for a week.

And she was kind of, she wanted like to convince her boss that she was going to like a theater study thing.

And we built her a website that her, like her boss was like, Hey, I'd really love to check it out.

So we built a website that

sold the lie that there was this theater thing she was going to, but it was sold out for the next two years.

We really have a budget for our lives, which honestly is helpful.

That's how our government functions, honestly.

Not just we're here to help, but the dollop where you tell crazy stories from American history.

If the dollop is 40 years down the line, what kind of crazy stories are you telling from today?

It could just be an endless dream of today.

You know, when we started this, we started the show in what, like, 2014 and we were, it was so enjoyable to just do a reflective, gosh, we used to be bonkers and like, you know, you'd soft compare it to today.

Now we, the amount of time, we don't even do the thing anymore where we go, hey, nothing like today, you know, because it's so obvious, but today is totally crazy.

It is endlessly insane.

Uh, what is happening now?

It's almost, I had friends forever that were going like, we live in a simulation and I'm like, boy, would you stop with that stuff?

The past like two years, I've been like, all right, walk me through this simulation.

Cause it's feeling super scripted for sweet.

We're getting ready to go for the, uh, real housewives of, uh, drones of New Jersey too.

So

like that's the drone thing.

I'm like, is it real?

Like I'm like a grandma now where I'm like, what's real?

What's real?

What is actually happening?

So your stand-up show, this is a lot different.

It's got to allow, you know, a little bit of a different vibe than obviously podcasts.

Cause you get immediate reaction, but you also interact with the audience at your stand-up shows.

It's interesting because it's like I've, my roots are in improv.

That's how I met Jake.

Jake and I met at a improv place, you know, 15, 16 years ago.

So I'm, I'm like, you know, improv based.

And then I realized very quickly in LA that nobody cares about improv.

I went to my first stand-up club and I was like, what the?

So there are people going to shows?

And I mightily struggled against it, but eventually kind of made that switch.

But I still do love improv.

I mean, I kind of write a lot of my stuff while riffing on stage a little bit, which honestly, if someone said that to me, I'd be like, I'm not going to go see this show, but I promise it's actually entertaining.

And then crowd work has sort of become a component of

you know, online stand-up clips now.

I know a lot of people vilify them and genuinely understand why.

There is a lot you can get from a conversation, you know, where you're not going like, this guy's got shoes, they're dorkies.

You know, I really enjoy mucking it up.

I talked to a guy last night, there was a guy at my show last night, who sneezed, and when I said Gesundheit, he goes, that was a cough.

And throughout the show,

I just started digging deeper and deeper with him and it was like he's dealt with this problem his whole life it was from when he ran into a table when he was a kid the doctor who did the surgery used glue on his nose you know so it's like I had no choice but to talk to this individual um

You know, I have a lot of scripted material.

I'm working on an hour, but it's safe to say that, uh, that sometimes it can go a little sideways in a good, in a good way.

So the good news is, is that the Cedar Rapids show, if you're traveling along with Gareth Reynolds across the country, no two shows are the same.

That is very safe to say.

And sometimes that's good and sometimes that's bad.

I had a show the other night where I kept trying to engage with people and I was going, boy, you, this is the most boring audience ever.

You know,

You could, if you went and saw five of my shows and there are people who do that.

And I honestly hope that someone, Dr. Drew wellness checks them.

There are people who do that and they do it because yeah, there's, I'm always trying out new stuff and it can be interactive or it can be just kind of, it's very off the cuff at times.

From the dollop podcast, from the, we're here to help podcast and going to be live Sunday, Olympics, outside theater and Cedar Rapids.

Gareth Reynolds, thanks so much for being on the show.

Where can they find you online?

well i won't plug my only fan that i'm not gonna lie that that's where the lowest numbers are uh... you can find me out you know my website which is here at reynolds dot com uh... there's one are in garrison a lot of people like to throw the pirate are in the middle of just one hour uh... and you can follow me up social media at reynolds garrison all that junk and uh... and let them in enjoy the ride were on

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