197: Dog Communication & Don't Cry For Me, Season Tickets (with Judd Apatow)
We're Here to Help
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🗓️ 13 August 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Gareth and Jake are joined by the great Judd Apatow for this bonus episode. First, they help a caller whose dad will only talk to the dog. Then, they host a sing-off with very high stakes.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a headgum podcast. We're here to help. We're here to help. |
| 0:24.8 | We're here with Judd Apatow. Judd, do you know anything about the show? We're happy to tell you about it. |
| 0:30.2 | You help people, and that's important to me, because that's the only reason why I am in this is to help people. |
| 0:36.3 | Good. You know what? Here in your voice just made, |
| 0:39.9 | reminded me of about you, which I, first of all, thanks for joining the show. We're both big |
| 0:43.8 | fans, man. Happy to be here. But your start when you would send, when you would try to interview |
| 0:51.0 | people as a little boy. I know what do you guys feel like trying to get guests on your podcasts. |
| 0:57.1 | Garrett, do you know about what Jed did? |
| 1:00.0 | No, there's some great, there's some great stuff there. |
| 1:03.7 | And the Gary Shandling documentary, there's some great stuff in there too. |
| 1:06.8 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:07.3 | The fact that the audio exists of me at 16 before my voice broke, talking to my heroes. |
| 1:16.2 | Because everyone told you what I'd like play it for someone as a joke, but it is so embarrassing because it's like, so I know you like to do comedy, but do you also like to do acting? |
| 1:26.0 | Yeah, but it just took such guts. |
| 1:29.6 | I think I was trying to invent the podcast. |
| 1:33.5 | Yeah, you were a bad. |
| 1:34.8 | I love long form. |
| 1:36.0 | No one was into long form back then, so all those people had never done long interviews. |
| 1:41.5 | Maybe they did some morning radio or something. |
| 1:46.0 | But no one ever interviewed them. |
| 1:50.7 | That's why they said yes, because nowadays, everyone is doing long-form interviews all the time. |
| 1:51.7 | And back then, if you asked Seinfeld, it's like there was nothing on his calendar. |
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