Josh and Helen REUNITE! with Yvette Nicole Brown

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Speaker 1 And I'm Ben Sopper. And we're the good guys.

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Speaker 1 Mazz and Warrens, welcome back to the Good Guys Podcast. I'm sitting here with a person who's endorsed by nine out of ten healthcare professionals, and the 10th one's anti-Semitic.
It's Ben Soper.

Speaker 1 And I am here with literally somebody that we've wanted to have on the podcast for so long, Yvette Brown. You don't even know.
You don't even know what you're doing for us today. What?

Speaker 1 Today, folks, we have Helen and Josh. Josh literally never lets us talk about Drake and Josh.
And that's all we're going to do today. That's all we're going to do.

Speaker 1 So, folks, welcome to the movie theater. I'm Crazy Steve.
Let's get going. Oh, wow.

Speaker 1 Exciting.

Speaker 3 You never let them talk about Drake and Josh.

Speaker 1 No, we talk about it. He hates it.
He hates it.

Speaker 1 No, this is good, though, because you know why? Yvette, you were paid and Josh just wasn't.

Speaker 3 Trust me, I was not paid. Yvette was not paid.
I was definitely not paid.

Speaker 1 Are you kidding me? No, nothing. There are no residuals for adults either?

Speaker 3 I mean, allegedly, it's like maybe $20 or something. Like, it's not, you don't get anything?

Speaker 1 Get started. Get received more than Josh.
You don't get anything? Oh, it's a big donut. It's a bagel.

Speaker 3 Oh, that's a shame because they air that crap like crazy. But I will say this, it took me probably 10 years before I got anything because they prepay.

Speaker 3 There's some weird, you probably have talked about it on the pod, but we signed a contract, not with Nickelodeon directly.

Speaker 3 We signed a contract with, I don't even remember the name of the, the, the company. And then that company would then pay us money.

Speaker 3 But you basically agreed to that company that they're going to, whatever they pay over scale, they get to eat up in residuals until you eat it up.

Speaker 3 And so I finally, after 10 years, got to the point where, and I wasn't getting that much over scale.

Speaker 1 Trust me.

Speaker 3 But it took about 10 years before I would start seeing $20 or $30. Oh, wow.
Yeah. You see nothing? That's, I would sue.

Speaker 1 Can I? I think you can.

Speaker 1 ben i don't know if we can but i'm down no but i mean that's ridiculous because they run that show to this day like crazy like oh yeah i've made my peace with it and by that i mean i'm on a lot of antidepressants

Speaker 1 oh that's so upsetting yeah what can you do i it's just it it is interesting that they they did get they got us at a bit of a bargain i'll say especially you guys i mean you i only did i think 14 or 15 episodes total people think i was on every episode i was not That was your power.

Speaker 1 That's how good. That really, that says a lot about who you are, how beloved your character was, and just how talented you are.
Thank you, Fran.

Speaker 1 You were, it felt like you were a cast member on every episode.

Speaker 3 Yeah, you know, it's funny. I, if I get stopped on the street, I think I get stopped for Drake and Josh more than anything, even more than community.
People still love Helen.

Speaker 3 And I'm like, it was 15 episodes, you know, 20 years ago, but yeah, they still, they still love the old girl.

Speaker 1 For me, it's Turner and Hooch. It's weird.
Is it really? People don't really know.

Speaker 1 They don't love drinking Josh.

Speaker 1 They certainly don't know Turner and Hooch.

Speaker 1 I'm not good in a duo. I think we realized.

Speaker 1 As a consumer, I can say Helen was just iconic. And really, the relationship that the two of you had on that show, the movie theater was just like, it was the best.
Like that was.

Speaker 1 The laughs were non-stop.

Speaker 1 I was going to ask, what was it like working with a young Josh?

Speaker 3 You know what's so funny?

Speaker 3 Every time I see, I'm almost like close to a tear every time I see your little face because one, Drake and Josh was the first, first or second thing I did that was actually something that endured beyond like one episode or something.

Speaker 3 And I had done a pilot before. I did two episodes of Girlfriends, a pilot that I didn't know was going to become a show.

Speaker 3 And that's why one episode, Helen's not there, because the show got picked up and I had to go and do it. I told you a story before, right?

Speaker 1 Oh, well, tell the story because I was going to say that there is, if people want to do a deep dive, there's an episode where the Helen.

Speaker 3 That's not me that's not helen frances collier played helen for one episode she's awesome she is amazing really funny so i booked this show called the big house which was kevin hart's first sitcom we did the pilot and then i in between that pilot being shot i booked drake and josh so i came to do my what was supposed to be one episode of helen it was going to be she was just going to do one guest star and then they decided they wanted to bring helen back by the time they wanted to bring helen back the big house had gotten picked up and i thought i was about to be on an abc show and i wouldn't be able to get away so they ended up recasting helen because they needed her in the show.

Speaker 3 So new Helen is there. And then by the time they wanted to bring Helen back for the third time, Big House had been fire, been canceled.
So we did six episodes and were canceled.

Speaker 3 So then I was free again and that's how I was able to come back. So that's the Helen saga.

Speaker 1 God bless a cancellation. Oh, good.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And a young Joshi.

Speaker 3 What was that? Yes. Okay.
So the thing about a young Josh Peck is that he has always been, don't look, I don't want to look at you while I say this. I'm going to look at the camera.

Speaker 3 He's always been very talented, very very professional, an old, old man. He's always been an old, old man.
So we were just talking out in the lobby about it.

Speaker 3 Me and Josh, it was my really kind of the first thing I ever did. And you had just been in Hollywood just a little bit of time.
And so we have never been Hollywood. To this day, we're not Hollywood.

Speaker 3 We're in it, but not of it. So we would see shenanigans on set and tantrums and people acting up in a thousand different ways.
And me and Josh, he's like 12 and I'm 28, 29, 30.

Speaker 3 We're like, I don't know why they're misbehaving in this way. Like it just, we just never were in on the valley hoo.
Sure. You know, for the most part.

Speaker 3 And so every time I see you, I'm so proud of you, of the man that you've become. You've never changed.

Speaker 3 You've always had just a heart of gold and been just the sweetest person, which is so funny that Helen hated Josh so much. But, you know, Yvette loved Josh.
Like, you're just, you're just lovely.

Speaker 1 Well, you're a little gumdrop. You're the greatest.
And truthfully,

Speaker 1 it needs to be said that there were two cases on Drake and Josh, I remember, of characters who came on who became in an instant. And it really, look, inevitably, it's like words are words.

Speaker 1 And especially when you have the core cast of a show, these people have been, you know, really,

Speaker 1 there's been basically like a surgery done to these characters where it's like every nuance has been worked out. And,

Speaker 1 you know. All the creatives have figured out exactly what your sparkle is and how to integrate that into the character.
A guest star, you kind of don't know what it's going going to be, right?

Speaker 1 The first time around. Absolutely.
And it was you and Jerry Trainer. Jerry Trainer.
Crazy Steve. So John.

Speaker 1 We did literally take one and they were like, give them all the parts. Like, done.

Speaker 1 And there were plenty of people who came and did a nice job with their two scenes and then they didn't come back.

Speaker 1 But you and Jerry Trainer, they were like, gotcha.

Speaker 3 It was so great.

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Speaker 3 I remember there was the scene where you come in and you say, when I said, give me a hot dog. And you say, do you want me to put mustard on it?

Speaker 3 I'll never forget your line reading because it was sober. You want me to put mustard on it.
It's not going to put mustard on itself.

Speaker 3 And that, for me, was when it clicked that these two were going to be nemesis and it was going to be really funny. And, you know, I think that you and I had a lot of chemistry.
So it was really great.

Speaker 1 When did you, now you were also, and I remember because we were like, we were our own little buddy comedy. Yes, we were.
Yeah. And then Josh lost about a hundred pounds and his mind.

Speaker 1 And I was,

Speaker 1 I was on a funny island.

Speaker 1 Just, and we call it cliché island. And Yvette was, you know, was perfect, but was the kind of person was, that was not going to hide her disapproval.

Speaker 3 I was very disappointed.

Speaker 1 Because

Speaker 3 you had been my little gumdrop and you had been my, my steady and my buddy. And, you know, I, the thing is, I was scared for you.
Like I was scared.

Speaker 3 I was scared that this Hollywood beast had gotten you. And I felt like, you know, what was beautiful about you has always been your heart.
Right.

Speaker 3 And I felt like you were losing the the connection to what made you special.

Speaker 3 And not that you have to be anything for me or for anybody else, but I felt like you had already withstood so many of the other things that this business tries to do to you.

Speaker 3 And I just was like, oh, come on, baby, come back. Like, don't, don't let this take you away.
And so I always felt like your mama.

Speaker 3 And so I just felt like there were a couple of times where I was like, let me just kind of peek in and see if I can see if he's still in there and kind of tell him, you know, I think we had one blow up on set.

Speaker 1 My feelings were hurt.

Speaker 3 I was hurt because you spoke to me in a way that I never, my sweet little baby never would have said. And I can't even remember what it was about.
I really don't remember.

Speaker 3 But I just remember I, I had over, and in fairness, I had overstepped my bounds because I wasn't your mother. And I had said something to you like, you know, like, well, what are you doing?

Speaker 3 Or I can't remember what it was. And you, you told me that, listen here.

Speaker 1 And I was like, well, damn.

Speaker 3 The baby then told me what, you know, so I had a moment where I was just like, and that's when I was, that's when I knew that it was time for me to let you be who you were.

Speaker 3 And if you were going to come back, you would. And you did.
You found your way back.

Speaker 1 So yeah. Well, thank you.
And I, I think at that time, how I, oh, Ben, Ben looks like he's going to need therapy after this. I would watch that movie.
No, what do you mean? I don't need therapy.

Speaker 1 That is fucking, that is beautiful. Do you understand, Josh? The rise and fall and then the rise again.
And Yvette is there. And it's just, there is something to pitch.

Speaker 1 Don't I know it? This is like the happy version of a star is born. Without worrying and suing the

Speaker 1 and taking that money and self-funding this production

Speaker 1 this will be funded by nick i you know and i look back at that time and while i'm not like proud of acting like a total cliche or out of pocket as the children say or just

Speaker 1 not being myself i also look at that time of being like that was really from 17 to 21 where kids are especially stupid yeah and testing boundaries and and i had been working since i was so young And you had been so good.

Speaker 3 Like this is the thing. Up until that point, there was nothing on your list of misdeeds.
Nothing. You had been that kid.

Speaker 3 And so almost if you had made it to adulthood and not had a moment where you were out there a little bit.

Speaker 1 Drinking. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Would you, yeah, come on.

Speaker 3 You have to be to write up.

Speaker 1 You'd be a square. This is good.
Yeah. I like this.
You'd be a total square. You'd be like, I don't know.

Speaker 1 You're a square. I literally am a total square now.
It's funny. Like I have one best friend who got sober at this, around around the same time I did.

Speaker 1 And, you know, but we were running buddies because we were both using it at the same time. And everyone will be so kind to me now in my life.

Speaker 1 And he goes, let me just make it clear about who good old Josh was before you met him.

Speaker 3 I didn't even know the extent of it. I just knew, I knew that it was something.
You know what I mean? And I, and again, it was not my place to be like, what are you doing?

Speaker 3 What, you know, I said what I could say and then I let, I just prayed and hoped that it would be okay. But I just, I don't remember it being a long span of time.

Speaker 3 And I do remember you bringing yourself yourself back from the brink of what it was. Cause I think you've always wanted more for your life than what this, this industry has to offer.

Speaker 3 I think you always could kind of see,

Speaker 1 this ain't it.

Speaker 3 You know what I mean? You dip a toe in, but you don't, you didn't stay.

Speaker 1 Oh, no, thanks. Ben is the celebrity over here.
He's the one who loves the entire scene. Love it.
Because I'm an outsider. I'm not an actor.
I love it.

Speaker 1 I love just the intricacies, the inside baseball of it all. Yeah.

Speaker 1 What was it like working with snot-nosed kids?

Speaker 3 You know what? I feel that the kids on Nickelodeon and also on Disney, because I did some Disney stuff too, were really consummate professionals for the most part.

Speaker 3 Like, and also because I was the adult there, they weren't showing me what they were doing. I didn't know and I didn't want to know.
You know what I mean? I would do my job and I would go home.

Speaker 3 And I'm the same way now on sets. Like, I go to work.
I do my job. I make friends.
I'm kind and all that. But if you're going to the party, I don't go to the parties.
I don't go to the after parties.

Speaker 3 You're not going to see me on any tapes of nothing. I'm at the house doing Lego.

Speaker 1 That's the right way to do it. I never understood people.
Corporate America going to a happy hour. What are you trying to prove? Exactly.
You don't have any regular friends?

Speaker 1 I think you just got the exclusive. Yvette, you're in the Lego? Oh, I love Lego.
What are we talking about? 500 piece, 2,000?

Speaker 1 I love Lego. I love Lego.
You love Lego. I love Tasmania.
I love Lego, too. Let me tell you something.

Speaker 3 No, I love Lego more than y'all.

Speaker 1 The amount of 10,000 piece Legos I made during COVID.

Speaker 3 Oh, literally. COVID, it was crazy times.
Like, I'll I'll say this, I have not reached the Titanic Eiffel Tower level just because I don't have the space. I have the skill.

Speaker 3 I just don't have the space.

Speaker 3 But I think the biggest I did was probably Batman's Lair, and then I did the Black Panther. If you saw my house, I have the Pac-Man Machine.
I have Nintendo and Atari. I have the Disney Castle.

Speaker 3 I have everything Star Wars. I have R2D2, Grogu, Yoda, Darth Vaders.
I have some of the dioramas from Star Wars. Trying to think what else I have, Stranger Things.
I literally build Lego all the time.

Speaker 1 Oh, you're the coolest. And every vehicle.

Speaker 3 Every vehicle that comes out, I make.

Speaker 1 And do you keep them? Like, are you one of the people that like puts that like, what is it, like glue around

Speaker 1 this?

Speaker 3 No, I don't keep them to stay. I've started to, there's some that are nostalgic for me.
Like, I love, I build Winnie the Pooh and Sesame Street.

Speaker 3 Those sets, the Sesame Street set is, is one of my, is my favorite build I've ever done. And then I have like all the friends and I have Seinfeld and I have the office.

Speaker 3 So when I build it and I don't feel a nostalgic sentimental thing, I will break it up, put it into the huge Ziploc bags and give it to Goodwill because there's some kid that can't afford it that would love the chance to build it.

Speaker 3 So I put all of the instructions in there and all the pieces and someone else can have the joy.

Speaker 3 If it's something that's special to me, like my Pac-Man machine or my Atari, I'm going to keep it forever.

Speaker 3 So in my office, I have shelves and so I put them in there or on display in the house, different places in the house.

Speaker 1 Legos really saved you.

Speaker 3 It really is. It really saved me.
You know, I started doing it. when my mother passed because it's a very, you can, any, this is, sorry here, we're going to get serious for a minute, children.

Speaker 3 If you are dealing with any type of grief, the best way to deal with it is to take your mind off it, right? So things like knitting, puzzles, drawing.

Speaker 1 Star set. Sorry.
Stop it. It's my brain.
Lego, stop it.

Speaker 3 Anything that gets you, stop it, gets you in the flow. You guys know that flow.

Speaker 3 Like if you're an artist, when you start painting or drawing, there's a moment when you look up and 12 hours, five hours have passed and you're like, what, where'd the time go? That's the flow.

Speaker 3 So anything you can do to get you in the flow is good for grief. And so Lego was the flow for me.
So that's when I got into it. I'm better now, but I I still enjoy it.

Speaker 3 When I need to take my mind off things, I'll start building.

Speaker 1 Have you had a Lego sponsorship? I don't, Lego, come on and call me.

Speaker 3 I don't know what I got to do to get a sponsorship. This is

Speaker 1 one of the biggest

Speaker 1 biggest podcasts in the world. And I'm just saying, brands, listen.
So, Lego, let's go. Come on.

Speaker 3 Yeah, they didn't send me one. They sent me the piano.
I made that, they sent me the grand piano for my birthday one year, which was worth the price of admission. So, that might be enough.

Speaker 1 But this is how you stay a good person. You do Lego, you mind your business, do Lego, don't go to a freak freak off.
That should be,

Speaker 1 that's the motto. Listen, worked for me, right? Worked for me.
God. I love Lego.
Big fan. Huge fan.
Huge. Do you remember when we had a young Diana Agron as a I do?

Speaker 3 One of Drake's people. He had a lot of, aren't there a lot of now famous people that cycled through Drake and Josh?

Speaker 1 I think Vanessa Hudgins. Yep, she was there.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I remember, I remember this, the episode with Diana. She was at the premiere.

Speaker 3 They were meeting at the premiere for a date, which might be that, you know, every person he dated met at the premiere for a date, but I remember her.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I remember that you were so adorably pure.
And Diana, I loved it.

Speaker 1 And Diana, you know, I don't think she wasn't on glee yet, so she wasn't quite famous, but she was as lovely as she's always been and so wonderful and beautiful.

Speaker 1 And I just remember, I was like in my funny weight stage then, where I like, I had long eyebrows and about 60 pounds to go. And

Speaker 1 no, no, wait, no, I had long sideburns, not long eyebrows.

Speaker 1 I was going to say, what the fuck is a long eyebrow?

Speaker 1 I had long sideburns and about 60 pounds to go. And I remember you so sweetly came up to me and said, now that's the kind of girl you should go on a date with.
Maybe that's when we had the blow up.

Speaker 1 Was that when we had the blow up? You were like, don't tell me who that date Yvette is.

Speaker 1 No, you said you were like, you should, you should have been a sweet little girl.

Speaker 1 I was like, Yvette, thank you for believing in me.

Speaker 1 But I don't think that's ever going to happen.

Speaker 3 Oh, I think she would have loved you, honey.

Speaker 1 Well, let's ask her. Diana, come on, I think come in.

Speaker 3 Oh, that's funny. I was always, I'm a matchmaker at heart.
I love to see young people get together.

Speaker 1 Love that. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So, Ben, tell me more about your experience with like a healthy childhood. You know, me and Bruce, Bruce is my father, parking on the couch and we watch Drake and Josh.

Speaker 1 And then when my sister got old enough, she watched too. Like,

Speaker 1 we loved that show. Oh, how did you guys become friends? I think also, like, I was, I'm still fat, but I've, I've lost 70 pounds.
So Zempic is a miracle. Wow.
A miracle event.

Speaker 1 But as like a fat, I don't know, 13 year old watching Josh was the best. Like I, I can't, like, there was just like, and it's, it's so funny because we really never talk about it.

Speaker 1 And Josh and I have been doing this podcast for over two years now and we're best friends. But like watching him then, it's just, it was, it was finally somebody relatable on TV.

Speaker 3 How did you guys become friends?

Speaker 1 How did this we met through,

Speaker 1 I think the first time was like through DMs, like maybe five or six years ago, but I used to work in marketing and I brought Josh a deal for Little Caesars.

Speaker 1 And he was kind enough to send me a beautiful gift card for a wonderful steakhouse called Nastros. And

Speaker 1 somehow, some way we became friends because we have very similar Yiddishy-Jewish humor and overbearing mothers and obesity. And just the list sort of goes on.
But it's been 20 years. No, no, no.

Speaker 1 There was never

Speaker 1 linked by obesity. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Really leave with the negative.

Speaker 1 There was never like another fat boy on TV. I don't know.
It just was so nice and hysterical.

Speaker 1 Do you ever deal with, like, I will say recently, I've been promoting this new show that I host called Best Spite Wins on Roku. And it's about hors d'oeuvres and everything.

Speaker 1 And Ben and I talk about this.

Speaker 1 You know, it's, I appreciate it, but sometimes people will bring the weight up to me and I'll be like, it was 20 years ago,

Speaker 1 but I can honor that when I had something that was probably my most popular thing, I looked different.

Speaker 3 And then, and it's still airing like it was yesterday. That's the other thing.
They just saw you, you know, as that little boy. Yes.
That's probably what it is. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And so I was doing this interview with this guy on the radio and he clearly didn't do a bunch of research. He was like quoting things.
He's like, so what's it like? I'm grandfathered.

Speaker 1 I'm like, it was canceled nine years ago. It's gone.
It's gone.

Speaker 1 It's bad but and then he brought up the show and he's like you know you're you're hosting this food show and you've lost all this weight is that do you find that triggering oh my god what a idiot i was like would you save it oprah i mean not not to disparage oprah it could never be oprah but i'm like dog and and i just I was like, how do I get out of this elegantly, but make it like, but have a, the smallest boundary for myself.

Speaker 1 Right. And I said, you know, I understand why you're asking.
I said, I lost the weight 20 years ago, so it's not really an issue for me anymore. Yeah.
And that was it. And he just,

Speaker 1 I would have lit him up. Like, what a fucking loser.

Speaker 1 What would you say? Here, let's role play. Let's role play.
Let's role play. Okay, good, go.
Okay, I'm going to be the radio host. You're the radio host.

Speaker 1 Do you want to be Ben's publicist? I will. Okay, Ben's publicist.
Okay, okay. That's a publicist.
I'll be the radio disc shocking. So, Ben, you know, you used to be a big, fat, fat, fatty.

Speaker 1 Oh, big, fat, huge. Oh, I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 Ben, Ben, Ben, Ben, Ben. Excuse me, sir.
I'm sorry. That's inappropriate.
Ben, we gave him a list of things not to bring up. Your weight was one of them.

Speaker 3 So I'm going to ask him to please move on to the next question.

Speaker 1 Oh, we're live. Ben, what's it like working on this incredible food show? Best Bite Wins on Roku and having to see all that food all the time.
Ben. You're a fatty.
Ben, fucking. Ben, Ben, fatty.

Speaker 1 Bastard. Okay, we're going to end this interview right now because it's just bastard.
All right.

Speaker 1 Fuck Ben. You ever seen the win?

Speaker 1 You look like Ben, Ben. Fucking Brendan Freddy.

Speaker 1 Bastard? Hold on.

Speaker 1 I'll play the president of Disney. Bring your name and call it all the kids.
Yeah. Event.
Yes. I'm watching this live.
You are. Ben's having a meltdown and just told the host

Speaker 1 to go fuck himself. He said the host was fast.

Speaker 3 I know, sir. Ben has been triggered.
And

Speaker 3 we had asked him not to say anything about Ben's weight. And you know how this is.
This is NG.

Speaker 1 It's not good.

Speaker 3 I know it's not good, sir. But we're going to, listen, he's going to go go to rehab.
He's going to apologize first. And he's going to go to rehab.
And he's going to say that he's in anger management.

Speaker 3 And this will be gone in like 48 hours. Yes.

Speaker 1 You're right. Wow.
Thank you. Excellent.
Well done. To improvise with the professional, bro.
That was phenomenal. But really, I would have like, what? That's such a weird question.

Speaker 1 How do you feel around food? What does he think you eat from a tube?

Speaker 1 Like, yeah, he still has lunch and dinner and he lives on planet Earth. How do you feel around food, Josh?

Speaker 3 it's weird to bring up people's bodies anyway you know what i mean like i'm not happy to hear that it happens to men too but at least i feel better knowing that it happens to men too why are we discussing people's bodies and how do you know how does he know that you didn't lose the weight because you were sick you know what i mean like what are you doing also should i go back to because people ask me they go oh you lost all that weight why i have diabetes and i'm trying to keep my feet yeah so i can't eat the sugar that i used to eat you know what i mean you want to see my a1c numbers like it's none of your business what's going on in my body it's my body.

Speaker 3 You know what I mean? It's so weird. It's just weird.

Speaker 1 I love that answer. I want to keep my feet.

Speaker 1 I do.

Speaker 3 It's really the reason why I was like, I got to stop eating this food like this.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no. I got sick.

Speaker 3 So, what are you going to do?

Speaker 1 That could be a good campaign. Keep the feet.
Keep the feet.

Speaker 1 Keep the feet. Put down the sugar.
Keep the feet.

Speaker 1 We here at Shigovi want to keep the feet.

Speaker 1 If you want to kick the sugar, you have to keep the feet. Keep the feet.

Speaker 1 Because you can't kick.

Speaker 3 Ben, I also like deals from Little Caesars.

Speaker 1 Do you have any files? I got you. Looking forward.

Speaker 1 While I may be out of that game, I'm still in the game of finding people money.

Speaker 1 Josh for money. We're getting them some good deals.
At a minimum, we're getting you Lego. I'm telling you.
Please. Lego's going to hang out.

Speaker 3 That's easy. I would love that.

Speaker 1 This is going to be big time.

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Speaker 1 Should we get to some stories, Ben? Yeah. Yeah.
Weird stories, though. Uh-oh.
Something weird. Uh-oh.

Speaker 1 Well, it's worth talking about that a nursing home releases bizarre job listing to bring sexy back to elderly patients.

Speaker 1 A tongue-in-cheek recruitment ad for a $145,000 aged care position has promised to bring sexy back to the female-dominated industry.

Speaker 1 Mars Recruitment uploaded several ads to seek on Tuesday for clinical nurse manager positions available for an unnamed aged care not-for-profit provider with the headline, bring sexy back to aged care.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 okay, so it's in Australia.

Speaker 1 And maybe aged care will never be labeled as sexy, but let me tell you what it always was and always is and always will be absolutely undeniably beautiful. So it doesn't sound like it's anything.

Speaker 3 I still understand

Speaker 3 what do you do with that? Do you dress sexy? Do you bring what? What is the job?

Speaker 1 Well, I think the job is, I think it's dressing sexy.

Speaker 3 Dressing sexy for the older people.

Speaker 1 I think so. For the old people, which I just want to know, they're talking about bringing sexy back.
Were people like looking sexy in old age homes? Is that a thing?

Speaker 3 I don't know that that's ever been a thing.

Speaker 1 Well, there is the sexy nurse, right? So I've heard, which is like, I don't know, if you want to wear a revealing figs, that's up to you.

Speaker 3 These guys can't even see there are some figs that are or scrubs that are very tight though You know it says a lot how someone wears their scrubs Say more. You know what I mean?

Speaker 3 Because like I my dad I'm a caregiver and so my dad had a fall recently So we were in hospitals and nurse nursing rehabs and all that and some of some of the people like to show what they got in the scrubs and some people like to wear like a burlap sack I think it depends on who you are as a person.

Speaker 3 Like there's some that wear their scrubs so tight. I'm like, how are you sitting down without ripping the seams off of those scrubs?

Speaker 1 You wouldn't know it, but at one point in time, I was a dental hygienist's assistant. Okay.
I wore those scrubs. How did you wear your scrubs?

Speaker 3 Were they tight or were they loose?

Speaker 1 Loose as a goose.

Speaker 3 Loose as a goose when I wear them. I sleep in scrubs sometimes.
They're very loose.

Speaker 1 Me at 280 pounds with tight scrubs,

Speaker 1 they would have closed the office.

Speaker 1 The answer Yankee Stadium with a rain delay. Just a tarp.

Speaker 1 Oh, no. Wait, you sleep in scrubs? They're very comfortable.
What's the comfortable scrub? It's like a nice choice. It's like nice pajamas.

Speaker 3 Not all the time, but yes.

Speaker 1 What's your scrub brand?

Speaker 3 Oh, gosh. Fix is good.

Speaker 1 Cherokee's got some nice ones.

Speaker 1 I was a Dickie's man.

Speaker 3 Oh, Dickie's is old school. Dickie's is old school.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Well, I didn't know.
Since you guys brought it up, do you guys want to hear the STD rates in nursing homes over the past 20 years? Sure. Got some statistics.
Sure. Thank you, AI.

Speaker 3 Bring sexy back.

Speaker 1 The most common STDs diagnosed in patients over 60 years old are, well, we've got the herp at 16%

Speaker 1 or assorted others at 29%.

Speaker 1 I mean, yeah, it's a lot. It's hot.

Speaker 1 STDs are hot in nursing homes.

Speaker 3 This is why, though, because there's no fear of pregnancy. So a lot of them are not strapping up because of that, probably.

Speaker 1 I've never even thought about it, though. People are fucking in nursing homes and giving each other herpes.
Oh, it's big, Ben. Apparently they are.
Holy crap.

Speaker 1 My my grandmother who was a daughters of israel don't finish this in north new jersey don't do it don't tell us about your

Speaker 1 my grandmother was sour and sweet my boy because she would say it's wonderful here they bring me my juice every morning i love it here and that's my favorite nurse michael i love you michael michael would leave the room and she'd go he steals

Speaker 1 don't think so, Grandma. She's like, I haven't seen three out of four of my Werthers butterscotch.

Speaker 1 Like, dog, no one's stealing your Werthers.

Speaker 3 Werthers are stealable, though.

Speaker 1 Delicious. They're very delicious.

Speaker 1 They're fantastic. They really are.
But you can't go with the sugar-freeze. I recently had a bad, I had a bad run.
I had a bad run in Yvette with sugar-free candy last week. Bad.

Speaker 1 I went in, got a bunch of it, like the jelly beans and the Werthers and all this stuff. Oh, man, my stomach was not.

Speaker 3 It's not good sugar-free. Like my thing is, if you're going to do it, get the sugar, just don't eat a lot of it.

Speaker 3 And listen, I think you can't really appreciate Werthers till you're at least 40.

Speaker 3 You can't, before that, it's just disgusting. But when you turn 40, you eat a Werthers and it stays in your mouth for about 20 hours because Werthers takes forever to dissolve.

Speaker 3 That's what's so great about it. You can do one and just like, you can't bite it, Ben.

Speaker 1 You got to let it dissolve. Oh, I bite it.
You can't bite it. That is unbelievable.
It's out of control. My Werther is done in 30 minutes.

Speaker 1 That's why you both look like, what, 20 hours if you just let it dissolve you can have worther's deliciousness for hours at a time on one wow what do you ever have moments like a cheat day where you're like i don't want to lose a foot but this is so good i'll i'll i'll lose a toe yeah like what what do you go for you know i'm on a mike and ike kick right now

Speaker 3 and it's dangerous you you like sugar i yeah i mean i ate myself into diabetes with it and you know what else is really good tootsie roll has these things called fruities so it's like fruit yep olivia's like yes.

Speaker 3 It's fruit-flavored Tootsie Rolls, but they are the most flavor-rich fruit flavor you can have. Better than Starburst, better than Mamba.
It's just concentrated lime or cherry or whatever.

Speaker 3 They're called fruities. They're so good by Tootsie Roll.

Speaker 1 Oh, yum.

Speaker 1 Are you a Twizzler person?

Speaker 1 Are you a Twizzler person?

Speaker 3 It's not sweet enough for me.

Speaker 1 Have you ever had the individually wrapped Twizzlers?

Speaker 3 No, because it's like a hint of sugar.

Speaker 3 I don't like a hint of anything. Like if I'm going to do it, I'm going to do it.

Speaker 3 I don't want a flavor type of thing. It needs to be the flavor.
And so, Twizzlers is sort of like strawberry or sort of like cherry. I want to get in.
Give me cherry.

Speaker 1 So, like a peach ring. Yes.
Do you like a peach ring? Yes. Or like a, what about like a nerd's rope or a nerd's?

Speaker 3 A nerd's rope will send me right into diabetes heaven and I'll go smiling. I'll look at Sweet Jesus and go, welcome.
I made it.

Speaker 1 Nerd's cluster. Oh, you know those little, the little ones?

Speaker 1 Please, unbelievable.

Speaker 1 whenever whenever you're whenever you're ready you're like all right i don't need my feet you call me oh we're eating who makes those like why do they do that it's a texture i try it's a it's a tech it's that's what it is it's a texture play i didn't realize i was into it but one bite of those things and the whole bag is gone yeah

Speaker 3 i fly with those i only give them to myself when i fly you know what else is really good you guys hot tamales yvet's booking a trip to san francisco

Speaker 3 Hot tamales are delicious. Never liked them as a kid.
They're delicious now. That little cinnamon goodness.
Yeah,

Speaker 1 Mike and I, they're amazing. What do you do?

Speaker 1 Ben, what does your lovely, beautiful wife love as a little snackaroo other than you?

Speaker 1 She loves a Hershey kiss.

Speaker 1 Big, big Hershey kiss stamp. She likes also like a Hershey's bar.
She likes like a chocolate bar. She's actually more of like a savory.
She loves a pretzel or like a potato chip.

Speaker 1 She's far less like candy candy yeah for me if you put like i'm the same as you eat that if you put one nerd gummy cluster in front of me the whole bag is gone

Speaker 1 and if you give me one chocolate bar if you bought up thing i could eat chocolate until i died

Speaker 1 halloween halloween is dangerous for me like there have been years where like i would go and like i'm that kid that goes like in the in the building steals the whole bucket of candy and i ate it all that night like 200 pounds yikes

Speaker 1 yeah snickers Snickers. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 3 Snickers. Oh, Snickers are great.

Speaker 1 Well, there's another big story, which is swinging couple reveal how they got started and their major rules for intimacy. Oh.

Speaker 1 A couple who have been together since 2009 reveal the conversation that sparked their swinging lifestyle.

Speaker 1 Of course, this is Olivia and Gage, because only a guy named Gage could be in a successful open relationship.

Speaker 1 Long story short, it was a mutual decision, conversations happening over a couple of weeks about our Olivia's sexuality and and as it applied to gauge and here I'm trying to find the rules we're gonna stick with this

Speaker 1 the couple realized that there was a huge issue with apps and forums so they decided to create their own for a really

Speaker 1 a safe environment and you can't screenshot any images on there important sure you can

Speaker 1 and so people can be as discreet as possible there's no photo sharing but it's okay to be non-monogamous is it i give it to the floor is it

Speaker 3 i would like to point out the stds at the center of the old people

Speaker 1 so it is not safe to i don't know this it's not my thing i feel like if you're with somebody be with them i don't i don't like the inviting other people into the situation that's just me amen yep agreed yeah i'd be too scared to i wouldn't even imagine i just don't want it i listen it's hard enough to show my body to the one person i don't like trying to have everybody looking at my body yeah i don't want to do it and I've also now like the beauty of being with a partner for a long period of time is like, you've like through, you've like numbed yourself to their reaction to your body.

Speaker 1 You know, it's like a callus for your brain.

Speaker 1 Whoa.

Speaker 1 God, it hurts. Hilarious.
Well, we do something called speak pipes on the show where we get messages from people who want advice or have questions. So, I think we can get into a couple of those.

Speaker 1 If you want to leave us a message, go to speakpipe.com slash good guys.

Speaker 1 Keep it brief. Brevity is key.
Let's hear from Allie.

Speaker 1 I'm not great at this. Hold on.
Let me refresh it. Hey, Allie.

Speaker 1 Hey, good guys. More on Allie here.

Speaker 2 I need some advice.

Speaker 1 I have drunkenly hooked up with my co-worker twice and always in the moment, I'm like, yeah this is nice and we're teachers so I see him at school and we're very cordial and nice and whatever but I see him in person and I'm like I actually don't think I like you

Speaker 1 what should I do should we go on a date should we continue to hook up should we nip this in the bud let me know well Alex

Speaker 3 transfer operative phrases you don't like the man So it sounds to me that you're hooking up with him because you maybe had a little bit of alkal the hall.

Speaker 1 Yeah. The alka-de-hall.

Speaker 3 and you're making not great decisions you said that when you see him in the daylight at your job that you don't like him so i would trust yourself and not go on a date with him and not drink around him because apparently you cannot control yourself when you're on the alcohol and and just let it go honey and the babies are watching what are you doing yeah that's my advice she's a teacher as you said at the beginning yvette We do our work and we go home.

Speaker 1 Stop going to the office holiday parties.

Speaker 1 stop going bins drinking with the gym teacher go home read a book do some legos okay stop making out with other teachers what are you nuts ill i just ill i just feel like you you got that's it you don't what it say you don't eat where you what it say you don't sit where you eat there you go that one

Speaker 1 it's like if josh and i started making out that would be weird that would be so weird well we wouldn't do it for freaking

Speaker 1 which is why you should subscribe to our patreon no

Speaker 1 but isn't there haven't there, and I know everyone's different, but there have been cases, or at least so I've heard, I've never been involved in anything like this, where like people was like, I hate them, but I'm attracted to them or I, you know, or like they're, I like hooking up with them, but like, I wouldn't introduce them to my mom.

Speaker 3 Well, she didn't sound like she even liked hooking up with them because she said in the moment, it's fine within the next day. So she's feeling guilt.

Speaker 3 Like it'd be different if she's like, he's not my dude, but we have fun.

Speaker 3 And then I see him at school and we kind of wink at each other, whatever she doesn't seem like she likes him it seems like the hooking up is something that happens not something that she wants to do and she didn't say i hate him she said i don't like him and that's different the love hate thing like you can sometimes hate it's like that powerful like ah i can't stand you but come here give me a kiss yeah not liking someone is different when you don't like someone you don't like them true that agreed True that well, we have another one from Anonymous.

Speaker 1 Ooh, I love anonymous.

Speaker 3 I'm going to know your voice.

Speaker 4 Mazel Morons, my husband eats too much and I don't know what to tell him to get him to stop eating so much. He's eating like all day long.
He eats very large portions, not healthy foods.

Speaker 4 He does not care about like healthy foods. He doesn't care about what he eats.
He just is eating too much. And I can see a substantial amount of weight gain on him.
He's not.

Speaker 4 a big guy he's kind of short so if he gains any weight it just it looks really silly and it's like all in the belly and i'm on my health and fitness journey.

Speaker 4 I just lost a very large amount of weight and I'm working out and I'm trying to eat better. And I'm just trying to get him on the ball with eating right.

Speaker 4 And every time I bring up anything about food or his weight, he gets really offended and asks if I'm calling him fat.

Speaker 4 So what do you suggest that I do to try to get him more motivated to eat better, eat clean, and just lose some some weight like i think he could stand to lose like 20 pounds but if i even mention it he gets offended any help is appreciated thank you well don't air out

Speaker 1 biggest podcast i can't believe page would call in like that that is

Speaker 1 i was gonna make that joke and i was like that's not nice so

Speaker 1 just feel good about it by the way it's very simple while he's sleeping inject him with ozempic

Speaker 3 i you know i think that was horrible. You know, first of all, I think the bigger issue should be if she loves him, figuring out why he's he's eating.

Speaker 3 Most people that are overeating are overeating for a reason. They're stressed, they're scared, they're sad, and maybe he's not happy in his marriage, and that's why he's overeating the way he is.

Speaker 3 You know, I don't think that there's, if you're in a relationship with someone and you see your partner making good changes for themselves and you're happy for them, you naturally do kind of fall in line.

Speaker 3 Okay, well, let's eat salads today, babe.

Speaker 3 I'm so, so the fact that she's doing all this great stuff for herself, as she put it, and he's not joining, then there might be something she's saying or doing while she's making her changes that are making him feel less great.

Speaker 3 And he's now eating his emotions. I think she's attacking this completely the wrong way.

Speaker 3 And if it's a health issue, she can go to her husband and go, babe, I'm concerned that, you know, you, you might get diabetes or high blood pressure or whatever.

Speaker 3 But I'm telling you this, if he goes to the doctor and he's totally healthy, she needs to lay up off of him and leave him alone.

Speaker 3 I don't think this is going to go well for them if she keeps berating him about it. That's my two cents.

Speaker 1 You give amazing advice. Do I think like

Speaker 1 amazing? Amazing. I totally agree.
And it's not nice. And all I can, I just have to say, if the roles were reversed and this was a guy

Speaker 1 saying that his girlfriend needed to lose 20 pounds and she was looking big and he's like, we would be destroying him. Absolutely.
Destroying. Absolutely.

Speaker 1 So yeah, he's probably, it sounds like she was also rather husky with him. And then she made a bit of a drastic change.
And now she's mightier than God because like she's got it.

Speaker 1 But like, give him time. Absolutely.
Give him time. I agree.

Speaker 3 There's nothing worse than like someone who was overweight, who's losing weight. Now they're an expert or someone that was single their whole life, then they get married or a boyfriend.

Speaker 3 Now they won't tell everybody. But this is, just sit down and let it breathe.

Speaker 1 Let it breathe.

Speaker 3 I hate it. I hate it.
And no, and if I didn't ask for your opinion, your love advice or your weight advice, let me live my life.

Speaker 3 And again, if she loves him and he's unhealthy, she can, that's the way you would talk to him, baby. I'm concerned about your health.
But just you don't look good.

Speaker 3 You're short and now you got this weight on you and you need to lose 20 pounds. I'm thinking that she's thinking, because I look good and I'm going out in the world.

Speaker 3 I need, I need something that looks good next to me. I just don't like her.
I didn't like her attitude. I didn't like it.

Speaker 1 It's attraction rather than promotion.

Speaker 3 Think about that. Absolutely.
Think about it.

Speaker 1 Very good. Well, we have one final segment called, what are you nuts? Okay.
Where we basically, every week, we come up with our gripes with people, places, and things. Okay.

Speaker 1 Whatever's currently sticking in your craw, big or small, no wrong answer. We'll give you time to think about it.
I don't have to think about it. Oh, good.

Speaker 1 But before we get to that, we do have a segment when we have a fellow thespian on the show.

Speaker 3 Is the thespian in the room? Because I feel like such a hack when it comes to acting, but go on. Yvette? I'm serious.

Speaker 1 I'm not going to allow you to be not nice to you.

Speaker 1 Thank you. Watch the way you talk to my friend.
Okay.

Speaker 1 And sometimes we do a short acting scene. Oh, no.
Perhaps a scene from a great movie. Okay.
Play. Okay.
Maybe even a TV show.

Speaker 3 TV show. I see where this is going.

Speaker 1 Maybe a TV show from the mid-ox.

Speaker 3 I know where this is going.

Speaker 1 Maybe a TV show.

Speaker 3 We were both on. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yep. That one.
We're going to do a scene from Jerry Josh.

Speaker 1 Let's do it. Let's do it.
Let's do it.

Speaker 1 Yep. Ben,

Speaker 1 I'm not getting you a Christmas gift this year. And Olivia, you either.
Okay.

Speaker 1 This is in Get A Swan's Last Year. So what a stiff.

Speaker 1 This is as close as anyone's ever gonna get here you go thank you this is from the paramount episode of oh my god helen get surgery well you have an eye surgery okay a touchstone episode for some their favorite ben when i say you go because i didn't send you this here wait i'm gonna ben i'm gonna send you a picture of because you're gonna play the man you have two lines okay so just follow along oh god this is do you remember are you gonna remember this because okay i'm trying to remember

Speaker 1 Oh, I'm off book.

Speaker 3 Oh, you're off book. Oh, excuse me.

Speaker 1 I never forgot it. I do this completely off book.
You're like, dog, it's been 19 years. Okay.
Move on.

Speaker 3 I do remember how I did one line on here already.

Speaker 1 Wow. Oh, my gosh.
This is, this is crazy.

Speaker 1 This feels...

Speaker 1 I feel like I'm... Are you nervous?

Speaker 1 I feel like I'm on a micro-dose right now.

Speaker 3 Let's go.

Speaker 1 Ben, are you ready? Yes, I'm ready. Just follow along.
It's only two pages and it's on the first page, your line. So

Speaker 1 it'll it'll come. Ready? Wait, let's get, should we give some backstory? Sure.

Speaker 1 I'm working at the premiere. Yes.
Helen has just had a surgery in her eyes. Laser eyes.

Speaker 1 You're going to be gone for days.

Speaker 3 And she shows up with patches on her eyes.

Speaker 1 You ready? Yeah.

Speaker 1 I'm back.

Speaker 1 Oh, geez.

Speaker 1 Helen, woo, woo, what are you doing? I sound the same.

Speaker 1 Helen, what are you doing here? You just had laser eye surgery an hour and a half ago.

Speaker 3 That's right. I had my surgery, dropped off my dry cleaner, and stopped off for a fish taco, and here I am.

Speaker 1 Hey, hey. Shouldn't you be home? You can't see.

Speaker 3 I see you getting on my nerves. That's what I see.

Speaker 1 I dropped my soda. Can I get another one, please? Yeah, I'll get it.
No, I'll get it. Oh, oh, stop.
Oh, ma'am.

Speaker 1 That'll be.

Speaker 1 Helen, you just colded that man in the face.

Speaker 3 Oh, well, I guess maybe I should go home for a while and get my rest on.

Speaker 1 Well, you mean that I get to be assistant manager the rest of the day?

Speaker 3 Oh, Oh, you're going to manage, all right. You're going to manage me, huh?

Speaker 1 You're going to help me get me situated back at Makondo.

Speaker 3 Now, here's the keys to Mabuick. Let's go.

Speaker 1 You drove here when you couldn't see?

Speaker 3 Yeah, not my best idea. Come on.

Speaker 1 Wow. I mean, come on.

Speaker 3 Wow. I missed one line, though, when I said that'd be 375

Speaker 1 or whatever it was. Incredible.
Wow. You haven't lost it.

Speaker 3 Well, I remember her well.

Speaker 1 I mean,

Speaker 1 now, now, how was I?

Speaker 3 You were great. Do you remember?

Speaker 3 Didn't I spray the guy in the face with the

Speaker 1 fountain drink?

Speaker 3 With the fountain drink.

Speaker 1 Excellent.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 3 Listen, I don't do that for everybody.

Speaker 1 I'll do it for you. Wow.
What this were honored. This was honorable.
I feel like a make-a-wish kit.

Speaker 1 So, Ben, do you want to start with your... What do you not? Try to have one too? Yeah, no, I can go.
I've been on a bit of a diner kick. Yvette, I live in New York.

Speaker 1 We are supposed to have the best diners in the city. They're honestly few and far between these days.
I go, I try out a a new diner. I try out a new diner.
I order eggs and potatoes.

Speaker 1 It's very safe order and omelets and side of breakfast potatoes. I go to take a bite of these potatoes.
Oh my God, I almost passed out. So unbelievably sour, awful.

Speaker 1 Quickly, I glance, I glance around the diner. I'm like, who else has eggs and potatoes? I look.
All the potatoes are sitting on the woman's plate to my left. All the potatoes sitting to the right.

Speaker 1 I get home. I'm throwing up nonstop.
I got food poisoning from fucking breakfast potatoes. So I'm here to tell people, okay, okay.
If it smells rancid, don't eat it. You should know that already.

Speaker 1 But breakfast potatoes, watch out. Watch out.
You think that potatoes can't go bad, maybe? They can. What are you? Nuts serve me good potatoes.

Speaker 3 So wait, so tell me this. So you're saying you look to the left and the right.
These people had potatoes that were just sitting there. What's the deal?

Speaker 1 They had potatoes. They had ordered eggs and potatoes.
They finished their eggs. They didn't touch their potatoes.
They didn't touch the potatoes. Which means their potatoes were also rancid.

Speaker 3 They were also rancid. And you ate them.

Speaker 1 I had one bite, one single single bite made you. And it sent me over the edge.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 3 That's a bad potato.

Speaker 1 Awful. That's wild.

Speaker 1 But you know what? I don't like. I don't like this.
And you see this at Waffle House. You see this at places where they got the big surface and the thing with the short orders.

Speaker 1 Like, what am I in the 50s? I don't want to watch you flip eggs.

Speaker 1 They had the big surface, Josh, and they had the fucking potatoes piled high

Speaker 1 on them. They've been sitting there.
They've been there all day. That was potatoes from last night.
They were there all weekend. Yep.
Oh, it's gross.

Speaker 1 Disgusting. And another what are you nuts? If you're going to let me see into your kitchen, clean up.
Clean your kitchen. Clean up.
Clean your kitchen. Otherwise, you can put up a wall.

Speaker 1 I don't need to see. Not everything needs to be like Benny Hana.
But if you're going to let me look, it better be clean.

Speaker 3 You better say it. Disgusting.

Speaker 1 Say it, Ben. Disgusting.
Say it, Ben. Nuts.
I once had food poisoning so badly that I had to call my buddy Len. Like this was, like, this was not a good moment for me.

Speaker 1 And I was like in my underwear, shaking on the bathroom floor. That's bad food poisoning.
I was convulsing, and he came, and it was like, I don't know, midnight. And I was like, you sleep over.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 we shared a bed.

Speaker 3 Oh, but you didn't want to be alone.

Speaker 1 You didn't want to be alone. In case you died, you were supposed to find the body.

Speaker 1 That said, what is better than being a fat person and having food poisoning? You lose the couple.

Speaker 1 It's fantastic. I know.
It's so good. Three pounds, Josh.
Three.

Speaker 1 Three. Good for you.
Worth every

Speaker 1 throw-up.

Speaker 1 So my woody nuts is a dog size.

Speaker 3 Okay. Okay.
The size of a dog or the size of a dog?

Speaker 1 The size of a dog. Okay.
You want a little cutie, little teacup. Fine.
Not for me. Fine.
Yeah. I like like a Maltese.
Like, I don't like anything under five pounds. Okay.
Crazy. It's all bones.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 But like, you got something five to 20 pounds.

Speaker 1 Five to twenty pounds, great, beautiful. A little Maltese, you know, and then you go bigger, you know, classic, a Labrador retriever, chocolate lab, beautiful.
Even I'm a pit bull guy.

Speaker 1 I like playing 305 and worldwide and the dog. I like all pit bulls, right?

Speaker 1 My issue is with 100 plus pound, massive. What are you doing? Dude, there are these dogs that walk around my neighborhood.
They're as tall as the owners. They're mini dinosaurs.

Speaker 1 And look, I'm Turner from Turner and Hooch, as we know. No one watched it, but I liked it.
I'm even cool with a hooch, but those are a proper size dog.

Speaker 1 When you get into like these gigantic greyhounds that are massive, what are you nuts? It's too big of a dog. This is true.
What are you trying to prove?

Speaker 1 Especially, they have them in Manhattan. They stick them in these apartments.
No. What are you doing to the dogs? No.
Let the dog. Those dogs belong on 100 acres.
Yeah. Yes.
That's it.

Speaker 1 Outside of the house. They belong.
If you can't have a horse in your apartment, you can't have a dog the size of a horse in your apartment. Okay.
Yes. Okay.
And peace.

Speaker 1 I agree. I agree.
Yvette, what do you got?

Speaker 3 Okay, this is going to get a little serious. Elections and people not voting.

Speaker 3 It is driving me crazy.

Speaker 1 Well, we're anti-voting here. I just want to say that.

Speaker 1 You and this entire studio order.

Speaker 1 Let me tell you something.

Speaker 3 This is the way I look at it. I just went canvassing this weekend.
Everybody knows who I'm voting for.

Speaker 3 And I said, you know, you remember the movie Deep Impact or Armageddon with the comet or whatever is coming, the meteor or the asteroid is coming to destroy.

Speaker 3 I feel like there's a big orange asteroid coming right for this country, careening towards us. And everyone has seen it coming and everyone has been warning that it's coming.

Speaker 3 We know what the impact will do. It will be an ELE event.
And somehow there's still people going, I don't know.

Speaker 3 I don't want to hear your reasons why you have not registered and vote. You have got to vote.
This is not the election to be a one-issue voter.

Speaker 3 Anything that you are upset about, I don't care what it is, you get the right person in and they will fight for the thing that you're upset about.

Speaker 1 Vote it up. People got to register to vote.
They have to. They have to and they have to show up.
It's something that people fight for the right for us to be. They're dying for the right.

Speaker 3 I was in a thrift store in New York and I found a jar of buttons and it was in the sewing notion section.

Speaker 3 And it made me remember that my people, my black people used to have to count jelly beans and marbles for the right to vote. They used to have to pay to vote.

Speaker 3 There was a poll tax that black people had to pay $3, which is equivalent to $30 today. And $3 would be someone's,

Speaker 3 how they would feed their family for that week. And some people would pay it because they knew how important it was to vote.
And we get to vote for free. And we're not doing it.

Speaker 3 We have got to, we've got to vote. We've got to vote.

Speaker 1 Well, look, I think Yvette, you and I are going to vote the same. Ben's a Green Party guy.
So I think he's going to vote for, he's going to do a write-in. And I see that.

Speaker 1 You know what? God bless him.

Speaker 3 No, I do not.

Speaker 1 Hey, look, the Green Party is legitimate. Until they are viable, big, don't you shoot?

Speaker 3 Then Then I'll come to New York. She cares about the fucking feed you a sour potato.

Speaker 1 Don't potatoes vote for the Green Party this year.

Speaker 1 Don't do it. We are all on the same page.

Speaker 1 But I agree.

Speaker 1 As you both said, it is a gift and a privilege, the opportunity to vote, and everyone has to do it.

Speaker 3 Absolutely.

Speaker 1 Definitely. Exactly.
Could I love you more?

Speaker 3 Could I love you more?

Speaker 1 What a wonderful, one of the great gifts from the show that we meeting you.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I feel the same. I feel the same.

Speaker 3 Our love has always endured. It's never, it's never waned.

Speaker 1 Take us home, Ben.

Speaker 1 Folks, five stars. Otherwise, what are you nuts? This has been a dream.
Yvette, you are the best. Listen to us on Spotify, Apple, wherever you get your podcast.
Watch us on Josh's YouTube.

Speaker 1 Watch us and then listen to us. Double the views.
Why not? We're fantastic. Share our clips, Instagram, TikTok, Mondays, and Thursdays, folks.
We'll see you next time. Nicely done.
Love you.

Speaker 1 Love you too, buddy.

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