Blaming Nash Grier and the Return of Boomquifa

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The following podcast is a Dear Media production. I'm Josh Peck.
And I'm Ben Soffer. And we're the good guys.
There's a lot of guys out there. And we're the good ones.
Mazel Morons, welcome back to the Good Guys podcast. I'm sitting here with a man in a blue random zip up.
It looks like you could be like a guide at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It's Ben Soffer.
It is a little chilly here, Josh. It's a little chilly.
You know that random change in weather that New Yorkers experience? One day you're wearing shorts, the next day it's just a little chilly. So I decide to throw in a half zip.
It's like it's completely appropriate for what's going on outside. But I'm happy that you led me into this because I'm walking around outside, coming over to this lovely studio to spend my favorite hour of the week with my bestie.
And what do I see, Josh? It's 54 degrees outside. What do I see? You see either someone in shorts or someone in a down coat.
That's how comedy works. It's extremes.
Extremes. Full blown puffers, Josh.
And not just puffers. These are Montclair puffers.
You know that the person woke up this morning and was like, oh my God, I cannot wait to show everybody my $3,300 coat. It's not that cold.
It's not cold enough. We know what you're doing.
That's all. I'm just saying you're flexing.
You're flexing. You're not that cold.
54 degrees is not a puffer. It's a half zip.
And you see how I brought it all the way back around to the half zip. You really did.
Montclair coats, I've always wanted one, but it's too much a style.

It's a status symbol that I'm not ready to symbolize. I'm going to buy you one.
No, you're not. That's nuts.
Yeah, no, because you said I want it. And now that I know that you want it, we'll get it for you.
I did, but it's just, again, it's making such a statement. It's shiny.
My Montclair story is, and it's a sad one. I was up for the show, Mr.
Robot, and I auditioned, and then I went to the callback, and my friend was producing it, or a friend of a friend. So I had the inside track.
So my buddy, and this never happens. He's like, dude, you're the guy.
They love you. They're going to test you in two days.
So I'm going to go in front of the big network and test. I don't even know anyone named Rami Malek exists at this point.
No, I didn't. He was always nice.
So I go and I'm doing a job. I don't mean to brag.
And I should have known that this was a harbinger of bad things to come. I was doing a little thing called Social Con, the first social media influencer convention.
I should have been wait i'm here there's no way i'm gonna be in mr robot so i'm running lines with nash greer and cameron dallas has given me a pat on the back i'm so sorry so i'm in chicago with my boy chris And I'm like, okay, I land tomorrow and then I go test for Mr. Robot.

I'm in Chicago with my boy Chris and I'm like okay I land tomorrow and then I go test for Mr. Robot I'm the guy shoots in New York my god so we're walking around the mall because they have this incredible outlet mall right by O'Hare and so we're like walking around you know me I'm Joshy Deals love a deal and there's a Montclair store beautiful pufferer.
And I see it. It's $1,500 again, outlet.
And my buddy goes, dude, got to get it. And I said, why? He's like, cause you're going to need a good coat when you work in New York for the next five years.
I was like, you know what, Chris, you may just be right. Luckily, I'm such a cheap bastard.
I didn't get the coat and I didn't get the job. So all worked out.
Do you think, Josh, do you think that buying that coat perhaps could have been the manifestation that the universe needed to give you that gig? And by saying, no, I don't need the coat signaled to the universe that you don't really want that gig.

You didn't want the five years in New York.

You didn't want Mr. Robot.

What are you, Benny Cymbals over there?

I am, Josh.

I am.

I absolutely am.

I don't know.

I would imagine.

I blame Nash Greer.

That's it.

And I'm putting it out there.

Nash, you sabotage.

No, just kidding.

You've always been such a lovely guy.

Yeah, man. You know, it's so funny

because I remember after I,

I'm just it out there. Nash, you sabotage.
No, just kidding. You've always been such a lovely guy.

Yeah, man.

You know, it's so funny because I remember after I, I'm really talking inside actory baseball.

But anyway, I remember after I didn't get it, I was like, well, you know what?

That's okay.

Because these guys love me and they're going to bring me back for like some incredible reoccurring character arc.

They're going to be like, let's throw Peck something. Nothing.
Nada. Zilch.
And I once asked a writer, executive producer friend of mine why that was. He's like, have you ever wanted to see the person you broke up with again? And I was like, no.
He's like, they don't want to see you again. You didn't get it.
Goodbye. And I was like, fair enough.

Oof.

All right.

Well, look, there will be more opportunities, Josh.

Benny symbols is manifesting.

They're going to come.

They're going to be big.

They're going to be huge.

I sound like Trump.

Speaking of Trump, who are you voting for?

Kidding.

Kidding.

I'm voting for both if I could.

No, I'm kidding.

I do.

I do want to say this because I think it's important. I think it important you need to get out there and vote i'm kidding i hate fucking people that do that i hate when i see celebrities go on and say oh just a reminder to vote i didn't need you telling me that cameron diaz i remembered myself because i'm also a member of the population of humanity in the united states and whether you tell me to vote or not is not going to change.

I knew it already.

I knew it.

It honestly should have been my what are you nuts when celebrities go on and say,

remind her to vote.

I didn't need you to remind me.

I'm not brain dead.

Thoughts?

I agree.

I agree with you 100 percent, except people really need to vote and they don't vote.

Well, they're not going to vote more because Cameron Diaz told them to or not. And I'm so sorry that Cameron Diaz is catching the stray bullet.
She had nothing to do with this. She was just the celebrity that I chose.
I didn't even see her posting. I don't even know if she wants me to vote.
I don't know. That's what Cameron Diaz gets because I've always respected the fact that I think a couple of years ago, she kind of went into a quasi retirement.
And good for you, CD. Do your live your life, babe.
I love it. But yeah, just rich.
Like that's just what we want, Josh, to be rich enough that all that we do is this podcast. I want everybody to know if I have a billion dollars cash in the bank, I'm still doing this podcast.
It brings me that much joy. Same here.
I am doing it 100 percent and I'm taking I'm using our discount codes on Hero Bread and Element because I could have 10 billion. I'm still taking 20% off some Hero Bread.
Absolutely. A thousand percent.
A thousand percent, Josh, because it is fantastic bread. The texture, A+.
But Cameron Diaz, here she is doing the really respectable, humble move of like, you know what? I don't need to stay relevant every second. I don't need to be in the fray of the Mishagas.
And here you are, Ben Soffer, dragging her in to this conversation when she tried to like humbly step away. Way to go, Ben.
I'm sorry, Cameron. I'm sorry, Cameron.
I apologize. Let's look.
I pulled up some stats of voters, right?

And patterns of turnout across three national elections from 2018 to 2022.

Share of citizens 18 or older who voted in 2018, 2020, and 2022.

37% voted in all of them.

30% voted in none of them. And 12% voted in 2020 only, which was the presidential election.
That's crazy. 30% nothing.
It is. But I also don't think that it's crazy for someone not to give a shit.
Like I know that we should. I vote because I'm passionate about our right to vote.
And I think it's what makes democracy democracy. And it's fantastic.
But I don't know, like if somebody doesn't want to vote, who am I to tell them to vote? It's up to them. Like if they don't feel passionate one way or another, they feel genuinely that their life doesn't change.
They should probably be a little bit more informed and do their research. But that's up to them.
Like we call like as a joke, we're all morons. Like what? We're not we're not trying to like like we're idiots.
Like people are going to be dumb. You know, Socrates, he said the issue with a government such as ours is that you're going to have a lot of idiots voting.

He said exactly what you said back in the day.

He's like, you know, let everyone vote.

You're going to have a lot of idiots voting.

We also have a lot of idiots trying to be president.

True that.

There are idiots everywhere. And I don't know if you have it.

Let's say that you convince those other 70% to vote. Like, do I really want people voting that don't care and are just going to end up voting because they feel peer pressured by one person or another? Like, I don't want you if you're not passionate.
I don't want you coming to claim your seat at the table. If you're passionate, vote.
Maybe this is a what? Like, maybe this is outlandish. Maybe you're thinking what I'm saying is crazy, but I'm just saying if you're passionate, do it.
If not, have you ever voted in person? Only, only, I guess in New York, it's easier because most of the people I know do absentee ballots. No, we only, we do it in person.
You go to the local place that they give you. It's typically a school and you go go into the public school and you go down.
You vote. Everybody's really happy to be there.
And you leave. Yeah, I've only done it in person.
I think you should vote. I think what should be outlawed is the I voted stickers.
Save it. What is this, a sticker club? What are we, nine? I don't need your IG picture that you voted.
Good for you. Don't show me your sticker.
No, the sticker is terrible. And they leave the sticker on for far too long.
Too long. Far too long.
Too many people are talking about putting up Christmas tree decorations early and leaving them out late. Not enough people are talking about the I voted sticker staying on your breast until April.
It's enough. Nothing like two Jews discussing Christmas decoration, but let's talk about what's acceptable and unacceptable because I know people that in a week's time, starting the beginning of November, we'll put up Christmas decorations.
Is this too early, too late? Livia, please weigh in as our local non-Jewish consultant. I think that like, I personally am down for like, put your Christmas decorations up after Thanksgiving.
That's right. That's right.
Like Black Friday, let's go crazy. There, I'm all for it.
But beforehand, like we're not giving Thanksgiving just a breath. And Halloween is just like flying by.
I don't want to wish my year away. That's my two cents.
God bless. God, that was such a good take.
That was such a good take because I was prepared to say something completely different. But you're right.
If you put up your Christmas tree decorations today, then you lose all the other holidays. You can't celebrate Halloween when you're already celebrating Christmas.
You're wishing the year away. Olivia, incredibly profound.
That said, I do think, I do think that it depends on where you live and

how cold it is at a point in time during the year. Because if right now it's freezing wherever you

live, I think you should be able to put up your Christmas decorations because at least for me,

Christmas decorations symbolize cozy holiday cheer cold. California, you got to wait.
Florida, you got to wait. You got to wait till December 1st.
I agree. I just think it cannot be done too early.
And it's funny because my wife, on the afternoon of Christmas Day, that tree is gone. Goodbye.
See you later. That thing is gone.
Any, any remnants of Christmas are far in the past. Is Paige, we've never spoken about this.
Is Paige one, a big cleaner, but two, does she like to like when she sets her mind on cleaning something or getting something organized, is she doing it in that moment? Like, does she just, you're laying on the couch and she says, Josh, it's time to put away the Christmas tree. I yes.
When she gets a project, it's over. I wanted to make a video about it the other day.
Like when you get home and you just like call out and you say, hey, hon, and you just hear from a random room. Oh, hi.
That go leave. Go get a hotel room.
If I see those big clear boxes from Target starting to get filled up with things, because then I know I'm going to have to put it in the crawl space above the garage. And that entails me opening a ladder.
Yikes. And like pulling, hoisting this thing up.
I'm like, this is where it all ends for me. I'm going to be Joshy speaking through a straw like quadripleage.
Not good. Not good, Ben.
Claudia cannot sleep if the ladder is still out. I got home.
I got home. She had taken out the ladder, I guess, to put something up in her closet and left the ladder open in the second bedroom.
It's 10 p.m. We're fully in bed.
She gets some flash like Raven Simone. And she's like, the ladder has not been put away yet.
Can you go put it away? I'm like, why is it bothering you? We're sleeping in a different room. The ladder is not in the room with us.
This can't be done in the morning. This needs to be done right now.
Ladder, of course, put away within that moment. Another quick story.
I get home again, just like looking to relax. She's relaxing.
All of a sudden, she's reorganizing my contact. I have like a little contact glasses, Navaj, like closet, not closet.
What do you call it in the bathroom? Like the storage on top? Yeah, cabinet. Cabinet, thank you.
All of a sudden, it's time to reorganize the cabinet of my navaj for my nasal Jewish problems and my contacts. And it's like now.
Why now? Because now is the time that she chose. It's a lot.
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I've made a massive error that in my beautiful new home, I said, we should get smoke detectors, okay? That we can track that are smart. Okay, so I went, I bought these expensive smoke detectors.
They link to my phone. What I didn't realize is they're not hardwired, Ben.
So they work on a battery. What happens with things on a battery? Batteries run out.
So in the middle of the night, all of a sudden I'll hear, beep, beep, beep. And my wife and I look at each other and we're like fuck and the one in our room this is if this happens it's a nightmare the one in our room of course we have the high ceilings i'm doing well it's 12 feet up i can't ah i can't bring a chair i gotta go down to the garage at three in the morning bring a ladder up to, freaking break that thing down.
I just pop the batteries right out. I go, if a fire comes, it'd be doing me a favor right now.
Yeah, I'd rather like there's some times where that thing is ringing and I just want to snip the cords and be done with it. I don't care.
Yes. As long as it shuts up, I don't need to be alerted when there's a fire.
I don't need it. Honestly, I'm done with

fire alarms. I'm done with them.
Me too. I'm against big fire detector.
Why are they letting us know, Josh? What the fuck are we going to do? Why don't they let the fire department know? That's right. How about that? How about that? Why do I get the alert? What do I have? I don't even have a hose.
I don't have, I don't have the equipment to save my house. They do.
So how about the fire alarm go off in the firehouse? What about this? Hey, fire detectors have a setting for cooking bacon. Okay.
Please. Can I cook bacon without this thing being bacon? What's your technique when you've cooked? Mine is when I roast or grill a piece of chicken or a burger on the stove it gets very very smoky what's your technique at the smoke alarm to get it to stop i take a towel and i wave that towel aggressively wave it until my arms are broken just wave it wave it oh my god the button, oh, sorry.
The button doesn't work. Why doesn't the button work? You press the button to stop it.
It doesn't stop. It never stops.
I will prophylactically open every window in the house and the screen door. But I grew up in an apartment before I ever lived in the house.
And I once made a fatal error, which I was cooking something smoky. And so what I used to do is you'd open the door to the hallway, right? And you close

it, you open it, you make a fan effect, right? And you just kind of let the air out just to clear.

Well, one time I let smoke, I guess, because my kitchen was like right by the front door

into the hallway, the building fire alarms went off then

the building these don't turn off unless the fire department comes so now all of a sudden they're going off they're going off i'm like those will stop in a minute all of a sudden in the far distance i hear I'm like no way that's for us

no way my's for us.

No way.

My wife's like, it's a fire department.

They came to the apartment building.

I go downstairs.

Guys named Bruce and Dan, real hearty individuals, are walking in.

Helmets on.

I go, guys, my bad.

They were like, what'd you do? I was like, I opened the front door and set off the thing. They're like, can we come in your apartment and just make sure? I was like, sure.
You can invite yourself in. Yeah.
Thankfully they didn't, because that could be like thousands of dollars for a false alarm. And by the way, they invented something called the like on the hood hood, where you can turn it on.
Like if you have a stove and there's the, like, it's like a hood exhaust. It's a hood fan.
It doesn't work. It doesn't work.
It's supposed to evacuate all of the smoke that's coming from your pan. I turn that on every time.
It doesn't do anything. Nobody's talking about that they're selling that.
That doesn't work. That doesn't work.
There is no solution for this problem. Unless we're not supposed to cook burgers in our house.
Why doesn't do anything. Nobody's talking about that.
They're selling that. That doesn't work.
That doesn't work. No, there is no solution for this problem unless we're not supposed to cook burgers in our house.
Why can't I cook a burger stovetop? Why not? You can. It's just it's going to be a crime zone after it's going to be like splatter everywhere.
And your whole place is going to reek for nine hours after. It's just a lot, man.
You can't do it. It is a lot.
It is. But the alternative is just not, I can't order in anymore, Josh.
I can't do it. Every time I order something in, it tastes worse and worse.
It tastes worse and worse. You're growing up.
The quality of ordering in is just not there. It's not.
It's not. I need a home-cooked meal.
I need a burger that I made in my house. I i can't order in a burger you know how gross that burger is when it comes it's crazy and i want to eat a burger what about a steak josh you can't order in a steak i want a steak for dinner you're getting those gorgeous snake river farms boxes what are you the saudi prince shout out snake riv the amount of nine million dollar steaks this man gets but you want to a steak at home? I have a barbecue because I have a house.
And while it's not the most ideal way of cooking a steak, let me tell you, grilling, it's that one manly thing that I'm completely on board with. It is fun, man.
And what it is, is it's the freedom. It's the outdoors of it all.
And it's the lack of cleanup.

I mean, when you can just take one steel brush and done, call it a day.

It is amazing.

Do you ever put a cast iron on the grill?

I don't.

You could.

No, I have TikTok, Ben.

Okay.

I know I could.

I have TikTok.

You could.

Okay.

You think you're the only one with TikTok?

You could. You could do that.
We all have TikTok here. You could do it.
It's a popular app. Okay.
I've seen it. You could.
It's too popular. It's brainwashing.
Oh, I have to delete it again. I've deleted it once before.
I have to delete it. It's too much.
I'll be in bed, nine o'clock, ready to go to sleep. I'll just pop open the app.
It's midnight. I know.
I scrolling and scrolling and scrolling. I don't know.
And then I'm like, why didn't I sleep well? Probably because I have. We bring the boom.
That's what we do in my fucking head the whole time that I'm sleeping. I just my algorithm to sucks.
My algorithm makes me feel bad about me. I'm like, I care about this.
You have to be very careful with what you like on TikTok. Very careful.
Very. Yeah.
I just, it would be fun if with AI, they could like assess your entire algorithm since the beginning of the time you had the app. And then they could just, you know, describe you like you are a real conspiracy theory, loving, cake eating traveling to tropics policing piece of shit porn addicted are you a guy who would ever follow like a swimsuit model or like some kind of thirst trap instagram page no no Any of them that I follow are from a decade ago.
Not not anymore. No, no.
And every time one pops up, I'm like, whoa, and I unfollow. Do you have that? Do you get sometimes shock at the people that you do follow? You're like, oh, my God, I didn't even know I followed that person or that never happens to you.
Yes. But also 80 percent of the people that I follow are muted.
Interesting. You're one of the, I don't want to offend you by unfollowing you.
So I'm just going to mute you so that I never see you. Yes, because people get very offended when you unfollow.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure. But if I'm muting you, I don't care to be friends with you.
It's true. It's true.
It's true. But sometimes I feel the need to just, if I see someone follow me, I'll go, listen, out of respect, you can have the follow back.
I really don't want to know about your comings and goings. Understood.
Olivia, what are your feelings about that? Like if the wonderful Ethan, or we could just use a hypothetical love, decided to dabble in the dark arts of thirst trap IG accounts. Yeah.
I think that it's towing a bit of a line. I think it's disrespectful.
I think that's the key word. But like also like Ben said, you know, perhaps there are people that have been followed, you know, five, 10 years ago, who knows? So you got to offer a little bit of grace.
But like at the end of the day, I know like between the two of us, how we feel about each other. So as long as there's no action on it, I just don't want to catch a like in anything.
Right. What I will say is there's definitely a double standard here because and I'll follow these guys.
Some of these guys are dear friends. The great Tyler Cameron, who we haven't had on this podcast, but we should, even though we're done with guests.
We're done with them because you hate them. But we're the great Tyler Cameron, sweetest, nicest guy.
This man posts a thirst trap every other day. Like the most chiseled body, naked, sweating.
Like, what's the difference? And I like that. I'm not liking it because I'm a horned up.
I'm liking it because he looks like Michelangelo. No, that's right.
Well, we don't really know if Michelangelo was fit, but we know that the sculptures he made were fit. Yes, yes, sure.
Michelangelo. He was probably really fat.
Michelangelo had a bit of a punch, you know? I don't know if I'm allowed to say. Yeah, you know, it's a hard thing.
It's funny, my wife's cousin, Maddie, shout out Maddie, she rediscovered that she commented on a Joe Burrow picture, the quarterback for the Cincinnati Bengals, and she said, wow, you look so good. And we, as a family, discovered it and started replying to her comment going, Maddie, do you know people can see this? Like, Maddie, it's time to come home.
Like, what are you doing? Nothing good. Nothing good.
No good. She's the greatest.
And God bless her for that moxie and that much confidence. That chutzpah.
God bless her. She's the best.
But I, you know, I think the the only person that i follow who and this is not a thirst trap this is like a famous you know model she's famous host all these things that i'm just slightly in love with but i feel okay about it just because she i basically feel like she looks like my wife is bar raffaelli i follow her on the ig and i just think she's like got a cool life and a beautiful family and so but recently she's posted some like you know more revealing photos and i feel bad about it like i feel bad for following and then i just show it to my wife i'm like you get this right and she's like i guess you think you think she's smoking hot too right page i do i say to my wife i'm like am i a sc unfollow. And she's like, no, I get it.
I'm like, she's you. Anyway, we've got some stories and we would be remiss if we didn't get to it, such as a Brazilian court bans couple's historical baby name over bullying fears, future embarrassment.
So I guess this family, the Promolas, had planned to name their new born son, P.A., paying homage to the first black Egyptian pharaoh who had ruled Egypt for 30 years and helped in founding the 25th dynasty. However, the court of justice in Brazilian state of Minas Gerias and registry office ruled that Pia's pronunciation is too similar to plie, a Portuguese word for a ballet dance step.

They wouldn't let her do it. They wouldn't let him do it.

In Brazil, you have to get a name cleared by someone?

That is why the sound and spelling of the name were predominant for the rejection.

The Minas Geris Court of Justice said they would be capable of causing future embarrassment to the child by the way this is an amazing thing imagine we had that in america we were on a recent podcast we're talking about that woman named like marijuana field or something yeah marijuana pepsi cola marijuana pepsi cola if only there was a court of law that said, you're going to embarrass this child when they're older. That said, I'm now also thinking that the Brazilian government should really butt out.
It's like not really their business. Right.
But I see it from both sides, Josh. I see it from both sides.
When you and the wonderful Claudia Oshry, when you guys talk about your beautiful child to be conceived one day, will you go classic Jewish name or will you do something a little bit on the fringe, a little new, a little modern? I don't see us going new. I don't see.
I just don't see like the alfalfa or like I don't see it for us. I don't see it.
No, I see classic. I see we are 100% naming after what you do in Judaism, dead relatives.
So we'll name after. Yeah, no, not new.
I'm not, I'm just not a fan. I'm not like, like what I love.
I love what you did where shy is new to some people, but it's not a new name. That's right.
Shy is a name that I've heard for a very long time, but it's fresh. The term fresh should be used.
Maybe perhaps we will introduce some freshness, but not new. We have all the best names.
We have them. Like for thousands of years, we have the best names.
I'm not going out and naming my daughter Willow. Like, no, she's not a tree.
She's not. Not Willow.
No Boomqueefa. No Boomqueefa.
I forgot about Boomqueefa. That's insane, Boomqueefa.
Now I'm starting to get,

I think Instagram knows that my wife and I are thinking about having a third kid because I've been getting all these like most popular new names.

And let's see,

but these are all classic.

Wow.

Olivia,

you're number one.

Wow.

Let's go.

Top baby names of 2024 at Baby Center.

Number one, Olivia.

Two, Amelia. Three, Emma.
Four, Sophia. Sophia's always on there.
Five, Charlotte. Seven, Ava.
Wow. By the way, these are nice names.
Ava's fresh, right? Because that was like a little bit of more of a throwback name, but it's coming back. Yeah, it's fresh.
No, we got to bring back the older names. For boys, Noah 1,

Liam 2, Oliver 3,

Elijah 4, Mateo 5, random, 7

Mateo? Levi, 8

Ezra. I'm out

on Liam and Mateo.

I'm sorry. Right.
I'm out.

I'm out. Yeah, I get it.

Liam is not a name for

everyone, Josh. It's not.
Oh, don't I? It's not. You convincing me? You telling me? Liam is not a good name for your third son.
Don't even think about it. I mean, it would be cool if you had three boys and you named them Liam, Luke, and Chris all after the Hemsworth brothers.
Unless they're really ugly. Can you imagine three nebbishes named like? Yeah, it's just sad.
Luke Rosenberg, Liam Hemsworth, Schneider. Those are horrible.
Awful, awful. Such pressure comes from having a name like that.
And your name is way ahead of mine where Benjamin is, I think like 23 or something. Benjamin's 23.
I'm 68 with Joshua. All I have, all I have to say is just shout out to our parents for naming us with such class.
Right. Joshua and Benjamin.
These are, these are strong fucking names. Strong names.
They are. Unlike Liam and Mateo.
I just think you have to understand where your child's going to grow up. If you are from the Upper East Side and your child is going to have seasonal allergies and bow legs, don't name him Wyatt.
No. Don't do it.
Don't name him Walker, Texas Ranger. It don't work.
It's weird. It doesn't work.
It's weird. It doesn't work.
Yes. And if you want them to be able to forge their own path, Josh, then I recommend a name like Benjamin or Joshua.
Because really, there are Ben's and Josh's everywhere. That's right.
Everywhere. That's right.
Everywhere. So they could go and pick, okay, today they're bowlegged in the city.
Tomorrow they could be bowlegged in the country. Bowlegged in the city.
That sounds like a new Taylor Swift song. Did you know that the New York City Columbus Day parade goers got saucy over new claim that the Explorer was Jewish, not Italian.
Italian Americans and Columbus Day parade goers Monday saucily waved off the claim that new DNA evidence shows the controversial explorer was a Sephardic Jew, likely from Spain. We don't care, said Sherry Corso, who attended the Manhattan parade with an Italian flag wrapped around her neck.
He's always going to be Italian. That's what's up.
I love, I heard this story. I love that there are three camps now on columbus day one the people that wish him he is dead but really fucking hate him right right really hate him then there's the italians that love him they're like more proud of christopher columbus than anybody, unfortunately, we have the Jews who,

I don't claim Christopher, okay? I don't want him. I don't want him.
I don't want it. I don't want

it because the people that are saying that Christopher Columbus was Jewish are also the

people that are saying that he was a really bad guy. So I don't need another bad guy Jew.
I don't,

I don't. If we want to focus on his achievements, he can be Jewish.
If we're focusing on the full

picture, I'm out. Should we list top five worst Jews? No.
No. Come on.
No. Okay.
Jeffrey Epstein's number one. I mean.
He's got to be number one. Bernie Madoff's number two.
P. P.
Diddy.

Number three.

Just kidding.

Son of Sam.

David Berkowitz.

Not good.

NG.

Not good.

No.

There's some bad.

Yeah, there's some bad.

Yeah.

There's some bad.

There's some bad.

Listen, just like everyone else.

For sure.

There's some bad.

We also have some really freaking genius Jews.

Einstein.

Heard of them?

Einstein.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Have you?

Yeah.

Have you?

Stan Lee.

It's all.

You nerds.

You're welcome.

Nerds.

We've Stan Lee.

That's right.

You would think he's Korean from his name, but it's actually he's a Jew.

You would.

Yes.

Wow.

I had no idea.

That's amazing. Howard Stern.
Jesus. Jesus for sure.
Undisputed. Heavyweight champion of the world.
The best. Jesus Christ.
Well, another story said, I gave my groom a not safe for work lap dance at our wedding. Guests cringed, but he loved it.
A notushing bride named natalie sanders shocked the pants off her groom and wedding guests when she flipped upside down and popped her crotch in his face during a not safe for work lap dance at their post nuptials reception when you had one too many drinks at your wedding sanders mother of three and nurse penned in the caption of her viral video uploaded to tiktok this week what do we think whoa whoa i think he's one lucky guy same here and i think that he knows what he married this is not this is not the first time right this is this is who she is so if if he discovered this night of the wedding then they didn't know each other well enough that's right So odds are he knew this. He liked that she was, I think an extrovert is putting it lightly, but she's a fun time.
Good for her. Good for her.
Is there any way of being serious, giving your partner a lap dance? And I ask the room. I don't think so.
I don't think so. No.
I have no idea. I don't know how people do it.
I don't really know how one could be serious getting a lap dance ever. Right.
Maybe that's a me thing. But like, I don't like, I would just be like laughing.
Like, it's just like such like unnatural, strange. I don't know.
I've talked about this before, but my bachelor party was at a strip club next to the 405. Cause we're classy like that.
Um, because I wasn't going to have a bachelor party. And then last minute, same day before my wedding, my groomsmen were like, come on, we got to do something.
So we go to this spot and it's fine. And who shows up? My good buddy, John Stamos, God bless him.
And he goes, well, come on, let's go upstairs. So we go upstairs and John and I are in separate rooms.
And by that, I mean, we're separated by a sheet. And I, I'm, I can't tell this story.
It's good. We're going to cut it out.
You can. I have, I have a story.
You can. So it's like, we separated by some piece of cloth.
You have this little room where you're getting a lap dance, and I'm mostly talking to the person about how they're getting their degree from Pepperdine. And all of a sudden, from John's side, I hear, no, no, no, I'm shy.
I'm shy. And that's what you get with two married stiffs getting lap dances have you have i told you the story of me and claudia in new orleans i don't think so okay

good because most of the stories i tell i retell people have told me that like i get it okay i get

it i might have a bad memory hopefully this is a new story for people we were at mardi gras this

was probably i don't know six or seven years ago and we popped into a local strip club. I don't know.
We were bored. It was the afternoon.
And we thought, you know, let's just go in together. Were you drunk? And we walked.
I would assume so. Probably.
I would assume so. I don't think that this was like a sober two o'clock activity.
I think we probably had a couple of drinks. If you're in a strip club while the lunch buffet is out, you better be under the influence.
Yeah, yeah. Even though I've heard that the salmon is good and we're sitting there and it's rather sad.
Like, I think it's like me, Claudia, maybe like two other people. And this woman gets on stage.
And when I tell you, Josh, she had full blown tassels as nipples. Tassels.els no like like a small elephant's trunk i'd never seen a nipple like this in my life seared in my brain forever we ran out never went again like a little like a an elephant's trunk well never seen how do you think that made her feel i told her you were i told her you were great and then left.
Ben goes up to the stage and says, this has nothing to do with you. And then walks out.
You were amazing. Should we get to a SpeakPipe? But I'm out.
Yes, we should. If you want to have us give you advice, if you want to give us a question, go to speakpipe.com slash good guys.

Keep it brief.

Brevity is key.

Let's hear from Jacob. Let's hear from strong name Jacob.
Hey, good guys. I've got a question about something that might be nuts or maybe it's just pretty good.
My wife grew up taking leftover spaghetti and taking cream cheese and cooking the cream cheese down on a saute pan and then throwing in the spaghetti afterwards. As an Italian food purist, to me, that's that's crazy, although it's pretty good.
And I know you guys are foodies, so I'd love to hear what your opinion is on this. Is it nuts or not nuts? At first, I thought it was insane.
Truly nuts. But I can't judge it.
I can't. Because I recently saw a guy on TikTok lather his steak, Josh, in mayonnaise before searing it.
Oh, I bet it's good. And it looked fucking perfect.
And at first I was judging him hard.

I'm like, mayonnaise on steak?

What are you nuts?

But it looked perfect.

And when I think about it, I love cream cheese.

I love it.

And Philadelphia is the undisputed king of cream cheese.

Thank you, Philadelphia.

I love cream cheese and I love spaghetti.

So the combination could make an oddly yummy, like take on a mac and cheese. I don't know.
I don't know. Oh, I'm all on board.
It sounds very simple why that would be delish. I mean, we saw those dishes when the Trader Joe's one bake, one pan meals, block of feta, boom, mix it up with the noodles and the cherry tomatoes.
This is an inert cheese. This is really a cheese with not a strong flavor, but the texture, this is a texture play.
I'm in. It's texture play.
Throw a little seasoning on there. Gorge.
I think the what are you nuts is he said, take pasta out of the fridge. I'm not for saving raw, not for saving cooked pasta in the fridge.
Not a fan at all.

Make the pasta, eat it fresh.

Make enough.

If you over make it, I'm sorry, it's going in the trash.

I don't want day old pasta that isn't sauced.

Sure, I'll heat up a penne alla vodka

or I'll heat up a baked ziti or something.

But just that cooked pasta coming one big block

inside of my Tupperware in the fridge,

frozen, not for me.

No good. Well, here's another question from Anonymous.
Hi, Josh and Ben. Love good guys.
Love the podcast. Huge moron.
I would just like some advice because I'm going through a bit of a rough patch in my career. I work in the entertainment an industry and I have about three years of experience, which means that I do now work as a receptionist at a doctor's office.
And I'm just applying to jobs anywhere and everywhere I can find them. Like I would, I'm applying to LA.
I'm applying to jobs in New York. I'm applying to jobs in London.
I'm currently based in New York, but I mean, I'll just take anything. I know that in my bones, like this is what I was made to do.
Like I came out of the womb saying like, I'm going to win an Emmy. I'm going to win an Oscar and I'm 25 and I feel like, oh my God, I'm already 25.
But at the same time, I'm like, I'm 25. Like I kind of have accomplished a lot so far in my career, but how do you stay positive in this industry? Like I know what I was getting myself into.
It's rejection, rejection, rejection. My parents told me to go to law school.
I just, I hate school. I couldn't do it.
The LSAT would make me shit my pants. So I was just wondering how you stay positive.
And now from a word from our sponsor, Prozac. Here at Prozac, we keep you happy whether your job sucks or not.
I think we have two. I have an opinion, but Josh, I want to hear yours from being in the biz.
Here's my first issue with this speak pipe. She didn't say what she does, which means you are so, and I say this with love and care, and as any 25-year-old should be, pretty self-obsessed.
You are so wrapped up in you that you spent 90 seconds with us, us playing it on our, the biggest podcast in the world. The biggest podcast in the world.
And you spent 90 seconds telling us a problem, but didn't give us enough information to really help you. And the only distinguishing factor was the icing.
That's right. The cash and prizes.
I'm going to win an Emmy one day. I'm going to win an Oscar.
Those are just trophies. I want to hear what you do.

I want to hear the thing you're most passionate about and the thing that you would do in the face of so much challenge and so much obstacles. Because I'm here to tell you, 25 years in, it's always there.
Totally agree. What I will say is this is not specific to the entertainment industry.
This is overall. When I hear people say, I keep applying to jobs and nobody gets back to me.
That is an unbelievable excuse that people love to use. Like, go meet someone that can help you.
Go network. Go be in the real world.
Don't sit behind a computer and apply. Go meet people.
Go knock on doors. Go show up places.
I just like there is opportunity, but it's a sad fact about the world or maybe it's not sad. It is 100% who you know.
So go meet some people. Go meet some people who can help you.
But saying, oh, I've applied. Nobody's getting back to me, blah, blah, blah.
Having hired people before, I can tell you, I do not, I literally never read resumes ever. Like if there's like a public job posting, you're getting hundreds of resumes in.
I'm not reading them. I'm not.
I'm going to read the one though, that a friend of mine who I really trust sent me and said, hey, you know, I've worked with this person in the past. They're super qualified.
I think they'd be fantastic. You need some kind of an in no matter what the industry is.
You need a leg up. So go network, go network.
And what I would say is you can and should do both. You should follow a legit career and you should also go for your dream and see which one wins.
Because the truth is, let's just say you're an actor or a writer. If you're an actor, most of your day is not eaten up by acting, even if you're doing all the right things.
Even let's just say you go to acting class twice a week for three hours of class, so that's six hours. And then you say, I'm going to read a play for an hour every day and I'm going to work on monologues for an hour every day during the week.
So that's 10, that's 16. Let's say 20 hours are spent on acting.
Or let's say you're a writer. You really can't write longer than three hours a day.
You're kind of cooked by then, and you're probably only going to write for two hours. You can totally have a nine to five and do all of that in addition to that.
The only thing that's going to suffer is brunch or going out, you know, with your girls. And you'll have time to do that on the weekend.
So if you don't have a partner in kids or someone you're taking care of, you have oodles of time to do both. Do both.
Also, depending on, to your point from before, what you actually do, like you didn't mention what you do. And I want to mention all of this quickly.
We love you. Thank you for listening.
You're great. But just trying to provide some feedback.
If you are an actress, like today is there, we're at a very specific point in time where you could actually put something out online that could show people what you're made of without getting permission from anybody. Like you don't necessarily need a network to have a show.
Like if you want to go and bootstrap a 10 episode show because you're an amazing writer and you star in it acting and you meet a couple of friends and they help you and you hire a videographer and you give the videographer some skin in the production that you're making. Like there are ways to sort of force the issue that didn't exist when Josh was coming up.
Totally agree. Should we get to your what are you nuts? We should.
I have so fucking many. I have so many.
The question is, which one do I want to pick? Okay. I'll start.
The what are you nuts moment of the week is our gripes with people, places and things, both big and small, whatever, sticking in your craw today. Mine is, I was walking through the parking lot the other day and I saw a truck, big truck, with an advertisement on the side for a doctor.
The doctor owns a truck and he's advertising his medical practice on the side of his truck. Hey doc, what are you nuts? You're not a plumber.
Don't advertise that you're a doctor on the passenger side door of your car. I'm not coming to you.
Are you a landscaper? Like this is not the place to advertise if you're a doctor. What are you nuts? Nuts.
Couldn't agree more. Absolutely.
Couldn't agree more. It's like the ground.
It's like the ground floor dentist. I'm not going there.
I'm not doing it. I'm not going into your pop-up shop dentist.
I'm not doing it. Totally.
What are you nuts? Excellent. Mine is, it's sad, but it's true.
We recently had the Jewish high holidays and sitting in shul, which is temple, synagogue, however you call it. And the man in front of me, Josh, could not stop farting.
Could not stop. I'm talking ripping like those like brisket level toots that just like you want to fucking suffocate yourself and die because they smell so bad.
Can I give you three different sounds of the farts and you can tell me what it was closest to? I couldn't hear them. Shit.
They were silent but deadlies, Josh. But I know based on the smell that he was crapping his pants.
Like he had like full blown, if he was wearing tighty whities, those are skid marked. I looked at my dad, we couldn't breathe.
And this is like during like a serious part of Yom Kippur. Everybody's very quiet.
Everybody's fasting. We're supposed to be just like repenting and with God.
And I look to my dad and my dad is just like shit like tucking his shirt over his nose like we couldn't breathe what are you nuts don't before a fast have a like fucking pot roast care about the people you're going to synagogue with thanks ben it was so disgusting i can't even i can't even take us home you had to be there you had to be there and folks that is our show where else can you get laughs like this we're like the chuckle factory rate us five stars otherwise what are you nuts listen to us on spotify apple wherever you get your podcasts wherever you get your podcasts watch us on josh podcasts. Watch us on Josh's YouTube.
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