Conspiracy Theories and Celebrities with NO Etiquette

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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 who doesn't cheat on his wife, but he does cheat on his taxes.
It's Ben Soffer. Never ever get the IRS off my back.
No, no. But I but i do i do cheat i cheated on many a test i i didn't we've never spoken about this were you a were you a high school cheat middle school cheat peek over or was all oh it was all home was it homeschooling i don't know yeah my childhood was robbed from me from show business oh man yeah it was drive-by but like yeah i'm sorry that's unfortunate you think you're sorry though i cheated on so many spanish tests i just wasn't in the mood to learn it like i already went to a jewish school i'm learning hebrew i'm learning english i barely know english and i gotta learn spanish like that's a lot it was too much you were learning sp Spanish at a rabbinical Jewish school.

You could pick between Spanish and French.

You needed to learn English, Hebrew, Spanish.

I just I'm imagining you being taught.

I know it's not this way by a rabbi, like a Catholic school, how you're taught by nuns and priests.

I'm imagining a rabbi being like, OK, so repeat after me.

Los Ustedes.

Command the wrong house.

Oh, my God. I wish it was that.

Oh, I wish.

Oh, that would have been so funny.

Oh, my God.

No, it was just like a regular Spaniard. I needed, oh my God, the rabbi teaching Spanish.
Unbelievable. I don't cheat on my taxes.
IRS, get off my ass. Do you think you could have ever become a rabbi? Yeah.
I feel like, I feel like there are like people. Yes.
I think you just like, if you want to become a rabbi, you can become a rabbi. And what kind of rab so like, could I be a good rabbi? I think I could be great rabbi.
Don't you think I could, I could cultivate a community. I think I could have just wonderful people that look up to me.
I give a nice sermon. I put out a nice spread.
I talk to you about life for sure. I think you would be a great rabbi.
I think you'd be a much better rabbi than me, but I think you'd be excellent at it. I think you have too much of an entrepreneurial mind, so then you'd try to turn your temple into a chain.
Yeah. I was just about to say, Josh, do you want to launch a mega synagogue? You'd franchise your synagogue? Could there be something more Jewish? Do you want to launch a mega synagogue? The way do mega churches? It'll be me and you.
We'll bring in all great singers. We'll have a 5,000 person amphitheater type service.
Yes. Oh man, we will be raking in the dough.
Of course, it's a nonprofit, but we'll be raking it in. Tell me what you think of this, and we'll probably have to cut it out my big brother who is a great jew in my life he goes to shul once a week and shul which is yiddish for synagogue in case people don't know and the reality is at at least all the synagogues i've been to over the last decade, they have a form of armed security there.

Yes.

So he lives in a state where they are very accepting of giving people concealed carry licenses. He carries a firearm when he goes to synagogue.
And he has created a prayer shawl, a traditional prayer shawl that one would wear at a Jewish synagogue with a little compartment for your concealed carry weapon.

It's called concealed carry tallis.

Does he sell it?

He's about to sell it.

Shout out.

I will put the website in the notes.

Great.

We'll sell it. Fox News will sell it.
Where else will i will put the uh website in the uh notes great we'll we'll sell it fox news will sell it where else will they sell it he's the new my pillow sponsored by the nra see the thing is first of all i not only first of all i love the product i love the entrepreneurial spirit if there's a problem and there's a need you can make money off it okay fantastic that said how fucking sad is it that we need to bring weapons to places of worship i'm sorry it's terrible and like the fact is you said it like even before like this current rise of anti-semitism my schools, my synagogues always had, always had police officers, always like the fact that you need a police officer or an armed guard to make sure that nothing funky goes on while people are praying is terrible. It's funny.
I I've been lucky enough randomly, partly in of my first podcast and also then when I was

in Turner and Hooch and playing a U.S. Marshal, I had become friends with a former director

of the Los Angeles Division of the FBI and friends with the former deputy director of

the U.S. Marshals.

And it was interesting because they both had very different sort of outlooks on carrying

a weapon in civilian life, which obviously, if you're a law enforcement officer, you're more than allowed to do. The U.S.
Marshal carried not only a regular service weapon, but a backup no matter where he went. If he was going to get coffee, no matter what, he said, if something happens, I'm qualified and I want to be ready to help no matter what.
My lovely friend who is in the FBI, who was also Jewish, was like, it's too much responsibility. He's like, I don't want to carry anymore.
I did it for 21 years. I'm with him.
Too much responsibility. I can't even imagine.
I can't even imagine. Crazy, right? Crazy.
It's the same reason I don't wear a watch. And this is a me thing, right? I feel like I'm going to lose things if I have them.
And I've gotten much better at it over the years. But to have a gun on my hip pocket, imagine I'm texting and I get emotionally mugged by that guy on 59th street.
And all of a sudden, I'm texting on my phone. He grabs my gun, shoots me in the head.
No good. I'm not, I can't do it.
It's an unbelievable responsibility. And I love what my buddy from the FBI said that when he joined the FBI and he had to tell his Jewish grandmother that he was now going to be in the FBI.
He's like, you know, I tried to like put it easy to her so she didn't get too nervous. I said, mom, you know, grandma, don't worry.
Cause when we go to get a bad guy, if there's one bad guy, we bring two guys. And if there are two bad guys, we bring four agents and so on and so forth.
And he said, my grandmother looked at me and said, good stand in the back. It's so good.
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Josh, I ate at an incredible restaurant this weekend. Oh, tell me.
An incredible restaurant. I had no idea that it was new.
I had no idea. Somebody offered me a reservation at a restaurant called the Corner Store.
It's now one week old. It's on, if you've been to Seidel's on West Broadway, it's where the Dos Caminos used to be.
And I never saw anybody go into the Dos Caminos. Nobody went in there.
People would just use the Dos Caminos bathroom because Seidel's has single stalls. The biggest what are you nuts of all time? You're eating bagels and coffee.
People are going to need to take shits in the morning. So they walked down the street to the Dos Caminos.
Dos Caminos became a corner store. Corner store, Josh, is the Catch Guys.
It's their newest restaurant. And this food was outstanding.
Outstanding. Let me walk you through a couple of things that I ate, okay?

This is my best bite of the week.

And when we're here, when you're here, you're coming,

you are going to love it.

Okay, they have an amazing like raw bar selection.

You know, I don't eat that,

but apparently their shrimp cocktail is out of this world.

And it comes with like, almost like a,

it's not a traditional cocktail sauce.

It's almost like a mayo-based cocktail sauce.

Somewhere between a cocktail sauce and a Russian.

Wow.

Looked insane.

Thank you. with like, almost like a, it's not a traditional cocktail sauce.
It's almost like a mayo based cocktail sauce, somewhere between a cocktail sauce and a Russian. Wow.
Insane. But Ben, you scream shrimp man.
You are a shrimp man and you gotta, you gotta be a little lenient with the trife here. I know.
I just, I just, this shelf, I just don't do shellfish. Maybe we will one day, not today.
You ate a little calamar. Am I allowed to say this and put you on blast? You ate a little calamar when it was given to us.
I didn't eat it. Yes, you did.
No, I didn't. You ate.
Oh, you didn't. I didn't eat it.
You ate fried calamari. And I was sick after.
There was one time and I was sick as a dog. Oh, it was delicious.
It's carbone. So good.
Calabrian chilies. It was fantastic.
God, I wasn't sick from the food. I was sick from the type of food.

Okay, look, I didn't eat the shrimp.

You would have loved it.

I ate tuna tartare.

It was out of this world.

Okay, I ate.

They have these steamed artichokes, Josh.

Love.

Unbelievable.

No, but I can't even tell you

it was the best artichoke I've ever had.

I had this delicious snapper crudo.

We then went to the Caesar salad.

I've never seen this before.

Josh, they had cream cheese croutons.

Huh?

A crouton stuffed with cream cheese.

Sick.

So you bite into it.

You hear the crunch of the bread, and then the inside is filled with cream cheese.

Paired with that creamy Caesar dressing blew my mind.

I think I would get a call from my cardiologist as I've been into that going, I'm canceling you as a client. Done.
It blew my mind. I then finished off with a reasonably priced Dover sole.
Loved. It was fantastic.
Interesting. But others got, there was a lobster.
What was the lobster? There was a lobster dish that looked unbelievable.

They have a French dip that is with Wagyu. Oof.
This place, a horseradish sauce. This place, tip top, tip top.
Highly recommend. You know, my wife and I, I think the only real knock on the catch sort of the restaurants in LA and New York was that it became so popular that it became trendy and it became too popular.
And then it was kind of not cool to go, but like it or not, the food is excellent. Those desserts.
Yeah. It's a good Instagrammable moment.
It's also just a good moment. And I believe that the guys behind catch could make a killer restaurant like that.
I'm in, I can't wait to go. The food is so good.
I am now friends with the group. They came over.
They were so nice. Love it.
Eugene Rem. We're in.
We're going. It was amazing.
And if anybody listening needs a reservation, find somebody else. Okay? Totally.
Not going to be me. Totally.
I am so, and this is a good transition. I have buddy jordan oaken hosts the air jordan food podcast the only la based food podcast it's great and so he's like in the food scene him and his hetero life mate max shapiro quickly josh i want to go on that podcast we're going when you come in we'll go we'll go guests in the pod he wants us great done we're going we in.
Good. And he wants, and so he gets hit up for reservations nonstop.
The man can't breathe. So one day I'm going downtown.
We're going to see a concert, my wife and I and some friends of ours. And so I say to Jordan, I don't want to do this.
This is not like me, but my wife wants to do it nice. Could you possibly get me a reservation at Bevel? Now Bevelvel is this incredible, the chef, Ori, is behind Bestia, Bevel,

some of the best restaurants in Los Angeles.

Incredible place.

The food, Israeli food, beyond, right?

Never, never a dull moment at Bevel.

So he does it.

He goes, for you, Josh, anything.

I go, of course, because I'm not like all people, you know?

I'm a child celebrity.

So he gets a Ceres and the couple that we're with just, and they're lovely and we love them.

They had just had a really late lunch.

And I decided in my head, oh, I hate you.

A late lunch.

We're at Pavelle. No good.

You know what I did for this reservation?

I called in a big favor. Huge.
You're not that hungry? See, that is the difference between having that Jewish-y, Yiddish-y stomach. I hear we're going to a marquee restaurant.
Suddenly, a new chamber opens up. Yep.
You know what I'm saying? I could have gone to the hometown buffet for lunch. I've always got room.

One thing that you need to know about me.

I've always got room.

Yep.

Yep.

Always.

Always.

Literally.

And back to the reservations.

I'm literally making reservation for somebody right now.

In between us recording Pookie and Jet asked for reservation at Emilio's. I'm making a reservation at Emilio's for Pookie and Jet right now.

And so funny. They're going to be at Emilio's and not our podcast.
Where's that, Ben? Where's that? Damn it. That's what you need to leverage.
You want to have a nice pasta dish? I'm getting Jet. I'm going to get them.
I'm going to get them. Maybe they're still here.
Oh, I'll ask. I'll ask.
I'll see if they're still here. So my boy, and this is really great for us too now, Ben, because now I've got, because you really have all the juice in New York with reservations.
I mean, you're incredibly hooked up. I'm jealous about it.
And I've been a Pookie Jet in your life. I'll be honest.
I've asked you for a rest. You are.
So Jordan works for this insane company called Dorsia, which I am now going to be like a little bit of like a small ambassador for. Basically, Dorsia is this app, and I'm not doing a hard sell here.
I'm just telling you about something I think is cool, that you can get same-day reservations at Teresi, at Carbone, at these places that are impossible. And basically, the way you do it is you're just going there and guaranteeing a minimum through the app.
So for an insane place like Teresiesi, it might say, hey, you want to eat here tonight? It's going to be $200 a person. So yeah, it's going to be a $400 meal, but you're going to a restaurant like that.
You're like going to drink, you're going to do it up. And basically once your tab hits 400 bucks, you're good.
Anything in excess of that, you have to pay the difference. And if you don't reach 400, well, too bad.
You're out 400. But it's a ways for restaurants to say, hey, we know it's hard to get a res.
If you can guarantee we're going to make X amount tonight, you can get in. And they're not all that expensive, but I think it's pretty cool.
So shout out Dorsia. So I can get us into cool places too now, Ben.

It's a great idea.

I want to know what schmuck is going in and leaving a part of their Dorsia tab.

I would just, you obviously have to order up till the spend.

Even if you're sick, even if you're sick,

you order up to the spend.

So how do I get to 400 bucks for two people?

19 orders of shrimp cocktail.

Oh, hot. 13 Dover sold.
Take it home. You have a summer truffle.
Okay, I'll take three. Take it home, babe.
You can get there. You can get there.
It's easy. Come with me.
We'll get there. Okay.
Speaking of drinks, quickly, because I forgot to mention on the last one, Spritz Society has launched, Josh, our new flavor with Craig Conover. Wow.
Our new flavor. It's lemon iced tea.
It's unbelievable. It's delicious.
And you can go to SpritzSociety.com. Use code Craig20, C-R-A-I-G-20, the great Craig Conover.
Not the great Craig Conover, the doctor, the great Craig Conover that is my friend that is on Southern Charm and is phenomenal, even though I'm sure the other great Craig Conover is also a friend of other people. I wonder, do you think it's difficult, Josh, having your name be the exact same as another person that's also a celebrity? It's so funny because I once messaged the person on Instagram who's at Josh Peck, and they just wrote to me, I've been waiting for this day because I was just like, hey, want to give it to me? And he was like, no.
And I was like, I get it. You had it first.
Enjoy it. Take care of it.
But yeah, it's got to be weird. Yes, I digress.
But it's sports society dot com. Lemon iced tea code Craig 20.
Back to you. How much did he try to charge you? We didn't even do a money thing because I already know about what happened a couple of months ago with that girl who remember that was like in the news.
Did you see that, Olivia? I don't know if I did. I didn't see it.
What was it? It was a girl who was an influencer who married into a rather prominent sort of wealthy family. And and so her name changed, obviously.
And someone already had her new name. Sophia Richie.
No, no, no. She's much smaller.
Okay. But this prominent, impressive family, she married into it.
She messaged a person and said, I'd love to give you X for this new handle. The person said, I'll pass.
She's like, please. And the person was like, I actually just checked and I think this could get me banned from instagram to charge you to switch screen names and then of course the person made it public and it was like very just annoying yeah yeah well i've been thinking for a long time i'm never going to change from boy with no job but ben soffer it's a nice and nice it's my god-given name Instagram handle.
What about if you could just be at Ben? Doesn't somebody have Ben?

Of course. ben soffer it's a nice and nice it's my god-given name uh i would instagram handle what about if you could just be at ben yeah doesn't somebody have been out of course yeah who's like who's like no but i'm saying doesn't somebody that like let's see it's like yeah who's ben somebody's ben who's josh you look up ben i'll look up josh just josh at ben who's just ben yeah i't.
I don't know how to do this. I don't know either.
Because it's just Ben's I know come up. I see the man with just Ben.
Okay. He's private.
The profile photo is a small dog. Yes, a Frenchie.
He has 21,000 followers. It's way less than you, Ben.
Way less. Okay, who's at Josh? And who's just Josh? Maybe that should be my name, just Josh.
Okay, where's Josh? There's a lot. I don't even.
No. I can't find it.
If you're just at Josh, let me have it. Give it.
I want it. Do you want it? I don't even think I want Ben.
It's too simple. It's kind of hot.
You could be like, I'm Josh at, you know, AOL.com. Actually, it's really cool.
Follow me on Instagram. It's just Ben.
Wow. It's just Ben.
Oh, that's God. That's good.
Oh, my God. She got a little horny.

Did you guys hear that they announced Kendrick Lamar is going to be the Super Bowl performer

for the 2025 Super Bowl?

No, I didn't hear.

How do we feel about this?

I don't know.

He's fine.

I think it would be fine.

Just give the people what they want. Shak shakira this is not what the people want people want fallout boy oh josh speaking of fallout boy did i tell you that i'm djing webster hall you're djing webster hall you want to come on september 21st i'm djing i have an hour-long set at emo night where i'm gonna be playing all the top hits fallout boy i'm gonna be playing simple plan i'm gonna be playing you hate it i'm playing it that should be your tagline you hate it i play it um that's so funny because you have you're so not like a tech guy that i could just imagine you setting up your playlist on like, you like plug in a cassette player.
Yeah. Well, it's going to be a fantastic night, but I don't know why they don't have Fall Out Boy.
Wouldn't that be great? Okay. No shade on Fall Out Boy.
I just, it's, who do you want them to have? LL Cool J? I've had i've had enough of ll cool j okay i saw him at the most recent music awards the vmas i'm like more ll i like to call him uncle l i what i would say is i love kendrick lamar love love he performed at the forum in june i wish i was there'm a massive fan. I think he's one of the best out there.

I just think the Super Bowl show should, and this is not my take.

It's the great Joey Camasta's take.

I think it should only be a diva.

I think it should be reserved for divas.

I agree.

Yeah.

I agree.

I agree. I think it's a Taylor.

A J-Lo.

I think it's a J-Lo.

I think it's a Beyonce.

I think it's a Adele. A-Lo.
I think it's a J-Lo. I think it's a Beyonce.
I think it's

a Adele. A Claudia Oshry.
A Celine Dion. You should have Celine.
Could you imagine? No, I can't. Celine Dion.
I love Celine Dion. I love her.
And she's found her voice again. Nobody really is talking about it, okay? But her, like, she is the real life Little Mermaid.
Like somebody went in, stole her voice, and then it was given back to her.

They need to make like a cartoon. Like, where is her Ursula? Wow.
Wow. That is that just blew my mind walking around.
What do they call them? Feet. It's feet.
I want to be where the people are what a fucking movie I just like Celine does her version I want to be a Quebec I'm from Montreal Olivia what are your thoughts on the performance at the Super Bowl I think that there's an argument to be made that Kendrick is kind of having his diva moment this year, though. No, with not like us.
Yeah. And all of this is he having.
I understand that maybe it isn't. I don't know.
I mean, like, what would be the ultimate like crowd pleaser? Because I feel like every year there's going to be some kind of conversation of, you know, someone's unhappy, but I don't know. I love Kendrick.
I'm excited to see what he pulls off. But I hear what you're saying, though.
I think Bruno Mars. Has he done it? Yeah, he did it with the chili peppers in like what? 2013, 2014.
Oh, really? Bruno Mars and the red hot chili peppers together did the Super Bowl. Yeah, I think it was when the C-box.
Oh, my God. That sounds amazing.
Where was I? Where? Let me tell you, because like I remember and I love Maroon 5, but I think Super Bowl, it was in Atlanta and the the headliners were Maroon 5. And I'm like, how did you guys miss the opportunity to get Outkast, Missy Elliott, like Little Wayne, Little Wayne? No he's louisiana but like there are such incredible like i think you should keep it somewhat local i like the idea of keeping it local but then you run into just like not having somebody famous sure sure sure fair fair fair okay super bowl if you get to like a small market 2025 is going to be in it's's going to be in the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Lil Wayne. Josh, here's the problem with Kendrick, okay? No shade to his music.
I personally, I just don't do well at rap concerts. I wish I did.
I don't know what to do. Tell us more, dad.
I went to, I went to, I've gone to Drake twice, the first time i went to drake first time i went to drake i fell down the stairs this is it why this is unrelated i was just at madison square garden and i fell down the stairs sick and that's my that's my memory of drake and then the second time i remember i was at i agree drake is more pop i like drake and then 21 savage came on and i just didn't know what to do. But like, what do you do? Like you just, it's this, it's a lot of head nodding.
Yeah, dog. It's called bumping.
It's called feeling that energy. But don't you, but don't you want to sing? Don't you want to sing? I can't sing.
I can't sing. Cause I can't rap it.
Like I can't rap at their cadence. Like, oh, you can.
Oh man, dude. Have you ever been to a Jay--z concert of course never oh my god have you have you three wow by the way i'll go to the next one which is i don't think there's ever going to be another one he's too rich when he when he gets to a song and it goes you know public service announcement and it goes allow me to reintroduce myself my name is hove H to the OV.
White kids all over the stadium are going nuts, just like me. No, that's nuts.
I agree. But Jay-Z is not Kendrick.
I don't know. Kendrick sauce.
It'll be interesting. I agree.
I think you just need, it's a special recipe for the Super Bowl and it's a tall order. I'll tell you that.
Real tall. And I'm just saying nobody can do it better than a creed.
That would be amazing. You've seen that.
Yeah. Have you seen that video from like that random Cowboys game? Of course you have where they fly in and they're singing.
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That's fatty, F-A-T-T-Y, 1-5.com slash goodguys and using code goodguys at. So I want to finish my story, which I gave a cliffhanger for for last week's episode about talking about my dear son starting to throw up all over my wife's aunt's house while we were staying over there in northern California.
So and and so we head up up north to my wife's aunt's house with the kids and all the families there. We have this incredible red letter day on Sunday.
All the baby cousins are hanging out. My wife's cousins are hanging out.
We're in the pool. We're out of the pool.
Incredible spread. Unbelievable day.
And I needed this, Ben. I didn't get any vacation.
I haven't been on a vacation this year just to get out of LA with my family, my beautiful family, Baruch Hashem. So lucky.
So then I'm laying in bed with my son. He begins to throw up because he's had all this congestion.
He's throwing up red blood cough syrup all over the carpet. Now I'm mortified, right? So I immediately go, oh my God, I got to go get paper towels.
I got to start cleaning this up. Paige wakes up.
She helps Max into the bathroom. I know he's taken care of.
So now I go, I'm on cleanup duty. So I start going down the stairs.
I miss the last stair, my right foot plants, but I've now I'm coming down with double the amount of weight because i missed the last year and these were like hardy stairs this was like the stairs and annie you know like this is daddy warbucks style and i hear my quad rips huh my quad muscle it rips what are you injured? I've never heard a muscle rip in my life except when I was bench pressing and I tore my pec. Okay? And it scared me to death.
I hear the rip. I feel a lightning bolt of pain go through my leg and I proceed to topple over like I just fell out of a car.
I look up.

My wife's aunt or aunt is staring down at me.

She goes, did you just have a heart attack?

I said, Max knew up blood everywhere.

And I think I tore my quad.

And now I am cleaning up, throw up in a spin, a neurotic fear-based spin like I haven't been in in years about, oh my God, I'm going to have to get orthopedic surgery. I'm not going to be able to take care of my kids.
I'm going to be in a full cast. My wife's going to resent me.
Oh boy, I can't wait for the pain meds, separate issue. And yeah, it was like, I could not, I was, first So I was very painful and it like shocked me.
I, oh boy, I can't wait for the pain meds, separate issue. And yeah, it was like, I could not, I was, first of all, I was very painful and it like shocked me.
So I just couldn't even sleep all night. And what a day that had started so wonderful, sort of ended in this silly way.
It's really scary just because you like, forget how quickly you can get hurt. Luckily, and I couldn't bend my leg.
I couldn't do this. I was like, I could walk, but I couldn't move.
It was bad. So the next day, we're going to see the 49ers play the New York Jets because my father-in-law played for the Jets and it's the boys' first Jets game to see their grandpa's team.
And I proceeded to walk that stadium with my bum leg. And here's a fun fact.
When you're the away team, the home team gives the away team, you know, a couple hundred tickets, I would imagine, because each player has some family who come in. They give you the worst tickets in the house.
So we are on the 400 level. My sister-in- blake when the blue angels flew by said i can touch them and i was like i had this bum ass leg while everyone's like why is josh from drake and josh on the top level of levi's stadium and going down what i'm like literally like this going up and down the stairs.
Hi. Oh.

Oh. of Levi's Stadium and going down.
I'm literally like this, going up and down the stairs.

Hi.

Ow!

Ow!

It was so demoralizing.

So that was my

weekend. But your quad

is fine now.

First of all, I do

want to say it was the greatest experience ever. I'm so glad my kids got to go and have a real experience and sit in like the regular seats and didn't get some like fancy schmancy thing oh shut it i am come on they're like i'm so i'm so upset that they didn't give max a suite oh they were gorgeous the best the bay has to offer.
And it was incredible

them being there with their grandfather, who's the greatest person alive. And what was so fun was in the tailgate, for every 10 49ers fans, there's one New York Jets fan.
And there were a couple of guys in their fifties with my father-in-law's Jersey. So he would kind of walk up to them and say, hey jersey and they'd be like oh oh like they would lose their mind which was incredible but wait what did you ask me how the fuck is your quad everybody everybody is waiting with bated breath you're like i tore my quad i can't see i went to sleep are you fine so i do something that i never do.
I texted my orthopedist. Yes, I have my orthopedist number.
Tell me you're Jewish without telling me you're Jewish. And I text him Monday morning, terrified because I was in a lot of pain and I couldn't really move the leg.
And I'm like, I got to come see you tomorrow because I knew until I saw him, I was just not going to be right. He's like, come in at 1.30 tomorrow.
He's the best. Shout out.
I went in and then, of course, my father-in-law, who's basically had a broken shoulder since he stopped playing in 1990. I mean, this guy knows how to handle pain.
They're laughing at me. So like, of course, you have to go immediately see a doctor.
I went and saw him. He put my fears for us.
He's like, I don't think this is anything like that won't heal on its own. So, yeah, it's still quite painful.
But we're here. We're on Tylenol and Advil and a little bit of Arnica.
I'm not going to lie. The good news is that even if we need to amputate your leg, OK, even if you can always podcast, all you need is that voice.
I think about that sometimes and it makes me feel better. all you need is that voice i think about that sometimes and it makes me feel better all you need is that voice josh okay what a time hey did you know that the 69 year old raiders owner mark davis said that his 26 year old girlfriend didn't know he was a billionaire she was just attracted to his beautiful smile yeah right that that's what he this is a smile for anyone who who doesn't uh shout out though love him he's a key he's cute for sure sure you picked a great pick of his haircut is crazy no it's sick it is let me can you imagine that becomes trendy? Like, yo, let me get the Mark Davis.
I wouldn't put it past people. People are nuts.
Yeah. Like Andrew Schultz has the wildest haircuts ever and he just like rocks it.
He makes it work. He looks good.
No, it's when you're really, really cool. You can do anything you want.
Oh, it's so true. And when you're not, you just can't.
You just can't. So true.
Well, did you know that there is a study that suggests that couples who engage in playful teasing and make fun of each other in a lighthearted way often report higher levels of relationship satisfaction and happiness? This might be why you and Claudia are the happiest people ever. She really breaks your balls, Ben.
No, I'm kidding. She definitely does.
She definitely does. And I love her for it.
I love it. It revs my engine.
It is our, it's our love language. It is.
We do definitely gently tease overly, less than gently tease, just tease break hearts. Yeah.
Look, if you can't, if you can't joke with your spouse, I don't know, like you, you joke with a best friend, right? Like I think, I don't know. You got to bust each other's balls.
Olivia. Yeah.
My boyfriend and I like constantly make fun of each other and it is, it's a dream. I love it.
I wouldn't have it any other way. Love it.
What's your boyfriend's name? Are you, do you feel comfortable sharing? Yeah, absolutely is ethan he's fantastic we love him been around for a while so hopefully isn't going anywhere uh won't have to do a little breakup announcement on the podcast no god for pain thank thank god you said ethan like i was playing in my head as you said it like what if she said rex that'd be a lot like like ethan's such like a normal good guy name olivia and ethan i see it it's fantastic i'm wishing you well thank you like if he had like a weird name wayne rex is about as weird as i could think rex that would change everything that would change this dynamic entirely oh yeah everything olivia's married every olivia's dating Rexx but well but exotic names are cool right like olivia and pablo or like olivia and kairi irving you know what i mean totally yes that would have been cool what's your boyfriend's name lebron james yeah that would be amazing you know i'll workshop it i'll see what I can pull together. Yeah.
I love that. Well, do you want to know what the net worths have been of our past four presidents before Donald Trump, before they went into office and then after? Yes.
Ready for this? Ready for this? Yes. President Barack Obama before 1.3 million after 70 mil.
George W. Bush, 20 million after 40 million.
Bill Clinton, 1.3 mil after 241 million. And George H.W.
Bush, 4 million before, 23 mil after. It is good to be president.
Yep, but they only make 200 grand a year, right? I think up now i think it's 400 whatever that's not contributing to 70 million well yeah when you're done you get the book deal you get the speaking deal it's the book i guess it must be the book it's everything it's the book it's the insider trading that's you could do that in office shout out nancy but it's the book the book it's the book it's the oh we lost 500 million in arms but they're being sold on the black market by harak horama you're on ebay you're a fun i love conspiracy ben conspiracy ben is creepy and fun i heard i just heard a crazy conspiracy theory do you want to hear it yes i love conspiracy i know we should do a segment okay did you hear that ants didn't get covid do you know why ants as in like my aunt no or the or like an ant insects at antworm see this is the problem i'm gonna start saying on exactly because if you're talking about if you're talking about ants and ants, it's rare, but like my aunt has an antworms. See, this is the problem.
I'm going to start saying aunt. Exactly.
Because if you're talking about ants and ants, it's rare.

But like, my aunt has an ant.

Right.

In her pants.

It's like, is it?

What are we talking about?

We're talking about the insect ants were impervious to COVID.

Do you know why?

Or why they think?

No, but I want to know who's testing an ant for COVID.

Like, can I give you the answer?

Yeah. It's because they have little antibodies.
Woo! Yes! That wasn't a conspiracy theory at all. It was a dad joke that I love.
It was a joke. And I was just thinking to myself, I'm like, who is testing ants for COVID? That's it, babe.
Like, that's what we're donating our money to at the schools so they can run COVID tests on ants. This podcast sucks.
Should we listen to a SpeakPipe? Yes. If you want to ask us questions, get advice, keep it brief.
Brevity is key and go to speakpipe.com slash good guys.

And maybe we will play your question on the air.

This one's from a fun person named Anonymous.

Hey, good guys.

I'm going to try to keep this short and sweet.

I got invited to a baby shower the other day, not for a future mother, but for a future grandmother.

What are you nuts?

I know you said no more.

What are you nuts? But come on said no more what are you nuts,

but come on, this is a good one. I cannot believe that this is a thing.
Now, I do live in the South where we throw a shower for literally everything, but we got to stop. This is too much.
I barely even am an acquaintance with this woman. We live in the same neighborhood and she used to work with my husband.
That's it. Mazel tov to you.

But please, we got to stop with the over celebrating everything.

For your best friends, yes, sure.

A grandmother baby shower.

But for an acquaintance, I really don't need to be invited to this.

What do you think?

First of all, what I think is you said you'd keep it brief.

You told the story in a perfect 20 seconds and then rambled for 30 seconds. Just saying.
to this. What do you think? First of all, what I think is you said you'd keep it brief.

You told the story in a perfect 20 seconds and then rambled for 30 seconds. Just saying, just saying.
No, fantastic. What are you nuts? So let me get this straight.
She's throwing a shower as the grandmother separate from the shower of the mother or the, I guess so. If that's the case, then it's definitely insane.

And the daughter probably hates her, like stealing her moment like that. Like she's going to have a baby shower for herself.
Like that's weird. But at the same time, I don't really understand it.
I don't really understand it either. But I will say that, yeah, maybe if you're a grandmother, you don't need to have the baby shower.
There should be one baby shower. Don't overdo the baby showers.
I guess if you like are from Seattle and you live in Florida, then yeah, maybe go and have a hometown baby shower. And then you have a baby shower with your friends in Florida.
But I don't think that there's I don't think we're going to solve it here. I'll be honest.
And I think we should get to one more. I don't think we are either.
Okay, this next one is from Kelsey. Hey, Josh and Ben.
I just wanted to get your guys' opinion on something that happened the other day. I had a doctor's appointment.
I had my baby with me, so I had a stroller. And on the way in, a nicer, older gentleman held the door for me.
And as I walked in, there was two check-in ladies at the counter, so I walked up to the first one. However, the second one was busy.
And as the line started to form, I looked at him and then I was like, oh, am I nuts? He held the door open for me. Should I have let him go first? Or was it just kind of like, you know, he let me

go. So maybe that means I go first.
I don't know. I felt bad afterwards looking at him standing in

line. Let me know what you think.
That's a toughie. Okay.
Okay. So door etiquette.

No, I think that when you let somebody, it's about who walks into the establishment first. True that.
That's it. You got in first.
You get in line first. He was nice enough to stand behind you, but I think you're overthinking it.
Like, I don't think he cared. I agree.
I think so too. You let someone go in in front of you.
It's the wild west after that. You did your good deed, but then they're ahead of you.
And that's just how things are going to be. Let's talk about door holding for a second before we get to what are your nuts, okay? When does it become too much? I'm holding the door open for one person, right? That was my intention.
But then there's three, there's five, there's 10, there's a swarm. I'm not a doorman.
I did something out of the goodness of my heart. That last person that you don't hold the door for never saw you hold the door for the first person or for the first 10 people.
That's right. Now they think you're a schmuck.
So when does it stop? I think we should have just a little bit of a setup where if you are now holding for multiple people, when you do eventually give it up, you look at the last person and go eight and you just walk through. How about this? This kills me when there's a double door and you have to, someone opens a door for you and then you got to go return the favor.
I return the favor. I'm not a big fan of that.
No. Let's get to our what are you nuts moment of the week? Cause I have to pee like a racehorse.
What are hey we will go quickly my what are you nuts moment of the week is look everybody knows i've entered the food space hot and fast okay we haven't done many food reviews yet in restaurants though because i don't understand how to do it without just completely imposing what i'm doing on everybody around me i went out to dinner the other night josh and there was a food food influencer there. I'm not going to name this person by name.
Sorry, Ben. I want to listen.
I have to pee so bad. Will you wait one minute? I didn't have too much coffee.
Just give me 60 seconds. Sorry.
Yeah, you're good. No, you're good.
I'll be right. Heidi.
Sorry. No, you're okay.
I get it. Joshy boy is back.
I'm here. Good.
That was one hell of a whiz. I know.
I was like, I've been crushing. Whatever.
I need to take lion's mane and mushrooms, like cognitive mushrooms before, so I feel sharp. And I mix it in a 20 ounce of coffee.
I've been holding that for an hour and a half. It was terrible.
Great. Well, I'm happy that you're feeling better.
I will start from the top of my, what are you nuts? Or do I just right from the top is better. My, what are you nuts moment is as you guys know, I am deep in the food scene, but I have not yet fully gotten myself into food reviews because I don't understand how to do them at restaurants.

I don't get it. I don't get it because the only way to properly do it at a good restaurant is to completely imposition everybody around you.
So I won't name this influencer by name, but I was out to eat at corner store, Josh, at a new trendy restaurant. And this influencer, This celebrity, not even an influencer, this very famous celebrity was there with a ring light reviewing food.

A proper celebrity?

Yeah.

Who does food reviews now?

Yeah.

Okay.

Ring light.

Full ring light.

Like production in a corner booth at nine o'clock on a Saturday night alone. And of course, everybody's looking at them.
Everybody. What are you not name them? Like go, you want to review, you want to review food, go during an off hour.
Like you can't do it. You can't do it in the heart of a Saturday night with a ring light.
Were they alone? Were they holding, were they doing their own setup? No, they were with somebody. Name them.
I can't, I can't. Why? Isn't it kind of.
Okay. Enough said.
Fair enough. Olivia thoughts.
I think if you're going to do, I think leave the ring light at home for a Saturday night meal, like it's too much of a

production. I understand

you know, maybe even on a weeknight

but Saturday at 9 o'clock

corner booth ring light food review

that's a little too much for me personally.

This is what I'm saying. I have no

issues with the ring light. I have no issues with the food

reviews. Go on a Tuesday at 6.

That's it. Go on a

Tuesday at 6. I'll cut out

the **** part. Don't worry, Ben

because we, I think she's the kind of person that'll come for us. She will.
She came for a different podcast. Really, Olivia? I'll tell you guys.
Wait. OK, wait.
Did it boost their views? Leave it in. It did actually.
Oh, shit. I'm keeping all of this.
By the way, my mom loves you. She always is talking about you.
My mom watches these food reviews. I love them.
And my mom has bad eyesight. So thank you for caring about lighting.
Now, I have an observation because my wife and I love your posts where you're cooking and then you try the food that you cook and granted this is not at a restaurant no i need i need tips tell me i think and this is a this is a slight productive constructive criticism within a compliment you are such a mensch and it's your food granted i think you're going to have to start getting a little more discerning with your score because everything you cook is a 10 out of 10. And I think I would bet you some things are a nine five.
Here, let me tell you, I love that you brought this up. My grading system currently is if it's bad, it's a four out of 10.
If it's good, it's a 10 out of 10. If it's great, it's a 15 to 20 out of 10.
Gotcha. I go low, medium, high.
If I say 10 out of 10, it's really like an eight. If I say 15, it's really like a nine, five.
If I say four, don't eat it. Now I could still fix my grading system, but I do this stuff on the fly.
You know, I'm just, it's quick. I eat it.
Ah, what do I say? Nine, four. I guess I could.
We crave honesty, babe. You can't go wrong.
Okay, I'm going to do it. The truth will say, you're free.
I'm going to do it. You're right.
You're right. You're right.
Okay? Stop looking at me like that. We're big fans.
My wife and I, we love it. We love it, love it, love it, love it.
We loved your little burger pressed into the quesadilla thing. Best thing you ever ate.
That was nice, right? It was delicious. It really was the best thing I've ever eaten.
Your kimchi reviews? Excellent. So my Woody and Nuts is, you know, recently I was in the great state of Florida.
I had a rental car that I'd been driving around for two days and I never do this, but I had to check bags, which I never do. So now I'm getting nervous, right? Because usually with pre-check, I can literally like walk in five minutes before boarding starts and have no fears.
But I know with baggage, if you're going to check it, you need to be there at least 30 minutes, maybe an hour before. An hour.
So now I'm nervous and I'm running. And so I'm dropping my car off at Hertz.
Shout out Hertz. We love you Hertz.
This is about all rental car companies, not my beloved Hertz. And I realized, shit, I forgot to fill up the tank and it's about halfway done.
And the guy who's now checking the car back in, I go, oh man, I forgot to fill up the car, but I think it'll cut it too close if I go. And he goes, okay.
He's like, just so you know, though, for us to fill it up, it's $11 a gallon. This is, what are you nuts? Listen, shout out the great Pete Buttigieg, the secretary of transportation that was like, this price gouging for like $200 to change your ticket is crazy.
It's gone, right? All these fees and things doesn't exist anymore. Listen, Hertz, listen, rental car companies, you want to take a dollar, $2 Vig off me because I was lazy and forgot, I get it.
But the gas was $3.50 a gallon in Florida. Charge me five bucks.
Charge me six. Eleven? What are you, nuts? That's not cool, man.
Not cool. It's not cool.
It's price gouging. It's terrible.
It's terrible. It's greed.
It's corporate greed. Step in.
Step in, Secretary of Transportation. We need you now more than ever.
And folks, that is our show. Thank you so much for listening to the Good Guys podcast.
As always, you can listen to us on Spotify, Apple, wherever you get your podcasts. Watch us on Josh's YouTube.
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