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the good guys.

Whoa.

Benny and Joshi, they're back with the podcast.

Benny and Joshi giving you a reprieve from your day.

It's Benny and Joshi, but Benny and Joshi.

Benny and Joshi here on Zoom.

Nobody would know that, except our editing is sometimes bad.

Everyone would know that.

You look like you're inside a security envelope.

Benny and Joshi are doing their best.

Please don't jump down their throats.

You have no idea the setup.

I'm going to jump down your throat throat and feel this

do you understand cameras at all do you understand how bad that background is for a camera this is good you have to see it's great it's so bad ben i i try not to get on you you're telling me now

because i know the work you put in it doesn't matter this is this can be changed it's so busy that it strobes on the camera You have to what?

Olivia's dying right now because I'm saying out loud, but we've all been thinking.

You're all thinking it.

Do you know how easy it is to get a background?

Just tell me.

I'll have it for the next episode.

It literally, they sell it at Lowe's.

It's like

it's just like a little backdrop.

It's like, oh, don't put me in a green screen.

You can throw me in a wahoo.

You can do whatever you want.

I don't care.

This is why you can't have stripes on screen.

It's because it's strobes.

Come on.

I feel like I'm looking at an optical illusion.

My God.

All right.

Well, now we know.

Now we know.

Benny and Joshi learning new things.

Benny and Joshi learning new things.

Josh, I just got a text.

I have to read this to you.

I got a text from a former employee of mine.

Great.

And she sent me a contract and wrote, Hi, Ben.

It's blank, blank.

Hope you're doing great.

My as well on being a new dad, moving to a new job and cleaning up my desk.

Found this so iconic.

Given the good guys now, I had to send it to you.

Hope you're doing well.

Josh, this is a contract for little Caesars signed by you and me.

Wow.

Isn't that cool?

Wow.

I'm going to send it to you.

I'm going to send it to you.

It just like,

that is, it's rare.

Like, I don't know why anything, I don't know why it's hand signed.

Like in the world, electronic signatures, like that's very rare.

The fact that there's a physical piece of paper with physical signatures noting that moment in time for us.

I just thought that was very cool.

So thank you very much for sending.

And I hope you're doing well to that great employee.

She was lovely.

When we hung out, you came to LA and we walked around Century City Mall together.

Yeah, we did.

You were in a Gucci pullover.

Was that like the weekend before COVID?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Things, yes.

I think that was, it was like, no, it had to be further than that.

Oh, no

yeah it was it was pre-covered it was probably 2019.

no it wasn't it was like march 2020

we had already done little caesars because i remember that i posted it in january oh true for the super bowl pizza pizza that's exactly pizza pizza yeah yeah okay so maybe it was march yeah what did we get we went to the

you show you showed me

it's so funny i was like i'm immigrant you showed me the like fresh squeezed orange juice machine and my, my head exploded.

I was like, oh my God, you guys have vending machines with fresh squeezed orange juice.

It's so funny.

I can't believe I was wearing a Gucci pullover.

I'm so embarrassing.

And I remember thinking, he's wearing a Gucci pullover and wow, he's tall.

And we had a wonderful time together.

And we did.

Yeah, I did.

I once did an entire YouTube video of trying weird vending machines around LA because like Sprinkles has a cupcake one.

There's obviously the orange juice one at Century City had to do that.

And then there was just like a bunch of good vending machines at Cedar Sinai Hospital.

And like, honestly, I'll go to a hospital just for the vending machines.

Yeah.

I mean, New York, I'm not going to lie to you.

This is one thing that LA definitely has on New York.

We don't have fancy vending machines.

I can't tell you even a single vending machine in Manhattan.

I don't know where they are anymore.

Sure, in a hospital, you could get a Frito, you could get a Twix,

you could get like whatever those delicious cookies filled with jam are from whatever bakery that is.

But like other than that,

the stick of gum, there's nothing fun.

The sprinkles cupcakes we do have, but like that's only at sprinkles.

Who needs a sprinkles cupcake machine at sprinkles?

I'm at sprinkles.

That's a woody nuts.

Like, what do I need that for?

I don't.

It's how I feel when I walk up to a McDonald's job and they have that automated, you can like put in your order on this board.

Oh, I love that.

But there's somebody there.

Well,

one or the other.

I either

want to interact with people.

That's fine.

So you're not in favor of jobs.

And then they shouldn't have employee workers.

It should just be 100% these boards.

Nobody needs to work there.

You don't need anything.

You know what?

If you have people working there, let them work, Josh.

Let them work.

I agree.

No, you're 100% right.

And did you know that those kiosks make it easier to overeat?

Because you tend to order when no one's looking, a couple extra sides.

Totally.

Your chubby thoughts take over and you go, I do want to try the McFlurry.

There's nothing scarier than going into a restaurant hungry.

Nothing.

I have such a terrible propensity to overorder.

It's so bad.

And it's gotten slightly better with the...

Ozempic now turned.

What am I taking?

Am I on Trisepatide too?

I think so.

Now turned Trezepatide.

It's gotten a little bit better.

When I'm hungry, I'm ordering with my eyes, Josh.

I'm ordering with my eyes.

I'm seeing red.

I'm going in there.

Two apps, two entrees, two sides.

I'm always left with a whole side that I never touched.

Is this a disease?

Was your first introduction into family-style ordering with Chinese food?

Yes, and what is the restaurant?

Carmen's huge portions of Carmine's.

Carmine's.

Right, because we're old school and new york fat so's right yeah yeah carmines and chinese for sure growing up as a kid chinese was the meal that and you really needed a big fat quarterback oh yeah big time that's the name of my my new book and by the way that's me i was the big fat quarterback for sure You need a big fat fat quarterback who's going to be like, I'll take over ordering.

We're not, oh, oh, you wanted chicken and string beans?

Save it.

You'll get some, okay?

But you're not getting your own order.

It's so funny.

Yesterday, Claudia and Jackie went to this like famous farmer's market called Round Swamp, and they just like picked up a bunch of things for dinner, and they brought it back.

And it was like six things.

And I'm like, who's eating?

You?

You didn't get more stuff?

By the way, we didn't even finish the six things.

That's how fucked up my brain is.

They could see, okay, six things, five adults eating, all sharing, no problem me i'm like each of us need two of these but i was full i digress continue chinese food no but that was it right because you'd be like all right for starters we're gonna need

you know a little crab rangoons oh shoe mushu dumplings pan-fried and steamed yes both one of each we're gonna need a soup we're gonna need a wonton soup plenty of crackers plenty of the wontons yes and maybe if you're feeling crazy uh chicken corn chicken corn soup and then egg rolls spring rolls you got to get in that corn yeah the egg roll and the spring roll because you never know sometimes you're in the mood for spring sometimes you're in the mood for egg scallion pancake for sure and sometimes when you're feeling really fat you throw in a peanut noodle that's when you're really fat when you're eating the cold peanut noodle that's just like how how big can i get

and then you got to go then when you start going entrees but then you remember that you're gonna we're gonna need noodles and rice right so on top top of all of it, you order five entrees, but then you go, and give us a chicken fried rice, give us a shrimp l'omain.

Even though we know that five boxes of white rice are coming for free.

That's right.

We still throw in more noodles and more rice.

And then all of a sudden you're stuck with these five boxes of white rice.

You shove them in the refrigerator.

You throw them out a week and a half later.

No.

They spend one night and then you make the mistake.

And then you make the mistake.

Oh my God.

I mean, they're weapons.

They're weapons.

And then you make the mistake, you forget that you can't microwave them because there's the little metal thing.

You throw it in, all of a sudden, your apartment's on fire.

Yeah.

Can you imagine?

That metal thing is so unnecessary.

I don't think they do the metal thing anymore, right?

That's old school where you had that little metals that you could hold up the box of rice.

You know what I'm talking about?

That's gone.

It's gone.

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The spectacular thing about Chinese takeout, especially in New York in the 90s, was how fast that delivery driver was at your house.

Like, how are you here, bro?

Because all the food was already made and he was on his motorcycle.

Yeah, scooted,

ready to jet.

Oh, man, I can't do the accent, but Howard Stern used to do the accent of the woman who knew him when he would order from Shun Li in New

And I'm going to just do it lightly so I only get half-cancelled, but she would be like, she'd be like, Howard Stern, sauce on side.

It's that Seinfeld episode.

I think it's like Elaine ordered from the same Chinese restaurant too often.

Do you know what I'm talking about?

Where they knew her order, and it's so good.

Shun Li is

clean Chinese.

That's not my kind of Chinese.

Okay.

I like, I like nice and dirty, dirty Chinese.

Even though, Josh, I will say, and again, maybe this is just the truce epitide.

I ordered Chinese the other night

and I was sad to say that it didn't hit.

It made me feel so sick that I didn't enjoy the fact that I had eaten it.

And I don't know that I'll be ordering in Chinese again for a minute.

Wow.

That's a big statement.

It made me really sad.

I was like, I used to really

this chao fun

like i used to really enjoy a nice white noodle a mushu a hoisin a wide noodle i'm not having chow fun anymore

i'm not

i can't i used to enjoy all of it josh and now it just used to be chow fun in the sun

now it's not

Now it's

it's gone.

Well,

somebody needs to make a montage to time of your life of me eating Chinese food.

Do you just turn back into a panda express like

oh man, Chinese food.

I like my two favorite things are Chinese food and being alone.

Like that

So for me, that's Thai.

Yeah,

talk about that.

A little pad to you, a little.

Yeah.

Yeah.

This is when you're feeling really sad and really fat.

You get a CU and you get a pad Thai.

Okay.

That's again a wide noodle and a skinny.

Yes.

You get a side of peanut sauce to drench both in.

You get a beautiful spring roll.

This is a meal.

Okay.

A good place, the CU could be better than the Thai.

Yeah.

So true.

Had CU, criminally underrated.

But yeah, those are the meals where at the end, you're questioning everything.

Why did I do that?

How did I get here?

Who am I?

Who are you?

I love it.

The best.

Yeah, man.

I love, and I go in and I like, because here's the thing, right?

There's nothing like the chase, right?

I, you know, I'd come to New York.

I'd have to hit up my friend who used to be in a boy band.

I'd be like, you know where the Coke is.

And he'd be like, of course I do.

And I'd be like, thanks.

Sorry.

And so like, for me, like when I would go to, like, if I was doing a Boston college gig in like the Northeast, like Northeastern or something, I would

plan my day around like, okay, so I'll get in, I'll go to sleep for a couple hours.

I'll go to the North End.

I'll have like a great slice.

And then they have like.

Boston might have the greatest Italian bakeries.

And like, I'm going to go to like, I think it's called like Mike's Cannolis or something and I'm gonna get like a couple cannolis couple lobster tails and I'm just gonna have a smoke and I'm gonna be picking and eating and I'm gonna feel bad yeah but you know what

I'm gonna live yeah I will live

you'll live oh I'm not gonna wake up from this I'll wake up

you will I will wake up but that's a far it's a different indulgence indulging in sweet there's something about just eating savory until you're ready to vomit.

That's just a different type of feeling.

The sweet, you can, sure, whatever.

I had a whole bag of this Swedish candy.

You heard of this Swedish candy company that's like going viral, Bon Bon or something?

It's so good.

Yeah, delicious.

That said, you eat it,

you're going to want to take your own life.

When you eat a bag of Swedish candy, you're done.

Sure.

You're done.

Your belly, oof.

Yeah, I love anything gummy.

Anything gummy.

Should we get to a story?

Yeah, what do we got?

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Oh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.

Oh, oh, not me, you and a famous.

Okay, me, Claudia, and famous people.

Got it.

And then we can do you and me.

Yeah, I was thinking, me, you, Joey Camasta, yeah.

You, me, Zach Ephraim, and his brother

on a golf course.

I don't know.

I haven't thought about it.

Zoom in on my base.

Yeah, me, Claude.

Who would be good?

Who would be good?

Ooh, Katie Perry and Justin Trudeau.

Yeah.

That would be fun.

Yeah, that's steamy.

Yeah, just make a big human blender.

Wow.

That's a budding romance.

You saw that?

That's crazy.

Yeah, Trudeau and Katie.

It's cool.

It is, sure, whatever.

Sure.

What do you think about that, Olivia?

Justin Trudeau and Katie Perry.

Sure.

It's real.

I know.

I saw the video.

Fascinating.

World leaders uniting, you know, woman sent to space and former prime minister of Canada.

Or is he still prime minister?

He stepped down.

Yeah, yeah.

So, I mean, you know, more power to them.

More power to them both.

Godspeed.

I was thinking about Trudeau stepping down.

That's the right answer, Olivia.

Thank you, Ben.

That's the right answer.

But don't you think it's, I'm interested to hear your thought, Ben.

I think it is in a good way so so wonderfully Canadian that Trudeau said, I'm clearly not popular.

And I don't know if he was sort of didn't have a chance of being elected again or, or he did, but he said, you know what?

Like, okay, then move on from me.

I'll step down.

Like, you would never, you would never see an American leader from a council member to the president ever do that.

No, no, never, because we're so obsessed with optics, even though we know that

if you're not going to win again, the last year of your presidency is you're not doing anything.

Right.

If you're not going to win again, because any policy that you like try and bring forward, it's not going to happen.

There's like no point.

That's actually like the core problem with American politics is that it takes so long typically to do anything.

that by the time you've gotten in, you're out.

And so it's always like, oh, you support this.

Why didn't you do it when you were president it's like well i didn't have any time i didn't have any typically so actually yeah i do i definitely respect whether or not he was forced out or not the idea that if somebody knows that something isn't working

he's out so somebody can go in and do what is working and clearly he had aspirations for katy perry

i think he got a wonderful consolation

i think it's a great trade being hated in canada and dating katy perry good move imagine they have their version of the deep state, but in Canada, so they're like in the halls of parliament in Quebec, and they're like with their deep French-Canadian accent, and they go, Justin, listen,

like it's uh, it's not going to work out for you.

The people they don't like you, but uh, you step down, no problem, we get you uh, Katy Perry.

Actually, it's literally like a more app movie, like it doesn't

we'll trade you Katy Perry if you step down.

That's hysterical.

And totally what happened.

And totally what happened.

Look,

right now we have Katy Perry.

Maybe Demi Lovato.

I cannot promise.

I can try and do that accent.

I have to go.

Oh, Kitty with you.

Oh, you're going to step down.

Justin.

Oh,

you're going to get Katy Perry justin if you move.

If you move over.

my buddy len and i went to a hockey game once and

the colorado avalanche their coach for a while was one of the greatest players ever named patrick waugh who was a famous french canadian guy my buddy len heckled him in a french canadian accent for the entire game we were the stars of our section he'd be like patrick you need to do better patrick

there's nothing better than when you're in a section that appreciates your heckles.

Yes.

And there's equally nothing worse than when you're in a section that makes you pipe down.

It's like, I'm at a sporting event.

Let me show my true colors.

God, that's great.

Let me be racist.

No, I'm kidding.

Oh, that is so great.

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But to your point,

Ben, don't you agree?

I think one major flaw in our system is the idea that you can be re-elected because it ensures that the second half of your first term, you will spend almost completely trying to be re-elected and i think it should be one six-year term boom do everything you got to do one six-year term is good i think that ideally four years should be enough it's just like again we're living in an idealistic world where if you want to get something as president something done as president the the parties don't make it so unbelievably difficult for you to do it like the fact that the stars have to align you have to have the senate you have to have all these things for your presidency to even matter is crazy like because you do have four term, you do have full term presidents that are just able to do nothing because their hands are completely tied because they don't have the support of the Senate.

And it's just, so yeah, sure, six years would be great, but if you don't have Senate majority, you can't do anything anyways.

So really, it should just be like,

I don't know how this would work.

I don't, I don't like know enough.

And I'm not claiming to know enough, but like.

If a Democrat is president, then they should also get the Senate for those four years.

And if a Republican is president, they should get the Senate for those four years so that people can enact change.

Otherwise, if you have one and don't have the other, you can't do anything.

It's like, it's, it's silly, you know?

It's like, hey, I want to do this.

No.

But that's checks and balances, right?

Like, that's the executive, legislative, and legislature and judicial branches.

It's like the executive keeps.

the legislature in check and vice versa.

And then in theory, the judiciary keeps it all in check like what's legal yeah i think it makes sense except it's become so petty over the years that it's no longer like what's right for the country it's like how can i stick it to you i'm not voting for this because you put it forward you know versus if maybe somebody that i agreed with put it forward i would

i don't know but i i i hear you on what it's supposed to do so yeah go six six years is great eight years is great give everybody eight i think six is a good number because it's longer than four it's shorter than eight and it's also it is right in the middle it's right in the middle i actually think things work best when the reigning party has either the house or the senate and then the other party has one of the two so either you know a republican president with a republican senate and then a democratic house i think it allows for a version of balance I don't think it's good when it's all one party.

But the truth is, to your point, Ben, is that these bills are written by lobbyists.

They come in at 800, 900, 1,000 pages.

For sure, your representative is almost certainly not reading it.

It's being summed up by pages and congressional, you know, basically college kids who are summarizing it for them.

And they vote pretty much along party lines.

But like, and the problem is, is that it could be the headline of that bill could be one thing, but you've now said, well, I got this local stuff in my area that needs 10 million bucks.

So as long as that's buried in there on page 480, I'll vote for the thing.

And it's like, why can't we just vote for one thing at a time?

And just like, and do it up.

Be like, today we're voting on one thing.

Because you're not able to cheat.

Right.

Like, this is like, again, and I don't want to get too deep because I get too angry.

We're not being

political.

No, no, I'm just saying, no, I'm saying for me personally, I get too angry when I think about it.

But like, that is New York politics to a T.

Like,

everything is slow.

Everything is broken and it's intentional.

Like, we've spoken about this before.

The amount of time, the amount of construction, the Van Wick has been under construction since Seinfeld's first episode.

Like, that is called corruption.

That is called lobbying for construction groups that are giving back kickbacks to the people in charge.

It's not just New York.

I'm sure it's everywhere.

But, like, there's just inefficiencies because things are buried in larger bills everywhere from the president down to the mayor.

It's just crazy that it has to be 200 things and we just can't like regularly vote on things all the time.

But it should it should be like what's it called

one of the dating apps you just you get like a hundred of them a day you swipe right on the one you like you swipe one on the one you don't write on the one you like let right why not but it wouldn't even have to be a hundred a day it'd be if you did one a day then because these bills how many of them get passed two or three a presidency of like a big beautiful bill or whatever it is or you know

what i think was the infrastructure right so yeah i mean i just think that the whole i i I'm sure there could be someone who's smarter than both of us who would come in here and explain why the system was set up in this way.

But, like, all lobbyists seem like shysters, bills are BS.

Like, it's all pork barrel spending, and they're all just shoving it in there to get their little thing that they want through.

It's like, I want a Sephora gift card, so I'm going to say yes.

But in doing so, sorry, I don't know where that came from.

You

Yeah, no, of course I know.

Of course I know.

No, it's it's weird.

It's very

intentionally weird.

And even if we had somebody smarter than us come on and tell us why it was intended, how it was set up originally and what it was intended to do, I guarantee you it is not as efficient as it once was.

Yeah, man.

It's like when I when Paige said we could have sex if I bought her a car.

No, I'm going to cut that out.

Okay.

Another story.

Why Travis Kelsey ran every single image by her before posting photo dump about the wonderful Taylor Swift.

He's playing the long game.

According to Shudder Scoop, Travis Kelsey asked for Taylor Swift's permission before posting his recent photo dump on Instagram.

He ran every single image by her, revealed an insider.

He didn't want to post anything she wasn't 100% comfortable with.

Well, these pictures are kiyut, kiyut kiyut and yeah i'm fairly i'm fairly certain that everyone that's what i was going to say this is this is called being a like a good boyfriend or husband if i just threw up a rogue image of claudia in feed she would kill me why

because she needs approval like the same way that i would want to like at least see the picture that's going up and make sure that i looked the way that I'd like to look like unless it was like a funny like then she wouldn't care but like

if it's like,

yeah, like, and like stories, she wouldn't care.

But Infeed is very permanent, Josh.

You want approval.

I'm not posting me and you in feed unless I think you look amazing.

And I'm still going to probably send you a picture of it.

Right?

Yeah, no, I know.

I'm, I'm asking why only because page is, of course, the same way.

Yeah.

But then if I do like a tribute post to her for Mother's Day or whatever, like, I feel like I know well enough

what would be acceptable.

There are like, there are definitely, when you're married, 10 to 15 photos that you tend to recycle a bit.

So

yes, pre-approved photos, certainly, you don't need to re-approve.

But, and yeah, you, you definitely know when they'd be happy.

But if it's something that's on the fence, don't do it.

You're going straight to jail.

Speaking of creatine, Josh, I'm now three weeks on creatine.

This is the best thing I ever did.

I did read something, though, because I am 240 pounds, should I be taking more than five milligrams?

You could.

I would just make sure you're really working out.

And even when I'm not working out, I'm not bloated.

I'm not, like, it just helps my brain.

Like, what is the downside?

I am still working out, but what's the downside of not working out besides being bloated?

Which kind of like goes away after a week?

I find I always retain water on it, but like Dr.

Dubro said, like about four to five five pounds of water weight.

But that's not like, like, but like, what's the,

what's the downside of that, hypothetically?

Nothing.

I mean, I just like to cycle on and off of things.

So I'll do creatine for like maybe two or three months.

I usually try to like do it five days during the week and then I'll give, I just like to give my body a rest on the weekends.

Yeah, I'm the polar opposite.

When I get into something, I'm all in all the time.

I haven't missed an AG one day in like a year and a half.

And like, I now panic if I don't have it, which is not like,

it's that, it's just like me.

I'm, I have that personality.

Like, I started and I need to, I need to keep going.

And so now it's that creatine is 1000% in my repertoire.

And it is,

I'm obsessed.

I'm obsessed.

I like moderation in all things, if I can, because I have such a different brain about that kind of stuff.

No, that's healthy, Josh.

That's healthy.

What I'm describing is unhealthy.

I'm describing unhealthy habits to you.

But yeah, if you haven't tried creatine, and after listening and watching Dr.

Dubreau's episode, if you're not trying creatine and GLPs, we're not doing

you right.

Okay.

Should we do a speakpipe?

Yeah, we should.

If you want to leave us a message, get some advice, go to speakpipe.com/slash good guys.

Keep it brief.

Brevity is key.

Let's hear from Anonymous.

Hey, good guys.

Big more on here.

Wanted to get your thoughts on this fun little

thing that happened last week.

So backing up, I'm a twin

and my twin brother is autistic.

We love him, super high functioning.

He's a king, whatever.

We both have gone to the same psychiatrist.

Me, Jewish, anxious, depressed, ADHD, you know the story.

Brother, Autistic.

Amazing.

And I had an appointment with my psychiatrist the other week and he asked me how my brother is doing.

And I said, oh, he's great.

He lives by himself.

His job's going really well.

Really, everything's fantastic.

And my psychiatrist goes, oh, during your brother's last appointment,

your parents told me about the seizure.

How is he?

And I immediately just say, what seizure?

Apparently my parents did not bother to tell me that my brother had a seizure.

And I'm fairly certain my psychiatrist just broke HIPAA.

Should I get a new doctor?

Welcome your thoughts.

Thanks, gentlemen.

Love you.

Ooh, a lot to unpack.

I don't think you need to get a new doctor.

HIPAA, like, shouldn't, it doesn't mean to apply to an immediate family.

I wouldn't think.

Maybe it does.

I don't know.

First of all, I'm sorry that your brother had a seizure.

I thought the question was going to be, like, should I be pissed at my parents for not telling me that my brother had a seizure?

And the answer.

So I would say yes, but you also described yourself as like a very anxious person.

So maybe your parents were trying to protect you from something.

But

I think that often people make decisions based on the way they think somebody else will react.

I think that's the job of a parent.

So maybe they were going to tell you like when they saw you in person or once they knew that he was totally okay.

I doubt it's coming from a terrible place if we're cutting her out, but I'm sorry your brother had a seizure.

I think you're

really overcomplicating this with exactly what you led with, which is you are anxious and obviously have a lot of

feelings and things.

And I'm sure there's a wonderful side of that that you're probably wonderfully empathic.

I'm speaking for myself here because I deal with some anxiety and depression and stuff like this.

And on one side, it can be a real asset.

And then it can also present itself as a defect, right?

The poison is in the dose.

Thousand milligrams of Tylenol, no more headache.

10,000 milligrams of tylenol no more you that's good

think about that

so um first and foremost and i've seen this now because i'm an only child but i've seen this with my wife who's one of four and her parents were the greatest and her family is the greatest sometimes you have to compartmentalize what your kids are going through from other siblings in the family like this is what it is i don't care how close you think you are Like they're your brother's parents first.

Like what happened between those three is a closed unit thing.

And then even though you're nuclear family, you're as close as someone can be,

a

grown-up brother's decision in which to bring you into that is up to him.

And that they talk to their doctor who, by the way, and I've had this before, seems more like a family doctor, which means that the

the lines of confidentiality I would suspect had been crossed long ago, that there was lots of talking amongst of each other and things, that basically it had been established that there was sort of open conversations about everyone.

So

you are

leave HIPAA out of this, hon.

Like, it's just going to bring down the psychiatrist who nicely asked if her brother's doing okay.

And

the last thing I'll say is you didn't, other than the psychiatrist asking something nicely about your

brother, it seems like you have no issue with him.

So why get rid of him?

Yeah, I think, I don't think she wants to get rid of the psychiatrist.

I think that

the question was, should she be pissed at her parents?

I have to think that that was the intended question.

And I just go back to the fact that if your parents are people that are secretive, that move quietly and exclude you, sure.

But if your parents are just people dealing with an autistic son and an anxiety-ridden daughter and have lived with them for however many years know their patterns and some just had a seizure.

Their main thing was probably just like, let's make sure that our son who's autistic living alone, having a seizure is fine before we tell our daughter who might spiral or something.

Again,

I hope your brother is okay.

He does sound like a legend,

which is what you led with.

He sounds like utter king.

Love him.

And you sound like a queen.

You do.

You do.

You do.

Absolutely.

Olivia, you agree?

Yeah, I do agree.

I will say I can see where she's coming from just because, like, Ethan's parents can sometimes like leave out some key information over the phone.

And I think it's like, it can be hard when you live like away from your family and you don't really have the same context of what's going on.

But at the same time, I agree with like both of you that, you know, they're parents to her brother first and have to like prioritize that and make sure he's okay.

And they very well could have wanted to tell you in like a safe moment, but it also makes sense that like you would want to know like what's going on with your brother if it's a really serious thing.

I don't know like how where you live and in correspondence to that.

So I understand where the feeling comes from, but it is like, you know, he is an adult man on his own and he has a right to be able to like share that information independently.

So yeah, I think there's truth on both sides.

Yeah, maybe you just spoke family HIPAA.

Think about that.

Okay, this is the the next one from Anonymous.

Hey, good guys.

I need your help being delightfully petty.

I have a coworker who talks behind my back.

She once told a teammate that I vanish when I step away from my desk for more than five minutes.

So now, out of pure spite, I message her every time I'm going to be away, even for two minutes.

She says it's not necessary, but I can tell it annoys her, which brings me just so much peace.

What are some other creative, passive-aggressive ways that I can keep this petty streak alive while technically technically staying professional.

Thanks.

Love you.

I'm a big fan of aggression over passive, over passive aggression.

Passive aggression, like the older you get, you start to realize that it only hurts you.

Like you every day are thinking about this person and how they wronged you.

They're not thinking about you.

Okay, so be fucking aggressive and say, hi, bitch.

Fuck you.

That wasn't nice.

stop it don't do it again she said while keeping it professional okay fine we'll change it hi laura hi hi laura i heard that you said some things about me behind my back i really didn't appreciate that can you please not do it again and then it'll be done but the like the petty stuff

it doesn't sound like you're doing anything that would bother her enough unless you have a crush on her it's not like you have a crush on her so like unless you're flirting i don't i don't like passive aggressive i like confrontation duke it out and then it's over.

But passive aggressive blows up eventually.

Josh?

I think you should lean into the vanish thing that she said and start bringing on a magician motif.

I'm talking cheap.

I'm talking smoke bombs.

So every time you leave, just be like, boo!

Be like, that works too.

Here I am, Allison, about to vanish again.

You know?

I need, can you buy smoke bombs like on Amazon?

I think that's just like a fun thing to have.

I'm going to the bathroom

like i do it in my house i'm in and maybe the but dual purpose maybe the smoke bomb is also poopery oh i love it you do when you're leaving a bathroom but then it's just like you're fumigating yourself

see it now man dies in stall after huge dump that's me I was thinking that too.

She could maybe give updates of like give a play-by-play of an entire BM, but saying like, hey, just want to update you, Donna.

I know I've been gone for two minutes.

I'm mid-BM

and, you know, had

Brussels sprouts last night, you know, prayer hands.

And then two minutes later, like, okay, I've completed, but it looks like it's going to be a couple more wipes than expected.

Gonna need another, you know, 90 seconds.

If you're going to be petty, then this isn't good.

This is good.

Sorry, I've been gone so long.

I was straining.

It led to a deep sweat.

I needed to change my shirt.

I took my blouse off.

I'm in stall three, but my blouse is hanging over stall two and there.

Oh my god.

Do you have those friends that get completely naked before they take a dub?

Like Costanza?

I have friends that get completely naked before they take a dub.

Nick Antonian does.

He does.

He does.

Jonah, yeah.

Yeah, it's funny.

My friend Matt has a similar physique to Nick, and I think that it's just, it just makes sense.

I would never, I would never.

I'm too,

Nick is like, and I haven't met him, but from what I've seen, he's sturdy, right?

Yeah, yeah.

It's like, this is like a sturdy, I don't even, I won't even call it, it's like hard fat, right?

I'm soft fat.

Soft fat is different than hard fat.

I was always jealous of hard fat.

It's just like a different kind of fat where you hold it differently.

But yeah, soft fat, I'm not going to sit there naked looking at myself while I'm taking a dump.

That's not what I want.

I think it works for hard fat, though.

Let's move on.

Last one from this will be a quick one, and we'll get to our what are you nuts?

Let's move on.

I'm just laughing.

This one's from Bella.

Hi, good guys.

Fellow member of the tribe here, obsessed with the pod.

I have a question for you.

Mary F.

Kill, Applebee's, Olive Garden, or Cheesecake Factory, go.

My God, this is so easy.

Marry Applebee's, okay?

Love them.

Or the other two options?

Olive Garden, sorry.

Cheesecake Factory in the garden.

I'm killing Olive Garden.

Sorry.

And I'm fucking the Cheesecake Factory.

Absolutely.

Ooh, baby.

Delicious.

Okay,

I agree, but I would flip it.

Garden, it was nice knowing you.

You gotta go.

I actually say Mary Cheesecake Factory for the only reason that because their menu is so large, I think they do offer a lot of variety.

But the truth is, is I would want to have a romantic interlude with Applebee's.

Please send that to corporate Olivia because I just, because it, it,

to, you know, that moment to share it with someone is a real celebration of love.

And when I'm sitting down at an Applebee's with a loved one, it's a celebration of love.

When I'm having the chicken, Parmesan fettuccine, I go, this is my best self.

This isn't just a random day of marriage.

This is a renewal of vows, you know?

Yes, I can see it now, Josh.

I love it.

Romanticizing the bees as the bees should be.

God, the bees knees.

You got a what are you nuts?

Our what are you nuts moment of the week are our gripes with people, places, and things, both big and small, whatever, stick it in your craw.

I talked about the

last week how the wonderful little my baby boy shy is having a tough time with a bit of a sleep regression, which is typical at two years old.

And so he screams at me sometimes at night, stay with me, sleep with me in my room.

And we have like a lazy boy there, so I will sometimes, but I realize it's not something that I can sustain.

So I,

in a moment of real sleep deprivation and weakness, I ordered maybe a blow-up doll from Amazon.

My God.

For $9.

It's a vinyl blow-up doll.

It's not suggestive.

It's just a human-size pool float.

And I decided that when the sweet shy falls asleep, I would sneak the blow-up doll onto the lazy boy and I would just kind of put a hat over it, over the head, and a pillow and a,

yeah, a blanket, and then just hope that he thinks I'm sleeping there.

What are you nuts?

What am I nuts?

i never used it i threw it away but i was so sleep deprived by the way i never used it please i didn't you jerk you used it you used well not for sleeping no not for sleeping but you used it i didn't use it but i was desperate and once it arrived i'm like this is insane and where am i gonna keep it

I don't know.

In your bathroom?

My housekeeper sees it.

She's like, geez, guy from Drinking Drops.

A real, real scumbag.

My what are you in on this moment for me, Josh?

You ever order from Instacart?

Sure.

First of all, I love Instacart.

Shout out to Instacart.

That said, you ever find, if you ever do grocery shopping on Instacart, or even if it's just regular shopping, that they love to refund the one thing you needed, I go in, I place a big order at Walmart because I want a two-burner that I can plug into a wall so I can have it downstairs.

And then I end up getting these like six other things that I really didn't need.

Then it all shows up, but the thing that I intended to get in the very beginning isn't there.

What are you nuts?

It should be priority ranked.

If I add it first and you can't get it, cancel the whole order.

I want none of it.

Fun tip, Josh, or pro tip.

I recently found out that if you have a problem with your produce, you ever just get like a spoiled tomato?

Sure.

You can go into the app, say it was spoiled, and they'll refund you for your tomato.

Instant credit.

I have no idea.

Just saying,

pro tip.

You know what else is a pro tip, Josh?

Giving this episode five stars.

Otherwise, what are you nuts?

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