A Lena Dunham Renaissance

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Benny and Joshi, you'll never guess what we're talking about.

It has to do with Lena Dunham shirtless.

Go for it, Ben.

Benny and Joshi watching girls 20 years late.

Benny and Joshi, there are a lot of breasts.

There are, right?

Yeah.

First of all, shout out Lena Dunham.

I misjudged you, okay?

I misjudged you.

This is a wonderful show.

It's great.

Commenters.

Super talented.

Super talented, no question.

That said, I literally feel like she wrote this show just so she could be naked.

She's naked 100% of this show.

When she doesn't need to be naked, she's naked.

Like in those, there's like a, like there's a bathtub scene, right?

She's under bubbles.

All of a sudden, for no reason, she just readjusts so you see a nipple.

Like, she's always naked.

Right.

I didn't know.

I love the show.

I didn't know that this was Adam Driver's big break.

He's awesome.

So good.

So talented.

I'm trying to think who else is in it, but this is like, it's like the gay, it's like gay sopranos.

That's girls for HBO.

It's sopranos for the LGBTQ community and me.

Like, that's what it is.

Like, Paige watched it, but she's like a girl from Southern California.

But while it was on the air, I mean, you're a little young.

I feel like you were a little bit young for it when it was on the air, right?

I think, I think I was in, I think I was in college.

was it like affirming for new york girls was it like their anthem like was it their

i don't during that time i don't remember anybody talking about girls i don't but i have my head in my ass all the time i remember them talking about gossip i think you were a little young maybe i was when did it come out olivia do you know when girls came out 2010 came out 2012 april okay

okay so i i mean i was 20 like it's not yeah but I feel like yeah, that it was certainly like a late 20s like

grown up like it's proper properly grown up.

It is a lot of mental health a lot of drug use a lot of it's serious topics.

It's like the reason that I like it is because it's funny lighthearted well written, but really does touch on some very serious shit.

And we're in the middle of season three.

Hannah has terrible, which is Lena Dunham, terrible OCD, and just jammed a q-tip literally into her brain that I like, oh, why are you doing that?

Which like, I know, I'll never use a q-tip again.

That, that scene scarred me.

But yeah, it gets, it gets deep.

But yeah, girls is really good.

We watch the crown, Josh.

I've been watching a ton of TV.

We want to stay on girls or we want to hop around.

Well, I want to know, because I think I deserve, or I think I need to do a bit of an apology, even though it was all in my head.

I never said anything publicly.

But I think I was like everyone else where I was really hard on Lena Dunham, to your point.

And I think like I've seen her recently with her new look.

And if she believes it, she was recently quoted saying like what would she tell her younger self and it was something to the effect of like calm down girl like you're not that special you're not that important and like you could like worry 50 less and be as or more successful than you were and i certainly could have said that to myself in my 20s and i think that certainly there was stuff you know that she said or did where I think just naturally people like people had strong opinions towards but I do i give her credit and i will say i'm interested to hear what you and olivia have to say about this like i think like i have respect for people when they're so universally like beat up publicly and then they like somehow walk through it and come out the other side i'm like uh-uh like i think this is like the time to welcome them back with a warm embrace i mean she did do it to herself though like i know you have i know you have more i know i know you haven't watched the show but if you watch the show and i would recommend it because it's 25 minute episodes it's like a quick easy watch.

It's not like one, one weekend or something, binge it.

Yeah.

She is the least likable

character and she wrote it, Josh.

So she wrote herself.

It's almost like she hates herself the way that she wrote it and portrayed herself.

Like you just, you look at this woman that is a hundred percent, like a hundred percent naked all the time.

covered in tattoos, makes poor decision after poor decision after poor decision, is is just like a complete nutcase.

And she wrote it and she depicted herself like this and she did it.

And like you're watching it.

And it's not like, it's not like when people hate Sarah Jessica Parker in, what the fuck is that show called?

Sex in the City.

Sex in the City.

My God.

It's not like, it's not like when people hate, like, because like people love to hate her in that, right?

But objectively, like, there's nothing really wrong.

There's so, there is so much wrong with Hannah, Lena Dunham's character in this show.

She's a horrible friend she's a horrible daughter and is it is it the personification of what people don't like about like the liberal coastal elite of like pretentious and smug at least the character like no like not even like she's so she's so awful she's so awful like she is a narcissist when she can't be you look at this person this being you're like you're a narcissist how are you a narcissist oh and at the same time she not at the same time is is goes free reign.

I know.

And at the same time, she hates herself.

It's like so hating yourself is on the same coin of narcissism.

It's just the other side because it's self-obsession.

Exactly.

And it's just, it's wild.

So I understand

why everybody hates or hated Lena Dunham.

But if you take it a step further, you realize for her to act like that and write like that, she is so unbelievably talented.

If you can make me hate you that much, you're a brilliant actress and you're a brilliant writer.

And so I have, I don't like her because I don't like her character, but I have unbelievable amounts of respect for her.

She's incredibly talented.

And yeah, I also wonder what percentage of it is Judd Appetow because he's also on it and the lightheartedness feels like every great lighthearted Judd Apatau movie or show I've ever seen.

So I wonder if it's just the combo that she is everything negative and he swoops in with like that lighthearted, funny, quirky.

I don't know, but taking it at face value, she's incredibly talented.

Yeah, I think the Judd magic, when it comes to someone very, very talented, and then he can come in there from like a 30,000 foot view and just be like, move your troops a little to the left.

Like,

I think that's his special sauce is like making super talented people even better.

Then that's why the show works.

Yeah.

Because it's, it's the combo.

It's, it's the combo.

And yeah, I like it a lot.

It's really good.

Interesting.

Olivia, what do you think about Lena Dunham?

I have only seen like an episode or two of girls.

So I need to like get back into it myself, but I definitely had that like perception of her just because I was like quite young too.

So I had just heard her name thrown around in like negative ways most of my life.

And then recently, I think like when I picked up the show, I was like, oh, this is Lena Dunham.

I like didn't put it together fully.

And to your, I agree with you that like when you've had so much ridicule and like, I mean, I didn't even know or consume much of anything that she had done.

And I didn't really have a good impression of her.

So like, I think, you know, as people grow, it's good to give grace.

And I'm excited to see what she does in the future too.

And hopefully can have like a bit of a, you know, turning point in the public eye.

Yeah, I don't think she will.

I don't like, I am not betting on a Lena Dunham Renaissance.

I'm not.

I think it's starting.

I think it's happening.

Maybe, maybe,

maybe.

You know, I'm stuck in 2012, Lena Dunham.

So if anything that's happening in 2025, I'll find out in 2040.

Right.

He hasn't even dealt with James Candolfini's passing yet.

Oh, no.

What do you mean?

I'm only on season three.

Yeah, it's a fascinating.

I don't know.

I'm really down to try to like the people that people hate and dislike the people that people love.

Totally.

I think that's me.

I think that's, that's Josh approaching 40.

No, but it's also it's interesting like kids on TikTok love to say this.

We made the right person famous.

You know how you see that like on like these like viral characters.

Yes.

And you're just like and it's just like

like yuck.

Anybody that's writing that about somebody else, I hate you.

Yeah, you do.

Yeah.

Sorry.

Just because you brought up sopranos, I want to, I want to say one thing.

I told you this, I think I told you this like in real time in the hospital.

The only thing that helped me sleep was I would close my eyes and I would unintentionally, I would count sopranos.

The way that people count sheep, this is me.

I would lay my head on the pillow and I would say, hi, Tony Soprano.

Nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you, Ben.

Come into my house.

This is my wife, Carmella.

This is my daughter, Meadow.

This is my son, AJ.

Oh, this is my grandma, Livia.

This is my uncle, Junior.

These are my friends, Frankie, Pussy, Christopher.

This is Artie Bucco.

And this is Dr.

Melfi.

And I would be out like a light in 15 seconds.

Do I have problems?

Clearly, I mean, you're on this podcast.

And you missed his concigliary, Sil, Silvio,

shit, Silvio, Paulie, Paulie Walnuts.

I said Pauli.

I said Frankie.

Adriana.

Adriana.

Yeah.

So good.

Wait till you meet Furio.

Oh, my God.

Oh, of course.

Of course I know Furio, but he's nuts.

All right.

This is Furio the Italian stallion.

He's an import.

He's imported good.

He's like Buffalo Mozzarelle that Furio.

We fly him in.

He's fantastic.

Oh, man.

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So you're crushing TV.

Wait, we all want to hear.

So the beautiful Ruby now, our first episode back, we heard about the birth.

And as we all know, eight days later is the ceremony of all ceremonies.

It's

it's Little Baby Jewish Super Bowl.

It's the Bris.

It's the circumcision.

Walk us through.

So first of all, if you are Jewish or if you are not Jewish and you still want to do a bris or it's it's a beautiful ceremony.

I just have to say they do it in the hospital as well.

And that's great.

But if you're having a bris, make sure that your moil comes from a long line of moils.

He's a nice guy, a normal guy, meet him.

Okay.

A moil for the three Gentiles who listen are rabbis who have been trained in the art of circumcision.

They're rare.

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And I'm just telling you, you cannot be replaced by AI.

So get into it, Moyles.

Sorry.

Yes.

Yes.

No, no, no.

A thousand percent.

And the right Moyle or the right rabbi who does the circumcision is not some random guy with a pair of scissors, okay?

This guy, I'll shout him out by name because he was amazing, Dr.

Katzenstein.

Not Dr.

Katzenstein, Rabbi Katzenstein.

He might as well be a doctor.

He shadowed surgeons at Columbia.

He's not just picking up a pair of scissors and like doing this willy-nilly.

Stop saying it like that.

You're going to make people anti-zomatic.

It's way more clinical than you think it is.

So clinical.

Went into it feeling good.

Let me tell you, Josh, this boy's penis is pristine.

Pristine.

It's fantastic.

But jumping back to the beginning, we have a bris.

A bris, you go in in the morning, you pray, it's beautiful.

You then have the snipping.

Okay, it's very emotional.

We had about 150 people there.

There was only one person missing, Josh, but it is what it is.

I'm sorry.

I would have loved to be there.

And it was amazing.

And we then had, my God, did Claudia, she threw a bot mitzvah, a bor mitzvah.

She,

my dad catered, but it was golf themed.

We had little baby soffer golf balls and like the whole omelette stations and takeaways.

And it was insane, insane.

And it was amazing.

And the snipping itself was sad, but he handled it like a champ.

My dad held him.

It was a very special moment.

And Rabbi rabbi did an unbelievable job.

And was Claudia removed at that point?

She was there.

No, she was there for the whole thing.

Did she stand right there?

Because sometimes I've seen the wives kind of be like huddled around by the women.

Yes, yes.

Huddled around by the woman.

Yes, yes.

Sorry.

I thought you meant like, was she not in the room at all?

No, she was, she was away from it, did not need to see it.

I didn't look.

I can't look at that stuff.

I closed my eyes.

I was right there.

I hope my dad didn't look.

I don't know if he did or didn't.

And it was incredibly special.

And thank God he did a great job.

But those, those are the only diapers.

Those, those you feel really badly about.

Like post-circumcision, you're then changing diapers, but there's a different process now.

You have to make sure that poop gets nowhere near that fresh cut penis because he could get an infection.

You have to tuck it.

You have to apply the stuff.

But we did great.

I know

we've talked about it before.

And I do think that like when they came to pick Max up to have his circumcision the day after he was born, right up until until that moment, having grown up Jewish and like had never having had second thoughts about it, as we're walking down the hallway in my brain, I just went, this is barbaric.

This is sick.

This is sick.

And I will say,

it's your baby boy, and they're taking it.

They're taking scissors to his feet.

I'm calling it scissors.

It's not scissors.

It's a scalpel.

Okay.

It's scissors.

No, it's not.

It's literally, it's literally these little, they're little scissors.

No, no, no.

Then maybe that's his, then he used a form of tweezers it's like a clamp off yes yes yeah that's oh that's one weird part to being a baby wieners they need to make sure that like everything looks good before they perform the circumcision so you have to face time the moil

and show the babys

that's bad that's sending up some red flags and whatever fbi agents watching your phone thousand thousand percent like what is this rabbi doing on face time with a baby wiener once a day i had a a moment where i passed out once from like a mini surgery that I was watching.

I told you this.

I don't think so.

I was dating a girl who got a staph infection in her knee and her knee blew up.

And so we went to urgent care because we were just like idiot 19-year-olds.

And we're just like, oh, I don't know.

I'm like, go to the doctor, like, go to the emergency room, Josh.

Like, her knee is falling off.

And this doctor was this Persian cat who was like, let the mitigate care.

And he just, he and he didn't, I remember he didn't numb it, nothing.

Cause he was like, it's completely swollen, like the skin is dead.

And he gave her antibiotics and then he cut that shit open.

He just sliced it open.

And then, and I just remember staring at it and then waking up with my legs in the air and a nurse waving smelling salt under my nose.

And so now I think I worry about that, but I don't think, but now I've watched so much of the pit, I think I'd be fine.

I think that you saw something that you weren't supposed to see.

I think most people would pass out from something like that.

That's a lot.

I was not expecting seeing a leg cut open completely out of the blue that's a lot that's a lot so i give you the half there i don't think you would have passed out if you saw your son's circumcision i don't i think you would have felt really sad about it which is why we don't watch it that's it

that said i haven't had the great fortune of seeing your penis i'm sure you have a great penis you haven't seen the the had the great fortune of seeing my penis i have a great penis great penises i'm just saying we were circumcised these are great penises mine is great right it's good to own it own that you have a great penis is it pretty you have a pretty penis oh my god

sorry olivia you can leave dude this is inappropriate by the way i'm not she's not in the room with me i forgot

it's great i got

it's great it's really great it's like one thing i've never had a complex about Yeah, which is huge.

Imagine looking down.

It is huge.

Sorry.

Imagine looking down and being like, damn, that's unfortunate.

That would suck.

That would suck.

But I've also like, I've been plagued by so much insecurity my whole life, but like the, the go-to male insecurity has been like size and shape and thing and the whole thing.

And I'm just like, I don't have any of that.

Like it works great.

No complaints.

Like stoked.

Yeah.

Yep.

But wakes up just got deeper.

Wakes up in the morning, ready to go to work.

He's ready.

It's just great.

Although, I have, have you had any friends again i think we hang out with different crowds but have you had friends who in their 30s are are not necessarily because they really need it but they don't mind it are starting to take like a viagra or a sialis recreationally if they are they're not telling me about it i have not i haven't had one friend call me and tell me that he's taken something like that so no I never have taken one, but I know that I have friends who are like, who, for all intents and purposes, have like dated a lot and slept around and had a good old time and they're like oh I just got on this and it's great

well I've told you I've told this story a long time ago on the podcast when I took mucine X D you remember this story tell me more I took mucin X D off label and in the middle of the night in the middle of the night I woke up with oh my god the most painful erection it would not go away for three and a half hours and we checked the packaging and in like 1% of people it can cause erectile dysfunction so while I haven't taken those sounds like erectile function That's true.

Erectile function.

While I've never taken a Viagra Cialis, et cetera, in my experience, brief experience, having a boner when you don't want one and you can't get it to go away is hell.

I get that maybe you want it at that point, but you don't want it for four hours, Josh.

What are they doing?

Are they fucking for four hours?

It never goes down.

I think they've now made the pills as such where you can kind of command it when necessary and then it kind of goes back into a resting function.

It's just when you get hot and bothered, it's vital.

It's stiff.

Stiff as a board.

It's powerful.

We can pivot.

Yeah, I don't know.

But again, I feel glad I've never even, I've never needed that.

Thank God, Josh.

Thank God.

Wake up every day.

Thank God for my schmeck.

Do you?

No, I should.

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a nice thing that i do with max and shy at night is we say a prayer at night and i think it could be a fun thing to do with rubes the i love it really

we say we do the shema and then we say a little prayer for like to honor mom's side of the religion and then beautiful but it's really just like i always say like thank you god for mommy maxi shy shy and the baby and then we like call out anybody else who needs extra prayers and then in my career and then no getting

and then we we end it with a little in your name we pray to shout out my wife because i didn't grow up saying that and beautiful yeah it's a nice thing i love that i love that i will a hundred percent be doing that with mr ruby who is just God he's so cute.

Ruby booby.

That's what I call him.

Ruby booby.

The Rubenson.

Rubenson Bubinson.

The names are just crazy.

Oh, the Russian Rubel.

The Rubin sandwich.

So good.

Ruby Tuesday.

Maybe he'll be Ruby Friday.

He's a little more like.

Do you remember Ruby Foo's?

Yeah, sure.

So I call him Ruby Foo also.

And what I want to do, Josh, his second birthday is going to be Ruby 2's.

It's going to be Asian fusion themed.

You like that?

Right?

Like,

love, love.

And maybe we just buy back, because the chain is dead.

Maybe we just buy back Ruby Foo's and it's his.

That's his legacy.

Ruby Foo's

Done.

And I now like, honestly, what I call him most, I call him Mr.

Foo.

That's what I call him.

Do you want to

do you want to mention, were there any other like name contenders that were really close possible choices?

There was, but Claudia doesn't want me mentioning it because

we might use them.

Yeah.

But what I can tell you is that we were so close to naming him this other name that we literally submitted the birth certificate form with the other name.

Wow.

And the next day, the doctor or the nurse came in and she's like, okay, we have all of your discharge forms, except we never got the birth certificate.

We're like, what are you talking about?

Like we literally filled it out.

We gave it to you with all those other forms.

And she's like, no, we don't have it.

And we took that as a sign and changed it.

It was very close, though, to being the other name.

And now I look at him and he could, he, it's this.

He couldn't have ever been that other name.

Now tell me this, because I was a little hurt.

Not really.

Tell me.

Look, when I, and maybe to my wife's chagrin, but what can you do with the kids 50% mine?

When that baby comes out, when I, because I'm having a baby in two weeks, when that baby comes out, we're going to have a 7 a.m.

C-section, Broch Hashem, God willing.

Within three hours, Ben, you are getting an approved photo by me, not by my wife.

I felt bad.

Because your uncle, Ben.

I was like, we're happy.

I'm happy that that you said that you felt bad because let me tell you, you were the first person that I texted a photo to.

Thank you.

That means a lot.

I did not feel comfortable knowing how much it would have bothered Claudia texting people the photos until we left the hospital.

She was so nervous.

about because there are a lot of i would say that the number one contingency of toasters the number one occupation is nurses like that hospital was all toasters everywhere.

And it's very disarming or it's, it's the opposite.

It's very alarming.

You don't feel, you just like, I know that they mean well, of course, but when you're in such a vulnerable state, you don't want people to know where you are, what time you're there.

We've publicly spoken about how our doctor is Dr.

Fox, because he was Jackie's doctor and we're so thankful for him.

But people know that Dr.

Fox is at Sinai West.

So they know our hospital, then they know the time.

She just, she just didn't like like it.

So it was very hard for me.

It was harder for my parents.

Every single day, my dad, or like the whole day, he's like, I can't text a picture to your uncle.

Like, what do you mean?

I'm like, just wait.

I was like, just wait a day.

But what I know.

What is totally here you and but how does the nurse picture fear correlate with sending a picture to Bruce?

I think I think that the fear is that picture goes, well, my dad, of course, got pictures, but my dad shares things with everyone.

Everyone.

Like, my dad is Mr.

Public Transportation.

He loves a good bus.

He'll go on the bus.

What a perfect man.

He'll go on the bus.

And let me tell you, he will talk to the person next to him about me and show pictures of me or of Claudia.

And I'm telling you, he easily could have just shown a picture of the baby to that person.

Like, he doesn't think that way.

He's so honest.

He's like, so

he's

hamish.

He's hemish.

That's the perfect word.

And he doesn't think of any of the potential downsides to a situation.

So I think the fear was send it to him, send it to uncle, uncle sends it to cousin, cousin sends it to somebody else.

All of a sudden, I don't know.

Sure.

But to respect her wishes and just make her feel as comfortable as possible, I just waited.

But just know you were literally first in line.

Thank you.

Literally first in line.

So I could feel, I could feel it.

I'm happy that you told me that it upset you.

I could feel it.

Not really.

I, I, I listen.

Lightly.

It was light.

It was light.

No.

And I, and listen, if you do it on the second one, we're not talking.

No, but it's your first kid.

Like I honor all experiences.

And I know, you know, I totally, everything is right.

Nothing is wrong.

However you guys needed to do it is perfect.

Yeah.

It's a crazy thing.

It's crazy.

All I want to do, all I want to do, I've built this platform persona for a decade.

I can't share him.

Do you know how hard that is?

It's so hard.

Now it's become easier.

That day, I was like, I'm not going to show these people my greatest accomplishment.

Like I'm here telling you about business ventures.

I talk about podcasts, sports society, all this stuff.

I can't show you Ruby.

He's perfect.

I can't show him to you.

Not you.

To like my followers, to people.

Yeah.

Do you want to talk more about that?

Cause I understand.

Like for me, I guess we always, and I'm a little bit more liberal.

I totally, and I totally respect just saying these kids will have anonymity until one day if they grow up and they want to be public, they can choose that.

But especially when they're babies, just because they're, you know, they'll only be that way for a couple of months.

What made that decision to just say, we'll never show a picture ever?

I think we just made a hard and fast rule.

I'm so with you.

If we were to ever show a picture, it would have been right now because their face is going to change, right?

But I think it's a slippery slope.

You post a picture of him.

This is just our way of thinking.

And they eat it up.

They love it, right?

Gets a million likes.

It's the most liked photo.

They want more.

And it's like in us to want to give more.

Like I just, that at least is the way that I was thinking about it.

I would want to keep posting him.

And so it was just like a hard and fast rule.

And the day that I knew that I would never post him is I won't mention who this influencer, fashion blogger person is.

But my sister called me.

She's like, I was just in Central Park and I recognized the four-year-old with the nanny in the park.

The mother wasn't there.

I recognized her.

And that is fucking scary, Josh.

It's fucking scary to me.

New York City is a different breed.

It's a completely different breed.

That baby is out with the nanny, with family, with whatever.

And somebody that could not be a friend can recognize them when they're at their most vulnerable.

Sure.

It's very scary.

So that's one reason AI scares the shit out of me, But the main reason is safety.

And what do you do like eventually when you guys get invited to the premiere of Renovation Season 5?

No.

Like you get invited to the premiere of the new Pixar movie.

And of course you want to go and bring, you know, there's so many fun family things.

And I go through this too, where we'll get invited to these great like family things that my kids have a ball at.

But if I have to do like a photo, I'll always do it alone.

But, you know, I won't help but notice that in the background of someone else's photo might be me and Max or me and Shai.

And, but I guess it's just like, you do your very best.

You don't put them on your social and you live your life.

You do your very best.

That's right.

Do your very best.

And if I see somebody taking a picture of him against my will, I will take that phone.

And like that's fucked up.

Like you don't take pictures of other people's kids intentionally.

Like when you're when you're not friends with them and you don't know them.

But yeah, it's just to do your best.

I think about that all the time.

Like he's going to be in the world and people stop us and see us on a daily basis.

So people are going to see him.

But it's more so just doing our best to guard against this weird world that we live in that isn't Hamish anymore.

But what if you have the next big AJ?

If we have the next day.

You're going to keep him from the world, you selfish.

If we have the next big AJ, then he'll let us know at 13 years old that he's ready to be big AJ.

But I don't need a Rizzler at nine.

Love him to death.

I need a Rizzler at nine.

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They're not awesome.

But other than that, keep it brief.

Here's from anonymous.

Let's try it again.

Here's from anonymous.

Anonymous.

Hey, good guys.

Moron and Toaster here coming to you with a what are you nuts that I need your thoughts on.

My husband to be

stands to wipe his butt after he's gone to the bathroom.

I've never seen anything like that.

Never heard of that.

Really would love your thoughts on is this normal?

Is this something worth not marrying him over?

Obviously not the case.

Love him so much, but what are you nuts?

I've never seen that.

Is this normal behavior?

Thanks.

Take care.

Bye-bye.

Not marrying him over.

It's not like he doesn't wipe his ass.

That would be not marrying over.

He takes a shit and then he just puts on his underwear.

You don't marry that guy, but not marrying him because he stands up to wipe.

Let me tell you something, Josh, okay?

Tell me.

Let me tell you something.

When I've made a big old duty, you could catch me standing.

Okay.

At the end, at the end, the first wipe is attempted sitting.

Okay?

Always.

But if you see that you're going to need to...

excavate a bit.

I have no issues with a light standing wipe.

I think think it's a little bit weird if you take a shit and then immediately jump up and exclusively wipe when you're standing.

But no, sometimes you need a hunchover.

Get in there.

And at this point, you're still in.

Someone help.

Help.

Somebody.

I'm sorry.

Help.

You know,

there's a song by Blippy, which you will know in the next year or so, the great children entertainer Blippy that goes, I'm an excavator.

excavator hey poopsi later no i'm kidding i added that i added that oh that's good though i i gosh should we should we write children's songs yes

oh my god this could be our new renaissance children's books children's songs it could be you'll you'll sing i'll i'll play the guitar i would love to it's my dream

dude if you really i'm down i should be a p that do mr

yeah man i've always wanted to have my own version of mr rogers neighborhood i'm talking i'm talking puppets.

I'm talking biracial postman.

I'm talking.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

I would love it.

Great.

Call Benny and Joshi's Treehouse.

Okay.

Good working.

Will we get arrested?

Benny and Joshi's kingdom.

The eye of boys.

Love it.

I love it too.

So good.

And then the United Bobby Emirates.

Okay.

So good.

UBE.

Next one's from Jen.

Hey, Josh and Ben, longtime moron and toaster.

I have a what are you nuts for you?

So I took my 16-month-old daughter to dinner tonight and I got her the kids mac and cheese.

And there is a dedicated kids menu, okay?

The chicken tenders, pizza.

and of course mac and cheese so i order the mac and cheese the waitress brings it out to me in a cast iron skillet and then proceeded to tell me not to touch the skillet because it's hot.

Like, you know, when you go to a Mexican restaurant, you get a thing of fajitas and it comes out on a

sizzling platter, like with the smoke coming out of it.

That's how hot this was on the kids' menu.

Okay.

This was a dedicated kids' menu.

And I was so floored by this.

I literally was stunned into silence.

I couldn't believe it.

Like, what are you, nuts?

That's

nuts.

Was it good?

I bet it was.

Crumbly little top, like crunchy top.

Sounds amazing.

Totally nuts for sure.

But like, was it delicious?

Like, I want a I want a Skittled mac and cheese.

Yeah, more things should be.

I think you can actually make things healthier just by serving them in cast iron.

I'm in.

Sounds great.

More things should be served in cast iron.

It's also less cleanup.

I just realized that.

It's a real hack for the place.

And do cast iron cold.

Your morning breakfast cereal and a cast iron why not i'm in a yogurt buffet and a cast iron sure

yeah i'm in i'm in okay same here make a restaurant called cast iron everything in a cast iron it does upset me though on tick tock where people will be like you can't clean your cast iron ever because i'm like what you got to season that thing Totally.

Yeah, and you have to clean it.

I don't even know what that means.

You can't clean it.

You can't use soap.

Can't do it.

You have to.

Otherwise, it tastes like the last thing you ate.

That's the idea, Ben.

It's disgusting.

You're supposed to like, basically, from what I understand is you like pour out the drippings and then you just take a wet paper towel and you clear it so that like it looks clean, but it flavors it.

Because if you hit it with soap every time, you're losing all of that stuff.

And then every like five to 10 times, you're supposed to do a salt rub where you just take like super coarse salt, pour it in, and then you like scrub it all out.

And that's like reseasons it.

And then

you have to put it on the fire again and then just cook oil by itself.

Too much work.

I use soap.

You're going to palm all of your cast iron.

Yeah, it's just

not watching it.

I saw a TikTok the other day that was somebody was like cutting fruit.

and then cut garlic or cut garlic first and then cut fruit.

And it was like, this was the fruit that I ate growing up.

And it made me think about how, I don't know if, I don't know if my mom didn't clean knives, but I distinctly remember that my cantaloupe sometimes would taste like garlic.

I know.

Did you have that?

Oh, you know that?

Oh my God.

So funny.

I saw that.

I was like, oh my God, this is, everybody lived the same life.

Like, you're not going to clean the knife in between everything, but then your fruit tastes like garlic.

When I would see my mom reheat anything with tomato sauce and Tupperware, I'd be like, say goodbye to that Tupperware.

It's over.

That tomato sauce is now embedded in that shit.

Oh yeah.

Oh yeah.

Fully.

It's on fire.

It's over.

It's melted.

Next one from Anonymous.

Hi, good guys.

I'm an extreme moron who really needs help.

I recently just graduated college in a city that my boyfriend and I had both been living in.

He's a few years older and accepted a job in a different city a thousand miles away and I decided to move to live with him in our new city.

He has a six-figure paying job and because I just graduated, I don't don't have a job yet, but I'm actively applying.

Our rent is super expensive and I have to give him money every month.

But this month, because I've been trying so hard to apply for jobs, I don't have a job yet.

How do I go about having this financial conversation with him?

I don't want to make it feel like I'm taking money from him or taking advantage from him.

But I'm so really frustrated that I don't have a corporate job yet, even though I just graduated.

Please let me know.

Thank you.

I don't think we have enough information here.

Like, what I would say is that the guy kind of sounds like a dick.

Like, if he, if he knows that you don't have a job, and the reason I said we don't have enough information is like, if you come from money and like, maybe he thinks that, like, your, your parents can float you some money for, for rent, that's a different story.

But like, if he knows your circumstance, he knows you don't have money, he's making you sweat it.

Like, that's not right.

Like, if you, if you know that your partner doesn't have a job, you should cover them or you should move to a cheaper apartment, right?

That's what I was saying.

Like a cheaper apartment would solve so much of this.

And when someone moves out to be with the other person, moves to where they have the job, where they're set up.

And it sounds if it's true, like she's really working hard to find a job.

And sometimes it takes a couple months that the other partner needs to take on the financial burden if they don't want to be in constant stress and fighting.

Yeah.

And like, didn't he have the apartment before she got there?

Like all of a sudden now he's a landlord.

Like, it's weird.

Like, didn't he sign up to pay the rent without her there?

And now all of a sudden, he's making his recently graduated girlfriend feel like shit every month because she can't afford to pay half of his rent that he was paying for already?

Is chivalry dead?

I don't know, but haven't you grown up with those couples who like Venmo each other after dinner?

And it's just like, now that's uncomfortable.

Yeah, I have, but at least they have like a mutual understanding that that's what they're going to do.

This girl sounds like she's completely in the dark.

Like it's like, he knows that she doesn't have a job so how would she have money how could she afford it or he just like doesn't care well clearly she was affording it up to a certain point so maybe she had had a job maybe she had some say i don't know i don't know either setup is but yeah no those people that venmo each other after dinner that are in a relationship that is all what are you nuts it's so crazy just like trade off i'll get it you get it you get it trade off trade off right for sure yeah yeah that but that's how i am with my best friends too like that's like a i hate that like if my, like, if like my closest friends, if I go to dinner with you, I'll pay for you.

I'll grab it.

I don't care.

I'm not like, and then there is just this mutual understanding that next time you probably got me.

If you don't, I'm not going to hold it against you because I offered.

But I like the trading.

Trading is they're real relationships that way, in my opinion.

Unless like, of course, you can always split it as friends, but it's just me.

Little trade.

Last one from Jessica.

Joshi and Benny.

Benny and Joshi.

Hey, so brevity is key.

So here we go.

My father-in-law has become the town grifter.

He is asking people for money, saying he's going to pay it back with interest, and then he doesn't pay them back, and he doesn't answer their phone calls, and he basically ghosts them.

And we keep hearing about this from all kinds of people.

We don't live there anymore in the town, but his reputation is completely tarnished.

I think my husband should say something to him and basically hold his feet to the fire and make him accountable and make him pay the money back.

But my husband thinks it's meddling and it's not our business.

What do you think?

I feel very, very terrible for the situation that your husband is in.

That's, that's very sad, first of all.

I have to assume that unless he's just a bad guy, typically a town grifter that goes to neighbors and asks for money with interest is in some financial ruin.

Maybe this person

is a gambling addict.

Maybe this person is like there's something wrong.

So going to, your husband should go to him and find out what's wrong.

The idea of like holding his feet to the fire to pay them, he probably doesn't have any money.

Like, am I wrong, Josh?

Do neighbors approach neighbors saying that they want loans with interest if they have money?

Like, no, he went there because he has no money.

So to me, natural, like, if you care about your father, you force him into rehab.

Like, this person needs rehabilitation.

And that would be what I'd do.

But the idea of like putting his feet to the fire, you got to pay him back.

Like, he's broke.

Yeah, there's no paying back here.

He's broke.

Like, I don't, it's gone.

That money is gone.

Say goodbye to that money.

But what I will say is, on the lighter side, sometimes a local town grifter can be ka.

Do you know?

Have you seen this guy, Rodney, on TikTok?

No, I don't think so.

Olivia has excuse me.

Maybe I've seen him.

I don't know if I've seen Rodney.

Rodney lives in Philly and he has become famous and he is freaking cute.

He's 71 and he went, he has a degree in finance and he is just, he's like the town cutie.

I think he's got a little bit of a drinking problem.

And he gets a check on the first and 15 from like government dole or whatever.

So obviously like that goes pretty quick and he probably needs to stretch like after the 10th or after the 25th.

And so he walks around and he's really cute and funny and is, you know offers some entertainment for everyone who lives in the town and they give him anywhere I don't think you can accept or should be giving someone like that more than like probably 20 bucks at a time but usually he's getting a dollar maybe five sometimes 20 when people are really generous and the video I saw it was so cute he's like talking to this woman and she hands him a 20 and he goes what is that and she goes it's the 20 you asked me for he goes i will pay you back and she goes no you won't he goes no i won't because i'm gonna spend this like i've stolen

and then she goes, what are you going to get, Rodney?

He goes, I'm going to get, and he's holding to me.

He goes, I'm going to get another beer and some weed.

And she goes, no, Rodney.

He goes, oh, no, I'm kidding.

No, because, you know, I'm going to get some food because I need to eat.

I'm going to get a sandwich and some soup.

And he goes, you're one of the good ones.

You are one of the good ones.

By the way, is Rodney Queen of Melaros?

Kind of.

He's the best.

And now he's all over my TikTok algorithm.

He sounds great.

I got to check out Rodney.

This person's father-in-law is not Rodney.

This person's father-in-law is Snake Oil Steve.

And it sounds to me like he went to his neighbors and asked for 10 grand.

I don't think he's going around asking for 20s.

Your relation,

your reputation doesn't get tarnished for like walking around and asking for 20s.

Right.

Like this guy, to me, sounds, it sounds bad.

And all that I'll say, I heard Kevin O'Leary say this and I loved it.

Do not loan someone money like that, ever expecting to be paid back.

Oh, yeah.

I think it's equally on the lender as it is the person who's asking for the money.

Because if you're somebody's neighbor and they come to you and they're like, I need 10 grand, I'll pay you back with interest.

It's never coming.

It will never come back.

So be strong enough to say no or be generous enough to say yes.

And by the way, that's not just Grifter.

That's if you have a, if you're investing in a friend's restaurant, in their app, in their new business like totally totally they could literally do their very best and it won't work out so totally give it away like if you have the money to invest give it away give it away give it away or don't give it at all agreed should we get to our what are you nuts we absolutely should josh would you like to describe to our patrons what our what are you nuts moment of the week is i would love to our what are you nuts moment of the week are our gripes with people places and things both big and small whatever sticking in your craw ben what do you got i'm a slave to my brita josh The Brita is a what are you nuts?

I never was a Brita guy, okay?

Pre-pregnancy, pre-baby, I'm hocking these water bottles, but let me tell you, breastfeeding women drink an incredible amount of water.

We're talking gallons of water.

As a result, I love water.

So I'm also drinking water.

We have two hydro jugs, okay?

They're off-brand Stanley's, two hydro jugs.

And we, I guess, live in an apartment where we don't want to use the tap.

We're using a Brita.

Claudio bought the Brita.

She loves the Brita.

Josh, I'm a slave to this Brita.

I pour out the Brita.

I immediately have to refill it.

It takes, I don't know, five minutes for the thing to bubble back up.

This Brita is a full-time job.

You fill it up, you pour it out.

It's completely, completely useless.

Brittas, what are you nuts?

There is a better way, which is putting a filter on your sink.

Oh,

I'm a rich.

Brittas are nuts.

I mean, I I think it would only be a value add.

I know you rent, but I would spend the $1,500 or whatever it is and have a handyman come in and do it up, babe.

It will be the gift that keeps on giving.

Is it that?

I won't say cheap, but is it that range?

If it's $1,500,

no question.

The filter can't be more than like, honestly, I think it's probably just all you're doing, right, is you're sawing a circular hole into the metal part of the sink.

And then, like, ours lives right under.

We have filter water and we have immediate boiling water.

It's fabulous.

Wow, that's rich, immediate boiling water.

So you're making a cup of tea like that.

Like that.

As fast as I want.

Wow.

Oh my God.

Wow, that's English breakfast, mint, Cylon.

I think that's just a color.

What is Cylon?

That is wonderful.

Okay, yeah, I'm going to look into it because the Brita, I'm sorry.

They weren't going to pay us anyways.

What are you nuts?

Brita's nuts.

I'm a slave to my Brita.

I'm a Brita slave.

Invest.

Do Do it up.

Do it up.

You got this.

I got this.

My what do you nuts is?

I'm trying to decide which one I want to.

Okay.

My what do you nuts is ticking clocks the other day?

I was sitting in, I was doing this show, this sketch comedy show, and I was sitting in this green room and, or like my own little dressing room, and they had like this beautiful old school clock sitting on one of the tables.

And all of a sudden, I'm just there in the quiet and I hear

Ben, I thought I was in one flu over the cuckoo's nest.

I was like, if this fucking thing, what if I wanted to take a nap?

I got to listen.

Aren't we past the tick and the talk?

Aren't we, it's over.

Ticking clocks?

This should just be a phrase.

We're done.

We've graduated.

I get it.

It's good in an automatic watch.

You want to wear a Rolex?

Fine.

I don't need to.

I think I'm like, I thought I was going to lose it.

It's a complete woody nuts.

We're both clearly very sensitive to noise, though.

I'm sure some people wouldn't bother.

For me, I hear that.

I'm done.

I'm thinking there's a bomb under me.

I'm done.

I think I'm done in an episode of Charlie's Angels.

This is nuts.

What am I doing?

My admission is impossible.

I would lose my mind.

I would lose my mind.

By the way, another supplementary woody nuts.

Hey, Tom Cruise, get a stunt man.

Don't do your own stunts.

Woody nuts.

Nuts.

That's nuts.

You're 60.

You should.

It's time.

It's time.

You know what else?

It's time for, Josh.

Time for us to end our show.

Yep, which is five stars.

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