The Big Goodbye...
Mazel Morons! Today, we’re back with another solo episode for your listening pleasure. Ben pitches the next great American institution: a fast-casual tuna, egg, and chicken salad bar—Cold Stone style. Josh isn’t buying it (yet), but that doesn’t stop us from spiraling into a food-fueled fever dream of custom wraps, funeral spreads, and White Castle-based exit strategies. We’re talking everything from airport meltdowns and airline seatbelt extenders to custom wraps, corporate greed, wedding Venmos, and why fast food tastes better when you're sad. Mondays and Thursdays, baby. What, are ya nuts?!
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It's a good
And if you don't give us five stars, what are you nuts?
What are you nuts?
Yeah, we're the good guys.
We're not the great guys.
We're just a good, good, the good guys.
Whoa.
It's Benny and Josh.
It's Benny and Josh.
Benny is nesting.
He's gonna have a baby.
It's Benny and Josh.
It's Joshi and Benny and Benny and Josh.
Joshi looks so good because he was just in a big show.
Big, big man.
Wow.
It's nice to do something people see.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And like, I loved, I was reading through the comments.
It's like, way to spoil it for us.
It's like, what are you nuts?
Like, I'm spoiling you to you that I'm cast in something.
Like, you could also Google.
It's also on IMDb.
It's like, you know, that was strange.
Well, I think because they purposely didn't announce me in it because they wanted it to be like a shock when people saw it, that they weren't expecting it.
But sure.
It was on.
The show aired, I'm allowed to say.
100%.
And for those of you that don't know, The Last of Us, Josh, he made a wonderful cameo.
He was ripped as hell.
That's why he wasn't telling us that that's why he was getting some big ass arms, right?
He wasn't telling us that that's why he was starting to look like a tiny dancer.
Tiny means big, you know, like whenever somebody's named tiny, it means that they're huge.
Yes.
Yes.
Right?
Your nickname now is tiny.
If you're regularly breaking chairs at the Waffle House and someone calls you Tiny, it's ironic.
It's ironic.
Exactly.
It's ironic.
Nobody's ever ironically called me Tiny, by the way.
They're always just brutally honest.
You're huge.
They're just giving you the backup, the backup horn.
What would be the red line that
you were dangerously big?
Like that, what would have to happen for you to hit a bottom and go, oh my God.
Like, would it be breaking the chair?
Oh, no, no, because like I would blame the chair.
Like this wasn't built right.
What is this IKEA bullshit pine?
You never know what kind of chair.
Honestly, speaking of chairs, Claudia and I went to Central Park on Saturday and we instacarted a couple of these lawn chairs.
Some people call them camp chairs from Target.
Got them $24.99.
I expected it to be a regular size chair.
This chair, Josh, was far too small.
It was a tiny, tiny chair, which isn't right.
Like,
you need to make these chairs big enough for people to sit.
I digress.
I thought you were asking about the weights that I would need to be, where it's like drawing a line in the sand.
The sign.
The sign is if I become uncomfortable again on an airplane, if I'm sitting in coach and I'm uncomfortable, the first sign is that I'm sitting in coach.
Yeah.
Then if I'm uncomfortable sitting in coach crying, eating Cheetos, like, but like right now, I'm fully, my hips are cozy in coach.
The seatbelt is just, it's not even a, it's not even a thought.
But at one point, it was like, oh, this is tight.
I'm getting in tight.
I never needed an extender.
That's, that's like, if you, if you catch me with a seatbelt extender, know that I'm about to do something drastic.
Yeah.
But yeah, that would be the sign if I'm no longer comfortable sitting in coach.
If they offer the extender without asking, oh my god if they assume if they're like hey tiny here you go here's an extra three feet it's awful it's happened to me before i've had that i've had it asked like hey do you want to see bell extender it's like hey you want my foot in your ass
like are you kidding me and like and when you bring the drink card around please fill my cup up with cyanide yeah yeah just awful awful speaking of planes josh we newark airport i hope they have it figured out by the time this podcast episode releases.
But I texted you.
I was very upset that they canceled my flight.
I was flying home.
I was supposed to fly home from Charleston to Newark at night and they canceled it, right?
And now it comes out.
The New York Post says that they heard a report from the FAA that they're saying that Newark is an unsafe airport.
That's scary.
So what happened exactly?
An air traffic controller?
Like there was a whistleblower.
There was a call for help.
There was an SOS from Tower 2.
Oh my God.
Can you imagine that?
Ryan Murphy's new show?
SOS from tower two.
Right after shouties of the night.
Yeah, no, that would be a wonderful show.
And yeah, I think that's exactly what happened.
I think that there was a whistleblower in tower two.
He's like, we don't have enough people to properly control the traffic.
That's what I hear is happening.
Lack of staff.
I don't get that.
Like, how is that possible?
How do you not have enough staff?
I don't claim to know anything on the topic.
So I really don't know how to speak on it.
It just seems very obvious that you would want not too much staff, but appropriate, competent staff doing something like air traffic control, which is like the, they're the, they're the eyes on the ground.
Like they, these pilots fly blind trusting air traffic control.
Oh, we can't see, but we don't have anything on the radar, you know, like they trust them and now they can't be trusted.
It's wild.
I mean, you know, obviously, people bring up Doge and all these sort of political moves over the last couple months that they've been getting rid of a lot of federal employees.
But then you hear the retort to that, which is like, no, the problem is that we don't have enough great people like in their 50s and 60s with 20 plus years of experience working there.
I don't know, but it doesn't, it seems bad.
You can have that problem, you know, in Bismarck, but Newark, our greatest port city it seems really bad and it's also just to your point before like i don't know what the reason is doge whatever it may be it seems like something that you might want to figure the out and quickly like whatever it is like this isn't like oh this part of the government is failing so they're going to make less money this is this part of the government is failing and people are going to die like the faa not being qualified is an enormous problem i don't know how to fix it i would think that somebody going in there with a a like a hard punch, I literally punched like this and I hurt my hand.
Like they come in with a strong fist and they're like, let's, let's train these people.
Let's figure this out.
I don't know how to solve it, but it's a big problem.
Big problem, Joshi.
Big problem.
And recently, as in two days ago, a Cessna plane landed at the Riviera Country Club golf course in Brentwood, California.
You saw this?
I saw this.
I saw this.
I saw this.
It's a pretty amazing landing.
No, it's pretty amazing that it was caught on camera when somebody was like trying to film their friend like swinging.
It's like he's like trying to like film his like great golf shot.
And all of a sudden you just see a plane
landing on the course.
Like Mark Wahlberg gets out of the plane and you just hear him go,
I was late for my tea time.
He loves golf that much.
I also would love to see just like the greens keepers reaction like, fuck.
Like he totally just, like he just got finished making that green perfect.
It's the beginning of the season and now all of a sudden there's skid marks all over the floor.
Like I just had a burrito.
I mean, I like, I've played in a celebrity tournament at Riviera Country Club or Riv as we members call it.
And
catch me at Riv.
And by the way, I didn't hit a single ball because I was so embarrassed about how bad I was that I was like, I'll just ride on the cart.
So I rode on the cart and and I will never forget that our caddy was Mark Wahlberg's caddy.
And apparently, because Riviera, I believe, is like half a million dollars just to join, you know, so much money every year.
Very
funny.
Not to cut you off.
Yeah, our caddy was Mark Wahlberg's caddy.
Like, is your
is your nurse also Obama's nurse?
Like, maybe.
I thought you were going to say your caddy was Mark Wahlberg.
I was like, oh my goodness.
His caddy.
No, that's still impressive.
Continue.
Well, it's his caddy that he uses because apparently he goes every day when he's in town at like 6 a.m.
He plays 18 holes quick in like two hours.
And then he takes his caddy out for breakfast every morning.
Wow.
And also, you know what I thought was effing cool?
His caddy was ripping darts.
Can you imagine being able to smoke on the job?
Yeah, yeah.
It's caddies that smoke.
So I've met my fair share of crazy caddies.
Okay.
The one, the good, like the good normal caddies, they're cool.
They're not too uptight.
They're great at their job.
But yeah, they always have an extra cigarette for you.
They're always loaded up with teas and an extra pencil and they know the course.
But I've had crazy caddies.
I've had, I played at a, at a friend's course once, and the caddy asked me if he should pick me up blow.
He's like, hey, man, I got a great blow connect.
I'm like, are you, are you okay?
It's are you okay, Ben?
I thought you galled.
Then I said no.
Then I said no.
Yeah, bro.
I thought you liked to have a little fun every now and then.
Boys trip.
Yeah, yeah.
Boys trip to Montclair, New Jersey.
Like, okay, the studio is relaxed.
Have you ever gotten kicked up going to fucking Shorthills Mall all ripped out on white lady?
Yeah, yeah.
I like white lady.
You ever go to a Ruby Twozies all gacked up, hitting the salad bar while you're ripped to the gills?
Benny and Joshi ripped to the gills.
Benny and Joshi getting white lady.
Benny and Joshi playing some golf on rippers.
Benny and Joshi on that booger sugar.
Benny and Joshi.
Ripping rails in the bathroom of a Ruby Tuesdays and going to the salad bar.
The pasta salad is dope.
It is good.
Oh, they do it with shelves.
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Josh, you literally just like, you just perfectly positioned me.
I have a business venture that I'd like to talk to you about, okay?
Give it to me.
I don't have a name for it yet.
And the problem is this idea is so good.
It is so good that somebody is going to steal it.
So we might have to cut this out, okay?
Okay.
Temporary name the salad bar.
It is Coldstone Creamery for egg salad, tuna salad.
And chicken salad.
You've pitched this.
I pitched it last week
in the within the last 30 days, but keep going.
I pitched it already.
Keep going.
Not no,
I didn't cross you off my list.
I pitched it.
You did pitch it, but not in this, not in this way.
It was a quick pitch.
It wasn't pitched like this.
Okay.
All right.
All right.
It's fine.
I saw a neurologist.
I'm all good.
No, I didn't.
I did.
My brain is fine.
Next time you slip out, I'm going to call you out.
You could have just let it go.
But people forgot, Josh.
They're calling it out of their cars right now.
Bring someone with their brain.
They're super going.
The kids need an MRI.
Great.
That is called engagement, Josh.
The YouTube views through the roof when I forget.
I'm going to pretend that I never heard this, okay?
It is cold stone creamery, egg salad, tuna salad, chicken salad.
You walk in.
It is a cold slated plank.
You're going to say, I want tuna, Josh.
They're going to take tuna.
You're then going to say, okay, or what toppings would you like?
Banana peppers, cucumbers?
Would you like some celery?
Would you like some Worcestershire?
Would you like some mayonnaise?
Would you like some mustard?
Would you like some outlandish, maybe a little buffalo sauce?
Okay, put all those in.
Salt, Salt, pepper, mix it all up.
You want it just a scoop?
Maybe we name it just a scoop.
Okay.
Or do you want it perhaps on a sandwich?
We have a collection of breads.
Package it up.
You're out the door.
It's called the salad bar.
I think it'll do well in Great Neck Long Island.
Who doesn't love?
Who doesn't love a scoop of tuna or a scoop of egg salad or a scoop of chicken salad?
Olivia, do you love those things?
I like chicken salad.
You're asking this Gentile what kind of salad she likes.
What?
She likes chicken salad.
Miss Gentile is not your advocate, my friend.
She is not your ally.
How do you take your chicken salad, Olivia?
The way it comes.
Am I right?
How do you take it, Olivia?
I like a chicken salad sandwich.
I like a chicken salad sandwich on like a sourdough of some kind, something crunchy.
Yeah, yeah, that's how I'll take it.
Excellent.
And when you're ordering your chicken salad, what are you looking for from a consistency perspective, from a vegetables perspective?
Oh, my God.
What makes your perfect chicken salad?
I'll answer, Olivia.
She's never thought about it.
She thought about it.
What makes your perfect chicken salad?
It's too Semitic of you, my boy.
You've got to understand only.
You're blinded by the Jew.
I'm telling you.
You're blinded by the Jew.
You're only seeing this through a Jewish lens.
Olivia, I'm telling you.
No, Olivia's thought about this before.
She's thought about it.
See
the Jew.
I haven't thought about it before, but I'm thinking about it right now, and it's the crunch to mush ratio.
It's it's a crunch.
See, Josh?
It's a crunch to mush.
It's just because you're her boss.
You like my only reason why you're so sorry.
You like more crunch or more mush?
More crunch, more crunch, less mush.
Always for me.
Any category.
Excellent, Olivia.
Sorry, Josh.
It's Meshuga.
Sorry, Josh.
No one thinks about it as much as you or our people, about the consistency of the egg salad scoop.
Okay.
What about, Josh?
If you think that it's very Jewish, then why does Subway have tuna on their menu?
Well, everyone eats tuna, but they're not.
They're not customized.
They're not into customizing their menu.
No, no, no.
They're not reverse engineering it like you.
Okay.
All right.
So I take it that you want no part of this venture.
I understand.
This will be a solo venture.
It sounds like a feature, not an app.
Does that make sense?
Interesting.
I bet you somebody said the same thing about Coldstone, Josh.
Who needs to customize their ice cream?
They have briars.
I think, I think.
Nobody thinks about this.
I think Coldstone's struggling.
They definitely are struggling now.
They weren't struggling for 30 years.
They were printing cash.
I don't know.
They're not around much anymore.
Everything must come to an end, Josh.
Everything, including this podcast.
Dude, you're crazy.
Oh my gosh.
Wow.
I don't even know if I've ever thought about it
because there's things like ice cream or like pokey or like even yogurt.
Like you assume like a change to the
not a change, but toppings are a part of it.
You don't think about that with tuna or chicken salad or egg salad.
I agree.
Until now.
Maybe not now.
But maybe not.
Maybe not.
For sure.
I'm not saying we go and open 300 locations.
I'm saying I start with a nice location on Mercer Street, see how it does.
And this, I'm telling you, Josh, I'm telling you, you never thought about putting grapes in your chicken salad until now.
Ugh, disgusting.
So good, you have no idea.
No, thank you.
You're a motor.
Pitch me your quick serve concept, Josh.
Out of the box, nothing.
Of course, I could say, oh, good guy, subs.
We're going to compete against subway no something out of the box original
new
i'm trying to think
and it's tough to put you on the spot i understand i totally understand this this isn't a quick thing but i would i guess what you don't see a lot of is like i love a middle eastern rap or a like a mediterranean rap i love pava No.
But I love like, what I'm saying is if you could take like the best, I feel like there are many different ethnicities or ethnic cuisine that has great rap does great rap game.
Yes, but they're not all in one place, right?
So if you could get like a Chinese chicken salad wrap of like beautiful like cosaw like that Chinese cosaw with like a beautiful spicy peanut bite really good grilled chicken like not rubbery and weird then you could in the same place getting a killer chicken Caesar wrap but like proper and like elevated with like some kind of those crispy parmesan bits in it.
So there's a textural hit.
You know I'm a texture guy.
Then you can also get incredible like shawarma, falafel, techina, like proper.
You're in Tel Aviv at midnight and you need something to like sop up some of the alcohol.
Like I would like to see them.
And then maybe an Indian wrap, like just one place where you can get multiple wraps, I think would be good.
Does that exist?
Great wraps.
I don't think it exists at scale.
I love it.
You brought up a Chinese chicken salad, John.
So I just want you to know that you can get that customizable at my restaurant.
You're gonna walk in.
You're gonna order the chicken.
They're gonna put cube chicken on.
You're gonna throw in, because these are toppings, Josh, mandarin oranges.
You're gonna throw in nap of cabbage.
You're gonna throw in Chinese noodles.
Can you imagine a Chinese cake masuga?
Chinese
oranges in a wrap.
Chinese noodles.
Chinese noodles.
You are going to add in some mayonnaise, maybe a hit of acid, and it is going to be supreme.
I say you open this chain, but it's only for nursing homes.
You'll kill for an option for them where it's heavily blended.
Yes, heavily blended.
Maybe you do some with like Coumadin in it.
You know, that's the special ingredient, blood thinners.
You hide their meds in the wraps.
Oh my God, perfect.
You know, they don't want to take their meds.
It's a great idea.
It's a great idea going to the nursing homes, the nursing home community.
I'm in.
Maybe I turn this into a cart.
It's on the go.
I drive it around.
Want just a scoop of it.
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You know what?
Speaking of nursing homes, I got to say I'm due for a good Shiva.
Hear me out.
Oh, my.
Be careful.
Those things come in threes.
Be careful.
God forbid.
But you know, like, there is nothing like the spread.
And for people who don't know, a Shiva is basically for, what is it, 10 days after?
No, like, it's seven days.
Immediately after.
Immediately after.
It's actually a wonderful thing in the Jewish religion.
Obviously, other religions do a version of it, but it's like an elongated wake memorial.
People come to the to the bereaved people's house.
They bring huge spreads of food.
Technically, you're supposed to sit on the floor, but it's a way to keep food and community going for people that are suffering a loss.
Now, wait till I tell you about the bris, Josh.
You can celebrate life with the same spread.
You gave us the spread, but I want to hear.
No, no, I'm just telling you.
Yes, I'm ready.
Great.
No, no, because you said I'm looking forward to a Shiva.
I'm saying you can also look forward to a Bris and get the same spread.
I love it.
Maybe we call it a Brissa and we have the shiva for the foreskin.
Oh.
Yes.
Yes.
Rest in peace.
Yeah, rest in single piece.
We could also start a beef jerky business.
Just the foreskin.
Boo!
Yuck.
Ew.
Ew.
You know that's a thing now with foreskin jerky.
That's disgusting.
I'll look it up.
You know that's a thing with skincare now, which is salmon, salmon ejaculate on your face.
Really?
Yeah, dog.
That sounds kind of interesting.
I'm down.
Right?
Speaking of salmon.
I'm down to have a salmon bust all over my face for the smooth skin.
Okay, here we go.
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Okay.
Okay.
Imagine I got pregnant from salmon sperm.
Can you imagine?
I can't.
For a number of reasons, I can't.
That'd be crazy.
Speaking of facials, have you ever, are you an acne person?
You ever have acne?
Luckily, no.
It's like the one thing like that God was kind to the fat kids.
Same.
Yeah.
No acne.
Zilch.
Yeah.
The universe demands balance.
I wonder, because I don't remember.
It's very rare that you find a big fat fatty with acne.
That's just like a very sad circumstance.
I wonder if there's something related, Josh, to higher levels of triglycerides preventing acne.
Actually, higher triglycerides does lead to some discoloration in skin facial tissue.
I think it's because God knows that I've always been so close to unaliving myself that if I got put on Accutane, it would just be
it.
When?
I was going to call you out on this last time.
When did you start using unalive?
When I don't want this show to get demonetized on YouTube.
So the full word would hurt us on YouTube?
No, well, I don't know, but I do know that.
Fine, can we come up with something else?
Something clever.
In substitute for the big word, starting with a K and ending with an S, just in case it demonetizes us.
Instead of unaliving,
let's see.
Swan song.
The big goodbye.
The big goodbye.
The big goodbye, I like.
I'd bid goodbye myself.
I'd bid goodbye myself.
I always say that you can catch me in a cab on my way to the top of the GW.
That's what I'd say that.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Swan dive off the GW.
If I had to bid goodbye myself, it'd be with Xanax and beer.
Big goodbye.
I love it.
Josh Peck is.
is the big goodbye.
Yeah.
If I bid goodbye myself, it's going to be with a shot of fentanyl in a white castle, you know?
Yeah.
In the dining area, because
no one eats there.
So could you imagine you like, you walk in, clams are back.
The clams.
The clams are back.
And you look in the dining area.
You're like, is that Josh Peck nodded off in the corner?
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's me.
The last clam.
There's some places where like sitting in the dining area of a KFC will definitely make you wonder about your life choices.
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah.
Dining in at fast food is an experience.
And it's funny.
At one point it used to be the best experience.
Josh, you'd roll in two o'clock in the morning, pick up some gorgeous McDonald's, sit there, lick, literally lick clean the sweet and sour container.
But now popping in there at 3 o'clock on a Wednesday, it just doesn't hit the same.
Right.
Well, and the only thing about McDonald's is that they usually have the play place for kids.
So growing up, like a trip to Mickey D's, doing that was incredible.
But I just,
most of this food is better enjoyed in the dark.
Yes, it's better enjoyed in the dark, alone, shirtless,
happy.
The great Joey Camast has brought up this point.
I would love to know what you think.
And you totally qualify because you're an amazing chef.
And Joey is a great chef.
He says, the only thing I will DoorDash is fast food because I can't make that.
But pretty much everything takeout that I could order from a restaurant would be better if I made it.
Yeah, I would agree.
I think that certain fast food chains to me have just, I don't know, just like quality has just gone downhill.
I was going to ask you, it's a big question, but we look at food across, or we look at the changes in food across the whole landscape where we're just getting.
more aware and healthier across the board.
Like, when is that going to happen to these fast food chains?
It's going to happen.
Like, when are you you going to walk in and McDonald's hamburger is just not going to be this like delicious, but like disgusting ingredients?
Sorry if they were a sponsor, but like, it's just, it's just, it's just different.
Like, I think that, I think that we're like taking a deep look at all food.
When are we going to take a deep look at fast food?
When do you think it's going to happen?
Like, if you look at Poppy, for example, Poppy being acquired by Pepsi for 2 billion because it's four grams of sugar soda, but to hit on a kingpin, Pepsi, where if you asked this 10 years ago,
gonna what's gonna start to come up in in soda you would have said nothing could compare to pepsi right but clearly pepsi thinks that maybe a gut health drink could do you see that happening to fast food i think the problem is is that whenever i've gone for fast food as of lately if i order like a proper meal like fries and a drink and like a good size like a 10 piece nugget or whatever it's $15,
right?
So it used to be growing, like I, it's almost, it's maybe two and a half X what it was growing up when we were kids.
I feel like you could get like a number one at McDonald's for like under six bucks.
You could.
You could.
And so
now at 15, my only wonder is what does that bring the price point up to if they started subbing out healthier ingredients?
It's actually interesting because the price has more than doubled, but the ingredients have stayed the same.
To an extent, right?
Like, yeah.
I would say they could have even gotten worse.
Like, I would assume ingredients over time have probably gotten worse.
I don't know.
Like, my kids obviously eat a lot of cereal because they're kids.
And you always see that on Instagram, right?
Like, the list of ingredients that's in American honey nut Cheerios as opposed to Canadian or European, right?
And same cereal.
It does taste the same.
But, like, why just in America does it require all these?
So I tend to do that side-by-side ingredient check.
Cereal has gotten much better.
Like, American cereal has so much less.
Granted, there's probably still GMO in it to a certain extent.
Like, I don't know.
But then there's the people who go, if you eat banana, it's genetically modified.
If you eat corn, it's genetic.
Like nothing is what it was 100 years ago.
I don't even look for that stuff.
Maybe this is just me.
The only thing I'm looking for these days is added sugar.
I'm looking, for me personally, if I were to have a cereal in the morning with 30 grams of added sugar, I would be asleep.
Maybe that's a personal thing.
But personally, added sugar is what destroys me.
If I have anything with natural sugar, i'm great i told you i'm having six dates a day god knows how much sugar i'm ingesting i'm not crashing the way that i would crash if i had added sugar yeah it look it it's also picking the the right things to replace and to spend money on and to make better in ingredients for things like fast food like i know you and i have had this debate before and i think it's a hot issue but i love listening to this guy dr michael isratel yeah who i've sent you his pod before but i listen i listened to it for that episode that you sent me.
And he has a PhD in nutrition.
And like, he's really a brilliant guy.
And he's like, if you can avoid seed oils, fair enough.
But I'm paraphrasing here.
He goes, there's no substantial studies, not even close, that they're bad for you.
Like, not even close.
But if you only looked at Instagram or you only have one echo chamber, you would think this is, I mean, acid.
But he's like, there's just, there's not a single substantial study to say that seed oils are hurting people.
And it's what they use in mass number.
What I'd also love to know, and wow, this podcast, you can't get this anywhere else.
I know.
Inflammation, Josh.
Seed oils, the claim is that they cause inflammation, right?
You know, over here, I counteract inflammation with turmeric and with oil of oregano.
These are proven ways to lower inflammation.
Proven.
You can look it up.
Proven.
I'm just wondering, if you have seed oils, can you just also pop a turmeric and you're all good?
Like
instead of eliminating seed oils, there's a very, very large, expensive process.
Can we not just educate on how to rebalance your inflammation?
Was my question.
Maybe.
Is that an easier solve?
Maybe.
I mean, I guess you would have to see how if there was a way to measure exactly how much it was impacting you with inflammation, the seed oil, and how much it counteracts with something like turmeric.
Like how effective are truly both of these things in a deleterious way with the seed oil and in a positive way with turmeric?
Yes.
Shout out turmeric.
Shout out oil of oregano.
And lastly, Josh, you know what I started this morning again?
I'm giving it another chance.
Sapphire.
Lions.
Lions.
Lion's mane.
Lions mane.
Lion's mane.
I'm back, baby.
I'm back.
We're going to give it a full week this time.
Last time I gave it four days.
And I do hear that the benefits only come after like a month of using it.
So right now I'm in the honeymoon placebo phase.
That said, my brain is firing.
You're like, I've decided to start trying
I figure if dill is good, seasoning salt is better.
What?
What cuisine uses the most turmeric?
Is it like Pakistani?
I've decided to eat exclusively Pakistani food.
Right?
I'm in.
What do you think about this was another shot?
Lowry's?
did you see that McCormick was like asking like what blends should we make next like a tumbric oil of oregano lions man blend yeah that I can top on my put on my chicken probably be good delish delish what do you think dr.
Isrotel also put up this post where he was like you are getting fat from too much yummy food he's like that's it he's like fast food is ubiquitous junk food all these things he's like yeah he's like obviously those things aren't great for you he's like but mostly what people are getting fat from is just like too much yummy pasta too much yummy rice too much yummy pizza like it's good food it can be well made but it's calorically dense and you eat too much of it that is the single that is the only reason people are fat is too much food i was talking about this with my dad yesterday but eating good quality food is what i'm saying anything yes right any too much too much food in general it's not quality for sure quality plays a a role in how you feel.
But in terms of how much you weigh and how fat you are, it's intake.
I was talking to my dad about this, who's lost like 80 pounds on Ozempic.
He looks fantastic.
And he's at dinner with a large individual, a friend who said Ozempic didn't work for him, whatever.
He didn't do it.
But he's a big, big, big guy, big guy.
And they're at a Chinese restaurant and he ordered steamed.
chicken and broccoli no sauce steamed chicken and broccoli and my dad said to me he's like you know know, I ate regular food.
He got chow fun.
He got whatever.
He ate what his body on Ozempic would let him eat.
And the guy who ordered the steamed chicken and broccoli ate three times the amount of food as him.
And in his head, he's thinking to himself, I'm eating better stuff.
I'm going to lose weight.
And it's like, no, not if you're eating.
chicken and broccoli for three.
It doesn't matter if there's no sauce on it.
It's too much food.
It's too much food.
That really just gives me flashbacks of my mom ordering Chinese food when I was a kid because she was perpetually on some version of a diet and she would go, I'll have the chicken and broccoli.
No sauce, no cornstarch.
Also, cornstarch, shout out, unbelievable ingredients.
My favorite starch.
If you want 30 calories to literally take anything from liquidy to just velvety, a little cornstarch slurry in anything, chili, pasta, Chinese, stir-fry, you name it.
Cornstarch is heavenly.
Do you add cornstarch and or MSG to your lovely wife's chicken rocks favorite dinner?
I add cornstarch every single time to her chicken rocks.
Because it's just an Asian stir-fry, basically.
It's just an Asian stir-fry.
The main ingredient is soy sauce.
And when you add in a little water with a little cornstarch, it just makes it velvety.
That like beautiful thickness comes from cornstarch.
God, I love cornstarch.
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Well, a wedding guest slam brides for the tackiest not tying trend yet, a hard no for most people.
Forget wedding bells.
All these brides are hearing is cha-ching.
Attending weddings is a costly adventure in itself, but that only scratches the surface of what the bride's closest friends have to dish out brides these days are expecting even more in a new trend the brides to be are now including their venmo usernames on invitation signage merch and social media asking people to venmo the bride Olivia, how are we feeling about this?
And what's your Venmo?
Because we're going to have to put it on your invites one day.
I've seen like a couple friends of mine or like former classmates in high school go on their bachelorette and like drop their Venmo on like their Instagram story and say like buy the bride a drink or something, which I think like that's like I sent some money to her.
I sent like, you know, her like 15 bucks or something.
20 bucks was like, have a fun night, whatever.
This one's on me.
But it was like her friends sharing that, you know, like the other bridesmaids were posting that.
She did repost, but I don't know.
I think it's, if you're the one doing it yourself too, I don't know.
I know it's like basically the same thing, but I'd rather somebody else put that out there, if at all.
It's tacky.
Yeah, it's tacky.
It's tacky.
I don't know.
Like everybody's entitled to a bachelor or bachelorette party, but like, I don't know why you can't just like get a handle and go to somebody's house.
Yeah.
Like, like, why can't you do something that's like within your means as opposed to making your friends feel bad?
publicly and Venmoing you to go outside of your means.
It's just like a strange, the public element is weird.
Like if I have a friend who can't afford something, I would hope that he would come to me and I could help him and then we could make a great experience together.
Like I have friends like that, but like the public element of it is just very, I don't like it at all.
It feels slimy.
That's my issue too.
With I'm not kidding you when I tell you that dozens of requests a week come in to my social medias about people asking me for money.
And while I feel bad for anyone struggling, I think it's a a waste of time to spend that time asking random social media people who have no way of vetting you.
And I'm sure that the Mr.
Beast or the David Dobriks of the world and these charitable videos that they do, which are incredible, but I do know how much vetting and backgrounding goes into making sure that those people are true to their story and their need.
And it's just like, I feel like my only suggestion is, is that I don't know how effective it is because someone like me or most people, we don't have any way of making sure that it's real.
And, and I'm talking specifically, obviously, they're the ones that are, you know, terrible acts of God.
But some people, it's just like, hey, man, I need like 600 bucks for rent.
I'm like, dog, stop, go do Uber Eats and stop spending your time DMing.
Like you can make that quick, I promise.
Yeah.
And it's, it's, it's very, it's very, very strange.
And it's also like, why are you the person responsible for doing that?
Like, I saw a video.
I think it was like a Jimmy Darts, like one of those like amazing charitable accounts.
And he went into a store and it's a Sprouts employee did you see this video this was awesome yes so there was a guy who was homeless but working at sprouts and jimmy ended up raising like a hundred grand for him through crowdfunding and the guy can now not live on the streets but like the fact that all every single person at sprouts knew it within that i'm not blaming corporate every single person at that location celebrated the fact that he was no longer homeless, meaning that they knew that an employee at Sprouts was homeless and they didn't tell corporate or worse, they told corporate and corporate has homeless employees and doesn't do anything about it.
I think it happens more than you think.
But how does a corporate company like Sprouts, Sprouts is enormous.
For those of you that don't know, this is not one, this is hundreds of stores.
How do you have homeless employees?
If they're good enough to work at your store, you need to get them a house.
I've never,
it's mind-blowing to me that that happens.
And so the reason I bring that up is because it's really nice that Jimmy used his platform and we all crowdfunded a hundred grand for this guy, but Sprout should feel like shit and Sprout should double it and Sprout should come in and say, this is one of our own.
We trust him with our customers.
We're going to make sure he doesn't live on the streets.
He has to shower at a gym.
I was just, I was blown away.
I completely agree with your sentiment.
And I think it happens way more than you think with many, many major corporations.
And I think that's always the debate.
And sadly, it does become political, right?
But I think when they see major CEOs and founders and chairmans who make billions of dollars a year, I think the thought is like, and they find different tax loopholes when, of course, they are adding to the economy by employing people and they are helping boost the economy without a doubt.
But I think the thought is, is like, if that same CEO can get all the benefits of capitalism, but instead of making 10 billion that year they get 8 billion and that 2 billion is distributed amongst all their you know tens of thousands employees so that they can make a living wage a lot of these people can work 50 to 60 hours a week if they're making minimum wage and not make over the poverty line like and they're working full-time jobs Yeah, so what needs to happen, just because, again, it's not political, but it's not the government's job to do that.
It's the person's job.
They need to have a fucking heart.
And I think that there are probably plenty of CEOs that we don't know of, or at least I hope, that do this.
I hope that the CEO and owner of Carl's Jr.
knows if there are 15 homeless employees and pays for them to have houses.
If this is a thing and CEOs that are, again, raking in, we're not talking about the mom and pop CEO here.
I'm not talking about the person that makes $500,000 and now I'm asking them to give half of that away to help employees.
I'm talking about the Jeff Bezos' of the world who are raking it in.
If Jeff Bezos has a homeless employee, that would be horrible.
But they do.
So then he needs to pay for it.
But so does Walmart.
Like, and that's.
They should.
So they should.
But we need to create, this is the narrative.
It's not, the narrative is always, you, you sort of went into it.
It's like, these guys need to be taxed appropriately.
So somebody, third party, can go and help these people.
And it's like, maybe they'll help them or maybe they won't.
Maybe it will lead to more misappropriation of funds.
These people just need to be good human beings.
And I hope that they are.
And if there are any homeless employees,
they're not.
They don't.
But there's no, we're just having a healthy debate here.
There's no data to suggest your point that they will all of a sudden get a wave of morality.
There's no data to support it because of where there are, where I promise you, there are thousands of people that have to live in their car and work a full work week at a major corporation.
But most companies ask for where you live.
So these people are lying.
This is what I'm trying.
Yeah.
Okay.
So then how is that the CEO to know that they're lying?
Again, to your point, and I guess I just don't know anyone but the government who would be able to enforce it is it's like the idea of unions, right?
And again, this becomes incredibly contentious, but this is why there would be unions are fine, but the greatest union in the world is the federal government.
And if there was a minimum wage that became a living wage, that no matter what, no matter where you work, you make $25 an hour at a minimum or $30 an hour, then all of a sudden we don't need unions, which by the way, every corporation hates.
And we don't need these.
So I think if we have these bare minimum rules, then to your point, then the CEO doesn't have to look into exactly where they live and where they're culpable.
I would just love to know.
I hear all of your points.
I don't disagree.
I would just love to know if there's a charity whose sole purpose is making sure that people with full-time jobs aren't homeless.
And if that doesn't exist, that should exist.
Because
working a full-time job at Sprouts, having a full-time seven days a week, he's making a living wage, I'm sure.
And homeless is terrible.
Benny and Josh, Josh.
Started this episode talking about buying drugs at the golf course
and did on tax reform to meet the rich.
How are you listening to Call Her Daddy?
This is the show.
This is the show.
This is also the episode we sent to Network Execs.
God, we're so good.
I think it's just what are you nuts, right?
Yeah, whatever time it is, but I feel like this is a six-hour podcast.
What are you nuts is our gripes with people, places, and things.
You're walking down the street.
You see a lady with her underwear at her ankles.
You're like, lady, what are you nuts?
Pull up your pants.
My
what are you nuts moment of the week, Josh?
Speaking of the rich, is I was on my way to Central Park, as I mentioned, with my beautiful wife on Saturday, and we're walking on 76th between Madison and 5th.
For those of you that don't know, this is the area.
Okay, we're talking $40 million Brownstone single-family homes.
This is it, the pinnacle of wealth.
Outside of said Brownstone, Josh, is a seven-year-old and a nine-year-old with a lemonade stand and a Venmo QR code.
What are you nuts?
You think I'm Venmoing you, whose father is probably a Rockefeller descendant?
You think I'm Venmoing you $3 for your lemonade?
Give it out for free.
Then have your mom put $300 into your Venmo account.
You're going to charge me for lemonade?
What are you nuts?
I couldn't believe it.
Totally.
Sick?
Give out free lemonade.
My what do you nuts is?
Recently, I went to see my primary care physician, my PCP, for my terrible TMJ, which no one in our audience has offered any solutions for.
Please, I'm dying here, guys.
I have neck and jaw pain all day.
So gotta stop sucking so much.
I can't help it.
Have you seen the Orlando, the Orlando Brown clip from That's So Raven, where he literally takes a microphone and goes, ah.
I love it.
I love it too.
You see that, right?
I love it when they're like, whose career would you say yours is like?
And he goes, Michael Jackson.
And they're like, yeah.
And he goes, and they're like, come on.
He's like, you're a liar.
So I'm at my doctor's to get her to look at my TMJ.
And they go, just jump on the scale.
Woody nuts.
It's not my physical.
I'm here for TMJ.
It's the middle of the day.
I'm not waiting.
This is an actor's hospital.
Don't you know better?
Yeah.
What, you think some day player on the young and the restless wants to see that they're 10 pounds above their goal weight?
I think not.
You want me to spiral out right now, miss?
What are you nuts?
What are you nuts?
Absolutely nuts.
Never weigh me ever.
Okay.
Agreed.
I don't want to know.
I want to be at home on my scale, on my time, okay?
That's it.
Never weigh me.
And you know what else is nuts, Josh?
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