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good guys.

Mazza Morris, welcome back to the Good Guys podcast.

I'm sitting here with a guy who's running as an independent for the New York mayoral race.

It's Ben Sopher.

What am I campaigning on?

Free food for everyone.

How does that sound?

Single-handedly bringing back Eric Adams.

I want to, I really, Josh,

it's important that we talk about this.

Okay.

I think that I should run for mayor in 2028.

Is it 2028 or 2029?

In 2029, what do you think about that?

Say more.

I think that you would be a fantastic mayor.

I think that I would be a fantastic mayor.

I think that us level-headed centrist folk would be fantastic mayors.

I think that we speak for everybody.

I think that we listen to everybody.

I think that we're empathetic.

And

the truth is, I don't really want to be mayor, but I feel like somebody like me or us should be mayor.

And it's never one of us.

It's always some loony tune on either side.

And I'm just looking for somebody closer to the middle.

Thoughts?

Okay, I'm going to, I have a lot of questions, and I love talking to you about this stuff because I think you're really smart.

So

speaking of our boy, Mom Donnie Wahlberg, sorry,

I just can't help it.

I love it.

I hate it.

Well, here's my question to you.

Slightly being a contrarian.

Yes.

So like your joke about the free food, right?

How do you think an argument is going to age of in 20 years we look back and people go and you know what he wanted free grocery stores yeah i don't think that here's the thing i think there's certain things that you can go hmm i don't agree with this policy or that i think that one is going to have a tough time aging well because i just think someone who wants to give free food to people isn't uh completely off base so it's interesting of course giving free food to people is wonderful, right?

The idea of giving free anything to everyone is wonderful.

I think that people's justified reaction to it is that places have tried and failed at doing that.

And ultimately, whenever something is free or given out, and when something is government run in America, I'm not talking about there are other places that have been able to do things successfully.

In the current way that the United States is set up, every single government organization that is consumer-facing is worse than a privatized version it's just a fact like when you go to the dmv if the dmv was run by a private for-profit corporation it would just be better customer service it would just be easier to get things and that's no shade on the government like the government is a huge it's the it's it's huge right and they have so many priorities and I just, I think that the comment to it would be, it's really great that you used free groceries and I jokingly used free food to get your vote, right?

But in reality, you can't give me free groceries without the quality of my groceries, the availability of my groceries, and potentially the ingredients in my groceries becoming completely compromised.

I can't trust, like, I'm going to go to a government-owned grocery store or a government-run grocery store.

And

where are my brands going to be?

Where are my, like, the products that I know and love going to be?

Where, like, is, is it going to be available?

Are people going to be working?

What do the hours look like?

Like, I'm not saying that it can't be done.

I'm just saying that like, those are the, those are the main questions.

And then who's paying for it is the other question.

Sure, they're free for some.

They're not free for all.

I would a thousand percent, if, if there was a successful way to give people who can't afford groceries free groceries, of course I would do that.

But like for me, that would come in the form of like a charity.

Like I'd rather donate to a charity that gives groceries from a privatized grocery store to people who can't afford groceries.

That answers your question.

I want to know if it's going to have all the fun things of a supermarket.

Like, am I going to have like a little rewards card?

Are they going to ask for my phone number?

And what will the reward be?

Definitely not.

Like, no.

Oh, we just put in your phone number and it's more free.

No, you put in your phone number and literally you get a tax audit.

Or you get like a lien on your house.

Like, ooh, groceries are free, but you're being audited.

Or groceries are free, but now you have 10 unpaid parking tickets.

like i don't need the government knowing more about me and my eating habits i just yeah whatever that makes so much sense and i agree with you and my single issue is i'll never vote for anybody in a beret erica what's his name sleeve i don't even know i know i know it's such like It's such a shame because if people looked up Curtis Slewa, this is, there's nobody more New York than Curtis Sleewa.

The guy lives in the subway, Josh.

He started a group called the Archangels.

Guardian Angels.

Yeah, where they literally protect people on the subway.

This is Mr.

New York.

He wears a red beret of campaign.

Woody and nuts.

Fucking lit.

Woody and nuts.

He wears that beret during a romantic interlude.

Like, let me get my beret.

He's stripping in the beret.

No question.

No question.

By the way, if he wins, we're starting a beret business.

If he wins, I'm telling you, Trojan is going to miss out if they don't see a brand integration.

Be like, make sure to grab your beret and your Trojan.

Blue Chill.

The blue beret.

Oh, my God.

Oh, I love that.

Yeah.

Well, listen, Mayoral races are weird, weird, weird, weird, weird.

And the whole thing is just like, I don't know.

The problem is, is like, who, who would want to go work in the government ever?

No one.

I don't want to.

The only reason that I brought up doing it was because I genuinely feel that, I guess, by the way, there are so many qualified people to run for office.

Obviously, the reason we have this terrible mixed bag of people is because they're the only people willing to put up with this crap.

Sure.

It must be such a horrible existence.

It must be horrible for there not to be better candidates.

The mind is to be a mayor in a town of 10,000 people or less because you are, you're going to your local Walmart and you are getting priority.

That's what I want.

Yeah, you're getting a nice table.

You have the corner booth every night at the number one Italian restaurant.

Yeah.

They know you by name.

It's like cheers everywhere.

You can

carry.

Yeah.

And like your main job, it's funny.

That's like the number one criticism against Adams that all he does is ribbon cut.

Hell yes.

But in New York, you can't just ribbon cut.

Oh, you can't.

Have you seen how many storefronts there are?

In New York, you have to

put in policy, my boy.

You have to put in policy.

Otherwise, you just, yeah, he just ribbon cuts all day long.

You think that considering the way that my hands are so arthritic,

I would get ribbon cutting hands.

I think my, like, after using the scissors.

So much, I wonder which finger would go first, but I feel like this finger, this finger would go first.

It would go numb after a year year of ribbon cutting.

Is it still a ring finger?

It's if it's on the right hand.

I think so.

Okay.

It's a similar digit.

I mean it's the same.

No, don't I know it?

Yeah, I don't know.

I'm down for ribbon cutting.

I just don't, I don't like a, I don't, I don't like, I don't like anything.

No, okay.

Okay.

I just don't like shit.

I don't like whenever people are just like, oh, there's going to be like a small soiree after.

Oh, there's going to be, you know, small bites

how about how about a big bite and leave me alone how about big bites i agree don't

don't try and entice me with small bites for what oh there's gonna be small bites and i'm gonna be at the kitchen door right that's actually pull off the tray as it walks through that's actually the number one what he announces small bites as it as like a you should come to my party because there's small bites i've mentioned this before but my friend Victor is that guy standing at the kitchen waiting for the hors d'oeuvres.

100%.

Literally every wedding he's there.

Eventually, they have to change their route because they can't go.

They no longer want to pass him because all the crab cakes are gone.

They see him and they run away.

Victor's hit the door.

What do we have?

He's like, oh, you got to try the spring rolls.

I'm like, there are spring rolls here?

What do you mean?

Oh, totally.

Oh, I'll have a couple extra.

No napkin.

That's so funny.

You're so right when, like, you start getting the scuttlebutt of the party and be like, did you see the little beef wellingtons?

Like, how did you know that's happening?

You're like, it's over in quadrant four.

Yeah, there's always that guy that took all the inventory and knows exactly what's out there.

Ooh, ooh, this is fun for the son of a caterer.

Top five hors d'oeuvres at a party.

Go.

What is a must?

I'll start.

Pig in a blanket, Avi.

Yeah, yeah, pig in a blanket is really, really a wonderful, wonderful hors d'oeuvre.

My only issue with it is if it's too crusty of an exterior, if it's well cooked, it's beautiful.

Probably number one.

I love a spring roll.

I really do.

A spring roll with like a nice little Thai chili sauce.

Sure.

That's fantastic.

I think a tuna tartare in a fun cone can be really nice.

Agreed.

Fantastic.

I love it.

I'm in.

Sometimes they do mini little sliders.

I love a little slider.

Bundle.

That's fantastic.

And sometimes they'll even make that a little chicken sandwich.

I love that.

They've been recently, I've noticed they'll do mini fried chicken on waffles with like a little maple glaze.

I'm like, this is too much.

This is too much for standing.

It's a lot for standing.

I love, you get a chicken finger with a little creme frache with a dollopic.

Fabulous.

Oh, how easy is that?

Fabulous.

so good

what else what are other good

how about the paste hors d'oeuvres i guess you don't want to be standing out what about an a dessert appetizer hour or a dessert past tray hour so basically you're done with dinner

like would that would be fun right you're on the dance floor you're schmoozing you're going around all of a sudden a mini tiramisu thank you It's actually, I think that it's a wonderful idea because too often are so many desserts put out in a random corner that nobody sees.

They're too busy dancing.

The amount of waste that goes into dessert when somebody could have just been walking around with a cake pop.

You ever heard of a cake pop?

This is a fantastic invention, the cake.

Totally.

I love it.

How about this level up?

You've met my nephew Jonah, the great Jonah.

Shout out.

Yes.

Listener.

Shout out.

Rosh Hashem, love him.

B-B-Y-O.

Rosen Joy.

And

he is so lit that at his bar, Mitchville, because he loves breakfast food, it was all breakfast bars.

So there was a waffle station, pancake station, omelette station, pasta bar.

It was the best.

That's the best.

That is the best.

So delicious.

Sick.

I need to go to a bar mitzvah.

It's been too long.

Well, that's the thing, though.

Like, you know how you go through seasons in your life?

Like, you're probably at the tail end of wedding season, right?

Yes, yes.

Yes.

We're at the very tail end.

Yeah.

And now it's going to be baby season and in 10 years.

Am I going to get an Aaliyah at Ruby's apartment?

Yeah.

No,

I don't mean to put you on the spot.

No, no, you're going to get an Aaliyah.

Yes.

Okay.

Yes.

Yes.

You're going to get an Aaliyah.

That's reason enough for me to try to get this podcast more successful.

Done.

Aaliyah.

Aaliyah, it's yours.

Should I practice yours?

I'm going to shout this one out to me or Mom Donnie.

Amen.

Incredibly impressed.

Well done.

Well

done.

Baruch Hashem.

Well done.

That is it for our non-Jewish listeners.

You get called to the Torah.

They're reading.

they point, you kiss it, you sing.

And I just want you to know there are so many people that trip over those words.

And the fact that Josh has it by heart means that it was a part of a role.

It was my first role.

You're not fooling me.

It was my first role, my bar mitzvah.

I'm in it to win it.

This is why I'm a great lover.

I want the Oscar and everything I do.

I'm giving.

I'm a giving partner.

And I know you've been wondering.

You're giving.

You're giving, Josh.

You're giving.

And it's giving.

This is and it's been given.

This is my sick fucked up brain because and my boy Luca, his son Austin, they were nice enough to have me doing a Leah at the bar mitzvah.

And so I was like, on my mark, got to get it right.

I was like timing myself in the car.

Paige is looking at me like, are you, is everything okay at home?

I'm like,

that's called being just like a wonderful guest.

Okay.

Like I've seen so many people get the honor and then go up there and trip over the words.

It's like, it's in English, you idiot.

It's literally transliterated.

Okay.

You can't read English.

You can't read English.

I don't mean to like call people out, but there was a grandparent who got up and she, they're like putting on the glasses and they're like,

who writes this stuff?

Yeah.

I'm like, honey, Please, this is an ancient language.

This is a great honor.

Can we get on our mark?

Practice for one minute.

Practice for one minute.

Care.

They cared enough to give you the honor.

Care enough to deliver on said honor.

Okay?

I love that.

Care enough.

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Give me a Meyer update.

And we also need, and we also need an update on is Shai sleeping through the night or are we still in limbo?

Not good.

Shy is, he's sleeping through the night.

We're getting there.

We're getting better.

We are loving him and honoring him through this big transition in his big little life.

Good.

He's doing better one day at a time.

He's still a spicy little stinker, but I love him.

And Meyer's kayak.

He's just, he's cute.

How's Ruben?

Beautiful.

Beautiful.

Yeah.

It's funny that you just called him Ruben because Claudia said the other day, she's like, you know, I want to call him Ruben.

I'm like, great.

Call him Ruby.

I call him Booby.

Booby with a B, Ruby Booby.

He's just booby.

Booby.

And I think that's a great nickname.

Imagine that.

The only other booby I know is Booby Miles.

I don't remember what movie that's from, but it's from a movie.

And him being booby, sick.

But does it risk that his friends think booby is the word booby is funny?

It's possible.

He's got, he's, he, he's got to be really cool.

It's one of those nicknames that if you're not cool, it's cool.

But if you're cool, it's really cool, you know?

Yeah.

Yeah.

He's great.

Everything.

Fantastic.

I'm trying to think of booby, like how, like, could there be like a booby Kennedy or like a booby Paltrow?

You know, yeah, booby, booby Kennedy sounds good.

Yeah, booby Epstein.

I don't understand.

You know?

Yeah, I do.

I do.

Have you seen this in the news that guess used an AI model for their new campaign?

No, but I hate that.

Well, look it up.

I'll send you the picture.

Send me it.

And Josh G, feel free to look it up too, because I want to think, because I have some guesses on who they used as, like, what they used to train the model.

And I want to...

Guess AI model.

I want to know who you think.

I think I have it down actually exactly who the

prompt everybody knows and she should sue them this is kate upton it's kate upton and maybe a little margo robbie

this is kate upton that's not right it's totally kate upton yeah it's a thousand percent kate upton okay cool that's good segment

no but the segment i mean like we we should talk about this are people not protected you can give if you can give a person as a prompt, Josh, they should get paid.

I think so.

Maybe less, right?

Because you're not actually using them.

But imagine Nickelodeon launched a new show completely in AI and they said, we want somebody that looks like Josh Pat.

Yeah.

So then what are they going to do?

Get a young Leno?

Like, what's it called?

Young Leno.

It's funny.

Yeah, I don't know.

I think

it's wild, but I did see, I saw Kate Upton and maybe just like, and maybe they said just like a hint of margot robbie yeah i i would agree with that i would agree with that but there's something about the eyes i looked into it i'm like that's kate upon that is kate upon looked right in those eyes god can't stop well did you know that there was a man caught having three marriages at the same time and he learned his fate during sentencing a florida man who illegally juggled Secret marriages to three unsuspecting women he met on dating apps managed to escape jail time after his deception was unearthed.

Henry Betsy Jr., 50, was sentenced to two years probation on Thursday after he pleaded no contest to felony bigamy.

Man, it should be felony big poppy.

You know what I'm saying?

How the fuck we do it, dog?

Put it out here hating on the playoff

shit, man.

Look at this dude.

He's handsome.

Let me see.

He's Josh G.

This dude with these light eyes, he is gorgeous.

No wonder he has three wives.

He gets three eyes.

He's gorgeous.

Dude,

his prison fatigues are really making his eyes pop.

I need his lighting guy for my studio.

Man.

The only problem that I have with that story is that none of the women knew.

Come on.

I can't hear these stories and hear your husband was married to three women and you had no clue.

No clue.

How?

Right.

How, Josh?

How?

How?

Some people want to be deceived.

They want to live in a world of deceit.

I guess, but it's like, I don't even understand.

Like, do you not ask him where he's going?

I guess you just trust him implicitly.

You're like,

how can you have a job?

And three wives?

Maybe he didn't have a job.

Maybe he didn't.

Did he have a job?

Maybe he was a professional partner, in which case he's providing a service.

Yeah, but then he's even worse because he's gone a third of every week.

Well, these women are probably

Mavericks in their industry.

They're busy, but when they come home, they need a foot rub and a green-eyed.

Interesting.

I wonder if they would notice if they were Titans in history.

Right.

If he was just at

the other's house when she was traveling.

It's also wild, like what the passes that green eyes will get you.

You guys familiar with Prison Bay?

Of course.

Yeah, I just went to a movie premiere that Prison Bay was there, and we're looking at the discography.

He's in like 10 movies.

He was fucking with like the Princess of Monaco's daughter, or no, at the actual princess of Monaco, or something like that.

I'm like, this is literally a guy who went to jail, got out, and in his green eyed mugshot went viral.

And he's like, boom, straight to the top.

Yeah, man.

Light eyes.

They

I have light eyes.

Do you Green.

I do.

They're green.

You ever notice?

Of course I do.

They didn't even notice.

You never look at me.

Can't stop staring.

Can't get enough.

Never look at my eyes.

She was just looking at my chest.

I had the best day yesterday, and now my wife will know that I will tell me.

I don't know what she did.

And it's really going to stick in her craw that I enjoyed myself.

Love you, babe.

But I, my good friend Ben Greenfield, who's going to come on the pod, he's a brilliant health and wellness longevity expert.

And he has a podcast, a new book called Boundless 2, where it's all about biohacking and human optimization.

And so there's this place

in LA that's like, it's called Live Love.

I don't know.

They got to come up with a better name.

This thing, it's not, I can't even remember it.

It's very confusing.

I posted about it as a shout out.

Love Life.

Okay.

Shout out Love Life.

All right.

So anyway, my boy Ben did this thing at Love Life where he was going to do a book release and then have me do like a Q ⁇ A, a VIP QA.

We're going to yenta for 45 minutes.

But this place had cryo chambers, saunas, dry sauna, infrared sauna, five different ice baths in different degrees, going all the way from 55 degrees all the way down to 33.

It'll freeze your tush off.

That's cold.

And all the great workout modalities, Ben, you would have plots.

So I get there.

I'm like, I'd love to do the Q ⁇ A for you.

He's been so helpful to me.

Introduced me to the great Craig Conover, not the pillow guy.

Dr.

Craig Conover.

And he goes, listen, man, we're actually doing a QA later for the public.

He's like, which is already sold out.

He said, this VIP thing, he's like, I didn't really promote it much.

He's like, so I think it's just kind of like me, you, and like another buddy or two that are here.

Like, do you want to just bag the talk and we'll just go do infrared sauna and cold plunge?

And I was like,

is it my birthday?

I was like, Joshi, like, Joshi, like.

This is the stuff Josh likes because he's sober and he has no other outlet.

And sometimes it gets dark, dark, dark in here.

And it's also just literally the best.

It's so good.

It's the best.

I heard Gary Breca.

It was like some video that came up.

I don't know how I feel about that guy.

Oh, Gary Enta.

Yeah.

Exactly.

I actually saw a video.

I think like he had like his friends were over or something.

And he was showing how their two nine-year-old girls cold plunge.

I'm like, Gary, can we stop?

Okay, can we stop?

We don't need nine-year-olds cold plunging.

But he said that it didn't matter from 33 degrees to 55 degrees, but I think you just said, you get the same benefits in 33 as you do 50, which I thought was interesting.

I wonder if it's true.

I don't know.

But he said that it was true.

Also, side note, for the first time, I've only, I do cold plunges in like those tubs, like what we've done at Live Method, where your legs can extend.

Have you ever done one?

It's like a really small box.

Oh, sure.

Oh, my God.

I did that for the first time over the weekend.

So much harder.

Like, like 10 times harder when you can't relax and extend your legs.

You're like sitting in this like, I don't know.

You can't chill.

It's much harder to get your breath down.

I didn't like it at all.

I did a 35 degree tub for four minutes.

And when I got out, I got in my car.

This has never happened.

I turned off the air

this is how you know something's up oh so you left cold

you have to you can't rewarm like i think you should leave is that true you leave cold

almost always a because i don't want to sweat through my clothes like sure i think you have to really bring down when you've been so hot and then yeah you get because your body right now is going to spend the next hour or so warming itself up so it's going to keep burning calories keep the metabolism going smart yeah leaving cold is probably the sometimes i i don't know what i normally do i think sometimes i leave warm just because i want to get all toasty but yeah leaving cold is probably the right right medical move i get in my wife's car even now 85 degrees in la she'll have the air conditioning off i'm like paige what's wrong what's happening i don't know

but i turn the air conditioning off this is i've never seen it where the screen goes dark yeah no that's crazy i know that's good.

No good at all.

You know how I know I'm getting old?

Tell me.

The other day in my head, I thought I'm going to treat myself with an Advil.

Okay.

That's good.

How many do you take?

How many Advils do you take?

You have to take them,

not medical advice.

You have to take a minimum of three.

Of course.

For it to be efficacious.

I couldn't agree more.

There are too many people in my life that take two.

I'm like, are you okay?

Why?

What are you afraid of?

The third's not what's doing it to you.

Also, if you have really bad pain, Josh, two Advil.

Sure, sure.

This is a wonderful concoction.

And if you're feeling really, really bad, two Advil, one Tylenol, and some.

Yeah.

That's really the killer combo.

Okay.

And if you're feeling really, really, really bad.

Oh, yeah.

Go to Olive Garden.

When I get sick, this is what I like to do.

I like to do, I start making myself up my sick cocktail, right?

Some people, they go out and they get elderberry juice vitamin c

those yeah because it stuff doesn't work okay

we josh we are people of eastern medicine we are we are the people of the east

you know how the muslims have hodge you know the muslims have hodge i have hodge of the east I'm gonna lean like a million Eastern medical people.

We're doing a walk to Norway.

You're giving me Hodga.

All right.

Are you?

You can't

Oh, my God.

I can't wait.

My Hodge to Norway.

When I get sick, my sick cocktail is: I'll do two dayquo,

then

I'll do a Mucinex D, right?

So I'll do like a nice 1200 all-day, the Mucinex Pseudafed mix.

So now I'm getting Mucinex Pseudafed.

I'm getting acetaminophene.

I'm getting textrometrophan.

I'm getting phenyliferine or whatever that is.

I'm getting, I, I, and I literally, I take it and I go,

get ready, body.

Get ready.

Yeah.

Get ready to feel nothing.

I've told you what happens to me when I take mesinex D, right?

You get an erection.

I get the D, yeah.

Every time?

I only took it once, never again.

Oh my God.

Take it for fun.

Look out.

Never again.

I was hard for four hours in the middle of the night.

Look, book out.

I just woke up.

I'm like, are you okay?

Book out your wife for the evening and get to making Ruby a sibling.

Come on.

And I wasn't okay.

No good.

Me's an XD, whatever's in there.

It's no good.

Can you imagine?

I don't like any of that junk that you just mentioned.

I don't like, because then what happens when it wears off, I guess you just take more of it until eventually you're not sick.

Is that the idea?

Oh, yeah.

Mask the symptoms.

Mask.

No, I prefer.

At the Ben Sopher Longevity Institute of Eastern Medicine, we prefer to treat the systems, the symptoms, Josh.

We treat.

So we would go in with a little echinasia, some elderberry.

We're going in with oil of oregano, some activated turmeric.

You're going to feel as good as new in no time.

Put that on top of it.

Do both.

Okay, I'm in.

You're so right.

Why wouldn't I feel good today and treat the symptoms?

You're right.

I know.

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This is an interesting one.

You heard of Red Yeast Rice?

No, Red Yeast Rice?

For us in the hyper

cholerasthemia community, that's not how you pronounce it.

For those of us with high cholesterol,

I heard this doctor on TikTok talk about it, a real one, medical doctor.

And he said, look,

red yeast rice is effective in treating cholesterol because they found, much like how you love that reference of in the willow tree is aspirin.

So chew.

Chew on bar when you have a headache.

I love it.

He's like, yes, he's like, in red yeast rice, there is a statin.

There's cholesterol medicine that we've refined.

Yes.

He's like, there's totally an active ingredient.

He's like, here's the problem.

You don't know where it's sourced.

You don't know the level of how good the supplement is.

He's like, Even when something comes from a really trusted source, still, he's like, it's never going to be held up to medical standards because the only standard for supplements that aren't FDA approved is that it doesn't kill you.

But the efficacy, how much is in it, all these things can be really kind of wobbly.

He's like, so you might be getting some, you're probably not getting enough, or you might be getting way too much.

He's like, you just don't know.

He's like, now, the active ingredient in red yeast rice, which lowers your cholesterol, we have is a cholesterol medicine.

He's like, which if you have insurance, you can probably get for a 90-day supply for about $3.

He said, a 90-day supply of red yeast rice will probably cost you 60 bucks.

He's like, so he's like, that's my issue, right?

He's like, I know that I can prescribe it to you in its purest form, dosed perfectly for what your body needs, or you can tell yourself you're going the natural route and you don't know what you're quite getting, and it's 50 times the price.

Thoughts?

You know, for

something

so

important as a cholesterol-lowering medication, right?

Something that you must take.

I am all in on

the purest form, $3,

90 day supply, ditching the red yeast rice, okay?

For something that is a little bit more elective, which I, at one point, I, I took Advil every day for fun.

Like, like I needed it.

Like, I think just like when you're really fat, you always have a headache.

At least I always had a headache.

Every single day of my life, I would wake up with a headache, right?

And I would just pop Advil, pop Advil, pop Advil.

And I'm now at the point in my life where if I can find a way to be less dependent on something that comes in a pill, I'm going to try it.

And I don't know why,

or I do know why taking an oil of oregano, even though people laugh at me, feels like it's great.

Like, feels like, no, no, and I get why people laugh, but feels like a, if I can somehow treat a sinus infection with an antifungal like oil of oregano, as opposed to pseudofed, which I just know is too much.

It burns the fuck out of my sinuses.

Like, they're on fire to the point that no mucus is there, which is effective when you like.

can't breathe out of your nose.

But I don't know.

There's just like, and maybe it's placebo, maybe it's like you brought up something interesting, which I haven't really thought of.

Like, I just trust supplements.

I trust them because they're natural.

It doesn't mean that they're the proper dose or the proper dose for me or that my body doesn't have too much of it.

Like, remember, I took too much turmeric and I became itchy.

This is a thing.

You can become itchy when you have too much turmeric.

You should do class action against the spice.

I should.

And too many people.

I then mentioned me on a commercial.

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It's Sue McCormick.

The title.

Who's Sue and McCormick?

Sue McCormick.

But there's so little information.

I took turmeric for what, a year?

And then somebody told me, hey, you know, turmeric doesn't work unless there's whatever, black seed oil with it or something.

Pepper.

Thank you.

And so now I take a pepper turmeric combo.

But who, why would you ever buy turmeric by itself?

Why do they even sell it?

Because you're making a delicious dish.

Yeah, in that form for sure.

Because you want to stain your countertops forever.

Jesus.

It really doesn't come out of anything.

No, I wonder what my insides look like.

They might just be orange.

That'd be cute.

Should we get to a quick speakpipe?

Yeah.

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

Here's a little something from

Rebecca.

Hey, good guys, Rebecca here.

I just left a beautiful Jewish wedding.

I am not Jewish and I found myself making small talk with the rabbi and I am eight months pregnant.

He congratulated me because I'm quite visibly pregnant and I just, as I was chatting, said, thank you like Brooke Hashem.

And that's when I realized you guys were talking a few weeks about code switching and I just code switched into the good guys talk, which I guess is just Jewish.

But I want to know, was that offensive?

Was that bad that I said that as someone who is not Jewish?

It's so the opposite.

It's so endearing and amazing.

And

I can speak for all Jews.

Like the even attempting to be a part of it is amazing.

I love it.

I love it.

And like, I've mentioned this in the past.

When people come up to me on the street and say Barof Hashem and then make sure to tell me that they're not Jewish, like if that's our legacy that we got non-Jews to say, bless God in Hebrew, or thank God in Hebrew, we've won.

I feel amazing about that.

So, Baruch Hashem to you, Rebecca.

Or should I say Rivka?

Yeah, she even spelt her name, like, with a K-A-H.

I'm like, are you sure you're not Jewish?

She is, for sure.

She just doesn't know it.

You win.

Next one's from Anonymous.

What's up, good guys?

Just had a crazy interaction on the subway.

Made your thoughts.

So I'm with my son.

he's about two he's a huge flirt he's really cute gets a lot of attention in public we're standing next to this gorgeous girl on the subway who I actually recognize as an influencer so we're having a nice interaction with her and then she proceeds to pull her phone out and record the interaction so I very calmly was like hey you know not okay with this First of all, I'm not okay with anybody recording my son, much less someone who has around 80,000 followers on TikTok.

So I asked her to stop.

She did not stop.

So I got in between her and my son to block the view.

And she proceeds to record me now, calling me a Karen and saying, oh, my followers will have my back.

And yeah, yeah,

and so I don't know.

I need your thoughts.

Like, have these influencers gone too far of just recording whatever they want just because they have, you know, almost 100,000 followers and they have just this sense of entitlement.

I wanted to kill her.

I told her, go ahead, post me and see what all the mamas on the internet say about it.

What are your thoughts?

Wow.

80,000 followers.

I thought you said she was an influencer.

I was going to say,

no, by the way, it was actually going to be the first thing that I said.

The problem is that like, like anybody can go viral on TikTok and get 80,000 followers.

Not me, but anybody,

but anybody can go viral and get followers.

And, like, this term influencer, I hate the term, but it used to come with some cachet.

And I think you're giving this person too much credit.

It's great that you recognize them, but they're just like a regular person that I don't know.

I think you're giving that person too much credit.

And that person's clearly a scumbag.

You don't film children ever.

Ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever.

So I think it's kind of weird that you called your son a flirt, but like, we can move past that.

I can't stand when people do that.

That was weird.

Like, your kid's just like friendly and outgoing.

Like, he's not flirting.

I don't even like when people say, oh, his little girlfriend or his boyfriend or their boyfriend.

I hate that.

Yeah, no, it's weird.

Like, what are you doing?

They're babies.

So, in this, like, yeah, just because your kid is like a performer doesn't mean that she has the right to film him.

And

just

all around strain.

No good.

What do you think?

I totally agree.

Unfortunately, I've watched enough TikTok to know that when you're in public, there can't be an expectation of privacy.

So technically, by law, people are allowed to film you, but by what's good, by street justice, fuck out of here.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And I can't imagine like that influencer or whatever that loser girl was.

Her pretending that if she posted that video of her filming a two-year-old and the mother saying, stop filming my child, that her followers would have her back.

What delusion, what delusional planet are you on?

Okay, no one will have your back.

There's nobody more vicious than mothers coming for a mother on TikTok.

Okay,

you're done.

You're kaput.

You should post it.

You'll get canceled.

That's an actually cancelable offense.

Somebody filming a two-year-old without their parents' permission is a cancelable offense.

One of the what are you nuts?

What are you nuts?

We should.

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

Ben, what do you got?

I don't.

What do you got?

Oh, I'll start.

I will.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So, as I mentioned, my sweet boy Meyer, for the first couple of days in the hospital, he was having trouble eating.

They said his suck wasn't strong enough.

So now weeks later, he's been going to the pediatrician, knock wood, everything's fine.

But you know, a week after we got out of the hospital, I said to the pediatrician, do you think his

suck is okay?

I know, like, he was having some issues with it.

And he goes, oh, let me say, he bare hand-fingered my son's mouth and put it on his suck reflex.

I guess it's somewhere in their gum.

And then he just, you know, proceeded to have a perfect, you know, a perfect suck.

And he goes, no, it's strong.

It's great.

And I'm like, what are you nuts?

What are we not going to glove up for this?

I'm like, bare finger in the mouth.

That is the biggest woody nuts I've ever heard.

It's like, how are we not gloving up, my dude?

Like, at least him some buy him a buy him a glass of milk first did he at least visibly wash his hands in front of you or this is just a bare hand it was a bare hander it was it was some

i yeah first pioneer medicine he can't go back this is no good this is no good i'll stay in theme with you my what are you nuts is

for the first i don't know weeks of ruby's life we bring him to a doctor and first thing they would say is oh don't worry don't worry.

His head, it'll be totally fine.

I'm like, what are you, nuts?

His head is perfect.

They were counting because apparently they're worried that babies that are C-section will have like a flat head.

And it's like, he's literally perfect.

Like, what are you talking about?

What are you, nuts?

Like, oh, yeah, don't worry.

It'll be fine.

I didn't, I wasn't worried.

There's no worry.

Okay.

I'm not worried.

What are you, nuts?

Keep it to yourself.

Okay.

You know what else is nuts, Josh?

Not giving this episode five stars.

I I was gonna say that.

That's what I was gonna say.

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