David Dobrik on Fame, Flashbacks, and Finding Himself

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Whoa.

I went to a cold plunge, Josh.

The guy next to me, naked cold plunging.

Have you ever heard of something so crazy?

He took off his swim trunks and cold plunged.

Did you see him after the plunge?

Yes, before and after.

Big difference?

Yes, his penis was non-existent before and after.

Oh my God.

Yeah.

Oh, before either?

Before it was small, and then it was shrunk up into his belly.

Like totally gone.

Yeah.

I'm not brave enough for that, yeah.

But I love a cold plunge, David.

Do you plunge?

Are you a plunger?

No, but like, where my head goes thinking about that is like just like nude beaches.

Like, have you guys ever done nude beaches?

I did once in Hawaii, and I just like for a show?

No, no, no, I just went for fun, and they were like, on this side of the rocks is the nude side, and you can wear a bathing suit, they don't care as long as you don't leer.

So, I just kind of strolled in quasi-what does leer mean?

Learing, just like, oh, as long, okay don't stare okay okay okay yeah yeah that sounds terrible like have you ever had to get have you ever had to take off too many clothes for like a role where you didn't want to i've had to show my butt and i've had to be like covering my my uh my bits and then showing the rest and if i get lean and tan

who am i talking to uh i can i can i i can live with it i mean i'm always gonna have you know a like a light case of gynecomastia and that's my truth that's just

i just watched forgetting sarah marshall and jason segel that's the guy that's in it but he's got he's got something there so that's great when his penis comes out and it that's crazy yeah like you could i just i can't imagine doing that in front of like

in front of like a crew of like 30 people i don't know it just stresses me and like i wanted to be an actor as a kid this is why i'm bringing it up is because i would think about all the time like i can't be an actor because i can't be shirtless i'm like so intimidated by it and i definitely can't show my penis and i know like for the funniest moments, it sometimes calls for that.

As you know, example, Jason Siegel forgetting Sarah Marshall.

So I don't know, but I'm glad you haven't had to encounter like the penis situation yet.

I do it.

So you are going with it.

Oh, wow.

Even, even today?

Oh, yeah.

For the right thing?

Sure.

Wow.

I was going to ask Josh, how much money does it take for you to show your penis on camera?

But you seem you're down.

It seems like it's free.

Just a small role, just penis.

I'm weirdly more uptight, like at the pool amongst friends than I would be for that.

The truth is, if a movie's asking me to do it, it's probably so artistic

that they ain't paying nothing.

And I'm like, I'm either going to win an Oscar or never work again.

So let's roll the dice.

So if Nolan calls,

anything goes.

If Nolan calls any in his hands, you just go.

Yeah.

Okay.

Because you trust it.

Right.

Okay.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That makes sense.

You'll place, you'll place your dick in his hands.

I hope he hears this.

I, uh, can you imagine he doesn't have a cell phone, but he listens to good guys?

What is not?

Samsung Ultra S25.

I, uh, you know, it's, it's interesting.

My, one of my favorite moments from, I don't know if I told you this on,

you know, the set of Oppenheimer.

Oh, no way.

But you'll love this.

I remember we're practicing, we're rehearsing the scene where we're going to detonate the nuke, right?

And we're in this

bunker and we're going through all the paces and Matt Damon's there and Killian.

And I didn't have a lot of time with Matt, but I was lucky enough to hang out with Killian a bit and Nolan's there and we're going through, and it's kind of my bit, so the eyes are on me during this rehearsal.

And we finish and I walk out because we have to go change really quick.

And I hear Nolan and Damon behind.

And I was maybe, I don't know, 10 feet ahead of them and I just hear what I think Damon says to Nolan is something happened Drake and Josh

I think that's what he said and I asked a buddy of mine who I was like oh my god did I hear that right he's like what else could it have been

and uh and I just heard Nolan go yeah

wow he's got kids That's crazy.

So you think Nolan may have seen Drake and Josh?

And the fact that Damon knows that that's, oh, that's a lot of worlds colliding.

It is.

It's wild.

Dude, that is the coolest thing ever.

At least you know you have one thing in common with Christopher Nolan.

I know.

This is amazing.

I love for Drake and Josh.

Wow.

Good for you, Josh.

Thanks.

It was fun.

He's doing a new movie.

Is he checking your email?

See if he called.

Maybe you're going to be cast a little later.

Maybe they're shooting the first half.

And you come in at the big end.

It's Homer.

It's a Viking story.

I look good.

Look, Oppenheimer, or as I like to call it, the Jewish Avengers, I was perfect, right?

When he goes to get the scientists, that's like, you know, Captain America, you know, Captain Moish.

And you also had, I think, one of the biggest roles in it for being in the shortest amount of time.

You had technically the biggest impact in the entire film.

Without you,

no detonation.

God bless.

Yeah, so you kind of carried the whole thing.

In honor.

Shout out.

I hope he's listening.

He's obviously a fan if you gave you that spot.

Who knows?

I hope.

So, David, you wanted to be an actor?

You no longer want to be an actor?

That dream has died?

Or would you still act?

No, no, no.

No, now I've realized that I can't really do it.

I did one of those, you know, like on the radio shows or like on radio, they'll be like, does your kid want to be a Nickelodeon or a Disney star?

Yeah.

Well, like, come in.

And I did one of those once.

And you come into like an office building and there's like 200 kids.

Everyone's really nervous.

And I go into an audition.

I read some lines.

And they're like, okay, okay, we'll call you back, whatever.

And then we got a call like two weeks later and my and you i picked up the phone and my mom picked up the phone downstairs and they're like we want to invite your son back we loved him so much my mom i've never heard my mother so excited in my life she screams throughout the house i i hear it from the downstairs and the phone and then it just turns out to be like a complete like but first right for six months we want to offer you this camp for acting and it's like $3,500 or something, whatever it is a month.

My parents are like, fuck no, like you're staying here,

which is a complete scam.

So that was the closest I got.

And then I kind of just gave that up.

Can we go back to early days like

David in Slovakia days?

Yeah.

Do you remember it?

No, I do, but I can't like, I can't like, I couldn't understand how crazy Slovakia was until I recently visited.

Like back in the day, I mean, that's just like my reality was growing up in Slovakia.

So it like seemed very normal.

But like now when I go, like I've, I got to visit like a couple months ago and like a year and a half ago.

But now when I go back, I go, holy fuck, like this is a different planet.

Like it's not like my parents didn't move from Ohio to California to Los Angeles.

My parents moved from like what feels like a whole nother universe, like into

a, I can't, I can't even explain like the amount of balls it took for them to come here because it's just so different.

The lifestyle is so different there.

And like it made me appreciate my parents so much more for making that like big move and commitment like after seeing it.

But

yeah, other than that, I just remember, like, I just remember I hated the cafeteria.

Like, I'm such a picky eater.

And that's where it started.

And, and all I can, all I can think about is like the egg soup.

There was this egg soup that had like particles of egg in it.

And it, and it just haunted me.

And that was about it.

I mean, I was there till like, I was like six or seven.

And then that's old enough to have proper memories.

Yeah.

And then I flew here.

Uh, my parents were already living here and I flew on my own, which was really fun.

I was crying the whole flight and the flight attendants.

Why was that fun if you were crying the whole time?

Well, because,

well, because like although it was like I was in peril, it was like the thing I remember the most.

And like, I don't have many memories of when I was younger, but I very vividly remember like the flight attends coming over, like two or three of them.

And they're like beautiful women at the time where I was just like, they reminded me of my mom or something.

So I felt like really taken care of.

And I feel like I even cried more just to be taken care of even more.

And then they took me to like the back area and they offered me to go see the pilots in the cockpit, but I said no because I was too shy.

But like, I just felt really taken care of.

And then I landed in,

I landed in Ohio.

That's where I first lived.

And then we went to go surprise my mom because she thought I wasn't coming for like another couple of weeks.

And yeah, that was like one of my best memories is surprising my mom.

That was my first surprise.

Yeah.

We surprised her with a car.

And was there that growing up, like, obviously you have this immense drive that anyone who's been very successful probably has.

But do you think there was any of that like kid of immigrants type thing of like, wow, like they moved their whole life here?

Like, I gotta, I gotta do something great.

I don't know.

And I also question you when you say immense drive.

Like, I don't know if I have immense drive or if I just like got lucky to where I have like the best job in the world.

Like,

I don't know.

I was never like, I got to become a billionaire.

It was more so like, I really want to do entertainment, like, whatever it takes.

So, like, I don't know.

I can't, I can't tell.

I just feel like I got so lucky getting into what I got into.

Like, like, I've said this before, but like, my, my dad was always like, you have to work hard.

You have to work hard.

I was like, what the fuck does that mean?

Like, all, like, everyone's parents always tell someone to work hard.

I'm like, well, where do I work hard?

What does that mean?

Like, what do I first grab?

Do I build Legos really well?

Like, what do I do?

So then when I first got the opportunity with Vine or whatever, I was like, oh, this is, this is my like one moment.

Like, I gotta like lock in.

This is, I finally got the opportunity to work hard.

So I didn't want to screw that up.

So like, maybe that's where the drive kicked in.

And that's where I was like, this is what I've always wanted to do.

Um, but I don't know if it has so much to do with like

being an immigrant as it had to do with like

being the biggest fan of like Conan O'Brien and like Jimmy Kimmel on TV.

Like I just loved late night.

I loved like people getting interviewed and

I loved when I loved when like Fallon and Kimmel would get to be the first one to like crack a joke that was that's something like topical.

Yes.

Like I love

commenting on pop culture and what's going on in the world.

Yeah, like something happens, something controversial happens with Kim Kardashian and she's there the next day and they're cracking a joke about it.

I'm like, that's so fucking cool.

Right.

And like, I don't know.

It's funny listening to you say that it was just luck and like wasn't necessarily hard work like from a viewer's perspective it looked like an incredible amount of work I mean

like it was incredible hard work like I as it was happening I was like it's never like I in my head I was like I don't think it could ever be as hard because we were doing like three a week so I was like I don't think it's anything is ever gonna be as fast paced and as like quick of a turnaround as this is but like I just can't chalk it up as hard work because it's like, I love it so much.

We're like, I, that was my breathing.

like that's I loved every second of it like all like every level of stress like the gift to be able to be

stressed out because you're doing something so fun was just like the thing that I was most like gracious for I guess if that makes sense so so it's hard to chalk up as hard work because I

was just enjoyed it so much right it just means that you found something amazing but like it's still incredibly hard work just because you loved it you found something that you loved but it's kind of like a I don't know know, an athlete, right?

Like LeBron James, I would consider him a hard worker.

He probably loves his life and loves playing basketball for a living and is fortunate that he fell into it.

But like, how long would it take you?

Like, how much footage would you need?

And how long would it take you to make then a six minute vlog?

Well, it's like probably, fuck, I forgot.

I literally don't know.

Natalie was like two, four hours of footage for like one vlog, two to four hours for like a six.

Like every vlog was like a trailer of the best moments um so yeah it was like two four hours for like a four minute video but back to the lebron james thing i like now thinking about it like i don't know i still can't like when i think of hard work i think of a guy on a roof like just like in the sun like like hardcore labor no that's real work that's real work agree but that's that's that's me i consider real work and hard work to be the same thing like to even say work

with what we do i think is crazy i now say it like when I first moved to LA, there'd be a lot of people that like have been here a while and they would be like, I have work tomorrow.

And like, I'd be like, what are you talking about?

You don't.

And I thought it was.

You're going to go audition for a Chipotle commercial.

Yeah.

Like, I thought it was so funny.

And now I've adopted it almost ironically, but unironically, like now I say it just to make myself feel more official.

Like, I have work, even though I'm coming on your podcast and just talking to you.

But I think as far as the drive piece goes, I remember like when I first met you, like you talked about, right, like your hair hair was crazy while you were filming.

Like you had a uniform because you didn't want to think about having to wear anything else.

Like you didn't want to have decision fatigue because

you had a uniform.

I remember once I was like, oh, we should go like grab a bite bite for dinner sometime.

Like we'll go out to a restaurant.

Like, and you were like, unacceptable.

You're like, I would never, you would, you would house food uncontrollably.

Like, Natalie, is it horrible to watch him eat?

I don't know.

Poor Natalie.

Like, you would just be like,

I'd be like, is he okay?

He's just, he needs fuel for the next eight hours.

Yeah, there wasn't ever like a thought of, and it's interesting, and I think I can slightly identify, it's just there's this weird time between 18 and 22 when a lot of people are sort of like have that time in college and whatnot to figure it out.

And it seems like when you're really sort of, when you figured it out and you are going full bore and it's, it's just different.

I mean, I know that since, look, i always joke about how i became like a uh sort of a bit of a cliche in my late teens just because i'd spent the entire time when i was supposed to have a childhood and make mistakes and be bored and just kind of look at the stars and think like what's going on i was i was working right you know it was a version of did you consider it like

How many times through your childhood were you like, oh, fuck, I wish I could just go hang out with my friends and not do this work?

Like, or was it just like, I am, this is so much better than being at the playground ah no i i think it i think both things can be true how about that i think we i think you can be uniquely lucky i think there's two types of things in life i think either you work as a source for money to fuel the thing that you love which is your family or your hobbies or whatever it is but you don't love being an accountant but you love that it gives you the security to spend time with your family and have a wonderful life and then there are those rare people who get to make a living doing something they love.

And I can say I get to do that.

And that's why I know I'm like uniquely, deeply lucky.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's sick.

And the thing that also like kind of made me adjust to that, that kind of thinking that like this is the best life ever is like, you always see like celebrities, especially back in the day,

especially with child stars, being like, I wish I had a regular life.

And like, when I would see that as a kid, I'd be like, why?

Regular life sucks.

I'm here now.

Yeah.

Reporting for regular life, no good.

So, so it's like, so when I got the chance to like not maybe have the most regular life, I was like, this is fucking incredible.

And still to this day, like, even when like it's not as fun as it always is some days, like, I'm still like, this is so much better than like working an office job or something I really didn't want to do.

So it's like, I don't know.

I'm just like, so excited by it.

The work thing is interesting, calling it work and not being work, but I don't know.

What do you think, Ben?

Yeah, is this work?

Is this work for you, Ben?

Are you like, did you clock in or are you like, it's funny?

This is, no, it's a hundred.

It's like Josh, but it is, it is factually work.

I love it.

It's the best part of my week is podcasting with Josh.

Like we talk about that all the time.

We can turn off our brains and we can just talk, right?

So it's, it's the best part of my week, but it's definitely work.

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Speaking of work, I want to talk about Dough Bricks for a second.

So

I own an alcohol company called Spritz Society.

That's my work.

You have Dough Bricks, which is your brick and mortar.

Like what made you, what made you pick pizza and brick and mortar, especially with like, I've always thought like you've such a huge following.

Like, why why something physical?

And then is the plan multiple Dobriks?

Is it franchising?

Like, what's the, what is it?

Nothing easier than the restaurant industry.

It's hard, baby.

It's so hard.

So hard.

Honestly, well, to answer that is like, I love, I've always wanted to own my own hotel and just like, and just for this, just for the sole purpose of being able to walk into the hotel and like the front desk person is like, welcome back, Mr.

Dobrik.

And I kind of felt the same way about like a pizza place.

like okay so we i grew up in the suburbs of chicago so like pizza was like a big part of our lives of hanging out and like i just wanted to create a place that was like a really fun vibe for people to hang out in i i people are always like i was just talking to natalie about this the other day first of all Dobrik's is like currently, you can't make money with one location

of a place, like especially where we are.

It's the heart of the sunset strip.

I can't even imagine, you want to say what your rent is?

I'm sure it's a lot.

I actually don't.

It's not horrible, horrible, but it's like $14,000, $15,000 a month or something.

You got to sell a lot of pizza.

Yeah, you have to sell a fuck ton of pizza.

So it's not like it's making me, it doesn't make me any money, but I just love that it's there.

And like to make more money, you have to like go into Frozen, open more locations, which we plan to do.

And that's exciting.

But like, I saw a comment the other day, like, how does he even make money?

And some response, like, dude.

Dobrik's pizza.

And I'm like, no, nine dollars.

No, no, no.

That's, that's not how it works.

But like, it's like, it's worth losing money on it because it's just like such a fun thing to be able to, like, someone visits LA, like, friends or family, and to be able to send them there and be like, go check out our pizza spot, or to like be able to order pizza and get it for free.

Yeah.

It's not really free because I am paying a rent, but like, but like, it's just so cool.

It's that, just that alone is like nice.

It is also, it is also the greatest name of all time.

I will give you that for sure.

Like, yeah, we got really lucky.

Unbelievable.

Yeah, when people are like,

like, what came first?

The name or the concept of wanting to do a pizza place?

I don't know.

I don't know if someone just said, Dobrik's kind of sounds like a good pizza spot.

And then I was like, yes.

Or if we were like, or if we really wanted the pizza spot first and then we came up with a name.

But yeah, we got lucky on the name.

What about, I feel like it's much more impactful if you're more of like a mom and pop shop in the middle of America when Portnoy comes.

But like when Portnoy came and revealed the pizza,

were you just like, oh, God, someone save me?

Well, we knew it was coming.

I was like, I mean, it's not the style that he likes.

So it was like, you were already like, all right, it's an uphill battle.

It's not, it's not that.

Here's the thing.

We have a cheese pizza.

We have a pepperoni.

The three main ones that are big sellers are the cheese, pepperoni, and the vodka pizza.

I...

From the moment we started, even before we opened, I have been battling to get the cheese off our menu.

Natalie's shaking her head.

I have every time I'm like, please, for the love of God, don't fucking sell our cheese pizza i why i don't like it i don't think you should come i just i i because here's the thing natalie do you want to retort here you can come in we use this is going to sound like like a humble brag but like our cheese is so fresh

that it sits weirdly on the pizza and after it's been sitting for more than literally 10 seconds the cheese gets weird the ingredients that we use are actually super this this sounds just like a no it looks great back hole like a compliment into it but like i just think, fuck the cheese.

I don't like the cheese pizza.

Our pepperoni and our vodka slices are incredible.

I am, I love them.

I stand by them all day, every day.

I just don't give a fuck about our cheese.

And that's all he tries.

And when he went there, I was like, we're fucked.

I didn't know he's calling, red alert.

No, like he, like, we were, we were, I think we were all, we were all in this like Dobrik's group chat.

And the, the GM at the time, he just texted, portnoy just came by we were like what the

we're like you can't just like throw that in

and we're like what did he say and he was like

i was like that's it but like it's i don't know it's it's it's fine like first i found out that he tried the cheese and then i was like expectations are low Honestly, I think he was even gracious with the number he gave us for that cheese.

Okay, fair enough.

Two points too high.

David's like texting Josh Richards, like, I need the biggest favor of my fucking life.

Do you know Dave Porko's password?

The moment he likes.

Where did he grow up?

No, but yeah.

What can you do?

It is what it is.

But yes, the restaurant business, as you were saying, is like the most impossible thing.

But the coolest part is like now visit, like, like I'll visit like rest, like, I'll go to Sunset Tower.

Like, I've only been there once, but the one time I went, like, the GM of the place came down and was like, hey, neighbor, like, it's like really cool.

Like, it feels like you're part of the street.

So, like, that's the best part well it's nice to have

doing the entertainment stuff is so great but but there is that wonderful feeling you get from having something tangible it's insane when opening the door to something and like look the great jason nash once said rest in peace god bless him

he he said that one of his most fulfilling days was when he was the most down on his luck and his buddy asked him to work and paint a house with him and he went and painted

for a few days and he was like i got there i worked i did hard work for eight hours and when i was done there was no thought of like i gotta come up with more jokes i was like i finished my work wow that is interesting there was like a feeling of completion which was nice that makes sense i'm not there with do bricks yet but yeah that is

yeah slowly but surely what do you think i remember like five years ago you said

And this was when Mr.

DeBeast was just sort of

on his rise and you were like, oh, he's going to be a billionaire.

You just, you had like a reverie for him.

There was a respect for Mr.

Beast.

And it seems like when you talk about Dough Brix and when you talk about the charitable side of things, like he's done all that, you know, sort of like one of the best versions of that.

Do you still look up to him?

Mr.

Beast?

Yeah.

Dude, he's fucking,

he's unlike anything else.

Yeah.

It's crazy.

We got to visit him.

for he got ilya car which is and this isn't the only reason i'm being so positive about him he's he's so interesting we got to to visit him

in North Carolina, and he just like walked us through everything he does.

And this man,

he very much is like an entrepreneur or businessman that just chose to do YouTube videos.

Like, that's what he is.

Like, I wouldn't say he's like an SNL writer or like he'd, he'd kill it on friends.

Like, he is very much, I think he could have picked anything, but I think he was infatuated with YouTube.

And like, that's why he's like the Steve Jobs of it.

And you'd think he'd be like really like

bizarre in person.

He's lovely.

Yeah, but he's like really, he's very easy to talk to.

And he's like very with it.

He's very North Carolinian.

Like there's like a lovely, slightly southern, like kind of laid-back affability.

I told this story before about, you know, Jimmy.

Sorry.

Yeah, Jimmy.

When you sent us to the side,

I had no idea.

It's for the people, you know, people listen to this.

I remember once we had talked and had a couple of nice conversations, and I told the story in the pod, but I had a friend who had a child who was incredibly sick.

This was like a make-a-wish type thing.

And they were like, do you have any connection to Mr.

Beast?

He's obsessed.

And

anything like that.

I'm like, I will ruin a friendship for that.

Yeah, I will just put myself out there.

I don't care.

I'll ask anyone.

And I wrote him and I was like, I know you're so busy, but here's the thing.

The video came within two minutes for the kid.

And just like a lovely couple minutes long video thanking him and so sweet.

And I was like, Jimmy, you're, you're the best.

yeah yeah it's special that is really sick he's he's so good at it he just gets it all and he's so locked and he's so tapped in what have you have you learned anything from him like is there anything like that i think we're i think we're completely different creators like like um

he's just like so structured like like do you wish you had more structure um

like I think what made the video so special is that there was none.

Yeah, structure would allow me to keep going, but I don't know.

Like, I think like being 18, 19, 20, like when you're filming it, like, especially like at the kind of what felt like the beginning of that like vlogger era, like at least like that type,

I don't know.

It felt like structure, like structure is not just like something I was thinking of.

Like now, like seeing Mr.

Beast,

yes, but like not to do what I was doing before.

Does it make sense?

I don't know.

But yeah, I'm definitely envious of like, he comes in and he knows what beats he's hitting.

Like, and he like, he, like, like, I was talking to him, I was like, how many ideas you have?

Because I would never have ideas.

And he's like, oh, I have like 300 ideas in my notes right now.

And I was like, what the fuck are you talking about?

Like, that doesn't make any sense.

I mean, you know, like when we were filming the vlogs, there's never an idea past that moment.

Well, and, but I wonder if it's because he's like sitting in a boardroom on Monday mornings with a 10 smart people going like, give me your best ideas and we'll aggregate it to this list.

Or is it just him on his notes?

It's probably not just him.

No, he definitely has like a room full of people.

But do you remember like when we I don't know if like you if you remember but like we would sometimes try to hire writers and it would just never go anywhere.

I didn't know that.

Yeah, it just wouldn't there's just never be an idea that would like ever make it to like the videos.

Right.

And we did it like three or four times and we're like, okay, let's try to like because it was just that was the worst panic of like making them is like After one was done, I was like, that's all the ideas we had.

And now Jason and I are driving around, just like literally like patrolling the street like cops looking to see if there's anything funny.

Like that's, that's just, but that was also the best part because it felt like we were just like fishing for like funny stuff.

We're just literally sitting at the lake all day being like is something funny gonna happen?

Yeah, fish and pray.

Yeah, we would just sit in the car and just insult each other until one like joke landed.

We're like, okay, that was funny.

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Have you ever regretted giving someone a car or done some charity for someone where you're like, actually, they didn't deserve it?

Fuck, this is a Natalie question.

Now I remember for sure.

Oh, yeah, Natalie, I got Natalie two cars.

That was like, why the fuck did I do that?

Didn't you ruin one?

Let me mess up your Bronco.

Oh, that was, yeah, I ruined that one.

And Taylor, we got two cars because she crashed the first one and then she crashed the second one.

And then the third car, we're like, you have to buy your own car for this guy.

Good luck.

No, I

because I get inundated and I'm not, you know, Mr.

Beast by any means.

Like I get inundated with just because of YouTube culture, like, hey, I could use money for X or I could use this for that.

And I'm like, I would love to be charitable.

I would love to help you.

But like, I don't have any way of vetting that this is really going to whatever you're saying it is.

So I'd rather do like a GoFundMe or something that I know has just been slightly vetted that I can, you know, feel that I can rest easy about.

Yeah.

I mean, I don't think we were like vetting that much, but it wasn't like we were doing too many like random people.

It was very much like within our friend group.

Sure.

And like, and that's why I say like the car giving thing is kind of like, I don't know.

It just, it got to the point where not that it was repetitive, but like it was expected, which is, which kind of sucked, which kind of ruined it.

Like people just like assume they're going to get a car or something, which is kind of weird.

So that's the, that's the part where I kind of stopped in enjoying doing that.

I was like, oh, fuck.

Everybody's just like, they're waiting for it.

Well, why'd you stop?

Where were you when you stopped in what, 2022?

Yeah.

What's going on?

Well, there's a lot going on.

Yeah.

But like to keep it short and sweet, I just think like that it was like a big moment in my life where like there was was a lot of changes happening a lot of changes I wanted wanted to make and just like I

when you're going and you're making so many videos you're never you're never on like the outside of it like staring in like you're you you have like such like a warped perception of everything and then just take being able to take a moment and like step outside of it and be like okay

This is this is this is my last four or five years.

This is what happened.

This is what could be better.

This is this is what didn't work out.

This is what did work like that that was a lot like I didn't learn

I didn't learn a lot about myself until I took like a break.

And then I was like, holy fuck, there's like so many different things that I missed or I didn't see or like how I interact with people is different now.

And just like being able to take dinners or hang out with people or like catch up on like,

I never hung out.

I never did anything without a camera.

Like I did not operate without a camera.

So just being able to do that and being like present with people was like so fucking big the last two, three years.

And like to the point where I'm so addicted to it now, like being there

without a purpose of filming something where like I don't, I can't ever go back into what it was just because like I just love like even this one video that we filmed took a year and like and that was because I was just filming moments like when I felt it was time to film them rather than like chasing moments and like

that was so much better and more rewarding for me because I could like live my life like very normally and make very regular relationships rather than that.

And I was also running out of ideas.

I had no fucking when COVID hit I remember I was so stoked.

Sorry, COVID was bad, but like I was like in a sense, I was like,

I remember I turned to Natalie.

I was like, can I take a break now?

Because like I, I went from three a week to two a week to one a week and I was like, I should stop posting for a little bit.

She's like, yeah, that's fine.

And like, I always knew once I took my foot off the gas, it would be very much over.

Just because when you're in it, it literally feels like you're in a a fucking black hole of just like things flying at you.

And what do you think like over?

Well, I'm interested to know, like, so it's January 2023.

Yeah.

It's just a random day.

Sure.

Whatever.

What, what's your day look like?

Like, when I'm vlogging or what I'm not?

No, I'm saying you're go, you're going from you were vlogging every day, putting out, you know, non-stop, you're with your camera, you're fishing for ideas with Jason, and now you've already started this time off.

What did a random day look like?

It's fucking crazy.

I can't, I can't explain.

Like, I always say, like, if I was to die tomorrow, I have no, like, I feel like I've lived 50 lives in those like three, four years.

It's so overwhelming to think about it.

Like, everything that was, every day felt like it was like a week, like a proper week of like so many activities and so many things.

So like.

When I first stopped, it was like just being able to breathe and just reflect and like just hang out was fucking crazy and and i don't say this from a from a point where i was miserable making the vlogs it was the fucking best but it was like you kind of said earlier it's just like work it was no no

it was just like i would say it's just a different experience if you're saying that you had to do something so hardcore for a couple years and then you had to take such a drastic time off there was obviously something where you needed to take you needed to take a breath yeah i mean yeah i definitely did and like and i don't think that breath is over is why I don't want it to be like, well, no, yeah, I made a video just because I really wanted to make one.

And I think that's how I'm going to go about making all future videos because I really like, like I said, like not chasing things down and not be like, we need this and we need this in the vlog.

Like, that's what it started to become.

At the end, it's like, there's no give back element.

There's no making fun of Jason here.

There's no, like, there was no bat.

And it's like, it started to become like a recipe.

Which is also almost why I kind of like stray away when you asked me about like the format with Mr.

Beast, which is why I almost was like, maybe I don't want a format because I don't want it to feel like I'm like hitting these points in a video or like I'm like,

I feel like I'm like forcing a bit to happen rather than like it just coming naturally and like making this last one felt more natural.

So if it takes me three years to make one video, so be it.

I would just, I'd rather just do that.

And in the meantime, like catching up with humans is fun.

So last question, then we'll move on.

What, can you boil down what you think was the the biggest lesson over the last couple of years?

What do you think you've learned?

I think communication has been like probably the biggest thing that I've taken from all this.

And just like,

especially when I would,

if I'd have an issue with somebody, I wouldn't, I would just like kind of stray away from it.

I just like confrontation, like I'm just like, I've always like feared it.

So like,

I mean, I don't want to name names, but like if we had like a certain friend that I was like, okay, they did something that was like, this is really bizarre, I would, I wouldn't be able to approach that moment.

I would just kind of like, just

like turn an eye to it, if that makes sense.

And, like, now,

like, even recently, if I've had an issue with somebody, like, it's just more of like a conversation between two people helps tremendously than just like letting it sizzle boil and having it form its own legs and its own life and causing more problems on the road, if that makes sense.

Yeah.

So, yeah.

Ben, got anything before we move on?

Yeah, one, one last thing.

Just those four years you're living a week in a day.

Obviously, it's, I would assume, impossible to meaningfully see someone or date someone.

Like,

do you want to be with someone?

Are you seeing someone?

Is like a family, a family in the future what you want?

Like,

is that what you want?

No,

I also, also, when I was filming the vlogs, like, I, I, I, I, it's hard because it's, like, it feels like now I'm more like tapped in with people and like having conversations.

Yeah.

But, like, even at at the time, like I still, that was my own way of being like tapped in.

I don't know.

Do you know, do you know what I'm saying?

Like say more.

And then maybe I will.

Okay.

Like I don't like just because I was filming them doesn't mean I wasn't like there and enjoying it.

I was enjoying it, but I was like, after I was done enjoying one thing, I didn't rest.

I was ready to enjoy the next.

I wasn't like indulging in like the joy of everything because I was like chasing the next piece of joy in that day.

Is that hard when there's someone, but there is also someone else in the equation, right?

And what if they're like, I don't, I don't want to live at that speed.

Yeah.

There's, I mean, yeah.

And, but it was also different because there was like 15 of us and I would literally, I would drive to Big Nick's house.

I would be there for an hour and a half.

I'd film my vlog and then he'd give me his camera and I'd film his.

And then it would go to the, to the next person's house.

So it was just like, it was like constant dopamine of like going around.

We were all filming and it was just constant where it was like, it was a very different way of living, but it was all so natural at the time and looking back it's still very natural but this is just like different where like yes before i couldn't find a girlfriend i think that would be madness and that's all i would be doing is like is like working now am i on the lookout

yeah um i'm ready to like move back to chicago and i know natalie shakes her head every time i say this but like like i'm just like i'm loving just like being able to like hang out, like go out with friends.

I live with three of my hometown friends.

So it's like,

that's like my favorite thing to do.

And to add like a potential girlfriend or wife down the road would be like the most exciting thing for shorter answer for that.

And obviously you had, you've had a relationship that was super public.

Would your new relationship be less public?

I think my definition of public is different now.

Sure.

So like at the time, like it was more so like

like three videos a week.

So yes, it was public, public, public.

But like, yeah, I still like, if I love something, I'm still going to want to share it.

Like, that's,

I still want to go to sex parties.

You're talking to

fucking saved those.

Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha.

Yeah, but we're big polygamy people here.

Great.

We'll hit you up.

It was called the Good Family originally, not the good guys.

Yeah, no, but there's definitely, yes, I still would want, like, my, one of my videos that I really want to make is like a video, like one, like, four-minute video about, like, falling in love.

Like, I feel like that's really interesting.

Like, I don't think it has to be like,

what are you feeling now?

Like, I think it's like a very casual thing.

Like, yeah, I think I'll still have a public relationship down the road, but that's just because at this point, I can't avoid it.

I try to put my wife in videos and she's like, no, thanks.

And I'm like, do you like this couch?

Can you see this room?

I was going to ask you,

at first, you were like kind of iffy about your kids.

Are you more of like whatever, like on social media?

I think every person

deserves the choice of anonymity.

And so I right, yeah, you said this.

I thought that was so cool when you say that.

Yeah, okay.

So I'm a Jewish dad who's so full up of pride and love for my, there's a Yiddish word, nachis.

Shout out, Ben.

Shout out.

I get so much nachis pride from my children that I do want to share them, but it's very rare.

I try to make it rare and I try not to,

you know, and if I do it, sometimes like they've been, we've, we've done a brand deal or two, but like I try to do

keep the fucking wheels on the car, god damn it.

But like you won't see their face.

Like

they'll be like, hey dad, and I'll be like, hey, and then they'll walk to the frame and I'll be like, here at Halliburton.

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Olivia, shout out.

Oh, my God.

That's funny.

Well, that's also a good question for Ben because Ben and his wonderful wife, Claudia, are super public.

Have you guys had a chat about the wonderful...

Yeah, nobody will ever see this baby's face unless they're in person.

Yeah.

But that's what Josh said.

So imagine some granddads came in.

Maybe it depends, but Claudia's sister Jackie, who she does the podcast with, like, she has two kids under three.

Nobody's ever seen their faces.

It's just...

So I think she's going to do what her older sisters do.

And maybe something will change.

And to Josh's point, whatever feels right is right for the person.

But I don't know.

There are just too many creeps like i just want to avoid the creeps and uh i don't know that said you have that that pride like how do you not show the most significant thing in your life to your audience that you're saying that you love and are authentic with it's hard and josh's kids are so fucking cute like i don't know yeah that is interesting because like josh is hesitant to like as you get to show them online but like in person do you want to share those kids all the time like that's oh yeah you just love that so like

so yeah, it is kind of like, well, I want to share with more people, but, like, just for their safety, I don't.

So, yeah, that is interesting.

Yeah, again.

So, I don't know how you guys feel about this, but I do understand that it may be tough.

Yeah.

Well, look, on the grand scheme of things, if I think like a YouTube family is a 10 and Ben is a one, I'm like, if I can live it around a three, I'm feeling okay about it.

That said, if I can have a YouTube family, now this is a different story.

If we're like one of those,

are you nervous about having a kid what what what are what are the thoughts going into this i'm sure you guys have covered i'm really pumped like i've been with my wife for almost 12 years we'll be married wow eight years we got married when we were young we met when we were 20 and 18.

uh where did you guys meet uh we met at a party a college party like just like two regular kids no social media no nothing and then our lives just like kind of

uh like we grew together it is it's a it's a lovely story did you guys meet in um

New York?

New York.

Okay.

Did you guys, you guys met in New York?

We met in New York at an NYU party.

And then did you know right away that she was the one, or did it take a little bit?

No.

So we officially met.

She was at the front of a long bathroom line at a party, and I was at the back, and the person in the bathroom was taking a shit.

And I went up to the door, and I'm like, can you get out?

Like, I need to take a pitch.

That's very ethereal.

And

the person opened the door, and they're like, who was knocking?

And I pointed to Claudia.

Oh, that's awesome.

So that's how we met.

Went on a couple dates.

And yeah, it just, it blossomed.

It blossomed.

But she's the best.

As a man who's expecting, where do you recommend, where does a single person find the love of their life?

I think through a friend.

You have to trust those friends, but I like a setup through a friend.

You can't be with my sister.

Josh has.

I was going to say, Josh has some good, Josh has some good single friends.

Josh does, no?

Do I?

I do.

Paige does.

Paige has to have some single people.

No?

She does.

She has some nice single friends.

Her sisters are awesome.

One's married and one's six feet.

And so

you're 10 minutes of the squeeze.

Just listen on a couple of issues.

I know.

So did I, by the way, I round up.

I'm 5'11-ish.

Maybe meet her at a bar.

Maybe meet her at Dobrik's.

Maybe she's your top customer.

I don't know if Dobrik's is the right way.

Also, bar, I don't know.

What about your fitness life?

Maybe at a yoga class.

Maybe at the

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maybe at Equinox.

Shout out, Ambassador.

I think, are you actually?

That's incredible.

I mean,

I take creatine.

Yeah, I take fucking creatine, Dave.

I think Farmer's Market is like, I've never been, I've been to one like once or twice, but I've never been there with, I heard you're not allowed to approach, not allowed to, but frowned upon to approach women at the grocery store.

Is that true?

I didn't know

you were saying that.

I don't know about it, Olivia.

I think it's fine.

Depends on the the section.

Right.

Right?

Oh, I have it so wrong, man.

Okay.

I'm still figuring this out.

You want to get to it where there's any innuendo issues, right?

Like produce, you got to be careful.

Right.

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Okay, wait.

So there was a story that I wanted to talk about really quick because

We love stories here.

And then we'll get to one quick question.

Then we'll get to our woody nuts man.

Perfect.

Yeah.

I love it.

I really do love it.

I was horrified when my date asked to split the bill.

All we got was juice.

The juice was not worth the squeeze.

Shout out New York Post.

The idea of who should pick up the tab on a first date is a divisive issue.

However, one Brazilian influencer says she now refuses to split the bill because she had a nightmare date where he asked her to split and she thought he was joking, but he was serious.

They just had a juice.

Who just has a juice?

Like, I can't get past like what they were even doing at a restaurant, just ordering juice.

But sure, you order juice.

One person pick up the bill because it's juice.

It's, it's very strange.

It's not even cheap.

It's like there's an issue here.

There's an issue with there's a core issue.

He's not cheap.

He has problems.

Pay for the juice.

I don't care what you're ordering.

If it's your first date, the guy's got to cover it.

A thousand percent.

I mean,

I think the guy should cover any date.

That's a divisive issue is whether or not a guy or

girl should split the bill.

I think that's like one of those things that like just have been a staple for so long where like that's a gender norm that you should follow where guys pay.

No?

I agree.

But also, are you going, you, you have a first date?

There's no way that you're only ordering juice.

Well, I assume it was after a workout.

I don't think it was like a date.

I think they met at Pilates and then and then they were like, let's go grab a juice.

I don't think it was like.

And also they probably got two juices.

You're only you're assuming they got one and they got two straws.

Like you like, you don't think that they went to Applebee's and he said, I'll take an orange juice.

Like you think that this was a a post

oh no my head goes to like Erewhon juice where it was like 15

actually you know what come to think of it maybe they should have split it because like an arrow

juice is like 15 bucks and I'm sure they got to no they should split it but like you're thinking of like the lowest form of juice but this is this feels like next it's in the New York Post this has to be next level Wait, Ben, can I read you my notes about you?

Yeah, please.

David, read me your notes from Taylor.

Okay.

So this is from someone we work with, big fan.

This is, it says Ben, colon, and then it gives me all the info.

Okay.

So this is in me speaking.

So I'm sorry if someone.

Wife currently having a baby, Claudia.

I've already learned this.

Assistant is a huge toaster.

Okay.

Okay.

Okay.

Ben and Claudia on Ozempic always been overweight in parentheses.

Now Manjaro.

I switched.

Is this real?

Yes.

I'm just reading it.

I'm reading it like it says.

Yes.

Okay.

How is that going it's it's good lost 60 pounds

lost how many 60

60 and how long 60 pounds yeah 60 on ozempic over the course of a year and then it's like kind of i went off because we went to get pregnant and like it's just i don't know if it's true that it's harder to uh get pregnant while you're on it but i went off it and then when i went back on it it didn't work anymore so i switched to manjaro and now manjaro is working again it's grooving oh wow and then what does it do just suppress your appetite like you literally don't feel the need to eat?

No, you feel like when you're really, really fat, like I was like 280 pounds.

I'm 6'2, but I was a big dude.

And you have this constant food noise in your head, like, eat, eat, eat, eat.

And you're like, I'm full.

I don't want to eat anymore.

So it just, it just quiets like a business food noise.

Do you like loot?

Like, do you, like, do you avoid nachos now?

Like, does your brain not tell you that you're craving something fun when you're at a restaurant?

No, it still does.

And you have to be very careful because if you eat eat too many of those nachos, you're just not going to feel good.

Like it immediately, like you can have.

And that's because of the drug, right?

If you overeat.

Okay.

If you overeat, it punishes you.

Kind of punishes you.

Okay, right on.

You love to cook.

Love.

Love.

Love.

How did you start that?

Because that's something I'd love to pick up, but I'm too lazy to.

So my dad owns a catering company.

So I always was in the, in the kitchen with him.

And when everybody else sort of hopped on TikTok and was cooking, I was like, I can fucking cook like let me do this too so I started originally my page was all memes and then I pivoted from memes into

what do you mean your page is all memes that's how you started social media so I started social media boy with no job was just a meme page that's what I did no way and I yeah and I pivoted I also did meme pages did you what was your were you on kick were you on kick messaging like other meme pages for like reposts and stuff no i would do it through instagram dms though like those dark days of like let me turn private and everybody would out like shout you out and then instagram punished you for being private and said that they would like block your account or ruin your verification if you didn't turn on public again yeah we get yeah that's crazy

let me tell josh that we have the same come up story well you're missing this stuff

shoot sorry yeah josh you're missing good stuff we were in a hard q a yeah well because i have all these notes that that i've been meaning to ask and i we just got Ben loves cooking and basically he was saying that he originally started on social media as a meme page

where he was just posting you're just posting other people's videos Yeah, I got

I would make one in ten I would make one in ten Yeah, yeah, okay, right on and I also was doing the reason I moved out to LA is because I was making enough money which is like $600 a month or whatever from meme pages and I ran a page called Jack Dalinsky.

Right.

I remember that from Jack and Jack.

So do you know Jack?

Are you familiar with Jack and Jack, Ben?

No.

So

they were just like a duo on Vine.

They crushed it.

They were huge.

But Jack Galinsky, one of the Jacks, didn't have his own page.

So I would take the Jack and Jack old videos where it was mainly just Galinsky, and I would post them as if he started his own page.

And it was the most popular.

like meme page on vine for like a really long time oh my god josh you know boys of of Vine.

Maybe.

Now don't pretend like you don't.

You would revine with them all the time.

All the time.

And I know this because, so, you know, Revine for Revine on Vine was like a big thing that a lot of people looked down upon.

And I remember the moment Josh first flip it.

Everyone, this is what's going to get some views.

And I remember the first time I saw Josh do Revine for Revine because Josh was the only celebrity at the time.

on Vine.

Like kudos to Josh for being the first guy to jump on this shit, which is really fucking big deal.

And then you revine with Boys of Vine, and that's when I knew.

I'm like, Hollywood is merging with influences.

Like, that was a big fucking deal.

And I can't believe you don't remember it.

He was revining like edits of like Nash Greer and Cameron Dallas.

I'm like, you don't fucking remember.

Next episode, we're going to have on Tom from MySpace.

But yeah, that's sick that you started with meme pages, too.

Yeah, yeah.

And it was hard.

It was like a hard transitional period to pivot, but cooking and honestly, Instagram stories made it easier.

You could show your face.

Like, it just, that transition happened.

But and why did you get into cooking?

It was, it's just something that oh, just because of the catering, yeah, because it's in my blood.

Yeah, it's, it's in my blood.

I love to do it.

I'm good at it.

And it's just, it's fun.

I, I love doing it.

Damn.

Look at that.

This is incredible.

A fellow meme pager.

He's a very impressive guy.

Yeah.

Once you really peel back the layers.

Yeah.

And he's a rabbi.

Josh, we need to go into Dough Bricks and we'll make some pizza.

Let's do that.

Please help us with our cheese.

Yeah, apparently.

Maybe we do a kosher slice.

Yeah, great.

I'm on it.

Let's do it.

Yeah, just keep it away from the pepperoni.

All right, so we'll do one SpeakPipe and then we'll get to Woody and Uttar.

So SpeakPipe is people call us for advice.

They need help.

They want us to weigh in.

If you want to leave us a message, go to, where am I looking?

Speakpipe.com slash good guys.

Here's a little something from Anonymous.

Hey, good guys.

Okay, y'all might hate me because this is going to be kind of long, but I really need advice.

My fiancé and I are getting married this year and we just sent out our save the dates.

We invited a specific group of friends, except one girl, because I just really don't like her, and my fiancé is still friends with her and still wants to invite her to the wedding.

To make a long story short, but not really, they had a fling prior to me and my fiancé meeting and dating.

Me and the girl were already coworkers, and then my fiancé started working at the same place as us.

And about two weeks into us talking, I found out that they had a fling, so out of respect, I had a chat with her to make sure she was okay with us talking and to ensure she didn't have any feelings for him anymore.

She gave me the green light, we stayed friends, and even hung out multiple times.

Fast forward to three years into the relationship.

I found out that the whole first two years, she would try to make moves on my fiancé, like trying to make out with him or hold his hand or literally do anything, knowing we were dating.

Am I nuts for not wanting her at the wedding?

Because she disrespected me and our relationship?

Or is he nuts for wanting her at the wedding and not taking my feelings into consideration?

Guys are the worst.

Like, this guy is such a scumbag.

Crazy.

Like,

obviously, it's nuts that he wants her at the wedding.

Like, this poor, this girl, like, no, get that girl out of here, that homewrecking woman.

No good.

Yeah, like, halfway halfway through it i was like okay i could maybe but then when she started saying that he was making moves on or that she was making moves on him that's crazy that's like that's like completely out of the question obviously she can't come right does that is it hard for you like i i wouldn't if there was someone that my wife had been with in a previous life before i was ever around

i

i could be okay with it as long as like he didn't try to hit on her after obviously but like does that break you guys out no that's totally fine as long as he's not actively trying to sleep with her now hold on it depends on how hot this guy is.

Well, let's get back to polyamory.

So, so you're in the poly?

No, maybe.

50-50 on.

Oh, no, no, on what you were saying before.

Okay, sure, okay.

Yeah, I think to conclude that, for sure, she should not come.

And also, she should probably talk to her husband or just play this clip.

Like, that's the craziest thing, right?

Yeah, let's do one more.

It's also her wedding, like, whatever.

These are good guys.

I'm trying to think of something really fun to do for my 30th birthday.

There's just one caveat, and that's that I'm going to be seven months pregnant.

Trying to decide if I have all my friends come to town.

I can't leave town because my last baby came six weeks early.

Maybe we could rent out a bungalow at a nice hotel, pool, or should I just postpone the celebration until after baby comes and go on a trip somewhere really fun?

Would love to hear y'all's advice.

Thanks.

Love the show.

Bye.

There's only one answer.

There's only one answer, and it's Benny Hana Hibachi.

Okay,

that's the only answer.

Benny Hana, Hibachi.

You go, you see the volcano, you have a nice meal.

That's it.

But then she blows inviting her friends, though, on Beni Hana.

Not that it's not the greatest spot on earth, but I'm just saying now her friend.

It sounds like her friends have to fly in, right?

Yeah.

You can't have your friends fly in or come in for Benny Hanna.

You can't.

You don't travel for Benihana?

To be honest, I actually don't like Beni Hana.

Oh, whoa.

You know what?

I don't give a fuck anymore.

You know what?

Do you not like that?

I can't do it.

I don't like watching food being made in front of me, and I think the portions are small.

That's it.

Well, I thought you wanted to date more.

I thought you wanted to find yourself.

Not going to Beniana, that's for sure.

Good luck.

She should postpone.

I think she should postpone a whole bunch of people.

100%.

Put Betty Hannah with your casual local friends.

But you're going to give birth, like, give birth in two months, do like a 30 and a half birthday and blow it out and get shithouse and, you know, do mushrooms and live your life.

And then you don't have to worry about having a little interloper in you.

And amen.

Or you could just drink now and do mushrooms now and just see what happens.

I don't know.

I'm cutting that out.

That's a good point.

Oh, okay.

Wait.

There's just one more.

There's one more and then we're done.

And then we're done.

Hi, Josh and Ben.

Huge moron here.

I need some advice regarding my husband's best friend and his new wife.

They recently got married and I've become pretty close with the wife.

wife and she's made many comments to me that are pretty concerning.

Her husband won't share his password to his phone.

She has no access to their finances and she's even made multiple comments to me about how she doesn't really get any action if you're picking up what I'm putting down.

They're newlyweds and their experience is just so different from when me and my husband got married.

And I just overall feel like she deserves better.

And it really bothers me.

And I want to say something, but I don't know if it's my place.

So should I say something to her?

Should my husband say something to his friend?

Or is it none of my business?

And I should just leave it alone.

I tend to start with it's none of your business.

I don't like when people meddle.

The guy does seem like a jerk, though, but I don't know.

Do you guys share your passwords with your do you guys have passwords with your wives

i do and yes but but my wife doesn't she's she doesn't snoop though if she did it doesn't matter but like i do yes i think it's weird to not know like i know my wife's phone password sorry what was the question

she has full access my son and i have the same password for his ipad and my phone so yeah she has full access all the time i mean everything she said is funky but

she can't get involved.

She can't get involved, but everything she said is funky.

That's right.

Yeah.

Yep.

Funky funk.

No, I love, I love that.

Like, if I had a significant other, like, I'd want that person to be on my phone.

Yeah.

I don't know why.

It just feels like even more intimate.

It's like, wow, we're really close.

Because, like, right now, I don't give my fucking phone to anybody, but like, I'll open those gates.

Natalie?

No.

Can you get phone access?

No, Natalie literally today, she, she needed analytics for something.

And like, every time I have to go to Safari to like make sure everything's all good.

And she's like, what are you even doing on there?

I'm like,

I'm doing the standard guy things, but like, I don't want you to fucking accidentally open it.

And for some reason, she's like, I don't care.

And I'm like, you will if you see the shit.

Yeah, that search history is for no one but yourself.

Yeah, that's, that, that needs a lock.

Um, all right, so our final portion of the show is we do our what are you nuts moment of the week.

It's our gripes with people, places, and things, big or small, whatever's currently sticking in your craw.

So Ben and I will go first.

Anything that's just currently annoying you, Ben, you want to start?

Yeah, sure.

I mentioned before that I was at the spa, saw this guy naked going to the cold plunge.

That wasn't the only strange thing that happened.

I go into the steam room.

Josh, I'm looking just for a little steam.

Like 10 minutes of bliss, no problem.

The guy takes a speaker phone call.

He's taking a call on speaker in the steam room.

What are you nuts?

Get out of the steam.

Your phone also, your Galaxy S25 Ultra is going to be soaked.

Well, this brand deal goes deep.

You have no idea.

Josh, what about you?

I, as, as Ben mentioned, I was just in beautiful Vancouver, Canada, and I took my son skiing for the first time, or more appropriately,

his grandparents took him skiing.

But I'd never been.

Like, I've never had the experience.

And while it seemed lovely, skiing is what are you nuts?

First of all.

oh wow the gear i agree the gear oh i oh layers nope first of all i'm watching him going down this bunny slope i'm freezing to death i'm so cold i'm like my teeth hurt and then you go into the lodge everyone's running to the lodge get out of the snow yeah because we figured out how to wet through the storm in a huge place with kind of okay snacks skiing in general is what are you nuts very good yeah

i agree i had to choose in that moment to listen to you or think about my what are you nuts and i went with listen to you i'm sorry

i have that effect okay okay okay um oh you have so many grievances air amount i know natalie just give me one i know i have so many but what's my pet peeve do you guys do cuts do i think about it really quick yeah take your time okay okay don't even i know i have one

Come on, come on.

Give me, like, I feel like I always write down my pet peeves, and my phone didn't show up any.

Wait, let me just do one more search.

It's so funny, though.

Look at my, my notes really quick that I took on the way here.

Look at my first, what are you nuts, Dave?

Tell Ben.

Oh, what the fuck?

Speakerphone in the sauna.

He wrote that down.

You're like a magician.

I had the same experience as you, Ben.

Oh, my God.

These people are nuts.

At least, by the way, the sauna is less...

is less of a problem than the steam.

The steam for him,

like, I guess we have waterproof phones, but they're both crazy.

It's Meshuga.

And you know, I unfortunately can't shut up.

So, and he was a young kid.

He didn't look like he did MMA.

Like, he didn't have cauliflower ears.

I looked at him and I said, he got off the phone.

I said, hey, no, no, no speakerphone in the sauna.

No phone in the sauna.

Wait, you said that?

A hundred percent.

Oh, that's crazy.

It is such an invasion.

You have to be psychotic to be in a small 190-degree room with men in towels and go,

so what's the spreadsheet say like that what that said i said nothing i watched it happen and i was at the gym the other day and this guy was using the phone and he was kind of loud and it was very obnoxious to everybody around but the guy right next to him gave him dirty kept giving him dirty looks like on purpose and i almost was like in my head i was like why is he being so why is he giving so many dirty looks to this guy like fucking chill or like we're all i got it i got my what are you nuts okay okay it just came to me i

hate when people complain about babies on the plane.

I hate it so much.

It's my least favorite thing.

Like when I see a baby on a plane, I just want to go, don't worry, fucking cry all you want.

We are with you.

Cause I know, I know that's going to be me.

Like, hopefully.

It sounds like you came up with this with a team.

No, this is, I haven't mentioned this before.

I have a lot of pet peeps.

Thank you for your truth, Natalie.

Thank you for being honest and keeping him real.

But this is real.

Why?

seem what does it seem like i made it up no no no no i swear no because everyone hates babies and it's like the nastiest comment section against babies all the time like if you baby don't fly but like people have to get to places and like i can't imagine how much my skin is gonna i i already get like uncomfortable on flights i can't imagine how embarrassed i'm gonna be when i have a kid that starts crying so like i wish that whole like culture changed by the time i get to flying with my baby so maybe if this is where the pivot starts and accepting babies on flights i'll be really sick so in in four or five years, I'm ready to fly.

You started a movement.

Oh, and what are you nuts?

I don't know if I have to put that in somewhere, but yeah, that's nuts.

Give it a little oomph.

What are you, nuts?

What are you, nuts?

Yes.

What are you, nuts?

Ben, take us home.

David, thank you so much.

This was A

episode five stars.

Thanks for having me.

This was a blast.

Do you want to plug anything?

Any send people anywhere?

Go check out Jason's podcast.

Okay, go.

No, he has another one.

Oh, okay.

Like, oh, right, just go.

Go help Jason.

I've been on it.

So, you forgot it?

Like, two weeks ago was on.

No, go, go eat Dobrik's Pizza, David Dobrik, and all socials.

Thanks for having me.

Oh, and I have a podcast called Views.

Oh, my God.

That's crazy.

Okay.

Go check that out.

Yes.

Well, this episode is five stars.

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