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Ben, how are you?

I'm wonderfully sweaty, Joshua.

How are you?

So it's 84 in New York, and they've turned off the air conditioning for the rest of the year in your building, and you're dying.

I'm dying.

And look, it was going to be my wedding announce later.

I'm going to do it again because it's just like October is supposed to be a safe haven in the city.

Like the second it turns October 1st, you're supposed to see fall foliage, Josh.

You're supposed to be able to walk through, smell that, you know, that smell of East Coast air.

You crave it.

You crave it in California.

Boy, do I?

That smell, there's nothing like it.

And you have it for about two months.

Two months.

It's usually October, November.

And then December, it gets blisteringly cold and you have to run somewhere else.

But October, November, you're supposed to walk outside.

Breathe deep, smell that gorgeous air, but it's so fucking hot, it's like a swamp.

What are you nuts?

Let's all set our perfect perfect fall scene, no homo.

No.

Ooh, I love it.

It's impossible to do it, no homo.

Okay.

Good.

Perfect.

Perfect

scene.

I love a seasonal beverage, Josh.

Love it.

Okay.

So perhaps I'm drinking a nice,

I don't know, pumpkin spice latte.

I would just love for it to be calorically friendly.

This is my problem with these, okay?

I want the seasonal.

I don't want 150 grams of sugar.

I don't need that.

It's a good thing.

How do I get this?

right?

It's no good.

So, how do I get the seasonal?

So, pretend we're in this perfect moment.

We have a seasonal beverage that is also calorically friendly.

Okay.

There should be a dad with like a manjaro and Ozempic needle hanging out for the holidays.

And then all of a sudden, they see like bad guys coming around the corner and it's a pumpkin spice latte.

By the way, we will talk about it later, but I am now on name brand Zefbound Josh and I'm back.

I'm fucking back.

Thanks to me,

Johnny T.

Yeah.

Slashed prices.

I got the bad shot affordable.

So that's a part of my seasonal, that's my perfect fall.

I wake up in the morning, I take a shot at Zetbound.

From there, I get my calorically friendly, beautiful seasonal beverage, Josh.

Then layer on with me.

What are we doing here?

We're going to the park?

Do we go for a walk in Central Park?

Bro, don't get me started.

First of all, we're not in the city.

Okay.

Okay, where are we?

Let's figure out where we are.

We're in the HV, my boy.

The Hutchinson Valley.

Okay.

In, in, in, we're in fucking Larchmont.

We're in Rhinebeck.

We're at Paul Rudd's hipster candy store that no way makes a profit.

It's just a vanity project.

Okay.

In, in.

I'm in.

Okay.

Then all over it.

We're wearing red wing boots.

You've seen these boots.

Yes.

They're the true workers boots.

We're just in a plethora of browns and olives.

Okay.

Any plaids, flannels, or

we're going stylish browns, taupes, camels.

We're doing double RL Ralph lift shits.

Heard of them.

We're wearing Pendleton.

We're wearing Pendleton fucking,

yeah, plaids.

And okay, now we're walking.

So this is like Columbia, Patagonia.

I'm just trying to visualize it.

Is that that what we're looking like?

Columbia.

Patagonia?

Patagonia?

Patagonia, I feel Patagouchi.

Patagonia is like

more

outerwear.

I feel like it's more, that's more like, I'm going to go like scale Everett.

Patagonia feels like more aspen.

Maybe you're right.

Okay, no, it's Ralph Lauren.

You said it right.

It's Ralph Lauren.

It's the equestrian collection.

It's button.

And we are.

It's Taylor Stitch.

Yes.

And we're walking around Hudson Valley.

Yeah.

And what are we doing, Josh?

What are we doing?

First of all, all you're hearing is this.

Those beautiful fall leaves under those $300 boots.

Okay.

Yes.

Yes.

Then we're stopping into a cafe.

We're having a beautiful seasonal drink.

We're splitting a scone.

It's gray out.

It's so nice.

Maybe, maybe we're in Georgetown.

Maybe we're in Disease.

You know?

This is nice too.

Yes.

Then

what else?

Tell me.

What do you got?

No, no, no.

No, keep going.

I'm liking this.

Then we see a gallery.

You know, we go to the gallery.

We look at the bullshit.

Like, we act like we can't.

We don't care.

But we go, oh, nice bullshit.

And then we go near a water.

We go near a body of water.

Before the water, Josh, we're stopping at the local bookstore.

We're picking up something old, something rare, two rare books.

Okay.

We're taking these rare books to a beautiful bench overlooking the water.

And then we're jumping in.

Moby Dick, Prisoner of Ashby.

And plunging to our deaths.

Yes.

How high is this time?

Okay, cool.

Does this day end in suicide?

First, no, because first we then we separate, right?

You go off with your beautiful wife and child to have a beautiful time.

I go off.

Oh, they're here?

Okay, they're here.

I thought this was a mandate in the Hudson Valley.

I'm fine.

They're here.

They're here.

They're also.

Where have they been?

Where have they been?

Who cares?

Ruby was in daycare.

Okay, we picked up Ruby.

Ruby and Meyer were at daycare.

It's fine.

They give them more attention there.

We're busy.

They're fine.

Absolutely.

They're good.

And then I go home and I make, I canoodle with my wife under some kind of animal skin, a hide, you know.

Yes.

Yes.

And yes.

And then

I sneak in to the bathroom and

I tell my wife, oh, God, these seasonal drinks, they go right through me.

When in reality, I've relapsed.

And now I've snuck some high-grade pharmaceutical.

And I'm popping Norcos.

I'm hitting perks.

Good.

Good.

You deserve it.

You're dead.

You're like, where are you?

We're supposed to meet for dinner.

I'm like, I'll be there.

I won't be there, Ben, but I'll say it.

I'll wait probably a half hour.

Yeah.

And then I'll, and then I'll leave.

And then I draw

on bath.

Yes.

Oh, I love that bath.

It's great.

I two-day Amazon Prime, a box cutter.

No, I'm kidding.

All right, so we've attempted suicide twice, but we didn't do it.

We didn't do it.

We didn't do it.

Can we hop back?

You said we're canoodling on some animal skin, okay?

What I want to talk about is in this perfect world, is it possible to have a comfortable sheets and a comfortable comforter in this type of situation?

Because whenever I go into the world that you're talking about, maybe we're going to a cabin, Josh.

Maybe we're going into a bed and breakfast.

Okay.

I just know that I'm getting in and those sheets are scratchy.

Those comforters are itchy.

What is it about that type of rustic living environment that doesn't cater itself to anything soft?

Do you know what I'm saying?

Even in the Ralph Lauren, I'm thinking that comforter is just scratchy.

Yeah, tell me more.

And I will call out a point of privilege for both of us.

I've stayed in the wonderful Lake Tahoe, a lovely high-end place to vacation.

You, I know I've done your yearly trips to Utah.

What are those Airbnb cabin experiences like?

Oh,

the blankets, I mean, the cabins are wonderful.

You're picking a house, but everything in the house, this is what the owner doesn't want.

Okay, like, yeah, like the blankets, like I end up going to Walmart almost every year and just buying a new comforter.

Walmart is so wonderfully cost-effective.

You talk about.

what a what a savings you can get a beautiful comforter for like 50 bucks so true wonderful um i end up yeah replacing sheets, replacing pillowcases.

It's very rare that they give you something nice.

And I'm even talking just about a bed and breakfast.

Like, I've been to my share of bed and breakfasts, Josh.

And these, no matter how nice the place is, for whatever reason, itchy.

Man, have you heard the Mitch Hedberg joke where he goes, bed and breakfasts are cool, but you don't have to point me in the direction of a chair lunch dinner.

So dumb.

So good.

He's the greatest.

I'd much rather chair lunch dinner, by the way.

Bed and breakfast.

Bed and breakfasts,

they kind of stink.

Yeah.

They're really just like code for I'm owned by one person who doesn't give too much of a shit for the most part.

Like I'm.

I'm renting out my single family home and I care a little.

And then there's like the 1% of bed and breakfasts that are gorgeous, but you still, you still feel like you're paying to stay in somebody's house.

Totally.

It's weird.

It's weird.

I don't want to pay to stay in your house.

I want to pay to stay in a hotel.

If I'm in your house, I hope I'm staying for free.

I made this indie movie when I was 20 years old called, oh, we need to talk about indie movies that I've seen.

Continue though.

Not yet, though.

We got them, guys.

We guilted them.

Keep going.

They keep going.

It was called American.

Originally, they changed the name, but originally it was called American Primitive.

And it was this cool idea, this story.

The director had grown up on Cape Cod, and she wrote the story about like growing up in the 70s and 80s with two fathers.

And at that time, how it certainly was more of a new thing and challenging with just sort of the people's ideas of what was in quotes like acceptable behavior, especially in an enclave like Cape Cod, which is sort of removed from society in certain respects.

So we stayed in Dennis, Cape Cod, which was beautiful, this lovely bed and breakfast that was run by this older couple the problem was i was like fully 20 and this couple were fully like you're not working on a movie you're staying in our home and so yeah i would be like and like i jerry and judy they were the greatest like this couple was i cannot tell you what salt of the earth beautiful people were here but you know i'm 20 so i'm of course selfish and i like want to go to the gym and jerry's like sit down come over.

We're going to have some coffee.

And I'm like, Jerry, I got to go work out.

Please.

But

that was one of those funny experiences where I remember three weeks into the movie with two weeks left, we're doing a night shoot and everyone's like, I think I'm hearing we ran out of money.

And I'm like, really?

And they're like, yeah, I think we're going to shut down tonight.

I was like, the movie's not done.

They're like, doesn't matter.

And

they made the announcement at like four in the morning, like, well, everyone, you can go home.

Movie's over.

We ran out of money.

And

we finished it like a year later and it didn't quite match up.

Ugh, that's like straight out of entourage.

That's

crazy.

Terrible.

Terrible.

Especially because like you're there, you're ready to act.

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But speaking of wonderful indies, if you have not seen The Wackness, folks, this is a wonderful movie.

Our great Josh was excellent in it.

And let me say, you look really the same.

You look incredibly handsome in that movie.

Thank you.

You have not aged.

You really haven't.

You have not aged.

You have not aged.

And the trials and tribulations of the young drug dealer.

Let me tell you, Josh, I didn't need to see you having sex.

I'm sorry.

Especially sitting next to my wife.

What was her reaction?

We're sitting next to each other.

We're like, oh my God, that's Josh's ass.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

He's pumping into a woman.

So good.

Oh, my God.

But it was.

I have a naked shower scene in it.

Yes, you do.

Sorry.

Yes, you're very naked.

And

it was very, very, very good.

And I enjoyed it tremendously.

Thank you.

And whoever that guy who stole your girl, fuck him.

What was his name?

What actor is that?

His name's Aaron Yu, I think is his name.

Great actor, nice guy, but a despicable character.

Despicable.

So nasty.

Like, just robbing you of

your woman.

It was terrible.

What a terribly sad scene at the end.

Josh is just there.

He wants to see the love of his life, or who he thinks is the love of his life.

She's been taken by this man.

And Josh just drifts off into what seems like a bender for the ages.

That last scene with Kingsley just getting fucking

just

jacked up on everything.

And that, honestly, that scene, that's the best scene in the movie.

I'm sure that it's meant to be that.

But like that scene where...

He's just getting high as a kite and you go in.

And then you think he's going to commit suicide in the ocean.

ocean and he doesn't i loved it it was awesome thank you and not only did i love it folks but the great martin scorsese loved it tell them josh wow no tarantino what did i say scorsese what's the difference nothing two people that i'll never meet nothing two people that i'll never meet that are so epic and i think their comments would have meant the same tarantino's much cooler though actually much cooler in regards to your film and it makes a lot more sense he makes films like a little bit more in the image of what you created.

Scorsese.

Yes.

Yeah, a little bit more on brand, but yeah.

Wonderful movie.

So now, Olivia, break out the Spritz Society.

Josh is going to chug one on camera.

Yeah,

yes.

Relapse.

Relapse.

Relapse.

Let's go.

Throw it out the window.

I'm so down.

That's great.

Thank you.

I appreciate it.

I'm so glad that I guilted you into watching it.

But I changed the world too.

I saw it.

I loved it.

And it's the perfect length, Josh.

It's the perfect length.

If you're worried about watching a movie, 90 minutes.

This is the perfect length of a movie.

No more of these two hour, two and a half hour, three hour.

People are making movies too long, Josh.

Wicked, three hours, twice?

Ashunda.

I mean, nuts.

Nuts.

No good.

We don't need it.

Don't need it.

It's,

you know, the 90-second pitch for that movie was I'd finished Drake and Josh.

I'd made that movie Mean Creek where where I'm cursing out the kids in the boat, and that had gotten great reaction.

So I knew that I like, I just, I loved indie movies because I loved watching them.

And then

Sir Ben Kingsley, the great Sir Ben, was, I mean, this guy won an Oscar for Gandhi.

He was in my favorite movie, Searching for Bobby Fisher, another great New York film.

Schindler's List, of course, Sexy Beast.

My number one favorite actor.

This is like if Ben's first Food Network show was with Aina.

It's just,

it's beyond.

It's like, it's like if Ben had a threesome with Aina and Jalen Brunson.

Oh my God, what a dream.

So it's my favorite actor.

I auditioned for the movie.

I'm like, there's no way I'm going to get this.

You don't start with your favorite.

And I remember my manager called.

He's like, are you sitting down?

And I got the movie and we shot for six weeks in New York, Wildcast, Method Man, Mary Kate Olson, Ben Kingsley.

And it was funny because I'd heard from people before we started filming.

They're like, you know,

Ben Kingsley, like Elton John, like Paul McCartney, like all these people, like Chris Snolin, they are knighted by the Queen of England.

So

they have earned the title of sir.

Most of them are like, don't call me sir.

I had heard through the grapevine that Sir Ben Kingsley prefers the sir.

So that's what I called him.

And people were like, did you ever not say it?

And I'm like, no, but I did see other people not say it.

And I did see Sir Ben's assistant come up and be like, it's Sir Ben.

You know, Sir Ben.

I should go by Sir Ben.

Yeah, what would you do?

Like, if you, if you were introduced, would you be like, Sir Ben, I'm, you know, Senor Ben.

I don't know what you'd say.

Yeah, Sir Ben.

I'm Sir Ben.

Yeah.

We are each other.

We are Simpatigo.

By the way, I would lie.

I've been knighted by the queen.

What are you going to fucking fact check?

You're going to call her?

Please.

They'd be like, I'm Sir Ben.

You're American.

I'm Sir Ben.

Who cares?

Wait, Josh, I had one thought.

Yeah.

So this movie, for those of you that haven't seen it, all about drugs.

The entire movie is about drugs.

Yeah.

Was this before or after you got sober?

This is a really interesting movie.

Because the timing of it, I could be wrong, but the timing of it seemed very

on, like, did this movie,

yeah, you tell me.

I got sober in February of 2008 when I was 21.

And we made it in the summer of 2007.

So it was like right at the

sort of, as I was coming down from the peak of my use.

And it's very interesting because I was being a total cliche.

And I remember I booked the movie and I was like, I have to be sober to do this.

I cannot mess this up.

I can't do what I did on the Judd Appetown movie and not show up on time and be unreliable.

So, I just made a deal with myself.

I was like, I will just smoke weed after filming.

Like, that will be my indulgence and everything else, all the other, you know, devil's dandruff and whatnot, and the drinking, and the stinking, and the ups and downers, and ins and outers, and

juke and jivers, and bobs and weavers will have to wait.

And you know what?

I did it perfectly and I didn't miss a day or a thing.

And I will never forget three days before we were about to be done filming, my friend Len

flew in from LA to New York and I knew he was going to bring some stuff because at the time we were both out of our minds.

And the night of filming on the last day, I'll never forget a voice in my head with about three hours till rap said,

we did it.

We did it.

That's how insidious the disease is.

Yeah.

And the moment we finished, I went and found, and I'm calling him out now, but it's 20 years later and I hope he's doing better.

I went and found the craft service guy who he and I had been making eye contact the whole movie.

And I was like,

you're like me, huh?

And he was like, I am like you.

And we can talk about it.

Yeah, you get me.

Can you fetch me a bologna sandwich and an eight ball, please?

Exactly right.

Yeah.

And so just cut to three minutes after wrap, me and this really nice Dutch craft service guy in his van.

Up

out of our minds.

And that was,

and

then I'll stop talking about the whackness because I'm sure people are like, it was 15 years ago.

Get over it.

No, but it's no, but it's interesting, especially this part.

Like you're watching it and you're so publicly sober and the whole movie is about doing and selling drugs.

And the timing of it is just so, it's so interesting.

I don't like, I think that makes it more interesting.

Yeah, no, I, I think so too.

And I, I,

it is correlated because

January, the movie goes to Sundance.

It was my dream to have a movie at Sundance that I was like a big part of.

And to your point, the movie, uh, the movie premieres.

Tarantino's in the audience.

He comes up.

He congratulates us on how much he liked it.

The third day at the biggest theater in Park City, Utah, I think it was called the Equus.

It's like 1,500 people.

We're sitting there.

The credits start rolling and my manager, Sam, whispers into my ear, he goes, they're standing.

And we turn around and it's a standing ovation.

And we're just like, oh my God.

And I just remember going,

oh no, Josh is still here.

And by that, I mean, I woke up the next morning and I imagined that once I got to this moment, this level of career success, that that shitty committee in my mind, all those things that had always plagued me would just go away because I had like reached this imaginary finish line.

And of course, it didn't solve anything because it was all, it was an inside job.

It was an inside job.

And two weeks later, I got sober.

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It's a great, just like life lesson in general that

I think that we all sort of wait for things to happen or think we can time things perfectly so that this thing can happen and this thing can change.

And like you can't, like you just got to just change now or try to.

Like waiting, you always hear, it's like, oh, I'm going to wait to do that until this happens.

Right.

And it's like, or what?

You're not going to do it then.

You do it now.

Totally.

I'm such a procrastinator.

That's why I can relate to that.

It's like the smallest fucking things.

Like I'm looking at my socks on the floor.

It's like, yeah, I'll put them in the laundry later.

Do it now.

But do you think?

Do it now, you fucking lazy asshole.

Do you also think, though, because you're so high achieving in certain areas that there's like a level of balance?

Like you have to be bad at putting your laundry away because you do so well in like business and other

areas.

Maybe.

I definitely could use organization across the board.

I am

I'm just like a I have so much going on in my brain at all times.

And I have so much going on on a day-to-day in different buckets that I could really, really use organization.

And the only times in my life where I have true panic attacks are where I go three months without organizing my thoughts.

And it literally takes me like an hour.

If I just take a pen and paper and I write down everything that's going on in my brain, it's almost like a brain cleanse and I can breathe again.

But I will reach that point.

It's like all of these things are being held here and I need to remove them from here, put them here and make room for new things.

But that's just the way that my brain works.

It gathers information and it needs to

excrete.

It's a little gross.

I mean, I know you mean I need to shit it out.

I need to shit it out once a quarter.

Yeah, you need a mental cleanse.

Do you do that?

Do you do that too?

Yeah, I, you know, they would say about a business that a business that doesn't take regular inventory will go out of business, right?

And I believe that to be true with what's going on mentally, that there needs to be an inventory, what's selling, what ain't, what's expired, what needs to go.

And, and I think that, and I don't take my own advice, but my friend Ravi,

great actor, filmmaker, Ravi Patel, he told me this once.

He goes, you know, I go to couples counseling with my wife at least four times a year.

He said, because

the state of California only looks at our marriage as a business, right?

Like our marriage license means my wife and I have entered into a business together and we're both on the hook.

All the meaningful romantic stuff has nothing to do with that marriage license that you go get at the courthouse.

He's like, so if my wife and I have started a business in the eyes of California,

our quarterly check-ins with the couples counselor are our board meetings.

And it's just us talking about like for the health of this business, aka our marriage, what do we want?

What are our goals for the rest of the year?

What, you know, how can we be better for each other?

What, you know, getting very clear the way you would with a business.

And I think that that.

At least in my experience, like I can get into a lot of like, you should have just known that.

You should have read my mind.

I want you to be better, but I don't know how to say it.

I need, you should just know what I need, even though I'm totally not communicating that correctly.

I think we can all benefit from that.

Agreed.

Across the board.

Right.

Yeah.

Do you think the wonderful Claudia, who I look up to in the way of, and we joke about it sometimes, you said on another episode.

how you asked her to film something for you and she's just like, no.

But

do you think that's part of her high achieving greatness too, is that she's really good at focusing in on what she wants to give time to and then just gives no time to the things that are not important?

I think that she is really, really great.

I think she works incredibly hard.

That's the first thing.

Yeah.

I think that she is the polar opposite of what I just said I am, which is what makes us a perfect match.

She is so unbelievably organized.

She otherwise, like the way that I said that I'll reach a three-month point where I'll be so disorganized in my brain that I need to vomit it out.

She does that every day.

Every single day, she writes out exactly what she needs to do.

She knows exactly what needs to get done and she just checks it off

every single day.

Like she is the most proactive, the most

prepared.

I am the most reactive.

Again, these are different skill sets.

It helps me because if something goes wrong, I don't panic and I can solve it, which I think helps me in business and helps me in life.

That said, I make myself sick because I have that ability.

I make myself sick on the other side.

And because she has that ability, she's not great in that situation where she needs to react to something that wasn't a part of her overall plan.

Gotcha.

Does that make sense?

Yeah.

But

yeah, I also...

Just for the record, if I ask her to film something, she ends up filming it.

She's good.

She's good about it.

She'll give me a hard time at first.

But yeah, if I say, please, she'll say, okay.

She's like, do I really need to try this chili again?

Yes, the first take didn't.

I forgot to record.

Perfect.

It's like my wife.

Well, we do have a new segment on the show called

You Having a Good Day?

How about now?

I have one.

You having a good day?

Niamh Shulman from Catfish is now a realtor.

How about now?

What?

Our friend?

The great Niamh Shulman.

This set me up for an easy layup of our segment, but I have to say, I give him a lot of respect.

I don't think he's done with his entertainment career, but he posted on his social media that he's interested in high-end realty in New York.

He has an office at a really fancy place.

And I think that is so fucking dope to be able to like do something not connected to entertainment.

Pivot, I love it too.

That's fantastic.

Yeah.

Isn't that cool?

I love it for Niamh.

There are a lot of people that are just slipping into real estate.

The great Tyler Cameron, who we should have on the show, I'm realizing we haven't had, and he would 100% come on as a guest.

He randomly, not randomly, but he decided, okay, I'm going to pivot my career into construction.

And now he's a realtor for Sir Hant, who we should also have on the show.

Two good guests.

Yeah, no, Sirhant would do it all day, any day.

We should have them both.

Very interesting.

They're both interesting, I think.

Yeah,

real estate is the oldest profession, Josh.

Is it?

I thought it was prostitution.

It might be prostitution.

I think it's prostitution.

But how do you end up prostituting if you have nowhere to prostitute in?

Sure.

And what's the most valuable real estate?

Yao body.

True.

True.

Should we get to a story really quick?

Yes.

Well.

I want you to know that there is a special type of idiot running the Taco Bell Ultra Marathon where competitors eat at the chain nine times during the race.

Move over, Duncan.

America runs on Taco Bell or at least a certain subset of iron-gutted ultra runners does.

On October 5th, about 1,200 registrants are expected to toe the line at the eighth annual international Taco Bell 50k Ultra Marathon, a queasy urban adventure that challenges the quads and the colon in equal measure.

Oh my god.

The Denver-based race, which is neither endorsed nor affiliated with Taco Bell Corporate, okay,

invites what one participant calls a special type of idiot to run the 31-mile course and eat it nine out of 10 Taco Bells along the way.

Sick.

31 miles and 10 Taco Bells.

Hell yeah.

That actually sounds like the hardest thing ever.

Yeah.

Can you imagine that, Josh?

So what is that?

That's four miles per Taco Bell, Wickmath, something like that.

You eat Taco Bell, you run four miles.

You run four miles.

You eat Taco Bell.

It's really like three, three points.

What if you have to take a shit?

What if you have to take a shit?

In the Taco Bell?

That's actually nice, right?

Because a lot of marathoners will have to do it in Port-a-Potties.

And that sounds horrible.

I'll say it now.

I'm never going in a Port-a-Potty for the rest of my life.

Port-a-potties are the ultimate what are you nuts.

They're fucking disgusting.

It doesn't need to be like this.

It would be better if we were outside, Josh.

Why is there no ventilation?

that's the problem it's like a hot box of your own

but some of them flush and then some of them are just pits

yeah no i'm talking about i'm talking about the pit i'm not talking about the flush that's already a level up and you can get to nice porta potties they exist the ones that don't flush

it josh picture it it's 2014 you're at some music festival you hear a great oot oons oons oh my god your stomach hurts and you have to run to the port-a-potty and you are just licking your wounds in there.

You're fighting for your life.

You can't breathe.

There's a huge line to get into.

You watch that girl get out before you, and you know she just did nasty.

Yeah.

Those mealy shits.

Yeah, it's yucky in there.

Yucky.

Ew.

Ew is right.

Psilocybin poops.

Yucky, yeah.

Port-a-potty's no good.

No bueno.

So, yeah, I guess that is an added benefit of the Taco Bell.

That said, it's really rough on the Taco Bells.

Like each time you have 31 people that are all using the restroom.

Totally.

Yucky.

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Can you imagine, though, like having to subsist only on Baja Blast for your hydration?

No, I can't.

Back to calorically friendly.

Yeah.

Like AP gun.

I would fall asleep.

I would fall asleep.

i couldn't i can say confidently that this is a challenge that i could not do with the way that my body and brain works with food

yeah i would have to walk yeah i'd have to walk my wife who's or i or i'd cheat like i did in the 5k i'd cheat i'd go from the first to the 30th you did i did it

i draw a straight line it's fine it was only for charity um yeah it was fine what was it 3.3 miles i really ran what do you think i ran two three

23.5?

I cut off that loop.

It was so unnecessary.

Like, it was the equivalent of you're on the first floor and there's an escalator to go up to two to come back down to one.

You needed to be on one the whole time.

Why am I going up to come back?

Give me a different scenery.

It didn't make any sense.

It's two bears.

It's their fault.

Two bears, one cave.

I just threw away that medal in the move.

Can you believe I kept it?

What am I nuts?

Oh, yeah, I got rid of that quick.

You can't keep stuff like that when you're over a certain age.

Memorabilia from a run that you cheated on?

Like, what are they doing keeping that?

You should try to cheat on it by yourself.

Totally.

This is myself.

I should run the marathon.

Should I run the New York City marathon and cheat?

Fuck yeah.

Like, I just like have, I have like an elite time and nobody knows.

Like, I complete it in like, like, literally two and a half hours.

Like, I'm a Haitian.

Like, like, I, like, literally, I win.

What if I won?

Is it?

Wow.

And at two hours, 15 minutes, is he from Nairobi?

No, Nyak.

That would be hysterical.

You're in full pink spandex spritz.

Yeah.

And just killing it.

And I win.

It'd be so good.

Should we get to more on mail

more on mail

if you want to leave us a message get some advice go to speakpipe.com slash good guys and leave your email if we want to do a follow-up you might just get to be on the show that's right we're doing live call-ins on the show regularly now

uh this we're scared we're scared of them but we're doing them semi-regularly maybe regularly

I don't know.

Who knows?

I want to.

I'm scared of these people.

Me too.

I'm scared.

Like, Like, we're going to have a call in later today, our first one.

I'm fucking scared.

I'm scared.

Like,

all right, we'll see.

Let's just agree that if they're not good, we're just going to gloves off.

We're just going to be ruthless.

Shame.

Shame, shame, shame.

You are going to be so unbelievably nice.

So am I.

There isn't, it is impossible for us to be mean to somebody who calls into the show, and that's going to be the problem.

Well, I'm going to be able to be too nice.

Let me tell you, I'm going to be able to be mean to Allie.

Here's from Allie.

Hi, good guys.

I'm a toaster turned moron who is obsessed with y'all.

And I need your help figuring out if my husband is a compulsive liar because I might have just accidentally found that out on a Friday morning.

I was running an errand for work and I was in my car for a second.

And I was like, I'm just going to call him and see what's up.

But I'm like a prankster at heart and just like like to mess around with people.

And so when he picked up, I was just like hey sorry I missed your call even though he hadn't called me I was just like messing with him getting in his mind and then he was like oh like I did I call you and I was like yeah and he was like uh oh like I didn't mean to sorry I thought I hung up in time and then I was like wait what he did call me and then I was like oh well who are you trying to call and he said like the dentist which makes sense because he had said it was on his list to make an appointment that day.

Whatever.

Like the point is, then I'm like, hey, you're lying.

Like, I know you're lying because I didn't have a best call from you.

I was just fucking with you.

And then he just started laughing.

And I was like, why would you lie about something so small like that?

And he was just like, I don't know.

Like, I just, and he just, like, laughing.

And I'm like, obviously, it's like funny and small, but like, wait, is he a compulsive liar?

Like, what?

I know.

I was

having a heart attack.

I was like, I'm not going to get a background, but also, should I be concerned?

I'm having a heart attack.

First, Allie, let's start with, thank you for being a listener.

Love you.

That said, I just had a heart attack listening to that.

Totally.

You are, you are, like, what you are perceiving as a game is like mental warfare.

Like, like,

you saying, is my husband a compulsive liar?

after calling him and lying to him is some type of crazy twisted shit.

Yeah.

Like you literally called to him and made something up, which is the same thing as a lie.

Like you said, I called you, but you didn't.

So you lied to him.

And then he is probably just so scared of you.

It sounds to me like he fear lies.

He's just scared of you.

Like he's not lying because he's a compulsive liar.

He's lying because he's scared of you and your reaction.

Fucking terrified.

You scared him.

So I think he doesn't have a compulsion problem.

He has a fear problem.

Right.

And I think you need to cut your husband some slack.

Listen, relationships are all about compromise.

You're married to someone who lies sometimes and he's married to someone who calls himself a prankster at heart.

Which is a liar.

It's a liar.

Grow up.

There's two wars going on, hon.

By the way, way more than two wars.

We're just focused on two yeah like there's two million like get allie this was such a mistake

oh god look at my pits

allie are you pranking ben with those pit stains it's so hot in here if you're not watching on youtube you're missing out they smell great though don't worry but it's hot in here yeah allie i'm sorry look you sound like a fine young lady sure you're great thank you for being a listener but you really did scare me with this speak pipe.

Totally.

I would really like internalize what you're saying

because it sounds like you're gaslighting the shit out of your husband for fun and then getting angry at him when he's defensive.

No good.

Oof.

Did that also send a shiver down your spine?

I hated hearing that.

Yep.

I hated it.

Olivia, did you hate it?

I didn't care for that.

I did not care for that.

And Olivia likes everything.

No.

My God, I'm just noticing, Olivia, your socks are sick.

Oh, thank you.

My friend Laura got them for me for my birthday.

Thank you, Laura.

Holy crap.

What's all going on?

We missed your birthday again.

No,

yeah, you did.

Should we get to our speak pipe?

Yeah.

Wow.

Just.

Okay, I'm good.

I didn't like that.

Well, while Ben takes the nitroglycerin, I'll introduce what are you nuts.

It's our gripes with people, places, and things, both big and tall, whatever is sticking currently in.

okay wait

you said let's get the speak pipes let's get your wedding in it it's big and small oh

big and tall yeah oh darn thank you oh it's fun

with with this is our big and tall segment called speak pipes

i love it i love it

whatever is big and tall and sticking in your craw it's your one whatever big and tall and sticking in your ass

the other day i was uh i sometimes i i love wearing my Apple Watch Ultra.

I want the number three.

It's so sick.

But I wear my Apple Watch because I try to,

on the weekends, because I try to put my phone away and just have the watch on for, you know, obviously got to count the steps, but just for like the important stuff.

This way I'm not scrolling Instagram all weekend while I'm with my kids.

And I was laying with my

son, putting him to bed, and I got up and it said, congratulations, you hit your standing goal.

Like, congrats, you stood up.

And I felt like Brendan Frazier in the whale.

Like,

congrats, Vato.

Like, oh my gosh, you stood.

Like, I just imagine people looking at their watch, going, Oh,

I gotta do this for my watch.

Congratulations.

I closed the ring.

That's funny.

I think I'd have a panic attack if I wore one of those.

I can't do it.

I don't want to know that much information.

Fair enough.

They're fun.

Okay, so maybe I should do it.

Maybe I need a little more action.

Okay, Josh, I have a woody nuts.

It's about a celebrity.

Can I name this celebrity by name?

Try it.

And Olivia will sleep it if not.

Okay, let's try it.

So I went to dinner last night.

You know what?

I'm going to say the celebrity's name, but I'm not going to say where I ate.

How about that?

I went to dinner last night, and I was sitting across from Channing Tatum.

By the way,

this is a plus list celeb.

Channing Tatum's there with three other people at the table.

We get there.

They're on dessert.

Okay, we're just ordering.

They ordered four slices of cake, Josh.

Okay.

Or maybe they were gifted by the restaurant because it's Channing Tatum.

Four slices of cake show up, one for each person.

This is a delicious coconut.

You're right, Cyprian.

We all know you're at Cyprian.

No, no, no.

No, that's the meringue cake, Josh.

This is a good clue.

If you know where the famous coconut cake is from, then you'll know the restaurant that I'm talking about.

Okay.

Four slices of unbelievable coconut cake, one in front of each person.

Five minutes later, Josh, they all get up.

Not one single bite from one person, all four pieces completely untouched.

Woody nuts?

You can't even try.

Like,

not one, I guess it's more than a woody nuts.

It's the self, the ability to not indulge, the self-restraint on all four of those people, not to have a single bite of cake, a single bite of cake, but also just like a complete woody of nuts.

four untouched pieces of cake.

I thought it was crazy.

I don't know.

I thought it was nuts.

Well, clearly they didn't order them.

So it was a gift from the restaurant.

From the establishment.

Which was so nice, but

I respect the hustle.

I couldn't do it either.

I would have had to have just a taste.

One bite.

Not one person had one bite.

I think it's also a woody nuts that I was looking to see who ate what, who ate the cake.

I'm a little sick.

It's me too.

It just goes to show that you and I, Ben, we don't give a fuck.

Because obviously those three sycophants around Mr.

Tatum were like, oh, Channing's not.

We better better not like the morale you're right you're right they you're right that's what it was i would have been like yo ct you up bro like enjoy that six pack homie like did you

i would have said are you are you channing are you gonna eat that i'll eat his yeah of course why not no cake should go to waste Josh, this episode, if this isn't five stars, I don't know what it is.

This is five stars.

Otherwise, what are you nuts?

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Thank you.

Five stars from Beef A1.

Love ya.

Beef A1.

What a name.

Yeah, five stars.

Otherwise, what do you announce?

We'll catch you Mondays and Thursdays, folks.

And Josh, we will see you

next time.

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