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Speaker 1 The following podcast is a Dear Media production.

Speaker 2 the good guys.

Speaker 1 Mazamorans, welcome back to the Good Guys podcast. Ben, I got something real big happening this weekend.

Speaker 2 Ooh, what's happening?

Speaker 1 A Mr.

Speaker 2 Shai Peck's birthday. 30th birthday.

Speaker 2 Happy, beautiful birthday, Mr. Shai.
That is absolutely gorgeous news. Yeah.
Where are we doing it?

Speaker 2 What are we doing?

Speaker 2 Well, and am I invited? Because I'll be there.

Speaker 1 I know. You will.

Speaker 2 Do you want to come? Yes. Yay.

Speaker 2 Yes, I'm coming.

Speaker 1 That would be amazing. It's on Sunday.
If you can come, that would be so great.

Speaker 2 I 100% will be there.

Speaker 1 Amazing. I will be there.

Speaker 2 Where are we doing it? Are we doing Charles Entertainment Cheese again?

Speaker 1 Charles Entertainment Cheese Walshai is a big fan, and we did do that for Max's birthday. We are doing it in a little enclave of California.
It's like Carmel, Santa Barbara, El Segundo.

Speaker 1 It's south south of the airport.

Speaker 1 No, it's super cute. And a big fan of yours, our dear friend Libby and her husband Tommy owned an event space called Arena House, which is incredible.
If you're in L.A.

Speaker 1 and you need like a dope indoor, outdoor event space, the best. And so we're going to do it there.
I don't want to brag, but we have some entertainment.

Speaker 1 A young person named Megan the Bubbaologist.

Speaker 2 I thought you were going to say Megan the Stallion. I'm like, like, what kind of fucking event are you throwing?

Speaker 1 We got Megan the Stallion, Megan McCain, Megan Markle.

Speaker 2 It's the Megan's.

Speaker 2 We just got three

Speaker 2 ass Megan's.

Speaker 1 And we have a sick bounce house from my friend in the Valley who

Speaker 1 he's got a bounce house hustle. He's the greatest.
And I'm going to give him a shout out next week because I don't exactly know what his company's called.

Speaker 1 But follow him on IG, even though you don't know where to go.

Speaker 2 He's the best.

Speaker 2 That sounds epic. I will be there.
Yeah. And I'm going to talk to Claude and hopefully me and Ruby, Claude can show up.

Speaker 1 Finally, I get to kiss that little roobster.

Speaker 2 You're going to meet him. So, yeah, folks, I'm coming to LA.
This good guy's in person. We are going to be.
banging out the apps. It's going to be fantastic.

Speaker 2 Coming down for like, for, for a while, right? Like, it's going to be fantastic. and we're gonna film and we're gonna hang and

Speaker 2 it's it's just so exciting i haven't been to la in a minute i haven't been to la

Speaker 2 when was the last time i was in la

Speaker 1 sometime you were gonna come in for the drake interview but then you got a a a serious sinus infection terrible terrible you would have been that was

Speaker 2 at that height that was at those level of sinuses that was a year ago i haven't been to la in a year no that was

Speaker 2 and it's okay was I there?

Speaker 2 I feel like I still haven't been to L.A. in a year.

Speaker 1 Yeah, definitely. You haven't been to Lawrence.

Speaker 2 Since Claude got pregnant, I definitely haven't been to L.A.

Speaker 2 How about that? How about that? Holy crap. Well, I'm going to be in L.A.

Speaker 2 And I can't wait. And we're going to eat like kings and we're going to celebrate birthdays and we're going to podcast and it's going to be fantastic.

Speaker 1 Lay it out for what does it look like? Because I don't, I've never, I've never had access to you. You never had access to me.

Speaker 1 And in a regular hanging out way, it's, I'm in New York for two days, you're in LA for two days, or we're at the Rose and Shingle for two hours.

Speaker 2 You know, what's it going to look like?

Speaker 2 What does regular access to me look like? Regular access to me looks like breakfasts, lunches. I'm a big mealtime person.
Okay. We set up meals.
You want to meet me at a diner on Route 66?

Speaker 2 for a quick omelet at 7.30? I'm game. Okay.
That's what regular access to me looks like. I love a morning.
I love a walk. Okay.
A walk and chat. I'm a big walk and chat guy.

Speaker 1 Would you do another hike with me? Last time I took you hiking at Fryman Canyon?

Speaker 2 I would certainly do another hike with you.

Speaker 2 That was a lovely time.

Speaker 2 And yeah, I, that, that's, that's really meals are what, what I look like. Maybe a movie.
We could catch, we could catch a film. I would love to go to a concert.
I'm a big concert goer.

Speaker 2 If there's something that I want to listen to out there, that would be wonderful. But yeah, dinners, dinners, breakfasts, lunches, food.

Speaker 2 Yeah,

Speaker 1 I can see that. I have a fabulous live sporting event that you might, knowing you, you might look at me and be like, what are you nuts? But it is so Josh coated.

Speaker 1 And I just went for the first time with Max two weeks ago. And it was the,

Speaker 1 like,

Speaker 1 second only. To me sitting courtside at the Orlando Magic Game.
Don't mean to brag.

Speaker 2 Sam.

Speaker 1 In Orlando. That was the only time being on the wood like that, I was like, this is the greatest sporting experience you can have.

Speaker 2 It is.

Speaker 1 Because you never get that close. Even if you're, even if you're on the glass in hockey, you're never that close.

Speaker 2 That said, they could create a little more elbow room. Would you agree?

Speaker 1 I mean, I've never been courtside, so I was like, this is amazing.

Speaker 2 No, I didn't have. I've only been once as well.
And I just remember, I've told this story. My, all of my limbs were unloading on Michael J.
Fox to the point that he basically called me fat. Okay.

Speaker 2 I had no room. I had no room.
He's like, can you move your leg? I'm like, no, my leg. I haven't told you this story.

Speaker 1 No, tell us.

Speaker 2 I was invited by the same lovely man once a year that will give me the beautiful Montclair's. Yes.
I was invited by him to sit courtside.

Speaker 1 For Steph Curry's game, right?

Speaker 2 For Steph Curry's game. And sitting to my left was Michael J.
Fox. And I, they're just, they're very tight.
Like I was sitting like this, but my shoulders are wider than the seat.

Speaker 2 And my legs were wider than the seat. And Michael was just like, can you move your fat leg? And I'm like, no,

Speaker 2 I, I'm trying. Like, I can't.
You're talking about my hip. I can't move my hip over.
Like, it's there. But yeah, they're a little bit snug.

Speaker 2 Maybe the, maybe the magic ones aren't as snug.

Speaker 1 Ben's so out of it. He looks at his buddy.
He's like, hey, restless leg over here. He's like, yes, Parkinson's.

Speaker 2 Oh, my God.

Speaker 3 That's funny. Shout out the great Michael J.

Speaker 1 Fox. What a legend.
Beyond legendary.

Speaker 1 The greatest.

Speaker 2 Legend. And wow, does he have legendary fucking seats? Imagine having those to every game.

Speaker 2 Do you think, though, that you, I think that actually might be one, one thing that doesn't get old? I think a lot of those experiences do get old.

Speaker 2 I feel like having season tickets court side to the New York Knicks or the Orlando Magic and watching that level of skill that up close all the time, I feel like that doesn't get old.

Speaker 1 The only way I would push back on that is that old, terrible saying, show me a hot girl and I'll show you a guy who's tired of sleeping with her.

Speaker 2 Have you heard of this?

Speaker 2 Yes,

Speaker 2 I have. Yes, yes.
And it's the best things get old. Terrible.
We hate it.

Speaker 1 I just think that people are like

Speaker 1 the greatest things on earth. Like people could get an ick from caviar.
Like, I'm sure that game 30 into, what do they have, like, 40 home games usually?

Speaker 2 40 home games. I guess my thought is that like they're against different teams.
Every game is different.

Speaker 2 Yeah, like there's, they're so...

Speaker 2 Like eating caviar tastes the same every time. That girl or that guy, you know what? Let's switch it so people don't give a shit.

Speaker 1 Yes. Okay.

Speaker 2 Even fucking the hottest dude gets boring.

Speaker 2 Really?

Speaker 2 Like, yeah, like... Randy.

Speaker 2 Yeah, that's because, that's because he doesn't change his positions, Josh. He just does the same thing.
He's plow-mode all the time.

Speaker 1 Hot dudes are not generous lovers. It's betas like me and Ben.
Yeah, we're generous.

Speaker 1 We're trying. Ben's trying to win.

Speaker 2 I'm trying to win. I'm trying to win the game.
But the game of basketball always changes. That's the only reason why I feel like it could be consistently exciting.

Speaker 2 It would certainly ruin, you can never sit anywhere else ever again. If you have season tickets courtside to a basketball team, you can't sit anywhere else ever again.
No good.

Speaker 2 It ruins it for you.

Speaker 1 It's the really, the greatest thing about being that close is hearing the players talk and how much the coaches, I was surprised, talk to the referees more than their own players.

Speaker 1 Because at that point and my friend who plays basketball was explaining to me he's like it's as much managing the refs at this level he's like what are you gonna tell lebron to go into into a two three defense he's like yeah these guys know what they're doing like it's about managing the refs yeah and trying to make sure that they stay on your side because there's real favoritism certainly You'll see it across the board.

Speaker 2 Like home calls are a real thing. Crowd calls are a real thing.
Refs hate certain players. That's a real thing.

Speaker 2 Like, if you look down the lines, it's like, oh, this ref calls so many more calls against this player because this player is a dick to him, probably.

Speaker 2 Like, it's, it's real. So the coach controls those expectations.
It's crazy or those outcomes or tries to control those outcomes. God, the game of basketball.
So sick.

Speaker 1 I know. Sick.

Speaker 2 Well, am I, wait, when does the season start? Can we catch a Laker game? Sure.

Speaker 1 You'll be here for a Laker game.

Speaker 2 Yes.

Speaker 1 Or so sad that it's not a or the kings aren't you you're a kings guy is that what it is i i once was um oh no oh that's the la kings my bad no the la kings i i i've been a lifelong fan for over two decades and then i copped a resentment for how they treated me during the charity game but i love the kings or and i know you're gonna roll your eyes at me but you know the clippers have a brand new stadium i haven't been to at the into it dome a mr

Speaker 1 kawhi leonard by the way a mr kawhi leonard who happened to get 27 million extra to a random ass charity that maybe is just a name.

Speaker 2 What can you do?

Speaker 2 Yeah, by the way, I watched, I briefly read that. Is he embezzling money? Is that what that was?

Speaker 1 No, I think allegedly Paul Allen, is that the guy who owns the Clippers? Yeah. Number three from Microsoft.
Just

Speaker 2 like threw him some... No, it's Steve Bomber.

Speaker 1 Steve Bomber. Sorry.

Speaker 2 Threw him some cash under the table. Is that just what it is? Maybe.
Maybe. Maybe.
Maybe. Maybe, maybe not.

Speaker 1 We're never going to get free clippers tickets now fuck

Speaker 1 no we are we are bring us and we'll stop talking don't bring us and we'll keep talking well hopefully and i think they're gonna get into the playoffs because my son and i went to a lafc la football club game the other week nice i can't okay

Speaker 1 you know obviously for the last couple decades there in the mls there's been the la galaxy like all these teams and it was great but it never quite took off in the States and then I think someone got really smart and was like why don't we bring all the great European culture from the Premier League and from you know all these different like so they have like a supporters section at the LAFC an entire section of like true soccer hooligans going nuts playing drums having all these ill flags LAFC flags mexican flags like all this unbelievable culture and passion for the game people are so in.

Speaker 1 And my friend, the great Steve Michaels, dear family friend, gave us his seats. Ben, when I tell you we were on the field,

Speaker 1 we were on the field watching, and they have maybe the greatest player in soccer next to Messi, son, number seven. He's with us, the LAFC.
We got the cool kids. He played for 17 years for Tottenham.

Speaker 1 Now he's playing for us. These guys are unreal.
We got to go, Ben. It's a

Speaker 2 love to go. This is the difference between the old MLS and the new MLS.
It's just the fact that they got great players finally.

Speaker 2 They got like, they, they paid, they overpaid, or honestly, they didn't overpay because they're changing the sport. They brought over these guys like Messi and they're killing it.

Speaker 2 It's fun soccer to watch. And they brought, I think the Kings have more.
I've never seen so many celebrity investors. I think Will Farrell is like the owner of the LA Kings

Speaker 2 or LAFC. There's like, they have like a huge suite of celebrities that are owner, like true owners.
Yes, don't they? And isn't that a thing?

Speaker 1 LAFC and then also the Angel City, which is the women's league, has a huge celebrity kind of investment. It's really cool.

Speaker 2 Now, what I can say is that I've been to a NYFC game and it was not like what you're describing. Really? I think, yeah,

Speaker 2 it was a fun environment. I mean, it was a it was nice.
It was at Yankee Stadium. They put it on, but the soccer was just not good.

Speaker 2 I don't know if they, this was a while ago maybe they they also cherry-picked a player from overseas but when i was there there was no this was like the old mls which was just like watching what is that adam sandler and the replacements like just yeah it's just not just not the caliber of talent that you want to see Yeah, we, it was really great.

Speaker 1 And yeah, you need a stadium like this. Is the Bank of Montreal Stadium, which is brand new near the Coliseum, and it's built for soccer.
And it was fabulous.

Speaker 2 The Bank of Montreal. Are there a lot of people banking at the Bank of Montreal in LA?

Speaker 1 Yeah. Have you not noticed them? I have a really,

Speaker 2 we have none in Manhattan. None? None.

Speaker 1 They're really popular out here. They're getting very popular out here.

Speaker 2 That's fascinating. Wow.
It's like the Ryder Cup, which we spoke about with the Great Fibula, the golf tournament. Their main sponsor was Citi.
And it's funny.

Speaker 2 I thought to myself, there are no Citi banks in New York. Why are they a sponsor? Wild.
Is it? I don't know.

Speaker 1 No, it's wild. Like my bank, who I bank with in California, is owned by the Royal Bank of Canada.

Speaker 2 Interesting.

Speaker 2 You go where there are branches. As long as you have a local branch.
Love a branch.

Speaker 1 I love a branch. Hate an ATM fee.
Hate it. Fuck you, 325.
It's a principal. It's a principal.

Speaker 2 If this royal bank isn't refunding you your ATM fees, you need to give them a call, Josh. You should be going to any fucking ATM and getting them refunded.
It's a very normal thing.

Speaker 1 Totally. And I love that I actually went to an ATM machine in Georgia, and it was the first time in my life that I boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, took out 300 bucks.
I heard

Speaker 1 money didn't come out. I call my bank.
I go, listen, here's receipt. Money never came out.
They said, you're such a good customer. We're going to already forgive it, and then we'll look into it.

Speaker 1 Forgave it right away.

Speaker 2 Boom. Back in my head.

Speaker 1 Lovely.

Speaker 2 That's lovely because normally they don't do that with cash. Cash is a scary game.
Credit card companies, no problem. They refund you willy-nilly.
That's why just saying,

Speaker 2 always use your credit card, folks. No, don't use debit cards.
You can't dispute in the same way. Unless, of course, you're Josh Peck with the Royal Bank of Canada.
But otherwise,

Speaker 2 it's scary.

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Speaker 1 Speaking of the Royal Bank of Canada, we have a new segment for the Good Guys podcast. That's right, call-ins, babe.
We are leveling up. So if you want to give us a call in, how do they do it, Ben?

Speaker 1 Olivia, I have no effing clue, but we have someone on the line.

Speaker 2 If you want to give us a call-in,

Speaker 2 you are going to respond to my Instagram story that expired last week. So what we're going to do is we're going to put the link in our bio.
No, you know what?

Speaker 2 Here's what you do, Josh. You're going to go to the link in our bio and you're going to click the section that says call-ins.

Speaker 2 You're going to fill out a very brief questionnaire, name, email, phone number, and a brief message about what you want to discuss. And if it's interesting, we'll give you a call.

Speaker 2 If it's not, don't expect a reply.

Speaker 1 We want life or death situations, things where you need the good guy's help or at least something fun and interesting.

Speaker 1 And don't, we're not, if you're going to New York and you want rec somewhere to go eat, we can't help.

Speaker 2 Google, Google, Google!

Speaker 2 It's enough! I can't tell you what

Speaker 2 stupid messages we get. I can't do it.
I can't give you a recommendation because I'm going to give you a recommendation somewhere you can't get in. And then you say, Ben, can I get a reservation? No!

Speaker 2 No! No! No!

Speaker 2 I can't! I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 I'm going to start sabotaging these fucks and be like, yeah, there's this really cute pizza spot called Sabaro in Times Square.

Speaker 2 I can get you a reservation right now. I can get you a reservation right now.

Speaker 2 It's great. It's awesome.
It's an incredible place.

Speaker 1 There's a cinnabom at Port Authority.

Speaker 2 It's funny.

Speaker 2 The best tacos in the city are at this place called Chipotle. I can get you a table.
It's through the roof.

Speaker 2 Perfect.

Speaker 2 I've really had enough. Can you get me a reservation of carbone? No!

Speaker 1 No, only I can ask for that. And only sometimes.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it's literally sometimes. As long as you're down to eat at 4.30 or 10 o'clock.
It's a privilege. Olivia, what is our wonderful caller's name? Actually, I don't even.

Speaker 2 No problem. Let him in, please.
Let him in.

Speaker 1 Let him in.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 2 Caller. Hello.
Do we have you?

Speaker 5 Yes, we do.

Speaker 2 Oh, my God. Hello.

Speaker 2 Welcome to the Good Guys Podcast. You are our first live calling.
What is your name? You don't have to give first and last, but just your name would be great.

Speaker 5 Yeah, my name is Teresa.

Speaker 2 Teresa? Teresa or Teresa? Teresa. Teresa.
Teresa. Teresa.
Teresa. Lovely to meet you.
And where are you calling?

Speaker 1 Teresa was the name of Richard Simmons' housekeeper who they were worried killed him. So you're in good company, Teresa.

Speaker 2 Not me.

Speaker 2 Wouldn't that be crazy? She's here. The cops, she's here.

Speaker 2 Teresa,

Speaker 2 Breich.

Speaker 2 Teresa, where are you calling from?

Speaker 5 I'm calling from Nashville. Oh, amazing.

Speaker 2 I love Nashville. What a fun city.

Speaker 5 Yeah, it is a fun city.

Speaker 1 Teresa, what do you have for us? How can the good guys be good to you?

Speaker 5 Yeah, well, okay, so first off, have to say I am a Tostada. So shout out to Jackson

Speaker 5 for bringing me to your podcast. I wrote notes for myself, so I'm hoping to keep this brief for you guys.
So I'm calling for fatherly advice from both of you. So I'm a first-time mom.

Speaker 5 My son is three and a half months old, and I absolutely adore my husband, but I could use a lot more help with the baby around the house. He is always willing to help if I ask.

Speaker 5 He's always willing to do the diaper changes, the feeding, all of that, but he is absolutely terrified for me to leave them alone at the house.

Speaker 5 So like gone for an hour, hour and a half for a nail appointment or an errand or something, And that is just too scary of a task.

Speaker 5 So, calling to ask for your advice, maybe your first experiences staying home alone with the babies, advice for me, advice for him of how to tackle this situation.

Speaker 2 Interesting. Okay, so

Speaker 2 first of all, congrats. Three and a half months.
That's like pretty close to Ruby. So, congrats to you and congrats to your husband.
That's amazing. Do you leave him?

Speaker 2 Do you leave him alone with the baby, like in the other room when you're in the house? Like, does he ever get time to do?

Speaker 1 So what is he scared of?

Speaker 5 Yes, the crying. It's like, as soon as he cries, oh my gosh, what do I do? Hands him back to me.

Speaker 2 Got it. Okay.
Yeah. No, that's a problem.
I mean, he needs to also learn how to soothe. There are things that you do, right, that calm down the baby, right?

Speaker 2 I don't know if it's a, like, what do you do? Pacify or feed or burp or like run through a laundry list with him.

Speaker 5 Stand up and bounce.

Speaker 5 Yeah, stand up, bounce, pat him on the back. He knows the routine.
Her baby, I will admit, was colicky for the first two and a half months, but he no longer is.

Speaker 5 And I think that kind of just traumatized him. So I think it's pulling him out of that baby doesn't exist anymore.
We now have a happier baby.

Speaker 2 Yeah, but even if that baby does exist, it's his baby.

Speaker 1 Like he's got to deal with it.

Speaker 2 Like he's got to deal with the fact that his baby, even if his baby is crying for an hour while you're not there, nothing's going to happen. He's going to do his best.

Speaker 2 And then when you came back, sure, it was a stressful hour, but right, Josh, I think it's just, it's his baby and he's got to, you got to buck up.

Speaker 1 I would say I'm not surprised only because there's so many men like this and it still sounds like he got a winner, but he's just a bit of a scaredy cat. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And I think it's easy, you know, traditionally in many circumstances, I can only speak from my experience with my wife. She does a lot of the wake-ups.

Speaker 1 Her and my son already have a shorthand with him being three months old.

Speaker 1 They're just, she's cued to his small volume changes in cry, to the way he's looking around, his grunts, his moves, his squawks. Sounds like a little mini pterodactyl.

Speaker 2 It terrifies me.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 1 so I think all those things, it's easy when they start to cry. And all of a sudden, you just,

Speaker 1 it's as though

Speaker 1 You are a second in front of your husband.

Speaker 1 So instinctively, just from being that close with your child, there's just something that goes on where it's an extra second quicker that that kid's going to stop crying.

Speaker 1 And for any dad, we're such problem solvers that we're like, oh, quickest, boom, done, out of here.

Speaker 1 So again, to Ben's point, I think there's really easy ways to do practice runs where you're not far, but for all intents and purposes, for the next two hours, I'm not here. And let him try.

Speaker 1 And he should know that babies can cry. It's okay.
If they're they're changed and fed and healthy, crying's not going to hurt them. And that's going to get clipped and I'm going to get dragged for it.

Speaker 2 But you guys know what I mean.

Speaker 2 No, but no, but it's take fear out of the equation. Like nothing, you said that perfectly, Josh.
Baby, thank God, is healthy, like normally happy. If he's crying, he'll stop crying.
Maybe it's gas.

Speaker 2 Maybe it's a diaper. Maybe it's a bottle.
Maybe it's something. You're going to try things.
Maybe it's bouncing up and down. You're going to try things.
Eventually, it's going to work.

Speaker 2 But knowing that if the baby cries, nothing's going to happen. Nothing's going to happen.
Don't be so scared. He sounds scared to what Josh said.
So just reassuring, don't be scared. We got this.

Speaker 2 You got this. I believe in you.
Super dad. I'll catch you later.

Speaker 5 All right. Well, I'll do it.
I'll do it this weekend. I'll say, all right.
Be down the street.

Speaker 2 Call me if you need me. Amazing.
Well, go sit in the car.

Speaker 1 Have you vaped?

Speaker 2 By the vape.

Speaker 1 Do what I do. Sit in your car, stare out at nothing, and imagine what life could have been in a couple different turns, you know?

Speaker 2 That's good. Yeah.
But on Bad Day by Daniel Powder. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Teresa, this was wonderful. Thank you for being our guinea pig in a successful experiment.
We greatly appreciate you.

Speaker 5 Yeah, I feel like I'm talking to my podcast.

Speaker 2 You are. This is the future.
We're here.

Speaker 2 Fuck AI. We have live Collins, folks.
This is Collins.

Speaker 2 If you want to call in, click the link in our bio and maybe we'll choose you, like the lucky Teresa, to come on our show and talk about your problems. We're here to help.
Teresa, thank you so much.

Speaker 5 Thank you.

Speaker 1 Teresa, Baruch Hashem to you and to the ones you love.

Speaker 2 Wow. That was great.
Wow. That was great.
Good friend.

Speaker 1 Good friend, guys.

Speaker 2 Thank you, Olivia.

Speaker 1 Thank you, Ben.

Speaker 2 By the way, and that was seamless. That was easy.
They're in there out. They're in there out.

Speaker 1 They're in in there.

Speaker 1 And now I want to get some potential admitting to murders.

Speaker 2 Maybe

Speaker 2 ambition.

Speaker 1 We need something juicy.

Speaker 2 I'm happy Teresa was our first because she was a softball. That said, folks, we need you to raise the stakes.

Speaker 2 Okay. I want you to commit a crime.
crime and come on and tell us about it. Larceny, larceny.
We're inciting riots. Yeah.
Come on and let's talk about it.

Speaker 2 You're hiding out in the Hudson Valley after stealing a Snickers from the bodega. I want to hear about it.

Speaker 1 Yes, you're sleeping with your friend's husband, who's the leader of Antifa.

Speaker 2 We want to hear about it, okay?

Speaker 2 We want to hear about it. Yeah.

Speaker 2 I love it. You took too much, I don't know, turmeric and you're worried about your liver.
I want to hear about it.

Speaker 1 You want to get out of Scientology and you need our help.

Speaker 2 Or if you want to get into Scientology and you need our help.

Speaker 2 Do Do you know Rita Wilson? Rita Wilson. Is that who it is? No, Leah Remini.
Yeah, that's her. Of course.
Leah Rems. Yeah, we should have her on the pod.
Talk about, because we need to get informed on

Speaker 1 Scientology. We can't do it because they'll find our address.

Speaker 2 I don't want it. I don't want it for us.

Speaker 1 I'm out. I'm scared.

Speaker 2 I'm out.

Speaker 1 You know what? I'm out. Sometimes you need a superhero.
We are not those guys.

Speaker 2 No.

Speaker 1 We're good. We're not great.

Speaker 2 So we should clarify, Josh. If you're looking to escape Scientology, don't call us because they'll get our IP.
Don't do it. That's the one thing.
Don't do it.

Speaker 2 If you're looking to escape your religion, not us.

Speaker 1 But the truth is, if you want to escape Scientology, just be broke. They really want you.
They really prefer you to have lots of money.

Speaker 2 By the way, makes sense. Wow, so fun.
I loved that.

Speaker 1 It was so good.

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Speaker 2 What else, Bub? I want to tell you. Oh my God, I have a frog in my throat.
By the way, that's such a weird expression. You think, like, where does that come from?

Speaker 2 I have a frog in my throat.

Speaker 1 The wonderful Olivia in her strawberry shortcut socks is on it.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I'm sure that expression was invented in Ohio.

Speaker 6 Like the bicycle. The bicycle, the airplane, all good things.
Most likely derived from the frog-like croaking sound made by somebody with a hoarse voice.

Speaker 2 Ah,

Speaker 2 got it. Okay, cool.

Speaker 6 But there were medieval superstitions about frogs in the body and the practice of using frogs to cure throat intentions during the medieval time period. So perhaps.

Speaker 2 God, we were dumb. Like, no, frogs don't belong in your throat.
They're not going to help you with anything.

Speaker 1 Oh, that would be a good how about now? We should, you should look that up. Like medieval surgical and medical techniques, like bloodletting, leeches.
They still use leeches. Dr.
Dubrow.

Speaker 1 By the way, I think it's kind of classy and call me craze, but I've got my new fancy socks on from sax or sponsor shout those out really fun cute with these fun aloe slides and you know what i you would say socks and slides you know what do you play for the 76ers no uh i'm i'm i'm just here killing it i think it's a classy look what is the brand aloe

Speaker 2 fantastic josh you are you are there shout out aloe's aloe's cool it's a nice slide

Speaker 2 aloe's where all the cool celebs hang out don't i know you work out at their gym? Don't they have a gym?

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's where the great Jake Shane and the great Brooke Schofield and all those cool kids work out.

Speaker 1 Oh, I have to tell you, as you're looking this up, so to close, to bookend my LAFC wonderful time and trip.

Speaker 1 So we're sitting there and it's one of those sections where you can bring food to your section. Like

Speaker 1 there's a... like a lounge area where they have all this beautiful food laid out and you take it and you bring it to your seat.

Speaker 1 So we're sitting there and a woman begins to choke, and she's like properly choking. So, everyone in the area starts going, like, oh my God, oh my God, right now she's she gets up and she's like,

Speaker 2 and people are like, Yo, yo, she's choking, and they're like trying to get attendants to come over.

Speaker 1 So, this woman, and I'm like, I know CPR from the American Heart Association, I'm ready to go, but thankfully, someone else intervened.

Speaker 1 So, this woman

Speaker 1 sitting next to me gets behind her and is giving her hard Heimlich pushes like

Speaker 1 oh my god and it's not coming out and I'm looking at Max and Max is just like

Speaker 1 and I'm like oh my god. So thankfully one of the trainers from the other soccer team is like a section away and looks over and sees it and she sprints over and starts doing the Heimlich on this woman.

Speaker 1 Like this was a civilian DeMar Hamlin.

Speaker 2 Oh my God. This was literally

Speaker 1 the trainer saving the life of a spectator. And thank God it shot out of her mouth.
And, but, but it was

Speaker 1 the level of embarrassment on this poor woman's face. Of course.
Unreal.

Speaker 2 People chew your, chew your food. Chew your food.

Speaker 2 I've told this story on the podcast before. I was on a golf trip and my friend was eating a fish sandwich.
He got a big fucking piece of cod. I guess he didn't chew it.
Lodged in his throat.

Speaker 2 I went behind him. I gave him the Heimlich.
He spit it out.

Speaker 1 Hell yeah.

Speaker 2 I'm telling you, folks, chew your freaking food. And if you're giving the Heimlich, give it hard.
Give it hard. They're going to die.
Give it hard. Josh, I wish I never looked this up.
Okay.

Speaker 2 I'm ready.

Speaker 2 Having a good day. How about now? Dried frogs were tied around the neck to treat throat infections.
Okay. There's a list of these, okay? Ready for this? Dog fat.

Speaker 2 These are in medieval times, folks, we used animals to cure diseases, or so we thought. Dog fat was rubbed on sore joints or used in ointments for earaches.

Speaker 2 Well, we killed a dog, took their fat, and rubbed it in our ears. Nuts.

Speaker 2 Nuts. Dog shit, often dried, was sometimes used for wounds.

Speaker 2 Yeah. We took dried dog shit and put it in our wounds.
This is why people died early, Josh. There was so much trial and error to get us to where we are today.

Speaker 2 We thought that rubbing dried dog shit in an open wound was going to heal it. Walk me through that, Josh.
Walk me through that. Okay, one more.
Pigeon droppings. No, no, no.
This one's better.

Speaker 2 Rooster testicles.

Speaker 2 I didn't even know roosters had testicles. Rooster testicles were prescribed to boost fertility or libido.
Women were eating rooster testicles.

Speaker 2 Shout out.

Speaker 2 Having a good day? How about now? How about not? How about nah?

Speaker 1 Well, how about this? Having a good day? Some people believe that Bigfoot is a special operations alien in the sense of a Navy SEAL that are here to recruit other aliens.

Speaker 2 How about now?

Speaker 2 Oh, God.

Speaker 2 People are dumb as hell. I don't even know that.

Speaker 1 Bigfoot. I literally heard this.
Bigfoot is a recruiter for aliens and it's kind of a navy seal. He comes down.

Speaker 1 He's doing scouting.

Speaker 2 Like, why? It's so like, we need to just fix fix this. Like, these people shouldn't be allowed to vote.

Speaker 2 If you think, if you think not only Bigfoot exists, but that Bigfoot recruits.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he's an ABCL.

Speaker 2 You can't vote. You can't vote.
I'm sorry. You can't.
We should be monitoring people's search history and removing their right to vote.

Speaker 1 I think they're doing that.

Speaker 2 By the way, I wouldn't be allowed to vote. My search history is dumb.
Oh, my God.

Speaker 2 Please.

Speaker 2 How do you spell the? You know, when you randomly forget,

Speaker 2 you're just like, T-H-E, that doesn't sound right. Are you sure?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean, if you saw my porn hub search words, it'd just be like slightly overweight, but not really.

Speaker 1 Just keywords like a real person's body.

Speaker 1 My keywords are a wife praising you.

Speaker 2 Positive affirmations from normal looking woman.

Speaker 2 A wife telling you, Good job.

Speaker 2 It's so sad. Oh, that's so funny.

Speaker 2 Oh, my God.

Speaker 2 Oh, man.

Speaker 1 It's so sad. Should we get to a story?

Speaker 2 Yeah, what do we got?

Speaker 3 Well, the New York Post said, Olivia liked that one.

Speaker 1 Why just one can of Diet Coke may be worse for your health than regular soda? Maybe sugar substitutes aren't such a splendid

Speaker 1 idea.

Speaker 1 An eye-opening news study links artificially sweetened beverages to an increased risk of metabolic dysfunction associated with steot.

Speaker 1 liver disease, the most common liver disease in the U.S. Surprisingly, these these supposed guilt-free guzzlers carried a higher risk than sugary soda.

Speaker 1 Our study shows that low or non-sugar sweetened beverages were actually linked to a higher risk of liver disease, even at the modest intake levels, such as a single can per day.

Speaker 1 Shit.

Speaker 2 Look, but this is, we're living, we have so many problems, Josh. I can't even think about that problem.
If we start thinking about those problems, can I do another having a good day, how about now?

Speaker 2 Because I have one. Please.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 2 Having a good day, how about now? You know that the average person ingests a credit card's worth of plastic each week. Okay.

Speaker 1 I love your passion. I just want to, because I hear things like that thrown around.

Speaker 2 No, no, I read it. There was a study.
I'll send you the article.

Speaker 1 Okay, but again, is what everything has a study, but there's levels of studies.

Speaker 2 People who drink through From people who drink water from plastic water bottles.

Speaker 1 Okay, but what, who did the study?

Speaker 2 You want me to send it to you? Sure.

Speaker 2 Okay.

Speaker 2 We have to fact check all of these. Having a good day.
How about now's? No. You want me to go to the medieval frogs?

Speaker 2 No.

Speaker 2 Fact check with the person?

Speaker 1 I just think a lot of the people that we make fun of, like the Nouveau hot topic, you know, health and wellness folks out there talk a lot about these microplastics things. I know that it's happening.

Speaker 1 I just don't know if it's in the amount or as alarming as people are making it. That's that's my only pushback.

Speaker 2 But I think it, I think it is. And my point to what we were talk just talking about is I can't do anything about it.

Speaker 1 It is what it is. You can't do anything about it is 100% right.

Speaker 2 That's what I'm saying. We're, we're, our life, I'll send you the article, but look it up because regardless of if

Speaker 2 whatever it degrees,

Speaker 2 it's definitely a problem. I can't do anything about it.

Speaker 2 i was literally looking in my house i'm like okay i drink plastic water bottles every single day so maybe i'll switch to glass right but then it's like every everything

Speaker 2 everything is plastic everything that i consume every single day is plastic and you want to like say okay i'm going to eliminate plastic water bottles but then you're you're going to go and your morning iced coffee that you get from starbucks you're going to bring your own jug people going people do yeah they they could when you go to the grocery store and you buy lettuce it comes in a plastic container.

Speaker 2 When you go and

Speaker 1 farmers market,

Speaker 2 you could. You could.
You could. The list goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on.
So

Speaker 2 should we be fearful of it? No, but when I read that headline statistic, a credit card's worth of plastic, regardless of how true it is or not, scared me.

Speaker 2 Regardless of how true it is or not, I'm saying it.

Speaker 2 Well, I thought it was true. You made me think about it, but I don't like this.

Speaker 2 The article has plenty of sources in it.

Speaker 1 Okay, fair.

Speaker 1 I just think it's important to find like, like, even, you know, things like, you know, the big Tylenol bombshell and all these things, like, then I think all of these studies like have caveats and some are of a higher level where there's like tens of thousands of participants.

Speaker 1 And it's, it's a, you know, what's the gold standard? Like there's a placebo group and then there's a control group of people who are actually getting it.

Speaker 1 And they can really see through a bunch of different people and backgrounds and ages and ethnicities and all the ways in which it affects them differently.

Speaker 1 And then some people will be like, oh, this study, and it was like eight people total.

Speaker 2 That's all I'm saying.

Speaker 2 I don't know why that's different from the Aspertame or Splenda study that you read.

Speaker 1 Fair enough. Fair enough.

Speaker 2 You're right.

Speaker 6 The study, too, that he's referencing was done by the World Wildlife Fund, which they found plastic like on every landmass in the entire world, like at the Arctic.

Speaker 6 I can't find the exact specifics, but they say like a credit card worth is likely what everybody is consuming, just based on the fact that there's so much in the environment.

Speaker 6 But then there are other studies from the American Chemistry Council that dispute the idea that it's that much, but they still acknowledge that we're consuming a ton of plastic on a daily basis.

Speaker 6 So I think you're both right.

Speaker 2 And what was concerning about the article, if you read more, Olivia, is that... Even if it's not a credit card's worth, even if it's tiny, plastic is like getting in our arteries and

Speaker 2 it's causing heart attacks because it's it's clogging arteries and again i'm not saying this to scare anybody because there's nothing to fucking do about it there's nothing to do about it we're not i'm not going to change my way of life like because it's done what i want to know is can we clean ourselves and i googled it and they they said no can we cleanse ourselves of microplastics they're like no i'm like okay so the damage is done i'm 33 i'm full of plastic i might as well be full of plastic 100 and the big issue with microplastics is they're endocrine disruptors So they mess with your lymph system and they totally do.

Speaker 1 The great Jordan Harbinger, friend, friend of the pod, did a whole episode about plastics. And you're right.
They suck and they're in everything. They're unavoidable and they mess with you.

Speaker 2 And your testosterone. They suck.
They're messing with you.

Speaker 1 They suck. Our testosterone.
It's why most men except us are betas.

Speaker 2 It's just so interesting. And I don't want to go down this rabbit hole today.
We should go down this rabbit hole next time. But it's like we blame everything around us for all of our health problems.

Speaker 2 What if it's just plastic, Josh?

Speaker 1 Could be.

Speaker 2 Who knows? I don't know. I certainly don't know.
I certainly don't know. All I know is when I started to look at how much plastic I use, it was like, oh my God, I can't do this.

Speaker 2 I can't give up plastic. What do I do? No, I don't want to.

Speaker 2 It's too inconvenient. It's too inconvenient.
Like,

Speaker 2 I can't do it.

Speaker 1 It's kind of like, and I don't, I don't know if we'll cut this out, but like, when people talk about like the damage we've done to the the environment in the last hundred years, I'm like, guys, if we've done this much damage in less than 100 years, it's over.

Speaker 2 It's over. Agreed.

Speaker 1 We've ruined this million-year-old planet in 100 years.

Speaker 1 How? How do we reverse this? Like, I want to. It just feels, I feel so helpless.

Speaker 2 We reverse this by dying out. I guess.

Speaker 2 No, that's what happens. Once we die out, like, then everything will reset.
That's it. Like, I have to assume that equal damage has been done by other civilizations, and then they died.

Speaker 2 And then their bodies decomposed, and

Speaker 2 something then grew over it, and the plastic sinks to the bottom of the ocean or bottom of the world or whatever it is. And we rebuild, Josh.
All of a sudden, there's flowers on the plastic.

Speaker 2 And there's soil on the plastic. And it just goes deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper.

Speaker 1 It just looks like the last of us. Just like a mushroom planet.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

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Speaker 1 Let's hear from somebody good, somebody real good, Shelby.

Speaker 7 What's up, morons? What's up, Josh and Ben? This is Shelby phoning in. My boyfriend and I recently got engaged, and I'm calling in to see what are your thoughts and opinions on courthouse weddings.

Speaker 7 A lot of us out here are not famous rich actors starring in Oppenheimer, The Last of Us, The Wackness, and we're not entrepreneurs where our product is sponsoring people in the U.S.

Speaker 7 Open and being sold out of Target.

Speaker 2 All right. What are you nuts? No, I'm 30.

Speaker 7 My fiancé's 33. I work for the state and he works for a retirement community.
We're barely making ends meet. Okay.
We're barely surviving out here.

Speaker 7 I would love to know what are your thoughts and opinions. Love you guys.
Thanks.

Speaker 2 Love you. You sound like you're rich in life experience and love, which is all that matters.
Money is the root of all evil.

Speaker 2 Okay, I think that marrying, getting married in the courthouse is fucking awesome. I think that long engagements are absolutely horrendous anyways.
And if you want to, whatever makes you happy.

Speaker 2 So I think going to the courthouse, getting married, starting your life, I I would recommend having like, if you can, a dinner or have a couple of friends over to the house or whatever you can do.

Speaker 2 You should celebrate it in a way that fits your lifestyle and your means, but I would celebrate the moment, but I love a courthouse. No problem.
It's fantastic.

Speaker 2 If it's good for the state, it's good for me. Josh?

Speaker 1 I totally agree. I think a courthouse wedding is gorgeous.
It's easy. It's smart.

Speaker 1 I truly believe no matter what your income bracket is, a wedding, like a big opulent wedding, is truly only if you have a desire to throw money away. Doesn't mean it's negative.

Speaker 1 I was always kind of like anti-wedding because I didn't grow up with a traditional family. And I got married to my wife and all of our friends and family were in one place.

Speaker 1 And I said, this is the best day of my life. Because it really was special to have all the people who loved us in one place.

Speaker 1 That being said, it doesn't have to be for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Speaker 1 Like you could throw a cheat party without all the pomp and circumstance and the flowers and the valet and the thing and the thing and the band and just be like let's get a killer mixtape let's get some of the best pizza in whatever city we're in i'm talking wings i'm talking or like get a taco cart you know there's just like plenty of like cost-effective super yummy ways to like throw a killer party with the people who love you for like a couple grand Yeah, and it's absolutely about the people.

Speaker 2 Absolutely about the people. As long as the people will come, whatever your top 50 people or whatever that number is, as long as they come, you're going to have the best time.

Speaker 2 Get a bunch of cheap wine. Sprit Society.
Cheap. Target.
You said it. Cheap wine.

Speaker 1 It's delicious.

Speaker 2 Pick up a, I don't know. I love a taco truck idea, Josh.
That's a great one. And have fun.
Enjoy your life.

Speaker 2 Honestly, I'm jealous. Sounds great.

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Get four logos.

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Speaker 2 Blackout.

Speaker 1 They have a Halloween-inspired buzzball at Costco right now, $18. It's the size of a basketball.

Speaker 2 I was like, I want a relapse.

Speaker 1 My God, that headache.

Speaker 1 It looked yummy as hell.

Speaker 2 Caramel apple flavor. Probably is yummy as hell.
Probably 400 grams of sugar. My head already hurts.

Speaker 1 Let's hear this next one from Samantha Young.

Speaker 2 Samantha Young. I want to be.

Speaker 8 I'd love your advice on a rather personal topic. So I'm a mother of a two-year-old and a six-month-old, and I work a really stressful fine wine sales job, and I drain so much of my energy.

Speaker 8 My husband just got a big raise and has expressed that he would like me to be a stay-at-home mom, but I was raised by a girl boss mom, and I feel really conflicted about relying on him financially.

Speaker 8 My dream would be to just be a yoga instructor early in the mornings and then work at a winery a couple days a week.

Speaker 8 I feel like it would allow me to to not be so stressed out and to keep my own identity beyond being a wife and a mother.

Speaker 8 My question to you is, how do I balance identity, financial security, and being present with my family? I feel just so pressured to stay on my high-paying job. Yeah, love you guys.

Speaker 8 I'd love your advice, please. Thanks.

Speaker 1 This would be a good call in.

Speaker 2 Yeah,

Speaker 2 that's a very loaded question. A great question.
That would be a great call in.

Speaker 2 We should probably reach out to her. First,

Speaker 2 if you don't want to be a stay-at-home mom, then you shouldn't be a stay-at-home mom. That's the first thing that I'll say.

Speaker 2 The idea that like your husband is encouraging you to be a stay-at-home mom, it's wonderful if you want to be a stay-at-home mom. But I don't want to be a stay-at-home mom.

Speaker 2 Did you not?

Speaker 1 No. Here were the key words that I heard.
I have a very stressful and demanding job.

Speaker 2 Yes.

Speaker 1 Nothing flowery about the job other than she's clearly successful and it pays well. Yes.
Not like it's really stressful, but I love it.

Speaker 1 That her husband just got a raise, that her ideal would be to teach yoga and then to have like work at a vineyard.

Speaker 1 Like it sounded like her ideal would be to be at home with the kids and then have kind of more of like side jobs.

Speaker 2 So what I heard, unless I misheard, she in the middle said, my husband got a big raise and encouraged me to be a stay-at-home mom.

Speaker 1 But it sounded like her trepidation about that was only because she came from a girl boss mother.

Speaker 2 Who I think she wants to, oh, interesting. Okay, it could be that.
My advice was going to be that you use the money from your high-paying job to take care of your family if you really want to work.

Speaker 2 And if you would like to be present with your children, then you find balance. It's, it's a very hard thing across the board.
I experience it every day.

Speaker 2 Like I, I, I actively, like, I want to spend, I spend a lot of time with Ruby. I want to to spend more time with Ruby.
I want to be with Ruby non-stop. Like, he's the best.

Speaker 2 I'm sure, Josh, you feel the exact same way. And you find a, and you find a balance.
It's hard. Josh is like, no.
No.

Speaker 2 No.

Speaker 1 I'm with my kids a lot.

Speaker 1 And I'm with my kids enough.

Speaker 1 Fuck yeah. I mean, I'm with my kids, like, because I don't have a nine to five.

Speaker 1 So most days, like at least two to three days out of the week, I'm picking them up from school at three and with them till they go to bed.

Speaker 1 And, and, I'm up with them at five in the morning till 8.30 when they go to school. So I just got this little window and I love it.

Speaker 2 I'm going Equinox after this. Fuck all of you.

Speaker 2 No, that sounds wonderful. For me, I guess it's because it's like Ruby's sleep schedules.
I just feel like I only see him like for like an hour every three hours. Like it's just like, whatever.

Speaker 2 But moral of the story is do what's right for you. It's not like advice that you're going to like.
We can't make this decision for you.

Speaker 2 If you want to spend more time with your family, do that and pick up a side job. And it seems like your husband can provide, which is really great.
And he's encouraging you to follow your dreams.

Speaker 2 I wouldn't feel pressured by your boss mom, but I also wouldn't feel pressured by your husband. We need to have this person call in.
We need to ask more questions. Sure.
Olivia, anything?

Speaker 6 Yeah, I was just thinking with the wine sales.

Speaker 6 I was thinking back to prior to my move out to LA, I worked at a country club in Cincinnati and there was like an on-site somalier, but our shifts would only be be four hours at a time it was like a morning shift and then an evening shift so like what if you're like a somalier part-time at some kind of place in your city and then to what she mentioned like wanting to be like a yoga instructor or something in the morning and pick that up a couple days a week but I think that there are options for her to still you know, do something that she feels like is hers, but, you know, have more time at home and not have like that stress, but be involved with the industry that she enjoy.

Speaker 2 Or I don't know if she enjoys it, but what she was trained up in, you know? Very sound advice. I like that.
I like that. Become a Sam.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. Somme all day.

Speaker 2 But I

Speaker 2 Somm all day. Som all day.

Speaker 1 Somme all day. Yay.
Somme all day. That's me.

Speaker 1 I,

Speaker 1 yeah, dude. I really tried to like, when I listened to it the first time, I tried to like look for clues.

Speaker 1 And when she talked about her job that she currently has now, she only talked about it with some more negative connotations, demanding, stressful.

Speaker 1 And then when it came to her having kind of these part-time jobs and being more of a stay-at-home mom, it seemed like the only limiting fact, the only two limiting factors would have been one, that she has this model from obviously her mother who sounds fabulous and was.

Speaker 1 the breadwinner for the family. And then if she was like, my husband wants it, but he doesn't make enough for us not to stress.
But she led with, he is.

Speaker 1 And so all those things combined, I'm like, if the only limiting factors, and I get that is, you know, you grew up one way and it would feel hard to sort of change into this other thing, I'd say, lean in because you can, you can go back.

Speaker 2 Lean in.

Speaker 1 Lean in.

Speaker 1 I don't think, at least in my experience, I don't.

Speaker 1 I've picked my kids. I've been lucky enough and I know it's a privilege to be able to pick my kids first in in almost every career decision I've had since they were born.
And I don't regret it.

Speaker 1 Like I, there's not been a part where I was like, I, I would have rather missed these three months and been in, you know, wherever, somewhere in Canada on set. I don't feel that.

Speaker 2 Good.

Speaker 1 I'm lucky.

Speaker 2 You shouldn't. You are.

Speaker 1 Okay. Well, let's hear from Anand.

Speaker 7 Hey, morons.

Speaker 9 Just piggybacking off some of your recent discussions about cheating and relationships. I went to Europe over the summer with some friends.
My best friend ended up going home with this Italian guy.

Speaker 9 They had a good time, a good one-night stand. She comes back to the hotel.
He has already followed her on Instagram. And when my best friend saw his page, she saw that he had a girlfriend.

Speaker 9 for like years, like literally all over his page. So she, with a healthy dose of drunken rage, decided to DM the girlfriend saying, hey, just so you know, I fucked your boyfriend.

Speaker 9 My question is, what are your thoughts on whether or not that was called for? Should my friend just have stayed out of it and have left that stranger she slept with to his own life?

Speaker 9 Or did she do the girlfriend a favor?

Speaker 2 She definitely did the girlfriend a favor, but the girlfriend probably knew. He's an Italian stallion.
Like, this is like, just like him being him, you know, he's him, you know?

Speaker 2 Like, like,

Speaker 2 this isn't the first time,

Speaker 2 You think that you're the first American that he's canoodled with? Please, yeah. She probably wrote back,

Speaker 2 like, that's it, that's all you got, right? You know, like, yeah, duh.

Speaker 1 You think you're the first women's studies major from Wesleyan who was vacationing in Rome and got dicked down by Antonio?

Speaker 2 You're not.

Speaker 2 No, definitely not. Dude,

Speaker 2 no, it's perfect. It's just not.

Speaker 2 No, this is

Speaker 2 culture.

Speaker 2 This is culture.

Speaker 2 It's so true.

Speaker 2 And fuck Wesleyan.

Speaker 2 Yeah, fuck Wesleyan.

Speaker 2 You!

Speaker 1 You think you're the only sociology major from Tufts who went to Florence and had a rendezvous with a guy named Alfredo?

Speaker 2 No.

Speaker 2 No, you're not.

Speaker 2 You're not.

Speaker 1 Let's get to what are you nuts, Ben.

Speaker 2 What are you nuts, Josh? Or what are you nuts moment? There are gripes with people, places, and things, whatever's sticking in your craw, Josh. I will go first and I have to read it to you, okay?

Speaker 2 You ready for this? AI, Josh. AI has gone too far.
Okay. Claudia, my.

Speaker 2 beautiful wife is on she ordered the new iphone okay this was i don't know probably two weeks ago, and she was just trying to change the delivery address. As I mentioned, we're going to LA.

Speaker 2 It's going to be delivered during the time that we're in New York. So she wanted it delivered to LA.
So she reached out to the Apple chatbot and she said, hi, can I please change the delivery address?

Speaker 2 Ready for this response, Josh? Yeah.

Speaker 2 It's, hi, I placed an order. Can I change my delivery address? Here's my order confirmation.
Perfect. I hope you're doing well.
I hope you and your loved ones continue to stay happy and healthy.

Speaker 2 I completely understand you here that you want to change the delivery address on your order, and I can totally relate with you, as sometimes things won't go as planned, and we need to change our addresses as well.

Speaker 2 And I generally appreciate you sharing your concern with me. I'm here to support you through this.
If I were in your place, I'd feel the same, as the same has happened to me in the past as well.

Speaker 2 I remember I ordered AirPods as a birthday gift for my mother, but I mistakenly selected my address instead of my mother's address, and I changed that from my side as well.

Speaker 2 I want you to know I have taken full ownership, and I'm not leaving this halfway. I also see that you've already shared your web order with us.
Is this the one that you're referring to? Happy to help.

Speaker 2 Are you nuts?

Speaker 2 Are you crazy?

Speaker 2 Claudia literally just wrote, Shut up. You're like, stop it.

Speaker 2 Like the empathy, the fake empathy. It's like the relatability.
Just stop it. Stop it.
I need it changed. Sure, what's the address? Yeah.
What are you nuts, Apple? Check your AI.

Speaker 1 That's so good.

Speaker 2 It was insane.

Speaker 1 That's insane. That's insane.

Speaker 1 I was recently driving on the freeway and you know how there'll be little parts of freeway cleanup that'll say this part of the freeway is sponsored by or was donated by so-and-so.

Speaker 1 And on the 405 freeway, it said, this part of the freeway is sponsored by Atheists United. To which I'd say, sounds like a church.
What are you, nuts?

Speaker 2 Yes.

Speaker 1 Sounds like a church, atheist.

Speaker 2 Yes, because you're united. Yeah.
And your higher power is something.

Speaker 1 You need a friend.

Speaker 2 And if it's sponsored by Atheists United, Josh, that means they're probably making donations.

Speaker 1 Who runs Atheists United?

Speaker 2 A priest?

Speaker 2 Yep.

Speaker 1 What do you call your leader?

Speaker 2 God.

Speaker 2 Him, Josh, him.

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