Celebrity Spin-the-Bottle and Bieber on Ice?!

The following podcast is a Dear Media production. Five stars, what are you nuts? What are you nuts? Yeah, we're the good guys.
They're not the great guys. We're just the good, good, good, good guys.
Benjamin, how the hell are you? And how is that beautiful blue zip up of yours? Do you like it? It's nice, right? It's handsome. I find you have been wearing versions of that more recently.
I'm really enjoying wearing what I call golf athleisure wear out and about. It's a nice little quarter zip.
It's quilted. So it's warm, but not too warm.
And today, Josh, it is 55 degrees in New York City. So we are feeling great.
Quick side note, if you see me smelling my fingers, it's because there's Frank's Red Hot on it. Okay.

It's, I made a chicken sandwich earlier and there's still, even though I washed my hands,

there's still a little Frank's Red Hot. It smells fantastic.
The great Giannis Pappas, one half of the History Hyenas podcast with Chris DiStefano

does say that people who are mentally challenged are finger sniffers.

Well, by the way, it is what it is smells like my sandwich can i tell you a disgusting thing that my other best friend not ben but len used to do growing up yes he was i know you're gonna say okay go then you go I really hope i know it what it is does it have to do with his nether regions of course it does and he would do a little scratch and sniff yeah and he would say i like the vinegar feel free to quit i would quit i. I'm going to fire myself.

I like the vinegar.

Ew.

Like, Len's beautiful Russian immigrant mother would be cooking us Red Baron pizza

just so that her kid could sit on the couch watching an L.A. Kings game,

scratching his nether regions and going,

I like the vinegar. That is so gross.
He's the best. That's the immigrant dream right there.
I can't even imagine doing that as a kid. Were you ever like, I remember once, I have one regret about growing up me and Len, we had a younger buddy, Daniel, and like, we would be like, 11, 12, 13 years old.
He was a year younger than us. And we were just like, I just remember one time playing a prank on Daniel where he woke up from at the sleepover and Len was over his face with his ass in his face.
And Daniel was like, I'm not sleeping over anymore. And I was like, I don't blame you, Dan.
That stinks. Yeah, look, it both stinks literally and figuratively.
This is what boys do, okay? This is what boys do on sleepovers. The same thing applies to camp.
One time in camp, we literally shoved 14 cheese balls in this guy's ass.

Okay.

This is just what you do in camp. You're like, hey, let's see how many cheese balls we can fit in his ass.
And that's just what it was. We can cut out his name, but that's just, it is what it is.
And he's happy as a clam. He holds the record for how many cheese balls you can put in an ass.
And it's so funny. Somebody said this the other day, like there is nothing gayer, nothing than either a young boy sleepover or summer camp.
The things that go on so gay for heterosexuals, like it's like, hey, who do you think is the bigger dick, me or you? And then two people whip out their dicks. Gay.
But it's just like straight Guys doing straight guy things. We're we're young yes and we're not judgmental we need to adopt that i'm not gay i'm just a 38 year old at camp with my bros yeah that's it it's not a big deal i'm not gay i just like cheese balls in the ass i want to go to camp tomorrow yeah me too to put cheese balls in my ass 14 14 14 went in were these weiss were these utzes the big no the big you know the big tub utz fantastic what a snack i'm just and feel free to turn the podcast off listeners but i'm gonna need some more details.
Now we need the logistics. Because that's pretty graphic, dude.
Yeah. Yeah.
Fourteen in the ass. Whoa.
Some of them crumbled for sure. Look, if you've ever had an Utsk cheese ball, you know, they don't hold well.
You push, they break. Sure.
But yeah. Yeah.
It's rough. You ever heard of the game Ookie cookie oh no no i don't know i don't like the way you just said that you ever heard of the game ookie cookie olivia by her laugh i think has heard of ookie cookie but again feel free to turn off the podcast but another game i never played but in another game of legend where six straight young boys around the age of 12 all ejaculate onto a cookie this is getting cut out and then one kid and then one kid eats it that's gotta be fake because we've all heard about that growing up but no one actually did that it's probably fake

it's probably with the legends of like quicksand and like it's probably within legend i would agree thinking maybe not i don't know thinking of that you're like look there's a lot of folklore Narnia, Lord of the Rings

Ookie Cookie

Speaking of Ookie Cookie

Oh my God. What? Let me ask you.
Wait, I was going to ask you something about camp and hook. Oh darn, I lost it.
It's just such a gross visual. I couldn't get past it.
Ookie Cookie. Yeah, it's rough.
Ookie Cookie's rough. You're also really horny in camp.
When did you play your first game of first game of spin the bottle oh you know i was just so fat like i was just so happy to be included i don't remember when i it somehow the bottle never landed on me josh i don't know if it was a anti-fat man bottle but i never i was in there i was all ready to go and the bottle just never landed on me i don't think i I ever got a spin. They didn't give me a spin.

You were an observer.

I was an observer.

Hell yeah.

What about you?

You're like, Ben, what are you doing here?

And you go auditing.

Just making sure nobody gets in too much trouble.

Taking notes.

Have I ever told you the story, ninth grade, I didn't drink in ninth grade. Did I tell you about this? All of my friends were drinking already.
You go to a party,

people are drinking. I would literally go around the party.
A kid would be drinking a beer and I'd

say, you know, that really is not good for you, sir. And then at the end of ninth grade, I fell

asleep at a party and my friend poured beer down my throat and I woke up with beer in my mouth.

And that was the first time I ever drank alcohol.

And how was that?

I felt immediately like such a loser for going around the party telling people to stop drinking beer because it just like tasted gross.

But like nothing happened to me.

I had like a sip of beer like these kids.

I was I was definitely a wet blanket, but I was, maybe I saved some lives. Who knows? Sure.
We had 14, Len and I had 14 shots of Mandarin vodka when we were 14 years old and that he stole from his Russian parents. 14 each? Yeah.
It was bad. Wow.
Yeah. That'll hurt the, that'll hurt the tummy.
We cleared the bottle and that was the first time we drank. And it was, yeah, it was intense.
And then we threw up in my trash can and I don't think I drank again. I would, you know, it's funny.
I was talking about this the other night, but I would go back to New York over summers from like 14 to 17 for a month. And we would like smoke a blunt on my buddy's roof in Chinatown or we would like drink a 40 amongst like the three of us.
But we never really like, it didn't click in. Like it was unremarkable.
I don't remember it. I also don't remember thinking it was great.
And then of course at 17, I think as I had lost all this weight and I was looking for something else as a crutch, I, you know, then when I was smoking pot and whatnot, it was suddenly like, oh, I like this. This is a relief.
This gets me out of my head. Yeah, totally.
I got the most gorgeous selfie, Josh. You, Max Shy, on the slopes, the beautiful Vancouver background.
It was the most gorgeous selfie that I've ever seen. What's your secret? What is your secret? It was so beautiful.
It's funny you ask and I don't mind sharing. I don't know if you're familiar with the Galaxy S25 Ultra from Samsung, but they have portrait selfie, which is like, listen, I don't care.
I'm, you know, I actually do care. I care about having a good selfie.
And the truth of the matter is every sort of camera I've had before this, it just skin tones would start to look a little weird. Textures weren't preserved.
It just wasn't right. But I just find that you can capture you look the way you think you look.
You know, when a camera takes a picture of you and you go, I don't look like that. Yes, I do.
And you call your therapist. Yeah.
the camera lies, Josh, but not on the galaxy. OK, you flip this thing around.
You want a selfie. Mom's like, let's take a selfie.
You're like, mom, I don't want to take a selfie because I'm going to look ugly. We don't need this until the galaxy.
OK, because the galaxy, when you take that selfie, it's perfect. It's portrait mode.
It's it. It's the perfect selfie.
What I like with the portrait selfie is that it's, you know, it's this dedicated thing that knows that selfies are their own thing and that it needs to be sort of curated for exactly that. So it preserves all the beautiful kind of things that you need for a good photo like that.
I'm a big fan. I think my kids and I looked gorgeous on the slopes.
You know, I don't want to brag, but we did brag. What do you mean you don't want to brag? You took it.
You sent me. You were bragging.
All right. Listen, I want to share with you.
Can I not share with you? You can share. Look, I know I can share with you, and I just want every shot to have that nice professional look.
So shout out portrait selfie. Now, let me ask you, Ben, when you posted that beautiful selfie at the wedding you were recently at, now be honest with me.
Did you use the best face feature? Did you? Of course I use the best face feature, Josh. Okay.
Look, we come from a world where we like tinkering, all this stuff, okay? But with Samsung, it can be the real you because best face gives you the best face. And you know what? How many times you're taking a photo and you're annoying your friends, you're going, hey, look at this.
It becomes this think tank when Samsung goes, you know what? Give your friends a break. We have a feature now that can help you find the best one.
No problem. Best face, you're welcome.
It's perfect, especially for somebody who's indecisive. Is it this? Is it this? Best face.
I said best face, which one's the best? And they said, none, you're ugly. No, I'm kidding.
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I would go to these parties though, Josh. And again, because I was just like the fat guy.
I'm not getting it. I was about to say getting any ass.
This is a PG show. I'm not smooching.
I'm not canoodling. I'm just like there, like

talking to my friends, whatever. I vividly remember senior year, I go to a party and I guess like all the seats were taken.
My feet were hurting me. I go and I take a seat on my friend's dining room table, snaps in half.
The dining room table just snapped in half. And I remember going to school the next day.
I felt so bad. He's like, it'll be $350 to fix the table.
I need it now. I'm like, okay, I went to my dad.
I told him it'll be 350 to fix the table. I feel really bad.
Let's give him the 350. I gave him the 350.
Next week, he comes in with headphones, Josh. Guess how much those headphones cost him? 350.
350. 350.
He never gave a dollar to his parents. Scumbag.
Tangent. But now in in my head i'm just thinking of all of these parties but yeah your father goes can we get other quotes can i send in my guy yeah totally he's a lot quickly did they get that estimate yeah instantly his parents never came home he made up the estimate 350 that's crap because that's the kind of thing that if you tell your parents that happened with your friend who was like a little bit like of a bigger person like broke through it your parents go don't worry like we'll figure it out they don't go like bring me a check from your friend bring me 350 also like to fix the tape it's not 350 what is it to fix a wooden table no it's cheaper to buy a new one first of all can you even fix a wooden table what are you gonna find the one woodworker left in the northeast you have to go to the fucking amish yeah i'm gonna landcaster yeah no it's cheaper to cheaper to buy a new table but yeah no you know is it olivia and feel free not to answer but like do you remember like when spin the bottle and those kind of games became a thing yeah i didn't really go to parties in high school so i don't think i think the first time that i ever did spin the bottle was probably in college um, I mean, I went on like some double dates

in eighth grade

where like the guy I was with

was like he had to kiss me first

before the other guy

would kiss the other girl.

Like they were going to do it

at the same time,

but I never got invited

to a spin the bottle.

It's so,

I've told this story before

and I think she commented on it

like on Twitter or something,

but I like played spin the bottle in sixth grade. I performed in arts high school.
It was crazy. And then in between rehearsals for Annie.
And then, but the first time I was like properly kissed, I remember I was 16 and I was in North Hollywood at a party and playing spin the bottle with other kids that I went to acting class with. And so it was like Evan Rachel Wood was there and like Penn Badgley and Evan Peters and like all these people that have gone on to be incredibly successful and talented.
But I remember that the bottle landed on Evan Rachel Wood and I and I was about to say Evan and I, and then I'm like, Evan Peters and I? No. You wish.
I know. And she just looked at me and gave me just like a proper, wonderful kiss.
And I remember being like, thank you, Evan. Like you didn't have to do that.
I really appreciated it because at 16, I needed some connection. Oh, there was just nothing better.
The only thing better was telling your friends, like going and telling your friends, I just kissed a girl was like, oh my God, like the best feeling in the world. And you also just like felt normal and validated.
And you're like, okay, like my cool friends have been doing this forever. And like, now I get to do it too.
So grown up. Those were the days, Josh.
Whoa. How do you feel with your beautiful child, you know, Baruch Hashem coming into the world? I have a bit of an aversion about, I see it with older like grandparent types, but also people my age.
I don't do that thing of, oh, like Max, do you have a little girlfriend? Like oh, this is his girlfriend, Charlie or whatever. I just don't like to put that on kids.
I think it's a little weird. And I know it's like 99% of the time, like it's just like a cutesy, silly thing.
But I don't know. I like try not to do that with kids.
What do you guys think? I think it's weird. But I also, and I know I've mentioned this on a past podcast, hold the neurologist, okay? I'm bringing it up again.
I like arranged marriages. I want to bring them back because we don't need to force the issue now, but my dear friend has a baby girl.
I have a baby boy. I really love my dear friend.
I really love my dear friend's

wife. I really love the family.
I'm just saying we're not going to force anything, but it's nice

to imagine that my in-laws could be my best friends. Like imagine you have a beautiful

baby girl, Josh. Okay.
You have a beautiful baby girl born similar timing to my beautiful baby boy.

And we decide we want to push households.'s great that is so deeply insane i cannot get over it what's what's more scary is i know that you're only 75 kidding and it ruffles my feathers good and hard it's wild he will have his own choice but it's not like i can't say oh you know ruthie peck she's a nice girl rivka she's good like ruthie peck she's nice but you the problem is is like you think that and then i don't you know when when you have your kid when you have your own kid it'll shift and i and more will be revealed like

yes i think while paige and i hopefully hold a lot of the same i would imagine same values that you and claudia have we're very different than maybe a lot of the couples just who are more northeast typical new york jewish couples like because we haven't we've we've had a different thing yeah and you might have your kids and suddenly go like oh what Josh and Paige have with their families actually presented itself to be kind of more attractive than the thing that I was used to or grew up with or you might be like no I clearly would never want that I love what me and my friends have like that's the interesting thing is watching your friends how they raise their kids totally right totally and it and it's weird like i have so one of my best friends has a five-year-old and a two-year-old but the rest of them really have like kids under one like it's all happening at once and the big the biggest common theme is i haven't seen any of them in a year like sure it it's just like, I don't know when I'm going to see them again.

And we're all like totally on the same page about that.

Try to make time.

But I'm very excited for like whenever we actively come out of that phase.

And I guess have just like little people that want to hang out with each other.

But right now we're in the phase of like kids are just like still too young trying to figure it out. I don't know when I'll see you, you know? Yeah.
I mean, I think it's, it's a blended thing. Like I have like the great kid, David, who was on the podcast.
He is a single guy. So he, I have single friends who have said, you are now your own entity with your own family.
And I'm not going to make an extra effort to be in that new sort of equation and I go great I will be making no effort to make your single life more comfortable all good love you and then David has said I want to be in your kid's life and so it's our friendship has leveled up because he my children love him and i love him and and i also make it a point because i'm very mobile with my kids and my family like we will come visit you and then especially like if i lived in the city and you have your kid i have my kiddo you know i think you have to be able to be like on a sunday morning like ben, we're going to the park. You want to come or not? Like we don't have to plan it, but like if you're free and doing nothing, let's go to the park and we'll get a bagel because look, we both got to get these kids energy out, you know? And so what age do you think that starts? Because I totally agree.
But what is that? Is that one and a half? Yeah, I think like being able to enjoy the park is probably like one one and a half but also there is something great of like i got this blob here who's six months like yeah you got a blob let's just like sit and distract each other with these blobs for a couple of hours i can't stare at this thing any longer yeah yeah blob on blob yeah that should be our daddy daycare blobs blobs heavyweights the blob can you believe i just saw heavyweights came out 30 years ago josh wow that's crazy to me and keenan thompson looks same. He looks so good.
He looks insanely good. Like he posted that heavyweights poster.
I was like, Kenan, you look identical. And it's Sean Weiss, is it? Goldberg from Mighty Ducks.
He's in it. Yeah, he's in it.
Such an unbelievable. Ben Stiller, obviously.
So good. Did Stiller direct it? I don't know.
Let's see. I don't know.
But my friend recently ran into Stiller. He doesn't know him.
He just like saw him and he's like, I loved you in Heavyweights. It's my favorite movie.
And apparently Ben Stiller said it's mine too. I can see that.
Apparently he loved Heavyweights. It's so twisted.
Mm-hmm. Yeah.
Yeah. So good.
No, the screenplay is by Judd Apatow. And it was directed by Steve Brill, who I worked with, who directed a movie called Drillbit Taylor, who I know.
And Steve Brill, funny enough, created the Mighty Ducks franchise and became absurdly rich from it. And I will never forget, he did not appreciate my obsession with Mighty Ducks and he would give me notes during scenes and i'd be like do you want me to do this the way charlie conway did it when he was doing the triple deke at the goodwill games and he was like you're fired mighty ducks was so good oh it's amazing.
So good. Has Max seen Mighty Ducks?

Has he seen, like, what's your approach to older movies?

Does he, like, have you shown him, like, stuff that you love to watch?

Or is it all the new stuff?

No, I show, he loves Rookie of the Year.

So good.

He likes Sandlot.

I mean, he's sick, so he can't really appreciate it yet.

But he likes, yeah, for sure.

He definitely is slowly getting into those. I feel like you could have been in Mighty Ducks.
No, I was too young and too fat. No, they already had a Goldberg.
I was too young. You're too young.
You're a little too young. That's right.
Dream, you know, that's right. The dream.
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Oh, these movies were so good.

Where did they go, Josh?

What happened?

Where did these movies go?

Like what changed? Honestly, from your perspective, I at least look at TV today or movies today. And I'm like, I'm just not, I'm just not impressed by the stuff that's coming out for younger kids.
Like, like I feel like we used to make movies for them that were still like, could still be appreciated by adults. I don't know.
I feel like things have just changed. Do you agree? Yeah.
I don't know. I I'm trying to think of, I think everything became algorithm based.
And so everything became an attempt at reverse engineering what once worked before. Yeah.
And then you also like, and then people like take that I, you know, I look look i love and i'm proud of the show i did turner and hooch and that was ip from the 80s and i think what was hard was the original movie like tom hanks in that movie is a total dick like his character is a jerk and he's like a real dick to the dog and he's like pretty curmudgeonly and it's a like there's like murders and shooting like he's a proper detective and like the stakes are high yeah you know cut to 25 years later you have to make a show for disney plus that is like honoring those elements but really can have none of them because like god forbid anyone offends offends anyone about anything. And it loses that edge.
I think. It's that, it's what you just said.
It's the God forbid anybody offends anybody about anything. And like, I think we just like no longer treat kids as like little people.
Like if they watch a movie, the worst thing that used to happen was that you'd get a nightmare. Like I've said, I watched, I was in the third grade.
I went to a sleepover. Somebody showed me the Terminator and I didn't sleep for a month.
I don't know why. Something about the Terminator, I didn't sleep for a month, but I didn't, like if I had watched a movie with bad words or with something complex, like a lot of it goes over your head or you talk to your parents about it.
Like now we're just, we've sheltered our TV. Like it's, it's just not interesting.
That's exactly what it is. It's not interesting anymore.
Like the movie Liar Liar is fucking dark. Yeah, it is.
It's so good. So good, so good.
Like I hope, I think that I will just need to show some of these older movies to him, BHBH, because my dad to this day will talk about how much he loved watching TV with me. Like my dad liked Drake and Josh.
Like it's, it's like shows that like could also appeal to the parent that I just don't think exist anymore. Like, I don't know.
I, I don't know. It's no longer family TV.
It's like kids TV with these colors like i was reading something reading watching a tiktok about coco melon and how they put so many colors into this movie that it is like it there's a reason why kids want to watch it 250 times because it's like they're on acid like something like goes into their brain with the the way that the colors transition and all the disney action. Like, I know, but that music from Cocomelon is hot.
It is. It is.
What's the one with the mouse? Where are you? Here I am. Here I am.
How do you do? What's the movie with Mr. Moon? What is the Good Night Moon? No, no, no.
It's a kid's movie now where there's like a little mouse his name is mr moon and he runs a theater sing so good i just spilled water on my i love sing i love it yeah sing is bomb sings bomb yeah with exception to sing sings bomb oh yeah yeah no we mess with sing in our home we like the things you know like it's amazing and no shade and whatnot but like the first moana the songs are so good because it's lin-manuel miranda and the second moana they're like we got someone new they're great too and it's like i don't know any of those songs guys i didn't see moana two moana one also with sing unbelievable rushes so good speaking of hockey so i got to tell you about this thing i did this charity hockey event for the la kings on sunday to honor la strong honor the first responders to raise money for the california fire fund and and all. And shout out the LA Kings, an amazing fundraiser.
And so it was really an interesting process because about a month ago, we have a lot of friends who are ex-Kings, a buddy of mine, Matt, who played for them and now works in the organization. So he texts me and he goes, hey, we're going to do a charity event, charity game.

You want to play like in a month?

Oh, I go.

I'm in, Matt.

He goes, beautiful.

I'll have someone reach out. I think between then and two days later, they somehow got Justin Bieber and Steve Carell to do it, too.

And they forgot about good old Joshy.

Suddenly, I'm not getting emails so i'm like it's okay they're busy this is more principles before personalities this is more important so they hit me up like two days before they're like you ready to play on sunday i was like what are you nuts they're like yeah here's the info bring your gear i'm like first of all it's hilarious that you think that an actor has full hockey pads bring your gear i'm like can i rent sk skates? Bring your gear.

I've played in celebrity basketball games, as we've talked with Nick Swartzen about.

I know how deeply demoralizing and embarrassing it is to be out in front of an audience really just sucking.

And I'm actually okay at playing hockey.

But as I said, I've never been great at skating because at 14, when I should have been skating, my mom said, you're too fat for skates. And the velocity which your body will hit the ground wouldn't mean compound fractures.
And I can't have that. We don't have great insurance.
So I never got great at skating. So I wind up saying, listen, I'm not going to skate be part of the game and they're like okay we'll just come we guess so I did come and it was a really nice event and there's Vince Vaughn and Colby Smulders and great ex-hockey players Mark Messier, Teddy Purcell, Matt Green,anuff.
Like all these amazing players. And then we get to like the biggies.
The big celebs. Will Ferrell.
Okay. Wow.
Snoop Doggy Dog. The two announcers.
I need to go back to Will Ferrell. Did he skate? I only think of Blades of Glory.
No. I wonder if he really skated.
Or did he have somebody to do the stun do the the stunts from a stunt man no he didn't skate he's a big kings fan so it wasn't a surprise he was there okay and soup dog so now i'm like and i you know and i'm walking around i'm like i'll be the equipment manager whatever it's fun so they're like okay you'll be the equipment manager because we already have coaches for the red team. So let's get them all lined up and we're going to introduce you guys.

You're going to go out on the ice.

So last minute, they're all skating out, right?

And then they're like,

and right as the last person goes out of the tunnel

to skate out, they go,

an equipment manager.

Just.

And I didn't go out. I literally went like this.
Nope. I was so embarrassed to go out as the equipment manager that I said, I'm not going out.
Equipment manager. Oh my God.
That is so classic too. It's so me, man.
You should have played. So I should have been.
I think I would have been okay. But it is what it is.
And then I was chatting with some of the players as they were lined up to go out. And then I see the great Josh Richards.
And we chatted up a little, dab it up. Wonderful.
You know, one great Canadian, Josh Richards. And then they go out and I turn go out and i hear someone go hey josh and i turn around and who is it the beebs wow a real celebrity and he said hey josh yeah bro wow the kid excellent is a mensch and as you know we had one amazing day at the sauna together don't read into that and like camp we had a great time how many cheese balls can you get 19 and he was he was gonna play he goes hey josh you, man.
And I was like, JB, how are you? I didn't call him that. I was like, Hey Justin, good to see you.
And we're chatting real quick. And I had heard, cause I told you, I got some friends at the Kings, they were like, Oh, they're like Bieber actually asked to, if he could like have some ice time before the game to like practice a little bit.
And I was like, damn. That's how you know someone's great.
When even a charity game, they're like, I'm taking this seriously. I need to warm up.
Yeah. It's no joke.
I love that. Oh, so you had a star-studded afternoon.
I said to him, I'm like, I heard you ask for a little bit of extra ice time. And he's like, yeah, I had to knock the cobwebs off.
And I was like, so humble. We love a humble king.
So good. He's so good at sports too.
He's good at everything. He's good at everything.
I've seen him playing basketball. Like, I don't know if you follow this guy, Chris Brickley, but Chris Brickley like has like a famous gym in the city.
LeBron will come through like back in the day was like J.R.

Smith and you'll see Bieber going to these runs and he's good.

Yeah,

dude.

He's just,

it's amazing to see someone like that. Who's like internationally superstar famous.

It was funny.

There was a girl who was like in her probably late twenties,

who was the one who would like direct people to go out.

Like she was the one who would give someone their cue to like, okay, now go out to the ice. And she was very professional and good at what she did.
And she'd be like, go, go, go. And the last person who gets announced obviously is Bieber.
So she goes, go. And then I see her turn to some of her other friends and go, like holding her heart, like, oh God.
So this was this past Sunday. Yes.
It's so's so funny like the way that the media and we can cut this out if you don't want to talk about it but the way that i have been seeing non-stop like is justin bieber okay and you just saw him and he was in a hockey game and he seemed great like i can't imagine being justin bieber and how every single time you wake up in the morning and maybe forgot to shave and maybe just didn't care what you were wearing and went to an event with your wife that somebody then printed an article that you are like addicted to drugs and have a problem. Like, it's just it's just so like I almost want to say lose lose when you're at that level.
Like, I know it's probably amazing to have the money and the fame, but to not be able to leave your house without people talking and then to hear that he's just like such a normal guy who loves sports, who's having a great Sunday. It's like almost sad.
I couldn't agree more. And I I know because we have to give that caveat of like, obviously, it's it's an exceptional life and how cool that he gets to live and experience all this stuff.
But I don't think it's easy being him. And I think that's a lot, a lot, a lot of pressure that kind of never lets up.
I think it's impossible to be him. Impossible and very like, it's so funny.
People are going to think I'm crazy for saying this, but I bet you 99 out of a hundred people, if they actually lived in his life, wouldn't trade. Right.
It's a lot. If they actually lived in his head, it's a lot.
You got to be up for it. Yeah.
No, you have to be. What is Olivia? What does Justin Bieber mean to you? First as our resident young person and also as a musician yourself and just as a good person.
Well, thank you. I when I remember like he started coming on the scene when I was probably around like 10 years old and I just thought he had like such a beautiful voice.
And like as a young like I had just started playing guitar maybe for like a year or so at that point. And I thought it was so cool because it was like, oh, he got like discovered on YouTube and he just like put himself out there and his talent kind of carried him.
And then I remember like the tide shifting very quickly with like all the kids in school being like Justin Bieber, you know, like all the boys would make fun because all the girls liked him. So that was kind of like the first exposure to like, you know, the push and pull, I guess, of what the perception may be for someone like that.
But yeah, I cannot imagine what that pressure must be, you know, and he's got a kid now, right? Is it today? Yeah. So you just have to be so strong mentally, like going back to what I said before, I maybe I would you have to be so strong mentally and just not everybody can do it.
That was more what I was saying. Like, his life is probably unbelievable.
And I pray that he can handle it. But there are a lot of people that couldn't was what I meant.
Do you think if he showed up at a Chili's and it's busy, everyone's ordering Nashville mozzarella sticks, like they're just inundated. Is there a chilies on this earth that makes justin bieber

wait saturday night eight o'clock nah i don't think that there's a host i was just going through my head like how old are these hostesses i don't think that there is a host at a single chilies that doesn't know who justin bieber is that's right that's right yes he is of that level yes yeah I think so

like me it's a coin flip

not a coin flip

I would say that 50% of Chili's. I think you're- That's a coin flip, man.
Oh, God. Oh, God.
50-50, babe. I think it's a coin flip, Josh.
Ask me why in my head a coin flip went to 25 cents and I thought it was a quarter chance. Neurologist.
Should we get to a story? I think it's a coin flip. Yeah.
Oh my God. Kill me.
Yes, story. Let me make it Jewish.
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This risky trend is irresistible. an ophthalologist with 3.4 million followers on tiktok has gone viral due to his specialization in changing people's eye color permanently dr brian walker has revealed the results of his work on social media showing before and after results yeah really that's really dangerous josh, it's pretty wild.
It's no joke. It's people are going from like very dark eyes to like baby blue light eyes.
I just like what I immediately think of is as a light eyed king, I and this is a fact I get more migraines because more I think it's something about like the way that eyes, light eyes react to sun. Like light eye people get more migraines.
I wonder, they're thinking about the aesthetics, Josh. What about the headaches? What about the potential downsides of how you're now going to feel? Put in contacts.
What's wrong with a colored contact? Sure. I don't like this.
I don't like this one bit. I don't like this one bit.
I barely like. LASIK.
I barely like LASIK. Exactly.
I just don't like messing with the eyes. So scary.
Have you flirted with LASIK? Yeah, I have. It would make my life so much easier.
And Claudia would stop yelling at me about like putting my contacts all over the floor. Because like at the end of the night, I just like randomly remember that I still have my contacts.
And so like I'll take them out and then I'll find them the next day on. I think I'm putting them on my water bottle on my bedside, but then they'll just end up somewhere and like Claudia will find one under her big toe and she'll be like, fuck Ben.
Can't you just put your contacts in the trash? So yeah, I flirted with it because I think it would be good for my marriage, but I also don't want to go blind. I know it's rare.
It's rare. It's rare.
Yada, yada, yada. It also used to be rare to get in a plane crash.
I don't know, Josh. I don't know.
Roll the dice. Live a little.
I went and took my friend Joe for his with Dr. Paul C.
Lee in Koreatown and it was cool. You get Valium.
That's worth it alone. I guess.
I'll have any elective procedure for Valium. I should see if Joey Camasta has a guy that can do LASIK for me.
For sure. It's somewhere in Central Jersey.
Yeah, he can find it. He can get me a good deal.
Well, did you know that Luigi Mangione has been asking Twisted fans to stop bombarding him with so many photos? Luigi Mangione is asking his Twisted fans to stop bombarding him. the accused UnitedHealthcare CEO Unaliver made clear that his legal defense fund, sorry, made clear on his legal defense fund website that he cannot keep up with the fan photos flooding into his Brooklyn federal jail.
Luigi is allowed to receive photos via Shutterfly and free prints in accordance with mail procedures while in custody. Wow.
Subtle flex. By the way, if you're sending...
Dude, people are crazy. Like, what are they sending him? You think these are like...
Oh, Olivia, what do you think he's getting sent? Like, these are pictures of privates, right? That's what this is? Everything. Everything.
Everything and anything under the sun. But I think it's hilarious that they made sure to include that like Shutterfly was one of the forms because now I'm just thinking about like him getting a bunch of customized scrapbooks of like different people.
It also feels like product placement. Like did Shutterfly pay for that? Like an ad.
Yeah. That's a great ad spot.
Oh God.

Like they're like,

Luigi Mangioni's favorite snack

from the canteen is Snickers.

You wouldn't like me when I'm hungry.

I'm gonna kill you.

No, I'm kidding.

Just kidding.

Oh, it's terrible.

That would be such a good Snickers commercial.

Oh my God.

Like he has a Snickers and then he doesn't shoot the CEO.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

That's so good.

That's brilliant.

That's so dark.

Oh, man.

What are you doing?

You just do it with like all of these terrorists.

Like you have like Osama bin Laden.

He's about to like blow up his school. He has a snickers and he doesn't want to anymore the finger just goes off the red button that's what hamas needed snickers oh man well and last thing about luigi mangioni there has to be so many bad fathers on this earth that there are this many women sending Luigi photos.
I know. How many fucking bad fathers are there? A lot.
A lot, Josh. A lot.
A lot. Okay, good.
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So I guess it's just a pillow maintained to hold on to its shape, to lift you in certain ways for canoodling. More so to maybe put under the woman, under her lower back.
One of those, is that what it is? I can't see, but I can imagine.

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yucky

oh boy should we get to uh one speak pipe and then what are you nuts yeah all right this one is from oh here this will be this will be a fun one lauren so i work for a pretty large software company and we sell HR software. And last episode, you guys were talking about different celebrities and how much it costs for an appearance.
And you specifically talked about Shaquille O'Neal. So last February, my company had our sales kickoff and the special guest was DJ Diesel.
And it was a ridiculous event,

mostly because he kept calling the women in the crowd sexy mamas

and bringing them up on stage and letting them dance with him.

So it seemed like an HR violation, but it was super fun.

So I just wanted to tell you guys that funny story.

Love you guys. Bye.

DJ Diesel. I loved it.
Come on, sexy mama. I had like probably two or three jobs ago.
I think this was like 2017. I was working at an agency and they got Akon to do the holiday party.
And let me tell you, that shit was sick. So good.
Are we talking about Gary Vayner? No, we're talking about Horizon. Ah.
Yeah, no, no, no. Gary's not shelling out for Akon.
Okay. Cut that.
Cut that out. Do you really want to cut that out? No, we can leave it.
He's probably bartering. That's why he's not shelling out he's not cheap not cheap but akon was unbelievable i've actually seen dj diesel in atlantic city great he's great love shack love him should we get to our what are you nuts yes our what are you nuts moment of the week are our gripes with people places and things all the things that are ticking us off sticking in our crop and go for it i don't understand why as a waiter or a waitress you will not write down my order that's it i'm giving you an order this isn't i'm trying to get the correct meal i'm not trying to test your memory or your mental capacity to remember exactly what I want and how I want it.
I watched this happen. I'm ordering my omelet, Josh.
My omelet is spinach, mushrooms, onions, and American cheese. Well done.
Well done home fries, seven grain toast, a little butter and ketchup on the side. It's a lengthy order.
It's not, it's not nothing. Right.
And she's not writing it down. So I said, just very nicely.
I said, you might want to write this down. It's a little long.
She's like, nah, I got it. I'm like, okay, comes wrong.
What are you nuts? Like, what are you, who are you trying to prove this to that you can do this job without writing it down? If you're a waiter or waitress, just write it down's it's very normal it's like i just what are you nuts great my what are you nuts is at funerals and memorials stop releasing balloons what are you nuts first of all it's pollution okay these things it doesn't go well they land in the ocean and secondly i know you want you want to write, oh, Grandma Diane loved golf, so I'm going to draw three iron on her balloon. No one cares.
Diane's gone. No one can see it.
You're hurting the sea animals. What are you, nuts? Nuts.
It's enough releasing balloons. That should never happen again.
Ever. Ever.
We're done releasing balloons. So stupid.
It doesn't make any sense like you've made this up this symbolism is completely fictitious and you are actively the fact that we had to remove paper straws josh but it's still fine to release a balloon that's nuts nuts go for it ben folks this episode if not five stars which one what are you nuts Listen to us wherever you get your podcasts. Podcasts.
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