Something from Nothing with Robby Hoffman

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Speaker 2 What are you nuts? There we're the good guys, we're not the great guys. We're just a good

Speaker 2 of the good guys.

Speaker 2 Whoa.

Speaker 2 I'm here.

Speaker 2 I'm here. Yeah, Ben.
Ben is here. But Ben, you're not here.
You're in New York. Ben, you're not here.

Speaker 3 Can you hear me?

Speaker 2 Can you hear me? I can hear you, but you're not here. You're here.
You're there.

Speaker 3 I'm here. You're here.

Speaker 2 To you, you're here. Yeah.
And to us, we're here. You should be.

Speaker 2 You should be here. No, because you do it here, don't you? Where do you guys record typically?

Speaker 1 He lives in New York, so it's always usually 50-50, but this is is the epicenter.

Speaker 3 I'm just saying, New York in October, holy smokes, it's gorgeous.

Speaker 2 You can no longer smell the trash.

Speaker 1 I'm so sorry.

Speaker 2 We get thanks a little bit.

Speaker 2 You know what? If I want soda, I'll have soda. Like, sparkling water is not water to me.
Really? It's a type of soda. I totally agree.
It's a club soda. You call it club soda.

Speaker 2 So don't call it sparkling water. Wow.

Speaker 3 I also refuse to believe that it hydrates you the same way. Claudia will literally drink sparkling water to hydrate herself now.

Speaker 2 No, no, no. There's no hydration.
I think

Speaker 2 it cancels out. Because

Speaker 1 there's a little sodium in club soda, right?

Speaker 2 Of course. A lot, it sounds.
Look at that.

Speaker 2 You don't want to pour that on a wound.

Speaker 2 No, no, it'll bubble up.

Speaker 3 Or maybe you do.

Speaker 2 Hydrate.

Speaker 3 Maybe peroxide pour it on a wound.

Speaker 2 Yeah,

Speaker 3 that's like when I clean my belly button.

Speaker 1 Dr. Peck over here.

Speaker 2 Peroxide.

Speaker 1 Oh, gosh.

Speaker 2 Olivia, all good? All right. We are rolling on everything.

Speaker 2 Take it away. Now, is this the final shot of the wide?

Speaker 2 Oh, that one is not what the

Speaker 2 word is.

Speaker 2 Because I'm not, listen, I'm no scorsese, but

Speaker 2 I'm looking at the wide here and I'm going, I got one hand in it. I, yeah.
He's, you know, I mean, beautiful arms, Josh. There's no question.
God bless you. Thank you.

Speaker 3 You really feel that?

Speaker 2 I know that. Thank you for that.
Do you not, you have body dysmorphia a bit? A bit. You guys have it a lot, eh? I'm the king.
Yeah. Yeah.
It's because you grew up fat? Yeah.

Speaker 2 But, but you're fully not fat. Thank you so much.
But you feel fat.

Speaker 1 I feel like I ruined myself.

Speaker 2 But you've done very well.

Speaker 2 You've fixed yourself. The body is resilient.

Speaker 1 I think about you more than one should. First of all, Mazza Morrins, welcome back to the Good Guys podcast.
We're sitting here with my favorite comedian, Emmy winning,

Speaker 1 genius, brilliant, entertaining.

Speaker 2 The only correct intro I've been given in a minute. Yeah, thank you.
I appreciate you fellas. Listen.
These are the guys.

Speaker 2 These are the guys.

Speaker 3 Josh has body dysmorphia where he feels he looks worse than he does. I have body dysmorphia where I think I look better than I do.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 3 So I don't know which one's better, but I think I look amazing.

Speaker 2 You look unbelievable.

Speaker 2 Really good. Wow.

Speaker 3 My God, it's this tight-knit sweater.

Speaker 2 I highly recommend wearing a tight knife. You have good taste.

Speaker 3 I wore it for you.

Speaker 2 I usually wear a t-shirt.

Speaker 3 I knew Robbie was coming on. I'm like, I got to look.

Speaker 2 But then if you were jacked like this, you'd be in the T.

Speaker 2 There's both.

Speaker 2 But

Speaker 2 you're leading with fashion, and he's leading biology. Wow.

Speaker 2 Not that you both don't have a motion. But a mix of the two of you.
You get him. You shop for him.

Speaker 2 Yeah. I mean, he's already married, so what does he care? But I'm just saying.

Speaker 2 And then you go to the gym with him.

Speaker 3 I love that I can't I'm just saying now we're creating it's too much pressure it's too much pressure Robbie you go to the gym with him he works out too much he's

Speaker 3 he works out like he's

Speaker 2 he's training I can't do it no I can't do it see I'm more like you Ben let's lead with fashion a bit first of all yeah looking how I look with doing so little I'm thank Baruch Hashem thank you God

Speaker 2 because if I had to do what you guys were doing I just don't have it in me but I have to start I got a treadmill I have to plug it in

Speaker 1 But you have a natural smelt disposition, if I may say that.

Speaker 2 I'm skinny lumpy. Okay, I get that.
Me too. You know, if you've ever seen that, it really is a skinny, I'm skinny, but lumpy.

Speaker 1 Does your wife not love a little bit of a

Speaker 1 lot?

Speaker 2 She loves me, but I'll tell you, she's not lumpy.

Speaker 1 She is not.

Speaker 2 Wow.

Speaker 2 I can't even get into it today.

Speaker 1 Tell us about your beautiful wife. Newly married.
You're in the honeymoon phase.

Speaker 2 She's unbelievable. I mean, we're almost married a year.
People say the first year is the hardest.

Speaker 2 We can't believe it every day. We're so, so thrilled.

Speaker 3 I love hearing that. That's the best.

Speaker 2 I think we had our

Speaker 2 like our like what we had to figure out her scare. Am I going to leave? Is she going to leave? I think we had that the first year of dating.
Yes.

Speaker 2 I think our first year of dating was the first year of marriage for most people. Maybe straight people, they move in later or what, you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 Maybe the first year of marriage is the real dating. We were doing all that, but we got it out in the dating.
So we're just now like,

Speaker 2 let's go. We are home.

Speaker 3 And people need, people need to be comfortable saying that their life is great more. I love that you said that.
So many people are so uncomfortable saying, you know what?

Speaker 3 My marriage is fucking awesome. Because they're afraid of other people.
They're going to come and they're going to say, oh, well, my, like, mine stinks.

Speaker 3 Like, you're worried about other people's feelings. Like, thank God your marriage is amazing.
I hope your marriage only gets better.

Speaker 1 and i feel similarly i have a son and every day everybody asks me they're like how's ruby doing i'm like he's unbelievable i'm sorry if your experience is different than mine and your wife is unbelievable too it's worth shouting out thank you shout out she is unbelievable she is unbelievable i i want to agree i'm saying yes send i'm yes sending you which is the one thing i will say robbie you and gabby seem to be first of all which is rare both at a career apex or on the way gorgeous right You got married.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Maybe kids, maybe not.

Speaker 2 No, no, no, no, no, no kids, no kids.

Speaker 1 Right, right. Smart.
So it's one of those, because I feel like a lot of people get married. They're figuring out their work stuff.
They feel the pressure to like get pregnant.

Speaker 1 It's like, it's, it's, you're getting into a harder sort of position where you guys did it right.

Speaker 2 You kind of met.

Speaker 2 Listen, I happen to be, you know, to Ben's point, I happen to be living one of the greatest lives I've heard about in recent history. I think so, too.
And it happens to be mine.

Speaker 2 I I never would have guessed that I would say such a thing, but I'm like, I can't believe it, Rob. I look at little me and I'm like, look what we did.

Speaker 2 We, did I not say I had you? Did I not say, little Rifki, that I was going to do what the fuck I could to get us where the fuck we needed to be? You did it. I was going to do it.

Speaker 2 But look, now we're enjoying. And the thing with Gab

Speaker 2 and the planning and the kids and whatever, first of all,

Speaker 2 you know, physically speaking, you know, the science, if we could,

Speaker 2 it's different for straight people because it can happen naturally. Sometimes it doesn't happen naturally.
But for us, it's kind of like

Speaker 2 because we'd have to go very out of our way.

Speaker 2 Yeah. And it's not something, you know what I mean? So it's not something we want to go out of our way for.
And it's not even something, even if it was accidental.

Speaker 2 So we just feel like this is the situation. And

Speaker 2 for me, in terms of the career, you know, I've never been the overnight success. I've never been the overnight sensation.
I've been very slow and steady, wins the race.

Speaker 2 I've been working a long time, but steadily chipping and enjoying.

Speaker 2 I really enjoy my lifestyle and what I do. I like sleeping in and not waking up for an alarm.
I like writing and I like doing stand-up and just slowly keeping at it.

Speaker 2 And for me, meeting Gabby, I think she knew no matter what, whether she's there or not, this is what I do.

Speaker 2 For love or money, when I'm poor, I was like, even poor, I'm like, but there's nothing else you're going to do. Like,

Speaker 2 thank God, if Kesuf comes, if money comes, thank God, because I'm here for love or money.

Speaker 2 This is just what I do.

Speaker 2 So whether she's here or whatever comes in, I'm still doing what the fuck I do. Yeah, you do.

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Speaker 1 What I love about you is you have this, and I don't know if it's slightly,

Speaker 1 you know, putting it on just because it's great to listen to, but you have a real belief in yourself. So now being at this apex moment, right, with the Steve Carells and the Gene Smith.

Speaker 1 These mockers, they love you. Sarah Silverman shouting you out, Mark Marin.

Speaker 1 Does it feel natural or does it feel foreign and scary?

Speaker 2 It feels eventual. It felt, it feels inevitable.
Yeah. Yeah.
Inevitable.

Speaker 2 To me, it feels like,

Speaker 2 you know what? I used to get flocked. I don't know what we talked about last podcast and this podcast.

Speaker 2 We always get deep, and maybe it's the same subjects because we're obsessed with inner self and stuff like that here. But yeah, and Cruck, and if I repeat it, I you know, apologize.

Speaker 2 Um, and by the way, it's not so bad hearing a second time for me.

Speaker 2 By the way, God forbid, by the way, Chasfashalm, you should hear something great again.

Speaker 1 Yeah, great ass hits.

Speaker 3 Can you cut her some slack? If she repeats, it's fine.

Speaker 2 It's fine. I was born a 73-year-old, old old man.
Like, what do you want from me? So,

Speaker 2 I don't know. Like, like,

Speaker 2 it, it, I, I used to, when I started stand-up and started doing this, people

Speaker 2 thought I was like too,

Speaker 2 like, like my belief in myself

Speaker 2 was

Speaker 1 delusional?

Speaker 2 No, yeah. Some people thought delusional or some people thought

Speaker 2 they didn't like it. It was annoying or something.
But I think when you come from nothing, and I didn't have involved parents,

Speaker 2 and I think people who come from a lot, and I was around these types of people who could maybe pursue comedy and not work, or I don't even know their lifestyles. Okay.

Speaker 2 They, it was like the audacity to believe in yourself. But when I only have me, like, I went to a school where everybody had lots of stuff,

Speaker 2 material, they lived in houses, their parents had cars. They,

Speaker 2 whatever, they went to, you know,

Speaker 2 they went to vacations, whatever that lifestyle is.

Speaker 2 And even then, even though I had cockroaches and it was just so abysmal, I couldn't really believe how

Speaker 2 decrepit and abysmal we were living. I still felt like, even as a kid, like, well, I have me.
It's not nothing.

Speaker 2 Like, I remember thinking, like, well, Rob, we have me.

Speaker 2 I know it's it's not much but we can I think there's something here. I think we can

Speaker 2 It's not zero. I had me.
I know my personality, you know, I became somebody in the group who got everybody the drinks who I

Speaker 2 contributed interestingly to the conversation at the house party at the rich party. Fine, they had the good food and the snacks and the ice krispy treats in the box and the whole bit.

Speaker 2 I came with some topics. Yeah, you did.
You know what I mean?

Speaker 2 I held my own. I was an integral part to the group in terms of funny.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 I don't know. I just developed me.
I just thought, well, we don't have nothing. We have one thing, just one thing, and it's me.
And let's see. Let's see how far I can take that one little thing.

Speaker 2 Let's see what I can. Remember that Jewish book? It really affected me.
Something out of nothing? No.

Speaker 1 Should I know this? I've never read it.

Speaker 3 No, I don't know.

Speaker 2 It's a beautiful Hanukkah book. Maybe it's because I grew up.
These are the books I had. Looks up something from nothing.
Something. I like this.
Look it up.

Speaker 2 I wish you could put it on the TV for him and everybody look it up.

Speaker 1 Finally, one that, you know, with a nut, it sounds nice, happy title.

Speaker 2 Sounds

Speaker 2 like it's Jewish books tend to be depressing. Yeah, this guy, he had like

Speaker 2 and the quilt got ruined. And the boy is beside himself.

Speaker 2 I don't know who made the quilt. Maybe the guy made the the quilt.
So I said, we can fix it. We can fix it.
They made from it a pillowcase. Yeah.
Wonderful.

Speaker 2 The pillowcase.

Speaker 2 It's okay. We could fix it.
They made a vest.

Speaker 2 By the end of it, it's like they make a yarmulke. Small.
Like,

Speaker 2 what can we make? Something from nothing. And I just, yeah, I just felt that.
And I think there's

Speaker 2 the classism of it.

Speaker 2 I can only articulate now or see now.

Speaker 2 It's like, I think when people don't believe in themselves and they have other people who believe in them, their parents, you're the greatest thing that ever happened.

Speaker 2 You could do this, you could do that.

Speaker 2 I think that sense of belief in yourself isn't developed. And it's then, why do I have that? And they don't.
Why do I have something now? I have one thing,

Speaker 2 but still that they don't have it. I can't even have that one thing.

Speaker 2 You know, and they take it personally. It's like, how dare you have something I don't have? I have way more than you all the time.

Speaker 2 So there's different like elements like that that I feel now because even though I brought the hot topics and it's a thankless job to be such an interesting person in a group, you don't get that, you don't get, you know, I was taken, I felt pillaged from always in a way that was like

Speaker 2 my thing didn't have a monetary value.

Speaker 2 And so. right people stole my ideas or people you know i like stealing early on yeah like like like no even like

Speaker 2 whatever, like art projects or

Speaker 2 like things that I did that were because I was developing self out of necessity. It's really all I had.

Speaker 2 My mother was so, my mother had 10 kids and we were on welfare and she was always she loved a cult.

Speaker 2 She was very into, you know, first it was the mashiach and then it was, you know, Jesus.

Speaker 1 Is she a Jew for Jesus still?

Speaker 2 Well, no, apparently she's on the way out. Oh, what's next?

Speaker 2 I think she, no, I think she didn't like their position on Israel. It's like, if you turn on Israel with my mother, or if you're not good enough with Israel, like she's out, right?

Speaker 2 That's the way my mother is. So it's like she's watching you.
Okay, she's watching you.

Speaker 1 What would be, let's spitball, what might be good? Seventh-day Adventist Church of Christ.

Speaker 3 You could do, she could do Juice for Mom Donnie. She could go there.

Speaker 2 I think that would be. Because then she would, she see, she has a very old school, yeah, blind

Speaker 2 faith with this. Like, she doesn't, she has her lines, so she's on the way out.

Speaker 2 You never know what's, you know, even when she was deep in the Jesus thing, this is something that I had her because I called her because she said, any type of a gay wedding I couldn't do.

Speaker 2 I said, well, first of all, who's to say you're invited? By the way, we invited nobody.

Speaker 2 You got married in Vegas. I got married in Vegas, then we did it legally.
Now Gabby wants to get married every year and she loves to get married. That's fun.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 So, um,

Speaker 2 but my mother, and I said,

Speaker 2 I said, you know, Ma, Jesus just loves me so much.

Speaker 2 And she goes, really? And I go, yeah, I just feel that like, how could he not love me? Like, he just, that's all he knows is he loves. And she goes, you're right.
He does. Yeah.

Speaker 2 And I go, and he, he has his own, whatever he's putting me through, we have our own relationship. He loves me.
So like, it's like with God. I don't know if there's a God, not a God.

Speaker 2 I feel like God just fucks with me. I feel like he's like, yeah, yeah, she's gay, but what are you going to do? Yeah.
Like, I feel like he just likes to kick it with me i don't know why like he

Speaker 2 with you he 100

Speaker 2 with you whatever like okay you did this gay thing but you know you're doing it good yeah

Speaker 3 i think that i think that he i think that he with people that love themselves because that's what it is right it's like you're supposed to live life in the image of god you think god doesn't love himself i think self-confidence is key it's exactly what you said you've manifested your entire life you've manifested your whole life whether you realize it or not you've done it i get all of of my confidence from my wife.

Speaker 3 I met my wife, a not confident person. My wife is the most confident person in the entire world.

Speaker 3 Like you're confident. I don't think there's a more confident person than her.
And when I met her, some of her confidence rubbed off on me.

Speaker 3 And 13 years later, I'm still building it. But you said that when, when people take encouragement from others and they don't have it themselves, they don't learn to have that confidence.

Speaker 3 But when you watch a confident person, which I'm sure you and your wife do to each other, which is why you guys are so killer, all of a sudden you're just like, Yeah, these things are supposed to happen because I made sure that they're supposed to happen.

Speaker 2 Like, yeah, there was never, there was never any other option. No, I don't mean to cut off, and there might be a delay here because you're there, there's no delay.
I'm just putting it might cut on,

Speaker 2 yeah, with the rubbing off on each other. Because, Gabby, I'm like, baby, this is even

Speaker 2 like even with traders coming out, I said, babe, you're a pop-off.

Speaker 2 I don't even, there's no one even close

Speaker 2 to me. I'm like, when she took out Danielle, I'm like, babe, just wait for this to come out.
I mean, I see already before the world sees. I'm like, this is, we've never seen anybody like her before.

Speaker 2 This is like when Kim Kardashian was introduced to the market, they thought famous for being famous. They thought, you know, she's reality.
She's sex tapes. She's this.

Speaker 2 She's the most famous, you know, she skims on everything, even her marriage, her kids. Okay, Gabby went from real, from nurse, reality, bachelor,

Speaker 2 podcast, acting. Like,

Speaker 2 she just,

Speaker 2 it's her own, like,

Speaker 2 I just look at her and I'm like, baby, it's crystal clear to me. Yeah.
Like, when I see, it's like, these aren't blurry images. This is like, this is it.

Speaker 2 This is it. Yeah.

Speaker 3 My, my Irish Catholic wife has some belief in me too but it's more like i believe you can pick up dinner you know it's not she's not she's you know then she'll say love language is not compliments but so it's not but it's interesting it's not compliments like i don't want to not to throw like claudia doesn't compliment me unnecessarily i wish like my my love language is that too but she doesn't and that's not because she she compliments me when i deserve a compliment and she like she just really i can't explain it.

Speaker 3 It's, it's even more helpful for me. Like if she coddled me the way that I want to be coddled, then I wouldn't, I wouldn't be able to do anything.

Speaker 1 Just be a man baby.

Speaker 3 I think it's a man baby versus like, I, yeah.

Speaker 2 But

Speaker 2 we're so Jay shetty.

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Speaker 1 But you guys can speak to this because you, Robbie, have talked a lot about like growing up with 10 or nine siblings that you had to be loud and be heard to like get noticed.

Speaker 1 And I find what I love about my wife wife that she's taught me that I thought I had, but didn't really was manners.

Speaker 1 Cause like growing up in this like yiddish New York vibe, I can't keep my effing mouth shut.

Speaker 1 And she just taught me what a virtue it is. She'd be like, you don't have to comment.
Like, and you don't have to have an opinion on this. It's okay.

Speaker 1 And maybe your take on this isn't the second coming. Maybe it's just yet another opinion.
And you can just be quiet. And it's really benefited me.

Speaker 2 No, no, I could learn from somebody like this too. Because

Speaker 2 it's twofold. It's like, yeah, I didn't just want to have belief and confidence in myself.
I would have loved if I had a father who believed in me or saw me.

Speaker 2 And my mother did believe in us and she thought we were very clever, but she would always tell us, you know, I can't do something like that.

Speaker 2 You know, when I, when I, when I got into university, I remember her saying, well, I can't, I can't help with something like that.

Speaker 2 You know, I think there was a lot of shame, you know, and I said, don't worry, mom, I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it.
I'm going to do it. I'm applying for different things, whatever.
But,

Speaker 2 and she really did think she had clever kids and she always, you know, supported us. But yeah, I would have, you know, you overcompensate in some way.

Speaker 2 So maybe I came out more bombastic and I'm like, hello, I'm here.

Speaker 2 I'm telling you.

Speaker 2 I know it seems like a lot, but it's like if they pitch the earth. We've talked about this before.
Tell me. If they pitch, if Hishem pitched the earth,

Speaker 2 like the committee would be like, it sounds too blue. It's a lot of green.

Speaker 2 And it's much too much blue. Can we, like, why is it? It's so much blue and then a little green.
I'm like, I know it's sound.

Speaker 2 Just, you got to see it. Once you see it, it's going to be the most beautiful.
You don't understand what tree. It's a different textured greens.
It's not just green.

Speaker 1 They'd be like, why dinosaurs first?

Speaker 2 Yeah, exactly. They would be like, and why is it now? It's beige over here, but it's

Speaker 2 an essence.

Speaker 2 you know you have to and the blue it's it's a it's a fabric it's it's you swim in it yeah it's it's movable blue you've never seen a liquid you've never seen a material like this so everything so that's i i you know you overcompensate if i had parents who told me like oh you know you were the like maybe it would and i also had some belief in myself everything would look but now i'm just going with this yeah

Speaker 2 so i look at little rob i'm like you fucking got this and i give that to gab because Gab also, like, Gab, like, what I'm saying is like, out of a lineup, if it was like a, you know, a police lineup or whatever, I could be like, that's her.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Like, that's one.
But yeah, she

Speaker 2 also, we come like, we've learned so much about each, like fashion, I happen to always be into just because I was always looking at better and what people had, but I never had it myself to the point that now she's like into, like, now I, you know, like we learn from each other in ways.

Speaker 2 And the way that you're talking about like, you don't have to say, she's helped me with that too. Like in a group, I think I take on a lot of the effort of making the social thing.

Speaker 2 Like, if it's silent, I'm like, I got to get to work. Right.
I got to get this vibe going, you know, but she was like, it's not your job.

Speaker 2 Like, if people want, are boring and they're like, you could just, so I just let people be boring now. Yeah.
But it's like learning those things, like what you're talking about.

Speaker 2 Like, she's like, yeah, you don't, it's not your job.

Speaker 2 And I always felt like if I was in a rich house, something like I gotta I gotta dance to eat I gotta yeah that's why that's why I'm here that's my role here is that I bring the fun night it's also fun to dance it's fun to be a dancer sometimes

Speaker 2 you have to be in the mood to do it too much it's about refining it can be too much we're in a refinement stage and meeting your other half helps the refinement because they love you for you and they also want to take some of the load off Do you find like now being in these fancy circles, like any pressure to like live up to the way people are falling in love with you to be the Robbie they've seen.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I don't even think about that. I just don't think anybody is more valuable than anyone else.
Yeah, so when I'm in a room and there's like the CEO of this, I'm like,

Speaker 2 I can,

Speaker 2 and I'm here. Yeah, you do that thing, and I do this thing.
I don't believe that anybody is more than the other,

Speaker 2 and um,

Speaker 2 so I don't feel that ever. I don't care what the hell, you know, I was sitting, I was sitting at the Emmys.
I was sitting two seats behind Tim Cook.

Speaker 1 Wow. Was he wearing the Tux?

Speaker 2 Timmy C. Yeah, he was in a Tux, whatever.
And I didn't even want to sit there because I'm like, I got to be, I don't care about this. I'm like, I got to be in the line of fire.

Speaker 2 If somebody wants to take out the CEO, I got to get shrapnel to the head. Smart.
Because I'm sitting.

Speaker 2 I'm literally like the shot. I'm one of the four angles you could get him at.

Speaker 2 So I'm ducking in my seat. This is how I watch this shit.
Because I'm like, I could see somebody taking him out. He's right there.
There's no security.

Speaker 1 Can you imagine you get friendly with him? How many free iPhones you got? I don't care. You'd never have to upgrade again in your life.

Speaker 2 I don't want to upgrade. I think he still charges you for the iPhone.

Speaker 2 Should be a month. I'm killing you.

Speaker 3 He still charges you for the iPhones, Josh. He'll always charge you for the iPhones.
It's like I'm friends with the owner of Peter Luger's. I can't even get free schlag.

Speaker 2 We couldn't get

Speaker 2 Peter Luger's.

Speaker 2 Never mind that we can't get it. He would get back in last minute.

Speaker 1 They wouldn't let you in.

Speaker 2 This was a free.

Speaker 2 Robbie, you come to me when you need a reservation. I know.
I know. I don't like to bother when I'm in New York and I know you and Claudia are busy, but I should reach out more.
No bother. I should.

Speaker 3 We're not busy. We would love to.
You walked in?

Speaker 2 No problem.

Speaker 1 They tell you two hours.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it was

Speaker 2 insane.

Speaker 2 But that's it. We walked in last minute, but I had always heard about Peter Lugers.
I've never been. And so I was like, you know, I got to go.

Speaker 3 Oh, my God.

Speaker 3 And you go upstairs. They know where to put the Jews.
It's Jews and Asians upstairs. That's the only people upstairs.
Downstairs, you can be non-Jewish and non-Asian.

Speaker 2 So you know what? So we've got to get Gabriel. Jews and Asians.

Speaker 2 Yeah. We lead with Gabby.
With me, I lead with Gabby. The problem with that one is I led myself.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 3 They were a Jew capacity. You never know.
They were a capacity on the Jews.

Speaker 1 Should we get to a speak pipe?

Speaker 2 What's up? Yeah, let's do it. So by the way, quick caveat.

Speaker 3 I love that you come on and we turn into Jay Shetty. It's my favorite thing.

Speaker 2 It's the best. Is that me? Or who? Him? Yeah, I know.

Speaker 3 Like, Jay Shetty, it's like, we're like such like an intentional, deep podcast. We don't do that.

Speaker 2 Really, is that what he's doing? I'm just letting you know.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah. Listen to that.
That's what Jay Shetty with those two eyes. Oh, that's a good combo.

Speaker 2 With the light eyes. It's crazy to me.
Gorgeous. So exotic.
It's insane. I know.
And very rare. You know, you have green eyes? Very.
I have green eyes. We have the rarest eye color.
Do we? Yes, we do.

Speaker 2 green okay then i couldn't see because you're all the way there wow this is three green eyed but then i think rarer than that is the green eyed the blue eyed with the more tan or the darker complexion that's next level we think this is

Speaker 2 oh look i feel like i'm in paranormal activity here jesus christ

Speaker 2 all right you know what because of that effort i consider you here yeah

Speaker 3 you're here now my knuckles are broken i put too much weight on my knuckles. I should have gone with the arms.

Speaker 2 I went just one hand.

Speaker 1 What kind of vape are we vaping?

Speaker 2 I quit vape for two weeks. How'd that go?

Speaker 2 It's going well, I guess.

Speaker 2 But then, but then,

Speaker 2 but then

Speaker 2 my special.

Speaker 2 And I thought, well, let me enjoy one last. I'm going to quit right.
You know, let me just end the chapter on my. So when this dies, that's it.

Speaker 2 Okay. This is a low-dose nicotine vape.
It's 2% versus like the jewels or the the ones that you just said, the geek brother, 5%.

Speaker 2 Yeah. So I think this is, you know, the equivalent of a pack of cigarettes and it lasts a month.

Speaker 1 You're weaning.

Speaker 2 Oh, I've only ever done the 2%.

Speaker 2 Really? Yes, I've never done the full nicotine.

Speaker 1 But you're a bummer, too. Like the way I like.
Yeah, yeah, I'll have it.

Speaker 2 Ooh. You got it.
I'll fuck with a Siggy, but I'm not going to buy a Shiggy. But I'll fuck with a Siggy.

Speaker 2 A Peter Lugers? He gets me in there.

Speaker 2 We have the cigarette. We have a mashed potato.
Delicious. We have a lot of asparagus.
If I'm outside, somebody's got a pack of.

Speaker 3 oh my god nice

Speaker 2 any chance i can get

Speaker 3 nothing better

Speaker 2 come on i don't want to be out alone especially

Speaker 2 can i pay you for it's a crisp december day

Speaker 2 by the way when i do the pay for cigarettes i have a i have money on it i have a one or i have a but they never take it i've had people take it no

Speaker 2 you know some people the kind of people you probably don't you know i'll go to you know the docks or whatever you know if it's like one of these warehouse or whatever.

Speaker 2 And they're like, you know, the people who load the stuff.

Speaker 2 I give him a five. He's carrying something.
He's got to get his thing out. I go, I know you smoke.
You know, it's at that point, that's when I give it.

Speaker 2 But most people, if you're outside Peter Luger's, you take my five, you take my one.

Speaker 2 Shame on you.

Speaker 2 Shame on you.

Speaker 1 Can you imagine if we were ripping darts? Let's really fantasize here. I love that.
We're all, we're like really crushing it, right? They go, you know what? We have a private room for you.

Speaker 1 You can smoke in there. I love that.

Speaker 2 Smoke while we eat. You can smoke in there.

Speaker 1 We're ripping darts. We put it out in the mashed potatoes.

Speaker 2 I can't imagine that. That's unbelievable.
Can you imagine that? People did this.

Speaker 1 This is living.

Speaker 2 This is living.

Speaker 1 Oh, man. I like having goals with you guys.

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Speaker 1 This one, I will say you've given your hot take on it before, but it's worth again.

Speaker 2 Again, you hear something from me, you hear it again.

Speaker 5 Hey, good guys. Catholic listener here.
Love y'all, but I'm curious what your tipping habits look like.

Speaker 5 I feel like tipping culture has gotten extremely out of hand these days, and I feel like a bitch when I'm at a coffee shop and they flip the screen around and want me to tip a dollar, two, or five.

Speaker 5 And all they did was take my order. Now, obviously, I'm tipping 20% at a restaurant when i have a wager she listened to my clip and then she just

Speaker 2 drive-through or places where you've never had to tip before things look up robbie hoffman tipping and be done which she already did clearly

Speaker 2 unless i have to go up to order i'm not tipping if you can do it though

Speaker 3 if you can do it i'm with you by the way it's frustrating yes and i do wait people whatever actually

Speaker 2 i can't even tell you the message i get because it would blow up my whole thing but people somebody wrote i went to one of these fancy Emmy parties. He's at the chateau or something.

Speaker 2 Everything's free there. Sure.
They're giving you champagne. They're giving you whatever you want.

Speaker 2 Lady gave me champagne. I slipped her a 20.

Speaker 2 The guy at the bar, I slipped him a 20. I was giving out 20s.
Yeah, nice.

Speaker 2 Apparently, somebody who works with somebody, like a comic, is friends with one of the bartenders, said, Not Robbie Hoffman, not ordering drinks, just slipping me a 20. Only tip I got all night.

Speaker 2 So I'm telling you.

Speaker 2 Oh,

Speaker 3 Josh, I forgot to try it at the wedding. I just had a wedding and I wanted to go and tip the waitress with the hors d'oeuvres to see if she would just funnel straight to me.

Speaker 3 You know, the past hors d'oeuvres? My plan, I wanted to give her 100 to see if I didn't have to be the show waiting right at the beginning.

Speaker 2 And the only reason is I had cash on me from doing spots, stand-up spots. We still got paid in cash.
Now, I was thinking in my head, this is such a wonderful night. I'm here honored at the Emmys.

Speaker 2 This would have cost me anyway. Let's say I did eat at such an establishment and this drink.
It's at least $150.

Speaker 2 So whatever bills I had, I gave out.

Speaker 2 And,

Speaker 2 but yeah, just so people are surprised by that.

Speaker 2 Obviously, I'm also tipping at everywhere because that's

Speaker 2 more is

Speaker 2 pay people a living wage. It's more to bring up the conversation that people must be paid appropriately by their employers.
The onus is not on the general public to pay wages.

Speaker 2 It's the same reason I think that Walmart employees should

Speaker 2 be given full-time work. You know,

Speaker 2 they'll cut their hours to just below full-time so that they're part-time, so that they

Speaker 2 also qualify for welfare. So, who's paying their wages now, then again? Us, the people.
Walmart's making plenty of money. They don't want to pay them full wages.
They want us. They want a double dip.

Speaker 2 Same thing, Walmart having police officers because of theft.

Speaker 2 Who plays? They can have security. They can private.
They can, but they've made it seem, well, because we have theft, we need police officers. No, no, no.
Why am I paying for your security?

Speaker 2 You have such a store. Secure your shit.

Speaker 1 Secure your shit.

Speaker 2 And by the way,

Speaker 2 it's all about working on it's about deconstructing the systems that we take for granted. The tipping, it's not tipping.
It's wages. It isn't tipping.

Speaker 2 Tipping, you should still make $15 an hour, which by the way, we've been talking $15, it's probably $18 an hour, right? Like by the time they do 15,

Speaker 2 by the time every state does 15, it's already going to be at like, it needs to be 22. You know what I mean? Whatever the livable wage is calculated at.

Speaker 2 And then if you want to give a five on top, great, but it should be, it, it, it should be a tip. It should be extra money.

Speaker 2 That person going home should use that money, maybe buy a beer, maybe buy whatever they want. It's a tip.
It's money you never had.

Speaker 2 But the living wage, they should be able to pay their expenses, their bills. A tip should be fun.
It should be a gift. It should be Hanukkah Geld.
It should be something you buy yourself.

Speaker 2 Live in dignity. It shouldn't be your wages.
It shouldn't be your groceries. It shouldn't be your child care, your health care, whatever.

Speaker 1 Maybe Maybe a nice two milligram vape.

Speaker 2 It should be, yes, it should be extra.

Speaker 1 Yes, something like that.

Speaker 2 It should be extra. We all deserve a little extra to live in dignity.

Speaker 1 Let's see what Simon has to say. This is important, I think.

Speaker 6 Hey, good guys. Non-Jewish male moron here.
Proud to be a minority within the listeners.

Speaker 2 I work in New York.

Speaker 6 And as I was heading home, I got stopped by two gentlemen in traditional Orthodox Jewish clothing. They asked me if I was Jewish.
I thought maybe they were trying to recruit me.

Speaker 6 Recruit is definitely the wrong word. Sorry.
I politely said that I was not and they said, good day, sir, and immediately left with no explanation.

Speaker 6 I'm just so curious now, if I had said yes, what would the follow-up have been? Has this ever happened to either of you?

Speaker 2 They would have made you do a blessing, a prayer. They're only asking.

Speaker 3 Yeah, you would have wrapped Tvillin. That's it.
They just want you to wrap Tvillin. They want you to put on a kippah.
And they want to do, it's a mitzvah for them to get you to do a mitzvah.

Speaker 2 A mitzvah is a good deal.

Speaker 2 For you to do a prayer, you know, they want more Jews embracing their faith, but we're not here to convert anyone.

Speaker 2 You know, our numbers have been historically very low because we don't proselytize and we don't convert people. We're not interested in convincing you.

Speaker 2 We're just like, but if you already are this horrible thing, do a blessing, help us out. You know,

Speaker 2 we haven't opened the gates. Like, we can't allow any more people.
So the people we have are the ones, come on, just

Speaker 2 join in a prayer, something. Yeah, get hype.

Speaker 3 Did I tell you? Did I tell you, Josh, that at Erwan? I was in Los Angeles two weeks ago. I leave Erwan and a beautiful Jewish family with a lulav and a netrog for Sukkot, the holiday of Sukkot.

Speaker 3 They have their 10 kids with them. They're like, Are you Jewish? I'm like, Yes.
They're like, Will you do Lulav and Etrogue with me? And I did it outside of the Erewhy.

Speaker 2 It was a beautiful, it was a beautiful thing.

Speaker 2 It smells shake the reeds.

Speaker 1 You smell the lemon.

Speaker 2 The smell of the smell.

Speaker 2 And I'd like to be in the sukkah. It's been years.
The smell of the sukkah, the bamboo and the skach.

Speaker 2 What are we doing? That is the greatest. You should put up a sukkah.
It's the best. It's the best.
Did you put one up? You better start doing them with your kids because it's actually really fun.

Speaker 2 So my parents

Speaker 3 put it up.

Speaker 3 They put up a sukkah this year for the first time, my parents. They live in in an apartment.
They put it illegally on their terrace.

Speaker 2 Yeah. That's it.

Speaker 3 And it, and it was great. And it was great.
And they love doing it. And

Speaker 3 there's nothing like eating in that hut. It is amazing.
You feel like you're connected to the earth.

Speaker 1 I imagine your father calling you Ben. You'll never guess, Benjamin.

Speaker 2 We made an illegal suka on our patio.

Speaker 1 The co-op board is going to be upset. It looks like a favela outside.

Speaker 3 I wish he cared about the co-op board. He called me.
He's like, I bought us. He called me.
He's like, I bought a sukkah in a box. It's being delivered tomorrow.

Speaker 3 I said, did you tell anyone you're getting a delivery? Pretend it's furniture. He's like, no, I'm sure they'll let him in.
And they did.

Speaker 2 What are they going to do? Are they going to take down the sukkah once it's up? I mean, look at Williamsburg, Look at Crown Heights. They're all in the apartments.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 What about

Speaker 1 and then Purim is Jewish Halloween? Yeah. And then

Speaker 1 we have the majors, the Passovers, the Hanukkah. Last year was a nice Hanukkah episode.
Remember, we lit the candles on the menorah. And you taught me something that is a little bit of a Jewish,

Speaker 1 you know,

Speaker 1 superstition, but I didn't, it's not superstition that it's inappropriate to blow out the candles on the menorah. I can't believe it.

Speaker 2 Yeah, you don't blow out the candles.

Speaker 2 You are not pleased with me, Robbie. No, you let it go.
It's not okay. It's like a Yort Seit candle.
Just let it go.

Speaker 2 Let it go.

Speaker 3 I think we have to stop blowing at candles in general. I'm not for blowing at candles.

Speaker 2 I knew somebody, it's like one person had a candle that burned everything down.

Speaker 2 You never hear of it again.

Speaker 1 I think it happens a lot.

Speaker 2 Okay, well, I don't know how a candle.

Speaker 2 Well, how does a candle like, doesn't it have a little metal stopper at the end?

Speaker 1 I think it's more things

Speaker 1 near a curtain.

Speaker 2 It falls over

Speaker 2 anything.

Speaker 2 I'm talking about a stir. Okay, the menorah, fine.
But that's why we always had the menorah. My mother did it on the stove with a tin foil.
A lot of tinfoil in the house I grew up in. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Tinfoil is like

Speaker 2 just grab some tinfoil. Like ready to do it.
There's nothing tinfoil can't do.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 3 Oh, tinfoil is amazing.

Speaker 2 It's a to-go box. It's a tray.

Speaker 2 I mean, it's a cover. There's nothing it can't do.

Speaker 1 I'm a menorah in the sink guy.

Speaker 2 Is that not? Yes. Yeah, no, that's still good too.
Yeah. I think it's not a great look.
It feels like you're washing it down.

Speaker 1 yeah, or it just kind of looks like I'm hiding it because you're supposed to you're you're supposed to put it in the window in the window, yeah, in the window.

Speaker 3 That's yeah, you're supposed to pop, they say publicize the nest or publicize the miracle. That's why everybody's houses are burning down because you have curtains

Speaker 2 right over the window.

Speaker 2 Right, you're that's what it is, no, that's what it is.

Speaker 3 We didn't publicize it and we put it in the sink, we'd have no issues.

Speaker 1 Our what do you nuts moment of the week? Our gripes with people, places, and things, both big and small, whatever sticking in your craw.

Speaker 2 Love it. The picture we got.
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Speaker 3 What are you nuts? Robbie, you know what this is, right? You're walking down the street. You see a lady barefoot.
You're like, lady, you're in Los Angeles. What are you nuts? So mine, I'll go first.

Speaker 3 I was recently on a flight back from Los Angeles.

Speaker 3 It was a beautiful flight. We landed.

Speaker 3 We are going to get off the plane. The stewardess comes on the microphone and she says, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to New York.

Speaker 3 You never would have known, but it was two women pilots flying this plane.

Speaker 3 I'm like, I'm like, what are you nuts? Like,

Speaker 3 I thought we, like, I never would have given it a second thought. Like, what do you mean you never would have known it was two women pilots? Like, she was so proud.

Speaker 3 She was so proud of these two female pilots.

Speaker 3 It's like, if you really want to, if you really want to get past all of this and move women forward, don't advertise that there's two women pilots flying the plane. It was a great experience.

Speaker 3 It was a great experience. I don't know who my pilot was.
I assumed it could have been a woman. Who knows? What are you, nuts?

Speaker 2 Like, just first of all, we're not sure if it should be a woman. And second of all,

Speaker 2 we should have never known then.

Speaker 2 It's like you never would have known. That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 That's what I'm saying. By the way, if we knew, we'd know for bad reason.
Right.

Speaker 2 100%.

Speaker 3 I don't need to know who the ethnicity or the or the gender of my pilot. I don't need to know anything.
This is autopilot. These people aren't flying planes.
You press a button.

Speaker 2 Should the autopilot fucking botch up. Of course.
I want a captain's scully level skill. I hope they're doing these fire drills that if he's got to take it out on the Hudson,

Speaker 2 he's able to do it.

Speaker 1 But can you imagine if you're playing and you're the guy in the plane and you end up in the Hudson and you go, if there's a female pilot up there, I'm not sure.

Speaker 2 I know literally. Because then you blame it on the female pilot.
This is what happens. Look,

Speaker 3 they're trained. I'm happy I got there safely.
You don't need to advertise it to me anymore. It was completely nuts.

Speaker 2 I think we need to be done with all these differences of people. Yes, they exist and we're getting, but let's move, let's plow forward.

Speaker 2 Let's try, men and women, let's try and do this together, whatever race you are, whatever sexuality you are. Okay, yes, this injection, and we're working and we're

Speaker 2 trying to progress together. I understand the differences.
But there's also, let's focus on the similarities for a sec now. We've made our point.

Speaker 2 The point has been heard let's move together let's move forward let's just try because there's other forces at stake okay let's do the people versus the power and the people we cannot continue to be split up into the smaller and smaller microgroups uh that and and then we don't have any power numbers let's get together Let's get together.

Speaker 2 You're this, you're that. You're poor is the point.
Okay, the point is you're fucking poor. So band together and let's take it down.

Speaker 2 My would you not smoke by the plane well don't take down the plane no please don't take down the plane guys if you're feeling any

Speaker 2 something reach a hotline something yeah don't don't take everybody down with you it's like the father who kills the kids and himself after please sir

Speaker 2 please leave the

Speaker 2 crisp and wait but also take

Speaker 3 us we don't want it i said also don't come to us we don't want it we i don't need that no call the helpline let's put the helpline there in case somebody needs.

Speaker 2 Why don't you put it on a sick day? It's right here. Okay, here's the tip.
This is the line. You'll get somebody terrific.
Don't worry. They're going to save your life.

Speaker 1 Thank you, Jasmine.

Speaker 1 My woody nuts is

Speaker 1 I heard it on the podcast, but you know, people go, oh, you know what? I get tested for SCDs every three months, you know, and they're really proud of it. I go, it's kind of yucky.

Speaker 2 That's a lot of testing. It's a lot.
Now you need testing for the testing. How many needles?

Speaker 1 I'm also like, you're getting around that.

Speaker 3 You got to test it. You're like, why? Why are you testing that often?

Speaker 2 What's going on? What are you nuts?

Speaker 1 People go like, oh, no, I'm a super guy. I get tested every three months.
I'm like, are you in a dumbass?

Speaker 2 Also, you're lying.

Speaker 2 Also, you're lying.

Speaker 2 Like, also, you're lying. You're not getting nobody's getting tested that often.

Speaker 1 What do you have? A punch card at Quest Diagnostics?

Speaker 2 What are you talking about? Yeah, literally. What do you got, Abby? No, that's unbelievable.
People lying about being tested and testing so much is insane. I understand single people, but like,

Speaker 2 yeah, and you know, maybe, maybe it's the folks on Grindr

Speaker 2 if you're going day, but it's like, yeah, it's not something really depressed. It's like, okay, keep your private life.
Like, if that is, you, you're regularly getting tested.

Speaker 2 It's like, okay, like, it's like my little sister Yehuda says, like, like, you know, if you're grown up and you like Disney, okay, there's some things you keep to yourself.

Speaker 2 There's such a thing as a private life. Like, if you're grown up and you're Disney, your problem, there's some things, there's a private life.
Yes. yes.

Speaker 2 This is, this is, you don't make a party, you don't invite others into this sick,

Speaker 2 into whatever you're doing.

Speaker 2 You're entitled to your life, you're a grown-up, and we all have a private life. Some things you just keep private.

Speaker 1 That's imperfect, what are you nuts?

Speaker 2 Yes, some things we keep private. What are you nuts? Some, some, yeah, some things you keep private.
It's not too much. Thank you for doing this.
Thank you for having me, as always.

Speaker 2 I recorded one of the greatest Netflix specials. I really try not to be out of line here.
And I would say if it was, it's not because it's mine. I just happen to think,

Speaker 2 I don't like to lie. I don't, that it is on this level of bringing, putting special back in special.
It's unbelievable.

Speaker 1 When's it coming out?

Speaker 2 Well, when does this come out?

Speaker 1 Whenever you need it to.

Speaker 2 I mean, probably in the next couple of weeks. You know what? You tell us.
We'll tee it up.

Speaker 2 I'm going to do a version where I say the date, but only because it's you guys, but nobody knows this.

Speaker 2 And then we'll do a version if I tell you you got to cut it because

Speaker 2 whatever Netflix,

Speaker 2 you know, when they want to put it out? First day of Hanukkah.

Speaker 2 Wow. Jesus Christ.
Unbelievable. Has Netflix ever been so cute in goddamn life? It's Ted Sarando.
That's beautiful. Ted Sarando's special.

Speaker 1 That's beautiful.

Speaker 2 They said, not only did we love the special so much, we want to put it out for the holidays. And we want to give Robbie Hoffman the first day of Hanukkah.
It's very hard to get a date there.

Speaker 2 I didn't know that this is what they would do. I had no idea.
Just a cute, and I'm listening. I'm not religious anymore.
It's a nice nod. It's a cutie move, Netflix.
We've had such a year.

Speaker 2 Let's all take the holiday season, light a candle,

Speaker 2 throw a gift under the tree. Let's

Speaker 2 have.

Speaker 2 And so I feel so grateful and

Speaker 2 just

Speaker 2 unbelievable. Unbelievable.
So, yeah, the clean of this is,

Speaker 2 I mean, we can't even do the clean of this. We'll have to just release this near the special because

Speaker 2 you guys were the right people to tell that this is the day. We did the Chanukah.
We'll do it near.

Speaker 3 What's it called? What's it called?

Speaker 2 I can't release that. No.

Speaker 2 And it's the unnamed.

Speaker 2 I saved that for the people, but I gave you, I had to give you the Hanukkah miracle here on the pod.

Speaker 3 The Riviera

Speaker 2 Kingdom special.

Speaker 2 Look at this.

Speaker 2 Wow.

Speaker 2 Exactly.

Speaker 2 Look at this.

Speaker 2 I just thought you don't hear these companies being cute.

Speaker 2 You hear about pillaging and bad deals and this. And then sometimes they can do something cute.
And you go, you know what? Credit where credit is due. Yeah.

Speaker 2 You think Paramount Plus would do something that cute? Yeah, I don't think so. I don't think so.
I don't think so. No way.
No.

Speaker 3 No, they wouldn't. The great Robbie Hoffman, gorgeous special coming out.
The first day of Hanukkah. It's an absolute Hanukkah miracle.
I'm going to be watching it. You're going to be watching.

Speaker 3 We're all going to be watching it. We love having you on.
This is just, we're watching your ascent, but it's just the beginning of the day.

Speaker 2 And I'm watching you guys, and I'm very proud to see good guys truly being good guys. It's unbelievable.
These are family men. Bless you.
These are non-perverted, good guys

Speaker 2 who sometimes do the dual of an S-drug. I am Robbie Hoffman on Instagram and everything.
Thank you guys so much for having me. God bless you.
God bless you. Yes.

Speaker 3 And folks, this episode is five stars. Otherwise, what are you nuts?

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