*THIS* Celebrity Turned Josh Down?!

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How are you? I'm better now. I'm better now.
I don't know what was wrong before, but I'm better now. Tell me, what's on your mind? What's eating away at you? What's keeping you up at night? What's giving you the night shivers? I don't know.
I mean, I might up my antidepressants, but other than that, everything's fine. I've been, speaking of taking pills, I've gone off of magnesium completely.
And Josh, I have stopped taking creatine. I have.
Why? You're bloating. No, it's not that.
I just wasn't going to the gym. And Claudia would look at me and she's like, what the fuck are you taking creatine for if you're not going to the gym? And I'm like the mental benefits.
And she's like, you can't take creatine if you're not going to go to the gym. So what I said to her was, that's fair.
I will take creatine when I plan on actually going to the gym. And hopefully I can get into a nice rhythm and then just be taking creatine but i took creatine like five straight days and i didn't go to the gym like i don't know she didn't like it what do you like what does she care she cares she's worried she thinks it's gonna kill me oh my god what about i i wow yeah It an interesting line to take.
The creatine was the thing that she was like, this, I'm putting my foot down. The Cipriani cake in bed, it's fine.
She wasn't putting, it's a no. It's funny.
She wasn't putting her foot down, but she said it enough times. I was like, all right, clearly you seem to be uncomfortable.
I think she just doesn't like the way that it looks i think that she just like she sees a white powder she

thinks i'm doing drugs i'm not gonna lie though i felt i felt worse today i felt worse i like the

feeling of creatine it makes you feel like big and alive i'm gonna take it again tomorrow it's

highly highly researched if it was almost anything else i'd'd be like, ah, well, yeah, you never know, but it's pretty darn researched. And other than the bloating, I'm not sure of a lot of negative effects.
I didn't see bloating. And maybe that's because I'm always bloated.
Like, when are you not, when am I not bloated? Title resting bloated. I'm always bloated.
So like what, what maybe creatine made me me not bloated like i'm so bloated that the creatine was an anti-bloat is it bad that claudia cares too much that my wife doesn't give a fuck like i could be smoking creatine and she'd be like did you take out the trash could you imagine i'm such a drug addict i start smoking creatine in a bite outside of a bally's were you hitting fucking delts or what pussy can you snort creatine for the same effect you can snort anything but if you're willing to deal with the pain. Yeah, you can.
I love it. I mean, not to get too druggy.
Great. I can't wait for this episode to get flagged on YouTube.
Oh, that's good. But the thing that you don't realize is because when people do the cucks, the devil's dandruff, the cocaine, there's cane in it, right? The cane part of it is lidocaine, Novocaine.
It has a numbing agent. It's used in medical procedures for like ear, nose and throat surgery because it is a localized numbing agent.
And if you were to snort other drugs that do not have the cane aspect, it's so much more painful because there's no numbing to it. That's why.
So I've heard your nose goes a little numb because of the cane. Yeah, that's right.
That's what I've read online. Yes.
That's what I've read. And so, and the Coke part, what is that? It's coca leaves.
Interesting. Interesting.
Okay. And a fun a fun fact is i believe this is true that coca-cola i believe i think i read this that they actually make because in the process of refining the cocoa out of the coca leaves there is a byproduct of the ability in which to make cocaine, was what people talked about hundreds of years ago wow they actually have a medical a very small medical subsidiary that makes medical grade cocaine for surgeries wow yeah holy crap we can't waste this and then the ceo of coke's like let me try no could you medical grade yikes no that that'll that'll knock you knock you off your feet or put you on your feet send you straight to boogie town yeah the booger sugar at this point in my life it is so darn scary to do anything like that that i just i like my heart skips a beat

talking about it so then let's not no no we can't no i'm fine i don't want you to skip a beat doesn't it scare you i mean i know you you only stopped doing it three months ago but doesn't it scare you it's been years thank you very much and yeah it's horrifying honestly the second that the second that people started dying, it was like, OK, not that fun, not that fun. And to watch people still do it after people were dying, it's like, oh, you you don't you don't care that much about your life.
Like, and these aren't these weren't drug addicts. These are just people that like, I guess maybe they were, were addicted if they couldn't, or they didn't want to stop.
But the second that you found out that people were dying of fentanyl, like that to me is, it's no longer fun. Like imagine if again, Coca-Cola or any kind of soft drink, you knew that there was a, there was a chance that upon the second that you drink it, you're dead.
Like it's a fact. You're not going to drink it anymore because it's not worth it.
Right. Like, so yeah, definitely scary.
It's a bug out for sure. Yeah.
I mean, I think like back in my day, like people would always cite Len bias, who was the, it was a star basketball player who tried something once and he died. And I don't know what it is.
I think it's a fact that like in most people until you're 25, not in most people, this is all people, your prefrontal cortex isn't fully formed. So your ability in which to compute risk is not as well formed as it is once you get in your late twenties and thirties.
This is why we send young men to war, right? It's true. It's not funny, but yes, funny but yes yes let's get after it you know like they don't understand like the true implications of these things so i don't know i i think no matter what just kids will always be dumb yeah right yeah but yeah but be dumb and have fun but find less scary ways to be dumb i don't know what's your tactic with your beautiful child to be Baruch Hashem with that kind of stuff? Like, do you have you even started thinking about it? No, because it's so it's it's crazy to think that, like, at some point he will be big enough to, like, do those things.
But like, I don't know. I think you just got to parent to the best of your ability and raise a good kid and teach them right from wrong.

And I hope like my number one thing is that I have instilled enough trust and not too much fear to the point that he could come to me to ask me anything.

Like, I feel like I will have failed if you can't come to me and ask me anything.

Like, I'm a judgment-free zone.

Come to me and ask me anything like I'm a judgment-free zone come to me and then I will tell you why it's wrong but I always I always hated that like I have that relationship with my parents feel very lucky in that like that if I went to them I feel like I could ask them anything would I be embarrassed asking them sure but like I could ask them, I could have my whole life asked them anything. And I feel like when you don't have that relationship and you don't have the ability to have that conversation with your parent or parents, that that's when things sort of go awry.
Like when you can't gut check, like, oh, is this a bad idea? Oh, I did this. What do I do? And then it like compounds your problem.
So long-winded answer, but like, I just want to build trust. What do you think? It's a really hard thing.
I think it's 90% of it is in your parenting throughout every situation before they come to that crossroads, right? You set them up as a person. Totally.
You model through behavior. I agree.
I don't think you can overly scare someone out of it. I think my big thing too is they've seen now in studies, smoking weed even, which I would imagine is pretty benign and I actually think is medicinal in some cases, before you're 25, again, as your prefrontal cortex is sort of developing and

finalizing, marijuana really inhibits a lot of sort of that fine finishing that's required. Like there's major implications of doing drugs before you're 25 where you actually hurt yourself in the long run.
Whereas if you weren't, if you were like, I'm going to dabble, but at 28, it's just going to have much less deleterious effects than doing it at 16, 17, 18, 19 when people start to do it. I would make that clear.
Yeah. But I also, I really do believe in this.
Like, you can't be overly scary to your kids and you certainly don't want to, like, put them in a state of fear. You want them to feel they can come to you with anything but your kids need to know when they're teenagers that you can sufficiently fuck up their lives if they fuck around yeah and there are too many parents who forego discipline because it would be an inconvenience to their life to take their kid's car away.
Because it's like, well, yeah, but then I got to drive them to school. It's like, yeah, like you're now going to get dropped off at 17, like by your parent because you fucked up.
And like, you're going to have to figure out like how to get in touch with me other than a phone, because you're not going to have that. Or you're not, or they'll be like, well, I can't take the internet away.
Like, how are they going to do they going to do their homework i'm like i don't know but like i just i'm a big believer in if your kid fucks up like inconveniencing them majorly because you're the parent so that they learn of course otherwise they're never going to learn i also i'm sure you grew up with this type of parent or your friends you grew up with this kid who had this type of parent which is like i don't care what you do as long as you do it in my house and to me that is fucking insane total like are you crazy like no i i don't want you i don't want you smoking weed in my house like at least like the whole point of in my opinion like adolescent experimentation is like you feel like oh it's a bad thing i'm trying it once i

drank at a party you know what i mean if you can drink at home that's you're raising an alcoholic like you can only have drinks if it's with me every night totally you can only smoke in your room and i'll buy you the pound just want to make sure i can see you it's like are you are you stupid like it don't drink malt liquor have a cosmo with mom yeah don't don't go to parties i want to watch you party i'm a cool mom like no you won't be having parties at my house with alcohol and drugs you will have a putting my umbrella policy you'll have a pizza party we'll watch a movie you want to rent a rent terminator which gave me nightmares when I was eight? Sure. We can have a movie party.
No drugs and alcohol in my house. We're nuts.
All Amazon Prime board games. We can cook.
Yeah. I want to, and to my in-laws credit, they had the house where everyone came to eat.
And that's huge. Huge.
If you know, my mom always talked about this the great my great aunt beady growing up my mom's aunt beady she had and this is like in the 50s and 60s but my mom said she would have the cake at a diner on a cake plate with a cover and you just know every three days that cake was re-upped there was a new cake so You went over to on beaties and any time of day you lift the cover you take a slice oh beautiful oh my god shout out on beatie cake with a cover what's better than that it's so moist it's so good it's so good i'm telling you man there's just so many things that you can do olivia are you have the drug house with your... No, I don't plan on having the drug house.
My mom was very like, she tried not to make things taboo for me, but not in like a way that was like, go and do it. You know what I mean? But it wasn't like if I ever did anything, she's like, you need to call me if you ever drink at a party or anything.
And I want you to know that you can do that. Not that you can like, you know, go get drunk or whatever you want.
But like, if you're going to like do it in a safe way and like, let me know. And I didn't end up like drinking or doing anything until I was like a senior in high school.
So I love it. No, that's what my mom, my mom was so that's not my mom.
My mom was so nuts with cigarettes in particular because her dad died of cancer when she was 13 from smoking tons of cigarettes. And so she was just very, her number one thing was no cigarettes, no cigarettes, no cigarettes.
And I would always ask, I remember, have you ever smoked a cigarette? Never, never smoked a cigarette. And I remember me and my sister were going through, my parents have an unbelievable amount of photo albums.
We were going through an album and my mom was there with a nice cigarette. Fucking Chiefina Winston.
I'll never forget it. It was so good.
Yeah. And that like plus like as you get older, your parents, maybe they start to let their guard down a little.
My parents never cursed when I was younger. All of a sudden the cursing's coming out.
They wouldn't really drink in front of me. All of a sudden the drinking's coming.
And it's just funny, like when they start to turn into real people and you realize, oh, like I'm my parents. Like I'm gonna be my parents.
I'm gonna have kids. And like, it is, in my opinion, so important to shelter kids to the best of your ability.
Like having a drink every single night at dinner. If you're

going to do that yourself, that's fine. But doing it in front of your kids makes them think that they should be drinking alcohol with every meal or they should be smoking all the time or they should be like sheltering them is important in my opinion.
Yeah, dude. I remember growing up, there was this kid Bill in my neighborhood.
And when I hung out with Bill, I realized I was sheltered because yeah bill's bill didn't have a dad surprise and bill and his mom they managed like a storage facility and so they had a house connected to the storage facility and the way to get into bill's house was he had to go through the window in his room and like

Bill like was 15 and we were like ripping Coors lights smoking cigs and mom was cool with it and I was like I don't know if things are going to work out for you Bill yeah no like who names Kid Bill in the mid 2000s.

Bill, man.

Yeah.

It's funny.

I had, you had Bill.

I had, i had i had a kid named phil come on you had a kid named mish it was phil it's where i saw my first pornography video it is it's always it's the the il's i'm telling you and the kids whose parents just don't don't care. And it's it's not cool not to care.
It's just because it's happening in your house doesn't mean it's not happening. You'd rather them be scared.
They got to be scared. These things are scary.
My wife always talks about she's like, I was always worried about letting my parents down. She was like, it was less scared because I don't think her parents are like the yelling, you know, grounding type.
But they're like very high worth individuals. Like they carry themselves in a way and they expect that from their kids.
And my wife who talks about how her and a bunch of her girlfriends were considering sneaking, you know, booze into the prom.

And at last minute she chickened out.

And because she knew that her dad,

her dad was a football coach with the school and the whole thing.

So he was like connected to the school,

but she was like,

just the idea of like my dad finding out that I was one of the girls who was

getting sauced at the prom.

And she's like,

and those girls got suspended.

I think a few of them got like kicked out of school.

Cause they,

they all got caught except her.

Wow.

Thank you. problems, but it hurts.
It hurts. Being judged.
Wow. What's better than a French fry, Josh? You know, the only thing better than a French fry is the Galaxy S25 Ultra.
I'm so glad you brought it up. Samsung, Josh.
Only thing better than a French fry. Because Josh, this is a true AI companion.
We got these phones. These phones are it, folks.
Out with the old, in with the new. I have to say for me, sort of the marquee thing that I'm most into about this phone is that it has a 200 megapixel camera, which is absurd.
But it also has a 50 megapixel ultra wide lens. So whatever I'm shooting, whether it's a social media video, whether it's just something for my family, like I'm actually getting the best version of it.
And it's I can say this totally honestly, it's the best camera in a phone I've I've ever seen by far. You don't need anything more.
And the best part, Josh, is that whether you're making a video for social media, something for your family, I'm cooking up a storm. What always happens, Josh? What's inevitable? Sometimes there are people chattering around you.
Sometimes there's that extra noise and you don't know how to get rid of it. So you refilm, right? Josh, there's somebody talking.
If Romeo is barking, you got to refilm. You're like, Romeo, what are you nuts? Can you shut up for one minute? I'm trying to cook.
Okay. I'm trying to cook.
But folks, what's amazing about this amazing Galaxy device is that there's an audio eraser with Galaxy AI that reduces all of that noise. So regardless, Josh, of what you're doing, you don't even have to block out the noise because Galaxy AI does it for you.
How easy is that? It's easy, I know. No, it's true.
Like is that it's easy i know and uh no it's true like ai is incredible and i know of some pretty famous filmmakers that i've worked with no big deal who use similar features like this um that allow them just a freedom when you're dealing with different audio and and i have found and until the s25 ultra like it took a long time for because the cameras were always getting good on phones but the audio sucked and that was like always the distinguishing factor but now with this ai feature you can clean up the audio you can reduce sort of um the outside noise any sort of weird it's great what else i love is whether i need to like get recipes or I want to get like the stats for my favorite sports team. You know me, all man, Josh over here.
I like sports. Joshy sport.
Yes. But I love that I can do that.
I can also just get directions to whatever I need to get directions to, but it's all done in AI. So it's sort of like an upgraded way that a phone can react to the things in which I need and also anticipate what I'm going to need.
And in the spirit of AI, it can handle multiple tasks in just one ask, which is the whole idea behind AI. Do anticipate my needs, Paige.
I mean, my ultra Samsung, not my wife. This isn't the time, me.
It's the future, folks. It's the future.
It is what it is. It is what it is.
And the Samsung Galaxy makes it that easy. I don't mean to cut you off, but I, you know, I'm a bit of a stylist king.
And I just think that having this cutie babe stylist is fun. It's just, first of all, you don't notice it.
You don't notice it. But when you want to do like something exact for doing sort of those more fine things that you need to do, because you have like butcher's hands like mine, like fat diabetic hands that like, you know, boom, stylus comes in.
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i can get a galaxy s25 ultra from samsung.? From Samsung.com. Oh, wait.
I already have it. Same.
Should we get to some stories? Yeah, we're so deep. What an intro.
Yeah, man. It's cool.
Oh, this is a fun game. This is a fun game.
So I found this thing, right, called Celebrity Talent International. And I submitted my resume.
And basically it's like a list of what performers, speakers, artists, actors get to appear at an event. So, okay.
Love it. It like actually connects you with the performer and gives you an idea of what their rate would be.
So first off, Talent Library. First, I found Musical Acts.
Should we start with Darius Rucker? Wow. Wow.
Let's see what Darius is getting. Are me and Olivia guessing? Okay, Darius is too famous and he refuses to show his fee.
Let's try The Great magicians, Penn and Teller. Okay, Penn and Teller.
Do you know Penn and Teller? Olivia, you answer first. I'm going to say to an appearance at an event, because it's a little past, maybe this is crazy 5K.
Okay. Oh, no, I was asking if you knew who Penn and Teller was, so I didn't have to admit it.
I have no idea who that is. You know who it is? See, I knew it.
I knew it. Okay.
Okay. We'll move on from that.
By the way, it's between $75,000 and $150,000. 5k.
Ouch. Yikes.
Okay. Okay.
This is a good one. For Whitney Cummings to appear at your event, for Whitney Cummings to perform at your event, maybe it's a dentist convention, maybe it's a trade show, how much would her fee be for one hour of Cummings comedy? One hour of Whitney Cummings comedy, 20K.
Olivia? I'm clearly terribly off with these, 100K. Pretty good.
Minimum fee range, 40 to 75,000. Okay.
I'm not paying 75 grand. Sorry, Whitney.
But what about the great, let's see here. This is fun.
I think the really famous ones, like Kevin Hart, Chris Rock, they don't list it. Millions, millions.
It's got to be millions, right? Yeah, it has to be. Okay, okay.
Nice. Or nothing, by the way.
Or just a favor. Nothing or millions.
This is a nice one. It's Ben's vape dealer, Whoopi Goldberg.
How much do you think she's getting to perform at a party I love Whoopi there's no one better than Whoopi and Whoopi's doing she's doing like stand up don't you fucking lowball Whoopi Ben don't you lowball Whoopi on my bod I think Whoopi is a quarter of a million hmm Olivia 150,150,000. You're both right.

$150,000 to $300,000.

I would pay Whoopi $300,000.

$150,000 seems too cheap.

By the way, worth it. Worth it.

Oh my God. Worth it just for a meet and greet.

For the pictures alone.

Fabulous.

Fabulous. What about, okay,

so we did Whoopi.

What about, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.

This is hopefully soon to be guessed.

We love her.

She's the greatest.

We love her.

What she does for the Jews, what she does for comedy.

Amy Schumer, shout out.

How much is she getting to perform?

Whatever it is, it's too little.

I agree.

500 grand.

Olivia?

550 grand.

300 to 500,000. Okay, good.
Not bad. No, 500 grand olivia 550 grand 300 to 500 000 okay good not bad no 500 grand is good just don't charge us that to be on our podcast for one hour no please we can't afford it okay what else should we do music acts we did hootie is not giving it up what about let's see who do, who do you want to hear? Jewel, the Pentatonix, Fleetwood Mac? Pentatonix, 150.
No, it's a bunch of them. 250.
They got to split that five lines. Yeah, 250.
250. You have to contact them.
They won't say. Oh, wow.
So it's more. It's up.
The Pentatonix are amazing. Pentatonics at an event? That's nice.

Nice.

Oh, it's gorgeous.

You talk about you're throwing a Christmas party and they sing Silent Night?

It's over.

You won.

Are you kidding me?

Pentatonics in the Rudy Giuliani Ballroom at the Marriott?

It's over, Josh.

Yeah.

Spike my eggnog, why don't you? You at rose and shingle it's over oh man okay oh the jabberwockies hell yeah my friend was a jabberwockie shout out do knock a hundred grand a,000. That's nice.
Honestly, pretty good deal. It's definitely for $40,000 to say you have the Jabberwockies.
Totally. Pretty cool.
Here, what about sports figures? Ben is butch. He'll want to hear this.
Okay. I can't imagine any of these people list a be.
Ooh, ooh, ooh, Jeets,

the shortstop of the New York Yankees.

Derek Jeter.

Jeets,

Jeets,

baby.

Probably.

Oh,

by the way,

you're the only person to ever call him Jeets.

I think I was like,

who the fuck is Jeets?

A million dollars.

Why is he getting out of bed for less?

$750,000.

$150,000 to $300,000.

Really?

What the fuck? Yeah. Jeeter, that's brand degrading.
Take that off. I know.
What about the flying tomato himself, Sean White? Oh, Sean White. What's interesting about Sean White is, I guess he had made a lot of money through endorsements, but he really, like, his big thing was only twice a year, and you don't really get paid for his big thing i'm just trying to compute josh how much money he really

has jeter has so much freaking money why is he doing 150 i guess 150 an hour it's a pretty good

rate but sean white if jeter was 150 to 300 200 40 to 75 000 oh i'm gonna i'm gonna cry are you

kidding me we did it for way less at the rose and shingle sean you know what a layup it is

Let's Sean. He's Sean White.
He's Olympian. He's a legend.
I know, but listen. You know what? You're right, honestly.
We did it at Rose and Shingle for less. I know.
What were we thinking? Honestly, we should put, it's good clout, Josh. We should sign up for this site, minimum $750,000.
See if somebody pays it. Yes.
We should be $250,000 each or $400,000 as a pair. We give a deal.
I love it. Yes.
I love that too. Or maybe $475,000.
I think it's too steep of a deal. We'll knock $25 off the top.
I just... Okay, and we'll end with this.
The great Shaquille O'Neal, owner of Papa John's. What are we thinking? He does so much.
Like, I think that he... Like, he's not going to price himself out because he wants that money.
A hundred grand. $250,000 to $500,000.

And you know he's doing 20 of those a year. So smart.
So smart. Oh, what a legend.
Shaq, the big diesel. Good evening, real estate agents of Southern California.
Good evening, oral hygienists of Central Florida. Oh, man.
He's so cool. I mean, it's just so easy to make money when you're that famous.
I know. And there are only a couple of people that can put their name on everything and it still means something.
It's him, Snoop, and Martha. I don't know anybody else.
And The Rock, that's the fourth. Yeah.
Where they can just put their name on anything. Otherwise, most people, you put your name on too much stuff, it no longer means anything.
You're done. Shaq can put his name on anything.
So true. What about, we don't talk sports a lot, but a massive major trade in the NBA happened last week.
Yeah. Luka Doncic, the, the, is that right? Doncic? Doncic.
Doncic. It's fine.
Same thing. Luka, who was the centerpiece of the Dallas Mavericks.
I mean, literally a young kid, 25 years old, had already brought them a championship. In theory, should have retired in Dallas, was somehow traded to the Los Angeles Lakers.
This never happens. The idea of it is like the Bulls, really.
Yeah. And what do we think about it, Ben?

You know sports. It's really crazy.
It's really, really crazy. Mark Cuban said when he was still the owner of the Mavericks, there's a famous quote that he would trade his wife before he traded Luca.
Like, Luca was it. He's like a once in a generation, unbelievable, been a professional from like age 13 to 19 and then came to the NBA.
He's been a pro forever. He's so good.
I have no idea what happened. No idea.
They traded him, I guess, because they thought they had conditioning issues. They didn't want to pay him so much money, whatever it may be.
For Anthony Davis, who is a very injury-prone guy, he's very good, but he's very injury-prone. And I don't know if you remember, probably at least 15 years ago, there was a deal on the table, Kobe Bryant for Chris Paul.
There was a deal. And David Stern, who was the commissioner of the NBA, vetoed it.
He said, this trade is not fair, and it's not happening. And if he was still here, I think he would have vetoed it.
He's dead. So it went through.
But to me, this was. You're talking about David Stern, just for clarity.
Sorry, David Stern. Kobe too.
Yes. But David Stern.
And yeah, it's just crazy. So for us laymen out there, because I think this can be interesting.

So basically he was on a contract renegotiation.

And at this point, Dallas would have had to pay him hundreds upon hundreds of millions

to, in theory, sign him for the next, what, six years, 10 years?

Six years.

Yeah.

And when you are a player of that caliber, you're eligible for what's called a super max.

And so it's like an extra 150 million when you're like the centerpiece of a team. So they had to really pay him, but you're not going to find anybody better ever.
Ever. Like they'll never, ever, ever in the history of the Dallas Mavericks have a player better than Luka.
I watched his debut last night for the Lakers and I was sort of like on my computer and half watching, half on my computer. And all I hear go, well, that's the end of the first half.
The Lakers are up 38 points. I was like, oh my God.
Luka and LeBron are so similar. Like the way that they play is so similar.
They're both these like six, eight, can pass, can shoot, can rebound. Like it's just, it's just nuts.
It's nuts. God, so jealous.
I went to the Knicks-Celtics game the other night. They got blown out.
Like, the Knicks got just screwed. Nothing worse than going to a losing home game.
Does that hurt? Are you, like, really affected when they lose? I'm only really affected when I buy tickets. Like, if I get seats for free and they lose, whatever.
Right. But spending money to watch somebody lose really stinks.
Like you're going to watch them win. So yeah.
No, you're stung for like a second. It more stung that I walked outside.
I drove, of course, Josh, because I'm driving everywhere. I drove.
It's a snowstorm. And I had to park a block away.
Where did you park near the garden? In a lot. I've parked outside of the garden illegally and not gotten a ticket twice.
You're not. Twice, no ticket.
I parked on 31st and 6th. I got back, no ticket.
But because I drove, I normally don't bring a jacket. Who wants to lug a puffer into the garden? So I didn't bring a jacket, but I parked over a block away and it was a snowstorm.
I got in. I was freezing.
Oh my God. What's the weather like? We're about to go to the snow on Thursday and it's going to be chilly.
Tonight's supposed to be a monster snowstorm. So I could pop out of here and it could be snowing like crazy.
That said, this podcast studio, I must just say, Josh, I'm drinking herbal tea.

Unreal.

I get fresh herbal tea.

So I'm going to be warm.

I'm going to pop out.

I won't even feel the snow.

Are we now?

Tell me, are we never allowed to film in the Toast studio again?

Now we are redesigned.

No, my area hasn't been redesigned yet. So I So we're setting up so that when you come to New York, we can still have two seats.
But the way that the toast is now set up, it's just one singular frame. So we're setting up a good guy's area that will cater to me or if Claudia and Jackie want to do something.
So it's still being, I'm waiting on wallpaper. And then we're locked and loaded.
It'll be gorgeous. Can I share a gripe? A grievance? Some might say.
Please. If I know you.
We don't know each other well. But if we know each other.
Fellow celebrities. And you tell me.
Are you talking about me? What? Are you talking about me? Yeah. yes and you tell me you want to come on the podcast and i go great shoot me an email or let's connect when and where babe i can't believe we didn't even talk about this and they go i saw the email let me let me connect you with my publicist just say no don't have your muscle tell me no don't say you want to do it it's like my whole thing with like how people facetune and filter photos on social media i want to say to them you know i'm gonna see you one day right you know i'm gonna notice you don't actually look like that it's like i'm gonna see you again you told me yes your publicist the next day was like we're not currently taking in any interviews i'm like dog this kills me just say not right now and josh what did i say to you the morons will never know who this person is yes ever but we've talked about them twice and had to censor them twice yes but you'll never know what did i say to you though when you said that this person would come on the show? What did you say, Ben? I said to you, I can't stand this person, but they'd be a great guest.
Right. So it would have been nice.
That said, it's no skin off our backs. We can go back to having nothing to do with this person, muting them on all platforms.
I am out. Okay? Dead to me.
Dead to me. I couldn't believe it when I read it.
Josh wrote the nicest email from Josh. Hi, it's Josh Peck.
I have a podcast called The Good Guys with my co-host celebrity chef Ben Soffer. We heard that this person would be interested in potentially coming on the show can you please send available dates thank you so much hugs and kisses josh and they wrote back sorry charlie they're out of commission not gonna happen like what are you nuts and you know what i gotta give a lot of credit and i even say i always say this we record in la or new york it will take an hour maximum whatever is best for your client we're so easy we're easy it's easy you like herbal tea we have this has herbal tea this place has herbal tea this this world class pod stream shout out god bless pod stream but i will give a shout out and recognition and i i will name them by name the great victoria justice we did a speaking gig together a year and a half ago and i brought up i said love for you to do the pod and she said great let's talk about it and i will text her twice a year and say, hey, just mentioning the pod.

And she will be so lovely and say, now's not the right time.

I'm either working or I don't have anything to promote I want to talk about yet.

But when I do, we'll do it.

And I go, say less, Victoria.

Thank you for letting me know.

So classy.

So lovely.

That's it.

Just be a person.

Two things.

One, I would love to have Victoria Justice on the show.

Same. Two, like, oh, wait, I lost my train of thought.
What did you say? Victoria. Victoria Justice.
that's it just be a person two things one i would love to have victoria justice on the same two

like oh wait i lost my train of thought what did you say victoria victoria justice what about victoria just the department of justice i love her she's great when i have her on it's great there was a tv show called justice yeah justified victoria justice she's great she's fun she is great she is

cool she's cool

damn it

alright maybe it'll come back it's gone what can you do neurologist lost forever just like my love for that person that almost came on the podcast lost forever Ashunda Ben and I've gotten many of those that I've kept you off email from where I'm like dude what the what the heck? I'm going to say some names and you believe them. I'll believe them.
What? That's a friendly. Did you tell him that we went ab to ab, belly button to belly button in the pool in Mexico? And he still said no.
Pub effed me. That publicist gave me a big hard no.
And he was in. He was in.
Oh, I remember. It's the publicist, Josh.
Okay, Victoria Justice, and to anybody else, you do not need to come on this show to promote something because we can just have fun. Sure, you could promote it, but we're not that serious.
We're not out to get you. We're just here to have a good time.
It's fun. It's conversational.
You'll end up probably learning something about Judaism. Yeah.
It's fun. Can you imagine the publicists? They're pitching it to their client.
They're like, it's really fun. They get 100,000 downloads per ep, and you might learn something about Judaism.
Do not be alarmed if they try to convert you.

They might try to bathe you in something called a mikvah.

Should we get to a speak pipe?

Yeah.

If you want to ask us questions, get advice from us.

What?

What?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Hell yes. Sound like a wrestler.
Hell yes, brother. Oh my God.
I'll see you in the ring. December 29th.
Speak pipe. Yeah.
If you want to ask us a question, get advice. Go to speakpipe.com slash good guys.
Keep it brief. Brevity is key.
We don't want to hear your what are your nuts is. They're kind of bad.
Here's from who knows. Hey, good guys.
I'd love to hear your take on the controversial topic of remote work. Should people be allowed to work from home? Should they be allowed to work part-time at home, part-time in the office? I want to know what your take is because obviously you guys do your podcast podcast remote from across the country and huge argument, especially in Canada.
Our government's fighting back and forth about letting half the government work from home. So give us your thoughts.
Give us your hot takes. I'd love to hear your thoughts, Josh.
You can't get as much work done from home, just flat out. There's something called an economics Parkinson's principle.
And the idea is, is that work either expands or contracts to how much time you allow for it, which is why deadlines are important. Because if you give yourself a week, you'll figure out how to make it work in a week.
You give yourself a month, it'll somehow take a month. So I just think at the very least, some sort of hybrid style needs to happen because I've seen people who work at home and they're just not putting the time in, even though it can work.
But I think you're going to get maximum efficiency if you're putting in some face time at the office. I think it needs to be age gated.
And I think it depends on the industry. I think that in your formative years, if you're in a nine to five, you cannot start remote.
You can't. I'm sorry.
Like you will be at home doing nothing. But if you spent a decade going into an office and now all of a sudden you're remote and you understand the inner workings of a company, it's a totally different story.
But I'm definitely in favor of like if you're sub 25 in an office and then you could like graduate to working from home. That said, if you are able to do your job from a computer and from a phone, it doesn't matter if you're sitting in an office or if you're sitting at home where you can make your lunch, where you can walk your dog, where you can just be a happier person.
And I've found having people that work remote, they work later and they work all the time. Like they end up never being off because they're, to your point, never fully on.
Like when you're in an office, it's eight hours, but when you leave, you're done. But when you work remote, depending on what you're in, you could end up putting in 75% of the time all the time.
And then the net net is more hours. So tricky question.
Tricky. Depends on the industry.
Obviously, if you're a mechanic, no working from home. But if you're in marketing, you could probably work from home sometimes.
Agreed. Let's hear the next one from Anonymous.
This is a message for the king of Ozempic, Ben Soffer Celebrity. How are you eating foods on EuroCempic? I feel like I eat a

piece of cheese and I feel like I am in insane pain for hours after. I eat one bite too much.

I need to be rolled out like Christmas dinner. It's crazy.
So how are we surviving off this?

Because I don't think I'm losing weight just because of the drug. Like I think I'm malnourished now, which I mean, great.
Cause you know, the jeans fit tighter, fit less tight, but you know, I just need advice. What are we eating? How are we surviving off this drug? It's great.
Cause you have no appetite, but I also, you know, I need sustenance. Any tips are appreciated.
You're on too high a dose. Also it's working for you.
So like if you, like the fact that I'm able to eat normal portions is not a good thing. You're injecting yourself for an appetite suppressant.
But it sounds like you're probably taking too much. And there is a such thing as ramping too quickly.
Like I ramped very, very slowly. There was a time where it was really suppressing.
Like days one through five of this Nutris Epitide. I was at that place, but you can eat through it if you work hard enough.
But what you're doing right now is, is ideal. You're trying to lose weight.
Otherwise you wouldn't be on it. Believe me, you're not malnourished.
We don't need nearly as much food as we eat. So as long as like the meals that you are eating, you're getting enough of the stuff that you need, then it's a good thing.
You a weight loss drug lose weight yeah can you imagine being on a zempick and complaining that it's working that's literally what she was doing like what are we doing like about the fact that i'm not hungry yeah i truly screwing with my tillamook tuesdays you want to take down a block of cheddar you inject yourself once a week to be full and you're pissed that it's working i've never heard of this i can only eat 11 baybells now baybells i had a minute oh they're so good in the wax what is that is that a gouda ia? It's a Gouda. It's delicious cheese.
Delicious. Love taking an English muffin, Josh, slicing it in half, putting on a little tomato sauce, cutting the bay bells in half and throwing them in the toaster.
Yeah. It's great.
Ooh. Little mini Gouda pizza.
A little fatso just crushing it. Crushing it a homemade pie.
I love it. I used to do that too, but with that horrible cake agent sliced name brand or store brand cheddar cheese over crappy broken tortillas.
Yeah, of course. Yeah, microwave nachos.
I love a microwave nacho. Yes.
Yes. Yes.
That should be in a restaurant as an app. Like microwave nachos.
I love it. You throw down some Tostitos, some Kraft American singles, a little bit of scallions.
You're having a party. Microwave nachos, toaster pizza.
In. Hell yes.
Yes. Re, reheated rice.
Yes.

It comes in the Chinese food box.

It's just stale.

It's only half full.

There's remnants of like black bean sauce.

Oh, is this a water chestnut?

Sorry. So good.
Next speak pipe from who knows. Hey, Josh and Ben.
I just wanted to respond to the speak pipe where the lady says that her boyfriend lied about his height and she had to measure the dresser to see how tall he was. And I took a leap of faith and dated a short king.
And I just want to encourage everyone else to do the same. Being short kind of does for your personality what being fat does for it.
And it's fabulous. I've never laughed harder.
I don't even care that I see eye to eye with him. Such a man.
So I just wanted to speak out against the short king slander and encourage everyone to, you know shorter you never know what's in that great little package love it shorter i'm in it's a movement yeah date shorter okay and i like what she said that being shorter you get a chip on your shoulder so perhaps you're funny and better fucking yeah you gotta got quite the hog share clothes one more from i don't know

hi yeah you gotta got quite the hog share clothes one more from i don't know hi josh and ben this is britney from new jersey i love you guys i'm a new listener i'm obsessed keep up the good work you're like my best friends so anyway trying to make this fast i work at a non-profit we are small we're only a staff of three and here's the executive director, great guy. He comes into the office whenever time he comes in, no set schedule.
He comes in and he uses the bathroom. Sure.
The men's room is down the end of the office and then the women's room is up towards the front. The reason I'm mentioning bathroom is because when he leaves the bathroom, when he goes number two, the smell envelops the office.
And I don't know what to say or not to say. And let me tell you, he said to me that he has no sense of smell anymore.
There's one. So he can't smell anything.
I'm dying. My assistant director doesn't say anything.
So should I just donate an air freshener? And then every time he leaves the bathroom, run over there and spray it. Will he notice? I don't know what to do.
I just can't keep smelling it anymore. I'm getting sick.
What should I do? I love you guys. Thank you.
I love this podcast. What to do? Let me tell you, they're not talking about that on fucking Smartless, okay? Those three cannot help you with a question like this.
Joe Rogan's talking about fucking UFOs and ayahuasca. We're talking about shitting at your office.
We are, specifically at a nonprofit. And Josh, I just want to say, this is what happens when you work at a nonprofit.
So true. Like, it just, you're going to have that guy that is going to drop a stink bomb.
And it just, so look, you've, you've chosen the route. It's probably a relatively cushy job.
I never really understood working for a nonprofit because they're not profitable. But in the end of the day, I don't know if I would.
Yeah. Put something in the bathroom, put something in the bathroom, put in a little Febreze, one of those one of those air wicks get somebody too expensive you don't need to come out your own money for this guy do it when he's not there definitely don't go and like spray out that's too dramatic but go in put in an air wick air freshener otherwise consider using a different restroom but that's very unfortunate i'm sorry that you have to that.
Nothing worse. And I'm sure I'm getting a visual.
I feel how hot the toilet seat is. Ugh, yuck.
Listen, I know you're in a nonprofit, but so one kid doesn't eat one night. You take that money, you pool it, right? You take the $20 and you go get, I'm talking, you get a candle, you get a poopery, you know, the spray that you put in, you just got to leave a lot of hints.
First, just leave a lit candle in there all day. A stinky one, go to Bath and Body Works and get an offensive one.
Like the strong, like, yeah. And then the poopery spray.
I'm trying to think if there's anyone you can get

those glad things that plug into the wall and they heat up and they like they're blasting scent and i think by then someone will get the picture that they're they're stinking up the joint or i'm now thinking about it josh because you work at a non-profit anything goes just tell the guy right hey, stop shitting so much. Not here, sir.
What are you eating? Like, honestly, what you should do is you should ask him about his diet. You should go up to him and you should say, like, why are you eating beef stew for dinner every night? Right.
By the way, if his bowels are truly this smelly, Josh, then he has gastrointestinal problems. He could be polypy.
He could be polypy. You never know.
So feel for the guy. Give him some AG1.
That'll straighten him out. I agree.
And this is why I will never, ever share a bathroom with my wife. Because I'm like, listen, thank God.
Even when we just lived in an apartment, we had two bathrooms, a guest and a main. I said, the main is yours.
Enjoy the counter space on, take the shower. I will be in the guest bathroom and I will be free farting and doing what I need to do to feel like a skinny mini without your judgment, without fear.
But will you not even in the middle of the night, if you have to pee, where are you going? This is assuming we're sleeping in the same room? Yes. Okay.
We're going to have to use my imagination on this one. Yeah, I will.
I'll piddle, but I need to close the door because I got a loud pish stream. It could wake somebody up.
Or I got to sit. Fair.
Fair. Yeah.
Because, yeah, if I'm going to do gonna do the nasty i'll go to the guest bathroom it's only courteous yeah the peeing you know go in there it doesn't matter should we get to our what are you nuts we should let's do it our what are you nuts moment of the week are our gripes with people places and things big and small whatever is currently sticking in your craw i'll start i um have someone who's on the other side of the political spectrum to me, a buddy of mine guy. I love him.
Great guy, but we're nuts. And we go at it all day on text.
And I finally said, dude, you need a hobby. He sends me like 10 articles a day.
He's constantly writing me all these things.

You would think he is like the head of Fox News.

I'm like, dog.

I said, and then he'll tell me when I say,

you need a hobby, he'll go, I don't have time.

I work too hard.

I'm like, you completely have time.

I said, because when all is said and done,

you could be learning French.

You could be learning woodworking.

You could get in really good shape, but like, do not waste your time on this. like,

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What are you nuts? Nuts. And also just stop voicing your opinions onto other people when they didn't ask for it.
I hate it. I hate it.
I don't do it to you. You don't do it to me.
It's just,

let's talk about fun things. Like life's stressful enough.
That person sounds like he's sick.

He's sick. My what are you nuts moment.
Speaking of sick, Josh, I went to unbelievable diner. I

didn't get sick there. Delicious diner.
Delicious. I'm not going to name drop it because I don't

want the lines. It's too good.
So good. Madison Diner.
So good. Fantastic.
I went there, me, Claudia, our friends, Matt, Adina, and their eight-month-old Jaden. We're having a beautiful spread.
We order the silver dollar pancakes. We order the omelets.
It's a beautiful brunch. Now Jaden's eight months old, so he really isn't a, he hasn't had too much screen time yet, right? And there, it's the parent's job to choose how much screen time their kid gets, right? We are chatting.
All of a sudden we look to the left. The hostess of the restaurant, Josh, has put a cartoon on her phone and is showing it to the baby.
The baby is watching the cartoon. The hostess is holding her Samsung Galaxy at her abdomen, okay?

Showing this cartoon and the baby's watching.

What are you nuts?

This isn't your kid.

Are you crazy?

I thought it was insane.

May I retort?

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