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Two Jews, both big and tall. No subject, too small for the good guys.
The following podcast is until you actually see it if you guys haven't seen it you missed it because we can't afford more than a week and by afford i mean we got it for free but we couldn't afford more than a week anyways what it's only one week one week it runs for one week this is this ad well there's two things josh running at the same time this ad in times square is right next to where the ball drops 43rd and 7th we had a good guys video with what are you nuts just what are you nuts vertically was running josh 10 stories the full video probably ran 30 stories this is like a 40 story massive. What are you nuts? Me and you being goons.
It was the coolest thing I've ever seen in my life. And then separately, LinkNYC, you'll notice throughout the entire city is running the exact same ad on all of those used to be telephone areas that are now just screens.
LinkNYC is running that video too. Both of them, Josh, we, God, we god we're killing it well i don't want to be in a contest here but we're also in my mother's assisted livings newsletter this week sorry ben i'm gonna need a picture of that i'm gonna need a picture of it didn't happen.
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and they're both rotund. God, I'm happy that we're doing Barb again.
What a voice. So good.
Once in a generation. Thank God.
Anyway, dude, can we do a best bite of the week real quick? Please. I have.
I have one. Go.
The other night i went to a restaurant in in beverly hills called i've heard i've heard this place this was this was an institution in beverly hills for many years and then i think they kind of did like a refresh i mean this was out of control i went with my my west coast ben went, and let me tell you, I'm going to walk you through this, because I had already done what all Jews do, which is I pre-planned. I did homework on the restaurant.
I got my intel. These people, they sit down, they peruse the menu for 30 minutes.
It's not changing. This is not SAT prep.
Order. he's here order so first beautiful bread basket arrives the vibe on this place i feel like i was in the lucchese crime family allegedly then they do a table side caesar you know we love table side the best they're making it rain freshly grated parmesan on this thing beyond then we do some apps we do a shrimp fra diavolo beautiful and then and these are really these are proper shrimp these are like these are shrimp on those barry bond's drugs you know that good good right all juiced up these shrimp they had to get a bigger hat when they were in their mid-30s which is normal i'm not on steroids mlb as ina garten would call them 12 count shrimp josh 12 to a pound okay 12 to a pound continue that's right that's right and then we order that and then we order and this is not this is i think really ubiquitous in on the east coast but you don't see it as much in la and shout out winter vegetables we had an artichoke but a stuffed artichoke the best oh with in like a lemon butter type piccata you think i'm done with piccata i'm not done with pic.
Then the mains. A limon bucatini in almost like a light cream lemon sauce.
My favorite. That bucatini bullies spaghetti when no one's looking.
That bucatini has negative talk to spaghetti and goes, you call yourself a noodle? Can we pause on lemon pasta, Josh? Lemon pasta, I'm sorry. Lemon pasta is it.
It's it. Indeed is it.
Don't talk enough about it. The way that the lemon cuts through the cream.
That's right. The lemon zest and the lemon juice in a full fat creamy pasta.
God, chef's kiss. Beyond.
And then we had a Branzino Piccata, right? Yeah, delish. From the waters in the Mediterranean, because otherwise, if it's not from the Mediterranean, as my friend Max Shapiro would say, just sea bass.
Just sea bass. It's not Branzino.
And then the marquee item, we had a veal parmesan. Sounds fantastic.
I need that in my belly. I recently, Josh, I was in the great state of Vermont.
Love. I was in Middlebury, Vermont.
That is where we do Spritz Society production. Did about a million cans.
Just saying. Mazel, that's huge.
Crazy news coming in March. Yeah, it was huge.
It was huge. But in the middle of the day, Josh, I had to pop out and grab myself a bite.
And I looked far and wide and I found apparently the greatest sandwich shop in vermont happened to be in middlebury called noonies n-o-o-n-i-e-s and when i tell you josh you walk in and you just know that what you're about to get is it is it they have the parchment paper if you have a sandwich that's being made on parchment paper you are in for a treat a treat i got long sub hoagie they call it okay i went tuna they gave me havarti havarti is an incredibly underrated cheese and if you're making sandwiches with the havarti you know what you're doing shredded lettuce onions had curry mayonnaise. Curry mayo.
Whoa. Fantastic.
You just threw a weird wrench in this thing. It was fantastic, I swear.
A curry mayo? But don't say that like you're talking about, you know, the days of the week. This is a curveball.
Have you had curry mayo? Never. Josh.
Olivia, have you had curry mayo? I have not. Okay.
the two of you need to go and buy a bottle of hellman's mayonnaise and a pack of curry okay and i want to see curry mayonnaise you have to like curry but if you like curry this is you're in for a ride you're in for a ride it was an unbelievable sandwich everything there looked amazing for first time curry mayo people okay i

went crazy with the tuna try it on turkey have a turkey sandwich avocado red onion curry mayonnaise tell me your life hasn't changed outrageous i believe you was there a chip did we involve a chip no i could have like it felt so gluttonous i have this huge sub i'm not then gonna also grab like a Hal's or is Hal's soda or Hal's chips?

Soda, right?

Yeah, I think it's east coast too yeah yeah yeah i wasn't gonna go and grab a big fat bag of chips but it definitely would have been better with a little sun chips harvest cheddar your harvest cheddar man so is my son what's your favorite chip don't get me started like it all, and I like it all under the sun, but I think they live in different worlds. You cannot compare a Frito to any other chip.
You can't compare a Dorito to any other chip. No? Am I tripping? No, no, you're 100% right.
Am I out of pocket, as the kids might say? The Frito is the world's most versatile chip as well. Yes.
The Frito is a vehicle to a sauce where chips typically, you can't dunk a harvest cheddar in anything. Otherwise, you're just a fatso, okay? But the Frito gives you the right to dunk.
That's right. Yes.
And Doritos. My mom loves a Frito.
Loves. I remember my mom, she would buy a bag of Fritos with some clam dip.
You ever have clam dip? My mom would dunk. She would kill me.
She would kill me if I'm telling you this. But she would dunk her Fritos in that clam dip.
Ooh, baby. She loved it.
Your mother, God bless this beautiful woman with her. It's insane that she doesn't have gout.
You have no idea the things that she eats from where. I also, she'd also kill me for telling the story, but I'm going to tell it anyways.
She goes into a deli, Josh. This is probably, I don't know, whenever the listeria breakout was with Boar's Head, okay? She goes into a deli, okay? And on, there's a sign that says, but warning, there was a breakout here.
What does a normal person do, Josh? They avoid the boar's head. They leave.
If I see that there was a breakout in the deli, I'm gone. What does my mom do? Not going to happen to me.
Gets herself her meats, goes on her way, has a terrible stomach ache. Okay.
She could have died, Josh. She she could have died you don't fuck around with

listeria outbreaks what are you nuts she took it as a challenge she did and they call her iron

tummy ava on the streets and you know this absolutely she took it as a challenge and all

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I'm going to say, mess around with bad food this is not good you don't need it you don't need it okay don't do it well that's what i always hear because you know i'm on the prepper side of tiktok yes don't worry about it i just want to see people's shelters and this one guy who was a prepper who was showing his his nuclear fallout shelter under his house was like these best buy dates are a total suggestion oh my god more than a year after you can go i'm like a year like i don't believe a couple what is he talking about what like what can you go a year later perishable nutella nutella i remember he was like oh please this will be good for another year i i think i would agree with that i would agree with that okay for sure like a peanut butter i'm not caring so much about a best buy date that i totally agree with you scared me i was like what about a yogurt oh that's absurd yeah absurd honestly i i think the best buy dates are too long you ever pick up a like a jug of milk use it for two weeks check the best buy date and it's not for like another three months and you're like what are you what's going on here ultra process and that i'm not i like pasteurization i don't like this ultra pass that's crazy no i don't like it i don't want it i went do you what do you think about raw milk josh what do you think about raw we've talked about this all right that's it we're having a neurologist on no we haven't spoken about this like this yes we have in this exact no my memory is clear as day he did i love you look i'm sorry it's okay friday i'm in jacksonville monday tuesday i'm in vermont i have a busy week i i need no neurologist i'm fine so no okay no raw milk we'll stop talking about it no problem okay dad geez we spoke about it hey it's Josh and Ben, and we are here to tell you about the Galaxy S25 Ultra from Samsung. This phone is amazing.
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It's an international airport.

It's only an hour and 45 minutes from the city.

There is a beach.

There's just also a lot of dirt and crime and mobile homes.

But the beach is lovely.

And I don't know why we don't use it more.

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Jacksonville is great. And what's great is one of Cat Williams' Netflix specials.

I don't know if he was a little light on material. And I say this because i am one of the biggest cat williams fans on earth he's hilarious i think he was recently on theo vaughn and he introduced him as some people say he's the black oracle like i mean he's spectacular he is a once in a lifetime talent I love him him but it was a netflix special that he shot in jacksonville he did 25 minutes at the top of his special crowd work about jacksonville and i'm like you know everyone doesn't live in jacksonville right he's like he's like how about davie street the crowd loves it but you're like god i I can't.
I don't know what that is. I'm actually, I'm always so impressed, though, when comics are able to do that.
Not in Jacksonville. Like, it's cool in Jacksonville.
But like, when you watch the Schultz stuff and he's in a different fucking country and he's making them laugh because of like random cultural references that he studied. Like, that's genius level comedy.
Genius. Yeah, it's also just like there is whenever I would do a college gig.
And I've done quite a bit over the years. I would always do recon with the students.
I'd be like give me like two inside jokes on campus about like. And I could always like sort of lean on like where's the bar that you go drink? What's annoying?

Let me guess, parking.

As far as I can tell, there's not good parking in any university in the great country of America.

They don't like that, and they don't like the food.

And whenever I bring that up in front of the students, and I figure out a way to hopefully make it funny, their faces melt. They're like, how the hell does Josh know about, about you know i don't know olivia's here bear

cat tuesdays i don't know shout out how does he know i know like what would what would the inside joke be at the yeshiva like can you believe the tefillin on floor seven speaking of yeshiva you know my favorite restaurant in the world golon heights 185th and amsterdam this is the place i get a call from my parents ben an old family friend passed away we're gonna go pay a shiva call would like to come? We'll get Golan first. I said, I'm in.
I'm in. It's on the way up.
I go. Will you explain what a shiva call is for our three people who listen who aren't Jewish? Yes.
A shiva call is what you go to after somebody has passed away. They pass.
You bury them. In Judaism, within 24 hours is the gold standard.
And then you have a week or a little less than a week where people come in and are able to say hi to you. The body has been buried.
This is not like a wake. The body is not there.
This is purely in service of memories and to comfort those that just lost a husband, a wife a son whatever it may be they bring food and and it's called paying a shiva and yes there's tons of food tons of food you bring whatever you you can but yes josh we stopped at golan heights and this should have been my best fucking bite of the week because noonies got nothing on golan the next time you're here we're going to golan i got a lafa for those that don't know big fucking beautiful pita jewish burrito it's a jewish burrito jewish burrito okay schnitzel beautiful fried chicken love we then got coleslaw we then got thinly sliced pickles we then got i know it's crazy, beet salad. I love beets.
No, it's good. It works.
A little corn salad. And then what they got going on, Josh, is these sauces.
Garlic mayo, sweet chili, barbecue sauce wrapped up. You're wild, dog.
You are a sauce wild, man. Curry mayo and barbecue sauce in your laffa? Yo.
It was fucking amazing. And I'm here realizing that the reason I'm up 10 pounds has nothing to do with the creatine.
I had a big week. Ben calls me.
He's like, I've gained five pounds. I think it's from the creatine.
And then he elaborates. Yeah.
No, it's not from the creatine i had a big week but yes of course you could go the classic shawarma lafa trina hummus israeli salad onions etc but if you want to go crazy they have these gorgeous sauces and josh oh my god i was thinking about continuing our game from last week two twofold, which is we were guessing calories for different wonderful things. Ooh, yes.
Now, we did it for donuts, for the great Krispy Kreme, for the great Dunkin' Donuts. In fact, I have a good Krispy Kreme story for our stories this week.
But first, I like to play a game for our calorie counting day. How many calories are in Chick-fil-A items olivia as always feel free to weigh in we'll do five of the major chick-fil-a offerings first their standard chicken sandwich chicken sandwich their fried chicken sandwich i was gonna say fried Fried.
And there's some sauce on the sandwich or this is bone dry? I don't think they put sauce, right? It's just a pickle. Oh, my.
I think they put mayo. Oh, they put mayo.
It's always less than I think. 300.
300. Olivia.
425. Wow.
Olivia, dangerously close at 440.

440.

300, you guess.

That's low. I'm not going to lie.

440, though, is a lot because then you're going to put on that Chick-fil-A sauce, you're at 800.

So funny you should say, how many do we think is in the Chick-fil-A sauce?

All right, 80 calories.

I think it's an ounce.

80 calories.

Olivia?

110.

Wow, Olivia again on a winning streak at 140. One small bag of Chick-fil-A sauce, 140.
Yeah, okay. A eight-piece nugget, the crispy nugget.
Eight-piece. 450.
Mmm, Olivia. 410.
An eight-piece nugget coming in at only 250 calories. What the fuck? A real steal.
A real steal. Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Let's back this up. Okay.
So they're claiming that it's 35 calories a nugget. I call bullshit.
I'm sorry. 35 calories a nugget? No way.
It's deep fried chicken. But they're little nugs.
They're not like massive. All right all right that's true for let's just say for variety how about eight grilled nuggets what do we think is the calorie count on the eight grilled nuggets if they're the same size as the regular nuggets sure 120 yeah 115 wow ben wins this one at 130 a snatched 130 that It really is.
You can go and get an eight-piece grilled nugget. Go 12-piece at 200 calories? Fantastic.
Great protein. 38 grams of protein? Are you kidding me? Do you know how many people, though, are going in there looking to be healthy, and then they're saying, ah, whatever, I'll get a little Chick-fil-A sauce.
It doesn't matter. And then all of a sudden, 200 turns into 900, and't even know it i know i'm that guy i am that guy just saying i'm playing i'm constantly playing roulette with my calories what about a we can end it here with a i want i would have loved a dessert but i know their ice cream cones probably coming in at sub 250 what about let's go with a large fry a large waffle fry 425 it25.
It's coming in at six. Sorry, I missed you, Olivia, but it's 600 calories.
I would have gotten that so wrong. Okay, good.
Worth it. Beautiful.
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I just want to know, why did we go away from arranged marriages? Olivia? No comment. You can't tell me with two boys, Josh, you have friends, right? They have a lovely little girl, similar age, and you're really close with them.

How easy would that be where you get to go to dinner and you get to celebrate holidays with your friends

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I've been thinking about this, Josh.

I've been thinking about this.

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Who gives a shit?

What do I want?

I want to be able to hang out with somebody that I like.

Josh, Olivia.

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I mean, they hit the lottery, dude. It's nice for sure.
Great for the kid. That said, they didn't give anything to the mom mom the mom's the one who in a snowstorm had to give birth in a back alley in alabama outside of a crispy cream but the son gets free donuts every year something's not right josh something's not right i know and what about like when he's six and he wants to have his birthday at charles entertainment cheese are they going to say like yeah but we didn't give birth to you at a charles entertainment cheese we're going to the crispy no they're going to sign it they signed something already josh there's a non-compete one day that kid's going to go to dunkin donuts eat a dunkin donut post it on social media and he's going to get sued let's hear from who knows not me this isn't working here we go hi good guys asking for an opinion on some family drama so it turns out that my dad who managed finances for my mom lied to her about a few things he said that he paid taxes in which he did not for the past five years he also has accrued forty thousand dollars in debt that she was unaware of and thinking that they were doing really well with their finances, she comes to learn that they're not.
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I don't know him. I don't know him.
All I know is that clearly the guy was in some hot water. If he's dying, love him and try and help your mom.
But if he's dying, he's going to die. Don't make his last day on earth.
Of course, you should say to him like, dad, you fucked up. This is no good.
I'm going to help mom. But then transition.
Don't harbor resentment. Be there for him.
Let him pass. And then be there to help your mom recover.
Because it's terrible what he did. It's terrible.
I have to assume that there's some reason. Also, we don't know enough about the story.
The mom thought that they were doing so well on their finances, but she hasn't checked to see if anybody filed a tax return in five years. She hasn't talked to the accountant.
I'm not blaming her by any means. No means whatsoever.
I'm just saying she sounds rather disconnected. And if the guy is dying, I don't know.
We don't know enough of this story, but if somebody's dying, I think you forgive them. Otherwise, you'll hate yourself forever.
I totally agree. I totally understand her outrage.
Anyone who doesn't file their taxes for five years and keeps it a secret and accrues forty thousand dollars in debt surreal your dad's a sick fuck he's sick it's okay he's just he's what are you nuts and so try to have the same sympathy and grace that you would have for another sick person and yeah you can't not pay your taxes you also they'll get you and then you can't be q on that like when you owe the irs they will get their money forever all that being said i agree with ben and i also think i understand you wanting to be defensive of your ride or die your your mom who you love so much and it's a beautiful thing she's she's a big girl and so are you and i would Do your best best to keep that separate You know, so yes, you are entitled and 100% need to feel this And no and this is one of the great things i've learned in sobriety is we learn to live with unresolved issues We sometimes never get the resolution we want and we don't get the amends We think we deserve but we do the best we can because that's life on life's terms so you know i i could imagine a scenario where your dad never even like apologizes about it because unfortunately people have their weird justifications for things that they do but i agree i don't think you'll regret loving him in the end and you might regret sticking it to him till the end it doesn't help help anybody. Yeah.
That's my perspective. Like harboring resentment only hurts you.
If you're trying to hurt him, it's a different story. But if it sounds like you love him and you're sad that he's dying, that's what I took from that, Josh.
Yeah. So if that's true, then you cutting him out is only hurting you.
Don't hurt you more. Totally.
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Josh, Mazel Tov, I'm the new baby. And Ben, how are you? I wanted to ask you how you are because in the last episode you said that you would like to start us asking you how you are in the speak pipes.
Anyway, I have a question for you, something that I want to know your take on. So my boyfriend is Jewish and as am I.
And he has a younger sister who she is 16 and she when she was 13 she had a bat mitzvah she had like the huge you know blowout party you know how they do it now with the up and coming they do a party 13 year olds so she had the she had the big bat mitzvah and then now she's 16 and she is saying that she needs to have a or she's turning this is the galaxy and honestly like i just think that's absurd like i think that objectively cut it off i got it i got it i'm i'm playing it for two reasons this is an example of the way you don't want to go about a speak pipe this is so long so long so unnecessary could have easily cut out 60 seconds of that i honestly i could tell the entire speak pipe josh in under five seconds you ready for this yeah you're ready for this my sister when she was 13 had a bat mitzvah crazy big party isn't it crazy that she also wants a sweet 16 perfect that's it yeah it was the entire thing that said love you thank you for calling in we appreciate you but like oh you stink at speak but thank you and we love you and we would hate to lose you but you're horrible at speakpipes you cannot have you cannot not that you cannot have you can have as many parties as you'd like but sweet 16s are definitely not a in my opinion you just had a blowout party you don't need two blowout parties within three years so i personally agree that if you had a big blowout bat mitzvah, you can probably skip the big blowout Sweet 16. But if you have means and you love to party, why not? To each their own.
Josh? I completely agree with you. I think it's ridiculous, the idea of having two massive parties in a row.
I think you can definitely make it special. but I think if the bat mitzvah is at the shul and the hall and the dj and the stations and the thing you go for 16 we're going to do something amazing in the backyard you know totally and we're going to spend you know a tenth of what we did on the bat mitzvah like maybe there's some world and what were you going to say to say? What are the origins, Josh, of the Sweet 16? Do we know? That's a great question.
Let's see. We have the internet.
Why don't you use the AI feature, Josh, on that galaxy? Try and stop me. Try and stop me.
Use Gemini. Voice to speak.
You can try and stop me, but it won't work. What are the origins of Sweet 16? Oh, I just got transferred to the FBI.
I have some Googling something to do with 16-year-olds. The term Sweet 16 has multiple origins.
The celebration may have originated with Queen Elizabeth I, whose reign marked the beginning of the Middle Ages. It may also have originated as a way to introduce girls to social skills and hostessing.
Now, what about a quinceañera, Josh? The difference between a sweet 16 and a quinceañera. But that's beautifully cultural, and that's 15.
15. Quince.
Also 16. Quince.
Oh, I didn't even realize quinceañera. Yeah.
That's nice that's nice i agree it seems like you're also welcoming her into girlhood is that the idea because if that's all of these ideas that's what about mitzvahs okay so we've come full circle here you want about mitzvah no sweet 16 does it no you did it it's done you're a woman olivia yeah it seems like double dipping a little bit but i also agree with your point josh that like you can do one up real big and then do one you know a little smaller on a budget to celebrate but yeah seems like a little bit of a double dip i guess it depends on how rich you are like if you're really rich i could josh you could have you could have a quinceanera. I would love, oh my God, a posh, like a, you know, a couple decades late quince.
You know, I don't want to, I don't want to stick my foot in my mouth 13 years in advance. Cause BHBH, you're, you know, you guys have a fricking blowout bar mitzvah for, for the software to be named.
I, you know, I, and tell me what you think, Ben. Like, I think a bar mitzvah for for the software to be named i you know i and tell me what you think ben like i think a bar mitzvah was awesome i think growing up at during our you know during the 90s and the mid-aughts like of course there were always the blowouts there was always the rich families that went over the top then there were wonderfully modest ones i just have experienced in the last 10 years i feel like i'm seeing people drop a quarter of a million dollars on bar mitzvahs like it's insane to me it's a little what do you not what do you think one i'm gonna go hard as fuck but is that for you i don't know because i'm also the king of bartering like i'm gonna have the biggest fucking party you're never gonna know what never going to know what I spent.
You'll know what I spent. You who came, you'll never know what I spent.
You're going to think I spent something insane. And I'm sure I spent a lot, but I didn't spend what you think I spent.
And that to me is the win. I don't mind spending money, but I want it to feel like what I got was worth way more.
Does that make sense? I just want a good deal. So if I need

to spend, God willing, I can, God willing, things keep going well. If I wanted to spend a quarter of

a million dollars on a bar mitzvah, then this will be a $1 million bar mitzvah. Okay.
That's all.

But is that reasonable? Like you would consider spending that much money?

Is it reasonable? No, no, not at all. But I love parties.
I love throwing parties. I love hosting.
I love a really amazing, fun event. And I could absolutely see myself getting caught up in it as the son of a caterer.
I can just see it. And like, I love events.
Like I've always, I've always loved them and I don't ever mind spending money. Like I'll always throw, like it's been less in past years, but like I would, I would spend money on my birthday for my friends.
Like I would like rent a room. I would like pick up a tab.
Like I like that stuff. So like I envision that on like a monumental day for my son, $250,000 is an absurd amount of money.
So I want to kind of adjusting for inflation. Maybe it won't be as crazy, but $100,000 for a million dollar wedding would be lovely.
The performers, Josh, that's where it gets big. I want the best meatloaf cover band there is.
Maybe I get Nickelback. That would be so hot.
If I get like 55 year old Nickelback old nickelback she gives this like your son a beautiful jewish name so it's like look at our photograph every time make me laugh have a promise for to you giving nachos to your parents too very good very good god bless i don't know i i have i want to separate this and not be because i think everything you said sounds great and is perfect and is how a lot of people think and i think i have my own josh it's fine you go teach their own yeah i have my own nuts things that i i feel like first of all and i think this is like a little bit of growing up with a mother who made things about who made things about her but it told me it was about me like i see a lot of like for my bar mitzvah i wanted my theme to be star wars and she's like ah ah broadway baby i was like i'm embarrassed and she's like we're performing at your bar mitzvah i said we are and it turned into a 45 minute show you have you have bar mitzvah trauma you do well to say the least but again like to your point right like i know you're joking but like the meatloaf cover band and this and like you didn't say a thing about your kid you it was all about you and i think parents do that and i don't i i guess that's what i have qualms with you're owning it. I'm not saying that it's for him at all.
But it is. But it's, no, the whole day was, the service was, the luncheon was, of course, him coming out and it being his theme.
Like I remember my bar mitzvah was Knicks themed because I love the Knicks. My parents found a way to get John Starks to record a nice video for me thanking, saying I did a great job on my haftora on the fourth floor of where my dad had catered.
They put like a little basketball court or whatever, and the kids played and downstairs, the parents did what they did. And I was happy as a clam.
And that's obviously not nowhere near a quarter of a million dollar bar mitzvah. That was like a, I have no idea how much, because again, they're caterers and florists

and the space was free and all this stuff.

But I just, the party itself is for the family.

That's what I think when I think of a bar mitzvah.

A wedding, the polar opposite.

That's about the couple.

That's about the couple and whatever the couple wants to do.

Their list, it shouldn't be about the parents.

The parents are too much. Get involved, invite all of their friends, and it becomes nothing about the bride, which the couple wants to do their list it shouldn't be about the parents the parents are too much get involved invite all of their friends and it becomes nothing about the bride which is the worst thing but for me bar mitzvahs are about or bat mitzvahs are about the kids going studying sharing with the world feeling good about themselves and then the parties just for everyone is the way i see it and what do you think about like you know because this happens sometimes where like you and claudia are so wonderfully like you know you just have incredible personalities and you're so like such people people and outgoing and and maybe you have a kid who's a little you know more shy and like a little bit more introverted and what if they say like dad i would love to do the entire bar mitzvah process and hebrew school whatnot.
And I'd rather just like go to Israel or like do something like a trip, like and not a party. Then that is what we will do.
Cool. I think that'd be cool.
I can't imagine a world in which we raise an introvert. But if we happen to raise an introvert, then a thousand percent, it's what the kid wants.
No question. I hate those scenarios where parents force their kids into doing something that they don't want to do but i am banking on having a kid that wants to have a great party for sure no and a great party is awesome and i what has been revealed to me with having and you you see this once you have more than one kid is nurture is as real as nature.
And because both of my kids are singularly my children and, and yet completely different and it doesn't make sense. And yet it makes perfect sense how they can be like, so uniquely my wife and mine and have our parts of our looks and parts of our personality traits and things that we love and things that we don't love.
And yet they are so uniquely themselves that was just done in the beautiful miracle of their. So cool.
Yeah, it's fun. It's cool to see how it reveals itself.
Okay. You want to do what are you nuts? What are you nuts, Josh Times Square? Okay.
It's completely nuts. It's nuts.
Granted, we have our gorgeous billboard. I love it.
You set foot in Times Square. One, you're afraid for your life a thousand percent.
It is like the craziest people, the most lights. It's a jungle.
It's nuts. If you've never been, it's crazy.
You get there. There is always somebody on a megaphone talking about Jesus.

Without question, somebody is screaming, screaming at you about Jesus.

You walk another foot.

You are met with a Mickey Mouse that is just the scariest Mickey you have ever seen.

You're blinded.

You're getting a headache.

I was recently in Times Square, so I'm thinking about it.

And I just have to say this being a tourist attraction.

What are you, nuts? There's nothing to see. Google it.
You don't want it. Totally agree.
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Take your health. Take your healing and keep it to yourself.
Okay? Just when you're nuts. It's nuts.
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