How Benny Got His Groove Back

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Benjamin, how the hell are you?

I'm splendid.

How are you, Joshua?

I'm good.

How are those T-Rex arms?

Okay, I thought you might ask.

So I am on creatine.

I'm dosing, baby.

I'm dosing.

Day four.

Yeah.

He's pissing dirty.

Water is being retained.

I'm goinging, baby. I'm dosing.
Day four. Yeah.
He's pissing dirty. Water is being retained.
I'm up five pounds. That ain't the creatine, babe.
Water is being retained. I have been on a lot of planes.
I've been on four flights in the last six days, too. So maybe it's that.
I'm not going blame the creatine, but I, it definitely gave me one, like a little extra energy, a little extra boost, Josh, to go to the gym. And then two, I think it gave me a little false confidence in the gym.
I'm just there. I haven't been, I haven't been to the gym to work out in months.
Like I've gone, use the treadmill, whatever, but to really lift, it's been at least four months and I go and I sit on the bench press and I'm like, okay, I'm just going to try a hundred and a hundred feels good. Then I go to one 10 and one 10 feels good.
Then I go to one 20 and one 20 feels good. And the next day I do legs, Josh, I do legs the next day and I do abs.
And then by the day after that, oh my God, I can't, my, my arm won't straighten my left arm and my right arm, I'm like this. I'm like this, they won't straighten.
So I take to the internet, I take to our people and I say, people, what's wrong with me? My arms won't straighten. Now the reasonable response, Josh, would be what? You're sore, you overdid it.
You're fat, you're in the gym. The unreasonable response, Josh, is what these fricking WebMD warriors.
Let me quickly just look it up on my Samsung Galaxy. Oh, yes.
What I've written down. It's the rabidoid gnosis, rabid, ramihomida, rheumatoid arthritis.
Rhabdomyoosis, I think it is. Ramdo is what people said that I have.
Rabdo, rabdo. Which means It sounds like something Adam Sandler created Rabdo Rabdo, Rabdo Rabdo You want me to read you, Josh? Because obviously I had to Google it They're like, you probably have this disease I've heard of it, but go, go Tell the people Okay, rhabdomoditorisus is First of all, symptoms include dark reddish urine.
What are you nuts? Like I would have known if I had dark red urine. Sure.
A decreased amount of urine, muscle aches and weakness, pain areas are in the muscles, whole body fatigue, inability to exercise, water electrolyte and balance, muscular cramping, muscular weakness. This is not at all what I have.
I just said that I couldn't straighten my arm. Like it hurts a little bit to go like this, you know, like just a little bit.
But at this point I can keep it fully straight for a couple of days. I was completely T-Rexed and that's the last time I asked my Instagram followers anything about medicine.
I don't want your opinions at all. I'm sharing my life.
I'm showing you that I have a T-Rex arm, but don't tell me, don't give me anything. Tell me nothing.
I want nothing from you motherfuckers. I think shout out our followers.
I think rhabdo is, and I'm sure there'll be plenty of armchair doctors who were telling me I'm nuts, but rhabdo is when you have such significant muscle breakdown from a workout that it releases a protein that basically the kidneys can't sort of, it can't convert. And so your kidneys begin to shut down.
I think it's a potassium thing. Like there's a potassium issue too.
But because I know having an imbalance in potassium can affect your heart and rhabdo can affect your heart. Like you're literally like can go into total heart shutdown bad news spares not oh yeah i forgot to mention that the number that you're you die from this if it unchecked you die yeah no it's serious it's serious but also it's for people who really work out really seriously do i look like somebody that could possibly get rhabdo But I think you have i think you have to be a bodybuilder i think rhabdo is for triathletes crossfitters and fat so's like oh you think so no i think it's for either you've hurt your body so much through constant working out or you've been at such a satiated resting space and then you go in and you disrupt it with a really hard workout and your body's like you shock it yeah well i definitely shocked it i shocked it i was in pain but i'm fine i'm totally fine now and my plan josh tomorrow is to go and do arms again you got to get back in there yeah it's the creatine talking the creatine you get pulled over They're like sir have you have you had anything to drink tonight no but i'm on five milligrams of creatine and i feel crazy i literally called josh this morning i'm like do you find that creatine gives you a bit of an adderall effect he's like no like what are you talking about like i i took creat creatine and it was like I did a bump.

I'm like all over the place. I think you just have energy from working out, which is a wonderful byproduct.

A side effect of creatine is joie de vivre.

The zest for life.

Yes.

That's it.

My piss positive for mojo.

What kind of creatine do you use? I don't know, but it's called Benny Got His Groove Back. I obviously had to travel with my creatine, Josh, so I put a little look.
I got thorn. Josh told me to get thorn.
Shout out thorn. Good stuff.
This is apparently, this is the Rolls Royce of creatine, Okay. It comes in a beautiful tub that said,

I would like to discuss with Thorne that it's difficult to take the scooper from the tub and put it into a small bottle of water.

I understand I should be using a canteen, but I'm not.

I'm trying to put it into my little Poland spring bottles.

I digress.

I wanted to take some with me on the plane.

I obviously couldn't lug this huge tub.

That would be nuts.

So I put a little bit of the powder into a Ziploc bag.

And I realized as I'm going through TSA, it looks, Josh, like I'm smuggling cocaine.

It looks just like cocaine. It's this white powder.
Maybe that's why it feels like I did cocaine because there's something about the material, the way it looks. Yes.
The rush. Shout out Thorne.
Yeah. That is the sad thing about marijuana becoming legal in many states because like there's nothing like the feeling of taping some like really b-level dirt weed to your taint and walking through tsa trying not to make eye contact with people making 19 an hour yeah yeah absolutely where have you where's the craziest place josh that you have inserted drugs in your body to get through TSA? All domestic, babe.
I'm a domestic smuggler. I do not do internash.
Yeah, that's smart. That's smart.
No, we don't, we don't need that. We don't need you in a Russian prison.
We don't need any of that WNBA action. None of that.
No. I mean, thankfully I haven't had to worry about that for almost two decades, But when I was young and full of piss and vinegar, I remember once I was in the UK and I was like 20 years old.
And I was like, we need to smoke weed in the UK. And so I kind of like started asking around.
And by that, I mean, you always ask the hotel valets because they're basically like yelp for illicit substances and they're like oh you might you gotta go down to camden mate camden mate i'm like all right they're like aren't you from new york i'm like yeah but i want to fit in so i went to camden and one of the scariest dudes ever walks up to me he's like what you want mike and i'm like 20 pounds worth of your finest british reefer your majesty and he pulled it he pulled a little satchel like a a like you know a wrapped baggie out of his gums oh it's like oh here you go oh and i was like yuck and yuck we smoked that up in the bathroom the hotel room me and someone else

that you guys would love to know whom and i don't want to implicate oh who is it we can believe this

i can't get out the image josh of this drug dealer taking it out of his mouth and giving it to you

Thank you. know whom and i don't want to implicate who who is we can believe this i can't get out the image josh of this drug dealer taking it out of his mouth and giving it to you yeah it's fucking disgusting what is wrong with these people well i think the idea is that if the cops come you swallow it i guess and i guess it's i guess it's easier than the anus yeah i mean i don't want yeah i don't want butt weed but yeah it's a bindle right and you hear that more with like hard harder drugs but like again like you can't just swallow hard drugs you'll die you can swallow a couple bindles of marijuana you can oh so the the in the lip is called a bindle the bindle is the packaging which is like a sealed little package of like $20 to $50 worth of whatever you're buying.

Don't we call that a dime bag?

Isn't that what we called it?

A dime bag is a $10 worth.

Yeah.

Oh, so a bindle is a larger dime bag.

I think it's interchangeable.

A dime bag, like a dub is 20.

A dime bag is 10. We're talking about the physical vessel, is a mini ziplock right these little guys yeah a bindle was old school right so like a bindle for harder drugs could also be a small balloon which was a thing like a little small balloon like you're at a birthday party at a Charles Entertainment don't you bring Charles Entertainment into this discussion.
You're going to ruin it for Shy's third birthday. You go to Charles Entertainment and you ask Mr.
Charles, have you heard of a Bindle? He's like, have I heard of a Bindle? Honestly, Bindle sounds like the new hot Jewish baby name. He's like, have you met Bindle? Bindle, Josh.
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Bindle, Josh. Speaking of little Bindle, you and Paige had this gorgeous announcement on Instagram.
Yeah. How is she doing? That was so beautiful.
Her bump is bumping. We're bumping, Josh.
We're the luckiest boys in the world. We're the luckiest boys in podcasting.
My wife is great. This is her third time.
I don't know why this feels like the hardest. And by that, I mean on me.
I just think this one's kicking her butt a little bit, understandably so. Usually, like, you have the first trimester and you don't feel great.
But then, as reported by people I've spoken to in the past, the second trimester, you're kind of feeling great. And then the third trimester, you're just like over it and ready for it to be done.
Yeah. She's just been feeling kind of blah.
So how about our Queen Claude? Is she feeling okay? Yeah. First trimester kicked her in the ass.
Like really, it was rough, but she's been good. She's been really good.
She went to the gym twice, Josh, in the last three days just to walk on the treadmill. But like that, the fact that she's able to, and to do soda method, like the fact that she's able to do that mentally is huge.
It's huge. And according to whatever app she uses, our son, BHBHBH, is the size of a corn, corn, a corn husk.
Apparently that's just like width. I mean, that's just length, I guess.
These apps, it's so strange. They're like, he's the size of a lima bean.
And it's like, which way, which way, you know, the corn I think is the length of him right now, a large corn husk. But yeah, he's good.
She's good and uh it's just amazing two pregnant ladies same time same schedule what a podcast you guys feel free to combat me on this i like everyone else follow mark walberg on instagram i'm a fan of mark walberg i like his work work ethic. I like his movies.
Do you know what I have questions about? His page on Instagram is so homoerotic. He is constantly showing off his body in very little clothing.
He's flexing. He's constantly flexing for the camera.
He's showing up what he needs to work on his progress. And I mean, I'm talking full leg sometime in a very short short.
He's, you know, doing the biceps. He's doing the chest.
What's happening? What's happening here? I've seen it. I've seen it.
Olivia, you've seen this. I just looked it up and I'm seeing it right now.
And I am everything. He's shirtless in just about every post.
Yeah. It's either that or it's it's buy into my Catholic app.
Yeah, I think, Josh, it's stay prayed up. Hashtag.
Isn't he selling? Doesn't he have it like a workout line? I think that's what it is. I think his Instagram is just 100 percent ads, like ads for himself.
But like when he's shirtless, he's selling a pair of shorts.

And he's selling the dream in those shorts.

You buy my shorts, Josh,

you're going to have my abs.

You're going to have my tries.

You're going to have my delts.

Yeah.

Listen, if you tell me

I can have Mark Wahlberg's rhomboids,

I'm fucking in, Avi.

But-

He obviously,

you think he takes thorn creatine, Josh?

He probably takes his own shit. He has his own fucking creatine miner yes he's a guy that mines his own creatine mark you funky bunch creatine by the funky bunch wall cream that's much better than creatine by the funky bunch creatine burgers it's like the adult version of like a hype house like that's what it is right that's what it is it's like you're in your 50s but like it's like og josh richard bryce hall it's that same clickbait look at my abs shit but but he crushes it now all i want to know is what is he taking? Because since being introduced to creatine, now that I am a creatine influencer, Josh, my eyes are wide fucking open, okay? These people don't look like this because they were born that way.
They look like this because they're taking shit, okay? They're all taking shit. You had me listening to a lovely podcast, Josh.
What was the name of that podcast? Was it Huberman was his name? No, this is Harbinger, the great Jordan Harbinger. Harbinger.
That's what I meant. The double, the H, the H's, I got confused.
Harbinger. Okay.
And he had a doctor on and they were talking all about whether it's creatine, testosterone, replacement therapy. We ran the gamut and we were simply listening.
We are educating ourselves, folks. We are listening.
And to look like Mark Wahlberg at Mark Wahlberg's age, you're taking TRTs, right? Allegedly. But I would say in a hypothetical Mark Wahlberg-esque incredible shape person in their mid-50s, they're probably getting some help.
Absolutely. And I think there's nothing wrong with the help josh there's nothing wrong with it no nothing i just think that people need to need to know this stuff right like people need to understand that you can work as hard as you fucking want but you won't look like her because you're not taking what she's taking or him because you're not taking what they're taking it's impossible it's impossible yeah i don't think it should be taboo i think these fitness or these just icons of human excellence that we have such idolatry for i don't want to say whom but someone whose name is kind of like the pebble or the stone anyway like these people are clearly optimizing with certain things that are, they're not endogenous.
They're not made by the body. They're made by man and entered into the body to optimize their fitness.
And it's like, let's be real about it. Cause I agree with you.
I think it does set kind of a false narrative about what's, what's possible naturally. Jordan Harbinger was talking about something interesting, which is that what semaglutide or ozempic or, and I have an update on that.
So what these things are, are simply ways that we can bring something into the body to maximize an output. So the output for taking a semaglutide or an ozempic or a Wvi or whatever it may be is that you're not going to have as much food noise and is thus you're going to eat less.
It's going to clean the sugar from your body, whatever. But that is the vessel for so many things that we're going to be able to do to just make our bodies fucking awesome and run like a well-oiled machine.
It's not all about looking amazing. Like we have the opportunity here to feel great.
Don't we want to feel great? I do. I want to feel great.
Tell me about your, I recently, and by that I mean yesterday, my boy Len was like, I got to stop shooting myself up with Osempic because I'm starting to get hard spots in my stomach. Yeah, you can't do that.
You can't inject in the same spot. You got to rotate around.
But I was off it for like four or five months over the summer or like just before the summer through the summer. I went back on it.
And honestly, like the Ozempic semaglutide just hasn't been working for me in the same way. And so I went to doctor of the stars, Josh, Dr.
Sharon Giese, shout out. And she gave me trizepatide, which is currently chilling in my fridge, which is Manjaro.
And I am ready for that transformation, baby. This is supposed to be it.
The Rolls Royce of these medicines. And so I'm very, very excited to try it.
Starting myself on a modest dose. And we're going to see.
A modest dose of 80 milligrams. I'm trying to go trizepatide, creatine.
I'm getting jacked. This is what I'm trying to do, Josh.
This is what I'm trying to do. We're going to see if I can do it.
I have to tell you about my, and then we'll get to some stories on my new Samsung Ultra. No big deal.
So, you know, I'm going with my family away for a couple of days. And so I had to get my kids passports.
And so to get passports, it takes a whole, it's a whole McGill with the family. And you got to go to your local federal passport agency to the federal building in your town.
And like in California, there's three, San Diego, LA or San Francisco. So there's a lot of foot traffic and you have to get a lot of forms.
And then you have to get certain photocopies of forms.

So last night, I look at what we have.

And I'm just double checking.

And I realize we don't have photocopies of my wife and my passport.

And to get passports for your kids, you have to prove you're their parents.

So I'm like, shit.

And it's 11 o'clock at night. And this is when, and I pride myself on being fairly smart and fairly tech savvy.

I'm huge on all of the socials. I'm not a moron, but I am.
And sometimes my age and the fact that I was born in 1986 really shows. So I go, oh my God, it's 11 o'clock at night.
I got to make these copies. We have a 7 a.m.
appointment.

We're going at 7 a.m.

I got to get Max to school at 8.15.

We got to get this done by 7.30.

Crap, what am I going to do?

I say, I know.

I go to Kinko's because Kinko's is open 24-7.

Spoiler alert, Kinko's is no longer a thing.

It's only the FedEx centers. I know that.
24-hour printing is no longer a thing now it's only the fedex centers i know that 24-hour printing is no longer a thing quickly josh it's not your fault that you didn't know that kinko's went out of business they're like that homer simpson meme where they just backed up into the bush and disappeared nobody told me kinko's was going out of business there should still be kinko's where are all of the kinko's continue i agree with you. And title and Kinkos merch for the good guys.
Yeah. So I'm like, crap.
Okay. I know what I'll do.
I'll call Walgreens. I'll call like, I was like, cause you know, sometimes like 24 hour pharmacy has a printing center.
And you just needed a scanned copy of your passport. Yeah.
But I didn't have a scanner. Yeah.
But you know that there's a scanning app on your phone oh please so then i'm an idiot ben i'm an idiot so now i go to the walgreens near the airport i saunter in there i've called before he said you're good we you're good. We've got a station.
I go, great.

There's nothing scarier than a 24-hour pharmacy, particularly by the airport, after 11 on a weekday. No.
I'm there. A girl is in there.
And she looked slightly put together. But then I went and looked at the bottom of her pants.
And they were all sort of ragged. And I'm like, that's's the tell and she's buying a two liter bottle of generic ginger ale and a box of wine she buys it walks out comes back in 30 seconds later and goes wait can i return this i forgot i'm going to to Columbia.
What's happening?

She's like, yeah, I thought I was going to kick in my friends,

but I'm going to Columbia.

I hope you're back.

And so she's like trying to return it.

And then she's like, maybe I'll just get Trulius.

So she's like walking up and down.

We're the only two people there. So we scan everything in.
He's like, great, this will print out in the next five minutes. And then it's taking a while.
And I hear him scream out to one of the women there. He goes, Dana, is our printer not working? And she goes, yeah, it hasn't worked for three years.
And he goes, oh, I hoped it was fixed. Yeah, bro, we can't print this i'm like oh oh man i'm

like i gotta get this printed so i go to another pharmacy they have no printing options so now it's midnight and i'm driving home i'm like crap what am i gonna do so i think about it and i go what would have a business center open now? A hotel. A hotel.
I go in. Shout out Marriott Bonvoy, baby.
I go in and I, and this is like, these are the rare moments when I'm glad that I have quasi C-list celebrity. Cause I make eye contact with the desk kid and he's like, what? And I'm like, like I'm like buddy you got a business center he goes what do you need I was like I need my passports these two photocopied he goes no problem he runs back lickety split it was gorgeous so the passport mission was successful I woke up this morning I tell my wife this kind of like wanting her to be like wow how selfless you are to make sure that we made our appointment well she's like you know you could have done that on your phone right like we have a printer and i was like for sure yep could have done it on your phone and now i hate to break it to you that fan at the courtyard marriott is currently making new passports with your number and stealing your identity for sure right or the

walgreens guy they bet they have it too yeah you are fucked you are fucked dude the walgreens guy

made that joke he was like so what documents am i stealing i was like oh fernando that's fernando peck to you

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and what I'm learning

about the New York Post

is they're wild.

The stories are nuts.

Labia puffing is the latest

not safe for work

cosmetic trend.

I'm getting turned on just looking at myself olivia turn off your headphones it's the other kind of lip filler

women are getting their labia puffed a procedure that involves injecting dermal filler or

transferring fat into their labia majora to restore plumpness and that doctor's claim could

soon become a ubiquitous sorry and that doctor's claim could soon become as ubiquitous as

to be a household type of thing where we talk about it the way we talk about breast implants said urologist dr milhouse of course yeah labia this is zero percent chance that a pumped up labia becomes the norm that's nuts i'm sorry nuts i just have never reported back to my boys after hooking up with

someone being like dog her labia was on the chain it was it was poofy like her like like mean, her labia was on creatine. You know what I'm saying? Her labia got gains.
Like, what? That's strange. People got to stop injecting themselves with things as I talk about injecting myself with things.
But people need to stop injecting themselves with things. It's too much.
We don't know about these things. We know about trisepatide, okay? We know.
But we don't know. Honestly, don't inject anything near your privates.
That's not good. You don't want anything near there.
I agree and I know. Anyway, the sneaky way is social media has become the ultimate infidelity machine.
The so-called innocent red flags to watch for. I was halfway through my morning coffee when my phone buzzed with an Instagram DM.
Hey, what's up? Harmless enough, right? Except it was from a radio executive I knew by reputation but had never met. He was extremely successful and riding on the coattails of some big name shows he had been put in charge of.
Safe to say, I was very excited to hear from him. He wanted to take me to lunch to discuss a potential new show that I would headline.
I mean, is that, I feel like that's sort of like clearly you could read into that easy, a very sleazy inroad, right? Yeah. I told you about the time that my dad got a text that somebody wanted him to be a TV

chef.

It's like, obviously, dad, this is fake.

You have no, you have no tape online.

There's nothing there.

Like this person just, oh, and you have to wire me $1,500 now for us to get your tape

over to the person.

No, read the room, people read the room. I'm just imagining your father calling you and going, should we role play? Yeah.
Pick up your Samsung Galaxy, please. Oh, it's my dad.
Hello? Hello, Benjamin. Yes.
Benjamin. Yes.
Yes! I'm here! Benjamin, you can hear me? Yes! I've made it. You've pocket dialed me 19 times today.
Hollywood is called, and I will be having my own program. It's going to be a food program, and they're shooting at a new studio built in Nigeria.
You know this place, Nigeria? Dad, no. No.
It seems to be subsidized by the royal family of nigeria and uh they're calling me they're calling me the 70 something jewish bobby flay and they've also asked for my bank wiring because they want to give me an advance dad it's a scam benjamin we've made it big no one in nigeria wants to work with you don't give them anything i wanted to tell you that big news and another big news i'm ordering more chopped liver but i'm gonna need to have it door dashed can you help your father yes uber eats mom needs her daily totes i take creatine every morning my mom takes chopped

liver your mother your mother has been eating chopped liver at equinox and i'm worried we're gonna get kicked off our membership she eats chopped liver on the ellipticals i said ava this is my sugar with this chopped liver she She can't stop.

Oh, my God.

Okay, I have to go to work.

I'll call you back. All right.

Goodbye.

What a beauty.

Oh, God.

Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
Is he anything like that? No. No.
No. Good.
No. But that was gold.
Oh, my God. It's just like with my mom, though.
My mother doesn't sound like this, but she does to me. Yeah.
Yes. You know? Yes.
Yes. It's funny i thought your mom sounded like that we need i need to hear your mom's voice you need to hear my dad's voice should we get to a speak pipe yes if you want to leave us a message if you want to ask us a question if you want some advice go to speakpipe.com good guys keep it brief brevity is key don't give us your what are your nuts we don We don't care.
This first one's from, I don't know. Okay.
I have a situation. People give me a hard time for paying for other people in a grocery store that are in front of me or in back of me.
So I do it anyways, especially if I think they're struggling, but I also hand out money to the homeless. Well, people are telling me I need to stop paying for people in the grocery store and only give to the homeless but i think i should do both what do you guys think love the show by the way love this man me too that said it sounded a little uh you're bragging 100 it's like i keep throwing my back out because of my gigantic penis should i get back? I don't know what to do.
You know, I give so much and people are telling me I should only give here, but I want to give everywhere. Obviously, this is not a problem.
Like paying for the person in front of you's groceries is so awesome. And honestly, Josh, I'm going to adopt that practice.
That's a nice practice. You know, if you see someone that said it could get very awkward.
What if you try to pay for somebody's groceries, Josh? Okay. You think that they need you to, but they really don't.
Like if somebody tried to pay for my groceries, I would be incredibly offended because I don't need you to pay for my groceries. This is a slippery slope.
You have to be very careful, very careful. That said, it's really nice if you pick somebody that actually needs it.
And yeah, give to the homeless. It's nice.
But also be careful. Make sure that, I don't know, I prefer to get food.
I agree. And I think my only two aversions ever to give me money is recently I was going to give money to someone I thought was homeless, but they were on a laptop.
And I just, that was hard. That one was hard.
And they had Starlink. And so I was like, maybe I'll give it to the next person.
And then the other one, if you have on nicer shoes than me, it's hard for me to be like, here's a couple of dollars. Other than that, I try to give as much and as frequently as I can.
And I don't to overthink it it's just like if someone is in the position to beg like you it will be a net positive like if you give it to 10 people like of that maybe two of them are have some you know nefarious interests but like for the most part you're helping someone get a bite to eat or so what if they're getting a beer like let them have a nice time they're having a hard enough go at it agreed you know aligned yes totally can't ever give too much yes give till it hurts they say give till it hurts sure next one from anonymous hey josh and ben quick gym etiquette question so this morning i was at the gym doing my doing my thing it's in between like 6 30 and 7 AM. And I have like a couple of weights around me, like maybe like two tens, two fifteens, nothing crazy.
And there's a deadlift area next to me. And there's a guy over there kind of doing his thing, whatever.
And he comes over to me and he says, Hey, like, I'm not telling you to move. I'm not trying to get you in my video, but I am going to record myself in a second.
And like, I would probably be in the background. So I was like, okay, thanks like for the heads up.
But what do you think is the etiquette there? Like, I definitely think it was nice that he told me, but like, I had like a good spot where like I was kind of like near everything that I needed. I ended up moving anyways, because I was done.
But like, I just have been thinking about it all day. Like, what's the etiquette there? The etiquette, I would say, is that you don't film.
One, you don't film other people, but you certainly don't inconvenience other people while you're filming. You wait until, if this guy should go, I guess she was there at 6.30 in the morning, Josh.
He probably tried to go when it would be empty. But I guess this guy really has got to go much earlier.
You got to belong to 24-hour fitness. Go at four in the morning josh he probably tried to go when it would be empty but i guess this guy really has got to go much earlier you got to belong to 24 hour fitness go at four in the morning that's right be there and film yourself film when nobody's there you can't just film when people are there that's not right i agree 6 30 is actually probably one of the busiest times for gyms because it's when people go before work like yeah i think the hot zones are like six to 8 30 and probably from four to seven yeah when people are getting off off of work but uh yeah i it's funny i saw i saw someone filming at the gym today and i don't want to knock someone's hustle and if i always appreciate it when gyms are like cut that out don't film here especially some gyms in LA have to because there's so many fitness creators where they're like dude like at this point like there's very there's no way to be keeping everyone's face out of this thing but if you're gonna go then it's incumbent on you to do it at off times like figure it out either go like at two one or two it's gonna be empty or go late at night or super early in the morning.

And it's better that way. Then you don't have to worry about like a bunch of people,

you know, messing up your shot. And yeah.
Gym etiquette.

Gym etiquette. That's it.
That's it. Just care about the people around you.

Give a shit. Okay.
Give a shit. Yeah.
Try that. Why don't you? Next one from Michelle.

Hey, good guys. Big fan.
My question for you is, can I call myself a Jew? My father is Jewish, but my mother is not. I know there's a big debate about patrilineal Jews.
What are your thoughts? Patrilineal. I don't know what that word means, but I'm going to return.
Okay, cool. So yes, technically you're not Jewish.
That said, I want you. We want you.
You're here. So no, no issues calling yourself Jewish.
I would say though, that if you plan on dating Jews, it's important that you think about truly converting because then you're actually Jewish. I would say that it's more important to you.
If it's important to your husband, let's let's start there. If it's important to the person that the Jew that you plan on marrying, then you should probably convert.
But there are probably plenty of Jews that don't care at all. And my second question would be, are you planning on marrying somebody Jewish? Because if you're not, then you can call yourself Jewish all you want.
And it doesn't matter. It's more about the person that you're marrying.
But in terms of you're Jewish, if you feel Jewish, your dad's Jewish, you're Jewish, Josh. But would you say that what if their father is Jewish, but they're raised Jewish? They don't have to convert then.
It depends on who they marry. It depends on what their spouse wants.
To me, if they were raised Jewish, the chances that the mother didn't convert to Judaism are so slim. And if she converted, then the daughter is Jewish, you know? So this is a very rare case where if she was raised Jewish, but just the dad is Jewish, it's rare.
But to me, I'm no one to judge. She's Jewish.
And I think that it's up to the person that she meets if they feel that she's Jewish enough for them. Right.
But I guess I'm not understanding, like unless you're ultra orthodox, if someone is where maybe the mother isn't Jewish, but she isn't really dead set on doesn't have religion or isn't really interested, like likes the idea of raising them Jewish and they observe the holidays and they have a bat mitzvah and the whole thing. And the father's Jewish.
To me, the idea of saying to them, you have to convert now, she'd be like, what are you talking about? I was raised Jewish. I'm half Jewish.
What's there to convert? So it's not an ultra religious thing, even the reform. Any Jew will say it goes by the mother.
It just does. But what is there to convert? Like go through conversion therapy? No, you have.
Well, no. What? Definitely not conversion therapy.
But you go through regular conversion where if the mother was Christian, technically you're Christian. That's just how it works across the whole religion.
But that only matters if the person you're marrying cares. So if they don't care, then it's moot and you're Jewish, you know? I just can't imagine reform.
I can understand if you're very religious, but I can't imagine a reformed person who is going to like some wonderful reconstructionist synagogue with a female rabbi and every now and then has a pork chop would say yeah but that is such a double standard agreed but they care through the mother it's just it is but so because it's so rare josh the what we're talking about here i don't even i can't even imagine that it exists oh it does i think you live in a very secular or not a secular very specific jewish world you think so i think so because i'm really okay if my kids if anyone told my kids they're not jewish i'd be like but tell them fuck out of here of course but nobody would tell your kids that they're not jewish because they are jewish and what i'm saying that once they go to get married, if they choose to marry somebody who's Jewish, then it will be up to them to decide if there's something more that they need to do or not. But until they meet that person, until they're whatever age, it's all about it's in the end of the day, it's all about marriage.
And then it's all about marriage and then it's all about kids until then in my

opinion it's moot but i guess what i'm saying is if they met a reformed jewish girl from like the city from new york or from la i in my circles even if they were raised by two jewish parents and had all the jewish customs if they were like if my sons were like we've done shabbat a bunch of times uncle Ben didn't, didn't Aliyah at my bar mitzvah. Yeah.
We, you know, my dad's Jewish. My name is shy.
You know, I don't think there's a world that a girl that they met in high school or in college or whoever, who was like very reformed Jewish would ask them to convert. I think like maybe their parents would, the parents of the girl, there's a world.
And to which I would expect both of them to tell those parents to go fuck. Yeah.
The truth is in that specific scenario, I don't think that there's a world in which anybody would ever think that they weren't Jewish. You know what I'm saying? Well, but that's kind of what you're saying is, is like, yes, but if we're going to do it by the book, but I can't imagine any reformed person caring.
Yeah, it totally depends. It totally depends.
Like it's just, it's a, it's a case by case, but in my experience, regardless of reform, anything, it, it typically goes through the mother. It's just the way that I've understood it.
But again, it doesn't matter until you get married and whoever you're with, do they care or do they not care? And if they do care, what I will say is that conversion, especially to reform Judaism, is not the same process of converting to Orthodox Judaism. and in that case, it really doesn't matter.
So honestly, coming full circle, it probably doesn't matter. It probably doesn't.
I agree. And I hear what you're saying, though.
And your boys are Jewish. I didn't realize in the middle of it.
Now I understand where we're coming from. But by the by the book, it's it's a different story.
But your boys are absolutely Jewish. What are you nuts? Yeah, what are you nuts? Let's do this.
Okay, first, Josh, it's a two-part what are you nuts. I took the train here.
The train in New York City is just what are you nuts in general. Like, I'm just, I'm looking around me.
I'm like, I'm going to get stabbed. All the cops, all the cops are on it now, no? I know.
I know. I don't even feel better about it.
It's like, I shouldn't be somewhere that cops are like,

you don't want to be around a crime scene. I don't want it.
It's just too much. That said,

I'm sitting on the train, Josh, coming to this lovely podcast studio. And I look across from me

and there's a girl there with literally an enormous Chanel bag, enormous. Like this is like a,

probably a nine, $10,000 is a big bag. And I see, she like looks uncomfortable.
She's like,

Thank you. an enormous Chanel bag.
Enormous. Like this is like a, probably a nine, $10,000.
This is a big bag. And I see she like looks uncomfortable.
She's like trying to like hide the Chanel logo. She's looking down.
What are you nuts? What are you nuts? Who brings a, who brings a $9,000 Chanel bag onto a subway? Like there are things, I get it. I'm nervous.
I don't wear a watch. I'm wearing nothing.
I'm just myself. I'm on the train.
I don't feel good. I don't feel safe because it's just, you know, bringing your almost $10,000 Chanel bag on the train, you're gonna make yourself sick.
Leave it at home. Who are you trying to impress? Take a cab.
Sit in traffic if you want to wear that bag. But if you're going to take the subway, no $10,000 bag.
What are you nuts? you nuts love it i agree my what are you nuts is the other day i was a friend of mine posted a photo of his beautiful kids we're not really friends and a guy i know and adorable these children were adorable five and three years old gorgeous and i'm looking you know at him and i'm like oh good for him he's beautiful family this little five-year-old such a sweetie and then i make it to the three-year-old and i notice a passy in his mouth the child is three what are you nuts i've definitely said this before but my grandfather isador who then decided to go by william breastfed until he was seven i I had an Izzy. You did? Isidore William, breastfed until he was seven.
So to each their own, Josh, to each their own. Folks, what are you nuts if you don't give this episode five stars? This has been unbelievable.
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