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Good morning, Millennials.

Welcome back to the toast.

Happy Monday.

Hope everyone's having a great day thus far.

I am because I'm sitting down with my one true love.

I just made that up.

Hey, Ben, how you dare?

That's not a song.

That's not a song.

That was fantastic.

Because you are my one true love.

I'm doing excellent.

Happy Monday to you all.

May this week be blessed.

May this week be blessed.

You're looking sharp, bro.

Collared shirt.

Dressing up for the toast, or you have important businessman tings after this.

I have some important stuff today, but really, this outfit was, of course, for the toast.

Right.

It's a very special, you know, podcast that you're on.

It is.

I just want to share that I know that everybody's going to get angry for my shoe because the last time I was on, everybody was upset at my shoe.

And I just want you all to know that I need to cross my legs.

If you were in this studio, you'd understand that it was built for the seven dwarves.

And I'm not one of them.

And these things are really low.

And if I go like this, it hurts my back.

So I need to have this elevated.

No one was going to say anything.

Was Snow White.

I won't say it, actually.

What?

I was going to ask if she used this studio before.

You guys moved in, But I didn't deliver it in time.

No, you didn't.

I didn't.

I didn't.

Thanks for being here, Ben.

Thank you, darling.

We had a lovely weekend that I would love to share.

It started out for me kind of like on a low because I got stuck in an elevator on Friday, no?

Oh, yes.

Do tell.

Well, I really honestly don't want to relive the trauma, but let me just say this.

I was stuck in an elevator for about 25 minutes.

I was stuck with Theo.

And a lot of people were like, well, at least you had Theo.

And to be honest, being in there with Theo made me very anxious.

What is the airflow situation in an elevator?

The second I realized that I was stuck, I started to get hot.

I'm like, oh my God,

I felt like I was in a hot car.

But I don't know if that was just plussee, but like my mind playing tricks on me or if it was actually hot.

Cause then I was just getting worried about Thea, who's standing there in a fur coat, worried that he's getting hot.

Then the person who was helping me was like, you should sit down.

It's going to be a while.

And I was like, fuck me.

And I had limited phone battery, which is so not like me, but it was the end of the day.

I hadn't been home yet.

You know, it was a busy day.

And we were stuck there for about 25 minutes.

I was wanting to like make content and stuff.

I thought, you know, if I'm going to get stuck in this elevator, I might as well go viral on TikTok.

But I had no phone battery.

So I was trying to really conserve.

What if I needed to call the fire department?

You know?

So all in all, 25 minutes being stuck in an elevator, it could have been way worse.

It could have been like three hours.

But I haven't been stuck in an elevator in maybe since high school.

I was stuck in an elevator.

Remember, like five months ago with Theo for what, probably an hour?

No.

Mine wasn't 25 minutes.

No, it wasn't an hour, but it was more than 25 minutes.

Yeah, it's terrible.

It's so scary.

I mean, I was stuck on the ground floor.

So if the elevator, you know, everyone's worse than nightmares, the elevator just drops and starts free-falling.

I really wouldn't, I wouldn't have died.

I would have just went down one floor.

But when you were stuck in the elevator, what floor were you on?

15.

They do claim, though, that that is a complete myth.

That you can just fall and drop to your death.

I feel like I've heard stories.

I mean, everyone in New York remembers that story.

It's possible, though, that the myth.

25th and 3rd, that woman was literally walking out of the elevator and the elevator dropped and she got sliced in half hmm i oh i think about that every time i walk out of an elevator hmm so i don't think it's a myth because it happened not to scare everyone i read afterwards because i did a lot of research right that it's not possible and i'm just gonna stick with the fact that it's not possible sure and maybe that elevator was like from a different age of elevators you know maybe I don't know.

Now, I really do understand why there are people who have like phobias of elevators who will literally walk 50 floors before they get into an elevator.

But the thing is for me, like I understand the fear, but I could never take the stairs.

So it's not going to be a phobia for me.

I'm scared of stairs.

Have you heard of that?

Do you know where that Shabbos elevator is, the one that I'm talking about that never stops?

Yes, okay, let's get into that.

So for those who are maybe confused, a Shabbos elevator is an elevator.

So basically on, you know, the Jewish Sabbath, if you're of a certain level of religion, you can use it.

Incredibly religious.

You can't use electronics and

you can't use an elevator because it's electric and it's a machine and it has like a whole thing.

It's electric.

But there is one elevator in the world that on Shabbos doesn't stop.

It rolls very slowly with the doors open down every floor so that when you get to your floor, you can just like kind of hop off.

It's insane.

I mean, it's actually like not that scary.

It's not going fast.

I've seen video.

It's not going that slow.

Yeah.

Where is it?

I don't know.

It's like this world-famous Shabbos elevator.

Yeah, I don't know.

Prague?

It's somewhere international for sure.

Oh, that for sure.

But I think it's in Prague.

Yeah.

Because when the elevator stops, that's what makes it like

not Chabos approved, you know?

Oh, it can't stop.

Right.

So dumb.

No, that's why, like,

I seriously, like, we'll never be able to be that religious.

Come on.

That's crazy.

Come on.

So my weekend was not off to a great start with the elevator saga, but you were in Boston.

I was.

I went to see the Bosteans, and and they showed up showed out everybody was amazing did you get out of the car and say i think i'll go to boston

no i actually got out of the car and said what the fuck i was in five and a half hours of traffic and i should have flown boston is like low-key so far boston is so difficult to get to because you're filled with regret no matter either way what you choose no i think a safe bet and i told you this is always the train yeah but then you're sitting on a train it's a nice it's an am track they got the snack cart you you know.

I just don't find trains glamorous.

But you love to just like sit and roll calls and like pop off emails.

And like, that's what you do on a train.

They have really decent Wi-Fi.

Yeah, everybody says that until you don't have it.

You just like, you're an anti-train, and I think you're wrong.

You literally have never taken a train.

You're sitting here saying, I'm anti-train.

The last time I went to Boston, we took the Acela.

You did?

You were with me.

No, I wasn't.

For my show.

Yeah, I was, I didn't take the train.

Oh, no, for the last time I went to Boston was for that meet and greet and we drove.

But we took the train.

Remember, I woke you up at six in the morning because I couldn't sleep, and I'm like, let's just go home and we got on the train.

Yes.

See?

It was nice.

No, I don't remember it being nice.

Trains always run on time.

I don't remember it being nice.

I just feel like you're being negative.

I also, I have one bone to pick.

It's not with anybody in Boston, it's more with the people that have rest stops in Boston.

Nothing's open after 10 p.m.

Like the highway rest stops?

I went from, and honestly, it was three states.

I went from Massachusetts to Rhode Island to Connecticut.

I couldn't find one.

I was just looking for a sub.

Rhode Island?

I feel like that's not on the way.

No, I think you're not.

You were in Rhode Island?

I think so.

No, I feel like that's definitely wrong.

But what do I know?

What do I know?

Honestly, I know less about geography than you.

Interesting calling out.

I just feel like Rhode Island is not near.

Should I start calling you out?

No, no, no.

I'm just pondering

geography.

Interesting.

Just pondering geography.

You know, when you were stuck in the elevator telling that story, you called yourself Alicia.

I didn't stop you.

What?

You'll see.

Wait, on the toast?

Yep.

On this episode, I called myself Alicia.

Wait, what are you talking?

Wait, what are you talking about?

You'll see?

What was I saying?

You were saying that people were saying that Alicia and Theo were stuck in the elevator.

No, okay.

At least you'll see.

No, I didn't call myself Alicia.

You sure?

I'm positive.

I was like,

you should have called me out because

I would have called you back out for this hearing.

I didn't want to.

I didn't know that we're in a world of calling people out.

We're not in a world of calling people out, but we hold each other accountable here on the toast.

So you're telling me I didn't go through Rhode Island?

No, I'm saying I don't know.

Rhode Island is south of Massachusetts, is it not?

I feel like it's north.

No, that I know for sure.

I know for sure that it's south.

For sure.

Massachusetts, Rhode Island, regardless of if I was in three states or two.

I feel like you would have had to go through like New Jersey, Delaware.

No.

I was at a minimum in Massachusetts and Connecticut.

Okay.

And I can say that there is not one open subway.

Terrible.

Jersey Mike's.

Terrible.

Jimmy John's.

Anything.

If you're looking for a late-night sub after a long day, you can't get it.

No, that's criminal.

You can't get it.

That's reason enough to never go to Boston.

So then I had to go to freaking McDonald's, which I got to tell you.

I love McDonald's.

No, it just doesn't make me feel good.

Oh, your belly?

It hurts.

Yeah.

What'd you have?

I don't even remember.

What'd you have?

I don't even remember.

Ben, you remember.

I don't I remember.

And you don't want to tell me.

I don't even remember.

Ben!

I know that you know.

I don't remember.

No, this is a grimy, gross.

It's fine.

I didn't have anything to do with it.

I won't be.

I won't.

Ben.

Okay, Ben is...

Tell me, and then we'll tell everyone why.

No.

No.

It was just, it was gross.

What did you eat?

Chicken nuggets or a chicken sandwich?

I had this chicken sandwich.

It was disgusting.

So Ben doesn't eat out kosher meat.

No, sorry, doesn't eat non-ben tries not to eat non-kosher meat.

I struggle.

Everyone knows.

But sometimes you come to a-

But sometimes you come to a grocery store.

No, you're too judgmental.

No, I'm too joking.

You have a literary complex where you're like, you're judging me.

I'm like, no, I'm not.

You are.

I would have understood late-night, long-day McDonald's.

Who understands better than me?

No, but and I didn't even want it.

Like, I'm here eating it.

I'm looking on the menu.

There's no McPlant, which, by the way, McPlants might as well be McCancers.

And like, honestly, I don't subscribe to it.

I agree.

They also don't have filet of fishes, which, by the way, that can't be sustainable fishing.

I don't think that God wanted me to eat this unsustainably caught fillet of fish.

100%.

He'd rather the chicken that...

God knows what that is.

It's not even chicken.

That can't be chicken.

Honestly, down with McDonald's.

Ben, you can tell me anything.

Okay, thanks.

I can't believe I just caught you in that.

You didn't really catch me.

It was more of like a cat and mouse game.

I think I really caught you.

I think it was more of a cat and mouse.

Well, in a cat and a mouse, the mouse gets caught, which is what I did to you.

It was more of like a, what's that like.

Is that cat and mouse?

What?

I don't know, where like each one knows, but they're just like playing the game.

I don't know.

You know what I'm saying?

It might be be cat and mouse i think it's a cat and mouse um okay so how was the boston meeting greeting unbelievable unbelievable probably like 150 showed up we were at the urban grape lovely lovely liquor store Pictures.

Honestly, this one was really fun.

Like we had like long conversations, got to know everyone.

It was like a real Spritz Society tasting, and it was really, really fun.

Good.

Then I drove back, wanted to kill myself, got back at two in the morning.

I'm right.

You keep saying that.

I was literally awake.

You got back at 1.05.

Okay, I got back at 1.30.

No, no.

It's still late.

It's 1.05, but like, no need to make it more dramatic.

No, no, it was.

No, it's late, and you worked hard.

It was not 1.05.

It wasn't.

It was.

I mean, I was up reading my book for Book Club, which was so bad.

Maybe it was 1.20.

No.

I know because I dropped Robert at 1.07.

No, you didn't.

And he's on 78th and Lex.

You didn't.

I was literally up.

I was tracking you to find my iPhone.

I was so tired waiting for you.

But whatever.

That was such a pain in the ass.

No, no.

I mean.

I'm telling you, that's when I got home.

you're gonna say like i keep calling you out but maybe if you stop lying no no that's when i got home sure we wake up saturday

we hung out with the kids olivia's in town we saw kayla oh true kayla cookies true and levi was such a nice day he fell asleep on uncle's nipple yeah it was so cute

and then we hit the club saturday night i got a massage in between oh you did that's so bad and i finished my book for book club which really plagued me this week if you ever come across a book called before You Knew My Name by Jacqueline Lublitz, just run as far as you can.

Like, I cannot stress how, this is probably one of the worst books I've read in my career as a reader.

It was so bad.

What's her last name?

Jaclyn Lublitz.

Lublitz?

She sounds Jewish.

But then we went to the Knicks game yesterday.

We did.

And can you explain to everyone the significance of what's going on with the Knicks in the NBA?

Because it's crazy, right?

It's just crazy because the Knicks are so bad.

And this year they're so good.

And the team is like we got a real shot.

We got a real shot.

And it's not like you guys have any like starts.

It's not like LeBron's on the team, you know?

It's just like some good peeps.

No, we signed this guy named Jalen Brunson and he has brought the house.

Is that what it is?

No, it's brought the house down.

Brought the fire.

Yeah.

And the garden was just...

Electric.

They gave everyone light-up bracelets.

It was giving Taylor Swift Eristor energy, honestly.

And every time something good happened, all the lights went off.

It was pretty sick.

It was unbelievable.

By the way, probably very distracting if you're playing.

For sure.

Having those lights.

For sure.

But the Knicks are now up 3-1.

In the series.

Yep.

It's best of seven, which means that you need to win four to advance.

And this man over here, courtesy of Michael Cohen, Harper and Scott, shout out, will be in Cleveland Wednesday night for the clincher.

For the clincher.

Okay, like if you go and they lose, it's like so your fault.

Yeah, but then I'll be here for game six, Friday night.

If that happens, but I'm just saying, watch the game on Wednesday.

I'll be behind the Knicks bench so people can like take pictures of you.

Yeah, yeah.

And if they make it to the next round of the playoffs, when was the last time the Knicks made it past the first round of the playoffs?

A really, really long time.

I think it was Carmelo Anthony.

And you have been a Knicks fan like your whole life and they've really always been just like a really terrible team.

How does it feel?

Do you feel different?

That they're good?

They're decent.

No, because they're still not like

great.

No, but it's still exciting.

No, it is exciting, but it would be nice if, I don't know, maybe this team is good enough.

We'll see.

Yeah.

We'll see.

Have faith.

Because it's really by committee, which is

just exciting.

It's not all on,

I guess it really is.

A lot of it's on Jalen Brunson.

Yeah.

A lot of it, but.

He scored all the points.

He did.

He did.

Julius Randle didn't play even a minute in the fourth.

Your guy.

Yeah.

Do they know that story?

Yeah, I told the story when I literally made up that I knew Julius Randle just because I felt like lying about something.

Yeah, it's funny that you call me a liar.

At least I own that I'm a liar.

Afterwards.

No, no.

Yeah, because it's called a prank.

Like, get with the program?

It's called a prank, Ben.

It's called a prank.

And then yesterday we watched literally the greatest show of all time.

We did.

Ted Lasso, like, should win.

I get that it wins awards, but like, give it a better award.

It should win a Petersburg awards.

What awards does it win?

They win, like, Emmys and stuff like that.

Nobody gives a shit about the Emmys.

They need to win a Nobel Peace Prize.

They do.

It's the best show.

The writing, the characters, the storylines, the...

Everything.

It's amazing.

They somehow deal with mental health and soccer all at once.

It's also criminal that they're dropping episodes like one at a time.

It's so fucking annoying.

We waited as long as we could.

And then this weekend we binged all seven and it wasn't enough.

No, it wasn't enough.

It's so annoying.

Like just drop the fucking season.

But I just want to say one thing I'm not here for, a spoiler alert if you haven't seen this season yet.

I'm so not here for Keele moving on.

Like we need her and Roy to get back together.

Yeah, yeah, true.

Like, what's going on?

Roy can, Roy can, Roy can't, Roy can,

Roy Roy can,

Roy can't.

Trent, Trent, Trent Krim, Trent Krim, Trent Kirim.

But try saying Trent Krim.

Trent Krim, Trent Krim.

Trent Krim.

The Independent.

The Independent.

Fantastic.

Ben is obsessed.

Who wouldn't be?

His hair is just like my dad's.

No, it is.

And it's kind of cool.

That's why the writing is so good.

It's like he's a beloved character.

And his character's arc, you know, working for the Independent really would have written him out of the show, but they brought him back.

So cool.

Like, they listen to the fans.

They're like, they love Trent Krim.

And I actually have a story today that's kind of like a real life Ted Lasso story coming true.

Tell me.

I will.

It's about Ryan Reynolds.

Okay.

I know you know.

It's been an hour.

Well, I guess we could, yeah, we could dive in.

We've daily tallied long enough.

Okay, cool.

So you want to do it?

Yeah.

No, you can do it.

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Inside Sophia Ritchie and Elliot Grange's lavish wedding in France.

So Sophia Ritchie's loved ones are still raving over her lavish wedding weekend in France this weekend.

The stylish socialite 24 tied the knot to Elliott Grange in France on Saturday, with her older sister, Nicole Ritchie,

taking to Instagram one day later to gush over the newlywed.

So we have gotten like a lot of content over the course of the weekend, but in terms of the actual wedding, we haven't seen much yet.

Nicole Ritchie posted a photo.

We had seen this like vogue thing about her dress.

Chanel made her dress.

There were a bunch of stars there.

Paris Hilton, of course, her sister, Nicole Ritchie, Cameron Diaz, you know, Benji and Joel Madden.

Do you know them?

Yes.

So Nicole Ritchie is married.

to Benji Madden or Joel.

I can't remember which one.

And then Cameron Diaz is married to the other brother.

So it's kind of like a rocker affair.

Do you think they, what band are they, Benji and Joel?

Simple plan?

Yes.

No, no, no.

Not simple plan.

What band are they?

Oh, God, I'm being exposed.

Oh, you're not a real fan?

No, I don't even remember.

Okay, hold on.

Let me just Google it really quick.

Like, you don't know.

Benji.

What?

I think it's.

No, it's just Morning Brain.

It's.

Good Charlotte.

Thank you.

Oh, I don't think I knew that.

I did.

I did.

Okay.

I did.

Do you think there was a good Charlotte performance at the wedding?

That's pretty sick.

I mean, I hope there was a Lionel Ritchie performance.

That's what I was asking.

First, do you think he's a marriage?

Who needs good Charlotte when you have...

Hello?

Is it me?

Well, he did walk her down the aisle.

We have a picture of her.

Singing.

Can you imagine?

He doesn't appear to have a microphone in his hand, and I do feel like that would take away from like, you know.

Oh my god, what a dream.

Imagine he's holding your hand, walking down the aisle with a mic, singing, hello, is it me you're looking for?

I can see it in your eyes.

I can see it in your smile.

That's your favorite song.

It's gorgeous.

I told you that the music video is about a blind girl.

Yes, you did.

It's hello, is it me you're looking for?

And she's like, I can't see you.

No, that's really not cool.

Well, in terms of music obviously uh

lionel ritchie benji and joel madden but also so why elliot grange like got sophia richie is he's very much like a nepo baby his dad is the chairman of universal music group the chairman of the board cool so they have a lot of connects you know yeah who do you think pays for the wedding when two people are so rich it's like lionel for sure lionel's like a stand-up traditional i mean lionel just whips out the checkbook and says hello

okay so everyone thinks you look like elliott grange and you you're not happy about it it's not that I'm not happy about it there's nothing wrong I don't want to go on the record saying like I do see it and I think he's I think Elliot Grange is extremely handsome there's nothing wrong with it looks like a nice guy

handsome guy

saying the two people that have the same glasses look like each other is just not a good comparison yeah people look like each other when you take off their glasses, right?

And you actually look at their face.

Yeah.

Right?

Yeah.

Not just, oh, somebody else has rounded frames.

Right.

They look like each other.

Well, interesting to note that he did wear his glasses on his wedding day.

Did you?

I feel like you took your glasses off.

I think I did.

I think I did.

But I think you wore them the rest of the night.

I'm not sure.

I remember in like some pictures.

I know that I wore them.

Yes, I remember some pictures having them.

Yeah.

Well, also, he's Jewish and she converted.

And they had like a Jewish wedding.

He's wearing a yarmulke.

Look, she's doing the wine thing.

They have a rabbi.

It's nice.

Wow.

Love it.

People are obsessed with this wedding.

Like, people who didn't really think of Sophia Ritchie a lot.

This wedding has really turned her into like a much bigger star because I think people are really impressed that she's just so classy.

Everything she's doing is so elegant.

South of France, Chanel, aut couture, three looks from Chanel.

The style, the grace, the elegance.

And she was sharing the whole thing on social media, which was really fun until the actual wedding.

Like, we've gotten nothing.

I'm sure she has a Vogue wedding exclusive, which is why we don't have any photos yet.

And that's why I'm I'm sure Vogue weddings will post it probably today.

But like, let's go.

Like, I need to see pics.

Like, what happened inside?

It's just like so cool that Elliot gets to have Lionel Ritchie as a father-in-law.

You're just obsessed with Lionel Richie.

I'm obsessed.

I've been obsessed for a very long time.

You have.

I love Lionel.

Could you name one other song besides Hello?

No.

So you're not like that big of a fan.

No, but like that song has a special place in my heart.

It's so good.

Okay, well, I will just continue to eat up every piece of information that is being brought to us out about this wedding.

Like,

I'm obsessed.

Like, I just started, I feel like I would love to know how many followers Sophia Ritchie got on Instagram this weekend because everyone was following her wedding.

And she just joined TikTok

the weekend of her wedding to, you know, make some content.

Let's see how many followers she has.

How many do you think she has?

Everyone's talking about this wedding.

And while you do that, I feel bad that I don't know more of Lionel's catalog.

And I just want to make sure that she has half a million followers.

She has half a million followers?

On TikTok.

She just joined TikTok, which is pretty impressive.

I'll tell you more Lionel's songs, ready?

Okay, cool.

Yeah.

Lionel Ritchie.

So, of course.

Oh, all night long.

Oh, I knew I missed something.

All night long.

My endless love.

You know that one?

Maybe.

Stuck on you.

I don't know that one.

Do you?

No.

But I probably do.

He's really, he's a groovy guy.

He's unbelievable.

He's transcended, you know, many different

generations, and he's kind of a legend.

Legend.

Legend.

Hello.

I literally knew you were going to say that.

So again, I hope we get more content on this wedding.

More Lionel, sure.

Did we get any Lionel?

There is, you know, the paparazzi, they were vultures circling the Hotel du Cap-Iden Roque.

And there are paparazzi pictures of them leaving.

Yeah, he walks her down the aisle.

There's

paparazzi picture of her and Elliot kissing.

I think they were posing for some photos.

And then paparazzi pictures of Cameron Diaz arriving,

Paris Hilton arriving.

But there really isn't, we didn't get any actual wedding photos.

Well, I wish them well.

I wish them well too.

And I just, I need more content.

Okay, our next story, I wanted, I know you don't know about it, and I didn't want you to read up on it because I wanted to get your reaction.

It is the cutest story, and it's a real-life Ted Lasso come to life.

So Ryan Reynolds and his business partner, Rob McElenny,

McEleny,

their soccer team has been promoted to the English Football League.

Wow.

So Ryan Reynolds and Rob scored a huge goal over the weekend when their Welsh soccer team secured a promotion to the English Football League.

So the move occurred Saturday when the Hollywood Duos Wrexham Association Football Club moved up to the English Football League for the first time in more than a decade.

So basically, Ryan Reynolds and this guy, Rob, bought this Welsh soccer team.

It really is giving like AFC Richmond vibes from Ted Lasso.

They weren't very good and they kind of gave them the Hollywood treatment.

They They did a documentary on them.

It was on FX that was really popular.

They made like social accounts.

They were like going viral on TikTok.

And

I think they also like put money into the team and got good players and whatever.

And over the weekend, they won a game that officially secured them up into the next league.

Like they got promoted.

And oh my God, the people in Wells, Wales, oh my God, that was so embarrassing.

The people in Wales stormed the field.

They were crying.

People have loved this team.

It's been like their local team and they've never made it.

And Ryan Reynolds and his friend Rob got him there.

And Ryan Reynolds took to Instagram to say, everything I own smells like champagne, beer, and grass.

I'm still somewhere between giggling and sobbing.

This town and this sport is one of the most romantic things on earth.

Thank you at Wrexham AFC.

And it's just like very exciting.

And it's a real, it feels like Ted Lasso.

Everything Ryan Reynolds touches turns to gold.

That mobile company,

Mint Mobile, just sold for a billion dollars.

1.4.

Crazy.

Well, so prior to their promotion this weekend, the club was fifth in the English football division, and Wrexham has been relegated outside of the top four leagues since 2008 after 87 straight years of competing in the football league.

It's kind of cool, and I've never really thought about it until they started talking about it on TED Lasso, and now you brought it up.

The idea that in soccer, you can like not stay in the NBA.

Right.

Like if you're bad enough, go to the G League, the whole team.

Well, that, yeah, right.

That happens in the States, like with players.

Like you can get promoted, you You can get demoted to the D-League if you're stinking it up.

You go back to the minors.

I like you said the States.

The States.

Yeah, and I didn't know that was a thing until I started watching Ted Lasso that, like, the team has to be good enough to stay in the league.

And, you know, they probably blitz a fire under everyone's ass.

It's much cooler that it's the whole team.

Yeah.

Because sometimes you, like, send individual players down because they stink, but really, team sport.

Team sports.

Not just that team.

Yeah, if a team.

Team member.

A team wins, the whole team wins.

If a team fails, the whole team fails.

Exactly.

Yeah.

Pretty cool.

It's It's pretty cool.

And by the way, I guess I didn't even realize, like, Ryan Reynolds, like, really is killing it, not even as an actor.

Killing it everywhere.

Yeah.

Aviation Gin.

Oh, Aviation Gin, yes.

Min Mobile.

Min Mobile, the soccer team.

Soccer team.

He's always in a commercial or something.

Blake Lively's Betty Buzz.

Yeah, I don't think that's like a huge

thing for them.

They started, she started a, what is it?

It's like a mixer, right?

A cocktail mixer.

It's cool.

It's like a competition to tree it's a mixer what's that it the most popular like gin and tonic like got it uh seltzer schweppes yeah but it's different yeah it's not actually that different it's not that different but like these are they're like creative whatever i'm just saying i don't think that's like on the level of all the other projects that they do but yes just killing it that's all killing it how much money do you think he has a lot a lot And he's also an actor and he does like Deadpool and, you know, all those things.

Yeah,

he is a lot.

That's so crazy.

He's also, I found out recently that he owns his own production company.

Yeah.

Because those commercials are amazing.

Which commercials?

All of them for Aviation Gin, for Mit Mobile.

He just has this shtick that's actually very Ted Lasso-y, even in the shtick.

Well, that's also like when you get to a certain level of celebrity, like every project you do, all the companies that you use for that project, like production company, you then just own.

Yeah.

Like I remember from when I watched Kevin Hart's documentary, a lot of the movies he makes are produced and I like conceptualized by his own production and like creative house or whatever.

Yeah, well, really smart.

Killing it.

Killing it.

That's a cool story.

Which, the soccer thing, right?

Yeah.

I know it's like giving Ted Lasso and honestly, like the video of like everyone storming the field.

Like, you know, it could bring a tear to the eye.

Bring a tear.

Shed a tear.

So congrats, Ryan and Rob.

Moving on to our next story.

Going from some celebratory news, you know, good news for the Welsh, some bad news for anyone who loves a good bed, Bath, and Beyond.

Bed, Bath, and Beyond has filed for bankruptcy after failed turnaround

efforts.

So on Sunday, Bed Beth Meyond filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after it failed in several last-ditch efforts to raise enough money to keep the company alive.

The beleagued

home goods retailer has been warning of a potential bankruptcy since early January when it issued a going concern notice that it may not have the cash to cover expenses after a dismal holiday season.

So shares of the company closed at 29 29 cents on Friday, giving it a market value of $130 million.

The stock is down about 88% since last year, and last April it was trading around $20 a share, so now it's 29 cents.

That's really abysmal.

The company's namesake stores and 120 bye-bye baby locations will remain open for the time being as it begins to close the business and liquidate assets.

It has filed motions in New Jersey bankruptcy court asking permission to auction the two brands.

The company said in a release, it has already committed to closing all of the Harmon face value stores.

Man.

I just think somebody will buy it.

This is devastating because I don't know what the relationship is like for people who don't live in New York to Bed Bath and Beyond, but for New Yorkers, like Bed Bath and Beyond is a huge,

huge thing for us.

Was.

I don't know the last time you were in a Bed Bath and Beyond, but this

attempt to fix it completely ruined the stores.

What do you mean?

Bed Bath and Beyond, if you've been in recently, like turned into this like attempt to like, I won't say that it was bougie, but like everything in there was expensive.

It was like so.

They're really like a Walmart competitor.

They lost their way.

What is it?

They lost their brand.

I mean, I don't know what this means for Lori Greinier.

Yeah, I don't know.

That's like her thing on Shark Tank.

It's like, I can get you in to Bed Bath and Beyond.

I do think that after you said that their stock is 29 cents and their value is 130 million, somebody should buy that and just turn around those stores.

The thing is with Betham Ayon, when I was thinking about like, oh, how could they go to business?

It's like a necessity for so many people.

They really never crushed the online game.

I have no idea.

Like their website stinks.

Yeah.

They're.

Honestly, a huge opportunity for someone to go in, buy it, make it what it was.

Right.

Like so many of these like big box stores started offering like, you know, curbside pickups, same-day delivery.

Like Bed Bethamion never really innovated in terms of like ordering online.

I've actually, I love Bed Bethamion and I go like when I need stuff.

I've never ordered from Bed Bethamion online.

They need like a partnership with like Amazon or something.

And they really could have like, you know, amped up their game in terms of wedding registries, you know?

They just kind of stunk up the joint.

Yeah.

And I can't tell you how disappointed I was when I went in recently.

Why?

Because it was just like, it was just like almost like fine china.

Like it was just such like a weird.

It's really the store you go to on two occasions before every summer for camp because you needed shampoo, shampoo, conditioner, q-tips, comforters, egg crates, all the necessities.

And when you move into a new apartment, because what do you need when you move into a new apartment?

Shampoo, conditioner, Q-tips, egg crate, mattress pad, vacuum.

College dorms, like.

No, it really was with me in every stage of my life.

It was a great store.

And I will say, like, the last time I went to Bed Bath and Beyond was probably the last time I moved, which we've been in our apartment for four years, and we probably did a big Bed Beth and Beyond,

you know, new bowls, things like that when we moved.

Actually, remember, your mom took us.

It was a great store.

I know, I'm sad.

I'm not sad because it'll be back.

You think?

You don't think this is the end?

No, I think that they have a really, really strong brand name, and somebody should buy it and make it better.

And I didn't realize they owned Bye-Bye Baby.

And what I know is being, you know, a sister to two moms,

Bye-bye Baby is like a huge, huge store.

Like it has everything that a new mom or a mom could need.

It's like you, you know, you stop, you go to Bed Bath and Beyond before your college dorm and then you go to Bye Bye Baby before your first baby.

Really, the brand is with us at every stage of life.

Goodbye for now.

It's not a goodbye, it's a see you later.

See you later.

I was shocked to hear that, honestly.

I only wasn't because I feel like, I don't know why I thought that they already filed for bankruptcy.

I know, I feel like these big box and like these big brands use chapter 11 bankruptcy as like a means to get out of debt, and they never actually go away.

Like, hasn't iHeartMedia gone bank

250 times in the last such a good call, but it's just like always fine.

Yes.

Satamani.

Oh, but we're still throwing Jingle Ball.

Right?

Like, what the hell is it?

You're so right.

No, so it's like a tactic.

It's like a business thing people do.

I never know like when somebody files for bankruptcy if it actually means like their store is gone forever.

I don't know.

The toys are us.

Yeah, I don't think so.

Right?

Yeah.

There's still a business.

I think so.

There's like a few.

Yeah.

Hmm.

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Okay, ready for a little sports news that we somehow missed yesterday at the Knick game.

Pete Davidson gets handsy in a fight with a Knicks fan at Madison Square Gardens.

I didn't see it.

I was watching him the whole time.

We saw Pete Davidson, but this happened outside of the arena.

Outside of the actual court, like, you know, back inside, like by the food.

Where did it happen?

I can't.

What am I trying to say?

Like, not in the room with the court.

In the arena.

In the arena, but not on the...

Got it.

Pete Davidson was going to get a hot dog.

Something like that.

He was in the line.

Some fan tried to grab his junk.

He'd punched him in the face.

Pete Davidson let a fellow Knicks fan fan know to keep his hands to himself.

While the former Saturday Night Live star stopped to take photos with fans after attending the New York basketball team's game at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, one man got a little too close, prompting Davidson to take action.

So the video was posted to social media of the interaction shows that the unnamed man, who was dressed in a pink polo and a Knicks hat, put his arm around the King of Staten Island actor who was taking a selfie with a different fan.

Davidson then shoved the man and exchanged words with him before resuming taking photos with other, less handsy people.

He threw up a peace sign while posing with one woman after the aggressive interaction and his reps didn't immediately return page six's request for comment.

I have to say, I saw the video and I definitely feel like people get really handsy with celebrities and they like invade their privacy and kind of have like no regard for their private or just personal space.

But Pete Davidson was like in this mob taking pictures with everyone.

touching other people.

This guy put his arm around him.

I didn't really feel like what this guy did was so crazy.

Just felt like this particular guy pissed Pete Davidson off.

Do you have the video?

I do, dude.

Would you like to see it?

I would just like to see it.

Sure.

Okay, take a look.

Oh, shit.

Hold on.

And if you want to watch it, it's on page six.

I'll put it in the description of today's podcast.

Okay.

Okay, thank you, page six, for literally the worst video that doesn't work.

Wait, I need to see it.

Jesus, fuck, come on.

Let me refresh.

Okay, now you're making me do this.

Okay, okay, man.

Technical difficulties.

Please stand by, you guys.

No, by the way, it's not your technical technical difficulty.

It's page six.

Okay, let's go.

Down with the news.

Let's try this again.

Okay.

You see that?

Yeah, go again.

I don't know how.

And then he resumes taking pictures.

Start it one more time.

I don't know how.

He's the first interaction.

I don't know how.

Okay.

I'm looking.

Okay.

It's perfect.

No, I can't figure this out.

This iPad is going to be the death of me.

It's going to put me in an early grave.

Okay.

There we go.

Uh-huh.

Ready?

Yep.

Set.

Fuck you.

You sound like Roy Kennedy.

Oh, fuck you.

Okay, ready?

Uh-huh.

I got it.

Ready?

Uh-huh.

It's the guy in the pink shirt.

He really wasn't like doing anything crazy.

He looked like he might have whispered something.

Yeah, like, which is gross and creepy to like put your mouth near someone's ear.

But

I feel like Pete Davidson is kind of just like in his angry era.

You know, he literally drove a car into a residential home in Beverly Hills with his girlfriend.

Yeah.

No?

I like Pete.

But are you you taking Pete's side in this?

Yeah.

People in New York are just like, oh, honestly, that guy looked like a massive tool.

He just looked also maybe like he was drunk.

Can we still use the word tool?

Yeah.

Okay, cool.

Maybe he was like sweaty and like spitting on Pete.

No, like, you just got to see the guy.

Like, yeah, he looks like just a mess.

He looks like a guy you want to punch in the face.

But it was star-studded at the Knicks game last year.

He was.

Timothy Chalamay, Lily James, Pete Davidson, Ben Stiller, and his wife, Sienna Miller.

Ben Soffer and his wife.

Ben Soffer and his wife.

So many, you know, Hall of Fame athletes.

Victor Cruz, John Stark.

Who else?

John Starks.

Starks.

Who else was there?

Tracy Morgan.

Bernard King, Tracy Morgan, Spike Lee.

It was really like

packed.

It was packed.

That's the best part of going in at games.

It was such a good game.

It was.

I had a good time.

Yeah, I had a great time.

Even though we didn't eat.

No, we didn't.

It was like a weird time where we're like, we'll eat at home.

I had a hot pretzel, I'm not going to lie, but like, I didn't have chicken nuggets or anything.

No, also, like, the lines were just too much.

The lines were really much.

And honestly, we couldn't order any food.

Like, the person came in, like, the third quarter.

I don't want a chicken sandwich in the third.

No, and we were also like sitting in the middle of the row.

So it's like, we'd have to scream over 10 people, like, hey, can I get like a Hershey bar?

It's like embarrassing.

Do you want to talk about the smelliest man on the planet?

Let's talk about the smelliest man on the planet who was sitting next to us next to us at the game.

Claudia has this thing where we go to games and she always has,

she's always right.

The guy next to her,

man spreading, like sitting on my lap.

Always puts his leg like in her chair, because she is seriously.

I sat with my legs crossed.

That doesn't mean that, like, the space that I'm not using then belongs to you.

Like, my negative space is not your positive space, bitch.

Back the fuck off.

But she loves to complain about it to me.

But when I say, let's switch seats, let's do something about it.

Let's tell the smelly ass man to move his fucking legs.

Right, so he smelled

and he was sitting on my vagina.

Like, it was so, it was so next level, like, not self-aware.

We did switch seats, by the way, because then Ben, oh, you're going to man spread?

All right, Ben, you man spread.

You go shove your knee.

And it, like,

I wasn't going to sit like with my legs wide open.

It barely got better, by the way.

He was so smelly.

He was really smelly.

And this is just like a PSA.

Like, if you don't wear deodorant, don't go out in public.

Yeah.

You don't have to wear deodorant.

No, and if maybe you're transitioning to a natural deodorant, I know that it takes about a week to like start working.

So maybe you shouldn't leave your house for that week.

Just honestly.

Just don't go out in public.

Or honestly, you can go out in public, but be outside.

Don't go inside.

Yeah, like it's just not nice to everybody else.

And again, I'm not advocating for deodorant.

Do what you want.

No, and I want to say don't sit next to me.

I know that there are people out there who actually have like illnesses that, like, you know, that make them smell.

And I'm very sympathetic to that.

And I know I could tell by this man's smell, it wasn't that.

No, he just didn't wear deodorant.

He was like Dutch, too.

I know what you're, I know what you're talking about.

It was Dutch.

It was giving like European BO.

And if you know, there's a difference, you know.

And it was so rancid, like my eyes were burning.

Yeah.

The fucking Dutch.

We don't know that he was Dutch.

Oh, he was not speaking.

By the way, he was Dutch.

No, by the way, you were at this A.

He wasn't speaking English.

It doesn't mean he's Dutch.

No, but he was blonde and

he was Dutch.

All right, he could have been Dutch.

He was like stoop waffle, you know?

Maybe he's German, actually.

All I know is that he was smelly.

Yeah, you know, German B.O.

And to your point.

German BO is lethal.

And to your point.

Smelly, not sick, smelly.

No, not sick, smelly.

I'm sympathetic.

I know people who have like diseases where they smell.

Like, I am okay with that.

You know what?

Like,

you do you, bro.

But, like, if you're just poor in your hygiene, I'm sorry.

You should, though, like, wear, like, something, though, if you do have that sick smelly.

I know, I know.

But it smells different.

That's the thing.

This was just like smelly man, smelly armpit, hot t-shirt, B.O.

Boiling hot.

It was hot, yeah.

Disgusting.

He was, and, and by the way, so they kept giving, you know, it's a playoff game, so it's high stakes.

They gave everyone towels, and you're supposed to, like, you know, you're supposed to whip around the towel, like, you know, to cause drama in the stadium so i'm under this man's wing because i'm short and he's whipping his fucking towel and spreading his seed all over the stadium and it was not right heinous and i think we need to start you know calling people out who smell I wanted to.

You wouldn't let me.

I know.

Well, honestly, the smell wasn't bothering me because to a certain point, like, you can't really help that you smell.

Like, maybe you forgot to put on deodorant and it's hot.

Like, at some point, you can't make yourself stop smelling.

I'm sympathetic.

No, if it's too late.

If I smelled like that and I caught a whiff of myself smelling, you would keep your arms down.

I would either keep my arms down or I would leave temporarily, go to Dwayne Reed, get or like just go to the bathroom and like put some soap and water onto your arms.

I'd buy a new t-shirt.

That's what I would do.

But with the BO thing, I mean, sorry, no, with the man spreading thing, it's like you are actively doing this.

You are actively attacking me.

So like, I really wanted to say something.

I just kept looking down at his knee and then looking at him and looking down at his knee and then looking down, hopefully to like be like, hello.

He didn't even feel weird that we were like rubbing legs and we were rubbing legs on my chair on my chair not on the shared space on my chair

what have we learned i don't know what have we learned say something i know i was just like nothing changes unless you say something i know everyone thinks i'm like so aggressive and confrontational but i'm not she's not but you by the way you were like if you don't say something i'm gonna say something i'm gonna say something so then we switched seats and you didn't say anything because i got him to move i didn't need to say something at that point I needed to say something when you were sitting next to him and he was taking up your space.

I actually took a picture of our legs.

Like, and and I was not even being shy.

I was like being obvious, like, taking a picture just to show proportionally how crazy it was.

What fucking nerve?

Like, what chutzpah you think you have that you could sit on my goddamn seat, bitch?

The Dutch.

The Dutch.

Now I'm thinking he was definitely German.

He wasn't Dutch.

He was definitely German.

I don't even know if he was German.

And the whole thing makes sense.

Why?

Because it was anti-Semitic.

I'm a little Jewess.

And he's just giving Thurreich energy.

So yes, Pete Davidson got into a fight with a man who was definitely annoying, but I feel like, I'm telling you, I think Pete Davidson is in his bad boy era.

I love him.

I have no problem.

Two things can be true.

I'm not having a problem.

I'm just saying.

Like, he crashed a car into a residential home while there was literally like a teenager there, and now he's starting fights in public.

I'm telling you, I think something's going on with Pete Davidson.

I think he's just living his life.

You don't think something's going on with Pete Davidson?

Nope.

I think so.

Stop trying to tear down funny men.

Excuse me, because it sounds like you're talking about yourself.

We are torn down.

We?

Oh, you're in the same category as Pete?

Celebrity.

Ah!

Celebrity.

Who do you think is the bigger celebrity?

Me or Pete?

Ben Soffer or Pete Davidson?

It's tough.

It's tough.

It's tough.

I'm going to have to go

Pete.

It's tough.

Just because he was on SNL.

It's tough.

Were there any other celebrities there that I'm forgetting about?

Lily James was really random.

But remember when I checked your glasses and I was like, I think I see a celebrity.

Daniel Jones was there.

Shout out, Giants.

You said Victor Cruz.

It was so cool.

And it was nice to see Ben Stiller and his wife.

You know, they got divorced or they separated after many years of marriage.

And now they're getting back together.

And they really seemed happy.

I was staring at them the whole time.

And they were sitting next to Sienna Miller and the guy that she was with, who was not famous.

Crazy neck pain.

Do you ever have pain?

All the time.

It starts in your neck, radiates to your shoulder blade, and then if you rub out the knot in your neck, your shoulder blade pain goes away to pivot.

Claudia doesn't believe in knots.

Oh my God, I don't not believe in knots.

I rub her back, and there are knots, and she says, Stop moving my bone.

Ben will be back.

And I was like, there's a difference between a bone and a knot.

If you want me to rub your back, I'm rubbing out knots.

I'm not here to not rub out knots, right?

Ben will rub my back, which is so generous.

Thank you.

I love this.

I love you dearly.

And he will quite literally take my shoulder blade and like move my bones around.

around and be like wow that's a big knot it was a fucking knot bitch it's my bone and it feels so weird to have like your bones and muscles like be moved it's not a knot it's just my bones it's not a knot it's just my bones

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All right, I picked a fifth and final story, a little more sports news, but it's actually pretty funny.

So the Lakers player D'Angelo Russell has been forced to remove his drink from his post-game podium interview.

Did you see this?

No.

So everyone's a walking commercial these days, but the NBA will have none of it unless it's under their terms.

After the Lakers beat the Grizzlies in game three, the guard D'Angelo Russell went to the podium with the hopes of promoting his new sports drink during the interview.

But an NBA employee like stormed the podium and was like, that drink, put it down.

And D'Angelo Russell responded, why?

And she said, it's not one of our partners.

He said, but it's my partner.

And he said, you're going to have to find me.

And then he held up the drink, Coco5, plugging the brand.

The woman who works for the NBA then walked over to Russell, stand over, stood over him, shook her head, and grabbed it.

Hmm.

Who's team are you on?

NBA or D'Angelo Russell?

I mean, it's giving me in Spurt society.

I know, I know.

You will literally like put your drink anywhere.

By the way, as you should.

Of course.

He owns it, right?

He's probably like an investor or something.

And he's excited about it, and he has some FaceTime, and it's a good opportunity.

And it's a big game.

Post-game, I have to assume that they won.

They did.

Post-game, drinking it, promoting its use.

Like the NBA, like, fuck that.

No, I mean,

if the NBA was smart,

if they were smart, what they would do is they would say, you can do it, but I want a piece.

Yeah.

Kind of how Shark Tank, like every brand that comes on Shark Tank.

Every brand that goes in an NBA post-game interview gets a little piece.

Yeah.

Because otherwise, it's giving me air energy.

Just pay the fine.

The fine is so worth it.

It's so much cheaper.

By the way, we saw air.

Did you and I talk about it on the podcast?

We did.

Are you sure?

I thought so.

I feel like I spoke about it with Jackie.

I mean, I definitely spoke about it on Good Guys.

It was so good.

Yeah.

Like, I loved it.

Oh, which, by the way.

Good guys today.

Oh, yeah, by the way.

We'll talk about it, but huge episode today.

Huge episode.

We can talk about it.

Okay, but I want to get back to air.

Okay, so what do you want to start?

Super quickly.

Okay.

John Stamos is on Good Guys today.

Spoiler alert.

It was fantastic.

Yeah, and Ben got to chill.

It was when you were in LA.

So usually a lot of the guests, you're here in New York and you're kind of like a third wheel.

Yeah, totally.

But I was there.

You were there.

You'll also see what reminded me of it is

Spurt Society has obviously promoted every single episode of Good Guys, and both John and Josh are sober.

So it was like a...

Oh, I didn't know John was sober, too.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That child actor life, man.

I don't think John was a child actor.

He was really young.

No, I mean, I think he was just in his 20s.

No, he was like really young.

But whatever.

That made me think of it.

But

back to Air.

Air is the new movie produced and created by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon about Michael Jordan and more importantly about Michael Jordan's contract with Nike.

You really don't ever see Michael Jordan, so if you're looking to see Michael Jordan, I wouldn't see Air.

No, I would say.

I went on the podcast and gave like a whole diatribe about how stupid it was that he wasn't in it.

But if you're more of like a marketer and you find the creation of products and deals interesting, there's a very interesting movie about a deal that single-handedly shaped the way that celebrities endorse products.

Yeah.

Where Michael Jordan not only

got a deal with Nike, who at the time was at the bottom of basketball shoe game, but his mom negotiated in a 10% royalty on every Jordan city.

Was it 10%?

Yeah.

They didn't say in the movie what the percentage was.

So what they did say, though, was that Michael Jordan gets $400 million

a year in Jordan royalties, and I know that the Air Jordan makes about $4 billion a year.

Oh, and that's 10%.

That would be 10%.

Wait, 400 million is 10% of 4 billion?

Yes.

I don't think that's right.

Yes, it is.

Wait.

So, 400 million times 10 is 4 billion.

Yeah, okay, no, you're right.

You're right, you're right.

Yeah.

Oh, wait.

No, I'm telling you.

No.

400 million.

No, it is.

It is.

It is.

You tricked me.

It is.

Sorry.

No, no.

I was just being, I was confused, but it is.

It is.

It is.

It is.

All right, so I guess 10%.

Yeah.

I was curious what the percentage was.

Yeah.

But the coolest part was when they're creating the shoe, Claude, if you remember, the NBA had a rule where 90% of the shoe needed to be white.

There could only be 10% color.

While you're wearing a shoe on the court during a game, they have to abide by their dress code.

And if you don't, you get fined.

They made the Jordan, the Air Jordan,

far more than 90% white.

No, far less.

Far less than 90% white.

It was red.

It's all red.

And they agreed to pay the fine every game.

Right.

And that is historic marketing.

Yeah, no, that was really smart.

It's like basically paying for a commercial with the red.

It's cool.

And right.

And so honestly, D'Angelo Russell out here, as the press conference came to a close, Russell said Coco 5 several more times.

And naturally, the promo ended up being the best in company's history.

The video has millions of impressions, has been viewed more than 580,000 times as of Sunday night.

And Russell is a partner in the sports drink company along with Devin Booker, Derek Rose, and Charles Barkley, among others.

Love Charles Barkley.

Isn't Derek Rose on the Knicks?

Yeah.

He doesn't play anymore.

Why?

He's just a little bit over the hill.

That's what's so weird to me about sports, like which I'll never understand.

Like, how did Tim Tebow go from being like the wonder kid of football to like not being able to get a draft pick?

Well, Tim Tebow's a little bit different.

Why?

Football's a little bit different.

Why?

He just just like he was a great player no i know but to be like in football his position is quarterback you can't just like you don't just like sub in quarterbacks randomly when they start to go over the hill in basketball your point guard but he wasn't over the hill he was literally 21 he was over the hill tim tebow he just like was never even that great i just that's what i don't understand the high he was famous good and then bad there's a difference between famous and good okay that i understand he was famous okay and he was fine okay derek rose was awesome.

Had a terrible injury.

Never really recovered.

It's still really solid.

He should get a little bit more burn, which in basketball talk, it's just playing time.

Oh, thanks.

And, but, yeah.

If you could play any sport professionally, what would you want to play?

Golf.

Shout out Will Zalatoris.

Got it.

I mean, talk about something more boring.

No.

What do you mean?

It's unbelievable.

It's so boring to watch on TV.

No, it's not.

It's amazing.

It's really boring.

Have you ever been to like a golf, like watched like a game, like a televised, you know what I mean?

Like a competition?

Do you mean have I ever been in person watching golf?

Yeah.

It's terrible.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Just because unless you're there, look, if you're there as a golf fan,

I don't, I personally don't enjoy it because you don't get to watch all the holes.

You just get to like watch one.

If you're there, though, as like a fan trying to get fucked up and like enjoying.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Apparently, I haven't been to waste management.

I heard that is just a parte.

Parte.

But no, I haven't.

I love you.

I love you more.

Great episode.

Great episode.

Crushed it.

If you need more, Ben, today there's a brand new episode of Good Guys, Ben's podcast that he hosts with Josh Peck.

It's a Toast News Network show.

And their guest this week is Jon Stamos.

What do you guys talk about with John?

I don't even remember.

Did you talk about his sobriety?

Maybe a little bit.

We spoke about it a lot.

We spoke about it a lot.

Oh, that's helpful.

Did you talk about Full House?

Yeah.

What does he say?

I don't remember.

I guess you got to tune in.

Literally.

You got to tune in to say.

No spoilers.

Go spring.

Do you know how important promo is when it comes to Spritz, when it comes to your podcast?

I can't remember.

No, by the way, go tune in.

It's amazing.

We talk about Full House.

We talk about Fuller House.

We talk about John Stamos.

We talk about his lovers.

Does she talk about Bob Sagett at all?

We do talk about Bob Sagett.

Because Josh and him were both really close with Bob Sagitt, right?

Well, John in particular is really close with Bob Sagett.

So it's a really great episode.

Tune in.

And summer's approaching.

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Thank you guys so much.

Jackie is joining me this week for an audio episode.

I'm not sure what day, but I've got a couple of great guests lined up.

I don't want to spoil it, but just stay tuned.

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