Benny Had a Baby!!

Summary

Episode Summary: Benny Had a Baby!!

In the "Benny Had a Baby!!" episode of the "Good Guys" podcast by Dear Media, hosts Josh Peck and Ben Soffer dive into the delightful chaos and heartfelt moments surrounding the arrival of Ben and Claudia's newborn son, Prince Ruby. Released on June 23, 2025, this episode offers listeners an intimate glimpse into the joys and challenges of new parenthood, all delivered with the duo's characteristic humor and candidness.

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1. Announcement and Initial Joy

The episode kicks off with exuberant announcements as Ben and Josh share the fantastic news of Ben’s new baby boy. Their excitement is palpable, setting a warm and engaging tone for the conversation.

• Josh Peck: “Prince Ruby. I love him. We love him. Everybody loves him.” [00:32]

2. The Birth Experience

Ben recounts the intricacies and emotions surrounding Claudia's C-section. With the podcast episodes pre-recorded, Ben had the opportunity to focus entirely on supporting Claudia during the birth.

• Ben Soffer: “We pre-recorded for a month. And now, henceforth, go have your beautiful baby.” [02:10]

The hosts humorously describe unexpected moments in the hospital, including a mix-up with coffee orders that left Claudia frustrated.

• Ben Soffer: “I've never seen Claudia so angry. She was furious.” [05:02]

Claudia’s determination to manage pain with minimal narcotics highlights her strength and resilience.

• Ben Soffer: “I'm so proud of her because she made it through on Tylenol and Advil.” [16:44]

3. Post-Delivery Challenges

After Ruby's birth, the couple spent two days in a private hospital room, navigating the physical and emotional aftermath. They discuss the exhaustion of sleep deprivation and the struggle to manage new responsibilities.

• Ben Soffer: “She was laying down, she's asleep. No swaddle all of a sudden.” [50:11]

Ben shares a relatable gripe about the hospital staff’s reluctance to provide pain medication to spouses, emphasizing the lack of support during such a critical time.

• Ben Soffer: “They don’t treat the spouse. What are you nuts?” [52:22]

4. Parenting Roles and Sleep

Josh and Ben delve into their nighttime routines, highlighting the importance of teamwork in ensuring both parents get adequate rest. Ben handles diaper changes and feeding, while Josh focuses on supporting Claudia and managing other baby needs.

• Ben Soffer: “My role is I change every diaper. ... I'm telling you, he drinks 4 ounces just from sticking it on the right tit.” [29:08]

They discuss strategies for maximizing sleep, such as taking shifts and sharing responsibilities to cope with the demands of a newborn.

5. Baby Care Routines

The hosts explore their baby care routines, particularly around feeding and managing sleep patterns. They highlight the benefits of both breastfeeding and formula feeding, noting Ruby’s impressive growth and health.

• Josh Peck: “The baby doesn’t need to eat in the middle of the night after four months.” [33:59]

Ben shares his methods for soothing Ruby’s gas issues, emphasizing the effectiveness of techniques like the bicycle maneuver.

• Ben Soffer: “I tilt him back and I get a nice toot. Then I tilt him again and it's a nice toot.” [36:57]

6. Handling Gripes and Frustrations

In the “What Do You Nuts” segment, Ben vents about the hospital’s refusal to provide additional pain medication for spouses, labeling the policy as unreasonable and frustrating.

• Ben Soffer: “What are you nuts? You should treat the spouse. Give the spouse three Advil.” [51:19]

Josh echoes the frustration, sharing his own challenging moments in the hospital, highlighting the lack of support systems for partners.

7. Humor and Light-Hearted Moments

Throughout the episode, Josh and Ben infuse their conversation with humor, making light of the sleepless nights and the less glamorous aspects of baby care. They share amusing anecdotes about diaper mishaps and the joys of watching their son grow.

• Josh Peck: “He’s up 50%. He’s going to be so fat and gorgeous and delicious.” [20:31]

• Ben Soffer: “Kids are cute. Even when they’re gross. They’re cute.” [46:49]

8. Conclusion

The episode wraps up with reflections on the profound experience of becoming parents, underscored by gratitude and humor. Josh and Ben reaffirm their commitment to teamwork and supporting each other through the journey of raising their new son.

• Josh Peck: “But I love us, as much as one can.” [32:33]

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps:

• Josh Peck: “Prince Ruby. I love him. We love him. Everybody loves him.” [00:32]

• Ben Soffer: “I'm just saying, how great are we that we prerecorded? No time off.” [02:10]

• Ben Soffer: “I'm proud of her because she made it through on Tylenol and Advil.” [16:44]

• Ben Soffer: “We don’t treat the spouse. What are you nuts?” [52:22]

• Josh Peck: “The baby doesn’t need to eat in the middle of the night after four months.” [33:59]

• Ben Soffer: “Kids are cute. Even when they’re gross. They’re cute.” [46:49]

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This episode of "Good Guys" provides a heartfelt and humorous exploration of the early days of parenthood. Josh Peck and Ben Soffer's candid discussions offer both entertainment and relatable insights for anyone navigating the joys and challenges of welcoming a new baby into the family.

Transcript

[Josh]

The following podcast is a dear media production.

[Ben]

Two Jews, both big and tall.

[Josh]

No subject too small for the good guys. A mother's dream Premium podcast team. Make it your weekly routine.

[Ben]

It's a good Guys. And if you don't give us five stars.

[Josh]

What are you nuts?

[Ben]

What are you nuts? Yeah. We're the good guys.

[Josh]

They're not the great guys.

[Ben]

We're just the good of the good guys.

[Josh]

Benny and Joshi. Joshie and Benny. Benny had a baby boy. Ruby Booby. I love him. We love him. Everybody loves him.

[Ben]

Benny and Joshi, we are here. The only thing worse than gluten brain is lack of sleep. So, like, I don't remember any. I don't remember anything.

[Josh]

Hold on. We have to welcome him into the kingdom. Okay. Henceforth, for all of time, Prince Ruby.

[Ben]

All hail Prince Ruby. He's so cute. Those cheeks.

[Josh]

Oh, my God. In Russian we call them Shochkis. Shotski. Shochki.

[Ben]

And like, how does it feel that you have seen pictures of him but nobody ever will? He's gorgeous.

[Josh]

He's gorgeous.

[Ben]

You can attest he's gorgeous. He's just like the perfect mix of, like, me and Claude. Really? Just like, she is fucking crushing it. We'll talk about it. Claude is crushing it. She's doing so great. And that's why he's so beautiful, because she's doing so great. Unbelievable. Women go through unbelievable.

[Josh]

All right, so start us from the beginning because everyone wants to know, unless they subscribe to the toast Patreon, in which case, what are you, rich? So we stopped recording the day before the C section. We had the great Rainn Wilson on Shout Out. And then I sent. I sent you off into the wild. We said yes. We've pre recorded for a month. And now, henceforth, go have your beautiful baby. What did it.

[Ben]

I'm just saying. I'm just saying. How great are we that we prerecorded? No time off. You get episodes, we get time off. We plan. This is planning. Okay, we can talk about that.

[Josh]

I think I'm so. I think there's somewhere in the middle. This whole idea of time off is, what are you, nuts? But also, I think I'm such a broken child actor that I'm like, no, no time off. You just prerecord like, no, but.

[Ben]

No, but we don't need time off because we can prerecord, right? And if you. And if you think our episodes are dated, you can suck it. Okay, we're going to talk about Love island today. Okay? Even though the episode that you watched Came out today, which will end up being a month later. Whatever. Starting from the beginning. Okay? I need to. I need to jog my memory, but hospital.

[Josh]

Josh, what time? What time of day?

[Ben]

Morning. Morning. We went in in the morning.

[Josh]

Okay.

[Ben]

And it was Claudia's first ever surgery, right? Like, she has never forget pregnancy. She's never been under the knife for anything, for anything. No anesthetics, no nothing.

[Josh]

Not a rough canal, not a knee replacement, nothing, Nothing.

[Ben]

Not a nothing.

[Josh]

Not a renegade fibroid. Fibroid.

[Ben]

Nothing. And so she was very scared. We went in very early. And I'd say the scariest early part of the morning was they take you from this, like, room that you're, like, sitting in for two hours. For what, by the way? Okay, let me show up 15 minutes before. You don't need to hold this hostage for two hours while all of these pent up feelings. Prep before we come. What's wrong with that, Josh? Prep before we come. It's like somebody asks you, okay, Josh, we want you on local ktla, okay? We want you to show up two hours early so we can put up all of the lights and all of the cameras while you're there. Make it make sense. You show up, you do your interview, you leave. They can prep before. I'm just saying we're in that room so crazy. Okay, keep going. We're in that room and they say, ben, we're so sorry. You need to stay out here. We're going to bring in Claudia for her epidural. You need to stay here. And that was like pure waterworks. Claudia could not do that. Very uncomfortable being away from me. I walked her, actually. I missed one part. I missed one part before that. And Claudia, this is. This is not nearly as bad as it sounds, or at least as the way that she made it sound.

[Claudia]

Our doctor came to me.

[Ben]

He's like, ben, you look really tired. You want a cup of coffee? I'm like, yeah, I would love a cup of coffee. Where did you get that coffee? It was just. It was a normal coffee. I thought he got it. Josh in the hospital. He's like, oh, I poured it into a different cup. I got it at Starbucks this morning. Let me go get you a Starbucks. I'm like, oh, no, no, no. I don't want you to do that. I don't want you to get me a Starbucks. He said, no, I insist. I'm getting you Starbucks. The doctor left, got me Starbucks downstairs, brought it back. I've never seen Claudia so angry. She was furious, furious. Because her doctor's leaving to get me coffee. I didn't want him to get me coffee, Josh. I didn't want it.

[Josh]

He clearly had something. Something else was. He was in the mood for an egg white feta wrap. And. And he said, I'm going to look like a real mensch getting him. I was on the way.

[Ben]

I was the scapegoat. That I was the scapegoat. I was sacrificed.

[Claudia]

Yeah.

[Josh]

Yeah. Claudia was mad at you.

[Ben]

Yes. She's like, how can you get Starbucks from my doctor that's about to perform surgery while we're doing this? Like, what are you not. I'm like. I said no. I tried to say no. That fight lasted two minutes. Then the nurse came in.

[Josh]

I love that she's already a Jewish. Like a Jewish mother goes, you send a doctor to get Pete's. You're sending. Oh, our doctor is doordash.

[Ben]

It really was crazy. It really was crazy. He was doordash. He came back up. He even got my two pumps of chai. Okay. It was.

[Josh]

Did you tip him? You fuck you.

[Ben]

No, of course not. It was fantastic. Okay. Then we walk in. She was crying. I was able to come in. And you just see curtain up, she's on the table, and it's go time, baby. It is go time. She said afterwards, the epidural was the most painful part of the whole thing. She said it was unbelievably painful. Hated every minute of it. Just. Does Paige stay. Stay the same? Apparently those things are terribly painful.

[Josh]

It can be. It depends on who's giving it. But it is a nice sized needle into the spine.

[Ben]

Right into the spine.

[Josh]

I will sympathize, too, with Claudia. I remember Paige, similarly, was such a soldier because our baby was breech. But then it flipped right at the last minute. So what was supposed to be a C section turned into. Okay, we'll just induce because the baby's in good shape. But Paige, in the back of her mind, was like, I know I'm gonna wind up with a C section. So she soldiers it for 30 plus hours, right?

[Ben]

Insane. Insane.

[Josh]

And halfway through, she then gets the epidural. So now her legs don't work and she's been laying in bed.

[Ben]

And.

[Josh]

And it was only. That was. And by Saturday night, we'd been there like 30 hours. And finally around, like, 7 o' clock, the doctor said, let's do it. I don't want to risk that the baby goes into distress. And then we have to rush this. I think we should do the C section. And it was Only then where she started to cry because it just. Your face, it's so emotional. And it's such, like, a lead up to, like, okay, let's just fricking do this already.

[Ben]

No, it's also awful, the fact that she mentally prepared for a C section for so long. I'm sure. Then got that just, like, burst of energy. Yes, he flipped. Yes, I can deliver regularly to then only end in a C section. Oh, my God.

[Josh]

Such a lead up.

[Ben]

Oh, terrible. Yeah. So I walked into the room, she. How many people are in the table? Seven.

[Josh]

It's a lot.

[Ben]

Six or seven people. Yeah. There's the anesthesiologist, there's the nurse. There were two doctors that did the delivery. They were fantastic. Yeah, fantastic. I don't remember the other guy's name, but our doctor, Dr. Fox. Unbelievable. @ Sinai West. Unbelievable. Josh, he did such a great job. I remember he pulled out Ruby, threw him on Claudia's chest. I was like, oh, my God, that was vicious. And all of a sudden, he's just there. He's just sitting there. He's looking at us. You're crying. I'm kissing Claudia. I'm looking at him. I go around, I just, like, see this ball of mush that looks exactly like me. I'm looking at him. I'm like. And they say that they are born looking like their fathers. That's like nature's paternity test. And it's so true.

[Josh]

So you don't throw them.

[Ben]

This was me. I was thinking, imagine he came out Chinese. That would be a real fight.

[Josh]

Amazing.

[Ben]

I'm looking at him and I'm just like, oh, my God, who are you? But you are me and you are mine. And it was just insane. Insane. And from there we went to this, like, private room and we spent two days there. And those two days were dark. I'm not gonna lie.

[Josh]

Okay, we'll get there. We'll get there. We'll get there. Okay. For the people. I am the people. We are the people.

[Ben]

Yes. Okay.

[Josh]

Yes. Was. Okay. Was there music playing during the delivery? And was it a Claudia approved playlist or what did the doctors pick?

[Ben]

It was Claudia's playlist. She played it. She played it.

[Josh]

Wow.

[Ben]

On her. On her phone. I kept it, like, next to her head. It wasn't like speakers going, no, the playlist is playing next to her head. It was a combination of, like, Taylor Swift, Peace. That's her favorite song. She loves Peace.

[Josh]

Right?

[Ben]

And then I'm saying a combination as if I remember any of the other songs I Think that was the song that was playing while he was born. I wanted Teenage Dirtbag on the playlist, and she vetoed it. Yeah, but I thought that would have been rad. Right. If he's born to Teenage Dirtbag. Or maybe I Do Anything for Love by Meatloaf. Those are my two, and they were both nixed in favor of Taylor Swift's piece.

[Josh]

Well, thankfully, you're going to have more kids.

[Ben]

Yeah. And then it'll be an exclusively Meatloaf playlist.

[Josh]

That would be amazing. Good name, Loaf.

[Ben]

Oh, I love it. I love it. First name Meat, middle name, Loaf.

[Claudia]

Wow.

[Josh]

And then, okay, so you've got the playlist rocking. We're talking Taylor Swift, we're talking the New Jersey Klezmer Band, and. Okay, and then what. What are we? The Miami Hebrew Boys Choir. Who are those kids? What are their names?

[Ben]

No, the Miami Boys Choir is amazing. There's also the Yeshiva Boys Choir, but Miami really popularized the genre. That's Miami. They're sick.

[Josh]

And then.

[Ben]

Yes.

[Josh]

So that's rock, and that's bumping. Did you notice one thing during Paige's C section was we noticed small talk that there was just like. I mean, you know, for those people, it's a day at work. And not until, like, right when the baby was coming out did everyone zero in on that. Otherwise, it was like cutting, tearing. So my husband's going to go do this, and, you know, I haven't paid my taxes, my house is in default. You know, things like that.

[Ben]

I didn't hear anything. Yeah, I really like my head. I was so unbelievably worried about her. Like, Paige, you mentioned, like, she's. She's a warrior, for sure. She's done this before. Like, I'm not. Not saying by any means, it's routine for her now, but I wonder if for. For Max, it was different. Like, I was so worried about Claudia the entire time because her tolerance for pain up until this point has been zero. Like, zero tolerance for pain. So the idea of her undergoing surgery, the only thing that we'd hear, we would hear, okay, time to put back in the uterus. And that was nuts. Like that. Like hearing. Hearing that they've taken things out of her body and they're now going to put them in. Those are the only things that we heard. Maybe we tuned out all the other noise, but other than that, I was just so focused on her. Talking to her, kissing her, listening to her, I couldn't hear anybody else.

[Claudia]

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[Caroline Stanbury]

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[Josh]

Okay, so I'm not asking. Oh, man, I don't know who I'm allowed to ask this. Okay? I'm not asking this about Claudia, because this is your wife and I would never ask this about your wife.

[Ben]

Yes.

[Josh]

So, Olivia, feel free not to answer. Is there, like a general thought of, like, if a woman is going in to give birth, like, let me do some grooming, because I'm gonna have an audience 1000%.

[Caroline Stanbury]

Actually, I was just on a family vacation and I was talking to my cousin who has a one year old, and she was like, telling me her whole birth story and everything. And she said she scheduled a Brazilian wax for a Thursday and she got induced on like a Sunday or something.

[Ben]

Oh, my God, that's fascinating. But, yes, you do have an audience. I don't see why you wouldn't do that. Why not?

[Josh]

Imagine the wax is too aggressive and the baby comes out. That's a freebie. Oh, my God. A Brazilian wax while you're nine and a half months pregnant. That's how you induce.

[Ben]

That's crazy. So much pain.

[Josh]

Imagine.

[Ben]

Yeah, that's how you induce. That's how you induce.

[Josh]

So then you go to the room for the next two days because you gotta be there in your healing. It's major surgery. Why is it dark?

[Ben]

It's dark because. And look, I already mentioned how unbelievable Dr. Fox was, OK? What mattered most was unbelievable.

[Josh]

But he clocks out these doctors.

[Ben]

He's gone.

[Josh]

An hour later, they're like, yeah, he's gone.

[Ben]

And then we're left with the nurses. And our room was situated right outside the nurse's table. So you walk into the hospital, there's a nurse's table, and then rooms flank down the halls away from the nurses table, but at the nurses table, Josh, they are kicking all night. They are partying. You hear them? Like, it just. We would hear them. And then the second that we, like, got one second of sleep, the second we were able to go to bed, up, time to check your blood pressure. It's like, lady, you've checked her blood pressure 19 times. Her blood pressure is fine. Like, stop checking her blood pressure. When she finally fell asleep, like, it just. I don't know that it was just. It was just brutal. And she had no interest, no interest in narcotics because she heard that Matthew Perry had some light narcotics.

[Josh]

Oh, she's mashuggah. She's meshuggah.

[Ben]

Regardless if she's meshuggah or not. I'M so proud of her because she made it through on Tylenol and Advil, Josh. Tylenol and Advil. That is it. They would come in, though, she had two Tylenol, and she'd say, hey, you know, can I have two Tylenol a little bit earlier? Like, no, we can't do that, but we can give you a Percocet. And it's like, what, are you nuts? Like you'd rather give her hard narcotics than give her two extra Tylenol? I could go. I could go downstairs and get Tylenol from the gift shop.

[Josh]

May I push back?

[Ben]

You can. I'll push back again.

[Josh]

You keep it pushing. Push, push, push away.

[Ben]

Yes.

[Josh]

I think Claudia is perfect. She's amazing and I think that's fabulous. I would say, in addition to two things, one, which I'm sure she was on the maximum dose of Tylenol. Taking it a little early is so bad for your liver. Tylenol, especially the big, like, it is given as one of these, like, massive. Because it's such like a. We grow up with Tylenol, we think of it as something rather benign, but it is like one of those red light will give you liver failure if you. You will fuck around and find out with Tylenol quick. And it's so many things.

[Ben]

So let me tell you. That was her Advil. Her Advil. It was a combo of Advil and Tylenol around the clock. Her Advil was that horse pill. Right. Even though that horse pill was still only 600 milligrams, which is only 3.

[Josh]

Advil and IB 600.

[Ben]

Her Tylenol was 400 milligrams, which is 2 Tylenol. I chewed that on my way to the podcast.

[Josh]

Yeah, you could take a thousand.

[Ben]

Yeah, she was. They were giving her 400, Josh, and we were just asking for another 400 an hour early.

[Josh]

Got it.

[Ben]

I'm telling you, they were trying to push these narcotics because they make more money. Just saying it was a lot of. Sorry, we can't give you Tylenol. We can give you Percocet. Oh, you don't want Percocet. We can give you Dilaudid.

[Claudia]

Ok, no.

[Ben]

Ok. No. Ok. No.

[Josh]

I would say the Matthew Perry thing is not. That's recreational drug use by a drug addict in a hot tub. Respect.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Josh]

You are so far from that line in. In a hospital in a controlled setting. And, yeah, I think what Claudia did is perfect. She's the greatest ever. And she has my admiration because I'd be like, gimme. Gimme, gimme. Welcome to the candy shop. I want to lick you lot. Like, I'll go down on you, Doc, but. But I think sometimes people unnecessarily suffer. It doesn't sound like Claudia was, but. And I think that can be deleterious to the healing because you're so. You're able to endure the pain, but you're so stressed and tight and not sleeping. Then in fact, you prolong healing by trying to not take it in a controlled, safe setting. In some cases. But I think Claudia is perfect. I'm not. I'm not commenting on that.

[Ben]

In some cases. Maybe the same way that I said that her tolerance for pain was nothing before this. Her tolerance for pain after. She's a fucking warrior.

[Josh]

Totally.

[Ben]

Like when I. When I tell you we're recording a month after she's healed, like, she's healed. We're going for walks. She's healed. Like her. She takes like. She takes nothing now. Nothing at all. No Advil, no tylenol, no nothing. 1,000% healed. She was healed really, after, like three weeks. I could not believe it. So great. And this breastfeeding, Josh, let me tell you. Holy smokes. Holy smokes. She's breastfeeding around the clock. I must say, I must share, just because I'm proud of it. This boy is growing. This boy is growing and growing fast because he's on the mother's teeth sucking for dear life. And they say that your baby's supposed to, like, regain their weight from the hospital within 10 to 14 days. Josh, he's up 30%.

[Claudia]

Okay.

[Ben]

Wow. He's up 30%. Actually. No, good boy. Up. He's up 50%. He's up 50%. He's going to be so fat and gorgeous and delicious. We're going to have to introduce him to that Fat Friendly travel. What is that blog with where they go to Disney?

[Josh]

Yeah. Plus size park riders.

[Ben]

Plus size park riders. We're going to get him a ticket. Yeah, we're going to get him a ticket. Yeah. Killing it. And her tolerance for pain. So great. She described the initial breastfeeding feeling as. I think it was glass coming through her nipples. And she just did it and got through it and. Yeah, she's killing.

[Josh]

Have you tried the breast milk?

[Ben]

No. Like, I. Maybe I should. Why not? Yeah, why not?

[Josh]

I should.

[Ben]

I should. That said, the nutrients are for. I should take, like an old bag or something. Yeah. Because apparently, I don't know if you've heard of this. When she kisses him, it sends signals as to what he needs back into her breast milk.

[Josh]

I have.

[Ben]

Antibodies are created. We got this validated by a doctor. Antibodies are created through mother's germs onto baby that the breast milk. That's why if you freeze your breast milk, which she's doing for like when we eventually give him bottles, all that you're giving them at that point is fuel. It's just calories. But the breast milk that day is also medicine. I found that fascinating.

[Josh]

Like the colostrum.

[Ben]

Well, the colostrum's gone, so. The colostrum in the beginning, yes, that is immediately what the baby needs. But then the breast milk on a day to day basis also has whatever. Claudia kissed him with like whatever germs. There are now things in that breast milk to combat those germs.

[Josh]

Huge.

[Ben]

Huge.

[Josh]

Do it, bro. Add it to your little morning cough. Yeah, just like a couple chai shots. Little colosseum. They should. How is Starbucks missing that?

[Ben]

I'm off the chai, Josh. I'm off the chai. I went to. I told you. I'm now a Dunkin now, Duncan. And then Starbucks went to send me their last bottle of sugar free. Sugar free. What is it? Hazelnut. It's not the same. Sorry. It's not the same. I'm on Dunkin. Until they bring it back into store. I'm on Dunkin' Yeah. They should add breast milk to the menu. Why not?

[Josh]

Why not?

[Ben]

I mean, they do add.

[Josh]

There is in addition to smoothies, it's bovine colostrum. So cow colostrum.

[Ben]

Okay. Okay. I'm in for boat. I like the term bovine.

[Josh]

Do it that way.

[Ben]

Well, that's a good children's name. Bovine.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Ben]

First name Beau. Middle name Bind. Bovine. Soffer.

[Josh]

I like.

[Ben]

I like it. I like it too.

[Josh]

There's. It's interesting. Like the proper name for cows is bovine. There's proper names for things that we just refuse to acknowledge. This is a Jimmy Carr joke. But it's like, you know, we're. What's. What's Deutschland?

[Ben]

Deutschland is Denmark.

[Josh]

It's Germany.

[Claudia]

Germany.

[Ben]

Okay. Close enough.

[Josh]

That's what they call it.

[Ben]

They call it Deutschland. Yeah.

[Josh]

And we said it was.

[Ben]

It was. It wasn't disarming enough. I mean, it was too disarming. Deutschland. Deutschland's chill. Germany.

[Josh]

Yeah. Just like Europe. Europeans and Americans were like, no, you're not like, yes, we are. And be like, chill, chill, relax, man. Like, nah, nah, nah, it's Germany.

[Ben]

Nah.

[Josh]

We won both world wars.

[Ben]

You don't get to say, no, we get to name it. We claim you.

[Josh]

By the way, do you know what Nippon is?

[Ben]

Nippon Thailand.

[Josh]

Japan.

[Ben]

Really?

[Josh]

They never called it Japan to themselves.

[Ben]

Nippon.

[Josh]

It's amazing how we just refuse to acknowledge it.

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[Josh]

Okay, so now you've been home with the baby, you guys, you guys are living it up. And are you doing all the wake ups and all the, the diaper changes and all that?

[Ben]

Yeah. So here's, here's my role. Okay? My role is I change every diaper. My role is I feed her when she's like she, she'll wake up at 3:30 in the morning or I will get him, I will hear him. I don't know what it is about my brain but the second he opens his mouth, even if it's just a little grunt, I hear him. So I will then hopefully go back to sleep for a half hour while he like slowly wakes up. The second I hear a big wah. Which by the way, pterodactyl. Pterodactyl. These are, they've been tricking us into thinking babies Sound like babies. Nobody. Babies don't sound like babies. Babies sound like. I don't. I don't know what the hell they. Dinosaurs. Literal dinosaurs.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Ben]

It'S psychotic. But you hear that dinosaur, I go in, I pick him up, undo his swaddle, bring him in, change him. Okay, we're taking off the diaper. We're doing a nice wipe. I'm then assessing. Is this a desitin rash? Is this just, like, some nice A and D? Do we want to go aquaphor? Okay, then repackage up, hand them to Claudia. She will feed. She uses. It's called a boon trove. Do you guys have a boon trove?

[Josh]

No.

[Ben]

A boon trove. They also call it a haka is another one. It attaches to the other breast, and it picks up milk while she's breastfeeding the other. So she doesn't even need to pump. She's getting four ounces, Josh, just from sticking it on the right tit and then flipping and sticking it on the left tit. Because as he drains one, it drains into the boon trove. It's a fantastic little apparatus. I then take the milk, I put it into the bag, I put it into the freezer, and then we go to sleep, and then we do it again in hopefully three hours. But he's. He's anywhere. He's really anywhere from two to three.

[Josh]

And what about. What do you do about diaper change if you're not there?

[Ben]

I haven't not been there ever.

[Josh]

Like, what if. If he needs to change while we're doing the pot?

[Ben]

She will change him, of course. Okay, but, like, it's not like a. It's not like a hard and fast rule. Like, she actually. She'd love to change him because she finds. She says that that's the fun part where you get to change him. You get to put on his new clothes and he looks super cute and whatever, but, like, there are so few things that we can do. I'm just like, let me do that. Like, that's my job. I hear him, I wake up, I change him. I give him to you. You do what you do, and I try and fight falling asleep while you feed. Like, I'll try to talk to her. Like, I'll try to rub her back or I'll try to do something, because I don't. I don't know if you felt this way. And maybe you have to, like, think back to Max, because now I'm sure it just feels her team. But, like, you're guilty. Like, at least at least I feel guilty. I'm like, oh, you are. You are a full blown dairy cow. Like, you are. You are there being milked. And I just. I wish I could do something. So I try to do whatever I.

[Josh]

Can, but I didn't feel guilty at all. But because there was. We do formula.

[Ben]

Okay. So it's a different story. It's a different story.

[Josh]

It's a different thing. We did formula from the beginning. And I think different story. My brain really works in divide and conquer, like, separation of powers and totally. So, like, my whole thing. And I always say this to each. I say this to her when we go. Like, if she has a girls night, which is more. Like, I'm out more. And we're both not out much. Like, we're not big babysitter family. Like, her, her mom and her family help us sometimes if we have something and we need them to watch the kids. But we don't have, like, a lot of our friends have like a babysitter on retainer, right? Like, or like set. Like every Friday, Saturday night, babysitter is booked and busy, and we have our standing reservations wherever.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Josh]

But my whole thing to Paige, right, is like, if she goes out with her girlfriends, I'm like, you are not gonna hear from me unless it's an emergency.

[Ben]

Totally.

[Josh]

Right. Like, go have a great time. You don't, you know, if I'm dealing with a little something here, somebody doesn't feel good, whatever. Like, no need for you to know about it. So I'm big on that too. With, like, with the baby. I'm like, I'm on duty now for the next six hours or nine hours. And, like, go, sleep, do your thing, recover, watch a show, eat. And like, I'm on this. And then when I hand them off, I need it too. And, like, and it's helpful because then we can both recover.

[Ben]

Totally. So that is something. It's. We're just living completely different lives because breastfeeding versus formula allow you to do completely different things. Like, we are in lockstep. We tried one night. She skips a feeding, I bottle feed. I skip a feeding, she breasts.

[Josh]

Yes.

[Ben]

Right. We tried that and we looked at each other the next morning and we were like, that hour was so unbelievably lonely in comparison to what we've been doing that we would rather wake up. And, like, I don't feel nearly as bad as I. I was nervous for this podcast. I was like, okay, I exclusively sleep. I've exclusively slept in two to three hour chunks for the Last month. My brain is not what it was. I need a full night's sleep and I'm fine. And I think that we are just getting enough bulk sleep. Like last night. Last night we slept from 9 to 12, 1 to 3, 34, 30 to 6, 37 to 9. And you add it up and it's 8 hours or 9 hours and we're up together. And I don't know, I'm not just saying this. I think we're enjoying it as much as one can, but it's been. When we separated it, we, we just. I don't know, I think it would be different if I like, handed. If we handed a feeding, which I couldn't do, like handed a feeding in the middle of the night to my mom, I guess I hypothetically could, but then she'd need to sleep there. Then I think it would be different. But knowing that she's awake just. I'm just like not sleeping well. I feel bad and I. I don't know. So I'm sure that that will change over time. He'll also end up sleeping more like. I'm very excited. When does he start to sleep through the night? Josh? He's already at like three, three and a half hours. When do you think he can get to six?

[Josh]

Oh, my gosh. Well, you know, I don't want to incite the masses because we've gotten, we've gotten mean reviews over this because there are very different schools of thought. In my experience, the baby doesn't need to eat in the middle of the night after four months. And by. In my experience, I say any pediatrician worth their weight. And so it's at that point where if they're crying out after three or four hours, they're. It's just because they're used to it and they want you to come in and console them. And then if you can get through two or three nights of that, they realize, oh, I don't need to be consoled and I'm not hungry. And they feel so good because they're sleeping for a six or an eight hour stretch. That's been my experience, different for everyone. Four months. But you have to be proactive about it.

[Ben]

Totally. Totally. Yeah. Look, right now he's a hungry boy, but I would assume that he'll just be able to be like us. Eat a shitload during the day. And you sleep at night.

[Josh]

Oh yeah. And you crush shy still at two. Over two and a half years, he'll drink eight ounces of milk a second before bed. And he knows that I'm judging him. I'm like, there goes your intermittent fast. Brian Johnson would. Gary Bracker would fucking spit in your face right now. This is unacceptable. Dana White is judging you, okay? Good luck fighting in the ufc. And David Goggins would kick you off of his mailing list right now, okay? You fucking beta, like. But he'll crush 8 ounces of milk. And then. Well, he has a milk allergy, so we do ripple.

[Ben]

And one of us. It's one of us.

[Josh]

It's beautiful. And then he'll sleep through the night, and there have been a couple nights where he won't be in the mood. He'll drink, like, a quarter of it. And he'll wake up in the middle of the night, be like, I'm hungry.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Josh]

So it's really good. It, like, he's. They're like bodybuilders.

[Ben]

Like bodybuilders. But, yeah, okay. I'm excited. For four months, I'll pencil that in. I'll let you know what we end up doing. We'll see. Look, like, right. Like, right now, I hear him cry and I get up. But I do think to myself, if I waited a half hour, would he stop?

[Josh]

I don't think this young, but, no, I don't.

[Ben]

But I'm saying that goes into your head. So I do wonder if at four months, I hear him after we've been sleeping for four hours, I would probably give it a half hour. I don't think that I would let him wail for hours and hours and hours. But nobody is. Nothing's happening. I don't know why this would be a controversial take. Nothing's happening in 30 minutes. Like, if he's hungry, he'll still be hungry in 30 minutes, but nothing metabolically. No. Is. There's no disaster happening in 15 to 30 minutes if he's crying. Not now, but later. But we'll see. We'll see.

[Josh]

And also, you'll notice, you'll know different cries. You'll be like, now. Like, you'll. You can tell from the cry if it's more of just like, calling out, where are you? Come hang out with me? Or like, I need to be changed. I'm in pain. I don't feel good. I'm hungry. It has a different tone.

[Ben]

That's one thing that I didn't know. They are so gassy, these boys. Holy smokes, are they gassy? And like, most of these pains, when he cries, I know he's just gassy. And we have a. I'm sure that everybody knows the bicycle trick. But I love it. I do like the little bicycles. I then tilt him back and I get a nice toot and then I tilt him again and it's a nice toot. And when I hear those toots, I'm like, oh, thank God. He must feel 1000 times sweet relief. Same way as when you give him a. Get a nice burp and you get that, like, deep belch. Wonderful.

[Josh]

And then Frida has the thing, it's called, like the fanny whistle or whatever it's called. Have you heard about this?

[Ben]

No. And I love. I love Frida products. Frida's fantastic.

[Josh]

Shout out Frida.

[Ben]

We use their bath. It's wonderful.

[Josh]

It's called. Yeah, the windy whistle. The Frida baby. Windy Whistle.

[Ben]

Windy whistle.

[Josh]

And it's just like a little device that I think, like, helps. Helps the wind blow.

[Ben]

Really?

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Where do you blow it?

[Josh]

Yeah, not their butts. It's like.

[Ben]

Oh. Oh, you stick it in their butt?

[Josh]

Yeah, it's like a little hollow tube with like a little small little insert for their butt. And it just kind of eases the flow of traffic.

[Ben]

Got it. Okay. So it's kind of like a stent.

[Josh]

Yeah, it's a butt stent. We should come out with a competitor.

[Ben]

We're gonna come out with a competitor product. The butt stent.

[Josh]

You tell people you're like, ugh, I have bad news, guys. I need a stent. They're like, oh, my God. Like, where are you gon? Oh, like Columbia Press. Be like, no, like Rite Aid. My butt stand to butt stand.

[Ben]

Oh, man, that's funny. That's really funny.

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Yeah.

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[Ben]

What diapers are you using? What diapers did you use?

[Josh]

So as I said before, you know we started with coterie. Coterie, which is so fancy, so French. Good day. Bonjour.

[Ben]

I really don't feel bad. Like, I'm sorry. The coterie. Okay. I hope nobody, please. I hope I don't get in trouble. These diapers are just. They don't need to be beautiful. Who needs a beautiful diaper? It's under all the clothing.

[Josh]

They're cute.

[Ben]

They're so cute. I find them significantly less effective than Pampers and Huggies.

[Josh]

Pampers and Huggies are the gold standard.

[Ben]

They really are. They're OGs. And I've been using. I was using the newborn Josh and B and B and B. This wasn't it for my boy. My boy is. Huggies and Pampers ones are perfect. Nothing seeps through the cracks. I put it right under his belly button. It's fantastic. The newborn ones, at least. The coterie ones. He. He was peeing and it would hit. Like he would be wet. Like I would feel his back. There's nothing more inconvenient than that. I wake you up from a nap and not only do I have to change your diaper in the middle of the night, but I also have to change your undershirt. And then these onesies, which, by the way, the ones with the snaps. What are you, nuts?

[Josh]

Nuts.

[Ben]

Ok, nuts. What are you doing to me?

[Josh]

What am I in the 20s?

[Ben]

What are you doing to me with these snaps?

[Josh]

What is it, prohibition?

[Ben]

And I have to say I prefer the zipper. I understand people like the magnets. I'm a big zipper guy.

[Josh]

No, the magnets are weird, too. The magnets think I make me think I have special needs, like 100%.

[Ben]

It's like I can't zipper, but I can't. I can't use a zipper. Yeah, no, it's nuts. It's nuts. But these snaps. Baby clothing with snaps. What are you, nuts? Terrible. Terrible.

[Josh]

You're so lucky, Ben, too, that you love this. And I love it, too, because it's uniquely. It's a gift and you can't decide. And I see so many people, men especially, but women too, were like, who are trudging through this time and. And you know what? Sometimes when their kids are a little older, they grow into all star parents. They're just not great at the baby phase. But if you can be great and love the baby phase, even though it's gross and tiring and all the things, it's so wonderful.

[Ben]

I love it. We are lucky. We are fortunate that I guess we're wired to love it. But I think that it just comes from, like, somebody did that for me. Like, I don't know if you had this same thought, but, like, I walk around the world differently looking at people. The world can't be as dark a place as people claim that it is. When you have this many humans that another human ensured that this person stayed alive. It's really hard to keep a baby alive if you don't give a shit, right? Like, if people were really that evil, there weren't. There wouldn't be that many people in the world. You have 8 billion people in the world. That means that there were 8 billion other people. Do you think cared enough to keep. I do, but I personally do.

[Josh]

But do you think the other side of that debate is true too? Where it's like, people always go, like, it's so hard to have a kid, and yet it's obscenely easy because there are a lot of assholes who are having kids and that, like, kids are weirdly. I'm not making light of what you're saying because I agree with you. I think in addition to, like, both things can be true. Like, and I say this to parents too, when they're like, crazy, neurotic, terrified. I'd be like, no, babies are born pretty resilient, like, because we've only had these modern conveniences for the last hundred years. They're born. They're born to last. If they.

[Ben]

In most cases, I think that people that. I think even the people that seem like assholes to you just must be better parents and more patient behind the scenes. They must be like, unless they're. Unless they're truly. Which would be a terrible thought. Like, they hear a cry and they are so upset their day is ruined that now they have to go and change this diaper. Like, to every guy that has ever mentioned to me that, like, changing a diaper is a big deal. Like, grow the fuck up. And I have to assume that you're just, like, trying to make conversation and trying to make me feel bad for you. But grow up. It is so not a big deal at all. Like, what is the big deal? It takes a minute. I don't. And like, I remembered, like, I've had people that have. Like, there are guys that take stances, drawn lines in the sand. I don't change diapers. You've heard that before, right?

[Josh]

Yeah, that's bitch boy pussy shit. So stupid. Yeah. Fuck out of here.

[Ben]

It's also such an easy thing to do that your wife is then thankful for.

[Josh]

And also, you're disgusting if you're that manly. I can't even imagine the poops you take. The way you smell, the way your gym bag must smell. Like these people who would say something like that? I'm like, you're as gross as that kid of yours. And kids are cute. Even when they're gross. They're cute.

[Ben]

Cute, gross. I mean, yeah. So cute and gross. Love it. Yes.

[Josh]

Every three year old that my son Shai plays with, like, I don't. Because it would be inappropriate around. Around other parents, but I want to be like, can I clean your kid's nose? Because they're all sick. They're all. And like yellow infected snots coming out of their nose. And some of the parents don't catch it as quick. And I want to be like, I'll get it. Like, I just want to like, give.

[Ben]

Them some really good guy. Yeah. Yeah. It's fascinating. Baby acne is fascinating. One day bumps the next day completely clear.

[Josh]

Mm.

[Claudia]

It's fascinating.

[Ben]

You can't touch it. You can't touch it. That's what they say.

[Josh]

I've heard you can put breast milk on it.

[Ben]

You can, but you don't. At least in our experience, you don't have to. It goes away by itself.

[Josh]

Sure.

[Ben]

The rest of it, like, like the dry skin and stuff that of course you, like, put the A and D or I wonder if you could just put breast milk on that too. I wonder how healing breast milk is. I wonder if it would dry up. Dry. I wonder if it would make dry skin smooth.

[Josh]

The destiny. The destiny is cute. The destiny is you get that nice foam layer, man. I just want to powder up in the middle. In the middle of the day.

[Ben]

I know Desitin because as a man with a lifelong chub. With lifelong chub rub, Desitin is the best for chub rub. If you really are.

[Josh]

You're Desitin as a grownup.

[Ben]

I did, yes. Thank God. With some weight loss. I don't have the same level, but like Ben at 285 pounds, who spent an extra three hours in a bathing suit. My God, is he rubbing Desitin in between his legs?

[Josh]

My buddy Len, when I was doing this movie in New York, he came and visited me during the last week. And this is like wheels coming off. We're both 20 years old, we're getting high, we're going nuts. And so I took him all over New York and I walked his ass to the Guggenheim, down to the Village, like up and down the city. And it's hot. It's mid August. And we're eating, babe, we're eating good. That good Puerto Rican food. We're having Italian soup, dumplings, crushing. Two of my favorite stories from that trip is he got such bad chub rub that he had to lay splayed in the hotel bed like this. As I gunshot, I. I took an RPG of Gold Bond and I'm shoulder. I'm shoulder hole, string and going all over his undercarriage. And then he got so bloated and put on so much weight during the week that he was in New York that when he got home, his dog barked because he didn't recognize him so good.

[Ben]

Yeah, man, chub rub is real. Take care of your rashes, ok? Take care of them. Take care.

[Josh]

Have you taken the Rubster out for a walk by yourself yet?

[Ben]

Yet? No, no. We've, as I mentioned, we've been doing literally everything together. Like, everything. But we've. But he's been out and he loves being outside. Yeah, that boy. If he, if we want him to go to sleep, throw him in the stroller, take him outside. He loves a nice gust of wind. Falls right to sleep. It's so funny. I'll be, I'll be pushing the stroller and even in the house, I'll accidentally, like, bump it into the side of the door before I leave. And I'm thinking to myself, that jolt would wake me. Nothing. Nothing. That said, the second that swaddles off, I'm sure you know this. Look, he's laying down, he's asleep. No swaddle all of a sudden.

[Josh]

Oh, yeah. Startle reflex.

[Ben]

The startle reflex, it's. It's so cute. I just look at him and when he's like fully like this, I just want to give him a big bear hug. And that's the last thing he wants. He just wants to be back in his little cocoon.

[Josh]

You're going to start to. When you guys eventually start doing a little bit of things on your own, being able to like, take him and roll calls while. And he won't wake up from the calls and you just like, can walk and take calls, listen to podcasts and get some steps in. That's my, my friend Ryan Holiday. The author says, like, do not agree to take any calls unless it's extremely necessary to do a zoom where you are in person. Any call without walking, like, it will change your life. Sitting in a chair for calls is unacceptable.

[Ben]

I love it. I love it.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Ben]

It's going to be my entire personality that I'm out with him walking nine miles a day. Facts. I love it.

[Josh]

Should we get to Woody Nuts?

[Ben]

Perfect.

[Josh]

Awesome. Our what do you nuts Moment of the week are our gripes with people, places and things both big and small. Whatever's sticking in your craw, Ben, go for it.

[Ben]

So I'm in this hospital, right. I mentioned there's a Kiki outside. I'm in the room, and look, she's not sleeping. Right. She, of course, had major surgery, so I understand why she's on painkillers around the clock, but I. Josh, I haven't slept in. I slept, like, one hour. Two hours. The first 48 hours. I just couldn't sleep in that hospital. I couldn't do it. I tried. I could not do it. And what happens when you don't get any sleep, Josh? You get a headache, right? So I thought, okay, I'm in a hospital, right? If I had a headache. Headache, no problem. I'll walk outside to the Kiki Happening at the nurse's station and say, hi, could I have three Advil, please? I have a headache. We don't treat the spouse. What are you nuts? I didn't ask for. I asked for three Advil. We don't treat the spouse. That was the line. We don't treat the spouse. I didn't ask to be treated. I can go downstairs to the gift shop and pick up Advil. You can't give me three Advil. They acted like I asked for a. Ask for surgery. We don't treat the spouse. What are you, nuts? You should treat the spouse. Give the spouse three Advil. It's so not a big deal.

[Josh]

That is a dickhead response. Because I could understand if they're like, we can't go into the hospital supply, but we keep a bottle of Advil because we're, you know, a bunch of, you know, tired nurses who get headaches.

[Ben]

Yeah. Who need Advil. Take it.

[Josh]

Take from our stash.

[Ben]

Yeah. We don't treat the spouse. I was read to filth. I walked back in and. Oh, I also another. This is a me. What are you nuts, Josh? Me? What are you, nut. I slept shirtless in the hospital, and I did on occasion. I was delirious. I did, on occasion, leave my room.

[Josh]

Oh, my God, bro.

[Ben]

In. In just my underwear. No, no.

[Josh]

You know, we have a name for that in Yiddish. It's called a Yachner.

[Ben]

Literally, I swear to God. And especially, like, the first day, I was like, all right, I'm gonna wear socks.

[Josh]

By day two. You're just in Calvin Klein.

[Ben]

I'm just in Calvin Klein, and everyone.

[Josh]

Can see you don't ever call me out about anything ever again. This fool's at Sinai west walking around like Al Bundy.

[Ben]

It was so nuts. Looking back on it then I'm like, I will do anything to sleep. Anything. And then. And then looking back on it, it was so nuts.

[Josh]

What did you need outside of the room?

[Ben]

Advil? Water?

[Josh]

You went up and talked to the charged nurse in your underwear?

[Ben]

I think I was wearing a shirt.

[Josh]

That turned you away.

[Ben]

I think I was wearing a shirt. But yes, shirt and underwear. Shirt and underwear. I'm so funny. I packed like a whole suitcase, Josh. Like a whole wardrobe. I never wore anything.

[Josh]

This is like if you were a Dear Media in your underwear, for sure. Could you imagine Michael and Lauren, by the way? They would love it. That's spectacular. I love it. Okay. My woodya nuts are artichokes. This is a ridiculous vegetable.

[Ben]

Stop it.

[Josh]

I love artichokes. We all do. It is the dumbest exercise in futility ever. Like, fair, fair. So good. I love it too. But the fact that you're getting about 10% of meat from this gigantic, thorny, prehistoric looking vegetable and you have to douse it in some sort of heavy, creamy, like remoulade or melted butter, just. And then it's all to get to the heart. Let's get to the heart. Meanwhile, it looks. It's a crime. It's an. It's a vegetable crime scene with all this shit everywhere. It's total woody and nuts.

[Ben]

Total woody and nuts. I love, love artichoke.

[Josh]

Me too.

[Ben]

Stuffed artichoke, my absolute favorite.

[Josh]

That's so good.

[Ben]

It's a good call that it's really a joke of a vegetable because in order to truly enjoy it, this is not a vegetable. This is a cake. This is a fried fish. This is the. No, no. Doused in butter. It's oregano. That's what it is. Doused. Josh, if this episode isn't 5 stars, what are you nuts?

[Josh]

So true.

[Ben]

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