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Monster morons. Welcome back to the Good Guys podcast, Josh.
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What's one thing that your beautiful wife Paige does that makes you think, oh, my God, here we go again.
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Listening. Oh, my God. I. There's so many.
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As I was writing that question, I was like, if Josh asked me this, I would say, skip
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two Jews, both big and tall. No subject too small for the Good Guys. A Mother Stream premium podcast team. Make it your weekly routine. It's a Good Guys. And if you don't give us five stars. What are you, nuts?
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What are you nuts? Yeah, we're the good guys.
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They're not the great guys. We're just the good and good and the good guys.
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Whoa, Josh, this is. This was even too much for my wife, ok? She's company coming over tonight. She's hosting a mahjong game. Mahjong is all the rave. You know that, okay? Everybody's playing mahjong. I'm not even kidding. Everybody's playing mahjong.
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Okay?
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She cleaned the house. She says, if you can do me a favor over the next 24 hours, I have people coming over tonight. Do you mind not sitting on the couch? What are you nuts? I can't. We're not allowed to have people know that our couches are used.
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I mean, this is an apartment that you haven't been in for six months. It could not be cleaner. It's.
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No, Josh, the apartment is spotless. You could lick the floors, but heaven forbid, one of the cushions looks used. Oh, that said, I am. I am a large individual. Like, it's not like. It's not like somebody small sitting on the couch. I definitely. I definitely leave a mark. I do leave a mark. Maybe we need to get a couch that has a slightly better spring back. But then those aren't cozy.
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You know, I secretly vacillate between thinking your level of fear of your wife is endearing and also. What are you nuts,
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by the way? It's nuts. It's nuts. But, Josh, and I mean this wholeheartedly, I'm better for it. Otherwise, this guy. This guy, unchecked, no good.
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What's that look like?
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That's probably like £400 in Atlantic City.
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That guy sounds like the Tits.
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I don't even know. That would be my nickname. I'm the tits.
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Tits offer over there is huffing caffeine and playing baccarat.
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Yeah, I don't even know.
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I see you with lo mein noodles at a pai gow table, telling people about, you know, your crazy times at yeshiva.
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What a dream. I got now that I'm back in the city, I really need to. I need to eat some Chinese food. Josh, this is. This is the Mecca. This is it. You want to order in Chinese? It's here. Florida doesn't have the same options. There's actually one place that I've been dying to try in Fort Lauderdale. They say it's. It's called Rainbow Palace. Apparently it's very famous fine china. Haven't made my way there, but, Josh, you got any corner, you pick up delicious Chinese food? I haven't ordered it yet, though. I need to. It makes me sick, though. It makes me sick. I shouldn't order it, by the way. This is the mind. This is the mind of a mentally ill person, Okay? I go to you, I say, josh, I should order Chinese food. As I'm talking to you about ordering Chinese food, I'm convincing myself it's not good for me. I won't feel good, okay? I can't eat any of it. This is a mentally ill brain.
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I think that's correct if I think that's healthy. You're just unfamiliar with health.
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Yeah.
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I think you do what a healthy person does, which is think through the drink. Like, I'd love to have a drink amongst friends, but I would not like to go down on a man named Randy in exchange for fentanyl later this week. Which is where it'll lead.
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The tits loves Randy. Okay?
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Tits is Randy.
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Tits is Randy. Tits is Randy. You're so right. Maybe this is just my brain growing up. It's correcting itself. It's saying, you know, I want Chinese food. But Ben, we know after 34 years, 34 long years, that those. That Chinese food isn't going to make you feel good.
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I would go in and I would get a couple of things. I would get. I would go in between before 4 o'. Clock, so I could get a lunch order, lunch special, and I would get one with egg roll, hot and sour soup. And I would get just the fried chicken wings platter with. With fried rice, bunch of sweet and sour sauce on it, bunch of hot sauce on it. And then separately I would get an egg drop soup, fried wontons, and a general Chow's chicken with rice. Keep your broccoli. What are you trying to prove?
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Oh, my God, Josh, that sounds like a fucking dream. It's that sweet and sour sauce, that radioactive color. Mm. It's almost like a neon orangey pink. It's really good. When it's pink, it's red, but all
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I'm seeing is green.
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It's absolutely fantastic. It's gonna make you feel terrible later. Speaking of terrible, Josh, on Wednesday, I was struck in the middle of the night with norovirus. I'm not going into it. Down for the count on Wednesday. Thursday recovery. Friday night, Claudia has a dinner, and I'm feeling much better. I feel great. The great Ruby is asleep. I say to myself, josh, I haven't eaten in two days. I'm gonna treat myself. And I ordered in Thai food. Josh.
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Oh, God. Your vice, your.
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Your.
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Your mistress.
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This was. I ordered, and I'm a Thai girl.
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Over.
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This is light, Josh. This is light. I ordered veggie spring rolls with that beautiful, like, lightly acidic dipping sauce. You know, the Thai dipping sauce that I'm talking about? That's like a little.
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We all do. It's got the little specks in it, those little fun pepper.
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Yes, yes, yes. I dunk them in and I save a little on the side because I'm then going to pour it on my pad Thai later. I take. I open up my pad Thai. I get extra tofu. I get a big side of peanut sauce. And, Josh, it was so unbelievably delicious, I wanted to cry. Now, let me tell you, I finished it. I didn't feel good. The fact that I had. I had two spring rolls and one pad Thai. That's it. In the past. In the past. And I didn't feel good. In the past, I would have ordered, no joke, two orders of spring rolls, a Thai crepe dumpling, which is my favorite, but I skipped it. A pad Thai and a pad. See you. How could. How could one have finished that? Do you ever think to yourself during those days where you could really eat because you can't eat like that anymore is. Has there ever been a. Like, do you ever think to yourself, how could I eat like that? How could I physically do that?
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Yeah, I mean, you. You grow up without a dad and on Nickelodeon, and you can put it away like that, but it's crazy. Trauma. Building building blocks.
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You think that's what it is. Like, it's just. You can just eat and eat and eat and eat.
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It's.
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It's so crazy.
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Think. And I don't mean to, like, therapize it, right?
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But, like, I don't know what. I don't know why, Josh, but you
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have a wonderful, like. And you admittedly have a bit of a wonderful disposition. Not that you're without your service. You meshagas, you know, as we all have. But it's a wonderful trait about you, right? Like you say, like, you. You do live on the rosy side of the street, you know, More. More. More so than not. And so when you were packing it away as a kid like that, do you think that that addiction aspect, like, was it tied to any trauma or was it just pure addiction?
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I. I have to assume it was just pure addiction and a love for food. Like, I really. There's no. There's certainly no familial. Thank God. I'm a very fortunate, very fortunate person. Best parents. Un. Like, there's nothing. There's nothing there that would trigger it. That said, my parents were big eaters. We grew up in a house of eating. My dad was a caterer.
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There's no way you grew up with the healthiest of eating environments.
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Oh, no. Oh, no. I grew up. I grew up in a. I guess actually the only thing to unpack would be. I grew up in a house where there's bad foods and good foods and diet culture exists immediately, which we've spoken about on this podcast regularly. Like, I think I was on. I was eating smart ones at 13. I tried my dad's liquid Optifast diet at 16. Like, I tried all of these things to lose weight. I did everything but go to fat camp. But like. But like everything else, I was. I was dieting since I was 10 years old. And I actually had this conversation with Claude last night. We're just, like, talking about Ruby, how we. It's not even about keeping him slim. It's. How do we not fuck up his head as it relates to food? And I think a lot of it is what I just said, that there aren't good foods and bad foods. I think that's really what messed me up. That. And I still have it to this day where I consider Chinese food a bad food.
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It's.
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It's a bad food. The way I eat it doesn't mean it's a bad food. You can go and have General Chao's chicken and not be bad. It's just if you. If you eat it till you're sick, obviously that's a problem. Right?
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But the poison's always in the dose. But you're right. And I see it like, my older son is much more. Has a little bit more of that obsessive gene, and he's tall and thin and gorgeous, and yet we have to police what he eats because left to his own devices, he doesn't see an issue with, like, every day. In theory, he's having a cheat meal just because he's eating, like A kid, right? Like, every day he's either having pancakes for breakfast or, you know, a big burger or a chicken. You know what I mean? Like, and then we try to put a health halo around it and bookend it with healthy meals and so. But, like, left to his own devices, he'll make the wrong decision all the time. And it's like, how do you limit him without fucking him up?
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Yeah, it's really, really tricky. It's really tricky because technically you should have a cheat meal every day. It shouldn't even be called a cheat meal. It should be called balance.
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Yeah, I mean, he's a kid, right? So it's like.
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No, but I'm saying even. Even not kids. Like, let's say adults. Like, if you every single day, one of your meals was not healthy, but your other two are perfectly healthy. I think that's like a fine life of moderation, Nate. Right. I can't. I can't do that. I can't do that, though, which is again, my problem. If I have a bad meal now, I'm better about it. But back, I don't know, four, four years ago, if I had a bad breakfast, Josh, if I started with pancakes, my lunch is bad, my dinner is bad, and then I'm in a bad cycle until I tell myself that I'm starting a diet.
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Yeah, it's interesting that for you it triggers. The wheels are off. Like, for me, more so than not, I go. If I have a crazy lunch, I just go, I'm fasting the rest of the day.
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Have you been to a pliables, you
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guys, acai type thing?
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So they have a beautiful part of their menu that's just plain steel cut oatmeal. You add your toppings. Fantastic. Josh. I had a little oatmeal this morning. I had some strawberries, I had some bananas, and I had a couple of walnuts. Feel wonderful. This is great.
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You know that joke about walnuts?
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Now tell me, what do you call
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nuts on the wall?
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Walnuts.
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What do you call nuts on a chest?
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Chestnuts.
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What do you call nuts on a chin?
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Chin? Nuts.
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De nuts.
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Don't talk positively about food because food is a ruse.
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It's like I went to Polar. I went to Polo Bar Saturday night. You think that's a ruse?
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So good. No food in general. It's just like we should all be living off Soylent and it's enough already. This. This adoration, this obsession with food. I know times a day. I'm over it.
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Okay? That's so true. I completely agree. We should be having one beautiful meal a day. I completely agree. And that one beautiful meal should be a Polo Bar or. And I have the menu. I can send it to you. Did you see the catch reopened at stores. People are saying it is amazing. I have to go.
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I'm obsessed. I want to try. I'm catching.
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Used to be so good. And I have the menu. I'll just say I went to Polo Bar Saturday night.
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Polo Bar, for our dear listeners. I know it's to do with Ralph Lauren.
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Yes. Polo Bar is the restaurant next to the Ralph Lauren on 55th street and 5th Avenue. It is a. When I tell you this is not a. You love to DM me. Ben, can I get a reservation at Carbone? No. Ben, can I get a reservation at Polo Bar? Literally, you would have to give me. Impossible. I can't get a reservation at Polo Bar. Nobody can. Claudia can. Nobody can. Ok? Nobody. And we went and. It's not even the food, Josh. It's just the vibe. You walk in and it's. It's equestrian themed. It's Ralph Lauren. You think brown bar. It's browns. It's horses, it's greens.
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Would you believe Rugby bar is rugby themed?
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It is outstanding. Outstanding. The vibe.
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Is it. Is it American continental food, I would imagine.
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Yeah. Burgers. But they have a great oversoul. I got a. I got a little potato with caviar. Josh. I looked at the people I was at dinner with. I was like, I'm going to order something really fucking stupid. I promise you. I'm paying for it, but I'm ordering something really fucking stupid. These little pillowy potatoes, Josh. With a dollop of caviar on top. Insane. Insane. They have a Reuben that's cut up into like eight pieces that people love to order.
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I don't like hearing Reuben's cut up in eight pieces. Because of my darling nephew.
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I know. We don't talk like this. No. Single Reuben, Single. Big Ruben, big bites. Big bite. They have a great Caesar salad. They have a great tuna tartar. Their burger they're known for. It's just great, Josh.
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And what's the new catch menu? Because I saw it on Brian Kelly's Instagram, his story, and it looked insane.
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I was going to say this is. Let me. I'm going to send it to you. I'm going to send it to you.
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I saw that there was a fried chicken bite with caviar that looked kind of crazy.
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This menu. Josh, man.
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And then maybe we could talk about the food at Coachella.
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Oh, yes.
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Oh, my God. Is Coachella officially an ick?
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Definitely. Definitely.
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For me, it's the ick.
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I think so.
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Josh, do we have to give.
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Look at this.
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You know, no one talks about Bonaro.
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I. I agree. Let's talk more about Bonnaroo. Look at this menu. Okay. Let Me, I have to get lambs. Landscape mode. How do I. How do I rotate my.
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Go get your readers, you old bastard.
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Literally, I'm a hundred. I'm turning into my dad. Okay, we're going through this menu, Josh. What's. What's. What's poking out at you here? Okay, we're going down. I'm sure the salad's delicious. The Toyo sue selection flown in from the Toyosu market. Hamachi watermelon crudo, truffle sashimi crudo.
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To catch.
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Ahi tuna pizza. Josh, we've just started. Ok, We've just started. They used to have a catch. I don't know if they still have it. They used to have this board. It was yellowtail tartare, tuna tartare and salmon tartare side by side in a board painted thin. Oh, this is. I have to go. Oh, my God. This is.
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But let me ask you this, right? And this is going to be a good clip.
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Yes.
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The best version of different countries. Foods in America is as good as the best version in their country. Like, why fly in that fish from a Japanese market when you could get it off the coast of Santa Barbara? And it's just as good, if not better.
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Money and marketing, Josh. Okay.
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Money and marketing. That's what I was going to say.
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Eminem, you can mathers, you can charge way more money and you can market it.
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Okay, Right.
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That's it. That's it. By the way, wrong. I don't know this. I'm sure that catch isn't doing this. I'm not going and vetting. Was this flown in from Toyosu? Okay.
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Ask for a passport.
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Is it illegal, Josh, to do that? That be considered false advertising? It would. Yeah, it would. Wow. Yikes. I think there are a couple of people that are probably doing the not catch catch. I'm sure they're flying in from Toyosu.
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Catch is known for their legitimacy.
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Their legitimacy. And what they do with Toyosu for sure. Okay. But these other places, Josh, I don't know.
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Yeah.
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What about this that you put on the menu? The specific type of salmon. How do I know? Farm raised Norwegian.
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What am I going to ask it? You know.
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No, I can't ask it. It's dead. And before it was dead, it couldn't speak.
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And what do you think about this? Because I have heard this. That a farm raised. Never mind. What were you saying?
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I've heard it, Josh. I think what you were going to say is that a farm raised salmon is died. Was that you Were going to say,
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I do know that farm raised salmon has died. But as we know from the great Max Lugaver that it's. It's nbd. No big deal. In fact, it's kind of a vitamin xanthinen or whatever it is.
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By the way, I believe that it doesn't mean it's not icky. Like, I'm totally with that. It could still be fine. Better for you. That said, it's kind of like getting a tomato that's brown and dyeing it red. It's just. There's just something strange about it.
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I think I heard it. Is that like. Because there, there's the Costco sashimi hack, right? Where people are getting tuna and salmon from Costco and turning into sashimi. And they said, first of all, anything called sushi grade is a total marketing ploy. Fake, fake, fake, fake. And that if it's farm raised, it means it doesn't have worms, it doesn't have any critters in it, and only the wild fish. You have to worry about being out there hanging out, getting parasites. Because I'm going to say it here first. Wild fish have STDs. Okay? They do me a salmon with chlamydia.
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No, we don't want that. We absolutely don't want that.
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I chlamydia from fucking. You think I want to get it from Salmon? Such a boring, boring way.
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No, it's the worst way. Get it from salmon.
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No, no.
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Good. Miss me on that.
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Unless her name is Salmon. You think Bill Gates was hooking up with a couple girls named Salon all over on EPI Island?
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I don't think. I don't think that you want chlamydia from a girl named Salmon. I'd rather get it from Salmon.
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That wouldn't be awful. Maybe it would be. I love this. Thank God.
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Ph. Sushi grade tuna. Quickly. The term sushi grade. You're so right. Such fraud. It's a cure. It's. You have a piece of fish, you turn it into sushi or you turn it into lox if you wait too long. That's it. It's. There's levels to this shit, but you cure it. Salt and sugar, 30 minutes in the fridge, take it off, all of a sudden it's sushi grade. It's a little shiny, it's a little soft, it's a little more delicious. You wait two days, Josh, you have locks. But it's true.
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Because if you watch like that Jiro Dreams of Sushi documentary about the famous sushi chef in The Tokyo subway. Sushi is rice. It's actually about the rice, which is wild. But when you taste good rice at a great sushi place, you're like, oh, I see. Oh, I see what I've been missing.
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It's all of it. It's all of it. But, yeah, if you go to a store and buy sushi grade tuna and you try to make sushi without doing anything else, you're going to be very disappointed. Yeah, very disappointed.
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Not fun. Why are almost all sushi chefs men? Is that because it's the only place that makes sense anymore? No, I'm kidding.
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Josh. This is a good question. Sorry, Olivia. This is a good question.
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It's because of their hands. It's because of the hand size and the natural. I mean, obviously women, like, everything could come in and after a couple years,
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they got big hands. Women, Women got big hands. Some, not all of them. Some.
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The heat of the hand. It's the touch, it's the way it's. Whatever version of sushi we're used to is made from the hands of men. Just like. Just like the way it turned on in the hands of a man.
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I never even thought about sushi being so gay.
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But it is.
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It is. Yeah.
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You're being fed by a dude.
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The whole experience. You sit at the omakase bar. Maybe that's why I love it so much. I'm being fed by a random midd, middle aged Japanese man.
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You're low. You're basically on your knees.
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Oh, my God.
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Well, speaking of food, did you know there was an outrageous $25 pizza slice at Coachella that's allegedly making people seriously ill. Puke. Chella. It's not just the beets that are sick. Justin Bieber says he performances and is apparently not the only thing making Coachella attendees stomachs turn. Revelers claim they have fallen ill after attending the 2026 Music Fest this past weekend, having overpriced pizza at the vendor spicy pie per viral video blowing up online. So let's not ruin a restaurant. If there was something, you know, like food poisoning happens, maybe it had to do with it, maybe it didn't, who knows? But apparently people paid 25 bucks for pizza and did not feel great after.
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For a slice?
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Yeah, for a slice.
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Just don't know why they do this. I saw these menu items. I think it was a post article too. And it just. You're paying so much money for the ticket. Like, why can't you just pay, like, charge a little bit more for the ticket than make the food just, like, a little approachable. Like, that's what I loved about the Masters. The Masters was also this weekend. Once you're at the Masters, I don't think the food prices have changed that dramatically in a long time. It's really not that expensive. Like, I don't. I don't know why Coachella is not making their money from the food. They're definitely making their money from the drinks. You want to gouge people out on alcohol, no problem. You keep water low and you keep food low. I just think it's fucked up. Like, you're there for three days, you need to eat, right? Like, people are starving. Unless you're letting them. And you can't even bring in, like, a protein bar. They won't let you do that.
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I don't think it's because Coachella is charging people to be a vendor there, right? So now they have to cover their overhead. So if you're this random pizza joint and you had to pay, I mean, you know, what would it be? 10, 10,000 bucks to be there for the weekend? Probably like that. And so that's how you're fucking pizza. I mean, there's good margins in pizza, but you got to sell.
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No, I'm not blaming the. I'm blaming the festival organizers. I'm not blaming the individual vendors.
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No, I agree with you. It's a bad cycle, I'm saying, right? Like, Coachella shouldn't charge them so much, and then they have to charge the people.
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It's also, if you're serving alcohol, I've never really thought about this, but if you're serving alcohol at a. At an event and you know that people are on drugs, certainly food, some type of food needs to be an approachable amount of money. Otherwise people are just going to get sick. People probably. Like, it's not like, I don't think that the person got sick, by the way, from a slice of pizza. They probably got sick from too much Molly. Ok. Or they probably got sick from making out with somebody who just, like, touched their ass. Like, Coachella is nutty. All these festivals are nutty. I don't think that you got food poisoning from a slice of pizza. I'm calling BS on that.
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Yeah. I don't really know. But one sort of PSA I will give people is if you are on the drugs and on the. You're eating drugs and. And drinking beers at a. At a festival and you have to go, God forbid, to the hospital or there's plenty of medics there, if you start to Feel a little wonky. Tell them what you're on. They're not going to arrest you. They're just there to save you. Always be honest with the doctor. But they, like, need to know kinda,
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can somebody arrest you? I've always wondered this, like, can you be arrested for being on Molly at, like, sure you could, but you could.
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It would be really. You'd have to be a real asshole.
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Yeah, yeah.
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And again, they're not gonna go if the medic's not gonna go get the cop. Right. The medic's just there being like, I need to know what to give you. And if you're on this, probably should stick away from these couple things.
B
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A
What else did you see from Coachella?
B
Because I just saw the prices like I saw the pro. Like there was like a menu board of prices of food. You want me to pull it up?
A
Please.
B
Yeah.
A
While you do that, I'll say. The pop singer pokes fun at Justin Bieber's bizarre Coachella 2026 performance. What the f. What did he mean? Pop singer Zara Larson shared her candid reaction to Justin Bieber's Coachella 2026 performance it's giving. Let's smoke and watch YouTube. The 28 year old wrote over footage of herself and her friends streaming Saturday's headlining set from the Indio California Music Festival. So, yeah, I guess, you know, basically Bieber sat for most of it, saying kind of karaoke to his own songs. But Bieber can do no wrong in my book. What do you think, Ben?
B
This is the. Who wrote that article? The Post.
A
And that was from the New York Post. Again, to all. To all barristers, solicitors, arbitrators, judges, mentors, mentees, mediators, paralegals, bailiffs, deputies, and anyone working in the county court system. That was an article from, you guessed it, the New York Post. All our articles are from there.
B
It's one search.
A
Oh, my God.
B
I know, I know. Yeah. Look, anybody who complained about Bieber, from what I saw, just isn't like a real fan of Bieber. Like an old school fan. Like, this was meant for. I saw somebody post about this. This was meant for like the girl who was 11 years old when he was 13, who fell in love with him. And he played so much old school stuff and he went through his. He had his, like.
A
Yeah.
B
And he just like gave the. Gave them everything, apparently. Very raw. And I think real fans loved it. I did see. Did you see Teddy Swims? I wish I went to that.
A
He.
B
Yeah, and he just. He brought up Vanessa Carlton and sang A Thousand Miles that had my heart. Okay. He brought up the Jonas Brothers and sang something. But he just, he. It's like when Kelly Clarkson on her show does Kellyoke and she just owns the song now. I think he's one of the. He's the same way. I hear him sing something, I'm like, oh, a Thousand Miles is Teddy Swims. Okay, it's yours. Also. He is a beautiful individual. He is a big, beautiful boy. I just want to give him a hug. One of us.
A
Oh, my God. Stacy o', Brien, my mother in law, she loves Teddy swims. I'm giving even my beautiful Irish, German, Catholic mother in law, old Jewish lady voice. I love Teddy Swim. I. I'd like to do a breaststroke with him.
B
I'd like to go swimming with Teddy.
A
So she's awesome. But yeah, we got. I mean, I've been a fan of Teddy Swim since when he. Back in the day, like 10 years ago, he did a cover of Mario's you should let me love you on YouTube.
B
Yes.
A
Oh, this is. Let me tell you, I put that on when, you know, Paige and I want a canoodle we wind up not canoodling. But I like the song.
B
He's got such a good rasp. I saw a comment which was like. I saw a comment under one of the posts that was like, this is who Jelly Roll thinks he is. And I chuckled, no shade to jelly roll.
A
But I chuckled, no shade to jelly roll. I don't know a lot of jelly rolls music, but I don't even. I've never had a jelly roll, so I don't know. But shout out to him.
B
I've had at least a million jelly rolls.
A
So what is it like a jelly donut?
B
No, a jelly. Oh, wait, I'm thinking jelly rings. Sorry. A million jelly rings. Wait, you thought that. That you've never had jelly?
A
Singing down south, South. Drugging and drinking man named himself after his Jewish candy. This is Ka Jelly Ring.
B
This is Halva. It's an amazing rat name.
A
This is Young Halliva. And this is Young Marshmallow twist.
B
Smell it. Twist. That's good stuff. Oh, my God, Josh. I have the Coachella menu board in case you can't write. So it was the Vial street foods board. And this is from Delish. A gyro. Josh, 20 bucks. A Greek salad, 15 bucks. That seems appropriate. A Greek salad with meat, $20. Good price. Falafel, 15. Chicken Caesar wrap, 18. I don't see issues here. Oh, this stuff.
A
Like, they're pricey but not insane.
B
This is pretty bad. Fresh cut chips.
A
14.
B
Oh, fresh cut carne asada chips, 20. Sounds delicious. Bacon.
A
Could you imagine working a fryer in the desert midday, making fresh cut chips?
B
No, I can't. Oh, wait. Okay, that was not even a bad one. Okay. San Mateto pizza. Their Charcuterie board is $40, but what's
A
on it and how big?
B
Yeah, honestly, feeding four, I highly doubt it feeds four. But there is truffle, prosciutto, Italian, sweet salami, mortadello Italian spicy salami, fresh burrata cheese, baby arugula. You know, none of this seems so bad. I'm not going to name the place. There was a chicken place that had a chicken sandwich with fries for 30, chicken tenders for 26, fries for 12. That's pretty. That's pretty steep, but it's not.
A
It's not insane.
B
Josh, you want to do a little more on mail?
A
Sure.
B
More on mail. Submissions have been through the roof. You're writing into goodguys podcast1mail.com. Let me tell you, they are fantastic. Keep them up. Hey, guys, I'm 32, married. We just had our first kid, six months ago. My wife's incredible. Doing the most. No complaints there. You think she has a bullet to his head as he's writing this. But recently she started doing this thing where she'll ask me to watch the baby for, quote, 20 minutes so she can shower, which of course, I say yes to. Totally normal. The issue is it's never 20 minutes. It's 20 minutes and she's blow drying her hair, she's doing skin care, reorganizing the bathroom drawer. Suddenly I'm on solo dad duty for an hour and 15 minutes without warning again. Of course, it's my kid, I'm happy to do it. That said, don't sell me on 20 minutes. Am I crazy for this Communication is so hard.
A
I thought I was good at it until I got married. It sounds like a failure in communication.
B
Yeah, I think it's also. If it's ongoing, this is a strong term, but she's a liar if it's ongoing. If it's once in a while, you got to cut her some slack. But that I. I could see if. If she does that every single day, hey, I'll be back in 20. And you're back in an hour and 15. My wife would never do that to me. I would unintentionally do that to my wife, by the way. Not as a regards. Not in regards to Ruby. Cause I'm very, very, very aware of that. But in regards to something else. Like, hey, I'm gonna grab a coffee, I'll be right back. And then I take a phone call and I'm back 20 minutes after I said I would be there. Which isn't a problem. It's only a problem if you're trying to. If you're trying to be on a schedule with somebody. If she's waiting for me, if she's doing something right. So this is only a problem if you had something that you needed to do. Like if he's working, I don't know. I tend to side with her, but I kind of want to side with him.
A
It's a hard thing. What I would. I think the easy solution is to start assuming that when she says 20, that it's going to be an hour. And so plan for that. And then also just say to her in the times where you can't facilitate it, go, happy to do 20, but it's got to be a tight 20. And my wife and I will say that to each other, like, because sometimes there's this great new TikTok about a guy who likes to go into stores. He's like, don't go into a store with me unless you want to dibble, dabble. He's like, because I'd be dibbing and dabbling all over the store. I want to dibble, dabble, and I want to look at shit like, that's me. And so I will dibble, dabble my time. That's. And it's same thing with me in the shower. Like, I'm spot searing around. I'm listening to a podcast, so I'll take 30 minutes, but I can get it done in 12 if you say, hey, I need, of course, 15. So I think that's what you have to communicate.
B
Of course. I'm just thinking that these are. It sounds like this is just like a different type of husband and wife relationship. Like, are you. Are you ever waiting for Paige? I think our wives are similar, which is why I asked that question. I think that there are a lot of husbands where the stereotypical wife. He's ready. She's an hour late getting dressed. That's at least. Like, what, like the TV that. That does. That's not at all. Like, Claudia is always ready before me. Always.
A
Yes, I know. But I also, like, there will definitely be times where I'll be with the kids. And she would probably say the same of me. And I'll be like, I haven't seen Paige in an hour. And she's in bed, like, doing work, like, and I'll be like, oh, I thought you'd come back down and check in.
B
It's like that Homer Simpson meme. She's backed into the bushes.
A
Yeah. And I'll be like, where'd you go? But. But then she, she knows with me, right? Like, if I say I'm going to Equinox for an hour I want, it'll probably be closer to an hour and a half to hour 45. Unless you tell me we have a drag out deadline. Cannot mess around because I'm going to go, yeah, I'm going to work out for an hour, but then maybe I'll shower and do a quick Schmidt. Or I might, like, stop at the Earth bar and treat myself to a delicious smoothie.
B
I think you gave tremendous advice about five minutes ago, which is start. Start communicating the actual amount of time that something is truly going to take you. It's a much better way to live. I started doing that with golf. Like, I would always communicate, like, oh, I'll be back by three. When could I be back by three? Yeah, if there's no traffic. If there isn't like things that are unforeseen. Like, it's. It's not. It's not important enough to say three. I should just say four, because then if I'm back at three, it's always a win. You're back early. No. Great. But if I'm back at 3:15 and I said 3 or 3:30 and I said 3, it's more annoying. Whatever. Over communicate and communicate the right amount of time. I think that's right.
A
What's another piece of mail?
B
Hey, Ben and Josh. I'm 28, live in Miami, and my roommate Sophie has a boyfriend who basically lives with us now, except he doesn't pay rent. He's here five to six nights a week. Yikes. Showers here, works from our kitchen table, has a toothbrush in our bathroom. Uh, I've been trying to be chill because I don't want to be that roommate, but here's where he crossed the line. I got home from work yesterday, and he was alone in the apartment. No Sophie. Just him sitting on our couch, watching tv, eating my leftovers. I was so thrown. I didn't even say anything. Just went to my room and texted her, like, is he supposed to be here? She said, yeah, I told him that he could stay here. Do I say something and risk making my living situation unbearable? Or is this just something I'm supposed to accept now that she has a boyfriend?
A
No. Say it. Say it now. Let it out. Blow it up. Let it go.
B
Yeah. This isn't right. If anything, they should be paying. They should. He should be paying rent, or the girl should be paying more in rent. Right. If it's three people. Now, is it about the rooms, Josh? Or is it about the people?
A
People.
B
People. I think so, too. Higher. Electric. I don't know if you pay for water, groceries. Also, just like, if you're. If you have a roommate, your apartment's probably not that big. Having this, like, big naked man eating a bunch of food on your couch. That's a real eyesore. And you don't have anywhere that you can go to just escape that big man. Just terrible.
A
He's eating your food in the living room. You got your. First of all, your roommate has a fetish for dopes.
B
Dopes.
A
Big, dumb dopes. Big, burly dumb dopes with his big fat fingers eating your pen a. Leftovers that you were looking forward to. This is really. You can't. Who said. Was it Dr. Phil? You can't fix dumb.
B
Like, by the way, what a quote. So right. You can't fix dumb.
A
Yeah. Your roommate's a dum dum. Her boyfriend's a bigger dum dum. And you just need to, like, check out of that mess, lay down the law, or start looking for a new place.
B
Yeah, it's terrible. Ugh, I forgot that that was even a thing. Like, you'd have a roommate. And I guess then it didn't really bother me because I was young and I didn't care. Now if I had a roommate and there was just randomly a stranger in my living room. Terrible. Like, what a. What a. Maybe we're too tightly wound now.
A
I used to date this girl, Leonard, Charlotte, Charlene, Leonard. And that's definitely not a code name. Charlene. And. And she lived with her roommate
B
Charlie.
A
Charlie and Charlene and Dana. And. But, you know. And Charlene and I dated for like six months. And. But, you know, it was like, very much more of just like a real regular hookup type situation. And I was like the phantom of the night, my boy. Like, I would just. I would pop in around 10, 30, 11, we'd hang out for a couple hours, I'd say hi to dinner. And then around 1:30 or 2, maybe, like over that six months, there were three or four times I slept over. But mostly it was like around 1:30 or 2, driving back home. Sometimes I'd hit the McDonald's on the way home and just be like, good for you, Josh. You're living.
B
Good for you, Josh. You were living.
A
Yeah. Let's get a shamrock shake and be proud of ourselves.
B
Delicious. It's like a reward. You have a woody and nuts.
A
Yeah. Our woody nuts moment of the week are gripes with people, places and things both big and tall, whatevers sticking in your car. This one is gonna be good once I find it. Oh, I'm over this thing where I'm gonna be abused through technology about the strength of my password. Leave me alone. Password leak. Password weak. Password strong. It's like, listen, I didn't ask for your opinion, okay? If I want it to be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, exclamation point. Don't no one cl. But if I want it to be that I'm keep you, I don't need to know that my password choosing is weak. Okay? Let me get hacked.
B
I want to be hacked.
A
You let me.
B
It's also a them problem. Josh. Why am I getting hacked like it's me? I put it in. If it's not me and they put it in. Don't let them in. Okay? Don't let them in. You're basically like a doorman in the sky. Just because somebody walks up to my dorm and says, hey, I'm Ben. You're not Ben. You don't look like Ben. I know Ben. Why don't they know you by now? Why does the server cloud know you by now? We don't have AI to know you. Can we just do it by face, by the way? Yeah, should. That's great. And then all of a sudden something's going to cut off your head and use your face, right? At least you won't be around to see that it was weak.
A
Okay, God, punch me out of this matrix.
B
You won't be around to see that it was weak. My what are you nuts? Josh, I've never experienced this before. This is one time. One first time this has ever happened to me. We take the sweet Ruby to brunch on Saturday. Okay. New York City, delicious brunch place. Okay. Walk in, I don't know, 11:30? Yeah, it's pretty busy. And they say, table for three plus a high chair. And he says, sorry, we don't have high chairs. What are you nuts? How are you a restaurant you don't have a high chair? This is again, you're open for lunch in a, in a very kid friendly part of town. And this is a, it's a kid. Like this isn't like a dive bar. This is like a normal, like I, I get it. If I went to a bar for, for brunch and got bar food, maybe a bar isn't equipped to have a high chair. I think it's woody and nuts to not own a high chair as a restaurant.
A
I think you're going to find though about half of restaurants don't.
B
Then this is a problem and this is going to be a repeat. What are you nuts? I couldn't believe it. My sweet Ruby couldn't sit up and eat his pre packed snacks. He had to sit in the stroller like some schlub. He's like, papa, I want to eat my chicken stick that you made me. I'm like, I know, Ruby, I know. I'm so sorry. And I gave him the chicken stick and he got it all over the stroller in the foot muff. You know this foot muffler?
A
I don't know. No.
B
Keeps him warm. It's like a tucked in. It's like an insulated foot muff. I digress. It's. What are you nuts? It's nuts.
A
But that's like there's like, like half of all bathrooms. Don't have changing tables, and I would say 75 of men's bathrooms don't have a changing table.
B
Nuts.
A
I know, but it's. This is what we're. This is where we're living.
B
We shouldn't be nuts. It's totally nuts. The we literally the only reason we all exist is because we were infants.
A
True.
B
Like. Like we. Infants are very much a part of society. You should have a place to change them and you should have a seat for them to sit in. You have a chair for me if I have a question, Josh, if there wasn't. You need. You need it to be wheelchair accessible, right? What if all of a sudden there was no ramp? It's a law. It should be illegal to not have a high chair. Same thing.
A
Well, I think there's probably places that don't want you to bring your kids.
B
That makes sense to me. This wasn't that. It didn't feel like that. Like that. I understand adults only. For sure. It's a little weird swinging environment, but yeah, adults only. I get it. I know. Like 11:30 brunch, Upper east side. People are going to bring their kids, Josh. People are going to bring their kids.
A
If your menu has eggs Benedict, get a high chair.
B
Get a high chair. That's it. That's all I'm saying. You know what else I'm saying, folks? This episode's five stars, okay? Otherwise, what are you, nuts? Listen to whoever you ate. Your podcasts, okay? Mondays and Thursdays, folks. Spotify. Spotify's big time. Okay? We love it over there on Spotify. The video. Josh. I can't. I'll never get over this, okay? I'll never get over it. It's so easy. It's beautiful. And Josh's YouTube. Watch it on his video. My video. Your video. Spotify's video everywhere. Mondays and Thursdays, folks. We will see you next time.
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Podcast: Good Guys (Dear Media)
Episode Date: April 16, 2026
Hosts: Josh Peck & Ben Soffer
In this lively, freewheeling episode, Josh and Ben riff on relationships, food obsessions, festival culture (with a special focus on Coachella), and audience mail. The tone is candid, self-deprecating, and full of their signature comedic banter. They tackle everything from the social dynamics of hosting, their ongoing relationship with food and diet culture, the cost and quality of food at festivals like Coachella, and the nuances of roommate etiquette. Throughout, the duo delivers plenty of memorable moments, relatable gripes, and insightful commentary.
| Timestamp | Topic | |-----------|------------------------------------------------------------| | 00:03 | Ben & Josh’s banter about marital quirks and hosting fears | | 02:54 | Food brain, Chinese & Thai delivery cravings | | 09:25 | Early food shaming and “good/bad food” legacy | | 16:33 | Fine dining in NYC (Polo Bar, Catch) | | 19:28 | Coachella’s overpriced, sometimes hazardous food | | 23:43 | Sushi myths, “sushi grade” labeling, sushi chef genders | | 33:34 | Coachella menu prices, influencer & performance reviews | | 39:13 | Mailbag: “20-min shower” communication issue | | 44:14 | Roommate’s freeloading boyfriend dilemma | | 47:40 | “What Are Ya, Nuts?” segment: High chairs & passwords |
True to the “Good Guys” style, the episode is packed with fast-paced, self-effacing humor, cultural references, and warm, Jewish-inflected banter. The conversation is equal parts therapy session, urban dad riff, and honest friend advice — offering laughs alongside legitimate insight into food culture, parenting, and modern relationships.
If you haven’t tuned in, this episode is a great example of the Good Guys’ blend of comedy, candor, and compassion — with riffs that are as useful for life advice as they are for a much-needed laugh. This is the pod for you if you love reflective comedy, food talk, and hearing two friends earnestly psychoanalyze festival pizza, roommate mooches, and the art of not getting hacked.
Five stars, otherwise… What are ya, nuts?