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The following podcast is a dear media production. Two Jews, both big and tall. No subject too small for the good guys. A mother's dream premium podcast team. Make it your weekly routine. It's a good guys.
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And if you don't give us five stars.
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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 of the good guys. Benjamin, how the hell are you?
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I'm splendid. How are you, Joshua?
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I'm good. How are those T. Rex arms?
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Okay. I. I thought you might ask. So I am. I am on creatine. I'm dosing, baby. I'm dosing. Day four. Day four.
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He's pissing dirty.
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Water is being retained. I'm up five pounds.
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That ain't the creatine, babe.
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Water is being retained. I have been on a lot of planes. I've been on four flights in the last six days, too. So maybe it's that. I'm not going to outright blame the creatine, but I. It definitely gave me one, like, a little extra energy, a little extra boost. Josh. To go to the gym. And then two. I think it gave me a little false confidence in the gym. I'm just there. I haven't been. I haven't been to the gym to work out in months. Like, I've gone, used the treadmill, whatever. But to really lift, it's been at least four months. And I go and I sit on the bench press, and I'm like, okay, I'm just gonna try 100, and 100 feels good. Then I go to 110, and 110 feels good. Then I go to 120, and 120 feels good. And the next day, I do legs, Josh. I do legs the next day, and I do abs. And then by the day after that, oh, my God, I can't. My arm won't straighten. My left arm and my right arm, I'm like this. I'm like this. They won't straighten. So I take to the Internet, I take to our people, and I say, people, what's wrong with me? My arms won't straighten. Now, the reasonable response, Josh, would be what? You're sore. You overdid it. You're fat. You're in the gym. The unreasonable response, Josh, is what these fricking WebMD warriors. Let me quickly just look it up on my Samsung Galaxy.
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Oh, yes.
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What I've written down, it's the rabidoid gnosis. Raba, rheuma, homo, rheumatoid arthritis.
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Rhabdomyosis, I think it is.
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Ramdo is what people said that I heard.
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Rabdo raptor.
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Which means.
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Josh, it sounds like something Adam Sandler created. Rhabdo. Rabdo. A rhabadow.
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You want me to read you, Josh? Because obviously I had to Google it. They're like, you probably have this disease.
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I've heard of it, but go, go tell the people.
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Okay. Rhabdomodidrisis is first of all. Symptoms include dark reddish urine. What are you nuts? Like, I would have known if I had dark red urine. Sure, a decreased amount of urine. Muscle aches and weakness. Pain areas are in the muscles, Whole body fatigue, inability to exercise, water electrolyte imbalance, muscular cramping, muscular weakness. This is not at all what I have. I just said that I couldn't straighten my arm. Like, it hurts a little bit to go like this, you know, like just a little bit. But at this point, I can keep it fully straight for a couple of days. I was completely T rexed, and that's the last time I asked my Instagram followers anything about medicine. I don't want your opinions at all. I'm sharing my life. I'm showing you that I have a T Rex arm. But don't tell me, don't give me anything. Tell me nothing. I want nothing from you motherfuckers.
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I think shout out our followers. I think rhabdo is. And I'm sure there'll be plenty of armchair doctors who are telling me I'm nuts, but rhabdo is when you have such significant muscle breakdown from a workout that it releases a protein that basically the kidneys can't sort of. It can't convert. And so your kidneys begin to shut down. I think it's a potassium thing. Like, there's a potassium issue too, but because I know having an imbalance in potassium can affect your heart, and rhabdo can affect your heart. Like, you're literally like, you can go into total heart shut down. Bad news, Bears knock.
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Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention that the number that you die from this, if it unchecked, you die.
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Yeah, no, it's serious.
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It's serious. But also it's for people who really work out. Really? Seriously, Do I look like somebody that could possibly get rhabdo?
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But I think you have.
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I think you have to be a bodybuilder.
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I think rhabdo is for triathletes, crossfitters and fatsos.
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B
Oh, you think so?
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No, I think it's for either you've hurt your body so much through constant working out, or you've been at such a satiated resting space, and then you go in and you disrupt it with a really hard workout, and your body's like. You shock it.
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Yeah, well, I definitely shocked it. I shocked it. I was in pain, but I'm fine. I'm totally fine now. And my plan, Josh, tomorrow, is to go and do arms again. You got to get back in there. It's the creatine talking. The creatine.
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You get pulled over. They're like, sir, have you had anything to drink tonight? No, but I'm on 5 milligrams of creatine and I feel crazy.
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I literally called Josh this morning. I'm like, do you find that creatine gives you a bit of an Adderall effect? He's like, no. Like, what are you talking about? Like, I. I took creatine and it. It was. It was like I did a bump. I'm. I'm, like, all over the place.
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I think you just have energy from working out, which is a wonderful byproduct.
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A side effect of creatine is joie de vivre. The zest for life.
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Yes.
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That's it.
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My piss for mojo. What kind of creatine do you use? I don't know, but it's called Benny Got His Groove Back.
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I obviously had to travel with my creatine, Josh. So I put a little. Look, this. I got thorn. Josh told me to get thorn.
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Shout out. Thorn. Good stuff.
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This is. Apparently, this is the Rolls Royce of creatine, okay? It comes in a beautiful tub. That said, I would like to discuss with Thorin that it's difficult to take the scooper from the tub and put it into a small bottle of water. I understand I should be using a canteen, but I'm not. I'm trying to put it into my little Poland Spring bottles. I digress. I wanted to take some with me on the plane. I obviously couldn't lug this huge tub. That would be nuts. So I put a little bit of the powder into a Ziploc bag. And I realized as I'm going through tsa, it looks, Josh, like I'm smuggling cocaine. It looks just like cocaine. It's this white powder. Maybe that's why it feels like I did cocaine, because there's something about the. The material, the way it looks.
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Yes.
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Shout out. Shout out, Thorne.
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A
Yeah. That is the sad thing about marijuana becoming legal in many states because, like, there's nothing like the feeling of taping some, like, really B level dirt Weed to your taint and walking through TSA trying not to make eye contact with people, making $19 an hour.
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Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Where have you. Where's the craziest place, Josh, that you have inserted drugs in your body to get through tsa?
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All domestic, babe. I'm a domestic smuggler. I do not do internach.
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Yeah, that's smart. That's smart. No, we don't. We don't need that. We don't need you in a Russian prison. We don't need any of that WNBA action. None of that.
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No. I mean, thankfully, I haven't had to worry about that for almost two decades, but when I was young and full of. Full of piss and vinegar, I. I remember once I was in. I was in the UK, and I was, like, 20 years old, and I was like, we need to smoke weed in the uk. And so I kind of, like, started asking around. And by that, I mean you always ask the hotel valets, because they're basically like, Yelp for illicit substances, and they're like, oi, mate, you gotta go down to Camden, mate. Camden, mate. My. All right. They're like, aren't you from New York? I'm like, yeah, but I want to fit in. So I went to Camden, and one of the scariest dudes ever walks up to me. He's like, oy, mate, what you want, Mike? And I'm like, 20 pounds worth of your finest British reefer, your majesty. And he pulled it. He pulled a little satchel, like, you know, a wrapped baggie out of his gums. I was like, here you go. And I was like, ugh. And we smoked that up in the bathroom, the hotel room, me and someone else that you guys would love to know whom. And I don't want to implicate. We can believe this.
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I can't get out the image, Josh, of this drug dealer taking it out of his mouth and giving it to you.
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Yeah.
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It's fucking disgusting. What is wrong with these people?
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Well, I think the idea is that if the cops come, you swallow it, I guess.
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And I guess it's. I guess it's easier than the anus.
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Yeah. I mean, I don't want. Yeah, I don't want butt weed, but, yeah, it's a bindle. Right. And you hear that more with, like, hard, harder drugs. But, like, again, like, you can't just swallow hard drugs. You'll die. You could swallow a couple bindles of marijuana.
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You can. Oh. So the. The in the lip is called a bindle.
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The bindle is the packaging, which is like a sealed little package of, like, $20 to $50 worth of whatever you're buying.
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Don't we call that a dime bag? Isn't that what we called it?
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A dime bag's a $10 worth.
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Yeah. Oh, so a bindle is a larger dime bag.
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I think it's interchangeable. A dime bag, like a dub is 20, a dime bag is 10.
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But we're talking about the physical vessel, which is a mini Ziploc. Right? These little guys.
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Yeah. A bindle was old school, right? So like a bindle for harder drugs could also be a small balloon.
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Ooh. Which was fun.
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Like a little. Yeah, a little small balloon. Like, you're at a. Like you're at a birthday party at.
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A Chuck at a Charles Entertainment.
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Don't you bring Charles Entertainment into this. Gosh, you could have ruined it. For shy's third birthday party, you go.
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To Charles Entertainment and you ask Mr. Charles, have you heard of a bindle? He's like, have I heard of a bindle?
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Honestly, bindle sounds like the new hot Jewish baby neighbor. Have you met Bindle?
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Yeah.
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How is she doing? That was so beautiful. Her bump is bumping. We're bumping, Josh.
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We're the luckiest boys in the world. We're the luckiest boys in podcasting, my wife is great. This is her third time. I don't know why this feels like the hardest. And by that, I mean on me. I just think this one's kicking her butt a little bit. Understandably. So usually, like, you have the first trimester and you don't feel great, but then as reported by people I've spoken to in the past, the second trimester, you're kind of feeling great, and then the third trimester, you're just, like, over it and ready for it to be done. Yeah, she's just been feeling kind of blah. So how about our. Our queen Claude? Is she feeling okay?
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Yeah, first trimester kicked her in the ass. Like, really? It was rough, but she's been good. She's been really good.
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She went to the gym.
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She went to the gym twice, Josh, in the last three days just to walk on the tr. But like, that. The fact that she's able to. And to do soda method, like, the fact that she's able to do that mentally is huge. It's huge. And according to whatever app she uses, our son dhbhbh is the size of a corn. Corn. A corn husk, apparently. That's just, like, width. I mean, that's just length, I guess. These apps, it's so strange. They're like, he's the size of a lima bean, and it's like, which way? Which way? You know, the corn, I think, is the length of him right now. A large corn husk. But, yeah, he's good. She's good. And it's just amazing. Two pregnant ladies, same time, same schedule. What a podcast.
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You guys feel free to combat me on this. I like everyone else. Follow Mark Wahlberg on Instagram. I'm a fan of Mark Wahlberg. I like his work ethic. I like his movies. They don't. What I have questions about.
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He.
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His page on Instagram is so homoerotic. He is constantly showing off his body and in very little clothing. He's flexing. He's constantly flexing for the camera. He's showing up what he needs to work on his progress. And I mean, I'm talking full leg sometime in a very short short. He's, you know, doing the biceps. He's doing the chest. What's happening? What's happening here?
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I've seen it. I've seen it.
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Olivia, you've seen this. I just looked it up, and I'm seeing it right now, and I am everything. He's shirtless in just about every post. Yeah. It's either that or it's it's buy into my Catholic app.
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Yes, I think, Josh, it's Stay prayed up hashtag. Isn't he selling? Doesn't he have it like a workout line? I think that's what it is. I think his Instagram is just 100% ads. Like, ads for himself. But like when he's shirtless, he's selling a pair of shorts and he's selling the dream in those shorts. You buy my shorts, Josh, you're going to have my abs, you're going to have my tris, you're going to have my delts.
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Yeah, listen, if you tell me I can have Mark Wahlberg's rhomboids, I'm fucking in Avi.
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But he obviously. You think he takes thorn creatine, Josh?
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He probably takes his own shit.
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He has his own fucking creatine miner.
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Yes.
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Right. He's a guy that minds his own creatine, Mark. You Funky Bunch Creatine by the Funky Bunch.
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Walcreen.
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That's much better than creatine by the Funky Bunch.
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Creatine burgers.
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It's like the adult version of like a hype house. Like, that's what it is. That's what it is. It's like you're in your 50s, but like, it's like OG Josh Richards, Bryce Hall. It's that same clickbait look at my abs shit. But he crushes it. Now all I want to know is, what is he taking? Because since being introduced to creatine, now that I am a creatine influencer, Josh, my eyes are wide fucking open, ok? These people don't look like this because they were born that way. They look like this because they're taking shit, okay? They're all taking shit. You had me listening to a lovely podcast, Josh. What was the name of that podcast? It was Huberman was his name.
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No, this is Harbinger. The great Jordan Harbinger.
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Harbinger. That's what I meant. The double. The H. The H's. I got confused. Harbinger, okay? And he had a doctor on and they were talking all about whether it's creatine, testosterone replacement therapy. We ran the gamut. And we were simply listening. We are educating ourselves, folks. We are listening. And to look like Mark Wahlberg at Mark Wahlberg's age, you're taking TRTs, right?
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Allegedly. But I would say in a hypothetical Mark Wahlberg esque, incredible shape person in their mid-50s, they're probably getting some help. Absolutely.
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And I think there's nothing wrong with the help, Josh. There's nothing Wrong with it?
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No, nothing wrong.
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I just think that people need to, need to know this stuff, right? Like people need to understand that you can work as hard as you fucking want, but you won't look like her because you're not taking what she's taking. Or him because you're not taking what they're taking. It's impossible. It's impossible.
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Yeah. I don't think it should be taboo. I think these fitness or these just icons of human excellence that we have such idolatry for. I don't want to say whom, but someone whose name is kind of like the pebble or the stone anyway. Like these people are clearly optimizing with certain things that are. They're not endogenous, they're not made by the body, they're made by man and entered into the body to optimize their fitness. And it's like, let's be real about it, because I agree with you. I think it does set kind of a false narrative about what's, what's possible. Naturally.
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Jordan Harbinger was talking about something interesting which is that what semaglutide or Ozempic or. And I have an update on that. So what these things are, are simply ways that we can bring something into the body to maximize an output. So the output for taking a Semaglutide or an Ozempic or a Wegovy or whatever it may be is that you're not gonna have as much food noise and thus you're going to eat less. It's gonna clean the sugar from your body, whatever. But that is the vessel for so many things that we're going to be able to do to just make our bodies fucking awesome and, and run like a well oiled machine. It's not all about looking amazing. Like we have the opportunity here to feel great. Don't we want to feel great? I do, I want to feel great.
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Tell me about your recently, and by that I mean yesterday my boy Len was like, I got to stop shooting myself up with Ozempic because I'm starting to get hard spots in my stomach.
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Yeah, you can't do that. You can't inject in the same spot. You got to rotate around. But I was off it for like four or five months over the summer or like just before the summer, through the summer, I went back on it and honestly like the Ozempic semaglutide just hasn't been working for me in the same way. And so I went to doctor of the stars Josh, Dr. Sharon Gizi, shout out and she gave me Tirzepatide. She's currently chilling in my fridge, which is Mounjaro. And I am ready for that transformation baby. This is supposed to be it, the Rolls Royce of these medicines. And so I'm very, very excited to try it. Starting myself on a modest dose. And we're gonna see.
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I'm trying to. Modest dose of 80 milligrams.
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B
I'm trying to go Tirzepatide, creatine. I'm getting jacked. This is what I'm trying to do, Josh. This is what I'm trying to do. We're gonna see if I can do it.
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A
I have to tell you about my. And then we'll get to some stories. I am, I knew Samsung Ultra. No big deal. So, you know, I'm going with my, my family away for a couple days. And so I had to get my kids passports. And so to get passports it takes a whole. It's a whole McGilla with the family. And you got to go to the, your local federal passport agency to the federal building in your town. And like, like in California there's three San Diego, Louisiana or San Francisco. So there's a lot of foot traffic and you have to get a lot of forms and then you have to get certain photocopies of forms. So last night I look at what we have and I'm just double checking. I realize we don't have photocopies of my wife and my passport. And to get passports for your kids you have to like prove you're their parents. So I'm like, shit. And it's 11 o'clock at night and this is when. And I pride myself on being fairly smart and fairly tech savvy. I'm huge on all of the socials. I'm not a moron, but I am. And sometimes my age and the fact that like I was born in 1980, like really shows. So I go, oh my God, it's 11 o'clock at night. I gotta make these copies. We have a 7am appointment. We're going at 7am I gotta get Max to school at 8:15. We gotta get this done by 7:30. Crap, what am I gonna do? I say, I know how to. I go to Kinko's. Cause Kinko's is open 24 7. Spoiler alert. Kinko's is no longer a thing. It's only the FedEx centers. I know that. 24 hour printing is no longer a thing.
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Quickly, Josh, it's not your fault that you didn't know that Kinko's went out of business. They're like that Homer Simpson meme where they just backed up into the bush and disappeared. Nobody told me Kinko's was going out of business. This should still be Kinko's. Where are all of the Kinko's? Continue.
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I agree with you. And title and Kinko's merch for the good guys.
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B
Yeah.
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So I'm like, crap. Okay, I know what I'll do. I'll call Walgreens. I'll call like. I was like. Cause you know, sometimes like 24 hour pharmacy has a printing center and you.
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B
Just needed a scanned copy of your passport.
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A
Yeah, but I didn't have a scanner.
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B
Yeah, but you know that there's a scanning app on your phone.
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A
Oh, please. So, Ben.
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I'm an idiot.
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Ben, I'm an idiot. So now I go to the Walgreens near the airport. I saunter in there. I've called before, he said, you're good, we've got a station. I go, great. There's nothing scarier than a 24 hour pharmacy, particularly by the airport after 11 on a weekday. Now I'm there, a girl is in there and she looked slightly put together, but then I like went and looked at the bottom of her pants and they were all like, sort of ragged. And I'm like, that's the tell. And she's buying a 2 liter bottle of generic ginger ale and a box of wine.
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Oh, my.
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Buys it, walks out, comes back in 30 seconds later and goes, wait, can I return this? I forgot I'm going to Colombia. What's happening? She's like, yeah, I thought I was going to kick into my friends, but I'm. I'm going to Colombia. Like, I hope you're backed. And so she's like trying to return it. And then she's like, maybe I'll just get truly. So she's like walking up and down. We're the only two people there. So we scan everything in. He's like, great, this will print out in the next five minutes. And then it's taking a while. And I hear him scream out to some one of the women there. He goes, dana, is our printer not working? And she goes, yeah, it hasn't worked for three years. And he goes, oh, I hoped it was fixed. Yeah, bro, we can't print this. I'm like, oh. Oh man. I'm like, I gotta get this printed. So I go to another pharmacy. They have no printing options. So now it's midnight and I'm driving home and I'm like, crap, what am I going to do? So I think about it and I go, what would have a business center open now? A hotel. I go in, shout out, Marriott Bonvoy, baby. I go in and I. And this is like, these are the rare moments when I'm glad that I have quasi C list celebrity because I make eye contact with the desk kid. And he's like, what? And I'm like, yup. I'm like, buddy, you got a business center? He goes, what do you need? I was like, I need my passport. These two photocopied. He goes, no problem. He runs back lickety split. It was gorgeous. So the passport mission was successful. I woke up this morning, I tell my wife this, kind of like, wanting her to be like, wow, how selfless you are to make sure that we made our appointment. Well, she's like, you know, you could have done that on your phone. Right? Right. Like, we have a printer. And I was like, for sure.
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B
Yep. Could have done it on your phone. And now I hate to break it to you, that fan at the Courtyard Marriott is currently making new passports with your number and stealing your identity for sure. Right?
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A
Or the Walgreens guy, they. They have it too.
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B
Yeah.
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A
You are fucked. You are fucked.
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B
Dude.
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The Walgreens guy made that joke. He was like, so what documents am I stealing? I was like, oh, Fernando.
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Stories from the New York Post and what I'm learning about the New York Post is they're Wild.
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Stories are nuts.
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Labia puffing is the latest Nazi for work cosmetic trend. I'm getting turned on just looking at myself. Olivia, turn off your headphones. It's the other kind of lip filler. Women are getting their labia puffed, a procedure that involves injecting dermal filler or transferring fat into their labia majora to restore plumpness. And that doctor's claim could soon become a ubiquitous. Sorry. And that doctor's claim could soon become as ubiquitous as boob jobs. One day it's going to be a household type of thing where we talk about it the way we talk about breast implants. Said urologist Dr. Milhouse. Of course. Yeah.
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There's a zero percent chance that a pumped up labia becomes the norm. That's nuts. I'm sorry. Nuts.
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I just have never reported back to my boys after hooking up with someone being like, dog. Her labia was off with puff pain. It was.
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It was poofy.
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Like her like, like. I mean, her labia was on creatine. You know what I'm saying?
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Her labia got gains.
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What?
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That's strange. People gotta stop injecting themselves with things. As I talk about injecting myself with things. But people need to stop injecting themselves with things. It's too much. We don't know about these things. We know about Tirzepatide. Okay, we know, but we don't know. Honestly. Don't inject anything near your. Your privates. That's not good. You don't want anything near there.
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I agree. And I know anyway. What else? The sneaky way is social media has become the ultimate infidelity machine. The so called innocent red flags to watch for. I was halfway through my morning coffee when my phone buzzed with an Instagram dm. Hey, what's up? Harmless enough, right? Except it was from a radio executive I knew by reputation but had never met. He was extremely successful in riding on the coattails of some big name shows he had been put in charge of. Safe to say, I was very excited to hear from him. He wanted to take me to lunch to discuss a potential new show that I would headline. I mean, is that. I feel like that's sort of like. Clearly you could read into that. Easy. A very sleazy inroad, right?
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Yeah. I told you about the time that my dad got a text that somebody wanted him to be a TV chef. It's like, obviously, dad, this is fake. You have no tape online. There's nothing there like these persons.
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Just.
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Oh, and you have to wire me $1,500 now for us to get your tape over to the person. No, read the room, people, read the room.
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I'm just imagining your father calling you and going, should we role play? Yeah, pick up your. Your Samsung Galaxy, please.
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Oh, it's my dad. Hello?
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Hello, Benjamin? Yes, Benjamin.
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Yes, yes, I'm here.
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Benjamin, you can hear me? Yes, I've made it.
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You've pocket dialed me 19 times today.
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Hollywood of Hollywood is called and I will be having my own program. It's going to be a food program. And they're shooting at a new studio built in Nigeria. You know this, this place?
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Nigeria, dad. No, no.
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It seems to be subsidized by the royal family of Nigeria. And they're calling me. They're calling me the 70 something Jewish Bobby Flay. And they've also asked for my bank wiring because they want to give me an advance.
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Dad, it's a scam.
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Benjamin, we've made it big.
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No one in Nigeria wants to work with you. Benjamin, don't give them anything.
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I wanted to tell you that big news. And in other big news, I'm ordering more chopped Liverpool, but I'm going to need to have it doordashed. Can you help your father?
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Yes. Uber eats. Mom needs her daily toads. I take creatine every morning. My mom takes chopped liver.
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Your mother, your mother has been eating chopped liver at Equinox and I'm worried we're going to get kicked off our membership. She eats chopped liver on the ellipticals. I said, ava, this is me, sugar, with this chopped liver. She can't stop.
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Oh my God. Okay, I have to go to work. I'll call you back.
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All right. What a beauty.
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Oh God.
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Oh my God.
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Oh my God.
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Oh my God. Is he anything like that?
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No, no, no.
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Good.
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No, but that was gold.
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Oh my God. It's just like with my mom, though. Like, my mother doesn't sound like this, but she does to me.
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Yeah. Yes.
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You know?
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Yes. Yes. It's funny, I thought your mom sounded like that. We need. I need to hear your mom's voice. You need to hear my dad's voice.
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Should we get to a speak pipe? Yes, if you want to leave us a message. If you want to ask us a question, if you want some Advice, go to speakpipe.com goodguys. Keep it brief. Brevity is key. Don't give us you're. What are you nuts? Is.
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We don't care.
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This first one's from. I don't know. Okay, I have a situation.
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People give me a hard time for paying for other people in a grocery store that are in front of me or in back of me. So I do it anyways, especially if.
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I think they're struggling.
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But I also hand out money to the homeless. Well, people are telling me I need to stop paying for people in the grocery store and only give to the homeless, but I think I should do both. What do you guys think? Love the show, by the way. Love this man.
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Me too.
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That said, it sounded a little. You're bragging 100%.
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It's like I keep throwing my back out because of my gigantic penis. Should I get back surgery?
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I don't know what to do. You know, I give so much, and people are telling me I should only give here, but I want to give everywhere. Obviously, this is not a problem. Like, paying for the person in front of you's groceries is so awesome. And honestly, Josh, I'm going to adopt that practice. That's a nice practice. You know, if you see someone that said, it could get very awkward. What if you try to pay for somebody's groceries, Josh? Okay, you think that they need you to, but they really don't. Like, if somebody tried to pay for my groceries, I would be incredibly offended because I don't need you to pay for my groceries. This is a slippery slope. You have to be very careful. Very careful. That said, it's really nice if you. If you pick somebody that actually needs it and yeah, give to the homeless. It's nice. But also be careful. Make sure that. I don't know. I prefer to give food.
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I agree. And I think my only two aversions ever to give me money is recently I was going to give money to someone I thought was homeless and then. But they were on a laptop and I just. That was hard. That one was hard. And they had Starlink. And so I was like, maybe I'll give it to the next person and then the other one. I just. If you have on nicer shoes than me, it's hard for me to be like, here's a couple of dollars. Other than that, I try to give as much and as frequently as I can. And I don't try to overthink it. It's just like, if someone is in the position to beg like you, it will be a net positive. Like if you give it to 10 people, like, of that maybe two of them are. Have some, you know, nefarious interests. But, like, for the most part, you're helping someone get a bite to eat or. So what if they're getting a beer, like, let them have a nice time. They're having a hard enough go at it.
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Agreed. You know, aligned. Yes. Totally. Can't ever give too much.
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Yes. Give till it hurts, they say. Give till it hurts.
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Sure.
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Next one from Anonymous. Hey, Josh and Ben, quick gym etiquette question.
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So this morning I was at the.
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Gym doing my, doing my thing. It's in between like 6:30 and 7:00am and I have like a couple weights around me, like maybe like two tens, two 15s, nothing crazy. And there's a deadlift area next to me and there's a guy over there kind of doing his thing, whatever. And he comes over to me and he says, hey, like, I'm not telling you to move. I'm not trying to get you in my video, but I am gonna record myself in a second. And like I would probably be in the background. So I was like, okay, thanks like.
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For the heads up. But what do you think is the etiquette there?
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Like, I definitely think it was nice that he told me, but like I had like a good spot where like I was kind of like near everything that I needed. I ended up moving anyways because I was done. But like I just have been thinking about it all day. Like what's, what's the etiquette there?
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The etiquette I would say is that you don't film one, you don't film other people, but you certainly don't inconvenience other people while you're filming. You wait until if this guy should go, I guess she was there at 6:30 in the morning. John. He probably tried to go when it would be empty. But I guess this guy really has got to go much earlier. You got to belong to 24 Hour Fitness, go at 4 in the morning. That's going to be there and film yourself. Film when nobody's there. You can't just film when people are there. That's not right.
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I agree. 6:30 is actually probably one of the busiest times for gyms because it's when people go before work. Like, yeah, I think the hot zones are like 6 to 8:30 and probably from 4 to 7.
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Yeah.
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When people are getting offense off of work. But yeah, it's funny, I saw, I saw someone filming at the gym today and I don't want to knock someone's hustle. And if I always appreciate it when gyms are like, cut that out, don't film here. Especially some gyms in LA have to because there's so many fitness creators where they're like, dude, like, at this point, like, there's very. There's no way to be keeping everyone's face out of this thing. But if you're gonna go, then it's incumbent on you to do it at off times. Like, figure it out. Either go like at 21 or 2, it's gonna be empty, or go late at night or super early in the morning. And it's better that way. Then you don't have to worry about, like, a bunch of people, you know, messing up your shot and.
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Yeah, gym etiquette.
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Legitimate.
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That's it. That's it. Just care about the people around you. Give a shit. Okay. Give a shit.
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Yeah, try that, why don't you? Next one from Michelle. Hey, good guys, Big fan. My question for you is, can I call myself a Jew? My father is Jewish, but my mother is not. I know there's a big debate about patrilineal Jews. What are your thoughts?
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I don't know what that word means, but I'm going to.
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Paternal.
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Okay, cool. So, yes, technically, you're not Jewish. That said, I would. I. I want you. We want you. You're here. So no. No issues calling yourself Jewish. I would say, though, that if you plan on dating Jews, it's important that you think about truly converting, because then you're actually Jewish. I would say that it's more important to you if it's important to your husband. Let's start there. If it's important to the person that. The Jew that you plan on marrying, then you should probably convert. But there are probably plenty of Jews that don't care at all. And my second question would be, are you planning on marrying somebody Jewish? Because if you're not, then you can call yourself Jewish all you want, and it doesn't matter. It's more about the person that you're marrying. But in terms of.
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You're.
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You're Jewish. If you. If you feel Jewish, your dad's Jewish, you Jewish. Josh.
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But would you say that. What if their father is Jewish, but they're raised Jewish, they don't have to convert then?
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It depends on who they marry. It depends on what their. Their spouse wants. Like, to me, if they were raised Jewish, the chances that the mother didn't convert to Judaism are so slim. And if she converted, then the daughter is Jewish, you know, so this is a very rare case where if she was raised Jewish but just the dad is Jewish, it's rare, but to me, I'm the one to judge. Like, she's Jewish. And I think that it's up to the person that she meets if they feel that she's Jewish enough for them.
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Right. But I guess I'm not understanding, like, unless you're ultra Orthodox. If someone is where maybe the mother isn't Jewish, but she isn't really dead set on, doesn't have religion or isn't really interested, like, likes the idea of raising them Jewish and they observe the holidays and they have a bat mitzvah and the whole thing and the father's Jewish. To me, to the idea of saying to them, you have to convert. Now, she'd be like, like, what are you talking about? Like, I was raised Jewish. I'm half Jewish. What's there to convert?
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So it's not an ultra religious thing. Even the Reform. Any Jew will say it goes by the mother. It just does.
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But what is there to convert? Like, go through conversion therapy?
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No, you have. Well, no.
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A
What?
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Definitely, definitely not conversion therapy. But you go through regular conversion where if the mother was Christian, technically you're Christian. That's just how it works across the whole religion. But that only matters if the person you're marrying cares. So if they don't care, then it's moot. And you're Jewish, you know, But I.
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Just can't imagine Reform. I can understand if you're very religious, but I can't imagine a reformed person who is going to like some wonderful reconstructionist synagogue with a female rabbi and who every now and then has a pork chop, would say, yeah, but that is such a double standard.
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Agreed. But they care through the mother. It's just. It is. But so, because it's so rare, Josh, what we're talking about here, I don't even. I can't even imagine that it exists. Oh, it does.
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I think you live in a very secular, or not a secular, a very specific Jewish world.
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B
You think so?
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I think so, because I'm. If my kids, if anyone told my kids they're not Jewish, I'd be like, but fuck out of here.
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B
Of course. But nobody would tell your kids that they're not Jewish because they are Jewish. And what I'm saying is that once they go to get married, if they choose to marry somebody who's Jewish, then it will be up to them to decide if there's something more that they need to do or not. But until they meet that person, until they're whatever age, it's all about. It's. In the end of the day, it's all about marriage, and then it's all about kids. Until then, in my opinion, it's Moots.
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But I guess what I'm saying is if they met a reformed Jewish girl from like the city, from New York or from la, I, in my circles, even if they were raised by two Jewish parents and had all the Jewish customs, if they were like, if my sons were like, we've done Shabbat a bunch of times. My Uncle Ben didn't. Didn't aliyah at my bar mitzvah. Yeah, we, you know, my dad's Jewish, my name is Shy. You know, I don't think there's a world that a girl that they met in high school or in college or whoever who was like, very reformed Jewish would ask them to convert. I think, like, maybe their parents would. The parents of the girl. There's a world and to which I would expect both of them to tell those parents to go fuck.
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Yeah. The truth is, in that specific scenario, I don't think that there's a world in which anybody would ever think that they weren't Jewish. You know what I'm saying?
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A
Well, but that's kind of what you're saying is it's like, yes, but if we're going to do it by the book. But I can't imagine any reformed person caring.
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Yeah, it totally depends. It totally depends. Like, it's just, it's a, it's a case by case. But in my experience, regardless of Reform anything, it typically goes through the mother. It's just the way that I've understood it. But that, again, you're right. But again, it doesn't matter until you get married. And whoever you're with, do they care or do they not care? And if they do care, what I will say is that conversion, especially to Reform Judaism, is not the same process of converting to Orthodox Judaism. And in that case, it really doesn't matter. So honestly, coming full circle, it probably doesn't matter. It probably doesn't.
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I agree. And I, I hear what you're saying, though.
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B
And your boys are Jewish. I didn't realize in the middle of it, I. Now I understand where, where we're coming from, but by the, by the book, it's, it's a different story. But your boys are absolutely Jewish. What are you nuts?
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A
Yeah. What are you, nuts? Let's do this.
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B
Okay, first, Josh, it's a two part. What do you, nuts? I took the train here. The train in New York City is just. What are you nuts? In general? Like, I'm just, I'm looking around me, I'm like, I'm going to get stabbed.
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All the cops, all the cops are on it now.
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No, I know, I know. I don't even feel better about it. It's like, I shouldn't be somewhere that cops are like, you don't want to be around a crime scene. I don't want it. It's just too much. That said, I'm sitting on the train, Josh, coming to this lovely podcast studio, and I look across from me and there's a girl there with literally an enormous Chanel bag. Enormous. Like, this is like a probably a nine. $10,000 is a big bag. And I see she, like, looks uncomfortable. She's, like, trying to, like, hide the Chanel logo. She's looking down. What are you, nuts? What are you nuts? Who brings a. Who brings a $9,000 Chanel bag onto a subway? Like, there are things. I get it. I'm nervous. I don't wear a watch. I'm wearing nothing. I'm just myself. I'm on the train. I don't feel good. I don't feel safe. Because it's just. You don't. You're bringing your almost $10,000 Chanel bag on the train. You're gonna make yourself sick. Leave it at home. Who are you trying to impress? Take a cab, sit in traffic if you want to wear that bag. But if you're gonna take the subway, no $10,000 bag. What are you, nuts?
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Love it. I agree. My Woody and nuts is the other day, I was a friend of mine posted a photo of his beautiful kids. We're not really friends. And guy I know. And adorable. These children were adorable. Five and three years old, gorgeous. And I'm looking, you know, at him and I'm like, oh, good for him. He's a beautiful family. This little five year old. Such a sweetie. And then I make it to the three year old and I notice a passy in his mouth. The child is three. What are you, nuts?
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B
I've definitely said this before, but my grandfather Isadore, who then decided to go by William, breastfed until he was seven.
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A
I had an idzy.
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You did. Isador William breastfed till he was seven. So to each their own, Josh. To each their own, folks. What are you nuts? If you don't give this episode 5 stars. This has been unbelievable. Listen to us on Spotify, Apple, wherever you get your podcasts. Watch us on YouTube, share our clips. Instagram and TikTok Mondays and Thursdays, folks. We will see you next time.
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