Intrusive Thoughts: The Musical

Summary

Podcast Summary: Good Guys – "Intrusive Thoughts: The Musical" Release Date: June 9, 2025

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Introduction

In the episode titled "Intrusive Thoughts: The Musical," hosts Josh Peck and Ben Soffer dive deep into a variety of topics ranging from airline collaborations and coffee preferences to personal experiences with intrusive thoughts and social dynamics surrounding gift-giving. The conversation is both engaging and relatable, offering listeners a blend of humor, personal anecdotes, and insightful discussions.

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1. Dunkin Donuts and JetBlue Collaboration

The episode kicks off with Josh Peck sharing an intriguing collaboration news: Dunkin Donuts partnering with JetBlue to feature Dunkin on JetBlue flights. This sparks a lively discussion between Josh and Ben about potential future airline collaborations and their implications.

• Josh Peck [00:32]: "Welcome back to the Good Guys podcast, Ben. Did you know that Dunkin Donuts and JetBlue just did a collab for a Dunkin Donuts plane?"
• Ben Soffer [01:12]: "Talk to me about this collab and then we're frickin talking about Dunkin Donuts because Starbucks hasn't given me a penny."

Key Points:

• Potential Collaborations: The hosts humorously speculate about other possible airline partnerships, like Spirit Airlines with Taco Bell or Delta with Shake Shack.

• Preference for Dunkin: Ben emphasizes his preference for Dunkin over Starbucks, highlighting Dunkin's availability of sugar-free hazelnut options, which Starbucks lacks.

• Ben Soffer [04:37]: "Starbucks pulled the wool over our eyes at least 12 months ago and just made everybody that once drank sugar free hazelnut... Dunkin has sugar free hazelnut."

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2. Air Travel and Food Services

Josh and Ben delve into the broader topic of food services on airplanes, expressing their desires for more substantial and high-quality food offerings.

• Josh Peck [01:20]: "But no, it's just a super cute plane. And it made me start thinking about, like, what? Could there be other collabs?"
• Ben Soffer [02:24]: "Imagine that, though. The listeria outbreak on the plane. That would be it."

Key Points:

• Quality of In-flight Meals: Josh humorously laments the impracticality of serving complex dishes like pasta primavera on flights, suggesting simpler options like appetizers or charcuterie boards.
• Dunkin's Reliability: Both hosts appreciate Dunkin's consistent quality in providing trustworthy coffee during flights.

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3. Vaping and Lifestyle Changes

Transitioning from food to lifestyle habits, the hosts discuss the decline in vaping and other harmful habits as people grow older.

• Ben Soffer [03:25]: "Is vaping falling out of fashion? It seems like I'm finding that my friends are just drinking less, smoking less."

Key Points:

• Personal Choices: Both Josh and Ben share their reduced engagement with vaping and smoking, highlighting a trend among their peers toward healthier lifestyles.
• Social Influences: Ben mentions occasional indulgences like hookah or cigars but emphasizes moderation over daily use.

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4. Intrusive Thoughts

A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to addressing listener questions about intrusive thoughts. The hosts share their personal experiences and coping mechanisms.

• Anonymous Listener [32:48]: "Do you ever get any Intrusive or impulsive thoughts... I have to really remind myself and convince myself that I didn't do it."

Key Points:

• Josh Peck's Experience [34:13]: "I've definitely, like, I'll be like... I'm out on the terrace with my dog, and I've once had a thought..."
• Ben Soffer's Insights [35:02]: Discusses the nature of intrusive thoughts and strategies to manage them, emphasizing self-awareness and coping techniques.

Notable Quotes:

• Ben Soffer [36:07]: "Don't make me send that text. It makes me feel like a schmuck and they're taking advantage of good guys."

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5. Gift-Giving and Children's Parties

Josh and Ben explore the etiquette and personal feelings surrounding gift-giving at children's birthday parties, especially when invitations specify "no gifts."

• Josh Peck [43:47]: "I think you gotta bring a gift regardless of if it's a really young kid."
• Ben Soffer [45:22]: "I will say that I do not receive enough gifts based on the parties that I have had from my friends."

Key Points:

• Balancing Etiquette and Practicality: They discuss alternative suggestions like making donations instead of bringing physical gifts to reduce clutter for parents.
• Personal Experiences: Both hosts share anecdotes about managing expectations around gift-giving and the frustrations that can arise when others don't reciprocate.

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6. Venmo Culture and Social Dynamics

The conversation shifts to the modern dynamics of splitting bills and the use of digital payment platforms like Venmo.

• Ben Soffer [48:16]: "Like, I send it this second, I'm owed. The second I owe it, it's gone."
• Josh Peck [52:33]: "And also, if you order a soda around me and you say no ice, I know what you're really saying."

Key Points:

• Prompt Payments: Emphasis on the importance of timely payments to avoid awkwardness and maintain healthy friendships.
• Cultural Shifts: Discussion on how younger generations handle financial transactions informally and the expectations that come with it.

Notable Quotes:

• Ben Soffer [49:56]: "It's what are you nuts? I've experienced it as well."

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7. What Are You Nuts? – Gripes and Frustrations

In the segment "What Are You Nuts?", Josh and Ben vent about various pet peeves, blending humor with genuine frustration.

• Ben Soffer [58:35]: "Nobody beats the Van Wyck, Josh, in 40 years, right?"
• Josh Peck [60:38]: "The etiquette in the Schwitz has become such an issue that I'm escalating it now."

Key Points:

• Traffic and Infrastructure: Frustration with the Van Wyck Expressway, humorously blaming mobsters for perpetual construction delays.
• Public Facilities Etiquette: Complaints about the misuse of saunas ("Schwitz") and the lack of proper behavior in shared public spaces like Equinox gyms.
• Social Etiquette: Annoyance with people being on speakerphone in public saunas and the general disregard for shared space norms.

Notable Quotes:

• Josh Peck [61:28]: "I don't want to hear your music. Maybe I don't. Maybe I want to listen to some Kenny G and not some Alesso."

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8. Closing Remarks and Final Thoughts

As the episode wraps up, Josh and Ben reiterate their appreciation for their listeners and encourage feedback through various platforms.

• Ben Soffer [63:57]: "I love you guys. Thanks. Bye."
• Josh Peck [64:06]: Encourages listeners to rate and review the podcast.

Conclusion: "Intrusive Thoughts: The Musical" offers a blend of light-hearted banter, personal insights, and relatable discussions. Josh Peck and Ben Soffer successfully navigate through various topics, providing listeners with both entertainment and thoughtful commentary on everyday issues.

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Transcript

[Josh Peck]

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.

[Ben Soffer]

Make it your weekly routine.

[Josh Peck]

It's a Good Guys.

[Ben Soffer]

And if you don't give us five stars.

[Josh Peck]

What are you nuts?

[Ben Soffer]

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

[Josh Peck]

They're not the great guys. We're just the good of the good.

[Ben Soffer]

Of the good guys.

[Josh Peck]

Welcome back to the Good Guys podcast, Ben. Did you know that dunkin donuts and JetBlue just did a collab for a Dunkin Donuts plane?

[Ben Soffer]

Benny and Joshi talking about planes. Benny and Joshi. Benny had a Starbucks. Did not have Starbucks this morning. He actually had Duncan.

[Josh Peck]

I love Duncan. I would pick Duncan almost anytime.

[Ben Soffer]

Talk to me about this collab and then we're frickin talking about Dunkin Donuts because Starbucks hasn't given me a penny. I was literally. I was hawking them non stop. Okay? Y. Unbelievable. Their coffee. I have a problem that Duncan solves. And we'll talk about that when we start to talk about Duncan. But I want to hear about this collab.

[Josh Peck]

Well, as we know, Dunkin Donuts is available on JetBlue flights. And listen, we are not being sponsored by JetBlue in any way. In fact, that's all I'll say.

[Ben Soffer]

Nuts. Yeah.

[Josh Peck]

But no, it's just a super cute plane. And it made me start thinking about, like, what? Could there be other collabs? Like maybe Spirit Airlines and Taco Bell. But I would fear that the farts in that plane would be so intense that maybe they would have to do an old emergency land.

[Ben Soffer]

They did a. They did Delta and Shake Shack.

[Josh Peck]

Delta and Shake Shack, Right.

[Ben Soffer]

That was a big move.

[Josh Peck]

That's still happening, by the way, in first class you can get a Shake Shack burger.

[Ben Soffer]

Yeah, but by the way, the Dunkin is better. Duncan. Like having good, trustworthy coffee on a flight. That's awesome. That is awesome.

[Josh Peck]

Can you imagine if a flight like that to me is the problem? Right? You can't. You can't do a good pasta primavera on land. You're doing short ribs at 34,000ft. What are you, a schmuck? Do things. Planes should do. Appetizers. If they walked around with a charcuterie board. Have some gabagool and shut the fuck up. 37B.

[Ben Soffer]

You know, really, there should be far more deli meat in the skies.

[Josh Peck]

Yes.

[Ben Soffer]

Like that's just a fact. Like, imagine there was. Why isn't there a turkey carver, a slicer, a deli Slicer on board, you know, and a couple baguettes. That's what I'm saying. It's easy to keep fresh bread. You throw it in a plastic bag, no problem. And you take, you want, you want smoked turkey in 3B. No problem. Fresh.

[Josh Peck]

It's so dumb. I got Dietz and Watson for 6D. They're throwing up their ginger ale in the sky.

[Ben Soffer]

Yeah. Imagine that, though. The listeria outbreak on the plane. That would be it.

[Josh Peck]

It'd be listerical.

[Ben Soffer]

Which, which airline would partner with Boar's Head?

[Josh Peck]

Ooh, that's a toughie. Alaska.

[Ben Soffer]

Okay. Oh, I like that. I was going to say Frontier. I like Alaska. That's good. Even though I feel like Alaska would partner with like a nice Marlboro Red.

[Josh Peck]

Yes. Bring smokey back on flights.

[Ben Soffer]

Or an American spirit.

[Josh Peck]

Ooh. You know what I've been doing much less of? Is vaping. Is vaping. Falling out of. Out of fashion.

[Ben Soffer]

I think that everything right now that is a harm to the body seems to be falling out of fashion the older we get. It seems like I'm finding that my friends are just drinking less, smoking less. You have those outliers that are like still doing crazy shit, but you look at them and you're like, are you fucking out of your mind?

[Josh Peck]

Right?

[Ben Soffer]

Like, grow up. That said, you know, last night, it was a beautiful night. My brother in law texted me. It was like 73 degrees. He's like, oh, man, this feels like a great night for a hookah. And I'm like, ah, yes, I would love a hookah on my balcony. The same balcony that I almost fell off of last week. But that would be. That's the only thing that, like, I would still do a nice occasional hookah, occasional cigarette, occasional cigar. All right. Occasional joint, but nothing on the daily.

[Josh Peck]

Well, tell me about Dunkin Donuts and why it satisfies. Satisfies something for you instead of Starbucks, Josh.

[Ben Soffer]

Starbucks pulled the wool over our eyes at least 12 months ago and just made everybody that once drank sugar free hazelnut. You talked about drank sugar free vanilla. Yeah, but we didn't talk about that. Dunkin has sugar free hazelnut.

[Josh Peck]

Oh, wow. Okay.

[Ben Soffer]

Duncan has it. Josh got it. And I went. And I was like, oh, there's just a whole board of sugar free sweeteners. I thought sugar free hazelnut, because of Dunkin was just sold out in general. I'm like, if Starbucks can't get sugar free hazelnut. So as we've discussed, I switched to chai. I don't want chai. Chai was just like, it was just there, you know, it was there in replacement of my sugar free hazelnut. But I like when my coffee tastes like hazelnut and Dunkin has sugar free hazelnut. So I went this morning, I got a large iced coffee, a little bit of milk, one splendid, three pumps of sugar free hazelnut and it was delicious.

[Josh Peck]

Have you ever gotten any of their hot bites? Any of their breakfast bites?

[Ben Soffer]

I've gotten so much of their food. They also have a great bagel. Oh, and they have a great donut.

[Josh Peck]

Do you find? I think that is the one place where they're lacking are their donuts. I never, my, my balls are never blown off by their, their donuts.

[Ben Soffer]

It's not that my balls are blown off by their donuts, but their donuts are simple. Their donuts are really great for a coffee shop. Right. They're not really great for a donut shop. But if you're going there for your iced coffee and you pick up a strawberry frosted donut, it's pretty delicious. It's no Krispy Kreme, but Krispy Kreme is a donut shop. I feel like Dunkin has really become a coffee shop. Am I right?

[Josh Peck]

It has. And they really. And by the way, we are getting 0 AD dollars from Dunkin Donuts. I want to assure you.

[Ben Soffer]

Unfortunately, they have, they have like a.

[Josh Peck]

Little draft station, like a little like where they like pull down the lever for the cold brews and whatnot and then they like have one of those long spoons like they're mixing a mojito and they're just like giving you your delicious mojito. Mojito. I like putting the emphasis on different parts of the world.

[Ben Soffer]

The emphasis on the mojito. Yeah, I, I love it. And their egg bites. Their sandwiches like their egg sandwiches. All that stuff is good, hon. Food at these coffee shops through the roof. I love the food at Starbucks.

[Josh Peck]

Love, love.

[Ben Soffer]

Yeah, we've spoken about this. But I will say it again. Nothing like that. Spinach fed egg white wrap, double baked will keep me coming back. You love it double baked. That'll keep me coming back to Starbucks.

[Josh Peck]

The only thing they're lacking is in the app. It doesn't allow you to pick one and a half. Let me pick it, let me do it. Because I'm telling you, if you get one cold bite in a spinach egg wrap thing, it's, that'll ruin your day.

[Ben Soffer]

It's really bad. It's really bad. Really yucky, man.

[Josh Peck]

Starbucks does fulfill a need. I have especially In L. A. New York, a little less just because I feel. I feel like even then, they hold the bathroom over your head, like you may or may not get in there. But, like, when you got to take a nice pish and then you need something to get you from lunch to dinner, you get that nice bite. You get that hit of caffeine. They killed Howard Schultz. Crushed it. Yeah.

[Ben Soffer]

Starbucks is definitely king. But there's something inherently, you feel very like a real New Yorker when you go to Dunkin. I can't explain it. There's just something about the Dunkin Donuts in New York that feels like I'm gonna run into a cop at Dunkin Donuts. I'm not running into a cop at Starbucks. The cops are not going to Starbucks. And I think that has everything to do, Josh, with the cup of joe or the box of joe where you can just get that big 8 servings of hot coffee, 10 servings of hot coffee, and the donuts, of course, and bring them to your local precinct. There's something very New Yorker about Dunkin Donuts.

[Josh Peck]

Man, do I want to hang out in a precinct, right? I'll code switch for a precinct all day.

[Ben Soffer]

Oh, yeah.

[Josh Peck]

Oh, yeah.

[Ben Soffer]

I'd love to see you stepping into a precinct and hear the way that you speak to cops.

[Josh Peck]

Yeah, my beats 10th Avenue. You know what I mean? A couple vagrants over there. You know what I'm saying? Come in a couple be. I got. I got. I got beanies up to my hoo.

[Ben Soffer]

Ha.

[Josh Peck]

Right now. I wish I had a bacon, egg, and cheese right now instead of so many being, you know.

[Ben Soffer]

Oh, my God. You tell them. You tell them. Yeah, that was good. That was good.

[Josh Peck]

They call me. You know what they call me? The Big blue line. BBL. The big blue line. Could you imagine my reality show as a cop?

[Ben Soffer]

I love it. I'm in. I loved Blue Bloods. You ever watch Blue Bloods? Of course not.

[Josh Peck]

Great show with Donnie Wahlberg.

[Ben Soffer]

Yeah. Nah, I loved it.

[Josh Peck]

It was great. I hold the line at Donnie Wahlberg. No.

[Ben Soffer]

Can you believe that? I literally all seasons of Blue Bloods before I watched the Sopranos.

[Josh Peck]

That's nuts. That's really nuts.

[Ben Soffer]

Can you just tell me, does the therapist stay in for all seasons? No. Right, of course.

[Josh Peck]

Integral Dr. Melfi.

[Ben Soffer]

I was really hoping she got killed off Lorraine Bracco.

[Josh Peck]

How dare you?

[Ben Soffer]

Yeah, I was really hoping that they just.

[Josh Peck]

Oh, God, you're.

[Ben Soffer]

Maybe she gets. Maybe she gets better.

[Josh Peck]

Her and Edie are the. Her and Edie Falco or Carmel. They are the women in Tony's life.

[Ben Soffer]

Understood. Oh, so it gets even deeper. Okay. I love it. I love it. Tell me. No, don't tell me more. I won't. Tell me more. I won't.

[Josh Peck]

Oh, trust me, I won't.

[Ben Soffer]

Don't tell me more.

[Josh Peck]

So wonderful. Ugh. So glad you have the Sopranos to look forward to and to enjoy.

[Ben Soffer]

Me too.

[Cameron Rogers]

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[Ben Soffer]

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[Ben Soffer]

Are you watching anything, Josh?

[Josh Peck]

What am I watching? I'm watching the Agency, which is a Michael Fassbender Richard Gere show on Paramount. Very my style. Very good. Quite good. I am watching the Last of Us, which plenty of people, as expected, had opinions about me being on that show. And I'm enjoying that. I am enjoying it. And am I watching anything else? Oh, well, yeah, my beloved Pit. Now I gotta wait, man. They're doing season two of the Pit right now on Max, and it shoots at Warner Brothers in Los Angeles. And people usually ask me, they go, what would be like a dream job for you? And I always say I don't have one because I never thought I was gonna go work for, you know, on Oppenheimer for two months. Nor did I think I was gonna do five episodes of iCarly and have a gas. But how do we get you in.

[Ben Soffer]

The Pit so you can just film locally, be in a show that you love. You'd also make a great, I don't know, I'm trying to think, would you be a doctor? Would you be a med student? Would you be.

[Josh Peck]

I'm too old.

[Ben Soffer]

Yeah, but like, they can always make you look younger. No. Isn't that a thing? Where ever where they always say, like, oh, she's 18 when she's 30.

[Josh Peck]

Well, no, I. I could be like a third year, like a second year resident.

[Ben Soffer]

Yeah. Yeah, exactly.

[Josh Peck]

I wouldn't be in attending. I'm not, you know.

[Ben Soffer]

You wouldn't be in attending? No. You wouldn't be in attending?

[Josh Peck]

No, I'd be. Yeah, I'd be like. I'd be a resident. Maybe not even the senior resident. I would.

[Ben Soffer]

Would you want to be a doctor? Yeah. What would be your dream role in the pit? Walk me through it.

[Josh Peck]

It would pitch it. It would be a dream role to be. That show is crushing it so hard. I already know how these shows do it. Right. This is how it's going to happen. First of all, I love the show. I'm crazy for it. And then I watch the behind the scenes, and half these people have British accents. Ooh, does that stick in my craw? That means they went far and wide to find these. Great for what? No, it's good. They're good. They're so perfect, it's annoying.

[Ben Soffer]

They're so good. How wonderful would it be, Josh, if you could just wake up and go and film in Los Angeles?

[Josh Peck]

Yeah, dude. It's how it should be. This should be.

[Ben Soffer]

This is what I'm saying. Local should feed local. Local should feed local. Stop trying to drag everybody to Ireland.

[Josh Peck]

Well, we can talk about that in at Nauseum, but, yeah, it would be cool. It's my dream to be a doctor in general. I'm not even sure on television. I think it might just be something I give up acting for. But, yeah, the dream role, especially with a third kid on the way, would be to be local, doing a show like that, which is incredibly well done with these great, brilliant actors and. And, like, something. Because in la, you assume, like, if you got a job in town, that you'd be, like, on some procedural where you show up every day and go, like, yeah, I'm lucky to have this job. I secretly don't love it, but whatever. I'm very lucky to have a job in town. But that is one of those rare jobs in town where every day you go, ooh, I can't wait. Like, what's this? Like, you're excited. It's. And again, these are champagne problems. But it's very rare when you're on a show for a season or two or three where you're, like, excited when the script comes down for the next week. Cause eventually these things get figured out and it just becomes, like a formula, you know? So when they're keeping you excited because the writing's so good. Oh, man, that's fun. That's a nice thing to be a Part of.

[Ben Soffer]

I don't see why you couldn't be a doctor. But I really like. It's such a mission if you're not just like one of those doctors husbands. Like the way that. That guy. What was that schmuck's name? I hated him. I hated him. What was that guy's name?

[Josh Peck]

I know. I don't know.

[Ben Soffer]

You know who I'm talking about? The redheaded doctor's husband who's just, like, a shithead. But he got so much airtime. He had so many lines. There's no reason that wasn't you. And there's no reason that, like, you couldn't be married to. What's that girl's name? I don't know the names of any of the doctors.

[Josh Peck]

Me either. I don't know a single. I know Dr. Robbie, the lead. That's it.

[Ben Soffer]

That's it. But I don't know anybody else's names. But there are tons of female doctors in that show, and they really love exploring the love interest. I'm just saying.

[Josh Peck]

Or.

[Ben Soffer]

Or the redhead that has the. The ankle bracelet. You could be her new flame. She could use you to make him jealous, and then you could raise that kid. Yeah.

[Josh Peck]

It's just not fun.

[Ben Soffer]

All right.

[Josh Peck]

I guess it's fun. You just want. What? Here's the thing. You want something to do. You like, this is total selfish actor inside baseball. Right.

[Ben Soffer]

But like, you're saying, it's just not a fun role.

[Josh Peck]

That part that he played is not a fun role to me.

[Ben Soffer]

Is it a. Is it fun to make great money in Los Angeles?

[Josh Peck]

Yes.

[Ben Soffer]

How do you weigh that? Because to me, it's like, okay, dream role shoots somewhere else. B, a role shoots here.

[Josh Peck]

A, it. Yeah, it. Absolutely. You have to weigh it towards where you are in your family life. Right. Like, I have three kids under. I will have, God willing, three kids under 10. And so their school, their stability is super important. Although, like, I remember I got offered this show when I was doing Oppenheimer, but I was away a lot, and Paige was pregnant with Shy. And I got offered this pilot for a show that was gonna shoot in Montreal. And at that time, Max was 4, almost 4, and Shy was about to be born, and it just was like, I just couldn't do it. Cause we had spent already a year over the pandemic in Vancouver doing Turner and Hooch. And I just was like, it's just a lot. And especially if she has to give birth in Montreal. Like, she gets a C section. Like, it's a proper. She needs to be Canadian.

[Ben Soffer]

He can't come in. Like, imagine that. Imagine that. You can't get him citizenship.

[Josh Peck]

No, they would become citizens of Canada. They get. They'd be dual citizens and then. But, you know, I'm there.

[Cameron Rogers]

I'm.

[Josh Peck]

I'm, you know, chugging Tim Hortons coffee while Paige is giving birth without her mother there. You know what I mean?

[Ben Soffer]

It's a Shunda, by the way. Tim Hortons. Wonderful chain.

[Josh Peck]

Gorgeous.

[Ben Soffer]

I love it. It's. There, there. There aren't enough Tim Hortons.

[Josh Peck]

There aren't enough Tim's. It's a great name.

[Ben Soffer]

It's a great name. Timothy. Long form. Thomas.

[Josh Peck]

Is it. Is it a. Is it a form of Thomas?

[Ben Soffer]

I think so.

[Josh Peck]

It's not.

[Ben Soffer]

What is it then, Josh?

[Josh Peck]

Oh, just Timothy, Tommy, Tom. Tommy, Thomas, Tim. Timothy, Tim, Timmy.

[Ben Soffer]

Timothy. Okay. Timmy didn't.

[Josh Peck]

In the last episode, you're like, what's Jimmy. Jonathan, for sure.

[Ben Soffer]

No, I'm on the same. I'm on the same trajectory. What's Timothy short for?

[Josh Peck]

But yeah, I think that. So, yes, traveling when you're having a kid is a tough thing. But I think for that show, the Pit in general, what you want to be selfishly as an actor is you want to be in the mix and. And like that guy, the husband on that show, Anyone who doesn't watch the show, they're like, cool, I'm turning off this episode. But he's like, you should, by the.

[Ben Soffer]

Way, you should watch it. Like, it's a really fucking great show. I loved it. Yeah. Loved it.

[Josh Peck]

You're like in three episodes and you have a good little thing. But it's not like a crazy, like, you know, like, what's great is the. The night shift attending, right? Who comes in at the end. Like, he's in the first episode and then he comes for five episodes at the end. You're like, I love this guy. Like that. If you're gonna do a recurring, that's the part. Cause you're like, this is my dude.

[Ben Soffer]

What about the woman that runs the hospital? That's a great role too.

[Josh Peck]

Great role. Cause when you see her, she gets like a page of really good. Cause it's all. That's the thing with drama. You want to be a part of the conflict.

[Ben Soffer]

I understand. And he's so off to the side. You don't want anything to do with that. I understand.

[Josh Peck]

No, I. Look, I think it's. You are lucky to have a job in Hollywood. But I've done a lot of that stuff where you get like a great 90 seconds. And it's like, you kind of want to, like, be a part of the mix and, like, get something fun to do every week. And I think if you're a doctor on that show, you're going to get something fun every week. Yes, but I know. I know this show is hot. It is flaming hot. They are going to get so many good. They're going to, like, get movie actors who are going to be like, yeah, I'll come play. I'll come play for a couple of weeks while Joshi peace over here going, well, you want Dr. Feel Good.

[Ben Soffer]

Yeah. You're.

[Josh Peck]

You're at peak physical condition, right?

[Ben Soffer]

Yeah. Right.

[Josh Peck]

In a whole storyline, I'm all hopped up on steroids. Can I take care of my patients? I'm doing DECA in the back, and bicep curls are like, you know, Dr. Handsome, you got this guy, he's in cardiac arrest. I'm like, I got to get my gains. Like, we're going to revoke your medical license. I'm like, well, you can't revoke these tries.

[Ben Soffer]

No, you can't. You absolutely can't. Have you told. You've told your people to reach out to the pit people?

[Josh Peck]

I try not to scream at the wind bed. Josh. Josh.

[Ben Soffer]

You have to tell them that you want it.

[Josh Peck]

Do you sometimes go into the forest and make a wish list?

[Ben Soffer]

Tell. Tell people that you want it. Okay. You're gonna get it.

[Josh Peck]

Thank you.

[Ben Soffer]

Freaking get it.

[Josh Peck]

Thank you for believing in me. I really appreciate it. Ben, what do you want in this world?

[Ben Soffer]

I. I don't want anything.

[Josh Peck]

You're like spritzes in Target. I got it.

[Ben Soffer]

I said this last night. It's not even that. Like. Like, work aside, work is work. I'm gonna continue to do things that make me happy, and I'm thankful that those things are making me money. But I work really hard, and I'm. I'm. I'm thankful that I enjoy the things that I do. But even if it all came crashing down, I don't mean this in a corny way. I sat in bed last night after Mother's Day, and I'm very lucky. I'm very lucky. And I turn to Claudia, and I'm like, I have such an unbelievably wonderful life. I'm so unbelievably blessed. I have two parents that are just. Just the best people in the whole world. My sister is so great. My wife is so great. Like, I swear on my life, I want for nothing. And the more that I find that I want for nothing, Things come. I don't know. But when I do want something, Josh, I definitely speak into the universe and I make it happen. That Target thing, for example, it's not like Target came and said, hey, we want to put you in. I literally batted down the door for four years. I found somebody that worked at Target. I got them to try it. I started in 100 stores. I went to 200 stores. I went to 1400 stores. But I really do want for nothing. And then when I want for something, I'm very aggressive. Very aggressive. Some would call it annoying. Some would call it annoying.

[Josh Peck]

Hey, you know who wouldn't say that? Me. Because I support you, Ben.

[Ben Soffer]

I love you. God, were so good.

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[Ben Soffer]

Rileyandcrew.com goodguys want to get to a speak pipe? No.

[Josh Peck]

Well you Got anything else?

[Ben Soffer]

No. I want to get you a speak pipe. I really do. I love, I love it, I love it. And just so you know, when you come up to me on the street and you say BH and then tell me that you're Christian, it warms my fricking heart. And then when you tell me I'm a moron. There was a 68 year old guy yesterday. He's with his daughter. The daughter comes up to Claudia, she's like, I'm such a huge fan. He looked at me, he's like, man, I'm a moron. I'm like, I love you, dad. I love you.

[Josh Peck]

Wow. Morty's a moron.

[Ben Soffer]

Yeah, Morty the moron. That's our mascot. Just like an old Jewish.

[Josh Peck]

Yes, let's. This is our fan base. Civil servants, the 65 and up community. We should start getting like a leaflet in the ARP mailings.

[Ben Soffer]

Yeah, we need. We need to be sponsored by the AARP. A thousand percent.

[Josh Peck]

The problem is anyone over 65 can't find podcasts.

[Ben Soffer]

We do need to maybe transition this thing over to radio. Josh, how do we communicate on radio?

[Josh Peck]

Where is it?

[Ben Soffer]

That's the problem. It really is the problem. Seriously. We would get triple the downloads if it wasn't so hard to find a podcast. Olivia, can we syndicate this to radio?

[Josh Peck]

Yeah, let's just see.

[Ben Soffer]

We don't need any money. We just want the exposure. And by that I mean I'm not doing work if I'm not getting paid.

[Josh Peck]

Let's just have us come in and be like 107.1. It's good guys. Coming at you. In Los Angeles, It's a Bomby 68 degrees. There's traffic on the far. Benny, what do you got?

[Ben Soffer]

I don't know. There was just a shooting at that beach and there was a shooting at Dockweiler and everybody's bugging out. No, I would literally just take the episode and throw it straight on radio. What do you think of that? Does that not exist? Does that exist? Why not?

[Josh Peck]

I think SiriusXM does it with their podcasts.

[Ben Soffer]

OK.

[Josh Peck]

Wow, what a fight.

[Ben Soffer]

Sorry.

[Josh Peck]

Well, if you want to leave us a message, get adv. Go to speakpipe.com goodguys keep it brief. Brevity is key. We don't want to hear your what are your nuts Is. They're not great. Here's one from Olivia. Let's hope not this Olivia.

[Anonymous]

Hey, morons. Hey, fat morons. Bhbh BH to you beautiful babies. My question is, do you ever get any Intrusive or impulsive thoughts. I work from home, and whenever I'm on a zoom meeting with my camera on, my brain tells me, flash your tits. Flash your tits. And once I get off the call, I have to really remind myself and convince myself that I didn't do it. I didn't flash my tits. And it's gonna be okay. I'm not gonna get fired. Love you guys.

[Ben Soffer]

That is the greatest speak pipe we've ever had.

[Josh Peck]

So good.

[Ben Soffer]

Starting with fat morons, ending with flash tits. Unbelievable. Ooh, that was a good snort. That was a good snort. Oh, my God. Okay, I've got. I've gotten plenty of intrusive thoughts never to flash my. My tits or, like, get naked on zoom and during a meeting. That's strange. Yeah, I've definitely, like. I'll be like. I'm trying to think of, like, a good example that doesn't paint me in a terrible light. But, like, I'm out with, like, I'm out on the terrace with my dog, and I've once had a thought, like, what happens if I just threw him over? I was like, would he survive? And it's like, no. And then I have to back it up, Back it up. It's like, you love him. You love him. You don't want to throw him off the balcony. You have any intrusive thoughts like that, Josh?

[Josh Peck]

Sometimes when I'm sitting at a meal with someone, I just think about taking the water or the glass that I'm holding and just going, like, throwing water in their face.

[Ben Soffer]

Can you imagine being that type of person that, like, flips tables? You're, like, angry and you just, like, flip it.

[Josh Peck]

Yeah, like Teresa Jiduce.

[Ben Soffer]

You with the terrible pronunciation. Judice.

[Josh Peck]

I don't think so. I think you're wrong, dude. Teresa Gaduce. Gaduce. Hi, I'm Teresa Gaduche Shay. Am I wrong?

[Ben Soffer]

Yes. It's Judice.

[Josh Peck]

Teresa Judice.

[Ben Soffer]

Yes.

[Josh Peck]

Okay.

[Cameron Rogers]

Yes.

[Ben Soffer]

Whatever you say. Yeah. Flipping. Flipping tables.

[Josh Peck]

Privilege. Privilege, for sure.

[Ben Soffer]

Oh, my God. Olivia, have you ever flipped a table?

[Josh Peck]

I don't think I've ever flipped a table.

[Tabby]

I actually not flipped table.

[Ben Soffer]

That's good. That's good. It's not good to flip tables.

[Josh Peck]

Have you ever punched a wall? No, but I like to.

[Tabby]

My intrusive thing is I have thoughts of, like, throwing random things like this, like, Mike flag. I would just love to, like, chuck it.

[Ben Soffer]

Not at anybody.

[Tabby]

Just to throw it.

[Ben Soffer]

Just to throw it. Yeah.

[Tabby]

Yeah.

[Ben Soffer]

Interesting. I've never punched through a wall, Josh. Have you?

[Josh Peck]

No, I Think that's corny? I think it's like really losery.

[Ben Soffer]

It is. It's really illusory. It also like it's such like a short term boost for such long term pain. Both on your fist and you have to go get dry. You have to go patch it. Like that sucks.

[Josh Peck]

Totally.

[Ben Soffer]

No, it's not cool to punch things like that.

[Josh Peck]

Now anger management class should be taught at a Home Depot and they should give you lessons on like once anger management sound like. And then this is how you spackle this thing you put in the drywall.

[Ben Soffer]

Exactly. Here's how you rectify your problems.

[Josh Peck]

Yeah, the hole in the wall.

[Ben Soffer]

I love Home Depot. I love it. I love it, I love it.

[Josh Peck]

Except no one works there.

[Ben Soffer]

It's funny, I think that there's so there not. I think there's a brand new Home Depot in the city and when a store first opens, oh my God, everyone works. They're all under surveillance. They're all so happy to be there. It's all brand new. But yes, once a Home Depot's been there for a minute, nobody works there. It's impossible to get anybody's attention. And Home Depot, really, you need to have somebody telling you what you should and shouldn't get. Otherwise you're gonna leave that store with a bunch of shit you don't need. That doesn't even work for your problem. I need you to help me find this screw. Ok? This exact screw. If you're not here to show me this exact screw, I'm not going to find it. I'm going to go home with the wrong screw.

[Josh Peck]

I like Home Depot for the pomp and circumstance as you get into the store. I don't know about in the city, but most other locations, they probably have a hot dog vendor outside. There's probably a fruit stand. It's fun.

[Ben Soffer]

No, not in the city. Not in the city. Ours is a lot of plants, tarps.

[Josh Peck]

Where? Where is it in the city?

[Ben Soffer]

Upper East. Upper East.

[Josh Peck]

East.

[Ben Soffer]

I know.

[Josh Peck]

Is it more compact? It's not a full sized Home Depot.

[Ben Soffer]

It's actually, you know, there's one in Flatiron that is more compact and the one Upper east is. It's pretty big. It's like fascinating, actually. Enormous. It's enormous.

[Josh Peck]

Okay.

[Ben Soffer]

Not quite as enormous as a suburban Home Depot, but yeah, it's big.

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[Josh Peck]

From another speak pipe from Anonymous.

[Anonymous]

Hey good guys, I would love to know your thoughts on children's birthday parties. I was invited to a two year old birthday party and the invitation explicitly said please no gifts. Do I really not bring a gift or am I gonna look like a total jerk if I'm the only person who doesn't bring a gift and everyone else does, what would you guys do? Also would love to know your thoughts on children's birthday parties in Generals for 1 year old, 2 year old, 3 year olds, are they just a waste of money or what's the point?

[Ben Soffer]

Josh, would you like to go first?

[Josh Peck]

I think you gotta bring a gift regardless of if it's a really young kid. I think I, I do like the sentiment and I do understand it, especially if you have like a certain amount of income and I think the bane of most parents existence is how much crap you wind up accruing with a kid. So I like the idea of it. I, I would suggest a donation because I think people like me feel guilty. But if you're like no, we'd prefer you give 50 bucks to habit for Humanity or something then I'd be like okay, or Habitat for Humanity. Sorry, Habit for Humanity is my own place. We that' work on humane habits.

[Ben Soffer]

So the Habit for humanity. What are your thoughts on children's birthday parties in general?

[Josh Peck]

I have, I don't know and you guys tell me growing up I think like everything because we are selfish, selfish, selfish that kids parties have become about the parents. And it's all about like boozy 3 year old birthday at 11am like can you put your fucking blue moons away? Like I don't, I don't want you to see. Like why, like is it that bad? Like that's why I like when recently one of my son's best friends parties was like at a trampoline park. And it's just like it is dedicated to the time we had it at Chuck E. Cheese dominant brag. But it's like, yeah, we're gonna crush this in two and a half hours. The kids are gonna play for an hour and a half. They're gonna eat cake and pizza for a half hour and we're gonna leave. Like that's what it should be. It doesn't need to be about like parents socializing for three hours at 11am on a Sunday.

[Ben Soffer]

I think I agree. I think that it. Well first of all, I completely agree that it needs to be all about the kid. Let's start with the birthday party. My, my mom, they weren't expensive. They were just creative. My mom threw the most creative birthday parties for me ever. I still remember some of them. One year it was a paper airplane class where literally like a guy came in to teach us all how to make cool paper airplanes. And I, and I remember that like it's about being creative, it's about the kids. I'm sure that like there was food for the parents, but I don't remember any of that. Like it's got to be about the kids. I think Jackie does this incredibly with her kids. Like she'll, she, she throws instead. They're definitely lavish, but like a bouncy house or like a guy making balloon animals or like things for the kids and then she has a nice cold brew station, Josh, where you can go and get a nice coffee the way that you want it. Because it is 11 o' clock, 10 o' clock in the morning, you deserve to have a coffee. But it's all about the kids. I love fun, nice things. All about the kids. In terms of the gift you got to bring, a gift can be very small, very small. But I agree, you should bring a gift. It is interesting though. I imagine that it becomes the bane of your existence trying to return these gifts when they're from everywhere. That's why I love a registry. I don't think you can register for a birthday party, but it would be interesting if, if you only shopped at one place. That way you could get one big credit. Otherwise, it's like it becomes a job. I hate the job of having to return things. That's not fun at all. And then you have, like, an ancillary credit here and here and here. I don't know.

[Josh Peck]

I totally agree. And wouldn't you say. I know we've talked about this before. I find you get to a certain point with adults where you don't give them gifts anymore. And I think the ROI on a gift, if you make a rule, if you have a code for yourself, that if I am invited to a party where someone is not one of these, you know, fakaked, you know, Williamsburg, Silver Lake parties, where it's like everybody's splitting the tab at that point. No, but, like, you have these lovely parties you had at the Second Avenue Deli and whatnot, where you're being treated to a lovely meal where, you know, someone probably shelled out a grand, two grand for their birthday. A lot of adults don't bring gifts. I think the ROI is so big when you bring a gift, no matter what the age, even if it's small, even if it's like a $25 fun thing, people remember that.

[Ben Soffer]

I'll never forget if somebody gave a shit enough to give me something, which is why I always give gifts. Always. I love gift giving. I love gift giving. You're the same. It's. It's almost. It's almost selfish. I love the feeling. I feel good when I give somebody a gift. And I definitely would feel great receiving a gift. I will say that I do not receive enough gifts based on the parties that I have had from my friends. No, there's no question that to your, Like, I don't know. I. I've. I've consistently over the years, like, it's very rare. Like, since, I don't know, maybe early 20s, like, we were still going to dinner and splitting since then, like, if you come to my birthday, my birthday is handled. And I'm not saying that you owe me anything, but it is a. It is a. It does feel really good to receive stuff.

[Josh Peck]

That's all right. And the worst thing you can do. And I will say this, too, and again, if you are strapped for cash, I would say I give you a pass. But again, there's a more elegant way to do this. My friend has a lovely scumbag friend. Oh, I want to name him, but I won't. But my boy, kid, David, God love him, friend of the podcast, has a scumbag friend who we all Went to dinner for Kid David. Now, Kid this birthday is in his early 30s at the time. And most of his friends are like artists and, you know, not like the most flush. And so like we all. It was one of those birthdays where it was like we went to like a low key restaurant and we took Kid out. We just split the bill to take Kid out for his birthday. It was great. And his scumbag friend didn't put any money in. And I wound up covering his friend. And I looked at his buddy and I said, hey boss, you owe me 25 bucks. Or I'm sorry, I didn't say that. I said, hey, you didn't put in for dinner. We're covering Kid. And he goes, okay, bet. And it really broke down to about 25 a person. And he gave me 10 bucks. And I was like, that was worse than you giving me nothing. I'll never forget that.

[Ben Soffer]

Yeah, it's also, when you are a giver, you end up being the person that covered for the other person and you're always hung out to dry. I've had that exact experience where like, nobody wants to put down their card. I'll put down my card. And do you know what a fucking job it is to go and hunt people for venmos? Like, like fucking pay. The second that the bill comes, pay. Don't have me text you tomorrow. I don't care if it's $500 or $5, just send it. I send it this second, I'm owed. The second I owe it, it's gone. I never want to think about it again, ever. Like, I recently had this with Knicks tickets. I put the two Knicks tickets on my card and I had to follow up with my friend two hours after the game. Hey, do you mind sending me the money for the ticket? Like, please don't make me send that text.

[Josh Peck]

Right?

[Ben Soffer]

Don't make me do it. Is it a big deal that you didn't pay me that second? No, but there's no difference between now and in three hours. Don't make me send that text. It makes me feel like a schmuck and they're taking advantage of good guys.

[Josh Peck]

Is this the seventeen hundred dollar ticket?

[Ben Soffer]

Yes.

[Josh Peck]

That's a lot of money. I would never. Like, if it's 50 bucks, I might be like, oh, sorry dude, I forgot and I'll get you that night. But like, I try not to, but if it's 1700, you're getting that before I get there. That's a huge amount of money to put out for someone yeah.

[Ben Soffer]

What about the two days before? It's not even like I bought them that day. You had three days.

[Josh Peck]

What? Crazy. That's a lot, a lot, a lot of money.

[Ben Soffer]

I know, I know. Nuts.

[Josh Peck]

That's nutty. I remember once Casey Neistat did such a playa move. We're at the farmer's market.

[Ben Soffer]

Code switching, playa.

[Josh Peck]

It was some sweet dog, cool shit. Do you feel me? No, I'm kidding. We're at the farmer's market in Santa Monica when he lived in LA with our family. And you. You know me, I'm. I'm carry cash over here. You know what I'm saying? I'm Christopher Cash. I got cash on me all the time. And he goes, crap, I don't have any cash on me. He's like, can you just throw me, like, 40, 50 bucks? Just so. Because we're going to buy some stuff from the farmer's market and I'm Venmoing you right now. And I was like, yeah, sure, dude, whatever. And I don't even look. And so I give him, like, you know, whatever, 50 bucks. I don't even look at the Venmo until later that night. He gave me 100 just because. Just in case he needed a little extra. I'm like, and now I can't give you the difference. You know, I'm just set that in good goodwill. But, like, you went over. Because that's a men she move. Is like. Because if he had given me 30, I'd never forget.

[Ben Soffer]

It's a men she move. Oh, that's the other thing. While we're talking about this. If you owe me $50, don't send me 49 and think you're being cute. Don't do that.

[Josh Peck]

Do people do that?

[Ben Soffer]

I've had that done to me before. Yeah.

[Josh Peck]

Oh, that is. That is low.

[Ben Soffer]

It fucking. It's like, what is wrong with you? Don't send me $49 when you owe me 50 just because, like, God.

[Josh Peck]

So angry now, Olivia, what's the Venmo culture looking like in Gen Z?

[Ben Soffer]

Ooh.

[Tabby]

I would say similarly, it's like, let's try to get that, you know, sent asap. And I think a lot of people are using the scan, you know, in the moment. They have the little QR codes. Now we get a group chat going immediately at the end of the dinner if we're splitting, and you just, like, you know, kind of pull what you get in the group, and then everybody sends it out. Send your Venmo, yada, yada. Just get it done within, like, definitely that night. If it's, like, going on a few days or you have to request. It's like, come on.

[Ben Soffer]

It's just not right.

[Tabby]

Yeah.

[Ben Soffer]

It's just not right.

[Tabby]

Yeah.

[Ben Soffer]

And again, this. This is if you. If you have a. A less. If you have a poor friend, pass. But I'd know that. And then I'd treat them and it's not a problem. But the friends with means fucking Venmo now. Okay?

[Josh Peck]

Hell yes.

[Ben Soffer]

God damn it. Hell yeah.

[Josh Peck]

And also, if you order a soda around me and you say no ice, I know what you're. I know what you're really saying. You remember that growing up?

[Ben Soffer]

Yeah.

[Josh Peck]

You'd be at McDonald's. Yo, let me get a soda. No ice. Like, dog. Really?

[Ben Soffer]

Like, your soda's gonna be hot.

[Josh Peck]

Yeah, you can drink a hot ass soda. He's like, yeah, but I got 20% more.

[Ben Soffer]

Yeah. No, it's actually disgusting.

[Josh Peck]

It's so good.

[Ben Soffer]

A soda with no ice is vile. I can't even drink it.

[Josh Peck]

Let's hear from Tabby.

[Anonymous]

Hey, good guys, newish listener here. I came for Drake, I stayed for Ben. Anyway, I'll keep my question quick. I am in an age gap relationship and we're monogamish. He's 17 years older than me. We're super in love.

[Ben Soffer]

It's.

[Anonymous]

Our relationship is, like, basically perfect, but the only thing we disagree on our politics, which is, like, it's a big one, right? So I try to avoid it, but, like, we disagree. Like, big, big disagree. So I don't know. I guess my question is, like, because the. The fights get really bad over it, even though we don't fight about anything else. I guess my question is, do we need to break up? Not to put that on you. Do we need to break up, though? Josh Peck, I love you. You're great. Thanks. Bye.

[Ben Soffer]

I don't think so. Maybe we'll totally disagree on this. I just. I hate when people let politics get in the way of actual friendships. Because all of these things that we're talking about may or may not even happen. I'll give you one that is very current, right? Tariffs. Everyone bugged out about tariffs. They're like, this could lead to this. This could lead to this. Oh, fuck him. Oh, this. Oh, this. And then now that he's rolled them back, it's. Now it's like nothing ever happened. And I'm not saying I'm not advocating for or against tariffs. I'm advocating against bugging out before something happens. And I feel like that Is politics in a nutshell. It's always like, what if this person does this? What if this person does that? And I think it's just people spewing diarrhea all the time. And to let that affect an actual friendship or a relationship now, I don't know. Unless this is like a fundamental thing. Unless this is like he is pro life and you're pro choice. That is one of the only types of examples that I can think of where that would be a deal breaker for me at least. Like, and that to me is not even political. Like we've politicized pro life, pro choice. But this is just like a foundational way of. It's. It's the way that you, it's something that you believe it's more than political. It's like, could be even religious or like, I don't know. Does that make sense? What do you think?

[Josh Peck]

I think it's hard to. I think if you. I have family members who are. The wife votes one way, the husband votes another way. We joke about it openly and I just think they are the people with a kind of temperament that can let it slide. Like they don't mind that they're pretty on different ends of the spectrum about that. Yeah, I think it's hard because I think my wife and I are, are not alike in many ways on the things that don't matter. But that, that does become very annoying because that's what we deal with most. Like, I think on the deep things that matter most, which is why we're married, are the way we want to raise our kids, how we feel about treating people, finances, our morality is aligned. I believe that my wife is the greatest person and I follow her lead with the way we raise our kids. I feel like she honors me with my work and the way I prefer to deal with finances because I come from a real scarcity place of growing up really poor and insecure. And she honors that. And her family's incredible. But we're deeply different on a day to day scale and we get super annoyed with each other, frankly, all the time. And so. But you know, we deal with it because the things that are super important, we, we are very aligned. So I think it's like a trade off. Right? Like, what do you think?

[Ben Soffer]

I think that just to address the day to day stuff, like, I think Claudia and I are different. Maybe it's just me. I no longer get annoyed by things that used to annoy me. Like, to me. And I'm not trying to simplify your problems. I Think that being annoyed is a choice when they don't matter. When these things don't matter, you're choosing to be annoyed. You don't have to be annoyed. Did you lose? For sure. But it is what it is. That's me on the big things that you mentioned, that you guys are so in sync. That brings me back to the things that you described are not aligned to a party. They're not. If you think that they're aligned to a party, you're a part of the problem. If you think that based on the way that somebody votes changes their moral compass, you, you are the problem. You are factually the problem. Like that that's it's just not. Or you're believing like such bullshit from either side, like such, like, volatile hate that tells you that based on the way that somebody voted makes them a bad person. Because it's just not true. It's not. You don't know why somebody voted a certain way. There is this, like, big macro reason why somebody votes one way, and you have no idea if that person does or does not fall into that particular agenda that somebody's trying to speak. So bringing it all the way back to the speak pipe, I think that as long as he's a great person, you said that you get along great. Unless it's one of these big, big, big hot button issues, which it doesn't sound like it is. Otherwise, I don't think that you would get along that well. Like, I don't think that if, if he was like, brouhaha. I think that everybody should have a gun and you absolutely can't stand the sight of guns. And he owns guns. I don't think that you would be perfectly aligned. And I don't think that you would be happy together.

[Josh Peck]

Should we get to our what are you, nuts?

[Ben Soffer]

Yes, please.

[Josh Peck]

Our what are you nuts? Moment of the week are our gripes with people, places and things both big and small. Anything sticking in your craw, Ben? Go for it.

[Ben Soffer]

We've come to accept. Josh. They even said it in Seinfeld, right? Nobody beats the Van Wyck, right? When did Seinfeld come out, Josh?

[Josh Peck]

1989 through the late 90s.

[Ben Soffer]

So nobody's beaten the Van Wyck, Josh, in 40 years, right? And, and if that joke started, then that means that nobody was beating the Van wyck, let's say 20 plus years before that, right? So we're looking at 60 years that nobody's beaten the Van Wyck. And everybody just laughs. Like we're all going to sit in traffic going to long island because nobody.

[Cameron Rogers]

Beats the van wyck.

[Ben Soffer]

And then you start to look around and you're like, huh? You know, there's a lot of construction here and nobody's working. Huh? There's a lot of construction here and nobody's working. Everywhere there is construction and nobody's working. Josh. Maybe it's me watching the sopranos, but all I have to say is that there's far too much money in whatever's going on that there's been downtime in Construction for 60 years on the van wyck. Somebody's making a hell of a lot of money, and we've turned it into a joke. Ha ha. Nobody beats the bandwick. Yeah, it's because there's a fucking mobster with their foot on whoever's throat making tons of cash on downtime construction if they wanted the roads fixed. It doesn't take 60 years, Josh. It doesn't. And the only reason that there's road closures is because of construction. So all I have to say is.

[Cameron Rogers]

What are you nuts?

[Ben Soffer]

What are you nuts? Is tony soprano still out there making sure that there's traffic on the van wyck? Solve these problems. Look inward. I don't want to sit in traffic anymore.

[Josh Peck]

And we need construction crews available to build an 11 for Mayor Adams in the city. Can't be on the van wyck, by the way.

[Ben Soffer]

That's fine.

[Josh Peck]

Do it.

[Ben Soffer]

Who cares? Doesn't involve me. Van wyck. I've had enough.

[Josh Peck]

We need a scores in Chelsea. Ladies of the night.

[Ben Soffer]

Bada bing.

[Josh Peck]

The bada bing Satriales. My. My woody nuts. And I know I've said this before, but I'm escalating it now. It's gotten bigger. My beloved equinox. You know how I love it. You know how I love a schvitz. Nothing more. The etiquette in the schwitz has become such an issue that I'm escalating it now. This is corporate speak for leveling it up. I'm raising it. There's decorum, guys. You cannot be in a small tinder box that can only fit six people thigh to thigh. That's 190 degrees. And be on speakerphone. You can't. You can't be on a call on speakerphone in a small little phone booth. That's 190 degrees. What are you, nuts? It's 190 degrees.

[Ben Soffer]

Nuts.

[Josh Peck]

You're on speakerphone. What?

[Ben Soffer]

Nuts. Nuts.

[Josh Peck]

Oh, you're. You want to play some music? No, I didn't get a say. There's no jukebox where's my quarter? I get to pick. You don't get to pick. I don't want to hear your music. Maybe. Maybe I don't. Maybe I want to listen to some Kenny G and not some Alesso. All I'm going to say is this. I finally made a comment. Finally did. I went up to someone who works there. I said, hi, could we possibly make a sign for outside the Schwitz? It says no speakerphone or music in the Schwitz. She said, you're the third person that's asked. I was like, you're telling me that this is enough, that three people have mentioned it? This is a what are you nuts?

[Ben Soffer]

It's what are you nuts? I've experienced it as well. I also think that it's a what are you nuts? And in a true. If this is a true six person sauna, should never be six people in there crazy ever.

[Josh Peck]

No, that should be.

[Ben Soffer]

I like. No, I don't even. I don't. You're like, who's here for the orgy?

[Josh Peck]

Who wants to go pinky toe? To pinky toe? Hello, Raul.

[Ben Soffer]

Hello, Og. There literally shouldn't even be three people in there, in my opinion. Like, if you see somebody in there, one person, go sit there. No problem. There's two guys in there. Just wait. People can't be in there for that long. Like a sauna. How long are you in the sauna for, Josh? 10 minutes. Top.

[Josh Peck]

I do 30 minutes, but I get it. I'm not normal.

[Ben Soffer]

Oh, my God. You do 30 in a row.

[Josh Peck]

Mm.

[Ben Soffer]

Okay.

[Josh Peck]

All right, so that's heat shock proteins, babe. I'm burning brown fat.

[Ben Soffer]

Understood. Okay, so maybe I'm not gonna wait 30 minutes for you to burn your brown fat. I'm gonna come in and sit on your lap. Like, that's a different story.

[Josh Peck]

Yes.

[Ben Soffer]

In my world, you're looking at 3 to 5 minute cold plunge, 5 to 10 minutes steam, 5 to 10 minutes sauna. I'm not in there, I'm rotating. Maybe that's just me, but maybe there are people that just go there and park it. And if you're going in there to park it. Yeah, I don't know. I guess six people could park it at once. I would rather not see a maximum occupancy sauna. No good.

[Josh Peck]

Take us home, Ben.

[Ben Soffer]

You know what else I wouldn't want to see, Josh? Anybody not giving us five stars.

[Josh Peck]

So true.

[Ben Soffer]

Otherwise, Woody and Nut listen to us. 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. We've never discussed you like that.

[Josh Peck]

I do.

[Ben Soffer]

This next time.

[Josh Peck]

I love it.

[Olivia]

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