Live From New York... It's Thursday Morning!

Summary

Podcast Summary: Good Guys – Episode: "Live From New York... It's Thursday Morning!"

Release Date: March 13, 2025
Hosts: Josh Peck and Ben Soffer

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1. Welcome and Travel Tales

The episode kicks off with Josh Peck and Ben Soffer greeting listeners from New York City. They humorously navigate their in-person banter, highlighting Josh's recent trip facilitated by United Airlines' Red Eye flight.

• Josh (00:22): "What are you nuts?!"
• Ben (01:24): "I am so proud of the way I set this trip up."

Josh praises United Airlines for their Polaris first-class experience, mentioning the comfort and amenities provided.

• Josh (01:38): "This is a new era for me."

Ben and Josh joke about potential sponsorships, referencing previous airline experiences and mishaps humorously.

2. Navigating Social Media and Parenting

The hosts delve into the complexities of parenting in the age of social media, referencing the documentary "The Devil in the Family" about Ruby Frank—a YouTube family subject to extreme parental control and abuse.

• Ben (12:39): "This is a terrible story."
• Josh (15:13): "Shouldn't that enter in child labor laws? For sure."

They discuss the blurred lines between parenting and child labor, emphasizing the need for regulations in families monetizing their children's lives online.

3. Diet, Sugar, and Family Health

Josh and Ben explore the impact of diet and sugar on family health, sharing personal anecdotes about childhood diets and current efforts to manage their children's sugar intake.

• Ben (16:17): "I think sugar is the culprit."
• Josh (18:04): "But you love. You are athletic."

They discuss strategies for balancing treat foods like pizza with healthier meals, highlighting the challenges of maintaining a nutritious diet for their kids.

4. Culinary Adventures: Russian Daughters Bagels

A significant portion of the episode features Josh and Ben tasting and reviewing bagels from a New York eatery called "Russian Daughters."

• Josh (20:12): "This is a tuna salad sandwich."
• Ben (21:03): "This is delicious. The bagel isn't even toasted."

They enthusiastically praise the quality of the bagels and the flavorful additions like capers, turning their tasting session into an engaging and mouth-watering segment.

5. Sexuality Statistics and Personal Perspectives

The conversation shifts to societal trends in sexuality, referencing a 2024 Gallup poll indicating a rise in bisexual identification among American adults.

• Josh (26:13): "A 2024 Gallup poll showed that 4.4% of American adults say they are bisexual."
• Ben (27:21): "Which I find surprising."

They discuss the fluidity of sexual identity and the pressures surrounding public declarations of one's sexuality.

6. Listener Interactions: Ziti Gate and Trucking Logistics

Listeners call in with unique queries:

• Caller 1: Shares frustration over a stolen baked ziti from a school's communal fridge, sparking the term "Ziti Gate."

  • Ben (43:34): "Everyone involved is nuts."

• Caller 2: Discusses issues with his fiancé's trucking company accepting excessive goods like pickles and iced tea, leading to storage problems.

  • Ben (37:45): "Get a storage unit. Leave your poor wife alone."

The hosts provide humorous yet practical advice, reinforcing their "Good Guys" persona by addressing everyday dilemmas with wit and empathy.

7. Technology and Sponsorship Segment

Josh and Ben pivot to discuss the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra, highlighting its "Night Video" feature and "Audio Eraser" capability, seamlessly integrating their sponsor's message into the conversation.

• Josh (24:31): "It's the ultimate AI companion."
• Ben (25:13): "You should get it."

They demonstrate the phone's features by showcasing their bagel tasting, blending product endorsement with authentic content.

8. International Listener Shoutouts and Final Banter

The hosts acknowledge international listeners, particularly from Brazil, expressing enthusiasm about their global reach.

• Ben (45:26): "Russian Daughters is so good."
• Josh (46:27): "I love Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. I love Rio de Janeiro."

They conclude with humorous exchanges about everyday annoyances, like communal fridge cleanliness and the struggles of handling household tasks, reinforcing their relatable and entertaining dynamic.

Conclusion

Throughout the episode, Josh Peck and Ben Soffer balance humor, personal anecdotes, and insightful discussions on parenting, diet, technology, and societal trends. Their chemistry and candid conversations offer listeners both entertainment and thoughtful commentary, staying true to their "Good Guys" identity.

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps:

• Josh (00:22): "What are you nuts?!"
• Ben (01:24): "I am so proud of the way I set this trip up."
• Josh (15:13): "Shouldn't that enter in child labor laws? For sure."
• Ben (16:17): "I think sugar is the culprit."
• Ben (21:03): "This is delicious. The bagel isn't even toasted."
• Josh (26:13): "A 2024 Gallup poll showed that 4.4% of American adults say they are bisexual."
• Ben (27:21): "Which I find surprising."
• Ben (43:34): "Everyone involved is nuts."
• Josh (24:31): "It's the ultimate AI companion."
• Ben (25:13): "You should get it."

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Note: This summary focuses on the core content and key discussions of the episode, omitting advertisements, intros, and non-substantive segments to provide a comprehensive overview for those who haven't listened.

Transcript

[Josh]

The following podcast is a dear media production.

[Ben]

Two Jews, both big and tall. No subject too small for the good guys.

[Josh]

A mother's dream premium podcast team.

[Ben]

Make it your weekly routine. It's a good Guys. And if you don't give us five stars.

[Josh]

What are you nuts?

[Ben]

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

[Josh]

They're not the great guys. We're just the good of the good of the good guys. Thank you to Samsung Galaxy for sponsoring this episode. Here we are.

[Ben]

Oh, my God. In person, New York. There really is no replicating the magic of me being able to reach across and not touch you. Because I'm sick.

[Josh]

You're on antibiotics.

[Ben]

But you did give me a little bit of the hand sanitizer. I would have been okay with it.

[Josh]

You know what? I'm gonna do a little more.

[Ben]

Give me a little bit more so that I can prophylact and just so that I can touch your hand just a little. This is.

[Josh]

You know what this is Jewish holy water.

[Ben]

It is Ash Wednesday. Thank God.

[Josh]

Give me a little more.

[Ben]

A little. And then a little touch. Just a little skin.

[Josh]

Okay.

[Ben]

And then I was like, what the fuck is burning? I cut my finger. And now all of the. All of the spritz is in the.

[Josh]

That's good. You're cleaning it out.

[Ben]

Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

[Josh]

Yes. That is like holy water, you know.

[Ben]

And it touches the Jew in person. Thank God you flew in Red Eye.

[Josh]

I am so proud of the way I set this trip up.

[Ben]

Walk us through it.

[Josh]

I would love to. Thank you flew here. United. Red Eye.

[Ben]

Thank God.

[Josh]

Shout out United.

[Ben]

Wow. We're talking Polaris. We're talking first class. We're talking lay flat bed.

[Josh]

100%.

[Ben]

Wow.

[Josh]

It's. You know what? This is a new era for me. And by that I mean I had a voucher I had to use by the end of March. But shout out Maggie and Jasmine at United, hopefully one day. The official sponsor of the Good Guys podcast.

[Ben]

I mean, I don't know what they're waiting for.

[Josh]

The official airline.

[Ben]

Let's go. We don't even need to be paid. We like a barter. This is the perfect barter.

[Josh]

Perfect barter. And put our face not on a 787, but a regional jet. A CRJ 1295.

[Ben]

No problem. The jet that goes down, inevitably, our.

[Josh]

Faces in the atomic.

[Ben]

You just see my head in flames.

[Josh]

That was American.

[Ben]

They can't wait to sponsor us now.

[Josh]

Oh, my God. Shout out to those poor souls. We apologize. It's horrible. So this is how I get it planned out. I'm here doing a talk for Meta. Heard of it?

[Ben]

Wow. Really? Is Zuck going to be there? You imagine btz Big time Zuck in.

[Josh]

His blue Benson Boone suit.

[Ben]

Did you see that? Swords. With his nice chain. With his nice perm. He's fucking ill.

[Josh]

He wore. He did a tribute, a testimony to Benson Boone's incredible performance. Is that his name? Benson Boone?

[Ben]

I think so.

[Josh]

I feel like a dad.

[Ben]

Yeah, no, he's. He's Benson Boone.

[Josh]

Benson Boone.

[Ben]

Benson Boone.

[Josh]

Okay.

[Ben]

Tough name. That can't be his real name.

[Josh]

Name for a star, but at the.

[Ben]

Same time, he picked it. Benson Boone. I don't like it. No, I like Benson. I don't think Boone. Right, Boone.

[Josh]

It'd be cool if his name was Mercedes Benson. Yes.

[Ben]

Yes. Or. Or like Boone. Boone is a first name. Right, Boone? I think we need to throw away boone.

[Josh]

Just Benson.

[Ben]

Benson1 Benson. Like Olivia Benson.

[Josh]

Olivia Benson.

[Ben]

Who is SVU. Mariska Hargitay.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Olivia Benson.

[Josh]

Maybe we go find the set where they're shooting today in New York City.

[Ben]

I'm in crime. Quick crime scene. I'm in.

[Josh]

Just as a fun aside, I did a movie with the great Peter Herman, who is Mariska Hargitay's husband.

[Ben]

Yes.

[Josh]

And I'll never forget, he once said to me, he's like, you know, we love our family and it's great. And, you know, and I do well. I mean, I don't do well like my wife. I was like, peter, we know.

[Ben]

Sounds like me.

[Josh]

He's an amazing guy. And just the Hargitay. The Hargitay Herman's. Come on the show. We'd love to have you. A gorgeous.

[Ben]

I would love her. Get her. I can only think about her in the Love Guru. SVU is gone for me. Mariska Hagata. When was the last time you saw that movie?

[Josh]

Never. Oh, I've seen it.

[Ben]

So good. It's really not, though. No, it's like one of those Mike Myers movies that really deserves, like, a six on Rotten Tomatoes. But if you're in the right headspace and you see it for the first time, you're like, oh, this is it. Jacques Lecock grand, played by Justin Timberlake. So good, so bad, so good.

[Josh]

So many interests you have. I know the things you know I know.

[Ben]

And the things I don't.

[Josh]

Oh, well, okay. So, yes, you're flying. I plan this out. So I go, okay, I'm gonna fly at night. You fly at night because at night, this is a wash. This Means nothing. Right. So you utilize the time you'd be laying in bed. Yeah. I could fly in at 4 Tuesday afternoon. I LA at midnight. What am I doing? I'm sleeping more, you know. So I get on the flight and then this is what I do. I book a hotel, airport. Look at me, look at me, listeners. You book a hotel airport for the night before and the night after, right?

[Ben]

Yep.

[Josh]

Check INS at 3.

[Ben]

No, you landed at 6:00am you're here on a work trip. You don't need frills, you need a bed. You need no traffic. You need quick.

[Josh]

A commuter hotel.

[Ben]

A commuter hotel, that's it.

[Josh]

So I land.

[Ben]

Bring your own padlock. That's it.

[Josh]

I, I bring the little door alarm thing, you know. If it moves, startled. Take out my night guard. Fucking taekwondo. So I get there. 6am now there's a Newark Marriott Hotel.

[Ben]

Yes.

[Josh]

It's Nice. Close. Nice. 3:70 a night.

[Ben]

Nuts.

[Josh]

Nuts.

[Ben]

Too much. 370 a night for an airport hotel?

[Josh]

It was hot.

[Ben]

That's psychotic.

[Josh]

There must be a convention.

[Ben]

370 a night for an airport hotel.

[Josh]

Convention.

[Ben]

Nuts. It's a convention center.

[Josh]

All Marriotts have a convention component and or ballroom.

[Ben]

Interesting. I can't imagine there's a ballroom at the airport. Where are you getting married? The Airport Hotel.

[Josh]

I wanted to make it easy for people flying in and I hate my daughter after parties at Hudson News.

[Ben]

It's good.

[Josh]

And so I go. But here's the thing. I know the hierarchy of the Marriott chain and this is not sponsored in any way. And it should be.

[Ben]

It should be.

[Josh]

It's shonda that it's not beyond. Now, as we all know, the Marriott Courtyard is the ultimate Marriott sort of commuter hotel. Great. No frills, perfect. Modern, beautiful. But then they have a class adjacent to the courtyard. They're called the Fairfield Inn Suites and the Springhill Suite where as no frills as possible. Except they have breakfast.

[Ben]

Yes.

[Josh]

Gorgeous. Continental breakfast.

[Ben]

Yes.

[Josh]

They have coffee in the lobby.

[Ben]

Yes.

[Josh]

And a kitchenette.

[Ben]

Fantastic.

[Josh]

This I know. I look up the Spring Hill, which is a half a mile away from the airport. 1:10 a night. Are you kidding me?

[Ben]

Of course you have to do that.

[Josh]

110 a night.

[Ben]

And you did that. Yeah, yeah. By the way, I would love to know they probably don't have a presidential suite, but I'd love to know what the most expensive room even is. 1:10.

[Josh]

I'm in it. The wheelchair suite. I said, I'll take the ADA room. They said, sir, you're completely abled. I said, so you think I can't.

[Ben]

Do these ADA rooms? No, I just don't like them.

[Josh]

The people's low.

[Ben]

I just don't want them. Like, I don't want to walk into the bathroom and have like this metal bar.

[Josh]

When they hit the doorbell, the lights flicker. It's fucked up.

[Ben]

It's good.

[Josh]

In the first 50 minutes, we've gone after the people who tragically died in the Potomac and the handicapped. That's it.

[Ben]

This podcast is over. It's fine.

[Josh]

It's good.

[Ben]

All right, so 1:10 a night, breakfast, coffee. You're in. You're locked and loaded. You get to the hotel. How many hours of sleep did you get?

[Josh]

So I slept four hours on the plane. Okay, we'll talk about that. Because that was its own. What are you nuts? And then I go straight from the plane. It's around 5:40. Okay, I go right to my room. It's on the app, my key. Oh, I don't know.

[Ben]

What a luxury. You talked to. No one talked.

[Josh]

Straight in. I go straight in. I go right into my room. 5 minutes, wash up a little bit. I'm in bed by six, slept till ten. I got eight hours.

[Ben]

Nice, very good. And you got two REM cycles. It's all about the rem, Josh. This is what I've learned. I've been waking up recently. 6:00 in the morning, which I know for you is very late. Josh will text me at 4:30 in the morning. Like, you up? No. Well, actually, yes, but why are you. 6:00. And I realized if I'm up at 6, sleeping for another hour and a half only hurts me.

[Josh]

That's right.

[Ben]

Only hurts me. If you can't get. I think it's like, what is it, two to three hours? If you can't get it, don't do it. This idea of a cat nap, at least for me. 30 minutes, I'm destroyed. That meme of you woke up and you have no idea where you are or what year it is. That's when you have a nap outside of rem. Yes, I made that up. But I think so.

[Josh]

Well, Cassie David, Larry David's daughter, who is spectacular.

[Ben]

Spectacular.

[Josh]

She would fit right in here.

[Ben]

Oh yeah, she would.

[Josh]

Please. Anytime. We love to have you.

[Ben]

Claudia and her had a brief friendship. I remember brief. At least a decade ago. At least a decade ago. Went to her house, saw a picture of Larry on the. On the wall. I think it came and ended. But it. But Kazi, if there's no ill will. Come on. If there is ill Will keep it to yourself. I don't want to know.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Ben]

I don't want to know what you did.

[Josh]

The good guys, we're not interested in your Goodwill. No, no. The good guys, we're not interested in your ill will.

[Ben]

No, I don't want it. If there's Goodwill, great. If there's ill will, keep it to yourself.

[Josh]

There's not the ill will games. No, there's Goodwill games.

[Ben]

Goodwill, yeah. Should we go to a Goodwill after this? Pick up a couple of coats? Yeah.

[Josh]

Although the smell of thrift stores gives me post traumatic stress from growing up impoverished.

[Ben]

I understand, I understand.

[Josh]

Like when hipst, like we're going thrifting, I'm like, no, spare me.

[Ben]

No, it's weird. It's definitely weird to thrift when you don't have to. It's actually fucked up. It's. It's fucked up. I'm going to say it. There's a difference between high end thrifting that is really like collecting.

[Josh]

Right.

[Ben]

Like you go to like these thrift stores and you're looking for like a 1940s Chanel.

[Josh]

Sure.

[Ben]

Thrifting. I think that. Or that's vintage. Vintage is different than thrifting, right?

[Josh]

Sure.

[Ben]

They're, they're just thinking like Goodwill. You really want to save the Goodwill stuff for the people who need Goodwill.

[Josh]

Well, now it's elliptical, right. You, you give your stuff the Goodwill, then uses that money to employ people who need jobs and hopefully the money. Yeah. It's sort of like one system, in my humble opinion. Just in the recovery game. I think a wonderful sort of organization is the Salvation Army.

[Ben]

Yes.

[Josh]

Because they have rehabs and they actually give people beds who are in need, who are addicted, what have you.

[Ben]

Interesting.

[Josh]

And part of their penance or, or part of their structured living to hopefully get out there and get a job and start their life again. Is they then go work for the Sally.

[Ben]

That's what we call interesting.

[Josh]

And I didn't know drive the trucks and pick up the furniture that you're going to give away. They'll run the store. So it's kind of great.

[Ben]

I really only know the Salvation army during Christmas and I just like the. They're ringing the bells and I'm just like, get the fuck away from me. Sorry.

[Josh]

Who are the Latin guys in the all white?

[Ben]

Yeah. I don't know.

[Josh]

What is. That's, that's a religious sect.

[Ben]

I think so. I think so. I don't know though. I don't know. Speaking of religious. Happy Ash Wednesday.

[Josh]

Happy Ash Wednesday.

[Ben]

I don't know what it is, do you?

[Josh]

It is introducing Lent. It precedes Easter, and that's all I got.

[Ben]

Okay. Yeah. I don't know. I was getting a cup of coffee before this, and the guy next to me had the ash on his forehead. And the cashier goes to him. She's like, oh, you're a good Christian boy. So you were in Mass today? He said nothing to her. He couldn't have said anything. He said nothing because as my wife.

[Josh]

Would say, she delineates Christianity and Catholicism. She is a Catholic, and she says Christian, while all encompassing, sort of infers a different sect. And by that I mean one less serious.

[Ben]

So maybe she judged his sect.

[Josh]

He judged. Probably. He was like, I'm not a Christian, I'm a Catholic.

[Ben]

Or, sorry, she incorrectly misreligated him. Misreligioned.

[Josh]

Yes. Title.

[Ben]

That's fucked up.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Nobody misreligged religion's me.

[Josh]

No one looks at you and goes, are you Mormon?

[Ben]

Speaking of Mormon. What a segue. Josh, I watched the most disturbing documentary I've ever seen last night about Mormons. Sorry, it's not about the Mormons, though. Like, it's not their fault. It just happened to be Mormon. It's like Jeffrey Epstein. It's not the Jews, but he happened to be Jewish. This woman. Oh, my God. It's called the Devil in the Family. The Story of Ruby Frank. Have you heard of Ruby Frank, Josh?

[Josh]

I have. I have.

[Ben]

Okay, spoiler alert. If you plan on watching this, maybe skip this part. I don't really think I'm giving anything away. This is a very Googleable story. Googleable. It's a terrible story. This woman has six kids and they have a count on YouTube. They were early on YouTube called eight passengers. They were, like, one of the first YouTube families. She was filming everything that their kids were. That her kids were doing. And, like, the beginning of the doc, it's just awkward. She's, like, asking, like, her kids to smile. Like, like, be more talkative when the camera's in front of you. Like, she really treats them like employees. And, like, you get to feel, like, a little bit uncomfortable, but it's nothing crazy, right? And then as the. As it goes on, she meets this woman who is just. She's a therapist, but she's an unlicensed therapist, and she tries to take control of their house. She, like, tells the husband that if he watches pornography, he's going to hell. And, like, found out that he watched porn and, like, put him in this, like, group chat with other terrible men who Watch porn and have lust and the whole thing called the bad guys.

[Josh]

Yeah, sorry.

[Ben]

By the way, porn is great. Mom. Don't listen.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Ben]

And so push comes to shove, whatever. She ends up. This woman ends up possessed. This therapist. Her name is Mrs. Hildebrandt. And she comes to Ruby and she's like, I need your help. I'm possessed by the devil. And she moves her into her home. And all of a sudden, the reason that she's possessed is because the two little K in her house are the devil. And in order to get the devil out of these children, they starve them, chain them this awful, awful, like, malnourished for, like nine months.

[Josh]

Nuts.

[Ben]

The only reason they got out is the youngest kid walked up to his neighbor, knocked on the door and was like, hi, can you call the police? He, like, weighed, like nothing. He was like skin and bones. But if he never escaped and never went to the police, like, Ruby. Frank's diary literally wrote, I will get the devil out of them, even if it means they die. Like, she thought that she was doing God a service by removing the devil.

[Josh]

And they're going. And so.

[Ben]

And they're in jail for 30 years each.

[Josh]

Her and therapist.

[Ben]

Her and the therapist.

[Josh]

This.

[Ben]

The husband isn't in jail. Well, he should be, too, 1,000%. He's in the documentary talking about how he didn't. He didn't, like, realize what was going on. She did kick him out for a year, and this all happened during the year, but he didn't check in on his kids for an entire year. It's one. One year in prison.

[Josh]

But should. That begs the question, right?

[Ben]

Crazy.

[Josh]

It begs the question for YouTube and social media families, right? Which is like, clearly, it's your family. They're your kids. Like, there shouldn't necessarily be any intervention with how in which you want to raise your children, but if you are putting them on the Internet and making what I imagine is a good amount of money from it, at one point.

[Ben]

They were making, I think she said, over a hundred thousand dollars a month.

[Josh]

They weren't spending that on Instacart.

[Ben]

No.

[Josh]

You know what I mean?

[Ben]

No, no.

[Josh]

But does that. That does beg the question, though. Well, shouldn't that enter in child labor laws? For sure, right?

[Ben]

Thousand percent. And she would literally say, smile for me. I'll give you $10 per video. $10? What are you nuts? Like, it's sick.

[Josh]

Sounds like my mom had an audition when I was eight. Dance, Josh. I resent you, Mom.

[Ben]

Okay. But she wasn.

[Josh]

From it. That was the opposite she was a feeder. Oh my God. It was. My mom's relationship with food was so up. Cuz it literally at the beginning of the day she'd be like, we are cato, so are you. So have a diet Coke and some bacon and go to school me. And by the time I got home.

[Ben]

She'S on a new diet. Yeah. I specifically remember at 13, I was having slim fast.

[Josh]

Like the state of your book.

[Ben]

Yeah. Just like my mom would had a slim fast. And like I. I had one. Like I've spoken about my dad and Optifast. These, these crash diets, they're nuts. And obesity is a thousand percent genetic. And food addiction is genetic. It has to be. Or unless it's learned.

[Josh]

Do you and Claude think about like Paige and I think about that with our kiddos? Are you and Claude thinking we haven't.

[Ben]

Gotten there yet, but definitely figuring out, like, what is the right balance. I do think that just with the way that the world is going, like our children will eat less sugar because there's just less sugar in. Or we're. We're like more aware of sugar. I don't think that we were. My parents were as aware of sugar when I was growing up. And I do think that sugar is the culprit. Like when. Whenever I think of why I'm so fat, it's sugar. I love candy. So like, I think on that end of the spectrum, like, hopefully having less sugar in your bread or having less sugar in just everyday life will help. But I don't know. I really. They're gonna be. They're gonna be fat. Like, Like, I just know he's gonna be fat. And like, I'm like, I'm down. I just, like, he doesn't have to be. I don't know. It's gonna be hard. I hope he's at least gonna be fat for a minute. I don't know how he's not.

[Josh]

But you love. You are athletic. You like working out, not working out, but you like playing basketball. You like being athlete. You like golf.

[Ben]

I was, but I was then, actually. That's interesting. And I was skinny until 11.

[Josh]

Me too.

[Ben]

What changed? I was skinny till 11.

[Josh]

Our ability, in which I know mine was you. I got to go to school by myself. And then I was like, I'm gonna become best friends with the guy at the bodega.

[Ben]

Yeah, maybe it was that. Maybe it was independence. Maybe it was. I don't know. My sister was chubby until 14 and then she just shed it. Yeah, she's been skinny forever.

[Josh]

Shout out, Maddie Bucky. Good for her. Yeah.

[Ben]

We get here from Ruby Frank.

[Josh]

She underfed. We overfeed. True.

[Ben]

Yes. That was what it was.

[Josh]

It's interesting. Like, my son at school, the great state of California. Shout out. All kids in public school get free lunch and free breakfast.

[Ben]

That's nice.

[Josh]

So on Tuesday and Thursdays, they have pizza and they get it out. It gets brought in from Domino's.

[Ben]

Wow.

[Josh]

Yeah. Like lish. High end.

[Ben]

Delish.

[Josh]

Not like the little French roll pizzas that we had.

[Ben]

No.

[Josh]

And they have a lovely salad bar for the kids. Like, you know, fruits and some veggies, cucumbers, carrots. And each kid only gets one slice. And. But Tuesday and Thursday, usually we pack his lunch three days a week. And we know Tuesday and Thursday he loves getting the pizza. And so we don't make it a thing. We just go, yeah, have your one slice of pizza Tuesday and Thursday. And. And Friday night will be. Or Tuesday. Thursday night it'll be chicken and rice or something rather healthy. But we don't want to limit it.

[Ben]

It might be that. It might be. The pizza is bad.

[Josh]

Right?

[Ben]

Because that I definitely remember. Like, I remember. I don't know if it was taught or if I taught it to myself or whatever it was like, this is bad. And when I'm going to eat it, I know I'm being bad, so I'm gonna fucking eat it, you know?

[Josh]

Right.

[Ben]

As opposed to. No, pizza's not bad. No, pasta's not bad. Nothing is bad. The amount that you're consuming of it is bad, but not the actual thing itself.

[Josh]

Yeah. Wow.

[Ben]

We're so deep.

[Josh]

We really are. Speaking of food I have brought from a little eatery.

[Ben]

You're kidding me.

[Josh]

Not well known. It's called Russian Daughters. You're kidding me. Familiar with this? They happen to have a location on 34th street straight out of the Lincoln Tunnel. You didn't know?

[Ben]

No. Is that new?

[Josh]

Near Hudson Yard?

[Ben]

Oh, my God.

[Josh]

So I got. I got. I got two. And I thought we could do halves and halves.

[Ben]

Halfs and half.

[Josh]

Halfs and halves. Okay. Here's the first one.

[Ben]

You're a dream. For those that are listening to audio, you should also watch on YouTube. This is a tuna salad sandwich. Oh, wow. We're gonna have to rate this.

[Josh]

Okay. So I went a tuna, and then I added. They didn't have lettuce, but I added the onions. No capers.

[Ben]

Okay. We're gonna give this a taste. Cheers. Cheers to you. Let's give it a taste. Oh, yeah.

[Josh]

This is what people Love on podcast. People eating.

[Ben]

That's very good tuna. Very.

[Josh]

That's yellow fin tuna.

[Ben]

Oh, could be bluefin, could be toro. Has anybody ever made tuna salad from toro?

[Josh]

Tuna salad from toro. Can you imagine? Jesus Christ, this is a mess. I'm so sorry. You can turn off. We are such fat, fat fatty.

[Ben]

By the way, tune out for the next five minutes. I'm not having a bite, I'm having the whole thing.

[Josh]

Yeah, you can take a nice five minute break, come back in, but I'm telling you, shout out. Russian daughters in New York City.

[Ben]

This is delicious. The bagel isn't even toasted. That's how you know that what's inside is what matters.

[Josh]

It really should be. And then this, of course, the classic Nova scallion cream cheese, little caper.

[Ben]

I see caper. Oh, look. If you can see the Nova, it is buttery. Cheers to you, my friend.

[Josh]

Cheers. God bless you.

[Ben]

God bless you. Thank you. And these bagels aren't that big. They're well sized.

[Josh]

They're designer.

[Ben]

This is beautiful.

[Josh]

This is a designer bagel moment. So sorry, guys. This is really horrible.

[Ben]

Mm. Oh, my God. Delicious. We should do this every episode, right?

[Josh]

Did you see this bite?

[Ben]

This is fantastic. I love a caper.

[Josh]

Mmm.

[Ben]

So underrated. So delicious. We need to put capers in more things.

[Josh]

What is a caper?

[Ben]

Just a salt bomb or what actually is a caper? I don't want to know. I have no idea and I don't want to know.

[Josh]

Caper. You know, I like caper because it also means a heist.

[Ben]

Oh, getch.

[Josh]

Let's go have a caper.

[Ben]

Oh, this is so good.

[Josh]

We're on a bit of a caper. Benjamin, I just want to share with you because I like sharing things that mean something to me. Yes, you mean something to me.

[Ben]

Thank God we go out.

[Josh]

What am I? This is Ben. This is my Ben.

[Ben]

You do.

[Josh]

This is. You know.

[Ben]

I'm arm candy. I'm your arm candy. Yes. Yes.

[Josh]

But you know that my Galaxy S25 Ultra. It means a lot to me too.

[Ben]

Yes, that you've told me. It's replacing me.

[Josh]

It's not. It's replacing you. Adjacent. Listen, it's the ultimate AI companion. We know this. Yes, but are you familiar with Night Video? Are you seeing what's happening here?

[Ben]

I am, but the people need to know. You need to tell more.

[Josh]

You ever tried to shoot video on your phone? It's past magic hour. It's now dark out. It's like, this sucks.

[Ben]

Of course.

[Josh]

It's just not Good. No, but you know, finally now with night video, low light situations, noisy backgrounds, things. They finally Samsung has figured out how to optimize the settings so that when you're filming at night, you're getting those wow worthy videos that we record. Want.

[Ben]

And Josh, just in case there is an unwanted sound, you've made the perfect video. We've all been there before, right? We go out to a beautiful dinner. We're outside. We're just trying to film a beautiful.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Wind. Wind. Wind is in the way. Wind is in the way. Wind is in the way. We don't want it.

[Josh]

Not good.

[Ben]

Audio eraser. Boom. Takes the unwanted sounds out of the gorgeous video that you just took at night. Yeah, nobody wants that. Nobody wants this. We took a beautiful video. We don't want to put Josh, we don't want to put music over our video because the audio sounds like crap. We want the audio to sound the way the audio was meant to sound.

[Josh]

Listen.

[Ben]

And that's what Samsung can do.

[Josh]

And have you used night video? Because I'm out here on them streets at the club and I'm shooting, but it's, it's literally a, a way in which for me to capture things in low light situations and still make it look beautiful. Beautiful.

[Ben]

Yeah. And things at night are beautiful, Josh.

[Josh]

If you can see them, you got.

[Ben]

To be able to see.

[Josh]

If you can flip and see them.

[Ben]

You got to be able to see him.

[Josh]

And it's the audio eraser. Say I. It's AI powered, right?

[Ben]

Yes, it's all AI powered.

[Josh]

You know where we're at at night? The club.

[Ben]

Oh yeah, we're partying.

[Josh]

Yeah. So. So we need that night video, right? So it looks cool. You know, it's a dark club. We wanted to. Want to look, we're fist pumping, we're popping bottles. Then you got the audio eraser because you got all this background noise. You gotta isolate, man. You gotta get that quality.

[Ben]

Exactly.

[Josh]

I agree.

[Ben]

None of those unwanted noises and none of those unwanted people at the club.

[Josh]

100%. Well, the truth of the matter is the Galaxy S25 Ultra, it's [e-mail] and.

[Ben]

You should get it. Audio eraser is compatible with common video formats. Accessible in gallery. Helps minimize six select sounds. Results vary. Galaxy AI features by Samsung free through 2025 and require Samsung account login. Look folks, one more minute. Let me chew. Let me live. I can't eat. This was such a great idea. Thank you.

[Josh]

Baruch. Hashem. Listen. Okay? And for only $65, you too can get two bagels from Russian daughters. No, it was actually like 15 bucks each. It's not crazy.

[Ben]

That's pretty good.

[Josh]

Yeah. Listen. Russian Daughters, man.

[Ben]

Oh, my God.

[Josh]

It deserves the praise.

[Ben]

Russian Daughters is so good. Their fish, their knife skills. Mm. That's the key. That's the key. Good knife. Yes. Thin slice against the grain. Not too thick. This is the most delicious. Unbelievable. Russian daughter. Shout out. Josh. Thank you. Wonderful.

[Josh]

Should we get into a story?

[Ben]

Yeah. What do we got? Anything good? Anything hot?

[Josh]

Let's see what's going on in the world.

[Ben]

What's steamy?

[Josh]

Ok, let's see. Bisexuality is a near universal experience in primates, humans included. I've been telling you. This is from the New York Post. But which way does your sexuality swing? The bisexual cohort, those who are sexually attracted to both men and women, is growing. A 2024 Gallup poll showed that 4.4% of American adults say they are bisexual, including 57.3% of those who already identify as LGBTQ.

[Ben]

Got it. So interesting. So half of the four and a half percent was already LGBTQ, but now they're also identifying as bi.

[Josh]

Sure.

[Ben]

Interesting. Okay.

[Josh]

But 57%. So more people than who say they are just really straight do.

[Ben]

Yeah, just. Well, just gay. More people are saying that they're bi than just gay.

[Josh]

I read it as showed that 4.4% of American adults say they are bisexual, including 57.3% of those. Oh, okay.

[Ben]

So more than half of them are gay and bi, or lesbian and bi. Perfect, I think, is what it's saying.

[Josh]

Gotcha.

[Ben]

Which I find surprising. I often find that at least the arc for my friends who have come out has been, you know, I'm bi. Actually, I'm gay.

[Josh]

Right.

[Ben]

Like, it's like more of like. I don't know if I'm ready to just say that I'm gay because I've dated girls or whatever, but now, after looking back on it, I realize I'm just gay. Yes. Is at least the arc that I've seen. Very interesting, Josh. Very interesting.

[Josh]

I. I'm not. I'm just totally open to it. Except it doesn't do much for me.

[Ben]

It's kind of like smoking cigarettes. Josh, on a recent episode, I mentioned that I wish I was addicted to cigarettes.

[Josh]

So once a month you hook up with a man?

[Ben]

No. I wish.

[Josh]

Right.

[Ben]

Different strokes for different folks. It's not just. Not for me.

[Josh]

I know.

[Ben]

But I would be down if it was.

[Josh]

I fall in love with men emotionally.

[Ben]

Me too. Right. Spiritually, of course. Give a nice Kiss on the cheek.

[Josh]

Yes.

[Ben]

I love that.

[Josh]

Get half a lip. You know, you kind of go in and you're like, I'm too sick to.

[Ben]

Have given you it all, but normally I see you. I want to give you a nice kiss on the. Kiss on the head. Kiss on the cheek. A big. I love that. For my closest friends. A nice big hug. Big smooch.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Ben]

You know? Cause I'm a fucking man.

[Josh]

I just don't. And, like, that's also the thing for me. Like, whenever it becomes politicized or controversial in any way, I'm like, are you fricking nuts? What is, like, just in general, where, like, recently they were. There was something about. I don't know whether it was in the government or whatever, but removing the plus from the lgbtq, it's like, let's just assume there's a lot we don't know. I'm pretty sure 30, 40 years ago, we couldn't have known what we know today when it comes to the spectrum of sexuality and being attracted to whomever, just, like. Just let people love it.

[Ben]

Certainly not what we need to focus on.

[Josh]

Totally.

[Ben]

Like, just. If it's not for you, it's not for you, but you don't have to worry about it. Yeah, I don't worry about. Here's the real problem, Josh. The real problem with everyone is that everybody worries a little bit too much about things that do not matter to them.

[Josh]

What do you mean?

[Ben]

That do not have any impact on their life. And if you just spent a little less time worrying about things that do not affect you, you would be significantly less stressed. Like, people, I think are walking around with incredible anxiety because they're holding so much. That has nothing to do with them.

[Josh]

That's right.

[Ben]

Ever, you know? Like, why are you worried about lgbtq? You're not LGBTQ plus, so don't worry about it.

[Josh]

Well, we worry for our brothers and sisters and our allies.

[Ben]

Sure, if they need help and people, no problem. But not every day. Not every day am I holding this burden. Like, I'm here to help. You need me. I'm there.

[Josh]

Always, always, always. What about. What are you currently worried about that you have no business being worried about?

[Ben]

I'm not anymore. Like, I really do not worry about things. If I even get an inkling that I'm starting to worry about something even that's far away, I'm like, shut that out, Ben. You worrying about something that's not happening for four months, it's gonna cripple today, and it's not gonna Change your decision making in four months. You're not gonna make a decision in four months based off of what you think you're gonna do today, Right? You're just gonna ruin your day.

[Josh]

Don't suffer imagined troubles.

[Ben]

I love that. I love that.

[Josh]

That was Seneca.

[Ben]

And don't let tomorrow's troubles ruin today's peace.

[Josh]

Yesterday is history, tomorrow's a mystery. Today is a present, which is why they call it present.

[Ben]

God, that deserves a bite of tuna. Wow, that deserves a bite of tuna.

[Josh]

You got a foot in yesterday and a foot in tomorrow, and you're pishing all over today.

[Ben]

Ooh, yes, that's good.

[Josh]

I know Mo Robbins. We could do what She's Mel Robbins. Who is it?

[Ben]

Mo Robbins. Definitely not Mo.

[Josh]

Mel.

[Ben]

Mel.

[Josh]

Mel Robbins. She's crushing. She's fabulous.

[Ben]

It's the red onion. The red onion. Thinly sliced. This is not thinly sliced. This is mandolin. For all the fucking people out there that can't get your onions thin enough. You can't use a knife to get this mandolin. You know, when you go to a deli, okay, you're ordering your big beautiful sandwich from your New York corner deli. Go in your meats, you're going, your cheeses, and you think to yourself, you know, they have this beautiful shredded lettuce that I cannot replicate anywhere else. Mandolin.

[Josh]

Mandolin.

[Ben]

You can't slice it like that.

[Josh]

Mandolin.

[Ben]

God.

[Josh]

The slogan for mandolin should be, who needs fingertips?

[Ben]

Not me. I've lost two fingertips this year from a mandolin slice right off. Awful.

[Josh]

Well, did you know that more than half of Americans say they're turned on when their partner does chores? And why an untidy home could be a deal breaker.

[Ben]

Shout out.

[Josh]

More than half of Americans are turned on by their partners doing chores, according to a new survey studying the link between home cleanliness and romance. With a vast majority admitting an untidy home could be a deal breaker. The most alluring chore of it all, according to experts at house cleaning company Homoglow. Doing the dishes. An everyday act that could wind up sparking a night of passion.

[Ben]

Love it.

[Josh]

Just good to be at home.

[Ben]

Hey, Paige, you ready?

[Josh]

Hey, baby. Oh, so sad.

[Ben]

Literally this morning. This is Claudia, by the way. In a nutshell, thousand percent. She loves, like, if I, when I take out the garbage, when I do the dishes, when I do whatever it may be, loves it. That said, people said that this was called nesting. She's been doing this forever, right? Literally this morning, she's like, hey, by the way, do you mind? I want to replace our Carpet in the bedroom. Do you mind just removing it from under the bed before you start work today?

[Josh]

I'm like, no, it's an impossible task. You need men.

[Ben]

I have a meeting in 10 minutes. I have to remove the rug now. Like, right now. So that happens. Or like, hey, can you. While I'm gone, do you mind, like, rearranging the furniture or do you mind, like, hanging this painting? Like, no, I can't. I will, I promise, tonight, but I can't right now. I can't. It's like, hey, I'm running late. I gotta go. Can you do this impossible task? No, but if I did it, she would've loved it.

[Josh]

They love it, by the way.

[Ben]

They're all women. Right. The New York Post was very much. 50% of Americans love when study. When their significant other does the. It's like, no. 100% of women love when their male counterpart actually do something, actually do stuff in the home.

[Josh]

Right, Right. Women are carrying the burden.

[Ben]

Thousand percent, 100%, all day long.

[Josh]

We have a. You don't have this problem. We have a crawl space in our garage. It's not really a crawl. It's kind of like a. We have a very tall garage. It's almost two stories tall. I always wanted to get one of those car out, elevate. You should.

[Ben]

Sick, sick, sick, sick. Love that.

[Josh]

So we have, like an attic space, you know, about 10ft above. And it's a big platform. We can keep boxes. So whenever we go travel or whatever, my wife goes, please put the luggage up there. Or please put the kids. Old car seats up there.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Josh]

Now I gotta. First of all, we don't have a ladder ready to go. We have one of the expandable ladders. So I gotta expand this ladder.

[Ben]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Josh]

Now just know, in six to 10 years, I will be paralyzed.

[Ben]

God forbid.

[Josh]

God forbid. It's too scary. It's too scary. I get up there first. You don't even want to know this Jew getting up there. So first of all, I'm opening, you know, and I put it next to the space. Then I put on shoes because I go, if something happens and I gotta jump, I don't want to break an ankle. Falling in bare feet.

[Ben]

Sure.

[Josh]

It's a crawl space, right. So I get up there, and before I put my body on the ledge, I'm like this. I'm trying to scare away rats or vermin, any assorted vermin.

[Ben]

Oh, man.

[Josh]

So I'm like, hey.

[Ben]

Hey, sounds terrible.

[Josh]

Oh, trust.

[Ben]

But when you do it, and if you were to do it. But Paige loves you.

[Josh]

She loves it.

[Ben]

What you could also do is actually. No, I don't know. I was gonna say, like, you could hide it in the garage or something, but she'll see.

[Josh]

No, you gotta do it. She wants me to do it.

[Ben]

Okay.

[Josh]

Should we get to a speak pipe?

[Ben]

Yes.

[Josh]

If you wanna ask us questions. If you want advice, go to speakpipe.com goodguys keep it brief. Brevity is key. We don't want your Woody and nuts'no. They're awful. We don't want your inquiries about our goings ons. If you need advice or have a question you don't know. And listen, we're blessed. We get 30, 40, 50 a week.

[Ben]

Million.

[Josh]

I'm sorting through this. This dreg.

[Ben]

Yeah. Too much. Too much.

[Josh]

Just short question advice. No inquiries. No. This is not a comment box.

[Ben]

No. And if you are gonna tell us a story, though, I know we say brevity is key. Give us a little bit of context. Sometimes I need a little context, that's all. Quick, how old you are, where you're from, what's going on? I think like a quick 23. Ruby San Jose, right?

[Josh]

Scorpio.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Josh]

Well, this first one is from incarcerated. Yeah.

[C]

You guys are my favorite nebishes in the podcast world. You guys really make me laugh. I was really laughing at the horn hub stats. That Pennsylvania. Anyways, okay, so I'm calling in because my fiance owns a trucking company, right? They ship stuff from grocery stores so often. Some groceries that don't make it to the shipper. So Zach likes to accept whatever doesn't make it. So the first time it was pickles. So he welcomed about 20 pounds of pickles into our apartment in Chicago, and they ended up leaking all over. And who had to clean it? Me. Yep. Because I'm the woman.

[Ben]

Yikes.

[C]

A trad wife, if you will. Not even yet. Cause we're engaged. So that was a whole big fight. And Next he accepts 20 jugs of iced tea that did not make it to the shipper because he loves iced tea. Now our whole entire fridge is iced tea. I don't even like iced tea. What's your advice?

[Ben]

Okay, first of all, dream man comes.

[Josh]

Home with pickles and iced tea.

[Ben]

What are you complaining about?

[Josh]

Nuts.

[Ben]

Okay, the truth is, this man, Josh, simply needs a storage unit.

[Josh]

That's right.

[Ben]

That's it. That's it. Nothing you're talking about here is. I don't think pickles are perishable. If anything, they get better over time. They're pickled they're fine. They're good.

[Josh]

They're built for to last.

[Ben]

They can sit in the jar, no problem. The iced tea, certainly. All right, maybe there's an expiration date, but it's tea.

[Josh]

One year.

[Ben]

Yeah. Put it in the storage unit. And then he goes and pulls appropriately, a pound of pickles at a time. Now that I'm thinking about 20 pounds of pickles. That's entirely too many pickles for an apartment. Or you move to a house. Okay. Or you move to a house. But 20 pounds of pickles is a lot of pickles.

[Josh]

I feel like I could. When the pickles get brought at second Avenue Deli, at Factors, at Canters, you know, I gotta be downing 10 ounces of pickles.

[Ben]

I think so, too.

[Josh]

10 ounces to a pound.

[Ben]

They're delicious. They're so good.

[Josh]

No problem. Actually, zero calories, like.

[Ben]

Yeah, 20. No, 20 pounds of pickles is nuts. That's a whole fridge of pickles.

[Josh]

Yeah, no, it's.

[Ben]

You need a pickle fridge.

[Josh]

Some people have a meat fridge.

[Ben]

Pickle fridge.

[Josh]

Yeah. But again, they're not perishable, so it doesn't need to be refrigerated until opened.

[Ben]

True. Okay.

[Josh]

But they leaked, which is weird.

[Ben]

That's. Yeah. No good. Well, you didn't inspect them when you brought them into your home. You took leaky pickles.

[Josh]

Crazy.

[Ben]

No good. Get a storage unit. Leave your poor wife alone.

[Josh]

Yes, the great Len, my friend, my bed on the west coast says that he works in trucking logistics. 20 years the master, master operator. Now he too sometimes will run into a problem where the driver of the big rig a little tough on turns and the pallets, the freight shifted, as you know. Yeah, you're a huge better.

[Ben]

I don't want to talk about it, though, because the last time I mentioned that trucking logistics is a Nightmare, I got 2 million messages. Hey, we can help with your trucking and logistics. I don't need your help. Because you're not. Not everybody's trucking in logistics is a problem. I don't care how good you are, you're going to fuck up.

[Josh]

Right?

[Ben]

Like they fuck up. Supply chain is a thankless business. It's either done perfectly and you don't.

[Josh]

Know about it when you don't know.

[Ben]

About it, or it's awful.

[Josh]

Right.

[Ben]

Or it's awful. Continue.

[Josh]

And you. Have you ever had spritz rejected?

[Ben]

Of course. They're delivered at the wrong times. You have to reschedule time.

[Josh]

Did it shift in transit or. Like, I haven't had damage I haven't.

[Ben]

Had, like, I've had some damaged cans for sure. The worst, though, is the way that it works is the receiver needs a bol. The product delivered needs to exactly match the bill of lading. And if it's off by even a case and you're delivering thousands of cases at a time, it's rejected because they want nothing to do with if the order was accidentally submitted incorrectly. We've had situations where the BOL was supposed to be 5,000 cases of pickle, 5,000 cases of lemon iced tea, 5,000 cases of pink lemonade, and 15,000 cases of one skew all went to the same place, and it's just rejected. And you're talking about going from, like, a Vermont to California. So it took you over a week to get there anyway. It's a Nightmare.

[Josh]

That's a $10,000 trip.

[Ben]

Yes, yes. And then you got to say, well, you got to handle that because it's your fuck up. And then they say, well, we're not. And you say, okay, that's my negotiating skills. Okay, send it back. Fine, I'll take out my checkbook.

[Josh]

Yeah, it's interesting. Like, so, Len, basically every, like, six months to a year will go some rejected, you know, drinks, food, whatever, is now at our truck yard.

[Ben]

Yes.

[Josh]

Because the people who made the sport drink or whatever, like, we don't want it back if it was checked because it shifted in transit or whatever. So then he goes, would you like 800 bottles of mamba Forever body armor? Wow. And I go, thank you, but no thank you. Where the hell is that going to go?

[Ben]

I know you need a storage unit.

[Josh]

His closet or his garage is just. It's a beverage paradise.

[Ben]

What a collab that was, though. The Mamba Forever body armor, the golden yellow. Sick.

[Josh]

Shout out, Coke quickly.

[Ben]

Speaking of golden yellow, you see how fit Luca is? God, you got to steal.

[Josh]

He's looking better.

[Ben]

He looks amazing.

[Josh]

Yeah. Luka Doncic and.

[Ben]

And Kyrie Irving injured out for the year. The Mavs are screwed.

[Josh]

And did you see on Kyrie Irving's live, Kyrie Irving, who plays for the team, the Dallas Mavericks, who traded Luka to Los Angeles. Luka, unless I misread, this was on the live saying, get away from that organization.

[Ben]

Wow, that's wild.

[Josh]

He feels done dirty.

[Ben]

He was done dirty.

[Josh]

I'm not gonna get in the wrong set of a Serbian. I've seen Jean Claude Van Damme movies.

[Ben]

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

[Josh]

Or is he Slovenian something?

[Ben]

Have you seen Nikola Jokic's brothers talking about Slovenian? Oh, my God. You don't want to fuck with them.

[Josh]

No bueno.

[Ben]

No, no, no, no. They will fuck you up. Not you, but someone. They're not fucking me up.

[Josh]

Not me either.

[Ben]

No. I didn't do anything, so they're not gonna fuck me up, but they're gonna fuck up somebody.

[Josh]

Well, you know who. They're not gonna mess up this next caller, let's hear from Anonymous.

[Ben]

They might. You never know. Hi, good guys.

[D]

I need to know if I'm nuts because I'm perseverating on this. I'm a teacher at an elementary school, and I really bonded with one of my students families, and I made them a baked ziti because the mom had a baby. So the mom. I got news that the mom had the baby, so I brought the baked ziti to school with a nice Olive Garden salad, put it in the staff refrigerator, all buttoned up, ready to go. After school came, I went to go give her the big ziti, and there was a big scoop out of it. Like, the anger I feel is insane. I had the principal look at the security cameras. Now everyone around the school is trying to figure out who took a scoop of the baked ziti. We're calling it ziti gate. Am I nuts, or is the person who took a scoop of someone else's food absolutely nuts? Would love to hear your insight on this.

[Ben]

Everyone involved is nuts.

[Josh]

Ziti gate sounds lit.

[Ben]

It does. You're nuts. Sorry. Like showing favoritism to students. You're making a pan of baked ziti to send home with a kid.

[Josh]

How good is baked ziti?

[Ben]

Delicious. What could be better?

[Josh]

Oh, do I love aziti.

[Ben]

I'll have diarrhea for a month like this. Really? There's something about the way that the cheese is layered that just doesn't sit right with me. But it is fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. If I saw. First of all, I would never go into a fridge. I'm not one of those people that would ever touch something that isn't mine. That said, if I am at a public school and this is a communal fridge and there is a tray of something, I might assume that it's for everyone, you know, because it's so big. Like, why else would you have brought a tray in? Nobody's gonna think that you're then giving it to a kid to bring home to his mom. Nobody thinks you're that strange.

[Josh]

The strangest part is that you would couple a beautiful homemade dish with an Olive garden salad.

[Ben]

Oh, that too. That's weird. Wild, no? Yes. We completely breezed past that Point.

[Josh]

If you get Olive Garden salad to go, can you call up the store and have them deliver more?

[Ben]

More unlimited?

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Yeah, for sure. Should be. You should. Why not all of a sudden? I mean, it's a lot of labor.

[Josh]

Cheap way to get a friend.

[Ben]

Thank you.

[Josh]

Yeah. ZDGate is really funny. And I. First of all, communal refrigerators in general. And I'll say this about the dear media office. They smell.

[Ben]

Yeah, for sure. Of course they do.

[Josh]

No one's cleaning it out.

[Ben]

I mean, look at us. But.

[Josh]

And then they never get cleaned out. And then. Then they're always. They're always threatening. Everything's getting thrown out on Thursday. Never gets thrown out.

[Ben]

Ever. Nope.

[Josh]

Disgusting.

[Ben]

Disgusting.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Ben]

No good. Baking soda in there. Isn't that a thing? You open up a baking soda, you put it in, it won't smell. It absorbs an air freshener for the fridge. Does that exist?

[Josh]

Yeah, sure. I've used.

[Ben]

You have.

[Josh]

They're great. Amazon.

[Ben]

Okay, Good to know.

[Josh]

Just saying. Last one from someone else.

[E]

I heard you wondering if there's any non Jews listening to Good Guys, and I'd like to expand it. Leonardo. I'm from Brazil and Good Guys is my favorite podcast ever. I really have a great time listening.

[Ben]

To you, but love you, Leonardo.

[E]

Olivia, too. She's great. I'm not Jew, I'm Christian. And every time you say bh, it reminds me of my state's capital, Bel Risonchi, which means beautiful horizon, the age. It's way better than butthole, though. Love you guys. Come to Brazil.

[Ben]

I'm coming. Wow, what a majestic voice. Fans in Brazil. We're global. You think these other podcasts have fans in Brazil? No. No way. We have fans in Brazil while eating Russian daughters.

[Josh]

Yes.

[Ben]

It's impossible. But it's possible because it's good.

[Josh]

All I have to say to Leonardo is Bondia.

[Ben]

Beautiful.

[Josh]

Hello. In Portuguese.

[Ben]

Amazing.

[Josh]

I love Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. I love Rio de Janeiro. Love. I love Booster. Great player. Neymar.

[Ben]

Sure.

[Josh]

I love. I love it all.

[Ben]

Soccer, football.

[Josh]

Giselle. Bunchin.

[Ben]

Sure.

[Josh]

Kidding me.

[Ben]

Love.

[Josh]

Yes.

[Ben]

I love Leonardo. He's the only thing I love about Brazil.

[Josh]

I would love to. There's Brazilian Jews.

[Ben]

There are.

[Josh]

There are. We would do. We would do great in Brazil.

[Ben]

I'm in anywhere but here. Yes. Place. Gross.

[Josh]

I'm over it. Do you have your Woody and Nuts?

[Ben]

Yeah, I do have my Woody and Nuts. I go to ups. Okay. I'm carrying a big box and there's a woman in front of me. She's checking out. She's a little more on the elderly side. Not too elderly. I'm not like making fun of the elderly. Okay. Late 60s. And she's asking him all these questions about getting her tracking number. I'm holding a big box, okay? Like, I want her just to move along, but whatever. She's asking her questions. When will I get my tracking. When will the box be delivered? All this stuff, how much will it be? He says, go onto your pin pad. She goes onto the pin pad. He walks her through how to go to the bottom. Accept. She gets to her signature, right? This is the last step before the process is over. What do you do, Josh, when you get to a pin pad? Signature at a UPS or at a Starbucks or at anywhere like that, what do you do? Just a quick. It doesn't matter.

[Josh]

Doesn't matter.

[Ben]

You could write a straight line and it doesn't matter. This woman, I don't know if her name was Gloria Vanderbilt, but she wrote it as if it was that long. Like the most perfect signature I've ever seen at ups.

[Josh]

Nuts.

[Ben]

What are you, nuts? Just scribble, move along. We're all trying to send out packages. I don't have time for this insane Nuts.

[Josh]

So nuts. My, what are you, nuts? Moment of the week. As I mentioned, as I teased. I flew the great United here. Love it. So wonderful, wonderful airline Polaris. My flat. I am shlofing, which is the Yiddish word for sleeping. I am having a nice shlo.

[Ben]

Oh, no.

[Josh]

Because they have nice bedding. I gotta say again, not sponsored. Yeah, but they. Because my. You know, you don't. You usually get like a pillow that's full of tissues.

[Ben]

Yeah, no good. Horrible.

[Josh]

Horrible. They give you two. They give you a memory foam and a nice down sac Fifth Avenue thing.

[Ben]

Wow.

[Josh]

So I'm sleeping, I'm schluffing. I'm beautiful. I feel. I feel the whack. I wake up mouth garden. You know, I'm. Yeah. What? The woman goes. The flight attendant goes, we're landing. It's time to wake up. I go, oh, sorry. Okay, gotcha. Now I go, look at. Look at where we are in space right now, you know? So I go up on the board the little thing and I see flight tracker. 32 minutes till landing.

[Ben]

Till landing.

[Josh]

Till landing.

[Ben]

Oh, that's awful.

[Josh]

It was like the first one saying, yes, we are now going to begin our end of flight procedure. Giving you a heads up.

[Ben]

No good.

[Josh]

Couldn't she have done it at 10 minutes?

[Ben]

Yes.

[Josh]

15.

[Ben]

Yes.

[Josh]

This is when. What are you nuts?

[Ben]

Yes.

[Josh]

32 minutes.

[Ben]

No good.

[Josh]

I missed 20 minutes of shluff.

[Ben]

You did. And those were. Those were prime minutes. Yes, prime. She was jealous that you were sleeping and she was awake. Like, sorry. You picked a red eye. Yes, sorry.

[Josh]

I was having a nice shlaf.

[Ben]

That's no good. That's nuts. That's nuts. What's also nuts is we don't do every episode in person.

[Josh]

So true.

[Ben]

So much better. We eat bagels. We enjoy. You must have loved it if you didn't love it. What are you nuts? Yeah, and I don't care. Give us five stars. Anyways, the producer passed out.

[Josh]

It stinks so bad in here. Sorry, man.

[Ben]

Listen to us. Wherever you get your podcasts, watch us on on YouTube, share our clips, Instagram and TikTok. TikTok is blowing up Mondays and Thursdays, folks. We will see you next time. I don't know where to look. Next time. Next time.

[Josh]

Next time.

[Ben]

I'll see you next time.

[Josh]

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