Love is NOT Blind with Paige O'Brien Peck

Summary

Podcast Summary: Good Guys – Episode “Love is NOT Blind with Paige O'Brien Peck”

Release Date: March 20, 2025

In this engaging episode of the Good Guys podcast, hosts Josh Peck and Benjamin Soffer delve into a variety of topics ranging from personal anecdotes and parenting to critiques of popular culture and relationships. Joined by Josh’s wife, Paige O'Brien Peck, the trio offers a blend of humor, insightful conversations, and relatable experiences. Below is a detailed summary capturing the key discussions, notable quotes, and the overall flow of the episode.

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1. Personal Updates and Travel Plans

The episode kicks off with Benjamin sharing exciting news about an upcoming golf trip to Tampa, highlighting the importance of planning and maintaining healthy relationships.

• Benjamin: “I'm back, feeling fantastic. I have a golf trip this weekend, Josh. I can't think about anything else.” [00:32]

Josh humorously acknowledges the support he receives from Paige, emphasizing the strength of their partnership.

• Josh: “The wonderful Paige O'Brien pack is here with me, but she has healthy boundaries and doesn't need to be in front of the spotlight.” [01:48]

2. Cigars and Hookah: A Friendly Debate

The hosts transition into a light-hearted debate about cigars and hookah, sharing personal preferences and experiences.

• Benjamin: “I love the idea of them so much. But I just, I'm just a bad cigar smoker.” [07:38]

• Josh: “The open secret about cigars, or so I've heard, is the longer, girthier ones are actually usually smoother.” [06:06]

Paige adds her perspective, discussing the challenges of traveling with kids and the impact on their lifestyle choices.

• Paige O'Brien: “Now it's just harder because we have kids at home... I get to sleep and not have to worry about waking up with a child.” [02:36]

3. Technology Talk: Galaxy S25 Ultra

Josh and Benjamin explore the features of the newly released Galaxy S25 Ultra, highlighting its 8K resolution and innovative audio eraser technology.

• Benjamin: “What are we filming? Our subscription model where we record episodes in odd places.” [13:39]

• Josh: “It's literally like having a mixing studio in your pocket.” [14:43]

They brainstorm creative ways to utilize the phone's advanced features for future podcast episodes, blending tech talk with their signature humor.

4. Theater Experiences: A Night with Denzel Washington

Josh recounts his memorable experience attending a Broadway rendition of Othello featuring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal.

• Josh: “It was amazing. So Denzel and Jake are doing Othello on Broadway.” [18:10]

• Benjamin: “What did she say? I don't even remember.” [21:14]

The discussion highlights the emotional impact of live performances and the charm of iconic actors bringing classic plays to life.

5. Movie Critiques: Adam Sandler Films

A significant portion of the episode delves into the hosts' opinions on the quality of recent Adam Sandler movies, expressing disappointment despite their personal admiration for the actor.

• Benjamin: “Those movies are really bad. Like, the first one was fine. The second and third were so horrendously awful.” [22:02]

• Josh: “Even the first one, right?” [23:04]

Paige humorously adds her perspective on Josh’s tendency to walk out of movies he finds unenjoyable.

• Paige O'Brien: “I have never walked out of a movie in my life until Josh and I started dating.” [23:40]

6. Friendship Dynamics and Slang

The conversation shifts to the evolution of slang among friends, particularly focusing on terms like "bro" and "bruh," and how they reflect changing social dynamics.

• Benjamin: “I have a friend who does that, but he's always shooting for that high number.” [45:25]

• Josh: “We put a stop to that immediately.” [30:36]

Paige comments on how children pick up and sometimes misunderstand slang from older siblings.

• Paige O'Brien: “I think it's like camp. They always have.” [31:13]

7. Parenting and Kids' Sports

Benjamin and Paige discuss their children’s interests in sports, contrasting Benjamin’s aspirations with their kids’ preferences.

• Benjamin: “My dream was to be in the X Games. All I ever wanted was... skateboarding.” [31:18]

• Paige O'Brien: “He's in T-ball and loving it. Soccer wasn't for us.” [31:18]

They share anecdotes about encouraging their kids while respecting their individual passions.

8. Relationships and Reality TV: “Love is NOT Blind”

Central to the episode is a critique of the reality TV show Love is Blind, where the hosts discuss the concept of falling in love without initial physical attraction.

• Benjamin: “Me and you on our next in person, we're going to have a hookah in the middle.” [12:19]

• Josh: “Loves is most certainly not blind.” [45:07]

They debate whether love can truly be "blind," emphasizing that physical attraction still plays a crucial role in relationships.

• Josh: “You have to have some type of physical attraction.” [40:27]

9. “What Are You Nuts” Gripes: Playground Safety and Coat Etiquette

In their signature segment, "What Are You Nuts," the hosts vent about societal annoyances, including unsafe playground slides in New York and unsolicited advice about wearing coats.

• Benjamin: “These New York slides are just made of metal and get boiling hot. What are you nuts?” [60:51]

• Josh: “I don't need a jacket. I'm fine.” [55:00]

Paige shares a personal story about her experience in Canada, highlighting societal pressures on parenting choices.

• Paige O'Brien: “My kids refuse to wear. Like, my kids refuse to wear.” [57:17]

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Conclusion

The Good Guys podcast episode “Love is NOT Blind with Paige O’Brien Peck” offers a blend of humor, personal stories, and thoughtful critiques on modern relationships and societal norms. Through relatable discussions and candid conversations, Josh, Benjamin, and Paige create an engaging atmosphere that resonates with listeners, encouraging them to reflect on their own experiences and perspectives.

Notable Quotes:

• Benjamin: “What are you nuts? These slides, these New York slides are just made of metal and get boiling hot.” [60:51]

• Josh: “Love is not blind.” [45:07]

• Paige O'Brien: “I could barely handle Josh. I can barely handle one person in my life.” [02:10]

This episode exemplifies the Good Guys’ commitment to delivering entertaining and meaningful content, making it a must-listen for fans and newcomers alike.

Transcript

[Josh]

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.

[Benjamin]

Make it your weekly routine.

[Josh]

It's a good guys.

[Benjamin]

And if you don't give us five stars.

[Josh]

What are you nuts?

[Benjamin]

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.

[Benjamin]

Of the good guys.

[Josh]

Benjamin, how the hell are you?

[Benjamin]

I'm wonderful because I'm looking at three different shades of green. I'm looking at your gorgeous green long sleeve. I'm looking at that green mountain water in your green ashwagandha can looking fantasy. Oh, and the green tree behind you. So much green really is. I'm wonderful. I'm feeling excellent. I don't know if we updated these wonderful people, but I was sick as a dog. Sick as a dog. And now I'm. I'm back, feeling fantastic. I have a golf trip this weekend, Josh. I can't think about anything else.

[Josh]

And to the Carolinas.

[Benjamin]

To Tampa, Josh. To Tampa. To northern Tampa. It's called Cabot Citrus Farms. Love it, and I am incredibly excited. This was a been planned for 10 months. I said, claudia, this is happening. So please just get it in your head. Over the last 10 months, I will be leaving you for the weekend. I. I'm so sorry, but become comfortable with it. And I have to say, Josh, I can't believe it, but she really is not upset with me. She is very happy that I'm going. And that means that I have done well over the last 10 months in tempering expectations.

[Josh]

Oh, my God. I'm. I can't speak, really, because my wife's literally sitting across from me.

[Benjamin]

You have to. I was gonna say, what's it like just being watched as you record?

[Josh]

The wonderful Paige O'Brien pack is here with me, but she has healthy boundaries and doesn't need to be in front of the spotlight. So when I offered her to come on the show, she's like, no need. So shout out, Paige. Love you. Convincing, but yes. What? God, this would be such a good question, Paige. Well, we can remember this. I think we should do a double pregnant.

[Benjamin]

By the way, throw on. Throw on Paige's mic. She's there. Throw on her mic.

[Josh]

Okay, so Paige's mic is live. Now, why is it, I think that as Ben mentioned, with the wonderful Queen Claudia, my queen Paige, that I am so, so blessed to be with that whenever we have to go out of town for any reason whatsoever, we have to pay. You have to make us pay.

[Benjamin]

Yes, it's true.

[Paige O'Brien]

I mean, now it's just harder because we have kids at home. And then it's just everything. There's just so many more, so much more to do. And I'm like, oh, you get to like. He's like, I have to take a plane tonight and sleep on the plane. I'm like, you get to sleep and not have to worry about waking up with a child. That's so, that sounds so nice.

[Benjamin]

Okay, but pre, Pre kids, I don't.

[Paige O'Brien]

Think I would make. You used to travel a lot before kids, and I don't think I didn't really care.

[Josh]

Yeah, but I.

[Benjamin]

Is that true?

[Josh]

I mean, I get to see you and got to go see a show when I was in New York. So it's, you know, obviously there's some fun things too, but. And I'm just like, who's better than me? You know? I'm not at some sports bar eating wings and, oh, girls, tatas and, you know, screaming for the Patriots. I'm here working.

[Benjamin]

Yeah, you're working. You're getting a nice continental breakfast. Courtyard Marriott. You're doing the least.

[Josh]

Spring Hill. Sweet.

[Benjamin]

You're doing the least.

[Josh]

I also feel like, Are you very, like, I feel like a big cheerleader when Paige, and she doesn't do it as much as I do, but when she does go out with her friends or has a trip, I am like, rah, rah, cheerleader.

[Benjamin]

It's because, number one, what do you need? You need dollar bills for the strip club? Let me, let me give you, like, here, take $100 in ones.

[Paige O'Brien]

It's because you can count on one hand how many times. I've honestly, I can count on one times how many on one hand how many times have gone away.

[Benjamin]

So I bet you that's what it is, Josh, because over the last 10 months, I have been very sparing, Very sparing. And I said this yearly golf trip, very important to me. My game at an all time high. I'm seeking revenge. Last year, I lost in singles. I need to win and I need to beat this, this one kid, his name is Blake. I need to beat him. This trip is important to me, and I think because I haven't been superfluous with my requests, I now am not getting any shit.

[Josh]

Yes. No. Like, listen, I, I wonder if I, I, I don't know if I've ever taken the equivalent to a golf trip. Have I?

[Benjamin]

Yeah.

[Paige O'Brien]

You like to go to Vegas with your brother?

[Josh]

I do. For 12 hours?

[Paige O'Brien]

No, he, no. Which is fine. But you like to like go and enjoy the hotel and do, I don't know, dinners and stuff like that. You guys like to do that?

[Josh]

My big brother who lives in Florida does come out for something called the Big Smoke, which is the cigar convention in Las Vegas.

[Benjamin]

Wow, sick.

[Josh]

And he goes with all his buddies. And so I will usually fly out. Yeah, usually once a year. Recently it's been fly out, fly back, same day.

[Benjamin]

But wow.

[Josh]

But in the past It'd be like 24 hours and I'd go, we'd eat some meals, shvitz, have a cigar or seven. And I'd lose $100 at Blackjack.

[Benjamin]

I feel terrible for the guy sitting next to you on the plane on a same day cigar trip. That's no good. You probably smell terrible.

[Josh]

Not good. Not good.

[Benjamin]

I love, I actually hate, I was about to say I love a cigar. I hate cigars. I love the idea of them so much. But I just, I'm just a bad cigar smoker. If I smoke a cigar I have to get those little short stories as they call them. And then I just feel like a wuss. Like I'm sitting next to my brother in law who's chafing down like a, a foot long cigar and I'm here with this short story that I can barely get through without vomiting. Like it's just so emasculating.

[Josh]

Emasculinating.

[Benjamin]

Emasculating. Terrible.

[Josh]

The open secret about cigars, or so I've heard, is the longer, girthier ones are actually usually smoother. Because if you think about like a longer rifle barrel, right? Like it's.

[Benjamin]

Or, or a penis maybe, but like.

[Josh]

The shorter ones are like you get. Because it's closer to where it's ignited, the punch comes in harder. But if it's longer, it has a longer time to cool down and kind of smooth out.

[Benjamin]

That's fascinating. Okay, so I should be experimenting with longer cigars. But I've also heard I used to. You can't smoke one that's too dark. I have to smoke the lighter ones. The ones that are too dark are too heavy. So I need a long light one.

[Josh]

A longer one or a darker one would be called a maduro in some respects, which is more of like an H or like an. And I just channel Hilaria Baldwin. We haven't seen a nejo.

[Benjamin]

We haven't spoken about your love and aficionado for cigars. I had no idea.

[Josh]

I'm not really an aficionado. Like I'll smoke one every month and a half either with my wonderful father in law and my brother in law will watch UFC fight and we'll smoke and. Or. Or with my big brother. But otherwise, like, I can't ever push myself to really do it. But I like it. I like the vibes. I like a clubhouse.

[Benjamin]

Thousand percent. Have you been to Club Macanudo in New York?

[Josh]

Sure. Good times on Madison Avenue.

[Benjamin]

Yeah. Love that. I love, like a nice cigar bar is sick. And I just love smoking inside.

[Josh]

Fuck yes. I like smoking during a meal.

[Benjamin]

Yeah, I'm in. I'm in.

[Josh]

What's a perfect meal to smoke to? And Olivia Paige, feel free to chime in something.

[Benjamin]

Something heavy. Something heavy that like, you need help getting through. Like, honestly, like maybe like a really heavy Italian meal. I think that would be perfect for a nice smoke. Just help calm the tummy, allow you to eat more, punish you later. But in the moment you're enjoying.

[Josh]

Yes.

[Benjamin]

I think that I can't imagine anything worse than a cigarette and sushi. That just doesn't seem right.

[Josh]

Not right.

[Benjamin]

It's not right. And like a piece of bluefin, like, gets, like, caught on the roof of your mouth or the top of your lip because of your dry mouth. Like, I can just envision, like a piece of toro just hanging from the top lip.

[Josh]

Not good.

[Benjamin]

No. What about you?

[Josh]

Yeah. Or I think, like, I think about where people, like Asian countries do smoke a lot, but I think about, like Middle Eastern food.

[Benjamin]

Right?

[Josh]

You know, you're at the shook, you're at the bazaar. You know, you're having something with weight, you know, five, seven, eight, nine spices. And one piece of chicken.

[Benjamin]

A nice, A nice lamb dish. A hearty lamb dish.

[Josh]

Yes.

[Benjamin]

Cut through the gaminess.

[Josh]

Nice. A kube day and then you're just ripping a hookah.

[Benjamin]

I recently was at a wedding, Josh, where they had hookah. Oh, what a treat.

[Josh]

That's hot.

[Benjamin]

Hookah's it. Hookah's it. We don't smoke enough hookah. Is hookah making a comeback?

[Josh]

First of all, hookah is hot, hot, hot. And I just like the process. The hot coals. We used to get. We used to go for hookah every week, and we would get double apple mint.

[Benjamin]

Ooh, so good.

[Paige O'Brien]

That goes back to Josh. He every Thursday, he used to go with his friends to hookah every single Thursday. For the first five, six years of.

[Josh]

Our relationship, we didn't have children.

[Paige O'Brien]

I know. I'm just saying we could live together and they would. I know, but they would go. They would Go. I just thought it was so interesting. Cause I just never knew someone who would go to hookah as much as you and your friends.

[Benjamin]

I love it. I love it. We need hookah. We need more hookah, Josh.

[Josh]

Well, you are omitting that. I was. We would first nourish before we nourished our lungs, we would nourish our spirit at a. At a men's only 12 step meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous, me and the bros. From 8 to 9:30 in the evening, we'd go there first. And then we would go to a little spot called the Spot, which is an outdoor hookah lounge, which is the hottest hookah lounge in all of the San Fernando Valley.

[Paige O'Brien]

And tell us about your food order, because that is always. That goes back to what you guys were saying, but that was more. I feel like nachos.

[Josh]

It was chicken. The. The chicken and cheese nachos were off the hook. But mostly we would do like a typical Persian Middle Eastern food plate, like a chicken sultani, a kube day beef, and then with like the nice rice, the shirazi salad, a charred tomato.

[Benjamin]

And you. You obviously had your own tips for the hookah, right? They give you.

[Josh]

Yeah, they. They give you disposable tips. And yeah, it's all outdoors and it's the effing coolest. And there are armed guards because you cannot trust the people who are smoking there.

[Benjamin]

It's. It's such a vibe. And I'm thinking the reason it. Hookah is such a vibe is because it's really dangerous, you know? You know, like those hot. Boiling hot coals. You always feel like you're doing something a little wrong. Like it's so much. And it's delicious. Like, bar everything that we just said, it's the original vape. So much more tasty. Apple mint. It's delicious.

[Josh]

So bad for you.

[Benjamin]

Awful. Number one for you. Is it the worst? Is it the worst thing for you?

[Josh]

Very bad. No filter. Not good. Ng. Not good. Sorry, what were you saying, Paige?

[Paige O'Brien]

I was gonna say I threw a surprise birthday party for you there, but it wasn't there. It was at that other hookah spot.

[Josh]

It was at Blue Hookah Lounge. A little bit further in terms of 27th. Wow.

[Paige O'Brien]

Josh was so mad. He was like. I was like, what do you want to do for your birthday? I'd already planned a surprise party at the hookah lounge and with all of his friends, and he was like, nothing, nothing, nothing. And then the day of his birthday, he's sulking and he was like, I'm Just really sad. I wish we would have done something for my birthday. And I was like, that sucks. Surprise Hookah birthday party. Never had a surprise party before.

[Josh]

It was special.

[Paige O'Brien]

It was a dream come true.

[Josh]

Thank you.

[Benjamin]

I love learning new things about you, Josh. I didn't know the love for hookah. The deep love for hookah.

[Paige O'Brien]

Or is that.

[Benjamin]

And now thinking that we need. We need a. We need a hookah episode. Me and you in our next in person. We're going to have a hookah in the middle.

[Josh]

Hell, yes, I want that. I want a Schwitz episode. All the things we love doing. Spin the podcast.

[Benjamin]

This is our Patreon. This is our Patreon, Josh. This is. This is the concept for Patreon. We do the podcast, but in weird places.

[Paige O'Brien]

Cold plunge.

[Josh]

Yeah. A 60 minute cold plunge. We induce hypothermia. Yeah.

[Benjamin]

We die. I'm down.

[Josh]

Yes. I love it. Paige, you have. You have spectacular ideas, but I do want to get a special pregnancy episode with our two pregnant princesses in April, if we could.

[Benjamin]

Yes, I would love to. We must.

[Josh]

You know, I'm not gonna argue with you anymore, Ben. I think we can both agree that our Galaxy S25 Ultras shoot an 8K resolution like. It just does.

[Benjamin]

It just does. There's no. I would like you to stop arguing about it.

[Josh]

Good. I hate when we argue. We really did argue the other week, and it was hard.

[Benjamin]

Fine.

[Josh]

I take it back. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Olivia didn't say a thing on the group chat. I was like, olivia, pipe in here. Defend me.

[Benjamin]

I think she's on bedside. And then you literally DM me. Stop bothering Olivia with it. Let's handle it here on this side. But Back to. The S25 Ultra actually has 8K resolution on video and an audio eraser. Josh.

[Josh]

Yes, We Galaxy AI.

[Benjamin]

Unwanted noise with Galaxy AI. And let me tell you, I've been thinking about this. Okay. What is the perfect thing for us to use our Beautiful, brand new S25 Ultras on?

[Josh]

Josh?

[Benjamin]

What are we filming?

[Josh]

Our subscription model where we record episodes in odd places.

[Benjamin]

Correct. Episode one. A steam room. Josh and I are in there. We're filming at 8K resolution, but, you know, maybe the steam room. The ticker is ticking a little bit too much. Or maybe the steam. Yes, there's a little bit too much steam. And we want to get rid of that unwanted noise.

[Paige O'Brien]

Boop.

[Josh]

Lift it.

[Benjamin]

No problem.

[Josh]

Lift it.

[Benjamin]

With Galaxy AI, we can easily lift it using the audio eraser. It's fantastic. Or Josh Second episode on the train tracks. Me and you in between subway cars. We do a quick, quick 1 min Patreon in the middle but all of a sudden you hear the train coming. You hear the train coming. We don't want people to hear that.

[Josh]

Yes. We start hopping. Trains like hobos.

[Benjamin]

Love it.

[Josh]

It's literally like having a mixing studio in your pocket. So listen, if you want this beautiful look, I don't want to make you jealous, but I have one. Okay? If you want one of these, all you gotta do is go to samsung.com right now and get your Galaxy S25 Ultra. That's right. Go to samsung.com right. Audio Eraser is compatible with common video formats. Accessible in gallery helps minimize six select sounds results they vary Galaxy AI features by Samsung free through 2025 and require Samsung account login.

[Benjamin]

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[Josh]

Well, you did intimate or you did sort of preview that we were in New York together last week. What a dream.

[Benjamin]

A dream.

[Josh]

But we were gonna go Schwitz and Colt plunge and the great Liv method. And I had a feeling. Cause I could just see my little mensch, my little tatula. He was not feeling his best. And so round five, he said, I'm out. Can't do it. I said, okay. So I did this wonderful talk at Meta. Heard of it. And. And then I. You know what? I treated myself to a show. Just. Just a nice one of one me out, party of one. A show Me, Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal.

[Benjamin]

How good was Denzel?

[Josh]

I've been telling this story. Cause I really can't stop thinking about the show. It was amazing. So Denzel and. And Jake Gyllenhaal are doing Othello on Broadway. And it's amazing because you. The curtain comes up and Jake Gyllenhaal's on stage. And he was excellent, like fabulous. And he gets a big round of applause. But about 10 minutes in, Denzel walks on stage and people lose their minds.

[Benjamin]

Like I would.

[Josh]

It's really special. And the best part was this older woman, lovely, from Connecticut, of course, is next to me. And she goes, I've been waiting six months for this. I bought this ticket on American Express early. I'm so excited. I go, me too. I bought mine an hour ago on StubHub for half. Less.

[Paige O'Brien]

Less.

[Josh]

Third row.

[Benjamin]

The best.

[Josh]

Oh my God. Wow. I thought about you because I know how you get knicks tickets like 10 minutes before, right?

[Benjamin]

Oh, you didn't even tell me. So you ended up getting a great deal Beyond.

[Josh]

It was 150 bucks with like 30 bucks in fees for a single ticket in the third row of the theater.

[Benjamin]

What is there, Tell me, is there a better feeling than getting a ticket last minute, great seat for a fraction of the price? Best. It is the greatest thrill.

[Josh]

The best.

[Benjamin]

I have such a sickness, Josh. I will do that for Nick games. And then throughout the entire first quarter. I will still watch StubHub just to see if I could have gotten a better deal.

[Josh]

Oh, I do that all the time.

[Benjamin]

I'm literally, like, sitting there, not watching the game at all, just monitoring. Did I get fucked on StubHub or did I catch a great deal? Oh, it's so good.

[Josh]

Oh, you only do that on StubHub. I do that on Google flights. I do that on a hotel I check up to, like, an hour before.

[Benjamin]

Oh, my God. I didn't even think. Think about that. I could make myself sick with flights.

[Josh]

Yeah, yeah.

[Benjamin]

But normally flights only go up. You ever see flights go down?

[Josh]

Flights go up, but hotels sometimes go down, depending on how occupied they are.

[Benjamin]

Interesting.

[Josh]

Wow.

[Benjamin]

All right. So, Othello. So did you meet Denzel?

[Josh]

No, I didn't. But I'm sitting there, and she's so excited. And then it's the first act, and the First Act's about 90 minutes before the intermission. And so the intermission begins, and the woman turns to me and goes, I'm not sure I love it. Yikes. Because it was. Obviously, it's Othello and it's Denzel. So they updated it to, like, more modern era. Of course, they don't mess with the writing at all. It's Shakespeare. But they modernized it the way we've seen, you know, a dozen times before. She goes, I thought they were going to be in costume. Like, I think she thought it was going to be, like, to be, not to be. I was like, oh, honey, you picked the wrong production. She's like, I think I'm going to go. And I'm like, okay.

[Benjamin]

She leaves halfway through.

[Josh]

I actually respected that. Like, if she. If it ain't for her, you don't got to suffer through an extra half. Right?

[Benjamin]

I'm trying to think what I've ever walked out of. I definitely walked out of whatever the last Grownups was. Oh, wow. Three.

[Josh]

A real scholar here.

[Benjamin]

I think I walked out of Grownups 3. And there are definitely others. That's the that. That I remember, like, watching and thinking, this is the worst movie I've ever seen.

[Paige O'Brien]

Josh walks out of everything.

[Benjamin]

By the way. Good way to call your time back. Fuck them. They already got your money. They can't also get your time.

[Josh]

Look, I'm not speaking an attorney here, because I have a deep love and respect for Adam Sandler and everyone involved in those movies. Those movies are car wrecks. I mean, they're beyond bad. Even the first one, right?

[Benjamin]

The first one was fine. The second and third or whatever. Were so horrendously awful. And you see them if you're as big. I'm an enormous Adam Sandler fan. I'll see every Adam Sandler movie. He comes out with something, I'll watch it.

[Josh]

Same.

[Benjamin]

And. But those movies are really bad. Like, the. I think that when all of them come together, like, it just doesn't work. Schneider, Chris Rock, what's his name from Kevin James. Too much.

[Josh]

Too much. It ain't right.

[Benjamin]

I'm trying to think who's to blame. I think it might be Kevin James.

[Josh]

Really?

[Benjamin]

Yeah. I really. I really only like him in King of Queens. Beyond that, I'm not a Paul Blark guy. Like, I think he's kind of. He was a sitcom man. He wasn't made for the big screen.

[Josh]

I'm a fan of the man. I'm a fan of Kevin James as a person. I've not watched too much of his work outside of. I've not watched too much of his work, but I like him as a dude.

[Benjamin]

But you've seen King of. Have you seen any King of Queens or. No, we covered this last week.

[Josh]

Not really. We.

[Benjamin]

We spoke about Jerry Stiller, though. I guess you didn't see any of them.

[Josh]

I love Jerry, but. Yeah. And I'm not. And obviously, like.

[Benjamin]

Oh, yeah. That was a fun game last week where me guessing what you've seen when you've seen. Nothing. Yes, yes, yes.

[Josh]

Nothing. I told you. I led you. We did this game last week, Page, where I was like, I've not actually. And by that, I mean I have seen an episode or two, but I don't actually like it. Like Friends, Seinfeld, the Office, King of Queens.

[Paige O'Brien]

Nothing. You don't watch. You watch very specific shows in television. Yeah. You don't. He doesn't watch. Okay.

[Josh]

It's smart.

[Paige O'Brien]

I've never walked out of a movie in my life until Josh and I started dating. And then he always just looks over halfway and is like, you ready to go? And I'm like, oh, I'm kind of enjoying it. We've done that, like, 10 times, probably, which is probably the amount of times I've been to a movie in our whole relationship. But.

[Benjamin]

Ow. He's left every movie.

[Paige O'Brien]

He's left every movie. I swear, you just give up. You're like, this isn't for me. And then let's just go home.

[Josh]

Clearly, I love it. Olivia, you ever walked out of a film?

[Paige O'Brien]

I was just sitting back here trying to remember, and I think. Think it was like some sort of, like, Roman film. I don't know, it was like an action movie in like 2013 and I was like a 13 year old and I just like walked out to go like fuck around the little plaza with my friends. Like we were.

[Benjamin]

I don't.

[Paige O'Brien]

It had nothing to do with the film itself.

[Josh]

The most obsessive thing is you were 13 in 2013. Whoa.

[Benjamin]

Yeah, I read something yesterday. Not read. Saw. On a TikTok. Whenever I say I read, I saw it on a TikTok. I saw on a TikTok yesterday, Josh. That we are as far from 1990 as 1955 was in 1990. Yeah, dude, that's really fucked up.

[Josh]

We're old. I mean, I'm definitely old.

[Benjamin]

You're.

[Josh]

You're born in the 90s, kid. So is my wife. I'm 80s.

[Benjamin]

Yeah, but like 80s is cool, man. Like you're.

[Josh]

You're ill. No, I know. Trust me, I know.

[Benjamin]

Honestly, 90s and 80s are really cool. Olivia. No shade 2000 snot it.

[Josh]

99.

[Paige O'Brien]

99. I snuck in.

[Benjamin]

Oh, you're still sick.

[Josh]

That's cool. Yeah, Olivia was 2 on 9 11.

[Benjamin]

1999 might be the best because you still get to be a 90s kid, but like, you're young and youthful. Bingo. And not old and decrepit.

[Paige O'Brien]

Bound of you.

[Benjamin]

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[Josh]

I am fascinated by that. Like, it is something I really, really try hard not to do is to anyone who's, like, a generation before me, and especially with my kids, of, like, back in my day type shit. It was better in my day type shit. I mean, literally, people will say things like, oh, that's valid, or, that's sigma, and I want to end myself. I want to be like, if you talk like that again in front of me, I'm going to laugh in your face. But I'm like, were they thinking that when I was like, oh, word. That's dope. Like, yo, that's mad crazy. Or like, right?

[Benjamin]

No, because those are cool. It's. That's cool lingo. No, they weren't thinking that the sequel.

[Josh]

To Duolingo, it's a coolingo.

[Benjamin]

No, they were thinking that it's cool. Look, the times were cooler. It's just a fact. Social media destroyed us. Like, things were. There was just less pressure. It was cooler. It was chiller. That's it. Now you have to work really, really hard to, like, carve out that safe space. But back then, everything was safe space because, like, lives weren't amplified like that. So.

[Josh]

Right.

[Benjamin]

Yeah, it was cooler, Josh. It was cooler.

[Josh]

You could also kind of grow in private. Whereas, like, now your journey throughout life as exhibited in your social media, every friend who follows you is like, oh, they're going through, like, an awkward, you know, stage.

[Benjamin]

100%.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Benjamin]

Too much judgment. Access.

[Josh]

Has Max started? Max said bro, bruh for a minute. And we, like, put a stop to that immediately. Right, Paige?

[Paige O'Brien]

I couldn't. I couldn't.

[Benjamin]

I would love him to be a bro kid. That would be. Be sick.

[Paige O'Brien]

I think it's like camp. And he does. They always have. Especially the camps in the summer where they have, like, the older kids teaching them that they like to do, like, baseball camp. And it's like the high school kids, they learn a lot of words and a lot of slang from those kids, for sure. And the kids in his class now that he's in school that have older brothers, they love to throw around. Bruh.

[Josh]

Bro. So.

[Benjamin]

So what is Max's number one sport? What are we really pushing him towards these days?

[Paige O'Brien]

He's in T ball. And he's loving it. He really loves T ball.

[Benjamin]

He loves T ball.

[Paige O'Brien]

Soccer wasn't for us.

[Benjamin]

That. That's fine. He probably has uncle's pigeon toes. It's very difficult to have sports like that. But baseball is lateral, right. I guess you have to run the bases. But, like, I feel like you go very side to side when you're fielding. It's a. It's good on the arm. I like baseball for Max. That's good. That's good. Also great scholarships. So many players. It's not like you're. You're fighting for, like, five spots on a basketball team. Nine. Nine.

[Paige O'Brien]

He also really likes golf. He likes golf a lot. Doing golf camp this summer.

[Benjamin]

Love that. I'll play with him anytime.

[Paige O'Brien]

Shai has no desire to do any sports whatsoever. Can't hold a club. Can't figure it out. But that's okay. He has other strikes.

[Benjamin]

More of. He strikes me as more of an artist.

[Paige O'Brien]

For sure.

[Benjamin]

He is more of an artist.

[Josh]

What if Baby Baruch Hashem. Baruch Hashem. Baby Sofer is into, like, extreme sports? I'm talking skateboarding. I'm talking base diving. Like, would that.

[Benjamin]

My dream. My dream. That's all I ever wanted. Yeah, I think we've spoken about this. All that I ever wanted was. Was to be in the X Games. Like, my dream. My dream. I have to dig these pictures, like, out from somewhere. But I. I had trick blades, and my mom would take me to the Chelsea Pierce half pipe, and I would climb to the top of the half pipe, and I'd get too scared, and I'd come down same. Like, all I wanted to do was fucking skateboard. And trick skate was what they called it, where you had, like, the. I had the skates with the little hole for the grinding. Yeah. And of course, I never. And I never did it, but, like, that's all I wanted. And I'm trying to remember his name. Danny something was, like, this BMX guy that was huge back in the day. I loved that. So, yeah, if he wants to do it. Power to him. Is it dangerous? For sure. But, like, so cool.

[Josh]

It's so cool.

[Benjamin]

What's cooler than that? Like, to be able to rock an earring and it just be, like, part of your personality. Like, it's.

[Paige O'Brien]

It's just you, Josh, had double earrings.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Benjamin]

Was it a part of your personality, Josh?

[Josh]

I was just looking for anything to distract from my size. It was just a walking magic trick. Oh, look at over here.

[Benjamin]

What's over here in my ear.

[Josh]

I. I remember that I had rollerblades, but I was also too fat to grind. But I wanted to project that I knew what was up. So, yeah, whenever we'd pass a skate shop, like, at the mall or Whatever. Whoever I was with, I was like, oh, wait one sec. Like, got it. Got to see something. And so I would go in and I would ask them. I'd be like, do you have grind plates? Which were the plates you put on over your bearings to protect your skate from all your grinding. And they would go, yeah, yeah, we do. And I'd be like, cool. And they'd be like, do you want them? I'd be like, not right now.

[Benjamin]

I'm just checking inventory. I just want to make sure you have them.

[Paige O'Brien]

But I thought you weren't even able to rollerblade your moment. It let you rollerblade when everyone was playing roller hockey and you were just on foot because she was worried you would get hurt.

[Josh]

We have covered this. Yes, I was too fat to blade, but I did blading in New York. And then because I was sort of, like, reasonably overweight, and then around 14 in the craft service at Drake and Josh is when I put on an extra 50 on top of the already 50. And that's when she put a stop to it because of compound fractures.

[Benjamin]

It was probably wise. It was probably wise. Even though I have seen there's, like, this, like, really, really big trick blader. Do the kids still call it trick blading? They should. Or do we just call it rollerblading or skating? What do we call it?

[Paige O'Brien]

I don't know if kids rollerblade anymore. I rarely see kids rollerblading, skateboards, scooters.

[Benjamin]

But the kids are still trick skating. They're still going on their half types with their skates. No.

[Paige O'Brien]

I don't know.

[Josh]

Some sick K2s.

[Benjamin]

Snowboarding, too, is another one. I bought a board. I could never, could never do it. I couldn't get up. I would fall. I couldn't get up. It's all core skating. Like, if you fall when you're skiing, you can just take off one ski and stand up. With snowboarding, you need to physically get back up and use your core. I could never do it.

[Paige O'Brien]

Did you ever have heelys?

[Benjamin]

I don't think so. I feel like Heelys. When did heelys come out?

[Paige O'Brien]

I did. You did?

[Benjamin]

Yes. Wow.

[Josh]

Olivia, they did not know you were that lit.

[Paige O'Brien]

Actually, one of my best friends in high school had a pair, and he would, like, hide the wheels in his pockets, and then when the bell would ring, he'd, like, pop them in and.

[Josh]

Then just roll through the hallways.

[Paige O'Brien]

They could never sick.

[Josh]

It was awesome. Hell, yeah.

[Benjamin]

I was a big razor scooter guy. Me like razors big time. Loved that. I Even got the one. They came out with a version that had actual wheels. There were these, like, big blue. Like you had to put air in the tires. Oh, they were razor.

[Josh]

It's like an off road.

[Benjamin]

Yeah. They were sick. And I remember. I'm sure you remember the store. Sharper Image course. Sharper Image had the razor. If you got a razor anywhere else other than Sharper Image knockoff razor. They had the razor.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Benjamin]

So cool. That was what I did when I. What I realized when I couldn't trick blade like I went to the scooter.

[Josh]

Brookstone.

[Benjamin]

Brookstone. Yes.

[Josh]

Just gizmo Gadget store.

[Benjamin]

So good.

[Josh]

Oh, I loved it. I loved it. Should we get to some stories?

[Benjamin]

Yeah.

[Josh]

Do we have anything big going on? Is there anything, like big gossipy in the pop culture? Anything you're talking about with your sisters and your group chat with Maddie, Paige, anything?

[Paige O'Brien]

We have kind of out of the loop.

[Josh]

Well, here's one. Empty nesters spice up 25 year marriage by meeting new woman, becoming a throuple. Our kids love their new bonus mom. I always call us empty nesters. Sorry. Bianca and Philip Luna were about to become empty nesters when they decided to include a third person in their relationship. The Texas couple fell in love with Delane Diem and became a close triad, or throuple. We like to call it the power of three. When we work together, we can knock out pretty much anything.

[Benjamin]

What are they? What are they? Builders.

[Josh]

Like Philip, 52, and Blanca, 49, had been married 25 years, during which they had a wonderful time being a family and raising their three children. But it was time to spice things up. We started trying to meet other couples, just trying to date. For me, it was figuring out my sexuality, how much am I willing to explore with my husband there, and how open are we about having this conversation? They Met Delane in 2017. She's very intriguing, very gorgeous. Yeah, they're. They're crushing it. Throuple, close, triad, each their own.

[Benjamin]

Good for them. Good for them.

[Josh]

Paige, could you do that?

[Paige O'Brien]

No. I can barely handle Josh. I can barely handle, like, one person in my life. I think I'm good, but good. Good for Delaine and Blanca.

[Benjamin]

I'm just saying, it sounds like you have another helping hand to problem solve.

[Paige O'Brien]

Like, I guess sometimes I watch sister wives. Or is that what it is? Sister wives? And I'm like, wow, they really do all have each other to, like, raise each other's kids. But they have a million kids. So you're like. And they live on a nanny. Yeah, I Just need help.

[Benjamin]

Yeah, but a nanny. You have to pay this person. You don't have to pay. They're there, they're free. It's free labor.

[Josh]

Oh, you're paying.

[Benjamin]

That's true.

[Josh]

They need. They. Yeah, they need.

[Benjamin]

They need this, they need that.

[Josh]

Yes, you're paying. But which. Speaking of, Jesse from Mormon Wives hit me up this morning. She's ready to come on in April for season two of Mormon Wives.

[Benjamin]

I've heard this before, but I'm down if she wants to come on.

[Josh]

Okay. That's good, right? Yeah, that'll be fun.

[Benjamin]

Fantastic. Fantastic. Yeah, love.

[Josh]

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[Benjamin]

Yeah.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Benjamin]

I told this story, like, probably a couple months ago on the podcast. I had a friend who came back also from the Middle east, and the person next to him died, and they tarped him solid like this. It's crazy. Like, I don't. Like, I don't. I don't even get it, but I guess you just got to keep flying. They're already dead.

[Josh]

Can I have their meal?

[Benjamin]

Yeah. Are you eating your pudding?

[Josh]

What are the. They ordered the pasta, and I really wanted to try it, so. Can you bring that? It's already heated up. Well, men fall in love almost twice as fast as women, new research reveals. Here's how quickly it happens. The findings reveal that the average man takes a little over four weeks to fall head over heels, while women move much more slowly. At 1.92 months, it's almost double.

[Benjamin]

Makes sense to me, Josh. We're blinded by looks. Blinded.

[Josh]

Is that it?

[Benjamin]

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[Josh]

Let me ask you this. Is there a code amongst friends where you have your friend. Let's say they're like a really, like a strong five, right? They're not a piece, but they're just. They're shooting too high outside of their, their demo, like their, their weight class. As far as looks go. You ever tell them, do you ever go, like, you know, Janine, you're a five.

[Benjamin]

Like, you know what's interesting? You know, it's interesting. I have a friend who does that, but he's. He always said that he liked a certain type of girl. That just felt out of his league, no question. But he, that's always what he was shooting for. And then recently he showed up to a function with somebody that he was dating that was within his own zone. So I think that after years of rejection, he finally realized that he actually was a 5 and should be shooting fives. So. No, I wouldn't, I haven't told anybody, like, hey, bud, you're ugly. You should be looking for more ugly people to spend your time with. But I think like, naturally either they'll get really lucky and they'll find a 10. That is just lack of a better word. I don't know, brain dead. But normally I think you course correct. What do you think?

[Josh]

You're saying life has a way of beating you up? I think so, sure. Oh, there's nothing that makes me happier than when like really pretty people hit that age of like. And by that I mean this mostly applies to women, but like when they hit that age of like early 30s and they still haven't found their like, you know, Kevin Costner, they're like perfect 10 in looks, 10 in the bank, 10 in the job.

[Benjamin]

And then they settle.

[Josh]

They start settling.

[Benjamin]

That's hot.

[Josh]

I love a little, I love a settling moment.

[Benjamin]

Me too. It's just like everybody wanted you for a decade and you were too hot, right? And now you are so not okay.

[Paige O'Brien]

I feel like it's more men that, that like, that are like, I like want to hot a girl that's hotter than they are because like, I have so many friends. I have one specific friend who is like, I think she's a catch. She's so cute. She has great style, everything. And I've never met anyone in my life who like goes for more average looking guys and it never works out. And I'm like, what is happening? Because she is going like she. And she genuinely will be like, he has the best eyes. And I'm like, oh, okay, I didn't see that. But yeah, I guess, I guess so.

[Benjamin]

Josh, do you know this girl? Josh, you know who I'm talking about? Okay. Do you actually think that she's good looking? Because I find that when girls say that a girl is a cat, she's not.

[Josh]

She's very, she, she's extremely cute, good looking girl. But she's a bit of an emotional.

[Paige O'Brien]

I think she, her emotions can get the best of her sometimes.

[Josh]

But Ken, there's always something.

[Benjamin]

It's like my friend is perfect. I don't know why nobody wants to date her. It's like because she's not perfect. Like, that's like there's something wrong.

[Paige O'Brien]

Yeah, well, I don't know. I just think that, like, I find that so interesting. She gives everyone a shot. But there's nothing worse than Levin is blind. When they do the reveal and it's like the guy walks out and you could just instantly tell on his face that he's like, oh shit. And the girl's like, oh my God, I. I'm so happy. This is the best day of my life. And like runs up to them and the guys, you could just tell instantly. Not interested.

[Josh]

Not feeling it.

[Benjamin]

Did you watch the season page?

[Paige O'Brien]

I didn't, but I've been seeing everyone's Instagram stuff, Instagram stories and reviews about it.

[Benjamin]

It was terrible. Like usually at least there's like some good drama or like these people are interesting. Like this was just like the least interesting group of people. Yeah.

[Paige O'Brien]

Last. Last year, wasn't it the Megan. Or was that two years ago the Megan Fox girl?

[Benjamin]

Megan Fox thing?

[Paige O'Brien]

That wasn't. Yeah, that was so entertaining.

[Benjamin]

So entertaining. Like just a bold faced lie.

[Josh]

Yeah, but she was a good looking girl, by the way.

[Benjamin]

That's neither here nor there. Like Megan Fox. Like, like I think I'm. I think I'm a lovely looking man. If I'm in a blind pod with you and I tell you I look like Brad Pitt, you're going to be disappointed.

[Josh]

But that's a stretch. Like you're not a wafy gentile supermodel. But if you let me think of.

[Benjamin]

A stretch, like who's your Vince Vaughn?

[Josh]

You're better, let's say than Vince Vaughn.

[Benjamin]

But let's say that.

[Josh]

No, let's go with your. Like, if you said John Mayer, I'd be like, that's a stretch. But you're in the ballpark, right?

[Benjamin]

I appreciate you. If I said John Mayer and I walked out, somebody would be disappointed. And for you. Oh, who is your Doppler Leno?

[Josh]

Jay Leno? Who's your actual like granny? Vinnie. Vinnie Chase. But that's like me at my best.

[Benjamin]

Yeah, but like if you had said that and then you walked out, now I'd be disappointed. Like Adrian.

[Josh]

I mean, God, I get it. Yeah, probably. I hear you.

[Benjamin]

Should we get a speak pipe?

[Josh]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Here, we'll get to a speak pipe. If you want to get advice, leave us a message. Go to speakpipe.com goodguys Keep it brief. Brevity is key. Let's hear from Ashley Jo.

[Paige O'Brien]

I am a gigantic and I need.

[Benjamin]

Some advice on A birthday gift for my boyfriend.

[Josh]

He's really into cooking.

[Benjamin]

Very bougie. But also he's in medical school. I'm in nursing school. We have zero money, so something on a budget. But that is actually nice looking at you, Ben. Wow. Okay. Ballin on a budget. What can we get you?

[Josh]

Ninja Creamy.

[Benjamin]

It's too expensive.

[Josh]

Josh.

[Benjamin]

199. They're broke. She said they're broke.

[Josh]

Payment plan.

[Paige O'Brien]

What if you do, like, a really specific ingredient that he can use to cook that he's never cooked with that's not crazy expensive, but too expensive for an average meal?

[Josh]

Saffron.

[Paige O'Brien]

Yeah.

[Benjamin]

I've heard saffron is wonderful for the body. Josh. That's a supplement that I've heard that we need.

[Josh]

Jesus rice.

[Benjamin]

Saffron.

[Josh]

You can make Jesus rice with it.

[Benjamin]

Saffron, a kitchen appliance that's cheap but is really good. Doesn't exist. Honestly, like, I can't think of an appliance. I do have a favorite new sauce. I don't know if you guys are overweight, but if you are, it's a nice diet sauce. It's a company called Melinda's, and they make Thai sweet chili that is 10 calories for 1 tablespoon that is out of this world. Melinda's Thai Sweet Chili.

[Josh]

There's something weird when it's like. When it's like, Frank's Ethiopian Marinade. Definitely. Melinda's Thai Sweet Chili.

[Benjamin]

Frank Ethiopian marinade. It's funny.

[Josh]

What about, like, couldn't you get someone a great. This would be probably 100 bucks.

[Benjamin]

I have a good one.

[Josh]

Josh.

[Benjamin]

No, Too expensive. Waffle maker. They're cheap as shit on Amazon. They're amazing. And you can use your waffle maker for so many things, Josh. Not only waffles, but if you wanted to make crispy rice, you could put rice in the waffle maker and make it nice and crispy and put a little spicy tuna on top. Get a waffle maker. I love that. Or a panini press or. Or a crepe maker pot.

[Paige O'Brien]

What about an immersion blender? An immersion mixer. That's my favorite.

[Benjamin]

Oh, that's good. That's good for making good soups. But they're too broke to own pots. Paige.

[Paige O'Brien]

No, I didn't hear that part. She just don't have money.

[Josh]

They're a doctor and a nurse. They're.

[Benjamin]

They specifically. She specifically said, we're aspiring doctor and nurse and we are broke.

[Paige O'Brien]

Okay, well, you can find one on Amazon. I'm sure that's not crazy. Expensive dressings. Soups Anything?

[Benjamin]

Blender.

[Josh]

Let's hear one from Alyssa.

[Benjamin]

Hey, moron.

[Paige O'Brien]

Here you on your babies. So I recently had a baby and my husband and I are going on our first trip without the baby. So my mom is going to be watching Bebe at home while we meet our in laws in Vegas for a birthday celebration for someone. My in laws tend to book connecting rooms at hotels for us now. Very appreciative that they, you know, booked the room. However, Woody and Nuts, this is our first trip after a baby. I don't want a open door in between me and my in laws. Is this not absurd behavior? My husband doesn't agree.

[Josh]

She's trying to bang.

[Benjamin]

Yeah, here's the thing. It's kind of. It's annoying for sure. They are paying though. They're obviously paying, right?

[Josh]

Think so.

[Benjamin]

I think it is weird to need adjoining rooms. Like, let them be. It's nuts. I agree. It's nuts. Leave him alone.

[Josh]

I think so.

[Benjamin]

You see them the whole day, the whole trip. You don't have to be. You have to like hear your son canoodling too much.

[Josh]

Yeah, I'm. Yeah, no need.

[Benjamin]

No need.

[Josh]

We're out. We're out on the adjoining room.

[Benjamin]

I'm out on the adjoining room. I can't even. The only time that you would need an adjoining room is when your, your kids are young. Like that's nice. Right? Like you have the parents have a room with their bed and then it adjoins with the kids that have two twins. Like that's the only time you need it for a family.

[Josh]

Sure.

[Benjamin]

But they've grown past that stage.

[Josh]

Agreed. Next one from anonymous.

[Benjamin]

So when I get out of the.

[Josh]

Car to walk into the building at.

[Paige O'Brien]

Work, I don't put my coat on. It's the winter, I'm in New Jersey, it's cold.

[Josh]

I don't put on my coat because you know what? I'm sweating my ass off in the car. I've got the heat on 1000. I'm sweating. I've already had to get myself ready.

[Benjamin]

And I'm all hot and I just.

[Josh]

Like, I don't need a jacket.

[Benjamin]

Right.

[Josh]

I have a half hour commute. I'm not wearing a coat for a.

[Benjamin]

Half hour in the car.

[Josh]

So I have the coat in the car. God forbid I need it.

[Benjamin]

But I'm not putting it on for the one minute walk to the school. So the lady in my office every day has to make a comment. Oh my God.

[Josh]

Where's your jacket?

[Paige O'Brien]

I saw you walking in.

[Benjamin]

Where's your coat?

[Josh]

Are you going to get sick.

[Benjamin]

You're going to get pneumonia.

[Josh]

What the heck do I do every day? I'm like, I don't need a jacket. I'm sweating, and the cold air feels good.

[Benjamin]

Like, what do you do with somebody.

[Josh]

Like that every day?

[Benjamin]

Now I have a game with myself.

[Paige O'Brien]

I'm trying to beat her to the.

[Benjamin]

Office before me so that she doesn't.

[Josh]

Watch me walk in.

[Paige O'Brien]

Like, because it's making me crazy.

[Benjamin]

It's every morning.

[Josh]

Any advice is appreciated.

[Benjamin]

I love this woman.

[Josh]

Me, too. I love.

[Benjamin]

I love her. This happens to me every single time I leave my building. Like, I sometimes wear shorts in the winter. Cause, like, once, like, 300 pounds, always 300 pounds. Like, you just, like, do things like that. Like, you wear basketball shorts with a winter coat. And I'll always get that. Like, oh, you're gonna get sick. It's like, mind your business.

[Josh]

That's it.

[Benjamin]

Tell this person it's enough. Like, I'm not gonna get sick. I drive to work every day. I'm outside for 30 seconds. I don't need a coat. I would just be upfront and honest and say, thanks for your opinion, but I don't need a coat.

[Josh]

Josh, I think you set the woman up, and you get there early. You do a background that she wouldn't know. You're in your office, and you bring a little pashmina, some kind of shawl, some kind of blanket, wrap it around yourself, and you FaceTime her right? The moment you're supposed to be walking in, you go, you were right. I'm dying. I'm at home. I've got, you know, whatever. I've got scarlet fever. And you just go, you were right. I'm so sick. I'm dying, and I should have worn my coat all those times you mentioned it. And she goes, oh, my God, I'm so sorry. I know. I tried to tell you. You're right. You're right. And then you storm out of your office and go, what are you, nuts? I'm fine.

[Benjamin]

Stop it. Fine.

[Josh]

Stop.

[Benjamin]

Yes.

[Josh]

I love a setup, an elaborate prank, joke, and then it's over.

[Benjamin]

That's what she needs. It's over.

[Josh]

Yes. End it yourself. Checkmate this woman.

[Benjamin]

End her.

[Paige O'Brien]

You get it a lot with kids. People being like, put a sweater on that baby. I'm like, you don't think I tried to put a sweatshirt on my kids? Like, my kids refuse to wear. Max only wear shorts and T shirts. He will not like getting a sweatshirt on him is really difficult. So I see people now on social Media being like, I have to walk around, like, waving the sweatshirt. Being like, I tried. He won't put it on. Like, this isn't on me. But we were in Canada. We got off the plane, and remember, that guy stopped us and was like, I have to stop you before you go outside. Those kids are gonna freeze. You need to put a bigger jacket on them. And I was like, sir, respectfully. Yeah, we're walking out the door into a car. They won't put them on. Like, what do you want me to do?

[Josh]

Totally.

[Benjamin]

People are too nosy. Like, people need to shut the fuck up. Like, it's enough. Like, these aren't your kids. What if we maybe. Maybe we want to expose our kids to a little bit more cold? Right? Yeah.

[Josh]

Stressor.

[Benjamin]

Yes. So they can deal with cold. Like, I don't know. I think we blow this whole cold thing out of proportion. Be cold for a minute, learn to deal with it, and then forever. Like, isn't that a thing, Josh? Like, think about a cold plunge. If you get cold exposure early, like, maybe you can deal with the cold longer or you just get the flu and die. I don't know.

[Paige O'Brien]

Like, if they get cold enough, they'll put a sweatshirt on. You know, let him feel it. Let them go outside and be like, oh, yeah, you're right. It is freezing out here. It's snowing. I'll put a sweatshirt on.

[Josh]

And even though, like, we'll. Like, today, right? Like, we're freezing in L. A, in actuality, it's 55. It's chilly, but it's. It's 55. So, yeah, if you don't have a jacket on, like, it's not the end of the world. And I look this up because I suspected, and it is true. No, cold. Cold weather alone does not make you sick. However, cold weather can create conditions that make it easier for viruses and other pathogens to spread and cause illness. That's right, Mom. I'm not putting a hat on. I'm not gonna get sick.

[Benjamin]

Correct. Correct.

[Josh]

I know.

[Benjamin]

Correct. Josh, what was that? When we were. When we were by the beach, when I came to your house, like, probably a year ago at this point, and it was, like, a little bit cold, and there was that girl yelling at her mom about her coat. Do you remember that?

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Benjamin]

Yeah. What did she say? I don't even remember.

[Josh]

It was something about wearing, like, a. I mean, you know, where we. We live by the beach. So it drops below 60, and people are like, oh, thank God. Let me get out my Canadian goose.

[Benjamin]

I'm like, let me get my moncler.

[Josh]

Are you? Well, I know they just want a cute layering moment. I'm like, hun. Or like, it'll rain for 11 minutes and I'll be like, oh, word. The hunter rain boots are coming out. Like, yeah, yeah, it's too much.

[Paige O'Brien]

I'm thinking about the time I once it was raining and I put on a down jacket and I had to go to Michael's with my sister. I was pregnant with Max, probably nine months pregnant. And I'm inside and I was drinking a coffee, so I didn't know they had, like, the heater on. I have my puffy jacket in the coffee in the heater, and I'm pregnant. So I'm like, looking at my sister, I'm like, oh, my God, it's really hot in here. And we run into this guy that we know, and he's, like, trying to talk to me, and I'm, like, sweating profusely. And I look, I'm like, I'm about to pass out. I'm so sorry. And I had to run out of the store because I was so embarrassed. And to this day, I still, like, apologize to him every time I see him for almost passing out. Cause I thought, like, oh, I'm gonna be cozy. And I almost fainted. I was boiling nuts. Too good.

[Benjamin]

Too good.

[Josh]

Should we get to our what are you nuts? Yes, our what are you nuts? Moment of the week are our gripes with people, places and things both big and small. Whatever's sticking in your craw, then take it away.

[Benjamin]

I have a good one. I was wrestling between which one to do, but because Paige is here, she can. She can definitely relate to this. As. I mean, in New York, we have all of these wonderful parks anyways. We have these wonderful parks, but being an expecting father, bh. I'm, like, taking a deeper look at the parks, like, which parks are nice. Where would I like to take him? And I can't stop thinking, Josh, about the fact that all of these slides are metal and remembering when I was a kid going down that metal slide in 95 degrees and literally burning the bottoms of my thighs. Like, what are you nuts? That these slides, these New York. I don't know if it's just a New York thing, but these New York slides are just made of metal and get boiling hot. All the monkey bars get boiling hot. Like, what are you nuts? These are children.

[Josh]

It's more common in New York.

[Benjamin]

It's insane.

[Josh]

They're all playgrounds.

[Benjamin]

They take steel pipes and they use Them to make the slides.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Paige O'Brien]

I saw a kid get absolutely wrecked the other day on a concrete slide at the park. Max is going down it, and he was fine. Shai went to the top and was like, oh, no, I don't wanna do this. And he came back down, and I saw this kid and the mom, and they were holding hands over it, and I'm like, this is a really steep slide, and it's made out of concrete. The girl, like, started tumbling, and the mom wouldn't let go of her arm. And they're rolling down the mom's arms. It was so crazy. I've never seen anything like it. But we have concrete slides here.

[Benjamin]

Oh, my God. That is even more of a. What are you nuts?

[Paige O'Brien]

Yeah.

[Benjamin]

Like, what is this? Concrete slides. You can't. At least the metal slide you can slide down. At least it's fast and fun. Concrete is slow.

[Paige O'Brien]

No, it's not.

[Benjamin]

And painful.

[Josh]

It's like a smoothed over, like, almost like a limestone. Like, it's. But the way it's carved, it's not like that.

[Paige O'Brien]

Are sharp. The corners on that thing are sharp.

[Josh]

Yeah, it's like, built into, like, the side of the hill, the structure.

[Benjamin]

No good. Josh, what about you?

[Josh]

My Woody nuts is super petty and super short, but people will go, oh, your name's Florence. My grandmother's name was Florence. Who cares?

[Benjamin]

Who cares? Nuts, I'm totally with you. What do you want me to do with that information?

[Josh]

Who even cares?

[Benjamin]

No. No one. No one cares. No one cares. I feel the same way about birthdays. You're like, oh, my. I'm like, my birthday's April 3rd. Oh, my God. Mine is April 8th.

[Josh]

Who cares?

[Benjamin]

Who gives a shit?

[Josh]

I'm a Scorpio. Me too.

[Benjamin]

So you wanna. You wanna do our birthdays together? Like, is that what you're. What you're pining for? Like, I just met you and they're five days apart.

[Josh]

It's so good. There's so many things we say, and it's like, what do you.

[Benjamin]

Nuts.

[Josh]

Who cares?

[Benjamin]

Totally nuts, folks. What else is nuts is if you don't give this episode five stars, you're nuts. 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. Please note that this episode may contain paid endorsements and advertisements for products and services. Individuals on the show may have a direct or indirect financial interest in products or services referred to in this episode.