REUNITED! Drake Bell on Touring, Fatherhood & Life After Nickelodeon

Summary

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Good Guys – "REUNITED! Drake Bell on Touring, Fatherhood & Life After Nickelodeon"

Podcast: Good Guys (Dear Media)
Hosts: Josh Peck, Ben Soffer
Guest: Drake Bell
Date: February 2, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this lively and candid episode, the Good Guys—Josh Peck and Ben Soffer—are joined by Josh’s longtime friend and Nickelodeon co-star, Drake Bell. The trio dives into a broad-ranging and hilarious reunion conversation, covering Drake’s ongoing international music tour, the realities (and oddities) of fatherhood, aging, and life after their Nickelodeon days. They also reminisce about old adventures, discuss the pressures of parenting, swap health tips, and answer listener advice questions, all in their trademark bantering style.

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Key Topics & Highlights

1. Catching Up & Touring Life

• Drake’s touring year: Drake reflects on performing 91 shows across a dozen countries (mostly Latin America), flying 150+ times last year, and juggling travel with family life.
  • [02:50] “We did like 91 shows... Argentina, Peru, Montevideo, Chile... it’s like 91 shows, and each one of those shows is like a round trip flight... maybe like 150 flights last year.” — Drake
• Touring as a parent now: The fun and exhaustion are different; travel wears on him more now, needing better routines as a “touring dad.”
  • [06:16] “You need your rest... when you have kids, you’re like, okay, what’s going on at home?... there’s just so much more to think about.” — Drake
• Home life in Florida: Drake describes living in Celebration, Florida, near Orlando theme parks, to enjoy time with his son.
  • [08:29] “I’m in Celebration, right in Orlando, right next to the park.”

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2. Fatherhood & Parenting Styles

• Fatherhood surprises: Ben and Drake share they both assumed they’d have daughters; Drake hilariously details preemptively buying pink baby clothes.
  • [09:57] “It was the dumbest first dad move ever – buying everything before you know anything. Not buying anything neutral, like, it was strictly like, ‘oh, I’m gonna have a princess daughter.’” — Drake
• Routines & sleep training: The group underscores the importance of routines for both child and parents (bath, bottle, bed at 7pm) for everyone’s sanity.
  • [31:47] “It’s not just getting your baby in the routine. It’s... setting you up for, you know, oh, ...between 7pm and 7am, it’s just my wife and me.” — Drake
• Potty-training woes: Ben discusses his 3-year-old’s fear of pooping, using “hype” videos to coax him.
  • [27:13] “So now when he goes, we have him record a hype video for his future self... to be like, you can do it.”
• Perspective on the division of labor: Different family dynamics are discussed—some partners work outside, some are at home, both are valuable.

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3. Health, Getting Older, and Staying ‘Cool’

• Unk or Hunk?: The group riffs on the TikTok trend of being ‘unk’ (uncool/uncle vibe) as they age, deciding they’re “hunks” instead.
  • [06:01] “You’re hunks, not unk.” — Ben
• Stretching and athletics: Several stories about staying limber as one ages, including Ben’s rec basketball mishap and Drake’s appearance on “Diving with the Stars” (and being terrified of heights).
  • [18:16] “You look down and just... the whole world goes... and you’re like, how?... I can’t be this high without something to hold on to.” — Drake
• Health checks: The guys admit to being lax on routine doctor visits, but acknowledge fatherhood forces them to think more about health.
  • [44:47] “I think having kids makes you focus more on, like, oh, wait, should I be getting a physical?” — Drake

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4. Nostalgia: Life After Nickelodeon and Old Shenanigans

• Drake & Josh memories: Listeners ask about their antics as teens. Josh recounts staying out till 3am after shows and facing his furious mom.
  • [54:49] “We’re already like an hour away from Josh’s house... I see my mom looking over our terrace like this... Joe literally goes, ‘Good luck, Josh.’” — Josh
• Vegas stories: Josh and Drake share about their post-show Vegas trip as 19-year-olds, drunkenly heckling during a Cirque du Soleil show, and their car breaking down in the desert.
  • [56:56] “We said, we should go to Las Vegas... had a couple pops, and we decided... we should go see Cirque du Soleil.” — Josh
• On being ‘Hollywood bad boys’: The guys openly laugh about their misadventures, ultimately poking fun at just how tame (and goofy) they really were.
  • [58:06] “We go see Cirque du Soleil drunk and do diving shows. Yeah, okay. We’re Hollywood bad boys.” — Josh

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5. Money, Routine, and ‘What Ifs’ of Parenting

• “Eight kids overnight” challenge: Where would you move? Florida (for theme parks and taxes) is the consensus, with plans to start family vlogs or bands.
  • [34:33] “Instrument in each one’s hand. That’s an opportunity for, I mean, quite a large band.” — Drake
• Career tangents and gambling: Drake talks about treating gambling like amusement park admission, and the group discusses bizarre bets in Vegas (elections, Oscar winners, etc).

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6. Listener Advice & Relationship Dilemmas

• Anonymous caller: A listener seeks help about her sister marrying an “unmotivated” couch potato with anxiety issues—should she intervene?
  • [64:41] “It’s unfortunate to watch people that you love date somebody that you don’t think is right for them.” — Ben
• Good Guy advice:
  • Start open, non-judgmental conversations.
  • Don’t attack the partner—ask what she sees, and what’s motivating the step to marriage.
  • Sometimes, you have to let friends or family reach their own conclusions (and be ready for support when it ends).
  • [66:10] “You don’t have to shit all over the boyfriend, other than just asking the sister, like, okay, why are you wanting to... move this relationship to marriage?” — Drake

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7. “What Are You Nuts?”: Rants & Everyday Grievances

• Circus disappointment: Ben bemoans the “reinvented” Barnum & Bailey, lacking animals, clowns, and circus music—just DJs and robotic dogs.
  • [71:33] “Not a circus song. Not a clown. They have a DJ. ...What are you fucking nuts? ...This is the worst show on earth.” — Ben
• Cybertruck hypocrisy: Josh spots a Cybertruck with an “eco-friendly, not Elon-friendly” sticker and calls out the irony.
  • [73:35] “You’re in a cybertruck. You’re a douchebag. ...Like, you’re all Elon all the time.”
• Drake’s travel hassle: Drake is forced by Mexican airport security to show personal photos to prove he’s in a real relationship.
  • [75:40] “They actually had me pull out my phone and go through and show them pictures of our relationship. ...What are you nuts?”

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Notable Quotes & Moments (with Timestamps)

• On aging and energy:
  • “Back in the day, dude, I could burn the candle at both ends. ...Now, there’s shows now... we go on at 11, and you’re like, that’s past my bedtime.” — Drake [06:22]
• On fatherhood routines:
  • “It was a concerted effort over the first six months... 6 o’ clock we start bath, bottle, bed. He’s asleep by 7 and he sleeps till 7. ...It gives you that time.” — Ben [31:47]
• Drake on facing his fear for reality TV:
  • “I’m already afraid of heights, dude... And there was just no way I was going to do it.” [18:34]
• Friendship and shared struggles:
  • “You know what? Seriously though, I don’t have very many friends that have kids... so it’s cool to hang in a room with two other dads.” — Drake [46:29]
• Parenting perspectives:
  • “There’s plenty of people who look at their situation and go, oh, the husband’s a loser and a deadbeat. ...Well, why? Because he stays at home?” — Drake [70:10]
• On their “bad boy” days:
  • “We’re pretty nuts. We go see Cirque du Soleil drunk and do diving shows. Yeah, okay. We’re Hollywood bad boys.” — Josh [58:06]

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Listener Advice Segment & Takeaways

[63:36-70:29]

• The hosts give compassionate, practical advice: Don’t confront the sister with accusation, but ask about her happiness and reasoning. Both female and male perspectives chime in—sometimes the best thing you can do is be ready to support when (if) things go badly.
• They stress context is everything; what looks like laziness to an outsider might be an agreed-upon arrangement.

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Final Thoughts & Tone

The episode is packed with comedic back-and-forth, self-deprecating admissions of aging and parenting fails, bursts of nostalgia, and a recurring theme of figuring adulthood out—sometimes failing, but doing it together. The trio’s good-natured ribbing, shared vulnerability, and willingness to “go there” (on therapy, parenting, and health) make for a warm, laugh-filled, and relatable hour.

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For New Listeners

You’ll enjoy discussion that’s:

• Relatable for dads and parents
• Nostalgic for 00’s Nickelodeon fans, but never stuck in the past
• Honest (sometimes to the point of TMI)
• Fast-paced, playful, and heavy with in-jokes—but always welcoming

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Recommended Segments:

• Touring and family balance: [02:50]–[08:35]
• Parenting struggles & routines: [27:13]–[33:00]
• Nickelodeon shenanigans: [54:49]–[58:16]
• Listener advice: [63:42]–[70:29]
• “What are you nuts?” rants: [70:31]–[76:42]

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Notable Closing Call to Action:

• “This episode’s five stars. Otherwise—what are you nuts? Don’t forget to rate, review, and subscribe. See you next time.” [77:41]

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Transcript

[A]

The following podcast is a dear media production.

[B]

Two Jews, both big and tall. No subject too small for the Good Guys. A mother's dream premium podcast team. Make it your weekly routine. It's a Good Guys.

[C]

And if you don't give us five stars.

[B]

What are you nuts?

[C]

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

[B]

They're not the great guys. We're just the good of good of the good guys. Mazda Morons. Welcome back to the Good Guys podcast. We have Drake Bell here. But most importantly, I'm getting over the flu. So my voice sounds like an adorable 12 year old with emphysema.

[A]

A 12 year old with emphysema? How did you get emphysema at 12?

[B]

Listen, I worked for Nickelodeon.

[A]

Those buildings, those stressful. All the asbestos.

[C]

I like your voice like this. I think it sounds sexy.

[B]

It's my new chapter.

[C]

It's pretty good. I like it. What kind of flu gave you this? Like, what do you need?

[A]

It's all the flirting.

[C]

I know I was flirting with you off camera.

[B]

You look gorgeous.

[C]

Okay, you are getting jealous. Okay, Drake, you look gorgeous. Josh, your voice is sexy. Nobody has said one thing about me.

[B]

I love.

[A]

I told you. I love the studio behind you. It looks beautiful.

[C]

It's not me. That's the studio.

[A]

Can I ask you something? Are those actual screen grabs from the show or did you guys have to, like, fake laugh for the picture behind you?

[C]

I think they're screen grabs. And honestly, because they look really like.

[A]

You'Re laughing at real stuff. Otherwise that's just like. You guys are great actors.

[C]

Like, oh, okay. Yeah, no, it looks great. I am wondering, I was thinking, like, maybe we redo it.

[A]

No, it's not.

[C]

But, you know, if you like it, we'll.

[A]

We'll keep it. Yeah, no, let's keep it.

[B]

Let's get real Mad Men right now and have you. If you want us to compliment you. Why don't you stand up? It's a little twirl. Wow.

[A]

Relaxed. Really?

[C]

I've been working. I've been working on my ass. I hope that it showed how.

[A]

In what way squats?

[C]

I haven't been working on my ass. It's the one thing that just like. It's gone. It's totally gone. The Zepbound. I'm on Zepbound. Drake. A modest GLP. I actually think it's one of the kings of GLPs. It hits two food suppression centers and it just ate my ass. I used to have this big juicy ass and it.

[B]

Ate my ass. I can hear Eli Lilly calling now. Being like, that's not a side effect.

[C]

It ate it. It ate it. It's gone. It's gone. Well, you both look fantastic. What's going on? How's Los Angeles? Drake, how are you? What's new? Haven't seen you in a bit.

[A]

Yeah, I'm great. I'm great. I've just got off tour finally. We had a crazy year last year. We did like 91 shows. We got to do some appearances together, which were really fun. So we got to go out on the road and see the fans and we've done some really cool stuff. And so now it's cool I'm here being able to relax for a minute and it's not freezing cold and windy outside finally. So. Yeah, good.

[B]

The sky never stops. How many, how many different countries last year? A dozen at least.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, like a dozen. Because we hadn't, we didn't do Europe or anything. We were all Latin America. But yeah, I mean, the last, the last leg was, was wild. We were all over. Argentina, Peru, Montevideo, Chile. I mean, it's all over and it's crazy. I was trying to figure it out, but it's so it's like 91 shows, and each one of those shows is like a round trip flight. So it's either direct or it's connecting. So it's like maybe like 150 flights last year.

[B]

And don't tell me you don't you pull a Drake on this one because you're going to upset me here. What loyalty programs are you getting your miles? Are we in? Tell me the points, Drake. I want a point.

[A]

Well, I fly so many different airlines.

[B]

Do I know this kid? He's willy nilly. Sir, do you have your loyalty number? His manager saying it right now. He's like, Drake's like any seating in the back of the plane.

[C]

Do we at least have like, global entry tsa? Like we're flying through the airplane?

[A]

I do. Yeah. Yeah. I fly through the airport. I have free check and clear Drake.

[B]

Volunteers for the extra search.

[C]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

So you want to go, you want to take me in that office room?

[A]

No, I, I, I, I travel easily, but, but no, it's just, it's just that we did a lot of trout. We did a lot of Travel last year.

[C]

91 is amazing. That is a show every four days. Josh, when do you sleep? I mean, that is mostly on the plane.

[A]

On the plane is where I get the most, the most sleep.

[B]

Yeah, but, and tell me now, because I don't know. And Olivia, Feel free to chime in here. Are we unk. Are Drake and I unk. You know this?

[A]

I've heard it. I've heard it.

[B]

Are we officially un.

[D]

I. I don't think so.

[C]

I don't think so.

[D]

I don't think so.

[A]

Because. Doesn't un mean uncool?

[D]

No, it means uncle.

[A]

Uncle, Right, but uncle. But it also isn't. Isn't it an acc. Like, un. Like not cool anymore or something?

[D]

Now, now, here's the distinction.

[A]

If you are a chop, usually not.

[D]

Cool, or there's something, then you're not cool. If you are just a regular, you know, fancy Schmidt. If you're just unk, then you're just an, oh, you know, an older person. But if you're a chop, you're not.

[C]

Neither of you are unk.

[D]

And you're not.

[C]

I just. I've heard it a few times.

[A]

I've heard it a few times.

[C]

I don't know what this trend is. You're not unk. Maybe with your beard, you're a little unky. Like, a little.

[B]

But besides that, you're unknown.

[A]

You went, I don't know.

[C]

Oh, true. You're hunks. That's good. Hunks. Not un.

[B]

Well, because, like, obviously now you've been touring for two decades. Basically, like, do you find it all. The travel wears on you a little bit more in your unknown. Okay.

[A]

Uncle Jason definitely have to tour differently. Yeah, it.

[C]

It's.

[A]

It's not so much of a. You need your rest, you need your sleep. You feel it. But back in the day, dude, I could burn the candle at both ends. Oh, I've got a show. I mean now. I mean, there's shows now where they're like. I'm like, oh, what time? When do we start tonight? Oh, it's a late one. We go on at 11. And you're like, like, that's past my bedtime. Like, how would I have to perform at. It's going to be an hour and a half show. I'm not going to be at home until 1 o' clock and. Oh, man. And I got a flight in the morning before I'd be like, oh, cool. And then where are we going after that? And then we'd go straight to the airport and then I'd sleep on the plane. And then I, you know. But you had the energy to do that, right? And I. Well, I think having kids too get, you know, when you're only thinking. I think men. Not, not just physically, but, like mentally. If I'm only thinking of Myself, and I'm like, oh, I can do this, I can do that. But you're, you know, when you have kids, you're like, okay, what's going on at home? And are they cool? And this is that. And oh, I can't go out and you know, I have to be like clear headed and I need to be this. Because if something happens at home and with the kids. So I think there's just like so much more.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Not just like, oh, my bones, my back, you know, even though that does definitely play a part.

[B]

Well, so you're.

[C]

So you're touring solo and then you're coming home after every show to see your family. You're not staying out there, they're not with you.

[A]

No family stays home. And then I'm on the road. Yeah. Wow.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

And it's cool.

[C]

That's got to be tough.

[A]

It is, it's. It's tough. I mean, we've, we've gotten used to it. It's become like a very nice. I mean, I would, I would. It's, it's longer stints, but it's like, oh, I get time with mom and mom and you know, Wednesday through Thursday and I'm with dad Sunday through. It's, it's just kind of the same thing, just longer blocks.

[C]

Understood.

[A]

And so I have, you know, I, I carve out tons of time to be home in Florida with my son and, and I have a place out there and you know, so I, so I do get to have, you know, the wake up in the morning and get him ready for school and take him to school and, and have routine with him and all of that. I just have a job that takes me on the road for blocks at a time.

[C]

I didn't realize that you were in Florida. What part of Florida are you in?

[A]

I'm in celebration. Right in Orlando, right next to the park.

[C]

Okay. Amazing. Let's go celebrate, dude. Let's go.

[A]

I mean, I'm, I'm at the parks all the time. I just got it. My son loves Minions now. Yeah, I make his whole. I mean, you know, I make his whole bedroom. Sonic the Hedgehog. Four days later, it's Minions. So. But, but now we were always going to the Disney parks and, and it was funny. I was sitting, watching. He was getting into Despicable Me now and he's loving the Minions and I was sitting there watching the movie with him. I'm like, oh, man, I wish Disney had something for Minions because we have our Disney passes and I could take him to Disney And I'm like, wait a second. Universal has an entire Minions land? And it's. It's literally we're 10, 20 minutes from the park. You know, I was like, wyatt, get in the car. Your mind's about to be blown. Like, you have no idea what you're about to see. And he'd never been, you know. And so I took him and we walked in and he's like, wait a second. Go on the Minions ride. We go on this. So I went and got passes for Universal. So now it's rad. Like, right after school, we can just go straight to Universal. He's like, oh, right after school, I go to Minions land, You know?

[B]

That's so good.

[A]

Yeah, it's cool.

[C]

So good.

[B]

You know, Ben, since our last interview, Ben has had a beautiful son.

[C]

Yes.

[B]

All the proud owners over here. That sounded weird.

[C]

We're the fathers.

[B]

You don't own a person. That's horrible.

[A]

I was. I was absolutely. I don't know what it was, but I was absolutely 100 convinced I was gonna have a girl.

[B]

Me too.

[A]

I just was like, that's what I'm gonna get. You know, I'm gonna get a girl. So, I mean, and it's my first. I don't know what I'm doing. I went out and I bought all these cute girl like, outfits and pink blankets and things for the room and just all this stuff. And then the doctor calls and it's like, all right, so do you guys want to. And you, you, you, you guys, you keep it surprised. But I'm like, no, I got to know, you know? And she's like, hey, so you don't want to know. Like, yeah, yeah, congratulations, you're having a boy.

[C]

I looked at.

[A]

I was like, what are we going.

[E]

To do with all this stuff?

[A]

It was the dumbest first dad move ever. So, like, buy everything before you know anything. And. And not buying anything. Neutral, not buying anything. Like, it was strictly like, oh, I'm going to have like a princess daughter.

[B]

Like, do you.

[C]

Do you almost think that those purchases made you have a boy?

[A]

It could have, you know, like, you.

[C]

Literally pushed the universe. The universe was like, I'm going to show him. He's so sure he's having a girl. Nope.

[A]

No, I am not wearing that. I'm changing it.

[B]

No, but I've already. Like, Ben, you're naturally athletic. Drake and I are a little more of the razzle dazzle types. Like, I've already seen my seven year old look at me with disappointment of how I throw a Football, like. Like when it. When it sails, like a couple of them, they're going right to the bread basket.

[C]

Can I. Can I tell you something?

[B]

Floaters. And I could tell he's like, I can't rely on this man.

[C]

Josh. Last night I played in a mid-30s to mid-40s pickup basketball game. And first of all, great game, lightly competitive, exactly what you want. And this guy, I knew it the second he got on the court. He introduced himself. He was first time playing in the game. He's like, yeah, I haven't played in two and a half years, but I love it. I'm, like, so happy to be back and play. I see him just go way too hard to the basket. Tore his knee first play.

[B]

Yes. Really bad.

[C]

Really bad. Like, his knee was in a different place. We had to get a stretcher. And of course, because it's mid-30s to mid-40s, Jewish guys, two people were doctors. They looked at him, diagnosed him on the spot. They come back after, they're like, what was the diagnosis? And they're like, it was a torn. Whatever it was, and it was so fudgeing. Funny. It was. And terrible and terrible. Of course, I hope he recovers. But speaking of just, like, being less athletic, like, it. People should be very careful. Just because you were good at a sport at one point, just because you were athletic, be careful. Yeah, I saw it happening from mile away, and it was just brutal.

[B]

Tell me about, first of all, your performance and what's the warmup look like? And are you wearing any fun clothes?

[C]

Yes, my performance was great. It's lovely to be lighter. It's a smaller court. Drake, you wouldn't know this, but I'm quite the shooter. A good shooter. I shot a little bit too much, but I made a lot. It was good. I really. I made. They made me their leader. Like, by the end, it was like, they're, like putting me on their shoulders. Like, not actually on their shoulders. It was a good game. I stretch for sure. Light stretching. You know, me, before our run. I'll do my. What is that? What do we call it? Scorpion stretch.

[B]

Sure.

[A]

I used to watch this video of George Burns when I was a kid. I just loved all those old comedians. And that was one of the things he. At the beginning of his standup special, this was when he was, like, reaching 100. He showed you his morning routine. Like, this is how I'm able to be a hundred, you know, and one of his biggest things was stretching. Yeah. So I think, you know, if you want to reach a hundred, that's something that you should focus. It's big.

[C]

And maybe, Josh, nobody does it before.

[A]

Even if you go on a jog, even if you're going up Runyon or something, if you don't stretch like, you're screwed. Yep.

[C]

No, I stretch. I learned one stretch. It's a very embarrassing stretch. It involves being on my stomach and completely contorting my leg over to the other side. Josh probably has it on video. He can show you later. And that's my one stretch. That's it. It loosens up my back. It loosens up my legs. Then I'm ready to rock. This episode of the Good Guys podcast is brought to you by my boys at Skins. Do you like when I say that? You should tell me in the comments. Okay? And you obviously love skins. Let me tell you, I'm doing my skins ad read in my UN underwear, okay? I walk around in my underwear. My general complaint is that more people don't let me just walk around in my underwear wherever I want to go. If I could only be in my underwear all the time, I'd be in my underwear. You know why? Because I'm not wearing these weird little tighty whities. I'm wearing my gorgeous, beautiful skims. They come about, I don't know, thigh high. They really look like a bathing suit. I don't know what's wrong with it. Why can't I walk around the hospital while my wife is giving birth in just my underwear? Why can't I do that? The answer is I can. I have free will, and people need to stop taking that away from me, okay? People need to stop not letting me just wear my skims wherever I want because let me tell you, I want to wear my skims everywhere because they are so unbelievably comfortable. There's BS before skims, and as after skins, after skims, you never. You can never go back to your old stuff, okay? You can't again. It's too scratchy. It's not soft, it's not comfortable. It's just not you. I feel like I've been living, I haven't been living without my skims. And now, folks, I am living. And let me tell you, okay? Their cotton 5 inch boxer brief. Okay? Listen to this, folks. At this point, let me tell you, I've tried every boxer, every boxer on the game. Nothing ever fits right. But we found a winner, okay? They don't go all the way up. They're really nice sometimes. I'm sorry, these three inchers. Why don't you just wear tighty whities. They're too tight. They're too, too short. Not for me. But they are so comfortable. They're so comfortable. If you're a brief sky like me, this is the one for you. And let me tell you, if you're not a brief sky, you're what? Are you nuts? I don't know what to tell you. I don't know what to tell your wife. I don't want to tell your boyfriend, your husband. I don't know what to tell any of you. If you're a tighty whitey and you're not a brief sky, I don't know what to tell you folks. What I do know to tell you is that you should shop skims [e-mail]. let them know we sent you. After you place an order, select podcast in the survey and select our show in the drop down menu that follows. Folks, that is skims.com and shop skims Men's a new documentary film from Paris Hilton.

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Stretching goes a long way. Like, even when we did. I don't know why we're talking about stretching. If this is interesting to anyone, but it is. This is interesting to me.

[B]

This is.

[A]

Yeah, this is un. This is very un.

[B]

But no, I call it.

[A]

But funny enough, I, I. When I was doing that diving show, I was working.

[B]

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No. No. And then I also want to know. For shows.

[A]

I did this high. I did this show. My agent calls me, he's like, hey, would you like to do like a diving with the stars? Right, right. I imagine.

[C]

Wait, wait, like, like, like Olympic diving? Like off of a, like a diving.

[B]

It was real deal. I love the drink.

[A]

Okay. Okay.

[C]

You see skydiving.

[A]

No, but you see the questions you're asking? Yeah, that's what I should have done. You see, I was just like, how much? Yeah, it really was. I was like, how much? And diving with the stars. And I'm like, okay. So I'm imagining like a little diving board at the, at the, at the pool, and we're gonna be like spinning and Doing funny things, and maybe we'll be in funny costumes and it'll be ha, ha, ha. So I say yes, and I get to the pool. It's down in Pasadena. The, the, the. This Olympic swimming pool. And, and there's this 33 foot high dive that's three story building. A three story building high dive. And I, and I get there and it's. We've all done reality tv, okay? They don't want you to see anything. They've got to get your reaction on film. You don't get to see anything. So I'm in this robe, I'm talking to everyone. Oh, this is gonna be fun. We're all gonna be, you know, synchronized swimming, you know, hey, whatever. And they have the people walk out one at a time and, and I walk out and I'm like, oh, that's a. What the hell is that thing? Okay, well, that's. That probably has nothing to do with us. And I'm like standing there. And then Greg Louganis walks out on the high dive and does an arm stand somersault right into the thing and then comes out and shakes all of our hands and goes, are you guys ready to go up to the high dive and see what you're gonna do?

[B]

Chill now.

[A]

I'm already afraid of heights, dude. Yeah, I'm like afraid to be on a balcony of a hotel, all right? I get sweaty palms like airplanes. I'm fine. Because I'm like, there's a different psychology there, but I'm afraid of heights, dude. And there was just no way I was going to do it. I'm like, there's no way. There's no way. So they have us walk up just to experience what it's like to stand up there. And when I. When you see those movies where someone's high and the camera goes like this, that's what it feels like, bro. You look down and just. The whole world goes. And you're like, how? I. First of all, I can't be this high without something to hold on to. And then you think I'm gonna jump head first off of here. That's insane. It's, it's. It's not.

[C]

It's not possible.

[A]

I mean, there's. There's no way I'm jumping off of this head first. So. But, you know, I've got Rory there. I got all these other guys around me there, and everyone, you know, hyping people up. Some of the girls are jumping off and, And I'm like, all right, so peer pressure comes in I'm like, I've jumped off of a, like a cliff before, but not something this high. Really. You know, this was incredibly high. So I jump off just feet first and kind of get a feel for it, but then I'm like, there's no way I'm going to do this. Okay, long story short, we end up doing all of the practice on the trampolines and the harnesses and learning how to do flips and learning how to do all of this stuff. And then you move it. We go on the, the, the small boards, then the 10 meter boards, then the 7, 5, 7. And then we're up at 10. And then once we get to 10, it's just muscle memory. You basically just. They're like, just do exactly what you did on 5 and 7. Don't change anything. And then you just, and then you just, you just do it and your body just does it and you land and you're like, oh, it, it worked. It's crazy.

[B]

Didn't you burst your eardrum?

[A]

Well, so there was one, there was one where they, they were, they had, they were having us progress. That's why they only did one season. They were having us progress way too fast. All of our coaches, dude, these are Olympic diver coaches. They're like, you want our welcome back.

[B]

To celebrity self mutilation? They're like, how deep will he go this week?

[A]

Yeah, they're like, they're like, o. This week it. Because it would really be like, okay, this week we want them to jump into the water. Oh, next week? Yeah, a 301C. And you're like, I don't know if that's the right numbering divers, don't get me wrong, but that's like, like one of the hardest dives in Olympic diving, right? And you're like, oh, I mean, they're having us. Okay, look at this. This is like week three. I'm 33ft in the air. I'm facing the diving board now the way you do. Now the way you do a dive.

[C]

Watch, watch this.

[A]

Watch this. This is my face. This is my head. With my. All my jaw with my accident, all that stuff. You know, I'm very sensitive. Like, you touch this, it breaks. I'm very sensitive with that because of my car accident. You jump, you can't jump away from the board. If you jump away from the board, you're going to get a bad dive. You're going to splash. It's going to be horrible. So you have to jump straight up. And the force from when you jump straight up and then do your tuck is what pulls you away from the ledge of the diving board. And then you straighten out and go straight down.

[B]

That's his physics. Big dog.

[A]

So you're looking at the diving board, and you're like, oh, I'm supposed to jump straight up, tuck, and then go into my dive and not smack my face on the front of this diving board.

[C]

Nightmare.

[A]

That's not. Has no spring. It's. It's a. It's a platform. It's just. It's. It's this.

[B]

It's so good.

[A]

You're on the curb of a sidewalk, and you jump straight up. And they're like. And our coaches were like, no, no. Like that. It's impossible. It's not safe. We're gonna have injuries, dude. First week, a dude, chewy, broke his ankle just getting onto the diving board. He was, like, climbing on the diving board, slipped, and it was like, he's out.

[B]

But he handler's chewy, right? I mean, he's not built for extreme sports. God bless him.

[C]

I can't believe. I can't believe they put Chewie in it. I can't believe they put him in a.

[B]

That seems a little hectic. We have Louis Anderson sitting.

[A]

Dude, he was rad. He went all the way to the top and just sat and went backwards and did a whole flip and landed in the pool. It was incredible.

[B]

Louie Anderson.

[A]

It was. It was actually really cool because behind the scenes, you know, everybody's got. You know, when you're on a movie set, we're all talking about our. Our shit at home and what. What. You know, what's going on. And we. We get to know each other kind of intimately. And you actually did get to see, like, Louis and other people over because. And like, me, for example, too, with, like, heights, fear of heights. Like, you did get to see, like, they. If they were, like, battling or like, just whatever it was, they kind of used this to, like, channel. So you got to see, like, actual, like, victory and overcoming, like, these, like, the wins on the show, like, were happening in practice, and it was, like, really cool. Like, you know, we were. We were getting to points where, like, we're sobbing, we're crying. We can't do this. It's impossible. They're asking too much of us and breaking down and breaking down, and then finally someone gets up, and it's like, eff it. Like, let me just do it. Like, they're like, just do what you did in practice. Do what you did on the trampoline. Come on. Do It.

[C]

Do it, do it.

[A]

And then they get up and do it, and it's like. Like, those are real. Like, it was a cool experience.

[B]

You know what I love about what I love with Drake and I is, like, he'll do a couple, like, janky reality competition shows, and I'll just do a brand deal for Raytheon. Like, I'll, like, do one for, like, the. The Shah of Iran. I'll be like, listen, I'll be like, I know how many. What? We'll work it out later. PayPal or Zell, you know, they're like.

[A]

It'S got to be Bitcoin, but.

[C]

Oh, so scary. I can't do that.

[A]

So that was. That was.

[C]

I tried.

[A]

But anyways, to bring it back. To bring it all back, what was impressive and really strange to me was these. I was working with, you know, Olympic gold medalist divers, Greg Louganis, These. These huge people and their prep for. Before they start. They dove, you would think would be like. They would be showing me some new type of stretch or, like, something that divers do or something. And, dude, it was literally like, all right, we're gonna get ready. And they just, like, roll their hips. They would, like, glue their necks. They would, like, do their arms. And I'm like, dude, this is stuff that I did in Little League, like, getting ready for baseball. And they're like, yeah. I mean, these are the stretches, and I don't know, there's just something about seeing that and going, oh, yes, it takes a lot of work and dedication and this and that. But you also don't realize it's sort of just repetition and. What's the word? Consistency.

[B]

Sure.

[A]

Over, like, oh, I have this incredible talent, or, oh, I'm stronger or I'm faster, or I'm this. It's really like, oh, man. You guys are just doing these types of stretches and then. But it's really like the determination, the focus and how you're. But they're doing it every morning. They're doing it every day.

[B]

Right?

[A]

They're doing it with this, and then they become gold medal.

[B]

So I. Ben, that's why you're.

[A]

That's why you're the leader.

[C]

They're. They're loose.

[A]

Yeah, they're loose. Exactly.

[C]

Once I once tried trapezing. No way. And I went to the top, and I actually thought that if I went down, my arms would just be floating on the bar and my body would be at the bottom. So I walked that walk of shame all the way back down. But let me tell you, there is no fear. Like heights. No, it's terrible.

[A]

Well, the other thing is too, is at the place we were practicing, they had. They would. They had the kids practice. They had like the actual kids who were there for their real divers, you know, but they're like 4 and 5 years old and they're like.

[B]

That's when you're like, no fear.

[C]

No fear.

[B]

No fear. That's when you have to learn.

[A]

Yep. Are you gonna go? And I'm like. I'm like, sorry, sorry. No, go ahead, Go ahead. The only thing worse than she's like, does like a flip thing and she's like 4 years old, and I'm like, okay, I guess I can do this.

[C]

No fear. No fear.

[B]

Well, I will say the. Listen, the only thing scarier than heights is what my wonderful, beautiful three year old son Shai is going through. And that's called a fear of pooping.

[A]

What?

[B]

My boy's shy. He's a little anal retentive, you might say. Got a little anxiety. And I wanted to share this with you because I just think it's freaking the cutest thing ever. So now when he goes, we have him record a hype video for his future self to be like, now tell your future self, like, how well this went, how good you feel. So he made a video for his future self to tell. To tell him he made a video for his future self to be like, you can do it. Come on, let's get it done. Here we go.

[C]

Hi, shy. What you do?

[A]

What you said. I got poop and I feel so much better.

[C]

You can do a chai. You will feel so much better.

[A]

I love you and I'm trying.

[E]

I'm proud of you.

[C]

That's the cutest thing I've ever heard in my life.

[B]

Hasn't helped.

[C]

And by. And by the way. And that is great parenting, by the way.

[A]

So it's not afraid.

[C]

Did you come up with that concept yourself?

[B]

Anything good is.

[C]

No, it was chatgpt.

[B]

Come on.

[C]

What a great.

[B]

Anything good is my wife.

[C]

What a great idea.

[B]

Paige came up with all of it.

[A]

So good is he. He's afraid of, like, I don't. I mean, I'm a dad, so I want to know. I don't know if there's too much for the podcast, but he's afraid of, like, the way it feels or like the act of it or like, it's like, I heard like, oh, no, it's going to hurt or something.

[B]

Like, like, from the readings I've done, like, boys tend to have a. A more Challenging time or it clicks a little later. And yeah, I think it's just like the idea of. And it was funny. I've like, I, I said to him, I was like, here, shy. Pinch yourself. And he'll binge himself on his hand and I'll go, you know, you can control whether that hurts or whether it doesn't. I'm like, that's what pushing's like. I'm like, you can control how much, how uncomfortable it gets, and then you'll be done so quickly. But now I think he just thinks that the pinching thing is like a pressure point and it's not helping. So he'll sit on the pot and he'll be like, dad, I'm like, like.

[A]

That'S supposed to be the on switch or something.

[B]

I'm like, you missed it. Yeah, not working.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

My son, My son, luckily, is so cute. He's like a clean freak. Like, he, like, how old is he? He's four. And if, I mean he, I mean, I. He can be in a full white suit and eating ice cream, and the second a drip, he's like, da, da, da, da. Like, not a drip on. Like, he's just like, if as soon as his hands get dirty, he needs them washed. Like, he's like a clean freak. So I, I did the thing where it's like, I'm just gonna let him run around without a diaper at home, and then he's gonna realize like, oh, I don't have a diaper. Like, this has to be.

[B]

I don't want to be dirty.

[A]

One time, one time he went and then he was like, oh, okay, this is not how this goes.

[C]

This is parenting.

[A]

And he got. He got potty trained pretty quickly.

[C]

That's great.

[A]

I know.

[B]

What can you do?

[C]

Back to reality tv. Oh, wait, you want. You had something?

[A]

No.

[B]

Ben, tell us your what. Will, does Claudia kind of does she institute the parental strategies and you kind of always follow her lead?

[C]

Yes, and I always think so. Drake, my 8 month old is knock on wood. Just like, he's unbelievable. He's so happy. He's been sleeping through the night since two and a half months.

[A]

What a blessing.

[C]

He's like, no, he really, it's. It's insane. Yeah, he's amazing. And my wife will, like, since he's born, I've thought she's doing everything too early. I'm like, you really want to start giving him nightly baths now? He's so little. Why are we doing that? And I eventually learned that she is 100% right. Every step of the way. And it's, I think her. I think it's the routines that she's put in place that have created this environment where it was just easier for him to sleep train. It was easier for him to nap, it was easier for him to sleep.

[A]

Well, it's also. I was just gonna say exactly that I'm like, well, it's. She's mom and she's going routine. And it's not just getting your baby in the routine. She's getting her routine. You are getting your routine. You're going, okay, so around this time of night, the lights go lower, the baby's getting ready for bed. Okay, this is how the house is gonna feel. This is how this is starting. So it's setting you up for, you know, oh, well, when that, when you feel that the time's ready for them to be doing that, you're already, you're like, already in that routine. And that's so important for kids. Like, even if you're in a, you know, like sort of the situation that I'm in with my son, with traveling so much and not being the, you know, not being able to be there every day, every morning, every this. But as long as there's structure, routine, okay, this is how it goes and this is what I can expect and it's going to happen and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Like, that is really important for a child. And that's, I think the motherly instinct is to.

[C]

Yeah. And people from the outside were like, it's like, oh, like you're, you really need to run home. Like, why are you so militant with it? Like, you can't stay for dinner and just like let him fall asleep at the restaurant. Like, no, no. And it was definitely. It was a concerted effort over the first six months to six o' clock is we start bath, bottle, bed. He's asleep by seven and he sleeps till seven. We do.

[A]

And what's every night about that is at 7:00'. Clock. And what a lot of couples don't realize is that between. When your baby's sleeping through the night, between 7:00 o'clock and 7:00am it's, it's you, you two. So now you guys. Yeah, you want to watch. You want to watch Netflix? You want to, want to, you know, snuggle, you want to hang out, you want to do your thing as a couple, it gives you the. That time I had a friend of mine who he, his, his. His wife, he had already had like three or four kids, and then his wife got Pregnant. And she had four quintuplets. Wait, no, it might have been quintuplets.

[B]

No, it might have been five. Is five.

[A]

It might. Yeah.

[C]

Quad. Tuplet.

[B]

Quadruplets.

[A]

Quadruplets.

[C]

Quadruplets.

[A]

I think it was quadruplets. It might have been quintuplets. And he had already had three or four kids, so he ended up having, like, seven kids.

[C]

But at one.

[A]

At one time.

[B]

That's a TLC show.

[A]

At one time, he had, like, four babies at the house. And I asked him, I was like, what in the world is. You know, how do we do? And he just described what you were saying. He's like, my wife is. So, like, we just made sure to, like, make a routine. He goes, drake, I have. We don't have kids between 7 and 7am I just have my. It's just my wife and me. And he. I'm like, how do. And he's at the gym. He's working out. He's got time to do this. He's got time to that. They just had some way of, like, routine and structure that made it work to where. And then the babies were. Had a routine where it was like they were sleeping through the night. And I'm like, that's wild, man. All of us were like, you have.

[B]

But, okay, this is a fun question. Ben, you have eight kids tomorrow. Where do you move? What's the plan? How does your life change?

[C]

Okay, obviously, we move from apartment to house. We need to be in a house where I think that we are moving to. I think it's. I think it's Florida. I think, like Florida or Westchester, but it gets cold. I don't want eight kids in the house in the cold. It's got to be somewhere that's warm. I'm going to go with. We're going to go to Florida. Tax purposes. Otherwise I'd be coming to California. Tax purposes in Florida. We need more money. We have eight children. Okay. We gotta keep more. Maybe I'm coming to Celebrations. Okay. We're getting a house in Celebrations. It's gonna be fantastic. Because I want to be near the theme park so I can tell. I can shuttle these kids. They're going straight. They're seeing minions, they're seeing Mickey, they're seeing Donald. They're seeing everybody. Yeah. So that's probably where I'm living. And what am I doing? We're just going to podcast. I'm gonna have to live off the podcast. And then I'm gonna have to raise them. I'm gonna have to rear these Kids, that's.

[B]

You'd have to move. Like, if you could move to a lower cost city and then just, like, hang out with your kids, like, figure out a way to, like, make a living.

[C]

But, like, you figure it out.

[A]

You just.

[C]

You just have to figure it out. But not even a lower cost city. Like, that's where taxes really play a role. Like, imagine, like, how could you possibly do that in New York or California? No, like, I really. I really don't know how.

[B]

But you also wouldn't fit in. Like, I'd want to do it in Idaho. Oh, my God.

[C]

I was thinking Idaho.

[A]

King Utah.

[C]

The only thing about Idaho, I thought. But then where do you go? Where do they go? Okay, they're playing in the field. They're eating a bunch of corn. They're hanging out. I'm sure they do other things besides playing fields and eat corn, but that's what they're doing. Okay. They have it with their friends. Yeah, totally. They're gonna end up in a cult.

[B]

Work.

[C]

Oh, I'd start a cult.

[A]

Ooh, that's what I'd do. I was going. I was. I was bouncing between cult and. But probably family dance. I mean, if I had eight kids tomorrow, I mean, obviously I would. Instrument in each one's hand. That's an opportunity for. I mean, quite a large band. Yeah, I mean, you've got horn sections. You got background vocalists. And under my militant thumb. And now. Wait, are we. Are we. What's the financial situation? Is it exactly as I stand now, or do we get some, like, what's the hypothetical here?

[B]

It's as it stands now, but how you use them kids.

[A]

Yeah. Okay, so if it's. If it's now, then it would probably be more like Partridge Family bus. Like, maybe like, get like an old school bus. Paint it really cool. Definitely, like, Internet family vlogs. How we're building the family. Like, us, like, playing in the living room and, like, wow, they all play instruments. And maybe we have, like, the one daughter that, like, is kind of the outcast. Like, she didn't really, like, learn an instrument, but she dances really cute and, like, does, like, funny, like. Yeah, like, just like, funny costumes and stuff.

[B]

It's just straight behind the camera.

[A]

Yeah, well, I'm in the band, too. I'm in the fan. You know, I'll.

[C]

It's that B roll. You know, I keep yelling at him.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

What was that, Frankie? What. What was the woman who went to jail? What was her name? There was a. Yeah, there was a family vlog.

[A]

The one I just watched it. I can't remember her name.

[C]

Something. Frankie was her name.

[A]

I know exactly. Frankel. Bethany Frankel. No, no, no, no. Don't start that rumor. No, but I know exactly who you're talking about. I just want, you know, documentary. It's so sad.

[C]

It's a Ruby Frankie.

[A]

So heartbreaking.

[C]

It's Olivia.

[D]

Ruby Frankie.

[E]

Is that her name?

[C]

Yes, yes. Ruby Frankie. She was like an Internet mom. She, like, put her kids on camera, but, like, behind the scenes, she was literally starving them to death. Like, they didn't eat and it just like, was a nightmare.

[A]

No, I'm totally joking.

[C]

I mean, I.

[A]

Probably same thing as you. I mean, I would try and figure out, like, I grew up going to the park. So like, I, you know, living somewhere where, like, my kids don't have access to, like, Disneyland or Disney World is like, like unthinkable to me. You know, that was like my mall after school. We went to the parks, you know, so. So probably. Probably like the same thing. I mean, I really, like, not a crazy fan of Florida, but if I can be close to the parks and.

[C]

Where are you going, Josh?

[B]

Yeah, yeah, I'm going to Idaho, babe. I'm starting a new life. Unless I get a TLC show. You know, like Josh plus eight. My.

[C]

My thousand pound, eight year eight kids or whatever. Yeah, yeah. What is it?

[B]

Or no, the eight of us all add up to a thousand pounds.

[C]

That's what I'm saying. The collective weight. What is. Yeah, that would be hysterical.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Or maybe they're all. All my children are overweight and I start like a sleepaway camp, like Camp Shane in New York, right? With my kids. And I'm like, Ralph. Like Ralph, that is like the head of water sports. We run the game.

[A]

Why do you have to give them fat names?

[C]

I'm sending them there. All my kids are going there. Ruby's going there. Is Ruby a fat name there? Go. He's going there.

[B]

He has a son named Ruby.

[A]

Oh, man.

[C]

Yeah, they're all going there. Ruben, Chester, Slim. Ruby is. Yeah, he's Husker.

[B]

You're saying your own son's a Husker?

[C]

No, he will be. He's got. He's.

[B]

He's perfect.

[C]

He's.

[B]

I. You know what? And I think I brought that up on the podcast. I went to go see my cardiologist the other day. Cause yolo. And I read my. My notes. I was reading my notes and it said, a well nourished 39 year old. I'm like, well, Nourished?

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Is that bad?

[A]

What does that mean? Oh, wait, is that what that means?

[B]

No, that's what he called me. Well, nourished.

[C]

When did he call you that? Now, your fit is a fiddle. Your fit is a fiddle.

[B]

Is well nourished. Just like. Exactly those words, he's nourished.

[C]

Well, I think that for you it meant he's nourished. Well, but I also can recall a time where I've gone in at like 280 pounds and they've said, well nourished.

[B]

And I think it's something different than.

[C]

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[B]

Are very like, understandably, they're liberal with the obesity word.

[C]

They are. They are.

[B]

I mean, they would just, they would. They would write that in my chart as they heard my steps around the corner. Yeah, they'd be like, capital O.

[C]

Heard the floor.

[A]

Should I. Should I have a cardiology?

[B]

Should you have a cardio?

[A]

Should I have a cardio? Am I at that age?

[C]

I have high?

[A]

Am I not doing the right stuff? Okay.

[B]

You get physical every once in a while. You neglect.

[A]

Every once in a while.

[B]

It's like the show. You neglect.

[C]

No.

[A]

Oh, I just don't know.

[B]

You don't go for a physical.

[A]

I mean, I probably. Like, yeah, I think I had one recently. Like. Like a year ago.

[B]

Do you go? Okay, and the year before that?

[C]

I don't go.

[A]

I usually. You know what? Usually I don't go everywhere. You know what?

[C]

Usually every year we not we get to know. What do you mean? I can just take supplements.

[A]

We get the physicals for like jobs and stuff.

[B]

This is not a real physical. The physical is to insure us on jobs, is just to make sure we don't actually have a heroin needle in our arm when we get there. Like, yeah, yeah, we could sign off. He's insurable.

[C]

I try to go here. Sometimes I miss it.

[A]

I can't use those as my checkups.

[B]

Olivia, are you going for a yearly physical?

[D]

I am going for a yearly physical.

[A]

Please do that.

[D]

Yes, that's right. Yeah. I gotta get checkup.

[B]

I gotta make sure my PH is right.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

Sorry. I don't know what that means. You know, I like to go in. I like to. Oh, my God. I have a wonderful time with my doctor. And the physical's good. Cause they have to give you 30 minutes so we can really chat. Oh, yeah, yeah. No, no. I. I think I like going to the doctor because the first 10 years of my life was such a bad experience at the doctor. Because they would come in and they'd be like, you're in a lot of trouble. And now it's like a celebration. They're like, your numbers are normal.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

I think having kids makes you focus more on, like, oh, wait, should I be getting physical? Should I be getting checking on myself? Should I be making sure that I'm, like, gonna make it? And, like, I laugh. You know, It's a little bit more, like, survive. Yeah. And. Yeah. Yeah. I think you start thinking about that a little bit more when you have the kids. You're like, oh, man, I need to, like, make sure I'm good to go.

[C]

At least. Blood drawn. Blood drawn once a year is very important. It doesn't. Like, sometimes the. When you say physical, like, I don't need them to take my height and weight and, like. But take my blood, look at my blood, read my blood. That I definitely need. And also, I'll go to the dermatologist once a year, make sure there isn't a new lump. Okay. Like, that's important. I think that's maybe more important than the physical. People don't go to dermatologists the way that they should. And I'm just saying I've had things.

[A]

That the dermatologist that I thought were just normal, that he's like, I'm getting that that's gotta come. That's gotta go. And you. And it's just like a little, like, skin tag. You think it's like a skin tag or something?

[C]

Yeah, something worse.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

It's no good.

[A]

They're like, yeah, that could turn. We're alive.

[B]

Yeah. Anything, Olivia? Ben, while you have Drake and I together, it's just so rare. Anything we didn't cover in our first Paramount groundbreaking interview? Any Drake and Josh mythology that has still gone unanswered for the masses? Anything you want to know?

[C]

I think we went really, first of all, what an incredible two parter last time. But what a joy it has been to be able to laugh during this episode. Let me just say that. And I've had a lot of fun in this one. The last one was super important.

[A]

I like this one. I like this one a lot because it's so fun. Like, I, I travel.

[C]

We're laughing a lot. Serious.

[A]

You know what? Seriously though, I don't have very many friends that have kids. Like, I don't. Like, all my friends, like, are, you know, like Rovi, man. Like, they don't have kids. They don't get it. So it's cool to like, hang in a room with like two other dads and be like, oh, wait, what's going on with your wife? And oh, wait, how are you doing the thing with it? Like, it's. I, I really like that that's us.

[C]

That's all we talk about. It's all we do.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

So true.

[A]

It's. It's hard to, to try and explain stuff to people who don't have kids. You're just like, wait, what? Like, no, you don't like. It's. It's really, it's really interesting to. Especially, you know, working and touring and all this and trying to explain like, no, well, I need time for this and I have to do this. Like, huh. Like, like it doesn't really compute.

[B]

Sure.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And it's also, I, you know, with Jimmy Carr has this great joke who. I love him and he was like, having kids was just going to a higher stakes table at the casino. And there's plenty of people who love the slots because they're like, exciting and loud and flashy. But, like, you have a very low chance of winning now. Blackjack, baccarat, you could lose your shirt, but you could also win big. That's having kids. It's just a higher stakes table. And, you know, sometimes, like, I can look at a friend and be like, aren't the slots great? And they're like, so good. But most of the time I'm like, you're not playing for real? Like, you're not playing on the hard table, you know?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I mean, and I only say that because Drake has become a degenerate gambler. Sorry, I don't mean to air out your.

[A]

Listen, listen. I love baccarat. I love baccarat. If there's a couple casino within 40 miles, 50 miles, I'll. Yeah, I like. But I never lose my shirt. I always gamble responsibly. I never take more money than I want than I'm have fun to lose. I literally treat it like admission to an amusement park. I'm like, because I love amusement parks and I spend to get to go to amusement parks. I buy pat the yearly passes and so, you know, so I go, okay, look, if I lose, that's how much it cost me to get into Disneyland. And because I still have fun whether I win or lose, it's still the rush of it, the excitement, the fun with their friends and with the dealers and whoever you're meeting people at the tables and it's fun.

[C]

So even if you're one of those people on poly market betting that we invaded Venezuela.

[A]

No, no, I don't do any online.

[B]

Yeah, but Drake had a little intel. He had a little inside information.

[C]

Oh, totally. By the way, if you see anything, you let us know.

[A]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[C]

Okay, sure.

[A]

For sure.

[C]

If you see anything on the ground.

[A]

But I. But yeah, no, I do love. Have you ever played baccarat? No. Oh, it's so fun. It's so fun. It's so fun. It's such an easy game and it's something that, I don't know, I've always seen it in like James Bond and like, oh, do I want to play blackjack? Or like, oh, that's going to be hard. I don't understand the rules. And everyone that's playing that is like, they're all like, you know, foreigners and like, it's going to be something I don't understand. And it's a flip of a coin.

[C]

And it's 50 now that you're in.

[A]

The easiest thing to play and you.

[C]

Need to go to like, some of those, like, sick casinos and where now that you're in, like, I'm just like thinking like, like a James.

[A]

Oh, well.

[C]

Oh, like Monte Carlo.

[B]

I live.

[A]

I would, yes, I would love to do that. I do live. It's cool being, you know, when I'm in Mexico a lot, they. That you can gamble there. So they have casinos, so I can just like go down the street. There's a casino at the mall, you know.

[C]

Wow.

[B]

Get a little chicken teriyaki bowl.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Hit up. You know, all of a sudden, my.

[C]

Chicken teriyaki cost me five grand.

[B]

Yeah. Go lose your. Your kids scholarship money.

[A]

So, yeah, no, I don't, I don't advocate like, anybody going gamble or anything, but it's, it is, it's fun, you know, and I don't play with like, I literally like, oh, I won 500 bucks. Yeah, I wish.

[C]

Yeah. No, we love. We Love gambling. Polymarket is actually new. I think they're a new sponsor or they're coming on. Did you see at the Golden Globes, they had literally Polymarket predictions. You could bet on who won best Actor.

[A]

Oh, I'm not surprised. I'm not surprised.

[C]

Isn't that crazy the way that they are gamifying? It's crazy. Yeah. But I have.

[A]

Vegas has always been doing that. Vegas is always.

[C]

Oh, I didn't know that. No. So you can bet on that.

[A]

Vegas, you bet on who's going to win the presidency. You bet on best actor, Oscars, you bet on. I mean, you sport. I mean, the sports is, you know.

[C]

Obviously, I had no idea.

[A]

But no, it gets. There's things that are like, you can bet on. Oh, do you think. Oh, like for example, after the Coldplay situation, people were betting on whether or not this CEO was going to resign or be fired.

[C]

I didn't know that you could do that.

[A]

So those.

[C]

Traditionally in Vegas.

[A]

Oh, yeah.

[C]

I thought this was like a new wave of.

[A]

Yeah, it's probably just moving to the Internet. It's probably just moving to the Internet mobile. But in Vegas, you could literally bet like, oh, the CEO of after the Coldplay situation.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

I. I've got money on. He's going to resign before he's fired. No, no, no. He's going to be fired before he's resigned and there's payouts.

[B]

Has anyone imploded their family at one of your concerts?

[A]

No, no, thankfully. Thankfully, no, that strange things have happened, but thankfully.

[B]

Not that people tried to, like, blame Chris Martin for that. Yeah, that's 100% not his fault. No.

[A]

How could.

[C]

No, it's not. It's their fault. I mean, all that you had to do is keep making out and nobody ever knows a thing. The fact that you just, like, acted like something was wrong and ducked that it was their fault. They just should have, like, they could have done anything and it wouldn't have gone viral. Like, their family never would have seen it. But that's their fault for being cheaters.

[D]

I do have a quick question. When you were asking about, you know, if there was anything else that we didn't cover maybe last time. And I know you guys talked about, like, how you would do. I believe it was a story about like going bowling and having a sleepover when you were in like middle school, like 12, 13, something like that. But I was just wondering if there was ever a time where you two, like, got in trouble together or got into any, like, hoodwink shenanigans. If there's anything that comes to mind for you too, or just like, you know, your friendship at the time, like what that was like.

[B]

Anything that.

[A]

Anything that you feel comfortable actually say.

[B]

I. Here's the problem.

[A]

A few things come to mind.

[B]

Like when people will ask me about my partying days and they'll like, want some real. They'll want to know anything I had done in the past. And I always am vague about that. Cause that's the headline, right? Like more so than any part of the story. It's just like Josh Peck did X once. Not X, not like Daily Mail. I will fudgeing come for you, man.

[C]

New York Post.

[B]

Olivia, pitch it. Olivia, pitch it.

[A]

Xyz.

[C]

Xyz.

[B]

Josh Beck did blank this, you know, one time. So it's a little bit hard to, I don't know, anything stick out for you.

[D]

I. I guess also when I say hoodwink shenanigans, I'm thinking like when you were like kids, like younger, like, just like, you know, something, I guess.

[C]

Did you ever rob a car? Did you ever rob a person? Do you ever steal a car? I mean, was there any grand theft?

[D]

Anybody? Like anything. But in that kind of vein, I.

[B]

Do remember once that we were, you know, Drake's dad was sort of like the, the tour bus driver for your, your mini kid band when you were a kid. And for me, you know, I had like a single mom. She was pretty uptight, understandably. And so like a lot of times.

[A]

Like, I know where we're going.

[B]

Come with us to like, Drake's going to be performing somewhere in Orange county.

[A]

Like, and, and like, my dad is, you know, he didn't mind if I stayed up late. He didn't mind if, like, he was chill. I watched Quentin Tarantino. Well, he wasn't into that. But like, you know, my point is, like, he was a liberal dad. He didn't really, you know, so, hey, you need to be home by this certain time. Was it really, like.

[B]

Sure. Well, we were at one of Drake's concerts, I'm sure at a House of Blues or something like this. And you know, it became 9 o', clock, 10 o' clock at night, I think.

[A]

And we're in Orange county, by the way. I think we were at like the Galaxy or something. Yeah. And so we're already like an hour away from Josh's house, you know.

[B]

Yeah. I think Joe got me home like just shy of 3am and I will never forget this, right. We pull up to my house and I see my mom looking over our, like, looking over our terrace like this. And God bless Drake's dad. Joe literally goes, good luck, Josh. And I go, you gotta go up there with me. And Joe goes, I'm not going. I was like, joe, you're the grown up. You have to explain what happened. He goes, no, no, better you go, yeah, that was. That was fun.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

So good.

[A]

Yeah, I do. I do remember, you know, just. Just stuff like that. And I. I do. I can't remember specific situations, but I do know that there's probably a few set teachers that have some stories, because I was always trying to get out. I mean, school to us was like. Well, I don't know. I mean, at least for me, it's like just this annoying thing getting in the way of, like, doing the fun stuff that we do. Like, I want to be on set with Josh and I want to be, like, rehearsing and I want to be, oh, I gotta go to school. Like, so we were always trying to get out of doing our work or get around it or procrastinate or do whatever. So I'm sure that the teachers have, like, some stories of. Of us being nightmares.

[B]

Okay, one more story. I'm probably going to cut this out. One time, we were like 19 years old, the show was pretty much just about ending, and we said, we should go to Las Vegas. No, no, one part. No one part. All I remember is this, is that we were acting like cliches. We'd had a couple pops, and we decided, or I decided because I' a smart boy, I said, we should go see Cirque du Soleil. Oh, yeah. So we go see Cirque du Soleil. But again, as I said, had a couple pops. So about halfway through, I started going, this isn't funny.

[A]

Oh, no, dude, dude, let me tell you there.

[B]

I.

[A]

This is.

[C]

Wow.

[A]

I remember this like it's yesterday now. I forgot about this. There was this character on In. In the show that was like the comic relief. Like, it's all this amazing acrobatics, and then there's this recurring character that is the comic relief. And I'm telling you, Josh is not having it. I mean, he's like, this isn't. This isn't funny. What is he doing? Is it. There's no. He's not even getting laughs. Do you hear the audience, Drake? Not even getting laughs.

[B]

I mean, everyone is sinking into their seat. I'm like. And I'm looking at, like, Tammy from, you know, Tampa. And I'm like, tammy, this is not funny. Right? You're not gonna. It was horrible.

[A]

Oh, my God. Oh, my God. I totally forgot about that. And I remember it was this little clown guy, and he kept doing this thing, and he was so upset. He was so offended at somebody trying to pass this off as comedy. And for the $300 tickets that we spent. And this is what we're getting. He was so over it.

[B]

So bad. You know, we're. We're pretty nuts. You know, we go see Cirque du Soleil drunk and do diving shows. Yeah, okay. We're Hollywood bad boys.

[C]

Yeah, it's. It's pretty good.

[A]

Do you remember breaking down on the way to Vegas?

[B]

Oh, yeah. And we almost died in the middle of the desert.

[A]

We were driving to Vegas on our way to Vegas, and we're like. And you know that point when you see Vegas and you're like, yes, we're there, but you still got, like, 45 minutes to go. We broke down right there, and there's no exits to go to. Like, oh, a tow truck will just come pick you up. So we basically waited until the sun came up because they had to go all the way down and then come pick us up. And our car was broken down and they had to come pick us up and take us to a mechanics. So we sat on the side of the road. That was how we started our Vegas trip. Was on the side of the road waiting for a tow truck to finally get us there. And then we rolled into Vegas at 8 o' clock in the morning. Yeah, that was a. That. That should have. Yeah, that was crazy.

[C]

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[B]

All right, if you want to get some advice, ask us questions. Go to speakpipe.com goodguys Keep it brief. Brevity is key. Hey, let's hear from Anonymous.

[A]

So what are these?

[C]

These are moron mail. This is like, people call in, they. They ask us for advice or they tell a bad story or. I'm sure Josh picked a good one, though.

[A]

All right, sweet.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. This one should be really cute, and I'm really good at this. Let's hear from Anonymous.

[E]

Hi, Josh and Ben. I need advice because I don't think my sister is marrying the right person, and I think she is making a mistake. To give you some context while keeping it brief, he currently has a problem with anxiety that he's been struggling with for years. I don't think he's handling it in the most appropriate way. There's some Xanax and drinking involved. Not a lot of therapy, not a lot of leaving the house. So any advice on that piece? Because she's not very confrontational and won't bring up that that's not the best way to handle things. Along with that, he's just extremely lazy, has no drive. She does absolutely everything around the house. He was let go over the summer Due to his lack of effort and drive and performance at work. Even during that time, he did nothing around the house. Doesn't help with anything. And I just don't think my sister deserves that. I think she. She deserves somebody who can take care of her or at least give half of the effort that she's giving. But I don't think she's brave enough to confront the fact that this is definitely not the right choice.

[C]

Was she on the cam? Was that what I was hearing in the background? Was she just, like, flushing okay or peeing okay? It's unfortunate to watch people that you love date somebody that you don't think is right for them. I hate when we get speak pipes like this, Josh, because we don't have any context from the actual person, so it's so hard to judge. Like, he sounds terrible the way that you described him. He sounds absolutely like your sister should not be marrying him. That said, I don't know what's going on behind closed doors that your sister's still with him.

[A]

Well, that's exactly what I was gonna say is, well, I would like to hear from the sister, like, why are you with the guy like this or not? I mean, look, you can be with somebody and say, hey, you know what? I love this guy. And maybe people see him as a couch potato, but, look, I've got. I've got my own job. I got my own shit. I do my own stuff, and I like to come home and be with my couch potato boyfriend, and I don't need anything from him, and that's cool. Like, I can get that. So I would want to know, like, well, what's the motivation to move that to. To marriage? You know? Like, is there something like, is. You know, are you. Is he pressuring you into, like, hey, we should get married so we can put our stuff together? Or is this something that you're wanting to do? You know, what's the motivation to move this relationship from just, like, what it is now to marriage, you know? And then is that like, what's. You know? I think that's also influencing that choice from the sister, basically.

[C]

It's also a softer way to broach the subject. Like, not saying, like, I don't think this guy is right for you. It's more so, okay, I don't see what you see, but clearly you're happy. But I don't understand how your life improves by marrying this person. Stay with them. But just, like, explain to me what I'm not seeing.

[A]

Yeah, you don't have to shit all over the boyfriend, other than just asking the sister, like, oh, okay, like, what. Why are you wanting to, like, yeah, is there. Is there kids? You want a family? Like, what's the. What's the motivation? And then maybe. And then that's the thing, too, is like.

[B]

But don't you think when people are with people that aren't great, they're easily triggered when you question their logic, their motives? Like, Olivia, have you ever had friend speaking from the female perspective on this?

[D]

Yeah, actually, unfortunately, an instance like, that just happened. The relationship ended, fortunately, after, like, four years. We were so scared that she was gonna stay with this guy, and he's such a loser, and she is so amazing. But I tried for years to, like, say it gently, and she didn't really take my advice on it. And it was to the point where I'm like, I love my friend, and I want her to be happy, even if I think this guy sucks and she's, like, a million times better than him. Like, if that's who she's happy with, I'll let her ride with it. And then when shit hits the fan, I'm here when you need it. And anytime there was an inkling, I'm like, tell me about it, and let's talk through it and see if we can get you, you know, a little more confidence to maybe, you know, pull the plug on this one. But, yeah, I think, like, it really depends on the caliber of your friendship and, you know, just being there for the person. Even if you know better, perhaps.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I had a buddy who was dating a girl who we just were not a fan of, but he was all about it. He was just with her. And then we even found out through a friend of ours who worked at her job that she was cheating on our friend, like, had made out with another guy at their work. But our buddy was so. First of all, our buddy knew we didn't love her. And so we were like, even if we tell him, because we didn't have proof of the cheating, we had just heard from a reliable source. We're like, he's not gonna hear it. Cause he's like, I know you guys don't like her. You're trying to find the worst things. And so we're like, we just have to wait it out. And then one day, I was like, how's everything going? And he went. And I was like, do I have a story for you. It was like, sometimes you just have to find that in. And I remember we were sitting at a restaurant when I Told him. And we had just ordered all this food, and then I told him, and he's like, I think I'm gonna be sick. And I'm like, we just ordered.

[C]

I've never understood that, by the way. I've never understood that. Have you ever, Josh, ever, ever, ever been so shocked or sad that you couldn't eat?

[B]

Never.

[C]

I'm the opposite. I'm the opposite. Thank God all this food's here now. I'll eat all of it.

[B]

Yeah. What's the best food to get broken up to? Pad thai.

[C]

Yeah, pad Thai. Just give me a pad thai. A pad. See you. Three extra peanut sauces. I'll drink one of them, I'll pour two of them on it, and then I'll think about killing myself. But then I won't. I won't do it. I won't. But I'll think about it.

[B]

I think, oh, my God.

[C]

By the way, do you think this guy is a huge dick? Like, maybe I was just thinking in the back of my head, like, maybe.

[A]

Maybe that's why I was going back.

[C]

Sister doesn't know that.

[A]

Anything in the mess. Was there anything in the, in the message, I don't remember, of her saying, like. Like, he treats her terribly. He's horrible to her. He's this that. Or is it just like. Like, he's a loser couch potato? Like, I mean, motivated couch potatoes?

[C]

That's why I need to hear from. That's why I need small drop.

[A]

Well, I need to hear from the girl. I need to hear from the girl, from the sister, because me, too. I, I. I've heard a lot of friends who are like. I mean, I've had friends who are. Yeah, my. My husband is my rock. My husband is my this, My husband's my that. But I'm the breadwinner, and I. And I work, and he stays at home, and, and we have kids, and he takes care of the kids. And. And that's.

[C]

That's.

[A]

I went into this situation knowing that, and that's what I planned on. That's what I like to do. And so. Yeah, but there's plenty of people who look at their situation and go, oh, the husband's a loser and a deadbeat and a this and a that. Well, why? Because he stays at home. Like, so you got to kind of get more context.

[B]

Yeah. Should we get too many nuts?

[C]

We should. Drake, you remember the segment?

[A]

I do.

[C]

Okay. What are you nuts?

[A]

I don't have any. About things.

[B]

Take your time. We'll go first.

[C]

You have people, places, and Things both big and tall. As Josh says, whatever's sticking in your craw. I'll go first. I went to the barman. Barnum and Bailey Circus this weekend, boys.

[B]

Okay, as you know, Ava, Ben's mother, loves the circus. Am I right?

[C]

Yes. Big fan of the circus. And we went, 10 of us, to the circus. Okay, Josh. What? I didn't know Barnum and Bailey. This was the great circus. If you guys haven't. I'm sure you've been. But they used to be. They used to have lions and tigers and elephants. This was the circus. Okay, we can't do that anymore. We're protecting the animals. But apparently I didn't know Barnum and Bailey went out of business. Somebody bought them out of bankruptcy. They have the name and they're touring it. Okay, I go to what I think is the Barnum and Bailey Circus. This is the best show on earth. I get there. Let me tell you. Not a circus song. Not a clown. They have a dj. They don't even have. Okay, no animals. Fine. They celebrate. They have a robotic dog.

[B]

Robotic.

[C]

And you see the guy, like the guy, he's controlling the dog with his remote and he's like, ooh, isn't this cool? Kids that can make the dog move around. It's like, what are you fucking nuts? Okay. What are you nuts? This is. This is the worst show on earth. This is complete drek. Like, I left acrobats.

[A]

Trapeze.

[C]

One trapeze.

[A]

That was motorcyclists. Motorcyclists in a dome.

[C]

Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. Trapeze. Yes. And let me tell you, this was at. Formerly the American Airlines arena. No clowns. Zero. Not even a no. They played top 40. There was Taylor Swift and a light show, but not dun dun, dun. Nothing. Zip.

[A]

Whoa.

[B]

Wow.

[C]

Awful. Ok. Awful. What are you nuts?

[A]

So just totally like the classic, like getting your popcorn and peanuts and hearing the circus music and the. The clowns on the unicycles and all that is gone.

[C]

Popcorn and peanuts. They sold Papa John's.

[A]

Oh, my God.

[C]

It was awful.

[A]

That's actually good. Papa.

[B]

Tragic with the garlic dip. Olivia.

[A]

And they got the delicious stuffed. So good.

[C]

The pizza was delicious. It just doesn't belong at the circus. It doesn't belong to the circus. But it was still a.

[A]

The garlic crust.

[B]

This kid's from Anaheim.

[C]

This kid's from Orange County. Humble roots.

[B]

My. My. Woody and Nuts is. The other day I saw a cyber truck driving by and it had a bumper sticker. Eco friendly, not elon friendly. Oh, first of all, thanks. Let me say this, and I'm no big fan of Elon. If you have like a little model three, a little model Y. I understand that bumper sticker. Okay, whatever. Do your thing. Even though it's kind of silly. You're in a cyber truck. You're a douchebag. You love Elon. What are you talking about? Like, the cybertruck is like a rolling phallic Elon souvenir. Yeah, like, you're all Elon all the time.

[C]

Like, what?

[B]

You just don't want anyone to mess with your cybertruck? What are you nuts?

[C]

Nuts? Nuts. Yuck.

[B]

So, no, that's definitely.

[A]

That's definitely showing that you love Elon.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Like, yeah, yeah, you love them. Come on.

[A]

I don't. I don't really have any. What are you nuts? I don't know, you guys.

[C]

You're not having a jail here. Anything happened on your flights.

[A]

The only thing. Oh, man. A what are you nuts? On an airplane.

[C]

All of them.

[A]

It's.

[C]

The whole process is nuts.

[A]

Okay, I got a. What are you, nuts? Okay, so I was leaving Mexico, and I often go there to. When I'm not working too, because I visit my girlfriend. And so I was there and it's very normal to just come and go. And, you know, sometimes they'll ask you like, oh, why were you here? I was like, oh, visiting my girlfriend, you know, and they're like, okay, cool, whatever. Well, I'm going to get on the airplane and I. Sometimes I wait till. To be the very last person on the plane just to wait, just so I can just go to my seat, sit down, you know? Well, I was using the restroom, and I'm like, oh, I gotta get to the plane. So I'm walking there and I'm the last one to walk on, and they stop me and they're like, what are you. What were you in Mexico for? And I'm like, oh, I was here to visit my girlfriend. And they're like, can you. Where is she from? Where does she live? Where do you. This. Ask me all this stuff? They're like, can you. And they actually had me pull out my phone and go through and show them pictures of our relationship. Like, like, us situation on Vac. Like, I'm like, yeah, this is us this week. And this is where we went. And here's us at this museum. And here's us at this in the park. And here's us this. And they were literally, like, questioning me on the validity of my relationship to go. But it was like, the. It was just so strange. It was like the TSA at the airport in Mexico. And, you know, normal question, what, are.

[C]

You here to visit your girlfriend?

[A]

Blah, blah, blah. They were like, okay, well, do you have, like, photos? You have this. And they're like. And I'm going through this, like, showing. I'm like, what are you nuts? I'm like, I do this all the time. I do this. I come and go all the time. And now I'm like. I'm like. I'm like, well, wait, hang on.

[C]

Like, what.

[A]

What pictures? Can I. I'm like, okay, well, think good. And. And thankfully, we just. The night before, we were walking down by the museum and this guy, this photographer came up and was like, oh, can I shoot some pictures of you? This looks so cool. And then he sent them to me. I was like, look, right here. Here's us in front of the museum. But they looked, like, totally staged. Like, like, like we did it for this purpose. Because they weren't like, on my phone. They've been eat. They've been like, like, airdropped to my phone. So I'm like, yeah, look, here they are. And they're like professional photos of us, like, in front of Sumaya Museum. Like. Like, literally, like, I would hand to Immigration, like, look, our relationship is real.

[B]

Look at this.

[A]

Look at these glossy photographs of us in front of this landmark and this landmark, this vacation spot. But no, I was. That was a little woody and nuts because I. That's just such an everyday travel experience for me that to all of a sudden be like, what? I have to prove that I'm with the. It was just. That was a little.

[C]

They thought you were a narco terrorist. Drake's music. That's what you should be listening to, folks. This episode is 5 stars. Otherwise, what are you nuts? Josh, because of what Mr. Beast said, we have to truncate the.

[A]

The.

[C]

The outro. I don't know what to say. I think it's going to be this episode. Is that one.

[A]

Is that a suggestion from these.

[B]

Call to action.

[C]

One Call to Action. He said one thing. This is what I normally do, Drake, and you'll tell me how we should revise?

[A]

Yeah, tell me, because I love it.

[C]

Otherwise, what are you, nuts? Listen to us wherever you're at. Your podcast. Watch us on YouTube, share our clips, Instagram and TikTok. Remember, Mondays and Thursdays, folks. We will see you next time. Now, how do we revise that? Okay, I think the Call to Action. And I'd like doing this together. I think the only call to action that we care about, Josh, is rate, review and subscribe. Yeah, I think that's good, right? Perfect, because they're already listening. Why are we telling them to listen? They listen. They're here. They made it to the end. This episode's five stars. Otherwise. What are you, nuts? Don't forget to rate, review and subscribe. See you next time.

[A]

That sounds great.

[C]

That's good advice. That's good advice.

[A]

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