The Most INSANE Celebrity Weddings Ever… And the food spread of our dreams!

Summary

Good Guys Podcast: "The Most INSANE Celebrity Weddings Ever… And the food spread of our dreams!"

Hosts: Josh Peck, Ben Soffer
Episode Date: March 5, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this lively and food-obsessed episode, Josh Peck and Ben Soffer dive into the world of celebrity weddings, dissect what makes an ideal wedding guest, and passionately build their ultimate wedding food spread. The hosts also share candid takes on social interactions, extravagant nuptials, and some hilarious personal stories about etiquette, food, and parenthood.

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Main Themes & Discussion Points

1. Being the Best Wedding Guest

• Rating Themselves as Guests
  • Ben and Josh open by grading their own wedding guest skills—emphasizing the importance of celebrating the couple, not oneself.
  • Key Quote:
    "I'm here to serve the party, not myself." – Josh (00:50)
• Wedding Dynamics
  • The guys reflect on roles they've played ("water guy", lifting the father-in-law on the chair at Jewish weddings), and what not to do:
  • Memorable Moment:
    Ben recounts convincing his dad to get on the chair at his sister's wedding, mixing humor and nostalgia (01:05–02:00).

2. The Art of Wedding Food

• Navigating Hors d'oeuvres and the ‘Schnurr’ Dilemma
  • Debate on how many passed apps are too many — referencing friends who take all the cocktail weenies.
  • Introduction of “BGE: big ghanif energy” (03:32)
• Designing the Ultimate Wedding Spread (04:44–13:30)
  • Discussion evolves into creating the dream welcome snack and hors d’oeuvres lineup:
    • Mezze plate at the entrance (“nothing crunchy”)
    • Pretzel bars, smoothies spiked with probiotics and electrolytes
    • Ben: "I raise you a peptide bar... cocktails of Dr. Conover's finest. He draws a nice needle, shoots you right in the keister." (08:51)
  • Hors d'oeuvre favorites:
    • Tuna tartare on wonton, pigs in a blanket, chicken satay skewers, spring/summer rolls with "thick ass peanut sauce" (10:09)

3. Celebrity Wedding Insanity: Top 5 Most Expensive Weddings

• The Ultimate Countdowns (13:31–18:25)
  • Anant Ambani & Radhika Merchant: $500–$600 million, featuring Rihanna and Justin Bieber, private cruises, fireworks.
    • Ben: “Months? It honestly sounds like a grave inconvenience to all your guests.” (14:13)
  • Prince Charles & Diana: $110 million (inflation-adjusted), national spectacle. National money, national annoyance.
  • Jeff Bezos & Lauren Sanchez: $55M, five hotels, 90 jets, three Michelin star chef.
  • Prince Harry & Meghan Markle: $45M, of which $40M on security.
    • Ben: “Get married somewhere else.” (17:24)
    • Josh: “All for them to be like, ‘We moving to Santa Barbara. Bye, Queen.’” (17:26)
  • Commentary on lavishness, inconvenience, and the unrelatable scale of super-wealthy nuptials.

4. Social Interaction & "Serving the Party"

• Social Energy & Their Own Quirks (24:45–28:19)
  • Josh admits to bailing early from most social situations, citing potential spectrum traits (“You rewatch things too much. You eat chocolate bars without the wrapper. Your fingers get all chocolatey…” – 25:42)
  • Ben prefers dinner parties with varied guests, dislikes “networking event” vibes at parties.
  • Both value genuine, small-group interactions over big, performative events.

5. Parenthood, Public Interactions & Celebrity Life

• Interactions with Fans and Family Dynamics (36:41–38:08)
  • Both discuss how they handle being recognized with their kids, balancing privacy and kindness.
  • Josh’s experience with his son Max on the Jumbotron, debating whether to foster privacy or let his child have fun.

6. Food Indulgence & “Best Bite of the Week” (38:42–42:06)

• Ben details a decadent ice cream order (“three scoops for me, one and a half for Claudia—it's too much, yeah. I shouldn't have done that” – 39:30)
• Both share favorite culinary indulgences: hand roll bars, macadamia nut sushi, and Japanese small plates.
• Mutual love for texture in food: “That to me is like the ultimate texture move” – Josh (39:55)

7. Audience Q&A: Moron Mail

• Etiquette Quandary: Bringing Your Own Ribeye (42:39–46:19)
  • Listener writes in: friend brings personal steak to a dinner party.
  • Ben: “Bringing your own meat to someone else’s barbecue... I’m not your short order cook.”
  • Josh: “Don’t be so rigid. It’s not all about you and your fucking steak, Ron.” (44:31)

8. What Are You Nuts?

• Ben reflects on unnecessary self-imposed pressure:
  • “Do you ever have that realization that the person in your life driving you crazy is actually you?” (46:19)
• Josh shares flatbread sample guy at Costco doing “gangbanging focaccia”:
  • “Yo, yo, we got garlic focaccia... Are you gangbanging focaccia?” (48:22)
  • Ben: “You’re scaring people. Stop scaring people.” (48:36)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Wedding Etiquette:
  "The worst thing that you can do at a wedding... is make it about anyone but the bride and groom. If you take even a breath of their shine, honey, excuse yourself forever." – Josh (02:39)

• On Social Overindulgence:
  "I'm always looking at, are you dehydrated? Because you probably are. You threw back a couple of shots. You're on Molly dancing, Hava Nagila, probably some hard drugs. Something's going on. I'm worried about your water then. Okay?" – Ben (01:05)

• On Celebrity Wedding Excess:
  "Months? It sounds—honestly, as amazing as it sounds, it sounds like a grave inconvenience to all of your guests." – Ben (14:13)

• On Dinner Party Vibes:
  "A party’s supposed to be where you have fun. It shouldn’t be, 'Oh, what do you do? Or how can I extract value from you?' That’s why I love the dinner party." – Ben (31:23)

• On Parenting in Public:
  "When people would come up, [my son] would just move away from me... like people were infringing on our time together." – Josh (36:41)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 00:21 – Hosts rate their own wedding guest abilities
• 02:39 – The worst thing you can do at a wedding
• 04:44 – Designing the perfect wedding food welcome
• 10:09 – “Thick ass peanut sauce” product pitch
• 13:31 – Countdown: Most expensive celebrity weddings ever
• 24:45 – “What’s one social situation you always try to leave early?”
• 36:41 – Discussing kid privacy and public interactions
• 38:42 – Best Bite of the Week: Decadent ice cream and sushi hand rolls
• 42:39 – Moron Mail: Should you bring your own steak?
• 46:19 – “What Are You Nuts?” – Hosts’ personal and public gripes
• 48:22 – Gangbanging focaccia at Costco

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Final Thoughts

The episode expertly blends food enthusiasm, etiquette wisdom, and comic banter as Josh and Ben muse about what makes a great wedding—and a great guest. Their mix of high-low humor, heartfelt candor, and sharp observations on luxury, social anxiety, and culinary indulgence makes for an engaging listen (or read).

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If you love weddings, food, or just hilarious takes on modern etiquette, this episode is for you!

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Transcript

[A]

The following podcast is a Dear media production Mazamorans, welcome back to the Good Guys podcast. Ben, you're wearing that arcteric shirt, and I think it's because you look flipping cute in it.

[B]

I think I need a new shirt. But Josh, before we get derailed early, I want to know, on a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate yourself as a wedding guest?

[A]

Ooh, great question. Great one. All right, here's the deal, right? I. I'mma eat imma, dance. I'm a not talk to nobody. I'm a hard seven.

[B]

You, it depends on. Okay, I should have. I definitely should have clarified Best friend's wedding. Let's start there. How are you at your best friend's wedding? Are you feeling the weight on your shoulders? How are you at a family member's wedding? Let's say that Paige's beautiful sisters got married. How great are you at that wedding? Or it's the same answer.

[A]

I am the ultimate guest, no matter what, because I am here to serve the party, not myself. How about you?

[B]

I'm here to serve the party, not myself. I am that one. You know, there's a horror going on. I'm running. Can somebody get this. This man some water? Okay. I'm water guy.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

Okay. I'm always looking at. Are you dehydrated? Because you probably are. You threw back a couple of shots. You're on Molly dancing, Hava Nagila, probably some hard drugs. Something's going on. I'm worried about your water then. Okay? I'm the one who puts your father in law in the chair. Okay? I assume the responsibility of gathering the six huskiest men with the burliest arms to lift your 300 pound father in law that is terrified of getting on that chair.

[A]

Humankillers.

[B]

I'm talking to him. I'm like, you gotta get on the chair. He's like, I don't wanna get on the chair. I'm like, you're gonna. You're gonna. You're gonna want this. Okay? Your future self is gonna want this. I'm talking him off the ledge. I'm talking him onto the chair. This is exactly, by the way, what I had to do at my sister. My sister's wedding. My dad didn't want to get on the chair. He was. He was scared. But we got him on that chair, Josh.

[A]

And here, here is the worst thing you can do at a wedding. Go to the intro to 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.

[B]

And if you don't give us five stars.

[A]

What are you nuts?

[B]

What are you nuts? Scared? We're the good guys.

[A]

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

[B]

Whoa. Nice. Very good. Very good. That's saucy.

[A]

And we're back. Look, the worst thing that you can do at a wedding, truly, truly, truly, truly, truly, truly, truly, truly. Is make it about anyone but the bride and groom. If you take even a breath of their shine, honey, excuse yourself forever.

[B]

So we've spoken about this in the past. How many past hors d' oeuvres is too many if the food's out? Are you. You're eating all the food. Are you worried potentially about looking like a schnurr at a wedding? I've mentioned this in the past. I have a friend that anytime he waits at the front entrance, the second that paste hors d' oeuvre comes out, 18 cocktail weenies down his throat, nobody else gets anything but his perspective. He's at a wedding, you know? And it's nice to eat. It's nice to enjoy. It's nice to. It's nice to be. That's his version of being a guest. Josh is eating. How do you feel about that?

[A]

I get it. What you're referring to is bge big ghanif energy. I couldn't agree with you more. But you know what? We have two incredible. You and I. It's like we. We're a brain trust, you know? This is a think tank, okay?

[B]

Yes, it is.

[A]

It's a kvetch tank. So I say let's. Let's do a meeting of the minds. Let's do a mind melder veg tank.

[B]

That's what this is.

[A]

That's our new shell. Instead of that, we don't invest in a thing. We just tear it down.

[B]

We just r smithereens.

[A]

Who would want this? You are. You are nuts for coming here.

[B]

Let me tell you, this was a bad idea, okay? This idea has no merit. Not only am I not giving you any money, nobody should give you any money. And now that this episode has aired, your business is as good as dead.

[A]

And the.

[B]

Welcome to the kvetch tank.

[A]

We're all over the place. We are.

[B]

Should we go back to the wedding or no?

[A]

Yeah, first wedding. First.

[B]

Okay, okay. Wedding.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

We were talking about being a good guest at a wedding.

[A]

Let's create the spread from. I'll start us off right as you're walking up to the Wedding, right? Probably. If it's an evening wedding, that means the reception's at what, four, three?

[B]

Probably. Yes. Yes.

[A]

Funny time, right?

[B]

It is.

[A]

You probably ate breakfast and you didn't do lunch because you said, I'm going to crush this wedding.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

So I don't want to overfill, but by 3:30, that stomach, it's growling. And you don't know, are these people morons and having a 90 minute wedding because they have no understanding of the social contract or are they smart and having a 20 minute wedding so now you're like God. And this is why people become such schnurrs during the past store because they

[B]

don't know when they're gonna eat again. They're worried it's scarcity complex. They don't know.

[A]

I say small bite mezze plate as you walk in. Nothing crunchy. Nothing crunchy. What do you think?

[B]

That's smart? Because yeah, crunch could really get everywhere. But also that mezze plate, the hummus right on the chest. I, I've been to both types of weddings. My favorite type of wedding is you walk into food.

[A]

You walk into before the reception.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

Tell me more about that. I've never been to a wedding with food before reception.

[B]

So you walk into a tish, which is you're singing, you're dancing. There's a ketubah, which is the marriage document and Judaism was signed. And there's typically food. Whether that's a nice meat plate, you got some salamis and like charcuterie and this like sometimes there's pastor d'. Oeuvres. It depends on how big you want to be.

[A]

Is that how you pronounce it?

[B]

Charcuterie.

[A]

You're fucking charcuterie.

[B]

Charcuterie.

[A]

Okay, I believe you. I called it charcuterie. I think I said Charlotte, but it's charcuterie.

[B]

I think it's charcuterie. It could be charcuterie. It could be char and not char. It could be shahs of sunset. Charcuterie. It could be. We need Rez Afarahan on this show. We are not. Okay, we are not going there though, because we're still talking about the wedding. But Reza Farahan, they did a reboot of Shah's into the Valley.

[A]

I know, it's awesome.

[B]

He lost 200 pounds. He lost 200 pounds. And I want to have him on the show. I want to learn about his weight loss. But yeah, you eat. Sometimes people dial this up. Sometimes you have a brisket over there. They're carving the brisket before the wedding. Now, I know what you're thinking, though. I know. I know what you're thinking. You're gonna get dirty. You're gonna get dirty. So this is typically not for, like, that part, the heavy eating. Not for anybody in the bridal party. Because if somebody else gets dirty, really, who cares? All you care about is, are you dirty for the picture? Are you dirty for the picture? But, yeah, so I've been where you go, you eat something, you have a drink, too. The bar's open, then you go. And that's the best kind of wedding because you're not hungry, you're not thirsty, you're lightly liquored, you're prone to crying, you're not agitated. But that also sometimes creates a bit of a peanut gallery. If somebody's had two margaritas and all of a sudden they don't realize where they are anymore, maybe they're talking a little bit too loudly. Maybe they're having their own type of conversation while we're trying to watch these lovely two people get married. So. Okay, hang on. I have a hair. Where is this thing?

[A]

Ooh, good thing Claudia's not here. She's gonna be jealous. Whose hair?

[B]

Probably hers. Or. Or Ew. From this mic, okay?

[A]

The perfect pre wedding is a soft pretzel bar and small glasses of smoothie, right?

[B]

Josh? Carbs.

[A]

Hot, beautiful pretzels. And just you go in, you sit down, you're munching on pretzels, soft as soft could be, no crunch. And then you're washing it down with a little banana berry smoothie, maybe. And in the smoothie is a probiotics compound, right? To get the stomach ready with digestive enzymes, okay? And maybe some element or electrolytes. Cause they know you're gonna be boozing.

[B]

Okay, I see that. I hear that. I raise you a peptide bar. Okay? You walk in, Josh, and you are getting a cocktail of Dr. Conover's finest. He asks you exactly what he wants. He draws out a nice needle, shoots you right in the keister. And then you take your seat, you go, hot pretzel, peptide bar, seat. Yes.

[A]

Great, great.

[B]

Okay, where were we now?

[A]

Hors d' oeuvres hour. Go.

[B]

Oh, okay. I love a tuna tartare and a wonton. Fantastic.

[A]

Pig in a blanket.

[B]

Pigs in a blanket. Obvious. Josh. I love a chicken satay skewer. I love anything skewered with a thick peanut sauce. Thick. I love a mini spring roll with also another thick sauce.

[A]

Maybe a sweet chili and maybe a fresh roll. While we're being crazy, let's Do a little Vietnamese, beautiful, fresh roll.

[B]

I. I love it. You call it a fresh roll, I call it a summer roll. I don't know who's right, but they're the same thing, and they're fricking delicious. And you need that same thick ass peanut sauce, Josh. It takes everything fresh or summery completely out of it. It's this very, very healthy little roll. Rice paper, maybe a little mint, some G and carrots. And you just dunk in 400 calories of peanut sauce. Now that's what I'm talking about.

[A]

That. That should be one of our first products. Thick ass peanut sauce.

[B]

Ooh, I love it. Okay, what other past hors d' oeuvres am I feeling at this beautiful wedding? Oh, I love lamb. You ever have lamb chops at a wedding when they come around? That's fabulous. Lollipop jelly pops? Little lollipops. Lollipops are fantastic.

[A]

I also think you can do a nice beef tartare if you do it really well. Nice beef tartare on. And this is a new thing. I've been dying to go. There's a restaurant called Squirrel in LA where the great Jordan Okun and and Max Shapiro of the Mad Food Podcast were talking about. Squirrel is like this ultimate brunch, breakfast type food place. But they started doing dinner service, and they are serving. Ready for this? They're really serving gribness. Okay. They're serving chopped liver, but it's. They're doing chicken liver moose with a celery butter on top. So it's this beautiful green layer above this, like, whipped mousse of chicken liver on a thick crusty bread. It's supposed to be insane. It looks so good.

[B]

I have an aversion to chicken liver mousse only because Claudia and I watch Ina Garten before bed. We recently stopped, but for a while we were watching Ina, and I guess it's a show that we kind of, like, scroll on our phones. We kind of watch, and somehow five straight nights in a row, we would be watching, and all of a sudden she'd start making chicken liver mousse. And we'd turn to each other and we're like, again, again, she's making chicken liver mousse.

[A]

So good.

[B]

No, the same episode just kept starting. We would press a different episode and it would automatically go to the chicken liver moose episode. And I just like, if I hear Ina Garten say chicken liver moose one more time, I'm gonna kill myself. So while that sounds delicious, it was too much.

[A]

I just Imagine you rolling over to Canoodle with the Wonder audio and you just hear from. From far away. I'm finished.

[B]

Welcome back. Oh, my God. Oh, that's good.

[A]

Yeah, man.

[B]

We would.

[A]

We would cry, you and I. What if you and I redid the Wedding Planner movie with JLo? But you and I both play J. Lo. Yes.

[B]

We should be wedding planners. We'd be so good. So gay. That's our coming out party. That's it. We'd go in it. Two straight guys. We'd leave. Episode 8 We are flamboyant as fuck.

[A]

It's like heated rivalry but for fatsos.

[B]

We need more weddings. We need more wedding receptions where people aren't getting married. I just want the food. I just want the experience. I don't need the rest of it. You know, the paste hors d'. Oeuvres. We don't get past hors d'. Oeuvres. Josh, enough in life. Past hors d'. Oeuvres. I guess that's like a tapas restaurant. But the tapas is always. It's so serious. You never get pigs in a blanket at a tapas place. You never get spring rolls at a tapas place. You know, I want these. I want a wedding inspired tapas place. I don't know if that exists, but you really did.

[A]

You really did set me up for an amazing list that I put together before we started which were top five most expensive celebrity weddings.

[B]

Ready? Ooh. Ooh. Wow. I teed you up fantastic.

[A]

Beautifully. I can't. I can't think. Well, you know, we have covered this one.

[B]

The.

[A]

The most recent one was Anat Ambani and Rod Hika Merchant. And it was an estimated wedding that was 500 to $600 million in cost. Multi month global celebration with private cruises, international performances including Rihanna and Justin Bieber. And it had a full fireworks display. Not bad.

[B]

I'm not going to lie, Josh. You can miss me on that. Months. What?

[A]

It's crazy.

[B]

What are we. Months. It sounds. Honestly, as amazing as it sounds. It sounds like a grave inconvenience to all of your guests. Would you agree?

[A]

It's a big commitment.

[B]

It's a big commitment. Big too. Big. Too much. You get Rihanna and you get J. Biebs and they perform the night of and you have a. You have one amazing weekend. That's what I'll give you. More than that. It's just. It just is not respecting my time. Right?

[A]

It's fair.

[B]

Or am I crazy for that?

[A]

You know, it's a lot. It's A big commitment. But rich people are living on it on a timeline that we don't know about.

[B]

So then you got to pay me. You know, like maybe they think that we all got it like that where we can take three months off of work and do nothing. That's fine. If you have $600 million for your wedding. Pay me. Pay me to stay.

[A]

Like, I had heard all the groomsmen got like some $250,000 AP watch. Like it was.

[B]

I guess that's. I guess that's pretty good. And if you needed the cash, you could always just sell that off.

[A]

And these people, they. I think they love their kids. I'm not sure they like their kids. Like, there's just more than enough excuses to be like, these children are going to be wonderfully handled by my staff while I'm. I'm at, you know, the Ambani nuptials.

[B]

Yes, yes. Okay, fair enough. All right, fair enough.

[A]

Another one, another one. Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer, 1981. $110 million, inflation adjusted. A global broadcast spectacle at St. Paul's Cathedral. Security and, and scale drove the cost into nine figures. You know, royal wedding.

[B]

Come on. I was going to say. And they didn't like the country paid for it. Like. Yes, but that's freaking.

[A]

Wow. As Smokes, as we all know, Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez had a star studded Venetian wedding that cost as much as 55 million. And this hefty bill included, but wasn't limited to renting out five luxury hotels, 90 private jets, 30 water taxis and catering from a three Michelin star chef.

[B]

You see what he said there? 90 private jets. If you're doing the wedding, you pay for everything. I have to. I guess I assume that all of these people did all of that, right? The Umbani. Is that his name? He probably flew everybody there, right? And he was flying people everywhere back and forth for those three months. Okay, definitely sounds. Sounds kind of lovely. I take back everything that I said.

[A]

And then of course, Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan's wedding wasn't the ring or the dress or the food or the flowers that cost so much, but security. The wedding costs around 45 million. And 40 million of that was allocated to security measures.

[B]

Get married somewhere else.

[A]

All for them to be like, we moving to Santa Barbara. Bye, Queen.

[B]

What a waste of taxpayer dollars. Holy smokes. If you, if you live in England, Josh, and this is happening and you know you're paying for their wedding. Are you salty?

[A]

The saltiest.

[B]

Right? It's so fucked up. Like it's just such like a strange thing that they do there.

[A]

I'm salty that we paid for Cash Patel to go binge drink with Team USA.

[B]

Yeah, it's weird. All of it's weird. 100%. Don't show me that. I completely agree. If he's there, it's just like anybody else on a business trip. Josh. Okay. You assume they're doing business, sure. If at night they end up at the casino. It's not like you told your boss you went to the casino, it's your time. You do what you're gonna do. But for us, we shouldn't be able to see that stuff. I'm with you. I don't want to pay for that shit.

[A]

Do you think if Kash Patel started his rap career, he'd go by counting cash?

[B]

Honestly, Kash Patel is the perfect rapper name. That's it.

[A]

Count Pat Sounds like a rapper.

[B]

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[A]

dot com goodguys my son has a weird obsession. My middle son, Shy, who's 3, has a weird obsession and fear. But it like tempts him with the Count from Sesame street because he's so scared of him and yet he doesn't want to feel so scared. So when he comes on the screen he goes, dad, dad, look, it's the Count. And I finally said, and he's like, the Count's not nice. And I was like, everyone on Sesame Street's nice. Even Oscar the Grouchy. I was like, but what is it, bud? What scares you so much about him? He's like, it's his sharp teeth. They're like a dinosaur.

[B]

I was like, he's not wrong.

[A]

Fair enough.

[B]

By the way, it's good that he's scared of the blood sucking Count Dracula. Like that's good. Good on him. That's human nature. It's not like me. I was, I think five years old. I was invited to a sleepover. It was like a kindergarten birthday sleepover. They showed us Terminator. I had literally nightmares for four months. Arnold Schwarzenegger gave me nightmares for four months. Terrible. And just like, I don't know what the hell is wrong with parents. Would you ever do that? Have you ever been put in a situation where Max is having a playdate with someone and you're picking what the other kid is watching and the kid maybe insinuates that he wouldn't be able to watch this at home and you're putting it on. Like, I don't. I always thought that was crazy.

[A]

Yeah, I would be basically whatever kid is in my house that aren't my kids kind of set the tone as far as basically we have the limit in which what we allow our kids to watch. So we're never going to go over that, no matter who's over. But if there's a kid who's under that or Maybe their parents aren't big on screens. We'll try to honor that.

[B]

Yeah. Which I think is right. But this idea that when I was five years old, I was watching, like, fucking Winnie the Pooh. Like, my parents were so, like, they made sure that I was. I never watched anything scary. To go to a birthday party and then show the Terminator in retrospect, is insanity, right?

[A]

Nuts.

[B]

Completely nuts. You know, I guess they were more fun than me. I don't know.

[A]

Speaking of Team usa, I do want to call myself out and you can feel free to join me, Ben. But we are. Or I will just talk about myself. We were. I am a little bit a part of the problem. Because last week when we recorded, we had just come off the men's win. We recorded on a Monday. They had just won on Sunday. And we were so hyped and excited. And it is wonderful. But I didn't mention how fucking badass it is that the women's hockey team won just as hard and just as spectacularly. They're incredible athletes. They're. They're the bomb dot com. And I just want to give them their shine, too. Team USA women's hockey. You're the best. Please, come on the pod. We love you.

[B]

Totally love, love every Olympian. I do want to just. Blanket statement. Just because we don't include someone doesn't mean we're not proud of them. Like, I just have my head up my ass. But of course, I. Women. Great. Women's hockey team. Gold. Gold. Hell, yeah. I'm in. I'm all for it. Come on. Come on board. Teach me how to play hockey. I saw. I'm gonna send you the clip. I don't think she was a part of Team usa. I think it might have been college hockey. I saw a TikTok clip of one of the coolest movies moves I've ever seen, male or female. She literally did something with the stick and the puck. She threw the puck in the air with her stick, and then Pat threw it back down and pushed it between a girl's legs. I'll send it to you. Was fucking tough.

[A]

Sick.

[B]

It was sick. Sick. It was sick. Josh, I have another question for you. What's one social situation? You always try to leave early every social situation.

[A]

I hate being social.

[B]

So let's flip it. What's one social situation that you'd actually like to stay for?

[A]

Well, let me ask you this because you being one of the most major players in my life or in my life and my wife, you guys are really at. You Guys are trailblazing a diagnosis for me that I'm on the spectrum. Like, you and my wife. You and my wife are, like, in total agreement. Paige is like. I'm like, you know, Ben said this the other day. She's like. Because he's right.

[B]

Like, word.

[A]

She's like, yeah, dude. She's like, you rewatch things too much. I'm like, that design. She said, you eat chocolate bars without the wrapper. Your fingers get all chocolatey.

[B]

It's weird, dog.

[A]

I'm like, it's a. Outrageous. All right, Chill the fuck out. So.

[B]

Oh, my God.

[A]

Is that why I just. I would prefer.

[B]

I don't know.

[A]

I get burned out socially quick, and I'm always like, give me a task. Let me get away. It's a lot. It's a lot for me.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah.

[A]

How are you?

[B]

So I think it's a. I think it's a couple of things. I think, one, because I do it sometimes now, the ask to be in a situation like that, sober, is really fucking hard. They call it a social lubricant for a reason. You have to be a. It's a very. You have to be a very intentional person to walk into a party and say, I am excited to meet new people. I'm excited to catch up on nothing, and I'm excited for the night. I think alcohol typically makes that easier. So that's the first part that's just not in your favor and not in your camp. But when I go into a situation now, yeah, I do, unfortunately want it to end rather quickly. I much prefer a dinner, but even a dinner I used to like two on two. Now I think I need. I need at least six. I think that the social pressures of a two couple dinner are too much. It's too much because just in case Claudia isn't loving talking to the husband or the wife, like, I think you need a little. I think you need some more buffer in that situation. But, yeah, I always go into a social situation, or I try my hardest to go into every social situation saying that I'm gonna have a great time. But, yeah, I often want to leave early, for sure. And the ones that I don't want to leave early are the ones that aren't productions. The social situation that I don't want to leave early is when my best friend invites me to a barbecue at his house and I'm going by the pool and I'm bringing my kids. And it's not a to do. If a brand is inviting me to something. If a person is inviting me to something that's supposed to be star studded. I'm running out as quickly as I can. It's just not fun. It's not. You don't want to spend time away from your family with people that you don't know. That's the biggest thing if you're going to spend time away from your family. You want it to be fun. You want it to be with your homies. You want it to be like something that you get something out of, not something where everybody gets something out of you being there. That's the other thing that sometimes just I don't know. Does that make sense?

[A]

Yeah. I'm interested to hear what you think of. I think people the kind of social interaction I like. Unless it's like a kickback with like my close homies, like my good buddies were like, we're free to move around, I can like smoke some hookah. We, we're eating good food, maybe there's a fight on, maybe we're going in the pool. Like that. That I love. When it's like a close kickback, not like a huge group. But I think the social interactions that I like, I think people resist the most and basically overwhelmingly dislike because I think most people like that. Well, I think most people like parties or these social, the these manufactured social experiences because in theory everyone is pre qualified who are there. They're either friends of the people that have invited you so you already feel like some vetting took place or it's at an event. So those people are fancy, they have something to offer you. There's like a shared level of opportunity. I love talking to people at the airport. I want to meet people that have nothing to do with me and can offer a experience, a career, a family life, something particular that's so unique to them where I can just say tell me all about that. Because I don't need to talk to people who are in the business. Very little could interest me less. But I certainly want to talk to someone who's living in a city I've never been to, having an experience I've never had.

[B]

Yeah, that's fair. You lost me at airport and then you got me back at the end. When I'm going through an airport, I'm A to B. I'm sure I'm like zooming through and zooming out and my entire. Unless I'm sitting next to you on a plane. If I'm sitting next to you on a plane, maybe you could catch me in a moment where I'm not Working and I'm not hyper focused on where I'm getting to. But I do love meeting interesting people. That's often why I love and I guess this goes against what you said with like a pre vetted. I love a dinner party. I really love a dinner party. I love when the host takes it upon themselves to not just invite the same type of person. I love when the host brings in people from different walks of life, their close friends from childhood, but also maybe a work acquaintance, but also like very different people. I love that. But yeah, to your point, we've turned a lot of parties are just networking events and they used to be called networking events. Like a networking event is where you do networking. A party supposed to be where you have fun. It shouldn't be like immediately, oh, what do you do? Or oh, how can I extract value from you? Or whatever it may be. But that's why I love the dinner party. The dinner party is my version of what you said happens at an airport where I get to meet new people that I've never met before in an intimate setting where it's very like, tell me your life story. And I like hearing their life story.

[A]

Right?

[B]

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[A]

I think there's also about what you project. I will say this and this will sound, I want this to be clear that it's, it's massive appreciation. Even though it might sound a little conceited or schmucky. I get treated really nicely in this world. I know it. When you're a, you know, a celebrity or a quasi celebrity such as myself, everywhere becomes a small town. You know, you go to your small town and you know the guy at the general store and at the supermarket, like that is kind of my life a little bit for the most part. When and especially because usually those people who are working, those like more part time jobs are like in their 20s and so it's like more gig economy workers. So I spend a lot of my time where people look at me and go like, hey, like how can I be helpful to you? And I'm like, oh man, that is so nice. And I try to return it in kind. But I also think there's something powerful about a guy like me. A guy like you. Right. Like we're 30s, you know, 6 foot plus. I round up, I'm 5 11, you're over 6ft. Like, you know, men. And I think in general, people assume that we're not interested.

[B]

Right.

[A]

Cause we're like busy thinking about our work and ourself. And that when we walk into a situation where it wouldn't necessarily require great interaction and we give a smile and we give a. How's your day going?

[B]

Right.

[A]

Like you just do the little extra. I think it goes a really long way and it allows for some interesting conversation.

[B]

It's also important to remember in that moment that you made their day doing that. Like last night we went out to dinner, we were leaving, Me, Claudia and Ruby were going to get some ice cream and somebody approached us. Big fan. And my brain these days is just like, how do I get out of an interaction as quickly as possible? Because Ruby's there for whatever reason, my guard is just not. For whatever reason, my guard is up like never before when Ruby is there.

[A]

Sure.

[B]

And I do need to closer examine how I meet in the middle, how I still give a really nice reaction. Because I previously loved those interactions. I loved asking how somebody was doing, what they were up to, who they were, where they were from those quick interactions. But when I'm with Ruby, it's always, how do I get Ruby out of a situation with a stranger? It just, it just is what it is. And so I have to find some middle ground there. Yeah.

[A]

I, I was that way with Max initially because I noticed that when I would get asked for pictures, when he became like three or four years old, he started to instinctively because I never wanted him in the picture. He would, instinctively, when people would come up, he would just move away from me. Like just two feet away. Right. And I hated that because I felt like people were infringing on our time together. So I used to just give a really nice no whenever I was with the kids. Like, so nice to meet you. I'm sorry, I'm with my kids. You know, I, I, I'd rather not do a photo, but thank you and nice to meet you. Now it's kind of like they're somewhere in the middle. Right. Like we were at the Kings game. Shout Out. The Kings lovely organization. Shout Out. My friend Matt Green, who's the new assistant coach of the LA Kings. Shout out.

[B]

Matt Green. Excuse me, Lucky la.

[A]

And, and they invited Max and my buddy kid, David. To the game. And they put me up on the big Jumbotron, which I've never been on, but it was ridiculous. And I had a moment of thought because Max is next to me and like any kitty seven and he starts jumping up like this. And I saw that the cameraman was being respectful and only getting me. And I was like, what do I do here? Because I do want to keep him as private as possible, but he wants to be in the Jumbotron. Cause he's a kid. And so I just made the choice of like grabbing him and like lifting his arms up. And they got like a two second shot of the both of us. And I'm like, I think this is okay too.

[B]

I think it's situational. I think in that situation, for sure, you chose to bring him to the game. He's at the game, He's a kid. Every kid in the world wants to be on the Jumbotron. Yeah, couldn't agree more. Couldn't agree more. But yeah, for now, it's. It's easy enough for us to take the picture, but turn the stroller away totally. When he's walking, it's a different story. So we'll see. I don't know. I don't know what we'll do yet. But if I was rude to you yesterday, I apologize. Also, we went. We got such delicious ice cream. I wish I remembered the name of the place. And I think I did the fattest thing I've ever done in my life. I'm on day. Is this your 9 or 10?

[A]

Best bite of the week.

[B]

Last night was my best bite of the week. I will tell you where. I'll look in my phone and tell you the restaurant because it was so good. But no, this was ice cream. I got like a moose track situation, some marshmallow fluff. It was delicious. Claudia got this peanut butter cup situation. She had a scoop. Okay, I took her scoop. I ate her scoop too. That's too fat. I finished my ice cream and I finished half of her ice cream. It's too fat. Yeah, I shouldn't have done that in a cone.

[A]

No clothes.

[B]

Cup, cup, cup.

[A]

So it was what, A scoop and a half?

[B]

You're fine. No, no, no, no, no. She got. Okay, the first fat move. She got a small. I got a medium large. Okay, so hers was two scoops. Mine was three scoops. So I had my three scoops.

[A]

That's a lot.

[B]

Then she had one scoop and I had her fourth scoop.

[A]

Okay, that's about 1400 calories. It was too Much.

[B]

It was too much. But before my best bet of the week, I had basically like Japanese style tapas. And it was this place in Delray. Let me get the name of it because it was so freaking good.

[A]

Can I tell you one of my favorite ice cream indulgences? Like, it's crazy how much I like it.

[B]

Tell me.

[A]

I love those half dipped waffle cones and chocolate and sprinkles with the ice cream in it. That to me is like the ultimate texture move. Oh, do I love that.

[B]

So this place was called Akira Back. Akira Back in Delaware.

[A]

Akira Big Back.

[B]

And it was. I got. It was fantastic. What was this dish that I got? I love it. Look at the name. It was fantastic. It was. Oh, the salmon tataki. So it was basically like pieces of salmon and tuna. The salmon tuna tataki. But they put it over. It was almost this like wasabi foam. It had this heat. It was so good. And when fish is that fresh, anything you do with it will taste good. I got another one that was like that. It was little tuna tacos with a delicious spicy mayonnaise. This place, the fish was fantastic. I loved it. Highly recommend. You had a best bite this week. Anything yummy?

[A]

Oh, yeah. Yeah. My wife made a hand roll bar at our house.

[B]

Wow. Holy smokes. You're living good.

[A]

So for the boys, my son loves like, you know, it's basically a non breaded orange chicken that she like, basically slices. She makes the chicken and then she puts it in like this yummy teriyaki marmalade thing. And then because he loves like an amusubi. So basically we had the seaweed, the rice, then he puts his little chicken thing on there, wraps it up real tight, maybe with a little cucumber avocado. He was in heaven. I was doing it. My wife, who's vegan, obviously, she'll do like a chopped macadamia nut, spicy mayo type mixture thing. Vegan aids, which is such a yummy texture place. So good. And then I had some of my beloved Costco tuna tartar. My. My tuna ponzu. Already pre cut, already marinated. Throwing that a good hand roll, babe, is like a whole other experience.

[B]

So good. So good. When the fish is good. Have you had that Thai tuna roll at Hillstone Beyond?

[A]

Macadamia nut.

[B]

That's what that. The macadamia nut. That's what Paige's dish reminds me of. That texture where you get the nut in a sushi roll. When somebody nuts in your sushi roll. Ew. Stop.

[A]

Ew. You're nuts.

[B]

Ben C. Just gave me the death eyes.

[A]

Ben C. I'm so sorry for that,

[B]

you know, so funny. Should we get to some moron mail?

[A]

Yes, let's get to moron mail.

[B]

Okay. All right, so we have again go to. We're doing exclusively email goodguyspodcast onemail.com write into us and we could read them aloud. No more speak, pipes. No more of this crap. It's 100% anonymous and it's fantastic. It's been much better. Josh, wouldn't you agree with.

[A]

Totally.

[B]

Okay, folks, my friend. This one's insane. My friend brought his own rib eye to my dinner party and asked me to cook it because he, quote, prefers it. I did it, but I've been annoyed ever since. Is this something you laugh off or confront them because it's quietly disrespectful. Josh, this is the most disrespectful thing you can possibly do. Bringing your own meat to somebody else's barbecue. Okay? Unless you're bringing it for everyone and you told them ahead of time. I'm not your short order cook, okay? I'm not here to just make your meat for you. That's not the way this works. You're coming to my barbecue. I'm making something fantastic. If you say to me before, Ben, I just gotten a huge case of snake Rivers, you want me to bring over six of them and use them because they're great. Different story if I've already prepared a meal and you show up with a. A raw rib eye and ask me to cook it. No, no, no. Terrible. What do you think?

[A]

First of all, shout out Sneak. River, I miss you terribly. They don't message me back anymore. You know what it's a sign of, Ben, and it's only gets worse with age. And I think it's one of the worst qualities one can have is rigidity. Don't be so rigid. It's not all about you and your fucking steak, Ron. I know you got it flown in. I know you. You're stomach sensitive because some quack doctor naturopath told you your crohn's adjacent. You're not crohn's adjacent. It's not a thing, okay?

[B]

You're not.

[A]

What are you gonna go get Sky? Pixa. What's that? What's the drug?

[B]

Skyrizi.

[A]

Skyrizi? Is that what it's called?

[B]

One of them is. One of them is definitely called Skyriz

[A]

for a minute now, dog.

[B]

That's for sure. A medication. Skyrizing another thing, Josh, that's important. Which I'm telling myself as I talk to you about this. And our caller in Writer in this is not your last meal.

[A]

That's right.

[B]

It's really hard for me to always remember that when I. I'm going 100%. When I go to a restaurant, when I'm cooking a barbecue, I'm always. I feel like it's my last meal, but it's not. If I don't have a. The perfect bite of steak for this singular meal. It's okay, show up, have a good time, be a good guest. You know, that's it. That's it. Enjoy what they've done for you. You want to make your steaks, host a fucking barbecue, invite them over, and then you can make whatever the hell you want.

[A]

When I got sober, I started at this men's stag meeting, all guys meeting. And there would be guys who would come in there and they would share and they would complain about their wife or their girlfriend, and the guys would stop them and go, unless you're going to bring her in next week for counterpoint. Because if we are not the problem, there is no solution. It's not about outside of us. So if that ribeye becomes your solution, if there's a problem with it, you have no control. What you have control over is you being amenable, going with the flow, being in service of the party. And it's not about you big, stupid ribeye. It's so. Oh, the marbling. Oh, I want the cap. I like the heart of the ribeye. What?

[B]

Who cares?

[A]

Cow farts and ruining the environment.

[B]

And if you like it, eat it at home. Josh, I'm going straight into what are you nuts? Because you reminded me of something that I wanted to share. Please. Our what are you nuts? Moment is our gripes with people, places and things both big and tall. Whatever's sticking in your craw. Yeah, my. What are you nuts? Is me. Sometimes I drive myself crazy. Do you ever have that realization that the person in your life driving you crazy is actually you?

[A]

Every day.

[B]

I had that realization recently. And it was like, sometimes I put so much pressure to accomplish so many things in a given day that when somebody, maybe I have to do something that I didn't originally account for. Maybe I have to take a meeting that wasn't on my calendar. Maybe I have to pick up my son. Maybe I have to do all of these things. If I don't get to something until tomorrow. It's not a big deal. It's not. And I have to. I'm telling Myself. That I'm telling myself, what are you nuts? For putting so much pressure on yourself to do something so unbelievably insignificant today just because you told yourself that you were gonna do it today. It doesn't fucking matter if you do it tomorrow. It doesn't matter if you do it tonight. And I'm not talking about procrastinating. Cause somebody could hear this and they're like, oh, but you'll just put it off forever. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about if you have a list and you miss something on your list, okay, you'll do it tomorrow. Don't be so hard on yourself. That's my therapeutic. What are you nuts? Josh, what do you got?

[A]

I was recently at a Costco, as we know, we love the samples and I especially love when they do extra style samples, right? Where like the guy from the company comes in and does like a little bit of a show with it. So there was this flatbread focaccia type thing that was delicious. And the guy selling it was, what are you nuts? And I loved it because I was like, dog, you are at a Costco and your clientele is not going to perhaps respond as well to. Yo, yo. He was like, yo, yo, we got garlic focaccia. Because I, I was like, gee, are you gang banging focaccia? He's like, I. Over here we got chipotle focaccia. It's the bomb.

[B]

Bomb.

[A]

Like, bro, I love it, I love it. But you're selling focaccia, dog. Like maybe just ease it a little bit. He was gang banging focaccia. That's why. What do you mean?

[B]

You're scaring people. Stop scaring people. Ok?

[A]

And it didn't stop me.

[B]

It was delish, by the way, free samples. The other day I was in the mall, I went to. Is it Laderach? Laderach. How do you pronounce that? Chocolate brand. Lauderdale. Lauterach. No, that's the soap brand.

[A]

I don't know.

[B]

Okay, whatever. Fancy Swiss chocolates. Okay. I heard the woman's giving free samples away of hazelnut chocolate. So I go online. The person before, it's like, what do you have here? She's like, hazelnut chocolate. The next person, what do you got here? Hazelnut chocolate. I go up to her, I say, I want you to know I'm here for the hazelnut chocolate. She gave me a piece of chocolate. She's like, you want another piece? Do I want another piece? There's nothing better than a free sample. Okay, I took two of them. Folks. This episode's five stars. Otherwise, what are you, nuts? Listen to us wherever you get your podcast. Screw you, MrBeast. I'm doing the original. Listen to us wherever you get your podcast. Watch us on YouTube. Share our clips. No, it's too long, Josh. They're right. Mr. Beast is right. Okay, folks. Five stars. Give us five stars. Otherwise, what are you nuts? And every week we're gonna read a beautiful five star review. I don't want your one stars, your two stars, your three stars, your four. Four. You're five stars. You're six stars. You're seven stars and more. That's all I want, Josh. You like that? That's pretty good. No? Read one five star review a week.

[A]

Josh, you got anything for us from Sweet Caroline? Five big booms. This podcast gets five big stars and five big booms. Love you guys. Always making my day.

[B]

Mondays and Thursdays, folks. Will you? We will see you next time.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

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