Good Guys - Happy Holidays Morons! Ft. Nick Antonyan

Episode Date: December 25, 2025

Mazel Morons, and Merry Christmas! Today, Santa crash-landed into the studio - except it’s actually just Nick Antonyan (aka the one and only Jonah) in a full Santa suit. We get into Jewish Christmas discourse, Armenian holiday food, unhinged Christmas gifts, Hollywood manifestation, and a surprisingly sincere convo about betting on yourself and making impossible dreams happen. Plus: airline maps, childhood obesity, and why Nick goes all out for the holiday these days. Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa, and Happy New Year!  Leave us a voicemail here! Follow us on Instagram and TikTok!  Sponsors: Nutrafol - For a limited time, Nutrafol is offering our listeners ten dollars off your first month’s subscription and free shipping when you go to Nutrafol.com and enter the promo code GOODGUYS10. Vital Vitamins - Vital Vitamins is offering my listeners 20% of all orders with code GOODGUYS at myvitalvitamins.com Function - Visit www.functionhealth.com/GOODGUYS or use gift code GOODGUYS25 for a $25 credit towards your membership. Hims - To get simple, online access to personalized, affordable care for ED, Hair Loss, Weight Loss, and more, visit Hims.com/GOODGUYS. Vivrelle - Go to www.vivrelle.com and apply for a membership today using code goodguys for your first month of membership FREE Please note that this episode may contain paid endorsements and advertisements for products and services. Individuals on the show may have a direct or indirect financial interest in products or services referred to in this episode. Produced by Dear Media. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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They're not the great guys. We're just so good, good, good guys. Mazumorans, welcome back to the Good Guys podcast and Merry Christmas. This is our special holiday episode. This is a time. Sorry. What? What the, what?

What the, what the, what the, Ben? What is happening? What's going on? Is that, is that Santa? Olivia, what is it? Is either an armed or outlaw or something? What's happening? Who is this?

Oh my. Oh my God, I'm cracking up. What is happening? Oh, my God. Are you kidding? Are you kidding? Are you kidding? St.

Nick Antonian. What are you? I'm waiting to pull out. Yeah. Oh my God. What a surprise. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Put this on Santa.

You know, do podcasts in the North Pole? My first podcast. I've never done a podcast before. I know. This is a big guest. We thought Mel Robbins is going to be big. No. Never, never done a podcast.

No, who needs Mel when we have, when we have Santa. What is this a microphone? By the way, he is actually St. Nick. Oh, man, I had no idea. My sleigh was going to crash in the middle of a podcast room. Yeah. What?

I can't believe. Listen, car daddy, fucking armchair expert, all the biggest pods he could have gone to. Where does he, where does St. Nick go? Two Jews. Right here. I'm right here. Thank you for having me. Nick, Nick, it's wonderful to meet you virtually.

I guess because I crashed on it. Hey, buddy. How you doing? What's your name? I'm doing great. Is Santa going to be like this the whole time? Can I acknowledge that it's that it's your friend Nick who I haven't met? It's Santa.

You're right. It's Santa. It's St. Nick. Yeah. Okay, good. St. Nick. All right. So how do you feel about the Jews, St. Nick?

How do you feel about Jews? My favorite. I love them. You love the Jews. Yes. I wish I was Jewish myself. You don't have to scream, St. Nick.

Why do you skip their houses? It's a little like you're going to peek the microphone. That's how passionate I am about. about Jews, that's why. So I'm screaming. Are you, is maybe St. Nick like a Jew the way Jesus Christ was, maybe? Listen.

Why are you so out of breath? God damn it, I got to snap out of this character. Fuck, I can't breathe in this shit. Holy fuck, it's me. Oh my God, I can't believe it. Oh, what's up? Dude, I try to stay in fucking Santa character. I couldn't do it. I was getting

fucking out of breath. You look gorgeous. You look gorgeous. I should have. Josh didn't tell me I would have worn a Santa suit. I didn't even know. But there can only be one.

He dressed me up in the back. What a surprise. He dressed me up in the back. He's like, you're Santa now. And I was like, all right, cool. I got the tech fucking 45 minutes ago. Such a stage mom. He's like, I ordered the suit.

You're fucking wearing it, Nick. You're wearing it. I got the deluxe one from Amazon, $75. Prime. It feels really warm in here, dude. It's okay. We'll disrobe you. Wait, wait, wait, hold on.

Let's put the hat back on really quick because I know you can put it over the headphones. That'll be funny. I'm sure it'll fit your giant head. Okay, wait, wait. Santa, I heard that you had some presents for us that you wanted to maybe read about.

Santa knows about the show and stuff. And I heard you brought us some presents. Do you want to maybe start with me? I love presents. Uh, which one is my, what's my lines? These are all really mean. They're all yours. Okay.

Santa, I heard you had some presents for us that you wanted to do. I do. I love presents. Great. Josh, Merry Christmas, you Jew. I heard you're back on antidepressants. None of us can tell. Okay.

That's not nice. That hurts. Josh, I really love your four seconds on the last of us this year. Your work is like microdosing too much and you want to throw up. These are really fucked up stuff. Wow. Okay. These are really fucking mean.

Can you say slowly? Fuck you? Like, deliver it? I'll deliver that differently. Ben, I wrote these fucking roast jokes for this schmow. They're great. You're killing it. Read it slowly.

All right. I'll start from the top. Great. Josh, Merry Christmas, you Jew. I heard you back on antidepressants. None of us can tell. Ouch. Josh.

I really love your four seconds on the last of us. this year. Your work is like micro dosing too much and you want to throw up. That's funny. Were you on that show? Last of Us? You were? One scene. I didn't see. I didn't see you. Okay. He was there. It was a big get. Josh. I heard. Josh. I heard you just had a third kid. Whoa. What a blessing. Now there's three people who can feel embarrassed for you when you're wearing a shirt in the pool. How depressed are you?

Why do you hate yourself so much? This is really mean. You need therapy. I'm telling you right now you need help. You wrote this about yourself. Top of the morning. You woke up, you had a cold brew, and you wrote really mean things about yourself. And an energy drink.

Like this is not even like this, this screams I need help. I had a monster. I had a monster and I am a monster. Dude, this literally screams therapy now, please. Pretty good jokes. Okay, do you have anything, any gifts for Ben? Pretty good. Yeah, do you have any gifts for me?

Ben, happy holidays. I got you a new mayor for Christmas. Merry Mum Donnie. Thank you. Thank you so much. I thought you said you like juice. I thought you said you like juice, okay? Ben, you're getting cool in your stocking because you broke kosher.

Sorry, sorry. Ben, you're getting coal in your stocking because you broke kosher 390s. 97 times this year. Oh my. Whoa. Whoa. Jedi. I've been shot.

Oh, man. Oh, man. Olivia. Well, wait, there's one more Ben joke. Oh, there is. Ben, I love. This is really fucked because I actually do like your food content and I scroll on it and I look at it. And it's, it's, Ben, I love all your food content.

But speaking on behalf of your choreologist, maybe you should try some treadmill content. Just kidding, you look great. Monaro's, Monjaro season. Dude, I would not let that slide. I don't know. I mean, I love Josh. He's top two of my favorite people in the world.

That is just really fucking mean. Whoa. No, I don't let it slide. I'm a fitness influencer. Do you want to become fitness influencers, Nick? I'm down. It's pretty gay. But I would love to, bro.

We have the same, But we have a similar body types. I think we can blow up. We have the same body. Let me see your belly. We do. Yeah, this is what people are. Oh, wow.

It's gorgeous. Beautiful. I love it. You're slightly skinner than I am. He looks great. Can I get rid of this costume, please? Are you on Zatbound? Is he on a GLP?

Are you on a Mujaro is too Armenian for that? Wait, there's one for. There's one more for Olivia, right? I uh, Olivia, I heard you're from Cincinnati. Hey, at least it's not Dayton. J.K. Cincinnati is terrible. I wish there were more Jews there so I can spend less time there. I hate you, Josh.

Love you, Olivia. He's making me mean. That was beautiful. You're just making me mean to people, top of the morning. That was beautiful. Well done. Ben, I would only make. the workout content joke

because you're in such good shape. Oh, fuck, dude, I'm done. By the way, this is such a wonderful surprise. I had no idea. Nick, Josh didn't tell me a thing. I didn't even know you were coming. You don't have headphones in.

You can't hear a thing I'm saying. But Nick, yeah, yeah, he can't hear me. He can hear me up so long. What a, what are you for this shit? If you're, if you guys aren't watching on YouTube, you're missing just, this is it, Josh. This is the pinnacle of YouTube. Do you want to take off the jacket?

I have to. I'm done. I'm passing out, bro. I can't do it. You're dressing me up like fucking Mr. Potato head, like a buildabair here. Is it a warm studio? Is it a studio warm? No, it's a super, it's like a super thick felt.

I'm sweating. Yeah. Wow. All this you see is real sweat. I didn't wash my face or anything. You being a human build a bear is fucking funny. Can I have the jacket here? This is not comfortable.

I don't ever give me this fucking thumb jacket again. Okay. Sorry. Okay, you take it off the pants I have pants underneath I don't freak the fuck out Ben wants to know why you won't take Ozempic or Mungaro or any of that

I didn't I didn't put it on I didn't put the headphones on I can't hear you I'm dressing back up I didn't ask that question I didn't ask that question I didn't ask that question

I was so close to what. I didn't ask that question. Dude, I would never ask that question. I would. I would never. Josh is here. He's, he's putting a wedge.

Josh is putting a wedge. Look at him. See, look, yeah, so excited. A wedge salad. You look fucking gorgeous. You don't,

you don't need Osembek. You look gorgeous. You chubbies, dude. All right, here it comes. Here we go. 27 cameras to cover you on Drake and Josh. Who the fuck?

I wouldn't be talking about being heavy. No, I do. You're the biggest thing on TV. You're huge. You're gigantic. When I saw you on TV, I thought I was watching Willie the Whale over and over and over again. No, I do. The whole time, I thought I was on the SeaWorld live.

Live feed from Shamu. Live feed from, yes, exactly. I thought I was watching Shamu swim around in circles in the pool. That's literally what I thought. Every time I saw you on TV. That's cool. I got it out. take off our shirts.

Josh, is that what we need? Do we all take off our shirts? You thought Shamu had a Twitch? Should we take off our shirts? Shammu had a live feed? No, I do watch old episodes of Dr. and I look like John Candy ate John Belushi. I look so...

You know what people say... Josh, real talk, you were always gorgeous. I swear, I turned on the show just to watch another gorgeous fat man that I could see myself. I know. I'm not in the mood. Nick, to be mean to people. Okay, I'm in the mood to be nice.

You're right, you're right, you're right. You're all look gorgeous. You're right. We're here. It's Christmas. You're right. You got two Jews. Okay.

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I don't really know much about Christmas. Like I just I I I I I I I I'm like the surface level of Christmas doer. You know what I mean? Like it's that's it's the it's the trees and stuff like growing up we didn't really do the whole presents and the whole you know what I mean? I don't know we were it was Christmas to me was like it was like another day. I wanted it to be like that that awesome now I'm kind of treating it like that now I'm like trying to like buy gifts and do this. I mean we grew up kind of like like broken shit you know like it's a little it's it's really cool when you kind of have like you know we have money for Christmas. I don't know how to explain it. But like our trees were dry most times because it was like used trees. When they threw out, we had grab it off the street, like on the 23rd, 24th. People are throwing them out on the 24th?

Sometimes they would. Yeah, sometimes people renew their tree. So we'd grab the renewal, the old renewal trees. Christmas tree was usually dry. Nothing underneath it at all ever. I never like woke up top of the morning. Wow, my God, a Christmas tree.

Now I'm trying to take it through. And now I'm like, you know what, dude? I want to buy Right now if you go to my house There's toys everywhere I swear to God I'll fate Like I will literally face it my girlfriend right now Flip the camera there's toys everywhere

I bought three RC Jets It's all adults in your house It is But I don't really know much about Christmas The only thing I know is gifts I never really got any gifts growing up But now I'm you know Armenians are the original Christians

We are we are Isn't there in Armenian a quarter Don't peer pressure me all right I'm trying to be better I'm trying to be a better person A little less loud. I'm trying to be a peeking the microphone. By the way, Josh, you never introduced Nick.

Introduce Nick to the people. Introduce me for your peer pressure of me into asking me Christmas questions. Nick Antonian, brilliant comedian, influencer, most importantly, actor, filmmaker, writer. Soon we're going to talk about it. It has a big movie coming out next year. This is really exciting. Yeah, with James Franco. We weren't friends when I saw it, so I couldn't wish you would congratulations.

but congratulations, it's fucking epic. You remember that Snatchap thumbnail we got? You and I try to kiss each other. We didn't fully commit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, it's the one thing that I know, because I've told Ben, I told you this, and you looked at me really oddly.

I think it hurt your soul when I was like, I think I'll have to be with him. He told me this, Nick, four times in the same day, by the way. Continue. I said, I think before I die, I'll have to be with a man once, you know? Just to feel the love of a... Can I be a...

on the wall? I want to watch. Is that weird? No, you Does that make me gay for wanting to watch my best friend, Rayla, dude? I want to fucking, I want to watch that. Fuck, yeah, dude. I'm gonna have been hopping for like 20 seconds. I'm not fully gay. Oh my God. And I would only go

to second or third base for the dude. I wouldn't go full home run, but not that I've thought about it. What second or third base? Explain. Sucking I think is in there. You know what? You make it really. I would only, I would only, I would only, I would only suck

I wouldn't go any further than that. Let me make it sound really ugly, Ben, when you say it like that. Okay, what about a mouth hug? I had to kiss John Stamos when we did that show together and what I will tell you is, and I love John,

as we got closer and who else are you going to be gay for than John Stamos? We got closer and we kissed and I thought, ah, it's just kissing. And then I thought, it's not from me. And like, yeah, that was like the moment where I was like, okay, I do like women. So wait, you went to second base or was that third?

That's first. Is it? A kiss? First. What's second base? That's first. That's first. Hand.

Boobies. Okay. Uh, H.J. Okay. Playing with a dick and second base you said? I think second base is like heavy petting, touching the organs, but not, yeah. Second is hands. Third is anything with your mouth.

And then fourth is the bingo bingo home run. All right. Okay. So the Christmas, what's cool about Christmas at the Antonians, Christmas at the Antonians, is that you guys will do an amazing spread of food, but it's not like the typical, you know,

roast turkey stuffing. It's like Mediterranean food. That's why I don't have an answer for you when you ask me like Christmas. It just feels like another day. Like talk about the spread because I love coming over to your house the day after Thanksgiving or the day after Christmas. Christmas. Yes. Yes. There's a bunch of food on the table. We, we Armenians are, brother, what the fuck do you mean? What kind? There's, because there's so many, so many kinds. I'm Armenian.

So our main celebration is food. Like some shit happens, like Ben right now. Like, for example, some great thing happens in his life. It doesn't have to even be that great. You can just get out of a parking ticket or something. I'd call Ben up. Dude, I just, I lit the fire up. We're doing fucking barbecue. We're all hanging out. We got the homies coming over. We're going to spread as much food as possible on the table. We're all going to hang out.

And eat and have a good time. There's, I don't know, like tomato cucumber salad. There's like kebabs. There's like, you know, chicken breast, usually with really good marination. Rice, like pilaf. Lamp chops. Yes, palaf. Pallof is like rice.

I like that for not. There is, uh, that is such an Armo slash Slavic approach. Like, it's right, spil off, but it's, they use the English word. I like pull off. But they just go, pull off. It's like, like, you know what businessman is in Russian? It's business. My businessman.

Businessman. Businessman. Businessman. But, uh, yeah, dude. I mean, it's, have you, Ben, you got to come to my house during a very, I would love to. As you're saying it. I'm literally thinking to myself, all that I, all that I love to cook is apparently Armenian food. Really?

That's my favorite stuff. All of that, yeah. And by the way, and Jews are the same. We, all that we do is we celebrate with food. And what you called cucumber, uh, tomato salad, we call Israeli salad. And we make a ton of meats. We love it. Chicken.

Delicious. Bring, bring, bring some of that delicious food to my house. And then I'll have my grandma and my mom whip some crazy shit up. And we'll, uh, we'll call it a Christmas. When are you back in LA? I'm in. February February

God damn you're out for a minute Where are you at right now New York? I'm in New York But I live in New York You do? What part?

Yeah Somewhere that people can't find me In the city I'll be in Manhattan On the 22nd Oh great I will then be in fuck I'll be in Florida

Until when When are you gonna be When are you gonna be there again I don't really go to New York Too often You know we drop Josh You become best friends No, we're going to hang.

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Learn more and join using our link. Visit www. functionhealth.com slash good guys or use gift code good guys 25 for a $25 credit towards your membership. Have you ever considered being vegan to get closer to Josh? Josh isn't vegan. I'm toying with it. His life is vegan though. Get the fuck out of it. You'll never be a vegan. Not with the way you eat. I've seen him fucking throw down in. He's not, you can't be vegan. Don't lie to yourself and don't light it to people around you. That's cute that you talk about the way I eat. You've never lived, Ben, until you've seen Jonah hungry and no polio loco.

Let me tell you. It's like they need to put down mats. Okay. He's all right. Dude, it's like, it's like a cow at the feed. Get the fuck out of here, dude. Dude, this kid puts it away and there's not a lot of breathing and there's not a lot of eye contact because it just becomes about the food.

What's better than that meal when you're in the middle of the meal? You're so full. You're pushing further. You fucking hate yourself. but you love it and you're digging and digging and digging. Oh, you make so much fun of me for that. It's so good. I need that.

So, Nick, talk about, I'm dying to know. So obviously everyone knows you from your comedy career, social media, David Dobrick. You know, you've been a staple in our homes. Now, I'll give the backstory and then you take over. For the last four years, Nick's been talking about this movie that he wrote. And it's been in some versions of greenlit. in quotes, but as all indie filmmaking, you secure a budget, you get an actor,

some of the money drops out, the actor has to go do something else, they have to drop out, it's really hard for the stars to align, right? So at a certain point, I go, Nick, I hope it happens, but it's a bitch. And of course, Nick would be like, I'll see you at the Oscars.

I'm like, you will? And I was like, okay, I respect that level of belief in yourself. Finally, wouldn't you know? My boy, optimist. Like September? Optimist. September? Okay, I've been, I've been,

I've been talking to Josh about this movie first. And it's also okay to say that you didn't believe it was going to happen because nobody really did. Nobody like really believed it was going to happen ever. I don't believe anything is going to happen though. I know. You're super pessimistic, which is okay. We're realistic. But is it really realistic?

I think it's almost, I would call the odds of getting a movie financed close to impossible. You see, that's where your mind's fucking. with you. Okay. I agree. If you plant the seed that something's not going to happen, you give me a lot of really, really good advice. I swear to God, I look up to you like an older brother. Like I would literally call you sometimes and ask you for advice because I really, really want to know what you have to say. I genuinely, you're one of my favorite people in the world. I'm, and I'm, you know, I say this to every person I'm around. To ask me who one of your favorite people is in the world, it's 100% you.

I genuinely look up to you as an older brother. But sometimes what you do that I don't want to see you do, honestly, moving forward, I agree with being realistic, but you need to have some sort of delusion sometimes. to get to a level that is really hard to get to, right? If I was a real, if I was realistic, I would have told myself 10 years ago, I'm not going to, I go like, you know what, it's not going to happen. Everyone's doing it. What are the odds of me making it?

I think one thing that I'm not giving you advice, but I genuinely sometimes think you should have some sort of, a delusion um to really be great um sometimes you like that i i i i i i i i i um because i hear you talk about it you're like i got to be real about something how about how about how about easier mind and be a little delusional sometimes but like you know what fuck it if it's not going to happen someday it will maybe it won't happen fucking right now it won't happen it won't happen the next month it's not going to even happen in the next five years But someday it'll happen.

I think you should have that delusion. Bro, because I hear you sometimes talking to me about the movie that you wrote and you want to direct, you want to do the TV show. You need to have that delusion inside of you. You need to because the odds are impossible. The odds are against you. Look at guys like Elon Musk and all those other guys that are fucking doing crazy shit. Once in a lifetime geniuses. But bro, but if if they.

thought realistic. They would have, and that this is for all the dreamers in the world. This is for everyone that's a creative. This is for everyone with wild dreams. Be as fucking delusional as possible because sometimes delusion pays off. I agree. Nick, you are speaking my fucking language, bro. You should be delusional.

You are speaking my language. I love this. I love this. I do think it's part of Josh's schick. I don't think he's actually that down on himself. No, he's not. He's not. But.

But sometimes What you're saying is gold. Yes. It's gold. And it's true. Sometimes you have to, you have to just let go of your brain and let it, bro,

because dreaming is free. It doesn't cost you anything. All it does is cost you time. Did you know when you were bringing on Santa? Did you know that when you were bringing on Santa that you were going to get this level? My God. This is better than Mel Robbins.

This is, no, We don't know. It's the truth. Do I? We don't bank? Who? Do I believe someday I'm going to win an Oscar?

100%. 100%. Do I believe I'm going to be one of the biggest comedy actors in the world? Guarantee. It might happen within the next decade. It'll take me, sure, it might take me till 2035, if I'm not dead, obviously. To become top 10 in comedy. But it'll happen.

It will 100% happen. and nobody can fucking tell me otherwise. Nobody. No one can ever tell me otherwise. Because they can't take that away from me, bro. They can't, they can take away everything from me. They can't take away my fucking dream.

Yeah. It's just what it is. You know what you're describing, Nick? You're describing shoot for the stars, land on the moon. That's what I'm fucking talking about. Yeah, dude. We shoot for the stars.

We're going to be really happy on the moon. If we shoot for the sky and then we fall on our ass, God, this is a great podcast. I'm so merry with cheer. Like, what else do we do? do on Christmas. As Jews, we typically go to Atlantic City and we eat Chinese food. That's what Jews do. That's what New York Jews do. You can go to Atlantic City and you see a bunch of hussids bumming cigarettes playing blackjack. That's what we do. That sounds like great fucking

time, dude. Right. Speaking of Hossids, this is, I'm going to do my what are you nuts early. By the way, we do a segment at the end of the pod called what do you nuts. It's our gripes with people, places and things like anything in life, bigger, small that you're like, what are you nuts? So start thinking about it now. You'll have. you know, 20 minutes to think about it. But my Woodya Nuts is, speaking of Hossids, I was on a flight back from New York after our wonderful record with the great Ose Proman. So we're, I'm flying back on United and there is a Hasidam family and there's this kid who's like 12 years old. And much respect to all religions, all cultures, always. But, you know, as Ben can speak better to it,

There is this idea of not letting too much outside culture in because it can be, what would the word be been like incriminating? It can foul the mind. I think it would just, no, it would probably just tempt you to do something that you're not supposed to do.

Like if you watch movies where women are doing promiscuous things, you're going to want to do promiscuous things. That's the idea. Okay. And by the way, and that's in almost every religion. That's not for people who are very devout.

Yeah. For sure. And so there's this kid and he's like 12, 13 years old and there's this beautiful monitor in front of him with 500 movies and a thousand TV shows. He watched the map for five and a half hours. Bro, that's the story of my wife. Bro, the amount of times I've dozed off looking at the map is insane. I felt so bad for him. I was like, dude, let this kid watch Paw Patrol.

I don't know. He's 12. I'm like, let him want stranger. Things like that sucks, but respect, respect. Sometimes the map is the best thing to watch on a flight. I swear to God, dude. I don't know why. When you're not watching the map,

all of a sudden they bring you on a weird ass route. So honestly, maybe we're taking the direct route. All of a sudden, you pop into the map. You're like, why the fuck did I go up, down, left, right? And then I lost 45 minutes. Bro, you know what it's like? I feel like it's a very like guy thing. You know, like sometimes like,

even like a fucking the the captain of like a cruise ship you i don't know i feel like if i were on a cruise ship i'd be like eyeing the captain to make sure he's steering right you know what i mean so i don't have to interfere and like steer for him but like i i just feel like we're always trying i don't know it's like you're trying to save situation i don't know if that makes sense like when something's like something goes out like goes down outside you walk with like outside with like your flip-flops on you're like watching the ruckus outside seeing if there's anything you can like assess and like hey settle down like you know what i mean I don't know if that makes sense what I'm saying.

It doesn't. Hey, Nick. No. I, I'm fairly, I'm confused. But really? But I can't explain it correctly. Okay, so tell us about, so you finally secure the money for your movie in September, right? Yeah, I cut that terrible bit.

I couldn't get that mic straight. Like, I know what I'm saying in my head. I don't know how to get it out. It made perfect sense in my head, too. That's the fucked up thing. That'll be the name of your book. You know what something makes perfect fucking sense. I'm like, wow, that makes a lot of sense.

I'm talking about watching a map and you're like, yeah, you know, when there's a catastrophe outside and you throw on your flip fly. There is. There is. That makes sense. Okay, wait. So you get the money for the movie. How do you get James Franco?

The producer reached out to his manager and we sent in an offer and the script. And then he wanted to do the film, but the two characters in the movie, it's Adam and Jacob. we initially wanted him to play Adam. In the complete beginning, I was supposed to play the role of Adam. But we were like, you know what,

with my comedy timing and stuff, maybe I should play Jacob and he should play Adam. He came back, he's like, I think it's way funnier if I play, if I play Jacob.

And is Jacob more of the... Jacob's like the goofball. Like, he's full of life. And Adam's super depressed. Adam is super depressed. He hates his life. He's super pessimistic.

So, Tell me, I love this moment. Tell me about the call when they say. I kind of bring it down. Like, I feel like my face is blocked. Okay, go ahead. Tell me about the call that comes in when they say Frank goes in.

David filmed it. Okay, but. Dave, I was, sorry. Thank you. Well, we're on a podcast. Okay, okay, okay, this is exactly what happened. I don't want to sound like a super. No, people love this.

I don't want to sound like a super weirdo, but... I knew that day was going to come. I, for years, bro, I'm telling you, dude, I'm telling you, bro. Like, I just had this feeling. I had it with you, too. Swear to God, ever since I was, I was young, I was like, dude, I think me and Josh can, like, do a lot of comedy together. Well, we'll, I, do you want to tell that story now?

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actual price will depend on product and subscription plan when I was like 18 19 I knew where Josh lived I knew his never a good start I knew where he lived he lived on Vineland at the Ava apartments right was it the Ava apartment and tell people what a real motherfucker I am I lived in that apartment until I was 29 that was I mean

super humble super humble I saw him I saw him Park is blocked BMW at the apartment building. He walked into the elevator and then I walked in front of him and I held the elevator door open. This is literally the idea of the elevator pitch.

But I knew it was going to happen for years. I was a fan of him growing up. I thought I can contribute my acting services to him. And I thought I was just like I think we would be great together. But I already knew years before he even knew who I was. And I told him, I'm like, dude, there's this TV show that I want you to do.

I think you'd be great for the role. You and I together, we can make it hilarious. He's like, talk to my manager. I don't do deals in elevators. Where I live. And where you live. Elevator closes. And I was like, all right.

I was like, game on. I'll be best friends with him someday. And then years later. I don't do deals in elevators. I don't do deals in elevators. Like five years past and thank God he didn't recognize who I was. Five years past and David invites me. He's like, hey, we're going to film a bit with Josh.

And I was like, great. I was like, okay, be as funny as you can. This is your moment to show him your acting services. So we did a bit and stuff together. And then I think you got my, you got my, number or something and then I was like all right I almost have it in the bag I still have the TV show in the back of my head by the way keep in mind I'm still thinking about the TV show we start talking back and forth and then bro years later we shot a pilot together and that was

literally the pilot that I pitched him like a decade ago um didn't get picked up all the you know don't talk about it like that you shot okay hold on you shot a pilot presentation that I was I played a character in because I love you and I wanted to You're making it sound like, you know, we didn't get picked up by Fox. Like, you shot a little proof of concept. It was a proof of concept. Yes, it was. And I wanted to come help support.

Yes, yes, yes. It was a proof of concept. We filmed it. But it was literally the same thing I pitched him in the elevator. But it's funny how, like, things just come around in a circle. Because I, I, and then, but obviously, like, we did the pilot. We're still, you know, pitching it around. It'll get picked up someday.

It's so good. It really is really, really fantastic. Okay. So Franco. And then I told Franco, too, I was like, bro, I was like, I knew years ago we were going to work together. I knew years ago, I planted that seat in my head. I knew for years you and I are going to be co-stars someday. I saw it in my head.

I saw him and I together and I thought it was hilarious. I thought it was really funny. You know, like chubby funny guy, Franco, good looking funny guy. Perfect mix. And I told him, I was like, we were, it was like day like. day 10 of the shoot. I was in the car and I was like, bro, I'm like, I knew this day was going to come.

I was like literally have an out of body experience. I'm like, I knew. I didn't know, but I knew. I knew for years, bro. That like this, this duo was going to someday happen. Franco goes, no, I knew. Yeah. And it goes, really?

But dude, this is exactly what delusion is about. Like sometimes you have to plant that seed in your head. You got to tell you, yourself over and over and over again that this is going to happen whatever you have planned in your head bro whatever you have planning you plant that seed and someday it'll happen i i i with josh i knew with james i knew um who's your next victim who's your next victim trump who's your next victim uh i'm i'm i'm going to i'm going to do a movie with brad pittson okay i'm going to do it i'm going to do it's hot all right i'm going to do i'm going to do a movie with

with Brad Pitt very soon. I don't know when, but it's going to happen soon. It's actually Brat Pitt and he's an Armenian guy. Yeah, him and I are going to do a, we're going to do a comedy together. He worked. Yeah, he owns a kebab shop. Maybe it's a rival kebab shop. Oh, I like it.

Brat, Brat Pitt. Pit master. Brat. Pit master pit. That's good pit master pit. Brat, Pete master. I love it. So what's, Brad Fitmaster?

When does the movie, you guys are editing it now and then... Bro, it looks so good. And will you try to do like festivals and that kind of... Yeah, we're gonna do South by Southwest. I'll be on stage picking up my awards. Okay. I don't know. Oh, it's shot already.

Yeah, movie's done. It's shot already. Movies done. Got it, all right. Thanks in the fucking call. It's in post, bro. It's been imposed. for the last couple weeks.

Just saying I would have loved to have been an extra. It's gone. Bro, we're filming another one in June. I'd love to have you there. I'll write you in, actually. Great. 100%. Great.

I'm in. I'll write you and Josh in. Perfect. We'll be the good guys. We'll play ourselves. I love it. No, I would love to have you guys play a role in the next movie. With the little time we have left and tell me if you don't want to go here because we can,

we can not go here. But I'm because you have a beautiful, lovely girlfriend. but I'm fascinated by you've told me before that since your fame that there are certain clientele for a guy like you that women sometimes fetishize you

that they like sometimes sorry it's the eye contact this is going to the big the big situation yeah good job Carmen San Diego but like what I'm saying keep insulting me keep insulting me then go ahead

but like fuck it like their girls would be like you're my type Like you and Zach Galfinacus are my type, right? Someone said that to you once. Like, what is that? I would just love to hear about that. Ask Paige. Why?

My wife? I mean, yeah. What? Oh, because I'm like you? Yeah. Oh, I got it. Got it. Okay.

It took me a second. No shit. Oh, got it, got, got it. I mean, I mean, me yeah we're not super far off but we i get it yeah i'm a little on i'm on the bigger side obviously i'm just asking because you will say like women will have a certain fetish let me let me let me let me let me say something bro sometimes really really good looking guys just don't have the person i'm not saying i have a great personality but i think i have a better person i'm a little more bubblier i'm a

little like funer to be around i i i you know i i i like to eat like after like 11 11 11 p.m fuck it like let's order dominoes we'll hit the gym tomorrow are we gonna hit the gym tomorrow i don't know we're just saying it so we can order dominoes and some wings and hang out a dude that's eating cucumbers and chicken all day long is not going to be as fun um girls want to you know they they they want to have a little bit of fun whether it's the the personality the late night frozen pizza um you know ice cream ice cream for example right i oh hey we're passing somebody, baskin robins,

let's pop in. Fit guy? Hell no. He's going straight to Erwan getting a smoothie. He's getting a strawberry smoothie at Arwan. He's not going to get Baskinrodhamers and chicken. You know,

I love Irwin. I love Irwin. I love Irwin by the way. I love, it's my favorite place in the world. Airwine is not listening. Sometimes Baskin, sometimes you want,

you want the, the, um, cookies and cream with a little bit of, chocolate chip cookie dough with some strawberry and like a chocolate man. Okay. Yeah.

Yeah. It was coming. So that's what some girls want. Ben, should we get to what are you nuts? What are you nuts? Gripes with people, places and things.

You look on the street. You're like, what are you fucking nuts lady? Put on some shoes. You got something, Nick? Make a new bit. Person place or thing.

One person place for a year. Shut the hell up. Let me fucking think. Person place the thing. My brain's slower than yours. Let me fucking think for a second. We know. Person and place.

Wait, what? Person and place or thing. Person and place a thing. Nick's like, who's a person? I got it. Wait,

no. Good luck. Good luck fixing the levels on this app, oh, my shit. Oh my God. All right. Skip past me.

Guys, Merry Christmas and happy holidays. Thank you for listening to the Good Guys podcast. Ben, what do you want to plug? Anything? Watch.

movie when it's out. It's incredible. It's so good. It's my breakout performance role. All the way to the top. What's it called? It's God love meets into sunshine. Love meets in the sunshine. Love meets in the sunshine. Love meets in the sunshine. Love meets in the sunshine gives me broke back mountain. You and Franco. That's not a bad thing. The goddamn Zoom call. Fuck you. That's not a bad thing. I'm just saying that's what it gives me. Love Into the Sunshine gives me that. Can I ask you something? I'm expecting he's going to groom you.

Can I ask you something? You can. You posted this video of you eating caviar with fried chicken. How is that? Unbelievable. Was it? Yeah. Okay.

That's all I asked. You need to make sure it's as thin as a chip. And then all of a sudden, it's like a chicken potato chip with Cremfresh caviar and it's the best What is it out of 10? Probably a 12. 12 out of 10. Wow. 12 out of 10.

But by the way, everything, even bad food is a 10 out of 10. Actually, there's bad and then there's good normal as 10 and a 10th of 10. This is above normal. Very delicious. Highly recommend. Where do I get that in LA?

I highly recommend. You make it. You didn't make that. You got it in a box. Oh, you're talking about that. Okay. Koka Dack. This episode's five stars.

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