Good Guys - How NOT To Ruin Valentine's Day

Episode Date: February 19, 2026

Mazel morons! We’re clocking in on Presidents Day because federal holidays don’t apply to us. Josh breaks down his elite Costco Valentine’s strategy, while Ben shares how “don’t get me anything” turned into seven-dozen-roses with one-hour-delivery- plus a restaurant bribe gone wrong that somehow ends in yogurt and peace. We talk Olympics, halfpipe nostalgia, curling dreams, and whether NHL players should be allowed to risk their bodies mid-season. Plus, Josh recounts a 3AM ER trip with baby Meyer, Ben unpacks the most disturbing scene from The Pitt, and the guys debate their least favorite characters (Santos hive, brace yourselves). Five stars only. Mondays & Thursdays. Otherwise… what are ya nuts?! Leave us a voicemail here! Follow us on Instagram and TikTok!  Sponsors: To get simple, online access to personalized, affordable care for ED and more, visit Hims.com/GOODGUYS Give your body what it deserves with IM8! Go to IM8HEALTH.com/GOODGUYS and use code GOODGUYS for a Free Welcome Kit, five free travel sachets plus ten percent off your order.  Whether you’re just wanting to test an idea out, or you’re getting serious about launching your own brand - it’s never been easier to get started on shopify.com/goodguys. Show your dog some love in the way they understand best. Head to Ollie.com/GOODGUYS, tell them all about your dog, and use code GOODGUYS to get 60% off your Welcome Kit when you subscribe today! 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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Miles and morons, welcome back to the Good Guys podcast. Ben, how are you? I'm wonderful, my friend. How are you? I'm great. I'm always happy to be here with you. We are here working on President's Day because we don't recognize federal holidays when it comes to the morons. No, what's a bank holiday, okay? What? So what? I can't go to the teller, but you also shouldn't go to work? So what? It's 79 degrees outside and it's a perfect beach day in sunny Florida. Who cares? I'd much rather be in this air-conditioned room. with you. It's much better, Josh. It's much better. You're here. I have no boundaries for work for because as a child, I was forced to show up to work even on my bad days. Let me tell you, Josh,

it's actually a hack and I realized that this morning, because once we decided that we were recording on President's Day, even though the rest of my life is off, I said, I'm going to work today. And I am so ahead now, normally Mondays, they tear me apart. I have so much going on. The weekend, I was with my family. I'm hit with a ton of bricks. So much stuff to do during the week, but specifically on Monday. Monday is where I set up my entire week.

And the fact that I have now gotten ahead because tomorrow is Monday, right? Tomorrow is the start of the week. This is an extended weekend. I have to thank you because I feel fantastic. You're welcome. I feel amazing. I'm in the zone. I'm in the zone off of what a, what a,

What a gorgeous weekend, Valentine's Day weekend, Josh. What did you do for Paige? What did you and Paige do on that beautiful Valentine's Day? Anything nice? It's a great question. As we know, Valentine's Day is for suckers. So that means you did nothing. We didn't do nothing.

Here's a thing. Valentine's Day in general is for suckers because you should go out the night before or the night after. Otherwise, you're going to contend with every restaurant you like being fully booked and bullshit overpriced pre-fix. menus that are not going to have a story for you. Yeah. You know, every woman is perfect.

Thankfully, my wife isn't, even when we were dating, she wasn't too into it. So I did the smart move. This is a very joshy move. Friday night, I took Max to the wonderful Costco. And we went, if you live near a Costco, you have the keys to the kingdom, okay? Yeah.

They have beautiful floral arrangements all set up, and they had these like $30 vases pre-done, beautiful, very garish, a little bit. But it was perfect. And I went with my son. We bought four floral arrangements, one for each of the women in our life, for my wife, her two sisters and my mother-in-law. And we dropped them off at each place. Then we put the one for my wife in the center island for her to wake up to on Saturday. and we said from the Peck Bros, we love you. And then we had dinner at her parents' house

and then watch the NBA All-Star Game. You? That's beautiful. Let me first, just in case this ever, and of course this happens to just about everyone, if your wife ever says, don't get me anything, don't get me anything for Valentine's Day.

That doesn't mean don't get her flowers. Totally. Don't get me anything means I don't want, you to spend money on a present. And it used to be when my wife would say, don't get me anything. I would still get her something. But sometimes they really don't want anything. It's like, I'm good. You get me presents all the time. I feel showered. I'm very happy. But I don't need another present right now. But that doesn't mean no flowers. Okay? Because let me tell you. Okay. Saturday morning, we go, I think I told you this. I started keeping my fake version of Shabbat. It just means I'm not using my phone.

Friday night to Saturday and I've been loving it. I've been doing it for six weeks. We're not necessarily calling you keeping Shabbat because I still drive, but I'm doing, this is for me. This is for me and I'm loving doing it. And I definitely feel more spiritual and connected to my family when I do it. But Saturday morning, Josh, we go out, we go to my sister-in-law Jackie's house and there's a beautiful bouquet there, beautiful bouquet from the great Zach to Jackie. And of course, that reminded Claudie. She's like, you can get me full. flowers. I'm like he, he said he didn't want anything, but he, he didn't want anything. Idiot. Idiot. He said he didn't want anything. And so I said, all right, but let's, uh, let's try and I'm

going to make us a, we were supposed to go to Rascal Flats that didn't end up happening. Uh, she didn't want to go to Rascal Flats. So I'm like, all right, but let's just like find a good place to go to dinner. We'll figure it out. Just, just give me your phone for a second. She's my shabbas. We call her my Shabbas go. I don't. I don't. use my phone, but I'll use her phone for emergency purposes. And so she gives me her phone. And I am like looking through trying to find this dinner reservation. Josh, I go into the other room. I call the florist. And I order seven dozen roses. Oh, my God. To my, to my, to my apartment. Would that hit you? 500? Seven and change. And I got it's my $40. Josh. Josh, Josh, you pre. You

You did it perfectly. I made the mistake. That's why I had to be out, 700 and changed. Yeah, they tried you a nice vig on that one. 700. One hour delivery. One hour delivery. It was, I was like, you could try to be $7,000.

You got taxed. This is a dream. Okay. I got crushed. Can you deliver them? They're like, of course, no problem. Delivers them. We get home and she sees them there.

And she's like, you didn't forget. Had you, had you do that? I'm like, I didn't have my. my phone. I don't, I don't know. I don't know how they got here. She's like, did you do this yesterday? I'm like, I don't know. I don't know. It's such a Jewish. I ordered them the same day. I ordered them the same day on your phone. But I still love you. I still thought of you. I'm so sorry. Never, ever, ever don't get your wife flowers. Just because she says she doesn't want anything. Doesn't mean she doesn't want flowers. That is such a Jewish wife moved to then do the forensics on how it got there.

It's here. Don't worry. How did it get here? When did you want to? What did you? No, your business! It's here, okay? It's here.

And then Josh, we decided that we wanted to go to dinner. I'm going to name the place unnamed because of our experience. But we go. I actually go an hour before. I know it's going to be busy. I go up to the guy. I'm like, Frankie, I'm going to need a table. I know you're totally booked.

But get me in. Here's 40. I push him 40. Not enough. He's like, no problem. I know, Josh. I know. I push him 40.

It's because you were hurting for the flowers. I just imagine you called the florist. You were like, can I get him in an hour? And he goes, of course you can. He screams out to the workers. We got another one. I push him 40. I'm like, just the table at the bar.

No problem. I'm going to come back. He's like, I got you. We go back. this place is a fucking zoo. Okay, fucking zoo. And I'm like, I'm here. He's like, oh, yeah, you, just sit at the bar and I'll get to you.

Maybe a half hour, no problem. We're okay. We go. We have a nice drink. I have a glass of wine. Claudia has a margarita. And we're having a great time, Josh. We go, I'm like, how long is it going to be?

He says another 15 minutes or so. So we're there 45 minutes. He's like, I have a table outside, if you want. want, go sit. It's a pre-fee menu, just so you know, but go sit. I'm like, perfect. I'll take it. We've already been here 45 minutes. We contemplated leaving like 100 times because we don't like waiting for anything. And we go, we're sitting outside. We turn to our waitress and we're like, okay, you know, we're really hungry. We're in a little bit of a rush at this point. You mind if we just order? She's like, the kitchen's backed up. I'm like, no problem. That's okay. Can you just

take our order now just so we know that it's in? He's like, okay, no problem. I'll be right back. We don't see her for another 30 minutes. Ouch. I put down 20 bucks. I leave. We got ice cream. Perfect. It was perfect.

The ending was perfect. And we looked at each other. We're like, that was perfect. We got a drink at the bar. We were together. We had ice cream. We're at home. We didn't need the dinner.

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You bring up a great point of something that I realized, and it's important you have it with your spouse. It's also important that you have it with your boy, like your friends. And that is an understanding of if this goes to pot and be, no big deal. Yes. Because the alternative is we eat a thousand calories from yogurt land and we get to go home. And it's really important.

My buddy, Dan, is the deputy athletic director at UCLA. Big job. Big time. Big time. Best dude. And, you know, the NBA All-Star weekend was in Los Angeles and UCLA is a Jordan school. And so he writes me and he and he and I. we're both dads with kids and we're like, you know, very involved dads.

He's the best. And he writes me and he goes, listen, Friday night, there's a Jordan party as part of All-Star weekend. I'm the biggest Jordan fan. I'd love to go. If you go with me, my wife will believe it's work. I said, same here. I wasn't going to go.

The wonderful Meyer actually was in the hospital the night before, so I'd been up all And I think God, he's okay. We can talk about that too. But so I had like two hours of sleep. And I was like, I'm kind of bushed. And I said, you know what? I said, if we can go and spend an hour max and come back, let's do it. He picks me up.

We drive there. We literally for 40 minutes or for the 30 minute drive there, talk about our kids sicknesses and our sicknesses. I was like, we are lit, man. And we get to the party. And it is, you know, so. many people are outside and it's just packed. And he's like at first having trouble getting through to his connect there to get in. And it's just like it's not looking good. And he looks at me and goes,

you know what? I'm not even tripping if we don't get in. He goes, because I know I'm with you and I know you won't mind. I said, Dan, I am the perfect person to be with right now. I said, because if you look at me and say, we couldn't get in, I go, first one to the car is a rotten egg. You know? Like, great. Hey, let's get out of here. No pressure. But we went and it was fun. It's definitely important that you're on the same page when going into something like that for sure. That said, Josh, you must have missed out on one hell of a goody bag.

No goody bag. This is why I went in the first place. Well, yeah. I know. It was a real party. It was a real young person. So it was like a dark club atmosphere. This was not like a gifting moment.

I didn't see it. anything good. Like you wouldn't have walked out with like a limited edition pair of All Star Weekend sneakers or it wasn't it wasn't one of those. It doesn't feel like. No, that was probably different parties. But I did get to meet the UCLA women's basketball team. And let me tell you, these women were, first of all, besides being incredibly lovely and

sweet and just impressive, I mean, I was just, I guess I understood, but I was like, wow. I mean, when you see the stature and the athleticism of D1 college. athlete, I was like, I just felt so in awe. Like, I was like, please show me your ways. Make me better. Oh, yeah, they're big. They're huge. Six, six and up.

Unbelievable. Oh, yeah. You have to be. Josh, there's so much sports going on, okay? There's the All-Star Weekend. There's the Olympics. Have you been watching the Olympics? Claudia is, by the way, no one loves the Olympics more than Claudia.

I've seen every event. There is not an event that you could have seen if. you've been watching that I haven't already seen. Okay, so Breakdown, what are you watching for the Winter Olympics? What events really speak to you? We know the figure skating, but like, give me some other ones. No, for me, since I'm a baby, you know, I'm obsessed with snowboarding and the half pipe. Sean White was my guy, okay?

Me, 300 pounds, 13 years old, all I wanted to do was trick, blade, skateboard on half pipes, and compete at the Winter Olympics in the half pipe for snowboarding because Sean White was legendary. I loved it. That's my stuff. And even during the summer, like the BMX and the skateboarding, I love all of that extreme stuff. Now, what are we watching, though, Josh? What are we watching? We've watched some of that, and these guys are still fantastic. There's something, the lore of a Sean White is gone, but these guys are amazing and their tricks are just out of this world. We've been watching figure skating, of course. We've been watching, what is the sport? I'm blanking on the name. It's kind of like shuffle, board where you push out the stone. Curling. Curling. I love curling. Okay? And I think I'd be great at curling.

It's kind of like bachy ball, but on ice. I couldn't do that move where you like, you know, that intro move where you have to get into like that really low stance? I couldn't do that. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's it. That's it. I couldn't do that. But we're watching curling. We're watching some weird, there's some fucking weird sport where there's archery and skiing. Byathlone and shooting. Nuts, nuts, but so impressive. I mean, we're watching everything. Bia, that's my favorite, the halfpipes.

What about you? I like men's hockey, obviously. I'm loving watching the Jewish story of the great A.J. Edelman and the Israeli bobsled team, also known as Shul Runnings. Yes. Which has really been a feel-good story

except for the sad fact that as it stands today, we're in last place. And before they went, they were robbed. Not good. No, they're having a tough, they're having a tough go. By the way, look, I wish them all the luck in the world. If we're going to be good at a sport, it's not going to be bobsledding. Well, but AJ, funny enough, the great Alex Edelman talks about this in a special that

AJ won a gold medal in his brother, by the way, his brother, right? Alex is the brother, the comedian, and then AJ, yes. So the Edelman family, very impressive. Very impressive. No relation to Julian. And, uh, but AJ, I think had won in the skeleton. I think he had meddled in skeleton. Yes.

Yes. And move to bob sledding. But yeah, we're in last place. But you know what? We're there. And we're representing. We're there. We have a bobsled team.

Okay. We have a bobsled team. It's great. I don't think we needed it. But look, it's great. I hope. I hope they do better next time. And I'm proud of them for, for competing at all.

Also, look, while we're talking about Jewish athletes. Danny Avia. Avia or Avita? Dania. Dani. I don't know. I just know it's Dami.

Such a great basketball player. Shout out. First All-Star weekend. He crushed representing his home country, the state of Israel. And just, I don't know if you saw the LeBron clip that just warm the cockles of my heart. Respect. We love, like, just like respectful. And I was never a LeBron guy.

Now, it's so easy to win my allegiance. I'm a LeBron guy. How can I not be? Okay? Like you say anything nice and encouraging towards Jews. I'm going to feel good. But yeah, just like a really nice heartfelt story. You know, we don't have that many athletes.

So when we get a great athlete, when we get somebody amazing, we rally around him. And that's Danny, baby, who I kind of look like. You do. Yeah, you do. We both have that. He's a part of your elk, your Grenier, your Leno Grenier. Len Yeh, Len Yeye, but yeah, you do kind of look like him. Yeah, the Olympics, the Olympics are interesting.

And then, of course, there was NBA All-Star weekend where they have what I always look forward to is the slam dunk contest, which to me felt less exciting than the years before. I want to see someone jump over a Hyundai, you know? Yeah. If you're not jumping over a Hyundai Palisade calligraphy edition, which I have for the next three months and Let me tell you, Hyundai, thank you. What a sled this is. But yeah, I want to see some razzled assel. Just straight dunking.

It's impressive, but I want a little showmanship. I just praised LeBron. So I'm sorry that I have to blame LeBron. Because now I'm a LeBron fan. But one of the reasons I was not a LeBron fan is he ruined the slam dunk contest. Why? Because LeBron didn't compete in the slam dunk contest. It used to be that the best.

The best players showed up on All-Star Weekend. The best players showed up on All-Star Weekend. That's why you have those Jordan clips. The best players showed up on All-Star Weekend. And now they don't. They're too good for it. You know what I mean? So now you have all these fucking no-names.

Sorry, Jackson Hayes. I called you no-name. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. It just is what it is. We don't have guys anymore that are like the real high-flyers, the guys that we want to see. I want to see LeBron and the freaking

in slam dunk contest. Because he does the craziest dunks over his long illustrious career in games. Like, it's just, it's just not there. And I don't know what the fuck they did to the actual All-Star game. I haven't watched in a couple of years. He used to be East versus West.

Now they have like four different games. It's all mixed. I don't even know what I was watching. Yeah, it's interesting. Although here's my question, right? Because the slam dunk is, you know, of all of the All-Star weekend is certainly the most dangerous.

A guy actually fell pretty hard. over the weekend and hit his head and it was scary. But here's the question. So Winter Olympics going on right now, the great L.A. Kings, one of the players for Team USA, who is a L.A. King's player, broke his tibia amphibia during one of the games, not against Germany, but maybe against Denmark. And this has been a big point of contention

between the NHL and the Players Union for the last like 15 years, which is the NHL owners, the team owners going well wait we invests millions of dollars into you and your body when you're a professional athlete you're really not allowed to ski you can't ride a motorcycle because they're like we're paying you for your body for the health and safety of your body we know you want to go represent your home country but you can't you can't compete in the Olympics and of course the players union thought them and said no they should be able to what do you think who's right oh in this this is this is a career ending or I'm sorry a season ending God forbid but

season ending injury, he won't be able to come back this season. No, this is a, this is different from the All Star weekend conversation. This conversation, I'm very sorry to the NHL players. You cannot compete in the Olympics. Right. You can't. You can't. You can't.

The season is currently happening. You're in the season. Are you also, so you're taking a month off of the season to go on your side quest? That's what it is. It's a side quest. You have a job to be in the national hockey league. And you're saying, I'm just going to go for a little while and playing this other hockey league. Okay?

Right. And then you get injured. It's a whole that's no. No. No. Can't do it. Hard pass. Can't do it.

To no blame. But to your, I think your comparative point about you could get injured in the slam dunk contest, I would rather see LeBron pick his nose and do a windmill than watch anybody do anything hard. Just knowing that the best guy showed up. It's why I love, I'll watch a charity golf tournament and I'll watch Steph Curry and watching him play golf. He's just, like, there's just an aura around these guys. Watching Steph Curry in the three point contest, there's an aura. It's just different.

It's prime time. You're watching the best players in the world do what they do best. And I have, why do you have a, why do you have more of a chance to get injured during the slam dunk contest? and you wouldn't actual game. They're all playing in the game. And the game is so dumb. Like I'd rather see a LeBron in the slam dunk contest, a Devin Booker in the three point contest.

The best shooter should be in the three point contest. Otherwise, what? It's a three point contest. Why don't you put me in? So, who cares? Do you think you have the cardio to keep up with a three point contest? Because that's like, you're shooting a lot of balls. I do.

I think that my stamina. at some point might taper. It is a lot of balls. What is it? It's 30 shots and they're quick in a minute. I would probably deal with stamina issues on like ball 20. That would be a good sequel to Marty Supreme. Farty Supreme.

Party Supreme. Which I just have to say, and you know where the biggest Timmy Boy fans here, but, and I'm sure you haven't seen it. Have you seen The Smashing Machine? No. I don't mean to pick sides. here, as we know, two big movies last year, Smashing Machine, Marty McSupreme,

Marty Supreme, Saffky Brothers. Marty McSupert. I always think of back to the future. But they were both directed by different Safty brothers who usually direct together. They directed Uncut Gems, what have you. And I was really, I love the rock, but I was really reticent to watch the Smashing Machine

because he was starting in it just because I was like, I don't know if I need a powerhouse dramatic performance from The Rock. He gives me so much more that I don't know, like I always think that with everyone. I go,

do you have to be good at everything? You know, like maybe just be great at the thing you do. Let me tell you, I watch this performance and I got to say, I think the Rock should win the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Really? All right, now I'll watch it because I love The Rock. The man, love him. He's so good. He was brilliant. Wow. it was heartbreaking.

It's a heartbreaking story. And he obviously, you know, he's playing an MMA fighter, so he was uniquely qualified to play this role. And the way he talks to, like, his coach or the officials for the matches and whatnot, like, it just feels so real because you know it is. It was less of like a, you know, a Shalamey DiCaprio performance

and more of like Mickey Rourke and the wrestler. Like a... Yeah. Like, he really, was that guy. It moved me, man. Shout out the Rock. I give him all the respect. I think he should win. Is it on a streamer or it's still in theaters? It's on Max. Okay. All right. I will watch it because I love The Rock. See, I didn't even have my head so far at my ass. I didn't even know that The Rock was in. You're like Smashing House. I'm thinking of Smashburgers. I didn't even know. I love

the Rock. Okay. You love Smashburgers. Yeah, no. I thought it was like a food network. You see Smashing house about all the smash burgers that they're making on the streets. But yeah, I'll watch it because I love the rock. Oof, he's fantastic. Ben shows up, he thinks it's at a restaurant and he says, why are we in a movie theater? So we're in the grills. That would have been a fun, that would have been a fun collab. This episode of the Good Guys podcast is brought to you by our friends at Hymns.

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This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. So you want to hear about my quick trip to the hospital on Thursday night? Yes. And I'm, I thank God. okay. I had no idea. Okay, tell me. He's okay. He's okay. Thank God. As you will know, unfortunately, kids get this croup. This croup, no good. And it's a viral illness. It swells the airways. And so the telltale sign is a strider type cough and breathing and a seal sound during the cough. It sounds something like this. That's really fucking scary. I would, I would

my pants. You're also on kid number three. So I hope like, but I don't know if it makes it less scary, but it's, that would, that would freak the fuck out of me. Kids will have it multiple times before they're five most likely. It's, uh, it sounds super scary and it is, but the immediate treatment is just a good dose of steroid and it basically gives them instant relief. And my boys have had it, my older boys, but they've had it late, they never had it like before they were two. So in a seven-month-old, when you hear that coming from the nursery, you're like, oh. And we tried to, like, give it time and it's like midnight. And you know that you could probably tough it out.

It's not in some cases, not medical advice here. You know, in many cases, it's not an actual emergency. But you can tough it out and say, all right, well, maybe we can get a walk in with a pediatrician in the morning and they'll give the steroid at the pediatrician. But I looked at page and I just said, you know, it's going to be a, a horrible night. Let me just take them. Yeah.

So I go in, beautiful hospital, go to triage, they go, sir, what are you here for? And I've got Meyer and the little baby carrier car seat, and I pick it up and I go, well, he needs. And from that moment on, they go, oh, doors open. They should have been playing like, bar with the bar, the dang, the dang, diggy, diggy. The bookie said, I'm walking through there. I'm looking at people with broken legs. I'm like,

doses. We got a sick baby here. Yeah. It's like the fast pass in the theme park. It was gorgeous. They couldn't have been better. And it's like, dude,

the thing is, and you will go through it because we all do with kids, but God willing, it would be very little amount of hospital visits. The doctor comes out, and it's,

I'm talking to Dr. Robbie. I'm on the pit all of a sudden. Yeah. So sweet, cute. This guy's definitely at max early 40s. He's like, what's going on? Tell me about it. He goes, okay.

I put the orders in. We'll monitor him for two hours after. We'll make sure that he's doing okay. Nurses come in, coyote. They bring him little teddy bears. They were like, which one do you think he'd want? Oh, he's so cute. Let him have both.

Wow. Amazing. And then one of the nurses came over and asked for a photo. and I said, does this break HIPAA? But who cares? It definitely does. But who cares? Who cares?

It's three in the morning and they're treating him great. And I'm not the patient. That's true. That's true. So it probably doesn't break HIPAA. Yeah. That's true. All right.

Thank God he's okay. The pit, Josh. The pit. I'm behind, but I watched an episode last night. Are you fully caught up? I am. Okay. So I'll tell you the episode that I just watched.

last night. Because there was, this might have been the most disgusting scene I've ever seen in the pit. Okay, go. Do you know what I'm, do you know what I'm talking about? Sure. The impacted bowel. The impacted bowel. Okay. This, this was too much. Okay. Like, you watch, and it's not a spoiler alert, because I think, I think I'm like two weeks ago. Puts on the glove. Goes in, this elderly woman, she's on her side, keester out. She isn't shit in a week. And they describe, take your finger and curl it. Stick it up the rectum. And you just see them pulling out her duty.

And I'm just like, are you fucking nuts? Are you nuts? They do it twice, Josh. And you think to yourself, oh, it's over. It's over. All of a sudden you hear this old woman start to fart. You're ready to vomit. And she has explosive diarrhea.

explosive on this young gun's chest. I wanted to die. So gross. It was vile, but we also lost, rest in peace. My boy, Louis. Spoiler alert, big spoiler alert, everyone. I know. It's weeks old, right?

Yeah, yeah. Two weeks. Hey, listen, we are a recap podcast. You have to date, okay? You're good. Louis. Louis. Louis.

So just a sweet man. And then, Josh, when they sat around him, okay, and they spoke about Louis's life. And I'm not going to lie, I started to cry. Me too. When Dr. Robbie said that Louis was married and he never wanted a child and his wife convinced him that they should have a baby and he had a baby. and the wife and the baby died in a car crash. And that's why he's such a chronic alcoholic. And it just, I just, it was horrible.

Such a good show. I love it. I love it. I love it. I really, I love the show. It's, it's my favorite show. And I think they did a masterful job of, in my opinion, portraying alcoholism in that way. Because having been, you know, in the 12-step rooms for almost 20 years,

It was just my anniversary on Sunday of 18 years. Wow, Mazal Tov. Thank you. Guy. Guy. Big year. Love it. And, you know, he was, Louis was so, you know, people loved him. And he was so charming and fun.

Yeah. And you could see that look in his eyes where he really started to dry out when he really needed a drink and then the turn come. And that despite even just the love of the people that worked at the time, the hospital and all of their, you know, them throwing everything they could at this issue, how sadly most of the time addiction wins and that both can be true, that he was this lovely, charming, fun guy that they absolutely loved. And he also had this demon that was, you know, that wasn't going to subsist until the host was dead. That's what a virus does, right? The virus,

The virus doesn't stop until the host dies. And it sadly got him. And it gets a lot of good people. Yeah. Yeah. He was a beautiful character. Who's your least favorite? I have one that I can't fucking stand.

Who's your least favorite character on the pit? I always think I have one. And then they redeem them for me. So who's like I wind up liking them at the end of the season. I haven't had. I'm waiting for her redemption arc. I can't stand. Dr. Santos.

I can't stand her. Okay? She's so curmudgeony and just like grumpy and annoying. And I get it. I get it. Okay. Works hard.

Why can't you be like Whitaker? Okay? He's just a breath of fresh air. Okay? Even after watching his great Louis perish, he's a breath of fresh air. You force, you Santos force Whitaker to go in with that patient with the bowels?

I just can't stand her. She's so fucking annoying. There's no way you like her. You can't like her. I'm sure that, sure, redemption arc, it'll come. Right now, nobody can like her. Nobody can like her right now. And that's where they're taking us.

Buckle up. Let the ride go. Let it go. But as we know, and this is my favorite new TikTok trend, have you seen this with the great charmed? nurse, what's her name? The nurse who runs the entire pit that we all love. She's like...

I forgot her name. The blonde woman. She's the best. She won the Emmy last year. Wonderful actor. So there's an episode and this has become a trend on TikTok. There is an episode where a baby gets left at the pit. And so they're taking care of the baby. And so

this nurse has this line which is Baby Jando. Baby Jane Do. And now everyone on DigDox, just like, Dr. Robbie, where it's baby, baby Jane Do? Baby Jane Dow. I haven't seen that yet to send it to me. It's so funny.

And you sound just like her. That's actually a great impression of her. Oh, my God. It's so good. It's so good. It's so good. Why the frown? The show is so good.

It's phenomenal. Josh, topical Thursdays. We are. Even though we're talking about an episode from two Thursdays ago, but that's my fault. I got to catch up. You are caught up. That was the most recent ep where Louis dies. Yeah, yeah.

Oh, amazing. Okay. All right. So then actually, spoiler alert. I didn't give you much time to watch it. I'm sorry. It's so good. Oh, yeah, because we watched two episodes last night.

I had two banked. There's nothing better than. that when you can bank too. Love. I love it. Because you want to keep it, you want to eat them. You want to keep eating. Mike, you know what you should do after this is watch The Nick.

The Nick. The Nick was a brilliant show with Clive Owen, Stephen Soderberg directing brilliant show about the Knickerbocker Hospital in New York at the turn of the 19th century. Oh, thank God that's what it is. I was afraid. I was like, is it the NICU? And it's just like a sad. I was like, I don't know.

to watch that show? I don't need that. Oh, it's sad. Okay, Knickerbock Hospital. Okay. It is sad, but it went two seasons. It's brilliant. You'll love it. I think it was on like a shotar, Cinemax, something. Where does Nickerbocker come from? So we had a Nickerbocker hospital, and as everybody knows, the New York Knicks were originally the New York Knickrbockers. Do we know what a Knickerbocker is? Or who is a Knickerbocker? Is it a person? I think it has to do with like early 1800s. Well, what was New York before it was New York, New Amsterdam. So.

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please make sure to mention our show, The Good Guys. So I was going to go into a speakpipe, but as we know, we've had quite the issues with our moron male speakpipes where people call in to get advice and ask us questions. And they've been awful for years. We're thinking of killing the segments. I have to listen to them. one in five are good.

So I thought, you know, we've always been a little bit abstract, obtuse with our declaring that they're not good and you thinking, well, what makes them not good? So I thought, why don't we play a couple speak pipes that are bad? That ain't great. This is not a condemnation of the person. This is just an example. This is purely for research purposes.

This is what not to do, okay? don't do this. Make something up. Make it up. And this is why we tell you, don't give us your what are you nuts is. This first one is from Kaley. Thank you guys.

Okay, two questions. One, I'm wondering if Ben has ever heard of Tom Hearn. He does one of the best Inagarten impressions that I've ever seen. and I know Ben is obsessed with her, and so he needs to look into Tom Hur. He is genuinely so great at it. So I know he would thoroughly enjoy that. Second question, I teach middle school, specifically eighth grade,

and I'm wondering if you, Josh, are caught up on any of the young slang. I know you have your oldest, and he's kind of getting into that. phase and I know he like loves Mr. Beast and I know for a fact that they use sling in the YouTube videos. And so I was just wondering like what would be your favorite Gen Z slang of the moment. Thank you. Keeley. Love you. Okay. Not bad. Let's dissect what. No, let's just dissect what could have been better. So yes, the Tom Hearn. I don't know him. DM me. I'm looking or send me a video. That's an easier way for me to see him. Okay. Now Josh, I am curious. I'm not I'm not that bad.

What's your favorite Gen Zy slang? Six-seven. I don't know. I'm so fucking stupid. I mean six-seven. I'll tell you what I hate. I hate dead ass. Is that a thing?

Dead ass? Yeah. It's like, his new slang? It's like our and God or like I swear to God. Like dead ass means like I am not lying to you. Hate it. No, but I think dead ass, that's new dead ass?

I think dead ass has been around. Yeah, yeah. It's been around. But I don't like it. Okay, cool. Yeah, I'm good with it. I hate bruh. And it's all over.

Even Mac says it. Brah, bruh. I just, I think it's whack. In what context are we saying, bro? Just like, it's bro, but then it becomes bruh. And then it's just like, bruh, like for anything. It's interchangeable. Good, bad, medium.

Bro, why'd you throw it like that? Bro, what's up? It's like Al-A-D-R-U-R-H-V-A-Ladine. You remember that from The Dictator? No. What? Sasha Baron Cohen's the dictator. I remember the movie.

Oh my God. Al-A-Deen means yes or no, positive or negative. So he's at the doctor and he says, you are HIV Al-A-Din. And we never know if he has AIDS. Great. So good. So good. So good and so dumb.

He's such a genius. Okay, brough. Yeah, and I've heard this six-seven. I don't know what that means. I don't get it. Okay. But yeah, look, by the way, Josh, there have been worse. No, that wasn't bad. It wasn't that bad. It wasn't that bad. But that means if that wasn't that bad, they're really bad ones. Let's find another. Let's really look. And maybe I won't. That was, I'm glad I said her name because it actually wasn't bad. We love you, Kaylee. I'm going to keep these anonymous and just say here, here's one. Okay, here's one.

Hey, Josh and Ben, fellow moron here and a fellow toaster. Love you guys. Love the podcast. I have a what are you nuts. Honestly, dating apps is my what are you nuts. I know you both are happily married, but as a girl who is 32, I'm struggling on these apps. What is up with men writing, hey, what's up? You then responding with a message and then they don't reply. Like, there's no effort. And then they unmatch you. And then like three days later, it says so-and-so liked you. But you just unmatched me three days ago. Like, what are you? What are you? you nuts? Like, did you forget that you didn't like me three days ago? Like, I'm, I hate the dating world so much. Dating on Long Island has to be the hardest thing. I don't know if you guys have like any single friends that like, you know are on the dating apps that could like relate to this. But honestly, they fucking suck. So it just sounds like a Jerry signful bit. Is it over? Is it over? It It sounds like a signful bit without the talent. Look, here's the deal.

There's a reason why we say don't give us your what you're nuts. So first and foremost, we say don't give us your what are you nuts is. So don't. Okay. Look, I'm still going to talk about it. Okay, what's, guys stink. What do you want for me? Guys stink.

Okay, dating apps are terrible for women because guys stink. You never know their true intentions. They're going on there. They're looking to see if you'll respond. If you respond too fast, they know that you're interested. And then they're all of a sudden not interested because they stink. They stink. So I'm sorry.

I'm very sorry. But that's it. What are you nuts? What are you nuts? Here's another one from someone else. Okay. Good guys. This question is for Josh.

My name is Sam and I was just watching 13th The Musical, which you are. We're not. This one is B. I can't. Basically, she goes, you're in the movie 13, The Musical, and they have a bar mitzvah in the movie, and it's held at a church. Woody a nut? Isn't that crazy? It's a major plot point that in the small town of Indiana, where he is, there's no shul, so they have it at the church.

It watched the whole thing, but like, not only is that a moron mail, but you sent it as your Woody a Nuts? It ain't it. It ain't it. Okay. Make stuff up. Make stuff up. Your sister Cassie, beat the fuck, okay?

Beat the fuck out of your cat. And now you're pressing charges against Cassie. Okay? That's it. It's that easy. You don't have to have a cat and you don't have to have a sister named Cassie. Make it up.

I'll never know. I won't know. Now let me play you, the last one before, what do you know, let me play you an interesting inquiry we got and leave it up to the morons to tell us where or when or if we ever would want to do this.

Hey, guys. I was just wondering if you wanted to have Joe Exotic from Tiger King on your podcast. I think that would be interesting to show the world the truth and to share that with your audience. I was wondering if you guys could give me a call. My cell is...

Oh, I guess it's Joe Exotic. Sounds like a great job for Olivia. I am not calling him, just in case you never know. Wow, I would love to have the Tiger King on the podcast. You saw, did you see that documentary? Of course, COVID. The height. COVID.

I mean, I'm down. It sounds like he, it sounds like it's going to be a load of propaganda. So we're going to need to just like warning, flash warning. Nothing on here is true. Or I don't know. Like, it could be, but we're not sure. We're going to need a warning label. I would love to have him on.

Josh, that's viral. You got to. Or do people, do people not care anymore? I don't know if people care. And you also have to believe someone's not great when Trump's willing to pardon everyone who was involved in January 6th, George Santos, but not Joey boy. Like, he's good. And he's been asking.

I've seen him up in all the, not recently, but it used to be like every single Instagram post. I would see him pop up. Pardon me. Pardon me. Pardon me. And it's like, there's got to be a better way to get to Trump.

And through public Instagram comments, what do you nuts, Joe? But I'd love to have him on. Love to. Yeah. Why not? So he's currently in prison or no? Yeah.

So what, we'd have him on from jail? How would we do that? I don't know. Maybe over a collect call. Or we set up from jail. Yeah. I'm in. And maybe there's like another inmate in there that we could like,

We just do like jail day. We bang like bang out like three episodes of the guys incarcerated. I'm in. We get the call in. It's like from Otisville Correctional Facility. Hey, morons. It's me, Marron. It's Joe Exotic.

Do you accept the charges? The same voice for Joe Exotic as you do Todd Crisly. Oh my God. Todd Crisley. He's definitely coming on. Yeah. Yeah, he was pardoned. Tottie boy, was he pardoned? I think so.

Pardon me? I think so. I think he was pardoned. Yeah, yeah. Wow, that's got a, that's an exciting moment. Josh, Josh. You got a witty and nuts? I do. Or witty a nuts moment are gripes with people, places and things, both big and small, whatever, sticking in your craw. My what do you nuts moment is, it's going to be something good. What's yours? I have a great.

I have a great one. Okay. Josh. Yes. I love GoPuff. Let me just first shout that out. Okay? I love GoPuff.

Greatest app ever. You need literally anything delivered in under 20 minutes. It's GoPuff. GoPuff likes to do, and I love this about them. They love to put in like a free little sampler. You order waters,

maybe you order candy, and they'll throw in, they see you ordered candy. They'll throw in a little extra candy. Maybe it's a new candy. And the candy company is trying to, trying to assess, either if people like it or not, or they're just trying to do samples, Josh. I got the most disgusting candy ever. Josh, have you heard of Skittles Fuego?

No, but that sounds true. Is it with tahin? I almost threw up. This is a soft gummy skittles that tasted like it was just dumped in Sri Racha. My mouth was on fire. It was, it was, it was vile. It was vile. Wow. Sorry. Skittles. What are you nuts? You're good. You're good at sweet. I don't want, I don't want flaming hot skittles. It was disgusting.

What do you nuts? I didn't need it. My Woody and Nuts moment is at the great equinox, you know, I love, love, love my wonderful equinox. And the trainers there are so great. And sometimes the trainers will offer to put you through a workout, like kind of, you know, bono, nice little freeze. 20 minute session because you're like, oh, I get along well with this guy. I felt a great burn. Maybe I will hire him to do some sessions.

Well, one of my favorite trainers, sir, he looks at me and goes, hey, man, about to do a big leg workout today. You want to join me? I have a great setup. I said, oh, yeah, what do you do? And he goes, well, I actually created it for athletes. I'm like, thinking about me, huh? And he goes, yep, athletes in the physically disabled.

What are you nuts? You could have left out the second part, Jack. That's funny. I'm clearly the second part. Yeah. What are you nuts? Just say athletes. Just say athletes.

Make me feel good. What are you nuts? You know what else is nuts, Josh? Not giving this episode five stars. That's nuts, okay? We only want five star reviews. Okay. rate, review, subscribe. Do we still say that? Review. Review. We don't even have to do the rating and the

subscribing. We'd like it. But just review. Five stars. No fours. No threes. No twos. No ones. Just fives. And once a week, once a week, twice a week. One day I'll get this down. Mr. Beast ruined my flow. I know. He's so intimidating. Twice a week. We are going to read aloud a beautiful five-star review. We sure are. But again, not fours, not threes. Because Josh, we like to end up every episode on a positive note. We're positive kings. Mondays and Thursdays, we end with positivity.

And this five-star review is from... It's from, yeah. You want to know who it's from? Jack, it's from Sarbeerbum, okay? Sarbarum. Thank you, Sir Berbem. And they said, makes me want to be Jewish. Such a fun, such a fun podcast.

Great yen. Great Yang. Never stop. Andrew Yang, shout out. What does the name, Sirbim? Thank you, Sir Bim. Thank you very much, Sarbim. Folks, Mondays and Thursdays, we will see you. Next time. Please note that this episode may contain paid endorsements and advertisements for products and services. Individuals on the show may have a direct or indirect financial interest in products or services referred to in this episode.